Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 5, 1888, Page 4

k] . THE DAILY BEE. l'liBh.IHED EVERY MOR! NG. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION, Dally Morning Edition) locluding 8y BER, One Year. cvnveeeine ‘ot Three Montha . sivese { UNDAY Brr, mailed to any ROOMS 14 AND 15 THIBU N GTON OFFICE, No. 613 CORRERPONDENCE All communications relating tonews and edi. torial matter should be addressed to the Epimor OF THE BEr, BUSINESS LETTERS, All business lotters and remittances should be addressed to THE HEE PUBLISIING COMPANY, OMANA, Dratts, checks and postoffice orders 10 bewmade payablé to the order of the company. e Beg Publishing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER, iditor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement ot Circulation, Btateof Nebraska, 1, o County of Douglas, | * George B, Tzschuck, secretary of the Bee Pub. lishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of Tre DALY Bek for t week ending September 20, 1886, was as tollows Bunday, Sept. Z3... v Sept. 24, on Tuesday, Sept. y, Sept., Sopt. 21 Average. .. YRGE B. T7 UK. Sworn to heforo me and subscribed in my presence this 20d duy of September, A, D, 18 Real. N B. FRIL. Notary Public. Flate of Nebraska, 1 88, County of Douglas, { * 5 George B, Tzschuck, being first duly aworn,de- xes and says that he i {" The floa 1ishiug compuny, cirenlation of T h of Beptember, 187, was 14,34 o IR, I coples: fi 3 15,8 copies: Tor December, 1847, 15041 cop: 184K, 15,206 coples: February, 19,68 copies: for 1858, 18,744 coples: for May, 1555, 18181 for 'June, 188, 19,243 coples; for July, 1588, 18,033 coples; for August, 1885, @ copil GEO.'B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this th day of Soptember, A D 185, . P. FEIL Notiry Pu I7 18 a piece of grim humor to read a fresh dispatch from London every day announcing another Whitechapel mur- der. GoverNor THAYER has challenged John A. McShane to a public discussion on state issues, and McShane's paper has referred him to the democratic cam- paign text-book. This is a knock-down argument. ‘WE ave informed that the democratic national committee has some tremen- dous revelations to make which will just paralyze republican voters, but they are to be reserved for the last fortmight of the campaign. ALL statements to the contrary, the American pacty is alive and kicking. It has just started a party organ in New York, which although a little late will still be able to spend lots of Mr. Curtis’ money before election day. THE republican county committee should be convened at the e st day possible. It is only four weeks until election, and at best only two weeks will remain for a county campaign which will be contested at great disad- A L —— RECENTLY two females indulged in a disgraceful prize fight in Buffalo, and now the news comes that the ‘‘backers” of this mill have been sent to the peni- tentiary. It is quite evident that female prize fighting will not grow in favor in this country. —_— THERE i8 a crooked aqueduct ring in New York City, there is also a crooked aqueduct ring in Washington. In both cases the contractors have robbed those cities of hundreds of thousands of dol- lars. The long and tedious process of bringing some of these boodlers to jus- tace has begun. But it is more than like]y that the sharks will escape their just dues through the technicalities of the law. It has been done so often that it is now an old and famous trick. AFTER all congress managed to sandwich a piece of good legislation in between its tariff bills. The house has just passed the senate bill protecting the claims of those settlers who in Kan- s#as and other states were forced to abandon therr homesteadson the public domain by reason of drought in order to secure support for themselves. This isa law boih humane and benecficial and will restore to thousands of settlers the lands to which they are justly en- titled. — THE little twist to the lion’stail which Cleveland gave by his retaliatory policy would have tickled the Irish Americans to death if it had made the lion howl, But as those who do the chief howling for the lion, the London papers, spoke of it as a justifiable electioneering de- vice which must be taken by English- men in its true sense, the Irish Ameri- cans are less conciliated thah ever. 1f the utterances of Patrick Ford voiced the opinions of all his countrymen, Cleveland would not obtain a single Irish vote. EvERY day demonstrates move forci- bly the aim and object of the boodling contractors of this city in having the boodlers of the legislature cut out the clause in the charter by which the city engineer was made a member of the board of public works. As it is now we have incompetent and dishonest inspec- tion and barefaced evasions of specifica- tions in the matter of sewer construe- tion, paving and other improvements. If the city engineer had been a member of the board there would have been an effective check to all such rascality. 17 is not absolutely certain that there is a short crop of wheat or that the rise in Chicago was simply the result of *‘Hutch's Humbug.” Other articles of produce are jumping up in a very lively way. Itisimpossible that these could have been acted upon by the Hutchin- son conspiracy. The fact is that Eng- land has unduly depressed the prices of food products by her control of the mavkets, and as she has lost or is losing this, there is a rebound from the arti- ficial depression. The consumer has a belief that it pricas go up, somebody is to blame, but that a constant fall in prices ia in obedience to the natural law ol supply and demand. This is natural, perhaps, but ludicronsly oae-sided. Deferring Important Legisiation. Tt is probable that the amendments to the inter-state commerce law pnssed by the house some time ago will not be acted upon by the'senate at this session. It is the intention to call up the tariff bill for consideration next Monday. and it is expected that the debate which will then begin will occupy the atten- tion of tne senate until a date shall be agreed upon, near the close of the pres- ent month, for adjournment or recess. In view of the fact that fifty scnators are said to have announced their inten- tion to speak on the tariff bill it is ob- vious that the senate will have little time to do more than listen to them if all of them adhere to their intention, The amendments to the inter-state commeree law, to which we have here- tofore referred, are important, some of them urgently so, and deferring them to the next session will be a matter of regret. The most important of these amendments was that of Mr. Anderson, of Towa, giving all state courts of com- petent jurisdiction concurrent author- ity with United States courts in cases against inter-state railroads for violat- ing the law. The effect of this wouid be to open nearly two thousand addi- tional tribunals for hearing and pass- ing upon the complaints of those hav- ing business relations with the railroads, and it would give merchants, farmers, and other shippers that might be aggrieved the right to appeal to the local courts, Thisamend- ment provides that appeals shall be taken to the higher courts of the state and shall not be taken to the supreme court of the United States unless the value involved in a controver ex- ceed five thousand dollars, which would doubtless keep a majority of cases in the state courts and secure their final adjudication there. The great importance of this amendment to those having business with the rail- roads is obvious, and it ought not to be delayed, Aunother practical and desirable amendment provides for equal rates per car load on oil produets, whether in tank cars or barrels. The house in assing this amendment expressed its dissent from a decision of the inter- state commerce commission favorable to tank cars, by which the great oil mo- nopoly was given a decided advantage. It is a matter of justice to other pro- ducers of oit who do not use tank cars, and doubtless also in the interesy of consumers, that this amendment should not be unnecessarily deferred. The other amendment, and not the least in importance, is that giving state or ter- ritorial legislatures jurvisdiction over the freights and fares of railroads chartered by congress and built into the territorial limits of states or tercitovies, such jurisdiction extending of course only to transporta- tion between places or stations within the limits of a state or territc All these amendments experience has shown to bo desirable and necessary, they are obviously in the interest of the general wellare, there is some degree of urgency for their enactmcent into law, and if the senate were as solicitous as it should be to subserve the public inter- ests it has had ample opportunity to act on them. They have received very little or no consideration, however, from that body, a neglect certainly not due to the pressure of ether busi- ness, and it is now probable that the close of the session will find them still unconsidered, or at all events undis- posed of. It is not an unwarrauted sus- picion that the senate’s lack of interest in this matter is in no small measure due to the well-understood inftuence of the railroads in that body. An Appeal to Colored Citizens. Twelve representative men of the colored race, among them Frederick Douglass, John R. Lynch of Mississippi, P. B. S. Pinchback of Louisiana, and Robert Smalls of South Carolina, have issued au appeal to the colored men of the nation to stand by the republican party. It is an earnestand eloquent appeal, setting forth strongly what the republican party has done for the nation and for the colored race, pointing out the develictions of the democratic party in its treatment of the negro, and urg- ing the duty of every member of the race which secured freedom and citizen- ship from the republican party to give his support to that party. The fact that colored men are making an organized cffort as allies of the democracy, to defeat the republican party, is characterized as a “strange and unnatural spectacle,” and the ap- peal says: **No position ever taken by any class of colored people in this country seems to0 us more inconsistent, illogical and disastrous to our civil and political rights than this.” Conceding that the men identified with this orga- nization ave honest and really hope to accomplish something for the welfare and advancemeut of the race, the ap- peal proceeds to point, out the reasons for o different course. These are so cogent that they ought to be conclusive to the mind of every colored man who may be waver- ing between the two parties and call back to their natural party afiliation many of those who by specious argu- ment have been won from it. It is as- serted that the democratic party has never admitted the equality of the ne party has made the south solidly demo- craticby the cart whip and shot gun; that to divide the eolored vote between the two parties would be the greatest and most reprehensible of political mis- takes—*"it would be putting the dignity of this nation on tho side of the violence, rapine, lynch law, and murder of our people;” that the democratic party kills the negre at the south for success, and coddles him at the north for the same thing and, finally, that full control of the government by the democracy might prove disastrous to negro citizenship and all that iy in- volved in it. A leader of the democratic party, Mr. Henry Wattersou, frankly admits the suppression of the nmegro vote in the south, and says it will always be done in localities where that vote is in the majority. A United Statessenator from Louisiana, Mr. Fustis, says that “‘the negro to-day | has every reasun to kuow that under T groes as American citizens; that that’ TR L SANCE e A i 26 Sy T Y ~ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1888, [T ————— no. circumstances will the white people submit to his government and his domination,” which amounts to saying that although of the majority there are rights of citizenship which he will not be permitted to enjoy, at least in the section for which Mr. Eustis speaks, and the general sentiment of which he undoubtedly reflects. The democracy is making a strong eflort to seduce colored votes from the repub- lican party in the doubtful states, anil has had some success, but it is not easy to believe that when the decisive mo- ment comes muny of those who have gone politically cstray will fail to sce their mistake and give their support to the party to which it naturally belongs, and in the success of which is their se- curity as citizens, That Missing Contract, Tt is a revelation to the old residents of Omaha that the existence of any con- tract between this city and the Union Pacific railrond is absolutely denied by the president of the road and some of its directors. What has become of that contract? It is a matter of history and record through the press that a contract was drawn up by the firm of Savage & Manderson on behalf of this city, rep- resented through a committee of lead- i In compliance with its provisions, the city of Omaha issued two hundred thousand dollars in bonds for the purchase of the Union Pacific depot grounds. These grounds, worth now more than a million dollars, wer deeded by Alvin Saunders as trustee for the city of Omaha. In rec- ompense for - this magnificent do- nation the Union Pacific Railway company agreed to maintain its ma- chine shops and headquarters in Omaha; to build a commodious union depot and to carry on the transfer of passengers and freight within the boundaries of this city. The double-ender decision rendered by the nephew of Sidney Dillon annulled that portion of the contract relatin transfer, but no court has or can relieve the Union Pacific company from the oh- ligation that it can legally fulfill unless it surrenders to this city the depot grounds donated and repays the inter- est which Omaha has paid on the depot bonds. That intecest alone amounts to over three hundred tnousand dollars. But to return to the contract. Many of our leading property owners not only remember distinetly the tevms of the contract, but they have seen the original document. It is well known that this contract was deposited in the Omaha National bank with its presi- dent, the late Ezra Millard. 1f the con- tract has disappeared, it has either been wilfully destroyed, secreted or sto In any event, there are living witnesses to it whose credibility no- body dare assail. And even if tho con- tract has been destroyed its conditions are binding on the road. How does Mr. Adaws, or any other officer of the road, account for the acquisition of their Omaha depot grounds? Does it stand to reason that Governor Saunders, as trustee for the city would make the road a present of real estate worth two. hundred thousand dollars, under con- demnation process, without any consid- eration in return ? Would Mr. Adams, as an honorable man, justify the de- struction or theft of a contract in order w evade the obligations which it im- poses on his road as one of the contract- ing purties? Such a thing would be not only eriminal, but infamous. The contract, it is true, was not made of record, but so long as the obligations incurred toward Omaha by the Union Pacific remain unfulfilled, no reputable manager of that road can afford to re- pudiate and ignore its provisions. One thing is certain: if the Union Pacific persists in ignoring and violating the contract, taxpayers of this city will be justified in taking steps to recover the property that has been acquired by the company without rendering an equiva- lent for value received. An Ingenious Sabterfuge. The letter of Charles Francis Adams to Mr. Millard touching the relations of the Union Pacific to Om i given to the public. In the main, Mr, Adams repeats over his signature what he stated verbally to the committee of the Union club, which called upon him to urge the construction of the Union depot. It is an ingeniously worded subterfuge to saddle upon other shoul- ders the responsibility for the failure to live up to periodical promises made by the managers of the road to the citi- zens and vepresentative business men of Omaha. ‘While expressing the kindliest feel- ing toward this city Mr. Adams parries the vital issue between Omaha and the road, by holding the state hoard of transportation up as the scare-crow which frightened the Union Pacific directors from ex- pending any more money in Nebraska, and more particularly in Omaha. Who created this terrible board that acts as a bavrier to the good intentions of tne Union Pacific directors to Omaha? Is not this board the ature of the rail- roads, under the dir leadership of John political attorney of the road? Omaha petition to have this board ated, and is she tosuffer for the risfit cut out by John M. Thurston? And aff all, will anybody tell us in what part the board has crippled the Uni cifie, so as to prevent it from building the union depot while it has abundant means tobuild depots in Cheyenne,and Ogden, and make costly improvements el where. Has the board really done any- thing more than to make political capi- tal by framing schedules before state conventions, to be repudiated after the conventions? Is not all the talk about the hostility of the railroad creatures on the state board preposterous? Ave we to have this transfer nuisance kept up perpet- ually under such flimsy pretexts? Why can’t Mr. Adams and his managers deal with Omaha in an open, manly way, and show some appreoiation of the gen- erous treatment and forebearance ac- corded to the road under the most pro- voking circumstances, It is an epen sceret now that the Union Pacific ex- pgcts Omaha toaid in pulling through its funding bill and other schemes nrab »et inspiration and M. Thurston, the Did through Senafor Manderson. What benefit will @mnha derive from this one- sided bargain? The withdrawal of John M. Thurston fedm the senatorial race, and the support of Mr. Manderson by the road may be gratifying and satis- factory to Mr: Manderson, but where is Omaha's advantage to come in from this arrangement? Is not the course pursued by the directors of the Union Pacific in refusing to fulfill the oblig tions of the road and the pledges of M Adams under any pretext utterly ine cusable, to use the mildest of language? IN the matter of campaign contribu- tions the republican national committee appears to have done unexpectedly well, and it is noteworthy that there has been no complaint of lack of funds from that quarter. It issaid that the con- tributions thus far to the republican campaign fund have amounted to a mil- lion dollars, and the harvest is not yot fully garnered. There was some appre- hension at the outset of the campaign that the republican managers would have difficulty in securing the money to on the canvass, but the result shows this to have been unfounded. The inference is that there 1sa much greater interest and confidence in re- publican success than had been counted on, and in quarters where'money is to be had, On the other hand the democratic committee has been dily hard up and is said to be heavily in debt. Inves- tigation has shown that the reported ten thousand dollur contribution of Mr. Cleveland was only a **fake,” though he did give a smaller sum, while only three meinl of the cabinet have contrib- uted anything. The oficeholders are not chipping in liberally, and it doesn't appear that the managers are getting much help from other sources. The re- publicans evidently have very much the advantage financially, and there is a good deal in that, ste EvERY sensible man will applaud the sugar cut of the senate. There ave just th parishes in Louisiana where sugar cane growing is carried on to any ap- preciable extent. Tt is absurd that the whole army of consumers should be taxed for the benefit of those three par- ishes. When the protective tariff made that provision for the sugar grow it was confidently believed that the cane could be cultivated in other parts of the union, and that sorghum could be made a substitute. This hope has been found a delusion, agfh fortunately so. As a ter of goltffe policy we ought to our coffee and sugar from our Span- ish-American ggstomers, for commerce _to be a benefit st be reciprocal. We have not found #he enormous purchases of coffee fromi&enezucla and Guate- mala and Brazil and other Spanish- American courfibies to be a drain upon our precious megals, because they buy from us willingly in the same ratio that we buy from WE WOULD Jikge to know whether the joko is on Don Dickinson or on Charles A. Dana, about the speech on the lounge towhich the Déiymade such a tender and pathetic alludfon in that ridiculous speech at Detroit when he compared Cleveland to the Rock of Ages. The Sun says that he gave the substance of it to a Chicago correspondent before he left Washington, and that it appeared in cold type before he arrived in De- troit, and that the Michigan leaders of the democracy being forewarned made him preside to get rid of his specch in aciviy way. The Don denies that there was any connection between what he said to the Chicago reporter and the speech on the lounge, and declares, moreover, that the speech which was not delivered at Detroit is to be de- livered somewhere else very shortly. THE develish glee with which Dana, of the New York Sun, is knifing Cleve- land is hugely enjoyed by republicans while it tortures and rocks the demo- cratic press. Dana professes the most ardent [riendship for Cleveland, but in the same breath insists that the presi- dent call off his mugwump friends who are antagonizing Hill. The situa- tion in New York is decidedly critical. There is danger of open rupture between Hill and Cleveland. The president, is between two fires, and whichever way he turns ho courts defeat in his own state. . In the meantime the editor of the Sun has impaled the demo- cratic candidate for president and is pouring poison into every wound he makes. A VERY lively time is expected in Boston when members of the school board are elected. Over twenty thous- and women who have the right to vote have been registered. The unusual in- terest in the schools has been due to the controversy over Swinton’s history, which, unfortunately, has led to a breach between the Catholics and Protestants of that city. The women of Boston have taken up the quarrel. They have ranged themselves on their respe des, and the day for the election of members of the boardof edu- cation is destined to be memorable in Hub. politics of th ‘WiTit but one exception, the prosent session of congress is the longest on record. It has already worried through three hundred and seven days and is likely to prolong its life at least until the end of the present month. The fiftieth congrosy, has not accomplished much in the way of beneficial legisla- tion. It is also very likely to drag out its last days in an gndless disc the tariff withcut Hyinging mat head. When this;congress finally ad- journs, it can boasf of but twothings: it has beaten the record and has done nothing. S—— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, ‘A vote for Gilbert L. Laws is a vote for the railroad corporations of the state,” re- marks the Wayne Gazette. The Garfied County Quaver says: “Mr. Connell is a worthy candidate and there will be a republiean vietory this year instead of a humilating defeat as was tie case with Raroad Capper Howe two years ago in the big First. “It is not ouly emnently proper'’ says the Fremont Tribune, *‘that J. Sterling Morton should have the democratio congressional nowination in the First district for the reason he is a free trader, but for the further reason that ho is ‘quite English you know.' is charac can as, “one that will.inspire republicans of this district with confidence, and means that a ropublican our next congressman,' that Mr. Morton cannot be elec it “is a matter whether he is elected or not his speech in accepting the nomination, the office is simply an incident.” measurement. roundings. would be great, but in cong ress he would be pretty small,” andatis the hero, ovy The democrac He has his cstates in Otoe county placed in ontail, contrary to the Americun stylo, but in perfect wecord with This, with his free trade ideas, will insure him the English vote." the British custom The » ion of Mr. Connell for congress rized by the Tecumseh Republi instead of a democrat will be The Reatrico Democrat virtually concedes d, and says of little concern to him As he said in The York Times s to size up J. Sterling it “took a democrat forton and publish his Morton, like O. P’. Mason and E. E. Brown, & wonderful man in Nebraska when there was no one else here, and he still moves by the convention which he received in that primitive day. In a sod house he would appear to bo above his sur- In a country debate society he The Plattsmouth Herald soliloquizes as follows: “The democracy have at last named their candidate for MeShane's shoes, philosopher, lone fisher- and political specialist of Arbor BSprings, Otoe county, Neb.—J. Sterling Morton. An out-and-out free-trader, an in- tractable, egotistical, hide-bound politician, whose record during the war was that of an extreme copperhead, and whose political course since has been that of a retractive bourbon, whose hatred of everything accom- plished by the republican party during the past quarter of a century has swayed and rwhelmed his judgment. Having grown rich out of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy management in divers ways, and having suc- ceeded 1n placing his son, PPaul Morton, where he can do the most good Mr. Morton has been at home, in Nebraska, posing as an anti-monopolist, while holding close confiden- tial relations with his railroad company. He has been a candidate for, and ran for every office the longsuffering democracy of Ne- braska would name him for, and now the people of this district are to be again in- flicted with his political diabetes of free trade and Mortonian democrs Douglas county will give Mr. Connell two or three thousand majority against this candidate, and we honestly believe every county in the district will return a republican majority. .y could not have named a ker man to make the race The Greeley Leader rofers to Mr, Morton's candidacy as follows: *““Nebraska state dem- ocracy has shown contempt for railroad mo- man, wi nopolics by nominating J. Sterling Morton, the paid lobbyist of the Burlington road at in_ the first Shil Washington, for congressman district. His record on the scheme, too, is o matter of not history to Nebraska farmers. His encour- agement of his son’s course in opposition to engincers, firemen, brakemen and switch- mon in their efforts to sccure u settlement at the hands of the Burlington authorities is anothier mutter of history that shows where the party leaders of democracy stand on questions of interest to the laboring mon, Yet he would make a grand congressman? But he is a leader of the party, you know, and & member of the Cobden club, too. Grand specimen.” ““The republican congressional convention at Linsoln did well and wisely in the nomin- ation of Hon, W. J. Conuell, ot Omaha," remarks the Falls City Journal. “The worldly wisdom of the act lies in the fact that Mr. Connell can carry a large majority of the stupendously huge vote of Douglas county against any candidate that could be selected from the democratic party of this district. And if Mr. Connell has any en- emies they reside in this same Douglas county, where he has too many friends to suffer from an occasional enemy. In the dis- trict at large Mr. Connell wiil receive the whole republican vote, and his majority will probably exceed Harrison's in this district. And this means that it wiil exceed 7,000, The convention did well in nominating a man of W. J. Connell’s character, record and opin- ions of public policy. He is in sentiment a thorough anti-monovolist, and during his public career as prosecuting attorney and city attoruey of Omaha he has stood the test of fire. As attorney for Owaha under the present metropolitan charter he waged increasing war against every one of the whole banded league of monopolies that had apparently established their divine right, in the opinion of the city government, to keep the city treasury drained. Beneath a quiet and unobtrusive demeanor W. J. Connell possesses courage. No howling, suborned Omaha mob was ever able to turn his course aniota. He has remained unbought, unbul- lied, uncajoled. He will vote right on the great questions that will probably come be- fore the next congress. He will stand for the people, as he always has, and against the monopolies. With the rest Mr. Connell is a mau of genuine ability, sound judgment and business acumen. It is safe to say there will be no peneil marks on Connell’'s name on the republican tickets cast this fall in Richard- son county.” - A Blow to an Industry, Chicago Tribune, The action of the Canadian courts in sen- tencing to the penitentiary for seven years the abscondiug bank teller, Pitehor, of Prov- idence, K. L., is likely to prove a serious blow at one of the oldest and herctofore best pro- tected of American industries. B A Shipping Trust. Philadelphia Record, To the rapidly incroasing listof trusts must be added the Cheese Association of New York, u commercial device by which it is ex- pected to control the domestic and ex- port trade in this interesting dairy product. A cheese trust ought to beastrong and lively combination. G. Cleveland, Washington, D. C.: I passed a sleepless mght with my face pressed against the window pane looking for your letter, not for my sake, for the sake of the tio weal, indorse me, Don't Auswer pd. Davip, Oh, it common democ forget the golden rule. —~—— Despicable, Chicago Tribune, The secretary of war did not soil bis fin- gers with boodle contributions to Brice's campaign fund, but he has made compensa- tion for hus failure in this direction by the meanest and most despicable campaivn trick that has yet been played by any one dema- gogue in the attempt to secure the election of Grover Cloveland. It should make even ¢ man or Higgins envious. 9o News, The “wheat deal” was a8 purely 8 gamb- ling transaction as though *Mike’ McDon- ald or “Al" Hankins had engineered it in one of the gawbling hells of which Mayor Roche is alleged to have rid Chicago. The only thing to the credit of the board of trade game 18 that the players on both sides of the table were equally “sports,” aud there was 1o “roping in'" of outsiders. e ar on Wome Philadelphia North Amcrican, General Benet's order, issued by direction of Secrotary Endicott, requiring wholesale discharges in our srmories and arsouals to wake roon: for democrats, aot only lays bare the administration's greed for spoils, but shiows how low. a man sometimes sinks when put into public office. Hardly anything could sound more contemptible than the closing sentence: ““This rule will apply to women and children, as well as men, and will be strictly enforced." o -— A Clear Statement. Inter-Ocean, The letter of the Hon. Levi P. Morton ac- cepting the republican nomination for vice president, 18 a remarkably clear statement of the main issues between the two great politi- cal parties, After declaring that the une- quivocal and comprehonsive resolutions of the platform reflect his personal convictions and have his hearty approval, Mr. Morton dwells on what he regards the controlling question of the campaign—the tarift—and de- clares himself “an unwavering friend of the protective system.” On this and other questions Mr. Morton expresses himself with force and clearness, and thero is uo chance for misunderstanding him. — e Even Jeff Davis Wounldn't Do It. Tliinois State Journal, ‘The prescnt is tho first time in the history of the nation, as far as publicly known, when an order has been issued by an officer of the army instructing his subordinates to make a partisan use of their position by appointing to places under them only members of a tain political party. Kven Jefft Davis and Floyd, while cngaged in stripping the gov- ernment of the power of self defense, by scattering the navy throughout the world, and storing arms, ammunition and other prop- erty in southern arscnals, where it might be the more easily stolen, did not attempt to corrupt the service in this high-hauded man- ner, PROMINENT PERSONS, Amelie Rives-Chandler is said to have an intense dislike for candy. She never par- takes of confectionery in any form. Mra. General Sheridan will retura to Non- quitt another season, after building an exten- sive addition to her new cottage. Russell Sage is said to be worth 360,000,000, and spends only $10,000 a year. He is over seventy years of age, but with his clear com plexion, bright eyos and active ways he scarcely secms more than fifty. The Rev. Dr. Noah Porter, cx.presidont of Yale collee, hus returned to New Haven, Conn., aftér spending the summer in European travel. His tour hada beneficial effect upon his health. General Schoficld, successor to General Sheridan, at the head of the army of the United States, will be obliged to live in a Washington boarding house, because his sul- @ year is not sufficient to onable hiin to set up such an establishment as his position domands. The venerable Mr. Hewitt is not the only osculatory mayor in the country. He has a rival in Mayor Fitler of Philadelphia. Six little girls and two little boys recently called upou the latter and presented him with $165 for the yellow fever sufferers. Mayor Fitler kissed the children, even saluting the boys. The youngsters had held a fair and had been able 10 raise o very presentable sum for the afiicted in Florida. John L. Porter, who designed and con structed the Merrimace, the first ironclad ever built, and who thus changed complately the system of naval warfare, is now wie'd- ing a broadaxe in the navy yard at Norfolk, He is an old man, almost eighty, but is com- pelled to toil from early until late. He has had un eventful career, and his life has been a rked contrast to t of John Ericsson, who constructed the Monitor, and whose old age has been free from want, STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Butler county farmers have conceived the idea of selling their corncobs for fish poles. ‘While trying to shoot a chicken John Kan- kal, of Plattsmouth, lost his left hand by the explosion of the gun. A dozen Italians have swooped down on Plattsmouth and the local laborers look on them with suspicion. Sam Black, of Norden, was married last week after twenty years of courtship con- ducted tarough the maits. George Dudley, of Norfolk, played the good Samaritan act for a penniless stranger, and now mourns the loss of a couple of ‘watches. Beatrice has hal seventeen cases of ty- phoid fever recently. The physicians at- tribute the prevalence of the disease to the removal of earth in so many parts of the city on account of grading and sewering. While Rev. J. F. McCoy, of Ulysses, was preaching to his little flock some sacrilegious thief broke into his residence and devoured the Sunday dinner. The preacher was so mad that he ate what was left without say- ing grace. John S, Dillinger, ex-special county clerk, was arraigned at Whitman, Wednesday last, upon the charge of perjury, and was bound over to appear before the next term of the district court in the sum of &30 to answer the charge. It is the opinion of the public that he will be convicted at the trial. helieve Tho Presbyterian ladics of Scot in dixing religion with practical, every day affairs. At th st meeting of the sewing socie hey discussed at the same time the questions, “What Shall We Do to Induce the Men to Atttend Church?t " and “Whic ts the Mora Money—Hand-made Jam or Pickle- lilly?* An accidental shooting occurred near Dorp, in’ Logan_county, about twenty-five miles north of North Platte, last Tuesday. A man named Downing, carryiug a musket, at- tempted to cross the South Loup river on a foot log. When nearly across he lost his balance, and_in his fall the gun was d charged, the ball entering just below his eye and tearing off the top of his head. He re- cently came from Kansas to Logan county. A horse thief named Bayfield, who is in fail at Indianola, had a brict half hour's lib- erty the other duy. Somebody had fur- nished him with n revolzer, and when the deputy sheriff opened the door the prisoncr covered him and ordercd him to throw up his hands. The oficer complied and Bayfield fed to the timber. He was quickly sur- rounded by citixens, however, and captured without any bloodshed. lowa. Only one prisoner is confined in the Mar- shall county jail. An Towa Falls citizen raised a squash weighing 163 pounds, which is the pride of the town, Only thirty arrests were made in Daven- port last mouth—sixtecn for violation of city ordinauces and fourteen under the state laws. At the present term of court in Des Moines county the grand jury again condemned the county jail, declaring it iusecure and unfit for thie incarceration of prisoners. "Two burrels of “flour” destined to the residence of an Oskaloosa physician, fell off a wagon, broke open in the streets, and proved to be two barrcls of whisky. The saw mills in Davenport have supplics of logs enough on hand and within reach to last until the 1st of December if the weather them to operate until that date. nill will be run as long as the weather will permit—and the lumbermen hope that will be for two mouths yet. The_reports of the various state institu- tions filed with the governor show the fol- lowing list of inmates of the same: Orphans' home, Davenport, 828; hospital for insane, Mt. Plonsant, 7¢4: hospital for insane, Inde’ pendence, 808, girls’ industrial school, Miten- ellville, 118, Here's the conclusion the Cedar Falls Ga. zette editor bas come to: “After a pareful study of the danger and expense of attempt- ing to husk the corn this fall by shooting of the ears, we are clearly of the opinion that it would bé best Lo use ladders or make a plat- form on top of tho wagon box, and use a long pole with a hook on the end to pull the stalks down. Where corn is not over sixteen to thirty feet high the ears can be reached at lullc expense than to shoot them off with a riffe."! Dakota, Local option will bo one of the Spink county this fall Dealers at Spencor paid out §15,000 for grain during September. The Dakota Methodist conforence assem- bles at Yankton on the 10th. 1t costs 81 iu the Black Hills for & Bad- lander to “‘thuimp his woman.” After paying all tho promiums the South in Dakota fair association has money in tho bank. ‘The Deadwood poor farm managor raised and sold $185.50 worth of vegetables this season in excess of thoso usod by the paupers, President Miller of the Deadwood Contral rond hias just completed contracts for haule ing 400 tons of rails far his compauy to Dead. wood. Yankton county farmers aro becoming money kings and visit tax sales for the pur- pose of investing their hard earnings in titles The busiest manufactorics at Yankton ara the breweries, which are kept running to their fullest capacity to supply a thirst- quencher for the outlying prohibition cities, A well known republican of Aberdecn has for several weeks past made it a practice to send Postmaster 1Mirey a card daily notify- ing him of the supposed duration of his tor Saturday’s notice read this way: *‘Only days more at $8.40 per day. Total, §902." Bt Al The Best-Fed Poople on the Globe. Forum, I we take as a starting point the year 1870, when the armies both sides of the civil conflict had become finnlly ab- sorbed in the pursuits of peace, we find that while the population increased from 1870 to 1887 only 55 per cent, the product of hay, which is synonymous with meat and the products of tho dairy, increased 70 to 80 per cent; the product of grain incrensod 80 por cent; the product of cotton 112 per cent; the consumption of wool, domestic and for- eign, nearly 100 per cent; the product of pig-iron 285 pe nt: the construc- tion of railways 233 per cent; and 8o on in varying proportions, all in excess of population, with regard to all the ne- cessitics and comforts of life. It fol- lows, of necessity, that since there has been no accumulation of stock, and since all that has been produced or im- ported in exchange for the oxport of domestic products has been consumed, the general consumption of the mass of the people must have been greater, more adequate, and more satisfactory than ever before. - What the War Cost in Labor, Forum. It may be assumed that at a mini- mum the cost of suppressing tho robellion was $5,000,000,000. It was, therefore, $1,135,000,000 a year for seven years. Tt has been held that the max- imum product of each person occupied for gain in 1880 could not have exceeded 8600 worth; labor and capital were at least one-third more effective during and since the year 1880 than during the period of war and reconstruction. If then we value one man's labor from 1861 to 1868 inclusive at $500 a year, the work of war required the unremitting labor of 2,270,000 men for seven years, either in two armies or in sustaining them. At $400 cach, an estimate prob- ably nearer to the mark ut that time, the measure would be the constant work of 2,837,500 men each year for sven- years. The average population of that period was 35,000,000, of whom not over one in five could be considered an able- bodied man of arms-bearing age. Tho cost of liberty, therefore, consisted in actual arduous work at the risk of life for seven years, of one man of armes bearing age in every three. ————— A TYPE-SETTING MACHINE. The Ingenins Invention Stenographer. New York Times: James E. Munson, a stenographer, gave an oxhibition in his temporary aboratory, at No. 28 Cen- ter street, New York, of his invention of an automatic type setting machine. Mr. Munsow’s apparatus {8 & complete novelty, inasmuch ns it runs the type into the galleys fully justified and cor- d, something never before accom- plished by a type setting machine. Thoe primary principles of Mr, Munson's in- vention are speed and the possibility of justifying and correcting the type beforo it goes into the galleys. In order to accomplish the justifying and correcting, Mr. Munson® has per- fected a keyboard which, made like that of an ordinary typewriter, per- forates a strip of paper of about tho width used in the Wheatstone telegraph system. The perforations consist of various combinations of letters based upon an alphabetical principle invented by Mr. Munson. Although” only about combinations are needed, 1,013 can be made upon the keyboard if nocessary. When the paper leaves the perforating machine the letters are so favapart that astrip thirteen and ono-half inches long represents one line in a column of printed matter. The operator of tho machine goes over the strip with a fine rule and sees that the divisions of words and spaces come to the end of the line correctly. If they do not he has a per- forating hand tool with which he “spaces out” the characters so they jus- tify on the paper strip. When he has finished justifying the strip it is run through another machine at a high rate of speed and the perfor- ated characters are brought so close to- of a City gether that four inches of pa- per rcpresent one line in a printed column. This strip s then put into the types setting machine proper. This is an clectric motor, with 'a sharp pointed armature conne with magnets, rep- resenting the character on the per. As the armature passes through the perforations in the paper connection is made with the rods over the magnots, into a grove upon a rapidly revolving platform, by which it is carried in- stantly to pick-ups, which in turn put it upon & supporting vail. It is then om ried automatically to the galley and dumped, fully justified and "corrected. In yesterday’s exhibition Mr. Munson used the ‘Thorne typesetter and dis- tributer in connection with his auto- matic apparatus, which can be upplied, he says, 1o any tvpesetting ma now in use. It is capable of se from 8,000 to 13,000 ems per_hour. machine is not perfect, but M believes it soon will be in prac eration. An important feature in connection with the invention is that verbatim re- ports can be made upon any number of perforated slips at a time, and a slip supplied to each newspaper having one of the machines. Furthermore, the slips can be run through an sutomatic graph machine in Washington and ssimiles forwarded to any point in the country directly to the newspapers, thus saving delay in handling matter by the ordinary Morse telegraph and in com- position. Mr. Munson hopes to be able to use compressed air as a motive power and to have the machine on the murket within a few week, g Tho Munson A Missing Lake Schooner, SnEnoYGAN, Micn,, Oct. 4.—Nothing has peen heard from the schooner Albatross, which was dropped In Lake Michigan Sun- day night by the steam barge Knterprise. At present it 1ooks a8 If the Albatross must have gone down with an 90 board, - test Whiteohapel Victin. Loxpox, O ~The inquesy on the bedy of the woman found murdorcd Sunday morn. ing was held to-day. The testimony of the surgeons who made the examinstion of tho body proved that the uterus and cue kidoey were missing. st st If_your complaint is want of appetite, Bitters try Half wine glass Angostu before meals Dr. J. G, B, Sk Sons, sole - (uluctuy,