Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 8, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE OCTOBER 8. 1888 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Morning Buition) including SUNDAY, 1y, Qe Year ceee 810 00 | u notably w For £ix Months For Thre the P OMANA SUNDAY BEE, mailed to any address, One Y ear ANA OFFICEN NEW York Ovrice, R BU1L WASHIN FOURTEENTH STRELT. 14 ANDI16 K ARNAM STIERT s 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE CORREIPONDEN All communications rel torial matter should be ad OF THE BER BUSINESS LK All business Jetiers and remi Addres<ed to THE JIEE PUBLISHING ( OMAIA u, checks and postoffiee bemude payabli to the order of the co The Boe Pablishing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATE ditor. P ——————— THE DAILY BF Sworn Statement of Circulation. Etateof Nebraska, 1, o ‘County of Douglus, | @eorge 11, Tzachuck, secretary of the Hee Pub- 1ishing ompany, does soletnnly swear that the actual clreulation of Ti week ending October 6, 1965, was s follow Bunday, and edl- o Eniton ¥, Thirsday. Ogt Friduy, O Baturday, Oct. 6. Average. FEORGE B, TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to beforo me and subscribed in my presence this 6ih day of October, A. D, i Seal. N P. FEIL, Notary Pul Etate of Nebraska, (o o unty of Douglas, | rige B. Tzscnuck, being first duly sworn e ®that he is secretary of ‘Ui the ympany, that the art i oples; e N ) Aaily 75308 coplen; for Fabruar 1,1 E%, 10080 oy “tor May, 144, Eworn to befors me and suhse Presence thissth day of September, A N.P. I y Publ Wit the example of the Burlington’s disastrous policy bofore its eyes, itis strange that the profit nor glory. ADVERTISING in republi contributions to the democ: puign fund is us consistent s warning federal officeholders aguinst “offensive partisanship” and turning out women and children to make room for spoils- men. Tir alliance between the Union Pa- cific and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul for fast train service between Chi- cago and De often that it is about an understanding is brought ubout, it is likely to causo great changes in the schedule time of all the railroads centering in Omaha. ar ALDERMAN McQUADE, a boodler of New York City, who was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years, has just been releasod from Sing Sing after serving twenty-one months. He has been granted a new trial on tochnical grounds. The belief however is current that McQuade will ne again be called to the box for trial. He is therefore to all intent and purpose a froc man. Justice will ery in vain when technical rubbish of the legal machinery protects a guilty man from veceiving his just deserts, OF T1E nine judges on the supreme bench six are republicans and three are democrats—Chief Justice Fuller, Jus- tices Field and Lamar. Although the republicans ave in the majority, iv is possible that the political com- on of the supreme court may be changed before the close of Mr. Cleveland’s service on the 4th of March, 1889. Justice Mathew is snid to be a very sick man, and may die before that time. Justices Miller and Bradley are both over seventy years of age, and there- fove long past the age at which they can vesign and draw full salary for the remainder of their lives. THERE appears to be considerable ronfusion in the fiscal relations between the city and county. First the county renders a bill for boarding city prison- ers, and then the city presents a claim of the money due from the county by reasons of ocosts in the police courts. The claims of the one do not offset the claims of the other. There are dis- putes, and the accounts remain unset- tled from vear to year. The longer such a state of affairs continues, the more difficult it will be to strike a bal- ance-sheet. It is the plain duty of the eity and county authorities to untangle the snarl and settle existing differences. Tre best wheat raised in the United States for the current year is said by dealers to come from central Dakota. It comes from a region thatv was only years ugo, but that goes without saying, for there is o no more painful fact in American agriculture than the deterioration of wheat lands from faulty farming. Within the mem- surveyed fiv ory of living men the best whe was in Genesee county but the blue ribbon westward as and the palm is now held by Dakota be- cause the latest wheat lands ave there. land steadily trav All the same, if the question of the Sioux lands is favorably settled, Dakota will be a great feature in the wheat pro- duction of the northwest. Tur weather for certain sections of eastern Nebraska and lowa for the month of September has been so ro- markable that attention must have been directed to it. From a meteorological point of view it has been unprecedented. The raiuvfall for the month wus only 0.24 responding mouth for atloast seventeen years. But what is more singular is the fact that the equinoctial storm which should have visited this section sed the equator failed to make its appearance. A storm wave swept across the country to the Atlantie ‘and across the Atlantic to Europe. But for some unwccountable reason, which perhaps the sigual service can explain, no climatic chunges occurred in the vieinity of ecastern Nebraska, which every well behaved equinox ought to when the sun bring. 108 OFFick, No. 013 | DAILY Bek for the 15,08 North Chicago cable company should invite a contest with its employes in which there is noither ) papers for atic cam- ver has been talked of so me some sort of ved at. If it or New York state, od virgin lana was broken up, How They Differ. Itisa fact worthy of being remem- bered, that the democratic members of the senate finance committee were not a unit inapproving the Mills bill entire. Senator Mcl’herson of New Jersey gave c and qualified endo ment to the report of his democratic colleagues, concurring #o far as the re- port approved the free list of the Mills bill, but saying that he desires some modification in the dutiable list. It has always been understood that the New Jerscy senator was a good deul fretted | over the house tariff bill, it having been reported before the passage of the measurc that he eaid New Jerscy would be lost to the democracy if it passed. Itis not at all questionable that at an other time Mr. McPherson would vig orously oppose the bill, and his qualitied approval of it cannot fail to be helpful to the republicans in New Jersey, A noteworthy fact in connection with the expression of opinion by the minority is the separate stand taken by Senator Boc of Kentucky. The ardent and uncompromising free trade sentunents of this senator are well known, and, be- ing ill when the senate bill was sent to him, he is said to have cailed into service a well known free teade wi of New York, who p paved report for the democratic minovity of the finay com- mittee. This was not sccented how eveor, by ¢ —-vvay Who preseuted it as 215 0WNL It is said that two prominent demo- cratic members of the senate have c pressed a proference for the senate tariff bill, and it is plain that all the demoerats in congress do not approve the Mills bill. They have supported it under the pressure of party considera- tions, but it is entirely safe to say that even if the party shall be successful in the presidential election the me will rc demo ure ive numerous amendments of atic suggestion at the next sion of cong: The exposure of its inequalities, its unbusiness-like char- cter, and its conspicuous sectional d erimination has convinced fair and can- did democrats, and they do not publicly ¢ so simply because the exigencies of party command them to silenc Trying to Mend Matters. The national administration was rep- rescnted in New York during the past week by the president’s private seer tary and by the sccretary of the navy, aud it is not questionable that their mission was purely political. Tt is pr tended in democratic quarters that the had no authority to speak for Mr. C| land, but this is so clearly improbable that no one will give it the least ere- dence. It is true that both Whit- ney and Lamont are New York men, and that both are concerned for the success of their party in that state, although the former said to contemplate retiring from public +life and from poli- tics, but it is not at all likely that the appearance of these gentlemen together in New York at this time is wholly due to their personal concern in the desper- ate situation of their party in that state. That they were not authorized to make any public proclamation on bebalf of the president may be granted, but that they had full authority to pledge the admiu- istration as they should find expedient, is not tobe doubted. Their sojourn in the pivotal state is evidence that the presi- dent hias been avoused to the necessity of doing something. Interest will be largely concentrated on the course of political events in N York during the next four weeks, The democratic complications there, as we have heretofore shown, h become more serious than almost ever before, and how they are to be arranged and the party brought into line and har- monized is a problem that is proving very perplexing to those whom it most closely concerns. Very few secem to any longer doubt the election of the re- publican candidate for governor, and when this is conceded it seems to us that there is not much room for a question regarding the success in‘the state of the republican national ticket. Specific and Ad Valorem Dnties. One of the features, and not the 1 important, in which the senate tariff bill differs from that of the house is in the preference which the former gives to the specific over ad valorem duties. Thore was an evident motive in adhe ing to the system of collecting duties according to the value of articles, which done by the framers of the house measure, and it is suggested in the majority report of the senate committoe, which says the result of this system would be to change rates now pro- tective for others that would not protect. The report says: *“Ad valorem rates afford facilities for the grossest frauds upon the revenue; through undervaluations they invite ons of the law and reward dishon- est importers, whilo they destroy the ike of honest importers and of domestic manufacturs The for- cign manufacturer practically fixes tho duty which he is willing to pay, and in many cases the only limitation upon the amount of foreign importation is the extent to which the fear of detection in- fluences the persons who make the in- voices. The evils which flow from ad valorem rates are so great and so mani- fest that this plan of col- lecting duties has no adv cates but professional and pc cal revenue reforme and dishonest consignors.” The rcport further ar- es that grave inequalities would re- sult from the application of this plan as provided in the house bill. The singular thing is that the ma- jority of the ways and means committee should have gone so far astray in this matter from the recommendations of both secretaries of the treasury under the present administration, and from the views of other prominent members of their party, notably Mr. Hewitt, who when & member of congress introduced one or more measures for reforming the administration of the ecustom ser- vice, a leading feature of which wus the substitution of specific for ad valorem duties. Secretary Manning was strongly in favor of this, having pointed out to cougress that it was the is husiness g only way to cerrect the enormous frauds upon the revenue and upon honest mer- Secretary Fairchild has taken same ground. s his last re- port that in revising and reducing rates it is desirable “they should be nstead of ad valorem, so made specif as the nature will permit. Theoretically consider | a0 valorem are preferable to specific duties, but in practice, under such rates and must continue to have for years to come, the former are source of deception and in- ) the custom opinions the framers of tho house tarifl bill not only ignoved, but impli tempt for them in extending the which they condemn, as wo have had In respect of this importance, the senate mensure has very gred SENATOR SHERMAN does not look for- eventof the near future or of easy ac complishment, but he eclearly that it is one which will happen in time. Meanwhile it appears likely hecome one of the laboring for a commercial union, ve- i 1 dy fully com- As to the feeling of our north- ern neighbors on these subjects the in- aications are that it is growing steadily more favorable to a better - States and Can- papers in the dominion are giving ex- ssion to strong views in advoc: union, regardless of any possible dangers to thoe relations be- in and its colony, and a number of Canadian public men have hown a strong drift in this di- Senator Sherman would exer- in favor of com- commercial tween Great By ciso n great influence mercial union should he espouse that cause with his wonted earnestness and ive fall trade The first week of Octo- ber has seen the removal of two causes i sturbances and uncer They were the danger to corn from frost or e S nty as to the sup- Tik prospects for an ac are promising. and other crops rain, and the uncer ply of currency for the movement of Happily there are no longer grounds to fear for the safety of crops. Both the banks and treasury depart- ment are well supplied and ready to ro- lieve any possible stricture in the money The ending of the demoraliz s by the leading trunk lines gives a healthier color to the question of transportationy, and promotes confi- dence by the removal of the uncertain- tics and complications in freight rates. danger that need element of be apprehended awakening setting in is the revival of the speculative prices for food products is to be ex- pected and desived, alues beyond their legitimate worth can end only in disaster. While high inflation of us hope that the rse ¢ a reduction Something of the sort It the New York Times’ stutement of the amount of mort- upon the farms of the ten ch es of the union was cor- agricultural s rect then nothing but save the farmers from becoming tenan on the farms th A sustained rise in farm products would be the miracle so ardently prayed for. . but patriotic men greater misfortune could befall country than the extinetion or land owners. of farmers I11s reported that the spector of customs has just learned t extensive smuggling of wheatand other products has been carrfed on hetween Canada and the United States. overations have heen going on uninte Large quantities of lumber, wool and other dutiable articles of Eurdpean manufacture annuaily find their way into this country paying toll to the government. difficult matter to stop smuggling across miles of Canadian border unless custom houses were in- definitely multiplied and custom officers can be found who are not venal. — A Quostion of the Hour. Canadian in- rupted for years. three thousand ‘The question of the hour is, will they reduce the tariff on needles and sheepshears. Times Have Cleveland Lead There was a time a few ye: was not unusual for southern bourbons to shoot republican speakers. Now they only “rotten-egg' them. s ago when it , the south is ad- Prohibitionists on the Wane. The prohibitionists will malke no important as compared This much is assured by the state clections held within the past sk should obtain in t1wo or three time gains in the sars ago—and porters think he will them in the so The Differenc Francisco Chronicle, The diffcrence between the Mills bill and the senate tarift bill can be summed up in a very few words: the senate bill is a protect- the house bill is a de Oue starts with the idea that the system of protection, which has tested by a quarter of a century's ex- perience, is good for the country and should be maintained; the other asserts, by imp tion at least, that the system is ‘v illegal,” as Mr. Cleveland called it, and should be destroyed; and this is what General Harrison said in his lotter of acceptance : offer u fixed schedule, but a principle.” tariff measure, meant when Piiladel phia Ledger. But whatever gloss ,my it to being of civil-servioe regard to who prompted the order or who is respousible for it, and in full view of the fact that it is simply continuing ten order in favor of one party what has been done for many years either with or without written order by the opposite party—it is all the same a reprenensible, discreditable, and Itis malum in se—bad in itself—and neither worse nor better when ngful practice. done by one party than by the other. They all do it: they all déem it the right thing when done by themselves, and wrong when done by the other fellow 1t is wrong and bad by whomsoever done; every time and all the tiwe, I ——— Al Together ) Ploweer Press His excellency Hadji Hassein Ghooly —abem! Once more, his excellency Hadji Hassein Ghooly Khan—once and again; all together now. This isa nows itom, and not only is it important but it's true: His excellency Hadji Hassein Ghooly Kahn Motamedel-Var, the newly appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from Persia to the United States, has ar rived in New York on the steamersServia, POLITICAL POINTS, In the largest university meeting held for years Yule organized the Harrison and Mor- ton club of Yale university, and the Depew battalion, & military organization for march ing purposes. Calvin Bokwer, who has just resignod his place as postmaster of Suvoy Hollow, Muss was appointed in 1341 under President Tyler, and has held the office continuously ever since. He is 82 years old. Governor Foraker says he would not bo surprised if the republican majority in Ohio in November should run up to 60,000, As to Indiana he thinks there will be a tidal wave in that state in favor of the republicans, Now, QAn enthusiastic Dakota democrat, who 18 an Indian agent, has got himself iuto trouble. He told |hnlndlmm, in an unguarded mo- ment, that the republicans would give the country free whisky, and now tho redskins threaten to annihilate him because he * i & rpiiblican, VM Harticipated b wnce DBOQUCL 4t A Now Yor IPK tho other evening were hor- rified on learning the next morning that li- quor in some formn had been scrved to them in almost cvery dish, although not o drop had appeared on the' table as a boverago. Their indignation was natural and proper. It was amear. trick the cooks played on them. A conductor on the Northwestern railrond named McDougal, residing at Rockford, IiL., has made an engagement that if Cleveland is defeated Lo will et a cooked crow. He has also_covenanted that he will not do it by stealth, but in somo public place like the opers house at Rockford, where the men, women and children of the town may gather and watch the cbullitions of his epigastrium A republican hus agreed todo the samo thing if Harrison 18 defoated. The Rev. Dr. Burchard's famous three R's having proved so effective in the campaign of 1584, the democrats are LOW anxiously awaiting the uppearance of s 8uCcessor. “The Indianavolis News (Ind.) reports that the pulpits of that city are to be watched with an eagle cye. The Rev. Mr. Haines, who preaches for the Presbyterian congre: gation, of which General Harrison 18 & mem ber,is to be given special attention, but others are not to bo neglected. Congressman Foran of Cleveland, O., an Irish democratic protectionist elected from a republican district, has been dropped. He disregarded the caticus decreo of Lis party and voted against tho Mills bill. The demo- cratic convention Saturday noninated a free- trader, Tom Johnson. He is the largest owner of streot railway lines in the country, controlling rods in Louisville, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Brooklyn, and_elséwhere. He is considored a strong candidate among free- traders. STATE A D ’l‘l‘.lll‘l’I‘lJllY. Nebraska Jottings. The farmers in the vicinity of Gordon have organized an alliance. There are eighty-six cases on the docket of the Antelope county district court. The farmers' union of Oakland took in 27,824 bushels of grain during September. yprian in jail at Aurora has had the marshal arrested for taking undue liber- The soldiers’ reunion at Bloomington was a great success i spite of the inclement ‘weather, The republican league of Ashland wwill hold weekly meetings until the close of tho campaign, Large gray wolves are having a picnic in the sand hills of Sheridan counvy, devouring a large number of young cattle. Mabel Warren, a bad little thirteen-year- old girl of Tecumseh, has been sent to the Kearney reform school by her parents. George 'Reynolds, who committed au inde- centassault on little Bertie Walters, at Ash- land, has been sent to the pen for four years The citizens of Campbell had a severe struggle with a prairie five the other day and managed to stop its progress just in time to save the town, At the Otoe county convention held at Sy- acuse Thursday, I, . Ransom was nomi- nated for senator, and O. Horn and Dr. Latta for representatives. Elmer Conine, living near Beatrice, shot himsell accidentally with a small hunting rifle, Saturday, the ball entering the abdo men. recover. Miss ide Frommbolz, an old resident of Humphrey, now on u tour through Europe, has been presented with a medal by the em- peror of Germany for rescuing a young lady from drowning in the Baltic sea. The little town of Covington is receiving a good deal of advertismg in the papers of the surrounding towns, which say that it is a little bit worse than Leadville in'its palmiest days—a veritable Golconda and retreat for Satan’s imps. The chandelier in the Buptist church at Holdrege fell to the floor Suuday evening, scattering the oil all arouna und starting a lively conflagration, which was quickly ex- tinguished. The accident happened, lurkily just before time for the congregation to as semble for evening worsbip. The Fillmore county old settlers’ picni and reunion was held'st Fairmont Thurs day. There was a large attendance notwith- standing the threatening appearauce of the weather. Addresses were made by Gov- ernor Thayer, Hon. James Laird, Hon. J. R. Ballard, James H. Little and others. ‘The republican convention of Otoe county held at Syracuse, Thursday, passcd a resolu- tion instructing “the republican members of the legislature to cast their vota for Hon. C. H. Van Wyck for United States senator in the coming senatorial contest, first, last and all the time, if the said C. H. Van Wyck so desires," The Presbyterian parsonage, in course of erection at Columbus, was plastered on a re- cont Sunday and considerable carpenter work was done on the same day, according to the Columbus Democrat, and ' the comment is made that not a single sermon on Sabbath desceration has been preached in town since ar haunted school house near Venango is proving a source of tefor to the inhabitant Strange stories are and the Argus r ports the tale of a well known resident, who saw a strange light as though it came out of the ground, which he ould not_account fo; and found himself a loug way.off in fifty se onds in & corn field. Friday, September 14, Andrew Ferns had his 'grain threshed. The job was within a short distance of the haunted school house. While the work wus being completed the men heard a strange n Peering cautiously around and looking up in the air the boys saw something that looked like a turkey bumard. Some one said “look! it is coming down! Hold on to the teams. It is a man without ahcad ! It was clothed in white and as quick as a flash darted for the machine, passing throuch the concave and out upon the straw stack. The boys took fright und jumped off the stack and those below ran to thetr assistauce. 1t looked as large as four common. men. IU took its course for the school house and whon 1t came 10 the cross rouds it disappeared. lowa. The state supports about three thousand criminals, insane and incorrigibles. A number of Humboldt speculators were nipped by the recent flurry in wheat. An Algona man borrowed money and gave forty-three mortgages on oue spavined old horse. Lyons has a man who looks so much like Harrison that he is frequently mistaken for the next president The annual report of the county clerk of Clinton county shows the number of births in the county to ba 760; deaths, 330; mar- riage liceuses issued, 475, Quite an secident occurred at Round Lake one day last week, Two Germans were run uing e foot ruce and one of the parties fell and the otber jumped or his stomach. A phy sician was summoned by telograph and did e the suffering na The poor fellow died all in his power to reli tient, but to no avail, A Fort Madison cigarmaker claims to have 1alotter from a young lady in Graf offering him a fine acres for his hand in marr _Wheat has gono up to a $1 & bushel at o North Dakota opened with 100 students in attend threaten foreclosures if made by farmers, is ostimated furnish suffcicnt grain and stock to fill over five thousand fre Dakota will ght cars every he grain dealers at Salem work siderable excitoment over wheat ds that one buyer be |)m! he raised his own bid 2 cents, gational church at has extended a call Duryea, D. D. althiest churches in Boston. The improvements in Madison will reach 00,000 this year, und are of a good, L ne dwoelling houses und solid building blocks have been the rule ame 80 excited pastor ‘of one of The commissioners of Deucl county have , one asking for the re moval of the county scat from Gary, and the othor for a vote on local option, granted 1wo petitiol A prairie fire that started four miles north of Ayre swept the country north und cagt,f The damage {8 §il'ire has finished “The buildings at E moved to a new site, and dry and free from malari ary from the fact that on the old granite compun were tuken down with typhoid f H. H. Breckie, four miles boring for coal, t Sioux Falls are being where the land is high south of Blunt, He is now bo and is confident of securing supply just bclow !Iu‘ slate rock he has struck. \¢ or sinking his shaft, A (-lrl l)lncknl Hh Among the (‘xhihiu at the L few have more dozen horse shocs to the muin entrance fectly shaped, handsomely polishod and i seiontifically s Annie” Bole, aged fifteen These horses Miss Bole is 11 of a black- v street, kept It was in this reporter found sh said that the d been taught by y proud of his pupil. dozens that tried it,” m had the nateral tal- mlllnrnm)ung)mn-~hn(‘fllhullh|,\nluu: Huntington, t| worth her hnu millions, mude & ‘,uml at it, but couldn’t quite do it. this side of Lunnon make horseshoes li Al the blacksmith's re- by u man nam. and he was ve 1] €4 ve scen leddy’s got. 'I'Ilerc ain’ta man young lmhh © of round iron was Walsh, and Mi s, thereby revealing ied ona leather apron and plunged the iron into the fire The young lndy is about five feet three i and rather fragile than cut off m'» Mr. rolled up her from a laughing face,and soon the ham- mer was ringing on the red iron with a the crease in shoe, turned it into shapo hike a an, regardless i > nail holes, and out as fine a shoe For Miss Bole will have nothing to do with shoes for confines her- E finer shoes of composition or polished iron. first became animated with the idea of making horse- watching the blacksmith. nally she asked him to let her tr he was so much plensed with her effort that he showed her he knew, and the result was the exhibit at the Mechanie’s institute. s that she will practical use of her though she seemed exhibit and se 1 have to goout to the ordinary dr not make any accomplishments, anxious about r and make a I yet anythin instructor confidently expeets t lat she will take a premium, The horseshoes were and finished in her ownlittle vise, she keeps in her own room. s that he is going to send one of the horseshoes to the Queen of England. filed, polished A Church Member Sixty Years—Is 01, Aten, of Round R ia October 26, 1797 in herninel 3 the daughter of Robert and Quinn, and removed with her parents to ¢, Ohio, about the . was born in ,was her uncle, and was a sister of Goneral John Quinn, of Ohio, an officer of the war of 1812 and a politician of in his day She was married in 1829, and h husband, having died in 1842, left her the mother of three sons, are yet living, twoof them ministers of the gospel, the younge for a number of years pr pasns collogo, To» ving gone mruu«vh the hardships ,she was pre- well as her ‘ter to assume tho all of whom t having been dent of Lam- incident to pared by her training natural foree of chai vesponsibilities of business when left i i fortunatoly left with o competency, she was enabled t0 50 guide her affairs provide for her childron. s to educate and rvnm\ud with 1l was to Teb willing, though & nonagenariah, to un- dertake another if ne : Aten has been o woman of great in 1876, and wn chureh (disciples of Christ :uui is .nllh; yet to contend earnestlyfor S (N n\«l lin-- w hi sion sent her two oldest sons to uum \,,.. battles of the movement of the armies \\||I| interest until they service at the close of the were mustered out of \d having served in Coloncl ison during that war. every good work that intelloctunl \d ber physi- has [ ailedwithin Taking her alto- remarkably last eight yea gether, she is a specimen of the old ws and luiuvnm»- of her own unc hnnu. suble § the women dared Angostura Bittersare the bost reme for re moving indigesti druggist for the genuine, prepared G. B. Siegert & Sons. NATURAL GAS AT LINCOLN. The Capital City Excited Ovor a Supposod Bonanza. FOUND IT IN BORING FOR WATER. Something That Beats the Brine Supcrintendent Lane After Imp ant Statistics—N s About t City—~The Sunday Guests Lixcor N Bureav or Tie O u Bee, Il\ull\ \‘nl T There are two thingsthat Lincoln has that do not press upon the eredulity of her people for belief, and they arve salt and salt water. The supply of the first article has never boen exhausted, al- though a legislative appropriation or two has goue the way of things earthly in the vain attempt to fathom its rich- ness and give the state a place among the great salt marws of the world. But no appropriation has ever been found nocessary to develop the salt water find. It came withant «less’ been hsible of this fact for a long time, and have petitioned the city council to squander an appropriation to buy the supply out of sight forever. Thers isa folt want for salt, but none whatever for salt water, unless in the vegion of packing houses and butcher shops. Acting upon this presumption the water commission- ers have sunk numerous holes into the ground around and about the old pump- ing station, and promiscously through- out West Lincoln, but upon the princi- ple that two pigs make more noise un- der a gate than one the supply of good, pure brine ¢ od instead of iessened. This has given abundant op- portunity for the demanded appropria- tion to go. It cost money to sink holes intoth gl'n\lnd called wells, Tt is his- tory that the citizens of Lincoln stood the experiment without a murmur. It is history that economists wanted to tap Oak creck or Platte rtosupply the city. It is history that the water com- missioner for sundry reasons shifted his Shoring® from west to cast Lincoln, across the Antelope, and struck an al- leged ar n well, since when the whisper has gone around, **Maybe we will ftonn drinking brine sometimeo 1in the dim mists of the uncertain future.” The hole was plugged up, it is said, to permit a great well to be dug below' the water strata, hut not to prevent the flow from exhausting itself and so burst another hope that sprung into exis- tenee in anxious rts. But the plug vefused to stuy in the hole. Sud- denly the plug <hot ipto the air and all Lincoln w d with the ¢ of | natural gas! tors flocked to the scene. The Sunday morning’s papers | tell of its wonders, and credulous peo- ple have been wondering that way all day long. It struck THeE Bek man and he went. But the calm was serene and Jovely. There was no sizzing and no bubbles upon the tranquil — wate The infiiction, however, zes to a considerable centand a bill will be introduced the coming session of the legislature for an appropriation of # 000,000 to heal the malady. If found to be suficient, a second dose will be given, warranted to kill or cure. The bill will be urged upon the grounds thatone of the profossors of the state university pronounced the find to he natural g The fact will be cited that water shotinto the aiv fully twenty feet when the cap was taken from the pipe to see whether ntinued or not. It will be t the water was pure at a depth of tifteen and thirty-five feet, and found in great quantitics. The fact that Lincoln is the capital of the state will also be taken into the count and a sgtrong case will be made. The indicy tions are lively that the bill will 5 the house, but that Church Howe will kill it when it veaches the senate. His opposition to the bill muy be attribut- able to his hostility to Mr. Brown for CONEress. The hope is strong, however, that Major Sam D. Cox, of the Call, will be ab) stay the torrent of opposition to the bill on his rcturn from St. Louis with his bonny bride. He is brave, in- genious, fearless and able, and will go fnto the fray fully equipped for any emergen He was expected home yesterday but failed to appenr. He is sure to come on or beforo the first day of next Janui He will be married good and stout, and there will be no natural gas about it. There is hope for tho appropriation. A COMMENDARLE WORK, For some days past State Superintend- ent George B. Lane has been making a determined effort to asc in the num- ber of children that are attending the church, private and public schools of the state. The ohject of this work 1s apparent. The annual enumerations gives the number of school children of the state, and with the enrollment in all the schools it will be an easy matter to determine the true intercst that c ters in educationul circles, and the rea merit of the educational system of the state. The superintendent, therefore, is very anxious to determine the exact number of children receiving instru tion in the varionsschools, and inform: tion that will aid him in this commend- able work will be thankfully received. It is thought that this work will prove a great aid in shaping fature legislation if found to be reguired. CITY N S AND NOTES, Governor Thayer returned from Te- cumseh this morning, where he dresse rge political meeting ye day. Hesays he has heard nothing from his challenge to Meshane, Auvtorney General | » dropped into Tue By headguarters a moment this afternoon, He reports enthusinstic meetings at Columbus and at other points where he has addressed the peo- ple on the politieal issues of the d General MeBride and politicians went to Courtland this morn- ing. The Gormans of that place and vicinity met for a social pienic and to have & pleasant time generally. On their return the boys report i very pleasant time and courteous treatinent while there. The Germans of Courl- land are a hospitable people. Bishop Bonacum administered the rites of confi wtion to-day at the pro- cathedral to & large number of candi- dates. This was the 't of the kind formed in the city by a reside L nee at the cathed ) The bishop preached the sermon of the day, and the ofticiating ministers were Rev, F. Dunphy, celebrant; Rev. Ioth, sacon; [Rev. F. L. Laurence, sub- ron. Perhaps the rgost audience ever gathered tog ut St. Paul’s M. F church Bishop Newman t day. He delivered a sermon of wond ful benuty and power. The bishop isan engaging talker. a clear ronsoner and a thorough scholar. The outpour- ing of citizens and members of his chureh to hear him on his firstappear- anee before a Liucoln audier wns a tribute to wn able man and a just appre- ciation of hi this city will locate here. The members glad to have him of the Irish mooting ut i Irish question, nnd thoso who I a of the priv the emancipation of the Trish race than LINCOLN'S SUNDAY ( \‘ Saunders, d Updyke, Harvar Greenbaum, Cooperstown, . . Blackburn, nor, Kearney: Thomas Pr South Omaha; Vincent Scully, ¢ J. B. Wilson, New id City; F. J. Moss, Musca- Dweon, Bennett . 1"ershing, Stanton, Morton and wife, ) 2. Knight, Chie Worman, Bos- \Mum I- s O ity;s J. A, Boyd, _Omana; O, Frost und wife, Bart: At the Windsor—IL, New Orleans; . Goldsmith, C. A. McCormic, Chicago; St Josephs ). C. S. Miles, Chicago; fon, Topoki; B, Willis, € h|-(wn. W M Vearsonger, Philadelphi lm..'ph Prank, ¢ hica . New York; Miss Mattio Belvin and wife, hlml«ll Chi San Francisco; Mohawk, N. Sumuel Fckstine, Now Il'l\my]m'l,; W, perry ,I\v\\ York; L. . Jay, Omaha . Warner, New H. Dixon, Kan- “Elvain, South C. Puison, Cr lov and wife, Bluo F ton, T N. Chand? 1 8. W. Stuck, or, Omaha; Afchison, Theo! : Winton Spring: , Salico, Colo.; Sol Ehrmin, Washington, “¥OLL WERIGHT PURE 1ts superior e nomes for mor i wsed by the United s dor=ed by the heads of the gre; att the strougest. purest ad nco proven in millions of t Jniversitios as wiler does not SOME DOCTORS honestly gdmit that they ean’t cure ism and Ne unllgm ()'.l ™ pho-ros ays nothing but — cures, Years of trial have proved it to bs In my own fanily At a3 4 lant renort, tho user Thetiatiag OF years and b treated for (he dixeass by Aans in this State and ) e wood it handd Mrs. Lotise Crkkuy. A Send 6 conts for the beantiful color ¢, * Moorish Maiden ' YIIEATNLDPhUIioS €0. 112 Wall St. N.Y. DRUNKENNEfis Or the Liquor Habit, Positively Cured by Administering Dr. Halves’ Golden Tt can be given in a cnp of coffes or tes Withe out the knowledge o1 the person taking it; abso- harmless, wid will efiect a pormancit und fiether the patient 18 o moderata ‘Thousunds of wade teinperate pectiic in their coffee with- and 1o-day balieve the) driuker or an Ricc Have tuken Gold Gut their knowled; guit drinking of their own fro n onco impregniled With the Bpecifie, it hecotues an uttér {mpos: lhlll the liquor appetita to exist. N"OR:THWEéTéfifi e MILITARY AGCADEMY. N 23 iniles north o rps of Experienced la. Send for Cataloge £, JOHN'S MILITARY SCHOOL, MANLIUS, N. ¥