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

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FEIL, Notary Public. Frzox all accounts one would think that the telegraph companies are about 10 enter into the newspaper business. THERE are too many paper heading for Omaha. What we want to s s the last spike driven into the Omaha & Yankton. lroads on T celebration of the opening of the new bridge between Omahaand Council Bluffs on the 30th inst., will be made a gala day for hoth citie e democrati¢. ward bums are pre- paring a last supreme effort to spend McShane’s surplus before the lid is closod forever on his campaign tool chest. LoCAL politicians are ve and hopeful. They have successfully worked the machine, but the trouble is that the votes of the people have a serious way of deciding thiu HEREAFTER it will be considered a great favor to be asked to take a drink in lowa. A United States commissioner has just been fined one hundred dollars for treating his friend. Tue ‘“dollar-a-day” lie has been nailed. The demonstration of the work- angmen of Indianapolis in honor of Gen- eral Harrison indicates how much stock the bone and sinew of the nation took dn the fabrication KiNag MILAN of Servia obtained a divorce from Queen Natalie by simply commanding the metropolitan to issue the decree. If he had applied to a Chi- 1go lawer he could not have got it as cheaply, COLONE! of Mr. Cleveland’s household, does not deny having fallen through the ceiling at the white house. ‘What could Colonel Wilson have been doing on the ceiling? Was he trying to decipher the handwriting on the wall? SouTH OMAIIA can have a free deliv- ery if she will name her streets prop- erly, number her houses and repair her sidewalks. The price for putting on metropolitan airs comes high, but South Omaha 15 bound to keep up with the Jprocession, cost what it may, JOonN CHINAMAN has already adopted n policy of retaliation against the Chi- nese exclusion law. He has boycotted cevtain articles of American produc- tion, which will prove a hardship to a number of Chinese merchants in this country, John is certainly learning the ways of the Melican man Two thousand detectives have been spurred on by the heavy rewards offered by the republican national committee 1o watch for democratic frauds in the registration of votes in New York City. Mr. Cleveland’s friends in New Jersey in consequence will not be so anxious to cast their votes this fall in the Empire state. — WaoM will the Hascall democrats scratch on the democratic senatorial ticket? They have certainly agreed to lead one man to the slaughter. The packing house democrats with Rotten- “Pavement Jim at the head have sworn wengeance on Paxton, but Hascall’s ac- cessions from that quarter will be more than offset by republicans who are not disposed to place a firebrand on the Douglas delegation. —_— SouTH OMAHA is fortunate in receiv- ing a premium on her refunding bonds. But all is not gold that glitters. The refunding bonds represent an overlap transformed into a mortgage. If the methods by which this funded debt has been created are allowed to continue for atew yearslonger the property of South Omaha would be plastered over with mortgages with nothing to show for the heavy burden imposed on the tax- payers. e— Tuk “Honest Tom™ Axworthy, eity treasurer of Cleveland, and ‘‘Honest Dick” Tate, treasurer of Kentueky, are unfortanately an example of that clas: of men who undeservedly gain the con- fidence of their fellow men. Assug- gested by a contemporary, it is getting dangerous to prefix the word “‘honest” indiscriminately before the names of treasurers. They should be dubbed houest when their terms have expired and their sccounts have been approved. AN INDISCREET DIPLOMAT. As o departure from the straight and strict tines of diplomatic proprieties, the letter of the Britlsh ministar to this country, Lord Sackville West, advising an Amevican citizen of English birth how he should vote in the impending election, was a very grave indiscretion. Despite the opinion of Secrétary Bay- ard that the matter is not one of which the government can properly take offic- inl upotice, because the letter was pri- vate, we venture tosay that ours is the only government on earth that would allow such intermeddling in its polit- jcal affairs by a foreign am- bassador without making: at least a protest, and we do not believe any other administration since the foundation of the government would have regarded the matter as the present administration appears from the views of the secretary regard it. The absurdity of the tude of Mr. Bayard must be app to every intelligent man, particularly his plea that the appeal to the British minister was a scheme to entrap him. Granting that such was the case, and the minister professes to believe that he will be able to establish that it was so, it will simply serve to more emphati- cally demonstrate how strong English sympathy is with the democratic cause. Minister West is not an amateur in diplomacy. He fully under stands its obligations and its pro- pricties, and the only reasonable cxplanation of his extraordinary viola- tion of these in this cass is his profound concern for democratic suceess in the coming election. It is not for a mo- ment to be supposed that were he indif- ferent as to the result he would have written such a letter, the authenticity of which he frankly acknowledges. But there is something more to this letter than its impropriety, as Secretary Bayard modestly calls it, in advising an American citizen how he should vote. It discloses a degree of confidence in the friendly disposition of the administra- tion toward England and English in- terests which must have some surer foundation than the wish or hope of the British min- ister. He informs his corrvespondent that the party in power is fully aware of the fact that 3 ral party which openly favored the mother country at the present moment would lose popu- larity,” that while the party in poweris desirous of maintaining friendly rela- tions with Great Britain, and of settling all questions with Canada, *‘all allow- ance must be made for the political sit- uation as regards the presidential elec- tion thus created,” and the minister thinks there is every reason to believe that Mr. Cleveland will “‘maunifest a spirit of conciliation in dealing with the questions involved in his message” —that is the message relating to re- taliation. What authority has Minister West for these views, which, if correct, convict the administration of duplicity? Would he state such views in language aimost positive without some foundation for them that he deemed reasonably secure? Sccretary Bayard says Mr. West has no other or better means of knowledge of the intentions of the president thau any one of the sixty mil- lions of American people. Will not every intelligent man understand that this is essentially specious and obvi- ously untrue. The British minisier is in constant intercourse with the state department, and the state department reflects the views and intentions of the president with respect to British affairs. These may not at all times be fully di closed, but can there be any reasonable doubt that Lord Sackville West has re- ceived from the American secretary of state such assurances as justified the e pressions of confidence in Mr. Clevy land contained in his letter? The British minister’s epistle cannot fail to have some political effect, and it may be very considerable. It reflects the prevailing English sentiment re- garding American politics, the motive of which everybody will understand, and it very strongly suggests that the administration has been simply playing for political effect in asking an increase of authority to retaliate upon Canada in the event of a further violation of treaty rights. It will be no casy task for the democracy to explain away these dis- closures. CHINESE RETALIATION. The confidence that has heen ex- pressed by officials of the state depart- ment that there was no danger to our commerce with China by reason of the legislation excluding Chinese laborers from this country, will receive a rude shock from the intelligence that Chi- nese merchants in New York huave re- ceived from their home offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai notification to dis- continue the purchase of American pe- troleum, white sheeting, calico, watches, fire arms, flour and ginseng root. This is not due to any action on the part of the Chinese government, which thus far has given no expres- sion of its views or purposes regarding the exclusive logislation of the United States, but vesults from a general boy- cott of American goods by the citizens of China. his is a wholly unexpected turn of affairs. The common impres- sion has been that the Chinese people gave thoemselves no coucern about where their necessities came from, and especially that they had neither the in- telligence nor the spirit to resent legis- lation hostile to them on the part of another country. We evidently shall have to change our notions of those people. Tt appears that they have their trades unions where their interests are broadly discussed, and that gemerally they are alive to what is going on affecting those interests. Ob- viously a people having the spirit to combine in sufficient force to seriously impair trade with another country can- not be treated with contempt by coun- tries that are seeking the extension of their commerce. The ways of an ad- vaneed civilization are manifestly mak- ing progress in China. American interests in China are ex- tensive. We imported from that coun- try last year commodities to the value of over nineteen million dollars, the chiet of these heing teas and silks. Our ex- ports to China were of the value of sixand aquarter million dollars, consist- ing wmaialy of petroleum, cottoa and T e THEE OMAHA DAILY BEE; SATURDAY, flour. This trade hds been profitable arA its destructton would bring ruin to a large number of mérchants in both countries. European nations ara repdy and anxious to supply to. China all that sho now takes from us, and therg ean: be no question that in a retaliatory quar- el with.the United States China would ve the best of it, for while Lurope supplied her with what she now buys of us, we a so far depefident upon her for the teas, silks and other articles we import that even if we should cut off the direct trade we would undoubtedly continue to import those Chi- nese products by way of Eng- land, thus increasing - their cost to us and mnot in the least injuring Chi Whether the matter will go so far as this—that is, develop into a policy of ret ion on the part of the two governments—remains to be scen, It is also a serious question whether the feeling of resentment will become so strong that the hospitalities and advantages which China has ex- tended to our people will be withdrawn. It may confidently be expeeted that the nations of Ilurope which desire the trade of China will doall they can to encourage the resentment which this country has invited. Meanwhile what has already taken place ought toinduce some vreflection by the legislative and executive powers, and on the part of the whole people, upon the wisdom of a great nation making its international relations subjects for po- litweal juggrlery at the risk of important and profitable commercial interests. . JUSTICE REFORM. It is generally admitted that the whole system of justices of the peace, as now constituted for Omaha is wrong, and that the legislature should be called upon to change the laws re- lating to that office. The act for jus- tices of the peace provides that two justices shall be elected from each pre- cinet, which means eve rd. That gives Omaha eighteen justices of the peace. When it is remembered that Chieago, with a population of eight hundred and fifty thousand, has but nineteen justices of the peace, it is obvious that there are too many such conservators of justice for our own city. The incompotence of these officials, however, is the chief reason why a change of the laws is necessa The Illinois system in Chicago is much preferable, and with proper changes could be made applicable to Omaha. The act relating to justices of the peace in the city of Chicago places the recommendation of these nincteen offi- cials in the hands of the judges of the circuit, superior and county courts of Cook county. The governor nominates the persons thus recommended; and by and with the advice and consent of the senate, the justices of the peace are ap- pointed for each district of the city. The Illinois method at a glance rec- ommends itself for securing competent and proper persous to fill the important oftices. It has been in force since 1875 and has been most satistactory. IT APPEARS from the report of the commissioner of the geneval land office, just made public, that millions of acres are held by railroads as land grants whose roads, have not been completed within the time required by their re- spective patents. This land ought to revert back to the United States. But under an unfortunate decision rendered by the supreme court, until a forfeiture is declared either by legislation or by judicial proceedings authovized by law, the title to the lands granted re- mains unimovaired in the hands of the railroads. 1In comsequence railroads have taken advantage of this ruling and a grave injustice is done the people of this country. The land office at Washington, notwithstanding the manifest failure of the railroad companies to comply with their obliga- tions, is powerless to treat their grants as forfeited and to restore the lands covered thereby to the public domain. It is notorious that railvroads are being chartered for the sole purpose of obtain- ing valuable land grants to aid in the construction of their roads. Such roads are never built. They exist on paper But in all such cases where the railroad companies ave clearly fraudu- lent and have forfeited their rights to the public domain, the general land oftice can not do otherwise than recog- nize the grants under which they are made. The attention of congress has re- peatedly been called to this whole- sale ropbery of the public @omain. In almost every instance, wherc railroads have not complied with their charters, legislation has been pending in one branch of congress or the other. But congress, to its shame, has not yet passed a law for the forfeituve of lands granted to railroads which have failed to comply with their obligations. — WIIAT conspicuous qualifications has the Hon. John A. McShane for gover- nor of Nebraska? This is a growing state, with a great future before it. It should bave in the executive office a man experienced in public affairs, patriotically concerned for the progress of the state, and with the ability to rec- ommend wise and necessary legisiation for promoting the general welfare. The fact that & man has been fairly suc ful in his private affairs does not argue a capacity for great public duties, and such success is all that can fairly be claimed for Mr. McShane. The intelli- gent voters of Nebraska must see in the democratic candidate for governor ounly an ardent partisan, who accepted a nomination with some ulterior purpose in view, und who, if elected, would doubtless devote himself more to the service of his party than to the inter- ests of the whole people. We have no doubt such voters are numerous enough to defeat the plans of Mr. McShane and his party. — Tue Dawes Dakota reservation bill has failed and bas become ancient his- tory. It is no use orying over spilt milk, and the Dawes milk can has been undeniably hoisted toward the moon by the horns of Sitting Bull. As, how- ever, itis absolutely necessary for the future comfort and prosperous develop- ment of Dakota that the eleven million acres of the reservation should be as OCTOBER) 27. 1888 goon as pon:th thrown open to settte- ment, the duty is imposed upon tho | territorial government- of framing o bill for the next congressional session which will. be_accepted by the Sioux. Al this tredty business is simply bal- derdash. ‘The Sioux have considered it as a real estate transaction and they are in.the rights,. Dakota wants' the land, and the Indinte are willing to scll, but they want the fair price, and it should be given them. AN item from an Idaho paper about the use of sunflowers for fuel is going the rounds of the eastern papers with many approving comment Still it trees are scarce in Idaho, w could be better than to follow the example of Nebraska and plant them? Idaho being to the west of the Rocky moun- tains is not liable to be troubled with blizzavds, and therefore it would pay to plant trees that would be serviceable for lumber and fuel. Oregon is famous for its hard woad, and there is as much similarity between that state and the territory of Idaho as between Nebraska and Kansas Tne shutting down of the jute ba, ging factories in Now England hasbeen brought about by the substitution of coarse cotton duck and cotton bagging made of fine straw as a covering for hales by the cotton plantersof the south. The cost of the duck and the cotton bag- ging is less than in the case of jute. As the pine straw is made of the needles of the pine found in southern forests and as the southern cotton mills are making duck for bagging, the southern planters have given preference to the new covering. The jute trust in conse- quence is bagging at the knee and the industry seems to be in hard straits. OTHER LANDS THAN OUlL England has completed the most powerful war-ship afloat —the Benbow —uamed after a famous old admiral, and the vessel has joined the Meditorranean squadron to be hundy in case the Russians and the French should link hands. Besides smaller guns, the Benbow has two monstrous pieces of marine artillery, each of which is forty-four feet long, and discharges a projectile of a cylindrical shape—cighteen inchos in - diame- ter and forty-one inches long. It is propelled by @ charge of 85) pounds of powder as comso as gravel, and can tear its way through iron armor three feet thick. The Benbow cost £4,000,00), but it is the John L. Sullivan of the seas, and the Euglish have felt easier in their minds since it made the voyage to Malta in perfect safety, even though there was a bit of a blow in the bay of Biscay. Two more ships of the same class —the Nile and the Trafalgar—are being fur- nished with theitlguns, and as soon as com- pleted will join th8 channel flect, which is supposed to be stationed in the Downs ac- cording to the sea songs of Dibdin. The weight of each monster gun is 110 tons, and the Nile and Trafalgar will be furnished with 120-ton guns. How happy are they who do not have to pay for such playthings always! = rin Wt In Sweden the American hog is the cause ot troublo equally with the whole north of Europe. But in England, France and Ger- many the integrity of that noble animal was questioned, ard it was sought to exclude him upon the ground that he was infocted with trichini, and subject to cholera and mea- sles and other maladies incidental to the porcine family. Among our friends of Sean- dinavia, there was no such attempt at misdi- rection. The farmers of Sweden went to their diet with a patition showing that they could not compate in pork with Awerica, which sends into Stockholm between three and four thousand tons yearly. They said m t that Swedish pork was lean and 2y, and not nutritious, where as Ameri- ican pork was excellent in flavor and quality and far more nourishing. The diet felt that something must be done to waan the Swades from their attachment to American pork, so they clapped onit a duty of about three centsapound. Upon this a Scandinavian artizan wrote to a Stockholm paper a com- munication in which he said that the Swedes if debarred from American pork in Sweden could eat it in America, and the records of Scandinavian imwmigration show that this ‘was by no means an idle expression of anger. The north west that produces the pork so alluring to the Swelish appetite has already profited immensely by a steady stream of strong industrious energetic fellows from the frozen north of Europe and it is hopad will receive many more, for they make good citi- zens, Man proposes, but God disposes French, with that wercarial disposition which enables them to dance over graves, have determined to hold a great world’s fair next year, from the baginning of May to the end of October, They have sent invitations to all the powers of the world, aud have re- ceived acceptances in every instance save one—Germany. Mr. Prasident Cleveland ac- cepted for the United States, and has ap- pointed General William B, Franklin and Somerville P. Tuck commissioners for the purpose of aiding and directing such Ameri- can exhibitors as wish to join in the exhibi- tion. All foreign charges will be paid for by the commissioners of this country. The English exhibitors tried to get the French government to agree to pay for the freight, but this was refused, and now they are hold- inga consultation whether they shall pay their own way or sulk and send nothing. It is within the bounds of possibility that there may be a great war, and that the exhibition willbe a dead failure. The appearance of things everywhere i particularly gloomy, but the Fronch havas happy way of beliey- ing that the best is sure to hapven, and they expect that if thera is: trouble it will be be- tween Englaud andiRussia. The great north- west has little to send save food products, but Sioux Falls in Dakota could make a great seusation by a display of porphyry,and Minnesota might make a superb exhibition of objects from th pipastone quarry. Such objocts would interpst Europeans far more than our raw produgts which they have been carcfully instructed are a standing menaco to the European farmers. O The o Who would be a Copt, an Egyptian Copt that could be anything eise! What Copt could resist all tempsations to belong to other nations, and remain & Coptish ma Egypt depends upon the Nile, and the Nile is in the hands of the mahdi at Khartoum, and the Euglish bondholders who own Egypt are be- ginning to shiver with apprehension at the possibility that the religious potentate of the Soudan is doing something with the river— perhaps turning it. For the Nile is lower than it was ever known to be, and is still falling. Its usual bohavior is that 1t begins to rise in the middle of June, and continues to rise until the middle of October. Geu- erally the yearly inundation on which the harvests depend, commences two months after the Nilometer has indicated the begin- ning of the rise, and the bigher the inunda- tion the greater the joy among the fellaheen or cultivators, for it is. the measure of fer- tility. - This year the Nilometer has not in- dicated any rise, and there has been po inun- dation, but still the waters fall. Sir Samue Puaker says that the Nilo ‘can be turned at Khurtoum and he hints that there is a prob- ability that it is being done. Theré can be no doubt if this conjecture of the great Africad traveler be correct that this measure is only one.of a series of acts based upon @ determination to get rid of English rule in gypt, and of European domination in cen- tral Africa. The burning of Moscow by the Russians fades into insignificance vefore the turning of the Nile by the frenzied patriots Such an act shows that the mahdi's successor has created a national sentiment that will be as tremendous in its consequences as the dawn of Islamism under Mahomet. The masacres of Zanzibar, the murder of Barthelot and the eapture of Sua- kim must not be considered isolated events. They are rather parts of one tremendous plan elaborated at Kbartoum. Central Africa has been lost by the Europeans and won by the Arabs and semi-Arabs of the Soudan, The vows of reformation of chronically bankrupt governments are about as lasting as those made by drunkards when their fin- #ers begin to twitch with the nervous action that precedes delirium tremens. Russia swore off from paper currency seven years ago, and solemnly announced after the sign- ing of the treaty at San Stafano that the last batch of paper roubles—260,000,000—should have no successor. When Prince Bismarck recently interceded with the bankers of Ber- lin and obtained for Russiaa 1oan of 50,000,000 of marks the creditors in England hoped that all dificulties had been met by that opportune advanc But the news has come that the czar is going to emit another little issue of paper roubles —only 15,000,000—quite a_trifle in fact, and the English financiers sre trying to argue that this is not what it scems to be, the relapse of a government chronically hard up, but a preliminary measure tending towards a specie currency. The English do not like to think that the czar really means to create trouble for them in India, and look upon the visit of General Prieslav to Lassa in Thibet as purely scientific. It may be so, but things look squally generally. Russia may have put money in her purse for no special obji 1 then again she may in- tend to dash ut Thibet and establish a Rus- sian protectorate over that little known power, If thereis any gratitude among militas tailors they would pass resolutions of undy- ing attachment to the prince of Wales. That wallant hero is colonel of eighty regiments, English and foreign, and wears the uniform of each. A calculation has been made that he has invested fifty thousand dollars in lus military wardrobe alone, which almost places him on par with the goddesses of the drama, who are notoriously Worth's best customers. da1s wrath with Mr. Cleveland for his nent of that country in his re- taliation policy, and has proceeded to do a little retaliation herself in a very neat and effective A Chinese merchant went from New York to Canada, and returned by way of Niagara Falls. That is he intended to return, but was stopped on the suspension bridge by a constable armed with the Chinese exclusion bill. He made his sad case known on the Canadian side of the river, and now an official communication has reached Wash- ingtou, stating that tnis particular China- man is a British subject, born at Hong Kong, and entitled to all the rights of a citizen of the British empire and consa quently free in gress and ogress as far as the United States is concerned. What will Bayard, the blatant say! There is a group of islands northeast of Sicily which are well beloved by scientists because they afford remarkable opportunitics for the study of volcanoes. The three prin- cipal islands arc Lipari, Stromboli and Vul- The last of the three is less known the others, but just at present it is caus- ing intonse grief to a highly respectable firm of Scotch merchants in Glasgow. The crater of Vuleano remained quiescent for hundreds of years, and suddenly, in 173, burst out violently. Then it subsided until 1373, when it again became erupt But this last at- tack scomed like au oxpiring effort, and 1880 Vuleano was deemed so peaceable that this Scotch firm rented it from the Italian government, payiog down a lump sum of fifty thousind dollars in lieu of yoarly payments, They commenced extracting from the crater alum, boracic acid and sulphur, which, either pure, or n com- bination with other substances, lined the floor and sides in immense quantities. This fall the crater became active again, and the operatives and suparintendent had to fly for their lives to the sea shore, where they waited in great anguish fora boat from Lipari, The crater belched out boulders and cobblestones in prodigious numbers, and in spite of the utmost activity in dodging, every one of the party had his clothes singed, and several were burned badly about the legs. If thecrater will subside again, the Scotch firm will make a good thing out of their voleano, because after every eruption there is an_outflow of virgin sulphur, and this is 80 constant that Spallanzani, the val- canologist, called the post-eruptive period the solfatara, or sulphur stage. At present Vulcano 1s still active, and the little island is s0 studded with boulders as to resemble a glacial moraine. e The French government must be terribly hard up for money when it proposes to le au income tax not enly upon incomos de rived from bonds and securities, but upon the hard earnings of professional men and workmen. All incomes from $40) a year up wards are to bo taxed 1 per cent if derived from ‘‘rentes,” and half of 1 per cent if de- rived from a profession or trade. Foreigners who are permauent residents in France are to be taxed upon the whole of their income, and temporary residents upon the b of what they spand anaually in France. If this should become law, what an exodus of Amer- icans there would be from France! News comes from Vienna that there are vast interaal movements of troops in Russia, and that they are being massed agaiust the German and Austrian frontiers, Should the Prussians start a war against Austria, the Germans would find it dificult to get any wheat from Odessa, aud wontd have to come to the United States, in which case, the fair legitimate price per bushel would be §1.50. . e We have mourned over the practice of our burglars and bank robbers, and our default- ing cashiers and presidents in running away to Canada, and their commencing negotia- tlons for a safe return based upon a surren der of some of the spoils. They do these things elsewhere. The latest instance oc- curred in no less a place than Stamboul, and tho culprit was a pasha mamed Mahmond Jellaladeen, who had administered the finan- ces of the Turkish empire with such remark- able success that the treasury was bank- rupt, and the pasha had accumulated a for- tune of & million and a half of dollars. The sultan sent him & flrman, and a bowstring, ordering him to haud over his treasures and to submit his neck to a delicate strang- ling operation. Pasha Mahmoud Jellala- deen info= med the messenger that his prop erty was all luvested m foreign securities, and that if he was bowstruug, the Sun and Brother of the Moon would reap ot one pies- ter. The sultan was perplexed. [t was no use bowstringing Mahmoud unless he could get his money, and it was the latter which was particularly required, Then negotiations eomuenced, and after much haggling it was agreed that the lute minister of the Turkish fluance snould have lifo'and liborty wnd be unimpeded in his pursuit of happiness - upon surrender of one third of his apoils. The sultan can now buy a few more Circassiaus, and tho Pasha can take his well earned re pose, and the only dissatisfiod persons are the merchants whom he robbed, and the ag riculturists whom bhe skinned alive by his exactions, e— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Broken Bow is to have another elevator, operated by Oscamp & Haives. The Tobias Tribune offers its kingdom for a flouring mill, with as yet no takers. Ben. T. White, of Norfolk, has been ap- pointed assistant general attorney of the Fremont, "Elkhorn & Missiour: Valley rail road. The coroner's jury in the case of the B. & M. wreck, near Minden, has rendered a ver dict fixing the blame for the accident on tho crew of the head train. ‘The janitor of the Baptist church at Teka- mab has skipped, taking all the money his wife had saved, und leaving her and her two small children destitute. IHis name is Leet. A carcless man and a match caused the de- struction of sixty tons of hay, a lurge amount of grain and many farming implements on the farm of A, J. Scott near Beaver City the other day. + A York clothier is selling suits to all who wish to buy them on the terms that the cloth- ing will cost nothing if Cleveland is elected, and the purchaser to pay double price if Har rison win: Mrs. hultz, the widow of the man who was killed by a Missouri Pacific train near Louisville, has commenced suit against the saloonkeeper who sold her husband the liquor for $5,000. A flatboat containing a Black Hills man and his family, six persons in all, passed through Schuyler last Tuesday. It hasa long journoy before it. They are vound for New Orleans, La. ‘The commissioners of Dakota county have set aside a new election precinet at Winne- bago agency for the sole use of the Indians on the agen ‘The members of the Omaha tribe who are voters will cast their ballots at Pender, as {heir is bad blood between the two tri and it was thought best to keep them separate election da, Charles Collins, who mysteriously disap- peared in Omaha a number of weeks ago and was supposed to have been murdered, re- turned to his home in Plattsmouth Thursday night and will again live with his wife. Col- lins expresses sorrow over his temporary de- sertion of his family and gives as the reason for his act that he disliked living in Platts- mouth. He has been working m the machine shops at Fort Worth, Tex. It is reported that a little by-play was in- dulged in by two Ord lawyers 'in court ednesday. A M. Robbins and E. M. Cof- fin, who were engaged in & legal contest, be- came personal in their remarks, which was followed by a hugging and scratching match, Then Robbins grabbed a large iron inkstand that stood on the judge's desk and hurled it at Coftin’s head, but it flew wide of the mark and landed on the uose and mouth of the deputy county clerk, who at that moment opened the door to enter the court room. The deputy now carries his mouth in a sling and is very indignant at the treatment he re- ceived. The combatants were secured by the crowd and #rmly held in different cor- ners of the room, while they poured forth vile epithets und family allusions. Judge Laverty sat paralyzed during the encounter, but feels lucky that he did not receive the inkstand in the mouth, or have asuit of clothes ruined by flying ink, as many did. towa. Keokuk now has a branch of the B, P. 0. E. The Salvation army has commenced active hostilities at Creston. Mrs. Burkhalter, died Wednesday aged 104 years. There is joy in Des Moines over the fact that a town clock will occupy the tower of the new postoftice building. Henry county votes at the next election on a proposition to levy a 1 mill tax to build a soldiers’ monument at Mount Pleasant. Leon operates and owns its own electric Light plant, lights the city and bosses it all itself. Plant and light for a year cost $10,000, The Dubugue pickling works is packing 100 barrels of sauerkraut per day with the new circle machine recently intreduced in the factory. “ontanelle papers are wrought up over the isit of a tramp printer to their village, the t one who has struck the town, they say, for five years. He was banqueted and clothed as well as were the white men from the stars who visited King Twala's land. The largest apple tfee in Montgomery county is or: the Judge Ewing farm in West townsnip. The body of the tree is four feet ten inches in circamference: it is thirty-five fect in height and thirty-five feet in diameter across the limits. It was sct out by Charles Montgomery in 1858, The Spirit Lake Beacon says: *John Ed- monson this week called our attention to a lot of frogs’ legs ready for shipment to Chi- cago. There were about a bushel of them— something over 400 dozen by count—and all caught by one man, who received for the lot about #10. The game was captured in Clay county."” The other Sunday, just M. E. Todd, of the Presbyterian church at Lyons, was opening the minutes of his sermon to begin his discourse the stovepipe fell down. With rare presence of mind he quickly stepped from the pulpit and assisted in bear- ing the pipe from the room. A pewholder secing some paper on the floor put it into the stove, where it was burned, and Mr. Todd's sermon went up in smoke, the_service being conscquently abbreviated and embarrassing to the pastor. of Lewis, Cass county as Rev. Dako There is an epidemic of scarlet fever at Lesterville, The Wesleyan Methodists are building a church at Aberdeen. The church pews at Sioux Falls are filling up rapidly since the fishing season has closed. The literary people of Tripp will form a so- ciety for amusement during the long winter evenings. The Sioux Falls Press predicts that next year will see 5,000 men employed in the quar- s near that cit A local board of the American Building and Loan association of Minneapolis will be ished at Rapid City in the near future. The Rapid City Journal predicts that the coming session of the territorial legislature will be the last ever held, as ‘‘there is scarce a possibility that Dakota will remain a terri- tory for two years longer. Aberdeen’s city government has passed an ordinance for the suppression of houses of ill repute, which will drive all such establish- ments a mile out on the prairie. The ordi naoce will prove of great pecuniary benelit to hackdrivers and liverymen. Agent Weeks, of the Manitoba road at Grand Forks, has succeeded in capturing three members of an organized gang of juvenile thieves. They were robbing a freight car of fruit. They belong to respect- able families. A SAMPLE APPEAL. A Frantic Democratic Request For Campaign Funds. The statement that the democratic party is levying heavy assessments upon its spoilsmen all over the union, and that Nebraska democrats are notilied that they must raise at least $10.000 for the national campaign fund, has been made in a general way. The following letter, which was re- ceived by the employes on government work in Alabama, will givea clearer idea of the method employed in making the levy Wasmixarox, D, C., Oet, 17, 1835, —Dear Sir:_ 1 have just returned froni a meeting of the Democratic National committec in New York. As the Alabama member of the com- mittee, and at the instance of the chairman, Hon. William H. Barnuw, I ask your assist- ance in raisiog necessary funds ‘for the con- tinued prosecution of the campaign, which has 80 far been pushod vigorously and ef- fectively. If the election were to ocour to- day there is no question that the democratic party would triumph in the election of Cleve and and Thurman. While this is all true, the comiittce is in need of money to defray the legitimate cam- Ppaign expenses in order that there may be no abatement of the necessary fight in the doubtful states. The prescut indications are that our party will carry New York, Now Jersey and Contecticut, where the real hat. tle ground is, and has » good prospect of winning in some states heretofore regarded as surely belonging to the republicans, You arc aware of the issues tivolved in this contest. The democracy strives for con- tinuation of Mr. Cleveland's excellent ads ministration, for & reduction a taxes that bear hardest upon the people and, in fact, for good methods in - all public affairs. Oun the other hand the republican party fights des- erately for restoration to power —for iife— or higher taxes upon articles of prime neces- sity, and for its former corrupt practices and neutrality in oficial place bigh and low. The democratic party has no monopolist to contribute 100,000 or beneficiary of high taxation like Mr. Wannamaker to give §0, 000 to aid in the campaign. 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