Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 2, 1888, Page 4

THEE OMAHA DAILY REE: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2. e e e e e et e e e e e e e e ———————————————— THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF Dally (Morning Editiol ke, Oue Year.. .. Kix Months ‘or Three Months Tk OMAHA BUNDAY address, One Year OMAHAOFPICE NOS, 014 M 5 New YORKOFF1cE, ROOMS 14 AND 16 TRIBUNE BUILDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 013 FOURTEENTH STRI . BSCRIPTION, Including BUNDAY. Tk, mailed to any CORRESPONDE! All commtinications relating torial mxnl ter should be addresse Wk BEE. OF TE BEE: gy s ETTERS, All business lettors and remittances shonld bo addressed 1o THE Bek PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Dratts, checks And postofiice orders to be wade payablé to the order of the compa Th Bee Publishng Company, Propitors ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. @worn Statement ot Circutation. Btateof Nebraska, |, County of Douglas, | %% (3eorge B, Tzschuck, secratary of The Bee Pub- 1ishing Company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of Tig DAILY Bre for the ‘week ending October 27, 1885, was as follow: . TZ8CHUC Bworn %o before me and subscribed in my wence thiy 27th day of October A. D, 1884, e N. P. FEIL, Notary Fublic. Sta i County of Dougla y George zechuck, being duly sworn, de- ex and says that he 18 secretary of The Bee blishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of THE DAILY BEg for the montn of October, 1887, 14,333 coples; for No- vembar, 1k, 15,224 coples; for Decentber, 1857, 16,041 coples; for Junuary, 1888, 15,26 copie o, 16,00 coplos: for March, 1 s for April, 1885 1874 cople , I8, 181 opies; for Jiime, 1884, 18,089 coj ad A, D. 1838, ElL, Nofary Public. ForeiGN diplomats at Washington are wearing padlocks on their mouths. They don’t want to be sent home. IT WAS in January, 1887, that the Knights of Labor passed resolutions ceasuring Frank R. Morrissey for oppos- ing their best interests. That ban still rests on Morrissey’s head. ALL the republican party asks for and all that it is entitled toisa free ballot and a fair count. Let every man cast his vote untrammeled, and let his ballot be counted. no matter how he votes. ANY man who has sold out his con- stituents once, no matter under what pretext, will sell you out again. The pledges of such a man are worthless. We have never known a boodler or renegade to stay reformed THERE 18 no danger that any candi- date for the legislature on the demo- cratic or republican tickets will vote for prohibition, and it issimply preposter- ous to say that Hascall must be sent to the legislature to prevent the passage of a submission amendment. —_— ToyM MAJORS and Church Howe are stumping together, arm-in-arm. As between the two we should consider Church Howe the more reputable. Maj- ors has a good face on him and is the kind of a man that will take in the far- mer by his honeyed words. Howe ap- pears just what he is—a sharp trickster. 1t he deceives you or sells you out, you are to blame yourself. Majors is well off and should be honest. He has some ability and might have been a man of prominence and influence in this state had he not been unprincipied and dou- ble dealing. ‘WY has the state central committee headed the Harrison and Morton elec- toral ticket with Renegade Russell? Was it intended as a taunt and insult to republicans who do not wear the brass collar? Russell was foisted on the elec- toral ticket as a piece of contemnptible spite-work by the railroad strikers and ringsters who found themselves in the majority in the convention after the ticket had been made up, and many of the farmers in the convention had re- tired. But it seems the executive com- mittec wanted it possible to make this pleco of dirty work more offensive. ‘There is a way of resenting such inso- lence, and we shall not hesitate to point it out before the day of election. THE closing of the summer pork- packing season with the month of October has been most propitious to Omaha. During the season from March 1 to November 1 there has been a steady increase in the number of hogs packed, while a heavy falling off has been noticeable in the industry in Chi- cago and other cities, The winter sea- son will undoubtedly see Omaha ad- vanced to second place. Extensive en- largements have been made in the packing-houses here within the past few months, whose capacity will be taxed during the coming year. There is no longer any question that the pork- packing interests have permanently centered on the Missouri river. Omaha, Kansas City, Sioux City and Nebraska City will become within the next few years the great meat-packing markets to supply the world. — GENERAL HARRISON having given up speech-making is now devoting him- sell to the management of the republi- oan campaign in Indiana, or rather to consulting with and advising the cam- paign managers. He is a daily visitor at the headquarters, and it is said that nothing is done without his knowledgo and approval. General Harrison is re- ported to be more desirous ot carrying Tndinna than New York, and he is quoted as saying that he would rather carry his own state and be defeated than to lose 1t and be elected. Know- ing Indiana politics as thoroughly as any man in the state, and being excep- tionally skillful and judicious in the practical work of politics, the assistance rendered 'by General Harrison in the _ management of the campaign in that stato will be of the highest importance. The outlook now is that the republican plurahity in Indiana will be oot less thao ten thousiad. . OANDIDATES, FACE YOUR RECORD. Up to date the following members of the last legislature have been renomi- nited. Each.of these men has made his record and should stand or fall by it. For the benefit of their constituents we repring the summary of our legislative list of 1887 relativd to each of the can- didates: J. L. Linn, renominated for the sen- ate from Richardeon and Pawnee coun- ties, was disposed to do right,. but was hampered by his grain elevator and made unrchiable by his political aflilia- tions, Dr. H. E. Bonesteel, from the Fighth senatorial district, acted in accord with the wishes of his constituents on the senatorial issue, but after the senatorial contest allied him- self with the jobbers and railrogues. His conduct became a matter of general seandal. S. N. Wolbach of Hallshowed himself throughout a 1 relinble representative. He resisted to the ut- most the intense pressure brought upon renominated him by corporate and local influe and remained true to the trust repos in him. J. M. Raymond,a member of tho last house but now nominated for the senate from Lancaster county, was the only representative from Lancaster in the house who was in no way tied up with jobs and steals, and whose skirts arve perfectly clean from the taint of corrup- tion. F. M. Witherald, alsoin the last house and now a candidate for the senate from the Twenty-third district, was a very intelligent and upright member, whoso votes were given fearlessly for the re- striction of corporate monopoly and against extrayagant appropriations. Charles R. Keckley, renominated for the senate from York and Fillmore counties, achieved more than ordinary prominence, and made a gallant, manly and unswerving fight for the people from first to last. J. P. Lindsay, candidate for the sen- ate from the Twenty-ninth district, is a railroad attorney, and through this in- fluence became more or less iavolved in the support of bad measures which the railroad lobby had contracted to pull through. But Mr. Lindsay is not a boodler, as far as we could observe. J. M. Higgins, in the last senate from Cass, and now a candidate for the house, stood as firm as a rock against all blandishments of corporate monop- oly and boodlers. His constituents have reason to be well satisfied with him, and may trust him in every instance as being loyal to their interests. Thomas J. Majors, also in the last senate, and now a candidate for the house from Nemuha, disappointed his best friends, by adopting the peculiar tactics of Church Howe. He studiously kept up appearances of decency, but was nearly always to be found in the under- current with the worst men in the legis- lature. N. M. Satohell, of Cass, proved him- self to be reliable, steadfast and honest., Edwin Jeary, of the same county, was a very intelligent, painstaking and faithful member. John C. Watson. of Otoe, made a good fight during the senatorial contest, but found himself in the railroad camp be- fore the session was half over. His in- fluence as a leader was rather perni- cious than otherwise, more especially in connection with appropriation ‘‘com- bines.” F. Keiper was one of the most well-informed, clear-headed and reli- able men in the legislature. He has a very exemplary record. Matthew Miller may be regarded a sort of back-slider on the railroad issue. While enjoying general confidence he dodged many important questions and votes. J. L. Caldwell was a frothy fraud without a single reaceming quality. For further particulars remember THE BEE'S explanation of charges against judiciary committee. J. W. Dickinson, as one of the repre- sentatives of Lancaster county, made a tolerably fair record considering that he was tied down to trades with jobbers and claimants in exchange for votes on appropriation bills. S. A, Truesdell, of Thayer, was in the main honest and reliable. J. R. Ballard was among the truest and most faithful men in the legisla- ture, and made an excellent record throughout. John H. Dempster was one of the most clear-headed, fearless and faithful representatives in the house. He talked and voted his convictions and lived up to his obligations. James Ewing was quiet, dignified and always reliable. Otto Abrahamson is in the main hon- ost, but easily misled by political asso- ciates who trained with the railroad and jobbers’ lobby. 0. G. Baileyis an honest, straightfor- ward man who stood by Van Wyck from beginning to end and nearly always voted right, but was often subjoect to much pressure by tho railrond banker- lobbyist, Bostwick. B. M. Simms represented the wishes of his counstituents with fidelity from be- ginning to end. J.T. Yutzy was commonplace, uncer- tain and unreliable. William Fenton played into the hands of the railroads and jobbers whenever his vote was wanted. Joseph C. Gilmore is a man of more than ordinary ability, and his record this time was as good as it was at the session ten years ago, whem he was known as honest Joe Gilmore. John H. Cameron is not a man of many words, but he always stood up and voted for the right and may be de- pended on. Watson Tyson was always at his post as an unflinching advocate of the best interest of the people. William H. Diller was a doublo- ender, playing fast and loose between the lines, not to be depended on. Franklin Sweot was very quiet, but always could be depended on to go wrong at the critical time. He always trained with the corporation gang and the jobbers. Frank' E. White isa railroad man, but upon ail other issues he was thor- oughly straight. William G. Beatly was & quiet, firm, and intelligent member. is unimpeactiable and hi His integrity record good. A WORD TO ORGANIZED LABOR. The Wymors Democrat, one of .the most prominent demoératic papers in Gage.county, and a strong adsocate of the chuse of organized. labor, bolts . Sterling Morton, and while supporting all other democratic nominees, advises working men to vote against Mr. Mor- ton and to vote for W.J.Connell, of Omaha. The editor, who is a promi- nent membar of the Knights of Labor, concludes a scathing article under th head of **A Word to Organized Labor as follows: The writer was a delegate to the conven- tion that nominated Morton, and was the ouly one from o county that paid fare, The othors were provided with transporta- tion over the great American scab route for the sole purpose of registering the decrees of the Burlington road. We are proud to say that we left the convention and refused to participate in its proceedings. Let organized labor now do its duty and register its decree oa November 6, by voting for Mr. Morton's opponent, W. J. Connell, of Omaha, PROHIBITION AND SUBMISSION. Thousands of men in Nebraska of both parties who would vote against a prohi- bition amendment have expressed themselves in favor of giving the peo- ple & chance to expross their wishes on that issue through the ballot box. These deluded people sincerely believe that a refusal to submit a prohibition amend- ment at the requestof a respeotable number of citizens would be a flagrant violation of the fundamental principle that underlics our system of govern- ment, namely, that the majority of the people have the right to decree any change in their form of government that they may deem best for their own welfare. This position is not tenable, however, with regard to propositions which if en- grafted in our constitution would null- ify the bill of rights that is the corner- stone of all republican institutions. For instance, any proposition to pro- hibit a certain form of religious wor- ship or suppress any secret society, un- less it be orranized by conspirators to foment rebellion and riot, could not be made a part of our state constitution, even if ratified by a majority, without destroying our republican form of gov- ernment. On this point, however, we do not deem necessary at this time to dwell at length. We simply propose to call at- tention to that class of simpletons who believe in submitting everything to the people from woman suffrage down to any ism that may for the moment be agitated by cranks, what the effect of submitting a prohibition amendment will be. Prohibition is not an experiment. It has been on trial in New England for a quarter of a century and is now en- grafted into the fundamental law of Kansas and Towa. Its effects upon the material welfare of these western states is a matter of notoriety. With all her unsurpassed and widely-advertised nat- ural advantages, Kansas has been se- riously crippled by prohibition. Her marvelous growth has received a check and property values in her cities have depreciated to an alarming extent. ‘Phis decrease in property values of cit- ies has increased the taxes upon the farms and made the agricultural inter- ests carry the heavier burden. Iowa has lost more than 100,000 of her popu- lation within the last two years and com- merce in her large cities has literally been paralyzed—not because liquor was the principal staple proauct, nor the liquor traffic the chief industry, but because thousands of thrifty, industri- ous people abandoned their homes in Towa for other sections because they re- ligiously believe that prohibition is a tyrannical interference with their in- dividual freedom, and the fanatical prosecutions which followed the adop- tion of the amendment became a breedor of social strife, contention and discomfort. Now, if prohibition has been a blight to Towa, submission would be ten times worse to Nebraska. If prohibition could be decreed on ninety days’ notice, the people of Nebrask: knowing the worst, would meet the d aster and set their houses in order. But our constitution cannot be amended short of two years. Submission, there- fore, would mean two years of sus- pense, and two years of suspense would be worse than two sea- sons of drouth and four successive seasons of grasshoppers. Our cities would expericuce a stagnation that would be worse than commercial paraly- sis. Capital, which at best is timid, would withdraw and refuse to invest or loan; mortgages would be foreclosed not only ou Omaha property, but upon farms in the remotest part of the state. This picture is not a campaign roor- back, but a timely warning to every man who has the prosperity of thisstate at heart. There are republican submissionists and democratic submissionists. Some of these candidates are honest and de- luded, others ave playing submissionist to catch votes. THE BEE merely warns the people of the state against the folly and danger of electing a submission state senate, because our next senate is either going to defeat or carry sub- mission. —_— EDMUNDS SPEAKS. In the campaign of four years ago Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, was si- lent. The reasons are familiar, and need not now be restated. His failure to take any active part in the last campaign, with the well-under- stood motive therefor, undoubtedly had an effect unfavorable to the repub- lican cause. It aided republican defec- tion and was especially influential with the stalwart element in .New York. It was one of the numerous incidents of the campaign which together wrought the defeat of the republican candidates, When Mr. Edmunds was in- vited to take part in the present cam- paign by making a number of public addresses, he declined to do so for the reason thet his need of rest after his prolonged labors in congress, as well as the demands of his private affairs, would not permit him to devote any time to the campaign. But the democratic organs did not aceept this as satisfac- tory, and it has been sought to make it appear that Senator Edmunds wus agaia’ keeping silent from a want of interost in républican success and bocause Bo does not thi vorahly of the republi- can candidatg for president. The atten of Senator Edmunds having been ci¥ad to this assumption, he has written a letter to the New York Sun which gpabddies all that he might have said in a dozen speeches. Tt is in the terse, vigprous and straightforward language popal ipr to the Vermont sen- ator, and refibves his position as a sin- cere friend of General Harrison, earn- estly .\.-«i.-E,;' his election, of all doubt. . Mr. Bdinundsis heartily, though not fulsomely, eulogistic of the republi- can candidate. From personal knowl- edge he speaks of him asa man *of great abilities, of pure and upright life, and of most vigorous and aggressive up- vightness and independence,” and he expresses the belief that he would gdminister the government *‘in the full vigor of the principles of the republican party.” Thirtecn roasons are presented as part of the grounds on which Senator Edmunds, as he says “with my whole heart,” desircs the election of General Harrison, and we need not say they are most cogent and forceful. The letter of Senator Edmunds will have a good effect. One fact that it helps to show is, that in this great con- test the republican party hasno dis- gruntled or hali-hearted leaders. Every one of them is earnestly devoted to its cause. with a sincere respect for the ability and character of its candidate, whose course has so abundantly justi- fied the wisdom of his selection. — WHY DON'T IT? Why doesn’t Tue OMana Bee say of Mr, Jeary, of Cass county, republican nomince for representative; what it said of him April 14, 1887, viz: “‘Mr. Jeary was a very intelli- gent, painstaking and faithful member.” It is as bad to suppress the truth at a critical time in national affairs, as it is to misstate it, And why doesn’t Tue Oxana Bes say of Mr. Satchel, of Cass county, republican candidate for representative, what it said of him April 14, 1887, viz: “‘Mr. Satchel proved himself to be reliable, steadfast and honest.” —Omaha Republican. We will cheerfully accommodate our esteemed neighbor. But is not this request altogether too previous? THE BEE has kept these facts and the records of all members of the last legislature who have been renominated by either party, prominently before the rural readers of its weekly edition for the past month. The same record would have appeared in its daily edition be- fore the polls closed without the imper- tinent inuendolof the Republican. p— STOR, THE JOBBERS. Nothing illustrates more strikingly the fast and o methods in doing pub- lic work nnd’% obbery which is being practiced in oull municipal affairs than the extra gratfiing claims which have been rullrmf‘r‘zd through the council this season. THe oaly remedy at this time is a refusil by the property owners affected by t! igh-priced grading to pay the tax. ‘Jibe first step should be a remonstrancy these taxpayers before the city board'dy, equalization, which is now in sessiot.” If the board, in spite of remonstrances, levies this fraudulent special grading tax, the court should be appealed to promptly for relief. There is no doubt whatever that the court will protect the taxpayers against highway robbery under any pretext. — SENATOR MANDERSON will of course appeal to republicans of Douglas county to vote for every man on the tickes, no matter how offensive he may be. That is straight-jacket republicanism. Sen- ator Manderson is obliged to support the ticket. He did the same with Church Howe two years ago and in the judicial campaign last year. The re- publicans of this county are how- ever not in the babit of en- dorsing the yellow dog because his collar has the republican convention label stamped upon it. It is because re- publioans in Omaha alway discriminate between honest and reputable candi- dates and shysters and bummers that we have a respected judiciary. That spirit of independence in the interest of good government still prevails, Has- cality will not be endorsed by reputable republicans next Tuesday, no matter who makes appeals for an unscratched ticket. SINCE the opening of the new bridge the hip pockets in the trousers of our Council Bluffs prohibition friends bulge out in a most peculiar way. — STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. A Ulyssos man cleaned up $15,000 on the recent rise in wheat. The only vacant building in Ulysses theso days in the calaboose. Scota's suloonkeeper has been arrested for selling liquor to minors and on Sunaay. The big corn yield is compelling all John- son county farmers to build new cribs this fall. A newly married Columbus man had & charivari party arrested for disturbing the peace. Alady with a sevolver dispersed a gank of t00 enthusiastic politicians at Scotia the other night. 1 A party of Mi ueg capitalists are propar- ing to incorporu% @ long talked of canal company. : A poker club has been formed at Gothen- burg and the local papev is posting the gam- biers on the penaltigs of the new state law. The Morning Stap twinkled for the first time at Minden mmu last. It is & bright looking paper published by Spence & Dunkle. The prospects Tor the establishment of a cauning factory at Columbus are very bright and the board of tragde is also working hard 10 secure a bridgedaéross the Platte. The first marriage in the new county of Graot was solepnized at Whitman last Wonesday, ‘thot high contracting. partios being David Hillagnd Miss Luefender. Baumgardner & Hornell, dry goods and grocery dealers of{/lyses, have failed, with assets” of $5,000 "and liabilities of $4,100. Tootle, Hosea & Co. ure the principal cred- itors, Gamblers, gossipers, profane and abscene convérsationalists, non-church goers and people full of petty meanness were denounced from the three puipits of Ulysses churches last Sunday. 1da A. Montgomery, @ sixteen-pear-old girl of Whoeler county, died very suddenly the other day. As she finished playiug on the pinuo she remarked that it was her farewell piece and in five minutes was dead. A policeman at Norfolk is doiug his best to train up the youths of that town in the wa; y should go. Ho has started by taking ail his little friends to a the opera house, the on uirements for admission being that they had clean faces and remained off the streets at night. Towa. J. 0. Slausoi, of Fort Dodgs, has & radish In his garden that he asserts is all of twenty inches in circumference. Dr. George Miller, of Oxford Junction, is prepariug a monograph upon the recent outs break of diphtheria in Cedar county. Richard Jacksom, of Davenport, claims distinotion because he has been the possessor of 235 boils during tho past five years. Barly claims to_havo the champion corn husker in the person of Thomas Hardem, who piled In 105 bushels last Saturday. Judgo Robert A. Russell died suddenly at his home at F't. Madison, aged eighty-five vears, He was born in Tennesseo and came 1o F't. Madison in 1589, An cnthusiastio republican at Janesville was recently blessed with a pair of twins and named them Harrison and Morton with- out a moment's delay. He declares that theirs is the cry of victory. Ed. P, Sneider, the Albany druggist and joweler charged with robbing his own safe of $1,120 belonging to Lowis & Kerns of that , as been convicted and sent to he penitontiary for three years. A Gorman named Fred Lehiman, living near Humboldt, left his six-months-old baby in care of older children while he and his wife went to a political meeting, The child was left upon the floor in the kitchen while the other children were out playing. A young shoat came in and attacked the child. oforo its cries attracted the older children, the hog had caten off the finge:s of the baby's right hand, a toe ¢ff each foot, ono ear and part of another, and had horribly mutilated the helpless infant. It was several hours more before medical aid could be pro- cured. But the child will probably live. The Great Northwest. Bill Harper has been held without bail at Prescott, Ariz., for the murder of: Walter Murph Laramie rejoices in the news that the chemical works there are soon to be put in operation again. Major Wilson of the United States Geolog- ical Survey is preparing to make an official geological survey of the Carson Valley and vicinity, Nevada. A Chinaman confined in the Lander county, Novada, jail had cut and sawed himself nearly out before detected. He had a whole machine shop of tools. While on a protracted spree William Mul- holland committed suicide in Hoise City, Idaho, by taking poisdn. It is said he was well connected in Pennsylyania, J. ¥, Warder, the owner of largo mines near Spokane Falls, Ore., and Mr. Scott, of Portland, have mado a bet of #,000 a side on the election. Warder bets on Harrison. ‘The Chinese gardeners, who supply Pha- nix, Ariz., with all thejvegetables used, havo instituted a boycott and refuse to sell to res- taurants who display signs of “No Chinese Employed.” David N. Winbigler, aged twenty years, while cleaning a couple of guns at his father's residence, in Santa Ana, Cal. identally let a shotgzun fall on a riffe, v discharged the latter, fatally shooting himself in the abdomen. Great ravages among _tender stock by the wolves are reported near Great Félls, Mont., one flock of 150 sheep being destroyed in a night; also fifty eignt imported rams; and thirty colts lost this senson in that neighbor- hood from the same cause. In Deer Lodge, Mont., “Indian Tom" Wat- son slew Maggie Parks by cutting her throat with a razor and stabbing her in_the breast with a dirk, after which he fatally stabbed himself ip'the throat thres times and fell overon the woman, and both wore found dead in a pool of blood. In Hailey, Idaho, John Walsh and W. J Elder have entered into the following agreoed ment: In case Harrison is elected Walsh has agreed to saw one cord of wood on Main street, and to sell cne keg of beer at five cents a glass—the roceipts to be donated to the school tund. On the other hand, if Cleveland 13 elected, Elder is to saw the wood and sell the beer. Ed McDonald, night clerk at the Aatlers hotel, Colorado Springs, Colo., decamped with'§1,780 belonging to'a_guest from the cast, which had been deposited for safe keep- ing,' McDonald was captured at a house of ill-fame in Pucblo, and $1,501.50 of the stolen money recovered. The culprit was jailed, but he escaped during the night, the jailor mistaking him for & common drunk and ordering him to carry out a pail of slops, which McDonald gladly did, but failed to go back for lodgings. William Cahill arrived at Astoria, Ore., from Nebalum, having tramped two days and nights in the ramn and mud to find a jus- tice and lodge & complaint against one Liv- ingstone, a schoolmaster, who boaraed at at his house, charging him with criminal as- sault upon his daughter, a child of elght years. He charges that Livingstono has ro- peatedly taken criminal advantage of the child since May last. The warrant was is- sued and a constable left with the father to bring Livingstone in for examination, William McCreary, a young Stockton, Cal., lawyer, who went with commendatory letters from William F. Vilas, in whose office at Madison, Wis., he haa studied law, fled last week, and the next heard from him he had suicided on a Southern Pacific train near Tucson, Ariz. He had ruined a young Stockton girl, and then had an abortion per- formed on her, for which double offense he was about to be arrested when he fled. At the same time an officer had arrived from Dakota with a warrant charging him with a similar offense in that territory. Asa Coombs, aged soventy-two years, died in Seattle the other day. @ was born in Maine, in 1796, and cast his first vote for President Monroe, and took pride in the fact that ho voted at every Presidential election since that time, He enlisted in the war of 1812 at the age of sixteen years, Three years ago Mr. Coombs was invited to the reunion of the veterans of the war of 1812 in New York City. There were but twenty veter- ans living then, Two years ago the number was reduced to eightecn. Last year only eleven remained. This year's records have not yet been received. — Franking with Rubber Stamps. “Speaking about forging the frank o a Seuator,” said a lawyer the other day toa New York Mail and Express re- porter, brings to my collection the occurrence that gave rise to the use of the rubber hand stamp for this purpose. The question as to the use of the fac simile in rubber, where it is expressly stated that handwriting is necess was fivst raised by the assistant secre- tary of the interior and the pension office, when the point at issue wasa batch of pension claims wherein the signatures were made by stamp. When Secretary Daniel Manning was stric ken with paralysis he had arubber stamp made with which all his correspondence and many public documents were signed. The same legal question was raised as to Mr. Manning’s rvight to use the stamp, and it was decided in both in- stances that only in certain cases and certuin classes of papers specified could it be used. However, lust year Post- master General Dickinson decided that the use of such a stamp was a sufficient compliance with the law in the case of printed paper, such as the Congress- ional Record and all bills of the house, but for no other purpose. A practice has grown up of permi ting a congressman or senator to desig- nate any person to sign the documents, but only when power of attorney has been given, as the customn as now estab- lished is that any clerk can frank pa- pers by using the congressman’s stamp. But there is no law to punish the unau- thorized use of suchastamp. It is a question whether, were a person placed on trial for forgery in such a case, he could be convicted. Brakemen's Slang. bner: The brakeman gives the v iling tone to the ‘“‘society” of dis- patchers’ lobbies and other lounging places where he frequents. He origin- s whatever slang may he deemed ary to give spice to the talk of the caboose and roundhouse. He calls a gravel train a ‘‘dust express,” and re- fors to the pump for compressing air for the power-brakes as a *‘wind-jammer.” The fireman’s prosaie labors are light~ enéd by being po(\lhmlls mentioned as the handling of black diamonds, and the mortification of being called into the superintendent’s office to explaim some delericaMon of duty is disguised by referring to the episode s *‘dancing en the carpet.” Se WATER SUPPLY. How It May Be Had in the Event of Fires. There are 000 fire hydrants in the city of Omaha, and more are to bs planted in the immediate future. ¥or the year endine December 81, 1833, the cost of maintaining these will have been in the. vicinity. of #51,- 702,20, For the six months, ending June 50, 1883, the city's expense in this connection footed up exictly £25,381.10. The current six months will see this figure materially aug- mented as many new hydrants have been placed since the last rep The . oviginal contract between the city and tho wator works called for 250 hydrants, or a b drant’ for every four hundred ° feet of pipitg, at §34 a pioce por year. Hydrants placed after the original ones. were to cost £00, oxcepting intermediato hydrants that might be petitioned for and planted, which were to be furnished for $10 a year. The waterworks systom now very thor: oughly raumifies the entire corporute limits of the city, and the original numbor of fire hy drants, has swotlen to nearly one thousand. There have been no_hydrants abandoned, and every one within the city is used moro or le There are no waste hydrauts in Omaha,” remarked the chief of the fire department in o conversation on this head, “not a single one but what is needed and which will be called upon soomer or later to play its part. ~ All this talk about dozens of hydrants being planted where there is no use for them is bosh.” A resolution was passed in the council on the 23d ult. calling for thirteen additional hydrants in Lowe's addition, and they now being set us follows: One at the cor- ner of Thirticth and Burt str Thirty-fifth and Mason: one Thirty Burt; one Twenty-fourth and Emmett Twenty-fifth and Parker; one Twenty-: and Parker; one Twenty-fifth and one Twenty-sixth and Marcys cago, 400 feot west of Th Twenty-second and Izard; one ' and Izard; one Brown and Taylor: on and Pacific and one Fifteenth and Pierce. The hydrants in South Omaha cost at the same ratio as those in the city proper. Comptroller ~ Goodrich, and Chairman Snyder, of the waterworks committee, said that the waterworks had more than fulfilled their part of the contract; in fact. that they have been particularly liveral with the In many instances they have made e sions of 1,200 feet or more for the accommo- dation of property-holders without a cent's expense to the city, and where entitled to a half-dozen or more hydrants, according to their contract, they have put in one and two and three. The Third ward has a great many more hydrants than any other ward in the city, but all_have an ample number to serve the purposes for which they have been planted, and but little complamt is heard of a lack of water facilities in the city of Omaha, Bruised in a Shaft. Yosterday N. G. Garcelon, a prominent stock-shipper from Minneapolis, narrowly escaped death by falling about ten feet into the well of the clevator shaft of the United States National bank. The elovator passes oneof the entrances to the goneral oftice of the Chicago, St. Paul, Miuneapolis & Omaha road which is in the building in question. There is a threshold, however, of ontya foot. On this Mr. Garcolon stood as he left tho elovator. Tho latter then shot upward, and as it moved away, Mr. Garcelon fell backward to the floor of the shaft, striking on his head and shoulder, He was discoverad by George G. Squires who was in the elevator with him and who preceded him into the office above mentioned. Garcelon was unconscious when found, and Mr. Squires seut up stairs a per- son to inform the elevator boy of the accident and keep the cab from dropping to the base- ment and thus crushing the old gentleman, perhaps to death. Garcelon was put into hack and conveyed to the Arcade hotel. ‘There he was attended by Dr. Harrigan, Dr. Schonk of Norfolk, and O. F'. Briggs, goneral agent of the Chicago, St, Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Lne. The old genuloman is & very heavy mun and it was found that ho has beon severely bruised though no bones have been broken, Most danger is foarod from the injury to his head. Ho has a brothor residing in. Norfolk who is the reprosentative of the Chicago Lumbor company at that point. - The accident it is claimed is chargeavle to the elovator boy. His dutics when peoplo desiro to enter tho office of tho Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha road, are to open’ the door and permit them to enter, after which heis to re-lock the door before he allows the levator to either ascend or de- scend. In this instance, the olovator was permitted to ascond before Mr. Garcelon nad gotten off the threshold or into the ofice. . Use Angostura Bitters, the world re- nowned South American appetizer, of exquisite flavor. Manufactured by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons. gEb i 20ns, L Pneumonia a Great Enemy of Life. Thero is a valuable discussion in the Medical Record respecting a disease which begins to be rife as the cold weather apprgaches, and_which_is one of the most prevalent and most danger- ous from which the community suffer: It is pneumonia, and the paper is by Dr. Gouverneur M. Smith. Pneumonia may become a dreadful enemy to human life in this climate. It is also a disease from which the mortal- ity is increasing rather than diminish- ing. The deaths from it in this city last year were 3,707 and in 1887 they reached 3,657. Dr. Smith does not give the number of cascs of pneumonia re- ported, but merely says that the rate of mortality among them is high. The statistics of the Pennsylvania hospital show that there the mortality advanced from 64 per cent in 1847 to 18% per cent in 1867, and to more than 81 per cent in 1886, In the New York hospital tife ratio of morarlity during the last ten years is more than double what it was in the past. Thirty or forty years ago the discase was regarded as serious but it did not at all excite the terror which it now so reasonably awakens. Dr. Smith’s statistics show that in New York pneumonia begins to be rife at tho opening of autumn, and that the deaths from it steadily increase from September until they rcach their maxi- mum in January. April comes next in its amount of mortality, but the death rate continues high throughout the winter and spring, and until the warm weather of June comes in. During the three summer months it decreases to about one-third, but as soon as Septem- ber arrives it starts upward again, Though the medical art has advanced so greatly of recent years in many directions, Dr. Smith confesses that ‘‘so far as pneumonia is concerned scienco has shriveled;” and he seems to think that this is because the old methods of treating the disease, at the time when it was loss deadly, haye been abandoned for methods more finical but less effica- cious. However that may be, the fact remains that a malady once looked upon without extraordinary alarm has now become a veritable scourge in our cli mate, and is deadly far beyond other diseases to which we are commonly sub- jected. The first requisite appears to be a “guperabundance of pure air’ about the patient. In l;neulnunin the breath- ing apparatus only partially performs its functions, for the diseased parts of the lungs are substantially useless. *“Phe working portion must Eervm-m the work of two lungs for a week or ten days, in order to maintain the blood in proper condition to sustain life;” and, therefore, “tho patient requires purer air and vastly more than one in sound health,” *Pure air a4 a remedial agent in the management of pneumonia and of other disorders, both acute and chronic, has ever ‘been a more potent ally of therapeutics than ln{ anaces offered by alchemy or any hobbledehoy presented by modern chemistry.” The discussion is of profound interess. for the groat increase in the fatality ol pneumonia is alarming, especially as the disease carries off 50 many in the fullness of lifs and in the possession of what otherwiso secms to. bo sound health and constitations well fitted to stand out agninst ordinary maladies, —— Epidemivs of Crime. Baltimore Sun: Thére isone point in connection with the Whitechapet eases that is of great significance and should not be overlooked. It lios in the ex- ome probability that these orimes will bo repeated by other hands. The force of example. on the night side of lifo carries & gloomy weight unattainable by better things. For example, a man may spend his carcor in solf-sacrificing nobility without a disciple, but lét him onoe go hang himself and other fools will go do likewise, Hence suicide and crime waves, There used to bo, and probably is vet, a little street in the suburbs of s called the Rue Felo do Se. It was, as its name suggoests, al- most dedicated to suieides, Quite a number of years before a man had crawled out of a dormer window and hanged himself to the casement. An- other man, from his. room on the oppo- side, saw the shocking spectacle, pon- deved over it,and eventually hanged himself in the same mauner. Then suicide becamo epidemio, and scarcely a week passed but some one destroyed himself, until finally the whole dis- trict beeame panic-steicken, and pao- ple moved away, fled from thoe intangi- ble, ivisible horroras they would form a postilence. At length the authorties took a hand in the matter, and by plao- ing everybody under strict surveillance managed to check the tide to some ox- tent, but until late years suicidos still occurred with alarming frequency within its borders. All police ofticials know that one not- able crime of any character will gener- ally precipitate similar deeds in_other quarters. A good illustration of this, and also a rather close parallel of the London horror, oceurred in the country Austin, Tex., five or six years ago. On Chistmas day a negro stevedore cut the throat of a negress in a cabin on the outskirts of town. He fled and was never ‘heard of again, but about a week later the public were horrified at an exactly similar crime in adifferent section, and when a third took place, attended by absolutely iden- tical details, there was a. panic and the city was patrolled by armed men. How- evor, murders did not cease, and in tho course of six months seven women--- five colored and two white---were found dead with their throats cut. Two mur- der trials that grew out of it proved pretty conclusively that at least threo hands were engaged in the bloody work unknown to ggch other. It was the in- sane prompting of example, and so, ag I suy, the Whitechapel case may prove to be a tale of two cities, and its next chapter may be enacted across the seu and by widely different hands from those that have already stained theme selves in these inhuman crimes. ——— Stories on Greeloy. New York Tribune: Here are two stories about Horace Greeloy: Mr. Greeley was always sensitivo to errors in his proofs, and sometimes broke looso in thunders of reprobation. A serious blunder of this sort turned the milk of kinduness into koumiss, which exploded and deluged the office, making printers and proot readers vaie at the element which engulfed them. An inverted comma stung him like a mosquito. A mistake in a table of election returns sot him into such a fury as the red flag of the picador dindles in the Catalonian bull. *‘Henderson,” he said once to tho compiler of those sterile statistics, who had made an error of two votes in the returns from the Molly- muck-a-chuck district in the Mooseluc- maguntic region of Northeastern Maine. “I discharge you; Idon’t want to seo your face around here any more.” But Henderson was at his post as usual next morning. ‘‘How is this, Henderson?” said George Ripley, as he came into the office at the customary hour. *'Ithought Mr. Greeley discharged you yesterday."” “Yes, he did,” said Henderson, “*but I didn’t put any confidence in what he said.” One day Mr. Greeley wrote that if a man were to shoot haphuzard out of a window he would be morally responsi- ble for any harm he might do. In print the “haphazard” became **half-a-yard,” a rhetorical conversion which so de- pressed Mr. Greeley's spirits that he Lad no strength left to discharge any- body, not even Henderson, which was his constant resource in great emotional crisises. — The Effect of Tight Shoes. Chicago Herald: A lady who visited Hooley’s theater the other evening suf- fored Lhruufih the first play of the bill with exceedingly tight shoes. When the curtain fell she confided her suffer- ings to her husband, and he sug(;emd that she slyly romove her shoes till the performance was over. This she did, and the conscquent relief afforded her allowed her a proper enjoyment of tho other plays. When the curtain went down for the last time she discovered to her horror that her feet had swollen in the warm atmosphere of the houso that she could not get the tight shoes even over her toes, As they .had only to walk to the Tremont house, and as the lady had on black stockings, her husband told her to do the shoes up in her programme and walk along ns though nothing had happened, This sho did, and they started to move out slowly with the crowd. The lady walked along comfortably until near the door, when suddenly she began to jump and cavort around as though mad. Her stockinged feet had struck an ex- ceedingly warm register, and the heat had curled her feet out of shape during her brief sojourn on it. When sho strhck the stone sidewalk outside a chill replaced the feverish feeling, and when she reached the Tremont sho swore nover to wear tight shoes to the theater again. Dr. Jefferis’ remedy cures every caso of diphthe No physician required. Steam Made in a Second. New York Mail: *“A boilertor the instaneous generation of steam is the newest thing in our line,” said a lead- ing manufacturer the other day. *The apparatus consists of a thick wrought iron tube of any conveniont diameter, which is flattoned at a temperatura below the welding peinting till its in- ternal walls are almost in contact,a sec- tion of the tube showing only a straight line the thicknessof a hair, The tube is then coiled into any convenient shape, and is exposed to the direct heat of the furnace. Cold water being forced in at one end by a pump issuos out from the other as steam, the press sure and dryness of which depend on the tempcrature of the tube.” It is claimed that no furring or scaling up of the tube takes place, as the high vel- ocity with which the steam passcs through breaks up and carries along with it any deposit at the instant of its formation. Tho largest boiler yet con- structed on this plan has been a teii- horse power one, and has Fruved 80 sats isfactory that the system is about to be extended, The government has ox- perts at work examining the system, eppecting to adopt it for use in the con- struction of torpedo-boats. L Icheerfully recommend Ited Clover TPonic to those suffering from tioubles of the stomach and liver. [ am now on my second bottle, and it mukes /o€l like a new man. C. M. CONNersi, Nushus, 1a. 'Goodman Drug Ca. ]