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

THREATEN TO KNIFE LEESE. Rallroad Strikers Preparing For a Vigorous Onslaught. M'SHANE VISITS THE CAPITAL His Object Being to Strengthen His Working Forces at, the Polls ~Republican Rally at Lincoln. Liwcorx Buredv or Tne OMana Baw, 1029 P Stureer, LiNcoLy, g ‘The political sheets in the local and state canvass are turning all sorts of sharp angles. Tt is given out cold that railroad strikes will paste Attorney General Leese's name down at the polls, and unless there is a sudden change in the bent of hirelings and boodlers, cutting and slashing will' be the order on next Tuesday and these is no telling where it may end. As yet whatever has been done againsc the attorney general has been done in & quict way, but it is said that the fights will be open and direct on and after Monday. Letters advising General Leese of the in- tended onslaught have been received from Grand Island, Beatrice, Fremont, Columbus and other quarters and their signatures are sufficient to guarantee that the railroads of the state wiil make a concerted fight against him at the polls. § ¢ The attorney gencral was visited this morning by a prominent republican of this city who stated that he had just received an annual pass over the Burlington for himself and wife, and ‘when asked whay it meant received the startling reply that his wvote and influence was wanted to help to de- feat Leese. This gentleman evidently be- lieves in foraging off tho enemy, for he still holds the evidence of the intended bribe, In- formation has also been gleaned that tran portation home has been furnished to every absent voter that could be located by the roads or their emissaries, It is also stated that Colonel Harry Phil- lips is at work with the state militia, and that this vote is to be turned to the count of the roads and corporations in the nefarious scheme to defeat the attorney general. Some of the members of the state central commit- tee are a part and parcel to the treacherous deal. The rotten loaf has been leavened in every vossible way. A dyed-in-the-wood democrat said to Web Eaton last night: “You fellows think that McShane is after Thayer's scalp. I tell you he don't care a snap about the governor’'s chair, He is after bigger game. He had rather defeat Leese than be governor of Nebraska. Loese is tho only .man on the repub- lican state ticket in d look out for a demo g result will tell you that I guess awful hard. The democrats are going to make a bigger legislative gain than any of you imagine.” McShane spent last night in the Capital City. The object of his last-day visit has doubtless been to strengthen his working forces at the polls. He was too wily to be drawn out by reporters. But it is sufficient to know that he passed a sleepless night with his most trusted licutenants, und rustled here and there during the morning hours. His deal with the News did him no_ earthly od. It rather did him harm. Governor ‘hayer will poll the party vote of Lancaster , or 80 ncarly it that his maligners will 1y feel like crawling into their holes. Still it remains to be proven whether or not Tammany schemes will work in the cities and rural districts of republican Nebraska ‘The news announcing the death of Charles E. Root was received with profound sorrow throughout the entire city this morning. He was quito well known here and very highly esteemed. During the past two years he has been on the State Journal rtorial staff and was regarded as one of its best and most versatile writers. He was a gentleman in the truest sense of the word. His life was clean and pure. He graduated from Hills- dale college, Michigan, five years ago, and since then has devoted his time and talents to his chosen profession, that of journalism, and the future reaching out before him was very bright. His first professional work was done on the Patriot, at Jackson, Mich., where he devoted himself so rigidly to his profession that his health was seriously undermined. After a few months of travel and rest he located in Lincoln, where he has since lived. He was taken down with typhoid fover a few woeks ago, but tho first of the week it was announced that he was on the road to health, and his friends were illy ropared for the change that set the seal of Sonm. Tne fever left him in an exhausted condition and he could not rally from the hemorrhuge of the bowels that attacked him esterday morning. Surrounded by family riends and the best physicians, he closed his eyes in the final sleep last night at 9:15. The interment will take place at Wyuka cemetery on Monday next. IN DEFENSE OF THAYER. The following letter was today addressed to the Call ~, Neb., Nov, 3.—To the Editor of 1 perceive that one of your worst nst Governor Thayer is based upon what you term Thayer's shameless par- dons. You refer especially to the two men sentenced for causing the death of the ‘woman th, and the woman Focade, and yousay: ‘“The motive lurking in those two jons, and in the pardons in general, are nown by the people where the pardons are known.” As a matter of common justice to Governor Thayer, I beg you will permit me to say that the pardon of the man who was the unfortunate cause of the death of the woman Focade was granted at the urgent re- u‘l of Hon. John l-‘ltlferlld and myself, r. Fitzgerald and I fully investigated the case and found that the evidence and import- aat facts that came to light after the trial ‘went to show beyond doubt that the shooting was accidental, and it was only after the closest scrutiny of all the facts of the case, and after having received the very strongest recommendations from Hou, Judge Pound, who sentonced the prisoner, and from the attorneys who prosccuted in the case, that Governor ‘Thayer consented to grant a lon. [ have no hesitation in saying that my opinion there never was a more fitting #ase for the exercise of executive clemenoy; and as to the motives attributed to the gov- ernor of catering for votes, I have only to say that under any circumstances he would have been certain to receive my vote, while under no circumstance could he expect the vote of Mr. John Fitzgerald. Yours truly, PATRICK EGAN. OFF FOR OMANA, About four hundred ' Lincolnites left for Omaha over the Missouri Pacific at 2 o’clock this afternoon. They were all democrats, however, for the republicans remained at home to participate in the demonstration here to-night. The party was headed by the Military band and fiamwrmic drum corps. The Cleveland and Thurman Flambeau club was couspicuous and also a half dozen members of the silk bat brigade. It was an @uthusiastio orowd. The party ococupied six coaches, und banners were flying as the train pulled out of the depot. CAPITAL CITY REPU ‘The rally here to-night all that has been expected. Delegations and clubs from all parts of the eounty were in attendance. The mounted club of Bennett, fifty strong, was conspicuous in the mml parade of the ovening. Hut why dwell on a description of mlluo of m the music of baunds and ym corps and the regular step of the boys, stirred by enthusiasm, as they marched up ono strect and down another! Such descrip- tions have been given hundreds of times during the campaign. Suffi then, the eathusiasm was simply wonderful, and the hes fairly stirred the echoes as the ts went forth when & peint was le. Governor Thayer reviewed the situation in @& masterful speech. He handled the boodle ocampaiguers without gloves. Counell also nrmfll‘nu specch. He made voles in ln by his manly bearing and dispas- sionate appeal for fair treatment of personal Lan ublicans and caster rep did themselves proud to-night. STORM WATER SEWERS. The joint meetiug of the committees rep- resonting tho property ownars of storm water sewers district No. night. The meeting was than t. Tt is sald that the council committee failed to got a word in edgeways. But Doan was. kept quiet by dilligent effort, and more was accomplished than expected. The comwitiees wore ized as one aud A.D. Burr was made chairman and J. D. Hurd secretary. Thus organized the foliow- ‘h‘-l;:m’rmuum: of this meet- 3 sense lng that this district ahould cowprise all the territory covered by the ordinance creating CANS, v THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1838—SIXTEEN PAGES. said district, and Including the north half of city park, and the south half of state house a t territory lying between F' street_and alley between Cand D streets, from Eighth to Eleventh streets, and such other territory as may be found to drain into that - district} . P. Walton be in- struct ey and report to this committee the boundaries of the district as contemplated in this resolution, and to be governed in making such boundaries by the grade of the strects as now established, to include, however, all territory now included by ordinance, The basis of settlement now agreed upon secms to be fair, and it is probable that tho council can agree on an equitablo assessment that will prove satisfactory. As the commit- the now stands both classes of property are represented. The heart-ache in this district is now in a fair way for adjustment witnout the aid of the gourts. CITY NEWS AND NOTES. The services of Mr. F. Williams have been secured to receive the bulletins at the opera house on election night. He is a reliable operator and lookers-on can rely on correct and reliable return ‘The board of insane commissioners exan ined George Brown and John Gillick yeste day afternoon and pronounced them fit sub- jects for the asylum. They were accordingly committed to the care of Dr. Knapp. Hon. H. C. Lett, of Denver, Colo., was in Lincoln last night. He left on the afternoon train for Falls City and Brown- ville, where he has a legion of friends who will be glad to see hum. Mr. Leet, although a strong democrat, concedes his state to the republicans, or, rather, a major portion of the ticket. 'He says that Patterson, demo- cratic candidate for governor, has a' chance of getting there, Nat Brigham held the attention of the democracy of this city last night at Bo- hanan’s hall. A good house greeted him and he made a good speech from the stand- point of the “‘unterriticd.” He returned to Omaha to-day. The ‘‘pie rush" took place on the univer- sity campus this morning. The non-botan- ical scientific students captured the piece of leuther und held it to the close of the strug- gle. The “botanics, therefore, pay for the banquet in which pic wlll have a conspicuous place. It was an amusing spectacle if not an edifying one. Dignity, however, failed to tand out in bold relief. The piles of brick and sand occupying prominent places on the business thorough- fares arc everything but_ornamental, They are almost a nuisance. Some one remarked to-day that there was an_ordinance against obstrueting the business streets. If so it strikes Tux Bre representative that it ought to be en forced. e Base Ball Affairs. The Omaha base ball management have completed negotiations with Brooklyn for the sale of Pitcher Lovett for £3,500. Yes- terday they received a letter from this over- rated twirler demanding one-half of the pur- chase money. He was promptly and properly notified that he would not get a nickle, and that he could arrange terms with Brooklyn or muke up his mind to play in Omaha next season, and for the salary limit of $2,000 and not a centinore. Pitcher Duryea and Catcher Earle, of the St. Pauls, and *‘Bug” Holliday, of the Des Moines, have signed with Cincinnati for 1850, ‘Farle goes to Australia with the Spalding combination. . Jim Manning, of the Kansas City Western association, has signed h the Cowboy American team for next season. He also ioes to the antipodes with Spalding. Jack Sneed will winter in this cit There is nothing in the report, however, that he has been offcred the management of 'the Omaha club next season. Maunager Frank Selee claims to have offers from Indianapolis and Brooklyn for next scason, and he wants to know what Omahs will give to retain him. ~ Not within a good many hundred dollars of what he received the past season, it is safe to say. Patsy Oliver Tebeau has signed with the Clevelands. McGarr kicks against_being reserved by Omaha, but no clamor after his services by anyone else has been heard as yet, Jack Crooks wants to know what his re- lease by the Omahas can be bought for. ‘That ought to be an easy question to answer. A few hundred dollars should certainly settle the matter. Oskosh wants to come into the Western association bad. The exhibition games there this fall between the Omahas and Milwau- kees attracted but a handful of cranks. En passant, the series above alluded to was won by Milwaukee. Omaha won thoe first two games, thon dropped three straight. Orator George Shaffer—the oldest man in the world—may catch on with Cleveland next year. Junmy Tyler, the promising city league player, has been sold to Sedalia, Mo., for a double barrelled shot gun, muzzle loader. He played with the Hardins the past scason. Burdick pitched twenty games for Indian- apolis, winning ten and losing ten, which gives him a percentage of .500. The Milwaukee public is stuck on Joe Walsh. The papers up there claim that Anson wanted him bad but wouldn't pay the price. The Kansas City base ball question was again fast assuming a complicated form, but at last everything has been satisfactorily straightened out, and all obstacles to clear sailing removed by the consolidation of the two teams down there. The Americanshave purchased the Western franchise and all the players left, and will furnish the only o fessional team to represent the Cowboy City the coming year. 5 Manager Frank Selee it is now'pretty defi- nitely settled will puva team in at Oskosh next season, that is if they succeed in get- ting a franchise in the Weatern association, He wrote to know whether Omaha wanted um, but they didn’t, and he now announces that he willbe found on his old stamping ground in the Badger State near year. McGi the chippey, writes the base ball man of Trk Bek that he will probably sign with the Kansas Citys for next season. He says ho would have been well satistied to play in this city another year, but would listen to no reduction of salary. E. J. Henglo, of last season’s Chicago Ma- roons, was in the city yesterday, the guest of Jim McLaughlin, Out of a choice batch of left fielders to se- lect from, the Kansas City management have settled on Jimmy Burns, the poet, to guard that garden next season. He will be tried at least at tho opening of the season, and if he maintains the gait he struck this fall, will play regularly thore. Jim D. McLaughton has had an offer from the Ohio State league for next season, Dave Rowe, the brawler, wants to manage Denver next season. The affairs of the Western association still remain in statu quo and nothing is likely to be developed until the annual meeting. Phat there will be many material changes goes without saying, but just what they will be, other than a new circuit and modified sal- aries, cannot be stated now. etdaid AL Rubber Boots for Mrs. Langtry. Kansas City Star: When Mrs. Lang- try’s kl?xechll car arrived at the Kansas City Union depot the other day, Super- intendent Dunham ordered it sent to the freight yardsof the Missouri Pacific nllrowj. near Hickory street and the state line, The next morning two English at- taches of Mrs. Langtry swooped down on Superintondent Dunham and pro- tested aguinst leaving the car in the freight yards. One of them said: “Hits a blawsted shame for Mrs, Llflfll‘{‘l car to be in a freight yard w'ere they 'ave shunting all night, yon- now.” “Shunting” is English for ‘‘switch- ing." Kir. Dunham told_them he couldn’t help it, as he was not going to have the car placed where its slops would muss up the depot. He referred them to Su- perinteddent Dalby, of the Missousi Pa- cific railroad. A few moments afterward the two Enfilhhman sailed down on Dunham again, and the spokesman said: “Mr. Dalby isa’t in his office. Some- thing, bah Joe, must be done. Mrs. Langtry cawn’t walk in the mud rom the coach to the car, yer naw.” Superintendent Dunbam politely of- to furnish the lady a pair of rab- ber boots, but refused to chaage the lo- cation of the car, The irate Britons rushed off, their Mackintoshes stream- ing in the wind. THE VINES OF CALIFORNIA. The Glowing ' Prospects of Her Great Industry. FRISCO'S SPLENDID BREAKFASTS Some Choice Railroad Jugglery—Do- ingsof the Southern Pacific—Its 1ts Blanket San Francisco Letter, SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29.—[Special Correspondence of Tie BEek.]—Now that you folks in Nebraska are getting ataste of winter weather doubtless you console yourselves by having gorgeous breakfasts of pork tenderloins and buck- wheat cakes. The time has been when I liked such fare as well as any one, but long residence in California has given me higher notions of food. A San Francisco breakfast at the present time is o thing to rejoice over, and it is no small delight to remember that the richest rgen of the east cannot fare as well as we. In the first place we begin with prawns and bread and butter, and with a glass of Riesling white wine. Then we have broiled young salmon, or as we call them, chicken salmon, and they have to be eaten to be appreciated. I have remarked that eastern people of means when they come here and keep house always buy the largest salmon they can get. Idon’t see the reason for this, for the large fish are very cloying and the meat is difficult to digest, be- cause of the fat. After the fish we have mutton cutlets, "or something of that sort, for, to tell the truth, between the microscopists who are finding anthrax micvobes in all the beef, and the newspaper reveiations of the Chinese meat shops, most men's stomachs are rather turned from beef and pork. With the meat we take zin- fandel, which is our claret. After the cutlets we have white muscat grapes, whose delicious flavor cannot be de- scribed by words, To tell the truth, I have sometimes made my ire break- fast on them and bread with plentiful libations of some white wine like Golden Cha us, or esling, or Le- franc’s wnite wine from San Jose. The end of the breakfast is a cup of fine tea in the Japanese style, without milk or sugar. After a man has concealed these dishes below his vest, he may feel that he has not lived in vain. THE END OF TIHE CLOCK GAME. It may be remembered by the readers of Tue BEE that the clock game was raided, and that 810 persons who were playing were arrested. It was ranged that they should all be released upon putting up bail, and that one of the proprietors of the game should bo tried for violation of the ordinance, as test case. This was done,and he was found guilty and fined $100. The cases agninst the players were nol-prossed, and then the fun began. Almost all of the noble 300 Spartans who had been avrested had given fictitious names, and had forgotten them. When they came to get their bl money they applied to the clerk under their true names, and the official, of course, was compelled to refuse them. He said: “I have not the slightest that what you Ay is but 1 cannot possibly act upon it. Can’t you remember the name you gave?” Some of the victims sat down and tried back successfuily in the recesses of their memories; others walked up and down in some sequestered street near Russian hill and fished and fished in the lake of their recollections without getting a bite; others made affidavit that they had been arrested and had given b under fictitious names and had forgot- ten them, and having duly sworn to teese facts before a notary, presented the paper in triumph and got back their five double eagles. It was days and days before the money returned to its legiti- mate owners and there are still seven- teen bails that have not been called for. LEPROSY EX The recent discovery of a Chinese leper in Newark, N.J., must, I should imagine, compel eastern men to share our convictions with regard to the Chi- nese. American physicians are awak- ening to the mrril)ls truth that leprosy is not a fiction born of mad antipathies and race pragudices, but a reality,a fear- ful reality. A New York physician, be- longing to Bellevue hospital, heard of a case in Mott street, which is the Chi- nese headquarters in New York, and he endeavored to see the man so that he might study the symptoms. He learned through an interpreter to the Tombs the number of the house, but he could. not penetrate to the room where the suf- erer was kept concealed, for two high- binders s on the stairs each with an ugly broad knife in his hand and threatened to chop off his head. The Chinese do not believe that leprosy is contagious, and I learned from a Chinese doctor, who was a manof some science that it was considered to be a kind of scrofula, only very terrible. But the belief in the middle ages was that it was contagious and there are whispers in San Francisco of some young Ameri- cans who became victims through hit- the pipe and making the acquaintance of the abundoned Chinese women in a certain part of Dupont street. There have been mysterious disappearances which never could be accounted for,and the idea prevails that those who were convinced of their Ierrt’s,\' went off and committed suicide in lonely places. There are along the coast range thou- sands of places where the chapparal is 80 thick that if a man forced his way to a certain distance from the trail and blew his brains out his body would not even be found by the bh‘dys that prey upon the dead. WE WILL CONQUER TIE EARTH, California is making gigantic strides in the culture of the grape, both for wine making and for raisins. Arpad Harazthy, the president of the associa- tion of Gi Growers, made a state- ment recenely at a moet{nf of - repre- sentative viticulturists which ought to be copled in every American paper. He said that there wasat present an area of 150,000 acres of vines in cultiva- tion, and that the vineyard products in table grapes, raising, wines and brand- ies would, in less than three years, give an annual total of 816, . He claimed that there would be 40,000 tous of ubleo&rml, 1,500,000 boxee of rais- , 50,000, gallons of wine, and ,500,000 lons of brandy. . These are not the figures of to-day, but they are based upon the iand under vine culture to-day. In three years time there can be no doubt that there will be more land devoted tagrape growing, particularly in' the south, where a specialty is made of raisins, The consumption of these in the United States is enormous, but the demand for California raisins has suddenly in- creased so greatly that the price has gone up. For table raisins I still be- ieve the Spanish Valencias to be better our own, but for cooking ‘purposes the Spanish hh[u cannot compare with our Muscats and Muscatels, Our raisins are much more juicy and have much more flavor, and the proof of this is that people are making raisin tarts, which could not possibly be done with Malagas. They are not bad, for I have eaten them; but after all this isan abuse ‘of a good thing, for all mes are poison.. The real test isa plumpudding of the English style, and our Muscitels have come so victoriously. out of this ordeal . that ws look forward to the cream of the English market in less than no time. The state board of Viticulturists is wide-awake, and has taken Platt’s hall in Frisco for a per- manent exhibit of grape products. Be- sides this we are to._have a similar per- manent exhibit in London, and we are going to_just: knock out all creation with our display at the French exhibi- tion in 1890, Look out for us. We will conquer the earth. FLOOD'S POWER OF ATTORNEY. A day or two ago there was recorded in the office of the county recorder a general power of attorney, by which Cora_Jane Flood, wife 0? James C. Flood, appoints_James L. Flood (young Jim) to act for her in all matters. The instrument was executed last May, so that even at that period Jim Flood thought that he must make the long voyage, not the trip from here to Europe, but the longer one from this world to the next. He may recover, after all, for the waters of Carls- are famous for his malady, which is Bright's disease of the kid- fq This can be cured if the patient will adopt a system of starvation or of living upon the most unpleasant fare. Poker Schenck cured himself by nc- cepting a diet of beefsteak at noon, and ontmeal, alleviated by molasses syrup, at 6 in the morning and 6 at night, and by going to bed at 9 and rising at 6. As his one passion is for cards, he did not care much for the good living he sur- rendered, buwit is different with Flood, who likes solid comfort with considera- ble champagne in it. If he should re- cover and return he will be popular toa rtain extent, for we like to see Cali- fornians living when other men die, and holding up the reputation of the state for superiority i rything. THUR D GREASERS, ‘What in t] d possessed the Old Roman to go out of his way to insult the native Californians by the use of the degrading term greaser? Thurman said: *‘Had ihe opponents of the demo- cratic party had their way California would be to-day the home of the greaser and the republic itself d be incom- plete.” The state of California would be incomplete and v incomplete without sugh _men as General Vallejo of Vallejo, and his brother of the old mis- sion of San Jose, and without such men as Pacheco, who has, although young, an_honorable litical record, which will compare favorably with all but that of a dozen American Cali- fornians. Vallejo was in command of northern California at the time of the Mexican war, and it is known to all men that he warmly approved the separation of the state from Mexico, and desired its,entrance into the union. He met the conquerors half way, for he lized the advantages that would ac- crue to his native ‘California. Had he utilized the miilitary resources at his command, California might not have been American for many a bloody year, for the country is u_wonderful one for guerilla warfare. But he wished that California might be an American state, and so he held his 'hand when he might have struck arterrible blow, and he yielded at the first moment that he could do so with safety to the com- munity. I have all this from his own lips, and I havetalked with his brother for hours at a stretch about it, for, to tell phe truth, the otd wission of San Jose is one of my camping grounds. California honors its native citizens of Spanish origin, and no Culifornian ever did or would insult one of them by the opprobrious term, “greaser.” THE 8. P.'S BLANKET MORTGAGE. of the Southern Pacific are past finding out. The road actsas if there were no state laws, no sense of wrong or right in the community, and no other motive for human action than money. The Southern Pacific is the basket into which the thieves of the Central Pacific—Crocker, Hopkins, Huntingdon et al—as the lawyers say, put their stealings. With the money which they stole from the United States and acquired by skinning alive the con- sumers of California and Arizona, they built a road which connects at some point in Texas with railroads to Galves- ton and New Orleans. Besides this they built a road connecting with Port- land in Oregon. The points of junction of these two roads is at Port Costa, which is on the east side of San Francisco bay, north of Oak- land, and going in the direction of Monte Diablo. There is on the northern shore of the bay near Vallcjo a network of roads all belonging to the Southern Pacific and all constructed with the generous intention of gutting the Central Pacific of its traffic sothat when the federal government seizes it there may be nothing but skin and bones. To the northward the Oregon & California unites with the Oregon railroad along the Columbia river,and with the North- ern Pacific, and with the Union Paeific; to the southward the Southern Pacific unites with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and with the Texas & Louisi- ana roads so that the Central Pacific is actually like a girdled tree. These roads have been built by the issue of bonds, and have had a half way appear- arce of being independent constructions. But now all the eggs are put into one basket, the headquarters of the Oregon & California railroad have been removed from Portland to the headquarters of the Southern Pa- cific in this city; and a blanket mortgage on the Southern Pacific is going to be issued, all other bonds being called in, To the ordinary observer this would seem tantamount to a boarding Louse keeper giving a chattel mortgage on the furniture and goods in her house, leasing another boarding house, remov- ing to the new one everything of any value in the other, and then saying with a faint, sgd voice to the holder of the chattel mortgage: I find I cannot Kuy you the interest. I'm a poor, lone, ard-working ‘woman, and have noth- ing but my boarding house. .If you feel like robbing me, it's at your mercy.” But it is ap) uwmi that from the legal standpoint there is some difference, or otherwise the 'tricks and dark ways of the Southern Hacific scoundrels, Leland Stanford, Huntington, and the rest of the gang would have been upset long 8go. - TiG, —_—— Malaria Fever oured by Jarvis’ Brandy. oy — Struck b Express Tr: il ) Loudtd nor, section boss, aud Patrick Kinney, | borer, were struck and instantly killed by the Philadelphia express traigon the Cen- tral railroad this mornin L Bound Over for Libel. OGALLALA, Neb.,, Nov. 8.—[Spocial Tele- ram to Tug Bee.|—A hearing was held be- ore Judge Woods yesterday in the hbel s it brought by Henry St. Raynor against W. S. Mullane, Mr, Mullane was bound over to the next term of the district court. ——— Massacred by Pirates. Fanis, Nov. 8, —Advices from Saigon say that pirates attacked tho ron. oconsisting of forty men of the foreign legion in Tonquin, and killed all but o) ourred to-dav of Aveyron. Eighty miners were killed. Tweaty-two bodies have béen recovered. GEN. NEWTON'S MAD RAGE Ho Champions His Friend Hewitt Against Grant's Attacks, THE FORGER BEDELL REPENTS The Metropolitan Art Museum's Fall Display—Peculiarities of the Board of Trustees —Beautiful Objects Refused for Personal Spite. Fighting Madly. NEW YORK, Oct. 80, 1888,—There is blood in every eye, and there is a tomahawk in every hand. New York is now the theatre of a series of single combats between leaders of the two great hosts—Tammny and the county democracy. It is quite Homeric, and no doubt those who are shouting the war whoop and hurling the tomahawk cher- ish the fond delusion that victory wiil be won now as it was in the Iliadic times by the individunl prowess of lead- ers, not by the steady onset of nameless thousands. We kuow better, and next Tuesday night will tell the story. We, who only look on and laugh, are per- fectly well aware that the extraordinary antics of Hewitt, who is ‘more amusing than a munkey, and the bellicosity of Haghie Grant, who has got his Irish well up, tho boys say, will have no effect upon the ultimate vresult. This being 50, overy one is surprised that General Newton, who is at the head of the pub- lic works department, should have thought it necessary to plunge into the fray. He was the United States engi- neer in charge of the important govern- ment work at Hell Gate, and when re- ired on account of age according to the regulations,he was made chief of the pub- lic works department of this city. mainly through the instances of Mayor Hewitt. Though a proud, reserved and some- what supercilious gentleman, he be- came so enraged at Sheriff Grant’s on- slaught against Hewitt’s knownothing- ism that he descended into the arena of newspaper warfare and has been soundly pummeled. He has done Hew- itt no good—he has done Hughie Grant no harm, and he has succeeded in earn- ing the enmity of the New Y World, which is making a tremendous canvass against Hewitt. That paper editorially s Newton a humbug and a fabricator statemeits, and brands him as ineflicient. NEWTON'S HELL GATE WORK. nce the World's expose of his inef- fielency as u commissioner of public works, men are beginning to talk of the work he did for the United States in the improvement of Hell Gate channel. He had been on that most important task for very many years, and the first submarine explosion, that of Hallet's reef in 1876, was widely reported be- cause of its complete success. It, how- ever, ameliorated but little the passage from the East river to the Sound. not from any shortcoming in General New- ton’s work, but because it was simply a preliminary to the real business, the clearing away of the Middle reef and the Niggerheads. General Newton attempted this four years ago and ut- terly failed, but no paper save the ivening Telegram had the courage to say so. The cause of the iailure was principally that he used rock-vend, an explosive - whose powers of resisting water had not been sufficiently proved, and secondarily because he had constructed his lines of batteries with- out due consideration of the nature of the rock with which he had to deal. That rock is gneiss. Usually gneiss may be considered as unstratified, but in "the Middle reef it was practically swratified, for there were streaks of pure quartz aiternating with streaks of mica in large scales, and the gneiss lay between these. I witnessed the explo- sion and knew it was a failure from the peculiar water jets, There was a cer- tain amount of nitro-glycerine used, and this was effective, but it did not shatter the rock because the lines of batteries were parallel with the streaks of the gneiss, and of course the gases found easy vent through the soft streuks of mica. I satisfied myself of the truth of this by visiting the reef at least twenty times. I interviewed General Newton about it, and hestoutly denied that there was any failure and said that I had better be careful in my visits to the reel, for it was liable to sink down at any moment. That was four years ago, and the reefis just as visible as ever it was, and all the effec- tive work in the channel has been by surface blasting with dynamite ocar- tridges, by the Atlantic Dredging com- oA A et TR sure process the Nigger Head reef has been removed, and some work has been done at the northern end of the Middle reef, opposite the lunatic asylum on Ward’s Island. That is all. I came to the counclusion that General Newton was a humbug, and capable of saying the thing that is not,and am glad to be confirmed in my view by the New York World. 4 SAGE TILDEN'S LIBRARY. As it has been decided that Samuel Tilden’s will stands good, his benefi- cent gift of a library to the city of New York will probably be carried into effect mainly by Andrew H. Green. Ordinary men would be swamped by suggestions, for great public interest has been manifested about this li- brary, and the papers are lamenting that all the public libraries of the city have been practical failures and hinting that this one will be just like the others, the Astor and the Lennox and the Historical Society und soon. An- drew H. Green is a silent, reserved, conscientious man, who by his honesty and his capacity and his power of listen- ing had endeared himself to the sage of Graystone, and if any man knows what kind of a public library Sam Tilden meant to give to the city of New York he does. Nothing surprises me more than some journalistic comments I have read about the Astor and the Lennox libraries. There is a belief that the rubnc is being wronged, and that these ibraries ought to be made more u- lar, This view is given editorially. All this s pure delusion. John Jacob Astor neyer gave o pular library to New York. l‘:.a was not his intention. He founded u referenee - library for the service of poor scholars, and of men whose trade s literature. To these the Astor library is* the greatest God-send imaginable. It belongs to them and not to the un educated public desirous of education. ‘That the latter ought to have a library is certain, and they will have it some day, but to provide such was not old Astor’s wish. So with the Lennox library. The publie is angry because no one can be admitied wishout a ticket, which must be obtained by application to Mr. Moore,the secretary of the Histo~ rical Society. ~The Lennox library was not meant to be popular, - It was de- signed for authors and commentators in certain distinct lines of hterature. It is a library of editions. If you waat to seo all the editions of Shakespeare and all the important comments go to the Lennox. If you want to compare the editions of John Buuyan's Pilgrim’s Progress, or Milton's Paradise Lost, go to the Lennox. . If you wantto post yourself upon priuting, and to study the different processes used, before the real principle of woveabls types was firmly established, go to the Lennox. The public does not want thi The public wants a library that will have all sorts of books loaned gratuitously to parties proving their respectability That is the true idea of a public librar but it has not. materialized yet, and m never, FORGER DEDELL SPEAKS, So tremendous was the outburst of public opinion when Bodell refused to testify as a witness in the suit brought by his injured employers, Shipman, Barlow, Larocque & Choate against the State Bank of New York for $176,000, or thereabouts, that the bank quailed. It had proposed through this most infa- mous device to shield itself from its re- spousibility to the law firm plundered by Bedell. That firm, with \mMm'Mni determination to be just, remunerated every client who had been robbed by Bedell with his bogus mortgages, and stood resolved to evade no responsi- bility that could be put upon them. The bank with which they did bu Ss and wh was responsible for honoring forged signatures, proposed to sneak out of its share of responsibility by in- ducing Bedell to refuse to testify. There was a perlect howl of indignation from all classes of business men, and the bank comprehended that it would be cheaper to face the music, so the gag was taken from Bedell’s lips and he tes- tified. He had nothing to say to relate the manner in which he had operated, which he did in a quiet, sub- dued manner. He has pleaded guilty to the indictment for forgery, and will un- questionably get twent, he stands within an awful shadow whose sombreness has already told upon him. His testimony has to be given from day y before Judge Barrett in cham- ause he must testify with re- separate operation. Prob- ably he will not receive his own sen- tence until after his evidence has been given, and he has been cross-examined. In the wmeanwhile short work has been made with Emerson, the policy dealer, who got $160,000 of the money which he ruined his life to obtain. He has been tried and convicted and will be sentenced the day after to-morrow. He can be sentenced to two years' im- prisonment and a fine of #$1,000, or to either. It is probable that he will be sentenced to imprisonment, for policy dealers have no longer any politi- cal pull. OUR METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM. Next week the doorsof the Metro- politan art museum will be opened for the fall exhibition, which lasts for si months, after which the place is closed for a month, during which the spring exhibition 1s arranged. The openi are great social events and every 3 who is a vsonage, however small, gets an invitation unless he is on the black books of the Director General Di Cesnola. or of the exe- cutive committec. This is a gala occa sion because the building has been very greatly enlarged, so that its capacity is now trebled. The principal feature used to be the loan collection of pict- ures, but since the bequest of Catharine Wolf of her gallery, the mu- seum borrows no more pictures. Art objects that are offered are, however, accepted with the understanding that they must remain until the close of the exhibition. It is notoriously the weak feature of the museum that the manage- ment will only accept loans trom those people who are with them, 8o to speak. The proffered loans of gentlemen who are believed to feel adversely towards any member of the managing board are inoxorably declined. To my knowledge Mr. E. Moore, of Tiffany, has on three occasions expressed his willing- ness to lend his Japanese basket work, his collection of glassware and his Saracenic inlaid brass objects, and the museum has declined them on the ground that they had no space to spare. Another instance of still more deplora- ble weakness 18 in the refusal to exhibit one of their own objects—a Pheeniclan silver bowl—because a New York jour- nalist, who had made himself obnoxious to to Robert Hoe, was the fortunate dis- coverer that it was a fac simile of the famous bowl of Palestrina, in the Kir- chereano museum, one of the annexes of the Vatican museum at Rome. The discoverer, finding that no official no- tice was taken of the fact by the mu- seum, wrote to the Boston Transcript and placed it on record, since which time the bowl has been carefully hid- den away., When it is remembered that the building belongs to the city and was paid for out of the tax levy, it would seem as if a little shaking up in the management in James Gordon Ben- nett’s best style would be healthy for all concerned, and particularly for the public. YELLOW FEVER IN BROOKLYN. ‘We bave been rather stirred up in our Brooklyn homes by the arrival among us of Yellow Jack who certainly was not invited. Captain John Jellard was the victim,and he died at St. John's hospital two days after he had been re- moved from the stewmer Courcuse of the Red Cross line to Brazil. Two of the men of the steamer were taken to quarantine. Nobody has said a word about yellow fever in Rio Janeiro and Santos, the two ports visited by the Courense, and yet it must be prevalent there to a considerable extent. The cargo of the steamer was bags of coffee and barrels of syrup, and bags of coarse brute sugar, all of which has been stored away in the Pierrepont stores without any protest, and indeed without any necessity of protest. Coffee is notori- ously an anti-septic, and if there were any microbes, the strong odor of the green coffec would lay them out. The view now entertained is that there are no yellow fever germs, but that it is the consequence of a vitiated condition of the air A scientist of French origin claims that the fiulhstrmun isin a large degree responsible for this demoraliza- tion of the air we breathe, and that yel- lom fever must always exist on those coasts that are washed by it. This is not very agreeable news for property- holders in Florida, and if the theory is believed,there is inevitable bankruptey before the eyes of the builders on the Pouce de Leon hotel. THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD. ‘‘Aaronson” has not scored u success at the Casino with Gilbert & Sullivan’s new piece. It is not necessary to secure a seat a fortnight ahead, and there is considerably more than standing room every night, Spel\kin%:or my own self Ithink the music is better than any other of these operas, but there is. not much fun in the plot,’and what there is seems borrowed from prévious pieces. But the worst fault I find is that it is too English, dealing with historical points of which we know nothing -and care less. Tdoubt its iasting much longer. SIGMA THOR, ers— Jarvis’ 77 will cure your cold. BREVITIES. A little stray girl, aged less than four years, s at the {om of Louis Goldsmith anxious parents. Her not known. She wears & bluck dress, bonnet with white feathers, and red s body 8ix gold medalsawarded Jarvis' Brandy AMERICA'S BUGBEAR. —— A Woll Written Articlo on How Oatarrh is Produced. A Nose, Throat Lung Speciatist Gives His Experience in Treat- ing It—It s Ourable, Catarih has many victims {n this efty, by the fact that avery other person You s gither & muffled voica or some other. evidence of catarrh. The writer was fatrodus 10 a prominent nose, - throat and lung spe: not long stice and_from him obtaiied the fol= Towie Eruthis rocanding the diseaso: STt is & well known fact that a mucous mem- brane having bacome the seat of an intl which has iapsed into the ehropic stage sooner or later, becomes thickened and puffed np. The téndency 1s more marked in the nasal cavity, porhaps than tn any other of the muocous tracts, and for several reasons. _Theuasal pas- sages ‘ara composed of rigid walls, and are traversod by tie current ot air in bredthing.and virtually nothing more, The result theretore of taking cold and neglecting it, is a chronto fn- flamatory condition which produces thickent: of the milcous membrane ng the nose, Al the part involved, is that covering the turbiaa- tod bones which are like ridges ranning from the front to the back of tie nose. They are sees 1n figure 1, and aro three in number, The membrane covering irritated by fresh and fro time pufls up until it nearly or quite stops uf the nose as seen in figure 2 The irritation n only stops up the nose but {n. creases the secretion of mu- <which not having free nose, accumu. lates in the back part until suficient has collocted to run into the throat and is spit out. This 13 & condition that man omplain of and won- der where 1t all comes from —the sacretion being of an irritating nature causes the i throat also to become in- F%g & tamed andlittle red bunchos § € toform'on the back partof the throat, as seen in figure 3. The scusative = - I conditton of which provokos tickling and cough. {1, and & feeling of fullness or soreness; arynx or bronchial tubes may become nvol Dby an extention of the trouble, and eventually the lungs especial here 1 edispoat tolung troubles. Some this condition cannot be cured, which {s an ap- Jrobium on the medical protesuion, that it can and 18 cured, {5 shown by the testamonials here shown. Mr, Peter Holt, 2028 Castellar street, Omaha, says: “Some ix or soven years ago, 1 con fracted some severe colds which soon turned in. 10 a bad form of catarrh, and for a long time [ suffered terribly, but on the advice of a triend [ called on Dr. an, and to-day I am a well man, 1 treated with him for three mouths and the Fesult is a complete and radical cura. would advise all sufferers from the droad dis- ‘ease to give Dr, Jordan a trial.” Mr Harry Luufenborg, 421 South 10th street, & bricklayer, says: “I contractod catarrh in Min. nesota about five years ago and had an awfal time of it for that length of time, but was com- pletely cured of it by Dr. Jordnn after two Inonths trestment. DF. Joglan is a painstaking and concientious physician, and treats catarrs on sclentific and_common 'sense principles and 1 think that it was the best days work I ever did when 1 started treatment with him, Charles Kleyla, 3813 Hamilton stroct, foreiaan for ltosenzwelg Bign and Decorative Company says: 1 'consulted physicians, of course, both here and tn Dlinois, and one of the best' doctors in the city said I would have to get out of this cis to find relief. 1 did not get out of the city, but. did call upon Dr, Jordan, whose offices are Nos. 310 and 311 Ramge block, corner 1oth and Har ney streats, 1 wasadvised to call upon Dr, Jor dan by friends of mino who had been benej by Dr. Jordan's treatment, 1 placed myself un- dor Dr. Jordan's care and am very well satis- fled with the result, I felt MUCH BETTER IN A SHORT TIME after beginning and continued to tmprove right along. The puins in my chest have stop and 1 can breathe freely and regularly, memory is very much improved and my 8} i§ clear and distinct again. My stomach {8 Wl rightand my appetite is good, My nose and throat are in good condition wid | can b naturally again. Tam very well satisfiod wil Dr. Jordan's treatment, and I shall certainly ads ipon Dr. Jordan i ‘my friends to ¢ o troubled as T w o, Thornuton, Blair, Nebrasks, a farmer, says: ¥ was tn a very bad way. Thad been readin the ndvertisements of DF: McCoy for some time and at last I coneluded that T would call on him Twent to O and called at tne oftico aud’ was examined Dr. Jordan who told mehe could cure me. 1d! not tell him that T had had this catarrh sinos thie war. 1was afraid that he would tell me that 1 hid hd it00 longand conid do nothing forme, 50 I told him that I had had it about soven years, but that made no difference, he commenced \rnullnf‘me and gave me medi touse at homeand he cured me entirely and was under his treatment for two months and in that time he only saw me three times as I was oo far away from his ofice 10 tuko oflice treatment, He has certainly done for me what many others have tried to do and failed, and | want to give him tho credit for it too. I took my sister down t0 the doctor too, and shie {8 getting better ve fast and 1 do nof doubr in tho least that in & short time she will also b cured, SBOMETHING WORTH KNOWING A Few fl{lnpwmu of Disease That May Prove Serious to You. Do you have frequent fits of mental depres- sion? Do you experience ringing or buzzing noises n Your ears? Do you feel as though you must sufocate when lying down? Are you troubled with a hacking congh and general debility? Are your eyes generally weak and watery and trequently ned? Does your volce have a husk, thick sound aad & nasal sort of twang? Is yon breath frequently offensive from some “unscoouniablecsuset ave you & dull, oppressive headache, gener= ally locuted over the eyos? ‘uu have to hawk and cough frequently in the effort to clear your throat? Ars you losing your senso of smell mud i3 your sénse of taste becoming dulled? Does your nose ulways foel stopped up, fore- ing you to breatiie through your mouth? Do you frequently feel dizzy, partioutarly when stooping to plok anything off the tioor? Does every little draft of sir andevery slight change of tomperature give yon a cold? Are you aanoyed by aconstaat desire to bawk Pt out an endless quantity of phlegm! 'Do you rise from hed as tired and weak as were the nght before and feel as though you wanted to lie there forover? Is your turoat filied with phlegm 1 the morn: ing, which ose onl: 2 be nm; lr:::ld uynsr violent coughing and hawking and spltting Do you occaslonally wake from a troubled sloep with & start and feel as if you had just escaped a horrivle death by choklng? Pemanently Located. Dy, J. Cregan McCoy, late of Rellevue Hos New York, succeeded by Dr. Charl ordan, ‘late of the ' _Univers sity of York City, also of Washing i Sk it bty Jn, 2 3 D, ral £ are " treated " Rillif Consuinp cames’ unfi Brighvs Disease. Dyspopsiay Kiieumativm, eses, All nervous dis #ex & specialty. CATARRH CURED. Consultation at office or mall ¢ urs 9to 11 a. m., lmcp.r:.ydmhl'p!" e iday Hours, from 9 a. m, to 1 p. m. o Ishors aliwercd waless Bbsanied byt cents i stamps. senses pecullar to