Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 17, 1888, Page 4

a2t - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. NOVEMBEK 17, 1888 THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dafly Morning Bdition) Including SUSDAY ¥y, One ¥ear ooty For Six Month: e For Three Months THx OMAHA SUNDAY BEE, malled to any address. One Vent, ... o WrRKLY IEE, One Year . O LDy N ST4 AN 018 FARS AW S0 0T, CHICAGO 7 ROOKEIY BUILDING NEw YORK OFPICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 BUILDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. FOUIRTERNTH STRERT. #1000 CORRESPONDRNCE Allcommunieations relating tonews and edi torial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR ) : Ber. by S nr S LETTERS. Allbusiness letters and remittances should be addresse ik BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMATA cheeks and postoffice orders to +made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company, Proprictors. ROSEWATER, Edito Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btateof Nebraska, 1 o County of Douglas, | * rige 11, Tzschuck, secretary of The Ree Pul- Iishing Company, does soleinniy swear that the ctuul cirenlation of THE DAILY ke for the eek endiniz November (0, 1585, was as follows : Sunday, Nov . Nov Average X ie 20 GEORGE 1L TZ8CHU CK. Bworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 10th day of Noveniber A, D 1585, Seal N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Stato of Nebraska, i County of Dougias, rge 1, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de. 0305 AN says that he s secretary of the lice bublishing company, that the actunl averais dadly circulation of BEE for th motith of Novembe 8 13,228 coples;, for Deceniber, 1947, 15,041 coples; for January, 1843 15,206 copies; for February, 19, 15,912 coples: tor March, 1884, 10689 coples; for 'April, 186 Wiki copies: for' May, I, 17181 copled; tor Juine, 188, 10243 coples: for Jily, 1948, 18,053 coples: for Angust, 1, 1418 coples; for Sep tember, 18, 15,154 copiss: Tor October, 185, was 15,04 cop ). B TZSCHUC Bworn to before me and subscribod in my presence this ith day of November, 188, 10, Notary Public 88 BY THE WAY, has Attorney Gener Thurston made up his oil-room cabinet? GrNERAL HARRISON will be obliged to organize a postal service of his own if his daily mail keeps on growing. Tii crop of candidates for the spenkership of the state legislature is springing out of the ground like mush- rooms after a rain storm. Cruren Howr is laying his wives for the presidency of the state senatoe, but the Auburn statesman is likely to be tripped by his own private wive. TuE bread eaters of the city prefer to x cents fora loaf of sixteen ounces rather than pay the bread makers five cents for a three-quarter loaf of twelve ounces, PAUL VANDERBUM has relieved him- self of a bit of selt laudation in the Ie- publican. A marked paper will be sent to General Harrison. How would it do to seud Paulas minister-plenipotentiary to the Fiji Islands? IGNATIUS DONNELLY telling the good people of the Black Hills that Bacon wrote Shakespeare may excite some of Deadwood’s most cultivated citizens to run Donneily out of town at the muzzle of their six-shooters. NoW that the railrond companies are required to pay for the construction of vinducts within the limits of Omaha, no disposition is shown by the council to construct any viaducts, although many railrond crossings in the city are a constant menace to life and vehicles. Tue Knights of Labor, 1n their con- vention, will in all probability inves- tigate the man Gould who invented or at least circulated the dollar-a-day lie about General Harrison. It seems that Gould used the seal of the order upon his circular with the evident intention of injuring General Harrvison. This was a flagrant abuse of the constitution of the Kunights of Labor, and in conse- quence Mr. Gould is in danger of being summarily dealt with. —_— TiE railvoad war of rates on packing house products, which promised to yield a rich harvest to the Omaha packing houses, is about to terminate 1n a compromise, the Chicago & North- western having agreed to suspend action for one month on its proposal to reduce rates on packing house products and live stock for one month. In the mean- time the regular monthly meeting of the ussociation will take place, and as the railroads look after their own inter- ests first, they will doubtless agree upon a schedule of rates, and the promised fat picking for the packing houses will pass into innocuous desuetude. A REVOLUTION in pid transit be- tween Chicago and San Fraucisco and possibly between the Atlantic and Pa- cific const is imminent. The proposed fast special train to bo puton the Union Pacific December 5 is only one of the changes that are likely to take place with the new year. Competition has spurred on the Union Pacific to outstrip its rivals, as the Northern Pacific and the Topeka & Santa e are negotinting to establish fast through trains from Chicago to California. 1t is more than likely, therefore, that the Missouri lines will co-operate with the Union Pacific for a solid train from Chicago west. Tre railroad question continues to he the burning one. An Orcgon farm who had n great harvest of potatoes, shipped thom to Portland by the Ore- gon River Railroad and Steam Naviga- tion company. The proceeds were just suficient to pay freight and transfer charges, for the route combines steam- boat and railroad transit; and yet the price realized in Portlund wasa good one. The men of Oregon propose to potition the state to take charge of the improvements in the Columbia river, and to make the Cascade canal and clear a pussage through the Dalles as quickly as possible, The work is being done now by the United States, but so slowly that twenty-five years must clapse bo- fove the great river Columbia volls un- vexed to its junction with the Willam- etto, Citizens of Portland fear that their trade will have disappeared by that time, so the local board of trade is vigorously eudessing the propositioa. MR. POWDERLY'S MANIFEST UN- FITNESS. The general report made by Powderly to the Knights of Labor sitting in con- vention at Indianapolis will but con- firm the opinion entertained by a few friends of labor reform outside of the order, that he is a thoroughly incom- petent man. This judgment was passed upon him at the time of the Missouri Pacific strike, and more recently the Burlington strike, when it was in his power to render a great service not only to his order but to the general cause of labor. Ho is unfit for a leader, and he isunfit for a figure head. He has no tact, he has no comprehension of cir- cumstances, and he is utterly unable to catch the drift of public sentiment, and of the feelings of those workingmen who are not knights. Like all weak men iu high position, he interprets dissent from his policy to be treachery to the order. His annual report is simply a excuses and com- plaints for the diminished numbers of the knights. Nothing could be in worse taste or more foolish. Mr. Powderly should be the last man to discourage the order bacause its un- wieldy mass has been shrinking away from various natural causes. He ought to know enough to know that the promiscuous vecruiting of men of all grades and ranks into the order was sure to drive out of it the wage-working class. Any man with a vhimbleful of brains who has kept abreast with labor movements would have foreseen that the professional knights who have in- vaded the order for personal and politi- eal ends would form a wedge to split the order unless they were exctuded by the reorganization of the order on a strictly workingman's basis. Mr. Powderly has shown self to be a man shallow mind, ready to embrace advocate theories that arve utterly im- practicable and at variance with the natural laws that govern the inbor market as they do the wheat market. The mission of the knights is not, and shoula not, be to fight the trades unions, nor yet to dominate them, and Powderly has done both. Such actions cannot but be detrimental to the eause of labor, and naturally have tended to disintegrato the knights, Their strength lies in the fuct that they by their organization can bring into harmonious action with the trades unions the men, and the women workers, too, whose labor cannot well be organized. Not only can they do this, but they could be a potent factor in sisting the trades unions in their dis: greements with non-union men. Noth- ing can be cleaver than that in all con- tests with capital the trades unions arc badly handicapped by the dead weight of unemployed labor. This unemployed labor can be gathercd under the banner of the knights and might be so handled that capital could not in future rely upon it. At present, whenever there is a strike capital lies back confidently, and ealls this element to its aid. With a general master wo man in control who understood things, matters might be so managed that the kuights could organize these men in y that they would act with the trades unions—not against them. Hith- erto the policy of the knights, at least as far as outsiders have been able to judge, has been to endeavor to utilize anized labor to cnable them to dominate the trades unions. Nothing can be more detrimental to the interests of the order than such an attempt,which is diametrically opposed to the common sense of workingmen, and has been pro- ductive of very bad results. This policy grew out of the disease of the big head which scems to have been fatal to gen- eral master workmen generally. knight has been taught or bas led him- self to believe that his organization was destined to take the place of the trade unions he is deceived, and the truth is not in him. The trades unions must ever be the basis of all labor organiza- tions, and the knights can never be more than a supplementary ovder, which will into desuetude when the battle has been fought and the vic- tory hus been won. series of him- A SMALL MARGIN. Unless the democratic schemes for stealing congressional districts in West Virginin and some other states where the vote v very close are successful, the republicans will have control of the next house of representatives by a small majority. The carly estimates are found to have been too sanguine,and now even Senator Quay, whose accuracy of judg- ment in such matters has been abun- dantly attested, and whose opportuni- ties for obtaining trustworthy informa- tion are the best, does not promise a re- publican majority in the house excced- ing six. This would be a narrow margin, but it would be sufficient, for control, since there will bein the Fifty- first congress no ‘“balunce-of-power’ men. The next house will be divided on strict party lines, with no shifters or so-called independents to give solici- tude to either side. Regarding the ap- prehended purpose of the democrats to countout republicans in the six or seven close districts where a recount will probably be made, the most serious dan- ger to the republican claimants is felt to be in West Virginia, where the dem- crats ure in control of the election chinery. There nud elsewhere, how- over, the republican managers will maintain a vigilant and caveful guar- dianship of the returns, and the demo- cratic schemers will not find 1t an casy matter to accomplish their suspected purpose of counting out the republican candidates, There is a very general impression that the clerk ot the Louseof represent- atives, whose duty itis to prepare thoe voll of the members clect, has it in his power to arrange the roll so as to de- prive the republicans of a majority, par- ticularly in the event of the majority not exceeding two or three, This isa ma- mistaken impression, The law gives the elerk no discretion in preparing the voll of members elect where regular credeutinls of clection are vpre- sented. It provides that “Before the flrst mecting of each con- gress the clerk of the mext preced- ing house of representatives shall mako a roll of tho represcntatives- clect, and place thercin the names of those pervsons, and of such persons ouly, whose credentials show that they were regularly elected in sccordance with the laws of their states respective the laws of the United States.” plain and positive mandate of this law requires the clork to place on the roll the names of all representatives-elect whose credentials are presented in due form and properly attested by the seal of the state from which elected. In cases of contest, the man who obtains the certificate of election on the roll regardless of the merits of the controver: the clerk hav- ing no authority to go behind the certificate. If the certifieate has been improperly obtained the claimant may be objected to when called up by the speaker to take the outh of office, and made to stand aside until the house is fully organized, when the right of the claimant to admission must be passed upon by the house. There is, therefore, no ground for apprehension regarding the prospective action of the k of the house in preparing the roll of members elect. The certificate being in due form, the cler bound to place the name it contains on the roll. But while the clerk is powerless to arrange the roll of members elect to the disadvantage of the republicuns, the fact vemains that all who go upon tho roll, regardless of any question as to whether their certificates were prop- erly obtained or not, varticipate in the cloction of a speaker, and thus prac- tically in the organization of the house, s0 that a person presenting a certificate obtained by fraud is permitted to assist equally with those respecting whose clection there is no question, in arrang- ing the machinery by which the fraud may be made effective. Thus, if in West Virginia, for example, the demo- crats count out the republicans in the congressional districts and receive the certificates, thereby giving the demo- crats a majority in the next house, the votes of these men will elect a speaker who will muke up the committees, and this done it is not doubtful that the holders of these certificates would be given their s It is of the greatest importance, ther fore, that the republicans in close and disputed districts shall exercise the ut- most care and vigilanee to prevent de- feat by fraud. WHY CHANGE PORT OMAHA? The scheme to re-loeate FFort Omaha never has been favored by any con- siderable number of the citizens of Omaha. Our business men have prac- tically been o unit against the project, and so expressed themselves through the board of teade when the bill pending in congress two years Both Generals Howard and Crook were most decidedly ady to re-location and every commander of the post and staff officer attached to depart- ment headquarters has given expression to the same views. Brooke, the vresent depar ment commander, would doubtless op- pose the re-location were it not for the ot that congress has passed the bill to establish a new fort within ten mil®s of Omaha. Senator Manderson, who chielfly instrumental in the that bill, has time and again assured our citizens that this measuro was in- spired by Geuneral Sheridan, who, at the head of the army, had adopted a policy of isolating the forts from large cities, and refused to approve any fur- ther approprations for enlarging and improving the present fort. It was only because General Sheridan refused to permit Fort Omaha to be im- proved on its present site that objections from leading citizensof Omaha were finally withdreawn, and the Dbill passed without remonstrance. Now that General Scofield is at the head of the army, it would seem to us that the projected remo of the fort is no longer a military necessity. If the leading business men and prop- erty owners who vregard the re- moval as a detriment to our city take prompt steps to stop further proceedings toward the purchase of anew site and enlist Senator Man- derson in this effort, we have no doubt that the relocating bill can be promptly repealed in December and a liberal ap- propriation secured before congress adjourns to enlarge the old fort and erect substantial quarters for all the troops that may be stationed here. Tue BEE has from the outset vigor- ously protested against the proposed change, and we still believe that such a change would be damaging to this city, without materially benefitting the gov- ernment, General has been passage of TuEe national board of trade insession at Chicago had under discussion the question as to the relative value of the monthly crop reports issued by the de- partment of agriculture, Itwasclaimed by the Chicago board of trade that the: monthly crop bulletins were inaceurate and for that reason theivissuance should be discontinued. The preva:ling opin- ion of the convention seemed to be, how- ever, that the department of agricul- ture should be given more funds by congress in order to make the reports more accurate. It is a question whether the views of the Chicago board of trade were not on the whole correct. Crop reports are for the most part guesses, and often unre- liable at that, It is impossible to ob- tain accurate information as to growing crops, ne matter how painstaking it may be. Growing crops are such a variable quantity and subjected to such daily inftuences that what may be true of the cereals of a particular s day may be absolutely false Reliable monthly consoquently are an impossibility, They are mislcading and do not serve the markets of the world as they should. 'HE increased alue of Nebraska farm land has led the board of educa- tios land and funds to re-appraise the school iands in s ul counties of the stato. The board has just approved the recommendation raise the ap- praisement of Thayer county school lands from one dollar aud fifty conts to seven dollars an aere. The old valua- tion has properly boen recognized as being altogethor too low. Thayer county is one of the richest and most desirable agreicultural sections of the *tion one within a evop reports state. Land is sold in the eounty from fifteen to thirty-five dollars per acre, and the state was constantly losing the benefit of the enhanced price on school 1ds due to its low appraisement value. It is highly probable that a re-appraise- ment of the school lands in other coun« ties of the state will take place. —_——— It is evident that our leading citizens are giving considerable attention to the amendments necessary to the charter in order to secure the best legislation for the city, The interviews published in Tie BEE from day to day are making clear where the faults and the dangers of the present charter lie. With a full and faic discussion by our people, the best means for remedying these defects will be found, and our delegation will be instructed what amendments to pro- That our charter should be faulty in spots and need revision as ox- perience should point out, was thing which at the time of its passag was unavoidable. On the whole, the o been acceptable and when the o places in it have been straightened, the interests of the city will be much better protected. pose s0me- THE board of education has always on hand a list of substitutes and applicants from which it can draw its teachers for night schools without making a requisi- tion on the day foree. Of thenine teach- now employed in the night schools, six teach during the day. Clearly the efficiency is more or less impaived for evening work. All things being equal, it would certuinly be to the advantage of the night schools to be taught by fresh and competent instructors. OTHER LANDS THAN O RS An Amorican missionary has given to the world of America a most graphic and start- ling account of western China, a region of which even well-informed people knew little ornothing. The head center of Buddhistic worship is Mount Omei, and he remained there n month studying all the marvels around him, examining the trades of the neo ple, noting their lives, and the influence of Buddhism upon them, visiting the romant places in the neighborhood, wandering among the deep gorges of the mountains, and particularly that through which the Yani-t forces its foaming way, and taking copiov notes of the various art objects which r main to testify to-day of a nobler epach, u purer faith and a grander civilization. Some of these wonders must bebetter worth see ing than the pyramids of Egypt. He de 1 entire temple of fine hard bronze \Cantiquity and many colossal statues of bronze, ono of which is a monstrous onc at Nara 1 Japan. are of Sakyamuni. but the Japanese type of the god is different from these in western China, There are also mountains chiselled into the forms of iols, but these are not Buddnistic, relating to Tartar Shintooism, and not unlike the immense rock idols in Alghanistan. Recently there have been acconnts in the eastern papers of the flourishing condition of tobaceo culture in Cuba, and the people of the Havana evidently believe that they have a cinch on the pocketbooks of weaithy smok ers all over the world. Turkish and Hun- garian tobuaceos: are. excellent for the pipe nd the cigaretfe, but the leaf caunot be lled into a x‘i{zu’. -f_An«l as the same thing is true of the exquisitd tobaceos of Missouri, Kentucky and! Temhessce, it has scomed hitherto that the mgnopoly enjoyed by the Havuna cizar \wwas not to be broken. But its day has come at¥ast. The island of Sumatr either wholly of in part belongs to the Hol- landers, and they have been steadily culti vating tobacco t re and ving nothing for 80 years past, and have doubtless b selling it in the form of Henry Clays or Re. galias, orsome other first-class brand of Havar iros. But the A rican cigar maker hus obtained news of the fact, and this year tobacco to the amount of 36,000,000 was purchased by them in Sumatea and also in Amsterdam. The tobaceo of the Manilla islands has enjoyed a high reputation for ¢, but that of Suwatra is quite a new Our good devout orthodox christians a not quite pleased that progress should have veached Jerusalem, because they imagined that the vengeance of heaven had blasted it forever and a day. Yet the fact 1s undoubted that Jerusalem is increasing rapidly in poyu lation, and efforts are being made to create manufacturing industries. The chief ele ment in this surprising renaissance is the Jewsh, but Russins, ( and Armen ians are also taking a hand in the rebuilding of the famous old city. Perhaps the next thing will be the rebuililing of the temple, hough this is doubtful, for the most ad weed thinkers among the Hebrews, as for example Emanuel Deutsch, are by no means atisti=d that their ancestors in remote times were the pure and lofty minded monotheists which the Jews are to-day, Their minds go out toward a renais of Isracl as well as of Jerusalem. At present Jerusalem is by no means a place of wourning, and is beginring to wear quite a bustling look, as if it intended to be a city of the nineteenth’ century as well as of the remote past, like Alexandria and Cairo. A The Melbourne papers publish the mtelli- gence that the British government, that m- satiuble old cormorant, has annexed Zuly land, and has made the Caps Colony a hand- someoffer of Bechuanaland if they care to take it. The scheme of annexing Boerland, or the Free Orange Republic, some years ago did not succeed, for the English veterans al- lowed themselves to be disgracefully whipped by the wild Dutch Boers at Swatz kopf. The Boers who proposed to defend themselves against the Eoglish invaders formed a camp upon the plateau of the Swatz-kopf. The British troons, intending to surprise them, climbd up another sido of the mountain, and gained the erest, with the humane determination 1o massa soon as it was daylizht and the w rested, But the Boers, inconsiderate fellows they were, discovered them at day and immediately charged up an al precipitous ascent, and with every dis advantaze of position gained the crest und drove the British headlong. The English also allowed themselves to be whipped by the Zulus, who fighting like the ancient Ch sel under Arminius, armed only with thei assagays, the exact counterpart of the Cheruscan framen, surrounded the Bratish with a vast semu-girelp of men, and suddcnly contracting_the two horns, massacred two. thiras of Lord Chelmsford’s column at Isandlbwana, Obyionsly the English only annex Zululand for fear that old Bismarck t suddenly bethink him that the brave s were of geuuie Teutonic stock, and might annex Zulnland for their benetit, It may be that it will be done yet. Some American journalists are losing their heads over the trans-Caspian railroad, which is now running faim Astrabad to S the capital of Bokhara. One in particular in a Chicago paper conjures up a vision of riy alry to the United States which is pitiable for its denseness of ignorance. This writer assumes that within five years cotton raised in Central Asia may be laid down in Liver pool to compete with American cotton, and n wheat will simil i I'to the product of the northwest This is the merest bubble blowing that ev was indulged in, In the first place Bokha is not in Central Asia by a good deal, and b tween the two is a range of mountains ealled the Pamir, upon which the snow lies for nine months in the year. On the easteru side of this range is a succession of plateaus 80 elevatod that it freezes every night, even in summer. In the second place thero is no labor in Bokhara, nor in any of the khanates north, south and west of it, and these khanates are only oases in the buraing desert of the Caspisu region—a saline desert caused by the gradual shrinking of the Caspisu, arkand, which was formerly an ocean connected with the Arctic waters. Tn the third place there i8 o population in Siberia amounting to any- thing, nor is it likely to attact immigration if the czar would permit it, which he will not, In the fourth place the Kussian wheat raised in the Tchornosjom and wxported from Khorsen and Odessa principally by German settlers, or the descendants of German set- tlors, is ot able to compete with American wheat, and its_produetion has fallen off in consequence. Onee for all Americans should understand_that Russia is so thinly popu- lated that she is unable to contend with the United States in the production of avything, even petroleum. As the present policy of the country is to permit no immigration, not even of Germans, a hundred yoars must elapse before Russia competes with us in anything. By that time all existing condi tions will have been changad, A project is on foot to connect San Diego in lower California directly by a railroad with the City of Mexico. There is in oxist- snce already a railroad, a branchof the Southern Pacific, which runs from Fort Yuma to the Mexican port of Guagmas on the Gulf of California, The imtention is to Luild a road from San Diego to Fort Yuma, and then another from Guaymas along the const line to Mazatlan, and themeo to Guadalajara, which is already in conr by rail with the capital. There can doubt that all this will be accomplished rapidly and efficiently, for San Dicgo has much " eastern capital behind it, and nono of the sections afford any dificultios of engineer- ing linble to make great outlays inevitable, One of the chief objects of the line is un. doubtedly to tap the anthracite coal beds of Sonora, for San Dicgo is in great need of coal, and eutirely dependent upon the mercies of the Southern Pacific railway, which has conl beds up in Washington territory. 1f there was much entesprise in San Diego of the right kind, coal would b brought from Kobu in Japan, which would be cheaper than hauling it by rail from Sonora nearly seven hundred miles away. But this road would also make San Diego the market for the beautiful woods of Mexico,land as the govern- ment is willing to make valuable concessions to tho compruy, especially of the timber lands along the Cordilleras, there will he great profit in it. The road from Guaymas to Guadalajara runs parallel with the mountain_chain on whose foothills the finest timber grows. The company with ordinary prudence eamnot fail to make large profits, because the logs ean be cut and _placod on the car with very little expense by utilizing flume power along a very great part of the line There are some American Alpiue climbers though not many, and, indeed, the best lady Alpinist that was ever known was Miss Bre voort, of New York, who ascended th Mount Pelvoux and the Deux Ecrins. But as a rule Americans do not care particularly for climbing up precipices and building a cuirn of stones on tie sunmit with a niche in the center for a bottle coutaining tne names of the party making the ascent. With our English cousin it amounts to a pas sion, and there ave Englishmen who hunt everywhere for dificult mountains, that they may come and see and overcome, This sum- er onc of this genus strayed into the Rus- ) mountains in the Caucasus and ascended to the summit of Elbruz, which has a trifling height of 18,526 feet, Having accomplished this feat not only in safety, but in comparative comfort, he, iustead of ssting on his laurels and going home to be ized by the Alpine club, crossed from the Black sea region of mountains to the Cas- pian mountains on the west side_in Daghes- tan._One of these called Kazbek, is sup- posed to be Mount Avarat, but it is not_the highest, for that honor belougs to the Kosh- tan Tagh, and this mountain was the one se- lected by the Englishman aud _a colleague for their adventure. Tney had with them their Swiss mountain guides, but no_natives fer the Daghestani mountaineers refused to 2o with them on_ac f some supersti tion about the Kosh which, in the lunguage of the country, 4 name syn onimous with Yung I use the ascent, to the summit has never becn made, The ) consul at Batoum, and some Ameri nd English gentlemen bade the partyGod weed, but it has uever since been heard of: ani mountaincers decla that the Virgin of the mountain sent a terrific storm in_which they must have perished. The greatest anxiety is felt neerning them, but it is feared that they are buried hundreds of feot under snow, and will only come to the surfuce when the neve has bo come a glacier and melts them out in_com pany with the cobble stones of its moraine. From the observations of a German scien tist named Hann it appears that the banner town for extreme temperature is Mercho jansk, in Siberia. From the beginning of December the mean temperature is fifty- eight degrees below zero, which means that aking the theometrical readings when the weather is not so bad, and the readings when the cold is abnormal, and adding them together the mean is fifty-eight degrees be low zero. Junuary and rebruary are still colder, and a minimum of seventy-six grees below zero is a common occurrence. Tu January, 1585, the minimum was eignty- nine degrecs below . Yet althouzh theso are terrible figui +is more suffer ingz and death and loss in a little Nebraska blizzard when the mercury only sinks to twenty-nine degrees below zero than in the whole winter of Merchojansk. — The ther mometer_only tells part of the story. In wense cold is not_hard tobear when there is no wind, but nothing that lives can resist a cold of twenty decrees below zero when it is hurled onward at a rate of fiffy miles an hou In Merchojansk there is an absolute silence of all natural sounds. The winds do not blow, the trees do not move, the dogs do not bark, but when mufiled up warmly, wen and wouien do not suif Upon the whole Nebraska and Dakota will_contost the palm of supremacy with Merehojansk, Ll LABOR. By the persistent Work of cigar makers’ union, No, 24 tenement and Chi nese cigar making has boen abolished 1w Col orudo has a_co-operative store v declared a dividend of 101 per o purchasers. 1t has o patronage of ¥ two hundred families officials of two street railway compan ies i Buffalo have been indicted for exact ingz from their employes more than ten hours work in twelve cousecutive hours, Mrs, Lenora M. Barry has been commis- sioned 1o lecture for the Knights of Labor in addition to her regular work of inquiring into the condition of female labor throughout the country he carpenters and joiners or Maldc Mass., lave issied a notice to all carpenters and contractors that on and after April 1, they will demand nine hours for uduy’s work und on Saturday eight hours. A blacksmith in Norristown, Pa., has made nine miniature horseshoes from a silver dime, The horseshoes are all perfect, and the holes drilled for the insortion of nails are s0 small that they wiil not admit o scwing needle, ‘The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern ailroad company have purchased a lurge land near Sioux Falls, D. T. and a stone quarry will 500n b opened. This 1give employment to hundreds e fifth annual meeting of the Laun national association, held recently at'Cleveland, the delegates took to them selves the credit of bringing about the ex- clusion of the Chinese. This was done by a wemorial sent to con which had « di rect influence on the mtroduction of the bill With the closing of navigation on the great lakes, Nov. 15, 60,000 men will be thrown out of euiployment. There are 20,000 men who are sailors, deck hands, firemen and engin cers. 'The 'longshoremen will number 40,000, and among them are the lumber-shovers, the grain-trimm tho coal-heavers, and ' the ore-shovelers. — Many of tnese men will go nto the packing bouses, while some Wi 10 the pineries for the winter, SRRITOR Y. Nebraska Jottings unty is badly in n ross, 1of a new court house A two-weeks' revival meeting is in pro gress at the Presbyterian ehurch at Lyons Charles Bailey, & prominent and estecine citizen of Wilber, died of dropsy last Wednes- \lug Shoplifters have been doing a wholcsale Jobof *ifting"’ goods from Kremont stores A resident of Elmwood during the past s0ason raised some very finely devoloped cot- ton pods from seed. The presence of a_gambling den in their midst is causing the respoctable people of Tekamah great grief, Some vandal, armed with a bowie knife, ruined thirty-five hides in a Schuyler slaugh- ter house tho other day. With the demise of the Hastings Gazotte Journal, the Hastings Nebraskan ohanged from a woekly to a daily The North Bend Flail has made & change of base and in future 1 be published at Fremont, the county seat. A purse of $150 has becn raised at Toka mah for the benefit of Billy Wilson, who was shot while trying to capture a burglar, A man named Coon was caught selling whiskey from a keg at the Weeping Water quarries the other day, and was arrested and sent to Jail to await trial. A correspondent writes that marriageable young ladies are evidently in great demand at Clavks, judging from tho fact thut a cor tain youns lady received three proposals in one week. Five pirates of the Missouri were arrested at Nebraska City Thursday as they were Hoating down the river on a flatboat stolen at Plattsmouth. Other articles of booty were also captured and held for the proper owners, There is a big rumpus 1n two families at Tekamah over clection wagers. A man who has been married but a short time bet his wife's rold wateh against a gentleman's sil- 'r watch, with the ovident intention of having a wateh both for himself and his wife, " The wife's wateh was, of course, lost. Another man bet his wife's sewing machine and lost it. wa. The Sioux City oat meal miil has gone into a trust and been ordered closed. It is quite common for dogs to suicide by jumping off the high bridge at Dubuque. vernor Larrabee Monday madean in- spection of the state troasury. The cash on d amounted to $36,360.66, and bouds §225, for the sale of bever- ovember 1, have been About one hundred pected o come up Sixty-nine licenses ages, beginning taken out in Dav more dealers are and deposit their W. E. Carlton, auditor of Dickinson county, was the first county auditor to forward his clection returns to the office of the secretary of state. This report was received the day after the ofiicial count was made. An old soldier mamed Hurroughs, from Wapello county, has been adjudged msane by the commissioners, out is held at Marshall- town for disposition. The Independence asylum refuses to reccive him, as he s not m its territory, and the Mt. Pleasant asylum demands that Wapello county pay for his care before taking him there. The county auditors will lold a state con vention in Des Moines hegiuning on the 19th of December. The call is issued by J. Q. Rathbone, of Eldora, Hardin county. 1t is the purpose of the auditors to consider any matter of importance to their worl and to bring out any needed changes in the laws re- lating to their work, so that they may be fully discussed before’ the next logislature mects, A two-year-old child of Jumes Craig, re siding at Clinton, was playing in the yard Monday, wheh it fell into an uncovered cis tern. Mvs. Craig saw the child fall and jumped in after it. Fortunately the water only up to her arms, and,” holding the child up she succeeded in getting tne water out of its mouth aud throat. A neighbor who witnessed the accident resened the mother and child, all unhurt, but terrivly frightened. The Great Northwest. Two feet of snow fell at Bullion, Elko county, Nevada, last Saturda; The republicans will have twenty majority on joint batlot in the next Wyoming legisla- ture. t Saturday $150,000 worth of silver bullion was landed at” the Shelby smelting works. A Skagit county, Wyoming territory, phy- sician reports that 'of Seventeen births in his neighiborhood this year sixteen have beon hoys. The Wyoming Stock Growers' association has been thoroughly reorganized, new by- laws made and everything put in shape to et down to work W. C. Wilson, u Laramic (Wyo.) druggist, whecled Engincer Donovan to Sherman in a barrow as the result of an eleetion bet. The distance traveled was forty-six miles. A new mining district has been discovercd in Missoula county, Montana. The ore taken out 1s said o assay from 110 10 230 ounces of silver and will average 50 per cont of lead. R icorge H. Cornell, rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal church at Laramic, Wyo., s been foreed to resign on account of his health aud has aceepted a call from Sioux City, Ia. A vast bed of borate of lime has been dis- covered in Curry county, Oregon, near the st. The borate of lime is the crude stato of borax. This deposit is said to be half a mile lopg, 300 feet wide and 30 feet deep 1t is said that an important discovery, con- sistiy rge deposit of asbetes, s be made at Laramic Peak, Albany county, Wyoming. The asbetes is found in a huge dyke of serpentine, of which the company has located 123acres. The quantity, judging from the surfuce indications, is very large. Meagre reports of a shooting scrape on the San Juan river hav hed Durango, Colo. 1t appears that a man by the name of Hamb. lett, who bears a hard reputation, bocame in volved i a quarrel with shot him with a Winchest passing through Adams’ body. No_further particulars have been received. Hamblett has skipped out for the hills. Says the Willows Journal: There is a farmer in this vicinity who offers to furnish land to any one who will put it in fruit and apes. 'The person who takes the land is to > taxes and reced all proceeds for years. At the end of four years the nd s to be sold and the money réceived to equally divided between the original er and the man who has put on the im- provements L @RTHURSTON'S STUMPING TOUR. It Was a Shrewd Scheme on the Part of Mr. Kimoall, Mr. Holeombe, first vice president of th Union Pacific, hus been here long enough to enable those who are at all observant to note that it is his intention to carry out the policy which T, J. Potter by his death left unfin ished. Educated in the railroaa under Mr. Potter, patronized also by him, advanced to positions in the busincss, he was the man upon whom Potter's favor rested as his own successor, Consistent with these facts Mr. Holcomb will carry out that policy. ‘The force on the road will be redu o its low st practical ¢limit, asd expenses will be ey eryw urtailed. Mr. Kimball has been charged with the executive work thusout lined. None other than absolutely necessary improvements will be made. Every offort will be put forth to get the Outhwaite bill passed, in which event some branching out will be undertake ht that Mr. Kimball ng which he thinks will favor with the administration, It will ubered that Thurston, the gen torney, went to Indiana to stump for Harrison. It will also be remembored that he returned unexpect His voturn was on the dir : Francis Adams, who was here and who could not understand why #12,000 attorney wus stumping instead of at- tending to his railroad business, Kimball isisted that hurston w m frie s with the iu-coming administ tion which would be invaluable to the roud in the passage of the Outhwaite bill. Adumns relented und Thurston went to New York and stumped with 131 Chaplain Nav Chnaplain Nave, of I"ort ten the follov dier ¢ y donation boo! this city A number of articles, purporting to como from soldiers at I'ort Omaha, have appeared in Tue Beg rocently, criticizing the propos ition by people of the city to establish a li brary at the post. Who the parties are we do ot know, but thoy do not represent the ofil business exalted 's Reply Omaha, has v ng with reference to the s le upon b s for @ library at the post in icism 1 made by the coprespondent uee misloading, and should bo treatod as such. For instance our statement was that £20 had recently been appropriated for the purchase of books for the post library, 1saw one of the offle cers of the board which made the appropriaes tion, and he nformed me the sum was §2.50, General Wheaton, commanding the post, authorizos me to say that the proposition was a surprise which he highly appreciates, and that if the citizens of Omaha offer him & library for the use of his regiment and thoss that succeed him at Fort Omaa, he will ba glad to receive it asa token of wood will from the people with whom he and his come mand enjoy such pleasant relations. He ape preciates the inestimablo valueof such a wifty and the public spirit of which it would be ad exprossion. He utterly dissents from the interpretation given the vroposition by the soldier contributor, if he was a soldier, that such a gift to an institution, with an overs changing porsonnel, would bo in any sense charity, but that it would rather be an act of broad 'philanthropy, and would show tha immediate aympathy between the milivary and civilcommunities, NEEDHAM'S BONDSMEN, They Strive In Vain to Have a Sott1ge ment With the Commissioners. A somewhat heated interview betwoen the county commissioners on the one side, and Mr. C. P. Needham, formerly county clorlc of this county, and his bondsmen on the other, took place yesterday afternoon in the court houso, Tho cause of the discussion was about as follows Two years ago it became nocossary for the county to have a new set of general index books mado from the old ones then in use in the county clork's office, the old books being in a very dilapidated condition, Mr. Necds cers nor the better class of soldiers. These are far from doing or suying anything that would rellect unkindly (1ai @ aponianeous expression of good will. The staten i | SnHEN oil7 pule ham, who was then county clerk, got the contract and was to be allowed at the rate of 5 cents for each entry made in the new books. This would amount to about $7,000, He finished the work and turned it over to the commissioners, who accepted it. Needham held soveral thousand dols lars of the county’s money at that tinme, and on leaving office deducted the $7.000 out of the amount as payment for the work done on the indices, The commissioners did not ob- ject then, but a short time after taking hiy ofice Mr. Megeath, the present rogister of deeds, and Needham’s sucoessor, found fault with the work done by the latter and res ported 1t to the commissioners. — Ono of the commissioners, who 18 no friend of Neede ham’s, and another who had recently been elected, took the matter under considoration and notifled Needham that ho must return the §7,000. This he refused to do, when tha county attornoy was instructed by a resolus tion of the county board to procecd against Needham's bondsmen to recover tho money _in dispute. Tho action i3 now pending in the district court and it was with the object of arbitration and settlement ll\allll\;-lmndsmcu and commissiouers met sterday. Mr. Needham wants to allow the county to 20 on with the suit, His bondsmen want ta settlo and, if necessary, give up part of the money held by Needham. Some of the commissioners say that tha s were returned reasonably correct and eedham should be paid for the work done, whilst the other portion of the board thinks he should give back the whola amount. How tho case will be settled, future dee velopments will prove. T'here is also unotier claim against Neede ham for something over §00 for foes not. reg turned by him during the last year of hid term of ofice. THE LININGER GALLERY, Another Visit to the Exhibit of tho Western Art Association. “Omaha is full of people who can approe ciate a good thing when they see it," said Senator Lininger, yesterday “and I wish you would inform them that the exhibition of the Western Art association leaves the gallery this week and they must get avound. Thera is no fear that the thing will not prove a ‘go.’ There are 200 people in the association and this exhibition is a stupendous surprise to the most enthusiastic of us, but there uro & number of contributors, young girls and othiers, whose work is worthy of a place in most European galleries, who need encours agement. Another thing, thero are excellent artists liere who must live, and whose pics tures are for sale. There are also rich men in the city whose walls nced beautifying who will go to the Old world and pay tivo prices for work of half the merit. A 'word to tae Wi s suficient,” ‘The attendance at the gallery night and yesterday v ouragiug, though those who can man: Iget the best satisfaction from an afternoon or morn- ing visit. . he china exhibit, as now arranged, fs attracting a great deil of attention. Mellona M. Butterfield’s Royal Worcester vases and chocolate pot are “beautiful in design and workmanship, as alsoare her plaques, border desigus and tile work, Mrs. H. D. roole has a delicately tinted set of soup plates and turcen in sepia and violets. Mrs. L. V. Phils lips, of Graud Island, also has somo exquisita designs, notably u Marg#erite china plaqua and @ portrait on cluna. Miss Minnio Blacks Mrs. Gilbert, Mrs. Morrow, Mrs. Mrs, Wheeler and_ others, have f tures to the display. Among Mus, Chaso's chinese ) terns 18 a y_colored conceit. Miss Harriet E. Brown's “Still Life" (33) is much admired. Several 5 Show some come wendable work, among them Fthel Miols stone’s “Studics from Nature!' is specially ricable. Mrs. Mumaugh’s “Coming Houie' shows superior skill in both drawing and coloring, and Mrs, Silkworti's cop; an Iris, is one of the gems of the colle It can ily ho ugderstood that out of the 370 exhibits, only y limited number an be noticed in a brief visit. Altogether the ar is deewdedly commendable, and furni of delightful Thursday Mrs. Gould M mproved. 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