Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 23, 1888, Page 4

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Average duly sworn, de- Ary of the Heo tual averags Bie for th 22 coples;, for heini Wiy does net the bridge-motor mot: S10UX Crry sits on the anxious seat sinca the title to her most valuable property in the business districts of the ity has been deagged into litigation. Mi. ALEXANDER'S retirement from the council is to be regretted. He has made a very efficient member, and can point with pride to an unassailable re- covd, Tig bell-wether is at his old tricks agnin. He is hand and glove with Jim Creighton and s gang, and leads the council by the nose. This is a pretty spectacle indeed THERE was loud cheering in the lobby of the council chamber after Hascail de- livered his harvangue for Jefferson squure, and the boomers’ ordinance was declared adopted. Those cheers came from the samo old crowd, Rotten Pave- ment Jim, Holly Job Joe, Tom Daily and the gang of roustabouts which al- ways follow at their heel TiE truth comes out at last. The board of education was twenty unoceu- pied rooms in school buildings, and but nine rooms are being rented outside. The hue and cry that the schools are overcrowded is false, and the bhig scheme of the board to expend four hundred thousand dollars for schools and sites has a large sized hole knocked into it. TiiE vight wing of the state capitol was built for one hundred and twenty- five thousand dollars. The walks and drives leading to the capitol are about tobe finished at an expense of fifty- seven thousand dollars. It will be in accordance with the eternal fitness or things for the next legislature to appro- priate one hundred thousand dollars B the construction of a new pcket @uce around the capitol grounda. I congress disposes of alt appropria- ®ion bills and a fow of the most import- ant measures before the 4th of March, it will dowell. As for tariff legislation, nothing can be expected. The Mills bill and the senate’s substitute for it will die with the Piftieth congress. No new mensures stand a ghost of a show if introduced, in view of the fact that several thousand bills are now on the calendar of each houso. Tox Dainy, whose only business in the city council wus capping for his musters of the Union Pacific, confiden- tially tells his friends that he has made ncompact with Joe Redman and Choe- ney by which one of the latter is to be elected to the council from the Fifth ward in consideration for their efforts in behalf of the removal of the city hall. In other words, Mr. Daily pro- Poses to capture the democratic nomi- nation for the council, and then let Chiceney or Redman carry the election fn the midst of the fight over Jefferson @uare. This little contract will be de- <lared off now, since the ordinance re- locating the city hall has been found to be illegal. Tie Chieago Tribune makes a strong point against the proposition to elect the president by the divect vote of the people when it says “there is a large soction of country where political honor and election honesty are unknown, where such a thing as fair play in vot- ing or counting is scoffed at, and wher the proposed change would be an 1n- centive to brazen and shameless frauds of cnormous dimensions.” With the probability that every southern state would double or treble its democratic majority under the popular vote plan, the proposition is not likely under pre- vailing conditions to become popular in the north. Tne late election has not dampened the ardor nor dulled the edge of the purpose of the business men and ship- pers of Towa to bring the railroads of the state to terms, The railroads openly violaw the law fixing the maximum rates for the transportation of freight, and the jobbers of Dubuque, acting for the business community, have furnished the railroad commissioners with un- deniable proofs to that effect, It is evi- dent that the issue between the people and the railroads must soon come to u a head. The powerof rich corporations can not stand out forever against the laws of the state and the determined will of the people. THEE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 18388 CONGRESSIONAL CONTESTS. The number of contests in the next congress promises to be greater than ever hefore in the history of the ernment. Besides those already as- sured from the close vote in a number of in several statos, {t isun- darstood to be the intention of republi- can candidates who have been de- frauded of election in districts of the south whose vote is known to ba repub- lican, hut which is suppressed by the southern mothod, to contest the moerats veturned from such dis- tricts. Hitherto, with the house of vesentatives in democratic control, contests would have been simply a waste of time, as those which have been made fully demon- strated, hut with the house in the ha of the ropublicans, democrats from ro- publican districts in the south will have to show, when their claims con- tested, that they were fairly elected in order to hold their seats, It is not to be doulted that some of them would fail to do this. No faiv-minded citizen will question, we think, that the time has come when proceeding of this kind should ba The southern states are repre- sented in congress by a solid democratic delegation, at least one-third of the members of which, and possi- bly more, secured their seats by the suppression of republican votes. Democrats who have the candor to be teuthful, as for example tor Bustis of Louisiann and Mr. Watterson of Ken- tucky, admit that this is so, and what is worse, they d¢ re it to be the deter- mination of the southern democracy to maintain this polic Consequently there are men in congress from the south whose voting constituency numbers only a few thousand men whose whole vote was less than the highest plurality given for a membor of congress in Ne- brask: Obviously these men do not represent the popular choice of the dist- ricts they stand for on the rolls of con- gress, but only that fraction of the people of such districts whom southern meth- ods do not deprive of the right of suf- frage. The injustice of this is not con- fined to the people whose vote is pressed, but extends to the whole coun- try. These representatives of the min- ority of the people of tneir districts have no just right to legislate for the nation, and the power they exercise by virtue of the denial of the most sacred right of citizenship is a grave wrong to the entire country and a serious menace 1o its institutions. The power to romedy this lies with congress, so far as its own members are concerned. It has the execu- tive power to determine the quali- fications of it members, and it may be exclude any one claiming a seat in that body whose election can be shown to have been in any way unfairly procured. The next congress will have havdly any duties of greater importance than that of endeavoring to destroy the method by which men ave elected to represent as democrats southern districts whose vote is largely and unquestionably re- publican. There may be little hope that republicans in the south will for many years to come be allowed to exer- cise their rightful share in local govern- ment, but there is a promise that they may receive the representation they are entitled to in the national iegislature. gov- districts seats nds sup- A REVELATION. The Tribune has had frequent occasion to speak of Colonel Peter A. Dey, of the Towa rilroad commission as an official unusually well cquipped to deal with the transportation question, and it would seem that the people of Towa are decidedly of the same opinion. Colonel Dey 18 a democrat, but at the recent election he was elected raiiroad commissionor by a majority of 00 overa republican com- potitor, although the republican ticket had nearly 82,000 plurality! This extraordinary result is not to be explained by any lack of vopularity on the part of Mahin, Dey's re- publican competitor. Mahin was conceded tobe a fit and capable man in overy way deserving republican, but he had no 1 experience in dealing with transporta- tion questions.—Chicago Tribune. This will be a revelation to the people is simply amazing that a ofticia of Towa. It is paper usually so well informed about public men and measures should ex hibit such lamentable ignovance. Iti notorious in e hamlet in Towa that Peter A, Dey, who never was a colone!, captain, or even corporal, owes his elec- tion to the confederated railroad managers who pooled their forces to defeat M Mahin, “Colonel” De is unusually eqipped for playing stool-pigeon to the railroads, and had for years devoted hi talents to their interest. He was as pliant as ho is plausible and cunning. Mr. Mahin was defeated not because he was less capable than Dey, but be cause the railroad managers did not be. live him capable of becoming a mer: cenary tool ready to do their biddin, With the railroad power be- hind his back ‘“*Colonel” Dey was made popular enough to overcome thirty-two thousand majority and had over eight hundred votes to spare. Such popular- ity is no credit to him, and the people of Towa will henceforth distrust him more than ever and hold him in de- served contempt. The Chicago Tvibune has evidently been imposed upon, and in justice to itself should recall its en- dorsement of a man who has prostituted his talents to buse ends. all OME OTHER TIME. The Jefferson Square boomers have overshot the mark. They have enlisted Hascall in their cause, but he came to their rescue too late to be of any use. Had he been on hand four weeks ago, when their ordinance was defeated for the want of one vote, he might have been of servie As it is, the whole scheme to get their proposed relocation of the city hall before the people is knocked in the head. Section sixty-six of the charter provides that every bond proposition submitted to the legal electors of the city shall be published in full at least twenty days before the day of election. This cannot be done now. Mayor Broatch cunnot approve the ordinance because there is not sufficient time for the legal proclamation. If the people were to vote bonds under the Hascall ordinance, they would be worthless. On the other hand, bowever, there ave one hundred and seventy-five thou- sand dollars of legal bonds still at the disposal of the council for the erection ' loaded with s akonthern poliey. The timoe Farnam and inazmuch as of - the city hall on Tighteenth stecots, and that site has been legally designated by the people, the next council will have nodifficulty in proceeding with the con- struction of the city hall under modi- fied plans. 1f Jim Creighton and his obstruction- ists can muster enough votes in the ne council to force the issue between Jofferson square and upper Farnam, they will have to do =0 at a spocial e tion called for that purpose, or wait until November, 1889, when the general election is held. —_— A GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE When Mr. Manville was elected to the council two years ago by the republicans of the Sixth ward he was a poor but respectable mechanic. No sooner was he in his seat in the council than he quit work altogether and quartered himself on the city Instead of work- ing at his trade as a plasterer he put in all his time in the saloons. It soon be- came manifest that Mr. Manville making more than fifty dollarsa month out of his place in the council. A man who has not dollar on earth outside of his salavy as councilman can- not be honest and spend from five to ten dollars a day in the snloons. This is why Mr. Manville is generally dis- trusted. But he insists upon boing re- elected in spite of his bad reputation. 1f the republicans of the Sixth ward nominate such a man, it will be in order for some reputable citizen to run inde- pendent. was THE FIFTH WARD. Why should the vepublicans of the T"ifth ward be represented in the coun- cil by any man who doos not enjoy their confidence and respect? Ave Cheeney and Joo Redman the right kind of material for managing our city affairs? Mr. Redman was in the council some years ago and very prominently figured as one of Hascall’s licutenants in the Holly job,and proved himself generally unreliable. Mr, Cheeney may not be a boodler, but he acts v much like one. He has been thoroughly demoralized since he has been in the council, and has spent a great deal of his time i1n the saloons. If he were clected for another term he would be a complete wreck. The Fifth ward is now the center of our most in- telligent and respectable population. Why should such a ward be misrepre- sented in the council by men who are utterly unfit for any publie position? Tne proceedings before the special committee of the senato now investi- gating the cattle question at St. Louis will be followed with great interest by the cattle growersand shippers through the west. The testimony so far has been confined to an examination of the shippers from the southwest. Their grievances arve dirceted principally against Chicago, claiming that combi- nations of tho packers and buyers in that city control prices and that the favoritism of railroads to Chicago is detrimental to St. Louis and other voints. It would be unfair to draw conclusions thus early in the investigation. As the examination is extended to Kansas City, Omaha and Chicago much more light will be thrown upon the different relations which the cattle growers, shippers, packers and railroads sustain to each other. It itnot to be dillicult to trace the causes of the r and decline of the cat- tle industry from time to time, and it ought to be comparatively easy to sepa- rate the artificial from the natural fluences which subjeet that business to fluctuations. The work of the commit- the, therefore, is destined to muake a valuable contribution to our stock of knowledge on the subject. Tne blight that has fallen on Nevada istoo marked to be overlooked. While every western state and territory has drawn to itself strength and vigor through immigration, Nevada shows a most marked decline. There has been a steady falling-off in the population of that state for the pust ten yearsas shown by the number of votes cast at euch of the presidential elections. In 1880 Nevada cast a vote of 18,315, Four years later the vote of the state fell to 12,770. At the November clection, the vote dwindled still more, thus showing aloss of population. It is safe to say that the number of inhabitants of Neva is to-day less than fifty thousand. At this rate Nevada will be depopulated in the next decade. It is proposed, in view of the fact that the state will prob- ably never be able to support o popula- tion of over sixty to enty-five thou- sand, to eventually unite Utah and Nevade. By this means Nevada would be saved, and its gentile population would neutralize the Morn.on vote. —— TiE once famous ra) Arkansas valley e, about which so much mischiev- ouFexaggeration was written, is now wractically a descrt, absolutely strippod bare of all its nutritious grasses and incapable of affording pasture to any grazing animal. The papers of New Mexico are filled with comments upon the folly of continuing an occupation that has manifestly lost the conditions of success that it once possessed, and aim that this kind of open range business is a travesty upon the cattle range industry., It is said that Master Workman Pow- derly has ordered that all detectives be expelled from the K. of L. order. He has probably received a sample inside report on the peculiar methods of the railroad spotter, The Republican Surplus. Baltimore Ameriean, The republicaus may at times lack money, at others votes, but brains never, Chicago Tribune. Mr. Cleveland, if you have not yet decided what calling or occupation you will pursue when you are done with the cares of oftice, you will pardon me if I take the liberty of recommending to you the calm, restful de- lights of poultry raising .—R. B, H. ——— A Natlonal Policy. N. Y, Times, It is doubtful whether General Harrison has any defnite policy with rogard to this orany other subject. In short, about the worst thing his admloistration could be has gone by for that. It might as well havo an eastorn policy or a western polioy. It is time a national policy were good enough for an administé8tion at the national capital, whatever paghy may have placed it ther - Where the Difference Lies, New York Commsrcial-Advertiser When a groft Work is to be undertaken, & railroad line, for example, which is to benefit the country by bringing producers and con sumers into oloser and more inexpensive re lations, an amount of capital is required which no man n furnish, and a risk must be taken which no man can afford to assumo. In order that the lino shall be built thero must be a combination of capitalists and a legrully limited liability. Here combination is necessary, legitimate and wholesome. But the impulse of the trust is the roverse of all this. It is not a combination designed to facilitate business, but to restrict busing - How the West 1s Built Up. Springhield Republioan. A peenliar feature of railroad travel in the west, at this season, is the large number of men who are coming cast. They lave soen at work in the harvest ficlds of the north west and in othor farm work, and ave return ing to their homes for the winter. All through Dakota and Northern Minnesota, there are thousands of young men who have gone west, lived on claims and raised crops. Many of them, if they have been successful, will go back with a helpmest and make o home henceforth in the west. This is the manner in which the great western country is being built up. R — Mexico and Canada. Denver Republican. Outside of the present boundarios of tho union, it is in Mexico rather than in Canada that the Americans will probably accomplish the greatest results in the future. The for- ests and the fruits of Mexico are worth more than the furs and fisheries of Canada. Nature will smilo upon American energy in Mexico. She will frown upon our bost efforts inCanada. The superiority of the Canadians as compared with the Mexicans is a superor- ity of race and notof climatic conditions. We should not forget that Aztec and Toltec civilization surpassed the civilization of the Utes and the Sioux. - - Officeseekers Stand Aside. Boston Advertiser., Independents who are troubled lest Gen eral Harrison may follow the practice if not the programme of the man of their choice will find some reassurance in the columns of the Indianapolis Journal. The editor of this republican paper is as likely as any one now speculating to know the intent of the coming administration. It warns officescelcers that it will be best for th hands off the president-elect, and declares that “tho tenure-of-office law and th vil service law must be observed in spirit as well as letter.” Those who are expecting “‘sweeping remov- als," it says, “will likoly bo disappointed.” This assurance is directly in line with our belief before expressed. The new adminis- tration will go in with less flourish of profes- sion, but if it does not go out with a better show of practice we shall be mistaken and isuppointed. PROMI T PERSONS. Prosident Patton. of Princoton, has never become a citizen of this country. Tennyson is slowly recovering from his at- tack of rheumatic fever, but his physicians arc apprehensive of a poetical outbreak. Jeneral Harrison’s daughter, Mrs. McKee, confesses that she, is a great talker, a trait which she inherits from her father. Her friends suy her talk is always sensible. Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain is a direct des- cendant in the tenth generation from John Endicott, first governor of Massachusetts Buy—the same who cut the red cross from the English flag. ‘e statue of Jamos A. placed in Lakeview cemctery, will be of marble, of heroic $ize, and will represent him in the act of addressing con- gress. It1s to be completed and unveiled m June next. To set at rest stories _that are now then rehiearsed as to Vendi's avarice i worth while noticeing that he has just built 4 hospital in the commune of Villanova d'Arda and endowed it with an avnual in- come of 7,200 lire, or #1,400. The Marquis of Qucensberry has great hopes of tho pugilistic future of this country. Hesuys that if our prize fighters never touched liquor thoy would be invinetble, "This is pleasant to hear while Matthew Ar- nold’s sharp criticisms are still ringing in our cars. The iarficld, to be Cleveland, tev. J. W. Scott, Mrs. General Har- rison’s father, lives in Washington, and upon Sunday is always found ocunying his pow in the Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian,) While General Harrison was senatorhe tended that church, and it is likely will do so as president.. Charles Reynolds, the star cateher of tho Western Base Ball association, 1s teachig the village school of Shefiield, a suburb of Kansas City, on the Independence & Park railway. Heis a great favorite with the children, and seems to have an especial knack of mtoresting the little folks and of making them tell what they know. ND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. A lecture association is to be ory the winter at Fremont. Injunctions are hindering the progress of paving and curbing at Beatrice. Rev. W. W. Harsha was ins! d as pas- tor of the Presbyterian church, at Tecumseh, Thursday evening. The ladies of Tecumseh will give a farewell e ball before the close of 1885, and hat good results will follow. A Plum Creek bourbon has taken a solemn oath not to touch a drop of intoxicants uutil the democrats elect another president, Ono of Norden’s business men lost a bunch of pigs on the election. His wife, who won them, will wear dismonds when the drove is marketed. The foreman of the sewer works at Ne. braska City fell into one of his own trenches and was rescued, but with a broken leg and many serious bruises, The editor of the Ulysses Herald hisinfant daughter Frances Folsom Cleve- land Price, and immediately informed the president’s wife of the honor he had con- ferred upon her. The lady has just returned ner thanks by letter, accompanied by her photograph. Prof, George R, Chatburn and Miss Mary Safford, teachers in the Plattsmouth public schools, have been arrested and bound ove for trial on the charge of assault and battery, They had inflicted corporal punishment on the refractory son of Mr. Woodson, a hotel- keeper, who caused the action to be taken. The quickest work Cupid ever did in Greeley county hus just resulted in the mar riage of James P, Ferguson and Mrs, Laura Brown. Ferguson and the charming widow met for the first time av a dance, fell head over heols in love with each other, and in just eight days they were bound together by @ justice of the peace. The generally accepted belief that a twi heifer would not breed has proven false b, J. 8. Harman, a Johuoson L'Amn'f' farme His Jersey cow gave birth to & male and fe- male calf in 1885, and again in 1836, the first pair being half blood Jerseys and the latter full blood Jerseys. The heifer of 1835 would not breed but the one of 1536 gave birth to a calf aud is at prosent giving a large quanity of wilk. A very brilliant meteor, which made its appearance with a “‘mufiied sound,” is re- turlud to hove startled the residents of Scotia by the Herald of that place, At first the brilliant nocwurnal visitor was a perfoct sphere about the size of the woon, but as it traveled ou it assumed & funnel shape, grad- ually lengtheulng out until it formed @ very long and sparkling tail. Thus it continued for about five minutes, and then dissipated in @ flood of sparks like the explosion of & sky- rocket. There was great excitement at Valparaiso Wednesday when it became kuown that F, A. Booville and Goorge A. Crafts, the bank- ers, had failed and ‘ sconded with all the available cash of the bauk and a large num- ber of deposits, Yesterday they took a Lvery STATE anized for named toam and stated that they were going to the country to look at some land and have not boen seen sinco. 1t is ramored that Scoville cashied the water works bonds of Valparaiso and pocketed the proceeds, On Monday Sco. ville sceured an advance of $1,000 from & Lincoln firm of grain puyers, reprosenting that he had several car loads of grain ready for shipmont, He afterwards secured an ad vauce from Himebaugh & Merriamof Omaha C. W. Sanford, ono of the wealthiest Wahoo capitalists, will probably lose several thou sand dollars, It is reported that the real te of the firm is so heavily encumbered it will be dificnlt for the creditors to realize anything. towa, The mayor of Monticello was arrested in Chicago the other day for being drunk, but was discharged without a fine. By action of the executive council the old stute capitol is to be sold on the 30th of the morth to the highest bidder, all bids to be sealed A Codur Rapids doctor promised his wife to have all his testh pulled in the ovent of Harrison's election, He his word and is now qnite harmless and may be handled with impunity by any of the members of the family The Keokuk man who jokingly wagered his wife agminst a single gentieman's gold watch, that. Cleveland would be victorious, is applied by the disco that his wife is anxious and ready to fulfill the conditions of the bet A good one is told on a Cieston preacher who worked all day at the poils for the third party ticket and got so interested that he for- wot (o vote himself, and the official count siiowed that not o single third party vote was cast in the precinct At a depta of fourteen feot below tho sur face, near Downey, the skeleton of a woman was’ found a fow ' days ago. The skeleton was in a sitting position, and around the neck was a string of beads upparently of gold Around cach arm above the elbow was an ornament. Some vessels and otner curious things were jound. These discoveries were made on the farm of A. Bradlaw. The Towa Improved Stock Breederr' asso- ciation meets in lowa City on Wednesday, December b, and will remain in_session for three days, holding its mectings in the opera house. The Hon. John McHugh is president of the association, The Short Horn Breed- ers’ and State Draft Horse associations, Jer- sey Cattle club and lowa Swine Breedors® as- socintion will hold their mectings thero at the same time. The Great Northwest, There is not a single church spire in Pucblo, Colo. uccossful Methodist progress at Laramie, Wyo. A party of railrond surveyors at work between Portland, Ore., couver for two woeks. They are as to the object of their work. ank P, Beslin, the blind editor, has been compelied to suspend the pub- lication of the Advauce, at Carbondale, Colo. Mr. Beslin intends to lecture throughout the state this winter. The strike of silver chloride on Lake Pend A'Oreille, opposite Hope station, W. T., promises’ to be a very important one and adds another tributary mining district to the many that surround Spokane Falls, A curious coincidence occurred in Free- port, W. T., on the morning aftor electioh. Three coons were killed on a hickory tree (the only one in the country). As coons and hickory trees were campaign devices of the old Harrison campaign, the incident was rather remarkable. The boys at Pasco, W. T, have been ex- perimenting trolling for salmon in the Colum- bia river with the biggest kind of success. A competition took place about a week ago, and by evening the first boat scored 13, soo- ond 10. ince then no less than 235 have been taken by trolling. Martin Brown, who robbed the Montana Central ticket oftice in Helena, was found guilty and sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary. While being led from the court room he had a lively tussel with the deputy sheriffs and it took three of them to put him in the county jail. The postmaster at Silver Peck, Esmeralda county, Nevada, was shot and killed by Frank McTigue because the postmaster would not give McTigue a letter addressed to Frank McTigue, the latter being the true name of the applicant, though he was kunown as Pol- lard at the camp, Pollard being his step- father, fAWilliam J. Martin, who Reardon at Anaconda, Mont., last February and about whose pursuit and capture ther was so much ado, was acquitted by the jur who tried his o at Butte. The most im- portant part of his defense was that Reardon haa previously insulted and attempted to outrage Martin's wife, The judge expressed surprise at the acquitial, Editors have their troubles even in Wash- ington territory. The Rosalin RRustier says: “While engaged m our sanctum preparing an editorial on a favorite topic one day last week, one of Dave Anderson’s razor-back hogs came to the rear of our oflice and began rubbing his back against the corner of the building. We wore obliged to lay down our pen, erawl on our hands and knees to the offending porker and welt hun on the side with a column rule. This interrupted our train of thought, and our editorial was not what we would wish it.” e FIRST WARD DEMOCRATS. Lowery Renominated By Acclamation —Considerable Dissatisfaction Ex- pressed. The First Ward Democratic club met last night at engine house No. 4, corner of Dorcas and Eloventh strects, for the purpose of placing in nomination a councilman, Mr. M. Donovan called the meeting to order, After considerable discussion the following were namod: Tracy, Lowery, King and Theilgaarth Before the balloting began Mr. Hoban moved that the nomination of Mr. Lowery be made unanimous. ‘T'his being out of or- der was voted down, and a ballot ordered, resulting in Lowery 51 votes, Ring 5, The nowination of Lowery was finally made unanimous upon the motion of Mr. Thomus Guule. I said that considerable d tisfaction was caused caused by the appearance of many men who took part in the proceedings who were not residents of the ward. revival is in ve been and Van- very ro- killed Patrick Primaries Next Tuesday. A mecting of the republican eity central committee was hield yestorday afternoon at the council chamber, with Dave Mercer as pro siding officer. It was decided to hold the various primaries noxt Tuesday from 1 Gl 7 p.m. The primaries of the various wards will be held at the following places First Ward—Northeast corner Tenth Mason. Sccond—McShane's Wigwam, Picrce and Williams, on Sixteenth Thard-Third ward republican headquar ters, 215 South Eleventh Pourth—Southicast corner Sixteenth Parnam. Fifth--Engine house No. 6. ity-sixth and Lake. Park house, 2403 Cumi Ninth—Tiwenty-ninth Omaha Elks Visit the Capital, With Engineer Roberts at the throttle lo- comotive 203 pulled out of the 13, & M. depot last night carrying behind her, amongst her other passengers, s merry crowd of Elks, belonging to Omaha lodge, who were bound for Lincoln to pay @ visit to their brethern there. The 13, P O. K%, are celebrated for their social disposition and the invitation from Lincoln was readily taken advantage of by the memb: 0. 89. Lincoln lodge hoid o social session to-night, in honor of the Elks of this city. A portion of the dele wution went down 10 Lincoln early yestorday afternoon; a following them [ast night i Judge Shiolds, 1. M. Bardett, Dr. W. C. Hulett, W. D, orth, W. M. Thom- and between and nd Farnam. were Barnsdall, Chet Hulett Dunmett, G, M. Farns! sou, H. 1i. Stoddart, E. B, Stoddart, 1. W, Miner, Ed Larkin, Hecch Taylor, Jim Pres: ton, W. H. Alexander, H. k. Birkew, H, Mubtefe W. Koenlg, H. Balch, C. I Goafrey, C.'S. Waituey, — Moody and M- Gilton, C— A Splendid Report. Under this heading, the Kansas City Times speaks of Colonel Heury's target report as most interesting document. “Colonel Henry,” it says, *has given rifle practice a caveful study, hence his views upon this sub- ject always sccure the cousideration whick this important pari of a soldier's duty de- serves,t | C., 18 supposed 14 cor CURRENT TOPIOS, The paragraphist sportively plaging on Mr. Clevotand's belief in his luck is in the habit of accusing him of the off hind pocket @ among his the colored men cock coat f Washington, D rtune and to pre vent any skittishness on the part of her hu morous ladyship, white men who ihis There ave many e belief in charms o¢ 1luck. Oneof the rry in purse or pocket a though requisito is simply have a sim tetichios for procuring go most comu coin battered out 10n 18 10 ¢ sfall recognition, many hold that the great a piece of moncy not current. There was time when this idea was all but universal in England, and children were carofully pro vided with lucky pieces by fond parents Sometimes the mother sewed the coin in a little bag and strung it around her darling's nock. The sporting mania in the east h developed the fact that racing men whenover they meet a humpback touch his back for luck. Thisalso can be traced to English sources, for during the South Sea bubble a hunchiback used to present his back as a lucky desk on which to write orders for stock in the thousand aud one companics that were created. But the AL supor- stition was disclosed recently in Rawlins, & flourishing city of Wyoming territory, the center of its wool trade, There was a hang {ng recently in that place, and after the body had been cut down a number of women asked permission to touch the hands of the dead desperado, *just for luck.” This is abso- lutely new, and shows that we have somo ideas of our own in the great northwost. st sing Every dog has his day, but Bob Ingersoll's day scems to have gone by, Ever since he rained the chances of General Grosham for the presidential nomination by his absurd speceh at the Chicago convention he has been relegated to political obscurity, Ile proved on that occasion that he could not guage his audience s all true orators should. The friends of Gresham were all of the re- form stripe, and reformers are not men to accept mush and molasses pancgyrics for the utterances of a thinker upon questions of statocraft, His landations of their idol grated because between the lines it was clear that he did not understand either Gresham or his aims. His insulting reference to Thur- man were most unpopular because the r formers are deeply grateful to the old Roman for his efforts to obtain the restoration of forfeited land grants from Irond robbers, The old veteran democrat has shown th has lost his grip, and hasnot impi thinking men favorably by his recent utter- ances, but hie has done well in his day, and throwing stones at him is poor occupation for men who profess tolove thew country. Chairman Quay’s suppression of Robert In- gersoll is one of the many proofs that the cause of republicanism was confided to ablo hands. TIngersoll deeply resents the idea that he has beeu sat upon, but if he could sce himself with the eyes of others he would feel as flat as a pancake, W Railroad men are agreed that the system of payment to locomotive engincers and fire men is a wrong one and is at the bottom of any railroad accidents. The men are paid so much per mile and the engmeer is allowod to run his engino as far as Lie jossibly can. Ten years ago a locomo- tive engincer thought he was making big money when he ran 3,5% miles per month, but now there are not a few who average over 6,000 per month. Whenever there is a rush of business men have made a full month in ten days, but only by taking big risks and trusting to everything going smoothly. Under such a strain a man's oyes see with- out observing and a man’s ears hear without comprehending, for the organs ouly operate mechanically and the tired brain will not act. This is why therc is afier every accident such a confusion of testimony as to the show- ing of signals. Neither the engineer nor the driver sce the signal, not because the red flag is not waved, but because they are so tired that their senses only note what they expect to sces and hear and all other things are disregarded. These men ought to be paid by the month without any regard to mileage and if such a reform were insisted upon by a united press speaking in the interest of the public safety the companies might be com pelled to make the change. Some discussion has been entercd upon with regard to the dollar mark. ‘Phere 1s no question that it comes from the Spanish dol. lar, and that with them it was a reference to the pillars of Hereules, which he was sup posed to have set up at Calpe as a sign that beyond was the miguty occan, and that man could go o further than these pitlars. The Spaniards triumphing in the new world which they had gained from Christopher Co- lumbus, placed upon their Mexican dollars these pillars as sign that they had gono be yond the confines of the old world. All this is conceded, but the discussion is upon the wmeaning which the Phanicians gave to these cmblematic pillars. The autiientic story that Hercules burst open the mountain ridge that separated the Atlantic from the Mediterra nean is obyiously a myth, attributing to the Phamician god a change wrought by a cata clym, which may have been local or may have been But in no case could the pillars refer to this geographic by which the Western Medite was formod, that afterwards slowly united itself with the Levant or Bastern Mediterranean, For the pil lurs are obviously a symbol of a Kabirer trind, and by themselves arc partly meanin, less. They arc found in Tyre upou coms, and in Carthage upon coins, and from the other symbols 1t 1s clear that there were two Hercules, who were the champion gods of those who worshipped the sacred tree, which is thought to be a symbol of infinite and to have the same meuning the winged globe. The two pil- and invariably in the coins on cach side of a temple, or of a conical stor associated with the worship of Astoreth, Astoretli is the same as the sacred tee, and if this symbol is tantamount to the winged globe, then the two pillars are the same ag the two serpents on cach sido of that sym bol. This would explain that Tyrian coir which bas on its obverse a tree around which a sorpent is coiled, and it would also explain the caduceses, the rod around which two serpents are entwined. On the Etruscan tombs the two Hercules ave generally painted on each side of the entrance, one with a liow's skin and club, the other witna goat skin and club, Little is known of the secrct vites of Samothrace, where the kabirl were worshipped, but we do know that one He les was typified by a white goat and the otk by a black goat. It is conjestured that Cas tor und Pollux represent the two kabiric Hereules of Itallan mythology, but the sub- ject 18 wrapped in great obscurity. What adds to this is the perplexing fact pointed out by Ignatius Donnelly, that in the Mexican museum is a large bronze coiv similar to the “Tyrian one in some respects. Thers is cer- tainly a tree witl a serpent twined around it This would lead to the extraordinary de- duction that Tyrian art was derived either frow the Mayus or the Talotecs of this conti- nent cosmical love, A physician who iwakes a specialty of phtbisis and allied maladies has come to the couclusion that the only absolutely safe re sort for consumptives is in warm regions that are below the level of the se There wre two suoh blissful places In California, one of them is in San Diego county, about 100 miles east of Los Angeles, and the other is i Sas Beruardivo county, in the delight- arrying a rabbits foot in | ful desort of the dead, the famous Arroyd del Muerto so terrible to the immigrants to California_in 49 who took the southern trail. The San Felipe Sink in San Diego county is by 30 miles broad, and is 860 | foet below sca level, At presont it is chiefly habited Coluila Tadians, who make 1t somewhat undesirable for the rheumutics nd the consumptives who go there in tents ing partics, Tho medical mau in question me 1o the conclusion that the air was in reality singularly Phthis. ical complaints. In the first place it was dry, and in the second place it was compressed into the lungs by ate mosph o, which must ba consid epth below the level of tho ) patients have so far testod the other placo called the Amorgosa sink, which is 23 feet below sea lovel, but the air is much hotter than in the San Felipe sink. At pro. sent the contignous regions barren and desert, but San Bernardino will bo built up ina very short time, for it isa wonderful fruit regio ti8 most picturesque along: the San Hernardino range, It has bosn styled the Granada of America, und it only wants an Alhambra palace and Vermillion towers to merit the name thoroughly When it is considered that Mlorida sud Colorado navo been provod to be of 1o beneflt to cone sumptives, and that thousands die yearly who have wealth and montal energy, oud in many cases culture and high attainments, it seems a pity that o knowledge of these sinks should not be spread abroad, so that thoss whose lives are now doomed might build up these places and find happiness and longevity in the work, Their descendants might prove 10 be among the healthiest of Amorica, eficaccous in c prossu erable at such a are an W Mr. W. J. Barnall claims to have succeeded in squaring the circle, *‘His formula consists of cight figures, which in a concrete shapo form a perfect cyclometer.” What this means let him declare who kuows! It secms to b tray an absolute ignorance of the prablem of the quadrature of the circle. Practically, or “eoneretely” there is not a particle of difi- culty in drawing on a plane a square which shall measure the same as a given eire But mathematically it is impossible 1o do it, for the diameter of the civcle is not oxactly 8 third of the circumfercnces, although nearly so. This proposition of the diamoter t the circumference involves a fraction, wufln is apparently interminable, and tho problem of late years has been to work it out as far as possible. 1t Lus been carried to a fraction of one hundred and forty-six figures, and the text mathematical maniac who tries it will no doubt carry it fifteen or sixtoen figures further, t Bonrd. what Mr. Balcombo thinks is wanted for the board of publia works,”" said a_taxpayer, “but he omitted one thing that Ithink is important. In all large citics the board of public works is a department in itself. Ttis held responsible for the acts of its members, but it has power to employ competent men or discharge in- competent ones, It is, as far as possible, ine dependent of outside ward or political influ ence, and has charge of works of all kind that are for the public good. In Omaba it is only a burean. on a par with the bureau of “Iread in Tur Brr strect inspecting, plumbing and similar works. Tho city engincer is noither at tho head of it, nor controlied by the acknowl- edged head, and, in fact, it's like the house divided against itself. T don't mean anything personal by that. Then agan, it's supposed to be under the control of the council 80 far 08 patronage is concerned, and it only re- quires a vote of the council to secure un_in- competent man_ a position or reinstate him when discharged, as 1 have known done. Under the prescnt system, the responsible head, and even the m only be considered as an eminent citizon, capable of advising or suggesting what should be done. Now, if the legistature really wishes to benefit the public works of the city, 1t should make some amendment to the charter that would create a board of works independent of all outside influence, except so far as to allow the council to indi- cate what work should be dono and restrict the expenditure to the proper bounds. r own good sense will probably doviso some method, if they only give the question due attention.” ——— Mr. W. H. Alexander's Card. Oyana, Neb., Nov. 19.—Colonel Henry C. Akin, prosident of the Seventh Ward Repub- lican club, and chairman of the city central committee delegation—Dear Sir: At the ro- cent caucus, beld at the club house in Hans- com park, and called, I believe, very largely in the interest of the Second precinct, there was brought into prominence an intense de- sire on the part of citizons in that locality to have the next ward counciiman sclected from that district. It was argued, and with a great deal of consistency, that inasmuch as the First precinet has now three councilmen, living near together, and numerous other officials, this courtesy should bo willingly onceded. A great majority of the Soventh ward republicans are residents of the First precinet, and theie generally expressed sen- timents are in favor of my return to the council 1t would seem reasonably cortain, there- fore, that the nominations could be secured atthe primarics. But, while Tam gratified to know that this ecucrous endorsement would be given me, Tam cqualled pleased De lieved that all these friends and supporters will cheerfully join me in recognizing tho justice of the'claim for local representition that comes with sucl earnestness from the citizens in the other precinet of our ward, Having the intorest of all o people at heart, Tam willing to waive my personal advantago in the matter and withdraw from the fiold in favor of the gentleman whom the Second dis- trict have sought to put in nomination, [ ve little personal acquaintunce with Mr, but am_suicientiy informed tol the will faithfully and creditably represent us in tl Let mo say further, before closing this lot- terof withdr w deeply grateful ssions of w and commendi- ofiicial course, which have come 10 me from all sections of our splendid wird, and 1 sincerely hope thul nothing muy ever ariso to jeopardize the hurmony or dostroy thie republican prestige which “are likely to follow this eloction. Please convey the sen- timent of this letter to whom it may concern, Cordialiy yours. W. H, ALEXANDER, Political Notes. D. H. Wheeler, president of the Fourth Ward IRepublican elub, has called a inceting of the elub for this evening, the same Lo be held in the oflee of Justice Auderson on Farnam street. 16 is_callod for the purpose of nominating a candidate for councilman from that ward. The First ward republicans will moet at Forest hall, corner of Sixth and Iierce streets, tomght, Matters pertaining to the coming local campaign will be discussed tral committeo 1 and 8¢ d W from 5107 p. m., a8 The democratic ity ¢ Wednesday afternoon nesday, Novembor the tim or holding w AUCUSES, Al democrats of the Seventh ward quested to moet in caucus at the 1% Saturday evening at 5 o'clock “The Sixth ward republican club will hold a regular meeting at their headquartors, Twenty-sixth and Lake, this evening A full attendance is requircd, as the mattor of ward councilmen will como up. (. 8, Benawa says the statement that all the councilmane candidates in the Ninth ward had withdraw 15 unfounded, as ho has declured himself a caudidate for the tion. aro re. < house, posis - Add 20 drops of Angostura Bitters to every glass of impure er you drink, The genuine only manufactured by Dr. Slegert & Sons, P A Oatholic Prelate Dead, PHirADELPIIA, NOV. he Very Rev. Maurice A. Walsh, pastor of 8t. Paul's Ro- maun Catholic church, and viear-general of the arch-diocese of Philadelphia, died at his renidenco early this morning of Bright's dis- ease of the kidnoys and blood poisoning,after an (llness of six weeks, He was hifty-five yoars old.