Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1888 THE DAILY BEE., PUBLISHED EV 1Y MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Datly Morning Eaition) Including SUSpAY 11k, One Yenr {‘!‘V\. nthis t Three Months M it J T OManA SUNDAY BEE, Tiadled 10 &b #ddress, One Year 20 WEEKLY liEF me Year. 200 OUAHAOFFICENOS ST ANDUIE FARNAM STREET CRICAGD OFFICE 95 ROOKERY BUILDING. NEW YORK Orrice, Rooms 14 AND 16 TRIBUNE BUILDING WasHINGTON OFFICE, No. 013 FOURTERNTH STREET, CORRESPONDENCE Allcommunicatio Inting tonews and edl- torfal matter should be addressed to the EpiTor OF T RUSINESS LETTERS, ness lettars and Femitiances should be 110 Tik BEE PUBLISIING CONPANY Dratts, chocks and postofice orders t order of the company $10 0 500 v 5 ATl by add O i e miadi payable to th e Bee Pnhlisnmi Company, Proprictors. B, ROSEWATER, Editor. DALY BEE, culation. Btuteof Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | %% George . Tzschuck, s Hshing Company, does so al circulation of 7 ending Novenil Kunda, V.18 H dati ot JIK800 Monday, Nov. 14 SRR % 1] Toesdny, Noy. 2) Wedneaday, tary ot The Hea Pub- ¢ swear that the BEE for the 18 15155 hursday, L A0 L) Friday, Nov. Baturday, N Average. ... . voien W IR0 i Ok, and ibed In my presence this 2ith day of Novemoer A, D, 1838, Seal NP, FEIL, Notary Public. tate of Nebraska, | ‘ounty of Dougias, \f orae 1, Tzsclnick, Doing duly sworn, de. hoxes and says that o js secrotary of the Boe bublisting company, that the actual averags Qally circulation of THE DALY Bk for th motith of November, 1887, was | December, 1857, 1 1,200 copits; for February, fer March, 183, 19,650 coples 18,744 coples; for May, tne, 183, {0243 copl copless for' Angust, 1588, 15183 copies; for Sep- Tetnber, 188, 1517 r October, 186, wag T5,088 copres. 0. 18, T78( worn to _befora me and snbse 1855, 2 for "April, 15888 181 copie diily, 1835, 1 OMAIA nts a good citizen, not a good republican or democrat, in the couneil, 3 Tur Parnell commission, like the West Virginia board of canvassers, ap- pears to be in no hurry to make its r port. PAPILLION wants the Union Pacific to extend itssuburban line to that town. The time is near at hand when Papillion wiil be made a fashionable suburb of Omaha. Tre National Yeljowstone park is suid 1o be infested with ferocious wild animals. Is it there that the defeated demoerats in the late election took up their abode when they took to the woods? THE cheap excursions inaugurated between Missouri river points and Den- ver have induced several thousand fo- ple to it Colorado this week. Thi will give Denver an opportunity to issue an enlavged new city divectory TiE jute bagging trust, which started out in high feather to control the mar- ket fov furnishing the covering for cot- ton bales, is seriously in danger of going to pieces January 1. The fute of this trust is a fair warning of what is liable 1o happen to other combines formed for the purpose of enhancing prices un- justly. WHEN a man is tried in a position of public trust and found wanting, he is not to be trusted agnin. When Joe tedman was in the council he trained with, Barney Shannon, Hascall, Slaven & Co., in the Hoily job and in every other job in which hoodlerswere pooled against the taxpayers The people never have trusted Redman since, and they never will, no matter what his pledges are. His Jefferson square clat- tor is good enough for thoso who are willing to reinforce the boodlers in the council, but the reputable citizens of the Fifth ward will take no stock in Joe Redman, Tue taxpayers'and decent element of Omwaha deserve no sympathy if boodlers and catspaws are elected to the council, The honest citizen, who should have made himself promindnt at the prima- rles, was conspicuous by his absence and indifference to the selection of can* didate The contractors ahd ward pol- iticians, with but few exceptions, had the primavies to themselves and they made the best of their opportunity. At no time in the history of Omaha were clection frauds so openly and recklessly carried on. The question is, will the tuxpay and the honest citizens of the vespective wards stand idly by on clec- tion day and let the stums of the city do the repeating? — ‘M1 development of the asphaltum deposits of Colorado, soon to be under- ken, will add an important industry to the resources of that state. Asphal- {uin, or mineral piteh, used principally for street puving, has become a valua- ble article of commerce. At present it 15 brought at considerable expense from the island of Trinidad, near the mouth of the Orinoco viver in South Amecrica. The importance, thevefove, of having this asphaltum deposit so close at hapd insures at once cheanness and an im- petus to ext®hd the fleld of its utility The only deawback to the immediate dbvelopment of the Colorado denosits appears to be thelr romotenoss from the railronds. An effort is being made to build a road to these pitch deposits which is likely to be accomplished within a short time. CANADA sots a good example which could be followed with advantage by the Unted States, The Dominion govern- ment proposes to prevent food adulter- ations within Canadian territory, and Las instituted orin procedure agunst & number of munufacturers, Of one thousand samples of food products xamined one-fourth were adulterated. Itis claimod that the adulterationsa year ago in these products were fully iifty per cent, showing that a deter- mined movement in this direction has met with success, If Canada extends ler laws so as to' exclude American adulterations from erossing her borders, nanufacturvers of food products in this country will, for their own protection, improve the quality of their exports. Bosides, it is more than likely that co gress, bofore long, will co-operate with Cunada Lo stamping outadylterations in tho neoessaries of life, THE TERRITORIAL QUESTION, If Mr. Springor, chairman of the houss committee on territories, correctly re- flects demoeratic desire and intention, atives of that party in con- gress will insist upon the Springer ter- ritorial omnibus bill which inclu New Mexico, and proposes the admis- sion of Dakota as one state. Tt is also reported that Mr. Randall thinks the democrats should insist upon admitting Utah. If these views shall prevail with the majority of the present houso there will ecrtainly be no legislation at the coming session ndmitting to statehood the territorios that are ready for ad- mission, It is not at all probable that any circumstances the republicans will consent to the admission of New Mex- ico, ana Utah is undoubtedly ouf of the question. As to the former territory, while it is claimed to have a population of one hundred and seventy-five thous- and, or about as numerous as that of Washington territory, theve is a very wide differencein the character of the population of the two tervitories. Mora than half of the people of New Mexico are unfitted to cxercise the vight of citizenship under state government. They know , littie and care about our political institutions, they do not readily assimilate with other clusses of people, most of them are wholly wanting in the qualitics that make law-respecting and useful citizens, and given the power to carry into effeet their natural instinets would bring about such a condition of corruption and lawlessness as the country has neveryet witnessed. Though not without ve sources to attract population, New Mexico has made slower growth than most of the other tervitorvies, and in respect of its educational and other moval ageneiesis at the foot of the list, Under the most favorable conditions to be expected it will probably be ten years before this territory will have the requirements for admission to statehood. With re- gard to Utah the objection is well un- derstood, and it is not doubted that it will be found insurmountable. he anti-Mormon population of the tervitory donot wunt statehood umder present conditions, nnd. unguestionably, their wish in the matter will be regarded. Whether justly or not, there is a gen- eral lack of confidence in Mormon promises of good faith respecting the exclusion of polygamy, in the event of the territory being admitted, and we do not believe this feeling can be over- come. Furthermore, the republican policy is to make two states out of Dalkota, and there is not the slightest probability that this will be changed. It is in accordance with the desire of the people of the territory, it is de- fensible on other grounds, and it will unquestionably be adhered to. If, therefore, the programme of Mr. Springer, with the addition proposed by Mr. Randall, shall be insisted uvon by the democrats of the present congross, it is inevitable that there will be no legislation at the coming session for aa- mitting any of the territorvies to state- hood. In view of this the probability of an extra session of the next congress becomes much stronger, and the sug- gestion of a combined effort by the peo- ple of the eligible territories in favor of an extra session receives increased force. the represen under less THE BANKS IN CONGRESS. -~ The bank question islikely to be among the foremost that will command the at- tentiéh of congress at the coming ses sion. There is good authority for say- ing that various novel measures of re form will be proposed, but while there may not be any very important legisla- tion, there is reason to expect good re- sults from the considevation that will be given the question. The most vital matter velates to a provision for a new basis for bank circulation. The high price of the government bonds now re- quired to secure culation has raised them beyond the reach of many of the banks, and not only wiil the number of new banks be curtailed while these bonds must be used, but many existing banks may find it expedient, on the score of profit, to surrender a part at least of their civeu- lation and realize on the bonds. It is urged that the yearly growth of the banking business is not equal to the wauts of the country, and what is sought of congress is legislation that will stim- ulate the growth of the business on a basis that will not be less secure than at present. This subjeed received very thorough discussion in the last annual report of the comptroller of eurrency who found the problem one of great difli- culties. The question also reccived some consideration at the last session of congress, and several measures reluting to it were introduced. The necessity of a neéw basis was quite generally recog- nized, though some of those who spok on the question, notably Senator She™ man, did not regard the necessity immediately urgent. The great difli- culty encountered, however, relates to what shall constitute the new basis, re- garding which there have been nu- merous suggestions, most of them wholly inadmissible, There is ve strong objection - to issuing now government bouds solely as @ basis of wmational bank circula~ tion, and thera is still more sevious objection to the proposi- tion, contained in a bill introduced in the senate and approved by some bank- ers, to make real estate mortguges a busis of cireulation. " There is no very great diversity of opinion as to the desivability of main- taining the nutional bauking system, with such reforms as experience hus shown to be required. It 1s confessedly the best system in the world, affording an absolutely safe curvency, and giving ageneral financiul stability and secur- ity necessary to steady progress and prosperity. It bas an assured continu- ance for some years on the present bagis, but a discussion of plans for the future is not now untimely, if for no other reason than to enlighten public opinion and ascertan popular senti- meut. . —— TnE next uational census should be taken with greater care and accuracy than was the last, and in order that this muy be done there must be earlier pro- yas vision for it. The act of congress pro- viding for taking the tenth census was not passed until March 3, 1879, thus al- lowing only about a year for perfectin the plans and arrangements required for the vast work., The result was that the statistics supplied by the census were not all that the country desived or needed. The fietd covered was suf- ficiently comprehensive, but the work was not thorough, and many inaccura- cies have been pointed out which throw the whole mass of statistics into discredit. Had there been more time for perfecting * the plans much of this would undoubtedly have been avoided, and the tenth cen- sus would not have fallen into disrepute. It goes without saying that sta- tistics to have any must bo ¢ s nearly as possible 1to accomplish this it is necessary that the vangements should all be compieted in advance of the time for beginning the taking of swatistics. Otherwise there is certain to be more or con- fusion obstructive and injurious in its effect. The census of 1890 will involve more labor and skill than the last one, and there should be more time given to prepare for it. Congress should attend to this important matter early in the sossion, and we believe there is a’ bill now in the hands of the proper com- mittee making provision for the next census. tensis valu TiE superiority of a vestibulo train over the ordinary passenger train put to a severe test in®the recent col- lision in Colorado between a passenger train on’ the Denver & Rio Grande and a vestibule train of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacitic. The former train was derailed, several coaches were burned by overturned stoves, and passen were injured. The latter did not leave the track and the passengers escaped with only a shaking up. The for this are obvious. The vestibule sys- tem of coupling cars neutralizes the shock of collision and prevents the dis- asters of telescoping. Moreover, heat- ing the vestibule teain by steam sup- plicd by the engine prevents the possi- bility of fire due to the deadly carstove. It is obvious therefore that the vestibule train has advantages which both rail- roads and the traveling public ave quick to recognize, and it is quite evident that the vestibule system has come to stay. was ors reasons THE presence of large Mormon set- tlements in Idaho and Wyoming, it is fearved, will embarrs those territo- vies when théy apply for admission into the sisterhood of states. Iduho especially has a large Mormon popula- tion in several of the southern coun- ties, which, if admitted to citizenship, will control the election of a congre: man and may hold the balance of power in the legislature. It is true the Mor- mous have been disfranchised in Idaho by a territorial law, but the constitu- tionality of the aet is scriously ques- tioned. Wyoming likewise has a grow- ing Mormon populution, which is likely to wield a strong political influence. In view of the attitude of congress toward Utah, the presence of large settlements of Mormons in Idaho and Wyoming is a phase of the Mormon question not counted upon, and likely to give con- aress considerable trouble in admitting these territories. AT THE primaries of the Fi ward for the nomination of a councilman, the voting was as follows: Total vote for republican candidates. ... 191 Total vote for democratic candidates. ...1,565 At the presidential election Novem- ber 6 the three districts of the First ward cast the following vote for each of the presidential electors: Total vote for each of the republican presidential electors. . ... S 00 Total vote for each of the democratic Dresidential electors........... 1,544 From this statement it appears that morve votes were cast ag.the democratic primaries of the First ward for council- man than were cast for Grover Cley land at an exciting presidential elec- tion. On the facoof it, therefore, the most bave-faced frauds ever perpetrated at the polls of Omaha were openly car- ried on at the Fivst ward democratic primaries. What do the respectable democrats say to that? 1 opinion of railvoad men scems to be that the great road—on paper—between Salt Lake City and Sioux City is only a bluff, and will never be built, 1t is difficult to see why it should be. Sioux €ity is making re- markable progress, and there is a fine bridge over the river at that point, but why a road should be built from it to Salt Lake City is a conundrum that no man can find out. Tue gene How quickly our citizens resent the outrage if a thicf comes into their houses and filches o trifle. But how indifferent our taxpayers are to the se- leetion of a boodler to the city council who robs them without merey. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS The breeding stables of the Russian em- pire in making their annual report have made many general swatemeuts about the horses of Russia which are decidedly interesting to military men, The weakness of old coun- tries is invariably in cavalry because land has a tendency to become devoted exclu- 10 tillage, and borticulture in all its branchos, $0 that the pastures and the warsh lands dis appear, and borsebreeding with them. France in spite of the resources offercd by Algeriais never really neady for war b cause of insuficient horses for the cavalr, and horso artillery, Russia is now the ally of I'rance and could help her out of her di- lenuma very easily, for there are no less than 1,000,000 of horses within the bounds of the empire. Russia has actually unlimited cav alry, and has massed on the frontiers of Aus- tria, more than one hundred thousand cay- wleymen, the most tremendous mounted force that the world has known since the days of Attilaand his Huns. As the ten- dency of modern warfare is clearly in the lines tirst developed by Phil Sheridan cav- alry instead of bocoming obsolete, are more aud wore necessitated, Their duty js to d. stroy railvoad lines of communication, to cut off magazines, L0 take possession in adyance of important strategic points, and to cover all movements by incessant action along the frant, Russia's cavalry are evidently in- tended to cover the advance of the four hun dred thousand men massed against Galicia, waiting for a signal that will come from the palace of Loo where the king of Holland is dywng of old age. 5 w*e The German emperor was received with loud acclamations in Italy, because the Italians conslder the Germans their best, perhaps their only allies, ' So long as he was within the bounds of their country every- thing that was reported of the illustrious guest was in terms of high approv But after his departure the Ttalians, and partiou larly the Romans, spoke of him % their au cestors might have spoken of Alaric when he was still g auxillary of the Eternal city. They declared him to be a rude, blunt sol dier, very rude and painfully blunt. He would not speak to any of the forcign am- bassadors at thoycourt of King Humberto, neither would he address a word to the pres ident of the itafian_chambers when he was presonted to hirg. This was particularly un fortunate, accorfling to the Diritto, because that gentleman fhonght so much of himself. Art, music, litorture, the charms of socivty and the graces of courtesy are things abhor ent to hifn, so thb Ttalians say, and his pose soldier, and' nothing but a soldier, is ently the result of conviction that sol ing 18 the life best suited to him, It is ht by German journalists that their emperor could not conceal his disdain of the Italian army which was reviewed before him, and that ho was particularly disgusted with the Bersagliori, the picked infantry of Italy, who perform all their movements at a pace, which though not a_double, is very much fastor than the ordinary time. A Fre staff officer who was present drew the most unfavorable conclusions a8 to the status of the Italian army, and it is very probabie, as German journals suggest, that the review iade the emperor feel very tived, News comes from Zanzivar that British naval offieers boarded a Belgian steamer off that coast and found that thore were 400 ves inthe hold and between decks who were boing taken to the Belgian colony on the Congo. From the first inception of King Leopold’s enterprise, it became clear that nothing could be done withont slave labor, and it now appears that the arrangements for obtaining slaves from the Arab slave- traders frequenting Zanzibar from the in- tarior were mude by the Belgian consul. It is hard to bolieve that it was not done with the knowledge and consent of the Belgian ROV nment. Two out of the 400 claimed that they had been kidnapped, but the re- mainder mado no objection to slavery, and the British ofticers neither dotained the' ves- sel nor released any of the negroes save tho two who made compla In the face of this discovery, how hypocritical scems the talk avout a ‘crusade to put down the Arab slave-traders in central Africa. Cardinal Lavigeric is as earnest as Peter the Hermit, but no one believes that auy nations mean business oxcept Bugland and Germany, and they have their own reasons for combatting Arab influcnce. The EFrench government has the merit of being more honest in the matter than any other, for Minister Floguet point-blank refused participation it the eru- sade, and declined to discuss the matter. Moreover, Bngland and Germany are not going to act in concert, and_the probabilitics are increasing that the mahdi and his Sou- dancse and bis Arab allies will come out vie- toriously in the end. **n 4 What the turkey is to the American the goose is to the German, and, indeed, to the Irishman, But under the atrocious stem of misgovernmont to which Ireland has been subjected for huundred of years, the Irishman who gets potatoes considers himself happy, and Irish geese are for English stomachs, Not so with the German workingman who is able to give himself the national treat of roast goose once a month, or thereabouts, during the wintep scason when geese are fat, and work is abupdant. The rmans cat apple sauce with their goose, but it is scien- tifically compounded of 'stewed apples, chopped raw onion in - proportions according to personal judgment, and large raisins, the whole delicately dusted with cinnamon. Those who have not tried this sauce will be astonisiied to find that the chopped onion serves to bring out the flavor of the apple, and the raisins add an agreeable richness and fullness. Some professors of the kitchen leave out the cinuawmou, but the Germans, as arule, use it with undiscriminating profuse ness. When the Gorman artizan wishes to economize he buys ducks instead of a goose, and uses the same sauce for them, In Omaha, owing o the strong German, Scan- dinavian and‘iennunmn cicment in the popu- lation, geese are more carefully bred and fed, and fatted for the table than in_any other city of Ames and an immense numbor were consumed on Thanksgiving day. But in Germany geese are caten on Sunday by myvriads. b ey i Chivologists in Furope is being dirceted towards the so-called Celtic monuments in western France. Some of these are made up of scveral huge stones, othiers consist of a single stone, others again are circles of single stones. The names are as peculiar as the monuments, A large stone standing on end alone is a menhir, a dolman is a tomb composed of a number of perpen- dicular stones covered by one huge Lorizon- tal stone, and a_cromlech is a circle of asso- ciated menhirs, Menhirs are al pelilvans, which is quite a Persian fword. Generally the circles are approached by long avenues of menhirs, Phere 18 a monument at Carnac of this chavacter which appears to be the same in principle as the great temp) of Karnak near Thebes in Upper Egypt, only the many different parts are splondid hal in one, and simple spaces enclosed by mo; liths in_the other. The general impression seems to be that a race prior to the Phani- cians of Tyre, and who may be considerod as the true Phanicians, which the Tyrians were not, spread their religious belief in many countrics, leaving 1o the people of those countrics'the task of formulating a cult from it commensurate with their own degree of civilization. Thus the Egyptians, being highly civilized, developed thei view of the Phanician belief in the grand fanes of Mewphis and Thebes, whilst the Gauls of France, being barbaric, mado the cromlechs of Carnac and Balbee,” No one can reasona bly doubt that Carnac is the same as K nalgand Balbee as Baalbek. The attention of a The American fréefraders are nailing their colors to the mast, and declaring that if they are true to their principles wvictory must come sooner or later, This i1s well, and it shows that the trust which the Cobden club placed in them was well deserved. But by the irony of fortune the Cobden club has ceased to be the sir oracle of England, and even the very dogs bark in favor of fair trade, which is only another name for pro tection, English artizaus have di that free trade means a competition among all the nations of the earth to manufacture che ¢, and this means low wages for i Phey have also found out that their intercst is in manufacturing things at home, and not in buymz cheaper things from abroad, Englund i3 on the ve Zoing in for protection, aud for bi-metalism, having found that dishonesty and hypocrisy are not paying stock in the long run. i3ut this means virtually the surrender of her foreign trade in Soutn Awerica and Asia and Africa to the Germans, who manufacture more cheaply than the English because their workmen are accustomed to lower wages, and have many sopial advantages and pleas. ures through a better form of governwment, The Sydney Herald, the most important paper in New South Wales, hus sent a spoc ial corvespondent'into that part of the proy- ince which lics west of the Darling river, to make a faithful report of the drought, of which rumors had reached the capitol of the province, The Durling is the principal af- fluent of the rivée Murray, and all the land upon it, both to the east und west, has boen devoted to sheep rwising. 'This, indeed, was the quarter whenee came the greater part of tie splendid Auswralian wool. Frow the re- ports of this corrdspondent the drought has nearly wiped out the sheep farms, which were already in a bad way on account of the rabbits. which ate all the bush, as the Aus tralians call the stunted vegetation of tree- less plalus, He gives the name of one indi- vidual who alone has lost 25,000 sheep, all of which died trom over-drinking when they got water, or from actual thirst, or got bog- zod in the bottoms of exnuusted tanks and #0 perished, their eyes veing plncked out by carrion crows whilst they wore yet alive. His statements, however, tend to show that if the rain was husbanded in swmaller tanks, and the flocks wore very greatly subdivided, sheep farms could still be maintained. But the shepherds are now too few to handle the cnormous numbers under their charge, and this ill-judged parsimony lics at the tom of the wholesale Llufllr;ut,llull of great flocks. Servia has 8 sect called Nazarines whose doctriucs are sinilar 0 those preferred by our own Quakers, They were mot finter- fered with, althongh many of the members were Austrian and Hungarian subjects who had shpped into Servia_to escapo military service, In their assemblios, however, the strongly resented the manner in wh'ch Kin Milan obtained a divorce from the bLeautiful Quecn Nathalie. This made the king very mad, and the police have received orders to close up the Nazarone meetings and il across the frontior Austrian and Hun subjects belouging to the order, Won By the K Chicago Herald., The contest for the belt—the blizzard belt between Dakota and the eastern- coast has been handsomely won by the latter. Bab™ L dion What the Boarders Found, FLaneoln Journal. A turkey of the barnyard lay dying near the fence, it had its body with it, but its head Had wandered honce; but just beforo it lost its head it whispored soft and low ‘wke a mossage und a token from my lips before I gos tell the boarders not to tacl me unless with dynamite, and then they'll have to use so much they'll blow me out of sight: have me stulfed with leather belting, [ want no sage in mine, for 1 was born in ancient Romo in 13, C. 40." P Dan'l to “Lige Minneapolis Tribune. Dan'l has sent his congratulations to “Lige" and offcred to turn over to him an unused stock of lotters of thanks and regrots and other valuable formule 80 necessary in the executive office, to show him where he keeps tha pads and blotting paper, the key to the back stairs, and to furnish an inventory of the potatoes and other supplies on d, and to do anything he can to help his succes- sor get the hang of things., Dan'lisa gentle- man and knows what is duc from one fuc- totum to another, - allot Reform, Century For December, o This - is one of the reforms which must come, for without it our system of popular governmeyt caunot be maintained. Every election, especially in our 3 cities, shows that until this reform is secured all other re- forms are impossib| complishment. ‘The control of the election machinery, of the printing ond distributing of the bailots, must be taken from the politicians and put into the hands of the state. That is, wo must take the power to control our elections, away from the men who have no responsibility and no interest in government save extra nee and corruptibn, and put it into the hands of oficials who are sworn to do their duty. O1 what use is it to try to get honest men nominated for office when we leave in the hands of the political workers the power to defeat them at the polls by distributmng fraudulent or defective bollots, or by making “deals” and ‘dickers” which cheat the people of their will? We havo talked for years about reforming the primaries and the nominating conventions, but not one particle of progress has been made. Under the Massachusetts law any 400 voters, in case of a candidate for state office, and any 10) voters, in case of a candidate for a lesser oftice, by uniting in a petition in behalf of a candidate of their choice can have his name printed upon the official ballots and have those ballots distributed at the polls at the public expense. What more certain way of reforming the primaries could be devised than thist If there were such a law ia New York City there would be an end to the astonishing spectacle which is there so often presented of a “boss” setting up a- candidate of his own for ofice in spite of all protests and frequemly elect- ing him in spite of all oppositio Under such a low both “bosses” and prima- vies in a very short time would lose their present dominance in our politics, In fact, there is scarcely a form of iniquity known to our election method which a good ballot law would not cradicate, We should be rid at one stroie of the assessments upon candidates, of the bribing and bulldoziag of voters, of the nomination of notoriously unfit candidates, of “deals” and “dickers” and “wrades” at the polls. All these would dis- appear, for the simple reason that the ma- chinery of elections would be taken out of the hands of irresponsible and often dishonest men. Such an obvious and mperative re- foru as this cannot be long delayed. PROMINENT PERSONS. Secretary Whitney will go to Burope in the spring and will remain several years on that continent. Levi P, Morton says the question of his visiting President-elect Harrison at Indian apolis yet remains to be decided. smperor William lias been suffering lately from severe neuralgic headaches and a re- turn of the catarrhal difiiculty in his left car. Senator Ingalls carries a Waterbury wateh. The senatd sterious silence during the late campaign is explaived. He was winding his watch, R. BB, Harrison writes to a triend m Roch- estor that his father’s majority in his ward T n over 'S4 iv the voting precinet of 91, and 1 the ward of nearly 300. Mrs, Harrison is a voracious reader and 18 particularly fond of Browning, She has also many ins sting somplishments and s clever in charades, ibleax, and such things, The Kev. C. W. Blodgett, of Atlantic, In., wasunable to sit up at the' time of the elec tion, but was carried to the polls on a stretehier and voted for Harrison and Mor- ton, Mr. Blaine is expected in Washington soon after’ the holidays, and will sperd the re mainder of the winter there, He will reside on o pleasant str not far from the white house. Miss Cathierine Simonds has just retived from the position of teacher in the Frankl awmar sehool, B3oston, which she has held for 1ifty years, Her pupils cover four genc ations. Mus, O, C. Converse, who is now living in v, Conn., at the age of seventy cight, says she taught Prisident Garfield for uwhile in her school at, South Bend, and also had General Harrison for a pupil. Ignatius Donnelly was a candidate for gov- ernor of Minnesota, withdrew, ran for the state senato and was dofeated, The desciple of Bucon thinks his sufferings and defeats should lubricato his way to the office of United States marshal of Minnesota, STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Congressman Jumes Laird has Eureka Springs, Ark., for his health, The people of Norfolle are fully satisfied that a paper mill at that point would pay. ‘Purkey thieves got in their work at Wood River on the dark nights before Thanksgiv ing. Itev. George . Dye, pastor of the Baptist church at Wilber, struck for a raise of saliwy and got it, A North Loup man has completed arrange- monts to bring an excursion of people to tho Loup valley in the spring The board of trade of Stromsburg taken steps to look into the apparent diseriu- ination against that place by the Union Da citic in the matter of freight rates, Just before going to press on Thanksgly- ing day the Bremont Tribune received in telligence that Grover Cleveland, not being able to retain anything on his stomach but crow, had vetoed his Thanksgiving message. A Wood River urchin attempted to imitate his mother's method of singoing a chicken by building a fire in the middle of the floor wud throwing the bird in the flames. The family aiscovered the fire before much dam age was don From a friend in need the editor of the Barneston Bell received a basket containing two boxes mustard sardines, three bottles Bost's beer, one bottle old Kentucky bour. bon and & card bearing the senders name aud his best wishes for a Thanksgiving arunk. John Koberg, the Madison man who was shot while foraging Thanksgiving turkey, gone to has the same one with which Roten and Ashley were murdered at Broken Bow, The Atkinson Graphic reports that an “honest” granger the other day hanled in o | 1oad of hay for one of the town physicians in payment of his bill. Tn driving over the prairic the wind blew so hard that 600 or S00 pounds ot sod were “blown™ into the center of the load, and was not noticed by the farmer in unloading. His attention was called to ft, however, and he promptly weighed it back with the wagon. Tho wind plays some curious capers in this country. Towa. The Dubuque county poor house las sixty inmates at present. od BBuss, of Palo, was kicked by a lorse and died in a short time, The price of hay at Fort dropped. 1t is now #2 per ton. The school boys at Des Moiues quarreled, drew knives, and bad a nico little cutting serape Dubuque has forty deaf mutes and is malk ing a move to establish a schiool for the deat and dumb. With the beeinning of the new year the Keokulc Gas company proposes muking an other decided reduction in the price of gas James Buckwater, an inmate of the Soldiers' home at Marshalitown, died of softening of the brain, He was fifty years old, and served during the war in Company B, Second lowa infantry. Several years ago a man deposited #1,200 in the Cinton Savings bank. He disappeared and all efforts to find him_ woere fruitless, Recently he was discovered in an insane asylum at Naperville, Cal., Relatives in 111 nois were also found who will take charge of the §1,200 and rued iuterest, The Great Northwest, The A. 0. U. W. of Helena, Mont., have just dedicated a new hall. ie Oregon Railway and Navigation road: bed is nearly completed to Mulien, Taako. The republicans will have sixteen majori ou joint ballot in the Montana legislatur Citizens of Gunnison, Colo., are trying to secure a United States' fish- Natehery at that point. A Los Angeles dealer claims to have made $1,000 from a single carload of butter shipped from the east. It 18 rumored that the Temeseal tin mines in San Bernardino have been purchased by an English company. lynxes and coyotes near Proche, ands and - are killing many sheep and young cattle, The people of Orland, Colusa coupty, Ca have voted in favor of issuing Honds for irrigation canals and works. A Laramic girl only el years of age, essayed the role of burglar, She made away Dodge has lies in @ oritical condition. 1t is foared that amputation of the thigh will have to be per- formed. The rifle used in shooting bim was WIth $10, & gold watel chain and some pho- tographs, The people of Laramio are kicking be- cause they will have to sit on the fence and watch the “Oriental Limited” go by without stoppin, There are now about one hundred men em- ployed on the Mavion coal mine, in Jerome >ark, Colo., and two trains a day are re- quired to transport the outyut. It being impossiblo to tind bricklayers out. of employment on the Pacific coast, the con- tractor for the new public building at Carson impoxted s force from the east. The ground all over northern Califorma has been ready for the plow for a week, but the rain persists in conrng down und nothing has yet been done in the ficlds. The Michigan mine, which the Lusk Her- ald says is the richest in central-oastern Wyoming, has been sold to Denver capital- ists, who will worlc it for all there is in it. A Wyoming paper remarks that it is a sad commentary upon the sheep industry that even the small amounts for which the flocks are now being sacrificed, usually go to pay deb's secured by mortgage. “The largest bear ever killed in the moun- tain range near Colorado Spring, was by Mr. Riggs, who lives back of Pike's Poak, the other 'day. It had been exceedingly trouble- some to the ranchmen of that vicinity. At Bloomington, Mariposa county, Cal., tho two-year-old daughter of Albert Dunford fell upon i beer bottle, the neck of which was broken, and a splinter of which penetrated her heart. The child was dead when lifted from the ground by her mother. The ofiicers of the Colorado Horticulturai society have been in communication with the Denver real estate exchange for some timo past relative to a proposed exhibit of the re- sources of the stato in the growine of all kinds of fruit. 1t is proposed to open th exhibit in Denver on Januury 10 next, con- tinuing three days. After that theentive e hibit will be sent to Boston, where it will be displayed at the exposition. Vinnemucker Silver State gives the following instance of Piute surgery: Piuto Charley, who attempted suicide by shoot- ing himself in the head a-fow duys ago, is reported out of dunger. Natches, who has bad much experience in_ Piuté surgery, sucked the bullet out of the wound. The ball struck the right check bone and plowpd its way through the front part of the bead, lodging under the eye in the lefu check. Natches' suction power is greater than o force pump. THE BASE BALI, ASSOCIATION, Officers Elected at the Annual Meet- ing Last Night—Plans For '89. The annual meeting of the Omaha Base Ball association took place last night at 1102 Parnam street. i'he principal object of the meeting was to elect dircetors and ofticers for the ens: Al the old directors were present cexcept Dr. A. J. Worley. and out of 124 shares of stock ecighty-four were represented. The following directors and ofiicers were clected: J. . McCormick, Hardin, vice president; E. seerctary: J. M. Dougherty, treasurer; A.J. Worley, J. ). Philbin and A J. MeKone, directors, The last numed entleman was chose director in the place of Jack Morrison, resigned. After the gencral meéeting, at’ which the president; J. J Rrandt, ofticors w soted as stated above, the newly appointed dircetors held a special mect- ing. The president called attention to the meet ing of the Western Base Bull association to be held at Mmneapolss uext week, and asked that representation from Oun be d puted to attend. President McCormick and Scerctary Brandt were sclected for that es pecial duty. The delegation was insteucted 1o fieht for the guaranteo as against the poer- centage systemn now in vowue. It wag claimed that Omala had paid #1800 more rom other clubs duriug lust season, and only three times did they get more than the guarantee, There were also opinions expressed in favor of a six club leazue as against au cight club, as prevailed last season. 1t would be muen better to have six ool clubs than thrce good and five bud ones. The opinton prevailed that Milwankee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St, Joseph, Des Moincs Omaha would be the clubs ‘sclected Lo form the Western league next season. AMUSEMENTS, An entire change of bill by the Vokes come last night afforded an opportunity to judge of 1ts versatility, purticularly with re- spect Lo Miss Vokes, and the verdict caunot be otherwise thaw one of commendation, 1s- pecially happy was Miss Vokes in the part of : Grafton in “Phie Circus Rider," @ part which enables her to show warked suceess those peeuliarities of ner which distinguishes her in li She was cley 0, a8 Miss Lilly in the “Pantomine Rehearsal,” but with less op- portunity for employing her special talents. Phe support was very creditablo throughout, Mr. Thorpe and Mr, Morris being conspicu ously successful. ‘Lhere was 6 numerous sudionce and the Lainment was well ye- ceived. Lady Luci Norence. The city council will meet next Monday night to take action on some very important weasures, Motions will be made for the passing of ordinauces, levying a tax on pool aud billiard tables, enforcing the gambling laws, aud one concerning the furnishing of prisoncrs with liquor, - discov- ered that a number of men while in confine ment wi in @ continual st intoxica- tion, the liquor having been given them by feiends from outside, The trial of the Lantry and battery will take place next The churges weve proferred by Mr, the father of the little Loy attacked. One of assault Moun Depuls, boys for the formor stated that a prominent citiz of Florence instigated bim Lo his act by offer- ing him money I'he three special coaches used by the em ployes of the waterworks, which wade a morning and evening trip to and from Omah have been laid off, 'The company expended aver #00 {n two wecks for fare: Frank White, who was fined in with an ordinance prolibiting the fe public grounds, will make a fght in trict court for possession of Markot the property in question, A remarkable amount of building is_going on at Florence, mostly residences, Yostors duy Mr. Tucker began work ona new store on' Prospeot stroet. ordance cing of the dis- Placa, A grand flourish of trumpots heralds the advent of an articlo which fails, when tried, to justify the noiso made in its behalf. The unassuming merits of Van Duzer's flavoring ex- tracts devived from_ choico fruit, of tandard purity, and clected over o quarter of a centnry ago to the chiof place among flavors, are too well known to need more than a gencral reminder, Cheap competition of valueloss articlés heightens the popularity of theso. All ofton e Another Indictment Against Tallman, Ciiceo, Nov, 80.--Another indictmont returned by the grand jury this morn- ing against Thomas Taliman, late cashior of the bankrupt Traders’ bank. 1t is found un- der tho same statute as that of last woek— for receiving deposits knowing the bank to bo insolvent, ‘This indietment covers tho $70, 000 of deposits received October 1, threo days Dbefore the bank failed. This sum was made up of a number of deposits, and thero 18 o c dictment fo SORE FROM KNEE TO ANKLE. Flesh a mass of minished one-third e, Condition hoprless, Oured by the Cuticura Kemedios. For three years T was aimost erippled with an awfnl sore leg from my knee down tomy ankle; the skin was entirely gone, and the flssh was one i of diseuse.” Sonje physclans pro- nounced it ineurable, 1t hud diminished about one-third the size of the otlier, and 1 was in a hopeless condition. — Aftor trying all kinds of remedies and spending hundreds ot dollars, from Which I got no relief whatever, 1 was persiaded 10 ey your CUTICUIA REMEDTES, and the result was s follows: After three days I noticed n dectded chango for the at the eud ot 10 months I was comp! ared. My flosh was purified, and the bone (which had boen posed for over a year) got soana. The flosh be- nto grow, and to-day, and for noarly two years past, my leg {5 05 W6l as over 1twas,sound in every vdspect, aud nota sign of the disouse to De see., 3 8.G. 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The Reorganization Come wittee hereby wives nol ders of that company will be allowed o FINAL opportunity to pro- tect thelr hitherto unussented stoek by subscribin to the new bondsand depositing theirstock us hereto. fore advertised. Subseriptions to said honds will bo recoived atthe Unton Trust Company, No. way, New York, ut the following terms, to-wit ENTS PER SHAR 1OM THE DATE HEREOF TO .~ 8, 1888, AT 12 M., and thereafter 0 CENTS PER SHARE, ASSE TIL JAN. 2, 1889, AT 3 NTEN by them 1 Gl cents respectivaly | e ullowed o rate gt i per cont. will 1 subscriptions from e of pay ment P be ndo by cheek on New Vork t the Union Trast Compiny and should by stock duly on o the Ui Union Py th o e New York, Ditd NEW YOI, Octaber 1,155, H. R, BALTZER, Cha ORDON MACDONALD, P, C A. M. VAN WEEL, O1TO LOWENGARD. THEODORE SELIGMAN, REORGANIZATION COMMITTER, WWho from Folly, Txnorange or Vice Liave seriously drained 1 Ahslr Vitality of Debilitiatd ir Nervous Systeray, aud wi o ncapneliatd fr 160 oy Draics”of el tu d 0d T overy Tt sl Wi New Yook Woula ofbept: 8, 4 11ining b Fammaris 8 i Gt s i ot Uil 16 s fatton by e o 1a Porson with our Reorguntued oaed, . torad £ MEN wh e hate s e ircy Tave prasast 416 Vi ot {40 L0 MARRIZD WEN O MEN AR R wh drei thels vSAAILD, MEN, O MEW ABONT STLENDID. ILLUBTRATED MEDIGAL WORK. BOARD OF @ PHYSICIANG. o = .C Nw"!i':?. W VARICOGELE RADICALLY CUKED WITHOUT OPERATION, 48 CIVIALE REMEDIAL LOENOL, 170 Fulton Btreel, New Vorw) Nebraska National - Bank, V. 8 DEPOSITORY, OMANA, NEB. i Up Capital...............$400,000 Surphus. .......... e 50,000 H.W. Yares, Preaident. Lkwis 8. Rk, Vico Fresident. A, E.TovzAviy, 2nd Vice President, W, ', 8. HuGnks, Casbien DIRECTORE JONN 8. Cotuig LEwis 8. Heeo. TOUZALIN, W. V. Mokse, HIW. Yazgs, Banking Oftice= THE IRON BANK, Corner 1410 and Farnau Ste. A General Baukiug Busiuess Transsctod