Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY DECEMBER 16, 1888 —SIXTEEN PAGES. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAty Momning Kdition inelnding Su . One Y 0 | gystom, T OMANA dress, One ¥ . WhRKLY DRE, Ono Y oar OMATIA OFFIUENOS, Y1EAN D 116 FATNAM: ¥ 557 ROOKERY DUILDING ¥, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. b13 RRESPONDENCE, ations relating to newsand edl- Lould be addressed to the Eprron tor " RUSINESS LETTRRS, Al business ot 4 tas ghould b addressed to Titk, BEE PURLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders 1o Demad payablé o this order of the company. TbeBeaPnbllsnmg Cumnany Proprietors. All commt THE DALY BEK. $worn Statement ot Circulation, Btateof Nebraska, |, o County of Donglag, (%8 George B, Tzschu cretary of Tha Ttes Pub- 1ishing Company, does solemuly swe actual circulation of Tue DALY F week ending December 15, 1888, was as follows Sunday, Dec. 9, onday, Dec. 10 nesday mr 1. Wednesd Thurunni Iis 3 Friday, Dec. 14 Baturday, Dec. Average. Bworn to before me and presence this 1th dey of Seal P, r 1L, Notary Pubilic. Btate of Nobrmkn W County of Dougins, ( George 13, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- {mauwuml ‘snys that he is secretary of the Bee lishing company, that the actital average sulation of THE DAILY Bk for the or, 1887, 16,041 coples; for Jan- for Februiry, 8, 4, 10.6: 15,9 9 coplss; for Apri, 1888, 141 o oplos fo . Téss, 17,161 Coples: for Jiine, 185, 10,243 ln)e!'mr July, 848, 15,033 coples for Angus L 15,183 coples: for Beptember, 1858, 16,164 1081, Cox Dotanet, K88, was 18,084 copies: for ]\o\umhm 1884, 38,09 coples. GEO. B, TZ3CH Ul Bworito before mo aud subscril Presence this sih day of Decembor, . PR Noiary ublic, Trm much care cannot be oxorcised in revising the city charter. TASCALL'S x'iLfilexll schiemo has a thole knocked into it big enough for a coach and four to drive through. COQUELIN, the famous Fréench actor, claims that Philadelphia is the intel- lectunl center of Americ There are extenuating circumstances to explain this. Boston baked beans gave him in- digestion, THE proposition to establish a bureau of agriculture and animal industry in the state, should find its way into the waste bas The state is already burdened with too many bureaus of general usolessness. THE unique proposition coming from Colorado to send five hundred ladies {rom that state to take part in the pa- rade of General Harrison’s inaugural, will, in all liklihood, be declined with thanks by the managers. Tue attempted disruption of the Grand Army of the Republie has flashed in the pan and the danger is over. The veterans whc have clung together through battle and through peace will hold their ranks unbroken uutil death claims the last man. WirH the prospects of tbe Haytian affair ending without the firing of a single shot, the Galena should steam xight back and burn a little powder over the backs of the oyster pirates in Chesapeake bay. The rights of the oyster must be protected, come what may. It 18 sard that Governor Larrabee, of Jowa, and his staff will be presentat the inavguration of Governor Thayer January 1. When the two governors meet. on the first day of the year, it is possi- ble to conjecture what the governor of Jowa will say to the governor of Ne- braska. AND now the poor American player §s forced to appear before the senate «committee on investigation of immigra- tion and dppeal for protection against the imported foreign actors. The sock and buskin has evidently fallen in hard lines. Letnot the appeal be made to the gallery gods in vain. Touchstone in tears and Hamlet in rags should re- ceive sympathy TOWA continues to be the banner edu- cational state of the union with her total enrollme nt of four hundred and seventy-seven thousand pupils in- the public schools. The annual report of the state superintendent of education shows a remarkable gain in the attend- ance and school facilities as compared with other states. Not only is the standard of her public schools high, but the percentage of illiteracy is less than in any other state, THE charge that our police dommis- sion has become a political machine is utterly groundless, While it is true that the mayor invoked the aid of the police on election day, the fact remains that the question of politics has never entered the commission in any of its actions. Both the chiof of the fire de- partment and chief of police are democrats and nearly all the policemen in Omaha are democrats. With the mayor, the republicans in the com- mission arein the majority, and could, Af they desired to exercisetheir powers, make all of these appointments repub- lican. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. eEsse———— Toe official announcement has just been made by the Jacksonville board of bealth of the complete stamping out of " the yellow fever scourge in that city. In view of this fact the people of Flor- ida propose to have a day of thanksgiv- dng and rejoicing. The people of the whole country will join with Florida in the heartfelt wish thav the epidemic may nover again ravage the south, During the existence of the disease " from July to the present month, a period of six months, the total number of deaths was four hundred and ten, It is fortunate that the pestilence was not amcre fatal. Thesmall number of deaths dn proportion to the total number of persons affected, speaks well for the suc- ©0ss of the medical profession, and the utions taken by local and national _uthorities 1n preventing the spreading #f the scourge. THE STATE MILITIA. A question of very considerable im- portance, which the next legisiature will be called upon to consider is that of simplifying the state militia The tendency is to go to an unjustifinble and wasteful extreme in this matter, and it needs to be checked before the system has reached a stage when the prevention of extravagance will not be so easy as now. Tt is undoubtedly desirable that N braska should havea militia system, hut it should be arraaged on a peace foot- ing that would require but a very mod- erate expenditure to maintain it. The omly object of a militia force 1n this state is to suppress riots, and for this purpose it is manifestly unneces- to maintain a large, force. 1 isin no danger of a hostile in- re is not the same reason to vor of an extensive mili- tia system here as could be used in any of the border states, as Minnesota, Mich- igan, Ohio and Now York, for example, and extravagant expenditure in this matter cannot be justified on the ground that it is desirable to cultivate the mili- spivit among our people. We have had suflicient evidence that this spi needs very little cultivation in this country, and should oceasion call it into activity at any time in the future no one doubts that tho response would be equal to every demand, and that the sturdy and patriotic sons of Nebraska would not he behind those of other states in offering their servicesin the common defense. All argument about creating, by means of an elabo- rate militia system, the nucleus of a great national army, if it has any value anywhere, is worthless so far as Ne braska is conc ,and this state can find far wiser and more profitable use for the public money than in expending extravagant sums for annual encamp- ments and other requivements of an un- necessarily extensive militin sys- tem. What need is there of brigade and division drill, or for a week's experience one v of camp life and duties? This sort of thing gratifies the vanity of afew officers, who find in it the opportunity foi personal display and a little notoriety, and it may be regarded by some others as an emi- nently proper and necessary thing to do, but we do nob think any practical man can regard it as a paying invest- wment. The last legmislature appropriated seventy thousand dollars for the uullth nearly the whole of which pended on the useless—; than \|>L|L-Js—(‘n\"lln[)munl,s, l‘nr not, ounly is there no evidence that the en- campments were productive of any good, but the testimony is that they were so badly managed and conducted as to create great discontent among the men, while there was such a lack of discipline and such freedom of dissipa- tion as to reflect discredit on nearly all concerned. Their purpose was thus defeated and the money of the people saquandered without the least apparent benefit to anybody except those who got the money. Itis not unreasonable to apprehend. that future encampments, 1f permitted, will be no better in results, for it is the experience pretty much everywhere that these military assem- blages partake more of the character of noliday occasions than of the practical affairs they are professedly intended to be, and therefore largely fail to accom- plish their professed purpose. The overtaxed people of Nebraska cannot afford to maintain a militia system that involves extravagance of this sort, or one beyond any probable demand for a militia force, and the next legislature will disregard the public interests if it shall fail torejectall demands for future waste of the public money in this direc- tion. The militia system must be kept ictly on a peace fooling. FAITHFUL TO THE END, * Theretiring state board of transpor- tation will go out of existence with its majority faithful to their servile sub- mission to the behests of the railroad corporations. The meeting on Friday showed that the men who have persist- ently followed the dictation of the rail- roads from the hour that they became members of the boardof transportation, ready at all times and in all circum- stances to find pretoxts for defeating the will of the people and opposing their interests, are prepared to go into retivement without an effort to purge themselves of the charge of being the subservient tools of the corporations. An opportunity was given them to 1n part at least atone for their past disregard of the people’s rights and interests, but they rejected it, perhaps feeling that theirlong record of hostility to the pub- lic and subserviency to the corporations could not be obliterated by a single act in behalf of the people, They will re- turn to private life very generally reprobated, and their course will be so well remembered by the people that a long time must ensue before they are permitted to again hold any public posi- tion in which they will havesuch power over the public irterests as they will soon surrender, Better things are hoped for from the new board, and certainly its members have before them a lesson which ought not to fail of effect in enabling them to guard against the insiduous and seduc- tive wiles of the corporatious, which will unquestionably be employed as in- dustriously and persistently upon the next as they were with the present board. WILL HE BE SO FOOLISH? Great pressure will ba brought upon Licutenant Governor Meiklejolin 1o push him into the footsteps of his pre- decessor in taking upon himself the ap- pointent of the senate commitices. This usage was introduced by Ed Carps, in the interest of the Union Pacific, which was his chief backer in the nom- ination, The act was repealed six years ago by the legislature when John Con- nor was made president pro tent and re- enacted again two years ago by that pompous nonentity, Lieutenant Gover- nor Shedd. The president of the senate, in the very nature of thin, stands in a different relation to that body from the speaker of the house. The speaker is elected by the members of the house; the presi- dent of the ‘senate is nomi- at the state conven- and elocted by the people. He is simply vice governor, just as tho vice president is made the presiding of- ficer of the senate. The national senate never permits the vice president to appoint its committe they are always made up by the members of the senate. It is to be hoped that Mr. Meiklejohn will not allow himself to be tempted into assuming this responsibility, no matter what pretonses are mad e has nothing to gain by exercising these powers, but on the contrary he is liable to make many enemies and but few friends There isan adage that “fools will stop in where angels fear to tread,” so it was perfectly natural for Mr. Shedd to imagine that the honor of making up the committees was somothing ex- traordinar; But in veality it was an evidenee of weakness on his part. The next licutenant governor will be very foolish if he allows himself to be tempted into assuming the powers which properly belong to the body of the senate. — A TOMB FCR GRANT. Some one, it appears, has anony- mously made a suggestion in an even- ing paper in New York for a tomb for General Grant, which is atiracting some attention, and is likely to attract more becauso it contains some striking points. This is precisely the feature that is usually lacking in modern mon- umental art. The world has nowadays s0 many perfunctory and ephemeral he roes and statesmen that not a yerr elapses without the erection of some perfunctory and ephemeral monument. But Grant was a tealy great man, and for our national hero it is vot fitting that a monument should be erected ng only in size and not in from the specimens in the nuu_vhhmeuI of cemeteries. What is wanted is something that shall be suggestive, something that shall be different from the thousand and one abortions that have been miscalled monuments. If this suggestion is of this character, and itappears to be, then the nation that has hatherto held aloof will join with New York in contributing to the tomb of one whom it has always honored, and whom it can never forget. And it is very probable that when the New York public mind is relieved of its nightmare of apprehension that the usual vilo mockery of art will be per- petrated in the name of the national grief, and the usual commissions di- vided among the perpetrators, there will be more alacrity in stepping up to the subscription desk than has been shown heretofore. The 1dea of the tomb seemsto be simply a windowless domo of red porphy covering a sarcophagus of silver, lighted by electric incandescent lights hidden 1n silver foliage and held by four silver figures at the corners of the sarcophagus. The public will view the tomb from a circular gallery run- ning along the inside ata proper height from the floor, and will themselves be in darkness. Nor will they be able to see anybhing of the dome in which they are, save for such gleams of lLight as may wander from the sarcophagus to the polished porphyry wall. Under such circumstinces, the effect of vast size will inevitably be produced, no matter what the size of the dome may really be. From the moment that a man is unable to use those accustomed measuring instru- ments, his €yes, he gives himself ap to his imagination, and will readily be- lieve anything that is told him. The complete darkness, and the strong light thrown upon the sarcophagus, and the halo of twilight between the two will produce an effect of chiaroscuro fn which Rembrandt would have de- lighted. The sarcophagus is to be of enamelled silver, aamitting of a gor- nated tion geous play of coloring, and on the top | isto be the effigy in high relief of America’s greatest general. As this is also to be in enamelled silver, it is to be supposed that it will represent him in the uniform of a geueral of the United States army, with his victorious sword by his side. This will be an agreeable fiction, for 1n reality he was buried 1n civilian clothes, and of his maay swords, not one was spared for his obsequies. —— THE castigation which Thomas M. Cooley, the chairman of the inter-state comission, administered to the rail- road officials who persist in violating the inter-state law is having its desired effect: Therailroad managers have be- come frightened, and realize the fact that the commission will no longer be trifled with. Judge Cooley has all along conducted himself as a man of cool and considerate judgment, and of unquestionable integrity. In all his decisions on cases brought before the commission he has maintained a digni- fied and judicial demeanor, The ¢ cumstances, therefore, which brought forth his just condemnation of gross ir- regularities on the part of certain rail- road managers in Chicago must have been of such a nature as to stir up all his virtuous indigoation. It has come to pass that a strict enforcement of the intor-state law is in order. The reck- loss managers have presumed too much on Judge Cooley’s good nature. They have aroused the sleeping lion in his breast, and woe betide those railroad ofticials who attempt to evade their obligation to the people and to the stockholders. THE anniversary celebrating General Washington’s inauguration, which cowmes next spring, promises to be a day of great pomp and solemnity, The executive committee in charge of the affair has been petitioned by the New York ministers, representing nearly every denomination, to allow religious ceremonies in all the churches of that city on that oceasion. The request will undoubtedly be granted, and it is more than likely that the anniversary will be observed by religious ceremonies all over the couatry. —— I1 appears on good authority that the letters alleged by the London Z%mes to have been written by Parnell were the forgeries of a person by the uame of Pigott., The English should vot fail to fiy the guilt of smirching Parnell’s character where it belongs and to ex- pose the plots igteuded to injure the Irish cause beforgfhe world. VOIUE OF THE STATE PRESS. Tobias Tribune: Walt Sceley must go. His days of usefulness to the success of the re- publican party of Nebraska are past and gone, Fremont Tribune:" The newspapers have nearly quit talking about turning the rascals out, but it is believed that the sentiment still prevails. Tekamah Burtonian: Mr. Thurston says he doesn't expect a cabiget position, nor does he intend teying for the United States scna- torship. People froquently change their minds when they hiave to, Nebraska City News: Paul Vandorvoort is mentioned for the office of commissioner of pensions. The man who made the suggestion ought to be shot. The News trusts that at least a respectable republican will be ap- pointed to oftice. Beatrice Democrat: In the God and mor- ality states of lowa, Kansas and Nebraska, it is no uncommon thing for a mob to take a man from jail and hang him, but down in the rebel stato of Alabama, the officers do their duty, and protect their prisoncrs, Schuyler Herald: Tn about three weeks that great and honorable body kuown as the Nebraska legislatare will meet again. No doubt John M. Thurston, Paul Vandervoort and the rest of the oilroom gang will be there to entertain and “‘enlighton’’ our legis- lators. Nebraska City News: Dr. Billings is said to be writing a book in answer to the many charges made against him and his theory. The farmers who lost their hogs by inocula- tion would doubtless prefer that he ri certified checks on some bank to pay them for their loss. Schuyler Sun: The democratic press is still arguing over the late issues again. They remind us of the boy who has been vigorously spanked and can't dry up all of a sudden, They have to blubber and murmur for a time. It seems not to be the demo- cratic instinct anyway to yield readily to the voice of the majority. Arapaboe Public Mirror: Among the at- tractive features of the state to which the people of Nebraska may point with pride is the weather. If a vertical section of the weather extending from Octover 1 down to date conld be put on exhibition iu the effcte and slivering east, it would be the most po- tent of inducement to immigration. Knox county Democrat (referring to a vile contemporary): 1f the leprous scaven- ger had the cash value of the suits of tar and feathers he has earned, and of the kicks and cuffs he received from indignant citizens, he could purchase and ivon casket for his rotten carcass and thus prevent the pollution of earth when loathsome disease terminates his existence. Springfield Monitor: There is nothing that demands the attention of our state leg- islature so much as a_revision of our present assessment laws. Lands, instead of being valued at next to nothing should be assessed at their full valuation all over the state, and there is nothing that will determine that so casily as its selling price., ‘If a farm is bought at $40 per acre it should be assessed at that, and if this were done all over the state, it would not increse taxation, but merely make a just equalization of (it. York Times: There ave a few things upon which there seems to be no difference of opinion amoug the pupers of the state. So far as heard from they all agree that insur- ance companies should be regulated, and there has been a general expression of the opiniont that in case of total loss the company should pay the full amount of the policy. There is also an opinion generally expressed that some law in regard to school text books isnceded. This is a subject will bear very careful handling, and one 1 which a blunde: is very liable to be expensive. Uniformity through out the state would undoubtedly be a good thing if it could be accomplished without too much expense. Grand Island Independent: In the name of the honest men who are opposed to being ruled by the railroad monopolies, we must protest against the attempt of railroad hench- men, to drive Leese, the attorney gencral, out of the board of transportation, and to foist that notorious railroad tooi, W. F. Griflitts, (who pedditd through the country those de- lusive vetitions against the reduction of freighy rates) on the board of transportation 8s one of their secretaries, It isan attempt to swindle the people by making the board subject to the will of the railroad bosses and their “oil room" directors. Yes, those so- called “republicaus” meant well who pro- posed Thurston for the cabinet, Mandersou for the United States senate, Means for the state senate, Grifiitts for the board of trans- portation, and who propose to crowd Leese out of the board by altering the law. Yes, they are great patriots! Aud the people ought to remember them. Beatrice Democrat: Nebraska has a glan- dered horse commission, composed of o few superanuated politicians, whose business it is to kill horses and state the pay for them. But the principal branch of the business is to draw their mileage and per diem, and if they performed other with the same prompt- ness that they discharge this latter duty, they would be an eflicient set. One branch of the glandered commission looks after hogs also. They have an expert, Dr. Billings, All commissions have an expert. The cholera hog expert has inoculated several hundred hogs, and they have all died. It is said that he can kill a whole berd in three days aftor inoculating, There has been 1o appropriu- tion to pay for the hogs thus killed, but the nextlegislature will “reduce the surplus” by appropriating money to carry on the slaugh- ter of hogs, as well as to re-emburse those who have lost their stock by reason of this state agent, The coal oil commission, the glander commission and the cholera commis- sion should be consolidated with militia, and the whole outfit should be abolished. - “When the Deévil Was Sick." Washinglon Press. ‘When the demeratic panty is out of power it looms up manificently as a civil service reformer. i el The Woman jn the Case. Atlanta Constétution, Lord Randolph Chugchill is now acting with the Gladstone party. ' The Italian hand of his American wife may be seen in this. e To Knock the Haytians Silly. New York Press. 1f the government wishes to knock out General Legitime the best- way to do it is to send ono of the presidont’s tariff messages down to the Haytian and make him read it. e Chauncey is an Able Financier. St, Paul Pioneer Press. Tho financier in Chauncey M. Dopow rises above the politician. He declines an $5,000 cabinet position (in advance) and offers to accept a $17,000 ministry to the court of St. James, N Milk in the Colorado Cocoanut. Denver Times, The admission into the union of the north western territories means an additional safe- guard for silver, The republican party is in favor of their admission; the democratic party, headed by an anti-silver man, is op- posed to their admission. Is it any wonder that Colorado gave nearly 14,000 republican plurality § OURRENT TOPIOS. It would bes unfair to blams the secretary of the navy for the expenditure of money in the trial of the cast steel guns, for if he had vielded to the universal fecling of naval men and refused to deal with the contractors who were anxious to make them, a howl would have gone up to the seventh heaven about injustice to American industy The most experienced naval oficers dreaded thom, and said that it would be assassination to put them in a turret or on a gun deck for they would certainly burst. The first one that was tried with a normal charge did burst, anda very effectually. The muzzle was blown off in one picce, the breech blew into fifty fragments, and the heavy oak platform, the property of Uncle Sam, was completely wrecked, Tt is to be hoped that there will be no more trials with cast stecl guns,for enough isas good as a feast. Secretary Whitney has, however, been guilty of breaking the tenth commandment, and coveting the big guns of the Benbow, and the Re Um- berto, but the news from England will pre- vent others from falling into the same error. It is now learned that the men who practice these big guns become disabled by the re verberated concussion of air in a confined space, and cannot work them more than half an hour, Tho makers of big guns have ox- ceeded human powers. o There is a reaction among musical poopio with regard to Wagner, and this is based upon the claim thnt his music plays sad havoce with the throats and lungs of singers. It is sawd thav in coasequence of his total ignorance of the art of singing, and his ab- normal development of the orchestra un- natural demands are made in his operas upon the vocal organs. The reason why Adelina Patti still remains the unquestioned queen of song, 1s that sho was trainaed in the tradi- tions of the old Italian methods of vocalism, the only true system of cultivating the voice. Her superiority 18 so great that she appears in the operas which she likes, and she has ever given a wide berth to the Lohengrin and Tannhauser and Der Fliegende Hol- lander operas of Wagner, which have rained all the young fresh voices of the present time. The old German music of Gluch and Mozart was essentially Ttalian in its methods, with a deeper intellectuality in the motives. There probably will be a return to that for- gotten music, and Wagner will be banished from the operatic stage for good. He will live in orchestral music only. It is {so much easier to undo than to do, to destroy than to create, to knock down pros- perity than to build it up. The engineers of the Montana Union railroad struck for trades union reasons, and not for wages, or for real wrong done to them by their employer, the ownerof the Anaconda Copper mine. The railroad is only about thirty miles long, and it brings the ore to the smelter from one direction and wood from ancther. As soon as the news of the strike reached the owner, Mr. J. 3. Haggin, of San Francisco, ho at ouce ordered the mine and smelter to be closed. Then the engineers declared the strike off, and now Mr. Haggin is being prayed to recommence work, for the sake of the 3,300 men who have been thrown out of employment. Itisto be hoped that he will yield, but he is a very tenacious, set man, and there are fears in Butte that he will not. It is in the power of the railroad employes to seriously embarrass their employers, and they have not been slow in attempting it. This conduct is not to the advantage of the trades unions, and will corroborate the feel- ing entertained by the gencral public that strikes are often commenced without ade- quate cause. The consequence is that public sympathies are not enlisted ~ where there is real reason for striking, which is only too often the case. It is in the interest of labor not to discredit the one weapon 1w possess by using it indiscriminately the most puerile causes. W Mr. P. W. an English gentleman who possesses property in the Richmond, Virgina, and has become a nat- uralized citizen of this country, desires to travel in search of Stanley and is in commu- nication with the Royal Geographical society of England. He has been asked to submit his plans, and he hus done s0, and is await- ing o response. Mr. Scott was vice consul at Tangier durin g the Grant administration, and 1s familiar with Arabic and with the dia- lects of the Moors and toe nomadic Berbers and Touaregs. Many Am ericans huve sol ited the favor of accompanying him in his re- searches, but he has re fused upon the ground that it would e detrim ntal to his plans, 1t is thought from this that he intends to travel alone us a Moorish merchant, which would not be difiicult as he is extremely dark, with bushy oye-brows and dark piercing eyes, and he is thoroughly acquainted, not only with Moorish, but with the ways of Moorish mer- chants. Hisplan is to approach from the Niger region, which is partly in the hands of fanatical followers of the Mahdi, according to the most recent advices. Mr. Scott bo- lieves Stanley to be cither deador & prisoner, - During the convention of the Knights of Labor at Indianapolis some fucts were brought before the notice of the assembly concerning the manner in which women aro being degraded by being e neaged in labor thut is unsuituble to their sex. They arc being hired in iron wills and wire factories in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, and there is one bolt factory in Pittsburg run almost entirely by female operatives, A correspondent writes also of a foundry where women worked, stripped to the waist—a spectacle so piteous, so disheartening that it would excuse pessimism. This is the logical résult of considering labor as a thing in the market with fluctuations like wheat or pork, which the wise man willbuy at the lowest aftainable rates, Women can always be hired at a cheaper rate than meu, and noth- ing s0 tends to lower wages as the horrible degradation and hardening of the softer sex W There is much talk about air-ships, fox Peter Campbell, of Brooklyn, has solved the problem beyond any question. His air- ship went trom Brooklyn 1o Coney Island, a distance of six miles, not very far it is true, but with regard to acrial navigation, it is the faculty of steering, not of progression, which has hitherto eluded the would-be wanderer u the seas of air. Campbell's air-ship was conuected with a bott om shaped like a cigar, and goustructed of uncommonly wugh ma- terial. ‘Thc inventor himself and an assis tant sat in the ship below, and changed tho direction of the machine at will, steering easily, and going off at r ight angles repeat- edly to the great joy of all who witnessed it. Then the alr-ship was put dead before the wind, which was blowing off shore, anc steered for Coney Island, which was reached iw'a fow minutes. There is rival inventor in Chicago, a Frenchman named De Bausset, who Las not hitherto succeeded, but who has obtained the confidence of capitalists, and important results may be expected from him In the dawn of steam pavigation there were others besides Fulton who were engaged in the great work, even in this country; but the world has too muck work on hand to lose time ip sifting the claims of rival inventors, and therefore the credit was given to Fulton, because he had the greatest number of friends and backers. . »"e The United States census for 1850 is now completed, and the lust and twenty-second volume has come home from the privters. The whole business has cost from first to last $6,000,000, and there is u genaral feeling in the west that it was an iniquitous job. The time has not yet coma when the United States requires an elaborate consus, nor will it come until the west, and particularly the northwost, has attained its full growth. When will that ttme bel These millions hiave been spent avowedly to tell facts which everyone needs to know, and they might have been arranged ina cheap presentablo form, and published ono year after tho tak- ing of the census. Instead of doing this the work has been elaborated and enlarged, and the professor in charge has been permitted to deocoratesit with so many frills of pseudo science and of questionable utility that it has been spun out into twenty-two volumes. And the mischief of it is that it is all wrong and misleading now, for in the growing seo- tions the changes wrought since 1580 are simply overwhelming, All the statements are incorrect, all the deductions are moon- shine in water, all the assumptions are so muchevapor. Its only value lies in the fact that future generatious [can consult it asa matter of record. One fool makes many. Ever since the tri- umphs of the Lick telescope on Mount Hamilton were made known to the public, there has been a gnawing feeling of envy in many quarters, and a determination to excel it. Mr, Butler is a member of the house of representatives, and he hails from Tennessee. He s one of those who cannot. sleep for thinking of the big telescope in California. Tossing on his uneasy couch and musing over the way things happen, and perhaps repining over the fact that Mr. Lick was not a native of Nashville, Mr. Butler was suddoniy hit by an idea. There was a monstrous surplus in Uncle Sam's treasu and there 1s no big telescope, that is no very Dbig telgscope. There is an excellent twenty- six inc fracting telescope belonging to the Smithsonian but Mr. Butler perhaps was not aware of it, being accustomed to look through glasses of another kind. Mr. Butler, of Tennessee, therefore introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of the mavy to svend a million dollars on the construction of a telescope with a sixty inch aperture, the instruwreut when completed to be mounted in an observatory in_the District of Columbia. Well, well! The Lick telescope has only o lens of thirty-six inclhes in diameter, and Mr. Butler wants one twenty-four mches larger than the largest in the world, and then pro- poses to clap it down in the marshes of the Potomac, close to all the exhalations of a huge city. And for wisdom like this the country pays Mr. Butler 35,000 a year. Why, it would be almost impossibie to do more with that proposed telescope than is now done by the twenty-six inch refractorof the Smith- sonian. That instrument has earned for itself a deserved reputation, but its worlk is becoming more and more limited by reason of its surroundings. As1 Came Down fro Clinton Seollard, As T came down from Lebano inding, wandering s down L mountain passes bicak and brown, The cloudless day was well-nigh done. The city, like an opal set In emerald, showed each mina Afire with radiant beams of sun, And glistencd orange, fig and lime Where song-birds made melodious chime, As I came down from Lebanon. Lebanon. As T came down from Lebanon, Like lava in the dying clow, Through olive orchards far below I saw the murmuring river run; And 'neath the wall upon the sand Swart sheiks trom distant Samarcand, With precious spices they had wouy Lay long and languidly in wait Till they might pass the cuarded gato, As [ came down from Lebauou. As T came down from Lebanon, T saw strange men from lands afar Inwosque and square and gy hazaar, “The magi and the moslem shin, And grave Effendi from Stamboul Who sherbet sipped in corners cool; And, from the balconics o'crrun With roses, gleamed the eyes of those Who dwell'in still seraglios, As I came down from Lebarion. As I came down from Lebanon The flaming flower of daytime And night, arrayed as is a br Of some great King in garme Of purple and the fiuest wold, Outbloomed in glories manifold Until the moon, avove the dun And darkening desert, void of shade, Shone like n keen Damascus blade, As I came down from Lebanon. —-— died, 3 spun Respect for the Bounce, Philadetphia Press. Lord Badckville is abusing this country among his Buropean friends, which is really too.bad. ‘There is one thing over here, how- ever, for which Sackville must have a cer- tain amount of respect, and that is for the American grand bounce. - Blunders Impaztially Distributed. Des Moines Register. It is to be said for the present management of the postoffice department that it is gen- erally impartial in the distribution of its blunders. In this respect it knows no north, no south, mo east, no west, which fact may be a slight cousolution in the midst of daily grief. e He Has the Advantage. Roston Herald, Geueral Harrison has one advantage in this matter (of selecting a cabinet) that was not possessed by his predecessor, for his term of service at Washington gave hum an oppor- tunity of becoming acquainted with the lead- ers of the republican organization, and ho is thus very much better able than Mr. Clevo- land was to judge of how different men would pull together i shapiug the policy of the adminstration, A Place For Wind-Broken Politicial Lincoln Call. ‘The announcement is made that a bill has been prepared for introduction when tue legisluture meets that will have for its object the creation of a burcau of agriculture and animal industry in the department of state, It should be met promptly with astuffed club and be batted over the. transom. A bureau of that ¢ cter would simply be the crea- tion of a half dozen places for wind-broken politicians and glandered statesmen. It vould only be adding to the expense of the state in supporting parties who how! for the ti¢ket one month in the year and who cannot support themselvos the other eleyen months, —— The County Commissioners, The members of the board of county com- missioners who are not junketing met yes- terday afternoon. There were prosent Messrs. Turner, Anderson and Corrigan. Mr. ‘Turner called the board to order and the clerk read the appropriation from the eral fund of §1,540.94, for ellaneous items during Novenib One chargo of § was made by William Green, of Ilorenc watching & dead man -who had bees up by the Missouri river. Mr. Mahoney re- warked that the dead man wanted no watch- ing and that when he found the body it was exactly where the river had washed it. The claim was, how allowed. There were two other claims for drugs and medicines, one by Max Hecht for $10.75, and avother by Max Conrad for $5. Pheso were ulso allowed, no comment being made. The county A(wps @ drug store and a mau to dispense medicines, in the basement of the building, hence the strange appear ance of a druggist’s bill. An appropriation of $1,042.50 was made from the bridge fund to dofray penses for last wonth, and the hoard adjourned. A Meeting of Ne “Phore will be a meeting of nglandors | at the Millard hotel to-me ening ut 8 o'clock 10 hear the report of tho camuiide appointed at the last meeling and to make arurgemcull for the dinner ou Foreluthers' ay. glanders. H TAE OMNIBUS BIL Several Impoctant Amendm ‘nte Pred pared by Mr. Springcr. WasHINGTON, Dec. 15.—In acoordunce with the expressed intention of the democratio caucus of last Thursday night, to susport the on 18 bill providing an enwoling act for the admission of the territories of Da- kota, Montana, Washington and New Mox; o, and of giving the people of Dakota the privi- lege of detormining whether that torritory be admitted as one or two states, Represonta- tive Springor, chairman of the committee on torritorios, has been engaged in formulating the nccessary amendments to the bill ro- ported at the last session to mako vision conform to the proposed changes, To meet the chango in the time of holding elections for the constitutional con- vention, Mr, Springor has prepared an amendment providing that the elections in the four territories shall be hold on the first Tucsday after the first Monday in May, 1380; that the delogates 8o olocted shall meok in convention on the following Fourth of July and_preparo constitutions to be sub. mitted to tho people for ratification or rejoc tion, on tho first Tucsday after the first Mon- ) the November foliowing, to determing her or not the territory of Dakota shall be admitted as a whole or divided. The proposed amendument to the omni- bus bill provides that the clece tion for dclegates o the cone stitutional convention in May oach qualified elector may have written or printed on his ballot the words “for division,” or “against division.” 1If a ity cast in that part of the ter soventh parallel duo west to the boundary of the territory shall be “for division,” the delegates clected snall as- semble at Sioux Falls. 1f a majority of tho votes cast north of the seveuth pavallol shall be “for division,” then the delegates so se- lected who may ‘reside north of the said aliel sholl,asspmble In couvention b Bis: marck. Kach convention shall then form a constitution for its state, which constitution shall be submutted to the people for ratification or rejoction, Each state shall be entitled to one represen- tative in congress. Tho aporopriations to meet the expenses of holding the two con- ventions is mcreased so as to provide for each convention the sum of §2,000 It provided that should the' people reject the respective constitutions, the territorial government of Dalkota shall continue in ex- istence the same as if the act had not boen passed; or. if the constitution for either north or south Dakota should be ro- jected, then that part of the torritory rejecting shall continue unde: the territorial government of Dakot In case the people vote fora division a pro- vision i made for the appointment of a con- mission by the two conventions to readjust and agree upon the amount of territorial debt to be nssumad by eacn of the proposed states, Mr. Springer STl (e el committee some timo next weel, for the purs pose of submitting the proposcd amendments to them for consideration. He proposes to report the amendments to tho bill to tho house at an early day. He will also ask the committee to consider the propriety of pro- posing an additional section to the Omnibus bill, providing that whenever an or nized territory of the United State shall have a legally ascertained population equal to tho number necessary to entitlo 10 u representative in_congress, such t tory will e authorized, through' its legisla- ture, to call a constitutional convention, to consist of not less than scventy-five mem- bers, who shall assemble at tho seat of government of tho y forma constitution for submission to tho people. 1f a majority of the people vote for it, It is to be transmitted to the president and by him laid before congress, and if the con- stitution 8o adopted be republican in form and in accordanco with the constitution and laws of the United States, the territory shall be admitted into the union whenever con- gress shall pass an act therefor, ——— "MORE OPIUM SMUGGLING. the pr A Gigantic Conspiracy Discovered by Officers at St. Paul. St. Pavr, Dec. 15.—The Pioneor Pross this morning made a statoment that the United States secret servico oMcers here ara on the track of a gigantic opium smuggling conspiracy. Thoy have learaed thatan or- ganized and well equipped band of smugglers has for years been operating across the north- western border. One of the gangz was arrested regent], Denver, Colo., and he made a full confession, Acting upon the nformation given by him, the deputy colloctor at St. Vincent, Minn., went west to a point on tho Dakota line Wednesday, and intercepted a wagon load of 800 pounds of opium in crude form. The whole outtit was zed and the driver of the wagon arrested, Last night two government detectives left St. Paul for the mnorth to arrest the man to whom tho opium was consigned. Dernrorr, Dee. 15.—A special from Port Huron says that for some time it has been known there and at other points along the border that a big consignment of opium was en route through Canada, and that an effort would be made to smuggle it across the bor- der somewhere in that customs district. Of- ficers were dispatched up-shore with instrue- tions to look after the consignment of the drug. They found the opium last night, but a confederate who was guarding it escaped. The drug 18 valued at $30,000, and was brought from Vancouver, B. C. Arrests are likely 10 follow. L THIE COURTS. il United States Court, Ira Barns, of Alliance, Neb., was yester- day brought into the city a prisoner of the United Statos marshal, and will be tried for seiling Liquors without a government license. Wive witnesses for tho prosocution are nlso i charge of the mavshal, An attachment has been issucd for A. R. Eiliswich, a lawyer, for sending obscena matters throush the mails, Also for Mrs. Lipp, at Fremout, this state, for sclling liquor without a license. District Court, Withnell Brothers began suit against tha city for §1,155, balance due them for construc tion of sewer, Henry J. Abrahams vs Benjamin M. Nich- olsou is asuit brought to recover $1,000 on a promissory note. Davil Van Etten commenced action agamst Joseph I, Manning to recovor $430 for pro- fessional services. County Court. Henry H. Mead commenced action against the Fisher Printing company yesterday in thie county court, The action is to recover for “sorvices rendercd. Tho judges grunted an order of attachment, Forefather's Day. The Congregational union, of Omaha, ard preparing for a celebration of Forefather's Day on Friday evening, December 21, when # dinner will be served the union by tha ladies of the St. Mary's avenue church in their new church parlors, at 50 cents an in- dividual. The dinner will be laid for 250 people at 8 o'clock, and the friends of Kore- fatber's Duy memories, whether members of the Congregational churches or not, and whether born in New Engiand or not, are in- vited to attend, The Omaha Wor the merits of the has this to say d, in wmmenunk upon hool board investigation, “The witnesses were not under oath, and could not be put under oath, Just enough talk escaped Friday night v0 convince disinterested persons that some one has lied outragzeously and that there is infor- mation in the unfathomed caves of Bill Mar- row's mind which somebody having judicial authority wight bring before the people.’ e The Art Exhibit, The Lininger art exhibit will be open to. day from 10 a. w. until 5 p. m, Mr. Lininger is very desirous of having it understood that every one is welcome to visit the gallery free of charg ‘Tlere seems Lo be #0we Misuus derstanding upon this point and the informas tion Is therefore repeated. West Virginia's Electoral Vote, Greexwoon, Neb, Dee, 15.—1'0 the Editor of Tur Bee: To decide o bet will you please state through your paper which party will re« ceive the electoral vote of West Virgiala, Respoctfully yours, J. [1he eluctorul vote of West Virgioin will be cast for Cleveland aad Thurwas, |