Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED H\Q".“Y MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION, Dty Morning Edition) including SUNDAY Bry. One ¥ 10 M For $ix Months yoor Three Months THE OMAHA SUSDAY Adaress, One Y e, WERKLY [RE, On0 ¥ OMAHA OFFRCENOS UL AN 016 F CHICAGH OFFICK 357 ROOKERY Nrew YORKORFICE, ROOMS 14 A FUILD NG, WASIINGTON OFFICH, TOURTEENTH STHERT, Ber, mailed to any ar 0 15 TRINUNE No, 613 CORNESPONDENCE Allcommunica®ions relating to news and sl Sorinl matter should be addressed to the EpiTor OF THY: BEF BUSINESS LETTERS, All business lettors and remittances shonld bo ddrensed to THE 1Kk PUBLISHING COMPANY, ONANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to e wads payable o the company. The Bee Publishing Company Proprietors ¥ . ROSEWATER, Editor. ————— e THE DALY BEE Sworn Statement ol Circulation. Btateof Nebraska, | County of Donglas, | George I}, Tzschuck, Hishing Company, Aoes ol actual circufation of T week ending Decem ber Sunday, Dec. 1 Monday, Dec. 1 Tuesduy Dec, 1 Wedneaday, De Thursday. Friday, Dec Baturday, Dec 8. ecrotary of The Nes Pab. iy swear that the DAILY BEE for the . 1888, was as follows 18,230 7 8078 X i1 KR 1K.0m 18052 N1 O 18 GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. ore me and subscribed in my 1l day of December A, D, 1885, N. P. FEIL, Notavy Public. being duly sworn, de. lio [y secretary of tho lie that the actusl ay daily circulution of ‘T DALY Bkg for the month of Decenber, 187, 15,041 cople uary, 188, 16,200 coples; for Kebru Average Eworn to 1 presence this Seal State of Nebraska, County of Dougias, George B, Tzschuck, s and says that hlishing company 15,00 copies; for March, 1588, 10,680 ¢ April, 18, 14,74 coples: for May, coples: for Jime, 1888, 10243 copies: fo 1848, 18,033 coplos? for Angiist, 1888, 15,11 for Keptember, 1848, 15,154 coples: for Octobor, 198, was 18084 coptes: for November, 1884, 18,085 coples, GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Bworn to and subscribod in my Presence this sth day 438 N. . FEIL v Public, before mo t Decombar, Nofa Now that the slate for president of the new council is smashed it is ex- pected that the present mombers of the council will turn their hand at some- thing clse. VALUCABLE gold discoveries are re- ported from Arizona in the neighbor- hood of Fort Yuma. Is Arvizona sprend- ing the news to attract immigration and boom herself into statehood? ay becoming more and vinduet at the It 1s every ¢ more apparent that Tenth street crossing of the Union Pacific and B. & M. t sanccessity. The flying switch nuisance in making up trains increases the dangers daily at \c TiE senate on Thursday passed some ninety bills in just sixty minutes. At that rate, legislation of great import- ance to Nebraska, and especially to Omaha, ought to be reached within a haif-hour after the re-convening of congress, January 5. TLLINOTS has o new banking law soon to go iuto effect which will effectually put a cheek to wild cat schemes of pri- vate banking associations. It behooves our legislat to compare the banking laws of Nebraska with those of Illinois and see where changes could be made in our statutes for the better protection of depositor and borrower. TuHE resumption of the fast train service between Chicago and Omaha and Chicago and Kansas City is again being agitated in railroad circles. The proposed restoration in passenger rates and the action taken at the meeting of the general managers at Chicago to prevent rate wars appears to afford assurance that the fast train service can be resumed without much risk of serious 1os: THE immense tract of land in Colo rado and New Mexico embraced under the Maxwell land grani, has been brought into litigation. It has not been very long since the supreme court decided in favor of the company, and it was thought at the time that the right to the land, whatever question there was as to its justice, was settled once for ull. The suit just begun at Denver is being pushed by a syndicate of cap- ftalists in bohalfof the claimants. The prayer of t he petitioners is to the effect that the Maxwell land company be for- ever enjoined from title to it. The out- come of the suit is of great interest to the people of Colorado and New Mexico. Should the Maxwell land grant be set aside, it will break onc of the greatest monopolics in the country. again T eyils of the justice shops are not confined to Omaha. The cities of Ill- tnois outside of Chicago have been long complaining of the unsatisfactory eon- dition of the present system of justices of the peace, and are taking moasures to secure relief, 1t is proposed to estab- lish in cities and villages of fifty thou- sand or more inhabitants a convenient number of district courts, with the same jurisdiction and powers as justices of the peace. The judges of these courts aro to be appointed by the governor with the ap- proval of the senate and to hold office four years. The salarics of such judges are to be fixed by the legislature and paid out of the village or city treusurie By the proposed change in the justices courts, fees are wholly abolished, thus avoiding needless litigation and a source of much wrong and oppression. DEsPITE the fact that the south has not kept pace with the marvelous growth of the west and northwest dur- ing the past decade, it has made ma- terial progress. By compilations just made of the total assessments for 1858 of veul estate, personality and railroads in the south, the taxable wealth of the southern states is shown to be over three billions, six hundred millions, This statement indicates a greatin- crease over the taxable wealth of the south in 1880, when it was computed at one billion, two hun- dred millions. For the eight years, Floriaa and Texas show the greatest, and Virginia and Louisiana the least advance in material prosperity. In population, the south has gained nearly five and a half millions since the census of 1850, Taking it all in all, the southern states need not be #shaweod of this showing. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, A DIPLOMATIC VACANCY. English statesmen are manifesting some coneern to know what our govern- ment intends todo in the matter of filling the vacancy caused by the United States government’s dismissal of Sac ville-V When the government was in the houss of commons some time ago what the Intention was, the question was met with an evasion. The inference at once obtained that it was the purpose of the British orn- ment not to appoint a successor to Lord Sackviile until after the inauguration of General Harrison, and it was inti- mated that in the event of Lord bury stating this to intention of the governm question should again ister Phelps would at I'he tendency ol the wrable dij sked gov bo nt, w raised, ) tako might be aused e, The subje 0 house of lords last Priday, and our Sun day cable dispatches presented an ab stract of sch by the Earl of Dun- haven, most courteous and friendly to this conntry. The Ay huve taken a somewhat exaggerated view of Ameri can feeling regarding this matt his Bounsel to his own government was wise It not reported that any iontimation of what is intenae came from any representation of the government, but it would be well to heed the gestions made. The people of United States approve the action their goverament in dismissing offending English minist nd next administration is not likely to found sympathizing with any procecd- ing on the part of the English govern- ment designed to discredit rebuke the action of the presentadministration in this affair. This is not a matter of politics or parties. It involves a vital principal in the relations and in course of nations, the observance of which the whole American peo- ple recoguize to be sary. Home criticism upon course of the admimstration referred ¢ o its failure toact promptly and summarily when the facts came to its knowledge, suggesting that delay occasioned by political considerations. There has never been, however, any di- vision of opinion among Amevican citi- ens respecting the duty of the govern- ment to dismiss the offending minister. [tis a matter of far more importance to the British government than to this country that it should be properly rep- sented at Washington, and it able in the interests of continued friendly relations, as the Earl of Dun- wen suid, that such vepresentation shall not be unduly delayed. All intel- lenve t this to incr rity me ¢ ASD) by this omatic epi was re 1 in the n as el r, but is and judicious. Sugr- the the the be neces- the solel was is de- ligent Buglishmen must rogard it es- pecially unfortunate that Lord Salis- bury seems not to be susceptible to the enlightened views of the Eari of Dun- raven. A PROPOSED INVASION. Very likely congress will not be seri- ously disturbed or influenced by the movement reported to be organizing to invade Oklahoma, in the event of the ailure of the bill to ereate a terrvitory of that region. It is said that ther: now a force of between ten and fourt, thousand in Kansas, under the leader- ship of Pawnee Bill, whose purpose it is to march to Oklahoma City if con- gress does not pass the pending terri- torial bill. The invasion to be a veaceful one if the invaders are allowed to have their own way, otherwise th will fight. Pawnee Bill and his follow- ers are misleading themselves. Under uo circumstances would they be permitted to carry out their professed purpose, because the government of the United States could not tolerate any business of the kind contemplated. They would certainly fail, and tonot a few of them, if the were obstinate, the failures would be disastrous. The circumstance is worthy of attention, simply as showing the in- tense desire of the people of Kunsns for the creation of the territory of Okla- homa, so that it may be opened to settle- ment, The bill pending in congre poses to organize anew territor bracing within its jurisdiction all lands in Indian Torritory not occupied by the five civilized tribes, together with s known the public land strip. The territory thus described is bounded on the north by Kansus and Colorado, on the east by the Osage and Creek countries, eivilized tribes, on the south by the civilized Chickasaw nation end a8, and on the west by Texas and New Mexico, 1t embraces on the enstern sido o1ght comparatively small rvations, occupied by differcnt In- dian tribes, and in the greater part of the southern four or five large resorvations wceupied by some of the more savage tribes. More than half the territory, which has an area of about thirty-seven hundred squarc miles, or something less than that of Rhode Island and Delaware combined, is now occupied by Indian tribes. The portions not so occupied are mostly on the north- and contiguous to country already occupied by the whites. The proposal to organize a new terri- tory from this region has met with a good deal of of opposition and obstruc- tion. The Indians, of course, are quite generally opposed to it, and there is also a very considerable white influ- ence unfavorable to any change. In time, however, the proposed terri- tory will certainly be ized, and there does not appear to be gny sufficient reason why the first steps in that direction should not be taken at once. But obviously the way to help to this result is not by an organization of the white people of the contiguous country with the avowed purpose of seizing the coveted land in 50 the national government doos not permit them to get it in another way. ———— NEW MEXICO'S DEFICIENCIES. Those who are demanding the ad- mission of New Mexico to statehood evi dently know nothing of the deficienci of that tervitory. 1f they were ade- quately informed they would scarcely have the hardihood to ask that a popu- lation more than half of wnich does not speak the English language, that is ig- norant of our laws and not in the fullest 4 Bympathy with our system of govers- on is side or ment, and that pays almost no attention to publie edueation, should be given the privileges and responsibilities of statehood. All trustworthy testimony coming from New Mexico conclusively shows that the population of th territory, even if numerically suffic- fent to entitle 1t to statehood, is not in condition to give it a claim to a mo- ment's cor iion Judge Jennison, of Detroit, who has made an extended tour of New Mexico and carefully observed all that was worthy of obsevvation, is of the opinion that the greatest sufferer of admission would be the new 118 would find itself in of administration not know how to recently in « stat , sinee it possession of tools which it would It is in most ts two centuries hind the rest of the United Among the incidents observed trial in whici could not English, The testimony, the f the lawyers and the had to is practi use. States by the the jury spoak judge was a in M of of icans wor be translated to the Ally no native talent,™ yet ch ST said the in case Mexico were admitted state from he talent must be chosen the judges to administer herim- matnre legal prac I'he mongrel Spanish and Moxican population is it progressive in any respect, and 1t does not readily assimilate with Americans To invest such a people with the dig nity and the duties of statehood would not be to their benetit and would be a wrong to all the of the country., Yet this 13 what M, Springer and most of the democrats in congress propose as a4 condition to ad- mi ght ing populations of Dakota, Washington and Montana to It striking example of how far partisan feeling and interest may go in over riding every consideration of justice, patriotism and the general welfare, Al SSARY AMENDMENT. The charter committee taken action to amend section 165 of the char- ter, which has been taken advanta by the council in ting over This section of the charter prov that judgments against the city shall be paid out of the general fund or by a tax levied on all taxable property within the city. Under this authority, the council has created debts and made ille- gal expenditures time and again by con- fessing judgments for claims that should have been paid out of the gen- fund. With such powers in its hands, 1t has been an easy matter for the council to heap debts upon the city in defiance of charter limitations. The scction opens wide the door for municipal extravaganee and dishon- esty. It is high time, therefore, that the interests of the taxpayers and the credit of the city be protected. The amendment proposed to section 165 will commend itself to every citizen who de- sires to check the council in its illegal assumption of power. The amendment provides that the mayor be prohibited from confessing judgment for any claim incurred for work done or material furs nished during any year, or anticipated by previous obligations incurred,andno judgment shall be enterved by the courts against the city for such claimants, unless it be snown that such elaim is not in conflict with the provision. The amendment, furthermore, provides that the members of the council by whose votes such obligations shall have been individually incurred shall be liable for the full.amount of the obligations. Hedged about with such restrictions and penalties, the council will not rush headlong into illegal expenditures. NEXT to a cabinet position, a foreign mission appears to be most sought for by statesmen and politicians. The candi- dates who want to represent the United States at the imperial courts of Kurope are, if anything, more numerous than the men who wish to be called to Gen- eral Harrison’s cabinet. The recent interview between General [arrison nd ex-President Ha; has revived the talk that a foreign mission will, in all probability, be tendered Mr. Hayes. Whitelaw Reid is most likely to succeed Minister Phelps to England., Williom Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, aspires to o to Paris, while Colonel #'red Grant med for the diplomatic ser- vice to China. There is but little doubt that President Harrison will have an extensive assortment of candidates to choose from for our diplomatic service. INSPECTOR BONFIELD, of the Chicago police, declares that there is no gamb- ling carried on in that city. Has old “*Huteh” gone out of the wheat pit? rge ™ wdge, “legal or otherwise, sa legal ng the en A and enterpris- statchood. is has 15 being STATE JOTTINGS, The Red Willow County Teachers’ asso tion meets at McCook January 4 and 5. A camp of Modern Woodmen was tuted at Cedar Rapids last week. The Falls City Journal has reached its majority. 1t was twenty-onc years old last weok, The Omaha Indians are raising funds to build a church and school house near Ban- croft, he warm weather is given as the cause of lack of life in the watrimonial market at Columbus, The Bancroft band hopes to be in shape to furnish music for the next Fourth of July celebration. *There are $30,000 in delinquent taxes due Dakota county and tho treasurer is muking a strong effort to collect Claims for burned hay made by farm against the railroad company have been tled at the rate of §1 a ton, = ‘e survey for the Gothenburg canal has been completed, and it is estimated thav 000 will be néeded to finish the work. he Aurora republicans are urging Hamil sounty’s representativos in the legisia- ture to secure a normal school for that pluce. The Nebraska State Record is the name of & new lnrum\mmn paper just launched at Ashland with W. A, Thompson ut the helm. The barking of cayotes disturbs the rest of Loup City people, aid a hunting party will be organized to still the howlings of the beasts. It is claimed cattle thioves insti- ors that an organized gang of mukos its headquarters in Dalota county, Frank Wright, of Blyburg, whio is suspected of belonging to the gang, has been arrested and held for trial in bonds of §1,000. Abram Barrett, a promnent resident Stockham, died suddenly of apoplexy Satur- day morning, He was sixty-eight years old, had beon married three times, was the father of uinotwen children, and was a voieran of tho late war, haviug been a member of the Eleventh Wisconsin infantry While Miss Mabel Horton, of Genoa, was attempting to cross the railroad track the other night on horscback, her pony was struck by an engine, dragged twenty rods aud orn W pleces, The young ludy was 1888 thrown many fect to one sido, where she was fonnd blesfifig and insensible, but not fatally injureds For curious sfrenmstances and peculiar combinations of events, commend us to the “wild and woolly west,” says the Benkle man Pioneer. Ope day last week gentle man living near Haiglor was billed to mako final proof on his claim, beforc the county judgge, und two of his neighbors were adver tised to act in the capacity of witnesscs for him. When the tme arriv the proof to be made the claimart and his witnessos ar ed, in chains and in_charge of the sheriff The proof, however, was made and duly at wsted by the witnesses, the sheriff consider ately removing the handcuffs from the gen tlemen’s wrists ¥ ailow of a more free and untran eled nse of the pen in signing thewr names, Tho gentlomen in question were under arrest for burglarizing a store at Haigler, and the time for making proof and the time for them to g ail happened to come on the samo day MO} Rev. A. W, Lamar's Discourse at the irst Baptist Ohurch. A. W. Lamar preached the seventh in his serics of family sermons at the First Baptist church, corner of Fifteenth and Dav. enport streets, last night. He took for his subject: “Motherhood—Its Joys and Re sponsibilities.” His text was from Psalms 113:10: “A joyful mother of children,” Some one has said, *When God thought of mother He must have laughed with satisfac tion and framed it quickly rich, so deep, 80 divine, 80 full of soul, power and benuty was the conception.” The thought of father affects us so differently from that of mothe: The very thought ) hier brings up memorics aven on child “As one whom ymfort thee, and pictures which were en hood's life. When God says his mother comforteth will 1 the picture comes up of a distressed chilil ZOINg o its mothor with a_trounle 1t knows not how to tell: but she takes it in her arms, understands it without explanation, goes to the root of its trouble and comforts it so that its sorrow is gone and smiles come back to tho tear-stained cheek, What a’ thought is mother's! of our nature as sho does. At times she seews almost inspired, 8o groat and marvel onsis ber capacity to understand her child ren. Who can tell the experience of a mother over hor first born? There is no picture this side of heaven which means_as much as that picture seen when the new born babe is laid for tho first time on its mother’s bosom, Mrs. Emily Judson says “The pulse first caught its tny stroke, The blood its erimson hue from ming; The life, which T have dared invoke, Henecforth is parallel with thine.” No painter's hrush can tell all the heavenly expressions which comes into the young mother's face as she holds her first babe to her riosity, prophecy, joy, pride, motherliness —all written in that 1ok of in distructible love, A christian physician of y said to me once, after ne through a picture gallery, that there was no picture on earth which So tuched his heart as that of the young mother holding her first babe to her bosom. By divine arrangment the mother sits upon the throne of the house and reigns without a rival. Herchildren behold truth and good- ness incarnated in her life. A Roman gen eral said: “Paradise is at the feet of mothers.” When' all other iufluences fail u wan and fade from uis vision, the vision of his mother and childiood’s house abide with him. Inall his weary and evil wanderings he never gets beyond the overshadowing of her memory. She is the chief constellation in his moral hoavens, As she comes nearer to the children is hor responsibility increased. 1 would counsel you mothers to be_faithful in trainiug your. children, Mrs. Sigourney says: “And sayto mothers what o holy chiarge is theirs, with what a kingly powcr thcir love might rule the fountams of the new-born mind, Warn them to wake at early dawn and sow good seed before the world sows tares.” Remember yon have the child more ex- clusively under your mifluence and at the very best time of its ife, for laying the foun- dation of future character. When it camo into the circle of your influence its heart was as the sensitive plate of the camera, rea receive but not yet having any impres made thereon. The first mmpression thereon is made by the mother, A moth should work out this truest of child-tr with fear and trembling. Your influence is more impo nt than even th minister's I'he Scoteh were right when they said: “A ounce of mother is worth a pound of pi son.” Her influence will flow on throu the child’s life, despite all the storms which sweep his bosom as does the gulf stream flow through the ocean. What a vast ad. vantage the mother has in that she has the child more than all others for the first ten years of its life. He can be influenced more by her than any other being of earth. How profoundly significant this fact: “The mother who sings hymns over the cradle of her child that it may learn cternal songs, is doing a higher wor 1 if she were Jenny Lind singing on the stage.” 1 know it Sometimes scems idle for toiling mothers to indulwe in_romantic ideas which poets and noveli pout a mother's high mission, but I beg you to remember that the noblest thing that is done in this world is when a mother does in truth and in the fear of God train up a child. Al men must stand back in the presence of such a mother. | member thut both in ancient and modern history it is the ordinary women like your. self whp have done so much to enrich the world by the way they trained their children. 1t is ordinary, humble women, like the moth: ers of Spurgeon and Moody, who have done 50 much for the whole world Again L counsel you that zood example must adorn succced with your children.” Most of you had a good start in intelligence. You have been well educated. If you had not this advantage then you must culttvate your minds. You need to huve all your facultics well trained, st know when to reward one and punish another, must know that what will make Charlie will ruin Willie, In this ago of the world 1gnorance as to how to train children is unpardonable. Many of our mothers and grandmothers with Little or no schooiing were well informed and splenaidly mtelli- gent mothers. Lot your example emphasize your teaching. _Keep the equilibrium; don’t 1ly to pie Have solf. JLor you can't control the children, A mother boxes little Mary's cars and calls her a **nasty brat” bo. cause she upset her coffce on the brewkfast table. A day or two after, when Mary's little visitor docs the same thing, the mothe sweetly says: "It doesn’t make any diffe ence, ~Don’t mind it.” Mary opens her eyes wide and looks in wonderment at her intellige and you it you will n, T counsel you to make your home for your children. Many moth neglect this, It costs some effort and they are too lazy or ton stupid to make it. No ‘wonder the children want to go from home evenings. Hore is au old fashjoned receipt for a little home comfort: Take for thought of seif one part, two parts of thought for family; equal parts of common Senso and broad’ intolli- ence, a larger modicum of senso of the fit noss Of things, & heaping meusure of living above what your ueighbors think of you, co the quantity, of keeping within your yme, o sprinkling of what tonds to re- rent and esthetic beauty, stirred thick with christian principle of the true brand, and set it to rise, Put this into your home and children will thnk it the swectest place on earth Icounsel in conclusion that you must be a christian. Except you are oné yourself how can you_ consecrate your children to the Lordt Withall the valuablo accessions you may have in the way of intelligence, moral example and beautiful homes, unloss you have the spirit and gracos of a christian mother you are not fitted to train your chil dr i God their ure not many prayer s8 mothers. There ure millious of children in heaven who were brought there by christian mothers. ~ As they crowd the battlements of heaven and are looking out for the coming of their motiers, what a song will burst from them us they'see them enter tho pearly wates, What a welcome such mothers will huve. A son was dying on a far off shore. He had been sick some time in that strange land He folt that life was ebbing fast. Ho called the nurse and dictated a letter to his mother My dear, beautiful, blossed mother: Your prayers ave answored. 1 die in peace in God through Jesus Christ our Lord, I'll be at hoaven's gate to welcome you. You saved my soul, 'Till then fareweil.” No Ohristinas Table should he without a bottle of Angostura Bitters, the world renowned appetizer of exquisite lavor. Beware of counter- tyits. happy sadly Only God ean _touch such depths™ BALLOT FRAUDS IN FRISCO. The Respectable Element Deter- mined to Have a Recount. DOES MITCHELL FEAR DEMPSEY? What the Sports of the California Metropolis Think About It— Houses in Alleys—Coal is Still Falling. A Recount Demanded. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.-[Spacial Correspondence of Tie Bek J-~The one prevailing topic in the great motropolis of the Pacific slope is the necessity of a recount for the city and county. In consequence of the doings of Buckley, the blind boss of the city democracy; of his the pri- maries; and creating a phalanx of white political highbinders prepared to do his bidding even at the cost of human life, there was a determination on the part of respectable publican ticket forthe purpose of smash- ing him. But his hen to the occasion and deliberately counted out republicans, In of this the principal offices were captured by the republicans by majorities too large for any honey-fugling. Wherever the voto enough to warrant counting out it was resorted to unscru- pulously, especially for super- visors and for the legislature. The Chronicle of this city made an informal vecount, showing conclusively that two republicans had been wronged, one a candidate for the assembly, the other for the state And the Chronicle makes tho point that the iemocratte candidate for congross in one of thecity eongressional districts has only a majority of fifty-one, and as in wwo of the sts of that district there had been according to the recount a manipulation of 155 voles, there are very grave doubts whether this demo- cratic congressman was tealy elected. There is a general demand for count, which it is hoped will ba ordered by the legisiature. It is much to be de- sired that the eiection 1aws shall be amended thatin future such glaring abuses shall be impossible, 'HE ALLEGED SUGAR FRAUD, There wasa very jovial time among the American refinery’s employes the other night, to celebrate the release of the Westmeath’s consignment of Java sugar. The compan d what the cusiom house demanded under protest: and had the sugar examined by seven chemists, three of whom belong to their staff, and four are outsiders. The v hol seven are unanimous that the sugar was not artific colored, and that its grade precisely what was invoiced. Therefore the American Sugar company feel confident that the money paid will be refunded. The col- lector of the port, Mr. Hager, is ex- ceedingly annoyed about the matter, but claims that he could not have acted other than he did in the face ef the pos itive information. Thls was not anony- mous, but ne openly from the Spreckels, and was written on the office paper of the Californin Sugar Refine company, with the regular printed lot- ter head. Collector Huger gave a copy to the press gang, and it made a sensa- tion in Frisco, especially among the merchants trading with the Sandwich Islands. They went avound as busy as bees to all their acquaintances in busi ness matters, saying, you cused us of back-capping Claus Spreckels about his Hawaian transactions, what do you think of theold rip now? Isn't this a nice man to deal witl And just cstimate his power when he had the ear of Kalukua, and could do what he liked in Hawai!” Both the sugar companics have made cuts in ices, and ther is war to the knife, which must end in the ruin of the California sugar refinery, the Spreckels concern. There can be no doubt that the senate bill will be the basis of the tariff within six months at the latest, and that will kill their beet root estublishment at Wat- sonville as well. The world of the | cific slope will be glad to sec them ruined, for they have been bitter pills to this community. WIITE GLOVES WELL BEARNED, A steawmer wrrived from Hong Kong and Yokohamu recently without . sin- gle Chinaman for San Prancisco. There were some merchants of that national- ity bound for Mexico, but there were no pig-tailed passengers bound for the glorious eity of Frisco, for the first time these many, many yeuars, ome one in the Pioncers club, who was once a Welshman, said that in the Welsh cir- cuits it was customary when there were no prisoners for trial for the sheriff to announce the fact by presenting his honor with a pair of white kid gloves, and he suggested that it would be a good iden to present the captain of the City of New York with a box of white Iids in honor of an event so full of good omen to San Francisco. By acelu- mation the proposal was yuml"\l. and the captain was captured, and brought to a jolly lunch-party where, aftor Belipse champagno had flowed like water, the Welsh member mad his speech, and presented the gloves. The Pioncers ave very happy in little improvisations of this kind, which cre- ate much good fecling, und’ at the same time pointn moral, 1f theso jolty hears would not squabble so much among themselves they would be faultiess, but ever sinee the sons of forty-niners have igible for admission, th has been an amount of heart-burning and intriguing equal to anything among the editors of the New York Herald, ‘Thoy have, however, 60 strong a hold upon the love and esteem of the community that everyone rejoices when they do a happy thing, and is sorry when thoy begin a growling campaign. They a at present at loggerheads with the Academy of Sciences, and arve acting like veritable bruins in o sulky mood, But sooner or later they may be reliod upon to do the right thing in the right wiy MITCHELL AFRAID OF DEMPSEY, Our Golden Gate athletic club has been most anxious to arrange a fight between Mitchelland Dempsey, and has recently made the most _tempting offer, promising a purse of #5,250 in twenty- doliar gold pieces, Mitchell hus re- }n»u 2dly said that ke 18 in this country or dollars, and one would think that he would jump at the chance of getting not only this but the #5000 which the Williamsburgh Nonpareil will put up on his own account. But no, Mitchell will not hear of fighting under ring rules, and proposes to box ten rounds in some big city for gate money. Demp soy is more than willing, He is just spoiling for the chance to pound the Knglish blowhard, and has sent several long dispatches to the secretary of either one or other of our two clubs, but in both of them expressed his fear that Mitchell would pot fight. We learn from private lettors that the Mitchell- Kilrain combination of sparrers that is traveliug through the country is uot terrorizing republican citizens to vote the re- hmen were equal sevoral spito was clos senate. precin are- S0 drawing money, and that in eve where they exhibit Mitchell is and spectators ory him, ‘Why don't you o to California¥" Why, indeed? That is the question. No pugilist ever had such a chance to make so muc money, for there is actaally more desire to see those two men pittea against ench other than to John L. and Kilrain between the ropes. There has been intense excitement over the pros pect, and now that it plainly appears that Mitchell is afraid, ther unqual ified disgust. Everybody is talking about it, and the pretonse of this cur that he whipped John L. Sullivan, and vetis afraid to meet a middle-weight, lias rained him for good in this state He and Kilrain would only dr: rotten eggs if they came to Californiag and in the mining territories Mitehell will be obliged to tackle any number of good men, who are ready to jump on him, now that he has shown the whit feather so shamefully COAL STILL Nothing has saved from a disastrous broak in prices save the moderate amount of the visible supply. Prices are coming down. not atone jump, but in regular gradation, so that the dealers waik down a flight of steps instead of falling from the top to the bottom. The Wellington Colliery company of Vancouver has made its see ond reduction within month, and has come down to $12 a ton, and the Coos Bay company has descended to $1) a ton. People here are asking, and with great pertinency, why more was asked by these two companics durin the strike of the Austealinn conl minc at Neweastlo. Ave freights lower than they were? Are miners working for half-wages? Why was $20 asked for a ton of Welington conl six weeks ago, and only $12 to-any? We want to know upon what basis the men of Vancouver propose to supply us with coal. Some of the papers here, notably the Call, a good motherly kind of a concern, ar favor of developing the consumption of Colorado and Wyoming coal, which is just beginning to assume visible pro- portions. But | say this would be jump- ing from the frying-pan into the five. The coul supply of Wyoming is owned by the Union Pacific, and that from Colorado is just as completely in the hands of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, and these two would combine and cinch us ina minute, if we ceased to deal with the Vancouver and Australian men. We have at present the alternative of getting the Japan conl, which comes to Kobegthe second great port of the empire. We shall have in the future the finest quality of conl from Utah. There is where our future supply lies. i3ut the great want of this city is some place where conl ean be stored in immense quantities. So long aswe persist in this hand to mouth poliey the temptation to cinch us will always be too great for human resist- anco. We have a right to be angry with our coal dealers in Vancouver, but the most pradent thing to do would be to keep our anger in our stomachs until we can dispense with their coal, and then wo ean be angry to some purpose. My plan would be t9 have a great coal depot either on Goat island, or in the neighborhood of Saucelito, in Marin county, and bring the coal in li or large tugs tp the different wh connoction with the small locel This must be done sooner or later, and the sooner the botter for every house wife in this city. NO BACK ALLEYS IN FRISCO. The most recont dovelopment in Frisco is the conversion of the back al- leys into courts, on which are built neat, comfortable, even handsome houses of small size for the accomoda- tion of the working elasses. The ma- jovity of our lots are 120 feet deep, so there is ample space for a row of super- ior dweiling houses facing the street, and w row of small ones facing on the court. There are quite a nimber of families who possess a redwood _cottage on alot 40 feet by 120 feet. This sults from the carly days when ever body was crnzy about having a gavdén and raising lowers all the year round. Now, as a matter of fact, Califoroa is a paradise for people who are fond of gardening, for there is no end to the surprises in store when one attacks problems in acelimatizing flowers from everywhere, because the climate works absolu Tako-the poppy, for instance isa di ssion from the subject in hand, which is courts. When o man has a corner lot of th dimensions, all he has to do is to build three or four neat cottages on the cross street. But those who do not possess corner lots are building on the aliey, to the manifest improvement of the city’s appearanc I like the idex of thése poor men's houses cheek by jowl with®the man- stons of the well-to-do. If there isuny thing which the Californian despises it is the 1den of a purt of the city monop- olized by the very wealthy. Nothing makes me so mad as the question of some foreigner just come i me, *Where i§ your beau qu invariably answer him by spreading out my hands and saying, Mossoo, everywhere. Frisco 157l be quarticr,” e finds out the difference when he gets to the North Beach! But the courts really an improvement upon the aile, Not that the latter were like the alleys of oth westorn cities, Heaven forbid! T have possed u week or two in Denver, and if ever our nlley-ways had been 'within spenk- ing distance of theira—filled with ashes and filth and decaying vegetable sub- stances, and the emptyings of the mut- trassos of typhoid fover patients—I would have forsworn wy name and na- tion, and lived and died as a hermit on Mount Tamul pais, THE TRAIL OF TIE SERPENT. Talking about the improvement in the appenrance of the eity, how pleasant will be the time when the Chinese quarter will be redeemed fromits pollu- tion. [ read insome enstorn puaper o place 1sulted, out to FALLING. the coal dealars paragraph about u Boston Sunday schoot teachoer mureying one of her pupils, a Chinaman. She's welcome, poor girly only keep them away from us. They have done us incaleulible harm in many ways, have retarded our growth, have been a blight upon our city, and have left the trail of theiry after them ven where they have disappeared. Re- ently there appearod 1n an aftornoon papor in Oukland, neross the biy, an ue- count of a morphine elub where o lot of foolish young men enjoyed the luxury of hypodermic injections in company. In the same house w accommodations for opium smoking for men and women, but the female patrons were all of the demi-monde, and the house itsell had formerly been of a aotorious character and was located in a notorious quarter The house was the property of a detec- tive who transferred it to fs son, and he leased it to a scoundrelly Chinaman These wretche ar not only vicious themselves, but they tend w make others vicious, 1 happen to know one of the members of that club, and asked him whether he had ever ex| ced any of the de- lights narrated by De Quincey in his “Confessions of an Oplum Eatér.” He said that he had not, that he had con menced hoping that he would have,and went on and on until his nerves were not steady if he did not » them with hypodermic injections. One of the Pi- oneers told me once that once when he was attacked with the yellow fever in Panama he was given oplum in some form, and he had the sonsatious so often spoken of. He was oxcessively wonk at the time, and it is possible that it only acts in that way when men's cons stitutions are abnormally low. When ho was woll and hearty yoarsaftorwards he had the curiosity to hit the pipe. He only reaped the luxury of a splitting headache, and restod satisfied with his experience. Tia. - A RATE WAK BREWING. The Union Pacific and Northwestern Co-operato on Passenger Trafic, The announcement publistod in Tie Bew yesterday that the Chicago & Northwestorn would put on a fast train between Council Blufts and Chicago early in January, caused srablo esmmotion in local railway cles, especially among the Burlington people. that the 1t has been known for some time Northwestern had this matter under consid cration, but it was not thought that it would Tho an nouncement in consequence has givon riso to various rumors, augurate the service 8o soon 1t will be romembers eneral Man. rer Kimball, of the Union PaciMe, in coa- versation with a reporter for Tue Bee sov. cral days ago, stated that the Northwestorn and his road were considering the matter of establishing fast train service between Chicago and the westorn coast. He also stated thet the running of the “Golden Gate Special™ to Chicago over the Northwestern was being considered at that time, and that the outcome would be a fast train'on the Northwestorn to Couneil IFI” 8, whe it would connect with the Union Pacific’'s fast train, or the anning of the latter's ain through to Chicago. 'he recent developments go to show that the fast train to be puton by the Northwoestern s the result of this, and that it will ate Jointly with the Union Pacific. Individuals connected with the general passenger trafio in this city regard this ion as a blow aimed at the Burlington, ana a step e in order that the Union Pacific and wrth western may be enabled to obtain o large portion of the passenger traffic west from Chicago, and cast bound frow the Pacific coast. It is well known that the Burlington, by means of direct commurrication over it own lines to Chicago, has recoived a liberal patronage of the pussenger trafic betweon that point and Denver, and that having a through service, it obtained a large poreonts age of that trafic By the in uration of the above system between the orthwestern and Union Pacitic, the most direc communi cation will be established between those pomnts, This moans discrimmation ugainst the other roads traversing the same territo as the Northwestern, and attaches of the passen * department state that it will not only ilt in the ¢ lapsc of the Western Passenger associatio but that it will eventually result in a ous cutting of rates, and the inauguration of a rate war between Omaha and Chicago. Some of them even go so far as to state that the Burlington would follow up this doal with a reduction in rates between Chicago and Den- ver. ner; Holdrege, of the Burlington, concerning this, stated that the co-operation of the Union ltil('l”" nd the Northwestern was a blow aimed at this road, and that it was brought about i order that the contracting roads mignht obtain a portion of the Burlington's trafic. When ask if lis road would counteract by making a reduction in passen- eer rates, he declined to state, but said that in gl probability an effort would be made to cheek any Jsuch movement Indirectly this is construed, by railroad men, to mean that the cut will be made in - case the Bur- lington experiences any loss by the combi- nation. 1t is also stated that fast service will be put on between Chicago and Kansas City at an carly date. REV. DR. DURYEA. His First Lecture to His New Congre- gation The Rev. Dr. Duryea assumed his duti as pastor of the First Congregational church, yesterday. The gentlemun has been called here from Boston to fill the position he now holds and great and many were the expecta- tions and anticipations as to what manuer of mun he was. His reputation as a preacher and a divine is well known., He was heard of long hefore he ever thought of taking up his abode in Owaba, Therefore the church was crowded at all the services yesterday and many who are not regular worshippers at this particular shrine might have beon noticed among the congregation, In the evening, Dr. Druyea preached from the text: “He bringeth his first born into the world that he might be the first born among many The world was created as now, full of life No new thing or animal had ap- peared since the creation, Man was the last and noblest work of God. After man, God rested aud then made nothing new. Many of the original oreations of God had ceased to be. Others had been improved and many made beautiful by development. All things were made by Him and all made to serve Him. Subduing, improving, verfecting was man’s duty. Cre- ation 1 working from the lower to the higher, and from the higher to a still loftior and holier sphere. Man has been endowed with intelligence, imagination and aspivations by which he may lift himself and struggle upward to the best e can con ceive, Unfortunately, he is often *wrockod and falls into that terriole abyss. Stitl ho has always within himsolf a desire to make more of himsolf. Tho creation was succeeded by growth, growth by development and - development by improvement. Man had been given endloss development and immense improvement, The end of nan s divine manliness, the purpose of the woman christian womanli ness. ‘There must be a pure and perfect love of God, holy purpose and a holy enthusinsm. ‘The preacher thon spoke of the seriousness he folt in addressing a new congregation for the first tima, Ho hoping, howevor, that bo- fore the next time he addressed them ho would be familliar with their faces, and in- stead of talking to the clouds he could look right into their eyos and direct his remarks particularly to them. The app nee of the reverend proacher in the pulpit 1s rather impressive. Ho is about forty-five years of age, with iron gra, a lofty and striking forehead, with strongly arched eyebrows and penctrating gray eyes. Ho isclean shaven and wours the usual sacordotal garb of black. He is not what could be termed an eloguent speaker, but is extremely impressive and philosophical. He never rants and seldom indulges in flights of rhetorio. He appeals to the mind rather than the emotions. voice 15 ple rticulution st that he may be disting vd iu the motest part of the buil ‘I'he quart choir sang some beautiful anthems and Mr. N, Bringham renderec beautiful adaptation from the French Catarrhal Dangers. To be fr while Iy Manager when asked re ed from the dangers of suffocation i to breathe freely, sleep, soundly and undisturbed rise retroshed head ctear, biain active and frae from pain o ache; 1o know thist 1o polsonous, ptrid matter Aeflles the breath and rots away the delicate machinery of smell, taste and Leatings to feol that the system doos not, tirough its veins and arteries, suck up the polson that fs sure to un- dermine and destroyis indeed a blessing heyond all other human enjoyments, To purchuss im- munity from such a fate should be the object of all afiictod. 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