Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 3, 1889, Page 4

4 THE DATLY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. LET THEM CELEBRATE AT HOME. That Nebraska should be oreditably represented at the ecelebration of the TERMSE OF SURBSCRIPTION one hundredth anniversary of the "1«‘:?:‘4‘.‘:\' “-Am nn‘lbmimh!n: 8t NDAY oo | inBUZU -'.1‘ of George Washington For Six Months t® |08 president of this republic; For'Three Months "1 will be universally conceded. With s OMANA SUspAY Bk, mailed to any WrEKLY (1Y, One Year R OMAHAOFFICENOS. O ASDI10 FARNA M STR BUILDING UN 7 HOOKERY HOOMS 14 AND 15 T1 No. CIICAGO OFFICE NEw Yoik Opvice, BeALnivG. WASHINGTON OFFICK, FOUITLENTI STREET, CORRESPONDENCE ATl communications relating tonews and edi- torial matter should be addressed 1o the EDITOR oF T K RUSINESS LETTER Al bsiness lettors and rem addressed to Tiy, BEE PUBLISIING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafis, checks and postofice orders 1o bemade payablo to the order of the company Thie Bee Publishing fiamuany Proprictors. E. 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TZSCHUCK. worn to before me subscribed i my Drescice this sth day of Decomber, 1883, V. FELL Notary Public. 1 wires, No overhe; Tie Fiftieth congress is now on its home stretch. But the prospeets for needful legislation far off ¢ eve are as IT WAS o total eclipse in California on New Vear's day, and o 1t was at the council chamber for some of the old combine. GENERAL HARRISON evidently ap- preciated the compliment of the place hunters who did not vesiege him on New Year's day POSTMASTER GENERAL DICKINSON'S recent order classifying and putting the employes of the railway mail servi under eivil service rules comes rather late in the day JOE SOUTHARD one of the sun- flowers of city politics. His face is always wreathed 1n smiles toward the rising sun, and his back is turned to the celipsed luminary. HASCALL declines point-blank to ac- cept the chairmanship of the committee on ‘‘town plots.” -Aund yet, of all men in or out of the council, Hascall 1s best fitted for “*plotting.” Mr. Becuen is an excellent cook. His roast last night was done to a turn, - Herald. That's a mistake. Mr. Bechel was simply playing scullion, while turning the spit which Chief Cook Rothacker had gotten up for the occasion. Tue various committees of the coun- cil selected by President Lee will be universally approved. He has broken up the old combinations, and has put the important committees in the hands of men who have proved themselves worthy of confidence. E RESOLUTIONS passed by the legisla- ture to encourage cconomy do not stop the leaks. The only way to put an end to the raid on the people’s money is to cut down barnacles and conduct the affairs of state on business principles DURING the year just closed railroad construction was carried on in every state of the union but two. The ex- ceptions are Rhode Island and Nevada, whore it would seem that not as much as a side-truck was reported as boing built. Tue estimated value of the mineral yield of Colorado for 1888is put at twen- ty-six millions. This is a most favora- ble showing in view of the low price of silver and lead, being an excess of over two millions of the value of the produc- tion for 1887, NeARLY thirteen thousand cases were brought before Judge Berl during the ar, and the fines and costs collected amounted to over thirty-one thousand dollars. The magnitude of the police-court business would indicato that too many come before a single police judge for hearing. ses Tue election of Michael Leo to the presidency of the city council is a tri- umph of the better elements of citizen- ship over the rule-or-ruin faction, It emphasizes the fact that the majority of the council is made upof men who will henceforth banish strife and en- " deavor to devote their energies to con- ducting the city government on a law and-order bass AMONG professional gamblers it i regarded disgraceful to squeal when beaten in a game. The how!of **fraund” and ‘‘combine” of the defeated faction i the council would disgrace even a tin-Born gambler, These fellows have been doing nothing but combining for the last eighteen months, and when they are finally beaten by the combined opposition they squeal like stuck pigs, *“sn'outrage.” epme——— THE prosperity of Nebraska is to a great extent indicated by the growth and improvement made by the cities through the state during the past year. Lincoln reports an expenditure of throe and half million dollars on public and private improvements for the year, Fremont has invested something like a half million for a similar purpose. Be- airice, Nebraska City, Kearney and other towns have likewise made public and private improvements which do thew credit. | But the the choice of John L. Webster as such representative THe BEE has no fault to find. Mr. Webster was president of the convention that framed the constitution under which Nebraska has been gov- erned since 1875, and seloction to the post of honor to which he has been commissioned will be conceded as emi- nently proper under the eircumstances, proposition to have Nebraska resented at the New York centennial v two companies of militia at the ex- pense of the state is most decidedly ob- jectionable at this time. If any of the officers of the militia or any member of the governor'sstaff want to exhibit their marshal procession marching down Broadway nobody can have the slightest objection providing his trappings in th they dosoat their own expense. But the taxing powers of the state should never be abused by such s cpensive demonstrations of junketing militiamen, The state has nogight to tax its citizens excepting for conduct- ing its governmental affairs and for pugposes that are known to he intended in the interest of the state in advertis- ing its resources abroad and attracting sital from abroad. The display of Nebraska militia in New York City not be considered a step in that d tion. At the best, two crack companies of Omaha militia would cut a sorry fig- ure by the side of the magnificontly cquipped regiments and brigades of New York National Guards and the military from the old and populous states adjacent to New York. It is to be hoped the legislature will give no countenance to the proposed scheme of placing our militia on dress parade abroad. We would not discour- ge private citizens or corporations from contributing liberally towards such a display of patriotism, but we ¢ nestly remonstrate against setting on foot the proposed jaunt to the American metropolis by the Nebraska militia. MISREPRESENTING NEBRASKA. The Washington correspondent of tho Chicago News reports an interview with Senator Manderson in which the senator said: **With the rest of the Ne- braska delegation, T am urging the Hon. John M. Thurston for secretary of the interior.” If this is true of the Ne- braska delegation in congress, they are misrepresenting the wishes of a large majority of their constituents. The re publicans of Nebraska would be greatly gratified with the selection of a cabinet member from this state, but the m: of the party would not feel at all hon- ored were the attorney of the Union Pa- el railroad to be the man. Mr. Thurs- ton is not a representative Ne- braska republican. His interests as the champion of the Credit Mobilier corporation have always been hostile to those of the great majority of the partvy in this state, whose demauds for justico at the hands of the greatcorporation he serves he has persistently opposed, and whose efforts to conserve the rights of the people, he has done all that mortal man could do to thwart. The course of John M. Thurston in Nebraska gives him no single claim to popular confi- dence, and General Harrison could make no greater mistake thau to ele- vate to a cabinet position, and espec- ially to the head of the interior depar ment,. the always pliant and ser- vile instrument of the most oppr sive, defiant and unscrupulous rail- road corporation in this country. The next administration, in order to com- mand and deserve the confidence of the country, must be composed of men whose records are at least free from conspicu- ous and far from reputable efforts to defeat the will of the people in the in- terest of corporate power, and Mr. Thurston is not of this class. At the head of the interior depart- ment Mr. Thurston would have every opportunity to serve the corporations, and his record justifies the presumption that ne would never be found unfriendly. to any demands they might make upon him which it was possible for him to es comply with. At any rate there could be - mo confilence felt that that department, with him at its head, would be administered with an aim single to the interests of the peo- ple and the government. We do not believe it to be in the character of Mr. Thurston to rise superior to the condi- tions that have given him political prominence, and every man who knows anything of his career would expect him to continue to serve the power that made him, So far as General Harrison is concerned, Mr, Thurston has not the slightest claim upon him. There is no reason to believe that his services in the campnign made a single vote for the vepublican party. They nly did not do 80 1n Nebraska, and why should they be supposed to have done soelsewhero? . No one questions the professional ability of My. Thureston, but he is with- out experionce in public affairs, and this fact of itself should be sufticient to exelude him from a cabinet position. If Senator Manderson has been correctly reported, and there is no reason to doubt it, the Nebraska delegation are misrepresenting the feeling of a ma- jority of the people of the state, and especiglly of the masses of the republi- can party—the oppressed producers whose interests and welfare Mr, Thurs- tou has persistently antagonized. TAKING HIS OWN TIME. General Harvvison, who is the most deeply interestod in the mattor of form- ing his cabinet, is in no hurry toap- pease the solicitude of the politicians. He intends taking his owm time to se- lect his advisers, and while it is not to be supppsed that he is indifferent to ail the advico he is receiving, he must neo- essurily disregard a very considerable part of it. That he will not construct cabinet with which everybody will be pleased is more than probable. That he cavuotavold disappointing some poli- ticians who belieye they have superior claims to cousideration iscertain, There are but seven cabinet positions to be fitled, with the possibility of another he- ing created before this congress termi- Y THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. JANUARY 3. 1880. nates, and thero is a great deal of excel- lent material from which to select. The task is adelicate as well asa difficult one, but the sound judgment and discre- tion which the president-elect has thus far shown gives assurance that he will perform it wisely. There has been one commendable de- cision of General Harrison in connection with this matter which is believed to have already had a wholesome influence, That is that he will give no counten- ance to factional disputes. Politi- cians who disturb the harmony of the vepublican party, in their eff rts to advance their personal ambition, are warned that they must hope for no avors from the next administration. It will have no use for anybody who does 1ot place the unity and harmony of the party. as to national affaivs, above all other considerations. The announce- ment that it will be the policy of the next administration to hold the party in line is thought to have already had York, where the tt was threat- factional con- Californin, where certain self-sccking politicians were manifesting a disposition to make trouble if they could not have every- thing their own way. Undoubtedly neral Havvison desives to recognize hoth New York and the Pacific coast by giving them representation in his ¢ inet,'but individuals who stiv up strife and discord miy depond upon being ignored. There will be nothing arbi- trarvy in this. It will simply mean that the president-elect regards the welfare of the party as superior to the interests or ambition of any member of it, and in this he will strengthen himself in the respect and confidence of the masses of the party. its influence in New ambition of Mr., P ening a serious flict, nd in PURITY OF THE BAL- LOT. Governor Hill of Now York was inau- gurated Tuesday, and delivered a mes- HILL ON THE sage which contained some mattors of general intorest. The governor ap- pears to have the opinions of democrats generally that there was an exceptional amount of corruption in the last prosi- dential campaign on the republican side, without which their party might have been successful. Tt is not an un- common experience to find the defeated setting forth any cause but the true one to account for discomliture, and if the democrats can obtain any con- solation from the corruption theory itis their privilege to do so. Butall candid men believe that one party was was quite as guilty as the other of an improper use of money in the campaign, and whether the republicans used a greater sum than the democrats is ques- tionable. The latter had greater re- sources from which to derive money, and they made very thorough use of them in the closing months of the cam- paign. It would be absurd to suppose that the large sumsraised from the con- tributions of employes of the govern- ment were used wholly for necessary campaign expenses. But it is admitted on all sides that a great deal of money was corruptly used in the campaign, and nobody questions that this is, an evil, and perhaps a growing one, in our political methods that ought to be re- moved. Possibly that can be accom- plished if democratic leaders like V- ernor Hill will act upon their profes- sions. Noue should know better how to provide against it. The cradle of the evil is the democratic stronghold of New York City. There it has always been fostered, finding its highest de- velopment under such skitlful and trusted democratic leaders as Tweed. If any class of politicians should be able to point out a way to remedy this serious fault in our polical meth- ods it is the democratic leaders of New York who were taught the practice of it in the infancy of their political experience. But the difficulty is that they will not act upon their professions. When overtaken by defeat they are voluble of promises, but with victory they ave never ready to do anything. Take the case of Governor Hill’s veto of the bill passed by the last New York legislature providing for a needed reform in election methods. Its object was the protection and purity of the ballot, but its eflect would have been to prevent a great deal of fraud and corruption in the democratic stron g- holds of New York and Brooklyn, and therefore Governor Hill could see no virtue in it. The pre- tended fears of a poli- tician of this kind that our institutions are in peril from corruption in elec- tions cannot, when viewed in the light of his record, make a very deep impres- sion. Still it be hoped that efforts to free the ballot from all corrupting in- fluences will not be discontinued, and the attention which Governor Hill calls to the matter may not be wholly with- out good result: It is certainly possi- ble to provide a remedy for the evil he deprecates, and all patriotic citizens will direction taken. welcome every step taken in that by whomsoever it may be MR. BECHEL'S RETIREMENT. Mr. Bechel's retivement from the presidency of the city council is made the occasion of much bitter and vin- dictive talk, which for the reputation of Omuha had better have beey left unsaid. Mr. Bechel was beyond™h doubt the ablest and most efticient president that ever wielded the gavel in the Omaha council. This is saying a great deal, because some very capable men have preceded Mr. Bechel in the presidency of our municipal legislature. Left to himself aud surrounded by reputa- ble associates in and out of the council My, Bechel could and would have made himsclf the most popular man in Omaha. But o an evil hour he found himself depwrting from the course which the best eitizonship of Omaha expected him to follow, A ma- lign influence which has wrecked many of the ablest and most promising men in public life literally took possession of him, and all his good impulses vainly struggled to assert themselves, It was not in anger, but in regret, that in common with some of his warmest friends, THE BEE was impoelled to re- monstrate and appeal to his better self. There is an adage that *An appeal from Peter drunk to Peter sober is se dom made in vain.” When Mr. Bechel fully recovers froin his temporary cha- grin, has cast off the evil genius that has bewitched him during the past year, and led him into paths which are, to use the mildest name, very slipper he will realize that he has been most unfortunate in his attachments to por- sons who are lost to all sense of honor, propriety or deconcy. Theso are hard words, but they are true as gospe! One of the worst mistakes Mr, Bechel has made is his closing add ess to the old council. To his credit Ve it said he did not compose it, While this vicious diatribe cannot be recalled, we deem it properto suppress it. both for the sake of Mr. Bechel and the good name of our cit The time is not dis- tant when Mr. Bechel will sinceroly regret the mistake he has made. 0 OVERHEAD MOTOR WIRES. Mr. John L. Webster, the city attor- ney, has just returned from New York and other cities where he had gone to inspect the methods adopted for operat- ing clectric street cars. IHis oxperi- ences will be valuable in determining the question in controversy with the electric motor line of our city. It a pears that the overhead system is not permitted in the business scctions of New York, Boston, Detroit or Alle- ghaney City. Either the conduit or clectric storage battery system is used: Both of these have proven eminently suceessful and much preferable to tho than public in this respect in cities the overhead system. In of this testimony, it s that there exists no ocey for overhead motor wires in Omahu, Our city should be guided by the e ample of the cities of the east, in com- pelling the clectric motor company to lay it wires in an underground conduit at least in the business section. Such an order inflicts no hardship on the motor company. Tt is a vule which like companies in other cities have cheer- fully obeyed without ns much as raising aquestion. Overhead wiresare acknowl- ged to be a constant menace to lifo and limb and property in case of fire or a blizzard. There is therefore no reason why the Omaha Motor company should especially be exempt from proper muni- cipal reguiations of this character. THE people of Dakota have won a substantial victory in the decision of Judge Ross, of the territorial supreme court, who affirmed the right of the counties of the territory to levy taxes on railroad lands and to sell the same where the taxes were not paid. The principle involved holds good in other soctions of the country than Dakota where railvoads shirk paying taxes on their lands. The legislature of our state could with propriety institute an inquiry into this subje IN 1885 the grand total of legislative appropriations was one million six hun- dred and seventy-cight thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and ninety cents. In 1887 the legis ture increased this already burdens tax to two million seven hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-six cents—over a million dollars 1ncrease in two years for identically the same state government. KAN: still remains the banner state in the matter of railroad construction despite drought and poor crops for the past two seasons. During 1888 six hun- dred miles were laid which is the great- est amount of railroad building for any one state during the year. California comes next with five hundred and sixty miles laid by the remarkable number of thirty-four different roads. THERE may be some irregularity in the election of the city clerk, which should under the charter be held at the session following the organization of the council. In order to carry out strictly this section of the charter the council should at the next meecting make a formal election of its clerk by the requisite majority vote. THE retiring president of the council was presented with a solid silver gavel, studded with diamonds and rubies. This precious New Year's gift calls to mind foreibly a passage in the Bible, which i tributed to Solomon: Who can find a virtuous woman? Ier price is above rubies,” SEVERAL moembers of the “Dbusted council combine” positively decline to serve on the committees to which they had been assigned by the president of the new council., Their conduct re- minds one of the boy who wus losing his marbles and “wouldn’t play no more.” Tue lower house of the last legisla- ture furnished positions for ninety-six ofticers and employes at an outlay of twenty-two thousand four hundred and fifty-three dollars, No vouchers for “value received” for this enormous outiay can be made that will isfy the taxpayers. — It took 124 officers and employes to run the state senate in 1857, at an ex- pense of twenty-four thousand, nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty cents, which did’ not include perqui- sites. This is surprising, but tru THE last legislature appropriated two million seven hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-six dotlars and eighty-six cents, These staggering figures ought to be kept in view of every member of the legislature, RAILROAD COMMENTS. A hack line has beon established between Plattsmouth and Oreapolis to run in opposi tion to the B, & M. The projectors of the enterprise do not expect to foree the railroad into bankruptey, but they are bound to down the monopoly. The crowd of railroad lovbyists and oil room lubricators at Lincoln furnishes the basis for the statement in the Garield County Quaver that there is a ‘greater wrong being perpetrated on the people than they imagiue when corporations can spend 50 much money to prevent just and equitable railroad legislation.” ‘The people of Nicbrara have been urging the management of the Manitoba railroad to build that line through the Niobrara Valley 1n Nebraska and have roceived the following slight eucouragement iu a lott: from one of of the “Our road : plans are not yet completed for future exteu the prominent officials sions, Further surveys will ba made, and THE LEGISLATIVE SPOILSMEN funding bonds. Ris_demand was not com- plied with, nor would tho county pay the money alleged to be due on the valid bonds. J If tho legislature has tha constitutic if we find the Niobrara Vallay route feasible, FighU 10 validato thesa bonds, it qid 8o, The, we may early in the coming year give vou | Another Chapter in the History of | court further held that the plaintift o conrage! t." D is in a positiol to sue U . the Last Session’s Raid. tain suit | on. | these | bonds. | The Complaints como from many towns in No supremo cottet ind this $ame ancation bofore braska of a grain blockade, The latest is —_— it, and tho right to maintain the suit was up from Strang, where it 18 reported that the | per HENGHMEN IN THE HOUSE | Meld. Tho views here expressed ontitle the cmbargo 18 complote, the elevators having plamtif to a judgment for the amount Boon. cbligea 6 oloss: their oot s, Inimetl, and judgment “will_accordingly bo el - : centered on the plaintit filing with the cour Ll LSRR, bl AT e There Was Nearly One Kmploye to | the refunding bonds in Lis pussession hiereby to transport the stocks alroady Bvery Moniber, and th oney held o be invalid, on hand. To those who are able to hold their A . A. Mastorman was arrosted yostor grain for botter prices than those now of i One Was O Twe afternoon for failing to appear before fored 1t, of course, makos no differcnce, but ty-Two Thousand, Ll baogy Ao b A there are many who at this time of vear must e - shbihebadihs i have at least a littlo money, «nd to these a ojectmant case of Mrs, Moore complete lockout is the next thing to dis Another Exhibit the Union Pacific railroad was before Judgo aster. In yosterday's iseuc Tie Bre mado an ox- | Dundy and a jury yostorday afternoon. The hibit of the number of employes of the state t i to obtain possession of lot 8, block 160, e Yorts Times beliaves 1L would bo & | LSS LMUer OF OMioyes GLine UL [Soity of Ointin, valted nU 9000, oo T w tvery wise and Just thing to compal tho rail. | ST B1 1B IS SHOE BERES: BAC REE . — road conpanios to furnish froe transporta. | fer OF (VS SORVCR an FERRLAL. o ¥ i Lo bop b M ia tion for the state board of transportation and {4 R Y R V'"_'\\ RAT Me AL REEbRL ) s ot sl their raries. Of coursa they o A il . mployes, “‘\\l““ 1 ‘un ‘T‘A ove, Frank Solon and Thomas Dasses now, but thess aro by the courtesy of | WaS nearly onc employe to cach member of | Crosby, clerks and judges of the lato election ! Y that body, and the total am: nt o o0 he " 1 T var the companies, and if thero is any suoh thing [ AN m‘:) s P Al U et B B L Ll as a reciprocal feoling in the matter it oper 164 AL L silag kil “lee ],,’"‘,“",H’[ X L e b f,”'l iy ates to the advantago of tho compantes. It | ORYG (0L e eaa | Wore arrosted veatorday anorning. They would also be only fair for the companies to | 5 B PRI SEELEE B DRSS EEC e, | Merearraigied bitoro dudke Dundy and wera pay all salaries and other expense connected | ¢ ok fFst KesiuE ‘“ 160 day S600: G | Placed wudor §1,500 bonds each, which they with the maintenence of the board, They f \"‘_\“‘"""‘ pddy ‘:'; By I"‘l“' T (Ll - make L6 exponse Recessary ard thoy sould || gyag s\opls Whasler, third’ assistant, 114 Court ms defray it. Thisisthelaw wn lowa, and b | 4 oF oiset Gco Slaughter, fourth assist Court will be held in the respective should be so in every state.” < ant, 07 doys, §388; C. C. Valentine, assistant The recomniendation of Attorney General | 13 days, £ Emma J. Ayres, stenographor Leese, that the government foreclose its | and typewriter, 81 days, mortgace upon the Union Pacific railrond, | ‘Thompson, sergeant-at urms, #4315 leads the Howells Journal to remark that | 1. 1. Doran, ussistant, 105 days, " $ilb Poter Van Fldet, chaplain, $6 days, 8233 “this road hus boen aceustomed o chiarge | Kare Dovle, postinairess, 116 days, £115, outrageous rates and to corrupt Zora Matthews, assistant, 0 days, £207; 1 doorkecpor, 105 first assistant, 10/ P, Cutting, Thomas B. Beach, £3153 Jame M. Bright, sccond assistant bers of the legislature, to the end that should not pass laws that would st Ay, well organized system of robbe They 1105 dnys, 83155 Autoinette’ Worthen, enroil have had favorites in every town on | jug clork, 108 days, £124; Janet MeDonal their line of road, whom they have made vich | engrossing clerk, 108 days, #8213 Phelps $C. C. Boslow, ¢ ceounts and expenditures, 90 L. Ely, clerk rairond committc . J. Houston, clerk public Paine, k com. at the expense of their less fortunate neigh bors, 1If they should be treated as they have treated others, their affairs would soon be | §74 v, brought to a close. Whether this mode of | jung procedure would be of any advantage to the | k. M. people av the present time is a question; but | tec, S0 duys, one thing is sure, the producers of Nebraska | Clains committes orrell, clovic public printing commit §240; H. M. Bushnell, 80 days, §240; C. W, Me- 3 \ days, §15; days, ul buildings committee, S0 days, $240; clerk Cune, clerk penitontiary committee, 35 days, ties forming this judicial distr: the year of 1830 as follows Douglas county—Itabruary 11, May 18, Sep- tember 33, ashington , dur county—April 1, Septem ber 1 Burt county —April 15, Septenber 80, Sarpy county —April 2, Ovtober i Justice Morrison's Conrt. It is not ofton that a charitable institution comes into court us a plaintifl, but there is a case of this kind on the docket of Justico Morrison. According to the bill of complaint a man named Richard Stevens, placed a sicl child in the care of the Child's hospital, aud promised to pay all expenses. 1t was kopt and taken care of from August 25 to October 8, and then Stevens refuscd to settle, He is now being sued for the amount ha Summer sued Blaneh and Luey havo but little sympathy to waste on the | 1145 ohn A MeMurphy, elerk judiciry [ Wilson for &2 in Justice Morrison's - court Union Pacific.” committee, 78 days, $234; George Wildiams, | for agrocery bill . o = s e | clort deaf wnd durib_and blind asylum com’ | W I Crowley stood off FPrank McKenzio NEBRASKA N R NOTES. | mittec, v g A I e | for $68 worth of board. Justice Morrison - g AS1laRBOUS. BUBIBStE . 0Dl its | will see that the amount is paid, if it is really The German paper at Schuyler has been | plerk misccllanoous - subjects comuit: | 5, g : ks revived by Charles Coopor. priviieges nnd olections committee, 150 REResooE A newspaper war has broken out at Bur- well, and the opposing throwing red hot shot at each other. The Fremont Herald's aunnual Feview edition was a creditable picce of work and was full of interesting facts and e illus- days, #3345 cenmmittee, 87 days, #2315 A revenue and taxation commit 3 1 U, B, King, clerk labor committee, FN71S. D, Kiilen, el committee, 52 days, §156; John Mills, U. and N. S. committ 91 days, & Miiton Spicce, elerk C. and C. orge Dean, elerk corpol M. Henry, ¢ apers are slork 8; J. VLD 16 days, $13%; . M. Short, clerk K. and 13 The Nebraska Teacher, an cducational | comumitice, 45 days, $135: Charles W. White, journal publisned at Fairbury, has been ;j_«;yln cities and towns committee, 73 days purchased by W. T. Howard and Prof. | ®nig )10 wing wore clerks of the commit Hughes and will be removed to Schuyler. o tee on engrossing and enroliing bills, being The Norfolk News issued an excellent | twenty-four in number: Georgo Ashburn, 67 edition on Wednesduy reviewing the year's | days S 10;C. D. Burne 2075 ey £ S > % ) 04 days, growth of that bustling young city, and also S an keeping prominently before the readers that | Chedtor, (9 days, $2015 “the Sioux City and Ogden line is the key to | days, $207; Gertrude the situation £201; Hettie Cromwell, - - H M pin, $10) Overlaps in Denver Also. Mary Dixon, nna Given, Denver News days, B LIsie Ichs, 67 days, $201; Cora McOring, G Mayor Lee closes the second year of his Rtioaey > 803, wral | dinys, 3207 1da Marsh, 67 days, $201; Esielle administration with some $05,000 of illegal f Niiiio o6 duys, 81985 Lillian Pollock,64 duys, overdraft. e Stel rome Prager, 67 days, $201% TS path, days, A surplusfofitilonce. orence Richardson, 67 days. New York Press. la Thorneate, 65 da Silence is golden, and Benjamin Harrison, | W, L. Wells, 93 days, $204; G, E. Whitman, president-clect of the United States, knows | 25 3 Roggen, bill clerk, 831 days, exactly how to manage his surplus. HEIALED 3 Too Insignificant. Tribune. Hayti, I've no time to fool with you. I've an engagement with Germany. Get out of my way or I'll kick you half way to Cape Horn.—Uncle Sam. ey Begin the New Year Right. New York World. In thinking over the sort and number of “mew leaves” to be turned over at the begin- ning of the new year it is wise to lay in a 250; W. A . S. Curley, days, §156 cell Jay, bill messenger, 100 days, #4503 nie L. Carnenter, clerk to sceretary of ' state, ¢ pages as follows: Frank Al- dward Butler, 53 days, Beam, s, 15 Frani days, 301503 Julia Fuiler, 57 duys, § ; Willle Harrison, 00 days, $00 Johnie Mathiesen, 54 days, '$81; William Magher, 60 days, $10; Bertie McKce, S0days, $120; James Purcell. S days, #121.50; Dell Root, 57 days, $130.50; Robert Stevens, 57 days, $130.50; Laura Tryon, 87 days, $130.50. supply of the glue of a firm resolution to S P e ST, stick them down 118" days, i W, Russell, o1 AT 5 copy-hold 1L D, Hondricks! HowiKensa NitholShow: mail carrier, 103 day chen, Pioneer Press. assistant, 80 days, $240, Jane Hading of Kunsas City: “Ze [ “qlere ‘were junitors and assistant janitors people are recch. Zey sell ground and kil | as follows: D. I. Cook, 105 days, §315; Daniel ze peegs.” Right you Jane. Ivisunder- [ Crouse, 107 d' stood that a number of Kunsas City residents | 8y, $235; David Miller, 2 S OBrient, 103 days, 3003 C sold corner lots and bought tickets tothe | guve §15: Major Sharpenstoen, 2 duys, Coquelin-Hading combination ¢ Musterman, 105 days, $315 T sdwards, custodian committee room, A Correction. i; 1 M. Lytle, custodian cloak Chicago News. room, 105 days, ¥15; M. W. Richards, fire- A Washington preacher is going on ata | man, 71%; days Emanuel Seaholm, sistant, 57 ; Joseph Blackburn, watchman, 87 days, $261. The list given cmbraces ninety-six officers and employ great rate about the inauguration ball which is o occur next March. He says that thou- sands of people m peacock costumes will hop around the hall. He is mistaken. Dancers haven't hopped for years and years. Thoy BRIEK IOWA AFFAIRS. 1l glide nowad N Shieloonowsteye. S John Scott, of Lyons, hopes to revolution- crlasting for which he has iz0 the world and_make his ¢ tune with a pancake griddie invented. Two farmers near Long Grove put in Christmas day plowing and danced all night The glorious climate enavled them to attend to business before pleasuse, 1889, Chicago Tribune, 15881 Walk in and siv down. You come at o most unpleasant timo— Harrison's cabinet not half made up, “The Big Four still unsatistied Phe Davenport ‘Tribunc says is is gratify And kicking up ing to know that Mr. Gwartzondrabber came A most trewiendous row about it, all the way from Lincoln, Neb., to attond the ge: penman’s convention, His name was brought 3 on a special car, The improved American hox will be ably and largely represented at Codar Rapids January 16 and 17, The American Poland China record company will hold its twelfth annual meeting the Keokuk 18 evidently very Th ascott still at la And Riddleberger drunk as usual, PROMINENT PERSONS, y Gould's children cuch found $100,000 worth of railroad bonds in their Christwas stockings, Mr. Gladstone, it is declared, i going to write a mugazine article upon the subject of the pig, #s known to Homre. It spicy, with its ight there was u deatit, a dr within an ame of polse 0 and 4 G. B, McClellan, a son of Genersl Me- | tWo blocks, Suchis life in a city where Clellan, hus been appointed an_aide-de-camy | bunarus sell at 10 cents a dozen, on the stafl of Governor Hill of New York. Clinton claims the champion woodsawyer, in the person of Danicl supported himself for piling wood. During th gaged ab this vocation he Jonnson, who'has s by sawing und thirty years he has has s uwed ¥ -Attorney General Williams, of landau lot fume, is among the list of Oregon con verts gathered iuto the fold by Evangelist o) been T e 8,000 cords of hard wood, which would make Seeretary Vilas will go back to Wisconsin { 'yije four feet high arotind the eity of Clin to practice law, where he has a very lucra tive business. He will also keep up his in- terest in politics, ton. In addition 1o this he has split and piled 6,000 loads of pine wood < y ki bout mild vinters, enry ell- Ex-Sonator Willlsm H. Barnum has im. | ,,Paiking aboub inlld wintors, Hency Hell proved enough in health 'to receive several [ DirE YOS e Anauiosa donrnl thit ho ©re visitors on vusiness, although they arc met | GHecls SHIES WoaLher tn 1950 the yoar e against the wishes of his physician. in Dayenport at the time. A jubilation meet- Iteuben R. Thrall, of Rutiand, Vt., is prob ] ] ! ing was neid in December by the ¢ ably the oldest practicing lawyer in the | 1o ratify the election of Buchanan United States. Last Sunduy he' passed his | follborg says the erowd gathersd in th nincty-third birthday. His health s stll | court yard' and sat around on the grass good, which was still groeu at this late day in the Mr. Gladstone passed the severty-ninthan- | year,” niversary of his birth under the sunny skies of Italy. The professors of the university at Naples presented their congratulations to him. United States, Emperor Wiliiam has stopped horse racing | In the United States court yesterday morn in Prussinon Sundays and boly duys, und Id itor Shepard will 8001 suspend the running ing Judgo Dundy rendered a decision in the case of Peter Deyo va Otoe county, 4 suit o of stages on Fifth avenuo the first day of the | ' ¥ ilh.op of 84 county bonds. It is bused upon several Ionds issued by Otoe county ay Lingthe sum of $,000. The bonds were originally is. Sir Frederick Grenfell, in who is command of the Hritish forces in the Soudan, 18 only forty-seven years of age. He first came into | succ to the Midland Pacific railroad com promiuence’ during the operations in the | pany. Phey bear the date of April 1, 158, Trauskei in 1577-75. He served in the Kafir X . o TR TP ey war of 1575 and in the Zulu campaign of 1a7p, | 404 watur d_April A 1 Tuey we kG Healso rendered effectivo service in the | issued by the county commissioner Boer war of 1851, He joined the Epyptian | after a vote of the people soemed army in 1883 aud served with iton the fron tier in 1535-50. e was present at the battlo of Geuiss, He has been in active service for the lust ten years, and is really & man of much ability as'a commander. logislature interposed for tio purpose of - The Young Married Folks' Social | validating tnem. This was done by an act club will hold their second party of the | passed in 1 However to give life and ol on to-morrow evening at Goodrich | validity to these bouds, it was Canary L hall on Saunaers strect. have them rogistered. This was not done i The supreme court held the bonds void and re vt 1, ore denie P 8 toc fused 10 issue the mandiinus prayed for by the Hobert I, '.““ rs denios that ho took county After all this the plalutifl offered aving from k. A. Stone without per- |y, unendor to the county Lhose refunding mission. He claims that it was given onds declared to be void, and demand the to him for safe keoping und that he has turn of the valid one he had delivered to returned it the county iu exchange for the worthiless re to suthorizo wie issue They are placed on the market went miostly into the hands of nnocent holders. The rightful authority for issuing these bonds was s00n questioned, and the ation k ) days, rk common schools B. committee, Beam, assistant, 16 duys, $151 Mar- Jen- by the Midland compauny, and | SMALL BITS And now that tho Chihans talk of “‘assimi- lating"” Peru. The Peruviuns objoct, but it is well known that their (Peruvian) bark 1s worse than their bite, —Chica obe, 1t is currently reported that Honolulu has wore telophoues in' proportion to the popula tion than any otlier city. Why not re-christen it “Hellolulu "-=St, Paul Pioneer One of Augusta’s embryo pr cently convulsed his teachier by defining a voleano as “‘the interior of the earth thrown out through the side of & mountain,—Augusta (Me.) Journal. ot Pre 5 1Ll let's have Dukota citizen game, old fellow sidents re. Yirst Dakota citizon— wame of poker.” Second ot now.” *Just a friendly ‘Can’t do it, 1 ain't uy revolver with me."—Drake's Magazine. “Girls are no good, anyway,” said littlo Johnny; “they 't got any sense.” “How's that " asked Merritt. *Because,” was tho reasonable reply, “'as soon as their stockings get big enough (o hold alot_of thiugs they stop hanging them up."—Jullge “Why do vou call that compositor “Slug Eleven,” asked the new copyholder of tho prootreader. “Because eleven is his num- ber, and T hope that some day_some one will sng bim,” snapped the proof reader a8 ho sent 2 proofslip that looked liko a Chinese war may.—San Francisco When little Clawde was naughty once, At luncheon e and said 'd not say “Thank you™ to mamma, him go to bed, up and stay two hours ;— struck two, nank _you, Mr. ou!' ames Whitcomb Riley. - HED And cove So when the cloc Then Claude said, * D' much oblig Cloclk, UNVARNIS PACKS. A man can hire a house in Japan, keep twt servants and live on the fav of the land, all for a little over $20 a month. There is a good ficld for missionaries at Tuscumbia, Miller county, Mo., where thero hias uot been a church building of any kind in forty year A Michigan woman practiced with a re- volver until she could hit a suspender button at cight paces, Then thore came a burglar into the house eariy one mornig, and she sent a bullet pinging through her husband's left ear. Crows have become so abundant in - Maine that it is estimated they cost the state $100, 000 a year in corn, potatoes, young chicken fruit, grain, and the hke. @ next legsla: ture will be asked (o pass u law giving a bounty of 10 cents for every doad crow. Twenty-seven years ago an acorn lodged somehow in the mortar or botween tho stones of an Ohio court house spire, toolc root, and sent out an oak shoot. To'duy a minfature oak grows on the spirc, eighty feet from the ground. It draws life from the cement, the “skin of the rock,” and the air, but principally from the air, as there 18 very little cement 1 the spire. Alexander Jumes and Alpharetts . went 1o S oftice to get married. Whi dith Smyth, of Ludridge’s they waited for the squire to hunt up the book containing the formula Alexander asked to be excused a woment, and, hurrying out, monnted a horse As he was leaving to the groomsman married beforo nsman told the wriously he whisperod that he was ashamed to get so many persons. The ur bride, who promptiy said: “You helped to bring e here, and now you must take his place,” The young mua said he was willing, and the cercmony wus performed. At its conclusion the bride said: *When I make up wy mind o do anything I never let an, thing stand in its way." —_—— OMAHA BOILED DOW) During the year 1855 thero were 12,807 cases disposed of in tue police court “The fines and costs colleeted in the police court during 1938 amounted to &1,630,50, I'he assessments for Douglas county for 1585 amounts 1 $535,515. 50 against $10520.13 for 1587, un inerease of $74,500.71 Phe assessed valuation of Douglas count, really is 24,704,507.71, an increase of £5,1i j over that'of 1557 total amount of taxes collected Douglas county during 1595 was $kdd,950 out of uu assessment of FI81 deiinquent list of but #6213 " Catarrhal Da.hgers. o be froud from the dangers of sutfocat while lying down; to Lreathe freely, sk soundly und undisturbad; 1o vlse refreshed, head clear, brain active and freo from patn or sonous, putrid matter ts uwiy the d aches o khow that no po def) the breatn and ¥ icate machinery of smell, taste and hearing; to feel thut the system does . through its veins and urteries, suck up the poison that 15 sure to un 1 destroy fudeed u Llessing hos er humun enjoyments, To purchas from such a fule suld be the obs ted, But tnose who have tried medies and physiclansg despale of relief lerming a yondall of Wity jort ot Dy 1 oF cure SANFOUD'S RADICA of Catarrh, fr Touthiesome an and constint manent in curkng, fafling. SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE consists of one bots e of the KADICAL Quik,one hox of CATARKHAL SOLVENT, and ono IMPROVED INnALER, all phed in one package, with troatise and dfs vections, aud soli by all dringsists for #1,00, TER DRUG AND CHEMICAL U0, BOw CURE meets overy phase aple ead cold Lo the most tructive stages. It s local tant in relieving, poer: cconoimical and ne ON, HOW MY SIDE ACHES | ‘a’ Aching Bides and liack, Hip, Kidney A8 aid torine Piius, Kheuin Neuralile, Shurp and She Beiutic, DRELIEVED TN ONE MINUTE by Pain Tiie Orst and CUIA ANTI-PALN PLASTER. i (g pluster, A perfuct, InaTAnLUNEoNs, I fatling antidote topain intan mation and | weaknos adopted Lo reliov e fomale | paius und 05 28 . 4 | cents: or of Porren Diy it Loy | Moston - e, Suam, Sy,