Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 6, 1889, Page 4

“ BEE, ——e “ m—" ¥ MORNIN THE REDUGY'S SUBSCRIPTION. “orning Bdition) including SUSDAY WEE,One Year For 8% Months For Three Months IMAI A SUNDAY nddress, One Y ear WEEKLY IEE Y ear . OMATAOF AAND A8 T ARNAM STRER ROOKERY BUILDING, HWS 1 AND 15 THIBUNF No. o3 #10 00 ek, maiied to any NEW Y ORK OFFICE, RUILDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, FOURTEENTI STRERT, CORRESPONDENCE Allcommunications relating to news and edi- orinl matter should be addressed to the EpIToRk OFTHE DR INESS LETTERS, Allbusiness letters and remittances should be addressed to Tik BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts. checks and postoffice orders to bemade payable to the ordor of the compu The Bee Pablishing Company Proprictors, E. ROSEWATER, Editor, THE DALY Bisk, # Sworn Statement ot Circulation. Btateof Nebraska, |, County of Dougias, {9 Goorge I3, T2acliuck, secrotary of The en Pub. 1ishing Company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuln of Tik DAtA Bk for the week ending January b, 1580, was as follows: Eunday, Dec. 30 ... Monday, Dec. 31 Tuesday, Jan, 1 Wednesday 4 Chursday, Jan. i Friduy, Jan. 4 Baturday, Jan, 5.0 Average. ... ... T ) GEOR 5. TZ8CTHIUCK., © me and_ subsceibed in presenco this oth day of January, A. D, 188, el ® N.P. FEIL, Nowry Public, State of Nebras ‘a. County of Dougias, 85 George I ‘Tzsciuck, being duly sworn, da. oses And ays that he iy sccrotary of the Bee Publisliing company, that the uctital averagze daily circulation of Tk DAILY Bk for th month of January, 15, 15,206 coples; for Fol- ruary, 188 coples? 1er March, 88, 10,659 coples: for April, 188, 15,744 copres; for May, 15858, 18 183 coples: Tor June, 185, 10,243 coples: for July, IRSS, 18,53 coples; for Angust, 1885, 18,153 coples ror Beptembe 4 coplos; for October RS, was 1K0KA coptos: for November, 158 1808 coples: for December, 1885, 18,22 coples. Bworn to before me and subscriboa in my Dresence this iird day of . puary 1850, N, ¥ L, Notary Public Sworn 1o be v IN the opinion of Wiliiam I Cody, Omaha is the London of Nebraska and the Paris of the west. WiEN legitimate state banking insti- tutions in Nebraska declare semi- annual dividends of three and four per cent, there is no reason why wild-cat banking should be tolerated. can ProvisioNs have been made in New York city for four thousand, five hun- dred miles of underground conductors, but Omuha still goes on permittihg the ercetion of overhead cleetric w THE reports from the cattle ranges of Colorado and Wyoming are most en- couraging. Last winter heavy losses were sustained, due to cold weather and snow. This year hopes are entertained that the winter will be short. This would insure a better condition of cattle on range in the spring than has existed for years, and would stimulate the eattle industry to great activity. Tne long promised monument over the remains of General Grant at River- side park will, in all probability, be pushed forward with remewed zeal. There has been spirited rivalry among foreign and home architects, sculptors and artists to furnish a suitable mauso- leum and more than sixty designs are now before the monument association. The plans submitted to the association are based upon a monument to cost five hundred thousand dollars. The collec- tion to date has amounted to one hun- dred and thirty thousand. It iscertain, however, that the sclection of a suita- ble design for the memorial will spur the lagging interest of the country to raise the required half million. Tae electric process for refining sugar in which English capitalists have invested largely seems have been, from the exposure just made, a neat confi- dence game to swindle the credulous. A great many people will smile that business men and financiers should have been duped by the clover scheme. But after all there is nothing strange about it. The Keeley motor on this side of the Atlantic has been for ten years much more of a mystery than the se- crets which surrounded the alleged process of refining sugar by the use of eleotricity. Yet pcople are suffi- ciently credulous to pin their faith and money, even to this day, on the success of the hair brained machine for per- petual motion To WEIGH or not to weigh is the ques- tion which racks the miuds of the stock shippers. The new regulation adopted aut South Omaha since the beginning of the year, reauiring that ail stock shall be weighed by the Weighing associa- tion, is not looked upon with favor. Shippers and commission men are in- clined to consider the system unsatis- factory to themselves and as beneficial only to the railroads, The serious ob- jection to this system is that delay is cauged in the reshipment of stock., It involves a loss to the shipper due to shrinkage, and in other ways adds to his froight charges. Undoubtedly there are benefits which compensate for these drawbacks, But in all probability, should the new weighing system after a fair trial work to the injury of the ship- pers, it will be abandoned by the rail- roads as impracticable, OuR Washington dispatches announce the general and hearty endorsement with which the mentiou of the name of Sonator Paddock for secrotary of agri- culture is received. Among the various names suggested for the office, that of the Nebraska senator natarally com- mends itsell on the ground of long of- fleiul exporience. During his last term as senator, Senator Paddock was chair- man of the committee on agriculture and is second on the same committee during the preseut congress. He culti- vated a farm in Gage county for a num- ber of years. Inaddition he comes from the greatest agricultural state of the west, which gave General Harrison more than thirty thousand majority. It is doubtful whether Nebraska will be honored with a cabinet position. It is far from likely that either the war portfolio or the secretaryship of the in- tevior will come this way. But of the suggestions of recoguition for the state which have been made, that of Gov- ernor Paddock, as secretary of the de- purtment of agriculture, would meet with the most gencral approval, ® | Locomotive Engineers is a result upon [ THE GREAT STRIKE ENDED The scttlement of the controversy that has existed since last February be- | tween the officials of the Burlington | railrond system and the Brotherhiood of | h the public t are to be duration, as w t has been contests The fi men and all parties in in- | congratulated. In 18 in its consequences, | one of the most notable in the history of the experience has been ly, to both par- have been idle its country W losir one, tic The for eleven months, still remain out until vacancies oceu of the unities. Y who nd who may have of employmeny L or the incrensed road shall give them opport are individually poorer by s hundred Others have gained an equal or gre but the 10 busine cral dollars. tor sum, brotherhood the enginecers are to a large ount. The corporation has 1 to tik oxtent of millions. During tho first few months of the strike the damn- id destruction of rolling stock enormous, but the loss from this very much than from the decrease of traflic. The public, also, was both injured and inconvenienced. In short, the strike in all respects, in both its private and public effects, a misfortune. 1t is not now necessury to the causes of the controversy, or con- the question of responsibility for its long continuance. It is suflicient that it has been settled. The terms of settlement are not yet made public, nor is it important to know what they are. They are satisfactory to the contract- ing partics, and that is enough. The public interest in the matter con- simply in the assurance which the settlement s fairly pre- sumed to give that the Burlington company will now be able to improve its and that it may at replace incompetent and untrustworthy men with those who are capable and reliable. As to the lesson to be derived from the contest, the parties to it doubt- less do not need to be instructed. Their halance sheets convey the most impres sive argument that could be made. Tt should not be without weight with other corporations and their employes. Mean- while the question of protecting the public against the injury it suffers from controversies of this character is not to losers in aggregate ar age was source was loss was discuss side sists service, once be lost sight of. ; PUSHING THEIR CAUSE. The people of South Dakota are not idle. They understand that if they are to secure statehood without unnecessary delay they must keep up the agitation. Clear as their claim to admission un- questionably is, and strongly as every consideration of justice urges its imme- diate acknowledgment, there is reason to apprehend that obstruetions may be placed in the way that would keep them out of atehood for at least ancther two years. There are a few earnest advocates of the immediate ad- mission of South Dakota among the democrats in congress, but the very large majovity of them are evidently determined that she shall come into the union only upou conditions which the vepublicans are not now prepared to concede. It is plainly the purpose of Mr. Springer to force, if possible, the ptance of his omnibus bill, and it is not doubtful that he will be able to command for it the support of nearly eve democrat in the house. Itsin- clusion of New Mexico insures the op- position of every republican, on the perfectly tenable ground that that ter- ritory is not in a condition for state- hood. Acting upon the apprehensions nawural to the situation, the statehood committee of South Dakota has issued a call for a convention to be held at Huron on the sixteenth of this month to take such stepsas may be necessary in the existing emergency. The call urges the necessity of prompt and vig- orous action, without which statehood may be delayed two or three years. This, says the committee, would mean to every citizen serious financinl loss and injury. The convention, it is e pected, will urge the republicansin con- gress to make all roasonable conces- sions in ovder that South Dakota may be admitted -~ as soon as possible, fuiling in which they will be asked to press the next administra- tion for an extra session of the Iifty- first congress. Tt is expected that the Dakota bill will be called up in the houseof representatives ou the fifteenth of this month, when it is possible there will be a clearer showing of the demo- cratic programme and the chances of its succeeding than has yet boeen given. Meantime the people of south Dakota are manifesting a proper determination to push their cause. INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS IN SOUTH. The advance of the southern states in material prosperity during the last few years, has been universally regarded with great interest, and it has been predicted that at no very distant period of the future the development of the re- sources of that section would effect a very great change in the economic conditions of the country. The Hon. William D. Kelley, as the result of his pevsounl observations in the south, ex- pressed the opinion that wealth and honor are in her ‘pathway that her advantages ar greate than those of any other peo- ple of greater number, and that her impulses and psources make her the Eldorado of American adven- ture, Others, and particularly southern write were not less optimistic re- apecting the future of that section, and these “‘glittering gencralities” have had their influence in attracting capital and labor to that soction. But it 18 remarked that there has been a lack of comprehensive, comparative data from which to draw conclusions as to what has actually been the extent of the awakening. A contribution to this information is supplied by a writer in a southern journal, who obtaived official facts from the govern- ors of eight states, He finds that the southern boom has not been general, but has been enjoyed princi- pally by the six states of South Caro- lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Ar- kansas and Texas, and that it reall commenced in 1685, In the eight states THE from which he received reports the in- erense in th value of real and persongl property since 1580 has ahout eight hundred millions of dol these states those braced in the boom. This certainly a gratifying but it be that a portion incrense is in railroad constru that repre- sents a debt well asa gain, and that perhaps fully three hundred millions of shionld deducted assessed been rs, including a em is exnibit, to in mind of this large ion borrowed eapital be from the amountshowing the increased wealth of these southern states. When this 1 been done it will ba found that the material progress of the south in the last eight years ha nal, not been phenome- though in some localities markable, In those states prevadiled th yuditions progress vemain, but there part of that section that has not shared in the prosperity of the last three years, with respect which the outlook docs not anp 1 be in the highest degree promising. The gains of the mining, manufacturing and rail- roud contors have largely at the expense of other towns and eities, and as to four or five of the southern states the advance in wealth during the past cight years has doubtles been extremel v small.” There are opportunities in the south for capital and labor, but for a long time to come the west and north- west will continue to offer greater at- tractions and better promises to both. bhoom has d is a large where the Tt of contin and to heen THE AUSTRALIAN PLAN. There has been a great deal said about the Australian plan of voting, and we have been asked to join the ad- vocatgs of this proposed electoral form, and advocate its substitution for the present method of conducting elee tions. Under the peculiar condi- tions that surround our elec- toral system, Tum does not look upon the proposed reform as practicable, but it cheerfully places the full explanation of the schen before its reade Up to this time the Austrealian plan remains to be tried in this country, and while such a law has been enacted in Massachusetts, it vo- mains to be seen whether it will achicve what its advocates predict for it, even in that state of all the isms. There ave conditions favorable to the introduction of this boasted planin M achusetts that do not obtain in Nebraska. The state of Massachusctts makes the ability to read its constitution in English one of the prerequisites of of naturalization and citizenship. With the exception of a fow hundred blind persons, every voter in Massachu- setts con read his ticket, while in Nebrask thousands of foreign- born voters are mnot sufliciently familiar with the English language to be able to intelligently cast their vote on the pecular ticket which the Australian system prescribes. There are other very cogent reasons why we are not yet prepared for the redical change which the Austrahan plan would make in our election ma- chinery. These we shall point out at some future time. The nearest prac- tical approach to the Australian plan of voting is the California election law. That will 1n our opinion be the most foagible law for our legislature to enact. THE WORTH OF THEIR MONEY. Senator Ransom has introduced a hll in the legislature compelling insurance companies in cases of total loss to pay the amount of the insurance called for in the policy without rebate. The measure will commend itself on the ground of simple justice, and will be approved by many citizens of the state who, after a long struggle to force in- surance companies to comply with their policy contract, have been compelled to accept an adjustment which failed to ‘cover the loss against which they had paid for protection. Insurance rates in Nebraska are un- warrantably exorbitart as they are in fact throughout the entire west. The zen of Omaha is paying to-day from five to ten times the premium charged by the same companies in New York. ‘With a system of waterworks and a fire departmont unexcelled by those of any city of its size in the country, the losses from fires have been smaller in propor- tion to premiums paid than inany other city of our population in the west. A close pool prevents competition and the insurance trust fixes its own rates to which our citizens are com- pelled to submit. The fire insur- ance companies doing business in Nebraska have no reason to complain of the legitimate returns from their busi- ness. Tney are profitable enoughin all conscience, There 15 no cause why they should be increased by the meth- ods of the Shylock. If the argument is advanced that the requirement of the payment of the entire amount called for in the policy in cases of total loss would be u premium on overinsurance, the an- swer is ready that that is the business of the companies who accept the risk and who are handsomely paid for as- suming it. Other statos have found it necessary to adopt just such legislation and it has neither driven the compunies out of business or increased the fire rate. The proportion of erim- inals to a given population is small, and the number of propertied men and women who insure with the purpose of committing arson or incendiarvism is smaller still. Such eriminals would be as subjeet to investigation, apprehen- sion and punishment under a law like that proposed by Senator Ransom as they would be under existing con- ditions But the average® honest insurer would reap the benefit of knowing that when he has bought insurance, he will bave full deliv- ery of what he has paid for. At present merchants and citizens are forced to overinsure in many instances in order to collect & sum which will ap- proximate their losses, and policies are piled up on properties which the in- surers know will not be paidin full, There is a steady premium on over- insurance for self protection to the detriment of the companies. he insurer knowsthat where the insurance purchased approximates the loss there is the certainty of teaious delays and wearisome disputes with adjusters, and in more than the majority of cases SUNDAY JANUARY a settlement ip which. the companios, | under throats 86k protracted suit in the | courts and legdl expenses, finally in: duces the insuédd to accepta sum much iess than the pr h he purchased an® t0 which he is equi entitle Senator [ ection whi has by led in the entitled usom’s bill is he right divection. : Insurers to the worth of their are mey announced that the sidents of the west- tor the The ALREADY reement of the | ern e ~<‘|~ o maintain first of the year offending road wd, and the the passenger v it is rates hias been hroken is said to bo the Rock offen the cutting of stween Kansas City and Pueblo. The violation of the agrec- ment in this instance was virtually ad- mitted by the of the Rock Island, who justified the action b, ing that the Missouri Pacific had sold tickets at the reduced rate T'his alle- fon was stoutly denied by the gon- 1 passenger agent of the lavter roud, though opinion in Wall to hold the Missouri Pacific responsible for first violating the agreement, and inaugurating an- other rate-cutting war. An investiga- tion is promised and there are threats that somebody will suffer, but probab: nothing will como of it all. The eir- cumstance goes far to sustain thoe dictment of railroad ofticials presented by Mr. Charles Prancis Adams in his Boston address, and justifies the im- plied suggestion of President Roborts, of the Pennsylvania road, that the st bility of this “agreement among gentle. men'’ could not be regarded as assured. EpwiN Boorit carvied out his long cherished hope of being able to do something for s profession of more lasting good than mere almsgiving. In the opening of the Players’ Club House, the munificent gift of Mr. Booth, in New York city, on New Year's day, the dvamatic profession has been afforded the social advantages so necessarvy for the elevation of the st Within the walls of the new home, the frequent in- tercourse of the humblest actor with men of other arts and professions, who appreciate the vaiue of the drama as an aid to intellectual culture, must inspire him with a reverence for his vocation as one among the first of the “fine arts.” Such is Mr. Booth’s object in presenting the club house to his brother players. The gift will remain a lasting monument toa generous donor, the greatest Awmerican actor of our time. president sny stroot i said Bisnor NEWMAN, of the Methodist Ipiscopal church, prefers Nebraska to Texasand Omaha to Galveston as his temporary home., The bishop decided st his lot among a people whoso racy is less than that of any other ) the union, and in a community mous with' push, pluck and pub- LEGISLATIVE LORE. Tho Gothenburg Independont observes that the selection of Watsou, a strong anti- submissionjst, for spenker of the house, does not augur well for submission. With Church” Howe as president of the senate and Join Watson speaker of the house, it looks, to the Nebrasku City News, as if the railroads only went out of politics Quring the summer months, It is a puzzler to the Weeping Water Ro- publican how the clerks for senators will em- ploy their time, as the duties of souieof them, further than drawing their salaries, are not yet visible to the mind’s eye. The Lincoln Call predicts that if Jay Gould could look upon the railroad lobby, he would feol like commtting sweide. In his palmiest days of theft and in his most successful wrecking ho nover dreamed that such things could be. The Fremont Tribune announces that it will regard the members of the Nebraska legislature as honest men until they demon- strate to the contrary, The vilest of men are deomed iunocent by the law until their guilt 18 proven. Lincoln has struck fresh water just in time to meet the demands of the legislaturs, says the New York Times. While the law- makers do not drink much water, they like a good, purearticle “on the side,” and occasion- ally for bathing purposes. The Schuyler Herald notos that the Ne- braska law-makers have once more resumed their arduous duties at the rate of §5 por day. At the close of the session the costs will foot up over £00,000, and the gain to the tax- payers will amount to a great big O, It has been reported to the Nebraska City News that the railroad iobby at Lincolu this winter will be larger than ever and laws are liable to be made that will cause the Granger alliance and other similar organizations to rise up and protest in their leisure woments during the next two years. Commenting on T BEe's expose of the extravagance of the last legislature, the Hastings Nebraskan says it is an outrage upon the peoplo of the state und a shameful record. Abolish the sinccures. There is no need for so many clerks, and to put them on the pay rollis not right—it is not honest— and is unrepublican, It is believen by the Wymore Union that the bill should be passed at this session of the state legislature requiring the holder of real estate mortgages to pay taxes on the same, instead of requiring the person against whom the mortgage is held to pay taxes on that which he has not. There is no justice in the present way of levying and collecting taxes, . Church Howe has no superior in the state as a presiding officer, says the York Times. He is a first class parliamentarian, and possesses all the qualificotions of a good chairman but one. In this respect he is like his satanic majesty. The devil might be an angel if he was aot such a sinner, and Church Howe would be unsurpassed as a siing officer, if ke were 1ot such a sin- most important feature of the governmeut that needs considerable overhauling is the revenue system, the collection and disburse- ment of woney. It is now, by no meaus, perfect, and, although it is easily conceded that it canpot reach that point of excellence, it may be wonderfully improved, to the end that the honest property owner may not be made to bear an undue portion of the public burden. The Kearney Hub remarks that it does not doubt that some legisiative genius has pre- pared and will introduce a bill 1 legalize the importation and emplogyment of Pinkerton detectives in Nebraska, because there are always o few fools and knaves in every | islative body; but that fact aside, can any in- telligent person point out a satisfactory reason why corporations or brivile employ ers should be pormitted o employ a detec tive force to protect persons or property and ignore the regularly constituted offcers of tho law ! There are constables, und sheriffs, and depaty hind them Gener riffs; and policomen, and bo | Colhy'a Ne aska militia Isn't thal wgh! If all these aro insuffic font in peaceable Nobraska, it that the rest of us had moved out and given the Pinkerton's full possession Ther erank urgir timo cbraska a constitu and there in the of & tional convention, remarks the Blair Piiot. The state has about as much need of such a convention as it would have for anall tho vear round seasion of the logislature. A con would cost a good many thousand dollars, and when its work is done it is likely to compare favorably with the present constitution in all its essen tial parts, Any desirable changes may be effected by amendment, almost without pense. A o for that wholly unnocessary. The agitators should tako a long rest necessity st ynal convention ox ention purpose is - New Coat of Ar Los n “In hogs signo vinces' Venotians trust The NS, is of wost now mott he the have formed a hog iicsanics 1t Kicks Up a Rumpus Boston Hera The inauguration ball 15 as big a rumpus among tho cabinet is among the politicians tors belong the rows, - A Libel on Larrabee. Fremont Terald. The governor of Towa probably romarked to the governor of Nebra that it wasa long time between drinks over in his count This probably accounts for his comin to Thayer's inauguration -— A Chronic Complaint All Over, Kansas City Jowrnal. The medical examiner of tho St lice department reports that the police aro peculiarly liable to pulmonary diseases. No wonder, considering their habit of sleeping outdoors all night, 1p almost ymen us the o the vie Louis vo S In 1802, Boston Journal. Prosident Eliot, of Harvard bas done President Cleveland the honor of renominating him for 1302, That is as near as Mr. Cleveland will ever come to attaining that honor. By 1802 he will be the best for- gotten man now on the stage of public life ———— rgton Not Paris, Chicago Times. Paris may be France, but Washington is not the United States. The few thousands who gather at the capital as the hillside on which the miracles of the loaves and the fishes is to ho wrought anew in their behalf are not fairly representative of 60,000,000 people, university, i Not Like Omaha Streets. Boston T An Omaha man recently arrived in Boston at the Boston & Albany station. The streets of his native city are laid out with regularity. it is well to state, and are of a width commensurate with western lavish- ness. The man from Omaha evtered o hack and asked to be driven to one of the leading down-town hotels. The driver proceeded, as bad been his wont for years, and had nearly reached his destination when these words from the carriage window greeted him with considerable force and abruptness: “‘Look here, driver; I'm tired of being driven through all these alleys. You've done nothing but go through them ever since we started. Now, get right on to one of the boulevards so we can get ahead.” The driver had enough self-possession to stammer in reply: “Why, sir, this is Washington street, our principal street.” ——— WESTERN WONDERS. A libel from the Chicago Herald: In Ne- braska a ‘“‘most horrible calamity” is one man dangerously hurt and another suffering a broken leg. Mrs. Chaska (Cora Bell Fellows, the pale- face who got her name into sensational print last spriug by marrying a Cheyenne), cele- brated Christmas by becoming a mother. accoucher was a Caucasian; the baby—a half breed—is the pride of Sweet Bird's camp, out near Fort Bennett, Dak. The announcement in Denver that a noted prize fighter was to give a sparring exhibi- tion in Pueblo led to a railroad rate war, and the fare between the two cities was cut from $4.05 to 25 cents, Thousands made the jour- noy at the reduced rate, but were disap- pointed, as the fighters failed to put in an ap- pearance. A special to the St. Paul Globe from Fargo, Dak., under the caption, “Hauling Iceto Freezeville,’ says: “As convincing ovidence of the mildness of the weather in northern Dakota, the Norther Pacific rail way company is compelled to haul ice from Jumestown to fill its houses in this city, the ice in the Red river not being thick enough to pay for cutting.” An old darkey who insisted that he was 116 years old applicd for a marriage license at Topeka, Kan, His briae-clect is sixty- eight years old. The old man told a Jour- nal reporter that he remembered the French and Indian war, and the Journal printed the story with as much innocent gul- libility s it might have if that event had oc curred but thirty years ago instead of 130, Mrs. Polly Jones, who went to Missouri with Daniel Boone in 1507, has just joined the Baptist church at New Franklin, says the St. Louis Republic. After having lived 50 longg, Mrs. Jones might well expect 1o keep on living; and it is possible that she has at tached herself to the church merely to set o good example rather than through any fears as to the next world, Kansas City Star: You remember Kan apolis ! town which had its picture priuted in 50 many castern papers two y ago ! 1t was tobe the capital of the United States, Kansas and the *ifederation of the world” when the poet's prophecy should have been fulfilled. It was in the exact centre of its encircling horizon and destined tobeina fow years the commercial centre of the wast. Well, Kunapolis is going to bore for salt. e s N ON THE RAIL. Are we running on tim tor, repeating the nervous passenger’s Gues tion. “No, sir: we are doing a strictly cash business. Fare, pleasc.” Dennis Macarty—An' how’is poor Patsy giwin’ slong, doctor. Be jabers, whin I sane der engin’ shtrike him 1 tort he wuz kiiled intirely. Doctor—Fe was very badly hurt; his life hangs by a thread. Dennis—Hould on to der thread, doctor: hould on to der thread. For nivin's sake, don't let It break. On the New York Jlevated.—Guard—Sh tra-th Sthree! Director—Why don't you speak distinctly, sir, as you are ordered to do by the rules? Guard (chewiug rapidly and swallowing with dificulty)—The company makes me eat my dinuer on the trip, and 1 had two sausages and a quarter of a pic in my mouth when we pulied into the station On the Black Cannou Road.—Enter Jerry the rustier: “Hands up, and don't leave your seats.” Pirst passengor hands out an aunual pass, ‘What's all this, stranger?” Passenger, meekly “This is the Inter-state Editorial association's excur- sion." we rustier, pityingly, o lieuteaant, “13ill, go out an’ tell the boys they'll have to chip in to get this crowd something to cut Tell 'emn 1o be liberal: we'll make 1t up on the immigrant train," said tho conduc gentlemen, CURRENT TOMCS, Dr, McCosh novelists in the world wi has been writing about lady the Philadelphia Ledger, and be glad to know his views, because he combines some qualitios very for forming a judgment upon such A matter, but very seldom possessed by those 1dges and to pronound e holar, he t, heis truth, and he has the coura f He found himself a figure hoad with some ver necessar who love Lo pose as | racularly their dogmas, Tas s 08 literary instinc lover of his opinions. at Princ n business men reall resigned at once,caring far than for worldly indeed the kind of the presidential niversity, and Columbia ¢ might go further and fare worse much the man Now best novels are being written & that they have intuitiv acter, keen, tically tender thau men can have res that they can set before the characters more picturesquely su rounded by detail than men. Al women, he de in their memories trifles by which they judge people, and most espeenally men. When tho r judgment which thie merest novice of sixteen can pass is handled by a woman of good literary power, and expanded systematically, it be comes a character revelation of very great interest. It is a_psychological lightning i tuition explained intellectually, a and hie tiis soul's This vas wanted 1t command more for emolument ho ot a was man for he says that the W nd for 1o, percept more subtle, and more more He dec reader ares, treasure At the roquest of many friends Jof the president-elect, Mrs. Harrison from the Bank of Indiana two heirlooms of very interesting character, which she has frecly shown to visitors. One isthe gold medal presented by ress to Old Tippe canoe, alins Major General William Henry 1 ison, for his signal victory at the battle of the Thames October 5, 1813, over the British forces and their Canadian and red skin allies, The medal is cleven inches round, and rather thicker than a twenty dollar gold piece. On the obverse is the bust of the hero in the uniform of a major gen. eral, and the reverse contains a figure of Victory, with the word “Battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813, Around the edge where the milling would be in a double eagle is the legend, “By resolution of congress, April 1, 1818 The other medal is a small one of silver, struck by the emperor of Aus wrin, to commemorate the relief of Vienna when besicged by Kara Mustapha, the wuzeer of the sultan of Constantinople, by John Sobieski, the heroic king of Poland in 1683, This was not presented to o one in particular, but was distributed generally by the court of Vienna, and is little larger than our dollar piece. The present Mrs, Harrison inherited it from her maternal grandfather, Mr. John Neale, who probably purchased it as a curiosity. uas removed There is no subject of greater importance to a commercial city like Omaha than the ster of its pavements, but it cannot be that the conclusions reached have been wholly satisfactory. The city is divided into paving districts, and the choice of the ma terial to bo employed in any district is left to the property owners who are the parties im- mediately concerned, They are besieged by the agents of various companics engaged in vaving, and the conscquenca is that the most adroit agent settles for most districts a ques- tion which is for him only a matter of profit. Th rough this system this city has obtamed vavements of Sioux Falls granite, of asphalt, and of cedar and cypress biocks, The cheapest in the long run is the grauite, which is really an_imperfect porphyry, aud is one of the hardest substances known to the mineralogist. It has been found, how. ever, somewhat rouch for light buggies, and this has led to a preference for asphalt, which isa very good pavement, and admi- rably adapted for the streets where driving for pleasure prevails, But the wood pave- ments are not to be defended by any argu- went. They are not desirable, and though smooth are mot us smooth as the asphait pavement, which is indeed all that is claimed for it, but lacks aurability. It may be ques- tioned whether the porphyry pavement has been Inid in the best way, and it is possible that if it was treated like Belgian block, and placed on edge with cement between cach stone, it would be materially smoother. Omaha should certainly endeavor to profit by the happy cireumstance thatit is tolerably close to quarries of « stone which is prover- bial for durability. The Political Science Quarterly, of New York, has hitherto been edited by the faculty of political science of Columbia college, and they have made i fine mess of it, and have disgraced thomselves and their college. They allowed their magazine to become a vehicle for the publication of paid arguments in de fense of trusts, and gave a conspicuous place to Edward Atkinson, of Boston, a sham statistician, who hired himself to capitalists Under his adroit manipulations, figures prove exactly what his employers wish to have proved, and his head is a brace faro vox from which logical cards issue at the will of the worst monopolists in the country. He is on the lists of the Union Pacific, and has been a staunch supporter—with fizures - of all the rascally sehiemes of that greedy monopoly. But what broke the camol's back was a_recent defense of the Brooklyn sugar trust by Prof. Diwight, which has been jumped upon by all the honest p in the country, Columbia college has b itself out of the difficalty in its usual wa It has bought the New Drinceton Review and hias consolidated it with its own bantiing, and thereby has gained I’rof. Sloane, the able editor of the Princeton periodical, who in future will be the reul commander-in chief, and will prevent all such blundering. No one believes that the faculty of political science of Columbia college were actuated by corrupt motives, but they erred through ignorance and want of editorial ucutencss, and were made the vietims ot literary sharpers Moonlight's madness is not the talk of Wyoming territory, but it is discussed ali over the United States. This unhappy man is the governor of Wyommg territory, and lie hias made an ass of himself 5o absolutely that Bully Bottom, the weaver, is a Solon o hin. Hepublished a trutuful report of the condition, reso an population of Wyoming prior to the election, st mated the latter from various data of relia ble character, at.si 0. it the election re. turns had @ peculiar effect upon his brain, und he now comes out with a statement thut he wis mistaken in s report about the pop. ulation, which really falls short of 55,000, This information has becn 1 d by the people whom he governs with yells of ex cration, and it is hard to say which are the fiercer, those emitted by democratic or by re- publican throats. But the world at large, apart from the politicians, has been hugely amused at this exhibition of democratic ter giversation, since his motive is ludicrously transpacent, The returns proved that the Wyowingans were not chickens, but duckiings, and were eager to get into the re publican swim, and the poor lunatic hoped by an amazing summersault to keep them from that refreshing batl of statenood. All the republican poliviciaus are chuckling, for the whole northwest has been given over 10 them. Kven the democratio veterans have the grace to be ashamed, and take no not of the hint so broadly offered by this crazy fool, who for pu partisan r lied {n the basest way, well knowing that he wus {uflicting a stab upon his own people, who have been most desirous of attracting the at tontion of capitalists 1o their lwmense re svurces iu coal, oit and irou, only and election asons, SPECTAL TRAIN JPUFE Tho Press of the State Bee's Ent | Wilber Republican | adopted the special aclivery plan for many points beyond the borders of their own eity any of the main lines runn ‘.l( visited by a & Commend tho prise, Tite OMania Ber hae Towns on 1 from Omal train that does but | Bres. By this arrangement | formerty reached Crete at about | in the forenoon now reach there tho morning Sutton Advertiser WOk Ut on a Spo are now fal Ov pavers that 11 o'clock At noar 6 in nothing carry Ui Omana Bex this train of its own to | ¢ ATy e Bek to its customers all the way from Omaha to MeCook. It puts Tir: B nto Lincoln at 7 o'clock in the mornin and nto Sutton at H:17, und so on all the way to the west end of the state. Ihis knocks tho urnal's eyo out. Rosowat irrepressi ble and his enterprise distances competition T B the early bird in Nobrasks surnalism and 110 the worm Humphrey Republican: — Tie Ovatia Bee has chartered a special train from Omaha to Denver to delive 10rng editic That's nowsp onterprise that will muke tho slow-roing castorn editors stare with amaz ment, and dizzy vhile contemplating the way we do things in Nebraska, Ashland ( Ui Omana Bee has shown w cnterprise in putting on a apecial carry its odition to Platts mouth to with the flyor, aud giving its readers the benefit of early morniug papers. Plainview Gazette undertaken an Tk OvA Ben enterprise that has startlod the natives and strueic the adwiration of even its enemics, 1t has chartored a teain at the expense of £1,000 4 month to carry its mail daily throughout the South Platte coun try, which puts Tur Bee into eirculation several hours ahead of the other Omaha dailics, and in Lincoln at the same time a8 the home morning papers appear, Petersburg Press: On New Years morn- ing Tue Ovana Doy Bee started o ohar- tered newspaper train to be run daily to all points in the South Platte over the 13, & M Tug Breis the only dwly wost of Ohicaco that has ventured to inaugurate such an cn prise, and it will be appreciated by its acrs in that part of the state, as thoy wiil ve Tii Bei: from threo to' twenty-four hours earlior than other Omaha papers. Wost Point Republican: Tie Ovany B chartered a special tram from Omaha to con nect with the Denver flyer at Plattsmouth on the BB, & M., for the purposcof getting its morning edition to the public much earlier than heretofore, Such enterprise deserves the patronage of the public, O'Neill Tribune: Tiug Omana BEE is now running its own special mail train over the B. & M. railroud to all points iy the south western part of the state, In consequence of this stroke of euterprise Tis Dainy Vaw deliv «d Lo its patrons fr( three to twenty four hours earlior thau othier Omalia paper, has ny WORTHY OF REMARKS. William Hunt, of Counecticut, kissed his girl while her mouth was full of pins. The doctor is working over her still, and William is paying the bills, ‘There are twice as many lawyers as print: ers in the Jacksonville (111.) insane asylum This shows that the diet of cornbread and turnips on which a printer subsists is good brain food, or else people think a printer 1 always crazy and uever send him to the asylum. Charles H. Ball, of New York, is said to be the possessor of a double-jointed monkoy, and among his accomplishments is the gift of specch. Not only cau he s “papn,” “mamma,” and ‘‘cucko’ as well as auny par- rot, but he will, when hung wants his grub.” Students before being admitted to the uni. versity of Mississippi ave required to appear before a board of professors and answer whether they have any fircarms about them, or whether some person or persons had any in keeping for them. If so, they must be de- livered up before the applicants are declared full studonts. The following gruesome advertisement re- cently appeared in a Glasgow paper: “‘James Hodges coutinues to sell burying crapes ready made, and his wife's nieces dresses dead corpses at as cheap a rate as was form- erly done by her aunt, having not only been educated by her, but perfected in Idin- burgh, from whence she has lately arrived with all the newest aud best fashions for the dead.” J. W. Smith, of Pittsburg, has recently re- covered from a trance, after being uncon scious for threo weeks, He first experienced sensations as though he was in a dream. ‘This condition lasted several days, when he lost consciousness and was prouounced dead and his funeral arranged for. Signs of life were afterward detected in him, and he was kept alive by hypodermic injections of brandy and beef tea. Mr. Smith has entircly recov. ered his health, and now remembers dis- tinctly events in his life that he could not fully remember before his trance, Gl e How Bill Dodged the Bullets, Buffalo Bill is older thau he was two yours ago by twenty-four months, and he shows overy hour of it. His hair, which was for mer ibed by novelists as being *like tho raven's wing,” is now quite gray. Every- body bas a story to tell about him, although lic seldom tolls stories about himself, One of them s to the effect that {i) ihe dim, dead pasi, a solitary horseman rode up 1o Colonel Cody in Council Bluffs and commenced shooting at him without pausing to ask a Dlessing or say “how are yow" The bullets whistled play fully about Mr. Cody's head for a while, and then the latter, rousing from his veveric, drew two cold, clammy guns from his clothing and commonced to shoot. The solitary horseman wus carried away to an improvised morgue, and Buffalo Bill went away unharmed, Thus we are again shown that the virtuous man always comes out on top. This narrative appears in a Lincoln paper as an original reminiscence, and while wo dislike to divest it of all vomance, the truth of history compels us to say that this dra matic encounter with a blood-thirsty assassin was nothing more nor less than an in zenious advertising dodge. The solitary horseman encountered by “Buffulo Bill” was not an entire stranger, and while his feat of wild shooting was not down on the bills, the hero of the Wild Wost was not wholly un pared 1o fuce the volley of paper wads whistled through his bovine mane. The solital it is true, was carried away Lo jail after ho had emptied his revol- ver, and Bison William went his way un- harmed, The story of his mivaculous escapo w8 scattered far and wide, and the dus. tardly horseman was eventually released by the city marshal of Council Bluffs, becat his gallant vietim failed to put in an appe unce against him. This kind o' knocked tho starch out of the romance and caused some people to suspect thut Buffalo Bill and tho man on horseback had postponed their deadly ducl until the Wild Wost show gets to the Paris centennial e . The Saddie on the Wrong Nag. Boston Herald, Rev. Washington Gladden once sent out lotters to 300 youny wion asking them why they didn't attend church Si day. The replies were numerous, but not onc of them put the blame on the Sunday newspapers, as the New York clergymen are now trying to do. In fact, it appears that this churge is mado only by clergyme the laymen generally making dull sormons respousible for Sunday stay at homes - County Organization Complete. Toreka, Kau, Jan |Special Telegram to Tk Bes, |~ Wallaco county was organized to-day by Governor Martin, being the last county in the state to be organized, and mak- ing the twenty-fourth which hus come in under Govornor Martin's aduwinistration, The following oflicers were appointed : O. R. Jirown, John W. Gessell and M. ‘T Griggs, %ounty commissioners; Samuel 1. Day, s Yoxull, she horseman, Thie 5.