Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 7, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 18%0. BE. PILY MORNING. W& OF SUBSCRIPTION. Worning Edition) including SuNDAY k. One Year For Six Months For Three Months [HE OMARHA SUNDAY BEE, malied to auy address, One Y ear WERKLY EE, One Year FHATA OFFICENOS LA NDA10 FARN AN STREET. CHICAGO OF #1CE 507 ROOKERY BUTLDING. NEW YORKOFrice, ROous 14 AN 15710 Buinning, Was 10N UFFICE, NO. FOUIRTELNTH STR ) 0 5 00 CORRESPONDENCE All communications relating tonews and sdi orial matter should be addre hie Eptror | OF THE [IRE RUSINBSS LETTRERS, All buginess letters and remittances should ba sddressed 1o Tir. BEE PUBLISIING COMPANY OMANA. Drafis, checks and p» a ordors to lic Bee Pnhllsllinmmnaxw Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor [y THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement ot Circulation. tateof Nebraska, ‘anm of Dougias, o I, Tzachuck, secratary of Tha 11as Pub- Conipany, dosy solemuly swear that the cireulation of Tk DAlLy Brk for the nding January b, 1550, was as follows undny, Dec. ) onday, Dec. i uesaay, Jan. | dnesdny, Jan, 2. Lnursaay, Jin riday, Jian. 4 aturday, Jun. b Average Eworn %o before me and subscribed in my presence this oth day of January, A. D 1880, Seal W N, P. FEIL, Notary Fublic. Btate of Nebras ., | County of Dougins, — { George . Tz8chiuck, being duly sworn, de- oses and says that he fs sccretary of the lies Publishing company, that the actilal average daily circulation of TaE DAILY BEk for tho 8 coples; for Fob- 2 coples: TOr March, 1888, 10,059 11, 1864, 18,744 copies; for Maly, 1S5, onies: for Jul Aust, 1568, 18,183 copies | !orfimnumhm, 1k, 18,154 coples;’ for October, 9 88, was 19,084 cop for November, 1585, 8,986 coptes . fol 8K, 18,220 coples. 0 be mo ani_subscriboa in my. Presence this drd day of January 1830, N. P. FELL Notary Publie. e Tur council should not let the project for the building of a garbage cremutory be too long delayed. Tie manner in which property own- ers of this city have been imposed upon by defective plumbing makes it evident that the present regulations might be improved for their proteetion. Tie Winona & Southwestern, which s being built toward our city, is acting on the principle that as all roads once led to Rome, so all railvoads in this sec- tion must now head for Omaha. It took 124 oficers and employes to xun the state senate in 1887, at an ex- pense of twenty-four thousand, nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty cents, which dia not include perqu sites. This is surprising, but true. TuE 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 yiew of cvery member of the legisiature. ‘TiE lower house of the last legisla- ture furnished positions for ninety-six officers and employes at an outlay of twenty-two thousand four hundred and fitty-three dollars, No vouchers for “value received” for this enormous outiay can be made that will satisfy the taxpayers., MR. CLEVELAND has been provided for with a position after the 4th of March by Congressman Tim Campbell, of New York, if he will accept. He has ‘been tendered the junior partnership of the legal firm of Campbell and Cleve- land, which at least has the merit of al- Jiteration to commend it. GOVERNOR ALYA, of Colorado, in his aessage to the legislature, has urged that body to pass a high license law as pmong the first of its duties. In the light of the action of her neighbor Nebraska had better hold fast to the admirable Slocum high license law now dn force than to allow herself to go rain- bow chasing after impractical prohi- bition, AN 1885 the grand total of legislative Rppropriations was one willion six hun- fred and seventy-cight thousand seven bundred and ninety dollars and pivety cents. In 1857 the legisla- fure increased this already burdensome tax to two million seven hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundr and ninety-six dollars and eighty-six cents—over a million dollars 1ncrease fn two years for identically the same ptate government. THE West Virginia election compli- gation seems to be as far from solu- ion as it did two months ago. The re- bults of the canvass are by no megns ! fefloltelv sastled Although it is prob- @ble that Goff, the republican candi- @ate, has been elected governor, it is a guestion whether he can fully establish his claim. The choice in two congres- gional districts is still in doubt, and the prediction as to which party will choese the United States senator for the term beginning March 4 is a matter of con- Jecture. — Tae Chicago telephone company has tade its peace with the city council of ghat city, and got off with the best of the bargain, An attempt was made to regulate telephone charges by putting ghe maximum price at eighty-five dol- fars instead of the present rates, one Bundred and twenty-five dollavs. But the company flanked this movement and compromised by ngrecing to give the ity departments free telephone service and turn over three per cent of its gross geceipts. It is not stated, however, awvhat’compensation the councilmen re- oeived for this franchise, r——— . PAUL VANDERBUM'S recent visit to Andianapolis to boom Thurston for the @abinet does not seem to have met with “adhe encouragement from General Har- glson which was expeoted, In fact a ood deal of cold water was thrown on g‘hurlwn'u aspirations, and his rush- dight, so to speak, was complotely anuffed out. But the bombastic vetoran, awho never came within thirty miles of & battle, now expects Thurston to turn #u and help with all his might and main boost nim into the cowmissionership peansions. There is nothing small about Paul Vanderbum, you know. 25 | THE ELECTORAL VOTE. One week from to-day the presidential octors in the several states will meot at the state capitals and cast their vot for president and vice president of the United States, Formerly the day of meeting of the ctors was the first Wednesday of Decembor, the law chang- ing the time of meeting to the second Monday of January following th ng beon passed in Febraary, The change was made 1n order to rive the states ample time for determin- ing any disputes that might arise meerning the legality of the oice of tl slectors, 0 that when the electors there may b no doubt of theipe r ht to cast t of the state for candidate and vice pres $00n as possi after the electors voted the il s and list of cast must be forwarded to the sident of s . and that is empower in case the certificate from any fails to turn up by the fourth Monday of January, to send a specinl mossenger to the district judge, in whose custody a certifi- | cate is required to be left, for his ypy. This is to insure certificates from ery state by the time the two houses of congress moet to count and declare the vote. The law provides that con- gress shall be in session on the second Wednesday 1n Febrouary succeeding every meeting of the electors. The wnd house of representatives are required to meet in the Jall of the house at the hour of 1 o'clock in the afternoon on that day,and the president of the senate sh their presidin officer. Two tell to bo previously appointed on the part of the se ) and two on the pat of the house of revresentatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opencd by the pres- ident of the senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to he cortificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be spread, presented and acted upon in the alphabetical orderof the states. The tellers having read the certificates in the presenc and hearing of the two houses, are v quired to make a list of the votes they shall appear from the cortificates, and’ the votes having been ascertained and counted in the manner and accord- ing to the rules provided, the re sult shall be delivered to the president of the senate, who must thereupon an- nounce the state of the vote, and the numes of the persons, 1f any, eleeted, which announcement shall be deemed asuflicient declaration of the persons, if any, elected president and viee presi- dent of the United States. These pro- ecedings are to be vocorded in the jour- nals of the two houses. A method of procedure is provided for in case of objections ov disputes garding any certificate, but 1n the first count of the electoral vote under the new law no difficulty or complica- tion is likely to arise, the majority for the republican candidates being so pro- nounced as to leave no ground or excuse fora coutest. The first procecdings under the new law, which 1s certainly an improvement over the old, will there- fore bo free from any disturbing con- ditions and without friction. The sy temas a whole, however, might he simplified without disadvantage, and it not improbable that before many rears 1t will bo, to the extent of abolish- ing the cloctoral coliege, which is very widely regarded as a quite unnecessary and useless part of the election ma- chinery. CONTESTS IN THE NEXT HOUSE. Already there are in course of pre- paration for the consideration of the next house of representatives thirteen contested election cases. The busiest committee in that body will be the one on clections, and its enlargement is con- ted. In view of the extraordi- number of contests that will come before the next house, attention is called to the methods usual in these issues and the abuses that are tolerated. The popular impression that the house decides all election cases is in a measure erroneous. The issue is in- deed’ determined by a formal vote of the house, but as a matter of fact vhe committe on elections de- termine in advance what that decision shall be. Members of the house not on this committee do not have the time to examine and analyze the great mass of testimony presented by contestants, and must necessurily depend upon the investigations and conclusions of the committe Partisan feeling as a rule onters largely into these contests and influences the action of a majority of the committee and of the house. It rarcly happened that a majovity of the house did not vote in favorof the sitting member if he v party, and against him if he belonged on the other side Discreditable as this unquestionably is, 1518 one of those faults which are perhaps inseparable from our political methods. A more flagrant and inde- fensible injustice, however, is the delay in calling up and disposing of coutested election cases. Not one such case was voted on at the last session, although it was the longest ever held. This is an injustice both to the individnals con- corned and to the government. If a contestant is entitled to the seat he should be given possession with the least possible delay. The imposi- tion on the public treasury is in the fact that in cases where the contestant is given the seat he draws the pay and al- lowances from tho beginmng of the congress, notwithstanding the sitting member has alveady drawn them., Con- testants have been scated on the night prior to the day fixed for the termina- tion of a congress, thus emabling the sit- ting member to draw full pay and al- lowances for two years to which another was entitled and which the treasury wasZobliged to again pay to the rightful claimant. Each succeeding congress vepeats this abuse, and the present one will doubtless not prove an exeeption. It is believed the soveral contested “election cases now pending will be decided in time to give all the principals and their attorneys a grab at the surplus. It is almost in- credible that this wrong to the . people has been permitted to go on from con- gress L0 cougress without any effort to correot it, It i3 to be hoped the next house will not coutinue the unjust and indefensible practice of the garding contested election cases, which is expected v on tho resolution reiating ments with ¢ ,and it will resolution 1s intende will not regard favorably the part of the government of that coun- Jose A govern- Panama canal. Thero does not appear to | comnleting rovernment to doso, butin any part of congress may s in line with the policy of this coun- beginning, or atl the enunciation of the Monroe doctrine, and it is due to that she should be given timely notice that as a ment this country could not tolerate her As Senator Sherman said, in advocating the resolution, the the people of Burope co-operating for ro is no objection to governmental 1f we permitfed it in tho ease of Prance we could not deny to ropean government the right to acquive possessions continent, the control of which would be a menace to our interests. A DECISIO by the supreme court of bridges across the Missouri river b county in which they are lotated. case was one brought by of Cass county to tax the Bur bridge at Plattsmouth. clington resistod the v county to tax its road-bed, and as such puid mevely a nominal county tax. The holds to the bed or vight of way, and for that reason could not claim exemption. of the bridge therefo the limits of Cass county is liable to as- sessment and taxation by the loeal au- 15 of vital im- 1t affects not only the Bur- Plattsmouth every railroad bridge across the which is within firms the ri of the state to tax this ¢ within their jurisdiction. It is expected commissioners avail themselves of these rights The railroad tax-shirkers have contributing uss of property too long escaped their proportionate share of county and city taxes. Tue report that the Burlington will push its new extension, which is now rd the Black Hills, into the ational Park, is not at all It may possibly take some time before such a line is completed, butevery mile of road that is being laid west of the one-hundredth promising heading tow Yellowstone improbable. meridian i bringing a rich hitherto unte: sy commun agricultur versed by railvoads into ation with the corn branch of the Burlington will tap the extensive coal bedsand min in the heart of the To our city the new road ¢ b benefit eventually territory will ship usits c 1ts coal, lead aud petroleum, while our jobbers and merchants al deposits mountains, nnot but be ttle and corn, will supply that quantitics merchandise as the country becomes the move thickly populated. ay Gould in noti- Manager Clark, of the Zacitie, to promptly discharge anyagent or employe of that roud found guilty of reducing rates in violation of the agrecment which went into irst of the year, mc When the Rock Islana cut was discovered, and the president of that road sought to justify it on the ground fying- General s hearty ap- cut, the fist disposition was to accept the excuse, as the theory that nothing been expected of men vho had got sheir ideas and principles of business from M. Gould, scen that an injustice =, 4 ‘ntends to faithfully re- v the agreement, and the ceedingly gatifying to all investors stern railroad securities. an be little doubt but that the Northern the openiiig of the rious reasons. oux reservation for Northwestern other Chieago roads were anxious to see the reservation opened in able to push their lines through it to committee Indian affairs in its report implies, however, that the Northwest- ern is not in favor of the Sioux the reason that it is interested vailrond project to tap the Black ba that the Fremont & Elkhorn railroad which has been pushed boundary of braska to the extreme corner of the state is the road referred to which is to the Northwestern’s maiu line to the Black Hills OTHER LANDS THAN OUI Things are looking has again notified the Peruyian of her dissent Donoughmore contract, minister of finance at once resigued. other ministers followed President Caceres is be remembered by readers of Tns Ber 2 minfster of finance did not pro ceed with the measure aftor from Chili without receiving from England that Chili's interfercnce would 1t would therefore be rea- England would have and prevented ivian ministry, aond the government the Peruvian his example, and left stranded. not b tolerated. sounble to expect that wtimated as much to Chill, the fall of tho Pe humiliation of Caceres. after eggin ingloriously ran away after the first grow! from the Chilian throat, The Donoughumore coutract is therefore off, finally, and Peru must strugele on as best £ho can withont theaid tHat Eagland offered 1f a wise systom of friettlly recognition be tween the United States and all the Spanish Amerjcan republics had been the steady pol tervention at this monfont wonld be of ser. it is, Chili - would treat it as an im , and our minister would be s th'a floa in his ear. We can only look ou and be sorry for Peru. Porfirio Diaz 18 ¢ @ wise and ben ificent ruler of Mosico, and all things seem to prosper under his mafagement. He has the art of doing things at the right time, and in the right way. Tha City of Mexico, as is well known, is built upon the lake of the same name, and this is subject to overflows W the snows are unusually he: upon the mountains which surround that gion. This summer the overflow was precedented, and as the rs subs there was an opidemic of typhoid fever Porfirio Diaz immediately seizod tunity to recommend aplan often v fore,often aceeded to, but neveraccor for want of funds, This schomn the estrmated cost will be £2,000,000, a telle for rich American cities, but muct Mexico, which used to be ¢ which, owing to the excellent administra of the present president, is now comp! out of debt. The loan was offered in Lon and was snapped up on terms that were somewhat unjust to Mexico, the bonds being marketed at S2. This was in consequence of the distrust felt by English capitalists at Mexican securitics, as that country was for along time the prey of anarchists.” 1t would have been offered to American capitalists, for whom Porfirio Dinz has apersonal prof nee, us he knows many of them, but in the face of ‘the rejection of the Mexican treaty it could not be done. There s great and anifest injustice m the attacks upon Secre Bayard for his policy of non-intervention in the affairs of Samoa. Leading men in Washington confide to indiscreet reporters, for of courso that is the only way in which their sc t thoughts could come to light, their dissatisfaction with his distesard of American rights in Samoa. We have no rights. When the islands were governed by irresponsible chiefs America was urged to uccept the protectorate over the main island which possosses an e llent harbor. An American naval officer, ting for the government, did 8o accept,and congress ratified his action. But pending this ratification the chiefs of the whole up wot tozether and decided that they uld have a king, and they elected a gentle- man named Malicton, The minority were dissatistied, and receiving moral support from German ofiicinls, naval and civil, took the field, vl Malicton, and put in his place a nonarch named Tamasisi, whom the Germuns recopnized as the legitinute Sov reign of all the Swmoas. 13ut Malictoa's friends were defeated, not conquered, and they have madeit exceedingly warn for the usurper Tamasisi, who is ¢ selled to fight not only for lis crown, but for his very esistenc The more neutral America s in this junctu the more certainly will the American pro tectorate be desired I o) is over. The Germans have grossly e taking sides openly with either party, and unless they mean to wantonly insult’ this untry by se lo fa ale A correspondent of tlie New York World at Panama points out a very grave dang arising from the apparently inevitable col lapse of the canal enterprise. He does not scem to be deeply impressed by the hopeful tone assumed in Paris, because the patriotic renunciation of interest on stocks and bonds will not put money in the purse of the com pany, and there are thirty thousand men on the isthmus who cither dircetly or indirectly are in its employ, and look to it for manten ance, These have in their train an army of cooks, restaurant keepers, sutlers, gamblers, washerwomen, storekcepers, ete., who have been attracted to Panama znd Colon by the enterprise of the De Lossops compan) ‘hese are of every recognized race—Chinese, Kanaka, Caribs, indians from the Mosquito coast, negroes from Jamaica and Cuba, mul attoes from the Spanish-American republics, Buglish, Americans, French, rmans, Jews, Portuguese, Greeks, even Malays aud Hindoos. What will happen when the sourc of supply for this multitude suddenly runs dey? The local authority is powerless to deal with the frenzy and despair of such numbers, and both France . and America ought to send transports for their removal, and ships of warto prevent them from re: sortingto criminal violence, If these pre- cautions are not taken there may be inaugur- ated in a little while a perfect reign of terror which will appal the world, Pope Leo is an ecclésiastical lion, and hie has done some terrible roaring of late. On the day before Christmas he addressed the cardinals according to custom, and in his specch he nobly vindicated his patriotism and his love of Ituly against the aspersions of the military press. $Ho likewise came out boldly, and urged Catholics everywhere to agitate for the restoration of papal supremacy, not in Rome alone, but in Italy, not in Italy alone, but in Europe, not in Europe alone, but everywhere, in every land where Christ and the Viegdn were adored. The conse quence will be that an_active propoganda will be established over the whole_world for the return of the pope to the vaticau, The sympathies of the liberals are no longer with the Piedmontese dynasty, which L been purely Enormous sums b been wasted on tremendous vessels, and on great stunding army, and nothing has heen done by the government to profit by the ad- vantage which the Sue anal gives to Italy. Individuals and individual citics have opened their eyes and have reaped great profits, but this bas simply given the government more revenuc by taxation. The hunger for Tunis, and the fiasco of Massowah have damaged Italy seriously in the eyes of the world, and the Irench in particular have not been slow to state their contempt for [talian ar- waments. 1f the 2ertbiican fodergtion of \dan_states, of which Mazzini dreamed could have been inaugurated, then indeed Ttaly would have been redeemed. And it may be tha will bo accomplished with tue pope for perpetual president. The most recent news from Suakim 18 tha somo of the English troops that participated in the great victory have gone home. The government of Lord Salisbury has done this on the plea that the Bgyptians are able to oope with the Berbers and the dervish The real reason, undoubtedly, is that akim, lile Aden, has no water, and has to be supplied from the ships in the harbor > can only be of lght draught, because anchorage is rocky and exceedingly bad for heavy ships, and indeed is better suited to the Arab dhows and buggalows than to England's monsters. Wo have now reccived suflicient wformation to be able to rate the victory at its justvalue. The wily Osman Digna, itseems, had Ho notion of exposing his men to the shells of the British vessels, and ho quietly withdrew almost his entire force, leaving in his redoubts no one except those fanatic dervishes that wanted to die and gain paradise right away. Of the 20,000 not more than 2,000 remained in front of Suakim, The moral ef- fect of the victory, tharefore,- {s practically nothing, and it becomes elaar'that if the Eng- lish wish to conquer for Tewlik Pasha what they lost for Ismaii, they must lay down & railroad from Suakim to Khartoum and hold that place. But this thiey do not waut to do for two reasons, first, that the expense would be very great, and secondly, that is what th Germaus wish them to do simultaneou with their own sdvance from Zanzibar, hich bas now been detormined upou. Tk English have many colonies, and nothing worth speaking of. The gain of Khartoum would be 4 drop in the bucket to England, whereas the gain of Zanzibur would be a material beuefit to the German empiro. Thus the jealousics and disen- sions of European powers aid the Arabs in building up a great Arab empire in central Africa. De Brazza, the famous explor says that after nine years experience he has como to the conclusion that all the efforts made in western Africa have beon wasted, and that the Congo region must be left to the Arabs and the Afar, Denis Kearneyof Sab Francisco builaed better than he knew when he started on the sand lots of the city hall park his famous slogan about the Chinese. Tue people of Illn'mhlln are “actually chanting in their the Chinese must go, and that Denis Kearney says so. immigration elish-speaking Ldha as cqui ssions of contribut one can serve therefore their Il clements Chieago News roll of the house caunot 4th of March, AnOpening For Bayar.k, Nmond Dispateh. wking about for After the 1th of March th send him a big assortment of would is Latest Great Scheme. Providence Jowrnal of New Humpshire, zantic mind to the in a bill to move the equator to the north end of Hudson's bay Very Satistactory. will make a very wctory presiding officer of the city coun W many men in Omaha se, who could not fill the prace holds half so ereditably. ROMINENT PE James Hannen, the presidin the Parnell commission, Two coachmen nd he is maintaining their widows to consider that Lwhen in his seat in the senate he may be putting them into his Ward McAllister, colonel of New society brigade yel is tall, erect i« mustache and s 'he Four Hundred,” goatee and is a several cousins of his name in Mrs. Jay <Gould’s condition has so s able Sunday, for the first time since her il With the assistunce of her nurses she walked m a little distanco d then rested in her chair. few diys she Lus been ste General Bou to be his mother. during the ten months wound receiv, and which was nev idol in life is said She was with him in 1559, dat Solfegno, and evening and if awiy, always Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist, had his yacht headed for the Sandwich heard from. likely to remain on_one of those_islands sev. eral months, in_order to pursuits of h to the best adv rondacks benefitted yachting trip has done But e has got 1o fight against sickness as long as he lives, Somebody has taken the trouble to inform orld that Queen Victors alth getting and novel writing His stay in the Adi and then spends ctters to her secre- luncheon, then the morning At 2 p,m. she take holds a_court ceremony, dulges in a short drive, until 9 p. m. really gets through a v Once in a while questions of state of i importance require her attention. fuct is that she has no sin She does not dine ast deal of worl SPECIAL TRAIN PUF » state Commend the < Enterprise. The Press of th to Plattsmouth to 1 owith the B $1,000 per wonth, chartered a spc ake connect Wallace Mail Brg put on a fast mail tra and Lincoln be delivered to its patron v of publication, prising joura n between Om This will enable und deserves sy | clarrercd 5y o' paners to subserivers along the line of the 13, X M. shows great enterprise, on the pr Tt is the first west. to deliver its munagement, ern paper to attempt such an undertak Tie OyamA run a train from Omaha to for its own exclusive use, commone: fng with Jan new year, and proposes to beeon papers 1 the United commences the train of their own ders outside of Omaha with leaves Omaha ich will supply This gives Tie Bee the inside track on other Omnha paper: " Tite OvAns Ber headed off its contemporarics by sect ¢ of its ewn, and livers its papers to all the South Platte > to twenty-four hours This is the first in- stance of a special mail train in the interest of one publisher west of Chicago, Pimes-Winrer has commenc terprise of runnin special mail serv d the gigantic en may got the news a this branch it will give us a paper the same day it is published ad of the day following as at present Tie Beg will fly now. su scoop on its rivals hires a train rpose of getting a fow nours ahead of Commencing uary 1, a speci Owaha on the 13, & M. at 4:80 a. m., gollBg Tus Bek to Linco points on th at 7 o'clock, on the part of Tue 13ek, wmation to get to the frogl in the journalistic race. Lincoln Call front of the procession in Ne It prints more news; bhas boiter ¢ leoted and bet arrangod miscellany —in short it ¥ the one er in the groat west and only great paj fact that Tur Lre gets inte/Lincoln 5 7 o'clock each morning has already increased its list in this city. In fact, Tug Bre is o buszer. Railway Nows-Reporter: The management f Tue OMana BER have just made arrang ments whoreby their thousands of readers in southern Nebraska will be reached in from six to twolve hours shead of other Omaha dailics. "Tur Brr is a progressive and wide ropolitar ud {58 new de th dolight by 1 newspaper train American scab is n w send train Al expense Stana B pas ; and Ve n of the 1 Whatever Rosewat per lly, his te, and 18 so rec od abroad as well as_at home, and ha the state of Nebraska than all letractors tuken togethor, UNVARNISHED ¥ Mrs, Clarisa Cox 1, Mass Gth of last October, has f 1 » weeks past liyed entirely and touts of two glassos ata single drinking During this timo she has been quite ill, and everything else has been distasteful to hor paper is the paper of the s c sometimes taking the con ase Arnold, a laborer, ate sixty-two raw na wager at the People’s theater at rdsville, Ind. His backers offered to bet that he could eat five dozen more, but there were no takers, several hundred dol lars having already changed hands on the re. sult. After the exhibition Arnold adjourne to a restaur and indv *d in a hearty meal Miss Catharine Seevers, of Bast Brooklyn, went to a ball in Turner hall the other mght She daneed in nearly every dance and retired to the ladies' room about 3 o'clock to rest While resting on a sofa_in_the room she yvawned, and dislocating her jaw, was unable to shut' her mouth, An ambulance surgeon removed her to St Catharine's hospital, where her aflliction was attended to The most remarkable case ever known to the physicians of Monticello, 111, is that of J. Meredith, who is suffering from abdominal dropsy. Dr. W. 3. Caldwell has tapped him fifty-four times during the past twelve nonths, ving one and a half to two gal lous of water at each operation. On one o casion four gailons of water were removed An operation is now performed on him every week. Dr. Caldwell cstimates that during the year he has removed two barrcls of water from the patient. Mr. Mercdith is able to go about the streets in a short time after the operation is performed, He is seventy-five ye old. Joe Dietz, a Louisville man, is lying in the city hospital suffering from a broken collar bone and a mashed head, caused by jumping down aflight of stairs. Dietz has'a mania for jumping from high places, He has been n hospital three times in twelve montha, cach time from injuries received m jumping from windows, und physicians say he has not a sound bone in his body, His bigrest jump was from the third story of the city hospital eight mouths ago. I'rom the first iloor there protuded a_veranda, and Dietz aiighted on the iron railing of this, The heavy banister was broken in two and the long fall of his heavy body came near tearing down the whole concern. From this objective point Dictz was precipitated to the pavement below after whirling around once in the air. The fall would have killed an ordinary man, buthe seemed 1o possess a_charmed life, He sur- vived, although his hip boue, leg, three fin gers and nosc were broken aud suashed, be sides a number ot other bruises and fractures. —~— The Inaugural Ball Louisville Couricr-Journal : Captain J who “taught young ladies how to dawnce,” would be a good deal astonished at the noise made about the inauguration ball. Cincinati Boquirer: “No one in nis senses dauces,” saith the Latin stoic; but Benjumin Harrison led a quadrilie at Indian. apolis a few wecks ago, and proposes to have afivstclass ball op the day of his inaugura- Lion, n Francisco Ixaminer: Senator Me- Carthy is the only one who scems to have any scruples. He tavors balls but objects to round dances. The sensuous waltz excites his experienced suspicions, and he iusists upon confining the festivities to decorous quadrilles, as in those moral diversions the “Ally man left!” and “Sashay all!” of the “caller off” strike in upon sentiment before it hias time to become dangerous. We should likke to see an_inaugural bail with Senator McCarthy as floor manager. It would rec oncile us to political defeat. Atlanta Constitution: At about 11 o’clock the music of the first dance will strike up. It will be a quadrille. General Harrison and bis party will form a set and walk through the figured. Mrs. Cleveland will be General Harrison's partner; Mr. Cleveland will dance with Mrs, Harrison. It will, however, be a tame affair, about us lively a shuking of the feet as a rehearsal of an old-fashioned min uet, When the quadrille is over, Mr. Harri son and his party will o to the white house, It will thus be seen that the next president will uot indulge to any great extent m the gayeties of the evening. He is not much on the dance any wi Oxana, Jan. 5.—To the Editor of Ta The latest gossip is to the effect that ( Lew Wallace will be selected as the member from Indiana of the new president’s cabinet Heis assigned to the postoftice, John C. New and Chairman Huston have bad their day, and have been seb down as cabinet impossi bilitics 50 far ns 1he virdiot of the public { eoes. The belief was growing that Tndiana would have no representative in the cab. inet The talk about General Wallace recalls the story which floated over the country after Chicago convention, The story ran t, leading up to General Harrison’s nom ination for the presidency, a state ticket had been prepared for the ropublicans of Indiana to support the November elec tion. Ix-Governor Porter was to head the ket, us candidate for governor, and Gien al Wallace was to run for lieutenant gover wor. This combination mads at Chizago would, it is said, be invincible av the polls, and thus Goneral Harrison was certain to reccive tho vote of his own state. - The story went on that in 1500 th 18 would clect the logislature ) and that body would at once procecd t o Porter 10 the United States senuate as the successor of Dan Voorhces. Thus, € | Wal by the avenue of the lieutenant governorship, would reach the position of chief executive of the Hoosier state, There was the odor of the ocean about is story, but when a few weeks after the Chicago convention, the county primarics in Indiana began to declare enthusiastically and unanimously that Porter was their choich as a gubernatorial ecanaidate, thut which had before been deemed exelusively warine literature camo to be regarded as truth. Whether the story was, in fact, true will, perhaps, never be known. There'is no doubt that Porter could have casily be nominated. His nomination would huv belped the ticket, and the republican major it#an the state would, in all like lihood, have doubled or trobled that given to Harrison and Hovey Porter_has always held lumsell out as the spedfal champion of the workingwen, o tide for the governorship was s favor there was o grof the I f Labor in Indian They asked PPorter not to stand as a for governor. Ho 1 their delegates cordially, aud, invitin into his garden, gave each of them a buttonhole bouquet. Of course noborldy knows what cf. fert this yist had on the ex-governor's mnple mind, but every body kinows that he peremp torid§ deelined a practically unanimous nomi nation beforc it was i ot offered. That smashed the Chicago slate, if thore was such & slate, . In spite of this gossipabout General Wallace, it may be set down as nearly certain that the president-elect will not iuve an Indiana man 1u uis official household. 13ut if he should honor Indiana with u portfolio, John C. New will be red individual, 1t wmay be said and it fs true that 6o man ever had, and Assuredly General Harrison never had s more_loyal, zealous and devoled politioal friend than John C. New. In victory and defeat, amid gloom and sunshine, the editor of the Indianapolis Journal has been con- stant and true to the intercsts of General Harrison, Tt must be romembered that tha president-elect Jias had no enthusiastio sup porters, except Now, among the republican leaders’ of nis own state, He quarreled with Gresham years ago; ho has always looked upon Porter with lofty scorn, and, as to Huston, he has only como into prominence within two or three years During the heated and pr contest beforo the Indiana legisia years ago there wero four reprosentatives who really held the balance of power, These men had strong afliations with tho Knights of Labor. Indced, at least two of thom wers embers of the or They wore voting, ay after day, for a drucgist who (ived at Lerre Haute, but they sceretly hoped to elect Porter at some stage of the game, General Harrison 1w the nomin of the republican cancus and David Turpio was the democratic wate. The democrats had an tual majority of two on joint ballot, but one of their num ber voted for nearly a month with the labor contingent. Ho finally came round to Turpio and the Harrison flag fell in the faco of tho At ono time in that_contest, when the bal- loting had progrossed until all things grew wrong and tho dead Tock threatened to hang on forever, I had been told that the four members of the labor party held a caucus, to which they invited Jolin C. Now. They pro posed to him that if *he republicans would withdraw General Hareison and put up ox Governor Porter us a_candidate, the lattor could be elected, 1t had become evident, they urged, that General Harrison could not win vew, according to the generally aceepted report of the meeting, became furi ously indignant. He delivored the proposi- tion of the labor caucus and alluded to ter in the most scornful manngr. “Gener: Harrison is the republican nomine,' said New, *tand it any republican is tothe United States senate by this legislature, ho and he ouly will be cliosen It may not be out of place to remaric that it was universally believed, even in - demo- cratic cir it that time, that the substitu tion of Albert G. Porter for General Haret son, ns o senatorial candidate, would hava been dangerous to democratic hopes. I this instance the loyalty of New to his chief may have been a blessing to the common enewmy hose democrats who understood the situation perfeetly, got no small amount of encouragement in that crisis from their confidence in New's fidelity to General Ha rison. The political carcer of tha president elect may be said to have begun in 1576, 1t is truo that he was elected reporter of the suprema court of Iudiua for one or two terms before the war. After his return from the war ha devoted himself almost exclusively to th practice of law in the city of Indianapolis for more than ten years, i 1836, in tho ve fiercest of the greatest political can paign of posthellum times, it became neces- sary for the republicans to remove Godlove 5. Orth from their ticket as a_candidato fc governor. General Harrison was nomimated to the vacancy and he aceepted, although ho kuew the contest was welinigh hopeless for the republicans. In spite of the tidal wave of reform, in spite of the strong personality of Tilden and the overwhelming popularity of Hendricks, General Harrison, it must bo said, valiantly and cours v led a forlorn hope, and held the democratic majority down to a little more than 5,000, In 1380, when the' repulicaus captured the legislature of Indiana, General Harrvison was easily elected to the United Stutes senate to succeed Mr. McDonald. Phe campaign was a short oune and ho was nominated almost without a contest His next campaign resuited in his defeat by ‘Turpie in 1887, wid that was followed by his nomination and clection to the presidency. 1twill, therefore, be seen that of four politi- cal campaigns, (ieneral Harrison has won two and lost two. In the language of the turf, ke has started in four races, in two of which he ran first, and in_the other two ha finished u strong second. 1t is a little strange that those shrewd gentry, the bookmakers, did not inspeet his record’ more closely when they were laying odds against him last fall. In all these contests no other man did such faithful and effective service as did John G New. Those who ave intimately acquainted with the character of the prosident-eloct assert that he will as president pursue his own course, carcfuily define his own poliey, and run the execntivo oftice according to his own inclinations. He is not finding any difficulty in the responsibilities he is ahout to assumd, and is losing no sleep over the situation in New York. He will select his own cabinet, The suggestion is_made that General Har- rison woult permit Mr. Morton to choose the New York member of the cabinet and thus escape a dilemuma. The suggestion is puerile, General Harrison was never in a dilemma. No matter how thick the gloom, his imaeinatio stimulated by his supreme coufidence in his own powers has always been able to show him tho clear light of day. The eabinet- makers who are leaving John €. New out of theiv calculations are figuring in the dark. 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