Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 26, 1889, Page 4

_SATURDAY. THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED ERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally (Morning Edition) including SUSDAY Yivk, One. Year 810 0 ¥or Six Months 5 00 For Three Months 260 Ty ONAUA BUNDAY BikE, mailed 1o any , o Adress, One Year g WKLY [1RE, One Vear 200 OMAHA OFFICENOS 014 A XD 016 FARNAN STREET. CHICAGO OVFICE H7 ROOKERY DBUILDING. NEw ¥ K OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE 0, WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 0l LENTH STRERT CORRESPONDENCR All communications relating tonews and sdi- torial matter should be addressed to the Epitor ¥ THE BEE bt BUSINESS LETTERS, Al business lettars and rem s tances should be addressed to Ty BEX PURLISIING COMPANY, OWANA. Drafts, checks aud postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company Proorietors 1. ROSEWATER, Editor THE DALY BER Sworn Statement ol Circulation. Btateof Nebraska, anty of Douglas, § George B, Tzachuck, secratary of The Bes Pub- Jishing Company, does solemnly swear that the actual cireulation of Te DAILY Bee for the veek ending January 19, 1589, wad as follows: Eunday, Jan. I ..o Monday, Jan. 1., 000 Tuesaay, Jan. 15 Wednesday, Jan. 16, Thursday, dan, 17 ¥riday, Jan. ¥ 3 Baturday, Jan, 160,000 AVOrage. ..o viieesiiie i 18,652 IRGE B TZSCHUCK. Sworn to hefors me and subcribed in my presence this 0th day of January, A. D) 1880, Seal N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. tate of Nebras ‘a. County of Dougias, | ss. George I Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de. oses ANd suys that e |s secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the Actial average daily cireulation of Tae DALy Bex for tho month of J ruary, 1888, 17 copies; for April, 183, 144 ¢ I8 13 copies: for ne, 186, 16 J6K, 18,553 copless for Angust, 1888, 18,18 copies | for Beptember, 188, 18,154 coplos: for October, 168, was 1RO coptes: for November, 1888, 1808 coples: for December, 1855, 18,25 coples, Bwornto before me ani_subscribea in my Presenco this §rd day of January 1851 N. P. FEIL Notary Public. SUNDAY BE Some of the Interesting Features of To-Morrow's Paper. The Bismarck of All China.—Carp inter- views Li 1lung Chang und writes an interest ing letter on how the great viceroy looks, acts and talks, together with au insight into his wmily affairs. Our Northern Neighbors.—A former Ne- braskan gives 1is impressions of Canada and the customs of the Canucks. He draws the conclusion that there is no prospect of peaco- able unnexation as the natives are decidedly English. Among the Pocr and Lowly.—A Ber re- porter detalls some of the startling scenes and incidents witnessed during a visit among the county charges, Life at Fort Omaha.—How the soldicr boys atour own post live: a description of their quarters and their dutiss as gathored by a clvilian, Annals of a Nebraska Town.—Racy de- seription of the rise of Covineton, the Jules- burg of Nebraska, and some of the scones of bloodshed and debauchery scen there, Wild Hog's Lost Greatness—The famous Choyenue chief, long since supnosed to have been dead, returns to Fort Robinson and views the battle flold on which his band of Draves was wiped out of existence by the United States troops. Through a Frenchman's Efe—Max O'Rell tells charming, but fantastic tales of America and Americaus as he saw them on his recent trip to the United States, Powder River Massacre—Ceneral James S, Hrisbin relates the thrilling incidents of that terrible slaughter, in which more Ives were sacrificed than {0 the favious Custer massa- cre. Echoes from the Ante-Room—TFuil proceed- ings of the Nobraska Veteran Masons nssocia- tion, together with other interesting secret so- clety events. Shall We Spank Bismarck?—Fresh and readable extracts from the metropolitan press on the Samoan situation The Clergy on the Creche Ball—Opinions of & dozon Omaha pastors, In Omaha Social Circles—Full description of the brilliant fancy dress ball and reviews of other social happenings of the week. Other Featwres of Interest—The New York Tlerald's cable dispatches from European cen- ters; our own special service from the na- tional and state capitals; all the happenings in Nebraska and Iowa gathiered by our corre- spondents, and the brightest and most com- plete local news. MaYOR BROATCH does not look like a man who fears that he will be legislated out of office by the **boodle gang.” OMANIA is not behind her contempo- raries in fashion or sensation. Shealso can boust of her “Jack the Ripper,” NOW that the Douglas county delega- tion has been heard from on the Omaha charter, the committee on cities and towns can proceed with its work. Tie Douglas county delegates to the house are getting exceedingly nervous these days—at least those members who hang onto the ragged edge of their chairs. e recent drop of one cent per pound in the price of cotton seed oil should not necessarily make everybody believe that lard will be sold one cent cheaper. NINE-TENTHS of the business of Omaha is done south of Dodge street, and yet we are told that the business center of Omaha is between Cass and Chicago streots, near Jofferson square. Tug lord mayor of London tendered a farowell banguet to Minister Phelps, and it would be interesting to learn whether a seat was reserved for Lord Sackville West or for Mr. Murchison, of California. I¥ 11 be true that certain disgruntled saloon keepers and politicians intend to test the validity of the Omaha excise board on constitutional grounds, they are going to spend their money in rain- bow chasing. E——— Tire Omaha branch of the Oklahoma " boomers are patiently awaiting the pas- sage of the Springer bill. They don’t «propose to be tied to wagons and pulled out of the territory like their more venturesome friends. E——————— Tue fact that the steel rail mills of England, France, Belgium and Ger- many have formed a trust patterned after the American idea is & flattering tribute to our monopolists, who have so long held the secret of squeezing the people., p—— Tug second trial of Cleary, one of the *‘boodle” aldermen of New York City, has just been called, The great metrop- olis sets a queer example, She never wearies of frying the guilt out of her derellct officials and always keeps her shambles full of such fattened stock. MAKE HASTE SLOWLY. The submission amendment has been railronded through the senate by an appliance of the lash,and it now re- mains to be seen whether the lower house will commit the state to a policy that would prove more disastrous to its material welfare than three successive of drought. The oxperience of Iowa should have heen a warning to this state. Prohibition has decimated her pophla- tion, depreciated her property values, and promoted local strife and litigation without materially lessening the evils of the liquor traffic. Prokibition has been more effectively enforced in Ne- braska under our local option laws than it has in Towa or Kansas with their ironclad prohibition amendments, In every large city of Towa liquor is sold as freely as it ever has been, the laws are openly sot at defiance, and drunkenness is more frequent than it would be under the strict surveillance of a high license system. If the submission of a prohibi- tion amendment was simply an effort to gratify the sentimental gush of parties who delude themselves with the idea that a legislature has no right to refuse to submit any proposition to the people, no objection could bo raised. But submitting th ment is liablc to produce v consequences. It is certain to k away thousands who de e to locate in Nebraska, and drive away other thousands who are already here. It is cortain to create a want of confidence among capitalists in the future growth of our cities, and will tend to paralyze local enterprise. At the present stage, when Nebr A is on the eve of another boom, such a setbuck would be d trous to every class of our citizons. resolutions passed by any convention can make it obligatory on any member to vote for a measure which ho kuows will bring disaster upon the state. In such an emergency as this it is best to be deliberate and make haste slowiy. OUR STATE OF PREPARATION. In view of the possibility, remote though it may b, of hostilities between the United States and Germany, which would necessarily be a naval conflict, it is interesting to inquire what our state of preparation is. The last report of the secretary of the navy suppl the desired information. At the time of the writing of the veport there were in the North Atlantic squadre four war vessels, in the South Atlantic squadron three, in the Asiatic squadron five, in the Pacific squadron eight, ana in the Kuropean squadron three—a tota! of twenty-throe unarmored war vessels in good fighting condition. About a dozen more were engaged on special and detached servico or undergoing repaivs, all of which are doubtless now wailable. There were in course of con- struction, as provided for by congress, eight armored vessels, some of which are now nearly completed. The report of the secretary of the nav wys: “The department is able to report that when the ships in course of construction and those authorized shall have been com- Meted, the United States will rank second among the nations in the posscs- sion of unarmored cruisers or ‘‘com- merce destroyers,” having the highest characteristies, viz, of a size three thou- sund tons and upward, and possessing spead of nineteen knots and upward. * It thus appears that the government has at command—with those soon to be compieted—over forty war vessels whose capacity for preying upon the commerce of another nation is hardly excelled, England and France only surpassing us this particular. With this force, and additions which might rapidly be made to it by transforming the larger steam- ers in the coastwise service into cruis- ers, it would seem that we ought to be able to inflict very severc dam- age upon the commerce of Germany, and having little maritime commerce of our own to protect, nearly the entire naval foree could be occupied in de- stroying the commerce of our oppo- nents. Buu the question is naturally suggestod as to what we should do for home defense—that is, the protection of our seaports—in the event of Germany sending fleots into our waters. She hasa navy more than double ours in the number of vessels, with some of the best ships in the world, Here ap- parently is our weak point, but Ger- many would probably require. nearly all of her naval force that she could safely and away from present employment to guard her commerce, and would thus be unable to seriously thrsaten our ports. The possibility of such a con- tingency, however, strongly urges that we should not be in a condition to w: rant apprehension on this score. It might happen that in the event of a conflict Germany would decide to make some sacrifice of her commerce in order to strike us where we are confossedly vuluerable, as the most divect and cer- tain way of bringing us to terms, It is seen, however, that we are in a much better condition to defend our- selves, so far as the naval estallishment is concerned, than we were three years ago, when the United States did not have ome vessel of war which could have kept the seas for a weak as aguinst any first-rate naval power, and the present circumstances should impress congress with the duty of still further strengthening the na- tion is this direction. The time has gone by when this country can rely for security against hostile complications upon its isolation or the good will of other nations. Our enlarging interests and expanding relations make us more and more a competitor of other nations for commorzial advantages, and we must be prepared to maintain our rights or be forced to surrender them. Whatever may be the outcome of the controversy with Germany we should not fail to see in it an admonition to be always in a good state of preparation, E———— JURY REFORM. It happens as an interesting coinei- dence that the Bar association, of Omaha, and the legal fraternity of Chi- cago are both agitating the subject of a reform in the methods of selecting juries. It is also iuteresting to note that the lawyers of the two cities take somewhat similar views as to what prohibition amend- ¥ sorious 5k L gy e should be done to bring about the de- sired reform. As stated in THE BEE a few days ago, the Omaha Bar NSO(‘in<‘ tion proposes to empower the judges of | the district court to appoint a jury oom- missioner, whose term of office shall be four years, and who shall ascertain by visiting residences the names of evewry person qualified for jury datg. This i8 to be done once a year, and annually there shall be published a jury list for the ensuing two years, in order that persons claiming legal exemption may produce proof. The service of petit | jurors will not exceed two weeks, in- | stead of being appointed, as now, for the entire term of court. The bill introduced in the Illinois logislature proceeds on the principle that no man or set of men whatever | ghould have power to say who shall and who shall not be grand or petit jurors, It provides that the judges of each county shall appoint two jury commissioners, one from each of the leading political parties, who shall place the names of all registered and qualified voters of the county upon tickets, and then place the names of voters in each precinet in - a box. shake the box thoroughly, and draw one-tenth of the number of names therefrom. This shall be done as to each precinet in the county separatoly. The names thus drawn shall be placed in a large box to be known as the *‘jury box,” which shall bo locked and placed in the office of the jury commissioners, The clerks of all courts desiving jurors shall repair to the office of the com- missioners at the proper time, and after the jury box has been shaken, and in tho presence of the com- Everybody of composing the letter which appeared in the Herald over his name and it isa spectacle that would make a horse laugh to see an ablo-bodied democratic official Gallagher standing back of a colored man from the missiles he expected to pro- to shield hims —_— TuE friends of deop water harhor on the const of Te are having a great deal of trouble in movement for a pected, the wild project, which wou'd cost the government millions of dollars beyond any present computation, is on- countering a strong and determined op- position, and tie effort to engraft an ap- propriation for it in the ri bor bill would certainly defeat that bill in the house. The friends of the schemo are now building ther hopos on the sen- less chanco is probabl for them there than in the house. not a good time for such imp projects as this, ————— T1 would be in accord with the oternal fitness of things that the state asylum for the blind should be m a rickety condition due to faulty con- Hore is a field for the inves- tigation of the committee on public lands and buildings. v well be asked, what mittee know about construction, any- new wing to the question v CLERK Rocue elaims to hotd in his posscssion the poll hernalia of the legislative missioners, the clerk-shall draw from the box a sufficient number of names for jury service in his court. It is made the duty of the sheriff to summon the persons thus drawn, who shail be ex- aminad by the judge of the court as to exemption and qualifications. The names of the persons aceepted by the judge shall be ina box in cach court, and as jurors are needed for the actual teial of cases they shall be drawn by the sheriff or elerk impartially from this court room jury box. This system, it is held, would vren- der such a thing as vacking & jury impossible, and every person siving a tair jury trial would get it nearly similar method is provided for selecting grand ju: , but the court may order a special grand jury to be summoned if satistied tho ends of jus- tice vequire it. No person shali be compelled to serve asa grand or petit juror for more than one term in three years. Jurors must be able to read and write the English language, and grand jurors must be houscholders residing with their families. The necessity of jury reform is widely recognized, the fact being the miscar- riages of justice are largely due to the methods of selecting juries which now generaily prevail. The Omaha Bar as- sociation will do a valuable servico if it shall secure the reform it is seeking. CONFIDENCE MEN AND IMPOSTORS. Among the various falsehoods which are being di i eminated by Jim Creigh- ton’s literary bureau is a statement ove. the name of George Smith, ex-county rds t stimated cost ¢ Bighteenth and [ to the level of Parnam. Mr. Smith estimates that one hundred and five thousand yards will have to be removed atan expense to the city of over one hundred thousand dollars. In other words, it is given out that the city will have to pay about one dollar per yard for grading, when in fact con- tracts weve let for such work at from twelve to eighteen cents per yard, and private citizens have had grading done in that neighborhood for much less. At fifteen conts a yard the 105,000 yards of grading would cost just fiftoen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, of which the city only will have to pay one- half and the adjoining prop- erty the other bhalf, so that instead of one hundred thousand dollars the coxpense of grading would be less than eight thousand dollars The estimates about damages to be paid by the city are even a worse im- position than the estimate of grading. The charter expressly provides that all damage must be paid by the property owners, and not by the city. This provision of the charter is as well known to Creighton, Balcombe, Furay & Co. as it is to every council- man. But these people have started out on a campaign of slander, falsifica- tion and repudiation, and they will doubtless continuc in their course to the end. surveyor NEW York is fully aroused to the danger of overhead wires, During a recent storm the weight of the snow broke the wires of the telephone and telegraph companies, and these falling carried down the elect) light wires. In consequence large portions of the city were plunged in darkness and great damage was doné to telephone and tele- graph instruments, In many places about the city the wires sent out a shower of electric sparks flying about the sidewalks, implying instantaneous death to any one unfortunate enough to come in contact with them. A further testimony of the perils of overhead wires comes from St, Paul, During the recent fire which destroyed the opera louse of that city, the way of the fire- men was barred at the cost of valuable time, which helped to swell the list of losses, The testimony could be indefi- nitely multiplied, and goes to prove’ that overhead wires have become a dangerous nuisance, Llectric com- panies themselves recognize the neces- sity of an underground service. The cost of repairs which they are compelled to make after such frequent breaks is a matter of no little expense. Efforts are being made in the leading cities of the country to adopt a system of under- ground wires which will give the best satisfaction, and within a year the prob- lem is sure to be solved. —————— POSIMASTER GALLAGHER, who by the way is Jum Creighton’s son-in-law, is a very fair writer but he ought not to hide his light behind a colored postal carrier when he wants to discuss the city hall issue. Mr. Gallagher’s very clever appeal in behalf of Jefferson square loses all its force when itap- clection last November, The committee on privileges and election at Lincoln is likewise sure that it has the returns in is evidently a difference of opinion somewhere, OTHER LANDS HAN OURS. Africa and find Stanl incidentally with all the details of the This is the gentleman who world on a bicycle for Outing, and promptitude of resource ar the same qualitics in Henry M. Stanley. goes by way of Zanzibar, and has acqui fund of information hhe will have to traverse, been published by the World, and forms very It soeins that the Al the fronticrs of Zauzibar is oc- the Massai, booters and 3 living has something in it that recalls tho of Homer, and is much more H The territory of these Moon mon, as they call themselves, reaches to the castern shores of ‘the Victoria Nyanzi, and rehes with the land of of the Arabs. proposes to get through these hostile o ties somehow, but one does not quite undor- stand upon what he bases . and this .information shows that Stan - choosing the western route ngle travelers m ), courage and a8 CONSpiCuONs ns ting reading. than moral, his hopes of suc- ley was right in in spite of its delays. slip through from. difficulty, but an expedition bea rtain of being plunde sacreed, either among 1, if not mas- the Massai One thing must be admitted by the most frenzied enemy of the Russuns. and are always omething being ge ter to annoy and perples the latter have so many possessions and such a complication of interests that no otier na- tion can take astep in adv. yell of blue murder from England, av intimation that Britannia’s corns cay stepped upon with impunity. sack colony for Abyssinia, headed by Atta- man Asclinoff is a_puzzler, and many a dip lomatist quotes Cy diable_allait-il doing somothing, erally of a charac fuire dans celte after a vain attempt to find out what the are driving at. taining the band touched probably but for that cireum would have known that such a ‘The Negus, of Aby ve them, be- liave been mas- the warriors of Ras Alula, tho minister of Negus, obablo that some exce tillerists and machinists are me and that Aschinoff and his frionds do for that potentate what a famous cer did for [yder Ali n Sering. nich case the ltalians will lose 15 4 bond of ssacks and the Abys are christiani; e suspected of water, and step was being taken. sinia, must have agre cause othersvise they ral and prime 1bers of the unity brtween the suippers, aud both ing wixed their old and their new creed in a most astonishing manner, French minister of war, Mons, de Freyciuet, has obtained a grant of #150,000,- 000, whict will be chictly fying the northern frontiers of | means beyond question that lates upon the annoxation of Holland by Ger- many s s00n as the breath is out of the old Bismarck has already given what diplomats call a protocol to declure in- Ho has signifled that Luxembourg will be admitted into the Germ, D and he has refused permission to the old v ¢ presumptive, 1o ab- dicate his rights in favor of his son. claring their intention to fortify their north- Ifrenchlike the minded nation they are, make proc that they will not annex part of Helgium in for Germany's oxpended in forti- France caleu king's body. componsation annexation of Holland. pave their northoern frontier de upation in Holland could march to Paris in a week if thero were not lines of fortitication connectod by st ing that th them for the work, and this dep upon tho vital thréad of the king of Holland b important The Irench be time given ategic railways If thoy are ready they will not bo molested; if they ure not molesiod they will have & grand exhibition ; if they have a grand exhibition many. citizens of Omaha and the United States propose to have a good time in 50 that we all have a personal inter- tin tho fate of the king of Holland. The news comes from Germany that the young emperor has ordered the discontinua tion of French cookery in the imperial pal- aces of the Fathorland. an idea that this is done to show enmity to Frauce, but this 1is certainly not the true It springs probably from an iorman cooking. Some people have explanation. honest preference for New York, where there certainly is uo r pulsion to French things,but on the contrary a cordial genuine regard for F'rar idolatry of French art, there has been all the same & revolt from Freuch dishes, aud the popular restaurateurs are Italians. The day of French cookery has goue by, in almost every Kuropean Spain, which follows the lead of France in 80 many things. Iivery hotel in Madrid has interpolated into the menu orlgin, such country, even in shgs of Spanish as puchero and various ollas, Froderick the Great was a passionate ad- mirer of F'rench eivilization, ocourt etiquette to speak French, to read French literature in preference to German, to dress in the French style, andto eat His descendants have adopted a healthior standard, & manly Ger- manism, which deserves iwmitation, not cen- sure; aud io stinulating this Biswarck has and made it French dishes. shown himself a truo patriot, and has ren- dered an inestimable service to his country- men, Only in ono thing has the great man blundered, and that, 18 in the rotention of (erman ietters, because these have s bad ef- feot upon the eyesight. And they are not particularly German, for they were used hoth by French and Spanish in the middle ages, to say nothing of England. Auy ona who visits old cathedrals will see the al- loged German lettering under very un-G manic conditions, Things probably move in waves. If so there is at the present moment a wave of re- action towards paganism on the part of many christianized barbaric peopis, Some pessi- mists have asserted that this is because christianity simply resulted in tho subjection and degradation of the inferior races. But this argument will not apply to the fearful scones enacted in Hayti, whore the colored race with every opportunity for improvement has stoadily retrograded. The latest nows is that the whole army of Legitime has aban doned him and joined the forces of Hippolyte, and this a sien that the men of Hayur are in favor of open voudhooism, or the worshin of the serpent with cannibalistic rites, But somo of the oastern papers are drawing largoly on their imagination when they rep: resent human flesh s being openly sold in the markets of Haytian 10w From moro veracious correspondenco it appears that on the contrary voudhooism aud a diet almost entirely confined to fruit se to go to- gether, The i8, however, enough of the horrible and revolting in Hayti vouched for by official statement_to place the republio under the ban of ecivilization. And moen are beginning to ask themselves whoether such a state of things should bo permitted to exist under the name of liberty, It makes one think of Madame Roland’s”exclamation at the foot of the guillotine —Oh, liberty, w erimes are committed in thy name!" It seems to bo the duty of the United States to assume prot ¢ to bo deplored that this wis not done Salomon was alive, and president, It appears that discoveries of gold- bearing ledges in Mexican California are far inferior to those in the Harqua Hala region of Yuma county, Arizona, and anyono who thinks of trying his luck in the new gold ficlds must not leave the states if he wishes todo well. In the first place, tho Mexican ldorado is being worked by a party of Ciu cinnatians for all that it is worth, and in the uext place, it requires expensive tunneling and timbe rd the ore only samples 875 aton on the average. Of course large for- tunes are made in just such mies by cap- itaiists, but_they arc the ruin of small in- vestor: ven' the best specimen assays from these Mexican mines do not show more than #3400 to the ton, and at Harqua Hala many of the lumps of quartz contuin so much gold that they just weigh them as pure goli aud deduct ‘the estimated weight of the quartz. A ton of such ore would be boyond the limits of the assayer, Much of the lodge in the Mexican district has been al- ready worked by-Mexicans, who abandoned it as exhaustod, but no donbt the Cincinnati company will nicet with adequate compensa- tion for their risk and enterprise. The prosident is a Mr. Baumearten, who speaks in the highest terms of ~the Mexican mining laws, and of the treatment they have re ceived from the officiais with whom the; have done business. He says that the Mex icans have no idea of selling Lower Califor nia, and that the Senor Vandever of the Congreso Americano has spoien for himself The Chinese railway is a pronounced suc- cess, and bas been rusning very satisfacto- rily ever sinee the beginning of lust Septem- ber. This is a government work, connecting the small but commodious port of Taku at the mouth of the Peilo river, where the English and French flects smashed the forts some thirty years ago, with the manufactur- ing city of Tien-Tsin, and the coal mines of Tongsan. It is only sceventy-five miles in length, and it single track with very long sidinggs on the plan of American western roads. There are no complicated switching arrangements, but the ¢ have the old-fashioned and do their business very satisfactorily with thew, precisely a dic ourselves in tue beginning of railroads here. The line is now to be extended to Pelkip, which it will reach iu a round-about fashion, but if the new emperor proposes to burn Chinese coal, as well as inangurate Chinese railways, then the route is all that could be desiréd. Ap. parently the Ceiestials intend to export ¢ and if so, they provably have au eye on Cali- fornia as their market, for the zovernment is no party to the movement against the United States.” This boycotting is simply done by the Six Companies who trafic in Chines ontract labor, and enforce their contracts by highbinders or bravos. The government does not recognize the Six Companics, and is as much averse to contract labor as th nians can be. 0 greater mistake can be made than to estimate the educated Chines according to the degraded creatures who sell themselves for a term of years to the Six Companies, a trust_of the ‘worst character, being the consolidation of a number of spec- ulators in buman flesh and blood. Chicago ihune, Secretary Bayard (fiercely)—If any man attempts to haul down the American flag apologize to him on t spot, - A Fourth Rate Corn Market. Tribune, St. Louis is frautically demanding that her corn trade shall not be diverted to Chicago. She is mistakenly geasping after the unat. tainable. Her real rival is Sioux City. S SOl Ketaliation. O City Blizzard, The people are not naming so many babics after Cleveland now as they were some time ago. But Cloveland is getting even with them to a certain extent—he is naming no bubics after the peopt S A Cabinet Diflicu Chieago Tribune, “It is Blame to be seen,” observed the exchange editor, reaching for the paste- brush, “that the race for eabinct positions is not always to the Swift." “Puat, remarked the literary oditor, whetting his scissors on his boots, “is Ma- hone opinion.” “And yet,” said the exchange editor, slightly raising his voice, and scowling darkly, ‘the dificulty just now, what Evarts outcome may be, is to Teller reason why——" Poff with cditor, severely. tudes.” “yowll Buck agaiust something that'll hurt you if you keep on! What's the mat- tor with Alger! Don't you Estee'm him?" ““Pho matter of all-Germany is that sh Thurston for a fight.” “Great Allison Pacbe Cary! There has been too much of this Shermany talic, 1t does beat the Duteh ! #The Pennsylvania Dutch! Do you mean a cabinet sine Quay! Non!" “e calm. At leastbe Cameron you are now, or I'll—-"" “Wannamaker riot, do you" The timely and determined interference ut this juncture of the financial editor, the real estato editor, the art editor, the horse editor, the buse ball editor, and the retiglous editor put an end to the disturbance, —— JINGLING JESTS, If marriage is a suc cessor. —Puck. A naval engagement—Popping the question at sea.—Time. The Germans have a_great deal of terri- tory, but they want Samoa.-—Boston Bull- etin, In ancient times everybody played the Iyre. Nowadays the liar plays everybody.— Merchant Traveler, The man who never forgets people's names is well up in know-men-clature. —Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. ‘T'he cat 15 the animal to count her services a8 @ rat-catcher as worth so much purr apoum,—Rochester Post-kxpress. Some claiw that the pulley is the oldest ty. jout” retorted the literary *T'his is no time for P*latti Gss, divorce is & suc- it sctorate over Hayti and it is mechanical invention, but probabiy the crow- bar has a pryer olaim. —Texas Siftings When some men draw themselyes up to thoir fool height they imagine they addle little to their stature. —Yonkers Gazotie. Esculapius bogan practicing medicine when an infant, which gave rise to the song, ‘M. 1. is the oradle, baby's gone."—Texas Sift- ings. “Do the duty that lics nearest to you,'' as the man said when he tackled the mince pie before the soup had been served.—~Dansville Rreere, Paradoxical as it may soem, thoy say that Chicago's oldest settler nover paid a bill in his life without being suc Somerville Journal Mrs, Westward, of Chicago, said her hus. band tried almost everything, but never made moncy until he tried lard.—Boston Bulletin, 1t is altogether useloss to ask a favor of a happy bridegroom who is wearing the first bosom shirt that his wife ever made. —Somer- ville Journal 1f Christopher Columbus had only waited until now before discovering America, how much b r discovery he would have made ! -Somerville Journal “AN, Mr. De Dood, is your face for rent " Shie languialy said and slow Of course not,” he said, said “Because it looks vacant, you know." Washington Crit N OF THE TRACK. it whyt" She m v Ave Doing And How They Are Doing It It is stated in railway circles that the Rock Tstand and the Burlington have tied up on division of territory, aud that this is the roason that the Rock [sland has called in its rolling stock from Omaha and the torritory, Inquiry was made, but uothing definite could be ascertained. Tt was learned, however, that the demand of Himebaugh Morriam for Rock Island cars as been mot by the Burlington, and this morning forty cars of the iatter wera set over on the spur tracks at the service of the grain men in question. Just what the actual deal i which the Rock Island is supposed to be interested is, hus not ns yot been developed. Trouble Brewing, It is stated that the Union Pacific has al- ready taken the initiative steps in the matter of eutting down the number of men employed in the shops at this placo, and work that has formerly been dove by Omaha laborers is now being exceuted at the Pull man shops in Illinois, Several days ago fivo narrow-gaugo sleepors on the Utah Contral were brought here for repairs, but for some unaceountable reason they were taken out of tho shops at’ this plac and sent to the Pull man _shops at Pullman, 1L Tt s stated that on February' 1 a number of themen employed in the shops will be dropped from the pay-roll. The initiative step has been taken * already, fifteon of tha twenty men employed in the bridge and building department having been let out Ihe report that the number of men employed was t0 be the minimum. number required is sd up by the rumor that a large number will be discharged, and that afterward tic will be taken back at reduced wages, and when a raquisite number is obtained at the cut rate, the old men that had been retained will po ‘dropped, and in this way a cut in wages can be effected without reswting in any great commotion. This is said t0 by the theory of George W. Cushing, who is to succeed Clem Hackney as supermtendent of motive power of the Union Pacitic February 1. It was stated yesterday that an upris- ing would cortainly result should Cushing attempt to resort to his old tacties, and th. it would have occurred anyway had not the men been assured by tho officials of the Union Pacific that he would not molest them or their wages beyond a reasonable point. Has Resigned. M. B. Williams, general freight agent of the Wabash, with headquarters in Omaha, has tendered his resignation to tuke effect February 1. He is to be succeeded by fntriken, contracting agent of the Piate road. Mr. Williams, it is stated, has not deeided just what he will d at the present time, but it is intended that b will soon associate himself with the Union Pacific. Nothing definite could be learned in this respect. Mr. Williams will go to St. Louis as com- mercial agent of the Wabash, vice Hudson, who retires after years of service at that point. Two General Superintendents, It is officially announced that J. M. Barr, who suceceds G. M. Cuming as superintend- ent of the Wyoming division of the Union Pacific, is to be general superintendent of the Wyoming and Idaho_lines, and also of the Orecon Railway & Navigation system. Superintendent Roessoauic of the Nebraska division is to be general superintendent of the Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and tribu- tary lines. 1oth will rank us general super- intendents and will_be so recogmzed by the heads of the Union Pacific. New Roxd Acquired, On February 1 the Union Pacifle will tako the cxelusive management of the Leaven- worth, Topelca & Southwestern road. This road, and the Manhattan, Almy & Bir minghaw, arc_ownel jointly by tho Union Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & it e, Arrangements have beon made between the two whereby the Union Pacific absorbs the former aud the Sauta e the latter in wanagement. What 1 Fast Train Troubles. At the meeting of the general managers of the western roads in Chicago, trouble has arsen out of the demand made by the lowa lines, that the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy take off its fast train to Denver. The latter refuses to do this unless the Union Pacific will otake off its fast train from Omaha, and the Towa lines now threaten to cut rates to the Bluffs if the matter is not sutisfactorily adjusted. Superintendents Called In. The superintendents of the Wyoming, Ne- braska, Colorado, Kansas and Idato divi sions of the Union Pacific have boen ealled in, and will meet at Union Pacific headquad- tors to-morrow and arrange the time-cards in thoir divisions. Supermtendent Ressequio states that nothing but matters of this kind are to occupy their attention at the meeting, Passenger and Freight Earnings. In view of the request of the inter-state commission, that ali railroads make sopurate reports of the passenger and freight earn ings, o meeting of the weneral aulitors is now being held in Chicaco to devise a plan for an accounting of the sume, Krastus Youn, general auditor of the Union Pacitie, is in attendanco ab tho meeting. Pacific Hotel Company. There was a rumor in railroad cireles yester day to the effect that the Pacific Hotel com- pany had been absorhed by the Union Pacific, but General Manager Kimball, of the Union Pacific, and President Markel, of the hotel company, denied the report. A New Manager, The management of tho hostelery of the Pacific Hotel company, at the Union Pacific depot has been vested in the hanas of J. S, Willis, vice A, H. Davenport, who goes in a similar ¢a) ¥ to Ogden, Wages Reduced, All trainmen on the St. Joo & Grand Island, aside from conductors, will suffer a reduction in wages of from 10 to 15 per cent commencing February 1. The reports ceived in this city to-day, concerning the matter, are to the effect 'that an eruption among the employes is likely to result, A New Road. Fankton, Dak., has raised £100,000 for the railroad project between Yankton aud Nor- folk, Nob., and the money has beon placed in thie hands of the agent of the English syn dicate that is backiog it up, J. T. M. Pi Work on the proposed line will be com: wenced in & few weeks. Rallroad Notes. The Atlantic express on the Union Pacific was delayed four hours by southern conuec tions yesterday. J. C. Phillippl, of the Missouri Pacific, has returned from Lincoln, Mujor J. M. Bullock, commercial agent, J, S. Dovant, assistant genoral froight agent, T, J. Barnard, genoral travs Memphis & Charleston, ng agont of th Refrigerator sit’ company, circles in Omabta, FAME OF OMAHA ABROAD. ilions of Enge h a8 to Seoure 1sh Capital, Attornoy John T, petition among the business men of the of for signatures asking tho stato logislature to non-resident aliens from acquiring title to real Nebraska, o as to rs of property within tha corporat its of citios aud towns. “Tam in hearty sympathy with the | said Mr. Cathers, “in g0 far as al property not is circulatine a it applios to included within municipal The manifest intent of the acquiring of larsa non-rosident of actual sottlers, of farming non-resident could tate togethor in any of the vities of the state to make hin a sort of i a lotter in my possession fi ntleman who owns considerable s of the harm this law is doing Omaha, sugirest 1 could securo £5,000,000 ment in Omaha 1550, 80 thorougnly are their advantagoes ree ognized among British capitatists Omaha during name is as familiar in London as it n instance, 'continned Mr. drove capitalists out of South Omaha. formod to inv but abandoned the schome when the law w, st £300,000 in The potition is being fully signed by busi- A SCIENTI Charles Pontez, Union Pacific Chel sses Away. About 9 o'clock Thursbay night, in his moil- 1504 Webster street, one of tical scientists that Omaha has ever seen quictly drew his last br est home at No. fon Pacific rail Tle was a man y for over twenty years. profoundly versed in all the sciences, and by lus rare faculty of pr lie who invented tho present, o of sinking river piers for bridg contrivance that aisson method 3, 0 most, in- <8 o cra in experiment this method was made by him in th river in Pennsylvania, a decided success that it hitects of bridyos One great ixdustry that owes its discovery of Wyoming, was adopted by all demonstrated At his instigation a well stream that burst forth con’ At ono time the pro- was very wealthy, but owing to tho rsons in whom he trusted rly ull Liis possessions. Omaha who Ay morning of consumption will be buried Sunday. Omaba’s first settlers and ~had neced age of minety-cight present when and the rich oil reached the family were all Liked to ¥ D. E. McGrew, a young physician has come west to grow up with the country, s arrested by Serzeant Sigwart for prac- ng medicine MeGrow said he was not aware that regis- this state; no ona this law hud he have complic of its existene him that ignorance of the law excuses no- and he would have to fine him $32.50. aid he would register he liked Omaha and pro- vosed o stay here. paid it, and Council Meeting. eting of the council has been for to-night for considering ordinances now in the committoc Among the most important measures 1o be passed upon is un_ordinane ortain acts unlawful and definig misdemeanors , and imposing fines of 5 . Several other ordinances of n tle consequence which have b in the committee for some time will also bo cousidered. of the whole. hinamen muleted for boing in mates of an opium den have paid their $55 fine except Owen Ling. Ho is a quarrelsomo sort of a celestial and was also fined $12 for breaking a teapot over a fellow countryman's head in reputed opium joint near Mayor Broatch's establishment on Ling's aggrogated amonnt to £52, as this exceeds his pile and Lo has no moneyed friends among his country Jailer Miller, coughs and s Bronchial Troches stop an attack promptiy.”’—C. Falch, Mi miville, Ohio, Among the ning Ones. Fred Pugent, the European hotol boarder who 18 charged with plundering tho clothing o burned Thursday eveming, ed and had his case contmued until to- NOT A PIMPLE ON HIM NOW, Lair all gone ht his hair would uever gro Cured by ¢ and nota pf y enough in praise of th when one yoar of oniia that e lost a1l of iy His sealp was covered willi oruptions, whii 1, wnd Uit Wi hie ple on him. 50 had with e 1 hean the tse o CURA REMEDIES, #0d, © wm happy to siy, wiil splendid uid the 15 not i pimp 1the COTICURA IRES most spuedy, econ unts and ehildre who has an afifct ne for 50 doing, Mits, M. 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