Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1839. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Paily Morning Raition) including SUSDAT Byy, One Year Y] L For ik Months, ror Three Months ¥ OMANA SUSDAY Hke, mailed to any nidress, One Year Wikl Der, One o3 OMATA OFFICEN 08,91 AND O16FARNAM STREET, CHICAGO OFFICE #7 HOOKERY BUILDING NEw Y ORKOFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE TUiLninag. WASHINGRON OFFICR, NO. 013 FOURTEENTH BTIKET. ar Y CORRESPONDENCE, 0 oy Allcommunications relating 1o news and sdl- torinl matter should be addressed to the EDITOR OF THE BMK. 1 i RAS LETTRRS, Al business Ietters and remittances should be addressed to Titk BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMATIA. Drafts, checks and bemads payable to the or: 1The Bee Publishing Compang Proorictors of the company. THE DAILY BE Sworn Statemont ot Circulation. tateof Nebraska, | Fonnty of Donglas, | orge I3, Tzechuck, Hshing Comipany, does & ual efrenlation of T week ending January Bunday, Jan. 20, Monday Tuesany, Wedne Thursday, Friday. Ja Baturday, Jan rotary of The Nea Pub. mnfy swear that the DAILY DBER for the Average. ...... Eworn 1o before me and subscri presence this2ith day of ty, A, D, 1880, Eeal N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebras ‘a. Vs, County of Dougias, (5% George I Tzschuck, Deing duly sworn, de- otes and says that Le js secretary of the Bee Publisiing company, that the actial average daily circulntion of TiE DALy Bee for the month of January, 18, 16,206 copies; for Feb- Tuary, 1888 15,002 coples: or March, 188, 10.65 copies: for April, 1885, 15,744 coples; for Maly, 184, T8 185 copies: Tor une, I8, 10.243 copes: for July, K6, 18,053 coples; for Angust, 1835, 18,13 coples; ptember, 1448, 15,150 coples; for October, was 18084 copies: for November. 1885, {8 coples; for December, 1885, 14223 copies. kworn to before me ani suhscribea in my Dresence this 5ra duy of Jannary 1851, N. P. FEIL Notary Public. Tur black hand of Samon still hangs like a threatening cloud on the horizon of our foreign relutions. Wit prohibition for a law, Omaha and overy city, town and hamlet in Ne- braska would support hundreds of sus picious looking “drug stores.” ANTI-TRUST legislation is not fined to Nebraska. Legislatures many states, as well congress, wrestling with the problem. con- of are ThE incorporation of a number of new building and loan associations in Omaharecently, augurs well for activity in the building line when the scason opens. THERE have besn o great many two- headed freaks before the country, but it is a question if any of them can equal the double-headed high license and prohibition what-is-it at Lincola. Tue inventive genius of the west shows well in the report of the commis- sioncr of patents, just sent to congress. Nebraska's record of one hunared and thirty-seven patents last year is one to be proud of. COUNTY treasurers will look to it sharply that their debits and credits balance. The house passed the bill for the examination of the books and rec- ords of all coanty treasurers, and the senate will doubtless concur in the measur PENNY-WIHISTLE editors, whose back- bones are bolstered by railroad patron- age, cannot get it through their pates that the attorney general has a perfect right to employ a stenographer without breaking all the commandments and violating the state constitution. THE rocent successful tests of the Zalinski dynamite gun remove all doubt regarding the practicability of that formidable woapon, and this coun- try may now safely boast of having the most destructive gun in the world. It is reasonably belioved that with our senports supplied with this weapon no other defonse will be necessary. Tue legislators of Kansas seem de- termined to let the world know that they are alive. A little while ago they startled eastern farm mortgage holders by proposing legislation that had a flavor of repudiation about it,and now they call upon congress to enact stern measures for the south. They may be expected to tackle the Samoan issue next. Ti1e temper of congress appears to he growing warmer with the contemplation of Germany's conduet in Samoa,and the spirit of jingoism is beginning to mani- fest itselfl quite genorally. Fierce talk, howevor, will ve very little effoct upon Bismarck, and while he serenely views our indignation the German offi- cials in Samon keep right along at their taslc of extondi German domination in the islands. THE conviction of two lowa bankers for receiving deposits aftor they were insolvont wili undoubtedly have o salu- tary effect upon wild-cat banking in that state. It is the first case in lowa tried under the new banking law, and it is gratifying to the people ns well as to depositors tnat the measure affords them ample protection. The sooner Nebraska adopts similar laws the better it will be for legitimate banking and the best interests of the state. HereArrer the constituent whose heart was annually gladdened with a package of pumpkin seed or cabbage leaves which bore the frank of the sen- ator of his state or the congressman of his district will no longer be the recipi- ent of such favors, And well may it be 80. The practice of sending seeds through the mails by senators and rep- resentatives has long ago degenerated into a farce. It is now proposea that the commissioner ot agriculture shall supply these seeds divectly to the several agricaltural experimental sta- tions for distribution, and it is to be hoped that this arrangement will bo a docided improvement. The farmers of the country waut the seeds much more than the lawyers and storekeepers who seemed by a strango fatality to bave had a monopoly of these favors under the former system. 'BSIDY HUNTERS. The national shipping leaguo is in sossion at Washington, and will renew its rocommendation in favor of federal appropriations for the encouragement of shipping by means of subsidies and bov The teague is hopeful of so- curing aid from the incoming adminis- tration, basing expectation on the plank in the national platform which recommended prompt action by con- gress in the enactment of such legisla- tion as will hest sacnre the rehabilita- tion of the American morchant marine, It is not casy tosag, however, what en- ent this givestothe shipping league, whose only policy for restoring the merchant marine is by granting liberal subsidies from the public trons- ury. Fverybody can approve the plat- form recommendation that something be done, but it not or imply that that something shall be the granting of bountics to shipbuilders. Nor is there any reason to suppose that Goneral Harrison is favorable to such a policy, though hie may desire as strongly nsany member of the league that the merchant mavine should be rehabili- tated, It is altogether probable that the shipping league will continue to ex- pericnce disappointment in its ef- forts to load upon the na- tional treasury o huge subsidy system, the limit of which it would be almost impossible to fix. There is not the least likelihood that a scheme of this charac- ter will fare any better in o congress under republican control than it has done in the corgresses of which each party has had the control of one branch. We do not recall any instance in which the republican senate has shown a dis- position to favor ship subsidies, but on the contrary it has shown opposition to uch legislation, and we see no roason to suppose that the senate of the mnext congress will take a different view of tho matter, and un- less 1t is favored by a republican senate the scheme will have very little chance with a republican Regarding Wies, its doos euggest house. the auestion simply from a party point of view, no greater mistake could be made by the next congress than to vote shipsubsidies. The iden that the merchant marine can be rehabilitated by a system of bounties is fallacious, the experience of other countries with subsidy schemes having exposed their impracticability. -Shipping cannot be made profit- anle by any such expedient, and a bounty policy would simply rob the whole people in the interest of afew, with the certainty that the re- sult would be unsatisfactory. The ship- ping league is a very respectable organ- ization, but 1t is engaged in a hopeless task. Popular sentiment is against it, and is very certain to continue so. MISCHIEVOUS POLITICIANS. “The controversy that has heen going on in a Washington newspaper between Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, and Representative Oates, of Alabama, rogarding the raco question in tho south, canhot possibly do any good, but may have amischievous result. Neither of these gentlemen is qualified to dis- cuss this question dispassionately and without prejudice. Both represent ex- treme views, and each is disposed to go to the farthest limit in demanding that his views be made effective. Mr. Oates speaks for the great majority .of the southern people when he urges that the negroes in the south should be disfran- chised. He ought to know that no such thing will ever be done, but so in- tense is his hatred of the negro as a po- litical equal that he will persist in fighting against an unalterable condi- tion, instead of endeavoring to use it to the best advantage. Could southern politicians like Mr. Oates lay aside their prejudice long enough to see that their true policy 1is to make friends of the mnegroes politically the problem that troubles them so sorely would speedily be solved. But this they will not do. It would be a concession, rather than make which the southern politicians will continue to deprive the negro of his rights as a citizen, and thereby violate the consti- tution and laws, me may change this situation, but 1t will be after the politicians who now dominate the south have passed awa On the other hand, the extreme views entertained by Mr. Chandler as to what the goyernment should do to correct political injustice in the south are not so largely held by the people of the north as is commonly bo- lieved by the people of the south, All republicans unquestionably feel that the government may legitimately pro- vide for a free ballot in the election of representatives, but the number is very few who would support a policy of r tributive leogislation. meral Harr son has made tolerably plain his vie ws in this matter, und thoy indicate that the policy he will advise will be con- servative. He will use whatever au- thority he has or may be given, and all the influence he can properly employ, to securc justico for the suppressed vote of the south, but he will not advise or attempt any policy to humiliate or ex- asperate the southern people, as Mr. Chandler would very likely do had he the opportunity, The New Hampshire senator assumes more than he has the it to when he implies that the next administration will have a retributive policy for the south. The talk of both these congressmen is mischievous in its tendency. It feeds sectional feeling both north and south, and if it huve any result for the negroes it is almost certain to be harmful. The controversy should cease, TuE omission of the appropristion for the year of one hundred thousand dol- lars for developing the sorghum cane,in the report of the house committee of congross is a tacit admission that the experiments heretofore made have been unsavisfactory., Kunsas has been a favorite flield for such investigations, but after a fair trial it must be conceded that sugar making from cane is not one of the paying industries of that state, The government has finally awakened to the fact and has decided to spend no more money in trying to force from nature what she is reluctant to yield. While this may be a disappeintment to Kaneasund other states which cherished the hope that they would some day be able to develop e great agricultural in- dustry, it is better that the delusion be given up once for all. The industries for which Kansas and Nebraska are most admirably adapted are corn and cattle raising. It is to the best interests of these states to bend their energies in this diroction than to waste them in schemes which are as impractical as the attempt to extract sumboams out of cucumbers. —_— MINNEAPOLIS has just dedicated a new crematory for the disposal of garb- age. A test before the council com- mittee and board of health made a fow days ago, when oze hundred and fifty tons of refuse were satisfactorily disposed of. The “cost to the city for the maintenance of the crematory after tho erection of the building is compar- atively yor than the old dump- ing methods, and far more satisfactory: In consequence, the people ot Minne- apolis ing themselves that the troublesome problem of the disposal of the city’s garbage is sottled once for all, and that the health and clennliness of tho community are de- cidedly improved. The dispasal of the garbage of our city is a question which the council should no longer neglect Thereis an ordinance now in the hands of a committee of the council to take such steps as are necessary to improvo our present unsatisfactory system. Action on the ordinance should not be delayed. If taken in hand at once, a crematory suitable for the city’s pre ing needs can be made ready for service before the summer month ches CAN the prohibitiomsts of Nebraska deliberately shut their oyes to the dam- aging testimony to their cause which from cvery city and town in Towa? Can thoy, in the face of theso facts, claim that the liquor trafic has been stamped out in that state and the morality of the people raisod toahigher tandard? On the contrary, the evi- dence which is piling in upon them co: roborates the public judgment as to the conditior of morals in a prohibitory state. A prohibitory law which stimu- lates stoalth and hypocrisy, and which familinrizes communities with law breaking under the support of public sentiment that such a violation implies no moral wrong, is dangerous for the well being of any state. TiE house has passed the Oklahoma bill, and there is now a fair prospect that this legislation will be completed by the present congress. The bill re- ported from the committee on terri- tories received numerous amendments, and the measure passed is in essential and important respects very different from the oviginal bill. This is particu- larlyso in the provision made for secur- ing the Indians in their rights. Other amondments ave likely to be made by the senate, but the belief is that that body will promptly act upon the measure. When the bill bocomes law it will open to settlement a large region of some of the very best land in the country, and the promise is that it will be rapidly taken up. comes CONGRESS on the whole has been fa- vorable to the scheme of reclaiming the arid lands of Wyoming and Colorado with a system of irrigation by reser- voirs and canals. The appropriation for the purpose in the sundry civil bill has been increased to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This sum will bo used for making topographical surveys and the sclection of sites for storage reservoirs, If this sys- tem be at all practical, it will reclaim millions of acres for agricultural uses; and as the enterprise is on so stupen- dous a scale, it is impossible for private or state interests to undertake the worlk without government aid. THE principle on which the Omaha Herald has been edited of late is that the function of a party organ is to abuse and villify every publicofficer of the op- posite party. This is the only theory on which we can explain the utterly un- called-for malignant abuse of Governor Thayer. There may possibly be a per sonal grievance that inspires these venomous assaults, and the person ag- grieved may be a member of the legis- lature, who is about to vacate a seat to which he was not elected. If this be true, it would be much more manly for the disgruntled individual to make his attacks on the governor over his own name. Mg, ISAAC S, HASCALL still keeps up his bushwhacking war against the Far- nam street location of the city hall, Hascall is evidently trying to get even with the people who refused to endorse him at the November election. It re- mains to be seen whether the citizens of Omaha will enlist to avenge Hascall’s political Waterloo against their own interests and the general welfare of the city. UNDER high license Omaha has less than two hundred and fifty saloons,which bring in an annual revenue of a quar- ter of a million. Under prohibition our city would be filled with twice or thrice that number of joints and dram shops, which would flaunt their colors in the face of law and decency, without contributing one dollar to the support of the city. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Those happy Americans who visited the French exhibition in 1578 will be surprised to learn that the coming one will cover a far greater area, for it will include not only the Champs de Mars aud the Trocadero, but the whole sweep of the Esplanade des Invalides, 80 well known to visitors to the tomb of Na- poleon Bonaparte. Of course the Eiffel tower will be the grand novelty, but near it will be one which will be deeply interesting to all who live on this continent. It will be a panorama showing Mexico and Poru as they were when the Spanish conquerors ar- rived, There will be u spegial atvraction in the representation of the great building which has recently been unearthed in Palen- que in tie proviuce of Yucatan, which has been photographed for this panorama and 13 said to be older and more paculiar than any of the structures represented in Lord Kingsborough's exhausive work on aucient Mexico. There will be a circular railway of open cars fust as there was in 1575, which will run every two minutes from ¥ a. m. unti! midnight. There will be a great restaurant of all nations, where the specialties of every country will be provided, amd where olant ohowder and pumpkin pie will bo made, not only by French or Italian cooks, but by fair Bos- tonians imported for the occasion. For the invalid, and for the luxurious idlor, there will b a service of bath chairs, propelled not by @ man pushing behind, but by an Egyptian donkey drawing in front, and ‘each bath chair will be in the charge of & Parisian gamin dressed like a real Caireen. In spite of Boulanger intrigues, and financial breakers the Parisians are now giving their wholo minds to theimpehding carnival of nations, and the gencral sentiment is ‘‘the exposition now; war next year." The United States steamship Ossipee has reached Colon, to be on hand to protect merican property in the very probabie con. ngoncy of an outbreak among the working force, whose pay has been reduced provi sionally. But there ought to bo more than one United States war ship there, when one interests which steam oighte armored considers the enormous Americans have. The Knglish have corve the Lily, mounting guns, and the French have a heavy cruiser of the first class, La Pologne, So that in all probability there will bo a sufticient force to keep down the criminal element that has gathered there,and that has already bogun to show its hand by robbing stores in open daylight with threats and flourishes of revolvers, Meanwhile thé all-important question is as to the possibility of ro- orzanizing the company by an immense issue of new stock, which is practically the plan_at prosent under consideration,” The public has been invited to subscribe for 60,000 new shares at 500 francs the share, one-quarter to be deposited with the applica on, another quarter a week after tho re ceipt of the allotment, and the remaindor one mouth after that payment. But though the Banque Parisiennc has agreed to assume the whole cost of reorganization, yob the success of the scheme depends upon the number of ares of the old company that can be ot to pt it. It is absolutely necessary that more than 500,000 shares shall vote in the affirmative, and as the polling is restricted 10 two days at the end of the present month it is difficilt to see how the requisite number of proxies can bo obtained, for tho stock is held broadcast all over France, and is not in a fow hands, the capitalists having disposed of theirs long At the music halls of London, and at the minor theaters, varticularly along the Strand, every unfriendly sentence about the Germans, and these are far from rare, is greoted with immense applause. The secret of this 15 that there are thousands of German clerks in London who are distinguished by tueir sobriety, economy, fidelity and com- mand of forcign languages. Thoy compare most favorably with the native born Eng- lishman of London, who has not the sterling virtuos of his countrymen, but is given over to low sports and pleasures, and is in a word the being caricatured by Punch as 'Arry. This much must be said for 'Arry, that he s the creature of unfavor- able conditions actng on natural imstinets of a low order. He has no hope of any other life than one of drudgery, or of any other wages than those of adru but instead of making the best of it as a German aoes, and consoling him- self by a home made sweet by, a loving wife andt t, music or drawing, or etch- ing. "Arry squanders what he has in beer, and at obtaining a fortune by betting on o races. Therofors the bookmaker has arisen 1o take tho cash which Arry ob tains at hard work, and the races are scen h considerablo 'regard for the wishes of bookmalers, and nono for tho bets of Ar and his like. There can bo no doubt that among these rman clerks there are not a few men of superior ability who make most valuable reports to the German _government of things in England, rendering just such services to the fatherland as the Azteo Guild of merchants rendered to the conquering Mexicans in Central America beforo the ar- rival of the Spaniurds, Thereisa region in Venezuela, which is south of the great Orinoco river, and con- sequently olose to that part of Guiana, which the English without the least justice have claimed as their own. Until the Eng- lish set up thew most preposterous claim the circulating medium of this part of Vono- zuela has been gold dust in quills, But ro- cently the unfortunate inhabitants have been debarred from obtaining their usual currency by English invaders, and have been put to the greatest straits for money. In this omergency they had recourse to the ancient practices, and cocoa-nuts became legal tonder, if delivered on the sea coast. This, however, had its drawbacks, for it was soon apparent that the young of both sexes who wero able to climb trees * wore doing a thriving business, and were sporting gaily colored handkerchiefs and glass jow- elry without any adoquate reason for’ the same. Also the old and middlo-aged owners of cocoanut currency groves became path- fully aware that their hung up specic was being appropriated feloniously in the silent watches of the night, and that they had no recourse. Under thiese untoward circum- stances 4 meeting was held of the notables of the district, and after ducdeliberation the alcalde issued a proclamation calculated to straighten out matters. It stated that us the use of cocoanuts for toney had been found by expericnce to lead to serious complications with the commandment against stealing, on and after that present date such use was abolished, and all traders recewving it s such would b flogeed con pimento, aud expelled the country. kinance is a serious question in every land. e Prince Alexander of Battenburg, j the exiled ex-king of Bulgaria, and the hero of Slivinitza, is visiting the court of Vienna, and has been reccived with the utmost dis- tinction by both the emperor and the people. 1t is whispered that he is to enter the Aus- trian_army, only as a blind, however, and that if there should be a movement in Bul garia for his restoration he will have the backing from Austria. This means consid- erable. It appears that Ferdinand of Hohen zollern, who is the present Bulgarian poten- tate, bas been very completely taken in and done for by his astute people, and that Rus- sian diplomacy has been an amused specta- tor of the whole game, if not a side partner in the profits, The Bulgarians received him with apparent coldness, but he was rich, and not averse to buy- ing fashionable opinions, and he went _in_for popularity with the golde key of which Philip, of Macedon, had 8o high an'opinion.. But Philip, the Macedonian, took exceliont care to get what he bought, aud to buy only what could be delivered, and Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, was not so wise, He lavished his florms with a free hand, and 80 long as the streaw was flowing the organs of public opinion proclaimed that there was more in Ferdinand than had been supposed and that he preserved all the essential qual- ities of u good and great ruler.. When the prince came to the conclusion that he had spent enough money, and that he had gained the ‘Liearts_ of the) Bulgariaus, an inirigue was immediately stated by the synod of bishops of the Greek church who clamored, and are clamoring for his abdication on the ground that his Jesuit priest are trying to proselyte the Bulgarians, This kind of ap pal 1o the Russian co-religionists admits of ut one answer, and it will come in the twinkling of a lamb's tail. Meanwhile the brave prince of Moutenegro is out with an appeal for a federation of the Balkan Sla- vonic states under the protection of iRussis, and as between Austrian sympathy and Rus- sian protection the Balkan' states are liable to be pulled to pieces. ————— The City Hall. The Omaha Herald, March 15, 1888, he deeision of Judge Doane,printed in full in the local columns this morn- ing, is just what the Herald had pre- dicted, and what all intelligent citizens who had given the matter any thought, desired, It isa blow to the tricksters of the council, and adefinite ruling that the people are greater than their ser- vants. The judge decides that the site of the eity hall eannot be chunged; that the nresent foundation canuot be de- stroyed, and that the Moeyers plan can- not he abrogated without the consent of the voters of the city expressed at an election, Neither can the council take steps to build a city hall elsewhere, The decision isa triumph for honesty. It should shame into becoming muteness the aldermanic boasters who have been defying the witl of the people they were selected to represent. “In all probability the building of the city hall will now go forward with- out unnecessary delay. The decision ends all practical controversy. A dis- contonted few will grumble, but an election will hardly be called to settle a point already scttled once at the polls, Jarticularly is this truo since no new conditions have arisen. If the chosen site was ever good it is good now. As 1o the Meyers pl thero is less fool- ing. Anyplansproviding for a suitable structure at a reasonable cost would be acceptable. However, no other plans could well do this, inasmuch as the foundation is nearly complete and a chenge would cause the expenditure of extra thousands, Mr. Hascall, and those for wrote and_talked o glibly, may now subside. They have been crushed. Popular condemnation they received long ngo. To this has been added ju- dicial consure. Mr. Hascall has the ef- frontry to assert that he never contem- ated” doing anything which the in- Jjunctions forbids himdoing. He knows this statement to bo untrue, or he is ox- tremely forgetful. Noone believes Me. Hascall 1s forgetful, In his numerons public allusions to the subject he has openly declared that the council had a rightto dispose of the eity hall as it saw fit to build it or not build it; to find an- other site; eroct more than one struc- ture. In fact, he has assumed the council, within the limits of Omaha, to be supreme, and_he has, as the self-ap- pointed mouthpiece of that body, in- dulged 1n much unscemly and indis- crect freedom of speech. Now he denies having done this, His denial will count for nothing. Mr. Hasenll is probably learning that silence is golden with the gold ata premium. To expose definitely the hypoerisy of his unblushing ba down may be cited an instanc Judge Doane says the council has no right to abrogate the plans of Mr. Myers. The council evidently held a different opinion. With due solemnity t has already gone through the form of doing the very thing specifically fo bidden. whom he S A Kansas Cynie. Atchison Globy It is not good for man to be alone; it is better. = ey Oaptured the Bakery. New York Morning Jowrnal, Boulanger, the baker, took mnot only cake, but the whole baker, e pra i e Two Men of Destin Chicago Intor-Ocean. The man on horseback—Boulanger. The man soon to be on foot—Grover Cleveland. The Worst Featur: Boston Glol The most disastrous effect of Boulanger's ovewhelming victory will be the revival of Boulanger's march. The Suicidal Mania, New York Herald. That “Beautiful Snow” poet has again started on a rampage, and yet the IBoston Advertizer wonderingly murmurs, “What is the secret of the suicidal impulse " —— Everybody Rises. Chicago Net Does any Towa gentleman was to join the immortals in the United States senate! Eht O, sit down, sit down: this isn't a roll call of the republican party in hawkeydom. s S e Artin New York. New York World. “The Flight of Night” was the name of the oil painting which once decorated the ceiling of the assombly chamber at Albany. The ceiling is now celebrated for the mysterious fhight of §75,600. e The Place For Sackville. Chicago Mail. Tt is proposed to send Lord Sackville as British ambassador to Constantinople. Good idea! Homay be bow-stringed ana tossed into the Bosporus 1f he makes a bad break there. The chance is worth playing. saratund No Objection to This Trast. Chicago Herald, The man in Indiana who is running a skunk farm is said to be more than gratified with the success of his venture. It is un- doubtedly a business that has its advant- ages. The skunk farmer may fear no greay number of competitors, and if he should cor- nerthe skunk market would not b nounced as a soulless and grinding monopo- list. the of It. he e Only a Slug, Editor Sullivan There are a lot of weak sneaks who follow me around and watch me like cats when I cat, drink, slcep, walk, tall, suecze, wink, sit, stand, run, jump, ride, write, read, play, joke, or do any mortal thing. If T was not a strong man they would cortainly turn my head by making me think [ am the greatest man that ever lived. 1 know and feel that T can whip any man living in a fair, square fight, but I am not a great orator, artist actor, doctor or lawyer—I am just what 1 claim to be and nothizg else, e STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Ulysses wants a harness shop. The Seward band is to givo a_masquerade ball on the evening of St. Valentine's day. A revival is in progress mn_the Baptist und Congregational churches at Weeping Water, Towa dealers are shipping large quantities of wood iuto Plattsmouth by means of a flat- boat Some of the Schuyler contemplat summ The Nebraska City Hospital asso will hold its aunual meeting next Tuesday and elect officers, Thoe Custer County Agricultural Socioty and Live Stock exchange have purchased the fair ground which they have had leased here- tofore. Hagerman, the incendiary horse thief, is sick in jail at Sehuyler, caused by too much exposure during his récent exciling escape and capture, leading business men of trip to Earope next Friend is to u inning next Phursday, for the purpose of ruising money to build @ hall. John Holmes, the Strang lad who was bitten by a mad dog last summer, is showing signs of bydrophobia, notwithsianding bis treatment with a mad stone Rev. Mr. Jacobs, the evangelist who re- cently conducted a revival at Tekamah, is brokon down in health, aud his physiciaus have ordered him 0 give up his labors in the winistry, James Reed, who eperated a brick yard at Ulysses twenty years ago, is about o open another yard there. He' stakes his reputa tion on the fact that bricks he burned twenty years ago arc as sound and nice as o the day they werc manufactured, W, Vd Colorado, A high-toned female kloptoman discovered at Choyenne. The fivst thing that sirikes a visitor to Deu- ver is the peculiar aroma of chloride of g that hovers about the hotels There is a plan _incubating to base ball league, composed of the Cheyenue, Laramie, Greoley and ¥ lins, Joseph Davidson, the 48 heen organize a towns of rt Col- Laramlio clgar- to soll a quantity of cf difterent men, A postofiico hias been cstablishod at Datlas, A settlement noar the Shoshone oil basi about ten miles south of Lunder, Fremont county. 1t is quito probable that the officials of the 1k Mountain railroad will decide to begin active operations as soon as an order from the court can be obtained Mrs. Jennie Borry, who has hoenefor two rs in the Wyoming penitentiary for boing an @ rssory to the murder of her husband, has been pardoned by Acting Govornor Shannon. The Hyde (Col.) Topics says that when a brakeman on the 13, & M. cails out the station of Hydo the passengers all got down and crawl under the seats. - There s something in a name after all. The Buffalo Budgot says that of Natrona county, to b on the petition necessary to_perfect a county anization, and hope to have a county of thoir own before April 1 next. The land of the Fort McKinney military r vation, which the government has or dered sola is very valuable, immediately ad joining the city of Buffalo on the west, much of the tract i8 already occupied. Some of the settlors on Rock creek, near the towa of Burdette, Colo, have already taken the initiatory steps toward the build ing of roservoirs, without waiting for any jpropriation from the government, cllie Ditman, supposed to be from City, was taken to Pueblo by two men, who asked admission for hor ladies® benevolent home, and boing. they took her to the Farrish hotel gaged a room, forced ler to drink so. containing poison, and then hurriodly left, and have not been scen since. The girl was soon delirious, and died in a hospital without giving a coherent account of the uffair, FAVOR FARNAM, ars to two ye the poople ady at work Canon strango into the refuscd They en L water JOBBERS The City Hall Should be Locate Accommodale the Greatest Nu F. H. Turner & Jay—Certainly the prover place for the city hall is in_proximity to the county building, as our citizens frequently have business with city and county ofiicials atthe same timo. We neod all the open sauarcs obtainable, and Omaha will regrot itin the future if the only block of open space in the city is built upon. . Steubendorff, of A, Frick & Co.—It will surcly be more convenient for onr citi- zons to have the city andcounty buildings near together, The custom houso and post oftice will have to be @located east of Six- teenth streot, aud it would seem to be tho wisest plan to uso the fonndations already set and locate the city hull as originally in intended. Arthur M. Pinto, of Soper, Wells & Co. It secms to me that the city hall is well enough where it is. We want Jeflerson square improved and laid out with plants and evergreens and retainrd as an open pub- lie squar L. Kirscht, of L. Kirscht & Co.—The place for the city hall would seem to bo where the foundations have been already luid, on Far- nam street. People having business with the city ofticinls usually have business with the county ofticors and the two sets of oftices should be as near together as possible, that is if the convenience of a majority of the citi- zens and taxpayers is to be consulted. Mr. Thomas . Burnett, of the Robinsol Notion Company.—It would scem that the city hall should stay where it is and I will voie to keep it there. We want Jefferson square improved with shrubs and trees and the erass cared for. Omaha has too few parks or squares to sparc any. Mr. Mecgan, of Mecgan & Harding—Sev- en-cightiis of the business of Omaha is done south of Capitol avenue, then, why should the city hall be located north of the business district when foundations aro already pre pared in asuitable place. It should stay where it is. A. . Austin of the American Horse Shoe Company—Undoubtedly the city hall should remain where it is and most of - the business men with whom I have talked on the subjeet sre of the same opinion. We nced Jefferson > for lungs. Harding, of Meegan & Harding.— hall should be located where it is, though it would be better if it _were not so much up hill. I moved to Jefferson squar the city and county buildings will then be in widely separated localities, and much anno; ance will be thereby caused to- citizens b ing business with both, B. I, Kilpatrick, of the Kilpatrick-Koch Dry Goods company—l have not thought much of the mattel but common-sensa would seem to dictate that the city hail should be erceted on the foundations airead, in, and Jeflerson square improved as a park. . S. Vineyard, of Vineyard & Schneider us ceed- maker, bas skipped, leaving nu work was itors Lo wourn, kiis lust crooked —The city hall should be built on the foun- datious already in. It will be morc conven- ient for the citizens to have the city and county buildings adjoming. The United States building should be erected below Fifteenth street, so that it will not be necos- sary to climb a hill to reach the postofiice. B. I\ Troxell, of Troxell & Williams—The county building1s on a hill and it 1s a tire- some job to reach 1t, and certainly the city hall should not be put out of the way also, But it would b better on the hill than in Jefferson square, which we need for breath- ing space. HL. Erlich, of Erlich & Lonstadter, whole- sale cigar I think the city hall should be located on KFarnam street and Jeflerson square retained for a park. We need one breathing spot at least STING. How the City Hall Quarrel is Charac- terized by a Missiourian. How the city hall squabble is aficctive prospective investors in Omaha property, is foreibly and pointediy set forth in a letter from Hon. 8. G. I3rock, the mayor of Macon, Mo., to M. A. Mr. Brock and’ his ciates, John S ashier of the Rirst National bank and Glaze have in- vestedin Omabi . and speak with authority, The | which contains a number of pertiment suggestions, 1s given in full Macox, Mo., My Dear Sir: impressiou in business and fing that there will be an abundance of money that will seek invesument, and this will be in the west. Again, the impression is that this surplus, which is accumulating in the banks, will seek investments in real es- tate and good substantial buildings, because there really seems to be nothing clse that will give fair returns, Now do you know that the Gyes of capitalists and others who have these savings and accumulations are turned towards the Missouri valley, and they are closcly consulting the maps at all points from St. Louis to Bismarck. I learn these facts while in convers with prominent moneyed men and loan agi cies while at St. Louis, and from letters re ceived from eastern cities, Hence, It occurs 10 me,now is the time for Omaha and Omaba citizens to make a bold movement to the front. For the public-spirited men of the city to assert themselves. Did it ever ocear o you? I presume it has, that while Nobras ka is u state of great agricultural anda good, vigorous climate, b resources will nov build up a state ful climate will not bring prospe takes vigorous, active, public-spirited men 10 build up communities and make thein perous. Such men, when they pull u will make a Chicago, & Kunsas C Minneapolis, St. 1’aul, or & Duluth, under great disadvantages Other towns or cities with greater natural advantuges, laaguish ay in the rearof de and progross. 'Ieir resorces of 50il, sicuation, ciimate, ete., ba avail, and because thelr citizens have public spirit, enterprise and push, tho tide of prospority hias swept by U 1t dovs secm 1o me and to others who al @t Omaha that all natural conditions are 10w most favorable for the building of a sec ond Chicago at a point in the west about whe Omaba s now situsted, usud tha Omaha is at the “tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, way iead on to for- tune.” You may rest assured of this coming season. Millions of money and wide-awake ) are coming to the west, and there is no i reason why Omaha should not receiv © largast portion of the weaith aud the e, 13ut allow me to say in all scriousness | thore are two or three good reasons why she not unless they wr removed, and that specdily, First and foremost the leading busitess men of Omali must appreciate thoir privileges and oppor tunities, and When SLFAngers come amony thom speak of them in positive terms and never utter a word of discouragement, as many do at tines. Second, that disgusting | quarrel about the city hall hurts Omaba | every day it continucs. Just look @t the an. 1.—M. A. Upton, 1t seems to ba the general cial circles ion even as areat or id clop 1 child's play that has existed overa yeae about_the principal_public building of tha city. Do you know that uffair has kopt many the of dollars away from Omahal o you know, furtl that some Lwo or threo prominent men of ‘means who intended to put up blocks of buildings within four blocks of the court house, after hearing of and see ing the situation left Omana in disgust, say ine “If that is the way the officials fa we will keop our_money out and will sell what we havel” 1t that eity hall had been | started in City_or Minneapoli d have beon finished in all its ha como proportions and oceupied by the city ofMieinls before this, but in Omaha there an_immense hole with a fow piles of stona and brick to emphasize a dirty quarrel of a fow one-horse councilmen,and the whole city suffors from the disgrace. Think of it, aftor a location is choson and the approprintion made, and éxcavating dona and foundation laid a chango is proposed and sme propose to foad up the hole and the ma- crialand move over to some other location Such indecision and trifling will roin any city T'here is is not a roasonable unpreju- diced mau, who would look at the situation s 0 business man, but will say the prosent location is the bust that can be chosen for a city hally, and those who chose it acted wisely Third, it is simply surprising the city authorities have not purchused land and made a commencement i the way of inaugurating a system of public ks, breathing places for the peoble. Just sea what has boen done in St. Louis, Minneapo. lis and St. Paul, and how attractivo thesy cities are. Fourth, push vublicspivited wideawake men to the front, und hoodlums to the rear, and do induee your newspapers to brag about Omalia, to boast of its advan taes, much more than they do. To do_ this they shouid bo encouraged by liboral adver- tising from the business men. The news papers of Omaha do not have one: fourth tho advertising they should from all lines of trade; and, henee, they have littlo to encour age them in booming & city when it is all work and poor pay O ha can double her wealth and povulation in three to five y or sho can becomo an old fogy town, but warm friend of a city that has such’ mag At prospocts if she will work for them. [ wsito to you hoping she will “ariso and shine.” Your truly, ENIER | | | 1 Brock. A Hawkeye Comy 3 Arroy, Ta., Jan, 20.—To the Bditor of Tnn Brg: In Tie WekkLy Bre, of January 23, there was an article gwing your roaders knowledge how prohibition is working in this st I believe your correspondent has written his report without my bias. In his talk with Governor Lareabee, the governor said that the law was enforced thoroughly in all the eounties except Alexander, son, Dubuque, Scott, Clinton, Jounson and Pottawattamie, and it was next to an impossibility to got auything to drink. s excollency must bo redding varnished facts when he delivored lumself of that senteuce, Let him come to Union county and he will find that prohibi- tion does not work here. 'This is true not here alone, but all along the Chicago, Bur lington & Quiney railroad from Ottumwa to the Blufls.” Ihere s not a line along tha road, little or big, where you cannot get all tho whisky you want “lako the “city of Creston. There is as much whisky sold there as ever there was before the prohibition law went into effect. Afton 1s the same way. There four places in this town where you can_got anything you want. In Thayer, Mur- y and Osceola it is just the same. 1 was in Red Oak some time ago. It was no trick at all to get it. Lwrite this to show-that the sale of liquor is not as great here now as before the Inw went into cffect. 1 am writing the plain truth about it and any one can come and seo it for himself. *Should Governor Larrabeo come to see into it he would find he would have three or four more countics to add to the list where the prohibitory law is not on- forced. 1, for one, think that the laws of a state should bo thoroughly enforced. If it is not enforeed, what good is a law? It is timo the prohibition law was enforced, its so long a time since the people voted on it W. H. WiisoN. Jack- Muscatine, e — Land Jor Soldiers. To the Editor of Tui: B I have noticed from time to time that our school lands and state lands are disappearing. Why not givo the old soldiers of the late war a chancel The state of Nebraska has not done any- thing for those who left their homes and business to defend the old flag. Every stato in the union gave their soldic | PIN' bounty. Towa gave §400 and other states in proportion. It would only be an act of jus- tice for our present representatives to enact alaw giving each soldier that served in tho late war, that enlisted in the state of No- braska, at least two hundred acres of land free of churge. Jonx F. Beny, Estimated Allowed. The board of public works met yesterday afternoon and allowed the following esti- mates: Bd Phelan, for grading on South Sixth streot, from Hickory south, $$08.10; Fred W. Gray, sssignee of Burns, con structing sidewalks, $5,166.01; J. 2. Knowles, constructing sidewalks, $533:20, and J. I Smith, §253.52. Mayor Furay was absent. A grand flourish of trumpets often alds the advent of an article which s, when tried, to justify the noise made 1n its behalf. The unassuming derived from choice fruit, of standard purity, and cleeted over a quarter of a century ago to the chief place among flavors.are too well known to need more Cheap com- icles heighten All grocers, - A Primnter Dead. James 13, Charlton died at his home in Oakland, Cal., on Wednesduy morning, aftor a prolonged illuess. Mr. Charlton was for- moerly a compositor on i Bre, and is a vrotiier of Alex G. Charlton, of this city. Collections at the internal ‘tment yesterday, $5,895. 0 DISEASED BLOOD revenuo e anedinm: of one of your hooks received through Mr. kFrank T. W y, Druyg- gist, Apollo, P, | became acquainted with Four Aicuiea THsmDins, and Lk (s opper- Ly 10 testify o Yot thint. Nelk Uk Ty po's TRnty citod e of 0ne OF L Wkt Cuex Blond JolsanLg, I connestion. 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