Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1889, Page 2

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. e Aty AR, 747 FEBRUARY “~TWELVE PAGES. S e s e THE OMAOA CHARTER BILL It Will Probably Be Reported to the House This Week. AN INTERVIEW WITH “OUR DICK," e Thinks No Changes Will Be Made Without the Approval of the Douglas Delegation —Liog- islative Goxsip. Omaha's Charter. Liscory, Neb,, Feb, Special to Tre B | —The Omaba charter has been reached in thie house committee at last and is making progreas, Chairman Berlm explains: “The South Omaha charter is the largest bill introduced in the house, and took a long time in its consideradon. Then the sub- mission and Omaha election contests ab- sorved attention, 8o that the committes fell behind in its work. Wo are now catching up, and have disposed of all measures botore us but the Omaha and Lincoln charters. We have reviewed about half the former, with the understanding that the committee may R0 back and revise any section passed ovor thils first time, All persons interested will be hieard by the committee, T have no author- ity to speak for the committee, but 1 think thie disposition is to make no_chinges in the bill us introduced unless they have the ap proval of the Douglas county delegation, For my own part, [ want to urge such im. proverients to the'old o as we can get wWithout making o desperate fight, Douglas county has had notoriety enough for the present. The bill will probably ve reported next week." “Our Dick” s diplomatically guarded in discussing this measure, because. rival dele- gatious have made life @ burden for several Wecks past. Another member of the com- mittee says: Wihe disposition of tho is to let Owaba have what she wants in this matter: The main question is: What does Omaha want! It seems to us that the only means for ascor- Taining that is through the delegation from Douglus county. That delegation huve recommended certain changes in the bill as introduced, and the disposition of the com- mittee i 10 approve those amendments, in the belief that the delegation represent the wishos of the people of Omuba. The com- mitteo will probubly cut out the following scctions from the bill: “One that puts the strect_commissionor, the bulding, plumbing and sidewalic_ inspec tor under the control of the board of public works. It also allows the board to annul contracts and select them without advertis- ing for bids. Also the section which pi seribes the dutics of the city treasurer and authorizes the mayor, compiroller and treas- urer to farm out the city funds awmong the banks. “Tho park commisson clauso is Mr, Ber- 1in's hobby, and it will undoubtedly be ap- proved. It provides for five commissioners, W be appointed by the district court. It alsa autiorizes the council to levy a tax of 135 to 3 mills to raise funds for the use of tfie commission The tax lovy for the firc department will be raised to 5 mills, the sume as for the police department, The strect car companies will be reauired to pave twelve inches, instead of eighteen, on gither side of their' tracks. The Kuight of Labot clause will probably be knocked out. It authorizes the bourd of pub- lic works to have bublic * improve- ments done by day labor instead of by con- tract. These are the_ouly material changes the committee huve in view thus far, and L beliove they are all recommenced by tho Douglus county delegation.” : “The bill may be reported to the house next week. but there is no telling when it will be reached. Hall's bill fixing o schedule of maximum_freight rates for the railroads will probably come up first, and it alone may consume several days in discussion. The general filo of the houso is Joaded with bills, and unloss tho Omaha charter can be mado a special order, it will probably go to the fort of tho list. It that eventits consideration by the house may be delayed two weeks or more."" committee Dempster's Resolutio LiNcoLN, Neb., Feb. 9.—[Special to Tne Bge.]—The following is the full text of the Dempster resolution calling upon the su- preme court foran opinion in regard to the constitutionality of the Lindsay sub- mission bill Whereas, The constitutionality of senato file 31 is being seriously questioned, on count of the form in which it passed this Touse, for the reason that it contans more than one subject, or at least 1% distinet and absolutely contradictory propositions. There- fore, be it Resolved, That said senato file 81, as finully passed, be submitted to our honorable supreme court for an _opiuion as to the con- stitutionality of said bill, or resolution, with reference to the following questions: 1. Is senate file 31 constitutional, notwith- standing its dual form, and the fact that it submits two separate and distinct amend- ments ! 2, Can a voter under our system of govers ment legally cast his ballot for two aistinct and absolutely contradictory propositions at the same time; that is, can he vote in favor or against both of these amendments at the sameelection ! 8. 17 both the prohibitory and _the license amendments secure a majority of the total vote cast at the election in November, 1560, will the effect bo to defeat both measures? 4. Does the amendment and changing by the house of the title to the original senate bill, come under the docision found in 17, Nebraska, 304, and_does such amendment prove fatal to only part orall of the meas- ure? They Ohallenge Investigation. Lixcowy, Neb., Feb. 9,.—|Special to Tue Bee. | -1 don’t see why the Herald should Xick 30 about the expenses of the committeo 10 the soldiers’ home," said the member from Boone to-day. “Ipaid all the bills on that trip, and happen to know that the entire ex- pense of the house committee was only &56. And,it was no junketing trip, cither. We did mot go out on & mere pleasure excursion, or to havo a good time. We went through the buildings and carefully inspected everything pertaining to the home, and we are gomg to cut down the estimates, 100, wherever possi- ble. For instance, 8 fow, say three or four, of the old soldiers can do a little work, and a superiutendent at a salary of &0 per month was asked for. This 1tem we cut out en- tirely and reduced the wages of the two as- sistants from §5 per month to £15 and $20. ‘We also cut down the salary of other em- ployes, including the cook, 1f the items in the estimates of the expenses of all the other state institutions are conned as carefully as wo have done with the soldiers’ home there will be a wonderful reduction in their e: penses for the coming year. There is no re son, except a chrouic desire to grumble, fo this screed in the Herald concerning the ex- travagance of this committee. We have por- formed our work well and challenge investi- gation.” House, Lixcory, Neb, Feb. 9. —[Special to Tnr Bre)—The house was slimly attended to- Nearly twenty members were excused and went home Friday evening, The committee on insurance reported an insurance bill authorizing the Mutual fire Insurauce companies to increase their mem- bership from 200 to 500, to pay their oficers # per day when actually engaged in apprais- ing property and iv adjusting losses, also to iusuro the lives as well as the property of the members. The house went into committee of the whole to consider house roll 83, the Corbin joint resolution providing for the submission of u constitutional amendment authorizing the investment of the permanent school funa in registered school district bonds. ‘White of Cass opposed the resolution. Coleman of Antelope thought that the funds were woll iuvestod now, and that only §35,000 was now in the hands of the state treasurer, and that half of this had been up- pliec for." He could see no reason why such & change should be made. Corbin thought that this amendment is one of the most lmportant measures now before the legislature. If it and became a rn of the constitution, the local school dis ricts in the newer soctions of tho state could borrow this mouoy at low rates of iutercet; e BTN 0 0 5 also that the genaral school fand, and not the bankers, would gét the interost paid by the local districts, and thus the people would reap a dotible benefit The bill was reported back with a recom: mendation that it do pass. The following bills were introduced to-day: By Mr. McNickle—10 amend sections 7 and Sof chapter 27 of the compiled statutes entitled ‘*Feeble Minded Children,” and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith By Mr. Wilcox—To_encourage the manu- facture of sugar in the state of Nebraska, and making an appropriation thercfor of £25,000, a royalty of '8 cents per pound being oftored to all manufacturers of sugar from cane or boets grown in Nebrask By Mr. Fenton—To require insurance vom;\mnh-! to ombody in the policy or to put on the back thereof a copy of the applica- tion By Mr. Dann—To grant an honorable dis charge to the officers and members of Com- pany C, First regiment, Sccond brigade of Nebraska militia of A. D. 1564 By Mr. Bohncek—To amend section 1of chapter 50 of the laws of 1537, approved March ) 1887, 13y Mr. Coleman- tion of mutual insu atate of Nebraska, and thoreof. By Mr. Berlin—To provide for the rezis tration of voters in cities of the metropolitan To authorizo the forma ance associations in the for the regulations s By Mr. Berlin—To secure the licensing of master plumbers, ote. “The house then adjourned Monday. until 2 o'clock Senate, Lixcors, Feb, §.—|Special to Tne Ben.|— "Phis morning’s session of the senate is most notablo for what it failed to accomplish. Several bills of minor importance were dis cussed and sent back to committees, with a request for more light. Scunate file 102, Howe's amendment to the liquor law for the benefit of Omaha, was put on third reading and passed without trouble, The essence of it is contained in these two Pprovisos : “Provided, however, that citics of the metropolitan class the power to licen ¢ the selling or giving away of any intoxfeating, malt, spiritous, vinous, mixed or fermented ors shall be vested cxclusively in the d of fire and police cowmissioners of such cities, and as compensation for such services they shall receive the sum of 100 annually, payable out of the police fund of their rospective citics, “Provided also, that before any license is granted to any person consent of tho issu- ance of such livense must be had _in writing from the person or pe owning and the person or porsons occupying the real estate aajoining the promises on which said liconso is to be operajive, and abutting the same strect as said promises, which said consent in writing must be filed with the application for license.” In the committee of thewhole a bili of Sena- tor Ijams was approved, which is almost equivaient to ge. It reads as follows: “That all_personal property which may now be or which may hereafter come into the possession and custody of tho chicf of police or police judge in cities of metropoii- tan class, and which shall remain unclaimed for the period of six wonths after the pas sage of this act, or_which wmay remain un- claimed for the period of six months after such property may hereafter come into tim possession or custody of such chief of poli or police judge, shall be sold by the_chief of police of such ‘city at_public “auction giving thirty days’ uotice thereof, by ady tisement published throe consecutive days in the ofticial nowspaper of said city.” The committee approved Burton's bill ing the salaries of ofticers of sccond clas: cities, and killed Pope's bill to let druggist sell liquors on prescriptions without paying alicense. Senators Beardsley, Pope and Wolbach wero appointed a committee to investigato the causes of the boiler explosion at the in- sane hospital, with power to send for books and persons, Noxt Monday night the Ulmers, Lizzio May and George T\, in_conjunction with tuo managementof the New Grand Opera house, will give o performance for the benefit of the sufferers by the lato Farnam street dis- aster. The play will be “For Congress,” Lloyd’s political satire, oo of the most suc- cess ful plays evor put on a stage. Tickets for the above entertainment can bo had at the following places: Max Meyer & Co .. S. P. Morse & Co., Browing, King & Co.. Freeiand, Loomis & Co., N. 1. Falconer, Hayden Bros., Edholm & Aiken, Van Cott, C. S. Raymond, John Baumer, Wells-Fargo Express company, Pacific Express company, Adams Express company, Miliard hotel, Paxton hotel, Murray hotel, Barker hotel, Cozzens hotel, Saxe, druggist: Kuhn, drug- gist, :Max Becht, druzgist; Kuhln, Cum- g treet; Sehmidt, drugeist, Cuming street; Dr. ville, indors street . A. Wood & Co., Fifteenth street: the Dia- mond, the Exposition, Foley & Darst, tho Annex, 15 Maurer's, Union Pacific ticket ofice, Missouri Pacifié ticket office, Burling- ton & Missouri ticket oftice, Wabash_ ticket office, Northwestern ticket office, Chicago, Rock Tsland & Pacific ticket office, the Drum, Charles Higgins, Omaha Turf Ex- change, Omaha Turf & Field Exchange, Chamber of Commerce restaurant, Bell's drug store, South Tenth stroet; C. H. Good- man, P. H. Green, St. Mary’s avenue, The attraction at the Now Grand opera house Wednesday and Thursday next will bo A Postage Stamp,” ths new musical farce comedy. It is said to bo one of the funnicst yhows on the road. Mr. Stanley has succeeded admirably in putting the comedy together’ and us “Jason Duckfoot” is a show in himself., The attraction at the Eden musee the com- ing woel will be tho best of any which has yot appeared. Coptain Paul Boynton's eight seals will be on exhibition, These educated wondors are taught to perform all sorts of marvelous feats. Next Friday and Saturday nights, with a matinee on Saturday afternoon ‘‘Terry the Swell” will be on view at the New Grand opera house, and as the play is something of a novelty, the prediction is made that crowded houses will greet him at all threo performances. Masquerade Ball, The Bohemiau turners gave s masquerade ball to their friends at National hall, Thir- teenth and William streets. Rozicka’s band, cight pieces, discoursed national dance music for eighty couples or more, and Messrs. J. Krioz, J. Pecival, Frank Doarak, J. Voracek, W. C. Stepanek acted as judg in the distribution of prizes, numbering six articles, Mrs. John trian emperor Hoffman, as the Aus- socured the Mirst prize o gold-headed cane, George Stary, as a Bo- hemiun peasant, tho second, an elegant clgar holder, “Joe Nik, as an Indian, took third prize, comprising a scarf pin abd cuff but- tons. Miss Helen Kozak, asa flower girl, secured a pair of gold bracelets, A little si Ar- old girl as & grandmother, Amelia Rousck, obtained a silver castor, and the Misses Min- nie Lesh and Barbara Kaufmann got an ele- gant album as “the Jolly Tars,” An Attachment. ‘The scenery of the Coureid opera company was attached last night on a claim for $175 prosented by Miss Goldsmith, This woman vas formerly a member of the company, and informs the sheriff by wire that the sum is due her as wages. The management had evidently been auticipating something of the kiud, and tried to avoid it Another Little Squabble. ‘The iron firms which have been furnish- ing certain supplics for contractors for the county, have complained'to the commission- ers that their bills have not been met. It is understood that yesterday the contractors made the master good so far as the Paxton & Vierling works ure concerned. Tha Bids Were Lost Yesterday when the various newspaper publishers of the city visited the county building to ascertain the fute of the bids for triulln‘. supposed to ke uuder consideration y the commissioners, they were treated to a surprise. Mr. Anderson informed them that the bids had been lost. He blushed us he said it The publishers went away, GROVER'S LITTLE CLEAVER Cuts Off tho Head of Commissioner Bdgerton. AN UNRECONSTRUCTED REBEL, Thompson, of South Carolina, E pected to Be His Successor—The Secretary of the Interior Disal ebraska Man's Claim. WASHINGTON HOREAU Tits OMATA B, } lowsa 513 FoURTRENTA STRRRT, Wasnivatos, D, C., Fab, ' 0, Civil Servico Commissioner Edgerton was abruptly removed from oMee %o day. Ordinarily this hign hauded act of the presi- dent would have croated great surprise and considerable consternation in Washington, It has been known for many months that the civil service views of the president and Mr, Edgerton were not the same, and that the direction of the onoand the action of the other did not harmonizo, but it was not the variance botween the views of the two men that led the prosident to dismiss Mr. Edger ton. It was stated in Tk Bes's speciuls some days ago tnat thore was a schome on foot botaween the president, Assistant Secre- tary Thompson, of the treasury, und Indian Commissioner Oberl late civil sorvico commissioner, by which lorton was to be retired and the latter two political worthies appointed on the com mission. A vacaucy has existed on the com mission ever since Oborly left it to become Indian commissioner, and ever since the vacaney was created Oberly hus been schem ing to et back, but he did not want to go on the commission again unless ho could have Edgerton, who was a thorn in s side, dis posed of. Oberly is from llinois, and is ono of the oilicst democratic politicians in the country. He belicves in giving the spoils to the victors, and his appointment to tho civil service commission two or three years ago cre ated great surprise, as it was known that he was not i sympathy with the reform. Edgerton is from Indiana, and is from that old school of democrats who originally advo- cated civil service reform. Thompson 18 from South Caroling, and was made assistant secretary of the treasury for the purpose of taking charge of the dis tribution of offices in the south. He is an ex-confederate, and has not shown that he is reconstructed. In fact, it been charged constantly that he was responsible for tho wholesale appointment among his ciass of politicians, and it is_said that he has con- tributed more ex-rebels to federal offices in Washington than any man 6r set of men since the incoming of Prosident Cleveland. PLOTTING AGAINST EDGERTON, About a month ago President Cleveland sent Comptroller Trenholm, fof South Caro- lina, to Mr. Edgerton for 'the purpose of procuring the commissioner’s resignation. The comptroller stated that the presi- dent desired to roward Mr. Thomp- son, and he proceeded by tery to try' to sccure Mr. Fdgerton's withdrawal from tho oftice. After Listening to the state- ment of the comptrotler Mr. Edgerton flatly refused to vacate. ‘Three or four othor men attempted to negotiate for the resignation, but their efforts were also futile. Yesterday morning Mr. Edgerton was summoned to the white house, and he appearcd and was promptly ushered into the presence of the president. The president appeared to be in fine humor, and glecfully rubbing his hands together procecded to” heap compliments upon_the head of the venerable civil servi commissioner. Mr. Edgerton 1s sevent, years old and 18 as sprightiy a man of his age as lives, He isof médium height and has blue eyes, full of luster and intelligence. His hair and ‘short cropved beard are as white as the driver snow and he is the neat- est in person of any old man in Washington, Heis as agileas a boy, and being a man of education and wide public experienco is ex- ceedingly fluent of speech and courageous MISTAKEN IN HIS MAN, President Cleveland has ever since his ar- rival at the white house, beea overbearing and bulldozing, until his bulldogism has be- come proverbial, and he is used to seeing men quail before him. He evidently e pected, when he broached tho subject of Mr. Edgerton’s resignation, to see the old gen- tleman's knees kuock together, his lips quiver and to hear him beg for oflicial exis tence. _But the president bad mistaken h man. When he had finished his preliminary pleasantries, Mr. Edgerton talked. He told him that he had refused to resign because he, in tho first place, had faithfully dis- cd his public dutics and saw no_reason s he should stop aside for the purposo of giving the position to another democrat. In the sccond place, he did not propose to be a party to a scheme intended to fill the civil service commission with new and incompetent men at the outset of President Hurrison's _administration. simply that certain men might be rewarded and saddled upon the incoming administra- tion, He said ho knew President-elect Har- rison vory well, and, considering all the cir- cumstances, thought it would be a great in- justice to him to consnmate the scheme pro- posed. He therefore firmly said he would not resign. LEVELAND LOSES HIS TEMPER. The president changed his tactics. He grew angry. His eyes flashed five. His face was as red as a boiled lobster. “] will remove you!” he exclaimed, “Very welh” " replied Mr. Edgerton, smiling. **You have the power; I have the opinion. I was an advocate of ‘civil service reform before you ever knew thero was such a thing in existence. When I was in congress during, the admimstrazion of Fillmore and Pierce, I took strong grounds in favor of civil service reform, and I distributed the spoils of office with 'a just regard to civil service reform. [ have faithfully kept my oath of office under you, notwithstanding the fact that the law was being grossly outraged every day, and your attentlon was called to it repeatedly, without effect.” IXCITING INTERVIEW, The interview was becoming very inter ing now. It had lasted an_hour. The p dent had dropped s hypocritical cloak and was speaking his mind, ~ He was willing to acknowledge that his maneuvers were in the interest of “a representative ex-confederate, and that his design was to help a nan who had helped him to keep the soutii solid. I want your resignation bofore 4 o'cloclk this afternoon,” said the prosident, half ris- ing in his scat and looking Mr. Edgerton hard inthe face. “Well, sir,”” said Mr. Edgerton, *I can in- form you, here and now, thut my resiguation rill not bo ready at 4 o'clock or any other hour.” Mr. Cleveland saw that Mr, Edgerton was {mmovablo, and he abruptly announced that the interview was at an end. SUMMAKILY REMOVED. This morning Mr. Edgerton went to the room of the president of the civil servico commission and took his seat. He found lying upon his table the foilowing note written in the president's own hand, and de: livered by a private messenger, announcing ““You are horevy removed from the ofiice of United States civil sorvice commssioner WIHAT EDGEKTON SAYS. Your correspondent saw Mr. Bdgerton at the capitol this afterncon shortly ufter the ination of Thompson had been seat to the senute. In respouse to questions, Mr. I3 “I have not cared for the office for many months. In faot, I have wanted to retire from it, but 1 huve felt that a man of my age could not leave an office while its affairs were in the bad condition they were, After clection the Yrclldu L began, with Thowp- son and Ober! [vw schewme to get me out. 1 determined that I would not leave, but on tho 4th of March would hand wy resignation to President Harrison, There has been great necessity for the complete reorganization of the civil service commission during this entire administration. The laws could not be en forced under this administration. President Cleveland is the model mugwump of the age. He belioved, in the first place, that the mug- wumps would elect him. ‘Then he concluded that the mllrwnmpl ‘would sustain him in his administration, and finally that they would ro-elect him. He has catered to the mug- wumps in every essential particulrr when he has uot gone out to curry the favor of thecontederates. Thomp- son, whom he has appointed to fill my place, has done more than any man to load the de- partments with uoreconstructed rebels, and o s i U B s SO A PSS 3 0 . he has distributed them wwlhlh; sh h?“‘.‘L till loyst men stoo how of favor. o ot bfevo that |H‘,‘|v':m. will be sonfiemed, nor do 1 believc tha e semate ill confirm the nomination of Pberly if it should be made. Neitter is etent. THOMPSON WILT ¥DT BE CONFIRMED When your corrospondent this cvening asked a republican senator who will in_com mittee have charge -qf Thompson's nomina tion, whether he woull favor confirmation, he sald: “No, T Wflieve that President Harrison should be pefimitted to appoint a new commissioner @ind _reorcanize the board,” Sevoral otud® republican senntors who wore asked tho same question mado substantially the same reply. There is no doubt that Presigéit Cloveland's design to harness to ' the new administra tion civil seryvice cornmissioners who are not only in opposition to all the cssential quali ties of President Harrison's civil service pol fcy, but in oppgsition to a proper enfore mont of the laws, will be defeated. ~Mr. 13 gerton's romoval is the boldest and highest handed partisan act of President Cleve land A NENRASKAN'S CLATM DISALLOWED. The secretary of the interior has disal lowed the claim of Louis Phullips, of Rich aadson county. Nebraska, amounting to £10,400, It was u claim for alleged depreda tions committed in 1874 by the Brule-Sioux Tidians, and was disallowed on tho ground that the evidence submitted w. not sum cient to establish the facts Prnny S Hearin ONLY A But On — PAUPER NOW, ce Victor Hugo's Chum and a tend of Tennyson. ily clad, hoary-headed heir to poverty sai upon a rade bench in the Clockloy almshouse yard yesterday. says the Philadelphia Record. His eyes were sunken and bloodshot, and his features bore traces of trouble, s well as of advanced His oft-patched trouscrs ad long ago given up Il pretense form, his pauper's jacket clung limp upon his obese body, and a battered felt hat, puliecd far down over his ears, w the complement of his picturesque A dull-colo; bandana neckerchief that had seen brighterdays was knotted about his neck in lieu of a collar, and as he sat and ruminated he puffed away vigorously at an abbreviated clay pipe loaded with malodorous tobacco. He was but one of a yard full of de- crepit prisoners, and perhaps seemed no more pitiable thau the rest. But to one who knew his history the pathos of his fallen estate secmed a thousand-fold inecreased. It would not have been hard to believe that he had stopped out from the pages of **Les Miserables;™ but it required no ordinary stretch of the imagination to lead one to realize that hie had once been a socinl favorite of the nuthor of that great novel. Yot this battered onteast had ually drunk many a social glass and had many long-drawn chat with Victor Hugo. 1o had dandled the Jersey Lily on his kneo long before she had begun to bloom; and fraternized with her father. the chivalrous Dean Lo Breton, and had numbered Lord Tennyson among his - distinguished acquaintances, time-worn pauper,SidueyThomas, once was a prospdrots citizen of St. Helier, in the Isle of Je . Hisfather was a well-to-to updertaker, and from his early childhood Tlomas was brought up in association with the best people of the islana. He h;u)‘m\ excellent edu- eation, and in his oarly manhood w the proprietor of aj large livery estab- lishment. The Lo Bretons wore near neighbors, and he spent many an hour by their fireside. fguring Victor Hug residence in St. Helier . cordinl inti- macy grew up betwedn the two, and many another nofabic visitor to the island came to cherish a warm admira- tion for the brave-hearted young Eug- lishman, who was a briliiant conver: tionalist and a genial_compapion. spoke French like a Parisian and was well versed in science and hiterature. He was a member of the American church, and numbered among his fritnds’ soveral prominent English clergymen. g In the midst of his squalid environ- ment Thomas has yet retained rvefined and cultivated tastes. His mind is sirong and active, and even in a work house court he quotes Pope and Shakes- pearc with fiuency, and des i equal facility of Longfellow, Swedenborg. He is modest and r in regard to himself. But the rare pleasure of talking with anyone who is other than an illiterate vagrant occa- sionally tompts him to say more than he woild deem prudent. “The days are long and dreary in this far-off corner of the world, "said Thomas to a visitor one day. *I buy a Record every day, and read it through from be- ginning to end, advertisements and all. But after that is done there isa good deal of daylight left. Conversation here isnot very edifying. You might as well ask an inmate to describe an equilateral triangle on a given straight line as to expect him to di the taviff or anything else thut’s reason- able.” Thomas tells a tale or two about Spurgeon that might shock some of the Baptist brethren on this side of the water. When in London he was a frequent attendant at Spurgeon’s tab- ernacle, and when the great divine visited Jersey he dropped in upon Thomus, when calling the circum- 1ces of that visit, tells of their tour to the village ale house, *'Yes,” says he, it wasn't only with Hugo that I had acup or two, | sher Spurgeon and I had a ‘here’s a look at you.” too. [ took ale that time and the reverend took gin and water. And [ footed tho bill, too,” he added with a chuckle. - - Presidential Fortunes, Boston Record: Abraham Lincoln’s fortune was 75,000, Buchanan possessed $200,000, John Quiney Adams left $50,000, President Johnson’s wealth was esti- mated nt 250,000, Presidont Polk left $150,000. President Pierce saved $50,000, Washington married a vich and left $300,000, John Adams was worth about $60,000. Millard Fillmore hirried twico and added to his wealth gagh time, Ix-Prosident Hayes is coining mone, ouY of his chicken farm: The Guarfield familyave well provided for by the pansion grafited ny congress and the income of a lar#e public fund. Thomas Jeferson didd 0 poor that if congress had not given him $20,000 for his library he would have been bauk- rupt. ¥ Van Buren was wott1{'$300,000. - Driven Craz°n by a#'aith-Healer. Henry Gerst, a woll-to-do young Ger- man, went violentlyoinsane last night from the effects, hizfniends declare, of the influences of a'“Mws. Woodworth, who is conducting a'faith-cure revival and has a large cohgregation made peculiay by the Jarge namber of youns women trance artists, says a Louisville, Ky., dispatch, rst went howling from.the hall at 10 o’clock and it took four policemen to Lold him, His friends claim that Mrs. Woodworth has been using her magic powers to induce Gerst to marry one of the women who travel with her in her meetings. - A Country Ou New York World: Country Bean— Can [ see yon home? City Muiden—Certainly. You wait here until I get thero, and then walk past the house. I will be at the window. A. W. Gandy, Broken Bow, Neb., has several furms to trade for stocks of goods. Invites correspondence. of ens or widow DREANED HE WAS A HORSE. Some Strange Tales of Mon and Other Animals. THEY FOUGHT FOR THE CORPSE. Shocking Scene at A New Jdersey Cburch Door—Outwitted by His Widow—Brained the Ghost= A Ghastly Petitioner, The Cuvious Side of Life. A Gordon, Nob, man says that while he was living down in Tenuesseo he owned a picce of land on which he raised vegotablse One day he loaded his cart full of vegetables 1d brought them to the neighboring town of Avon. Tn returning home the mule he had hitelied to his cart went into a trance, thinking the mule was dead started him. When he had his_ we went after a horse to haul his cart home. During the time he was gone _the mule woke out of his trance, got up and commenced to graze on the road side, He thought it was a shame to have the mule go without u skin, 8o he put the skin back on the animal, but found out it had shrunk and the mule had swollen considerably semng o regular Yankee farmer he patehod tho remaining space with sheep skin. Ho now annually shears from fifteon to twenty Pounds of wool from his mule. A man of considerable wealth, who died in New York city scue time since, made o distribution of his personal property which did not suit his disconsolate widow. Amons other unsatisfactory things, he bequeathed the procecds of cortain land and stocks of value to abrother, while e left to the widow the procecds of other stocks and lands com- paratively valueless, us a portion of hor leg acy. 13ut the widow was sols exceutrix of the will, and when she eame to sell she dis. posed of the land and stocks iu a lump, set ting a high valuation on those of which she was to lave the proceeds and a low valua. tion on the others, the valuation of the two 10ts taken together’ making a fair price for the wiole, By this_means she exactly re- versed that portion of her husband's will re- lating to the land and stocks in_question. The brother, not relishing such sharp prac tice ou the part of his sistor-in-law, brougnt suit to recover the actual value of tho be- auest made to him, whereupon the widow proposed that instodd of sponding the estate in law they should marry cach other and on- it togother, This proposition struck a csponsive cho¥d™ in the broast of the brother. hey were warried accordingly, and are said t8 b having a jolly time in spending the fortune which the deceased cutleman was 8o kiud as t accumulate for them. “What's the ter with your friend asked a Sun Francisco Examiner reporter of a young man with a broad white hat, cordu- roy trousers and a woolen shirt, who was tr) ing to induc his companion,similarly clad,to move on “He's got the sheep jiggers.” “The sheep jigzors! What's that?” manded the questioner. “Why, ye see, in our business we have to count our sheep twice a day, mornin’ and night.” Joe, here—Sheopherder Joe, he' culled up in the Pine creek country been tendin' a bunch of nigh onto sis 1 sheep, and it has purty near druv clean daftacountin’ of 'ém so much. “He scarce gets time for anything else. Very often a sheepherder gits off his cabasar on this uccount, and that's why we call it the sheep Jiggers, *Jist ye wateh him a minute, ot ten little pebbles or jiggers in his right hand. Now he'll count fromone up toa hundred and then he'll pass one of thom jig gers into his left hand. When he gits ali of the jigzers into hs loft hand, that will mak @ thousand, and he'll cut a noteh in the rim of his hat or Lis boot heel. “Didn’t yo never notice the notehes cut in the rim of & sheep buckaroo's hat! Thut's what it means. “When Joe gits a thousand counted he counts another thousand and passes the jig- gers back into his right hand, und keeps on :,hlll. way back and forth all day if we let oy Here the unfortunate young man took off his hat, cut a neat notch in the brim with hi jack kuife, put it backon his head and re- suwmed counting, Poor Joe!” said his companion., *‘W. broughten him down here thinkin’ the life and bustle of the city might help him, but it's no use. He jist stands like ye ses him all day long and counts peonle for sheep, the same as 1f he was on the Madaline plains.’ de- him Ye sce. he's Dr. Love, au kinglish medical author, tells the followin g strango story, taken from the archives’ of the Austrian police office, and relating to an execution said to have taken place in Vienna in 1030: A well-known bandit named Schaveuburg was caught, to- gether with four of his associates, and they were all condemned to death. They wore already on their knees, ready to submit to their fate, when Schavenburg addressed th judge, asking that his four companions t be ranged in single file in front of him ut a distance of eight feet from each other, “If,” he said, “after Lam beheaded T get up and walk up o the first of my comrades will you pardon him#’ The judge thought he Wus pretty safe in complymz with the re quest. “But if T walk up to the second, the third and the fourth, will you pardon those also? Tho judge replied that he would ob- tain their pardon from the emperor. The partisan was satisfled, bent his head, re- coived the mortal blow, and his head rolled down; put, to the great surprise of the judge and the spectators, the body got up, walkcd alone, passed the' first, sccond, third and fourth of the condemned men, and tell down, ‘I'he oceurrence was told to the emperor, who purdoned the four criminals, George Heidel, a young farmer residing about nine miles below Bvansville, Ind,, losy his life last nigiit in a singular manner, Ad- joining his farm was that of William Tomp kins, & negro, who for several days past has been engaged in cloaring up a picce of new ground, cutting away tho timber and propar- ing for spring. Kuowing him to bo very superstitous, Heidel resolved upon practi- cal joke, and last night about 7 o'clock sta- tionod himself atapoint in the road whore lie lnew the nogro would pass, covered him- soif with a white, ghostly garment and se. croting himself for his victim, In a short time Tompicins camo ulong with an axe on his shoulder, and Heidel rushed from his covest, making strange motions from be- neath 'the sheet, The uegro in his fright struck out with the axe, splitting the head of the unfortunate joker squarely open to the shoulders and, of course, kilhng Lim in stantly. Tompkins then rushed away, never roulizing that he had killed a human bein No cffort ias been made Lo v him. as the act was done in a moment of great fright. There was a strange and startling scene at a funeral in Burlington, N. J., rocently, Some time ago Willlam H, Bradley, acom municant of St. Paul's R, C. church, joined Crusaders’ Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle. He was informed that he had broken the laws of his church, and that he must give up either the secret order or the church, He chose to relinquish the latter, The other day Bradley died, and at his request ar- rangements were made for the funeral to take place from St. Mary’s P. E. church, with the Golden Kagles accompanying tho remains, As the casket was being borne into the church by the pall-bearers, who were memboers of the order, a number of Bradley's friends and relatives, who are de. vout Catholics, broke from the procession, seized the handles of the casket, and d clared that the body should not enter the church, There was a brief struggle for pos- session of the coftiu, but the pall-bearers, as sisted by other members of the Golden Eagle, succeeded in getting iv inside the edi- 1ice, when the coutention ceased, A Kansas paper relates that a cattle raiser near Severy went out into his feed lot re cently on foot, The cattle hecame infuriated and made rush at bim, fe fell flat on the ground and remained perfectly quiet. The wmad, bellowing herd came up and tramped round and round, often smelliug of his body, but never attempting to injuro it. After four hours in this position some men noticed tho peouliar action of the herd and went in and rescued him A funny mstance of tho spirit of the poor occurred recently in Brussels. A wrotched woman appearcd at the dispensary for a dose of emectic. Sho was givon a prescription, which she took to a drugeist, and received the quantity called for. Looking disdainfully at the small package, she remarked to her companion : “'It, is easy to sce that this is for a poor por son: if it had been for & rich person they would have given twice as much!" A Windsor lady appears to have outwitted the customs oficials. Coming ncross from Detroit with her carriage she brought with her a parcel of dutfablo goods. The customs officer, mstead of charging the duty upon the goods, seized the carriage and horses, but subsequently reteased them on the receipt of a check for £100, After miving the check the Indy stopped payment at the bank, and now the officials are unablo to collect. The mat teris to be brought before the courts, and the lady will plead that the carriage and horses wore improperly sofzed, and that the check was oxtorted from her, There is an alley botween the two dry goods stores in St. Louis, which offors a tempting gateway for wanderiug swino, and half a dozen of the brutes at a time may be scen on pleasant days in the narrow passiage icking up bits of garbage or lying m the guttors. A lady well known in casion to pass that way saw o huge sow in the gutter which she wished to cross and which was plontifully eharied with soft mud. Thinking she would by over the beast than awaken it, as med to be asleep, she lifted her foot to ko the attempt. Being a small woman, she miscaleulated, and, to her horror, just at that mouent the Dig sprag up and’ ran grunting down the streot, carrying the lady with it. The un lucky rider instinctively soized the hog's cars to hold herself on, but sho was as sq wounted as Tam O'Shanter or John and evidently she was on pig- I'he only effect of her ciutch was to . ase the creature’s speod. The moro she oumed tho faster tho sow cantercd, punctuating every jump with torrified squeaks and grunts, and the small boys and the pasinig pedestrians laughed till thoy erioc A number of compassionate people began a chase, and the race had become uite exeit- ing, when the lady lost her hold and was dumped into the middle of the strect. Leav- ing the pig to continue its maa carcer, the pursuers and bystunders assisted the' lady into a neighboring store, and after muking SUCH Neeessary repairs as shoe could she was driven to her residence in a coupe. She does not believe in letting hogs run loose in the streets of a city, and so say we all of us. tho city, having oc after o recent rain, A writer in the Valdosta (Gia) Times ro- lates an winusing story of the strange dream of u cireuit-riding parsongaho visited the town recently. The goo®ld parson had mauy appointments far and wide apart, and some days ho rode as much us fourteen hours to reach the more remote onos from his home, One night about dark he rode up to a good brotker's house to spend the wiht The brother had been killing hogs, and at supper the table was laden with spare ribs, sausage, headcheese, cte, The parson had missed his dinner, aud had a keen appetite, and he could not resist the tempting, steam- ing bits of choice meats before him, tud, un- mindful of dyspepsia or what uof, he ate rtily. At a reasonable hour he was shown to his room, and he retired for the night, Tt farmer brother was also wearie day’s 1abor, and he also retired ¢ About widnight the from a peaceful slumber by noise 8o about the premise om the pillow,and he p Lu horse neighing and kicking violently the stablo door, and. ussuming at once that the visitor's horse had gotten out of the stablo and was creating a riot among his own stock, he bounced out of bed, hur- riedly dressed, and stepped out of his bed- room door into tho hall. Then his attention was drawn to the par- son’s room across the hall, wiere he heard the horse squealing and néighing and kick, ing—bam—bam—bam —and, puzzied boyond measure, he foreed into the room- and as the door: opened he saw the outlines of the good man_standing ercct in the middle of the fioor, and he heard lim panting for breath, which' was followed by a long drawn sigh of relief, “*Strike - uiateh—my good brother,” said the parson between breaths, and thien he cjaculated : “Pshwhow! Good sakes alive, I must be a fool 1" “The brother struck a light and found the bedstead scattered and broken up. The footbar was shattered, and the mass of bod stead aud bedding had come down upon th floor in u heap, * Pshwhew ! ejaculated th parson again, “*I must be a fool—I arcamed [ was a horse, and [ thought I was kicking at tho baru door. Fetch the light this wuy, brother. I don’t belicve there is any skin left, on my heels ! The bedstead was past further servi the brother had to spread the parson on the floor. and bed o DON'T KNOCK HIM DOWN, plorer Stanley's Method of Winning the African Native. I remember Stanley once remarking to me, says a writer in the Portnightly Review, just us I was starting to ascend the Congo: *‘P’at a native, slap him if you will with the open hand, bat nover strike him with the closed (ist, and never shoot until you are first attacked and escape seems hopeless.” This was meant, and I, too, quote it—as both liberal and figurative advice. The patting™ policy is the only one that arvies un explorer safely through Negro Afei and it 1s the one that men like Livingstone, Speke, Grant, , Thompson, De Brazza, Fmin, sinfurth, Lonsdale, Coguithat and ngele have pursued with such suc- cesst whereas what I would term the fist fushion”—the impatient resort to brute force—has often led to gricyous disusters, and has never vesulted in much inerease in knowledge or gain to civilization. It is the application of the old fable, “The wind, the sun and the traveller or persunsion is better than force,” which is so often needed as an explanation of Afvican success and failure. A savage is much like a cat. Once your hand-—-your open hand, your m, not your fist—in contact with his body, genfly and in friendship, and it is. vare he does not yicld sympathe- tically. If he waxes friendly” you may t his brond back approvingly. If he 18 saucy you may vent your annoyance in a smart slap, but beware of the kick and the knock-down blows. TLey ef- fectually preelude reconcilintion, Chafl the suvage, poke him in the ribs, puil his ear, make him grin and urge the grin into u laugh, and he is yours, and the contagion of good bumor spreads among his hesitating follows. You need not go in for buffooneries or lower that dignity which should always at- tend the white man, but you will find little playfulness, u little human sympa- thy and Kinduess, in o way projudice thi respect thut the poor suvage innately feels for the—to him-—godlike white man, In peneteating and overcunning these uncivilized lands Kuropean trav- ellers should remember that they be- long to the native inhabitants, not to the civilized discoverer—it is their country, not ours—and this is too easily forgotien. e E *What's a man-of-war,” said A cruiser,” was Ocean: toncher to his cluss, the prompt reply. “*What makes it g0 “Is serew, Sw’ “Who go with it?? “Its crew, Si e Nebraska has 118 P'aradise Valloy, ACTIVITY ON EVERY HAND Roal Estato Mon Confor on Rallroad Projeots, BUILDERS REPORT PROGRESS, The Brightest Outlook and the Most Work in Prospect That Has Ever Been Known in Omaha. Teal Estato Men Moot A meeting of roal estate mou was hold last Nt fn M. A. Upton's office, at the corner of Sixteenth and Farnam stroets, for the purpose of considering moans of creatiug or special int takon in the roglty business, Tho principal objoct of the gmthering was to appoln a committee to confer with standing commit tees of the board of trade, and the Union club, which have been trying for the past six or cight months to establish a railrond bo- tween Yankton and Omaha, The board of trade matter up, after a been incorporated by Nathan Sholton, D. C. Pattorson, and others. Iut they could not got the county commissioners to call a special election at which it was pro posed that the bhonds for the constraction be voted. When this fo \ the Union elub belioved it could re! cheme, There was a lot of talk and that was the end of the railroad The project has now been revived by the real cstate men, and _if they, in_conjunction with the board of trade and the Union club, as is proposed, work up _tho intorest they expect to, it is more than likely thoe road will be built. The realty men appointed on the committes to confer with the other budies, Messts, Bon sou, Hicks and Potter. These gentlemen wero instructed to appoint five others to act on the committeo, gotting some rost first took the company had BUILDING OPERATIONS, More Stractures Than Ever Beforo 1 the City's History A fow of the architoets of the city wero seen yesterday and questioned regarding tho value of the buildings for which they wero preparing vl In most instances thoy were unwilling to speeify as to particular buildings, owing to the reticence of their patrons. G W, Field is preparing plans for a num bor of dwellings, the awgresate vaiue of which will not bo less than 525,000, Ilie estimated cost of the bulldings for whieh Mendelssohn, Fisher & Lauric aro now drawing plans, will fexeead £400,000 Phis includes the proposed new First Motho- dist chureh, to be built_on the corner of I'wentyth and Davenport stroets at a cost of 375,000 5 Findley's contracts for plans will call forth the expenditure of about. $150,000. Of the thirteen different edifices for whieh lie s preparing plans, ten will bo of brick aud only three of wood. Henry Voss is drawing or has completed Dluns for our $100,000 worth of buildings, in- cluding a business block for Henry Scivors t the corner of Sixteenth and California streets, 1o cost 810,000; u business block for M. L. Jaynes, §5,000; two wholesalo ware houses for Thomas Davis, valued at 340,000 each, 1o be located one on the corner of Ninth and Howard ana the othor of Ninth of Niuth aud Juckson; a $30,000 building to ho occupied by the Novelty Carriace Works company on Chicago stroet; a hand- some residence for Adolph | Meyer, to be built in Kountzo Place at n cost of $12,000; a bnsiness block for J. G. Dillon, &0,000; to be locited on Nichol near Twelfth stry Talking upon the provements for this year, Mr. Voss express d the opinion that a_larger amount of monoy would be expended through this channel in Omalia during the son thai for a number of § aid that he had threo times as much work on hand now thau he had in Icbraary last yoar. The majority of the buildings for which he s drawing plans will be occupied by wholesale houso, tenauts having already beon sceurod. Ho his yot to prepare plans for from thirty to forty dwe ing houses, ranging m value from $2,500 to 225,000, ““Another thing,” said Mr. Voss, “you will find that bettor material will be used in the buildings to be constructed this year Omaha than ever before, and that they will be superior in architectural beauty, for which 1 find my patrons perfectly willing to pay. Three years ugo no one would put up better” than an ordinary three-sto building on Sixtoenth street, but we are now prevaring plans for two businoss blocks to bo located on that thoroughfare that for architectural boauty oannot be surpassod. Omaha has outgrown the duy of cheap walls and poor construction,’ Cleves Brothers have on hand ordors for plans of buildings that will cost 8150,000, Dietrick & Guth estimate that the value of thoe buildings for wiich they are preparing plans will aggregate $175,000, matter of buildi Milk River, Honey Creek, Thunder Canyon, Lightning ork, Daughnut Praivie, Buker's Ree and Cuke Basket precinet, One hundred and fifty-thousand dollars reprosent the estimated value of the build- ( ngs for which I. M. Illis is preparing pla “Chis includes the proposed new Comun Dbank building to be located on the corn Sixteenth and Farnam strects and to cost from cighty to ninety thousand dollars. Also a buildicg, the projector’s name not_permi ted to be given, to be located on Sixteenth street, It is to be a business building with an eighty feet frontage and the cost is to bo £50,000. architects, without excention, ox- prossed the opiniou that this would bo a re- mar ble good year in the mattor of the con struction of nsw buildings. Of the orders now in thegr hands nearly all arc for resi- dences, business blocks or manufactories. CGeorge N, Prautman, . New York bank president, will invest something like 50,000 here this year ina building. His agont, Ernest Riall, returned from a tripto N York yesteaday and has given the Hodsons an order for drawing the plans. The buiid- ing will bo 66x130 and five stories high, to be used as a wholesale warchouse, and two lots on Ninth strect near Leavenworth will be its location, i, A Bridge and Suburban Trains, “My ideas in regard to the condition of our » replied Mr. John K. Flack (o the usual s that it is in & pronouncealy hotter condition than any other city in the wost. As to real cstate, two-thirds of tho doforred pay ments have been met, s0 Uist woney is begin ning to azeuniulate in the hands of those who will wish to invest again. There will be considerable amount of mouey invested in various businesses the coming spring. All dosirable houscs will be filled by new- comers, und the demand for now buildings ~ will be good. I b lieve it will be well to encourago rapid transportation to the suburbs of the city 50 48 1o give cheap houses und rents, The greatest enterprise we can undertake, however, is to build @ bridge across the cr hore that all roads may pass over for a mere nomial sum, so that thoy will not cross north and south of the city, and uso Omaha as & tributary town instoad’ of tne mam_ poiut und center. 1 even bolicve it would be best to bond the cicy for tiis pur Dpose, as there is danger of @ company cxe- cuting it as a money-muking schome, instead of @ general benefit of the peo ple and the good of the oity. Yos, manufacturing udustrics are what we greatly need to insare continued growth and prosperity, and L0o many cannot be secured. rything that can possibly bo done in the sccurement of additio dustries should be done, wud at o ave ab the outsot of a yoar that promises be a fraitful and healthful o branchos of traae, and Omaha should s the opportunity to muke hersell felt wnd heard in the busiest and wmost fmportant pters of trade in the country. We do not want any windy blustor, but good, solid, substantial work; we have too many bona fide resourcos for an indu o in_any fletitious or exaggerated claims. But to conclude, I expect to soe u very bustling and thrifty yoar here in Omaha all through 59, .- A Dive ihreat, New York World: Grocer—I let you have anything more, sir. Customer—Very woll; you ne But remember that [ won't trade with man who don’t teust any longer, cit cannot