Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 19, 1889, Page 4

© OHICAGO OFFICR, B e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY MARCH 19, 1830. THE DAILY BEE! PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ——— TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, " Daily (Morning Raition) ineluding SUNDAY Hyp, One Year inr Six Months, ‘ot Three Months., 4ot Viivk ik OMATA SUNOAY Hik, ‘maiied to any address, One ¥ ear WeERKLY BEE, One Year.... 200 S Om OrF1CK, Nos, 014 and 918 FARNAM STRERT, ROOKBRY BUILDING. New YoRk OFFice, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUN® BUILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. bl3 FOURTEENTH BTREWT. CORRRSPONDENCR. All communications relating to news and edl- torial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR L OF THE BER, BUSINESS LETTERS, All business lotters and remittances should be “mddressed to TiE DER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoflice oraers to bo made payablé 1o the order of the company, ke Beo Pablishing Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. ftate of Nebraska, County of Dougl fos. Grore B, Tuschuck, secretary of the Tise Pub- 1ishing compiny, Aoss solomuly SWoAT that th “mctual circulation of Tifk DAILY Dkw for the Weck endini Marcli 16, 1580, was as follow “Bunday, Murch 1) § “Mondny. March 11 Tuosday. Mareh 12, o1 X Maron 13 G Bworn to before me and subscribed to in my presence this 16th day of March. A. D, 1880, Seal, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public, Btato of Nobrask, | g County of Douglas, {5 George B. ‘Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- Jotes and says thut s 18 secrotary of the s ublishing company, that the ctual average daily circulation of THE DALY BEE for the month ot March, 1884, 10,050 caples; for April, 1 1888, l}\lKl 1874 coples Ma Soples; for June, 10244 copies; for July, ‘18R, 16,033 ‘coples; for August,’ 158, 18,183 coples; for September, 1888, 18,154 col H for October, 188, 1%034 conies; for Novem: Ter, 188, 18,080 coples; for December, 1888, 18,223 coples; for January, 1859, 18,574 coples; for Feb- ruary, 1850, 18,006 copies. JEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to boforo mo_and subscribed in my prosence this 2d dug of March, A, . 1550, . P. FEIL Notary Public, Ccauren 1[:{{\% predicts a lrcnvy fn.li of Dew during the next few nights. AN NONEST investigation will be the noblest work of the county commission- ers. BRAD SLAUGHTER has drawn the first ri e from the presidontial slot and Bierbower is his meat. WnEN Bierbower loosened his grip on the federal building yesterday, the very foundation trembled with emotion. STREET sweeping hasbeen suspended. Now if the city authorities will suspend the street sweepers there will be cause for general congratulation. THE Nemaha statesman happened in Omaha Sunday with a sample case of Dew. The consignment produced gen- uine enthusiasm among a select few. CONGRESSMAN CONNELL has gone to Washington with a gripsack loaded with applications for office. Returning mails will be objects of deep solicitude. THE legislative combine is growing ‘bolder and more defiant as the plunder comes in sight. There is reason to hope that the senate will blast the combina~- tion and save the state treasury. MER. MAHONEY has not been in the habit of granting favors to his wards, therefore he wants none from the county board. Perhaps che public wil favor him with an early retirement. AN Towa court has decreed that in future railroad cars cannot be used as store houses for beer, while the natives cry aloud for the privilege. The de- cision confirms the right of every man to be his own beer vat. THE poor superintendent publicly de- clares that he is not ‘‘ashamed of any- thing that has transpired” on the poor farm during the past two and a half years. His conscience is not built that way. PresipeNT HARRISON has discovered an effective cure for sulks. The opera- sion he performed on John C. New, sup- plemented with active outdoor exer- eise, had a wondorful effect on the colonel’s left liver. THAT grizzled old veteran, Admiral Porter, declares that with fifty million dollars at his command he could put an end to German aggressions in the Pa- cific. Itlooks as if Porter stood in with the brewory syndicate to control the *‘commers” of the world TiME does not dull mor experienco «check the ambition of woman to be a man. A Kansas Civy belle rattled around in male attire for a fow hours and was ran in as a horse thief. The prerogatives of munkind must be pro- “tected at any cost, ——— i Tae brave and persevering fight of ‘the minority of the house against the {;leuudering hilis of the combine should continued to the end. Every parlia- mentary expedient should be employed to break the combination and protect the taxpayors of the state, THE Oklahoma boomers have taken £0 the woods, with United States troops in hot pursuit. A poultice of hot steel appliod below the suspender buttons of a land hunter gives a wierd piquancy to life and celerity to limb, but the charms of surrounding scenes are lost in a wild desire to get out of the country, e——— TrE New York county democracy de- clares that *‘the use of money in elec- tions has become a disgrace to our civ- ilization.” No combination of men has done more to spread this disgrace over the country than the New York democ- racy, and their post mortem confession evidencos the depth of their grief that “they did not have enough boodle to go around last November, e Tae proposed constitutiona! amend- meant increasing the number of supreme court judges to five is demanded by the fncrease of litigation, in keeping with the growth of the state. No one will soriously object even if the tarm is made five years, but to make it ten rs will arouse such opposition as will ‘:ul the amendment. The people of this state are not in favor of a judical aristocracy. A BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. The postoMoe department is poeculiar- ly and essentinlly a business depart- ment. Its operations are wholly of a practical nature, and its usefulness and efficiency depend entirely upon the ex- tent to which sound business principles and methods are applied in'its adminis- tration. For this reason the head of the department oug ht always to be a man of practical affairs, experienced in busi- ness methods on a large scale, and of approved administrative ability, The present postmastor general is a man of this kind, and there is every reason to expect the most satisfactory results from his administration of the department. He is exhibiting an ambi- tion to justify his appointment by close attention to the duties of the office, and there could be no better evidence than this of a desire to improve itsusefulness and increase its efficiency. There is very large opportunity for doing this. The postal service in every portion of the country rapidly deteriorated under the administration of Mr. Vilas and the efforts of his successor to restore it were but partinlly successful. Both were politicians and the former especially valued the office chielly as a political machine to be used for party and personal advantage. The result was a general demoralization of the service unequalled in its history,and when Mr. Dickinson took up the work he was overwhelmed with demands for reform from every section of the country, and particularly from the west. He showed a disposition to regard these and did effect some improvement, but a host of incapables had been foisted upon the service which party covsiderations com- velled him to retain, and improvement was slow and far from general. There is a bettor service than when Mr. Vilas left the department, but much yet re- majns to be done to advance it to that standard of efficiency which the vast in- terests of the people dependent upon this service require. The question of making the postal service self-sustaining, which has been the hobby with most heads of the de- partment, will not be of sorious concern to the publicsolong as the service ismade progressive, expeditious and efficient. Economy that interferes with theso conditions the people do not approve, and the administration that sacvifices these in order to show a saving of a few hundred dotlars annually will get no credit from the masses of the people to whom a rapid and reliable mail service is of the highest importance. Perhaps the most important work in connection with thisservice which the new admin- istration will have to do is the exten- sion of the free delivery system. As now provided, free delivery is allowed in cities of ten thousand population, or ten thousand dollars gross revenue, but the system should be extended to smaller communities with less revenue. Owing to the tardy development of this system the postal service of the country has not kept pace with the general ma- terial development, and the best of rea- sons can be urged for enlarging the system. The railway mail service will also need to be improved and enlarged. This branch of the postal service has deteriorated more than any other, and reform should begin here. A man of thorough experience and ability should be placed at the head of this service, and the rule should be to ap- point to it only men of unquestionable fitness. With a few obvious reforms this country can have the best rallway mail service in the world. Undoubtedly Postmaster General Wanamaker fully appreciates the im- portance of his office, and when he shall have learned its requirements and mas- tered its duties there is every reason to expect that he will be able to give to the country a better postal service than it has ever yet secured. REDUCE THE JUSTICES' It is to be hoped the bill (house roll No. 369) ameudatory of section seven of COURTS. chapter twenty-six of the compiled statutes of Nebraska, will not be lost sight of by the legislature. The great importance of this measure is in the provision ‘‘that in all cities of the metropolitan class there shall be but six justices of the peace and no more for each of such cities.,” It requires the diviston of a city of the metropoli - tan class into three districts, ‘‘com- prising compact and contiguous terri- tory,” and each embracing as near as may be possible one-third of the popula- tion of such city, two justicesof the peace to be elected in each district. Omaha has now eighteen justices of the peace, and it must be obvious to every intelligent man that this number is far greater than necessary. The ad- vocates of reducing the number urge that as the business is now divided none of the justices got enough out of it fora rvespectable livelihood, but a mere forcible argument is the fact that in the struggle for business a great deal of litigation is encouraged and much un- seemly ‘‘drumming” done the effect of which is demoralizing to all concerned, damaging to the character of this class of officials, and de- structive of public confidence in jus- tices’ courts. These tribunals are the chiof recourse of conscienceless shys- ters, who are too often permitted to carry imposition upon litigants much farther than would be tolerated were the justices in & position to be less de- pendent upon this class of attorneys, while hungry constables are ever on the alert for something to keep the judicial mill grinding. ¢ Of course this does not apply to ail justices of tho peace, but we have the authority of the more reputable of them that such a condition of affairs is coun- tenanced by a uumber of these officials, while all are more or less compromised by it. The only practicable remedy is to reduge the number of justices, and it is believed that six will fully meet tho dewand for courts of this class in Omaha, with results more satisfactory to the public and far more conducive to the cause of justice than are attnined under the present system. ey THE BUSINESS OULLOOK. The weekly summary of the bani clearings makes a vemurkable showing. Financiul transactions iu all the leal ing cities are increasing atjs vato which llmliculol the opening of a seuson of great activity in all branches of trade. | be unsurpnugi} in _their respective New York heads thelist with an in- crease of soventy-five per cent over the corresponding week of last year, Omaha follows with thirty-five per cent and other citiesin proportion. Money is plentiful in all cities and readily obtain- able atlow rates. The resultis that merchants and manufacturers are bor- rowing liberally and extending their trade into new fields. This vast volume of idle capital cannot be employed in the east and must seek investment in the west, where the opportunities for profit- able returns are unequaled. In Omaha the condition of business is excellent and the outlook as bright as could be wished. Confidence prevails every- where. Building operations and per- manent invegtments are increasing rap- idly, real estate transactions are multi- plying, public works which will give employment to hundreds of men are about to begin, and private enter- prise is visible in new buildings planned and under way. To this grand totul must be added a new postoffice, a city hall, a union depot, and a mammoth bank building, representing an invest- ment of three and a’half million dollars in four buildings. These furnish the basis of the strong and enthusiastic con- fidence which prevails in Omaha, and insuves a season of growth and prosper- ity unequalled by any in the history of the oity. POOR FARM INVESTIGATION. The decision of the county board to investigate the management of the poor farm will be hailed with general satis- faction. The stories of mismanage- ment, of cruelty and neglect, of reek- ing filth and starvation, published in Tnoe BEE, demand a thorough investi- gation. Any effort to shield the super- intendent from the consequence of his neglect will be instantly exposed. I'riendship must cease when the public interests and the good name of the county are involved. No whitewashing for political ends will be tolerated, nor the bulldozing or spiriting away of wit- nesses permitted. THE BEER demands, in behalf of the people, that the inquiry be honestly conducted and thoroughly made. The charges against the superintend- ent and matron are of such a character that a mere surface inquiry will not re- lieve the commissioners of the odium which must be attached to them if they attempt to cover up a public scandal. The cries of neglected unfortunates on filthy beds, the wails of starving in- fants, the cruel hardships imposed on feeble women, and the exhibitions of violent temper cannot be stifled nor the consequence mitigated by eleventh- hour reform. THE BEE is ready to aid the investi- gation, if called upon, in every possible way. It will secure the attendance of witnesses whose statements bave been published, or furnish affidavits of their truthfulness. It will furnish a stenog- rapher, if necessary, and give the names and residences of the unfor- tunates who have endured the torments of the poor-house; but it insists that the commissioners demonstrate at the outset that they will go to the bottom ot the scandal, no matter what the con- sequences may b A PROTEST. The motor street railway company, encouraged by its success in obtaining authority to cover the streets of Omaha with wires, seems determined to re- spect neither law nor public sentiment in extending its occupancy of the thor- oughfares of the city. This morning the company commenced cutting its way through Sherman avenue north of Nicholas street, as we believe in viola- tion of an ordinance providing that the avenue shall be maintained exclusively as a driveway, and certainly against the nearly universal popular sentimont that ivshall be kept for that purpose. By whatever jugglery or upon what- ever pretext the company claims the righuv to occupy Sherman ave- nue, we protest in the name of the peo- ple against its being ‘permitted to carry out its purpose and call upon the author- ities to require the company to desist until its assumed right ean be properly inquired into. We believe its invasion of the avenue to be absolutely unwar- ranted, and it should not be permitted to advance a foot farther until its claim to occupy the thoroughfare isinvesti- gated by the authorities. THE evenly balanced condition of the two great parties in Montana, and the certainty of early statehood, is exhaus- tively discussed in a letter published in enother column. The letter furnishes a clear insight to political affairs in the tervitory, and the causes which led to the gverthrow of the democracy last fall, The conclusion of the writer that Montana will be a doubtful state caunot be sustained by the facts. The hiefl experience of the democracy at the public crib was as fatal to harmony in Montana as in all other sections of the country. Factions grew and flourished around the fleshpots. Consuming jeal- ousies filled the outs, and when the opportunity came last November they cheerfully dug a common grave for themselves and the party, The bitter- ness engendared by that fight cannot be wiped out in a year, On the other hand the republicans are united, all torritorial ofiices are in thelr posses- sion, men of character and ability have heen selected by the president to man- age aflaivs, and a large per cent of in- coming settiors are uniting their politi- cal fortunes with the party in power. These advantages cannot be overcome by o disorganized rabble, and Montana will come into the union with republi- cans on guard, [ THE present secretary of the navy is likely to find plenty of work to do. Undee authority given by the last congress, the construction of eight new vessels will be begun this year, while several now being constructed will have to be passed upon. The vessels to be built include three cruisers or gun- boats of two thousund tons, two three thousand ton cruisers, a seventy-five hundred ton ivonclad, a protected wiser of fiity-thrae hundred tons, and 1+ gunboat of eight hundred tons. All of these to be of the most modern construction, and when completed will classes. The law requires that the cruisers shallattain the oxtraordinary spoed of twofrty knots an hour, and if this is done they will be the torror of the sens to a foreign fos. These addi- tions will make our navy quite formida- ble, but it is more than probable that the next congress will authorize more vessels. The' detormination to build up a strong havy having taken pos- session of the eountry, urged by circum- stances which ‘have made plain its ne- cessity, the movement in this direction is not likely to:halt until we have a *naval establishment in which the country can feel complete confidence for any emergency. THE president of the National Farm- ers’ alliance, in a letter addressed to the editor of the Lincoln Call relative to the recont meeting at Des Moines of state allinnce agents, remarks that “the columns of Tir BEE appear to be closed to us.” Mre. Burrows knew when he penned this statement that it was abso- lutely gratuitous. It is not a week since a communication of his was printed in THE Bek, and a day or two later there was published another com- munication in defence of the memorial of the farmers’ aliance. It can be shown that the alliance has had two words spoken for it in these columns for every one opposing or criticising its recent declarations, while in referring to these editorially Tue Ber has discussed the statoments made by authority of the alliance fairly and dispassionately, as every intelligent farmer and right- thinking citizen should desire to have them discussed. The farmers of Ne- braska do not need to be told that the columns of Tie BEE are now, as they always have been, open to them for all reasonable and proper discussion of questions affecting their interests, or that this paper will continue to battle for their rights and welfare, regardless of the opinions of those who seek to op- press them or of others who attempt to use them. EVERY community, remarksa con- temporary, has its cranks aud its fos- sils. The peculiarity of the former is to clamor for change for the sake of change. The fossil antagonizes all re- form and progress. Unquestionably Omaha has its share of both these classes, and particularly of the latter, the number of which, it is feared, is not decreasing. The people who believe 1n advancement and have faith in the future of Omaha should give no heed to either. The present year should wit- ness, on the part of our enterprising citizens, a venewed effort to give fresh and vigorous impetus to the progress of Omaha. New opportunities are open- ing to this city which if cultivated will add largely to its prosperity. Let the cranks and fossils be relegated to the rear and the ‘men of progress, enter- prise and energy unite to push forward the interests and welfare of Omaha, already too long neglected. MEMBERS of congress are practically unanimous on the proposition that their salaries should be raised from five to ten thousand a year. This harmonious sinking of party strife for personal gain was brought to the surface by the resig- nation of Senator Chace. He declares that he cannot longer live in Washing- ton on the insignificant sum of five thousand a year. The prospect of a grab has roused more enthusiasm than was witnessed at the inauguration cer- emonies. A great reform might be ef- focted by grading the salavies according to ability and consigning the sticks to a local museum. A DEMOCRATIC organ expresses pain- ful surprise because President Harrison does not *‘rise above party ties and con- tinue the government in the hands of men conspicuous for their merit,” etc. Duty to the country forhids it, The president cannot rise above democratic party ties until the last one that binds a member to an office is severed. The amount of couspicuous merit foisted into office by Cleveland is so small that a three-foot marine glass could not dis- cover it. The fossils must be shelved. STATE AND TERRITOLY. Nebraska Jottings, There are ten prisoners confined in the Gage county jail. Captain Ashby, of Beatrice, has received and rejected an offe of $5,000 for his trotter, Chitwood. Palmyra 1s short on bibles, and the Items last week published the ten commandments “by request.’” The Masons of Fairbury have temporarily abandoued the project of erecting a throo- story budding, Loup City expects to becomo a noted sum- mer resort when the canal is completed and an artificial lake formed. Lightoing struck a lhouse in Fremont Thursday night, doing considerable damage, but not injuring the ocenpants. Daykin needs more tenement houses, five families being obliged to live in one house because they caunot secure separate resi- dences, ‘T'wo hundred shares have been subscribed to the new agricultural society at Central City, and & permanent organization will be offected shortly, The lumber has #rrived at Dakota City for the new pontoon bridge aud it is thought tho structure will bo completed so that teams can cross the river by June. G. A. Munroe, brincipal of the Humphrey schools, has tendured his resignation to take effect April 1, and will remove to Kearney and engage iu the real estate business. Never since the grasshopper scourge of has Nebraskt boen mflicted with so dis- astrous @ plugiie ns tho glandered horse com- wmission, says the, Beatrice Domocrat. J. M. H, Frederick, formerly editor of the Wymore Union,, has sold the Akron (O.) Telegram and Wil engage in the banking business at Cuyatioga Falls in that state. Mrs. Sarah C. Osborn, a fifty-six-year-old lady wno formerkyresided at Cedar Rapias, was married recently at Ewerson, Ia., to William F. Davjs, aged scventy-three years. A petition is being circulated by the busi- ness men of Ialls City asking the congres- sional delogation Lo twke such action us will result in the sale of the Sac und Fox reser- vation at the earliest day possible. An Omaha Indian who received his annu. ity recently, iuvested it in a team of hor hiaruoss and wagon, He then aitemptod 1o cross the Missouri, but tho ice gave way and the whole outfit was lost, the fodian barely escaping with his life, Frederick Anderson, & farmer living near Mead, lost his life recently w a horrible maz- ner. Ho was outhing corn stalks with & double-row cutter when tho teain ran away, throwing bim under the kaives and tairly grindiog bim to death. His clothes were cut to pleces aud his neck broken. Ponca business men are mourning the sud- den departure of H. E. Dutton. Dutton was a member of the Baptist church and an old soldier, receiving a pension of §50 per month. Ou the streugth of his peusion he had con- tracted debts amouuting Lo nearly ll.m.nndi then skipped with his family for parts un- knowa, . At the sitting of the district court at Falls City, in the case of tho state against Sher- man Davis, for killing Harper, at Humboldt, the jury returned a verdict of mansluughter, with the recommendation of the extreme penalty. The jury also found Ward Doually guilty of burglarizing the storo of A. G. Wanner, Donally is one of the five held for the same offense. The evidence is strong against the other fo owa. Fort Madison wants the free mail delivery system, Des Moines claims to have the lowest death rato of any American city. The freshman class at the agricultural col- lege at Ames numbers eighty-five. Miss Charlotte Brown, a Dubuque harpist, has been presented with a $50) instrument by admiring friends, Only 2,300 pupils are attending the Wash- ington county schiools out of 7,000 persons be- tween the ages of five and twenty-one years. Mrs. A. W. Johnson, of Fort Dodge, swal- lowed a necdle when she s a little girl, and afow days ago a physician removed it from the lower part of the abdomen, The Congregational church of Atlantic will celebrate the close of its twentieth year on April 14 and ‘The church has had but one pastor all theso years, the Rev. B. G. Hill. The Courier thinks that a §40,000 postofiico buildi #40,000 opera house and a $20,000 Presh an church will start a pretty good sized building boom this spring at Ottumwa, The strict prohibition law has no terrors for Davonport brewers, A malting company has just been organized with a capital of $75,000. Brewer Lage has commenced to build an establishment threo times the size of his present brewery. The other night when one of the Waterloo lamplighters undertook to light one of the street lamps an explosion took place which shattered the lamp and also the nerves of the lamplighter, It appears that somebody had turned the gas on during the day and the lamp was full of gas, which exploded as soon as it came in contact with the flame. The glass was all blown out of the four sides of the lamp and some picces were thrown fully twenty feet, The Great Northwest. A Caledonian society has been organized at Butte, Mont. Oscar Quinn, the crack bronco buster, of Evaoston, Wy as joined the Buffalo Biil Wild West show . Tfie Carson small-pox quarantine is starv- ing the Washoe Indians, as they are no longer permitted to prowl around town. The total" assessments on Nevada mines for March aggregate 165,000, of which Storey county calls for 113,000, White Pine 25,000, Esmeralda §20,000, Eiko 5,000, Sixty-eight whisky flasks and bottles were found in the nooks and corners about the Idaho capitol during the clean-up that fol- lowed the adjournment of the legislature. Henry Best, of Sutter county, Cal., has ordered a steam plowing apparatus which is expected to plow seventy-five acres in twen- ty-four hours, at a cost of $25 for ail ex- ponses. The cost of the outfit is $4,500. W. J. Marine and Dr. G. S. Allison, of Ar- lington, Ore., went hunting. Their boat was upset and they thrown into the water. They held to a rock, where they remained for nearly twenty-four hours, their feet washed by water filled with i Both men suf- fered terribly, but were rescued alive. The young printer who brought his girl from Sioux City to Glenn's Ferry, Idaho, in @ box car, tramp fashion, dressed 'as a boy, and married her at the latter place, has gone on to Washington territory. His wife will remain at the ferry until he secures a situ- ation ana is able to send for her. They were thoroughly tired of tramp life. Henderson Todd, a cowpuncher, was dragged off the body of Sam Kipp, whom he was _ abusing at Salida, Col, by James Browning, a_respected oitizen.' Todd re- venged himself later on by roping Browning and dragged him several hundred yards, his horse on the keen runm; but Browning was rescued by friends catching and cutting therope. Then Todd tried it again, catching Browning's coat tails and tearing them off, after which he escaped to the S Graundma De! VALLEY, Neb., March 16.—To the Editor of Tne B I have read your paper for a long time and have noticed that you are always willing to publish both sides of a subject. Now just see the position that Valley is placed in by four of the great dailies of Omaha. We know just what our position is. We are a little station. We thought we might aspire to be called a village, and there was earnest talk of incorporating as a village, but as we are not quite two years old it seemed a needless expense, as, although we are so unfortunate as to have three saloons running, there are no drunken brawls and very little for constable or justice todo. In the most respectable communities it is customary for occupants to lock their doors when they leave their rooms, so the fact of a pair of shoes being stolen is not very unusual, How will the growth of compare with the of Omaha? With the advantage of being an outfitting depot for the overland travel west, Valley has the disadvantages of being within an hour and twenty minutes’ rvide by rail to Omaba with its big bargain days. Valley is largely composed of little homes built on theinstaliment pian, and such areportisculculated to make a bad impression of the place. Valley has two zood hotels well kept, a snug church aud school house well attended, and is surrounded by wealthy farmers who don’t need any police court. One of Omaha’s prominent businessmen has in- vested in fofty acres adjoining the town, which ave selling at $100 an acre. As to the industries of Valley. The gravel pit only employs a few men. Valley first two years ‘Whitmore Bras, do a large business in baled h: and some of the farmers are baling their own. Your reporter could not see the land culture at this time of the year that supports the large seed” business in this vicinity. We have general stores,groceries,black- smith shops, drug stores, shoemakers and all the like business of a little com- munity, We want an_elevator badly of course where such heavy corn crops are roised. We are an important point commercially, being the junction of of the Union Pacific and St. Joe & Grand Tsland. GRANDMA, A Contradiction. ARAPANOE, Neb,, March 18, 1850.— To the Editor of Tite Bue. —Glancing over the columnsof your issue of the Ist instep I noticed an ‘urticle written from Bartley, charging mo as an absconding debtor. Now as regards trying to beat my landlady out of a bourd bill, T will strenuously brand as a lie; neither did I have auy intention whatever of ab- sconding. The writer of that article cannot hcny but that he 18 a pevsonal enemy to me,and seeks Lo avenge him- self by giving to the public this (alse and libolous statement. His further statement that [ left “‘between two days” to avoid the college officials, is a flat-footed falsehood, to say the least, for I never huve and never will leave my creditors without perfect satisfac- tion to them as well as myself, W. W. G. ROCKWELL, —— Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. Whea Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. | When sho was s Cblld, sho oried for Castoria, When sho becamo Miss, sho clung o Castoria, \ Wh>u shohad Children, she gave them Castoria, B e e e LINCOLN NEWS AND NOTES. 8t. Patriok's Day Oelebration at the Capital Oity. NEW NEBRASKA ENTERPRISES, A Pair of Youthful Elopors—The Trial of Pastor Minchart Re- sumed After a Two Days' Rest. 102 P Streer, LiNcOLY, 'March 18, The governor loft yesterduy at 11 o'clock in the morning to delivor an address, hay! made the eugagement somo wooks ago, order to have time here to preside at the groat meeting hield at the opera houso this evening, to commemorato the Irish national festival of St. Patrick, Mr. John Fitzgorald arranged for a special train to leave Beatrice this afternoon at 4:30 to return the governor in time for the mooting of the evening. At S8 o'clock, the hour appointed for the call of order, 'a perfoct scu of faces grected the governor. Iunke's opera house was never moro fully packed. The parquet, aisles and gall wero filled to the uttermost. Mr. J, A. Kilroy was_introduced and sung “IThe Dear Littlo Shamrock,”. which was fre- quently encored. Mrs. A, Haller and Mrs, L. F. Flynn also favored the audience with an_instrumental duet. The music of tho ovening was a striking foature. No orches- LINCOLN BUREAU OF Tk OManA Ban, } tra ever more fully pleased an audience. T, B. Minnehan, esq., of Omaha, delivered the address of the evening. It was an exhaustive review of questions most dear to the Irish heart. At the close of the exer- cises appropriato resolutions woro introduced and warmly ondorsed by ringing speochos from Speaker Watson, Church Howe, Sen- ator Conner, Representative Cady, Hon, T. M. Marquotte, Judge Fitzgerald, of St. Marg's Kan, W. J. Bryan and Mayor Sawyer. New State Industries. Within thirty days from March 13it is stipulated that §70,000 shall have been sub- scribed and paid in to operate and mamtain the Adamant Wall Plaster company, of Omaha, which has been fixed upon as the principal place of business, and its purpose is to manufacture wall plaster, material: for finishing and decorating walls, lease land, and buy, hold and secll real estate. Articles were filed to-day mn the office of the secre- tary of state incorporating the company. Certificate and approved bond were also filed incorporating the Nebraska Secret and Detective Servioe, with- headquarters at Omaha, and the object of the association is to detect and punish eriminals. Tho boud is given in the sum of $10,000 for the faithful and legal performance of duty, Daniel O'Connell, Alfred Blaufuss, Dan P. O'Con- nell and Thomas S. Broderick constitute the membership of the association. Litigation Over Orange Cider. This morning, before Hon. A. W. Field and a jury, and during the whole day, the case of Eldrige & Higgins, of Columbus, O., vs Hargreaves Brothers, of Lincoln, was on trial. The controversy is as to a car load of orange cider, shipped to the defendants by the plaintiffs on their order in July, 1887, The defendants had paid the freight on this shipment, but declined to pay for the goods on the ground that they were unmarketable and now, with the exception of some small sales, and & part of the cider that had spoiled v fermentation, was in their cellars, They alloged that thoy bought cider that was to be made of the pure juice of the orange, whereas this cider was chemically manufac- tured. The transaction they claimed had resulted in loss to them, and for that loss they claimed damages. The plaintiffs’ case seems to be that they had received such goods as they bought. The case is ingen- 10usly brought, and as usual the attorneys are fighting hard for the mastery. The amaount involved is over $2,000, It is said that a chemical analysis of the cider will be made. The case 1s atiracting as much inter- est as any other case tried during the pres- ent term of the district court. Too Slick For Father, He may have eyes like an ‘“heagle,” but younger eyes than his, sharpened by Cupid’s darts and opposition, were too much for the watchful father of prc'.l% Ella Han- sacker, and with her lover, Thomas Rob- rts, she eloped yesterday, taking the tramn eastward at Peck’'s Grove, the Missouri Pa- cific depot at East Lincoln, and it is alto- gether probable that they are now beyond the control of a stern parent. Father and mother were divided on the question of the daughter’'s heart and happiness. But the story goes that Burkis was williug, and plans were formed to take matter into their own hands. Mr. Hansacker, however, suspected the game, and the time as well, He sent spios to the depot and kept them posted all day long. The sheriff and police force were all given pointers, but the young people out- generaled them all by taking the cars at the place before stated. The father states that Ella is but sixteen yeurs old while the mother places her age at seventeen, and is somewhat indignant be- cause the *‘liege lord and master’ 1s making such a fool of humself. Young Roberts is a likely fellow, sober, industrious and withal intelligent, and friends acquainted with all parties say that he will make Ella a faithful and worthy busband, Sympathy of friends is almost wholly with the eloping couple. Their point of destination is unknowa. The Grace Church Trial Pastor Minehart was put upon the rack again to-d After a rest of two d. the trial was resumed. The defense is over. It is apparent thut Minehart has friends as 1ess after witness leaves the stand. Many of them are very emphatic in their answers to the questions of counsel for the aocusod and church. They say in 8o words, “The oprosition to Brother Mineh: is born ot the evil one,”” and that the tri now in progross is a ‘‘bit of persocution, The acoused is marshalling over for Wwitnoss and eight or ten 3 them have already been on tho stand. They affirm the same thing, in the same sonse not in the samo way. Not ono of thom be- lieves that Minehart would be guilty of tell- ing a wicked lie. They picture him too noble, too pure in heart and too much of a christian to do such a thing as that. Every witness called for the defense thus far fails 1o have seen anything remarkable in the alloged manifestations and utterances of the pastor during the late meetings. With him they seem to think that with me faithful and pure-hearted “‘soeker” the moetings simply developed into an old-fashioned Mulllm‘{l’ll revival, Strange as it may seem, not one of them has been able to detect anything like heresy or contrary to simon-pure Methodism in the pastor's discourses or talks in or out of the pulpit. Tho fun to come will doubtless be manifest when Minehart takes the stand in his own defense. It is confidontly assorted that he will toll somo stories on brothren high up in Grace and St.Paul’s churches that will not sound very well out of school. Yet, a8 in the start, interesting developments are expectod, but thoy may fall flat. Inany event, Minchart has many fricnds and they are proving true blue. Grace church is n a deplorable condition and some one must bo to blame for it. T. W. Moore was the first witness called to day. His testimony concerncd some church subscriptions, and to the listener scomed to be foreign to any of the charges proferred, M. L. Trestor and others, in h‘uh social standing, wereon the stand. The witnosses named are not regarded as strong frionds of tho proacher, —They wero called to settle a financial problem or two said to have bearing upon the trouble in the church. Minchart lacks system in his defonse, but he doubtless has reasons for the course he is taking in the trial, The church rests in coutidence that it hus fully sustained the charges alleged. - New Notaries Public. The following notorial appointments woro made by the lwvl‘rlml‘ to-day : Shavies W. Martin, Omah Douglas county; Walter V. Fifield, Geneva, Fillmore county} B. H. Brashears, Chappel, Douol county: K. H. Hill, Grant, Perkins ocounty John Barger, Atkinson, Holt count; Joseph H. Grimm, Wilber, Saline county. City News and Notes. The chestnut continuations of the case of Brennan, charged with assaulting Samuel Lowe with intent to kill on last Christmas ove, were peremptorily stopped to-day by Judge Stewart, and after a preliminary hoar- ing Lowe was bound over to answer to the district court in the sum of §300. ontoon Bill,” botter known as W, T. Canada, Speaker Watson's private secre- 1 tary, orrived at his post to-day, after & round-about trip via Omaha. Mr. Canada now ‘divides his timo between official and semi-official duties. He continues to write passes over the pontoon briage at-Nebraska City half his time. Mrs, Franklin Swect, wife of the gonial represontative from Morrick county, is @ visitor at the capital and will tary in the city the weels through. She is accompauied by Miss’ Clark. A couple of coal thieves were on trinl be- fore Justice Snolling to-day and caught fines of $10 each, They found that the way of the transgressor is hard. R The Imputation Spurned. Recently representative Thiessen, of Jefe {ferson county, aired himself in the Lincoln Journal by addressing a number of questions publicly to the editor of Tng Ber. The last interrogation, as 1t appeared it that paper, was as follows: Will you toll me what it means when your reporter in the house of revresentatives asked me how many copies of Tue Bre I would pay for if he would write an article in favor of house roll 8331 I will not beliove that such a small matter caused your opposition, and beg you to answer the above question, * * * Mr. Thiessen doesn’t state whether he ac- cepted such a proposition or not, nor does ho make himself clear as 1 what the ‘‘small matter’” was, which caused Tine Brr's oppo sition, He doubtless expected to be taken al what he means—not what ho says, In an ens deavor to do this Tne Brr demanded an exe planation from the gentleman who has ro- ported the house proceedings for this paver throughout the session. The following repiy has just been receives have known Thiessen for a long time, Met him in february and asked him what he was doing. He said he was going to show the legislators a sample of Nebraska silk, I did not then know that he wanted an appro- priation for a silk station, as no bill had been introduced, or, if it had, I had not seen it. He seemed very anxious to have me men- tion it in the gossip and said something about extra papers—as I understood—twenty- five or thirty for a mere notice of the exhibit in the gossip. Well, before I got around to mention the silk business a bill was fired in and I caught on to what Thiessen was after. To me, however, he acknowledged the silk station waa a failure financially in Kansas. 1 have opposed the bilt on the floor in ac- cordance with Tue Bie editorial and Thies- sen has taken the small grain of truth in the above and enlarged 1t. 1f you can find a man who paid me a cent for anything I have written for or against any measure, I will forfeit my salary. J. W, Witnas, ————— Ten Dollars for Seventy-five Cents Joseph Mancha and Bats Cholea, two Ital- ians, were each find §10 and costs for stealing cents’ worth of coal from Coutant & Squircs. As the defendants could not talk English, a bright ten-year-old Italian boy named Michael Reach acted as nterpreter, and performed tho duty to the admiration of the spectators, R. L. Woods, who defrauded Henry Quicle- enstedt out of $10 by preseuting a _worthless draft on a bank at Montezuma ., which Quickenstedt indorsed, was arraigned for trial before Justice IKroeger yesterday. men or persons of limited income. Princeton College, say: sufficient. A WORD OF HERE is no class of persons who should pay more attention to the guality of the soap used upon their clothing than salaried the cost of soap is more than likely to result in fifty dollars’ worth of damage to the articles it is used upon. “The Ivory Soar is of great purity and ““more than average cleansing power."” There are many white soaps, each represented to be ' just as good as the ‘lvory they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualitiey of the genuine. Ask for “lvory” Soap and insist upon getting it Copyrielt 1886, by Procier & Gamble. Three dollars per year saved in Professor Cornwall, of WARNING, A word to the wisc is 1 | }