Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. o -— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dgly (Morning Edition) inclunding SUNDAY v, One Y en 0 OFFION, 567 ROOKERY EW YORK OFFIOR, ROOMS 14 AND B UILDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 618 All e CaTut g s0 Aevs and edl. communications relating - Porial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR ¥ THE DEE, i BUSINKSS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be ndressed to Trw BEk PUBLISHING COMPANY, Duana. Dratis, chocks and postofics orders 10 ‘made payable to the ordar of the cOmpany. ¥ko Beg Pablishing Company, Proprietors. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Ciroulation. Btato of Nebraska, Ly County of Douglas, { ** George B, Tzschuck, secrotary of the Nee Pub- Mshing company, does solemnly swear that the nctial circalation of Tik DAILY DEE for the week ending March 2, 1880, was as follow Eunday, Murch I L8810 onday, March 1" .J\lf! nosday, March 1. Wednesday, March % Emndnv. Starch 21 1day. March 22. ... turday, March 2 Average.......... soeveneti GRORGE B. TZSCHUCK., Sworn to hefors me and subsoribed to {n my presence this 2 day of March, A, D. 1880, Seal, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Btato of Nebraska, County of Dougla: George B. Tzschuck, baing duly sworn, de- sos and hays that i 13 secretary ol tho Hos ablishing company, that _the actual average Uaily circulatio of THE DAILY BEk for the month ot March, 1888, 10,680 coples, for April 1874 coplos; for May, 1888, 1818 coples; for Juns, K8, IR 1888, 18,083 'coples; for August, 1888, 8,18 coples; for Se ber, 1888, 18 154 covles; or October, 1888, 18,08 coples; for Novem: jer, 1888, 14,086 coples; for December, 1888, 18,223 goples: for January, 1889, 18,574 coples; for Feb- ruary, 006 copies. 2N EORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. §worn to beforo mo and subscribed inmy presence this 2d day of March, A. D, 18%. . P. FEIL Notary Public. TnE conduits to the ground floor of the subway systems are loaded with racy possibilitie: THE subway investigation is likely to develop a juicy variety of underground pipe-laying. THE boodlers’ combine in Lincoln will not declare a dividend this ses- sion, The have already passed ‘‘over the divide.” THE public insist on being admitted to the ground floor as well as the cellar of the investigation. In fact, the seller is the objective point. — SOME men are born great, others achieve a foreign mission. Field Mar- shal Murat Halstead goes to Germany and Patrick Egan to Chili. HONEST JOHN SHERMAN did not re- ceive a foreign mission, but for all that he will represent Ohio abroad this sum- mer 1 an unofficial capacity. SHILLINGLAW and Dorsett threaten to expose the dark and devious methods of capturing councilmanic support. They conduit any.too qui IT 1s quite evident that some elec- tricians think the couucil very good 80il 1n which to begin laying under- ground conduits and wires. —— THE senate pruning knives have cut the boodlers’ cuticle to the quick. A reduction of three hundred thousand dollars convinces them that life is a failure. ———— THERE is no truth in the report that Lity Treasurer Rush, of Omuha, has fndorsed E. K. Valentine for the posi- tion of commissioner of the general land office. — T hopes and aspirations of more than one patriot in the state are hang- ing these days by a single hair. They have put their faith in the Nebraska delegation. It will take a watchful eye to guard the expense and salary bills from fall- ing into the hands of cormorants and sharks in their final passage lhrou‘h the legislature. S— As UNBLUSILMG as the face of its own meters, the Omaba gas company appears regularly before the couneil with a monthly statement for extra work and service. e— PRYSIOLOGISTS declare that there are nine miles of perspiratory ducts in the Yuman body. This explains the limp condition of the Lincoln lobby. The combine 18 sweating blood. THE house seems in no mood to allow the expenses of the Douglas county con- test cases to be shouldered by the state, and it looks as if the bills will nave to be footed in some other way. MR, HITCHCOUK confesses that he is “painfully anxious to have Seccretary ‘Windom approve Linton’s report” on the postoftice site. The prospective loss of forty or fifty thousand dollars, cash up, dangerously affects his left liver, — Tue decisive defeat of Kenuard's bogus claim is the third substantial victory by the friends of honesty and economy, Itclinches another nail in the coffin of the boodlers, which will keep thom under cover for two years, e Tne desperation of the Dodge street people is best illustrated by a remark that Judge Neville made on the street a couple of hours before the council ses- sion last night: *‘We have got to carry a vote through the council or we are gone. This is our last chance,” e———— THE Southerland resolution passed by the senate, if properly eutorced, will #ave to the state thousands of dollars aunually, It provides that all contracts for supplies for state institutions shall be let on a system of bidding where the bids shall be made on eaoch item soparately. Monthly reports are to be mado of, the supplies purchased to the scoretary of state. Tt1s notorious that under the free and casy system of pur- ohasing now in vogue gross over- oharges constantly otour, and the defi- olenoy bills afford & copvonient means of covering Whem, NEW DIPLOMATES. The president sent to the senate yos- terday seven diplomatic appointments, and with two or three' exceptions they were genuine surprises. If all of them were not execative selections, unques- tionably several of them were, among thesd being Robert T. Lincoln for the English mission. There haa been no public intimation or suggestion of the name of Mr. Lincoln in connection with this or any other position under the ad- ministration, and doubtless he world have been the lnst man whom the_ ma- jority of people would have guessed as likely to receive this appointment. The selection will be highly gratifying not only to republicans, but men of all parties will be pleased with it. Mr. Lincoln bears with honor a name that is honored throughout the world, and our government could send to the Brit- ish court no man who would command higher respect there, or who by his personal character and fitness would better deserve the respect of the Hn- glish nation. Mr. Lincoln is fully qual- ified for this important m ission, and while he may show less brilliancy in after-dinner addresses than some of his predecessors, he will not be less careful than any of them have been of the interests of his country, and he will not fail to {impress upon all with whom he may come in contact the fact that he is an American minis- ter, in full sympathy with the institu- tions, principles and policy of his coun- try. There are importunt quoestions soon to be discussed betwoen Great Britain and the United States, and every American citizen will understand the importance of having his govern- ment represented in England by a man whose patriotism is above question and whosq devotion to American interests no foreign influence can impair. The appointment of Robert T. Lincoln will be most heartily commended by the whole people. The appointment of Mr. Murat Hal- stead as minister to Germany was ex- pected, and the announcement of his candidacy for this position has been very generally received with favor. It has been intimatad that he might en- courter some opposition from repub- lican senators whom he has editorially assailed, and that his attacks on Lin- coln, Grant and others during the war, might rise up as obstructions to his way through the senate, but while ag- grievad senators may take the opportu- nity to free their minds in executive session regarding Mr. Halstead’s free- dom of criticism as an editdr, it is not to be doubted that he will be confirmed. He is one of the foremost journalists of the country, and as such has done hard and faithful work for the republi- can party. He will represent the coun- try with dignity and credit. Mr. A. Thorndyke Rice, who goes to Russia, 15 best known as the editor of the North American Review, and his selection is doubtless to be credited to Mr. Blaine. He is a scholarly man, and so far as we know without diplo- matie experience, a defect, however, of no great moment in connection with the Russian mission. The selection of Mr. George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, as ministerjtojPortugal, izan excellent one. He has been for a number of years promi- nent in the republican councils of his state and possesses attainments that {fully qualify him for diplomatic duties. Mr. Patrick BEgan was a ¢andidate for the Mexican mission, but it was stated several days ago that the president was not disposed to give him this, and he will go to Chili, while Mr. Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, will represent the government in Mexico. As a whole the diplomatic appoint- ments made vesterday may be regarded as the most important and commendable work the president has accomplished in any one day since he sent to the-senate the names of the members of his cabi- net. All the principal foreign missions ave now filled. Emp——— HITCHCOCK'S PAINFUL ANXIETY. Mr. ditchcock asserts that any other action than the approval of the Linton report will cause delay and damage to the city. The truth is that the govern- ment cannot acguire title to the Folsom property without condemnation pro- ceedings, which will require months of tedious litigation in the courts, whoreas the Eighteenth and Farnam streots sive can be deeded directly to the goveérn- ment and work on the building com- menced as soon 88 the plans are ready. The editor of THE BEE is not alone in demanding a rehearing. The best business men of Omaha, representing from forty to fifty millions of dollars in property interests, oppose the jug han- dle methods employed to effect a sale of tho Folsom estate. Can these men he honestly charged with conspiring to in- jure the oity or needlessly delay a great public work? The silly prattle about the army headquarters has no pearing on the question, as negotiations were pending for the rental of a portion of the BEE building long before the appro- priation for the postoffice was passed by congress. It is trumped up now merely to mask the schemes of the mer- cenaries. Mr. Hitchcock falsely insists that all the opposition to Linton's selec- tion comes from Mr. Rosewater, The oity and county officials are a unit against it, as well as the board of trade, representing the active business interests of the city, besides scores of leading citizens, whose pro- tests have been forwarded to Secretary Windom, These meun cannot be ac- cused of selfish motives. Even it Mr, Rosewater was alone in the fight, he certainly has as good right to oppose A put-up job as Hitchoock has to advo- cate a scheme which, if successful, will put tort} or fifty thousand dollars in his own pocket and enhance the value of his father-in-law’s property fifty per cent. No woader he is ‘“‘palnfuily anxious’ to pluck this juey plum. Will Mr, Hitohcook explain why he now contends that the postoflice should not be bullt upon a slight elevation, when, before Linton made his report, he personally urged D, T. Mount to go to Washingion to advooate his Twen- tioth and Farnawm street lots for the postoffice site? o anxious was Hiteh- cock to muke up the defioit in his news- Paper venture with government cash, that ho negotiated with & promineut public champion calibre should not escape the attention of dime froaks of his size are not to be found every day, cause of the union in civil engineer to draw plans for an easy grade so that the secretary of the trons- ury could instantly see the superior ad- vantages of the Twentieth and Farnam street corner. facts, Hitchcook publicly displays his natural lack of modesty in attacking Governor Saunders for openly doing what Hitehicock did stealthily. In the face of these socretly and Hitcheook vainly tries to fnjura the business of Tur Ber by the foolish assumption that Mr. Rosewater is seck- ing to delay the building of the post- office. will be attracted to hisstruggling twofer sheet by posing as a patriot in publie, while privately concooting schemes to improve the revenue of his family. Mr. Hitcheock anxious” to hall. He imagines that some business was not so ‘“‘painfully push work on the city He did not rush to the support of the people, who denounced the conspiracy to delay the oconstruction of the bwlding. On the contrary Hitcheock gave overy aid and encour- agement to the Jefferson square ob- structionists and succeeded in delaying the completion of the building for two years, rose up and overwhelmed the mercon- ary gang, Hitcheock sneaked out of the ruins by pleading that it was ‘‘a quar- rel of localities.” When an outraged community A modest patriot and self-sacrificing of Mr. Hitchcock’s museum ma Matured gors, —— A GREAT STATESMAN DEAD. John Bright, whose death occurred yosterday, was one of the most distin- guished Englishmen of his time, more than fifty years the Rochdale Quaker, as the great statesman was fa- miliarly called, has been one of the fore- most figures in English politics, and the services he has rendered to the cause of liberty and progress during that long period have given him a name that will endure in the grateful memorivs of his countrymen as long as the stubborn race to which he belonged has a place on the earth, for some years past John Bright failed to keep puce with the foremost in the resistless march of democracy in Eng- land. men, and his case was a conspicuous example, with results which present the closing years of his lifo in strong con- trast to that period when he achieved his fame as the great tribune of the peo- ple. landlords in the Irish controversy,while it did not greatly surprise those who had watched his course in recent years, was so complete a reversal of the teach- ings of his prime as to astonish the millions who had taken no note of the drift of his sentiments, but a man can- not in a moment set aside the teachings of a John This history, however, while it cannot be omitted, will not be allowed to dim the lustre of his grand labor and achieve- ments for the political improvement and elevation of the English When he entered politics the masses of the people were absolutely divorced from all influence and voice in the gov- ernment of the and the'political privileges the people of England now enjoy they owe most largely tothe untiring work, the un- conquerable zeal, and the peerless elo- For It is true that Age brings conservatism to most His espousal of the cause of the lifetime, and this course of Bright was without influence. unfortunate page in his great poople. nation. The liberty quence of John Bright. The American people hiave every rea- son to nonor the memory of this great Englishman. It isnot the least glor- ious part of his career that his horror of human slavery made him the bravest and most outspoken defender of the England when English statesnien, almost without ex- ception, looking rather to the material interests of England than to the moral issues involved, espoused. the cause of the confederacy. In patgiotism, human- ity, uncompromising integrity, and noble simplicity of charaeter, John Bright was the peer of any man of his time, and he will bo mourned by the lovers of freedom everywhere as one who achieved great andenduring re- sults for the benefit of his fellow men, BABCOCK'S BRACE GAME. Nebraska is cursed with a drsve of mercenary scoundrels, whose sole aim in life is to fleece the publie. Unable to earn an honest living, they conspire to rob the taxpayers by selling their in- fluence for a price. Ex-Auditor Babcock is a specimen of this class. The expos- ure of his raid on the treasury throws a flood of light on the ingratitude of the man. Twice elected to a responsible position by the voters, he repays the honors showered on him by scheming to plunder his benefactors. Before the chair which he relinquished was warmed by his successor, he had flooded the state with circulars notifying county treasurers that he had ‘‘no special busi- ness for the winter,” and was ready to take any dubious claim and for ten per cent plunge into the corrupt crowd in the lobby. About filty-five of these bogus claims, aggregauting ninety-seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars, were gathered in and presented to the legis- lature, But crushing proof of his villainy was produced at the right mo- ment and the bill repudiated by an al- most unanimous vote. The defeat of the measure was prompt and emphatic, and Babcock continues with *‘no special business for the winter.” —— ON TO OKLAHOMA. The president has issued his procla- mation opening Oklahoma vo settle- ment, and there may be expected such a rush of population after April 22 into that coveted land as will speedily ab- sorb the less than two millions of fertile acres which it comprises. For weeks there has been an army of ‘‘boomers’ hovering on the outskirts eagerly awaiting the executive authority to enter into and possess Oklahoma, and such of them as have not transgressed the law and thereby forfeited their right to take up lands will lose no time in locating, Doubtless before the close of the year every acve will have beeun talcen up by settlers. ‘The reglon thus thrown open is a poriion of a tract embracing about four- teen million acreg, which was ceded to the government by the Creoks and Seminoles fof’ fRe purpose of settling friendly Indians und freodmen who had been the slaves of friendly Indians. The section known as Oklahoma, lying betweea the Cimarron river on the north, the Unnpdhn river on the south, and the Pawnée and Arapahoe reserva- tions on the east and west respectively, comprises that portion of these lands which, although purchased by the government, had'nover been devoted to settlemont:-ini the manner pre- seribed in the. treaty of cession. For eight yours there has been an almost constant confliot to possess these lands. The first raid was made in 1880 by ‘‘Ok- lohoma Payne” and his followers, and five years later thero was another raid under Captain Couch. On both occa- sions the boomers were expelled by the military power of the government, and since the act of congress providing for the opening of these lands, it has been necessary to use this power to provent them being overrun by the boomers. The opening of Oklahoma is but the beginning of a movement which will eventually result in giving to white settlement the whole region embraced in the proposed territory of Oklahoma, comprising over twenty-three million acres of fertile land, There will be a redoubled pressure on the next congress to pnss a bill for fthis purpose, and though the effort may fail again, as it did in the last congress, it will not be abandoned until this large and fortile region is reclaimed for the uses of the white population of the country. Mean- time what is distinctively the Oklahoma section will in all probability have be- come one of the garden spots of the na- tion. E—— Anour 5 o'clock Tuesday evening it lenked out that a movement was being hatched by a few of the parties inter- ested in the Plantors’ house postoffice site to g a resolution railroaded through th® countil meeting endorsing that site. This was to be done in order to present the city in a false light and to smuggle a recommendation of the Planters’ house location through the city council. Finding themselves una- ble to pass such a resolution these parties finally introduced, in the semblance of areport, a resolution saying that they simply deprecated any delay in the postoffice matter. And even on this proposition the vote showed 9 to 9 on the direct vote, and on the change of one man they succeeded by a scratch in getting the resolution passed. This resolution expresses nothing that any- body could not subscribe to, and has not the slightest reference to location. The resolution which was intended to endorse the Dodge and Sixteenth street site for the postoffice was written by Mr. Htcheock and inttoduced by My. Burn- ham. Mr. Burnham doubtless saw at a glance that to'deprecate any delay in the matter certainly was not an en- dorsement of any site. But the intent and purpose of Mr. Hitchcock and the conspirators was clearly to induce the council to officiallyioppose the selection of a lot for the postoftice directly across the street from the city hall building. The council wisely saw that such a move on its part would be an outrageous proceeding, and the councilmen knew that the people would condemn any action of 'that kind. * Tbe council as a-body has no business to mix in this controversy, and in ¢ it does it has but one choice to make in the interest of the taxpayers of this cliy, and that is tnat the postoffizs be as near the city hall lding as possi- ble. Itis more than probable.however, that the good sense of the members of the council will induce that body to let the postofiice matter severely alone. CUNCILMEN CIiA resolution in- structing the city attorney to take legal steps necessary for the reversion to the city of certain lots held in trust for the Union Pacific, due to the breach of con- traot by the feilure of the lutter to oc- cupy and improve them with a depot, is most timely. Undoubtedly the Union Pacific will make a hard fight for the rotention of this valuable property, and the.question of ownership will, in all probability, be stubbornly contested. At lust the story of the shameful mau- ner in which the confidende of the peo- pie of Omaha has been sbused will be told 1n open court, and the reeord of broken contracts and bad faith on the part of.the Union Pacific for the past filteen years, will be publighed to the world. It has long been suspected that a secret freight pooling arrangement has existed botween the Chicago and Mis- sour: river lines contrary to the spirit and letter of the inter-state law. The repeated warnings of Chairman Cooley that these railronds should come to time have for all practical purposes fallen on deaf ears, and the protestations that they are living up to the requirements of the law in the light of recent dis- closures are absolutely false. The inter- state commerce commission can hardly pass over this state of affairs in silence. An investigation into the methods of railroad transportation between Chi- cago and the Missouri river may be ex- pected. 1 B Tue expedition of the city council to Chicago to view ghd sample the under- ground system of pipe laying, has de- veloped & large sized Ethiopian. The peculiar methods' adopted to place the council *‘on the ground floor,” is an 1n- fringement of the:Holly direct pressure patent. The enterprising schemers who came to Omgha, net so much for their health as for the money in sight, have made a moT'u the job, and the investigation will ventilate the true in- wardness of the deal. . Emm——— EX-CONGRESSMAN VALENTINE has turned his huugry eyeson the general land office, and begs to be appointed commissioner. His early experience as o land shark in certain sections of Douglas county would make him a ready and convenient tool for the plun- derers of the public domain. e THE recommendation of the commis- sioner of the general land office to the secretary of the interior that suit be in- stituted to recover & part of the Des Moines river layds in the name of the United States will in all probability be most carafully looked into by Secretary Noble. If legal steps can be taken to quict theé title of the settlers on these lands, theve 1s little question but that such action will be pursued. The pros- pects have brightened considerably for the settlers, and it is earnestly hoped that relief will be granted them at an early day. — IT wAs highly judicious to put tho architect whose plans will be accepted for the new city hall under heavy bonds as & guarantee that the cost of the building shall not exceed the con- tract price. Experience in the past has taught the city the necessity of such a proviso. With complete and cavefully drawn specifications for the various details of the builaing, there can be no bills for “extras” either from contractors or architect to swoll the proposed cost of the building to extrav- agant proportion: He Should Know His Own Country. Salt Lake Tritune. There should be a constitutional amend- ment making it incumbent for a man to visit overy state in the union before he becomes prosident. — A Suspicious Symptom. Chicago Herald, Her physician says that Mary Anderson 18 not insane, although he does not deny that she expected to receive intelligent criticism in St Louis. PSR Y Editors Can Appreciate It. San Antonio Express. Fditors of daily newspapers can approciate the agonizing position in which President Harrison finds himself, He has to go to work in order to get rid of callers. It is an old trick of the trade. A Fair Exchange. New York World, Certain office-seckers who cannot afford to g0 to Washington have been sending their photographs to the president and heads of departments. A good many of them will re- ceive negatives in return, Conflicting Emotions. Philadelphia Press. General Greenbaclk Weaver has deserted tho domocracy forever. Public feeling with respect to this evont is evenly divided be- tween a desire to congratulate tho party that Weaver has quitted and_a disposition to condole with the party he will join. Bl et s The Break in the Solid South. Philadslphia Inquirer, There will be democratic southern states, devoted chiefly to farming and commerco, and republican southorn states, in which mines, mills and factories will flourish. This is the way the solid south will be broken, and anybody who will give a little attention to the progress of events will sco the breaking forces in fullactivity right now. =it These Are Sad Days for Ohfo, Washington Post. One of the most affecting scenes of modern times is witnessed;by him who stands where he can see the whole state of Ohio hovering over the one ofiice that has found its way within her borders. We have seen nothing tike it since the year of the chicken cholera, when all the hens stood around the one re- maining chick and tried to look as comforted as the conditions would permit. i oo STATE AND TERRITOMKY. Nebraska J ottings. Dr. 8. L. Evans, an old resident of Thayer county, is dead. Work has been begun on a $1,000 school house at Wallace. A large agricultural implement warehouse is being erected at Axtell. Forty-three converts are the fruits of the revival meetings at West Union. The Groeeley County Teachers association meets at Greeley Center, Abril 18, Wallace has been incorporated as a village and selected a full board of trustees. The Christian society of Hebron build a $7,500 brick church this season. Burglars who vansacked Jacquett's jew- elry store at Elmwood, secured $i5 wortit of jewelry. The Hebron creamery is nearly completed and will be ready for active operatious about the middle of April. The Greeley Center G. A. R. post is mak- ing extensive preparations for the obser- vance of Decoration day. : The 3ennett Co-operative Hrick and Tile company has filed articles of incorporation with a capital stock of $1,000. The Lexington canal scheme will probably be carcied out, a company having been organized and elected officers to push the work. The Beatrice board of trade has declined to assist in the location of a watch factory, the proposition being considered too oue- sided. TheeHall County Agricultural society has offored three cash prizes to G, A. R. posts and other uniformed seaistigs for drill in the Manual of Ar: A £vo started by J. Q. Hamilton on his farm u Beatrice was spread by the wind and destroyed a straw steck, barn and sheds, hay and 200 bushels of oats before it could be gotten under control. The corner-stoue of the new Masonic tempio at St. Paul was laid with impressive ceremonics, many Knights Templar being present from other towns in the state. The uilding is to cost $12,000. The annual report of the Covington, South Sioux City and Dzakota City Rallway com- pany shows the value of the property to be 3 total indebtedness, $1,405.85:gross $2,000.28; operating expenses, A dividend of 1% per cent. was is to 81,752,650, paid last August. Dakota, Donald McDonald, formerly of Rapid City, died recently in New Mexico. The Clay county fair will be held four days next September instead of three as last yeur, There are good prospects that Potter ty will give a large majority for the & Falls constitution. A teuchers’ institute will e held at Ver- wmilliou, beginning April 15, with Prof. Kratz of Mitchell as conductor, C. G. Show, for fourteen years postmastor at Vermillion, has gone to shington terri- tory to recuperate und will remain for a year or more. *Shang,” a noted gambler who made a for- tune in the slack Hills, died last weok at Spokane Falls. His real name was Edward Stanton Curran A theological titute is to be held at Yankton next suly under the auspices of the Yankton college, and some of the ablest Con- regational theologians in the country will £o prosent. ‘Tlio Buptists aro arrangiag for a similar institute at Sioux Falls, When the miners of Galena district are off shift, says the Deadwood Times, they have an exciting way of l)ulm their time, It was inaugurated ¥riday afternoon. Oue of the number places himself against the side of an old nhouse with arms aod legs out- stretched. When in position Prof. Cavas augh, the *Dr, Carver of the Black Hills,'" takes his gun and sees how near he can send a bullet to the extremities of the human Lar- Kot without hn,unf him, If he shoots too close the victim cries quits and all hands ad- juura to the professor’s room for liquid re- reshments. T ———— Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. ‘When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When sho was a Child, she eried for Castoris, When shio becawie Miss, sbo clunk. 1o Castoria, W1 on she had Childsen, she gave them Castoria, GREAT M Marion D. Lytle, who is a stop-nephew of the President and a real nophew of the author of “Iam dying, Egypt, dying," will shortly move to New York from his Western ranch, Lytle is a tall, brown and handsome young man, Goneral Sherman's only son, Thomas Ewing Sherman, wiil be ordained a Jesuit in July. He was educated at Georgetown Col- lege, Inunched out into the fashionable life of a young man of his station, and suddenly retired from the world to pursue a life of dovotion which will find its first fraition net suthmer, A beautiful bronze statue of I, . Barnum, the work of soulptor Ball and a gift fro Mossrs. Bailey and Hutchinson, has arrived here from Municl, and it is proposed to hide it away until aftor the great showman's doath, The atmosphere of a paper mill 1s bolieved to breed congressional aspirations. Warner Miller is a paper-maker. So was and is ox- Congressman William Whiting, of Mussa chusetts, Roduey Wullace, Whitnoy's suc- cessor, i8 a_paper-maker also. So were the Russclls, of Massachusetts, So is Congross- man West, of New York. ‘The growing favor with which Chauncey Depew's namo 1s discussed for the English mission suggests to the New York World a fow reflections on the good work American ropresentatives of the Dopew stamp might do abroad, Such envoys oxtraordinary and ministers diunerpotentiary would do more towards exciting a gonial glow in our foreign rolations than a whole diplomatic corps of physicial and intellectual ascetics, They would live to love and thank their American cousins for giving thom the privilege of eat- mg alongside such gastronomic eloquence and soon learn to load their Krupp guns with nothing deadlier than Roman punch, Fred L. Ames, who is worth $20,000,000, is supposed to be the richest man 1 Boston, He lives in the finest house 1n tho city,enter- tains gorgeously, and is regarded as an aris- tocrat of the aristocrats, Nevertheless his grandfather, old Oliver Ames the first, used to peddle shovels of his own handiwork 1 that town. Sir Joseph Bazalgette, tvho has just retired from the service of the métropolitan (Lon- don) hoard of works, was that board's engin- eer since its organization. He built the Thames embankment and 100 miles of new sewers, besidés enlafging 250 miles of old ones; erected four or five Thames bridges, and laid out about 3,000 new streets. The statue of Arohbishop Hughes that is to be placed next fall on the campus of St, John's college, Fordham, will be eight feet high and will stand on & green stone pedes- tal of the same height. The clay model of tho statue shows him wearing the house dress of an archbishop. He is represented as if talking to the students at a commence- ment of the college and in the prime of life. General Slooum, who marched to the sea with Sherman, speaking of death says: “I am a coward in the face of pain and I can not bear to think of the physical sensations that may attend my death—the choking in the throat, the paralysis here, the torture there; but that aside I think of death as though it were sleep and rest, and 1 have no feeling whatever or dread of the hercafter.” M. Roustan, the F'rench minister to the United States, has been a diplomat for twenty years, and has risen to his present position by promotion. He looks ten years younger than his age, which is Afty-four, and bis dark curly halr shows but few strands of silver. He has twinkling black eyes, a small light figure, aud he carries his head so far back that he seems taller than he is. st i OLEVER WOMEN. Mrs. Harrison has sent to the art loan ex- hibition at Washington two porcelain plates of her own painting. Miss Lizzie MacNichol, daughter of Hon. A, MacNichol of Calais, the democratic or- ator, has a double in Lizzie MacNichol of the American opera company. Several queer blunders have grownoutof it. The Calais Miss MacNichol is also a singer, Miss Pauncefote, the daughter of Lord Sackville's successor as British minister to this country, is a beautiful young woman of twenty-five. She is said to possess more of Enghsh reserve than Lord Sackville's daughters, but is a good talker, a graceful dancer, and popular wherever she goes, Kate Field, in her new lecture on the “In- temperance of Prohibition,” exhibits a “prohibition broom” which she bought in Atchison, Kan. When she purchased it, the merchant inquired: “Will you have it with or without?' Kate didn’t understand, and the dealer explained by unscrewing the handle, parting the wisps, and showing the gleam of & cunning little flask, ingeniously contrived and hidden out of sight. Mrs. Humphry Ward writes a small and neat but eminently strong and vigorous hand, with no flourishes; sometimes in earnest haste running several words together. She signs herself “Sincerely yours, Mary A. Ward,” with a single straight dash beneath president of the San Falipe and Desort Land and Water company, which has undertaken 1o dam San Folipe river for the purpose of {rrigating government land. Mrs. Foltz also practices law, and will soon begin the publi- cation of the Desert Ploneer, “Aunt” Emily Ward, one of the most re- markable women in Michigan, celebrated her eightieth birthday Saturday. She is im menscly wealthy, and among her list of pros togos aro twenty-nino men and women wha have either acoumulated fortunes or become famous. Ton mon who were launched im lifo by “Aunt” Emily now aggregate $1,000,« 000 a8 their worldiy possessions, (General Harrison's pretty stenographer, Miss Sawyer, now ranks as the “Arst lady stenographer of the land.” Sho is aboud twonty yoars oid, and has large gray eyes, rod cheoks and brown hair. She is said to know moro about the president’s private and political business than any one in Washing- ton oxcepting himsolf, but up to the prosent time she has not divulged a secrot or given a hint. Mrs. Storey, widow of Wilber I Storey, ot the Chicago Times, is smd to have a large ocodar chest filled with lnce handkerch'efs, all made by Fronch manufacturers at the spocinl order of her husband, who disliked to have her uso any other kind. Another of his whims was that she should have o quart of unset procious stones, and he bought and bought until a jewel casket, made to hold just & quart was filled. rediciioc NN The Alma Affair. Arya, Nob, Maroh 9.0 the Bditor of Tiw Beg: A fow days ago an artiole appoar- od in Tig Bk concerning tho hanging of T. J. Furgison in offigy, also thoe ogging of both lic and Charles Gaskill. The reason sot forth for tho above is that those two gentlemen were intimate with two ladies of Alma, Now when the facts become known tho mystory vanishes away. Kvory man in Alma knows that tho reason they gave was not the actual reason, although T. J. Furgison did defend the two suspicious women, Not a scintilla of ovidonce was introducoa against them, consequently they wern disoharged, We clnim that in this respoot Attornoy Furgison Qid his sworn duty, Now to the points: Charlos Gaskill, the oity auctioneer, and At- trney Furgison both take an active part in politics, and are anti-submissionist, and ara doing what they can to snow the proposi- tion under and ingraft high lioanse in the con- stitutlon. They both live closo to Silley, Kan., and witness the rosult of prohibiion daily: Mr, T. J. Furgison has been city attorney as woll as township clork for a number of years and the citizens of that brisk burg wish to make him mayor of the city. Ho made a good run 1nst soring for mayor and camo within a fow votes of downing the combina- tion ggainst him. 1t was too clooe for com- fort lust spring, and we spoak at no_random guess whon wo say tho ogging and hanging was a political schome a fow cranks workpd up for o othar purposs than woakening him at tho polls next woek. In the ovent of Fur- glson’s success, Charley Gaskill will be mar- shal of tho city. For this roson Mr. Gaskill's name was connectod with it. WILLIAM M. EXVIN, el S In Defonse of Postmaster Black. PrNpER, Nob,, March 27.—To the Editor of Tuk Bg: In your issue of tho 20th inat. was an article purporting to have been writ- ten in this town and signed “Republican Club.” The aim and object of the article was a tirade on our townsman, T. P. Blaol, our future postmastor. In justice to the stalwart ropublicans here I ask for space in your columns for a brief reply. Mr. Black received the endorsement of nearly every busiuess man in tho placo, and most of the inhabitants of Pender signod his petition. There were others, of course, who wanted the plum, and when Congrot man Dorsey wrote hore to some old lino publicans (of whom I know of two) as to the fitness and qualifications of the differont can. didates they unhesitatingly recommended Mr. Black, It was thus, and not through any away-from-home influence that the ap- pointment was mado, I understand that “Republican Club” with other soreheads, called for aid from Dakota City and_othos places, but thoy wero all sour grapes. Dorsey knew ' who to confide in, hence tha lncking by ome or two soured. ones. As to Mr, Black’s interest here, I will say, that ho has more capital invested hors in business, than any other aspirant for tho position. Asto the present incumbent we will only say that he is a democrat, and got his ap- pointment from an administration who gained power through the hue and cry of “turn tha rascals out,” and now I want to see said rascals “turued in" again. I believe in tha old stalwart doctring, *To the victors belong the spoils,” 1 object to said writer using the name “‘re- publican club” s 1 learned to my surprisa at the last election that the straightout re« publicans were very scarce, only one In tha whole precinct who had the “‘gall,”” as it was called, to peddle the straight republican ticket. Bets wero freely offered on tha morning of election that Thayer would not get five votes 1n the precinct, and great was their chagrin when we tallied thirty-six voteg for the old hero. 7. G. Antuus, gt A Delicate Surgical Operation, Four weoks ago o local physician pers formed, successfully, a surgical operation that is tho first of the kind treated in Ne« braska. Thooperation was the removal from Mrs. A, C. Ashoy, of Genoa, of a doubl death of that lady. Yesterday Mrs. Ashb; the name. Mrs. Clara Foltz, of San Diego, Cal, is ovarian tumor that had almost caused tl)? returned to her home ana bids fair to com\ vlotely recover her health, — — ey Do you know finest clothes receiye when ordinary. laundry soap ? el i ;|gc:-‘_ 76 1 The The test wear on clothing is Do you know ic; rdest work in washing is that this is the treatment your washed with the You oughtv to. o that clothing is washed with PYLE% PEARLINE as directed on each package, the rubbing is done away with? You ought to. the constant rubbing in the wash. the rubbing up and down on a board. You must admit that anything which docs away with the rubbing, and is withal harmless, saves the wear and tear on the things washed as well as the poor woman who does the work, We claim that PEARLINE is that thing. The many millions of pack ages sold annually would scem to Beware , and besides are dangerous, PEARLINE is never ped Shet aie Jgk o s v adudachursd oaly Uy JAMES Y LE, Now Yorke by all good grocers, « 7 Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers offering imitations which they claim to be Pearls ine, or *the same as Pearline.” 1T'S FALSE— substantiate our claim. o are dled, but