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

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY APRIL 26, 1839 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLASHED EVERY MORNING. o —— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. AY (Morning MAl.l‘omlnelIdl & SUND) 's10 g OMAnA OFrFice, Now.014 and 916 FARNAM STREET. CHICAGO OFFICE, 67 ROOKERY BUILDING. NEw YORK OFFic, ROOMS 14 AXD 15 TRIBUNE LOING, WASHINGTON OFrFioR, No. 618 RTEENTR BTRE Al com! fimn‘l}lfi °§'.‘.’|§" Salnm and odl- AL1ODS Te) _"{.; hould mmdn:udwm EvtroR o¥ THE Bi RUSINKSS LETTERS, 11 business letters and remittances should b Aresssd to THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANT, DmANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 8 be made payablé Lo the order of the company. 746 Bee Pablishing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. Notice to Agents and Subscribers. 1n order to successtully rectity any fault in the delivery of papers, it s absolutely neces- sary that we know the date on which papers were late or missing. 1 late, give the time and tratn on which Tk Bek should have reached your town. Also state from what direction, so that we can locate the trouble and apply the proper remedy. Papers are frequently carried by & town through the carelessness of the route Agents, ana when this occurs, we can, with full Information, place the blame where it bolongs. We will consider it n favor if agents and suo- scribers will notify us at once when Tue Bew falis to reach them promptly ~ THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement ot Circulation. Bate of Nebraskn, = |0 County of Douglas, ** (eorge I, Tzsahuck, secretary of the Bes Pub- Hshing company, does solemnly swear that the mctual circulation of Tik DATLY BEE for the Week ending April 20, 1880, was as follows: Eunday. April 14 Monday, Thursaay. Apri 18 dny. Apri 16 Baturday, April Averuge.... sead 15,718 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to befors me wnd subscribed to in my presence this 20th day of April, A. D, 1889, Seal, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Btate ot Nebraskn, | o County of Douglus. {58 George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- run and says that he is secretary of the Bee bublishing company, that the actual average Qaily circulation of Tne DALy Brg for the onth of April, 184, 18,744 copies; for May, 1888, K183 copies: for June, 188K 10,243 copies; for July, 1888, 18,083 ceples; for August, 1888, 18,183 coples; for September, 188, 1K 154 copies; for October, 188, 18,034 copies; for November, 1858, 18,089 copies; for December, 1888, 18,273 coples: for January, 18%0, 18674 coples: for Februar: 1689, 18,04 coples; for March, 1849, 18854 cop GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 10t day of April, A. D., 180, N b REfL, Not A FEW more county commissioner picnics and we will have some daylight thrown upon the inner workings of that close corporation 3 THE truth has come out at last. The county commissioners confess that the county hospital building is a white ele- phant on their hands. Now comes the City of Mexico and orders the putting of overhead electric wires under ground. The example set by New York is contagious. THEY are already quarreling over the number of people in Oklahoma. The next thing in order will be a boom in corner lots in the rival towns. WHEN Nebraska White Caps can find no other material to threaten than a fourth-class postmaster, it shows that the order is hard up for an excuse for its existence. TuE Vanderbilt systemn proposes to reduce its Sunday freight train service. The experiment will be watched with interest by railroad employes and shippers. ‘WHAT the people of Omaha are inter- ested in learning is, what definite ac- tion was taken at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Union Pacific regarding the union depot. GENERAL BOULANGER and his train of admirers made a triumphal entry into Londou. But the Britishers have heard of the doughty g eneral before in the strains of the Boulanger march. ASSISTANT PO TER-GENERAL CLARKSON appoints on an average a hundred and twenty-five fourth-class postmasters a day. This should be . cheerful news to applicants on the anxious seat. Tir veception to bo tendered by the merchants of Baltimore to Captain Murrill, of the steamer Missouri, who rescued the passengers of the Danmark will be a worthy recognition of a gal- lant and humaue officer. THE men who stole the ballot box at Plummersville, Ark., at the November election,” an act which caused con- siderable excitement all through the country, have been apprehended. As might have been expected they are all scions of the best families of Arkansas. —_— CHAUNCEY 1. FILLEY, of St. Louis, declines to take the consulship at Hong Kong at o salary of five thousand and the perquisites that run up to twn or three times that amount. But there is no danger that the post will go a-beg- ging. m— THe people’of Minnesota will have an opportunity at their next elec- tion to vote upon a constitu- tional amendment making it valid for five-sixths of a jury to render a verdict in civil cases. Thisisa move in jury veform which will be watched with io- terest in othor states. What advan- tages this systom, if adopted, may have, it will certainly lessen litigation by “ diminishing the number of jury dis- agreemonts. e————— TrE annual revort of the directors of the Union Paoific is significant in that itoutlines a distinctly new policy in the matter of discharging its obligu- tions to the government. The state- mont is made that in order to guard against an increase of the indebtedness of the company to the United States, which now amounts to fifty millions, the directors have decided to sot apart each quarter from the surplus revenue of the company a sum of money or se- curities suficient to prevent & further increanse of the government dobt, This is certainly a new departure in Union Pacifio history, and if carried out in good faith, will show a desire on the part of that rosd to pay off its just obligations. THE NEW APPORTIONMENT. The Fifty-first or the Fifty-second con- gress will Yiave toconsider a very im- portant political question, namely, whether the house of representatives shall be increased or diminished in the number of 1ts members, or left as it is at present, Tt is expected that the next census will show an increase of population of about fourteen millions over that of 1880. At the same ratio of apportionment that exists now, one member to about one hun- dred and fifty-two - thousand of the population, the house of rep- resentalives would be increased from its presont membership of three hundred and twenty-five to four hun- dred and twenty. It is the opinion of a great many that the house is now too large, and that a reduction in the pres- ent membership would promote effec- tive legislation. It is therefore not probable that the house will be in- creased, but rather more likely that it will left as at present, the ratio of rep- resentation being raised soas to effect this. Certainly, if the house is now un- wieldly, as is quite generally agreed, it would be a grave mistake to increase the membership, and it is altogether probable that it will not be done. An effort will be made to have the census of population taken in time to enable the Fifty-fiest congress to make the apportionment. The result of the count in 1880, was submitted to congress early in January of the following year, and there is no good reason why the same can not be done with the next census. Undoubwedly Su- perintendent Porter will fully appr ciate the importance of doing this. 50 that the Fifty-first congress, which is republican in both branches, can fix the ratio of representation upon which succeeding houses for the ensu- ing ten years shall elected. There are very strong political considerations which render it most desirable that the determination of this matter shall fall to the next congress. If this is done, the presidential election of 1892 will be held on the basis of the reap portion- ment, and the west will be given a largely increased strength in the elec- toral college. In any event, the west is certain of a materially increased rep- resentation in congress, but it is desir- able and important that it shall be given its full weight in the next presi- dential election, and this it may not re- ceive 1f the reapportionment is not made by the next congress. OIf course, there is a chance that the Fifty-second con- gress would make the apportionment in time to govern the choice of presiden- tial electors in 1892, but it is a chance which it would not be safe to take, be- cause that congress might be demo- eratic. These, and other considera- tions, are unquestionably fully appre- ciated by those who will have charge of the census, and undoubtediy the population will be ascertained in time to allow the next congress to act in the matter of reapportionment. Assuming that the next ratio of representation will be about two hundred thousand, Nebraska will gain two, and possibly three, congressmen. THE COUNTY HOSPITAL. The whole trouble about the county hospital is in the fact that the county commissioners have departed from the usual business methods in the letting of the contract and in the supervision of the worl. While law and usage require the commissioners to let contracts for pub- lic work to the lowest responsible bid- der, they are expected to exercise their judgment as to the responsibility of competing contractors and their repu- tation for doing good work. If the contract had been awarded to John F. Coots, the Withnells, Ittner Brothers or half a dozen other builders we could name, there would have been no more danger of the hospital arches tumbling down than there is of the commissioners being buried under the walls of the court house. ‘Walsh and Ryan had never built a public building anywhere, and for that matter are not known to have constructed any large building worthy of the name, The commissioners knew this when they awarded the contract just as well as they do now. Architect Myers’ plans for the hos- pital are probably as complete and per- foct as were his plans for the court house. If the contractors had followed out the plans and the building had been constructed in a first- clags, workmanlike manner, out of the material designated ia the specifications, we doubt whether there would have been any defsct in the building. Architect Myers has shown himself to be very indifferent 1n regard to this building, and he cannot be ex- cused for neglecting to respond to the calls of the commissioners, when in their opinion, his personnl advice was desired. But the blame for wretched construc- tion and lack of vigilant supervision cannot justly be placed on his shoulders, THOOL SIT Two vital considerations should be weighed in determining the location of now school buildings: The permanency of pepulation and the grade of sur- rounding streets, The board of educa- tion should vofully consider the future growth of u district as well as the present population. The natural drift of population west from the river front has domonstrated the folly of erocting large buildings iu sections where residents have been crowded out by business, A similar fate will befall the proposed- sehool at Fifth and Hickory streets. While the number of children in that neighborbood at present is sufficient to warrant the evec- tion of a large building, there is no cer- tainty of permanency. They will event- ually be erowded out by muanufacturing and business intcrests. The building should be located at least four blocks further west to insure its occupancy for a reasonable term of years. The proposed eniargement of the Haitman school site is a necdless waste of public money. The present buildings should be torn down, the lot graded and the new structure built thercon. The old building must be abandoned in any eveut, and the site 1s ample foc a new aud enlarged school. There is no necessity for changing the site to Fifteenth street and squandering nine thousand dollars in an adjoining lot. The difforence in the grade of Fifteenth and Sixteenth street is such that the erection of a building on the proposed site would leave a high mud wall on the west, endangering the lives of chil- dren, and seriously affecting light and ventilation. No building should be erected on a site until the grades of surrounding streets are permanently established. The costly mistakes of the past should be avoided and Wgtes selected where there is a reasonable certainty that the buildings will not be endangered and grounds destroyed. ‘The number of’ schools now perched on high banks and walled in isa warning to the board to exercise care and judgment in the selec- tion of new sites and the erection of buildings. AN IMPORTANT DECISION. The decision of the inter-state com- merce commission in the case of the Grand Trunk railway of Canada, to which we referred a few days ago, is important. The complaint was that the Canadian road was carrying coal from poinis in the United States to points in Canada at a certain published rate per ton, but was allowing favored shippers arebate. The commission held ‘‘that the reduced charge accepted or rebate allowed is in violation of the act to regulate commerce, and unlawful.” It decided that the Canadian road comes within the scope of the inter-state com- merce act as long as it shall continue to do business in the United States, and that it must hereafter publish its rates of transportation for persons and prop- erty, giving due notice of changes, as required by the law. It must comply with the provisions for joint tariffs, not only on goods carried between points in the United States, but also on goods carried to points in Canada, and it must discontinue all re- bates or discriminations on such ship- ments. In order to escape these obliga- tions it will be necessary for the Grand Trunk to receive its shipments in Canada, and this it may elect to do. The justice of this decision will hardly be seriously questioned, and it is of general 1nterest because of 1ts far- reaching application. The principle involved, of course, applies to all Cana- dian railroads which do business in the United States, and its enunciation is important as affecting the competition of such roads with American lines. It applies to the transit trade from one part of the United States to another part over the “Soo” routes and the routes across the upper portion of Oun- tario, which have for some time been a source of complaint by managers of American competing railroads. It was not generally expected that the inter- state commission would assert its right to require Canadian roads doing busi- ness in the United States to conform to the law regulating American roads, but now that it has doue so, its action will doubtless be generally approved. It is apparent that while ,our own roads are uader the restraints of law, it would be wunjust to them, and perhaps ruinous, to permit Cana- ailroads to carry on competition itory without re- gard to the restraints and obligations imposed by the inter-state commerce act. The decision in the Grand Trunk case ought to be very satisfactory to the managers of all American railroads with which the roads of Canada com- pete. Tt is an assurance to them that the commission will o as far as its authority will allow in giving them protection. A LETTER of Mr. Gladstone, written to a gentleman in Buffalo, acknowledg- ing the receipt of an extensively signed memorial expressing sympathy with the [rish cause, is published, in the course of which the ‘‘grand old man” notes having rveceived, on the day he wrote, April 12, a communication from the leg- islature of Nebraska. Mr. Gladstone writes eloquently and hopefully of the prospects for the great cause which he hus most at heart, expressing the opinion that were an opportunity now offered England she would record a verdict de- cisively in accord with those of the other portious of the United Kingdom and of the Anglo-Saxon race at large. Referring to the contennial anniversary of the inanguration of George Wash- ington, regarding which he had re- ceived requests ‘‘to intimate an assur- ance of my participation in your na- tional joy,” Mr. Gladstone eloquently 8A; *It is a real and a grateful par- ticipation, for the statesmen of the American revolution have taken their place once for all among the greatest political iustructors of the world. George Washington was their ac- knowledged and illustrious head, and to him and them I have teng folt that I owed no trivial part of my own public education. Long, without limit of longth, may that union flourish under the blessing and favor of God, with the foundation of which their names are inseparably associated.” ScHEMES are said to be on foot by disappointed and desperate boomers to seize the Cherokee strip and stake their claims fwmediately on Indian lands. The Indians, however, would be justi- fied in checking any such movement, und in using force to drive out the in- vaders, Certainly the government would not tolerate any such lawless- ness. . Tik action of the French government regarding the importation of American adulterated lard, places that country in accord with England, Germany, Canada and Mexico, all of which have legis- lated to exclude such lard. The ten- dency of this will doubtless be to stimu- late the pure lard movement in this countay, which is really in o great de- gree rosponsible for the action of for- oign governments, and national legisla- tior may become necessary in sell de- fense. The export of lard is an import- ant item in our commerce which we can not well afford to lose, and in order to re- tain it something may have to be done to relieve this product from the dis- oredit in which it is now held abroad, “Che producers of pure lard demand that the compound lard shall be sold for what it 18, and The foreign governments think this sheuld be done and propose to protect (hejr people against what they regard ag an imposition, although the compound article is notunhealthful, 1t is really a question of honest dealing, and it looks as if we would be compelled to acquiesce in the view of the govern- ments whose people use a large part of the lard we export, or lose that import- ant trade. HITS AND MISSES, Chief Seavey has fixed upon May 10 for dog-day. Curs and dogs of high degroo must be tagged before that time, he says, or be slaughtered. Owners of puppies must pay the annual tax of §1 and receive a tag. 1t is quite likely that the order will be less gencrally respected than it was last year, owing to the fact that the promised slaugh- ter at that time never came. The wires announce that Mr. Willis Sweet has been appointed United States attorney for Idaho, Ten years ago Mr. Sweet was a member of Tur Ber staff. Men get promi- nent and influential very soon after they leave the training-school of a great daily. There are undoubtedly men on Tne Ber staff now, who, sooner or later, may be dragged into some federal office, and com- pelled to accept the salary thereof. Less probable things have happened. It is a small matter, you say, but trifling incidents bave provoked nations to war. Something might be done to dispossess the hack-drivers of the strects of Omaha. In larger cities a police officer at street inter- sections compels drivers of vehicles to re- spoct tho prior legal rights of pedestrians to cross-walks, When the latter are “Tun down” by careless and vicious drivers, the offenders of law and street etiquette are promptly run in and fined. You may stand upon any corner at midday in Omaha, and in every direction you will see men, women and children dodging hither and thither from the cross-walk out into the streect to escape a team. No one is safe, and the utmost vigilance 1s necessary to avoid personal in jury. Drivers know they have the advantage of beingoutof reachof the fist of the man they are pursuing. Some means should be provided to protect pedestrians. Colonel Artemus Warde, of the Herald, it is said, has purchased the Black Hills, and will bring them to Omaha. . The 27th—next Saturday—will be the birthday of General U. S. Grant. Sometime in our natioual history, the day will not be allowed to pass unnoticed by patriotic men. RoE o A Consolation. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ‘Those who have been detained on the way to Oklahoma can console themselves with the reflection that they will thus be enabled to et the start of the returning procession. ——— The Crowning Outrage. Chicagn Herald. A cork trust has just been organized. Pretty soon somebody will organize a cork- screw trust, and then an angry nation will rise 1n its might and crush out the whole trust business. —_———— Jerry's Soft Snap. Cincinnati Enquirer, The last congress having failed to appro- priate any money to pay for the distribution of seeds, the new agricultural department, under the supervision of Secretary Rusk, is left with nothing to do. ———— Dangerously Well. Glohe-Democrat, For the benefit of certain senators, who shall be numeless, wo would remark—bor- rowing an idea from Lord Byron—that Mr, Halstead, who has been dangerously i, is now daugerously well. ——— Painting London ala American, London Letter. Tywo Americans gave a London police mag} istrate a sensation the other day by bemng brought up on the complaint of a cabman that they had amused themselves by firing their revolvers through the trap door in the roof. — e Grand Old Missouri. Chicago Times. ‘fhename of tho ship that rescued the passengers of the sinking Danmark is Mis- souri. The much-abused old state of that name can now have something else to point to besides the brass statue of Thomas H. Benton. e e 'Twonld be a Reminiscence. Philadelphia North American. That great boomer of the territories, Con- gressman Springer, is out with an interview in which he states that the solid south is a detriment to the democratic party. He does not say what the democratic party would amount to without the electoral votes of the solid south. ey CLEVER WOMEN., Miss Reta McKee, of Wilmington, O., is an enterprising young lady who is required to answer in court the charge of stealing two horses. 3 Mrs. Humphrey Ward's new novel is to be, it is said, a frankly human piece of fiction, She is finishing the manuscript in Italy. Mona Caird, who raised the question “Is marriage a failure?” has her new book in the press bearing on the subject. 1t is called ““The Wing of Ezrael.” Miss Mamie L. Hatchett is the latest per- son to take a hack at Amelie Rives' new book. Of course she cuts it all to pieces. Ethel Grigs, a German woman, says she can whistle Mrs. Shaw mto a smameful silence in exactly thirty minutes, and she threatens to come over before long to do it. She is a bandsome woman, although of a ponderous build, and she has been warbling ever since she was a child. Miunie Palmer, the actress, for good and sufficient reason, ‘set about washing all the public statues in ‘New York—that is, her deputies did—n order that it might be com- monly known during the centennial celebra- tion whom the statues represented. At last accounts the park department had inter- fered and arrested the scrubbers, Helen Chalmers, the daughter of the noted Scoteh divine, hives in Edinburg in one of the lowest sections of the city. Her home counsists of a few rooms in an alley, The arunkenness, poverty, and suffering of men and women distress'her,but she is coustantly with the fallen. {Every night she goes out into the lanes of *yhe city with her lantern to light ber way b@fare her, and she never re- turns to her quartcrs without one or more girls or womed she bas taken from the street. These psople love her, and she is never wolested or insulted, Kate Field exp.ained to & Boston audience the other evening how she would stop drink ing. “Abolish the idiotic custom of treat ing,¥ she saia. “When people treat they take more than they want. How men made in the imuge of their Creator can stand that custom 1 canpot comceive. Make treating and perpeudicular drinking an offense.” Miss Margaret Blaine is fast earniog the reputation of being one of the wittiest young women ip Washington. She is clever and but uses her powers with rare Judgment and good wature. Her voice is particularly pleasivg, and it is said that she bas a naive wuy of saywg *“Don't you know{" that is the envy of alt the other Washington belles. She acquired it in Eug- land during her wvisit last y. froquently in hor speoch. and uses it STATE JOTTINGS, Butler county has voted $50,000 in bonds for a new court house. South Beatrice will enjoy the luxury of stroct cars in sixty days. Ioe cream sociables are ripening, but the cucumber is several cramps behind. Konrnoy's city hail bonds sold for 963 They draw 5 per cent and are due in tweuty years, Wolf scalps are worth £ of Otoe county's coin, and hunters are poiting the treasurer at alively rate. North Platte wants a base ball club. Ap- plications should be accompanied with pho- tographs in uniform. Nobraska City alroady foels the great henefits arising from her park system. The troes make splendid hitching posts. Venders of red liquor and foaming collars are required to pay an oocupation tax in Springtield, in addition to the regular license. Plattsmouth is moving for electric stroot railways, The venerable capital of Cass county is displaying uncommon enterprise and push this year. Mad dog scares are blooming in various soctions of tho state. A poultice of onk tanned sole, vigorously applied, will banish the fright in short oraer. The Nebraska City grand jury toyed with the case of a burglar for four days, and suo- ceeded in returning an ndictment several hours after the crook had flown. The St. Paul postoftice has been decoratod with & handsome and artistic Ed Chinn, Samples can be had at all hours. The post- master is determined to please his patrons. A quartette of young and beardless scaven- gers have been hauled into court in Fremont for printing and circulating an obscene poem. They were Dl under bond and bound over to the district court. The Rev. Sam Small will lead a triumphal procession “F'rom the Bar-room to the Pul- Pit” in Lincoln next month, It is presumed that Sam has arranged to secure a supply of inspiration at the starting noint. A simple decree of divorce in Nebraska City deprived a Bishop of rank, emoluments and stafl at one sitting of the court. It was a great relief to the wife of Dr. Hoyt C. Bishoo. She took her maiden name. The Daily Telegram is the latest journal- istic venture in Columbus, It is a ncat and compact specimen ot typography, spirited in editorial and lively and crisp iu its news columns. D, Davis is the publisher. Columbus cries out against the nude in dramatic art. A bevy of raw and wrinkled Amazons disported on the stage there re- cently and actually shocked the Journal man, They must have been frightfully tough, The waterworks company of York has rescued its plant from the auction block, and Adam’s ale again flows unchecked oy ine- chanics’ liens. York is a pioneer among pro- hibition towns, and water must be had at any price. Plattsmouth will dig up the hatchet on the 80th and apostrophize the virtues of the cherry tree chopper. After the ceremonies it is proposed to present the hatchet to a prominent Burlington ofticial, accompanied by a sketch of the long-promised depot. Norfolic rejoices over the certainty of a new railroad. Thirty thousand dollars in bonds have been voted to the builders, and surveyors have already been turned loose on the road to Yaunkton. The construction of thus line is likely to force the Omaha & St. Paul company to cover the gap between Hartington and Yankton this scason. The financial backers of the Fremont can- ning factory propose to clip the wings of A. Bird, of Plattsmouth. ‘They have decided to shut off the wherewith until the soaring gen- tleman descends from his lofty perch and fulfills his contract. Five hundred dollars in hand is worth several birds in the bush. Mrs. A, Zelner,a Michigan woman,tracked her faithless spouse to the wilds of Platte county, last week, and found him cavorting with the affections of a fickle female. The scenc which Tollowed can be pictured by the imagination. The interesting fact is cheer- fully chronicled that Zelner was yanked by #he back bair and toted home at railroad speed. The game was not worth the effort. The howls of returning Oklahoma pilgrims are rising above the hum of busy life in various sections of the state. They bring with them a wholesome regara for Nebraska soil aud climate, and disgust for the red- crusted land of the boomers. Experience costs money. The amount squandered in the wild rush to Indian Territory would se- cure farms in Nebraska superior in every respect. “Misfortunes never come singly but in droves.” The new postmaster of Spring. field, Sarpy county, had scarcely become a quainted with his duties when some heart- less rascal abducted the family cow. The Monitor tells that on top of this application came the Springfield Glee club, primed for a serenade and with appetites a yard long. There are depths of grief which can not be ruffled by ordinary sympathy. It is sufi- cient for the p.m. to know that the public feel for him. The Fremont boomers c? the oil reglons have commissioned an agent to purchase hoisting works and pipes for the Wyoming Oil and Pipe Line company. A number of Omaha capitalists interested in the lubrica ing fluid propose to join with the Fremonters in building a pipe line from the ol fields through the state, and the enthusiastic sup- porters of the scheme are confident that the worlk will be completed in two years. The undertaking is a mast important one. It has has been agitated for the past few years, but nothing definite has been accomplished. The construction of a pipe line wouid solve the fuel problem for Omaha and castern Ne- braska aud return handsome profits to the owners, ———— THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD, The big Woonsocket (R. 1.) rubber works will employ 1,600 hands and manufacture 20,000 patrs of rubbers daily. The Laborers’ Protactive union of Jersey City, N. J., has engaged a physician, with a yearly salary, to attend sick membe; Southern iron makers are putting forth strenuous efforts 0 ‘ucrease their business in northern markets. These cfforts have brought forth a number of concessions on wron, but have not brought much business, for the bar mills are not running and do not waat forge iron, and, socond, the possibilivy of adrop of 25 cents in Penusylvania forge is entertained, A compilation made by the Tradesman, from actual returns received by it, shows that 691 industries were established iu the outh during the past three months, ugainst 5 new industr established (during the same period of lasv year. The Mexican government has decided not 10 sell to one company all the mining conces- sions in Lower California. It is. preferrod that practical miners shall take up the claims, and overy effort will be wade o in- duce miners to enter upon the miniog land, A Maussachusetts firin is testing o machine for riveting shovels to their nandles. Ifa sucoess the contrivance will enabla six men to do the work now doue by twen A large party of Hungarian workmen has left Pottstown, Pa., to return to the fathor- lund, where they will buy farms with the money accumuluted since they cawe to this country, four years ago. A Massechusetts Yankee is said to have patented a barrel hoop of corrugated steel. Four of these are equivaleut Lo ten wooden onos on & flour barrel. Many clock munufactursrs are GOW wsing soft sheet steel for portions of time pieces which were formerly made of brass. The result is said to give much satisfact:on. A Londou paper reports that successful exporiments haye been made in coatiag iron with copper. ‘The method was as follows: A piece of iron was ralsed o uearly white heat, thoronghly sprinkied with white-col- ored powder, and szain ueated until the powder had rely disappeared. The iron was then plunged iuto icited copper, re- moved instantly and ailowed to cool. The copper coatiug was perfect, and the surface, though rough, was sumooth enough for use 0o the bottoms of ships, tubes of boilers, ete, LINCOLN NEWS AND NOTES, BExcitement Occasioned By the Re- ocent Tragedy Dying Out. THE FOLLOWERS OF MINEHART. They Ask to Have Their Names Stricken From the Rolls of Grace Ohurch—~New Notarles Publio. 1029 P Starer, LixcoLy. April 25, John Taylor and Charles Curtis, the sup posed murderers of Bob Woods, passed a slooploss night fu_their respective cells at tho county jail. It seems that they had pro monitions that all might not be well with them if they chanced to fall into the hands of an infurnated mob. Indeed, they were told during the day by somo of their visitors that there was strong talk of a lynohing party, and that they would bo the vietims. The talk, howaever, proved to be idle. But it is learned that two bands of darkies and not o fow whitas, numbering probabiy 100 each, gathered together in the bottoms in the south west part of the town, and_discussed the lynching very esrnestly. During the day tho talk was 8o serioas that Sherift Melick took precautionary steps to repel any assault that might be made upon the jail. A portion of company D, of the state militia, ten in number, were snugly domiciled witnin tho walls of the county prison, and it would not have fared well for any assaulting party. Tho sheriff could have repelled 500 men with _ease. at beforo midnight, Tre Bee representative visited the jail, and while thero was admitted to the cells of the prisoners. As he approachoed accompanied by the sheriff, Taylor whined out, “Is evorything quiet o the outsidet 1 declare I can’t sleep.” “No danger,” choer- fuily replied the shoriff. “I will see that you aro not harmed.” “All right," said the wretch, ‘Ise strustin’ in the Master and you, Mr. Melick.” Curtis remained quiet. He refused to reply to any questions put 1o him. Grace Church Affairs. Written notice was served upon Rov. Creighton, tho present pastor of Grace M. E. church, that uinety-three members of that church under the ministrations of Pas- tor Minehart, desired_ their names stricken from the records of thut cburch. It is un- derstood that this membership express the desire to be numbered with Minchart in the new movement, which formally denounces the action of the committee that recently de- cided to cut off his ccclesiastical head. In view of the fact that over a month has elapsed since the church trial, now a matter of his- it can hardly be denominated an action excitement or pressure, and it is doubly cheering to the beheaded preacher, he says, to know that the paper went to the new pastor of the church without any solici- tation_from him, It is also noteworthy that Mincharts “riff raff,’ us nis fol- lowers and friends have been denominated, comprise such citizens of Kast Lincoln and Lincoln as Dr. Dawson and wife, W. B. Howard and wife, E. J. Miller and wife, W. G. McFFall and wife, H. Pamore and wife, Herman Eiche and wife, Mr. Mary J. Spencer, Goorge E. Fisher and wifo, Thomas Crebbin’ and wife, F. A. Hovey and wife, C. A.and A. M. McMasters, David Bangart, K. G! Reafield ana_ wife, and many others Wwho are oqually promineat, all of whem are rec- ognizod as among the purest-minded and most enterprising people of the city. Their friends, however, Scores upon SCOros, repu- diate the name that has been 50 unkindly be- stowed upon them by the unthoughtful friends of Minchart's opposition. It ought, also, to be taken into account that twelve of the “riff rafl,” who express the wish to have their names stricken from the roster of the church, were former officials of the church, Six of the number ask for letters, and in the event that they are refuseq, there may be another interesting chapter in the Grace church difficulties, T'he assurance is also given that another grist of names will be handed in to be checked off. New Notarvies Public. Tho governor to-day_appointed tha follow- 1ng notaries public: O, 1. Enbank, Hayes Center, Hayes county; W, F. Dutfon, Pe- tersburg, Hoone county; Jamos W. Maher, Verengo, Perkins county: ldgar L. Me; Harlan county; Edward W. ¢ York county; R. McFarland Deweese, Clay county; O. M. Quackenbush, Tobias, Saline county: Joseph McSparran, Blair, 'Washington county; Eric Johnson Holdrege, Phelps county; Finley R. Lanne, Homerville, Grisper county; Hosea I Thornton, Oakdale, Anteiope count Thomas Carroli, Fremont, Dodge county; Edmund W. Nagle, Allston, Dundy county} Henry H. Kay, Oakdale, Antelobo county. Midway Brick Company. Articles incorporating the Midway Brick company were fited 1n the ofiice of the secre- tary of state to-day. The principal place of business of the company is at Kearaey, Buf- falo county: capital stock $15,000. April 20, 1859, was the date fixed upon for the com: mencement of busincss. It will continue under the articles as filed, for a period of ten yeurs, Incorporators: Lollin L. Downing, John J. Bartlett, George Gray and William W. Mannix. Missouri Pacific Moving. It has just been learned, that acompany of Missouri Pacific enginedrs passed through Lincoln to-d: oute for Superior, where a survey will be imenced for a new branch of this_railway system. The com- pany was moving under instructions from Engincer McDonald, and it is safe to say that it means business for that part of the gtate, It is distinctly given out that the wri Lacitic folks will not ren idlo ng the present_season, evidently entered the state to stay and grow up with the country. City News and Notes, A case was commenced in the district court, to-day, enjoining W. 5. Hamilton from LINCOLN BUREAU OF THE OMA®A Brn, } hklnmhhmlnmd council. The case was brought by O. W. Webster. His peti- tion sots up that the first election was logal, and upon this point ho basos his suit, If sus’ tamed by the court, W . Cooper will ropre. sont the Fourth ward in the city council Taylor, Curtis and Mrs. Woods will have their proliminary hoaring before Judgo Stowart, to-morrow, for tho murder of Bob Woods, ' Curtis aud Mrs, Woods will bo_ar- raignod as accessorios boforo the fact. It is quite. generally thought, today, that Mrs. Woods will bo discharged'at the hearing. It is said that Shorif Molick exprossos this opinion, and he is in possession of more of the facts connectod with the crimo than any other porson, He nlso says ho hns enough evidonoe to conviot Curtis and Taylor., phividind+hahotnk American Aristooracy, New York Commercial advertiser, Speaking of the four hundred—and every- body is speaking of the four hundrod—re minds ono of Saxe's versos: Depend upon it, my snobbish friend, Your family thread you can't ascend Without good reason to apprehend Yowll find it waxed at tho farther end By some plebeian vocation; Or, worse than that, your boasted line] May end in a loop of stronger twin That plagued some worthy relation, Of all the notable things on earth, The queerest one is prido of birth Among our flerco democracy A bridge across a hundrea years Without a prop to save it from sncers, Not even a couple of rotten peers, A thing for laughter, floers and joers, 18- American aristocracy. il i WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT. Views and Interviews Canght in Hotel Qorridors and Elsewhere. Walt M. Socley, the great republican seo- retary of all central committees and conven- tions, is in town, haviag just retirned from A hunting tour thrdugh the Indian territory. “No,” said he, “I was not in Oklahoma, ex- cept on the edgeofit, I don't want any of Oklahoma in mino, There are plenty of places. down in that country wmuch mors desirable, to locato in than that. [ koow where to find any amount of the best land You ever saw nd far better than anything in Okiahoma.™ ~ Joe Eastorday, Frank Mac donald, of Liucoln, and W. C. Long wore = with him. He says that they went through every place they wanted to go without molestation, had an elegunt tmo, enjoyed the trip immensely, saw some beautiful country and picked out the spot where they all expect to eventually locate. Harry Mann, many years ago advanco agent for Evans & Hoey, was in Omaha yes- terday with his family, en route to San Francisco, where he 1s to take charge, May 1, as general manager of the Now California theater. Heis very enthusiastic over the prospects of becoming a groat man in his business there, and_expects to s0on make an immense fortune. The house will be opencd May 15, and, said ho: “it is going_to be the finest theater in the world." Mrs, O'Con- nor, a vory wealthy widow in 'IFrisco, 1s building it &s a wonument to her enterprise and love for the drama. —~ Dakotan, ds, of the Fargo, Dak., Argus, and C.G. Schuyler, cashier of tho Citizens' Nutional bank of Fargo, are at the Millard. Major Edwards is the best known news. paper man in Dakota. He is a character. The stories that have been written about him would il volumes. The major tips the scales at 827 pounds, but that fact don't bother him and heis as chipper as a school boy. He has been a power in Dakota politics in'the past and really is now, although he and the Argus were rather knocked out ut tho last elections. But the major, like truth, crushed to earth willrise again, 2nd he and his Argus still cut a very big figure in North Dakota, Speaking of the political situation in that coning state, the major said that Gopthill, Mendenball and Hansborough are the most promi candidates for the gu- bor: i ' Ix-Governor Ordway, heof capital commission fame, has beai spoken of in connection with the oftice, but, tie major doesn’t think that he's a_candid- ate. Iix-Governor Pierce and Harrison Allen, he thinks, will be sent to the senato, but as to who will go to the lower house he is not 80 positive, as locality will have much to do with that. He says there will bo lively times in the territo s Miss Persson’s Story. The home of Mr. Siauey Barkalow was aglad ono yosterday. Benedicta Porsson, for more than six years nurse in Mr. Barka- low’s famiiy, and who, by her kindlinoss of disposition, has entwinod herself about the hearts of tho entire family, was a cabin passengor on board the ill-starred stoamer Danmark, and during the many days of sus pense, she was mourned as ono lost; but yes terday Mr. and Mrs. Barkalow and the childron had the pleasure of wel- coming her lome. Benedicta is o little Swedish girl, with dark hair and eyes, and very comely and neat in appearance. There are no traces ol the suffering, mental and physical, endured during the days that she was adrift upon the ocean. v this yoar. A Oareless Watchman, Oficer Ormsby reports to the chief of po- lice that at 1:45 . m., Oficcrs Fahey and Jumes Brady found the back door of the jewelry store at 1413 Douglas wide open, and with considerable difiiculty they awakened the man sleoping in the store aud made hin lock the door. Hundreds of imitations—dangerous to fabric and hands are tugging away at the props, which have put and still hold Pyle’s Pearline in its present enviable position. It's the standard—pure—effective—~harmless—a necessit in millions of homes. These imitators take names end- ing in INE—to deceive—peddle their goods from house to house-—claim them to be “Pearline”—*same as Pearl- ine,” or “good as Pearline,” Beware of them—-one wash may ruin your clothes. Their methods alone should denounce them—evidently they do—for the of »Pearline increases each day. consumptica It loes away with the drudgery of woman’s hardest worck, Begy grocis 2lla Peatiing, s JAMES PYLK, New York, R Ao v