Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 30, 1889, Page 4

THE DAY WH CELBRATE. To-day is for history as well as for sentiment. While we draw freely upon the fountains of patriotism and of na- THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. [/ iy TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1y Morning Edition) tneluding SUNDAY, tional pride, in contemplating the bfi“‘m"m ¥ 0% | moral and material greatness of our country, it will nesist to a fuller and higher appreciation of what has been accomplished in a hun- dred years of constitutional government in the United States to recur to some of the conditions of the country whon Washington was inaugurated in New York city on April 30, 1789. The popu- l1ation of the new nation was less than four millions, and the number of inhab- itants in the metropolis which will to- day entertain perhaps not less than three millions of people, was only about thirty-three thousand. Very generally the people were poor, and the few who were then accounted rich would be classed to-day as in only moderate cir- cumstances. There was no foreign commerce worth considering, and do- mestic trade was carried on in the slow way of wagon transportation, except be- tween the towns of the seaboard and on navigable rivers, where sailing ves- sols were the carriers, The very large majority of the people were engaged in S0 oK OEPiR, ROOMS 14 AXD it oK. , ROO) fi;‘m-o. WASRINGTON OFFIOE, NO. 613 URTEENTI BTREET. INCE. 11 coms 't lfl_l'"ll'_fl Ing to ne' ol munications rein! . hfm matter should mumn:m o the EDITOR oF THE Bi BUSINKSS LRTTERS, J“ business letters and remittances should be dressed to T 1 PURLISHING COMPANY AlA. Drafts, checks and postollice orde; Do miAAs piyabis to the order of the company. 46 Bee Pablishing Company, Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. Notice to Agents In order to successfully rectify any fault in the delivery of papers, it is absolutely neces- sary that we know the date on which papers were lato or missing. 1f ate, give the time and train on which T Brr should have reachod your town, Also state from what direction, 50 that we can locats the troubie and apply the proper remedy. Papers are frequentiy carried by a town through the carelessness of the route agents, ana when this occurs, we can, with full Information, place the bisme whero it belongs. We will conalder it a favor if agents.and suo- | agriculture, and the few gim- scribers will notify us at once whenTne BE® [ plo jndustries that had been Z411A to reach them promptly established were only in the THE DAILY BEE. fivst stage of development. Iulton’s steamboat navigated the Hudson more than eighteen years after the first in- auguration of Washington, and it was thirty-eight yeursafter that event when the first railronds with iron tracks were laid in the United States. The journey of the first president from Mount Ver- Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btato of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, %% (George B, Taschuck, secretary of Tho Des Pub- 1UshingOoniva ny, doss solemuly swear that the mctual circulatioh of Tug DAILY BE for the week ending April 27. 1850, was as follows: Eunday, April21. Mondny. April 22 Tuesany, Avril 2 Wednesday, April 2i non to New York, made as far as Hliza- ;ffi':"'li,élmf% bethtown, N. J., by coach, and thence Bat y. April by barge, consumed seven days. What a contrast, fairly illustrative of the national progress of the country, was the journey made in a splen- dialy equipped special train by President Harrison from Washington to New York in as many hours as the trip of the firstpresident required days. Yet the citizens of the new republic were a huppy people. They bad achieved independeuce of a foreign power; they had passed successfully through the strife and controversy, much of it very bitter, of framing and adopting a constitution ‘‘in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of 1tberty to ourselves and our posterit; they had chos Average, . UCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed to in my presence this Zith day of April, A. D. 1889, Seal. N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Btatoot Nebraske. |, County of Douglas. g George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- mu«n and says that he 1s secretary of the Bes blishing company, that the actual average Qally circulation of 'THE DAL month of April, 1885, 18,744 copie: 18,183 copiea: for June, 1884, 1 July, 1 033 coptes; for A coples; for ‘September, 1553, 15154 copies; ‘for October, 1688, 18,084 copies: for November, 1855, 17,988 copies; for December, 1888, 18,22 copies: for January, 18%0, 18,574 coples: for February, 1E80, 18,946 coples; tor March, 1849, ‘(,Pfi';t"r‘r:};iufi. CHUCK, GEORGE B, Sworn to before me and bscribed in my presence this 16th day of April D., 1889, N. by FRIL BEE for the My, 1888, ‘Notary Public. PATRIOTISM aud Georg;_\\;na\|xnglon , Omaha, THE gas 18 escaving out of the Okla- homa boom and the dupes are returning home. IT looks now as if the C will be torn into strips by the desperate boomers. Avrnovan the New York legislature has passed a ballot reform bill, ballot reform will be as far off as ever in the Empire state, THERE are thirty-four hundred appli- cations for some two hundred counsu- lates. No wonder the public men in ‘Washington look haggard. Couxcin BLUFFS is determined to have a union depot in the heart of the city, and if grit and enterprise count' her people will get it speedily. PAUL VANDERVOORT scems to have taken a contract to save Con Gallagher’s head from decap ion. If this be true, the postmaster can be commisserated. THE SUNDAY Bk showed conclu- sively that cottages are in demund in Omaha at good rentals, and that flats are growing in disfavor and remain tenant- less. Thisisa straw. ‘Tug proclamation of Mayor Broatch, ealling upon our citizens to suspend their daily avocations in order to cele- brate the ceutennial of Washington’s inauguration shouid meet with a hearty response. GENERAL CLINTON B. bulwark and leader of the prohibition party of Now Jersey, is reported to have FISKE, the become tired of the third ment. It must have from Massachuset purty move- been the news which struck him. Tne sidew pector draws the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars a year, The conundrum is, what ser- vice does he render for this The sidowalks in many parts of the residence portion of the city are a disgrace to OMAHA still kecps up the farce of maintaining a vest house at an annual expense approximating nine hundred dollars. There has not been us much as the shadow of a patient at this place for years, but for all that a tax-eater is paid by the city for warming his chair. JAY GouLp refused permission by New York City's aldermen to con- vert a big slice of the Battery into a “loop” for nis elevated railroad. Has Jay Gould lost his persuasive powers in getting whatever he wants from New York aldermen? SUBURBAN towns will appreciate THE BER's offorts to secure” for them such train service as will enable their towns- peoplo to leave home early in the day, transact business in Omaba at midday, and return home in the evening. Omaha merchants may also appreciate the effort. . semm————— Tue people of the interior of lowa are natuyally indignant at the action of the rm]r)::ulsin substituting mixed trains and irregular service for rvegular pas- senger trains on their branch lines. ¢ alone is delivery of mail de- layed, but business is seriously affected in the smaller towns. ‘This should afford suffizient grounds for complaint to the state commissioners. DAKOTA issetting hercap to attract a large immigration this year. The promise of statehood and the prospocts of the early opening of the Sioux reser- vation are powerful influences in di- recting the attention of home-seekers. The railroads, moreover, still huve large areas of desirable lands to dispose of and this combination of circumstances can not fail to be to the advantage of Dukota, erokee Strip | opposition or turmoil their first presi- dent, and having created a nation and put in operation the machinery of con- stitutional governmeut they looked to the future hopefully, joyfully and con- fidently. It will be interesting to note the cir- cumstances which led to Washington being inaugurated in New York and to the occurrence of that event on April 80 instead of March 4, the date fixed for the establishment of the new govern- ment. The last article of the consticu- tion provided that the ratifications of the conventions of nine states should be sufficient for its establishment be- tween the states so ratifying. The re- quired number of states was secured by the nction of the New Hampshire con- vention on June 21, 1788. It then be- came the duty of the congress of the confederation to make arrange- ments for putting in opertion the new machinery of government. After a good deal of discussion it decided to make New York the seat of government, and on September 13 con- gress pussed a resolution directing that the choice of electors of president and vice-president should take place on the first Wednesday of January, 1789. It was provided that the electors chosen should meet in their respective states on the first Wednesday in Feb- ruary and cast their votes, and that the new congress should meet in New York on the first Wednesday in Murch, which was the fourth day of that month. The constitution having provided that each state should appoint electors in the manner directed by the iegisluture, in six of the states which had ratified the constitution the appointment of elec- tors devolved upon the iegislatures, while in the others the choice was left 10 popular election. The electoral col- s met at the appointed time in Feb- ruary, except that of New York, whose vote was lost through a controversy b tween the two branches of the leg lature as to their respective rights in the mutter, and without any agrecment everybody cast his vote for Washing- ton. It was nearly two months after, April 6, when & quorum appeared in the senute so that that body could or- ganize for the purposo of counting the votes for president, which was accom- plished on thot day, Eight days later Washington was notified at Mount Ver- non of his election. He departed for leg New York on April 16 and arrived there on the 23d, the inauguration being further delayea by a debate in congress as to the title by which the chiel executive should be addressed, this being finally settled by a committee of both houses agreeing that the form of address shoula be *‘the President of the United States.” Thus it was that New York beeame the first seat of government under the constitution, and Washington was insugurated ncarly two months later than the date which had been fixed for establishing the new govern- ment, It has been well said that the inau- guration of Washington was the com- pletion of the contract entered into by the Declaration of Indepeuden hat April 30, 1789, was the perfect Hower that came from the seed of July 4, 1776, Tt was a grant eveni for New York, for the young vepublie, and for all man- kind. Tts celebration in the metropo- lis to-day with uuparalicled pomp, pageantry and magnificence of patri- otic display and enthusiasm will worth- ily commemorate a consumaation sec- ond in importance to none in our his- tory or in the political unnals of the world, CONSULS AND COMMERCE. If it be the fact, ag stated, that Presi- dent Harrison contemplutes a reorgan- ization of the consular service with rel- erence Lo improving it as an instru- mentality for promcting the foreigan commerce of the couniry, he proposes B e v it 2 ~ THE OMAHA DAILY REE: TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1839 something which has long been needed and will be heartily approved. The pres- ident is said to have long believed that too littie regard was paid, in the appoint- ment of consuls and commercial agents, to the interests of American commerce abroad and in this he is entirely right. The rule has been to use the con- sular service for the payment of cam- paign debts, and as a convenient way in which to dispose of a class of poli- ticians who could not be provided for at home. Political hacks who had some Iittle claim to recognition, but whose appointment at home would have been damaging to the appointing power and the party, have been packed off to a consulship, where the public eye could not be upon them, and where they were pretty sure not to do anything to attract attention to themselves, Thus not ouly have the commercial interests of the country abroad not been intelligently and properly cared for, butwe have lost in the respect of other countries, and particularly of such as have long maintained the practice of keeping their consular service on a high plane of usefulness and efliciency. A reform in this matter was attempted a dozen years ago, and some improve- ment was effected, but the effort to re- organize the consular service was not persevered in and it retrograded to nearly as bad a condition as before there was any attempt at reform. The last administration showed at the outset a desire to move 1in the right direction, but beyoud retaining the best of those it found in the service it did little to improve it. A majority of its appoint- ments were conspicuously unfit, and have done nothing to benefit the com- mercial interests of the country., The present administration, therefore, has an opportunity to win great credit by such a reorganization and reform of the consular service as will win respect for the country abroad and materially aid m extending our commercial relations with other countries, and it need hardly be said that it can give its most careful attontion to no more important work, It is becoming, yeer by year, more imperatively necessary that we shall extend our foreignfeommerce, and obviously a thoroughly intelligent, cap- able and efficient consular service can help to this result, while a service that does not possess these qualifications must retard our progress. The reported views of President Harrison regarding this matter appear eminently wise, es- pecially his opinion that consuls and commercial agents should be men of business training instead of politicians, and as he will doubtless have the next congress with him in support of consular reform he ought to be able to place that service on a highly useful and efficient basi s. A JUDICIOU The county commissioners, at their meeting on Saturday, adopted a resolu- tion which proposes a judiciousand nec- essary reform. This was that all appro- priation sheets shall be read once ouly at any regular meeting of the board, and shall then be laid over until the next regular meeting, when the same may be read a second and a third time and passed. That is, the board pro- poses that hereafter, all claims aguinst the county shall undergo a move caveful scruting than has been the case here- tofore, at least in several memorable in- stances in which the majority order payment at once, thereby inviting sus: picion of collusion with the claimants. A rule similar in effect to that passed on Saturday was adopted membership of the when the board of not strietly adhered to, and it is to be hoped the decision of the board to return to the sound principle of giving all bills a thorough examination, and allowing ample time and opportunity in which to ascertain the cor- rectness of claims, will be consistently enforced. It is due to the taxpay that this be done, aud the credit of the commissioners with the public is also involved. The proposed reform is com- mendable, and if faithfully carried out will be beneficial. ThEe lead pipe market is demoralized owing to the fight now going on be- tween the factories in St. Louis and Cincinnati, Local manufacturers are. attempting to hold prices stiff under the protection of the agreement made between manufactu were not to be cut in tories weve operated; bers have droppod into Omaha and quoted pri way below trust figures. Three dollars and eighty-five cents, and under, has been named for car-load lots, and two dollars is talked for, but not anticipated. The woolen yarn mar- ket is also disturbed and representa- tives of eastern manufacturers ave here quoting Saxony and Germantown yarns at fiity-five cents per pound, which is less than the cost of production, Job- bersare availing themselves of the cut prices, as it is not believed that these low figures will prevail long. but outside job- Ir 18 manifestly the duty of the board of county commissioners to fully protect the county in the matter of the appoint- ment of a superintendent of construc- tion of the county hospital, and while the objection raised on Satur- day to the conditions under which Mvr. Coots was appointed does not ap- pear to have great force, still it is well enough that the matter was re- ferved for further consideration. It is always desirable that the greatest care should be taken in arrangements of this nature, so that the interests of the pub- lic may be fully guarded. The bourd did wisely in appointing Mr. Coots, who is 0 thoroughly capable and trustworthy man, and he having signified his will- ingness to accept conditionally, it is to be hoped pothing will now oceur to pre- vent his performing the service. Undoubtedly Mr. Coots will not object to any reasonable and just arrange- ment deemed nccessary to the ade- quate protection of the public, Ti great gatheving of the militia of the stutes at New York to-day will be taken advantage of by the war depart- ment to obtain information regarding the condition aud discipline of this citi- zen soldiery, aud other matters of in- tevest, un olficer baving been detailed to watch the mpvements of the militia and report the results of his obsorva- tions. It has boen reported, also, that military reprosentatives of a number of foreign governments aro to take obser- vations of this militia display. It thus obtains an importance beyond that of & mere holiday pagoeant. S — I 18 highly creditable to the Ger- man-Americansocieties of Omaha that they intend to observe the centennial of Washington'’s inauguration with a parade and musical entertainment, and it is to be regretted that the spirit of patriotism they exhibit is not more widely disseminated in the community. Omaha should have made this event memorable in its history by a celebra- tion that would have attracted thous- ands to the city. As it is, most of the credit for the observance of the day here will belong to the countrymen of Baron Steuben, one of the most trusted nds and valuable assistants of Washington, whose services make an illustrious chapter of the history of the revolution THE inconsistency of meat inspection bills is well illugtrated in the measure now pending in the legislature of Mis- souri. If passed its operations will be restricted to cities of five thousand or over. In other words ‘‘diseased” packed beef can in that event be sold to the farmers, to the country towns, and even to the suburbsof St. Louis. But in that city itself no meat can be ex- posed for sale unless killed by local butchers. FUROPEAN cities have a way of bringing strikes to a close that may well be adopted when the occasion war- rants, The recent street car strike at Vienna was torminated by the munic- ipal authorities deciding that the street railway company should forfeitits twen- ty-five thousand dollar security and pay five thousand dollars penalty daily until travel was resumed. As might have been expected the company restored the strikers to their old positions and the lines began running immediately. Fur- ther comment is unnecessary. THE people of Idaho are not at all discouraged in their clamor for state- hood by the fact chat the population of the territory is considerably short of the number necessary to choose a renre- sontutive to congress. It is proposed to hold a constitutional convention and go through the forms of state, making, trusting to cougress and to luck to do the rest. ) SHOULD the Chicago and Alton go to rate cutting it would seriously disturb the happy family in railroad circles. Just now it is\all the western railroad managers can do to hold the fractious Alton from kicking over the traces and breaking out of the harness. GoveRrNor | Loorer, of Colorado, wants a convention of leading men of that state to take steps to see to it that the west gets her share of appropria- tions in the Rifty-first congr The governor of Colorado is laying his plans early for his irrigation schemes. Upon the very best of authority it may be stated that Richard, he of the county com- missioners, is himselt again. ‘The Omaba excursionists from all reports have the deadwood on the klack Hills, Major 'fom Horn, of Fremont, is a genius of vast resources, and his modesty Joes not affect the frequency of his mellew toot. He just developed a schemo to utilize the widespread power of the Platte and improve its comploxion and circulation, The oil wells of Wyoming are to_be turned loose on its placid bosom, to ride down to civilization, reflnemont and Fremont without a rudder, There the lubricating cream will be gath- ered in and stored for shipment. The mmjor is certain of success if he czn induce Harry Deuel to part with his skims M d o He's a § nander. St. Louis Post-Dispatehi. Stuyvesant Fish, of the Centennial Fish family, differs from all other families of fishes 1n his propeusity for getung into the Several of the feliows who went to Okla homa with the intention of growing up with the country have beon—alas !—ulready planted. a Chicago Tribune, The Prohibition bark went down Through lack of care to g Clear of a sunken, jagced rock That's down on the chart as “Cider.” AR AR P The Road to Happin St. Paul Pioncer-Press. President Harrison wants a new house in Washingwon. He should have it, Then let him neglect to put his name on the door, erase the street number, and he may be happy yet. e New York's Committee of Reception. Ne orle World. Inspector Byrnes estimated that we now have 400 professional thievi in this ity ready to receive our centennial visitors, Mr, Byrnes is not as proud of s Four Hundred as Mr. McAllister is of his, ciu o} sl i Would Need a Body Guard, Washington Post, 1t is observabie with the naked eye that when the oflice sets oul to seek the wan it has o €0 with a bodyguard to keep frow be- ing kidnapped on the way. The to Hold Your Noses. New Yok Press, 1t the public is now to luve served up to it a steaming stew by wodern *‘poets of pas- ers of mildewed s it would rn for the decent people sion” and Zolaistie catel exotics i nd deluge to wash the n's Now Cailing. Chicago Times, Mark Twain has gone into & new business, He informs the public throngh the ¢ of the Sun that be can and w or tattoo marks from bumaus so afflicted, Persous desiving such reliof can address Mark Twain, care of the New York Sun, A The Guihries of Oklahoma, Eansas City Journal, The “*Oranges’ of New Jersey now have a rival in the **Guthries” of Oklahowa, There are now, besides Guthrie proper, East Guth rie, West Guthrie, North Guthrie aud South Guthrie, each with its owan suburban re deace addition S You're All Wrong; Its O Kansas Oty Times. The New York Sun classes New York and ha. P tho two gayest cities on the globe. Not so. San Francisco is the gayest as well s the fastest city on the American con- tinent. San Frauncisco is the Paris of Amerioa every day in the weok, Sunday in- cluded, R — An Irrisistible Inference. New York World (Dem.) Tn denying a reported intorview in which he was made to say that he would not be a candidate for president in 1803, Grover Cleveland is careful not to dwell upon this specific point. The inference is that Mr, C. is rendy to serve when the country calls with a loud voice, Testimonial. Richmond (Va,) Times (Dem.) Presidont Harrison is a republican; ho may have been n radical, but as prosident of the United Statos tho high responsibility has called him to tho court of his own honest conscienco, and we do not believe that he will be wanting in the trials of his hard and difeult position. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. .y company has been organized A creaume in Ewing. The case of Dr. Gandy, in Richardson county, has been postponed till May 28, Broken Bow has a school population of 457, an increase of 100 over last year. West Point has only four strugaling news- papers, yet another is about to be iaunched on the troubled sea, Lightning caught two mules asleep in the barn of Gus Backus, near Oukland, last week, The shock filled them with mortifi- cation, The farmers of Webster and York coun- ties have resolved that 15 cents is the maxi- mum price that they will pay for binding twine this year, The knights of the grip hibernating at ngs, will give a banquet and ball at the Bostwick hotel, Thursday evening. The boys propose to ive their friends a sample of their sociability. A Des Moines darummer hurried to Lincoln last week to commit suicide, but a police- man nipped a coroner’s fee. The disgusted drummer could not find sufficient energy at home to shuflie off. Some remote and nameless admirer insinu- ates that Col. Tom Majors, he of Nemaha, is farming extensively this year. Itis hinted that he,is cultivating a consumi desire for the governorship. Burglars visited the store of John Vaboril in Linwood, and secured & year's supply of dress patterns, underwear aud furnishing goods, valued at $300, Iifty dollars will be paid for the cupture of the thieves and the goods. ‘The boomers of the Wyandotte plug road from Kansas have boen feeling the pnlse of Beatrice, aud insinuate that $30,000 *would be about the size of the pile necessary to se- cure an extension of the rust streuks. Beatrice appears a willing victim. &The white cap lunacy is breaking out in a mild form in remote sections of the state. These solf-constituted reguiators should bo vigorously informed that Neoraska raiiroad bridges are convenient and effective means of involuntary suicide. Hog Cholera Billings provoses to turn his energies to ive stock insurance. A more profitable scheme would be to start a hog ranch, liberally insure the porkers and fill them with virus. In that way he can effectu- ally inooulate the insurance treasuries. The Pacific Town Lot company has been organized at Fremont, with a capital of $100,000. The company will dabble in town sites und lots slong tue Pacific Short line, and cheerfully exchauge small slices of the earth for verdant cash. Charles Griffith, of Nebraska City, will not add his voice to the patriotic shouts on “this day we celebrate.”” While incautiously toying with the loaded end of a mule, he caught the animal’s shoe in his mouth, but did not swallow it. His jaws will recuperate in a sling for a fow days. T he Rock: Ogden has raised 330,000 of the $50,000 re- quired for an opera house, Last week 102 cars of shipped from Salt Lake City. Last year 79,045 cattle were brought into Wyoming, Texas coutributing 54,131, The Villard syndicate has secured a fran- chise for clectric and cable street railways in Tacowa, W. T, ‘ihe question of statehood is agitating the newspapers of Wyoming as woll as ambi- tious politicians. ‘The city council of Denver has enuacted a Sunday closmg ordinauce. The mayor is pledged to enforce the law. The supreme court of Nevada has affirmed the constitutionality of the law requiring sa- loons to close at midnight. Frank Derville, a dock laborer in Port- land, has fallen heir to 120,000 by the death of u grandmother at Cincinnati. The three lakes near Saratoga, which were supposed to contain prove to be genuine soda deposits. Cheycune has granted a franchise for street railways. The company is required to build and opcrate the roud within five years, The election for delezates to the constitu- 1 Beyond. mineral were Wyo., borax, tional convention of aloutana will ve held May 14. The conveation will assemble Ju! “The Laramie glassworks have been sold to F. Scrmysor for 316,015, 1t is probable t nt will be put'in operation at an rrigation will come into general use 1n Colorado this year. ‘I'housands of acres of land will be” brought under cultivation by this means, The postofiice at Mineral Point, Colo., is 12,000 feet above the sea level, but the salary of the postmaster is not regulated by the alti- tud Colorado claims to have produced and con- tributed £116,200,000 to the wealth of the na- tion. is does not include the $21,000 pro- duced with castor oil, Fort Russell is to be eunlarged and made one of the important posts in the departy of the Platte. An appropriation of 8 has been secured to carry out the plans, A lead of silver ore bas been suruck near Helena, Mout., said to be the richest found in It carries twenty-five to thirty feot , und the owners ask a even million urs for the property. Geologist Kunight, of Wyoming, pronounces the Dou; ‘recls mining district the rich- est in tue territory. ‘Ihero are now between 10 and 150 men” emploved in the district. “The ove assays from $25 Lo ¥300 a ton, A rich gold ledye is reported four miles eust of Ogden. Specimcus of rock taken from the ledge contain what is kuown as wire old, assaying from $10,000 to 520,000 to the ton, An amateur highwayman invited u railr man_in Cheyenne to “stand aud delive The latter ¢ diteh in the r separated wit Wyoming is erying out agaiust its swinish neighbors in Colorado, 13y a recent la: diversion of the waters at or near the Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorta, Whea she was & Child, sho eried for Castoria, When she beeame Miss, she elung to Castoria, Whonshehad Children, she gave them Castorla, GRATEFUL—COMFORTING Epps’s Cocoa. BREAKFAST, & thorough knowledge Of the natural laws . Dperations of digestion aad n wilich m: Byt i Contita : Viuk iy rSoives woll ‘oacane mwny & fatal sh Tortified with pure h1ood & Trame " —Civil S Guzel Mo simoly with boiling water or milk. Bold oaly i WALE pound s by Grocors iabeled thus JAMES EPPS & €0, " it ac i % o1 ser), sources of the Grand, Laramie and North Platto rivers is authorized, If tha farmers of Colorado take advantace of the act, Wyo ming will be soriously injured, and the_irri- gating ditches constructed on the Big Lara- mio rondered useloss. The largest grizzly bear ever seen in Wyo- ming was killed on Lodge Grass a short time ago. Several partios estimated the weight of bruin at from 1,000 to 1.200 pounds, Bruin was proparing for a big hug and was but a fow foot away when the hunter shot him, killing him instantly. A vory interesting discovery of cliff dwell- ings has just been made near the line be- tween Now Mexico and Colorado, at the lower end of San Luis Valley. The village, or buildings just discovered, was in_a_circle 000 yards in circumforence. The bricks are as light a8 pumico-stone, but very hard. About overy eight feet is & oross-wall, and tho apartments thus formed are about twenty feot long. Tho entire structure was covered two fect deep with dirt, and _nothing but a alight elevation on the siirface of the ground denoted its existenoe. plakie OUR CENTENNIAL, Ira L, Jenkin. Delightful task to string again tho lyre, And fan again the patriotic fire, That burned 8o bright one hundred years ago, As blood-stained foet made crimson winter's snow, And human love, still keeping step with time, Lifts up a Nation to the heights sublime. One hundreds years—Prometheus is un- bound! One hundred years, and aaded States are crowned, Clasped by a chain that reaches far away From northern wilds to Southland’s sunny bay. Our mountain ranges cloud-capped summits rear, And streams descend them running crystal clear, A million voioes lift a glad acclaim, Whose ochoes ring from Oregon to Maine; From cape to cliff the echo never dies— Niagara's thunder bears them to vhe skies. ‘Thrice has the sword, in an imperiled hour, Been drawn to guard a Nation's sovereign power, And still the flag that flutters in the breeze ‘Waves on in triumph through all lands and seas. An empire holding its imperial sway, Sets up a milestone on its joyous wa Surveys the glories of its onward march, And plants the keystone in its crowning arch! Praise to the band that gave cur Nation birth, ‘Whose honored names have traveled round the carth; Uncovered heads will group around to-day, A debt of homage to the dead to pay, And sprinkle incense over hallowed dust ‘As man to man remembering what is just! And bow to Him who world on world sus- SURPISED OLERKS, | Democratio Fostal Cierks Got Ofola) Notioo to Quit, [ Postal servico oircles in Omaha are stirrad up and agitated more today than they have been at any time since the administration changed hands. Th unusual excitement was caused by the peromptory dischargo yosterday morn. ing of three postal clerks, James McArdle, C. C. Phillips and Mik, who has been stationed at the transfer. McArdle and Phillips were head clerks, running the Union Pacific line between Omal Ogden. No roasons are givon for this ro- moval. Kach recolved an official document signed by Superintendent Bell, informing him that his pay had been shut off and that his sorvices as an employe of tho govern- mont were no longor needod. They are all democrats, therefore it is generally conceded that this s the chief, if mot only oause, for_ thus disposin of them. ' Mr. MecArdla's dismissal groatly surprised every one about headquart- ors and the postofice, “'If romovals as wo have been led to beliove," said an old agent, “‘are being made solely to better the sorvice and rogardless of a_man's politics T can't understand why Jim MoArdle should be thrown out. He is not onlf of the best olerks we have, but is ono of best [ evor saw. It is true that he has ways been @ pronouncod partisan, and s cured his appointment through very strong democratio influence, but a more competent man for the business cannot be found. He made remarkably rapid advancement in tho work, having boon gradually promoted ahead of older men, from the lowest position to a §1,500 clorkship. A. W. Griffin, the old chief clerk, who was bounced last fall by Clave- 1and, recoived notico to-day that he had boen reinstated, and it is understood » will take the place vacated by MoArdle. Postmaster Gallagher says nearly all tno democrats on this, the Nobraska division, have been lot out. ‘There were twenty-seven of them when Bell took charge of the de- partment. Suprrintendent of Mails. Paul Vandervoort, the new superintendent of mails, entored upon the discharge of his duties as such yesterday. At present he will occupy one side of Postmaster Gal Iagher's desk in the private room aud becomo a part of the mixed cabinet that holds daily ns there. *‘If Con helvs me out," said , “I will agree to keep him in offide until his term expires.” ‘The remark pleased Uncle Jimmy Creigh- ton very much, and he thought there would be no trouble. It was plain to be seen that a mutual admiration society had already been formed, for he observed that in all politieal warfarcs, Paul had been able to hold his own. “That's a fact,” repliod the latter, and continuing he said, *I have been a bitter re. publican, but bave a great many democratic friends. Con has always been a good friend of mine, and the Cru(wwnl Were among m first acquaintanoes. hen I was chief cler] here John Creighton used to come and sit in my ofice almost every day." All Will Olose. All the bauks will be closed to-day, they having docided that the prosident's con tennial proclamation makes the day a legal LA et will b [? it 3 There will be no courts to-day, Clerk As N:;i‘;x‘:s‘ livo where God our Father | nogres proposes to close his oftice, o does Sheriff Coburn, and the county commission Omana, 1880, ers say they cannot be expected to do busi. nos “when overybody is baving o good ime. . Judge Shields wants it distinctly under. stood that the county court chambers will be locked ugainst the admission of everybody to-day. ——— The postoffice will be open only from 12 to 1 to-day. The carriers, how- ever, will make their regular morning delivery. 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