Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1889, Page 4

N gy THE OMAHA DAILY E: MONDAY, JULY 15, 1889, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. A aron TRRMS OF SUBSORIPTION. D atly (Morning Edition) including Sunday DR ORO XORE. .. coreoiviseroensantvase Forsix Months, ... 1 L W ForThree Months | . [ 1 . The Omaha Sunday Tes, mailed to any Address, Ome Year ... ... Weekiy fleo, One Year. . bt Omana Office, Bee Futidi W, Corner Beventeenth ahd Farnam Stroet Cnicaga Office, 867 ltookery Building. New York Office, Rooms 14 and 15 Tribune Tuildmyg, Washington Office, No. 613 Four teenth Strect. . CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edi- torial mattor should be addressed to the Editor of the Bee. BUSINESS LETTERS, All business lettors and_remittances should addressod to Tho floe Publishing Compnny, Omaha Drafis, checks and postoffice orders & bemade payable to the order of the company. The Beg Publishing Company, Proprictonse E. ROSEWATER, Editor. = = - THE DAILY BEE Bworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, County ot rmums.}"‘- George I, Tzschuck, secretary.of The Ties Pub- hingCompany, does solemnly swéar that the pal elreulation of THe DAILY Ber for the ek ending July 13th, 1850, was s follows: Funaay, Monday. J Tus Wea Thursday, Friday. July Baturday, Jul Average....... .18.023 GEOKGE B, TZSCHUCK, Eworn to before me and subscribod to tn my ‘presence this 13th day of July, A. D. 1880, Seal, N. P. FBIL,'Notary Publie, ‘State of Nebrasks, | onnty of Douglas. (%% George B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- 1)01. and says that he is aacramr{ of The B Publishing company, that the actual Average daily circulation of The Daily Bee for the month of June, 188, 10242 coples; 1¥1 (33 coplens for August, 1855, 1 for Feptember, 1688, 1 coples; 186K, TR(84_coples; 'for November,- 168, copies: for December, T8, 18221 coplés; for Junuary, 1680, 18,574 coples: for | IR0 coples: ‘for Maren, 1550, 18, April, 189, 18500 coples: for' May, 189, 1 coples. GEO. B. T8CHUCK, worn to before me and subscribed inmy (Seal] " presence this 3d day of June, A. D. N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. — THE fat stock show is coming. yruacy, 185, t copio: Tr is expected that Paris will annex Buftalo Bill, —_—_— TuE negotiations for the opening of the Sioux reservation have gone alroady tao far to end in smoke. NEWS comes that the Grand Old Man has lost his grip in England. Even the radicals have shunted him. Joun B is now having a set-to with John L. Sullivan and it looks as if the champion will be knocked out before the seventy-fifth round. MERCHANTS' week gives promise of an unqualified success. There is a move all along the line of the committees in charge of the celebration. THE proposed opcration of the motor line from Council Rluffs through Omaha to South Omaha will prove a shrewd and profitable investment for its projectors. OMAHA’S chair fctory is about com- pleted. axd loyalty to home industries demands that every man, woman and child shall hercafter sit upon an Omaha-made chair. AN English syndicate promises to furnish Chicago with cheap gas. If it succeeds in breaking the powerful gas trust of that city it will be welcomed by Chicago with open avms. THE bankers who are the backers of large railroad systems have taken a hand in their zomplications with a view to whipping the railroads into terms, It remains to be seen what influence they possess in ending the rate wars and demoralization in railroad circles. IpANO wants the untry to know that if admitted to statehood, a funda- mental plank in her constitution will be inserted prohibiting polygamy within her korders. This is agreat sacrifice to thousands of people in Idaho, but for all that the territory can't enter the union just now. ' ONE of the absurd rumors afloat at Washington js that Senator Manderson is to be appojnted to the supreme bench vacancy, and that Congressman Dorsey has everything arranged to step into Manderson’s sonatorigl brogans, This will be very interesting news both to President Harrison and Governor Thayer. NEBRASKA has a particular interest in the admission of South Dakota to statehood and in the speedy opening of the Sioux lands, inasmuch as a large slice of the reservation bordering on the Niobrara river will be added to the territory of this state. The strip is said to bo a fine farming country, and there is every reason to believe, if all goes well, that it will soon be filled by a large farming population. —_— *PuE publication of the gigantioc cap- Halization which the lead and sugar trusts created has finally caused wide- spread alarm and the wild speculation in these forms of certificates has boen checked. It must now impress itself upon these blind pool trusts that they have overreachod themselves in water- ing their stock. Possibly, however, they have played their confidence game toa finish and are now letting in the dear public on the ground floor, Trepress of the country is at pres- ent unusually exercised over the true authorship of the “*Arthur Richmond” letters which scored the last adminis- tration so unmercifully through the North Avervican Rev'sw, The doath of Allen Thorndike Rice, who, as editor of the Review, suggested the letvers, re- moves the leading witness who could have answered the guestion. However, speculation is rifo and there seews to be a8 many claimants to the honor as there are to the poem, “‘Beautiful Snow.” The fact is that the unkuown Junius was not one but many writers, But whether it was Rice himself, William Heory Hurlbut, Gail Hamilton, Donn Piatt, Julian Hawthorne, A. R. Caz- auian, some unknown “‘Richmond” or & combination of them all is something which time alone may tell. CONGRESS OF THE AMERICAS. The commercial bodies of the country have been asked by the state depari- ment to assist in insuring the success of the congress of American nations which is to nssemble in Washington in Octo- ber. These bodies are requested to supply facts regarding commercial con ditions in their localities, suggest topios for the consideration of the congress, and to give oxpression to opinions re- garding a policy for bringing the Ameri- can nations. into closer relations com- mercially. There should be a general and intelligent response to this invita- tion. The representatives of the United Stdtes in the congross should bs made as fully us possible conversant with the sentiments of the commercial organizations in every por- tion of the country respecting what they deem to be nocessary for promot- ing the object hoped to be accomplished through the congress. The fuller and clearer the information imparted the better able will our delegates be to pre- sent and advocate a policy which the majority of the merchants and manu- facturers of the country can approve. The cong! js called with a business ond in view solely, and it should have consideration for nothing else. Ithas no concern with politics, or with the in- tevests or welfare of any political party. It should have regardonly for the views and opinions of the men of trade and commerce, ignoring wholly what poli- ticians mway think or wish. The occa- sion calls for a full and intelligent ex- pression of yiews on the part of the merchants and manufacturers of the country. The outlook for the success of the congress is more favorable thaun it was a few months ago, or before the incom- ing of the present ndministration. The interest taken in the matter by the last administration was purely perfunctory, and this was so obvious to the countries invitea to the congress that the effect was to producel among most of them a fecling of indifference. In’ this respect there has unquestionably been an improvement, and while it is very likely still true that the countries which will participate in the congress do not expect very important immediate practical results, there is reason to be- lieve that some of them at least have come to look upon the conference as a valuable first step toward an ultimate commercial arrangement more satisfac- tory than now exists. At any rate the congress cannot fail to enable all the countries concerned to get a better un- derstanding of the resources and re- quirements of each, and to learn what may be practicableand possible for bring- ing them into more intimate relations. The United States having proposed the congress, national pride, if no other motive, should cause a genecral desire for such degree of success as may be possible, and to this the commercial bodies of the country may largely con- tribute by manifesting a proper inter- est in the congress. COMAILSIONER MQRGAN. The effort that has been made to create a public projudice against Indian Commissianer Morgan, and to cast re- proach upon the administration for his appointment, will have httle weight with right-thinking men. The obvious motive is not fair nor honorable. The rec- ords do certainly show that during the war General Morgan was convicted by a court-martial of sundry offenses, but it is also shown that this conviction— to some informal- ity, resulted in nothing further— did not shake his standing as an officer or his character as a gen- tleman. On the contrary, the testimo- nials of his brotherofficers and the thorough and hearty indorsements of such distinguished soldiers as Generals 0. O. Howard, Stoneman and Craft are an ample vindication which must sat- isfy every fair-minded man that it was morally impossible he couwld have re- ceived the approval and guarantee of such men if his offenses had been of the gravity charged. It is not questioned that General Mor- gan was a brave and usefulsoldier. He entered the army as a private and came out with the brigadier . general. and valuable service could have won such an advance. Upon his subsequent record there is no blemish. For nearly a quarter of a century he has devoted his unquestioned ability to labors for the betterment of humanity, and the testimony is that he has ren- dered valuable service. He has given much attention to the subject of Indian civilization, and is probably as familiar with the character and needs of the Indians as any other man in the coum- certainly as much so predecessor, for the tion of whom the element assail- ing Commissioner Morgan made a vigorous and persistent effort. Commis- sioner Morgan did not seek the position. He was among those who asked that Mr. Oberly be retained. But when the president had fully decided to appoint a republican commissioner of Indian affairs, and tendered the position to General Morgan, of whose capacity and fitness he had personal knowledge, it was accepted. No one doubts that the duties of the ofce will be faithfully and judiciously discharged. Twenty- five yonrs of honorable and useful work as a oitizen give Commissioner Morgan a claim to public confidence, and the force of that be diminished with fair-minded men by reason of some previous de- linqusncy tho gravity of which was not so serious as to preclude subsequont advancement in military rankand the unreserved indorsement of soldiers whose high character forbids the thought that it was not fully merited and enurely sincere. The disappointed friends of Mr. Oberly who are assailing Commissioner Morgan will harm ueither him nor the administration with men who respeet justice and fair play. which, owing brevet title of Only faithful ry, his as reten- ciaim will not e————— LIQUOR CONSUMPTION. The report jusy completed by the bureau of statisties, showing the con- sumption of liquor in the United States, possesses an interest for two quite an- tagonistic classes of people—the pro- ducers of wines and liquors and the pro- hibitionists, The report, of couirse, suys nothing of the moral and political aspect of the subject, but the figures will fur- nish the prohibition workers with prac- tical information, some of it not altogether encouraging to them. The most striking fact in the report is the growing consump- tion in this country @of malt liquors. The statistics go back to 1840, and they show that there has been an almost steady increase in the per capita consumption of malt liquors from less than two per cent in 1840 to nearly thirteen per cent in 1888, the decline in the use of distilled spirits being less marked, though material. An even better idea of the change that has taken place in the popular appetite for liquor is obtained from the fact that while the production of distilled liquors last year was not quite double the amount produced in 1840, the manufacture of malt liquor had .in- croused over thirty fold, or from twenty-three million gallons in 1840, to seven hundred and sixty-seven million gallons in 1888. The increase in the production of wines was also large, but without a proportionate growth in com- sumption. Obviously the American people have not yet acquired a taste for domestic wines, and the showing is far from encouraging to those engaged in the wine industry. As compared with other sountries from which statistics were obtainable, the consumption of all liquors in the United States is less per capita than in Great Britain, France and Germany, and as wo distilled spirits less than in Denmark and Sweden. France, it need hardly be said, largely leads all other countries in the consumption of wine. The number of persons who paid a spe- cial liquor tax last year was less by over twenty thousand than the previous year, o fact partly to be explained by the operation of high license in reducing the number of liquor sellers. The army of these was, however, still large, num- bering over one hundred and eighty- seven thousand. The report would have possessed an additional feature of in- terest by giving the number of licenses in each state, thus. affording official information as to the extent to which the national government author- 1zes the sale of liquors in states having prohibition laws. The growth of the consumption of malt liquors in the United States, with the decrease in the use of distilled liquors, are facts which distinctly count on the side of temper- ance, and are therefore against the ns- sumption of the prohibitionists that in- tempervance is on the increase. The simple truth is that there is relatively less intemperance in the country now than there was forty or fifty years ago. CONSIDERABLE mistrust and ill-feel- ing has been stirred up between the state commissioners appointed by Gov- ernor Beuver and the local relief com- mittees of Johnstown over the distribu- tion of the funds collected for the sufferers of the Conemaugh flood. It is even darkly hinted that vast sums have been misappropriated or squandered in areckiess manner. This 18 cectainly an unfortunate state of affairs and de- mands investigation. There can be little doubt but that money has been spentinjudiciously, owing to the press- ing necessity of the occasion and the lack of proper management. But, on the other hand, there has been considerable jealousy on the part of the local relief committees over the disbursements, due to the fact that the governor has pra tically taken the distribution of funds out of their hands. Itisa question in which not alone the people of Johns- town but of the whole country are in- terested, whether the money collected for relief can best be disbursed by the local committees or under the direction of Governor Beaver. THE opening of the Cherokee strip is likely to be complicated, now that the cattle barons have come forward asa competitor to the government. The Cherokee Cattle association has made the proposition to the lndians to pay them the sum of five and one-half mill- ions for the extension of its lease on the strip until the 5 woula indicate how absolutely necessary these grazing lands are to this compuny, and in all probability it would raise its offer if brought to a pinch. However, as the amount 18 almost as much as the gov- ernment is willing to pay the Indians for an outright sale of the strip, it would occasion no surprise if the Cher- okees be inclined to negotiate with the cattle barons in preference to the United States commission. — THE supreme court of Minnesota will in all likelihood be called upon to de- cide the constitutionality of the meat inspection law passed by the last legis- lature. A test case has already been forced and the outcome of it will be watched with interest. Although the law has been in operation only a few months, it is evident that the people of the state are disappointed with the measure and would be well satisfied to have it declared null and void for in- terfering with the freedom of trade between the states, The recent docis- ion of the Indiana bench isan import- ant precedent and it is dificult to see how the Minnesota judges will be able to arrive at a different conclusion. I¥ THE veto power of the governor of Washimgton be taken away, as proposed in the constitutional convention of the new state, he can nevertheless console himself for the logs by the thought that his term of office 15 to run four years. More Like an Octopus, Chwcago Tribuns, Viewod 88 to its salient points, to call a railway trust a triangle is putting it mildly. It is really an octopus. An ldea and an Incubus. New York Sun. The party was strengthened by defeat. Defeat rid the party of its two chief sources of weakness, & certain man a2d an uncertain idea. The democratic party is preparing for victory, like a strong fellow who wakes and finds himself free from an incubus. et Unwept, Unhonored and Unsung Boston Herald, It is said that sixty-three of the seventy- five delegates to the South Dakota constitu- tional conveution are in favor of prohibition, but it is not thought probable that they will iucorporate their, convictions on this subject in the cOMMTMation they are framing. Con- stitutional prohibition appears to have died a-borning in this coutry. ———— No Casa of the Kind on Rtecord. . Maltimore American. During his,trip to Norway the emperor of Gormany jyas knocked down and slightly hurt by & mass of 100 from a glacier. I it had been ju this country he would not have escaped so'édsily, as here tho mere shock of sceing a fall in ice is enough to kill the strongest wan, e ————— Mors Oznamental Than Usoful. < p\Pittsburg Dispateh, The antios and childish ill-temper of the Porsian ambassador have at least had the good effect of calling the attention of the public to the uselossness of the American mission to Persia. Al the necessary official communication between tne United States and the shah of Persia could bo transacted through the mails in the ordinary way, thereby effecting a saving to Uncle Sam of several thousand doliars. ———— No Place for Visionary Experiments. Utica Herald, The new states are inviting immigration and Investment. In proportion as they ab- stain from visionary experiments will men and money be attracted to them. Utopian schemes may be well enough 1 their place, but that place is not in & state constitution, and the delegates now assembled will act wisely if they select from the multitude of propositions only those which give uumis- takable eviaence of genuine utility. petsuwld —rnbiug GREAT MEN. The portrait recently placed on the walls of the Boston Medical library represents Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, seated 1n an oasy arm-chair, writing at a desk. Robert Louis Stevenson's mother, who ‘was with her son in the South seas, reports him as in greatly improved health and about starting on auother year's cruise. Oscar Fay Adams, the poet, is writing a life of Jane Austen. At present he is in England visiting her old home and haunts to gather additional material for the biography, Edwin Booth is a prominent figure at Nar- ragansett Pier this season. He is stopping for the summer ut his daughter’s cottage, and spends a great dea) of his time in long. walks. The latest gossip in Washington diplomatic circles is that John Hay, and not Colonel Elliott F. Shepard, is to have the Kussian mission. Mr. Hay isa man of wealth and the personal choicoof Mr. Blaine. While Millet's most famous picture brought $110,000 at public audtion at Paris, Millet's widow is 80 poor that she has heen unable to retain possession of the little cottage at Bar- bizon, where the artist lived and worked. A man with ar income of §10,000,000 a year is Colonel John Thomas North, who has great nitrate mines and factories in the far south, in Chili. Colonel North 1s at present scattering some of his superfiuous wealth in New York ¢ity. ‘The Yale stroke, Cladweil, has oficiated for ten college erews, and has never suffered a defeat. He has decided not to return to the theological school, but will go into busi- ness for himself. He thinks he could “prac- tice” better than he could preach, Terriss, Henry Irving’s right-hand assist- ant formerly, is now plaving Captamn Molyneux in a revival of “The Shaughraun,” which is a great success. Tyndall accepts as sound Pasteur’s method of inoculation for hydrophobia, ‘W. T. Walters, the Baltimore millionaire, is the possessor of a painting by Millet which is sometimes ranked before the famous “Angélus” of that paintér. It is a moonlight scene called ‘“The Sheepfold,” in which a shepherd, who has thrown his heavy cloak about him, opens the gate of the fold for his flock. The atmospheric qualities of the pamting are remarkable. One of the vory best examples of Millet is that in the gallery of Henry C. Gibson. One of the most interesting of recent events in Paris was the meeving between President Carnot and Marshal MacMahon. They met in the hall of the Socieby of Help to the Wounded, of which the marshal is president, and accosted each other with a friendliness highly satisfactory to French republicaus. MacMahon is still as agile and active as a young fellow of forty, He goes to the exposition nearly every day with his wife and takes a turn on horseback. The Bismarck-loving inhabitants of a vil- lage in Poscn have just colebrated the com- pletion of their monument to the chancel- lor, and_the following pompous inscription graces the front of the stone: *To the glorious first chancellor of the powerful German empire, His Highness Prince Otto von Bismarck, this monument is dedicated m gratitude and revercnce by the parish of Winitze, 1830.” On one side the words are engraved, “‘Forged with iron, cemented with blood, unity grew. It weathered the storms of the time;” and on the other, “We Germans fear God, and nothing else in the whole world,” D SPATE AND 1 RRITORY. Nebraska dottings. The West Point electric light plant will be in operation August 1. Natural gas has been struck in Lincoln county at a depth of 400 feet. Broken Bow is 10 have another grain ele- vator and work on the structure has already begun. Tramps fired the resulence of Caller James at Hastings and the building was entirely consumed. Last year 140,000 sheep were fed for mar- ket at Fremont and 160,000 head have already been contracted for this yegr. Lightoing struck two residences au Hast- ings Eriday, and s litle girl was severely though not fatally shooked. The young son of Dr. L W. old resident of Nobraska City, Jaw, recently, at San Jose, Cal. Mayor Wright, of Schuyler, has instructed the police to see that tha saloons are closod on Sunday, at and back doors, Ample pro has been made for the en- tertainment firemen who may attend the tournamdgh at Red Cloud this week. Lightning struck the house of G. W. Me- Kee, near Syracuse, and tao building was burned, but f 'the furnituro was saved. Broken BofBpasts of four strong banking firms, the lutbft@ddition being the Bank of Commerce, began business last week. “The board of supervisors of Holt county has ordered the submission of tho proposi- tion to erect t new counties out of that county. An extensi' pared for the teachers’ ins folkc August 5 10 17, The board ervisors of Buffalo county are discussin; wdvisability of bullding a poor ho on 160 acre farm which the county already owns. Mrs, 8. C, Warner, of Syracuse, aged eighty-tour, fell and fractured her left hip the other diy. On account of her age it is feared she will naver recover. The receipts of the Kearney postofice for the past quarter amounted to $3,513, an in- crease of 1,18 over tho corresponding period last year, and the people hove to soon secure free postal delivery. Mrs, James, the Broken Bow woman who eloped and was reported. to have died in Colorado, nas writien a letter to the Republi- can of that place saying she has never been in Colorado and that she is now on her way cast in the best of health. “Bony” Harrison, # Seward youth, gath- ered in considerable coin on thé Fourth by putting his head through a hole in a sheet aud charging @ nickel to all comers who de- sired the privilege of throwing eggs at the living target. The personal property of Thurston county nowden, St bR line of work has been pre- ingo! the Madison county which isto be beld at Nor- 1s assossed at $08.400 and the real estate at 801,383, The Omaha agency received an nssessment on_personal property of $7,207 and tho Winnebago of 84,508, with a 9 por cent reduction. nsiderable dificulty will likely be experienced in collecting taxes from the Indians. Says the Lyons Mirror: Dr. A, T. Hill,of this place, physician for the Omaha Indians under Cleveland, was removed the first of this month because his politics were not right: and Dr. Susan LaFlesche, an Omaha Indian girl, a medical graduate, was appoint- ©d to the position. She is a resident of the reservation, and is ready to administer ad- vice and physic. Four tramps stealing a ride in a car loaded with lumber, on the Union Pacific, were badly injured near Grand Island. A break in the air brake caused the train to stop suddenly and the lumber slipped over onto the ‘“tourists,” breaking. their limbs and badly bruising their bodies. The end of the car was cut_away and the imprisonod mon released, They are now_under the care of the company’s surgeon at Wood River. lowa ttems. Burlington wants a $30,000 and a $40,000 church at once. James Cattern, of Aibia, is about to pub- lish a volume of poems. The convention of the Towa jobbers will be held at Spirit Lake, August 7. Work is to be commenced at once on & $7,000 waterworlks plant at Emmetsburg. The sherift of Buena Vista county has made another beer seizure at Storm Lake. Despite the hot weather tho Burlington dancing club continues to hold weekly mati- nees, A four-days base ball tournament is to be held at Mason City July 30 to August 2, and prizes amounting to §250 have beea offered, A colored man contfined n_jail at Keokuk for drunkenness almost succeeded in butting nu]'.l his brains against the stone wall of his cell, Miss Paul, the daughter of a German min- ister at Parkersburg, is wasting away from the insane idea shat her father is dead, al- though she sees him every day. The Fort Dodgo council has ithdrawn the city patronage from the Messenger be- cause that paper made the fight to have the cows restrained and criticised the council for not restraining them, At the annual mecting of the K. of P. grand lodge at Oskaloosa next month the question of sclecting a city in which all future meetings of that order shall be held will be considered. There is talk of erccting a §0,000 building. Fifty-nine years ago Wednesday a Sioux Indian shot @ bald-headed eagle from the top of the hizh bluff just beyond the northern limit of Dubuque. A silyer clasp two and one-half inches wide was riveted round ono of its legs, The bluif from which the great bird was shot has ever since baen known as Eaugle Point. The Eastern Towa Dental association met. in Waterloo last week with thirty members present and elected tho following officers: President, L. K. Fullerton, Waterloo; vice president, C. A, Billings, Marshalltown; Secretary, E. L. Brooks, Vinton; treasurer, W. G. Clark, Cedar Rapids. The next meet: ing will be held at Marshalitown, A school land question from Fremont county has been submitted to the zovernor. About three hundred acres of school lands were sold some years ago, the county ass ing the responsibility and paying iu the same to the schooi funa. The Missouri river afterwards changed its course and washed out these lands. One of the pur- chasers is unable to pay for his share, while the other refuses to pay until the lands are delivered to him. The county asks to be re- lieved from paying interest on vhe debts. The Two Dakotas. Jamestown saloonkeepers refuseto pay a license. An artesian well is to be sunk at once at Eik Point. Rev. J. V. Willis has resigned the pastor- ate of the Plankinton Congregational church, The old-timo stage coaches still run_be- Sturgis and the interior of the Black Hills. There are prospects that a woolen nill will be erected at Rapid City this year by IKnox- ville, Ta., capitalists. Lawrence Larson, a_Towner county far- mer, has mysteriously disappeared, und it is feared that he has been murdered. The total wool shipments from the Black Hills during the past week amounted to 32,045 pounds, valued at $7,900.50, James Cavanaugh, a Sioux Kalls policeman, resigned because he was unwilling to arrest saloonists who kept open after midnight. A loaded stick of wood placed in Mrs, Wil- liam Morris' stove at Lead City by scoundrel, resulted in the complete dostruc- tion of the stove, but no other injuries. The mad nery for the Sioux Falls works has arrived and will be rea in twenty days. ‘The company has contr; ed for 400 acres of corn, and will put up 500, 000 cans of it this season. Men are at work in the Garden City mine in the Black Hills and a fine six-foot vein of ore is exposed for almost the entiro length of a seventy-five-foot tunnel. They have about 100 tons of ore on the dump, which assays from $16 to $61 per ton. Says the Canton News: W. J. Winer last Tuesday brought to this office a regular mon- strosity in the shave of a double pig. It con- sisted of two bodies and one head, four ears, cight logs and two tougues unitéd with o Siamese twins arrangement, and was _cer- tainly a cnriosity. Mr. Wimor had the freak put up in alcohol. 2 Joseph Bolack, of New Roclford, for three years treasurer of Tomlinson school district, is u defaulter to the amount of $£2,700. He started for the Canadian line ith the sherifl and his bondsmen hot on his trail. Bolack was to have settled with his SuCCesso and, being short, drew from the bank what money there was to the credit of tho school district and skipped. 2 A A TRIFLE OVERDRAWN, But We Do Read of Animal Yaras Almost as Remarkable. A family live in Harlem who nover have any elocks in the house, because o canary which they have always warbles the hours, says Puck. At 12 o’clock the Dbird turns three springs backward and sings **Annie Laurie.” The people are awakened at 7 o'elock each morning by the strains of *Bid Me Good-bye.” There isa horse in Cayuga county who hikes to climb up.the ladder of the stable into the loft, and from thence to the roof of the building and slide down to the ground. His repeated perform- ances huve made the roof 50 slippery that when lightening struck the place last summer it glanced off at once and fell to the ground, leaving the stable uninjured. A “wisconsin farmer owns a yellow dog, the exact color of a pumkin, which is called **Captain Jinks.” dog is very Meet and will overtak anything in the countey. His favor- ite amusement is to run in and out between the wheels of a fast-moving express train. The farmer is greatly avtached to him, and last week refused an offer of 3 which a travelling show- man made, A ent in Mississippi recently gave up its lite to save the community. The river was very high, and the dike which had been built to keep out the waters guve way in one place, and the water was pouring in unnoticed when the cat passod by, and, realizing the condition ot agairs, crawled into the hole and stopped the flood. It is estimated that #50,000 and a number of lives were saved oy the heroic feline, and the vil- lagers have built a beautiful tomb of red granite, with mice carved in relief, over the bones of the animal, ~ A cow is the property of a poor widow in the Ohio valley who supports hersel! by taking in washing. Every mightin the winter when the cow comes home to be milked she brings uuuth wood and brush on her horns to kesp her mis- treas in fuol for the noxt duy. - Ifhor pasture ground is ueeded for bleaching purposes the cow goes intoa neighoring cornfield to eat, She always rests under a tree during the noon hour, and starts to again at 1 o'clock precisely. The cow 18 of u sky-blue color, dappled with yellow. -— 5 It in every house a little of Platt’s chlorides were frequently used much sickness would be prevented, [ SHIN BONES WERE DAINTIES. And the Oannibals Oracked Them For the Marrow. THE IZIMU CAUGHT THE BRIDE. A Wierd Story of African Adventure Which Should Cause Rider Hag- gard to Hide His Dimin- ished Heaa, The Ola Kaffir's Tale. Tarly in this century, about 1820, says the Cape Times, the Basuto ohef- tain, Moshesh, being worried and har- ried by a host of enemies, intrenchod himself on a high, rocky fortress now, as then, known as Thaba Bosigo, whence much to the dismay of his assailants, he would hurl down high piles of stones, paclked up by night, on their woolly heads. The Baautos wero a brave people, but reduced by their enomies to very hard straits, 8o that they were driven by ab- solute starvation to resort to the horri- ble work of canibalism. 'This fiendish practice cortainly not to be debited 1o the account of the native s of 3 Africa na a rule. In the early it was not found among the Hot- tentots, nor even among the lowest of South African races, the bushmen; and it is just ay cortain that it has not heen among the Zulus, but, a8 an exception, as with the Basutos, it occurred in Natal about the same period, 1820-28. Sir Theophilus Shepstone, in a paper contributed some yearsago to the Royal Colonial Institute, says: ‘I huve heard many a stirring story of escapes from the cannibals from the lips of those who wore captured, and who had themselves listened to discussions as to whether they would eat tough or tender when th véve kiiled. I have myself con- versed with several men who escaped alter having been capwured by ‘Am- azimu, or *Man-Eaters,’ and_after hav- ing been told off to furnish th® next feast for their captors, and with one chief still living in this colony—who was compelled hy the cannibals to carry the pot in which he was toid he would himself be cooked. The scene of his pe is mot flve miles from the spot ritzburg) on which this paper is written, and at present forms part of the episcopal property held by Dr. Coleneo.” There is no reason to believe that the Basutos brought tne custom with them, though there is ample evidence that they practiced it during the time of their wars with Umziliganzi and with the Korannas,and it may reasonably be supposed that it has been car- ried on in a hidden, shamefaced in spite of the opposition of r chiefs, down to a very modern B Jassilis tells the stories of can- m which he heard from the natives on his first arrvival in Basuto- land, and, giving 1820 as a date, says that Moshesh put an end to those hor- rors. He suys there were “‘thirty or forty villages the ontive population of which 1s composed of those who were formerly cannibals and who make no socretof their pusclife.” 1 have seen, when quite a boy, the Natal Kafirs listen with eager and breathl interest to the wild, wierd and horrible tales that the elder Kafirs used to tell of their experiences in the gloomy fustness of the maluti—the high and wumbled ‘‘Double Mountains” of Basutoland I well remember a fine old Kafir, who, as seems to be usual with really good authorities, was rather taciturn vegarding the imparting of information concerning these and other wkable events, being at aded to relate some of his gone by. Of course the Zulus and the rest of the “human” tribes had the liveliost horror and the most awful ad of the ““Amazimu”—a name that mothers instantly silenced naughty children with. However, the old Kafir (he was one of Matiwane’s tribe, hailing from the Drakensburg, where the late Mati- wane’s son, called ““Zikali,” was gov- erning the tribe—the Amangwano— Zikali had been placed there to guard the mountain passes against tho mis- chevious and sometimes deadly inroads of the Bushmen); well, “the old Kafir took a driuk of native beer and cleared his throat, throwing, with a graceful jerk of his arm, his robe off his shoul- der, to give freedom to the impressive pr gesticulations em- loyed—much as the German orator of by would ease his shoulder is hand and addressed the ‘‘Romans, friends countrymen,” and all the rest. Those remarkable people, the Zulus, in telfing a story are most minute in matters of detail. 1 may I speak the Zulu like a native. Old Marweni then, the story-teller in ion, siid that he and two com een deputed i und, to whom she was to be given in age. **Well, people of my father,” , I old the ‘mothers’ to make some bread of boiled and then hard- baked maize, and the next morning we one of our sticks. through o af of this bread, and taking our buob- kerres and our assegais,and rolling our blankets up and slinging them over our shoulders,took the poor weeping maiden from her mother and start Through two rivers we had to swim and get through as best we could with the givl, who couldn’t swim. But we cut down a large bundle of dry reeds, and binding them together so as to make a sharp point of their ends, placed the bride- eloct on it, and piloted it, point forward, over the river. The lions about this time were very numerous, and it was a common matter for those who were too oltl to catch game to eat people every day unul they got quite used to it, and preforred human to game flesh, On! [ will never forget that first night. We had to sleep in a_bleak, miserable spot, and had chopped down a few bushes with Makuza’s (one of my companions) axe, and made a screen for the girl,and then made « fire to windward of the soveen; and having set an ant heap alight on either side, we all lay down to ). l‘t was pitch dark, * * * T fell asleep, * * * [ awoke with fearful feeling, The water was flowing all around ug, a dark nk of thick clouds which, as the sun set, we hud seen to northwestward had rolled down upon us and burst over our heads. The lightning was bluzing and blinding— broadand guivering ribbon-like streams of it danced blucly on every side, and the bellowing thunder crashed as it it soing 10 kill the earth. We were rhtened to speak, or everr to get up out of the water, when, suddeuly, the dog that was with us howled and yelped and tore as hard as he could right over us, and the next instant,with a terrible roar, almost like the thunder itself, a huge lion sprang upon us and bit Makuza, “Friends, I shall never, never forget the dull, scrunching quash that the brute’s teeth made on poor Makuza's bones. We struck wildly at him with sticks of the dead fire, and saw by the blaze of the lightuing that he wasa wale lion of the large black-maned apecies. But, my poople, it was all nve' in a moment, and the great beast leaped off with our friend in his huge jaws, while another vivid fash of hightning blinded us again, and another cracking clap of thunder setmed to deafen, stun and doprive us of all action. At last the miserable day dawned, and we had to go on, as the girl wouldn’t be left alone, and we were afraid to take her with us to look for what was loft of poor Makuza’s body, because the hon might take her also, and then our chiefwould killus. How- ever, it was no use looking for our lost companion, especialy as after the lion had done with him the hyenas. jackals, wild dogs, ete., would fall upon all that was left. After we got some distance from the spot, and the sun was up and hot, we iooked back and could see tho vultures circling overhead about the place whero we had slept, and ever and anon drooping their long logs and claws and swooping down to the ground, and wo only knew too well what that moant. Alas! it was a miserable time that— those two awful days in Basutoland; and 1 the only one that was to return! As the old kafir was reciting this story, with all the ever-glowing olo- quence and strong graphic powers of oratory possossod by theso people, I sy, to an eminent and singular degroe, 1t was most intevesting to watch the faces of his mute and immovable audi- tors as in the kafir hut the flickering firelight danced upon their swarthy and enrapt features, Not asound could be-heard, except every now and thon a deep, chest-intoned “Ongh!” which which spoke eloquently of the concon- trated attention paid to the tale of the narrator. “Yes, people of my father,” resumod old Marweni, “‘the nextday! The sec- ond day in Busutoland _was even more terrible, if possible. 'We had not gone far when the girl, pointing to some- thing running down the stoop side of n great mountain we were walking past, said, ‘**What's that’ We looked up, and I immediately rocognized from the wild look, the headlong speed and the long, upright, uncut hair, the fearful “Izimu’ or ‘human body eater.” quickiy told the girl it was all right, und not to be afraid, and told my com- panion, Sondoda, to stana by and we'd kill him, as he was only one. But alas, Sondoda w. youne. and the shocking stories he heard about the Au zimu had now, when he was actually looking at one of the demons of his nursery tales, utterly paralyzed him, so that ne was almost powerless, while the strange being ran shouting down the hill, “However, T engaged him myself. But it was all to no vurpose. I must cut the story short. It sickens me. With a wild yell, seven or eight mors cannibals burst over a little rise to our left and were on us like lightning just as I struclk my opponent down with my battle-axe. 1 now received a stunning blow on the head, and instinctively ran. The cannibals left me and busied them- selves binding the girl and Sondoda, who had, however, so far regained him- self as to strike a few blows to wound one fiend with his assegai. Just as I got to an ant-bear hole in the long grass I looked back, and seeing the Amazimus still securing what they doubtless thought their birds in the hand, I popped down into the hole and drew down after me onto my head the earth, grass and twigs that the ant bear had cast out. The cannibals came after me and looked for me a while, but not seec- ing me, scemed to think that they had enough for their larder, and returned to their victims. “*After some time,as I heard them busily engaged, I ventured to pop my head carefully out of the hole. I could see nothing at first, but gently dividing the grass with my hands, saw the brutes making a fire, while a ghastly-looking old hag appoarcd on tke scone with a roughly-made earthenware pot. I now found I was baaly wounded by one of their broad-cuiting assegais, and had my head nearly splitopen. Why say anything more? 1 saw them stab the girland Sondoda, and seem still to hear the dull thud of the sogais on their bodies. and their thrillingly mournful shrieks, but what could I do?—half stunned and badly wounded—and one to eight. I saw them cut my dear friends up, roast the shin hones first— eat the meat off them, and crack the bones for the marrow. I satentranced, quite forgetting 1 was showing my head — * ¥ m They boiled the rest. * T can’ttell any more. night now falling, I crept outof the hole and ran steadily toward Natal for my life. The good spirit of my dead father, T suppose, kopt the lions off me. 1 never saw the dog alter the lion had killed Makuza. I "got home the next mght—half in a dream-—sick at heart, miserable and melancholy. 1 told my sud tale to the chief and induvas assem- bled. The dog w: home.” Southern Nogro Superstitions. Women in the north have trouble enough over the servant girl question; bub thoir ways . aro naths of please antness compared with those of south- ern women-—except that the southern woman is less disturbed over the more serious situation, says the Milwaukee Sentinel. When a Virginia woman wants to change girls she is compelled t0 go at loust three days without any girl at all. The kitchen help is black, ‘of course, and superstitions. No col- ored girl will go into a house until three days after the re tiring help has™ vanished, for fear of being ‘“tricked”—in other words, hoodooed, placed under a spell—by the dismissed help. Whatever the colored person doesn’t undersiand he fears. He is full of superstitions, believes in good luck from the rabbit foot when in his own possession and in bad luck when it is *put on him.” Not long ago alarge number of negroes were on n Virginia railrond platform waiting for a trai to take them to a picnic ground. A HBoston drummer, with a face us seri- ous us & parson’s, took a piece of chalk and a rabbit foot and in the most busi- ness-like way began to make crosses on the backs of the negrod and touch them with the rabbit foot. The crowd broke for the woods ina panic and there was 1o pienic that day. - Origin of “We Wont Go Home," An interesting history of an old and well-known comic tuné was given by Prof. Ensel, a muric teacher, speech in the Music Teache tion yssterday, says the Louisvillle Post.” He said that when the army of the first Napoleon was in Egypt, in 1709, the camp for a while was near the pyras mids. One afternoon about sunset the band was playing. The inhabitants of the desert had collected near and were listening to the music. Nothing unusual happened until the band struck up a tune which we now hear under the name of “We Won't Go Home Till Morning.”” Instantly” there were the wilaest demonstrations of joy amon the Bedouins. They embraced eac! other and shouted "and danced in the delirium of their pleasure. The reuson was that they were listening to the favorite and oldest tune of their people. Prof, Enscl then stated that the tune had been taken to Europe from Africa in the eleventh century by the Crusad- and had lived separately in both utries for over seven hundred years. ‘This is certainly enough to make **We Won't Go Home 1ill Morning” a classie. Its ovigin is more of a mystery thao the source of the Nile,