Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 29, 1889, Page 4

S o THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JULY 29, 1889, THE DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ———— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, mddress, One Year. .. ‘Weekly Hee, One Year. Omana Office, Beo ksuilding, Beventeenth and Farnam Strests. Cnicago OMce, 57 Kookery Bullding. phiemYork Office, Rooms 14 ana 1§ Tribune Hlding, Washington OMce, No, 513 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edi- Serial mattor should be addressed to the Editor of the DUSINESS LETTERS, ANl business lettors and_remittances should e addressed to The lee Publishing Company, Omaha _Drafts, checks and postoftice orders bemade payablo to the order of the company. The Bee Pablis hing Company, Proprietors Bxr Building Farnam and Seventoenth Sts. i ———————— THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Stato of Nebraskn, County of Douglas. Georgo B Taschuck, secretary ot Tho Neo Publisbing Company, does solemnly swear thut the actual circulation of THE DAILY LEe for the week ending July 27th, 1859, was as follows: Sunday, July 21. v Monday, July 22 ¢ day, July 2 iy 3 Thursday, Frida) Baturi Average.......... g GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. to Hefore me and subscribed to in my this 27tn day of July, A. D. 188, [Seal.] NY P, ¥EIL, Notary Publiz, Btate of Nebraskn, [l County of Douglas. { %8 George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- Jons nnd says that hé 1y sccretary of Ths lioe iblishing company, that the actual averago daily circulation of Tk DAILy BRE for the month of June, 18, 19,242 coples: for July, 18,087 coples: for Augnst, 184, 18,183 coples; Tor September, 1888, 18, 154 coples: for_October, b1 8,084 coples; for November, 1883, 18,030 os; for Decenber, 1884, 18,223 coples; for Junuary, 184, 18,574 coples: ' fe 18,996 coples: for March, ApHl. 159, T35 copies; fo copless GEORGE Sworn to pefore me and subscribed in my 1] pretence this Ord day of Juno, A. . P. FEIL. Notary Public. — CousIN BeEN Forsom holds the key to the postofiice site. Ewor prese THe city hall plans are said to be finished. A sigh of relief is heard through the land. MeRCHANTS' week has gone up ten degrees in popular Tavor within the last twenty-four hours. —_— WHEN President Adams arrives in Omaha he will learn what kind of a union depot the city wants. THE establishment of a furniture fac- tory and stove works in Omaha should be a pressing invitation for kindred in- dustries to locate 1n this city. KANSAS CITyY is also talking of ex- tending her city limits and taking in her suburbs. Kansas City wants to make & favorable impression on the coming national census. It 18 a little too warm just at present toindulge in controversies about may- oralty candidates. It will be time enough for such work some time in No- vember. The city election does not oceur until the first week in Decomber. THE fact that the sudden fa'lure at Philadelphia is one of the largest dry goods houses in America hardly caused aripple in the business world is a fair index of the general stability of legiti- mate trade throughout the country. Two white clerks in the railway mail service at Lynchburg, Va., refused to instruct a newly appointed negro clerk. Superintendent Bell will now have an opportunity to inject a healthful dose of discipline in the mail service around Lynchburg. AND now it is charged that the con- troversy going on in New York City re- specting the effects of an electric shock on the human system in the Kemmler anvestigation is nothing more nor less than a discussion of two rival electrical companies as to the respective merits of their dynamos. TnomAs H., BLyrug, of California, had not a single soul to claim relation- ship with when he was alive. Now that he is doad and there are four mil- lions awaiting a claimant, one hundred and twenty-seven relatives have bobbed “up, and strange to say, the list is by no means complete. Sourn DAKOTA gets off cheaply in paying North Dakota forty-two thous- and five hundred dollars for all ac- counts that have been in dispute be- tween the two new states. With a clean bill of sale in her pocket South Dakota will be in admirable condition toopen up business on her ownre- sponsibility. THe American investor has not been caught by the glowing prospectus of the North American salt trust. Much to the surprise of everybody the subscrip- tions to the stock came in slowly, and when the books were closed the stock of the syndicate went a-begging for takers, This ialikely to put a damper to schemes which have for their object the fleecing of unwary speculators, —— THE agricultural bureau proposes to exporiment with certain varieties of European winter wheat, which are said to be rust proof. The result of the test will be watched with no little interest. If a qualivy of wheat equal to the best cau be grown in America which shall not be affected by the rust blight, a great service will be done to our farm- ers, who loose hundreds of thousands of ‘bushels annually through this scourge. . em———— HARVESTING hus begun on the great Dalrymple farm in Dakota. This is an incident of considorable moment indi- cating that the wheat of the northwest has matured this year about two weeks earlier than usual. Last year’s first froct, that came August 17, killed vast quantities of Dakota wheat. There is conseguently little danger that a sim- Alar afliction will blight the wheat crop this year, and the fact that it has ma- tured so early is a strong indication that tho condition of the crop is fully uptothe average both in quantity as well s in quality, FROM A DEMOCRATIC STANDPOINT Ex-Speaker Carlisle represents a large majority of the democratic party, and will undoubtedly be the leader of his side of the next house of represen- tatives. What Mr. Carlisle says in the August Forum on ‘‘The Republican Programme” will thercfore attract vory general attention. It appears that Mr. Carlisle was moved to this discussion by the article of Senator Morrill in the July numbor of The Forum, although he admits that he does not suppose the statemonts of the Vermont senator are in any proper sense authoritative, ‘‘or even that he has in every instance cor- rectly expressed the views of a majority of his party.” A contrary presumption is warranted as to the statements and views of Mr. Carlisle. It may be possi- ble to gather from these some idea of what may be the democratic pro- gramme. In considering the matters which Senator Morrill indicated as among the ‘perils in front of the present adminis- tration,” namely, the execution of the civil service law, the question of silver coinage, and the negro problem, Mr. Carlisle says as to the first of these that the delay of the president in appointing civil ser- vice commissioners, and his post- ponement of the order classifying the railway mait service, ‘“‘show conclu- sively that there is no great anxiety for the enforcement of the law as it stands.” Those familiar with the facts, even dem- ocrats, will fail to find any justice in this view. The present administration found the civil service commission re- duced to a single member, and it knew, also, that for three or four years the commission had been demoralized by personal fouds. 1t was also impressed with the urgent necessity of re- organizing the commission by the appointment of man in known sympathy with the reform, and who would be likely to work in harmony for 1ts promotion, The preceding adminis- tration had suggested the democratic member and he was accepted. The task of the new administration was to find an entirely scceptable ropublican member, and it has been very geuerally conceded that it did so, at least so far as his zeal and interest in thesreform are concerned. The desire thus shown by the administration to constitute the commission of civil service reformers must appeal to all candid men to be conclusive of an anxiety for the en- forcement of the law as it stands, and nothing has occurred since the commission was reorganized to warrant a different view. It has been pursuing without restraint a policy looking to the rigid enforcement of the law. As to the postponement of the order classi- fying the railway mail service, it was done in the interest of the service and as an act of justice to men, many of them old soldiers, who were thrown out dur- ing the closing months of the last ad- ministration on the score of offensive vartisanship. The service was suffer~ ing seriously from the incompetents who had been given the places of experienced and capable men, and it was absolutely necessory to the efficiency of the service that those who had been removed solely for political reasons should be restored. Especially was restoration due to the veterans who had suffered from the hos- tility of the democratic administration. The postponement was brief, but it was sufficient to allow of a great improve- ment in the character of the serviceand to do justice to men who had been faith- ful and competent officials. It will be in place to observe here that the appli- cation of civilservice rules to the rail- way mail service is not working with entire satisfaction. Those in charge of this branch of the postal service,the most diffioult of any, compiain that since the classification they do not as a rule get suitable men, and that the inevitable result must be damaging to the effi- ciency of the service. The situation would undoubtedly be much worse but for the postponement which allowed the restoration of experienced and ca- pable clerks. Mr. Carlisle is unquestionably correct in assuming that the republican party will not stop the coinage of silver. That was an esrly hobby of the last adminis- tration that found little approval even from its own party, and the Wall street influcnce that dictated it and was all- powerful with President Cleveland’s first secretary of the treasury, is not now potential in shaping and directing the financial policy of the country. Mr. Carlisle thinks that the '‘so-called negro problem is one thav will continue to vex the republican party as long as it is compelled to rely for success upon the solid colored vote, and no solution of it will be satisfactory unless it subjects that vote to the exclusive control of partisan officials, appointed to see that it is always cast or counted for the re- publican candidates,” In order to effect this, Mr. Carlisle charges that it is a part of the republican programme to enact, ‘‘without any con- stitutional authority,” a federal reg- istration and election law. Of course Mr. Carlisle regards such an expedient as pregnant with evils, but he makes no effort to show that the political condi- tions in the south are not such as would justify such a law. He does notattempt to deny that there are hundreds of thousands of voters in that section who cannot exercise thelr political rights without some such protection. It'is quite possible that legislation of the character that has beeun proposed, and which some of the republican leaders in congress may still contemplate,would be productive of some ill effects, but all the ills possible to result from it could not be 80 serious or dangerous as con- tinuing to one class of citizens permis- sion and power to deprive another class of their most valuable and sacred con- stitutional right. Mr. Carlisle’s professed apprehen- sions of what tho republican party may do in granting bounties and subsidies, increasing pensions, and otherwise providing ways for disposing of the public money, until it may become necessary to impose new taxes, or issue new bonds, aud possibly both, will cause no alarm even among democrats who have the greatest confidence in the Ken- tucky statesman. During twenty-foar years the republican party administered the governimant without doiug wny of the disastrous things which Mr. Carlisle says are now contemplated, and on that rocord it may fairly ask the present confidence of the country. Atany rate, with the parties eo nearly equal in strength in the lower house of congress, and Mr. Carlisle leading the minority, there ought to be little difficulty in his party preventing the consummation of whatever in the republican programme he believes to be evil and dangerous. THE ALIEN LABOR LAW. Congress will undoubtedly be asked to amend the alien labor law. As it has been interpreted it has gone far be- yond what even its most ardent advo- cates designed, and is keeping out of this country tho class of emigrants who, of all others, are loastto be fearved. The construction that has been placed upon it in several noticeable cases by the treasury officials was doubtless com- pelled by the torms of the law, but none the less those subjected to it have been cansed unjustifiable annoyance and hardship and the country brought into ridiocule, The treasury department has just de- cided a case under this law which illus- trates the necessity of amending it. It was the case of an expert bookkeeper brought over by a firm of hardware ex- vorters in New York. The firm has its chief office in London, and some time ago one of the members of the firm came over to investigate affairs in the New York office. One of his first acts was to send for the London bookkeeper of the firm, whose knowledge of the business was essential to the proper in- vestigation of affairs on this side. and who furthermore had the full confi- dence of the firm. The old bookkeeper promptly lodged a complaint with the collector at New York against the new- comer, and the official decided that he came to this country as an alien con- tract laborer in violation of law. An appeal was taken to the secretary of the treasury, who has just rendered a decision sustaining thatof the collector. Only a few days ago an Englishman wont to Washington to consult the secretary of the treasury ns to whether he would be permitted under the law to bring over a brother and several nephews whom he dosired to employ in his business in order to give them a chance to establish themselves in this country. He is said to have gone away from ‘Washington with the conviction that in order to carry out his plan of beunefit- ting his relatives he must do so surrep- titiously. The most notable case, per- haps, under this law is that of the rec- tor of Holy Trinity church in New York, whose contract to preach was de- cided to be a violation of the law. This decision was sustained in the fed- eral court and a fine imposed upon the church. An appeal was taken, and the case, we believe, 18 to be passed upon by the supreme court. Obviously a law that admits of such an interpretation ought to be changed. Tt is 5aid that many eminent lawyers in congress, when it was suggested that clergymen and professors would be shut out of the country under the operation of the law, laughed at the idea, but it is difficult to see how they could putany other interpretation upon it, since the classes exempt from its operation are specially enumerated, and cler- gymen and professors are not among them. Recently the British minister called the attention of the secretary of state to the operation of the law in ex- cluding persons residing across the border in Canada from employment in the United States, which he spoke of as a hardship. The Canadian government hus threatencd retaliation if our gov- ernment adheres to its policy. It is not quostionable that the law needs mate- rial modifications, and it 18 said the sec- retary of the treasury will ask the pres- ident to urge upon congress the neces- sity of amending it so as to obviate is- sues of the character referred to with- out destroying the prime purpose of the law, which was to prevent the whole- sale importation of contract labor that had peen carried on before 1ts enact- ment by manufacturers and other large employers of labor. CERTAIN New York bankers are be- ginning to feel anxious over a possible stringency in the money market, dua to the continued shipment of gold abroad. ‘While the demand has fallen off, there is still a call of from two to four millions s week, which is being sent to London and Paris. In view of this fact, Secre- tary Windom has been requested to lib- erate the surplus in the purchase of large blocks of government bonds. The secretary of the treasury, however, by no means shares this arlarm and con- tinues his policy of purchasing bonds at the rate of less than one hundred thou- sand dollars a week., His grounds are that he is paying for government bonds all that they are worth to-day and he does not propose to add an additional premium to their value by any show of anxiety to call them in. There can be little doubt, whether there be cause for the anxiety of bankers or not, that Sec- retary Windom is pursuing the right course. treasury department has taught him to wait until an urgent demand for money leads government bondholders to turn their bonds into cash at or near the treusury’s price, when a slight advance in the price paid would bring large offers. This has been the policy of Mr, Windom’s predecessors and it reflects to his credit as a financier that he fol- lows this rule. PusLic attention is once more di- rected to the attempts of ambitious in- ventors to build an “‘air ship,” which shall sail the atmosphere as easily as a vessel stems the tides. The [failure of the Campbell aw ship, which lost its rud- der and collapsed with its navigator, Hogan, a few days ago, somewhere off the coast of New York, demonstrates, for the present at least, that this inven- tion has been a failure, Undaunted, however, by this circumstance, a second inventor, Prof. De Bausset, has just asked the secretary of the navy to have the government yard at Charlestown placed at his disposal 1n order that he may build his steel flying machine or air ship under government patronage. It will be remembered that this same inventor asked of congress liberal aid His long experience in the’ for the realizationm! his ideal and was given a favorable hearing before one of the committees Uf'fhie house. However plausible his théoribs may be, there is & well grounded upinron that the air, due to its conditions, is an element that can not be navigated at will. It is haraly probable that the government will aid De Bausset in his schome, and that if it be at all feasible, tlie machine must be built with private eapital, — IT 18 not necessary to go to London to witness the honrors, of the ‘‘sweating shops.” They exist in New York City and almost every large city of the east where ready-mide’ clothing is manu- facturcd. The investigation set on foot by a delegation of the Tailor’s union of Boston, who visited New York City for the purpose of looking into the condi- tion of their fellow workmen, reveals a state of affairs scarcoly to be believed. Men, women and children are crowded into hot and ill-ventilated rooms and forced to work from sixteen to eighteen hours a day for a mere pittance. This is worse than slavery. ANoTHER snag has been struck by the Cherokee commission sent out to Indian tervitory by President Harrison to negotiate for the opening of the Cherokee strip. Chief Mayes, the president of the Cherokees, is averse to calling a spocial session of the legisla- ture to receive the commission and ne- gotiate for the sale of their lands. This was a predicament not anticipated either by President Harrison or by the commission, and unless the chief can be won over the business of treating with these Indians has been brought, for the present at least, to a dead stop. THE state board of railroad commis- sioners of Missouri has just made & sweeping reduction in grain and freight rates averaging not less than filteen per cent from the present schedule. It is calculated that the shippers of the state will save more than a million dol- lars annually in freight charges, and the best of 1t is that the commissioners will see to it that the reduction is en- forced on all lines without unnecessaay delay. To Ambitious Cats. St, Paul Pioncer-Press. Louisville's jail cat, Thomas Henry, died recently. Applicants for this vacancy should put in an early bid, as the latest ad- vices point to a long market on cats this sea- son. —_—— Green Goods Innocence. Chicago News. The salt trust’ declarvs with a wicked wink that it is the'mos innocent corporation on earth. Then it invites everybody to come in on the ground floor. This is precisely the way the green goods trust does business. S An Essential and Kadical Diffzrence. St. Lquis Republic, High license is an attempt to prevent the men who sell liquar frém taking away the rights of their neighbors. Prohibition is an attempt to force your neighbor to surrender his rights and subhit to your views of his morals. g American Snobbery. Pittshurg Dispateh, Both the demdcratic newspapers who rofer to Mr. Russell. Hurrison as ‘*Prince Russell” and the republican_correspondents who are proudly stating that ho is received in England as “an heir apparent”’ afford equally radical illustrations of the different varieties of snobbery of which American party journalism is capable. i Farmers Always Get Left Montreal Herald, It is noticeable that thesc combinations strike the farmer every ume, and in the aggregato add more to his burdens than to thosc of any other class of people; and as the salt combination is to embrace Canada in the arms of its benevolence, the farmers may expect to be squeezed with more than ordinary fondness when it gets 1#to full overation, ————— ‘Will Be All Republican. Stour Falls Pess, 1t doosn’t take much of a prophet to pre- dict that the four new states will be solid in the republican column. Of courso the dem- ocrats have their eyes and hopes centered on Montana, but Montana, like the other new states. takes its population largely from the republican states of the north and east, and the new settlers gencrally carry their poli- tics as woll as their business and roligion with them, —~~—— A Suggestion From Mr. Dana. New York Sun. ‘We have here from the Sun and Voice a little joke big with testimony to the influence of The Sun, which shines for all, and to the intelligence of the American people: “From Dana to Beersheba the flannel shirt reigns."” ‘The importance of the flannel shirt as an institution of comfort cannot be overesti- mated. It has come to stay, but it never should be permitted to stay too long atone time. ———— A Minister's Manliness. Chicago Herald. Rev. G. H. Schnur, of Omahs, has for some years ministered to the spiritual wants of a small Lutheran church in that city. The other day he resigned. Ho wished to marry a certain girl, and his flock desired that he marry another, In fact, they made it very uncomfortable for the reverend gentleman, affirming that he did not show sufficient re- gard for their opinion in important matters pertaining to his, welfare. Mr, Schour shows proper spitit. Some congregation containing less old Women than the one at Omaha will receive him' and the wife of his choice with open arms, and will respect him all the more becausa he.is a man us well as a preacher. 1 D Farewell the Seductive Slipper, Denber Tumes, Ho fell into matrimony in the old, old, delightful, tuougn}gm way—and the way, too, thav after all {pady to the fairest suc- cess of marriage, &, way carpeted with rich flowers and illumed with a golden light. But it lead our youg Qmaha divine straight into the brambles and nettles. His con- gregation has selocted guother girl for him. They were outraged at lus disregard of their preference.! Dhe mother of the neglected girl was the most outraged of all, There was no more praise. There were no more slippers. There was au informal but emphatio demand for @ resignation, which was promptly forthcommng. Religious peace and marital happiness will ba sought in some other locality. ——— GREAT MEN. London baukers fight shy of the paper of the Prince of Wales. Sam Wah Kee, the richest Chinaman in New England, 18 worth about $100,000. Frank Hoyt, who eonfessed the theft of $10,000 from the Hoboken National bank,and who is out on $15,000 ball, has been restored o full membership in the First Presvyterian church of Orange, N. J. Tho action was taken after he had confessod his sin and ex- pressed his penitence thorefor, Hoyt's father was formerly pastor of the church. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmge receives $500 for each leoture he delivers on his presont tour. Lew Wallaco says thera is more happiness for him in a day's literary work than in a goneration of politics, Emperor William of Gormany hos just become an acfive member of the Goethe so- cloty, which has its headquarters at Weimar, Mr. Cunningham-Grahame will soon move in Parliament that after the death of the queen thoe kingdom shall bo abolished and & radical democracy established in England. James Russell Lowell says ho 1s glad to et back to his old London quarters in Rad- nor place—and right from Boston, too! This is worso than changing ono's religion, Ex-President Cloveland will visiv New- port the first weok in August, but_somehow this announcement soems to lack the intor- est it would have ‘possessed one short year ago. George W. Childs has received from Colonel Fred Grant, minister to Austria, $140 from the people of Carlsbad and 840 from Mrs. U, S. Grant for the Johnstown sufforors. A correspondent says that Jay Gould has been invited to take a look at the tomb of Virgil, near Naples, with the view of buying it, as it is for sale. Virgil and Gould! There is humor 1n this juxtaposition. King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich islands, still has hopes of raising the $10,000 necos- sary to take him to the Paris exposition, His book on “The Myths of Hawali" is having a ood sale, and he thinks that the royalties thereon will onable him to add another royalty totho crowds in Parls. Edmund Clarence Stedman, himsolf some- thing of a poet, is quoted as saying in & ro- centconversation about American poets, that “in the case of the two oldost survivors in song—Mr, Whittior and Dr. Holmes—we ob- serve their admirers grow more oxtended in numbers with the spread of culture in our land. If their voices are not hoard as fre- quently as formerly it ls not becauso thoy have grown less strong and swoet, for with each new utterance as it comes to us from time to time we are unable to detect any var- iation in the tones we all long ago so easily Learned to love,” T ey AS OTHERS SEE US. Probably She Will. Kearney Enterprise. Omaha may not be so sure of her new union depot, after all. Kearney may get one first, and sho needs it almost as badly. Where is the Cave of Truth? New York World. Next to the sea serpent the cave in some remote locality in the west is tho most popu- lar topic among summer romancers. A cave in Montana was recently said to hold the stone figure of a gigantic bascball player. Now & cave in Nebraska comes forward with cight mysterious skeletons. It Is strange that Truth is never found lurking in theso caves. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Wymore taxes street fakirs $30 a day. Ligntning has struck nino houses in Lox- ington recently. Rov. Mr. Teitsworth, pastor of the Pres- byterian church at Hardy, has resigned. The First National bank of Excter has changed hands and will be_reorganizea Avg- ust L The ropublican county convention of Furnas county will be held at Beaver City August 2i. Thomas Forley, a bachelor lving on a ranchnear Whitman, committed suicide by taking poison. The Grand View Prosbyterian church in Grant precinet, Colfax county, will be dedi- cated next Sunday. Hemingford, Box Butte county, is now connected with the outside world 'by both railroad and telograph. “The B. & M. oil house at Oxford was cn tirely destroyed hy fire Thursday morning®" causing a 10ss of $2,000. 01d man Webber, who has been on trial at Fremont on_indictments found In 1876, has been granted a new trial. A disgusting smell arises to heaven from unclean pig-stys at Wahoo, and the people want the nuisance abated. G. W. Dement, of Crab Orchard, Johnson county, will harvest a crop of 2,000 bushels of onions from & two and a half acre patch this year. The remains of a mastodon have been dis- covered on the Big Blue, seven miles north of Crete, and steps aro being taken to ex- hume them. James H. Riggs, editor of the O'Neill Frontier, was married on the 25th inst. to Miss Henrietta Kimball, a teacher n the O'Neill public schools, Amenda Barrott, wife of the man who maurdered Thorahiil, near Aurora, has been arrostod, charged with aiding and abetting the murder of her husband. The Kearney gambling houses were raided Dy the police Friday night and a number of prominent citizens who wero found bucking the tiger were placod under arrest. An old man namea Schilling has mysteri- ously disappeared from his homo near Cam- bridge, and foul play is feared, as he had a considerable sum of money in the house. Mr McDonald, hving near Deloit, will be 103 years old in August. Ho is halo and hearty and in the last forty years has not missod & dozen meals. His ather lived to be 117 yoars old. Mrs, Julia Richardson, of Gering, has passed tho nocessary examination and been admitted to the bar by Judge Church. She is thg first lady lawyer in Western Ne- braska, The five-year-old daughter of J. P. Bas- tean, of Shoston, fell from an elovated plat- form the other day and mangled her arm 8o badly thav it is feared amputation will be necessary. Pawneo City has one barber who isa nephew of John Brown, whose soul is still marching on, and_another who is a nepliew of Joseph Cook, tho famous Boston lecturer, Both are artists in their line, Claims amounting to over $1,000 haye beon filed with the board of supervisors of Ante- lope county for tho pursuit _and capture of Nick Foley, the murderor who met his death at the hands of a mob, but the matter has Deen laid over until the next meoting, The premium list of the tenth annual fair of the Pawnee County Agricultural and Mechanical association nas been issued from tho office of the Pawnce City Press, and is both extensive and creditable. tair is t0 be hold av Pawnee City September 25, 2 and 27, Fred Hill, an 0ld man living near Oakdale, is languishing in joil at Neligh for forgin areceipt for goods purchasod of Lehr Holmes. The work was bunglingly per- formed, the two moembers of the firm haying apparently signed as individuals, and both names being misspelled, The Plattsmouth Journal, which has boen in the hands of the sherifl for several days, has been placed on its feet again with the assistance of friends, the mortgage Laving been paid off, Both the publisher and the people of Plattsmouth are to be congratu- lated on the turn affairs have takon, C. B. Wilson, of ‘Waco, has been arrested for cruel troatment of his children, it being learnod that he tied @ rope around his boy and suspended him in a well toarrange a dis- placed board. When the boy was hauled up he was cowpletely exhausted, and it was e time before he could be revived. we programme of the third apnual re union of the Central Nebraska District Vet eran association, to bo beld at Hroken Row ‘August 6, 7, 8,0 and 10, has been issued. The exercises will be nteresting and varied, & number of prizes are offered, aud eminent speakers fzom abroad will be preseat. The Two Dakotas. Boer has come down to 5 conts & glass at Deadwood. Workmen wore cngaged all Sundsy lath- ing aud painting & new chureh belng built in Sioux Falls, and the Pross rofors 1o it as & “pleasant little inconsistency.” The Linooln county republican convention will bo held August 3. Hay brings $15 a ton in South Dakota with the prospect of a good crop. Over $10,000 has boon distributed in Hand county for the wool erop this soason. A Methodist camp moeting is to be held at Washington Springs commencing August 7. The Sioux Falls Trotting association will probably hold anothor meeting in Sevtember. There are ninotoen mates in the Plank- inwn reform school—fifteen boys and four girls. Tho new Seventh Day Advent church at Sioux Falls will bo ready for services next Sunday. A big fish pond near Tilford, filled with carp, was washed out by & heavy storm, causing a loss of $5,000. The commissioners of Rolette county have appenled to the governor to enforoo tho pay- ment of taxes by the half-breed and Indian farmers living in that section. Ramsey county has hit upon a novel way of assisting the needy fariners whose crops arca total faillure. It 18 proposed to issue bonda to the extent of £20,000 for the purpose of building county ronds—work to bo given to those only who are destitute and deserv- ing. The Deadwood Pioneer ways: An aggre- aate of $13,000 has beon roceived at the treasurer's office for liquor license. As the fee in each case is $250 for tho half yoar, this means fifty-two saloons now doing busi- ness in the county. Of the number twanty- one operate in Dead wood. Sandford Porter, a member of the South Dakota constitutional convention, und banker at Oclrichs, walked into the territory. In 1876 he went to ' Yankton, and thence in the winter time he footed it 'all the way to Deadwood. There he chopped wood for the miners until he <ot something better to do. ‘When Frank Pettigrew, the Sioux Falls tler, went to Dakota the stage fare from ty north was too high for his pocket- book, and 8o ho hoofed 1t all the way. pre-empted a claim just west of what is now the main part of Sioux Falls, and with his own hands dug a well and made other im- provements thereon. ROTTEN PAVING MATERIAL. An Interview With Major Balcombe on the Subject. Major Balcombe, chairman of the board of public works, was asked yosterday what was to be done about the rotten paving matorial which had been tho cause of the disruption botween the board and the contractors Sat- urday. “Well,” said he, “I can'tsay yot what will be done, but they must furnish better material. This is mot the first timo this thing bas occurred. It has been going on for some time. 1 have warned them timo after tiwe and told them we would not allow such work. They have promised each time to furnish good material, but have not done 0. “Why,” continued thc major, warming up, "1 spent three days in Chicago watching them lay wood pavement, and they only have to throw out ten or fifteen blocks of wood ia a block of the paving, while we re- ject as many as ten or fifteen wagon loads in the same distance. ““‘What scems to be the cause of the rotten- ness?” *The most of it is caused by the timber being cut at the wrong season. It is evident that this timber was cut in the summer, and, in fact, the contractors admit as much. ' The tree is'full of sap at this time, and this sap turns sour and _ferments, making fine food for worms, which have cut the outside full of tracks or channels. This sour sap olso causes the outer bpart of the treo to rot away, making it unfit for use. This is the kind of timber they are sawing up for blocks. Therc are also a lot of the blocks which are rotten at the core. In fact, the whole lot of timber seems to be rcfuse material which had been thoroughly culled to furnish Chicago or some other eastsrn market, and 18 n1ow being palmed oft on us. “No," said tho major in reply toa ques- tion, “‘wo could not declare the contract for- feited by the furnishing of such material, but we can stop them from using it, and then if they neglect or refuse to go on with the work, we can hire men, buy material and (‘!n t‘léo work ourselves and make them pay or it.” “‘Has it been known all along that this sort of material was being used?” ‘Yes, our inspectors have been condemn- ing these blocks and throwing theun out, and. 1 have repeatedly warned the contractors that thoy must firnish good material.” {0 was not the work stopped before?” “Because they have promised each time to use first cluss material, and I tired of tellng them, and stopped the work.” What arc they going w do this time " “That I can'v say. They have made no promises, or signified what they would doj but the worle must go on, if we have to do 1t ourselves,” The Contractor's Statement. Mr.J. E. Riley, the paving contractor, ‘was also called on and questioned regarding the occurrence of Saturday. “I was called to Clark street about 3 p. m. Saturday,” said olr. Ruley, ‘‘and met the oard of public works aud Engincer Tillson. The order was given to remove all blocks (some 2,000 yards) from the street. Our contract with Mr. Gray being that he was to deliver all material upon the street, and re- move all rejected material, we called upon him to carry out the order of the voard. He refused absolutely to do this, maintaining that the order was unusual and unprece- dented. He said he was willing to remove material rejected, snd promptly, but there was no such percentage of bad blocks as represented, and the thing to do was to go on and lay the blocks, of course properly culling them, 80 that nong but sound blocks would be laid, and he would remove the balance, “‘He maintained that the misapprehension by tho board as to whethor the cedar was live cedar was owing mainly to the fact that floating live cedar in a stream gave it a dark appearance, and this being & yoar old and seasoned made it appoar all tho more rusty, but tho blocks wore better than if it was green, fresh cedar, “He said ho would have a confe- renco with the board as soon as they could be gotten Wffluer‘ when he thought all misunderstandings could be re- moved. f course we know Mr. Gray in this case only in his agreewment to furnish material accordng to specifications, The board of public works, including the engi- neer, aro the parties from whom we take our orders. “1 will say I think there is a disposition on the part of the board to exact a little more than ever before, but so long as contractors aro treatod alike we shall not complam. I expect there will be a solution of the dif- cuity gt the conference which is to be held by the board, Mr, Tillson and Mr, Gray to- morrow morning.” “I think the estimate of bad blocks men- tioned by Mr. Balcombe is enurely too high. Perhaps 10 per cent wonld be as much as would be found unsuitabl 1 have a party who is willing and anxious to furnish cedar blooks for paving and agrees to furnish the very best of material. If the board is not satisfled with tbe material Mr. Gray fur- nishes this other man will glaaly undertake to furnish all the material needed.” “H{asn't the work been stopped several times on account of rotten blocksi” “Well, yes,” sald Mr. Riley, evasively; “there was something of the kind, and after- wards we received nice, clean, sound blocks, but it soon went back to the old tuing.” “Are you going to use first class blocks in the future !’ was asked, “'We are anxious to have the best of mate- rial,” rephed Mr. Riloy, “for the sake of our reputation, We lose very little if the mate- il Is rejected, as we pay the dealer ouly for what blocks are accepted by the city.” COucumbers Kill Cockroaches, “When [ moved into my new flat last winter,” said a Harlem housekeeper to a New York Mail and errusa reporter, “I was bothered greatly with cock- roaches and little red ants. It wasn’t a perfectly new house, and one famly had lived in my rooms for three months, That was long enough, as I learned to my cost. I tried, unsuccessfully, every- thing [ had ever heard of for cock- roaches, and had givon up in despair, when some one sed me to give them cucumbers. I strewed the floor with a lot of the peel eut very thin, and was amazed how viciously the pests eat it. It killed them, and after three nights’ trial I had nomore cockroaches. LEGISLATIVE - OVERSIGHT. Thurston County Apparently With« out District Court Jurisdiotion. ANOTHER PECULIAR SITUATION, Beyond the Provines of the Suprome Court—Bishop Bonacum Wil Visit the Pope—Lincoln News and Notes. LINCOLN HUREAD OF TRR OMAMA Bun, S Laxcowy, July 98, Logal conundrums appear to b numeorous a8 a result of the oversight of tho late No- braska legislature. Tt seems that Thurston county is left out in the cold; that is, district Judicial jurisdiction was not provided. Now, the part of Thurston county taken away from Burt county belonged to the Third ju- dicial district, while the part taken from Da- kota and Wayne counties belonged to the Seventh judicial distriot. It is suggosted by parties intorestod, in a late communication to the attornoy genmeral, that it would be a peculiar anomaly to ses Judge Wakeley, of tho 'Third distriot, hold- ing court in that part of Burt county and Judge Powcers in that part of Wayno and Dakota counties now belonging to Thurston couuty. But this is enough to show that Thurston county’s judicial situa- tion is somewhat porplexing. The attorney meneral does not see fit to pass upon the question as vot, and before doing so will ex- amino the ‘“‘authorities” at length. Th opinion 18 expressed by some of Lincoln’ bost lawyers, however, that Thurston cou ‘will remain without district court jurisdic- tion until the Nebraska lawmakers meet azain and pass an amended act giving the county a judicial place. This opinion is upon the statement that the constitytion provides that the construction of judicial districts and the like is purely legislative, and beyond the province of construction by the supreme court. City News and Notes. Frank Chaffe, assistant steward at the hos- pital for the insano at Hastings, spent Sun- day with his mother, Mrs. E. P. Roggen. The Lincoln portion of the Nebraska edi- torial excursion party is again at home. Messrs. Lon Wessel and O. A. Mullen re- port a great time. William M. Anthony, of North Powder, Ore, and Miss Sadie Young, of this city, were married to-day. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony will leave for their future home in Oregon in a day or two. Cora Trumbley is now an inmate of the reform school at Kearney. The ragged conditon of the university campus does not speak well for the manage- ment of the erounds, The Chenier directory authority for the statemont Lincoln’s population has in 5,000 during the past yoar. The grind in the police court will be unu- sually farge to-morrow. Over twenty of the wayward of carth Sundayed in the city cooler, T'ho patrol wagon was kept running all last night. Rev. Newman, pastor of the First Chris- tian church, wishes it remembered that the new church at the corner of Fourteenth and K streets will be dedicated August 35. Rev. Dr. Black, of .Chicago, will preach the dedi- oatory sermon. Alarge party ot Lincolnites picniced at Cushman Park to-day. Major A. R. Chaffee, of the Ninth cavalry and the commanding ofticer at Fort Du Chesne, Utah, was in Lincoln over Sunday. Heis a relative of Mrs, E. Finney and a member of the Fietcher court-martial now sitting at Fort Omaha, Bishop Bonacum will leave for Euro) early in September. Ho goes to visit the pope at Rome and toattend to diocesian duties. In this country every bishop ls ro- qured to malke the trip once in ten years. company _is e “Whatever Thy Hand Findcth --—' E. Neabit, in Lessons of Life. Red, red the sunset flames behind The black, black elms and hedges, All through the noon no least leat stirrod, But _criclets bootles whirred— Now comes a breath of fresh, sweet wind « From silent pools and sedgos, hummed and Al through hot noon the reapors stand And toil, with Justs and laughter, Beneath the blazing skies that burn, Then, laughing still, they homeward turn By threes and fours; and hand in hand Go two that linger after, And here we linger hand in hand, And watch the blacking shadows. Had we been born to reap and sow, To wake when swallows stir, and go Forth in chill dawn to plow the land, Or mow the misty meadows. Had that been nobler? Love of mine, We still had only striven, As now we strive, to do our best, To do good work and earn good ress. All that's buman is divine; All life, lived well, makes heaven. A Cossack Glantess. The sensation of Berlin is just now a young Cossack giantess, who is being exhibited at the puyulur “Passage Pan- opticum,” says the Pall Mall Gazotte. The girl, who 18 11 years old, is nearly three yards high; she weighs twenty stone, and is still growing very rapidly. She is very protty, with large dark eyes and a pleasant face, and in the national costume of the Don Cossacks, which consists of a red shirt, blue jacket, long apron embroidered in fzold and necklace of many colors, she captures everybody’s heart. But since she is still chiefly intervested in hor dolls and toys, she cannot be suid to re= turn the sentiments of her admirers . B Mailed It at Last. A letter proposing marriage to a Cas- tile (N. Y.) girl remained in the coat- tail pocket of the proposer for eight months, he supposing it to have boen mailed. When he finally did mail it she was married, but she gave her hus- band the shake and ulo]mfi to Connecti- cut. DEATH IN THE WATER. Absolute Poison in Nearly American City and Tow, be the Result Hefore Summer, “ HAT did you find?" FALmost everything; it was just reske ng with poison. o above remark was made by & prominens selontist to the board of health officer just after exanyning # drop of Croton. N. Y. waler through the microscove. The water of nearly every city in America i flled with poson. It (8 caused by decaying matter and animal life. What 18 the result? A fearful increase of sick- ness and death, both among children and grow people. The papers are filled With accounts o & 'Miiltons upon militous of erms Of 16Ver, cholera morhus and contaglon are in every swallow of water. Tut people say: 3 “What can e do, stop driuking?" No,"" *“Resort to stimulants 7’ “Now K the gerus in the water and betore they can eome futo the body, Three d Perry Davis' Pain-Killer poured iato & g water bofore drinklug wil kill the gor make the most poisonous water pure and Healthy. ‘The best medical talent in the land Have axsertod this for years, and the experis ehco of oYory man 0d Wowll Who Las triod it Tove P Faveilers through the jungles of India drink the swhimp water, even though it 1 flled with slime aid covered with scum, but they tnvari- ably purity it by adding Paiu-Kilior. Stanloy, T’ Afrioan explorer, never undertakes & ey without s plewtitul supply of *Haug as'tno natlves cali Pain-Rillr, 12 rand Tedicine s 80 eifactive th regions where death lurks on every side, where It Tesks in every 8 it not stand Lo reason that we cal dangers of our own drinking 7ul use? 1t 15 Al absviute cure for cholora 1A0rbuS 18 1ts Worst forms, bul how piuch batier to provont diseise ik Lo wail foe ita approach. ly keeping ihis romedy con- stantly on hand’ the daugers of the sumuler can bo ayoided sud bealth positively preserved, our: fhed