Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 19, 1889, Page 4

THE_DAILY BEE B. ROSEWATER, Biitor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally (Morning Edition) including Sunday. Nee, One Yenur. . . seere L) Six Months. For Three Months. . s The Omutia Bunday fee, matled to any addre Jne Yen Weekly Beo, One Year v OFFICES, Omana OfMes, Bes Bullding. N, W, Beventeenth and Farnam Streets, Chicago Ofce, M7 Rookery Hulldlr\'. BN:‘-w york OMce, Rooms 14 and 15 Tribune ling. ‘\‘\'nlglnflon OfMee, No. 513 Fourteenth Street. Council Brufts Ofice, No, 12 Pear] Street. Lincoln Office, 1020 P Stieet, CORRESPONDENCE, Al communieations relating to news and edi- torial mattor should be addressed to the Editor of the Hee, = DUSINESS LETTERS. All Unsiness letters and remittances should be nddressed to The Bes Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and postoftice oraers e ninde payable te the order of the company, T Bee Publishing Compauy, Proprietors #ex Building Parnam and Seventeenth Stroets. ————————— ey Corner Whe Bee on the Trains. There 18 no excuse for a failure to get T HEr on the trains, A1l newsdealers hive becn noti- fied to carry a full sup Travelers who want Tie Bk and can’t gt 1 0u trains where other Omaha papers are carried are rojuested to no- ity Ty Bre. s THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Ciroulation. State of Nebraska, e, County of Douglns, (%% George 1, Tzsciuck, secretary of The Tee Publishing Compariy, does solemnly swear tht the actual circulation of 'ny DAILY BEe for eek ending September 14, 1559, was as fol- Tuesda; Wednesday, Sep Thursday, Sept. Friday, Sept. 1. Saturduy, Sept. 14 Average. . seres GEORGE . T2SCHTU Eworn to before me and suscribed to in_my presence this 14th day of September. A, D 185, {Seal.] N.P. FEIL, Notary Publi, Etate of Nebraska, ' County of Douglns. { Ly Georgo I, ‘Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- Joser and siys that ho'ls secrotary of The' lioy bublishing comany, that the actual average cirenlation of Tie DAILY BEF for the ptember, 18 oples; for Oc- 3 copi 4, copies ‘ebruary, 1580, KOO8 copies; for March, 1580, 18804 copies; for April, 1E0, 1859 copies: for May, 189, 18,60 goples: for' June, 18, TR, coplés: 186D, 18,308 coples; for August, 188 GO, Janunry, 1689, 18, Sworn to before me and presence this Jist day of [sEAL.] N. P. Frir, Notary Publie. + CORN is beyond the reach of Juck Frost in this THE prospects are that when the cam- paign is over the democratsof Ohio won't know they were in it. Tur medical society of the Missouri valley meets in this city to-day. It will find Omaha enjoying good health. ThE alacrity with which the demo- crats of lowa are getting together is not such as to jar the lundscape to any great oxtent. NO WONDER the footpads failed toget anything. Wlen it comes to holding people up *Ola Hutch” is no amateur himself. THE fatality in the ring at St. Louis was certainly shocking. There is one consolation, however. The victim was a prize fighter. THERE isa world of grim humor in the charge of the Sioux City jobbers that a railroad has been diseriminating in favor of Omaha. WHeN the threatened invasion by the Chinese, which Bishop Fowler tells about, takes place won’t Dennis Kear- ney have to hustle? THE union depot project now appears to be a possibility. When it reaches the probable stage we will have the old cow-shed painted scarlet. IT HAS finally been decided that the Tenth stroet viaduct shall be eighty feet wide. The important question now is,"how long ‘will it be—before work is begun on it? —_— WHiLE the railroads are clutching each othor’s throats in a wild effort to harmonize rates, the shippers of the northwest feel vemporary relief from their rapacity. SriLL the Chicago boodler comes trooping home and even-handed justice in the city by the lake imposes a nominal fine and takes him once more under her protecting mantle. IF soME of the aspirants for a seat on the district bench were honored with appointment, they would render them- selves liable to prosecution for obtaining & salary under false pretense, THE party by the name of Gibson who Tias been disposing of county property for his own benefit should be given to understand that this 1s the sole perqui- site of the commissionors. ——— THe Tenth street vinduct will be eighty feet wide. This will allow ample room for the editor of the Iepub- hean and the chief of police to pass each other without a collision. A BLANKET mortgage of one hun- dred and sixty million dollars 18 10 be put on the Northern Paciflc rail- road. That should be sufficient to pro- tect it from the cold and snow of the northern winds. Tue St. Louis method of prize fight- ing is commendable. One of the youth- ful thumpers was slugged into eternal sleep, and the victor swands a first-class chance of spending the rest of his days in the penitentiary. — No s00NER had Mayor Broatch de- clared himself in favor of locating the world’s fair in New York than Council- man Hascall moved that it be located at Chicago, New York, as well as Chicago, is now indebted to Omaha for " encouragement and comfort. Ee— THEstatement of the Union Pacifie earnings for the first seven months of the yoar shows 8 suug surplus over ex- penses, though not us great as for the - same period last year. The statewent emphasizes the fact that the property is ou & substantial payiog basis and would earn au enormous dividend if the water was squeezed oul of the stock. THE OMAHA DAILY WYOMING AND STATEHOOD. The constitutional convention of Wy- oming is making fair progress and so far as its work has gone it has been in the main well done, The question that has most obstrueted the proceedingsand which appeared likely to be a source of considerable discord, that of woman suffrage, it now appears probable will be settled by the adoption of a constitu- tional provision for universal suffrage. The suffrage committee reported in favor of this, and it is significant of the result that a motion to submit the question of woman suffrage separately to a vote of the people was lost. Tt is belieyed that fully four- fitths of the men of the territories are opposed to female suffrage, but some of those who are most opposed to it are among the most zealous advocates of statehood, They do not want to pro- voke the opposition of the female voters by submitting a constitution depriving them of thé suffrage. The opponents of statehood, who are also, as a body, opposed to female suffrage, hope for an anti-suffrage article, for that would give them the help of the woman voters to defeat the con- stitution at the polls. As the women have the right to vote in determining whether they shall or shall not be disfranchised, they constitute a bal- ance-holding body of very considerable importance. A correspondent of the New York Times, who has investigated the situa- tion in Wyoming, found that the de- mand for a state government is not a unanimous cne. To the people in the sparsely settled portions of the territory statehood is not so attractive as it is to those in other parts whose condition is more favorable for meeting the 1n- creased demands and burdens involved in maintaining a state government. The opposition comes most largely from the democrats, from fear that the political complexion will be more and more surely repub- lican, but it is to some extent shared by republicans. This opposition, how- ever, is not very formidable, and unless the convention rejects the proposal for universal suffrage, which now appears very improbable, no difficulty will be encountered in having the constitution ratified by the people. It would doubt- less earry with the women arrayed against it, but greater effort would be required. So far there has been no conspicnous indication of railroud influence in the convention, and the tendency appears tb be to adopt a liberal policy toward the roads, or at least to prescribe no barsh or onpressive conditions the elfect of which might be to interfere with railroad development. What may hap- pen later dn, however, when the re- quirements of statehood are to he met, can not safgly be predicted from the present inactivity und apparent indifference of the railroads. When a congrossman and senators are to be elected the time will have arvived for the corporations to assert thems and it would be an altogether excep- tional experience if they should fail to doso. The prospect of Wyoming re- ceiving favorable consideration for its claims to statehood from the next con- gress is regarded as much more favora- ble than for the othor territories thut are moving in the same i Lves, HOME AND FOREIGN LABOR. The varty of filty American skilled workmen who weat abroad in July to investigate the conaition of labor in various countries of Europe returned last week. The menof every trade in the expedition unite in. saying that the workmen in Europe are not as well paid and do not work as hard or as many hours as the workmen of the United States. The members of this party, each representing a different industry, visited England, France and Ger- many, each man giving special at- tontion to investigating the con- dition of the labor employed in the trade with whichheis counected, As aresult of these opinions the con- sensus of opinion is that on the whole the skilled workmen in the United States are better off than their Euro- pean brethren, and that they have little reason to fear the competition of Euro- pean labor. In a number of industries, by reason of the indisposition to use im- proved machinery, it costs more to pro- duce articles than in this country, be- sides which the greater part of the labor of Europe is less efficient than that of America. All these intelli- gent workmen agree that the United States is far preferable to any country of Burope for the skilled worker, al- though the European artisan as a rule works fewer hours than the workmen of this country and has more holidays, The testimony of these expert gbsery- ers is highly interesting, and ought to be valuable in disposing of some of the erroneous statements and false theories that are prevalent regarding the rela- tive condition of labor in Europe and America. Itisdoubtless true that certain classes of labor in this country are no better off than in Europe, but there can be no question that skilled laborin every department of industry in the United States enjoys a higher average prosperity than similar labor abroad, and certainly has much greater oppor- tunities. There are localities in this country where the wages paid and the amount of labor performed render the condition of the workers no more favor- able than that abroad, but taking the whole country through it isnot to be doubted that the skilled workmen of Americn are better conditioned than those of any other country. in the world, No better evidence of the prosperity and thrift of the working classes of a country is to be found than that fur- nished by the statistics of the savings banks, and & comparison of these in this country with any country of Burope will very conelusively show the superior advantages enjoyed by American work- men. The single state of New York makes a showing of savings' that will compare favorably with that of Eogland, Germany or France, the latest returns of the savings institutionsof that state giving the num- ber of depositors at over thirteen huu- dred thousand, the average deposit of each being nearly four hundred dollars, Five hundred and tweaty million dol- lars deposited iu the savings banks of a | single state, nearly the whole of it rep- resenting the accumulated earnings of labor, is certainly a significant fact in its bearing upon the question ol the con- dition of the workingmen in the United States. There are periods of depression in this country whén the employment and re- muneration of labor are upsatis- factory. There are classes of labor whose condition it is desireble to im- prove. Butasa whole nowhere else is labor so well rewarded as in the United States, nowhere else is it so generally prosperous, nowhere else has it 8o great opportunities, and nowhere else has it so few sound reasons for com- plaint. This is the testimony of the fifty intelligent workmen who have just returned from the investigation of the condition of European labor, and it ought to have a reassuring in- fluence with American workmen gen- erally. DON'T SPOIL THE BUILDING. The council committee on public prop- orty and buildings has decided upon a light-colored granite for the base, and Berea stone, trimmed with Portage red stone, for the superstructure of the new city hall. This 18 a very serious mis- take. Its effect, if carried ouf, would mar the appearance of the building and make it an architectural abortion. In choosing the material for a public building its surroundings should be takken into account, as well as the effects which would be produced in ecarrying out the architect’s designs. Thero is no doubt that Berea sand- stone is durable, and when used in a classical cut-stone structure like the court house or Commercial National bank, its effect is pleasing. But just imagine the court house or Commercial bank with red-stone win- dowsiils and caps. Could anything be more inappropriate? The city hall building with Berea stone and Portage trimmings on a light granite base, standing against TirE BeE building, would be horribly grotesque. This is not the worst feature, how- ever. The plans of the city hall are ex- tremely ornamental, and the stone work is to be rocle- faced. Light colored rock-faced stone will catech and absorb dust and smoke and stain so as to make the building look like an old smoke-house. Anybody who has sean rock-faced Berea stone buildings in Chicago, Cin- cinnati, Cleveland and elsewhere will attest that they absorb smoke and dust and within a very fow years become dingy and prematurely aged. Omaha wants a city hall building that will be a thing of beauty and a joy for- ever. Itshould be a building that will hold its color and the color should be as much as possible subdued and in harmony with the design of the architect, A dark granite base with Portage red or Colorado red stone would be in keeping with the surround- ings. and wouid moreover keap its color and remain unaffected by the ravages of time. It is to be hoped the com- mittee will revise its decision in regard to mate! GIVE THEM FAIR PLAY. For years Tue BEE has counseled property owners against signing for wooden pavement only becouse {t may be cheaper than stone. But owing to the fact that a great deal of prop- erty has been held for speculation, owu- ers have sought the cheaper kind of pavement with the expectation of dis- posing of their holdings before the pavement would have to be relaid. There are, of course, some people who prefer wooden pavement because it is noiseless. THE BEE'S opinion has net changed upon the merits of different paving materials. Our aim hasbeen if possible to warn short-sighted property owners against throwing away money on in- ferior paving material, , But when the majority of free-holders upon a street sign for wooden blocks the auhorities arve obliged to carry into fect their expressed prefererices, Neither the council or the board of public works has any option in the premises. All they can do in the interest of the property owner and city at large i invite competition. award the contr to the lowest responsible bidder, hold him strietly to the proper perfor- mance of his contraet., The controversy between the chair- man of the board of public works and Fred Gray, over the wooden paving con- tract awarded fo Naugle, has mani- festly the elements of personal malice, over aund above the striet perfor- mance of duty. Major Bulcombe has no use for Fred Gray, because Gray was active in taking the control of the city hall building out of the hands of Major Balcombe. It is an open secret that Major Balcombe is anxious to pun- ish Gray for meddling with the revised charter, The appeal which the con- tractor has made for protestion against this petty persccution has compelled the council to look into the matter, with a view to putting an end to the whole squabble. It the counci! finds that there isa systematic and causeless effort to harass the contractor because of his business relations to Mr, Gray, they may have to take stops to protect him. This is a de- plorable controversy at best. As a rule, there has been very indifferent inspection of our paving, and contracts ors have been allowed to take advan- tage of the leniency which the board of public works had shown in super- vising their work. But contractors also have vights which the city must protect. They should not he subjected to malicious fault-finding any more than to blackmailing tactics, ——— TaE Russian oil wells along the shore of the Caspian sea, the prodigious yield of which has exceeded in quaantity the wost noted wells in Pennsylvania, have exhausted the subterranean store of oil from which their production has been drawn. Russia has been this country’s greatest vival in the petroleum market. With veports of the gradual failure of the oil fields of Penusylvania comes the news that further and greater discov~ eries of oil have been made in Wyo- ming. Eastern capital is already look- ing towards the westeru oil fields and if the supply at the east becomes compar- atively exhausted the west will be able o build up, reat industry, which will increase tls fiv'nlth of this section in a manner at once gratifying and satis- tactory. - — Poor’s Rgilrosd Marual for tho present yot{r estimates that nearly eight million of the people of the United Stated are dependent upon the railroads and industries connected with railroads fer s living. It isalso stated that the raileend interest is the great- est in the eountry, and that it has be- come so thareughly a part of the econo- mio system of the republic.as to be sec- ond only to the government itself. This is literally true, and unless the railroad power is checked and curbed, it will soon be more potential than the gov- ernment, and the American people will beconie mere serfs of the Goulds and Vanderbilts. WASHINGTON women have enjoyed the right to vote under the territorial form of government, but at the coming state election 1t is proposed to ignore them altogether. The women are dis- posed to fight the matter. As the elec- tion officers do not intend to accept the vote of the fair sex they expect to have soparate ballot boxes prepared in which their votes may be deposited, and then go to the courts for adecision whether they shull be counted. It will be anice question of luw for the judges of the new state to pass upon. TuE rascality of Ives,developed in the trial in progressin New York, sur- passes in brazen duplicity, deliberate robbery and cool, ealculating villainy, any scandal of the present generation. The rise and fall of Tweed occupied a decade, but in four years Ives sprung from a beardless youthtoa high posi- tion among the railroad sharks of the country, confidenced friends and foes alike and defiantly swindled all. When the ordinary stock watering scheme failed him he boldly forged his way into the poclets of his dupes, and covered his tracks with purchased perjurers. ANOTHER of Cleveland’s importe pets has fallen by the wayside in Mon- tana, William B. Webb, ex-secretary of the territory, has been forcibly re- quested to refund some six thousand dollars of government money which he made away, with during office hours. Webb was sent west to grow up with the country, but failed to keep his paws off the forbidden pile. He stunds a fair chance of being temporavily exiled. THERE is no better indication of the growth and prosperity of the city than the demand for workmen of every class. In the buildipg trades aud public works the supply scarcely equals the demand, and the work mapped out for the fall mouths insures steady employment for all until winter settles down to business M this region. This fact emphasizes and confirms Omaha’s right to the title of the workingman’s home. tate militia at Beatrice is a pronounced success. Despite the absence of the appetizing larder and melon pateh which filled the aching voids in Wahoo years ago, the brigadiers and colouels dazzie the spee- tators with a wilderness of burnished buttons and native brass. The spectacle has lost none of its fascinating features oy the reducod salavies THE authorities might expedite mat- ters by making a public request for all parties having land that has straved or been stoien from Douglas county to re- turn it at once to the county auditor. The recent finding of one plat of one hundred and sixty and one of ten acres that had gone astray sugzests the possi- bility that there are others outside the county fold. OUR byphenated contempor: only willing but anxious to dump the government surplus into the Missouri river in a futile attempt to make it navigable. Thisis a local example of misery seeking company. Mr. Hiten- cock is engaged in the dubious worlk of dumping his surplus into a deep rat- hole. New Yok is already making great plaws for **a grand memorial arch for A few years ago great plans vere made for & monument to Gener Grant, and later on for a centennial arch, but neither passed beyond the paper stuge. THE new government cruiser Balti- more, during the vecent trial, attained wspeed of twenty kuots an hour. This is remarkable speed for a war vessel, surpassing the record of the famous Scotch cruiser built for the Chilian government. r———— Tue piano and organ manufacturers of the United States have struck the keynote to financial success and are or- ganizing & trust. The news at hand does not give the desired information that hand organs are included in the possible rise il pr COMBINATION always invites com- bination. Mhe American brewers who failed to unload on the British syndi- cate ure about to form a trust to fight the foamy invader. If the threatened war comes to & head the highways of the country will be deluged with b-eer. ELECTIONS don’t come often enough to suit the Bourbon bulldozers in Ken- tuckyand theyae extending their field of operations to the courts. Governor Buckner and the state militia promise to contribute spme interesting featurcs for their entertainment. Under Fannio's Little Feer. Chicago Tribune. 1f Miss Fannie Mills of Obio ever puts her foot down on the proposed freak trust noth- ing will ever be heard of 1t afta®ward. — . Advantage of Experience. Siour Uity Times. Judge Groff, of Omahs, the newlyfiliip- pointed ‘commissioner of the general land office, has the advantage of actual experience on the frontier. knows what government land is and bow it sbo ild be managed. —— Two Dreadful Fates, Chicago Tribune, It scems hardly necesssry to point out the obvious warniog afforded in the cureer of Mr. Riddleberger, of Virginia. Too much bad whisky will inevitably lead any mas eoither to his grave or to the democratio party. . —_——— Saered Ooncerts or Gore, Chicago Times, Cincinnati had a “sacred concert)’ Sunday, but 1t was the subjoct of a very unchristian- like row both before and after. Cincinnati can stand it 1o forego her Sunday beer, but she must have her sacred concerts even if she wades in Sunday blood to get 'em, -—— A Man of Ability. Lincoln Journal, The apporntment of Judge Lewis A. Groft #s commissioner of the general land office wives great satisfaction to the people of Ne- braska, which is his home and where he is well known. He is a lawyer of great ability, of pure personal character and in the prime of manly vigor. - How They Resemble Columbus, Philadelphia Inquirer. The world's fair committee on sites in New York is about to make a vigorous effort to do something. The slow progress it is making is disappointing but not hopeiess. 1t took Columbus years to porsuade the king of Spain to get a move on nim. —— The Code Duello. PhitadzlphiaTtem. A generation ago the duelist was a man rospected aad admired; to-aay he s laugh. ing stock. Then tho duel was a tragedy, now it is a farce. Common scnse condemned it, the ablest eloquence of virtue assailed it, the law frowned on and bunished it, but public opinion heid on to it until the press laughed it down, and by the notorioty it gave dueling took away its fame. ON THE S1DE. Edward Bechtoldt, the young New York broker who has won so mvch on horse racing this year, never goes near the race track, but places all his bets by telegraph through agents. This examplg is encouraging. After awhile men will stay at home with their families and enjoy a social game of curds down town by telephone. The Wyoming convention has adopted a clause to the constitution granting women all the civil and political rights and priv- iloges enjoyed by men. This is supposed to include building the kitchen tires and shov- eling the snow off the walks. A huge gob of melancholy will enveiop countless homes in this section before the county campaign is over, Corn is thoueht to be very generally out of danger of injury from frost. On with the dance and let the ketydids do the fiddling. Ex-Postmaster General Frank Hatton and Cwil Service Commissioner Lyman are be- coming almost uneivil in their civil service reform controversy. But both being north- ern men they will fight to o finish within the columus of the press and will not transfer the quarrel to some secluded spot where pis- tols would be substituted for pencils, ‘T'he sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows' meeting at Columbus, O., defeated a propo- sition to change theage of eligibility to mem- bership from twenty-one to eighteen. The 0dd IFellows mean to get along without the young fellows. The very warm fight that is being engen- dered over the locating of South Dakota’s capital will no doubt make the coming win- ter much milder than usual in that locality. The late storm on the Atlantic cost in- jured the oyster crop of the season to the extent of nearly two million dollars, and an advance in price is expected. Church festi- val munugers will take notice and ada an- other gallon of water for each oyster in the soup. The dndes d mashers have fallen on hard lines. The municipal boot is getting in 1ts work in great shape. On the corners it is muted in melancholy accents that there is more mouth than money afloat among aspirants for county of- fices. A huge drought prevails in conse- quence. An irrigation commission is in or- der. ‘The astonishing feature of the discovery of thelost tenucres by the county is that no county officer had ahand in the disappear- ance. Some of the Tenth streat property owners are so modest in their demands that if they were given the world with viaducts over the oceans, they would claim damages from the rest of mankind for trespassing. The vital statistics for August show a sur- plus of forty-four births over deaths in this city—proof positive that Omaha is getting there, as the boys say, with both fect. - - THE AFTERNOON TEA, The fanuly flower is the poppy It was only a summer arrangeument “T0 die when the flowers die,” We carelessly said, “When the parting comes No one will cry.” So we danced or talked or rowed the streams By the light of the midnight woon, We lauched in the sun--but the frosts Came ull too soon, autumn The parting camo with a laugh and a jest, A backward glance and a sign, But he held my hauds to-day till I said, “Some one did ery!? Mr. Thomas P. Taylor, the great bustle manufacturer of Bridgeport, Conn,, says: “While the sizes and shapes of bustles have changed much during the last year it is not likely that any manufacturers will be com- pelled to go out of the business so long as bustles sell so well as they do at the present time.” One of the prettiest women at Bar Harbor is & French woman who is known as the Contesse du Bartonne. She is petite, clever and seemingly wealthy. She has dark eyes and light hair. and dresses in exquisie taste, She is accowpanied only by her maid, and says that this is her first visit to this country. Pugs are no longer the fashion, and now we wonder it the ladics will ind their short nd ugly hittle black noses “so beauti- Scoteh and Skye terrier are com- ing to the frout, and as they possess both in- telligence and beauty the chunge 18 certainly a desir Bessie ~How was it you rofused Charlie when you love um 80P Jennie—**Because after proposing once he changed the subject and never referred to it again. I intended to accept hiw the third tiwe he usked, “I trust you will not think hard of wme,"” he remarked, reaching for tis hat, “Sir," she answered frigidly, “one who knows you can never think hard of you.” And wander- ing homeward 'neath the eleciric light he wondered what it was she meant to convey, He (sententiously)—But think of it, Miss Laura, we should have died together. She (musingly)—But think of 1t, Allyn, how much botter o live together. He took tue hiot. 'No, Mr. Brown, 1 cannot marry you. You score & gooser this time.” “Can't tell yet,” said Mr. Hrown, risiog from his kuees. “P've got to third, and | haven't had an an- swer from the other two yet.” Mrs. Grover Cleveland shot a deer in the Adrioudacks the other day. Aun offeusive partisan, who intimated that she had aimed 4t @ chalk-mark on a barn door, was taken out and hauged by an infuriated mob, A compositor wanders along Purk row to-day because he set up a sontence—*'Hun- dreds saw the beautiful girl's dewise” —and wad the priater changed the o ‘el THE NASHVILLE OF T0-DAY. Wonderful Ohanges in the Southern City Since the War. SOME LANDMARKS STILL STAND. The Statne of Jackson and the Tomb of Polk—Fighting & Mob With Water — Ante-Bellum Reminisconces. Nashville Revisited. Nasavivie, Tenn., Sept. 16.—[Editorial Correspondence. | —The rising sun greots mo in the picturcsque valley of the Cumberland. We are rapidly approaching the Rock ( through red clay ravines and cuts blasted through the rocky hils. Wo are crossing the Cumberland by the railrond bridge, and presently the din and shout of the hackmon and omnibus drivers welcomes us at the entrance of the Chattanooga depot. Again Iam in the capital of Tennesseo, with its never-fading reminiscences. Again I walk by the terraces, shaded and per- fumed by magnolins, Hore is tho historic home and tomb of James K. Polk. On the crest of the highest mil stands the capitol, resting upon a foundation of eternal rocks, from which every block of this classical and massive structure was quarried. The horoic statue of Andrew Jackson, the noblest of Tennesseeans, stands where it stood thirty years ago. Old Hickory still holds the bridle of his iron stecd, and the charger is still held in its rampant attitude by his heavy tail. How vivialy I remember the day n the spring of '62, when, standing on an eminence above Bdgefield, on the north side of the Cumberland, I beheld the descent of the stars and bars from the flag stafl of the capitol, and the starry bauner ascending in its place. How my heart was thrilled by the deafening cheers of the bluo-coated columns marching up tho capitoline hill, regiment after regiment,bands playing national airs and hundreds of starry streamers floating above the thousands of glistening bayonets. Ouly an exile coming back from a foreign shore can appreciate the semsation. I had not seen a union flag for nearly nine months and had been cut off from all communion with friends uud relatives during that period. And now T am in the bublic square with its rickety old market house and rookery of a city building. What scenes I witnessed on this same square, during the seven days riots after the fall of Donelson. The mob that had broken into stores, and pillaged the retail merchants, was in full possession of tho warehouses in which the confoderates had stored their quartermaster and commis- sary supplies. Out of the windows in the third and fourth stories hundreds of excited men of all colors were pitching down thousands of hams, sides of bacon, packages of clothing and boxes of crackers. Out of the cellars barrels of flour and whisky were rolled upon the pavement and fought for by a suvage, hungry crowd of blacks and whites, male and female. Mounted uvon a cask in the middle of the squaro stood Mayor Cheatam, with a cocked derringer in each hand, vainly shouting to the mob to disperse. ‘The Texas Rangers were invokted aud mude several ineffectual charges with flat sabre stroke, trying to disperse the mob, Finally the fire engines were brought out and streams of water were thrown into the midst of the maddened rioters, It was a sight I never shall forget. The crowd broke right and left, and the backbone of the riot was broken by the irresistible force of cold water. T am looking up and down the river from the wagon bridge that spans the Cumber- land, where once stood the beautiful suspen- sion bridge bult by General Zollikoffer and destroyed by the vandal Floyd on his flight southward through this city. What a piece of fancy fireworks he did make of that bridge! It wasa dark night. The tarred wire cavles, glowing like so many flery suakes, swung back and forth and twisted between the towers until finally the whole mass dropped into the river sixty feet be- neath with a thundering crash, But while 1 recoguize these old landmarks, Tam at a loss to find my way over the strects which were 3o familiar to me in the years gone by. The march of improvement is visible on all sides iu this city. When I loft here in the spring of 1862 the population was parely 25,000. To-day there are fully 80,000 people in Nashville outside of the suburbs on the otner side of the river. As I strolied along the narrow streets leisurely I passed block after block of great brick and stone buildings that had been built since my time. And while the patient Tennessee mule stll does duty on some of the horse car lines, the overhead electric motor, with elegant coachies, traverses the greater portion of the city in every direction. Nashville always was a center of southern culture and refine- ment. She had her universities, colleges and es' seminaries bofore the war. These institutions have been supplemented by spucious school buildings, and more re- cently by the Vanderbilt and Fisk univer- sities, which take rank with some of the best schools for higher education in the country. The old Southwestern telegraph office in the second story of an ancient and dilapi- dated brick building, with its cobwebs on the ceilings, and the dust of the middie ages on window panes and walls, with its dark corridors and rickety stairs and prim- itive apparatus, i which I had labored and suffered at the outbreak of the war, is a thing of the past. The Western Union oftice, which has taken its place, is located in a handsome brick building, and the operating room is a model of neutness and conven- ience. Iustead of three operators that were employed in my time, there are now forty key pounders working day and night for dear life. My old time eompan- ion, Joseph W. Fisher, who wus chief oper- ator over myself and Tom Jobuson, still sur- vives the shock of war and the ravages of time. He is now manager of the Nashville oftice, and will probabiy remain at thav post until ““Gabriel blows his horn in the morn- ing.” 1 found Fisher the same whole-souled plodder that he used to be i duys of yore. Within stone's throw of the Chattanooga depot stands un unposing oftice building oc- pied as headquarters by the Nushville, Chat- tanooge & St. Louis railway. ‘“Ihe presi- denv's office,” said the porter as I entered, is on the second floor.”” 'to my question whether Mr. Thomas, the president of the road, was in, the clerk in the anteroom re- plied that he was in his private ofice, **What business shall Isay you desire to see him on!” “I have uo business with him, I sim- ply come to muke a call.” Right here iet me explain that my acquaintance with Mr. John W. ‘Chomas dates back thirty years and our itercourse had not always been mutuslly agreeable. When I was telegraph operator in Murfreesboro, in 1859, Thomas was the sta- tion agent aud proprietor of the depot dining hall. 1 had come to Murfreesboro direct from Oberlin, O., the most noted abolition town in America. Very naturally I was quizzed by ‘Chomas and others, with whom I ¢ contact, about Oberlin and the way: peovle in that part of the north, Iucidentally 1 was {mprudent enough to flad fault with tie wrewchedly built railroads and telegravh lines and draw @ contrast between the lm- proved farw machivery and imploments in Ohio and clumsy plows aud crude farm- ing imploments in Tenuessee. That aroused general suspicion aud caused much un- frieudly comment. Oue duy I reccived @ lot ter from the telegraph superintendent ad Nashville intorming me that my services wore dispensed with because I ene tertained free soil sentimonts, which the company could not tolerate from any of its omployes. The letter wound up with the nrgent advice that 1 had better go north (T wished to continue in the business, My suspicions at once led me to believe that Thomas was at the bottom of this, On the impulse of the moment I walked over to his house and #Sked him whether he had written any lotter again: mo to the superintendent. *‘Yos, I have, sir, replied ho, “And whmt did you write?” said I “Iwrote him that you woro an abolitions and would as soon marry & nigger as & white girl” “You are an infernal liar,” [ burst out. Thomas immediately pulled down & gun suspended on the wall and would prob- ably have shot me had not Mrs. Thomas rushed between us aud finally persuaded me to leave the house. A few days later I bid good bye to Murfreesboro. Tnstead of going north 1 went further south, into Mis: sissippt, and finally located &t Stevenson, Ala, on the Nashville road. Withint a few days after I had taken charge at Stevenson my succossor at that point warned me not to come back by way of Murfreesboro or | would be mobbad, 1 took the firat train for Marfreesboro and arrived there the next morning. I was not moiested, however, and returned to my post in north Alabama. T had not seon Thomas since tho great uupleasantness. Now L entored his ofoo and handed hin my oard. He merely gianced ut it, and exclaimed, I don't know who you are, sir,”” “But [am sure you do know who I am {f you will take tho trouble to look,” said L And then Thomas took a second look and extending his hand wave me o cordial welcome. Possibly I might not have known him either had he called on me. Both of us had under- wone considerable change since 1861, After a mutual interchange of histories Thomas opened an adjoining door to his office and asked whethor 1 knew his son John, now manager of the Nashville road, “I have never met him,” said &. “Oh yes, I have; he's tho red-headed baby you had when I lived in Murfreesboro, Ho was two years old when I made s acquaintance.” At half past 8 this afternoon myself and young John Thomas have taken the express train for Chattanooga, John to inspect the road, and myself to compare what is now with what was before the war and at its out- break. E. RosewaTER. MLl STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, There are 130 pupils inattendance upon the Ravenna schools. The I"illmore county republican conven- tiou will be held at Geneva, October 5. Senator John Dern has returned to his home at Hooper from a four months’ visit at his old home in Germuny Paul Harst, a four-) used his new hatchet to year-old sister's finger. now. Miss Christina Baker, a young lady of Table Rock, has started for Alaska as & missionary under the charge of the Presby- terian board. * Grand Island h ings in one day, on the morning, and th U. W. block in the Miss Louisa Bake r-old Madison bo; cut off his ty Paul has no hatchet d two corner stone lay- for the new city hal in other for the new A. O. afternoon. one of the new tepch- ers in the Ponca City schools, died suddenly after a few days' illncss before_her parents could reach her bedside. Her home was at Irwin, Ia. John Reed. a twelve.yearold boy of Chadron, while playing with a flus attached to a pole, was caught in the folds of the streamer by the wind and carried ten or fifteen feet in the air. He fell to the ground, breaking his loft arm and three vibs. That axlc grease is not oo for a gall on a mule’s neck has been demonstrated by Fay Miner, a Cass county farmer, much to his regret. Some of a patent preparation was spread over a scre on the ammal wade by the collar, but ins! 1 of healing, the mule's neck began to swell, sud in about forty-eight hours the auimal died with every symptom of bload poisoning. lowa Itews. Sac county’s now court house Is nearly completed. A passenger train near Rockwell City ran over a large wolf and killed it. Alex Ramsey, the Ottumwa horse thief, will spend the next two years im the pen. Timothy nay is selling for %3 a_ton and clover for $1 In the castern part of the state. Marshalltown will ship 2,500 foet of Towa marble to Boston to bo used in the new library building. For assaulting o week-minded girl, Georze Montgomery, of Tipton, will put in three years at hard labor at Anamosa. Ason of John Harrig, of Gilbertsville, aught by a belt in the eogine room of at that place aod almost in- stantly killed, A masked robber near into the house of Mrs. $25 at th point of a re 10 anothor house and Dofiance walked Lynch and secured volver. He then went ‘neld uy"” four men d them not to leave the morning and they carried out his iustructions to the letter, A fence between the Mullizan and Klock familics, living_near_Sneidon, resulted in young Klock filling the body’ of old man Mulligan with birdshot. Hoé was rebuked by his father for not giving Mulligan tho benelit of both barrels of his eun. Father and son were arrested and bail fixcd af 8600, Byron Peer, a farmer living near Secrau- ton City, has foo much wife. He came from Wisconsin a few yoars ago, and under pre- tense of being a single man married the daughter of u wealthy farmer. Last week Mrs. Peter No. | appeared on the sceno and now ‘“‘there are heaps of troublo on Byron’s mind.” Tne Two Dakotas, Hand county produced $10,000 worth of ‘wool this season, The Glendale Tin Mining company will commence operations October 1, A Lead City salookeeper trind to eject & drunken customer and broke his arm. Sheridun county will vote at the coming election on bonds to build a $10,000 court house. A mile of track has boen laid for the mo- tor line ut Madison, and the work is being pushed rapidiy. Grand Forks' fire larm service was burned out tho other night by the crossing of its wires with the electric light, The sentence of Dr. W. T. White for em- bezzliug funds while postumaster at Carbou- ate has been commuted by tue president from five to two ye N The Indiaus predict a wet season for Da- kota next season. They say that all the luke beds, creeks and ravines fill up every seven years, and next year is the time for the change, ‘This cpincides with the predictions of the prophets and scieutists. The citiz-ns of Hot Springs are making do- termined efforts W secure the Nationul Printers’ Home, which will have an eadow- ment of 200,000, They will offer 160 sorcs of land inside the city limits; ulso freo use of the baths, and bave offercd (o pay expenses of the locuting committee Lo the Springs. 16 will bo difficult for the visitiog comiuiltes to find @ plowsanter location than Hot Springs offers. Theso spriugs are olaimed to have wonderful curalive properties, und the ol mate of southwestern Dakota is unexcelled in the west. CURES PERMANENTLY BACKACHE, HEADACHE AND TOOTHACHE. CURES PERMANENTLY ALL ACHES AT DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS, THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimors, Méy