Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1889, Page 4

e At S AL N, i S THE _DAILY PUBLISHED BVERY monumo. oo TERMS OF ST Duily (Morning Edition) including “uniay, One Year BEE. address, One Vear .. Weekly Iice, One Year OFFICES, Omana Dfl“‘ RNee hulld'mg. N. W, Corner Beventesnthond Facnam Birests. | c oo, A7 o diny Now' orr (;mm. Hooms 14 wnl 1f Tetbune . ahington Office, No, 13 Fouiteenth Strect. Council Blafls Office, No. 12 Penrl Strest. Lincoln Office, 1020 P St eot, CORRESIONDENCE, All communfeations rolatin: to news and edt. torial matter suould be addre.sol 1 the Editor of the liee, BUSINESS LETTERS. A1l bneiness letters and remitrances should bo addressed to 1 he Hes Pubits Omaha. Drafis, checks anid po. 1o b made payablo to tho order of Lie company, The Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors B Building Farnam and Seventoenth Steets, e e There 15 no oxo .m‘m atafluro to got T al ve bosn notis ers Wha want ro other Omaha bupers are carried are reucsted o no- Ufy THE LEl THE Bworn Statemcal Btate of Nobraskn, unty of Donglas, pacliac DALY Bl Circulation. the week ending September 21, 1550, was a8 fole lows: . Sept. 15 Monday, 8 Tresday, Wednesd Y. %, Baturdiy, swt 9. Average........ . GEORGE . T/ Eworn to beforo me and sub: n_my prescice this 215t duy of Septemvar. A, D 1R, [Senl.] T e FLA L. Notary Pubiiz, Stataof Nebraska, } County of Douglus o George I . boine duly sworn, de- oses and says that Lo 18 secrstary of ‘Tne’ Bee compiny, that 1he achul average tion ot “TE DALY By for the eptember, 168, for Oc- tober 16, 1004 ton 50 coes? f0r Decem be: Jununry, I, 105 cople 8076 copies: for Mirch, 158, April 19, 1 3 for June. RS, 18, coples; fol r February, 1889, K564 copless for or Niny, 180, 18,610 ; for July, 1 coplos. MUCK. Sworn to betore me und subscrl P".“"ui this 318t day of Augnst, corn cropis the admi- ration of the continent. T bayonet continues to hold the balance of power 1n Oklahoma. ONE objection to the Cronin trial pro- ceedings is that they do not proceed. Tire Missouri river is very low at the present time, and is said to be even down at the mouth. TLAWSE is the Bonlanger of the Second district. The gravel trains and brass bands can not save him from the con- gressional ditch, MATOR CLARKSON not yet taken charge of the postofiic but he will march in front of the procession when- ever there is one. ST. LOUIs is determined to suppress prize fighting. The future great is to be congratulated on this new evidence of life and decorum. A semive bis boen d seovered in Texas whose waters are intoxicating. The prohibitionists will no doubt legis- late 1t out of existence. THE sudden flight of Me. Dana to Eu- erope is explained. John L. Sullivan has goune to New York to demund a re- traction of the story that he was a can- didate for congress, IF Grover Cleveland accepts the nom- ination in Sunset Cox’s district, as it is now thought likely he may, it will be something of a tumble from the top of the political ladder. THE Wisconsin bank robbery smacks of the castor oil incident in Denver. A bundle of forty thousand dollars be- longingz to others has an itching at- traction for & man possessed of the combination. Ir TirE Eighth wardislet alone it will hue out timber enough for every office in the county and have enough century plante left over to fill all the municipal offices, und Otis H. Ballou more than twenty miles away. —— THEsun crossed the autumnal equinox yesterduy, The crossing was made ~without any hitch, and reflected very cred.tably on the managerial ability of the present weather depurtment offi- “oials. NEW MEX1co is making a stagger at statehood. The bosses of that section hunger the flesh pots, butit is not probable that congress will confer that ‘dignity on an ageregation of gaivanized Mexicans. Tae scheme for an air line from Omaba to Florida would create an up- ward tendency in the alligator market. A few of those featherless songsters could not fail to enhance the landscape of our park system. —— Tae Burlington & Northorn is a Jonah among the railvroaa whales of the west. All attempts to swallow it here- tofore have failed. Unless the opora- tion is suceessfully performed soon rival lines will be forced into deep water. ——— NEW ORLEANS is convulsed by the discovery of & huge fraud which will relieve the Louisiana troasury of hun- dreds of thousands of dollars. Little sympathy will be wasted on the vietims. ‘New Orieans has had its hands in the pockets of the peoplo for years, and its dupes will derive some consolation, msee—— Tue first elections in the new states will take place one week from to-mor- row. Allof the swates will elect state ofMcers, legislatures and members of both houses of congress. In the case of South Dakota two congressmen will be elected. The narrow margin of the re- publicans in the sational legislature will almost certainly be strengthened by the election. Moutana appears to be the ouly one of the states in which re- publican success is at all doubtful. A LOUD PROTEST. The arrogant domination of the rail- road bo.ses is at last arousing the peo- ple of western Nebraska to active re- sistance. Up to this time the papers of that section have stoutly denied that there was any cause of complaint about the tyrannical and dictatorial methods by which that section has for vears remained disfranchised. Now they are beginning to talk and the wail that comes up exhibits in its full light the debasement and degradation to which our citizens have been subjected. Under the head of “Outrageous Dom- ination,” the McCook Gazette, published at the headquarters of the B. & M. di- vision bosses, enters its loud protest as follows: Avnother straw has been laid upon the camel’s back oy the local managers of the B.&M, The caucus of Thursday was but a ropetition of what has been witnessed befc by our long-suffering people whon the poli ical plans of Mr. pbell in regard to somo petty precincts or school district oficial needed to be satisfled. ‘'his time it took the form of opposition to our present efficient sheriff, W. O. Kussell,.who had in some man- ner incurrod Mr. Campbell's enmity, and consequontly the round-nouse and gravel- train must bo called into requisition to con- summate the defoat of his aelegates in tho caucus. One hundred and fifteen men were voted in an unbroksn line, being oblized to pass theough an alley-way formed by Harmon and Archibald on one side und Rogers and Bankson on the other, and under the eye of these omiciuls they deposited their ballots. Blame not these toilers for the deed. They had wives and babies at home and winter is not far off. While inwardly they rebelled agamnst the indignity, the thought of dear ones at home impelled them to submit. One fine specimen of n:ental and physical man- hood was especially brought to our notice. He had expressed himself as Russell's friend. He was sent for at once und ordered to voto “right,”” and as he approached the polis in ctuarge of an official he tendered the ballot they had placed in his hand with a downcast oye and trembling voice, while the oficials nudeed and wink d at each other in glee. ‘We have no objections to offer to the candi- dates that were successful on that day. Iv is their apparent pood fortune. Our only protest is the inhuman manner in which 1t was done. God pity the poor, who are obliged to listen to the crack of the slave- driver's whip. Some of the employes were cute enough to switch ballots even uader the eyes of the watchers, and thus voted for the man of their choice. It would seam that if a man works for the B. & M. for $1.08 per day in the round house, he should have the poor privilege of voting for his friend if he chooses. It George W. Holdroge w8uld give his offi- cials orders to keep out of precinot and county politics, and allow us to choose our own school directors and other offcials, the people would rise up and call him blessed. As it is, enemies are being created every year to the road that should claim us all as friends, and would do so if such spectacles as this could be forever banished. When will the day come? THE PENSION QUESTION. One of the most important questions which the next congress will be called upon to consider is that of increasing pensions, It is already abparent that a stroug effort is to be made to secure a service pension, and congress will be appealed to for otherlegislation, which, if granted, would extend the pension roll and materially enlarge the annual expenditure on this nccount. In view of this, it will be of general interest to refer to the latest statistics of the pension office, which present the business of that office down to the close of the last fiscal year, Jung 80. At that time the number of pensioners on the roll was a fraction over four hurdred and eighty-nine thousand, and the net increase for the year was over thirty-seven thousand. There has been great activity in the pension office since July 1, so that the numbecr of pensioners now enrolled must be con- siderably larger than at the close of the last fiscal year. Probably not much less than five hundred thou- sand people are drawing pensions at this time. The expenditure on account of pensions for the last fiscal year was a little over eighty-eight million dollars, or about one-fourth the total expenditures of the government. This sum is larger than Germany spends for its great army equipment. During the past ten years there has been a steady and rapid growth in the pension figures. In 1879 the expenditure on this account was thirty-five million dollars, and the fol- lowing year iv grew to fifty-six million: In 1887 there was paid out for pensious eighty-two million dollars, and as al- ready noted eighty-eightmillion for the last fiscal year. It is estimated that the demand from this source for the present fiscal yenr will fall little if any short of ene hundred million dol- lars. The most zealous friend of the old soldiers must grant that these are enormous figures, and they suggest the question whether the generosity of the government has not been extended as far in this direction as1t should go, in justice alike to the soldiers and to all other citizens. The great majority of the people unquestionably approve a liberal pension policy. They want the old soldier to be justly and gene ously dealt with, and no fa demand made in their behalf will fail to receive the approval of a majority of the people. It is the duty of the nation to see that no faithful soldier or sailor, who received an honorable discharge, shall suffer from want resulting from wounds or from disease contracted in its service. All such should receive pen- sions proportioned to their disabilities. But the nation’s generosity must not be carried beyond a limit where it would 1nvolve an injustice to the whole people, and the serious question is whether that limit has not been reached. i LR SRS N A POLICY OF OBSTRUCTION. Ii such representative democrats as Congressman Bynum, of Indiana, and Oates, of Alabama, voice the general sontiment among wheir party colleaguos in congress, the democratic policy is to be one of obstruction. The Indiana congressman recently said: “We have alot to woery tha republicans about, and will make it intevesting for them,” adding, *'I do uot think the republicans will be able to do anything with the tariff.” The Alabama congress- man stated in an interview a fow days ago that it is the intention of the dewocrats to fight back. He was somewhat more ccnser- vative than the other, bus left no doubt THE Ol(m DAILY BE,]p MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1889, that the majority 18 to find a’persistent and vigorous resistance to all measures of a striotly party nature. “Even with the congressmen from the new states,” remarked Mr. Oates, ‘‘they will have only three over a quorum, and they will never, I feel confident, be able to mus- tor a quorum of their own party at any one time.” There is a saggestion in this which shouald impress upon repub- lican members of the honse the neces- sity of giving closer attention to their duties than it is the habit ot congress- men to do, The small republican majority in the next house will render necessary the con- stantattendance of the membors of that gide in order to accomplish anything. Those who expect the republicans of the house to carry through any legisla- tion they may desire lose sight of the relative strength of the two parties in that body. At the elections last No- vember one hundred and sixty-four re~ publicans and one hundred and sixty-one democrats were elected. The changes by death will make no differ- ence in these figures. In any contest between the parties the republicans, having a majority of three, would of course carry their measure provided all their members were present. It rarely happens, however, that every member is present, and the absence of two republicans, even if paired, would prevent that party from doing nnything aflirmative, because by such action they would not haveaquorum, which is one hundred and sixty-throe. The addition to the republicans of four members from the new states will not materially strengthen them. The addition of five members makes the aggregate member- ship three hundred and thirty, and in- creases a quorum from one hundred and sixty-three ‘to one hundred and sixty-six. Four added to the present strength of the republicans will give them one hundred and sixty-eight, which is two in excess of a quorum. The expected addition, therefore, will simply add one vote to their strength. Assuming that the democrats will not fili- buster againsta vote being reached, the republicans must have at least one hun- dred and sixty-six votes to carry their mensure, because the democrats would refrain from voting and insist that their opponents, being directly vesponsible for legislation, must have their mem- bers present to perform their duties. Rules may be adopted to prevent fili- bustering, but no rule can force a mem- ber to vote. Thus the democrats, by ro- maining silent, could defeat the major- ity unless the latter should have a quo- rum present. In view of the fact that it has always been very difficult for the dominant party to maintain a quorum, even when having a majority very much larger than the republicans will have in the next house, it will be seen that there is very small chance of the republicans passing any strictly party measure, and it may turn out that Mr. Bynum is cor- rect in saying that the republicans will novbe able to do anything with the tariff, ana there is even less probability that they will be able to pass a general election law. designed to remedy elec- tion abuses in the south, should such ameasure be proposed. There can be no doubt that the present general dis- position umong the democrats is to pur- suo an obstructive policy as to all legis- lation of a party nature, and it is obvi- ous that they can make such a policy generally effective. BorH London and New York are away behind many small cities in this country in the matter of 1apid transit. New York has its elevated roads and London its underground system, but in either case the proper facilities have not been afforded the publie of either city, In New York the elevated roads do not cover the field, and in the case of London the underground lines are very unpopular on account of smoke and of extremely damp air in the tun- nels. The roads have never paid but during one period, and that was while Buffalo Bill was running at the out- skirts of the city last season. New York has organized a company for an underground road, but it is not likely, in view of London’s ex- perience, that it will ever be built. It is more than probable that both cities will before long adopt the electrical system of transportation, which has be- come s0 pobular in the west. It can be used where no elevated or underground roads could be built, and the trains can attain as high a rate of speed as those propelled by steam. a—— LATER reports materially reduce the number of lives lost in the Quebec dis- aster. The total is not likely to exceed thirty persons. The extent of the ca- lamity was paralleled in 1841, almost in the same place, when thirty-two per- sons were killed and a Jarge number of homes were wrecked. The cliff which rolled down upon its sleeping victims possesses s melancholy interest for Americans. It stood directly in front of the citadel which the brave Mont- gomery attacked with his gallant band of continentals on a stormy December night in 1775, and it was on these rug- ged steops he met his death. The storm of shot and shell did not movea boulder from this, then impregnable, barrier, yet the stormy elements accomplished what man could not, and carried de- struction to imnocent peopls. Apart from the loss of life, the disaster brings financial ruin to scores of people on the threshold of a Canadian winter, The district was peopled by workingmen, und the loss of their homos and house- hold effects will cause much suffering — 17T may not be very consoling to the democrats to be informed that they are making much ado about nothing in their hue and ery over republican ex- travagance a¢ Washington and the shrinkage of the surplus. It may be as well for them to kuow right now as any time that every disbursement now be- ing made is based upon appropriations made by the late democratic house and approved by the late Grover Cleveland, Not a cent has yet been appropriated since Harrisou’s inauguration, This is sad for democracy, yet strictly true. e eeemegerny - I¥ the Chinese government carrics out its threat of expelling Americans from the flowery kingdom, sbout \welve hundred wmnn, formor residents of this country, will have to seck a domi- cile elsewhere. Of this number over five hundred are preachers. ——— Do to the West, Falls City Journal. To Nobraska the appointmont of commis- sioner of thé general land oMce comes. Judxe Groft of Ormdha fe the lucky man, and the mantle has fallen on able shoulders. The west was ontitled to the land commissioner and President Harrison gave him to us. prolsimrt - Inkdncle Indeed Gratifeing. Wood River Gazetts, The appointiment of Judge Lewis A. Gro ff, of Omana, to th€ office of commissioner of tho general land ofice of the United States is indeed eratifying to the oitizons of Ne- braska. Judge Groft is thorougnly & wost- orn man and familiar with the workings of the nterior department. il Unguestioned. Weeping Water Ropublican, Judge Groff, of Omaha, has roceived the appointment from the president to the im- portant position of land commissioner. This is considered the most important commission in the government and ranks next to a cabinet office. There is no question but that Judge Groft will fill the honored position with credit to himself and the great stato of Nebraska. i i A Now Difficulty. X Fremont Tribune. 1t was easy enough for President Harrison to fill the position ot commissioner of the general land office by the appointment of Judge Groff, of Omaha, but the real tug of war will come when Governor Thayer un- aertakes to flil the position vacated by Judge Groff, —_—— A Oredit to ths State, Cuthertson Sun, The president has appointed Hon. Lewis A. Groff, of Omaha, commissioner of the general laud office, Judge Groff is compara- tively & young man, strong, active, well versed in law, and in full sympathy with the people who make their homes in “‘sod shan- ties on the cluim.” It1s a crediv to the state to possess such & man and it is an honor to the president to have the discernment to call men of the judge's stamp to occupy great ad- ministrative stations. pardiat N A Mere Biuft. Denver News, THE OMAnA BEE hits the Missourl river scheme of the Kansas.City Times squarely between the eyes. *There was atime,’” says Tur Bee, “when intelligent people could be made to believe that the Missouri river would become a powerful competitor of the railroads in trausporting products of this section to the Atlantic seaboard. That time has gone by. Everybody with a thimbleful of sense knows that the railroads wouid carry the bulk of all our grain, cattle and merchandise, even if the Missouri hada channel fifty reet deep.” Tue Brr then re- views the decadence of river navigation on the Mississippi and the Ohio and other streams, and concludes with the assertion that the whole thing is an §3,000,000 job which will be favored by jobbing contractors and engineers who want a soft place on the gov- ernment pay-roll, but for which no congress- man would be justified in voting, Tuz Bee isright. The Kansas City Times 1s only making a bluff av the railways with its barge-line scheme, which is about as liable to be put in operation as a railroad to the moon. THE ———— INDUSTRIAL FIELD. The Paris Carpenters’ urcion is 600 years old. Chattanooga, (Tean.) bricklayers get 40 cents per hour. The stonceutters get and $4, and want ten hours’ pay for nine hours on Saturday. There are 1,500 co-operative unions in England, containing 992,425 members. In 1833, $17,072,035 profit was made on sales dmouting to $183,675,225. Of this sum $125,100 were devoted to charity. Eleven one-armed switchmen on the Chi- cago & Northwestern railroad at Chicago struck for an advance in wages, and the other switchmen sustained the demand. The company granted the advance aund the men returned to work. Brushmakers in England are beginning to organize. They have to fight anarmy of itinerant brushmakers who travel about from town to town making brushes by hand aud selling the brushes at a cheap rate. Attera careful investigation the New York Sun estimates that there are in that city 400,000 workingmen recelving wares so low that they must embrace vice, apply for char- ity or starve. The Orrell Coal company of Grafton, W. Va., has novified the managers of their works at Newbury, Tyrconnel and Fairmount that all of the company's works are to be closed indefinitely because they cannot afford to do business at the present rate. This will throw over eight hundred men outof em- ployment. A Boston railroad works its engineers and firemen 127 hours one week and ninety-two hours the next. They get 15 aud $I11 per weck respectively, ‘Two children, twins, belonging to one of the locked-out miners, died at Spring Val- tey, IlL., of starvation. In Russian cities carpenters earn $4 to $0 per week and consider themselves well off if they average § a week all arourd. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad company has reduced the workidg time of about half the force at the Mont Clare shovs from ten to eight hours. This will reduce the earn- ings of skilled workmen, it is said, from $10.80 to about $3.4) & week. Massachusetts factory laws are being en- forced. Children are not allowad to clean the machines, and girls must tie up their hair to avoia being scalped. Farm hands in France earn a little over $1 a week and manage to save out of it. Bricklayers in London are prospering and have been advanced lately 1 cent an hour in wages. ‘There is a movément to form an Eight hour league in some of the lacge towns in Scot- land. Eoglish molders work nine hours and their average life is fifuy-one years. In Ohio they work ten and die at forty, In Glasgow, Scetland, there are more fac- tories to the squave mile than i any other city in the United Kingdom., For 500 years pravious to the Elizabetnan and Cromwellian wars handspioning had reached a perfection in Ireland not surpas sed in any other country. Except tradesmen or people who have some live profession or employment, no one is made welcome in Australia from other covntries. The large section of people known as “clerks,” from people who can merely read, write and cipher, up to experienced book-keepers, are not wanted at all, The Durham (England) miners have taken # vote on the question of accepting the 10 per cent advance offered by the owners. The result was in favor of accepting this ad- vance by o majority of one. This decision averts @ strike which would have proved the #reatest on record. ‘Pue United Lavor league of Philadelphia, Pa., bas asked the director of public works to enforee the eight-iour law of the state in the bureaus under his coutrol. The director replied that, whonever employes complained of the manner of thelr emoloyment or com. ‘ponsation, the matter had prompt attention, and would have in this case when suoh com- plaint was received ——— “STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottines. Tho creamery at Newport has boon com. pleted and is open for business, The S ‘hrrdy county republican convention will be held at Papillion Septamber 25. A Sons of Vetorans oamp has been organ- ized at Loup City with thirty-thres members. The town board of Western has purchasad & sixty-galion chemical engine for protection from fire, ‘The Kearney telephoue office has a new switch-board which will accommodate 250 subscribers. Weeping Water is to have a second hard- ware stors, which will be opened for busi- ness October 1. A special election will be held at Ord October 8 for the purposs of voting $4,000 additional water bonds, John Van Housen, of Schuyler, claims to have raised the champion potato crop of the world—760 bushels to the acre. The South Sioux City Sun aaod News has concluded to shorten up its loag name and cut it down to simply the Sun. There is said to be a growing feeling of dissatisfaction over the township organiza- tion systom i1 Seward coun! Fred S. Hasslor has rotired from the ed- itorshipof the Baaver City Tribune and ha been succeeded by Merwin & Green, W. W. Cole, 4 Callaway farmer, has raised over four hunured pounds of tovpacco from seed which he brought from Pennsylvania. Lizzia Cassion, a Columbus nurse wirl, chimbed atreo and is now nursing an arm broken in two places and a dislocated elbow. The Adams county republican convention to select delegates to the congressionai con- vention will bo hold at Hastings October 1. Kendall & Smith, of Lincolu, extensive owners of elevators, have purchased throe olevators at Ulysses, Garrison aud Platts- mouth. Bert Southern, a young Fallerton man did not feel woll for several days and concluded to end s existenco by cutting his throat, He used a razor, but did not bear down hard enoagh and consequently will recover. ‘Phe people of Ord are talking of making an artificial lake. it being asserted that by ouilding & dam 1,800 foet long aud eight feot high, the waters of Dane cresk would forin a pond bigger than the famous one at Kear- ney. L. B. King, of Hebron, recently k., using n thirty-day round Lr. King die the railway people decided that the body conld be re- wurned to Hebron on tho same ticket, which was done. lowa Ltema. Ten milch cows have died of Texas fover at La Harpe, Washington sports put a coat of paiat on the town that cost §140. A Dubuque man found $750 in an old truuk in his garret which his deceased wife had probably laid up for a rainy aay. A Plymouth man owed his hired girl $100 for keeping house for him and married her to escape paying the debt. L. E. Born and Edwin Walters, late pro- prietors of the Bank of Exira, have veen in- dicted by tho grand jury for fraadulent bank- 1ng and placed under $1,000 bonds to apvear for urial. In an electrical storm near Vail lightning struck and killed two men and five horses, A small boy had just alighted from one of the horses as the bolt siruck and his escape is considered miraculous. While boat ridiug in Little Wall lake, in Wright county, L. B. Grifin observed a peculiarly shaped object beneath the He raised it to the surface and it p be a perfectly preserved Indian canoe of the style of a half of a century ago. John Zimthal, with a family of ten chil- dren, lefv 13oone for Milwaukee in a wagon on the 1st inst. Wiien he arrived at his des- tination, after a trip occupying ten days, uine of his ch: 0 were taked sick with diph- theria, six dying within six da ‘They con- tracted the dise:se on the road. Gus Von Pockets, a German died in Waverly of ' cancer, at fifty-six vears. He was a cousin of the Earl of ifife. " He came to this country to travel, married & farmer's daugnter in Bremer county and settled there. His oldest son comes in possession of his title and estate in Brunswick, Germany. Frank Bradley, son of a wealthy Dubugue real estate dealer, got struck on a young lady clerk in a cigar store, and when he asked bis father for perinission to marcy her that stern parent emphatically and even pro- fanely refused. Frauk, according to the pr scribed rule in such cases,cast a look of with- ering scorn on his hard-hearted progenitor, sought the fair object of his aifections, a mar- riage license and 4 railroad ticket and lit out for West Union, where the two loving hearts were welded into one, Society in Dubuque 18 now holding open session on Frank. nobleman, the age of The Two Dakotas. Arthur P. Upton ploaded euilty to poly- gamy at Huron and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, The academy of the Sacred Heart, at Aberdeen, starts in its second year with an autendanco of sixty students. Nearly one hundred tramps put in an_ap pearance at Grand Forks, and for a time it was feared they would capture the city. A large and wealthy colony of Germaus will take up a large tract of land in Burleigh county for farming sud stock raising pur- poses. Fifty tons of very rich tin ore, the product of the Willow Creck tin mines, 'near Rapid City, have been shipped to Swanses, Wales, for reduction. A Millard man was hunting a pole when thatodoriferous anir al took rofuge in the well, and now he has to borrow water from bis neighbors, A runaway horse fn Rapid City dashed into & grocery storo through tho front door, and after prancing around among the goods for awnilo, made iis extu through tho back oor. Constantine DeFraca, o Portuguese om- ployed at Perry, was killed while at work in the Uncle Sam mine at that place, The cable of one of the cars in the inclined shaft break- ing, the car flew down the track with terrific speed, striking the miner in its course and killing him almost instantly. In Dakota the work of the land offico was nearly three years behind,but the large force has brought it up to Septoinver, 1883, and the force will continne until it is all disposed of. When the proofs are pass the patent will be ordered to issue at once. The Minnehaha Canning company of Sioux Falls gives employment to from seventy-five to 100 men. The company put up 125,000 cans of corn in the short time they have been running and expect next year to put up 1,000,000 cans of corn and 500,000 cans of to- matoes, Lightning came down the chimnes of Mayor Elliott's residence at Dell Rapids, hustled around a little, and then went through the window, talang sash aud all with it. Peter Christian, living about a mile and a hatf from town, 'also had @ visit from the electric flend and suffered the loss of three colts. A womal Otter Tail tale at about 65 named Gruer from ounty, Minu., related a romantic irand Forks. Her son had been stolen by Chippewa Indians ten years ago when only 4 yearsold. She had recelvel a communication from a friend at Turtle mountains stating that her son was there, Sho was en route thither. The story 1s be- lieved w be true e —— Spirits Who Ace Sports. Two spiritual mediums, Mrs. Rich, of Boston, and the wife of Dr. J, V Fletcher, a popular speaker on the spiritual platform, utilized their ‘spirit controls” very advantageously last race day at Saratoga, They claim to have been directed to go the races thut day and bet on certain horses, which they ere assured would pe the w They did as they were directed and each of the ladies was the lucky winuer of more than $1,000. - - ; For ladies,the best and purest tonic is Angostura Bitters. It effectually cures dyspepsis, aud tones up the system. Dr, J.C. B. Slegert & Sous, LT, At druggists. CHATTANOOGA'S CONTRASTS A City of Dageling Lights and Sombre Shades. THE RESTING PLACE OF HEROES, A Visit to the Graves of Those Whose Blood Bonght the Victories of Onhicamauga and Mis- slonary Ridge. In Tonnossoo's Motropol! CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 13, —[Editorial Corre- spondence. ] A bird’s-eye view of Chatta- noowa by electric light has ita light as well as shadow fn more than one sense. It oar- ries you into tae regions of romanco and drops you down into the dark and gloomy valley of vice and orime. Chattaaooga is lighted entirely with eleatricity. Arc lights suspended from the cross-arms of tall poles planted promiscuously over the whole city involuntarily recall to my mind the story related in the bible when tho Egyptiaus wero enveloped in darkness 8o densa that it could be cut into slices, while Moses and the He- brow children were enjoving the bright rays of tropical sunlight. The effect of this sys- tem of lighting 1a to diffase intonse lignt and dense darikness alternatoly in gre it patches, Mrom i high ridse k of the bisiness center the view of Chattanooga and the suc- rounding country is simply superb. The Tennessee river, winding liko a silver ribbon in serpentino folds through the vatley. The crags and cliffs vn Lookout mountain tower mg two thousand feet above the river, il luminated by limps that swing avove the Lookout point hotel. The church steeples and the turrets and towers on prominent buildings, all combine to make thisone of the MO8t preturesque views that can possibly be imagined. Add to this a background of tor- raced lawns and battlements surrounding custollated residences toat have been built on the ridee by the nabobs of Chattanooga, and she picture has a very fiiting frame. Descend from this ominence down 1nto the busy marts of what is hore called tho “Plucky City" of the south, and the scene shifts from the sublime to the disgusting. ‘The streets are lilled with a motley crowd, largely composed of colored men, who are everywhere in the south streaming iato the cities, which afford them abundaat scope for ndulging in dissipation, The doors of the dives and dens are wide open. Above the din, shout, and boisterous laughter is heard the strumming of the banjo and the rattle of the dice and poker chips. Gambling and carousing appears to be going on everywhore, by the police who are patroiling 1n less than ono hour T passed from forty to fifty of these aens of vice and orime, where nogroes, packed like sardinos, weare tudulging in their orgies. Many of theso places were dance housos, in which both sexes were engaged in 4 round of debasing jollity. Scattered here and thero botween theso resorts were laundries, where John Chinaman, undisturbed and undismayed, kept on squirting water on the “biled” shirt front, which was being mado ready for tho fastilious whito man. 1 hus grown from a more village en I nad last sean her, to a city of over 10,000 population, and her growth has only just began. The principal business ad, well paved aud cowpi built, will compare favorably with those of any western city of equal population. There aroat loast half a dozea six-story blocks with stone. brick, iron and plate glass frouts. ‘There are several first class hotels, ono of them at ieast larger than any in Omaha. J3ut commerco is only a secondary factor in promoting the rapid growth of the city, Industry is the chicf source of wealth and expansio n. There are glass factories, iron foundries, tanneries, furniture factories and quitea number of industrial concerns that employ large numbers of workmen. Early in the morning T took the street car for the most conspicuous of all places around Chattanooza—Lookout mountain. In twenty minutes we were at its b.se at the terminus of the ncline railway. My ascent of Look- out mountuin ip 1360 was mude on foot. There was a tedious carriags ride by which tourists were taken up at $2 per trip, over a very precipitous and tortuous road. Now 1found there were two different modes of couveyance to the top, the broad guage railroad, which winds around the mountuins from its base in a nich grade coil ten miles n length, and the ncline which runs straight up the mountain on & double cable a distance of one and one-quar- ter miles. Tais inclined road, piauned and built under the immediate supervision of Colonel W. R. King, of the regular army, a marvelous pieca of engineerin, age grade of this cable railway i the mile and the sharpest grade thirt) fBet to the hundred. The car is very much liko an old fashioned sled, and as it is drawn up the passevger looking down flnds himself rising above precipices and crags that make him dizzy. Midway between the base and the summit is the meeting point for the de- scending car. In a few minutes we reached the upper terminus of the line, adjoining the verandah of Lookout Point hotel. ‘This hotel stands within sdventy-five foet of the summit of the mountain, From its balconies the grandest of bird's-eye views oxtend into six states besides Tennossee, viz, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Vir- ginia and Kentucky. Just bolow is the ground on which gallant Joe Huoker fought the famous battle above the clouds. A little beyond the Tennussce flows around the famous Moccasin bend, The head- quarters of Genoral Grant, the batttlo- tleids of Missionary Ridge and Chicamaugua, Bragg's headquarters on the ridge, Brown's ferry, Rossville Gap, Fort Wood, Fort Neg- ley, the National cemetery, Stone fort aund the ity of Chattanooga are in sight, always providing that the sun shinss cloar and un- obscurcd in the horizon, On this particular moruing thers wero clouds botween the mountain and tho city, and a very dense mist above the Tennessee river. Now I could realize fully how it was possible to fight a battle above the clouds, Buing very familiar with the topography of the river and the mountaio, I always buve beon dazed at e idea of scaling the rocks and cliffs that rise perpzudicularly several hundred foet on the side of Lhe river in the face of an 0ppos- ing arwly. This afternoon I met & veteran who was there with Hooker and he expiained how the first footnold on the top was gain®d with the aid of rope ladders, Itis also ap- parent that the confeds must heve been takon by surprise av the sudden appearanc of union troops in @ position as impregnable almost as the Hritish forts at Quebsc and Gibralter, By 10 o'clock [ was back at Chattanooge and mountiog one of the electric motor curs, I started for Mission Ridge in sight and about four miles distant. The eleciric rail- way that leads to Mission Ridge has just been completed, and runs over very high s us easily as a vable car, The grades veral places are fully ten feet to the hundred. The rosd is well patronized and its construction 18 expected o wake quite & suburb o theold battie ground Witn the exception of the marks left by can- nou balt and shell on some of the large okd trees in the wooads that skirt this electric railroad up to Mission ridge, near the his toric farm house, ocoupied by General Bragg as headquarters, [saw uothing to remind we of the fact that one of the fidroest battles tho war raged here in September, 1863, About a quarter of a mile to the right of tho electric rond is the gateway that loads to the National semotery. Under an arch nearly forty feet in height, within which swings a massive iron gate, T entered the grounds, conseorated forever as the last roste ing place to the heroes who died for the union. Over the entrance I read the follows ing inscripuon: “‘Hero rest in peace 12,056 citizens who died for their country in the yours 1831-1805." The keover informs ma that there are now 18,017 soldiors buriod here. ‘The cemstery 18 really a beautiful natural park. It is nearly ciroular in shaps, about one milo in circumforence and covers A tract of soventy-flvo acres. It 18 sure ronnded by m well coped wall, which is almost hiaden by a olosly clipped osage hedge. In the ocenter @ knoll nearly 100 feet high rises above tha gravel driveway, on the woll-kopt blue grass sides of which are nincteen spocial ine ‘terment sections, each one designased by a smail granito obelisk, Surrounding these are hundreds of small, white marble head~ stones. 'I'o the right from the gatoway in & semicirole Lie the remains of Samuel Slavins, S. Robimson, G. D, Wilson, Marion Ross, William Campbell, P. G. Shadrach and Jonn Scott, all Onio soldiors whose daring oap- ture of a locomotive on the Wostern & At lantic railroad in 1862 caused them to be hanged in Atlanta. Near the summit of the cemetery is the large brick rostrum finished with beantiful cut stone coping. Its carpet is of nature's groon, most beautifully kept. Tho climbing vines are covering the tweive brick pillars that support the open roof. The lawn surroundini the rostrum is adorned by four large cannon standing on end, [ should call them 10 inch columbeads. On one of these on the regulation shield 1 bronzsare the raised lottors, *United States national military cemetery, Chattanooga. Established in 1863, loterments 12,870, Known, 7,047, Unknown, 4,020.” About one hundred yards below the ros- trum stands a haodsome obelisk dedie cated to the Fourth Army corps with the simple inscription “In memory of our fallen comrades.” Wihat sad memories this beautiful spot recalls! Just think of it, more than thirteon thousand men are sicepiug the last sleep un- der the sod withina space of 500 yards square. Most of them were young men and all in their prime. Over four thousand of them nave not even been identified. All we know them by is the number carved on top of the square white headstones. Others wera only partially identitied by initial letters on their clothing, and these initials on the head- stone with the state whencoe they hailed lea their identity still an eternal mystery. As [ walk along tho gravel path, shaded by woeping willows, live oak, cypress und ever- green cedars, I take a random inventory of a row of headstones plauted over she trenches, in place of the shing that bore inscrip- tions of tho uuwn : . 8,201, Elias 8,203, B. A. Gould, Towa; Indiana; 0,087 and 9,638, two square blocks, -Lukuown," 9,005, H. A. Georyre, no stute Chaurles Roan,no state; Then a larger sandstone tablot i‘mu‘lhul. “In Momory of Sergeant Joseph W. Wilkin- son, Co. K, 1st Mich. Bugineers; died May, 4, aged 28 years;" another headstone upon which a union flug was carved bore the name of “David A. Gray, Co. H, 1llth Indiana.'? Three or four rows further back staudsa headstone with a mastor muson’s emblem carved over the folowing inscription: “Corporal Andrew J. Cobb, Co. D, 83d Rog. Muss. Vols; Killed in Battle of Resaca, May 1st, 18 In last letter home, he wrote: *If I fall, T dio for libsrty.”” These special inscriptions are, howaver, very fow far bety Most of the heud- s over the remains of known soldiers simply give the name, company und regi- ment uud state. Sadiy and almost overpowerad by the emotions evoked by wmy surrcundings, I wended my way back, and as I turned the angle toward the gate I read upon au iron tablet with raised letters: Uhe neighing troop, the flashing blade, ‘[he bugle's stirring blasi The charge, the dreadful cannonade, The din and stout are past. E. ROSEWATER. — WILITY WALFS, Toronto Grip: Head clerk—*I'm letting my whiskers grow, sir.” “So I see, but [ can’t permit my employesto grow their whis- kers in business hours. They must do that in their own time.” ago Tribune: Infant cockroach— “Mamma, what is this substance that smoils 80 agreeably Maternal cockroach (rolling in it delight edly)—*Insect powder, my child, They feed itto us every summer, but they're a little late this season. It came just in time., [ was about to move over into the next house,’ Washington Capital: “Railway aceideut this morning,” said Blinkios, a suburbun citizen, after Le had returned from his busi- ness in town aua met his wife at tho station, *“Is it possible?” “Yus; the train was on time both ways."” New York Weekly: Wildeyed Man—*I want a lov of poison, right oft.” Drug Clerk —*1t's against the law o sell poison to pe ple who look as if they wanted to commit suicide, but D1l lot you have a bottle of Dr, Black-tequin's Elixir of Life. That seems 10 be pretuy sure death.” Oil City Blizzard: Aspiring poets are re- minded that Teanyson tukes & walk of three miles every day. In other words, the pocts are invited to take a walk. Lawrence American: *Is there anything a man caunot dot” asks an exchango. We have never yet found a man who couid scold the children with & moutaful of pins, ‘Texas Siftings: The Washington memo- rul arch fund of New, York was increased by upwards of 80 cents this week. Our geu- erous mulliouaires have doubtless been cone tributing. Loudon Tid-Bits: Guard—Now, miss, jump in please; train going on. Child—But I can’t go before I have kissed mamma, Guard—Juwp in miss; I'll seo to that ! New York Sun: Tramp—Will you give me a chance to get warm, sicl Man of House— Certainly, sir, You know that sawmill two miles down the road, don’t yout Well, I'll give you fifteen minutes to reach iv. Come, bravo! Terrs Houte Express: Mr. Ham A, Tewer—~What did you thiuk of my humble effort last nigut, my dear boy! The Dear Boy-—Oh, you were an ideal Claad, beyoud o doubt. 1auwsure of that, for there never could have been real one like yours. Washington Capital: “Don’t you think,” suid & youth, after working his vocal cords with intense vigor beside the hotel piano, “that L ought to go on the stage?” *Yes," replied Miss Pepperton, who dossn’t like him very much anyway, *I certainly do. Phore is one that leaves for the station just an hour and a half from now." Washington Capital: “How are you getting along with your work ou the piano ! asked Blinkius of a young woman, “Oh, very well; I can see greal progross i wy work,” “How is that{’ “Well, the family that lived next door moved away within & week after | commenced to practice. The next family staid & month, the next teu weeks, god tho family there now has re. mained nearly six monthy L Beechaw's Pilis care bilious and nervous llls