Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 6, 1889, Page 4

fm— PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Pfl"lnfl Sanday, One You tx Months, oo, hreo Month: Omana, Bee Bullding. Chicago Office, 7 Hookery Building New York, Hooms 14 ‘a0 1 Tribane Build- 104 ashington, No. 613 Pourteenth Street. fnllnl;l\ I&NI}BNO I: Pear] Streot. Lincoln, 't Honth Omann, Corner N and 25th Btroots. CORRESPONDINCE. - All commiunieations reiating to news and edi- torial matter should bo addressed to the Editor- ial Department, BUSINESS LETTERS. A1l Lusiness letters and remittances should he adaressed to The Bee Publishing Company, aha, Drafts, checks and postofiice oruers ‘made payable to the order of the company, The Bee Pablishing Cempany, Propritors Er Dullding Farnam and Seventeenth Stree il Thero 18 no excuse for a faflure to get T e NEw on the trains 1l newsdealers have been noti- fied to carry @ full supply. Travelers who want Tre [iry and can’t get it on trains where other Omaha papers are carried are requested to no- ufy Tix BER. tenss be particular to give in all cases full Information as to date, railway and number of train. Give us your name, not for publication or un- necessary use, but as a guaranty of zood faith, THE DAILY BEE. €worn Etarement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraskn, }on County of Dougias, d U'flrnnyll Tzschuck, secretary of Tho Bes Publishin fom puny, does solemnly swear that the actunl cireulation of Tie D. ¥ Bex forthe week ending November 2, 180, was as follows: . 21,610 Monday 5 Tuesday, Oc da; & Baturday, Nov. 2 Average...... State of Nehraska, b County of Douglas, % Sworn to before mo and subscribed Pprese; this 2d day of November, A, (Seal,] N. P, FElL, Notary I'ublic. State of Nebraska, | oo County of Douglas, { George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- Fokes nnd eays thut he'ls secretary of The oo ublishing Company, that the actual average daily circulation of Tue Daiuy Bee for the month November, 1185 1866 copies: for De- comber, 188, 18,22 coples;’ for January, 189, 16,5674 coples; for February, 1680, 18006 copies for March, 156, 18854 cobles: for April, 180, 0, 18,6 to in my D, 1 . 1980, CHUOK. : T to d in my RSt 8 sins 20/ 4y, of November AT 1sak ‘oal. Titgek elections within thirty days ought to satisfy the eravings of the most avaricious ward worker. Tue pudblic debt wns decreased nine million dollars during October—a pretty good fall in the nation’s burden for a “fall month OMAIA may congratulate herself that Cuat-Off lake has been declared to be in JTowa. But this decision should not pre- vent the punishment of the thug who shot the man Cross there a few days ago. CAPTAIN ZALINSKI does not make as much noise as his gun, but he com- mands justas much respect from the monarchs of Europe. The captain is a bighly oxplosive gentloman in warlike matters. THE Nebraska Central bridge is the key to Omaha's prosperity, A quarter of a million in bonds is a bagatelle com- pared with the immediate and lasting benefits which its constructipn will con- fer upon the city and county. A NEW set ol rules has been pro- vided for the police force. The mem- bers are prohibited from smoking che- roots or “‘tufers,” or chewing gum while on duty, but there is no objection to the members posing—for effect upon the -feminine population. THE sous-1n-law still lingering in the federal building have rececived assur- “ances that they will not be disturbed for a few months yet. The indications point to an exceedingly cold winter for ‘the remnants of Cleveland’s adminis- tration in this vicini THERE is no better evidence of the growth of the city in population than the crowded condition of the public schools. Kven with the addition of new buildings, the enlarging of old schools, nud the reating of adjacent buildings, the accommodations are insufficient. e THE Brotherhood of Locomotive In- gineers has wisely done away with the barriers which prevented closer union with the firomen. Both organizations are essentially one in aims and occupa-~ _tion, and the closes they ally their in- ests, the better it will be for their growth and usefulness. IF 11 be true, as intimated in the meet- ing of the school board Monday night, that wany incompetent engineers are employed in the furnace rooms of school houses, the matter should receive immediate attention. 1t is not pleasaunt to contemplate that any minute a house _full of children may be blown to atoms. It is barely possible, however, that the regular engineers have been out on “election duties,” and that the incom- vetents spoken of are merely substi- tutes. TuE newspapers will be compelled to take notice of the public disgust gen- erally expressed at the mismanagement of both motor systems since consolfda- tion. While a newspaper cannot under- 4 take to regulate a street car company it . must reflect public sentiment: In- stances of carelessness and inefficiency of train men are becoming so frequent that the management of the Omana street car lines cannot be ignorant of the condition of things. e—— OMAHA'S treatment of the Pan-Amer- ican excursionists is warmly and en- thusiastically commended on all sides, especially by the members of the press accompanying the party. Asa model of hearty western hospitality, without tirezome oratory, or strained formali- ties, it was not approached by any eity in the union, and the members have shown their appreciation by sounding the praises of the city on all occasions. As anndvertisement of the eity, the cost was money well invested. THE ELECTIONS. All that can be said this morning with any degree of certainty regarding the olections yesterday in the states upon which general political interest contered, is that Ohio, Massachusotts and Town elected the republican tick- ots, and New York and Virginia the democratio tickets. The indications are that the re- sult in Ohio will be very close. Fora- ker suftered from a combination of cauges, chiof of these being the third term issue, and the belief of many of Senator Sherman’s friends that the governor did not deal fairly with him at the last national republican conven- tion, 7 In Maossachusetts, where the Aus- tralian ballot system received its first complote tost in this country, the re- publicans claim their usual majority, but the probability is that the result will fall somewhat short of this estimate. The state. however, is se- curely republican. In Towa the republican vote has been reduced, and the plurality of the party will be small. The river towns gener- ally show large democratic gains. The legislature is doubtless safely republi- can, 8o that the re-election of Senator Allison is assured. jovernor Hill has scored another vic- tory in New York, though probably with & reduced majority, the republi- cans claiming considerable gains out- side of New York city and Brooklyn. Mahone, in Virginia, is defeated by at least twenty thousand, and possibly more, a result which will be no surprise to those who have closely watched the campaign in that state. It should per- manently dispose of Mahone as the re- publican leader in Virginia. It must be confessed that on the whole the results of the elections are rather more encouraging to democrats than to vepublicans, and they convey some lessons which the latter should profit by. AGRICULTU L NEEDS. Having created a department of agri- culture, congress is in duty bound to maie provisions for such liberal sup- port as shall be found necessary to its usefulnoss and efficiency. The report of Secretary Rusk shows that congress did not make adequate provision for tho reorganization from a bureau to a de- partment, thus hampering the depart- mentin the performance of the work required by the act creating it. This is easily to be accounted for by the fact that congress could not have an ac- curate knowledge of the amount of ap- propriation necessary at the outset, and besides there was an opposition to the creation of the department which might have been rendered so formid- able as to defeat the project if it had been proposed to appropriate a very muchJarger amount than had been re- quired to administer the bureau. The last congress was quite liberal in some directions, but the advocates of the nevr department were not so largely in the majority as to be able to do all they -perhaps would have liked to do in starting it. With a better knowledge of what is required, and possibly with a stronger interestin promoting the usefulness of the depart- ment, the noxt congress may reasonably be expected to be more liberal in pro- viding for it. The generous poticy of other governments in this particular, as shown by the figures presented by Secretary Ruslk, ought to have some in- fluence favorable to larger appropria- tions for our agricultural department. The secretary submits sugges- tions and recommendations which should receive serious con- sideration, One is the appoint- ment of a state statistician in every state and a comprehensive plan of agri- cultural surveys of the states and terr tories. This would require a very con- siderable annual expenditure,and it is necessary to considor whether the only apparent advantage to be secured, that of obtaining more trustworthy stavisties of crops and of the agricultur- al ources of the states, would repay the cost. Another suggestion relates to the duty of the government to assume a more definite supervision of such forest areas as are still owned by it.and as ocoupy a position of importance in the regulation of water flow and climate conditions. This is in line with recom- mendations that have been made to congress annually for a number of years past, without receiving much attention, but there is better promise of the mat- ter receiving favorable consideration from the uext congress. The secretary renews the recomwendation that the de- partment be empowered to afford aid and encouragement to the work of the agricultural organizations through- out the country, which have attained a growth during the last few years that gives evidence of an expandiung spirit of self-help among the farmers, It would seem that the department might properly do whatever is practicable to encourage this spirit, and there are obvious ways in which it could assist these organizations without very great cost to the government, The average citizen who has no knowledge of the enormous proportions of the nation’s agricultural interests may not regard with favor the demands of the new department, but the importance of fostering these interests by a liberal government policy will be conceded by all who take the trouble to acquaint themselves with the immense contribution which the products of the farms of the country annually make to the national wealth and prosperity, and with the large proportion of the popula- tion which subsists by agricultural and 1ts kindred pursuits. * ———— CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. There will be matters upon which the president will address congress of more general interest and greater importance than civil service reform, but this sub- ject promises to occupy a share of public attention from the consideration it may receive in congress. Itis strongly in- dicated that there will -be developed a vigorous hostility to the reform, or at %oy rate to the preseut method of its ad- ministration, Republicans of promi- nence in both houses of congress do not hesitate to say that they are in favor of either abolishing the law or changing it in important respects, and the sentiment is understood to largely ¥ prevail among beads of departments " and chiefs of bures that the present operation of the law is not at all eatis- factory from the point of view of the interosts of the public service. The president has been furnished with ob- jections and arguments against the law from a number of sources, and on the other hand he has been freely as- sailed by criticisms of the way in which the law has been administered. Standing between these antagonistic torces it would not be surprising if he should feel some embarrassment in deal- ing with this question. The impression is, however, that the president will <.ake no recommendation to congress looking to an abridgement of the scope of the reform or in any way inimical to it. Itis believed thatonthe contrary he will so dispose of the hostile objections and arguments as to place congressmen in the attitude of opposing the administration if thev fight the law. This would obviously be not only a cansistent position for the president, but it would be the most con=~ clusive answer he could make to his critics. If he can silence the hostility to civil service reformin his own party, and prevent any interforonce with it which would be a step backward, he will certainly have a just claim to be regarded as the friend of the principle, even though in the administration of the reform the expectations of some, as was the case with his predecessor, have been disappointed. There appears to be good reason to expect that in this matter the president will amply vindi- cate himself, and point congress the way to render civil service roform more effective and generally acceptable. THE MORMON PROBLEM. The annual report of Governor Thomas furnishes a calm, conservative reflex of the present condition of affairs in Utah. It shows that while the Gen- tiles have grown in numerical strength, the Mormons have increased by foreign importations at an average of nearly two thousand a year for the past nine years. The Gentile strength is con- fined mainly to Ogden and Salt Lake Civy. In the rural districts there is no perceptible change in the following of the church. It has increased rather than diminished, owing to the fact that non- Mormon farmers, even if they could secure land by purchase, would be prac- tically without a market for their pro- ducts in the small towns. Having driven the crime of polygamy from open into secrot places, & now dan- ger threatens the wellare of the peopla. The Mormons propose to abandon the public schools and establish schools of their awn, where their children will be taught “‘those principles of salvation for which the Latter Day Saints wade $0 many sacrifices.” This is the policy outlined by President Woodruff, the successor of Brigham Young. If carried 1nto effect it will wreck the public schools of the territory, and force the education of all classes into sectarian channels. There is no avenue of escape. The Mormons own at least three-fifths of the taxable prop- erty in towns aund cities, and control the municipal machinery of all except Ogden. With schools of their own, it is absurd to suppose that they would tax themselves to maintain public schools to undermine their power and educate enemies of religious pollution. Self- preservation is the first law of nature. The Mormons are human, ard they will exercise their political.power to protect and strengthen themselves until forced to rotire by superior members. THERE is said to be a great deunl of anxiety among democratic members of the next house of representatives as to who will assume the task of party leadership. The death of Cox re- moved a safe dependence when the men who ranked him gave out. Randall nhas not the vigor to undertake any really severe work in parlinmentary generalship, and Carlisle issaid to be s0 physically broken as to be practically out of the lists. Mills is not in good Licalth, and if he were he is not regarded as a safe man to guide the party. He was a bad leader when in the majority, and could hardly be expected to be more wise and discieet in leading the contest of the party when in the minority. Crisp, of Georgia, is thought to be the most likely man to be charged with the hard work of lead- ership, as the situation now looks, but he is not thoroughly equipped for the task, which promises to be an arduous and trying one, It thus appears that the democrats in the next house of rep- resentatives ave likely to find their dis- advantage increased for want of a com- petent leader who can bear the strain of the battles that ave protty sure to occur, and hence they are contemplat- ing the situation with a great deal of serious concern. Toe people of Connecticut, having rejected prohibition by a most decisive vote, are now giving attention to the question of adopting high license. Under the existing law liguor licenses are subject to the regulation of county commissioners, the maximum rate that can be charged being five hundred dol- lars. Quite generally since the election at which prohbition was rejected the license rate has been ised by the county commissioners, and the tendency of popular sen- timent is distinetly in the direction of high license as the natural and proper policy to result from the ex- pression of public opinion. Increased licenses will undoubtedly be the rule throughout the state before the end of the year, and it is quite probable that the.next legislature will be asked to fix the maximum. rate, at least for the cities, at a higher rate than at present. Connecticut's decision against prohibi- tion is not likely, to be disturbed for many years. THERE 18 no reason why Omaha job- bers cannot secure a share of the trade of the new states of the vporthwest. They have direct communication with the commercial heart of Montana, Ore- gon and Washingion, and are thus placed on an equality with St. Paul and San Francisco. The extension of the Union Pacific to Spokave Falls, with the certaioty that the line will be pushed to Puget Sound at an early day, opens to them untrodden fields of trade of the most inviting uature. Ilecent experience proves that the people of i DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. that section ate wenry of the monopoly os San Fraj co, and are ready to turn their orders eastward if proper induce- ments are offered. If Omaha jobbers make the &ffétt, there is no doubt that they ean capture and hold a large share of the tradé'of that rapidly developing section of the country. S ——— THE blizgafd in New Maxico isa phenomenal, atmospheric disturbance for that section of the country. Great damage and {istress will result, be- cause the people are not prepared for severe cold wonther. It is a singular fact that the mountain benches and foot- hills of the territory were covered with snow all last winter, while the entice north and west enjoyed a winter of un- usual mildness, with but little snowfall. The present storm tends to confirm the general belief that the atmospheric con- ditions of the west are undergoing rad- ical changes. RIVAL roads have not made much progress in smashing the Union Pacific- Northwestern allinnce. The Burling- ton and Rock Island believe that the cheapest and most effective plan 18 to extend their lines to the Pacific coast, and they will carry out that plan as ex- peditiously as they can KATE FIELD'S pen picture of the short-haired members of her sex is in- cisivo as well as truthful. A majority of the female politicians who promenade through the country seeking notoriety display a reckless disregard for truth that is appalling. They are a disgrace to womankind, —_— DEVELOPMENTS in the Blythe will contest in San Francisco show that an active, wealthy man can beget more heirs after death than he dreamed of in life. In this respect the poor man is to be envied—his successors and assigns cannot afford to rake up his indiscre- tions. Tur addition of physical culture to the curriculum of the high school smacks of physical cruelty, when it is considered that the students are compelled to climb from basement to garret several vimes a day to reach their class rooms. THE colored voters in Virginia took the tissue ballot cue from their white brethren, but they did not succeed be- cause the opposition controlled the box. To be successful tissue ballots must be in democratic hands. Louisville Courder-Tournal. The Kansan ihp i3 not killed in a religious riot or a county sdat war is finally chewed up by grasshoppers. —— Not the Popular Style, Chieago Herald. A leading New York tea dealer says that the best way to, sample tea is not to taste it, but to smell it. , Ahat is probably the best way also to sample whisiky, but it won't come into geucral use. maz iyt aln A Practical View of the Onse. St. Lonis Globe-Democrat, When we get through showing our South American visitors what a wonderful country we have it would be a good idea to send a delegation of commereial tourists home with them for the purpose of acquiring accurate information as to the ncedsof the people whom they represent, the proper methods of preparing goods for shipment, and the terms upon which they are willing to trade with us, e -— The Starving Labrador Fishermen. Detroit Journa’, Thg annual plea for the starving fishermen on th¥® coust of Labrahor has been issued. The fact 18 the Canadian government ought to deport this fringe of people to someo other part of the dominion where they can get a living. Thebarren rocks extending hundreds of miles will not produce enough to keep a chicken alive, and when fish fail the inhabi- tants might as well be in the center of tho dgesert of Sahara, or shipwrecked on a rock in the middle of the Pacific ocean. ————— Tribute to a Leading Democratic. New York Sun. Eloquent as the Hon. William L. Scott has been as the champion of a people ground dfiwn by monopolies and robbed and op- pressed by corporation averice, he was far more cloquent and truvhful when he wrote to the president of tho New York Central railroad: *Send me @ free pass to help me out in my district. Iam a democrat and you are a republican, but we are both of us first of all for the corporations, 1f I get back to congress you will know where my heart ro- ally is; and be sure that on any question af- fecting your corporation my vote will go where it will do the most good.” The Hon. William L. Scott may not be iiable to con- viction under Section 5,500 of the Revised Statutes, but we fear much that he is liable to conviction as an awful humbug. CATESRAE Yy STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. . Crelghton hopes to have electric lights in the near future, Falls City is to have a band fair the first week 1 December, continuing four duys. As the result of a revival at Union twenty persons have joined the Presbyterian church. Rev, L. Llewellyn, of Rushville, has been called to the pastorate of the Baptist church at Plainview, The pent-up literary taste of McCook has found expression this fall in the orgunization second literary club, o Lyons Mifror now reflects the opinions of Peter O. Landon, instead of those of Smith Bros., as herctofore, H. A. Harding, proprietor of the Oakland Independent. but now a foreman in the gov- ernment printing ofice at Washington, has just been marrgk in Wisconsin to 'Miss Mary E. Cull, £ erly preceptress of the OQakland schools. ¥ ¥ The mmomu-umq?t that Cuming county has @ nbine-year-0ld boy who weighs 160 pounds calls ouvhe assertion that there is in i3lair township, Washington county, a bright miss of LL§ seme age who turos the scales at | George ¢ of Pawnes county, gath- ered fr of ground 162 bushels of corn. M. was competing for a $500 prize, and four reliabie men assisted in the gathering and Jveighing and make afi- davit that the above is a fact, While removing an old straw stack near Curtis N. 8. Rants uncovered a hen which had been imprisoned under the pile since last soring. A balf a dozen chicks in the nest were dead, bub the hen lived twenty- four hours after being restored to light and liberty. Richard v a Dundy county farmer, coocluded to emigrate east and started off ip & prairie schooner without paving his debts before ho sailed, A con- stable, however, overhaulad him at Stratton, and rather than go on the back track Mo- Clees puid the amount demanded. lowa tems, ‘Tho Towa potate crop is estimated at over 20,000,000 busheis. ‘The towns of Britt and Garoer have s loous running wide open. Tho third sunual session of the state Loyal Legion couveuss at Cedar Rapids Noveu- er 19, B While splitting kindling wood Fred Haff- ner, of Sigournay, cut off two of his toes with o hatchet. Twonty-two prisoners have been received at Anamosa since the fall terms of the dis- trict courts began. Miss Lolle Slaughtor, a sixty-two-year-old Malone girl, took her first ride on & railroad train the other day, going to Cliaton. In a speech at Dubuque Colonel Honderson said that fowa’s annual products, not includ- g butter and eggs, amount to $207,000,000. A $4,000 soldiors’ monument is to be erected in the court house square at Toledo. The de- sign submitted by a Codar Rapids firm has been accepted, and the monument 18 w0 be s combination of bronze and granite. D. W. Van Antwerp, of Masonville, fell through a trap door and struck on his hoad breaking his neck. Whnn‘silclfld up he wi still alive, although his bolly is paralyzed d there is but littlo hope of his recovery. The Towa Jersey club, 1n session at Cedar Rapids, elected Lovi Robinson, of Towa City, president; Bon Van Steenberg, Proston, vico president; Don D. Donnan, Cedar Rapids, secretary; Job Reynolds, Maquoketa, treas- urer, and C. H. Parson, Malcom, test com- missionor. . Mrs. Elizabeth Bellotte died at Adel Sep- tombor 25 at the ago of 119 years. She was bora in South Carolina, of French descent. She was married in 1788, the year of Wash- ington’s nanguration, She has lived suc- cessively in_South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, ana finally moved to this state. In her prime she weighed 199 pounds and never had a doctor. She leaves twenty-six grandchildren, ninety-threo great-grandchildren and five great-great- grandchildren. She never owned u piece of Jewelry and was an inveterate lover of to- baceco. When she died she had attained Within one year the ago of the patriarch 0ses, Beyond the Rockles. The Hotol Helena, at Helena, Mont., will be opened to the public about the mddle of December. A banana tree in Jacksonville, Ore., stands fifteen feet high and is full of ripo fruit. It was grown in the opeu air. A plot has been discovered in Helena, Mont., by which the coroner sold bodies to undertakers for burial and then pocketed a commission that varied from &5 to $10 on cach *'stiff.”” Dell Young, who was divorced from James Wilson, after s sensational trial at Oalland, married a Dr. Young, bus eloped with Wil son after a week's exporience with her now liege lord. ; Juck Stone, a Miles City, Mont., cowboy, was arrested by a deputy sheriff for robbing tho United States mail near Billings, two years ago, but ho easily proved that ho was not tho stage robbor., A. Brsly,of Colfax, Wash., left town a fow woeks 0go for a vacation. Ho was last seen av Spokane, and on October 24 his account book with the Colfax Bank and a note in his fuvor for 8342 were found in the bush near town. October 81 was _the anniversary of the ad- mission of Nevada as a state, The ovent was celobrated by o banquet of members of the Society of Pacific Coast Pioneers, and the national ensign floated from the staft on Pionoer hall, Fred and Herbert Rolfe with W. A, Hill havo been indicted by a grand jury of Al- bany, Ore,, for murder in the second degree. They displaced a switch on the California Pacific road in July and killed Euginoer Miller and Firaman Guthrie. Farmer Wolf of Los Angeles, {Cal., im- ported 200 hogs from Tulare last week. They were attacked with some mysterious disease soon after reaching his ranch, and 170 ina few hours, The animals were fat, and the loss is not less than §2,500. ‘The Shoshone and Bannock Indians at Pocatello, Idalio, have beer holding a great pow wow and rain dance, and_the next day after the ceremonies began the rain began to appear. The danco brought together a Jarge number of the remnants of these and other tribes from Nevada and Idaho, and a general time of rejoicing and_dancing Las lasted for the past week. Grotesque and fanciful costumes and decorations were seen, and all the braves were painted up in great shape, “hand painted” for the occa- sion, regardloss of expens The Grand Lodge of Masons of Montana has_just closed a profitable session at Great Falls, at which these officers were elocted for the ensuing year: John Anderson, of Missoula, G, M.; W. G. Boardman, of Bulte, } K. O. Hickman, of Virginia City, .W.; Moses Morris, of Helena, J. G.W. } Parchen, of Helena, G. T.; 'Cornel 3. 8.3 James MeNuity, S. D D. F. 3 D.: Philip Lavell, G. 8 S . 1.8 W.C Fowler, grand_chaplain; (. R. Middleton, grand orator: S. Allebaugh, grand standard beurer; Joseph Duncan, grana sword bearer; J. D. Baker, grand tyler. e HOPE FOR THE NEW SOUTH, The Greatest Activity Yet Reported in Southern Development. Great enterprises are crowding one upon another so rapidly in the south that no one can take a general view of the whole situation without being amazed at the magitude of the revoiu- tion that is in progress. The Munu- facturers’ Record of this week contains, we believe, reports of the organization of a greater number of gigantic enter- prises than ever befors made public in one wrek. One of the most striking features is the heavy investments of eastern and especially New England capital, which is pouring into the south as it formerly did into the west. A number of. Philadelphia capitalists have just returned from Florence, Ala., Where they invested heavily, including, s vey 1, $300.000 toward a $500,000 carpet mill. The New England exeur- sionists to fort Payne and Denison left, it1s said, over $500,000 in these two towns last week. Special dispatches to the Manufacturers’ Record announce the orgarization of a 3,000,000 com- pany, with all stock subscribed by lead- ing New ingland bankers and others, who have purchased 2,000 acres of nd adjoiniu, Chatta nooga, where extensive enterprises will bo established, and the purchase by a $3,000,000 northern company of 300,000 acres of land in east Tennessee, the en- terprise being in the hands of the wenlthiest members of the prohibition movement. In Chattanooga a $1,000,000 pank will open for business shortly. Two compunies, one with $300,000 and the other with $600,000 capital stock, have been organized in England for old mining operations in Georgia. Birmingham has org d a 81,000,000 coal mining company; Center, Aa., a $i00,000 iron company to repair and op erate an old furnace; Dadeville #50,000 cotton mill; Mobile a M paving company; Kentucky a $500,000 contracting company. In Louisiana a sulphur mining propoety has been sold $200,000, aredo, Tex., has secured and machine shop. In ginia there have been about a dozen ses, including a $200,000 town company, $50,000 lumber company and a $200,000 ivon company at Graham: the sule of iron property on Cripple Creeic fol 00,000 for development; a $100,000 iron company and a $100,000 town com- pany ut Max Meadows; a $100,000 man- ufacturing company at Richmond; a #1,000,000 land and investment 1 a #500.000 land comp: with many other ¢ prises being tively worked up. This is but a brief sumwary of the leading enterprises re ported in this week'’s Manul: t t m tivity that has probably rarely been seen in the development of any section of our countr, A curious industry of North Dakota, which will decrease in time, is buffalo- hone picking. The vast herds of buffalo have been slaughtered and their skins sold, and now tne pioneers muke mer- chaudise of the bones scattered over the rairies. The bones are shipped to St, Fotls or Chicago aad turned. tnto glue and fertilizers. Kansas, Colorado, Ne- braska, and even older states, have all been the scene of Lhis strange contribu- tion to wealth, and no one knows how many thousands of carloads have thus been gleaned after the slaughter of the Amecican bisoa. NOVEMBER 6, 1830 A PROJECTED CANAL. It Will Connect the Olyde with the Forth ana Cost $40,000,000, To oengineering schomes there soems no end, says the Dundee (Scotland) News. The Forth bridge and the Man- chester oanal, both of which are in course of constraction, are marvels of the engineor’s daring and skill. An- other huge project has been under dis- cussion for some time and will probabl soon reach the stage of actuality. 1{ canal to connect the Clyde with the Forth has long been talked of but the Manchester canal undertaking seems to have given the scheme a considerable impetus {oto the region of practioabil- 1ty. Altogether three plans have been mooted—to construct the eanal by Loch Lomodd, to construet:the canal by the direct route, and, finally,to so improve, extond and deepen the prosout Forth and Clyde canal a¢ to make it suitable for the passage of the largest vessols. The third scheme is, of course, the least expensive. The Caledonin railway company, to whom tha Forth and Clyde canal belongs, are understood to be willing to dispose of it, and the needed improvements huve been estimated at £1,500,000 to £2,000,000. To construct a now canal by the bost possible route is, said, however, to be the favorte schome, The necessary estimated at the gigantic sum 00,000, about £500,000 pounds less than the cost of the Manchester canal. The traffic by such a route has been es- timated at 10,000,000 tons the first yoar, which at a toll of 2s 6d per ton would yield a revenue of £1,250,000. Deduct- ing working expenses, estimated at £176,000 per year, the amount allowed for the Manchester canal, and interest on the capital expanditnre of 4 per cént, £320,000 there would remain enor- mous balance, which, even allowing for gross exageration in the above esti- mates, would still remain a balance suf- ricient to pay a hundsome dividend. Probably the projectors of this gigantic undertaking will’ await the results of the Manchester canal before proceeding with the new canal. gl L DISTINGUISH BLIND MEN. A Number of Conspicu Instances of Well-Direcred rey. Instances of blind porsons who have achieved distinction_are by no means infrequent, says the National Tribune. The brilliant case of Prof. Fawcott is well known; Dr. Campbeil, himself one of the royal commissioners and principal of the Royal Normal college, is u cou- i i co of well-directed on- , whilo several blind gentlgmen ave pussed through Worcester colloge nd the university with creditand taken holy orders; another, who gave ovi- tor in good practice. Another re- markable case 18 that of a successful wool merchant, whose loss of sight has been no hindrance to him in the conduct of a lurge and important busi- ness, and who has undertaken a special voyage to Australin, and made large and ruccessful purchases of wool with no guidance but that of his own unaided judgment. The experience of this gentleman is so remarkable that I give his own words: “I and my friends thought that when I,becamo blind I should no longer be able to follow my trade, but after the first shock I deter- mined to carry on my business as usual. My business being to judge the value of colonial wool, it was thought thatas this is very difficult for seeing persons I should not succeed, but by close atten- tion I soon became as good, and, indeed, in some respects, a better judge than before my loss of sight. In 1881 I visited Australia, and in Melbourne, during ten weeks, I purchased more than £150,- 000 worth of wooi, doing all my own business, banking, exchange, and ship- ping, without tho help of any broker. Tonly mention this as an encourage- ment to others not to be daunted when this calamity befalls them.” L No Longer the Pivotal State, ‘The effect of the admission of the new states may be summed up as robbing New York of her former prestige as arbiter of the political fortunes of the whole country, savs the Washington Star. The battlefield of the future, for a considerable period at least, will be located in one of the lesser states, such as Indiuna or New Jersey, whose loss would probable be irreparable to the democrats, and where the republicans could spend their time, labor and money to much better advantage. The fall of the great state from her former pedestal reme importance will save | tont from being every for the scene of a desperate strugglo in the f political corruption. The votes citizens will not so outweigh se of other Americans that immense sums of money will be spent and great risks of the penitentiary taken to secure them. The change will also be marked by the exercise of great caution in the CfIO)L of candidates, in order that, if the head of the ticket must come from New York or her neighborhood, he shiall at leastbe ucceptable to the people of the states where the other fierce fighting will be don: Finally, it will mark a change in the old notions of the value of sectional solidity, for the dem- ocrats will now realize the wisdom of throwing more force into their efforts in the northwest, while the republicans will make an honest struggle for some of the southern states where immigra- tion from the north, and a change from purely agricultural to mixed industrial conditions, seem to offer a possibility of suCCeSS. An Electrified Doorstep’s Victim, One of the most *‘shocking” affairs in the history of the city occurred this morning in front of the clothing store of B. 8. Levy, 407 Nicollet avenue, suys a Minneapolis dispatch, An electrio light wirve passes down in front of the store. In some way it got pushed out of plice and formed a close conncction with the large plateof iron which forms the step leading to the sidewalk, I sidewalk wus covered with a thin coat- ing of melted snow, and hence the were conditions of an unlimited amouat As the pedestrian stepped sidewalk he felt an elec! shock, and when thero were numbe people on iv_they all seemed to be affected the same way and were not abl to walk well. Those inside the store noticed the trouble after some time, but they did not dare to cross the sleps leading to the walk. Dinally secured the attention of a pa long enough to bring an elc In the meantime the fun progressed. An old lady stepped on the section and with a scréam she threw her bundles, gave u jump,and fell insensible, A dog was the next victim, and with a yelp he whirled about to wgrasp his supposed assnilant, This clectricwire bad trans- mitted its power to the stone slub, The fortunate individuals who wore rubber shoes passed over the stone unshocked. Atlasta rubber-coated, rubber-mittened electrician mounted a ladder and turned tinto its own channel. 1 1 a hittle strong- those who came upon tric the electric current 1 er i1t would hs kille in contact with it. - A Religions Campaigi The services of the Church of Eng- land are frequently diversified by sin- gular incidents, says the London Truth, but I have never come across anything oqual to the campuign going on be- twoen Mr. Sheels and the vicar of Chat- teris, Mr. Sheels’ family gew was al- terod withour his nssont. Mr. Sheels thereupon announced his intention of sitting with his family 1n the viear’s pew. The vicar’s family defeated this ntention h{v coming to ohurch before the Sheels family. Fh\nu nossidentos, At last, however, Sheels manouvered his dotachmoent in first. The viear opened fire on him from the reading- desk and called on the church-waraens to remove him, but in_vain. The viear before the following Sunday padlocked his family pew. The Sheels were “swarmed” over the door, followed by his two sons. The second son was stopped in transitu hi the church war« den, who hung on to his leg bravely, but vouth triumphed. Neoxt, the church wardens thought to terminate tho scan- dal by restoring Sheels’ pew, but the viear appoured on the scono and stopped the work; and so tho dispute stands. ‘This 1 hardly what the apostle had in hiseyo when he laid down that things should be done ‘‘docently and in order;" but it no doubt helps to show the Chat- taris people how much we should lose if we disestablished the church. — - TEA-TIME IN MOROCCO. How the Moors Prepare the Cup That Cheaers bat Not Inebriates, While the Arabs of Algerin are ex- ceedingly fond of coffee, and skillful in theit preparation of it, their Arab neighbors of Morocco take little or no coffee, but are great tea-drinkers, says the Youth’s Compenion. A Euro- vean traveler, who rocently went through the country, asked a Moorish chieftain why there should be such a remarkable difference in the customs of the two Arab races. **The Arab.” said the chioftain, ‘if left to himself, drinks nothing but water. 1If he takes either coffeo or ten, it is because you have brought itto him and taught him to drink 1t.” It is vertain that the Moors take to tea us if it were quite natural to them, though their manner of preparation of 1t is singular to foreigners. When a party of guests enters the house or tent of ‘a rich Moor, one of the the near relativesof the host is charged with the duty of making tea. He squats in oue corner, having on one side of him a large servor or platter. Upon oue of those servers is anumber ot cups, and upon the other a sugarbowl, a box of tea, a pile of fragant menthe leaves, a copper apparatus for heating water, and tea-urn. . The teamaker sets the water to boil- ing with a little fuel, and then pours the boiling water into his tea-urn, quickly adding to 1t some tea and some sugar, and allows the compound to steep o fow moments. Then ho pours out a cup of the tea and tastes it, ks his lips, snifls the odor of the liquid, and draws a deep breath—all with an air which says, *‘I am going to get this tea just right.” The chances are that he does not find the compoand to his taste at tho first attempt, for he pours the tea in his cup back into the tea-urn,udds a little sugar or a little tea,and pours out another cup for a second test. This process gocs on, the tea-maker tasting his tea and pouring it back again, until ho gets it just to his mind, Then the guests are called, and if any one of them does not finish his cup he is expected to pour it back into tho urn, for it is the custom in Morocco to take three cups in succession, and tho tea-making has to be begun over ain. The first of the three eups offered is plain tea with sugar, and_the two sue- coeding cups are perfumed with menthe or vervine, In preparing these succe tea the cups go back to the tea-muker and change hands at the next serving without any washing. Tf this changing of cups is somewhat distressing to Burdpean guests, it is not so much so as the next course in the little fonst, which consists of o kind of Moorish nfection, which travels can compare to nothing else in apr ance and flavor, than the sticks of cos- metics sold by apothecurics and hair- dressers.” 1t is best eaten, they say, with one’seyes closed. But the natives find it highly appetizing. — A Winding-Sheot in Use 172 Years. Mrs. Cathecine Mary Wanker, who was buried recently in the German Lutheran cemetery at Richmond, Ind., was ninoty-six years of age, and was buried in a robe 172 yeurs old that had before done muey service as a winding- sheet. She was born at Forden, near Osnabrook, kingdom of Hanover, Ger- many, November 13, 1793, and she and her husband eame from their native land to Richmond in 1849, ixteen years ago she had Mrvs. Miller make her this burial robe. This was made out of material woven by her grand- mother 172 yeurs ago, and intended and originally used for a winding-sheet or a sheet to cover the dead. It was ucil- ized by a large community and covered the lifeless form of many a loved one. At first, when not in service, it was kept in the house of her grandfuther, afterward in the house of her fathor, avd after his death 1n her own She brought it with her to and kept it most sacredly. After having covered many dead bodies of those nenr and dear to her, it at last covers hor own form and is returning to dust with her own dust, ive kinds of George Washington's Mother. The grave charge brought by Arvte- mus Ward against Chaucor that he “‘couldn’t spel wel,” applies to no less a personage than Mary Washington, the mother of the father of his country. [n the Cosmopolitan Magazine Moncure D, Conway publishes a fac-simile letter taken from the original in the collec- tion of Dr. Eonmet, which runs as fol- lows: July the 2, 1870.—Dear Brother: This Comes by Capt. Nickelson you Seem to blam me for not writing to you butt I Doe a Shour you it 1s Not for want of a very great I gard for you & the fumily but as I don't Ship tobaceo the Captain Ne 1s on e 800 that I Never know when tha come or whon tha goe. I belie 1 have got & vary good now Capt. ar 8 Setf it had nov beeu wife & family is well C Hannal hus been married and Lost hor husbund Sho bas one child a boy pray give my Love to Sister Ball & Mr. Downman & bis Ludy aud am Dear Brother your Loving Siste Many WASHINGTON, - Priso urnalism. A place among the curiosities of lit- erature should cortainly be reserved for two journals which have been for- warded to me from America—the Prison Mirror and the Summary—both of which are edited, printed and pub- lished inside goals, thé former of them at Stillwater, Mion., and the lattor at Elmira, N. Y., says the London Truth. In many respects theso papees offer & rood example to journals which are blished outside prisons, and particu- y in the matter of trothfulness and honesty, for I notice, among other points, that the source of all matter which' is not original is scrupulously some of my contom- poraries might find iv worch their while to go to America and get locked up in order to sludy this latest phase of the new journalism,