Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1889, Page 4

B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. pe== PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Datly and Sunday, One Y ear 'y Rix Months. | Three Months, .. . Bunday Iice, One Year .. . % Weekly Bee, Ono Year with Preminm.... OFFICES, Omana, Bee Nullding, Chicago Office, f47 Rookery Tintlding New Vork, Hooms 14 aid 15 Tribuns Bulid. ng:. 'Washington, No. 517 Fourteenth Street Council Blufts, No, 12 Pear] Street. Lincoln, 1020 P 8tieet, Eouth Omaha, Corner N and 20th Streets. ..810 00 500 2 B0 20 200 CORRESPONDENCE. All eommunieations relating to nows and ed torial matter should be addressed to the Editor. 1l Departinent, BUSINESS LETTERS, Al Imsiness lottors and remittances should be adaressed to The Beo Publishing Company, Omanha. 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Sworn Statement of Circulation. tate of Nobraska, Ve County of Dougli [ foed Georyre ™ 1, Tzschuck, secretary of Tue Bos Tublishing Company. does olomaly sWear tnat the actuslcirculation of Tk DAILY BEE for the week ending December 7, 1850, was as follows: Bunday, Dec, 1.., 1,500 Monday, Dec. 2, ¥ 21451 Tuesday, De; A 0453 Wednesday, Dec. 4 10915 ‘Thursday, Dec, Friday, Doc. Baturday, creees 10,050 GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Eworn to befors me and subscribed to in my presence this Tth day ot December, A, D. 1889, (Seal, ; N. P, FEIL, Notary Publte, Average * Btate of Nebraska, ), County of Douglas, § George B, Tzachuck, being duly sworn, de- poses and says that hois accrotary of The fice Publishing Cof nt the actual averago daily circulad Bk for the month of December, 188, 182% copies: for 4 coples; for February, 1880, March, 1650, 18854 coples 1855 coplesitor May, 188 T June, 180, 18,7 61 coples for September, for October 183, 15907 cople: 1880, 19310 coplen Gronar B. Tzscuu Eworn to before me and subscribed iu_my Presence this Bith day of November, A D., 1583, 1Seul.] NP, Fr 5 elect can now read their titles clear to a long pull on the public treas- Tie BEE does not depend on second hand clection returns, n fact substan- tiated by the official canvass. Pt THE Bulgarian situation seems to e tho most troublesome job in lurope. Doubtless the salary is small and the « perquisites smaller. Wirit medical care and international attention there is reason to hope that Tmin Pasha will survive his disastrous bout with the Bagamayo bottle and , swear off. —_——— STRIPPED of the toggery of Macbeth Broateh forcibly illustrates the ex- perience of the fools who thawed out dynamite on a hot stove. Broatch’s explosives mutilated himself and his gang and wrecked the traitor’s temple. —— THERE ave six hundred and fourteen licensed dealers in liquor in Kansas, besides countless drug stores and boot- leggers. Flash a dollar in any town in the state, accompanied with the elbow wiak, and a loaded bottle will appear in an instant. Yet there are a few people left who insist that prohibition prohibits, THE proposed Mormon raid on Man- itoba is not enthusiastically received in that section. In fact the people will have none ef them until they are thor- oughly purged of polygamy. Women are too scarce and precious in the hy- verborean regiens to permit a few men to monopolize their compan ToE St. Paul Globe reasons that the twelve thousand votes' cast at the city election do not sustain Omaha’s claim to a population of one hundred and twenty-five thousand, Local elections, no matter how exciting, never bring out the full vote of a city. This is proven by the fact that over seventeen . thousand voters were registered in Omaha, or about seventy perceny of the voting population. Of this number only twelve thousand participated in the election—scarcely fifty per cent of the voters of the city. TRE official canvass of the votes cast in the city election verifies in every particular the claims made by Tug Beg, ‘While our pretended rivals cast doubt on the election of John Rush as city * treasurer, THE BEE demonstrated that ~his majority could not be less than live hundred. The official count shows a majority of seven hundred and thivty- one, The republicans also elect four of the nine councilmen as claimed by THe Bee. We refer to these trifles inci- dentally to show the superority and reliability of THE BEE asa vehicle of local and general news, Tue energy and enthusiasm displayed at the board of trade meeting is grati- fying ovidence of the determination of our people to secure the state fuir for the next five years, The advantages to be derived from the location of the fair are incalculable. Distriot and local fairs are beneficial to a limited oxtent, but they ao not appeal to all the poople with the force of the state fuir, Being practically a state institution, mauaged solely for the benefitof the state and ap- pealing to all classes for support, it has a force and following superior to all others. The iuducements offered exhibitors,particularly for the products of the farms and workshops, create beneficial rivalries between counties and individuals, and result in exhibits of the productive wealth of the state ; Wwhich cannot be obtained by local asso- clations. Ten years ago Omaha placed the association on its fect financially. With treble the population and un- equalled facilities for the handling and entertainment of large crowds, it can and will, if the fair is located here, make it surpass its predecessors in dis- * play aud attendunce. TENNIAL OF CONGRESS. The first congress under the constitu- tion met in New York city in March, 1789, und sat for nearly six months, Therecfore, the centennial of congress was completed with the tormination of the Fiftieth congress and properly should have been celebrated by that body, but the duty was left for the pres- ent congress, which begine the second century of the national legislature. The celebration will be held today. As the programme has been arranged the senate and house will meet together in the hall of the house, Vice Pr Morton prosiding. President Harrison, the members of the cabinet, justices of the supreme court, and prominent offi- cials of the government, will be in at- tendance. The celebration is not to be exactly of apublic cf er, as only those who obtain tickets will be en- abled to witness it, but it will not for that reason be less interesting. There will be an by C ‘af Jus- tice P'uller, which except the religious observance peculiar to such oceasions will be the only exersise of the sion. This simple programme com- pleted the two houses will separate and adjourn, and another centennial eventin the history of the ropublic will have been appropriately honorcd. The occasion might very properly be improved in reviewing the history of congress, but even to present the more salient facts in the record of that body would require far more space than can be given to an editovial, and all who will find interest in the subject will be better satisfied to nwait the publication of Chief Justice Fuller’s address, which will undoubtedly be most worthy of careful perusal. It may be worth while to remark, however, that while the first congress wus numerically small in comparison with the body today, in intellectual strength, statesmanshipand patriotism it has been surpassed by no congress since. The men who met to frame the first laws for the republic were actuated by the highest aims and purest motives that ever directed the brainsand hearts of freemen, and their work was done with an elevated wisdom and a broad ¥ d for the gensral welfare which has commanded the admiration of the world, and much of which still sur- vives to honor thewr far-reaching in- telligence and their dovoted patriotism. There were purties in those days, and the strife bhetween them was sometimes sharp and bitter, but the contests were solely for principles, for there waslittle in the way of spoils to be divided, and the first and controlling purpose of all was to estublish the government on an en- during foundation, however widely views differed as to the safest and wisest v of accomplishing this. How well their difficult and delicate task was nc- comvlishea the present greatness of the nation and the smooth operation of the government splendidly attest. The first president pro tempore of the senate was John Langdon of New Hampshire, and many .names dis- tinguished 1n our history are in the list of his successors. The first speaker of the house of representatives was I A. Mullenburg of Pennsylvania, and among the eminent men who have since vresided over the house were Jonathan Trumbull, Nathaniel Moore, Henry Clay. John Bell, James K. Polk, Robert M. P Hunter, Rob- ert C. Winthrop, and James G. Blaine. It may be interesting toob- serve that the list of speakers of the house, though hardly more than half as numerous asthat of presidents of the senate, contains a larger number of prominently distinguished names, address ocen- 'LUENCE AT WORK. 1t is beginning to be suspected that some of the South American delegates to the three Americas congress are not y Iree from European influence. The withdrawal from the conference of one of the Brazilian delegates, beca he was not willing to represent the new vepublic, 15 regarded as sign the light of the expression of the ex- emperor, Dom Pedro, that Brazil's true friends are the European gov- ernments. Then the obstructive policy of the delegates from Chili and the Argentine Republic, which bas been conspicuous throughout the deliberations thus far of the confer- ence, has naturally suggested that they have no sympathy with the objects of the congress. It 1s generally under- stood that the feeling ,of Chili toward the United States is not one of cordial friendship, but the course of the repre- sentative of the Argeutine Republic has evidenced even less concern for closer relations with this country thaun has been shown by his Chilian col- league. As to the smaller countries, some of them are said to be un- disguisedly jealous of the United States, a state of feeling which would be likely to render them easily played upon by Isuropean influence, That such an 1nfluence may be at work can not be regarded as incredi- ble. The European governments hay- ing interests at stake which would be seriously menaced if the objects of the congress should be effected are known to have regarded the assembling of the congress very seriously, and it is not to be supposed that they have neglected to bring®to bear upon the gov- ernments represented every forcible argument they could present in favor of continuing existing commercial ar- rangements. And it must be admitted that they occupy a very stroug vantage ground. There isa vast investment of Luropean capital in all of the countries south of the United States, the secur- ities of those countries are largely held in Europe, the long established finan- ciul and commercial relations between the European countries and those of the southern conti- nent have in the main been mutually satisfactory, and there has been established a strong bond of in- terest and confidence, It is no easy task to change such conditions, and sentiment can do but very little toward it. The bankers and merchants and producers of the Spanish-American countries will not break off their Euro- pean connections and surrender the warkets they have found profitable on the sentimental ground simply that all American natious should be uhited commercially to the end that they may work together for mutual develop- ment. They must be reasonably as- sured that the change it is fproposed they shall make promises ultimate ad- vantages at least equal to those they would give up. How is this to be done? It does not appear that any progress has been made in the congress toward answering this question. The great practical difficulties to be overcome are as strongly rooted as when the confer- ence assembled, the wisdom and states- manship required to remove them not having yot developed. The repre- sentatives of the United States seem to have found nothing accept- able to propose, and so far as the public is informed the deliberations thus far have been without practical result. Meanwhile it is not difiicult to believe that Buropean influence sell in hostility to the congress in all quartars make itself felt. THE RESPONSIBILITY. By the fortunes of politics, the re- spousibility for formative and positive legislation devolves upon the republi- can party. With aclear working ma- jority in both houses of congress, with the committees of both senate and house in its hands, it cannot either deny or shirk the consequences or bolio the record of its action. It will not be able, us did the last democratic house of representatives, to plead a hostile senate as an obstruction to aggressive legislation or to set up an opposing house and an antagoaistic administe tion as an excuse for fuilure to earry out its own and the people’s wishes, The machinery of government legislative and executive is in the hands of repub- lican leaders, responsible to republican constituents, Whitever glory results from achievement and whatever re- buke attaches to failure must be borne by the rity. It may be said at the outset that the erting it- aims of the where it can country expeets from the administration an honest and earnest attempt to sim- plify the problems which confront it. President Hurvison's message indicated clearly what the most pressing of these are aud pledged the efforts of the ey utive to a hearty co-operation with con- gress in the direction of their solution. Tt 15 safe to nssume that no probable ac- tion of the natio legislature on the overmasteving subjects of gencral econotuic discussion will fail to receive executive sanction. There is no lik hood of the presidential “veto interpos- ing between the enactment of legislu- tion on the tariff, on the silver question, on plans for increasing the navy and coast defenses, or for enhanciug the value of our merchunts’ marine. Ior this very reason the responsibility for whatever legislation of this character Zoes upon the national satute hooks will rest with the republican majority. Un- like the last congress, it will not be able to protest that the whip and spur of the white house were used to drive a recal- citrant mujority along the rond mapped out by an overbearing chief ex The demand for an honest the tarif in the line of the most pressing of the ¢ the new congress. It cannot be evaded or forced aside. Nor can it be met by such an increase of expenditure present ov prospective, as to tem porari remove the chief inducemeut for relief. The country calls for h o vevision of the taviff as will reduce indirect taxa- tion, not for such a revision of estimates of expen-ditures as wit precludo a redaunc- tion of revenue. The responsibility for the manner in which this demand is met must rest upor a republican congrass, —— MOVING TOWARD«STATEHOOD. The peopie of Nebraska and the west will watch with no little interost the progress of the bill, justintroduced in the senate, for the admission of Idaho and Wyoming 1into the union. Both territories are within the trade limits of the state, and much of their progress and development is directly due to the enterprise and capital of Nebraskans. If the standard of population applied to the recently created states upheld by congress, both territories will fall short of the requirments. Idaho clpims a population of one hundred and thirteen thousand, one-fifth of whom are Mormons. There are fifty-five million acres of land in the tecritory, of which eight and a half millions have been surveyed, _and one-half that amount entered under the several land laws. The agricul- tural avea is limited to the mountain valleys and benches, but what the terri- tory lacks in this respect 1s made up in mineral wealth. Over seventeen mill- ion dollars’ worth of gold, silver, cop- per and lead was mined last year. The assessed valuation of the territory is twenty-five million dollars. Wyoming surpasses Idaho in all the essentinls necessary to make a great and prosperous common wealth, Though the populatioa is a few thousand less at present the development of her vast mineral resources will place her far in ndvance of [danho in less than a year. The inexhauetible beds of coal and fields of oil, with over two million acres of arid land reclaimed by five thousand miles of ditches, and the famous Laras mie plains, are sufficient, not to speak of her wealth in precious wmetals, to support millions of people. It is too early to venture a prediction on the fate of the bill. The objection of *“*political expediency,” which en- abled the democrats to defer the ad- mission of the recently created states, was not stamped out by the verdict of the people last year. It applies with greater force to Wyoming and Idaho, There is no dobut, therefore, that the democrats will resort 1o every expedi- ent to delay or defeat the bill, The republican majority in the house is too small to insure success of & measure that would add four senators and two congressmen to the republican majority and six valuable electoral votes to the republican column in 1892, It would destroy New York as o pivotal state and give the republican party an advan- tage in the coming presidential contest which the demoerats could not over- come. Kor these important political reusons it is probable that the demo- erats will antagonize the measure from first to last, with every chance of sue- . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. The fonorat of Jefferson Davis at New Orleags goday will undoubtedly be one of the Wa4t .memorablo events in the history that city. Representa- tives of ovli state in tho south will witnoss tholl 8bsoquies and swell the pageant that will follow the remains of the dead leader of rebellion to the tomb. Bloguept words will be spoken in praise of Mim, and there will be lacking nothing to testify to the affection inl which he was held by the southern people and to the sorrow thid his death has caused them. Men who wore the blue will unite with those who wore the gray in doing tho last sad service to the dead, thus presenting another example of the magnanimity and the desire for com- plete fraternity of those who fought to preservo the union. There will be no oneé object to all this, but on the con- tr f it shall prove, as it is vossible it may, to bo the ending of the antago- nisms which Jefferson Davis’ living kept alive, it will be remembered 1o be everywhere commended. Tie dedication of the mammoth aud- itorium in Chicago, the st st ture of its class in the w , was an cvent of unusual intevest. Not only is the building an architectural triumph; it is & monument to the boundless en- terprise and liberality which charactor- izes Chieago in everything sho under- takes, Chicago is the creafion of the rvostless, progressive spirit of the west. Sheis the emboldiment of the zeal and energy and the hardy, fearless strength which lead iv. the r1aarch of empire and make possible the rich and pr the Rocky mountains. No city in the country as completely typilies western push and gencrosity, and the young Chicago of the Missouri valloy tips its beaver to the parent city and congratu- lates her people on the lutest evidence of public spi T comimission which negotiated for the reduction of the Sioux reservation will complete its labors this month and report to the president und secrotary of the interior. The proclamation of the president is all that is then necessary 1o place on the market nearly elev million acresof land. Th law gives the president until March next in which to proclaim the lands subject to cutry. While it would be eminently proper to defer the proclamation until the winter has spent its force, the pres- sure of the Dakota representatives is such that the president is likely to yield and deelare the land open to sot- tlement by the first of the year. e e mya Silver Li Kansas City Times. The cloud which Secretary Windom's re- port cast over Golorado ana Montana did not have a silver 1fning. ni. t, but when e reflects that he has three years' newspapers to road he must some- times wish that he had been Lot potted. B eate Attair, is” Republic, Cougressmen who transfer their salury cer- tificates for collection isteaa of collecting them themselves are not ontitled to call on the government to reimburse them when their collecter goes to Canada with their salaries, It 1s toeir privawe affair with him. — - Missouri Can Ose e hicago Tribune. Missouri hias 12,000 acres of land devoted to the raising of tobacco. It will be seen that she needs it all, however, when it is remembered that sha has over 40,000,000 acres devoted to raising tobacco chewers. Some Ground for Susp'cion. Phlladelphia Record, Emperor William, it is said, lefv Constan- tinople firmly convinced that the sultan was practically insane. As his sublime majesty spent $750,000 in entertaining bis visitors the emperor has eviaently good grounds for his belief, [} Fyemont Tribune. Of all the newspaper comment concerning Jefferson Davis—ol the fullsome flattery of one section and the bitter denunciations of another, the editorial of Tux B strikes the Tribune us being as just anestimate of nis opportunities and his work as any it has seen. - Little Comfort for Prohibs. St Lowis: Globe-Demacrat, ‘T'he prohibitionists will not find much com- fort in the promotion of Judge Brewer to the supreme bencn, He is the man who decided that when a state adoots a prohibitory liquor iuw it must pay for all the breweries and dis- tiller! To Solve the Race Problem Boston Transcript, ' Porhaps as good a way as any of solving the race problem is to leave it alone, and to trust to the growing 1ntelligence of the col- ored race and the justice of the white race to harmonize all differences. What every good citizen should desire is not a white ‘man’s government uor a black man’s gov- ernment, but w just man's government, At times tho solution seems more conspicuous than the problem. &> The Bhore Steaw. Fhiladeiphia Ledger, The senate havitg insisted upon a determi- nation of the terfs of senators from the new states by lot, g¢bavce, ruled that the wishes of the lezislaturedf North Dukota should not berespected, Thutb body had designated Mr. Pearce for the loig term, but when lots were drawn yesterday Mr. Pearce drew the stort term, ending :ia 1801, and Mr, Casey, his colleague, the long term, ending in 1803, It mukes very litt @ifference, however, for North Dakota is #ec' “ely republican. A Grgtifying Surprise. Philatelphia Record, The president has doue well, and has given a gratifying surprise to the country, in nom- inating David J« Brewer of Kansas for asso- ciate justive of the supreme court. Undoubt- edly‘if the president had selected Judge Gresham there would have been a wider as- sent to the excelleuce of his cnoice. But the nominee is & man of probity, learnng and experience. He will satisty the general pub- lio judgment, and we do not doubt will acquit himself with honor in his great office, e — Suit for a Large Amount. New Youk, Dec. 10.—The Tennessee coal, iron and railroad company, of which Thomas C. Platt is president, has begun svtion in the federal court against John H, Inman to re- cover $100,000 and for an acounting regard- ing $4,000,000 of the Tenuessee company's stock in the hands of Inman and his friends. The suit is the outgrowth of troubles over the puflw.:pfwu: P.r:u m;‘l.lndh‘lrran com- A ol uuls alley El ol Mu the part of the lmnu'puu.n s DECEMBER 11, 1889, BTATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Union boasts of having the best flouring mills 1n eastern Nebraska. Work is to be bognun immediately on the Butler county court house at David City, The Long Pine Baptists have begun to lay the foundation for a new church building. A meeting of the citizens of Chase county has been called to organizo a cemetery asso- ciation, - A Hastings mill shipped forty cars of buok- wheat and_graham flour to Montana and Wyoming during November. Mra. George Hauck, a Hastings lady cighty-nine vears of age, fell while crossing her room and broke her arm. In spite of her age she wiil probably recover. The first business failure in Burnett curred last week, A. A. Ward & Con i they were unable to collect accounts due. Duncan nder, an Englishman who tried his haod at running a farm near Stuart, gave up the job last woek and started with his wife and five children for his former home in Culcutta, India, Harry Backus, a Pierce boy, was struck on the head by some tackle at a slaughter Louse about & month ago and is now suffer- ing frow lockjaw caus by the wound. ‘There is but little chance for recovery. Henry, the seven-year-old son of August Jessen, Mving nenr ‘Talmage, was kicked in the mouth by horse, and a skillful physi- cian hud to bo calied' to pick out the tooth which had been driven out of sight in his Jay o0c: A tramp riding on the bumpors was canght between a car of lumber and the side of a box ecar atsBenkelman, and the train crew had fo put in a half hour with axes and saws aso the unfortunate man., He was uised, but will recover, . Rube Staymalker, residing near Nio- brara, while returning home from chu N fell from a wagon with her two-year-old chitd in her arms. The infant was jured, but the wagzon passed over Mrs. Sta; maker's thigh, inflicting injuries from which she died twenty-four hours later. If prohibition is knocked in tho heaa next fall, says the Grand Island Independent, as no doubt it will be, arrangements are being mude for the erection in this city of one of the most extensive breweries in the state of Nebraska, which will afford a ready cash market at good prices for all the barley that can be raised in Hall county. A masher on a street corner at Grand Island threw his arms around Mrs, Charles Cabann us she was passing oy and attempted 1o kiss her, ‘I'he lady’s husband, who was a few feet in advance of his wife carrying a child, dropped the infant on the sidewalk and proceeded o give the senseloss dude & thrashing which he will remember 1o his dying day. No arrests, A very pecuharaccident occurred last Sat- v northeast of town, says the Marsland Tribune. A number of men were engaged in moving a t ¥ foot log that measured twenty-two in the butt, which got the best of them and started dowa & big hill. Mrs. George Olabaugh happened to e in frout of the log and sceing no way of escapo d down flat and the log passed over her, rting at the head, sho being 80 near the center thut both ends were held clear of the ground. Several terriblo holes wore gouged in ber face and she was otherwise horribly bruised ana lacerated, but no bones wers broken, At the time of the accident Mrs. Otabaugh had been pregnant seven months and on Sunday gave birth to a daughter, Dr. Wells, the attending physician, reports that Mrs. Olabaugh will re verand the child will live. lfowa 1tems, There is talis of locating a wateh and clock factory at Calliope. ap ancis Marphy to help rescue the people from on drunkonness, Cooking and sewing schools have boen or- panized by the Tndustrial reliel society of Davenport. Rev, Moses Downing of Bloomtield has united 421 couples in marriage since Keb- . 1503, [id Wagner of Plymouth county is under arrest on the charge of voting twice at the recent election. Davenport's young men’s democratic club will attend Governor Boies’ inauguration i bright new uniforms ordered especially for the occasion. The colored ladies of Des Moines are greatly interested in the equal suffrage moverent and arrangements have been wade to orgunize a society. At Davenport Mike Whitty stole a book from the oftice of Dr. Armond and was qr- rested, tried and sentenced to thirty days jail, the whole cumstunce taking place within halt an hour. A pieco of iron_ore was picked up on the railroad track in_Independence the othor day in v/hich was incased a perfect laurel f. It was preserved in_the ore by the action of the iron oxide during a snbmerg- ence. and according to un estimate of Prof, Winchoell has been lying in its bed in Carroll county for a period of 80,000 years. Lilhan Kennedy, the star of Casey's Troubles company, 'while playiog in Keolkuk receutly, was taken so ill that she was un- able 10 lewve her room and requested that her supper be seut up to her, kor a sick woman Miss Keanedy had a surprising ap- petite, and paralyzed the hotel management from 'the proprictor down by sending tho following written order to the clerk for a “Slight'’ lunch: “Oysters, fried and raw; princess chocolate, quail, sirloin steak, weil done, with mushrooms, ‘sardines, pigs’ feet, baked potatoes, dry toast, plenty of plaia bread, cup of tea, glass of milk.) The Two Dakotas. ‘The merchants’ carnival at Sioux Falls netted 8640.50. Rapid City's new packing house has com- menced operatious.. A farmers’ and stockmen’s union has been organized at Madison, Rapid City citizens are holding public meetings to urgé the importance of securing @ government building, John Hines, who died recently near Kim- ball was forty-five yoars old and had never walked a step owing to an accident which be suffered in infancy. ‘While riding through an arched gateway in Dell Rapids Lou Morgan'st head came in contact with the crossbar of the arch, knock- ing him from his herse and’ causing an in- jury which may result in losing the sight of one of his eyes. Ason of M. A. Gilmore of Winfred rode one of his father’s hor: onto the ice in a pond near that place to see whether the ice was strong enough to skate on. The ice wasn't strong enough and the horse was drowned and the boy rescued with some difficulty, One day last week a young man named Armstrong living near Vermillion went to that city to fix himself up for his wedding, which was to occur the same evening, While waking the rounds e stepped into Bridge- man’s shoe store and when he stepped out several pairs of shoes were hidden under bLis overcoat. The bride anxiously awaited the coming’ of the bridegroom, but when he came aot she started out to find him and dis- covered him behind prisop bars serving out a fiue of $2 for larceny., The wedding has been indefinitely postponed. it Confirmed by the Senate. WAsHINGTON, Dec, 10.—The scuate this afternoon confirmed the following nomina- tions: Robert P, Parker of New York, to be superintendent of census; Lewis A, Groff of Nebeaska, commissioner general of the land ofilce; William M. Stone of lowa, assistant commissioner general of the land oflice; James M. Townsend of Indiana, re- corder general of the land office. B —— Cowing to Omahs, Yaxgroy, S, D, Dec. 10.—(Special Telo- gram to Tug Bee. |—A. K. Smith of Mitchell and Mayor H. B. Wyan of Yankton left for Omaba this morsing to confer with the'real estate exchange, the board of trade and others in regard to rmil communi- cation between Omaba and Yaokton, Mitchell and other South Dakota points, e — Heported the Bill Adversely. WasiiNGroN, Dee. 10.—In the senate the flusuce committee repoited back adversely the bill to provide for the orgavization of uational bauks with less capital than $50,000, and it was indefinitely postponed, - Schools Closed by Diphtheria. MarLBORO, Mass., Dec. 10.—All the schools will be closed tomorro¥ owing to the preva- lence of diputheria. Twenty cascs have al- ready been repol THE CAPITAL CITY CRIST, Leese'a Opinion On “‘Branch Banks" Meets Opposition, BENTON DISSENTS, AUDITOR HIL Said to Favor a Modification— Business Done Ry the Board for the Settlement of State Mort- Rages—District Conrt Cases, 1020 P Seert, LaxcoLy ob,, Dec. 10 Attorney General Leese's opinion on “‘branch banks" is provoking serious disons- sion, espocially among savings banks and banks devendent for life upon so-called par- ent institutions, and the state banking d partment is therefore in anytniug but tran- quil water, Ttuow appoars that whon the opinion was submitted the board as a whole did not take kinaly to it. Auditor lenton thought it needod modification, Since thon tho idea has gono out that thero has been some bitterness betwoeen some of the mom bers of the voard, but this is denied by both the anditor and state treasurer. OMolals of the class of baniks affected by the opinion al- ternate of late betwoen their places of busi- ness and the state house, seoking, 1f poss ble, to secure the modification suggested by the auditor at the time the opinion was made the law of the banking department. LIt is nnderstood that o weeting is contemplated by the board, to take placo in a day or two, for the purpose of determining what can be doue in the matter, ‘L'to atiorney general has not expressed himself as to tho chango desired. 1t is said today that Troasuver Hill will not be aversn to modification, LaxcoLy Buneao ov Tue OMAny Bee, } State Mortzages. The board for the settlement of state mort- Rages, consisting of Governor Thayer, Audi- tor Benton and Treasurer Hill, completed its labors today. Tie matter under considora- tion was a certain mortgage given by J. M. Young and wifoto the stato Docember 24, 1870, on certan lots in the city of Lincoln and lund located near the city. The intorost was paid to December 24, 1873, loaving inter- est due from that time to the present amounting to $7,977.77, which, added to the Lamount of the loan, makes a total of due the state, Through tax titles and quit claims the property camo into the hands of N. S. Harwood and R. G. Oakley of Lincoln. - [n ovder to auict the title to the property they made n proposition to the board to deed to them, clear of all inoum- brances, the land, in Lieu of which the state should release the mortgage on the lots. The apvraisement of the land shows the samo to be worth $13,500, and decming it to be for the best interests of the state the boara ac- cepted tho proposition and instructed the treasurer to release the mortgage. This is one of the old permanent school fund loans and in the transaction tho permanent school fund secures another valuable tract of land. The land is located 1n Lancaster county, State House Jottings. ‘W. P. Rose was oppointed assistant state Librarian today, vice Miss Stella Wheeler, ‘The appointment was made by Walter A. Leese, clerk of the supremo court. Joseph R. Clarkson’s oath of office as judze of the Third judicial district was filed in the office of the secretary of state today. Governor Thayer and staff went to Shel- ton, Buffalo county, today to attend a mili- tary ball and banquet to be given at that place this evening. ‘The findings of the board of secretaries on the Elmwood elevator complaints will pe submitted to the stute board of trausporta- tion tomorrow moraing at 11 o'clock. There will be a majority and minority report. Attornoy General Leoso is removing from 1589 D to 1847 G street. He recently pur- chased the G street property and is litting up a wodel home. He has’ been from his post since yesterday morning, but the duties of his oftico are looked after by his deputy, John M. Stewart. ‘The District Court. The Stewart vs, Stewart divorce case was on trial on the equity side of the district court today. The parties are wealthy coun- try people and it creates a ood deal of interest. They were married over a quarter of & century ugo. in the case of McMahon vs. O'Donnell, where the plaintiff, Miss Kittie, sued for $5,000 for the loss of three fingers while an employe of the defendant, resulted in O'Don- nell’s fuvor. The jury brougnt a verdici this morning after an all night's seance. Judge Chapman aud a jury heard the case of Hargreaves Brothers vs. William Rosgen- kamp. For the platiifs it was contended that sometime since l{omzclllmmp and & man named Scott engaged in the butchering business at Bennett and secured goods fiom the plaintiffs on the credit of William Rog- genkawmp to the amount of §18, The plaiatiffs assert that all business was conducted in the name of this gentleman, who is a substantial citizen, and to whom all invoices were sent. Ha claims tnat all the interest he had in the business was that he gave Scott threo booves Lo start with, agrecing to give to the latter balf the proiits, and denies that he ever re- ceived the invoices. Scoit, however, swears that he said he had all the bills at home, Wesleyan University. Intorosting cxercises have been arranga d for the closing of the fall term of the Wes- leyan university. Tomorrow evening Prof. W. G. Ward of Baldwin ‘university, Ohio, will lecture on **The Reign of the Bad Boy." Thursday ovening the Willard society will give a public exhibition, Friday the Iver- ett sociely will hold the boards. Saturday will be devoted to declamations. On Mo~ duy the Thooplilian aud Orphilian "sociotis will give public entertainments, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesduy until noon, whon the term oxpires, examinations will bo beid. Qity News and Notos. C. H. Waite and Annie Blair have ap- pealed their cases from the decision of the city council to the district court. Balances in the city treasury for the week ending December 9 were s follows; Police, §14,153.08; $3,847.| lighting, $6,600.08; 'road, $15.700.02; healt ; water, §54,950.00; H. P, Barrett of tha Council Bluffs Re- flector was in the city today. Senators Wetherald of Hebron and Hurd of Howard were Lincoln visitors today, The employes of the water depurtment presented Commissioner Lyman with a beautiful gold watch this afternoon, Paving district No. 10 was created hy the city council last night. It wcludes the aroa between the south side of H, the north side of K, the west side of Fonrtcenth aud the east side of Sixteenth —-Capitol Square, The paved area is to be fifty feet and of this amount the state is to pay for thirty and the city twenty feet. S PATTI, THE DIVINE, Once More the Famons Songstre Charms all Kars, Patti, the divine! She is here. Just the same superb Patti the world has been wor- hiping no one cares to remember how many years, says the Chicago Tribune. “And I'm 80 glad to be here,” she caid, as she threw off her wraps at the Richeliou last eveuing. “We had such a terrible rough voyage, you know. I never got on deckonce all the way over. But I was uotill at all. I'm a good sailor, I was tired, that was all. But I'm rested now. Aw feeling well? In- deed I am.”” The great singer never looked better. Off the stage and after a long journey she was just “as beautiful as she's doted on" and her admiring audience was entirely ready to fiuish Mr, Sparkler's famous observation, She was dressed eutirely in black, with a black astrakhan trimmed hat and oxidized silver and diamond ornaments The rooms were crowded with flowers, great baskets and bowls and vases of reses that made the air heavy with perfume. L A 80 AUXI0US 1o see the auditorium, I am sure it is sometbiog magoiicert. Aud the acoustics are spleadia, Loo, they tell me. You say Tamaguo has tried and it says it is rfoot. ANt that is good. He would know, es, have mot him, and admire him so much. [ have never hoard him sing, but 1 have met him, Ho is a fine man, “One can hear an ordinary conversation from the stago to the top gallory, they toll me. That is good. But can onoe on the Stago hear ner own volcol It not, it i bad, The voico must not be lost, must not be ab- sorbed. The singors must hear their voices il tho ball is porfect. **Tho sale of seats has boon something ex- traordinary, they tell me. 1 am glad [ have 80 many friends hore."" “‘The saloe hns been quite as good as it \';"lulll have been in New York, don't you think?" New York! O, why mantion New York! When talking of ono thing, why speak of * anything in comparison? When talking of a singer, why spoak of aay other singer! There is room for all. And the exposition ! Whero will tho expositian 1" end sh turned to every one in the room and laugh ingly usked each in turn the question. *'Well, well, it will be somewhere, and I'm sure it will bo in a good place.” The fascination of Mmo. Patti's beautiful dark oyes did bot keep the reporter from gazing on the wonderful gold-red hair that makes hor brunotte beauty simply irresist. adame, is it true that you have bleached your haie and that it will not turn dark again “'Ah, yes, it is true, I bleached it, but it would bocome dark again quickly if I would allow it to do so, 1 like it this way., My husband thinks it beautiful, the people thin. it beautaful, and 1 think it beantiful, That's tigh for leaving it so. You know liet —O, the heroine in any opera—must bave blonde hair. I never wear a w Whyy sco, all this nair Is own, If Iput " w my head out of all proportion. 5o [ bleached my hair for Juliet when I sang in Pa The French will have bionde singers, Then we all like it so that my maid brushes a preparition into the roots. Itdoes uo¥ hurt tho toxture. It is so soft and abun- ant, 10, there was a Now York newspaper man who was 80 stupid about it. He msisted that 1 was sorry I iad bleuched my hair—he said dyed. ‘Dyed, indoed! said I. *You can't dye anything that's black. I He just walkod off like my little dog with his tail hanging down, Why, 1 am not ashamed of what 1 do that I need deny a little thing like this. But isn't 1t more beautifui!" It was indeed, if it could be so. Her jew- eled hands caressed the tiny dog she held in her arms, ‘*Ah, Carlo, Carlo,” she murmured. *This dear littlo dog is a_preseat from the wife of the president of Mexico. Ihave two: the other 1 got in Paris.”’ “*What shall you woar Monday night!" was asked. “Half mourning, You know I am in mourning for my sister, poor Carlotta, who died six months ago. ‘T'he costume will ba white brocade, with black slashings and stecl beads. After Iam through ging I have been invited to occupy a box 80 that | may hear the speeches, 1 must bo sure about a draught, If there is a draught Iahall be un- able to accept; but I have to sing the next night and can take no risks. I will occupy the box of a friend." “Ihon you have friends in west! (" 'O yes, indoed, Thore is Marshall Field, and the Doanes, and so many others. Then here 18 my dear friend, here now to greet me, Mr. Rosewater of Tue Ovaia Bee. Ho has long been a_ friond of the Pattis. And thisis my husband, who will leave many friends. O, the west 18 lurgo enough for fine people und fast friends." “Did the fog affect you tonight as you came out?” *'Not at all, Hear my voice! I am quite used to fog, We always have it in London, you know. But not at Craig-y-Nos, 1ut 1 bundled up when I gotoft the train and rushed into a carriage. Tomorrow I shall be quite rested and am anticipating such_a scason, The company 1s an extraordinarily 2zood one. There has never bueen a better one in the country. Then the building is s0 mag- + nificent, the enthusiasm so great, and tho whole arrangomeuts on such a wagnficent, scale that it is inspiring to an artist. It makes® , * such a difference,” a She seemed inspired as she talked, Her, enthusiasm and_ibterest wero so genuine, and the tones of her voice, even in couversa- tion, 80 beautiful, so clear and vibrant, th: it wae a pleasure'to listen to hor. She was charming, affuble, and gay, not showing a sign of fatigue after her long journey. the rowdy e b A Big Dry Goois Failure. New Vour, Dec. §.—A general assigngient of James Whitney, Joseph B. Whitney and James A. Kuapp, dry goods commission mer- ; chants, has been filed. The failure is thought # to amount to $500,000. It caused considerable ' excitement in the dry goods district, al- though it was not uncxpocted. The ssets are expected to make a good show for the croditors. It is not known whether the firm will be able to go on, but every effort will bo made to pay dollar for dollar. * The cause of the failure was a great number of outstand- ing accounts which could not be collocted. s S Lies Very Low. YaxkroN, S. D, Deo. 10.—|Special Tols- gram to Tie Ber.—Rev. Joseph Ward, pres- ident of Yankton college, lies very low at his residence in this city, and his most 1nti- mate friguds have but little hopes of his ro- covery. Nearly one hundred Eminent Persons are now en- gaged in preparing valuable and important contributions to the Youth’s Companion for 1890, Mr. Gladstone is getting together his reminiscences of Motley, the Historian; Justin “McCarthy is writing all his per- sonal recollections of great Prime Ministers ; Sir Morell Mackenzie is thinking of what he shall say to the Companion readers on the training of their voices in youth ; Captain Kennedy is recalling the exciting episodes of his 500 dif- ferent trips across the Atlantic, and making notes for hisarticles3 P. T. Barnum is preparing the account of how he secured his White Elephant ; General Wolse- ley is arranging to tell the boys how they can endure hardships ; Carroll D, Wright is securing statistics about the™boy and girl laborers of America, what they do and what they earn; Hon. James G, Blaine is writing a paper for our young politicians ; popular authors are at work on serial storics ; the Presidents of three leading American colleges will give advice to boys on their futur=: Tyndall and Shaler are to talk about the wonders of nature; Marion Harland prom- ises to entertain the girls, while Licutenant Schwatka will take the boys in imagination to the loneliest place in the United States, There are hundreds of pleasures in store for the Com- panion readers of 18go. Lvery one is hard at work, as you see. $1.75 willadmit you to 52 weeks of these entertainments. Send for Full Prospectus for 18g0. (Ilustrated.) Tue Yourn's CoMPANION, 41 Tewple PlacéT Boston, Mass,