Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY HURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, i889, ~ . ROSHWATER, Bditor, _ PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF SUBS Daifly and Sunday, One Y BUX MODKS, ovoor vt oees Three Months, | . Bunday lee, Une Year M N Weekly Bee, One Year with Preminm OFFICES, Omana, Bee Bulding, Chicags Office, f47 Rookery Tuilding New York, Houms 14 and 15 Tribune Build- ng. Washington, No. 613 Foucteenth Street. Council Blufts, No, 12 Pear] Street. Lineoln, 1029 P Sty eet, South Omaha, Corner N and 25th Streets. CORRESPON DENCE. All communieations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Editor- 1al Department. BUSINESS LETTERS, All Unsiness letters and remittances shoutd be wsed to The Hoo Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and postoflice orders t0 be made payablo to the order of the company, The Ber Publisting Company, Propretos Bullding Farnam \eenth Str ‘Ine Peo on the Train There is 1o excuse for a tailure to get Trx BEE on the trains. 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State of Nebraskn, | .o County of Douglas, | %8 1zschuck, being duly sworn, de- ecretary of The Ben the actunl average y 1 DAILY DEE for the month of December, 1822 coples; for Jmnuary, 189, 14,674 copies; for February, 1859, 18,906 coples: for March, 1880, 18854 coples: 1849, 18,550 coples;for “l{. 1580, F dune, 1860, 1848 copies; for K733 coples: for Algust, 188, 13- r Septemb 0, 18,710 coples; for October 1889, 18,997 vember, 1889, 10510 coples SWorn to before me and sul d i my Presence this30th day of November, A . D., 1880, (8eal.] N.'P. FEIL. iz Company, t Hiation of CHUCK. T risian la grippe has all the clements of a snoutrage. CHICAGO has not found the world’s fair in her stocking, but she is reaching out for it across the Maryland line, IF congress would refuse to reimburse contestants for the expenses incurred, the business would depreciate rapidly. ——e REAL ESTATEs very quiet just now in Oklahoma City, but the festive six shooter is as uctive and vociferous as ever. SENATOR ALLISON has no time just now to give to courtship, His heart- beats are monopolized by the political goddess. ProrLE are never satisfied with the signalservice. When the thermometer goos down they want it warm,and when it is warm they want it cold THE press of Chicago insist that Ju- ror Culver has carned the contempt of mankind. Compared with ‘*Me and my Coachman,” Culver is an honorable man. THE new state banking law has not proved asure cure for bank failures, but it is rapidly driving reckless and dishonest men out of the business in Nebraska. LINCOLN has hopes of securing an electric street car service in place of the mule motor. The Capital city must hurry up or all of the ‘“‘third cities” of the state will surpass her in that line. SENATOR BECK of Kentucky thinks Towa will make a mistake 1if she fails to send William B. Allison back to the genate. Allother able men in congress, regardless of party lines, are of the same opinion, A KANSAS City judge has decided that a real estate agent is under obliga- nons to deal fairly with his client. Business is likely to bo rather quiet in the city by the Kaw until it gets used to the new order of things. —— Mz. JONN W. POCKETBOOKWALTER 18 also in the contest for United States sanator from Ohio. This makes three _ millionaires who are now in the race and the prize will no doubt be to him of the biggest bank account, m—— ‘WHiLE the British tories are fighuing Yiberal principles on the hustings, the leaders are-adopting them in sections. It would not surprise any one to see them introduce & home rule bill before the session of parliament ends, ——— A PENNSYLVANIA prize fight resulted in a bad ease of lockjuw. Unfortunately the disease 18 not contagious. The “slugging profession displays such o wealth of jaw just now that it would be a plensure to the public to see the dis- ease getting in its deadly work. ——e TORD SALISBURY’S opponents have unearthed a speech he made twenty- five years ago in which he expressed very liberal views on the Irish question, That was some time before his lordship thought of becoming prime minister on the conservative ticket, GENERAL SHERMAN'S dinner list is "‘now made out far into January and in- cludes engagements for every nightin the week. The dauntless leader of the march to the sea may yet be obliged to yield to a fusilade of champagne corks or fall victim to an ambuscade of mince pies. CmeeeseS—— THE state papers have been asserting that Church Howe is now acting gover- nor of Nebraska, This is a mistake. Lieutenant-Governor Meiklejohn has been holding the reins of government with u tight grasp since Governor Thayer left the state. The granger statosman from Nemaba is stilla long way from the throne, TIMES HAVE CHANGED. And now we are informed that legal proceedings are tobe begun to condemn a tract of land which adjoins the site of new Fort Omaha near Bellevue, because the owner of said land refuses to sell said tract at & reasonable price. This shows what an areant picco of jugglery has been played upon our citizens by the promoters of the new Fort Omaha land speculation. When it was the government the present fort by annexing whatever additional land was needed wo were told that the owners asked too much for the land and the government never would exercise the power of emi- nent domain for acquiring land for mili- tary purposes. This was an unanswer- able argument, but now there is no ob- staclein the way of condemning land for the new fort. The parties that profit by that deal have found no diffi- culty in trying to annex what they could not convey by purchase. This is only, however, a repetition of the postoffice deal. The secretary of tho treasury invited bids for sitey lalf o dozen squares wove offered for which the title could have been pro- cured within one week., But instead of accepting any one of these bids the chief juggler, who has engineered the Fort ~ Omaha rvemoval job, in- sisted that a square for which no title could be procured with- out condemnation procecding should be taken in prefercnce to all others. The pretense under which this was that enlarge proposed should done was as hollow and flimsy as the as- scrtion that the government could not extend the area of the present fort. The outcome has been what might have been expected—litigation and damaging delay. But we shall not be surprised if the promoters of the new Fort Omaha speculation shall seek to put the blame for all this upon TiE BEE, which has onposed the removal of the fort from the outset, because it be- lieved it to be detrimental to the city of Omaha and without compensating. advantages to the government. A FEDERAL ELECTION LAW. It is announced that a law to regulate the election of members of congress will be introduced iuto the house of repre- sentatives immediately after the holi- day ve Already a bill for this pur- pose has been brought forward in the senate, framed by Mr. Skerman, and the meusure received a great deal of comment. The biill proposed in the senate is & much more radical measure than the house bill and consequently. much less likely to receive favorable consideration. The house bill is very conservative in 1ts provisions, the evi- dent purpose being to follow the pol suggosted by the president in his message to congress, and for this reason it is move likely to secure the attention of congress than tho more radical measure, which some members have pesen understood to de- sire. Tt is pretty well assured that the pres- ent congress will, if possible, adopt leg- islation intended to secare a more sat- isfactory expression of sentiment in tho choice ~ of congressmon in the congress districts of the south. The party 1 control of congress is fully committed to this policy, and it will not be satisfied without action to carry out this purpose. It isan entively legitimate purpose, but it will not be accomplished without a very vigorous fight. It is already indicated that any effort in this direction will encounter the most activa und persistent demo- cratic opposition, and it is threatened that any attempton the part of the gov- ernment to more fully regulate federal eiections in the south will be vigorously resisted. This should not deter con- gress from making such modifications of the existing law as justice demands, but it suggests that the conserva- tive views of the president regard- ing the question should be re- spectfully considered. Justice to the col- ored citizens of the south is demanded by every cousideration of political pol- icy, but the means by whicn this is to be secured is still an unsolved problem, and the plans that have been suggested for its solution, so far as they come from the dominant element of the south, are far from satisfactory to the intelligent and unprejudiced sentiment of the country. It is evident that this question is to be a bone of serious contention in the present congress, and it can not be safoly prodicted what the result will be. But it is the manifest duty of the major- ity in congress to correct the evils inei- dent to federal elections in the south, if it be possible to ao so0, and a grave mistake will be made if they fail to adopt the legislation neccssary to do this, The election of representatives in congress should be as free and fair in every district of the south as it is in other sections of the country. SE——— CHARLES H. SPURGEON, Cable advites from London foreshadow the early demise of Charles H., Spur- geon, the most popular clergyman in Great Britain. Mr. Spurgeon, in many respects, has been the counterpart of the late Henry Ward Beecher. His won- derful success as a minister was mainly due to his sunny disposition ‘and innate sympathy with the common people. He is a whole-souled, manly and liveral exponent of the gospel of brotherly love und a common humanity, Natural and unaffected, impassioned and impressiye, he was capable of arousing religious fervor among vast audiences that al- ways thronged to hear him, Mr. Spur- geon is yet comparatively a young man, He was born in Essex cdunty, England, in 1834, His fathor was a Congregational minis- ter, and the training of youngSpurgeon from the outset took the direction of the church. At the age of fifteen he en- guged in the profession of school teach- ing, which, however, he did not pursue more than two or three yours. After a ramarkable religious experience he gave his thoughts to the ministry of the Baptist denomination, of which he had become a member. His first sermon was delivered while he held the posi- tion of assistant master in a school at Cambridge, was preached in a tiny vil- Iage chapel, and was heard with re- markable interest. His services were sought eagerly after this, and he was known over a considerable piece of country as “the boy preachor.” At sev enteen years of age he assumed the pa torate ot a Baptist church at Water- beach, whence hoe vremoved to the New Park street chapel, South wark, London, where he attained marvelous popu- Jarity. His congregation so far outgrow the accommodations provided that in 1859 the erection of a monster building was decided upon. Tt was opened free of debt two years afterward and from that time until now has been attended by a congregation averaging over six thousand persons on Sundays when the great preacher occupies its rostrum. Mr. Spurgeon once preached to a congregation of twenty-three thous- and at the Crystal Palace near London. When, during the progross of repnirs at nis Metropolitan Taber- nacle, he proached in the Agricultural hall, Tslington, his audience numbered about twenty thousand persons at every Conneeted with his church, outgrowths of ite energies. are the pas- tors' college, from which several hun- dreds of young men have been sent out ministers, and an orphanage which was begun at the instance of a lady friend who sent Mr, Spurgeon a check for one hundred thousand dollars with which to begin it. About three hun- dred orvhans are fed, lodged, clothed and educated in this institution. Other institutions connected with the taber- nacle are a colportage associntion, almshouse for aged women, missionary stations, Sunday schools, a mission to the blind, ladies'benevoientand mater- nal socicties, and many others. Mr. Spurgeon was happily mavried when a voung man. His twin sons—he has no other children—are ministers, Charles, whose church is at Greenwich, England, recently visited this country and preached frequently. Thomas lives in New Zealaud. Ty annual meeting of the state farmoer’s alliance, which convene in less than two weeks, promises to be an event of unusual interest and import- ance to the agriculturists of Nebraska. The questions which will ‘be discussed and the policy outlined will receive the closest attention from a large portion of the furmers of the state, and much good chould result. The past year has been an active one for the allinnce and the order has grown enormously in Nebraska. S1. Louts ha weted an inguiry into the means and methods employed in the go of a gas works rter which strikes the city treasury for a quarter of a million a year for thiety years and a lump sum of four millions at the end of that time. Evi- dently the St. Louis councilman is not holding oftice for his health. Perhaps the climate of Canada will assert itsell before the investigation ends. GoveErNor HILL is not talking much in public these days, but ho is doing some mighty smooth work with his or- gans against Cleveland. The New York Sun and the Albany Zimes are serting the knives of David into Gro- s cuticle ahd drawing blood with every insertion, The vigor of the war alveady raging in the Impire state promises some hively family fighting from now on till November, % BEET sugar is the absorbing topic in o dozen prosperous cities and towns in Nebraska., Grand Island is pushing ahead with its extensive plant, Schuyler is making arrangements to secure a factory,, Welllleet almost has the de- sired industry in its grasp, and other places are taking the nscessary steps'to prove to the people that the sugar beot will thrive and become profitable in -their midst. Let the good work go on. THE reports from Kansas that farm- ers are burning corn for fuel are not prising. Low pricesand high fr rates combine to render the crop unre- munerative. When it takes thirty to forty bushels of corn to buy a ton of coal, as is the case in various portions of Kansas and Nebraska, farmers save money by substituting corn for coal. KEARNEY felt bad because the fast mail flew through the city without stop- and the only concession she could was that the train should run through the corporate limits ata ten- mile rate. In this case a balf loaf does not appear to be better than no bread. But Kearney still enjoys the blessings of Tnr BEE flyer every Sunday morn- ing. —— THE aggregate value of the provision and dairy products exported from this country during the past year is one hundred and five million dollars. This isalmost double the amount of the ex- ports for the previous year, and shows that the general prosperity is not on the wane, as many seem to think. JUDGE GRESHAM confirms the pat- entsof the Brush electric light com- pany, covering all systems of electric lighting in which carbon 1s ‘employed. The deeision is a warning to the public to keep their hands off the Brush wires and save funeral as well as legal ex- penses. ANTON RU STEIN says that only two per cent of English and Americans can distinguish good music from bad, This sweeping judgment does not apply to New Yorkers, who have just licensed three hundred organ grinders, —— Tie State grange of Michigan de- plores the wholesale election of mil- licnaires to the United States senate. The griel of the grangers is timely, and it is to be hoped it will spread to the legislatures of the various states. ——— NEWS COMMENT, Slugger Smith of Eugland has at last definitely put nimself down among the ruf- flans where he belongs and where he will stay. A new railroad in Wisconsin is named the Waukesha, Pewaukee, Oconomowoc & East- ern. This vame was no doubt invented to scare away train robbers. New York is bouund to lead in something. ‘The city now boasts of spending $1,250,000 yearly for strest cleaning and having the dirtiest thoroughfares in the country. The present name o the metropolis is “mud.” The Philadelphia Telegraph is looking around to find the cause of tho “extraordi- nary popularity. ot ox-President Clovoland.’, The Telcnrn“‘ evidently laboring under a donse hnll\‘rlaulifln. What does not exist can not hnl’n, Ccpuse. Edward Beliamy, the author of “Looking Backward,” js, out lecturing. He said recently, in Koaton, “Shut your histories of Greeco and Reme and look about you and see how a republic is dying.” 1his sounds well, but Mr. Bellamy slipped his grip on the truth, for when we look about us we seo a very prosperots and vigorous nation. Superinterident Porter of tho census bureau knows how it is himself now. He says he is “waist deep in congressmen’” who are clamoring for positions for their con- stituents. He will wish now thathe had not opposed the ‘reform aystom” as appli- cable to his burean as he did. Emin Pasha is not at all pleased with the accidont which befel him recently. He appreclates tho ridiculousness of falling out of a window and cracking his skull after traveling thousands of miles through a hos- tile country in fafety. Stanley is also said to apvreciate the joke and occasionally “‘rubs it in" on his fellow explorer, - - Amenitics of La Grippe, Chicago Tribune, “La Grippe,” though sevore while it lasts, 8000 runs its course. The victim, therefore, is exhorted to snceze not as one without hope. Ltz The Crank Turns the Wrong Way. Philadelphia Record. Probably the worst use that can be made of a crank is to put him on a jury. In that secure position he can set aside the law and and turn everything to crooked- The Causes of Buffalo Express. The Galveston News thiaks the hip-pocket causes more trouble in the south than any- thing eise. Innato hatred of the negrofrace plays a still more prominent part in southern troubles, ath, S b The Majority in Juries. Denver Republican. A majority vote controls in many govern- mental matters, which arc of far greater im- portance to the public interest than the ver- dict of a jury in an ordinary case. A ma- jority vote will elect the governor or any of the other exceutive ofiicers of the state gov- ernment. By a majority vote we choose our judges and by a majority vote the supremo court decides the cases that come before it for review. e Abolish the Secret Session. Phitadelphia Telegraph, There may be occaslons when treaties with foreign nations of exceptional character should be considered privately, but to close the doors, or maie pretense of closing them every time the president’s messenger appears with an appointment, whethar it be that of a postmaster, cabinet minister, or justice of the supreme court, is a practice Which the country has long since outgrown. Abolish the secret session for the consideration of cxecutive appointments. Throw open the doors. Let the record of every man ap- pointed and eveéry man who votes on the an- pointment be, as fv ought to be, public prop- erty, and not the subject of evasion, decep- tion una misrepresentation. STATE AND TERKITORY. Nebraska Jottines. Picnics ure still being held on tuuqua grounds at Long Pine, A Chicago mau bas mude an offor to put in & poutoon bridge at Plattsmouth next vear. ' D. M. Gwiney aud John Reno, on trial at Cuappell for shooting, Rose M¢Neal in Aug- ust , have been acquitted. The Western H ight is the name of a new paper at Nonpareil, Box Butte county, J. V. Parker editor and publisuer. The new Methodist church in Mead town- ship, Merrick county, was dedicated with fitting cercionies and free of debt. Wolves are ‘doing great damage in the viemity of Stratton and a grand hunt will be held in a few days to exterminate the pests. Butler county farmers report many dying from the offect of cating d stalks, Thirty head have died Brainard. The Gotheubur canal is very nearly com- pleted and if the weather continues favor- able it is believed that water will be flowing into the reservoir before February 1, 1590 “I'he Capital City Courier, Lincoln’s society journal, has issued an elegant Christmas number. It is one of the finest efforts in the newspaper line ever attempted 1n the state. A. G. Strong and Ezra Murpby will pull straws_before the juage of Cass county, December 31, to decide which one is entitled to be justice of the peace in Liberty precinct. The vote at the clection was a tie, The committee apbointed by the Columbus board of trade to devise means for securing the atate fair has organized by eiecting Hon, J. K, North chwrman. A joint stock com- pany with a cavital stock of $100,000 of $50 per share was organizea and the stock is being rapidly taken, The fall term at Doane college, Crete, closed on the evening of the 231 with the annual Forbes contest, for preparatory students only. Six contestants entered for the prize. It was easily won by Miss Alice Sherrill of Crete. The full term has been hizhly satisfactory in_attendance and work done. The winter term opens Jauuary 8, 1890, . the Chau- lowa Iteics. ‘The foundation for a new Catholic church is being laid at Clinton. The mayor at Fort Madison has ordered all the gambling houses to close, A wheelbarrow takes the place of a patrol wagon in hauling drunks to the Oskaloosa bastile, John Cushman of Hampton will spend six v jn the Fort ison pen for incen- diarism. For smoking cigarettes and writing poetry Otto Link, & Fort Dodge ninc-yanr-nur, has ‘been sent to the reform school, John Luther goes to the penitentiary for two years trom Fort Dodge for criminally ussavlting Miss Ella Weisinger, Union county farmers have petitioned con- gress for the passage of a law prohibiting speculation in raw and manufactured farm products, . Mayor Gobbla of Muscatine has resigned, and Alderman Gus Sehmidt has been elected by the council tho vacancy for the un- expired term. Mayor Gobble takes his seat in the Iowa sengta next mouth, A corn jubil s held at Weldon Friday whith was at d by delegations from all the surroundiggiitowns. The jubilee was a grand succ aud the visitors were on- thusiastic over thélr reception by the Wol. donites, ’H Bertie BoydsthM, aged fifteen, son of Lon H. Boydston, editir of the . Leon Reporter, has beon missmg from his home since last Septeber, L\na‘ parents are very anxious for his welfarey ke is rather large for his wn. has a lighticomnplexion and blue eyes. hen last hedrd of he was attending the fairs at Indiandld'and Chariton, Willie Robertson, a Muscatine small col- ored boy, invented a dynamite bomb com- posed of a combination of stove pipe, gun- powder, old rags and mud. To tost the efil- cacy of the bomb be applied a lighted match 0 one end of it. It Was 8 success—that is, it succeeded in filliug little Willie's system full of pieces of stove pipe. He will recover, but may lose his eyesight, The Chinese divorce case is causing a big sensution st Keokuk. Long Sum Foo now thinks he would have been ahead if he had doubled up with a buzz saw instead of with pretty Edua Wert: She is making a very warm spell for Loug Sam. An autachment has been placed on his laundry and coatents, and Suuday the citizens of Keokuk had to go without @ clean sbirt, They also raised lflu tewperature considerably for Long. Mrs. Foo charges that her busband Las been rather sweet on o married woman, and now Lhe woman's husband is contributing no small amount of wermth for the benefit of L. 8. . The Gate City, in summing up tie Chinesequestion, thinks that it may yet be- come a subjact of international pute and arbitration. 1ho Two Dakotas. oA O opera house has been opened at Lis- on. There are seventy.seven students in the Wessington Springs seminary. Thieves rifled a car of relief goods at Iro- quois and stole seven sacks of flour. A publio spirited citizen of Sturgis has of - fered to donate a site in that city for a new court house and county jail, Plymouth church, Grand Forks, which was damaged by tire November 10, has been repaired and opened for service. 8. O. Masters of DeSmet has invented an instrument with which he can detect the presence of any kind of mineral or vein of water at any depth below the surface, and toll the exact location, depth and extent of the vein. Sherift Sundbach of Sioux Falls arrested Wilham Perkins at Pierre and took him Dback to the former oity on a charge of ap- propriating $750 belonging to a Sioux Falls saloonkeoper for whom he worked, and skipped out. The house of John Silfen,near Bare Butte, together with contents, was entirely de- stroyed by fire last week. Silfen is a poor with a wifo and seven childron, and iberal people of Sturgis and vieinity came to his relief and helped him out in his need. Lehman, tho murderer of Constable Burns of Custer county and who was a short time ago founa guilty and sentenced to death, has been granted a new trial by Judge Nowlin on account of an irregularity in chargiog the jury. He is thought to be insane and will be examined by the commissioners on insanity. The Pierre Cabital repudiates a recent boom publication entitled ‘“‘Pierre Illus- trated,”” and says the compiler of the work has fished up pictures of public buildings from New York to San Francisco and tries 10 paln: them off on the public as correct por- trats of the numerous handsome buildings recently put up in that city, to which they bear not the slightest resemblance. The book even goes so far as to claim that the bay of Naples is located at the capital ity and moves Harney peak, in the Black Hills, clear across the reservation to do service as Mount Vesuvius, THE AFTFRNOON TEA. 1t is with love as with soup—the first help- ing 18 always too hot and the last wo cold. At a wedding i Birningham, Ala., one of the lady guests stote a watch, dismonds and money. “Love is blind.” Nonscnse! Just pay a little attention to some other woman and the woman who loves you will see it even if the transaction occ ten miles away with half a hundred brick walls intervening. Urgent Suitor—With any sort of manage- ment we could certuinly keep alive on $300 a yeur. & Ces, dear, but I bly aead. Parhaps the most tr. care would sooner be ing experience in the rof a mawden who has passed the first flush of romantic wirlhood is when she braces herself to meet the shock of a pro- posal of marriago from some man and the shock doesn’t come. The fair ladies of Paris are much given to Golhcizing English verbs, Some time ago they seized upon *5 o'clock tea” and made all manner of comical phrases from it, Now they have annexed the verb “'to shop. A young lady broke off her engaj old lover request graph. Here co for rovenge, which he took by sending her the following note: I would gladly comply with your request, but it 1do it will spoil my euchre deck. 'I have a collection of photographs which I use for playing cards, and 1do not want to break it by giving away the queen of diamonds.” Some men ara disastrously superstitious, says the Burlington Frce Press. A Burling. ton swain came to the dotermination to pro- pose ona cortain evemng. kntering the parlor 1n considerable trepidation, ho picked a book and glanced at the title page. It a copy of “Don't.” Heuidn’t, and on the very next afternoon his girl consénted to be Mrs. Somebody F "The hen-pecked Benedict who may desire occasionaily to sitin a quiet game until the morning breaks, or take a night off upon any other reasonable pretext, will welcome the pocket suspenders us & helpful aily. The tooth brush, button-hook, nnd the little roll of corefully ‘socreted bills may be, with proper diplomacy, put beyond the pale of discovery and suspicion. The pockets are attached to each strap of the braces, just above the buckle, . Several years ago a rustic couple from Waldoborough visited a justice of the veace in an adjoining towa for the purnose of being united in the bonds of matrimony. Tho orile, beng somewhat bashful, objected to going into the prosence of the justico unan- nounced, aud was concealed in the bushes by the roadside while the groom called at the house and arranged to give the justico a bushel of potatoes to marry them. Then he went, to the door and called, “Come out de alders: trade's all made!” aud the bride stood forth in all her finery. P e ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEA, Remarkable Experience of Ship- wrecked Sailors 1n the Pacific. A special dispatch to the San Francis- co Examiner from Portland, Me., re- lates the following thrilling story. A tale of shipwreck in the southern seus, of savage islanders and the ro- 2 of a modern Robinson Crusoe is wptain William Gooding tells. Ie was commander of the Portland bark Tewksbury Sweot, lost in the South Pacific last spring, and has just arrived in this city on his way home at Yarmouth, N. S, He and his crew had been given up for dead. The first intelligence that lhefl were alive was received about two weeks ago. Their escape from death from the wreck and from suvages makes an inter- esting story. The stanch - American bark sailed from Newcastle, N.S. W, on March 171ast for Kong Kong. On' April 9 she encountered a gale and was driven ashore on Susaune reef, noar Pozeat island, one of the Carolines. A very high wind was blowing at the same time, the surf was running high, and the vessel commenced to go to pieces soon after she struck. Nothing was saved from the wreck but one chronom- eter. The crew escaped in one of the ship’s boats and managed with difficult; to reach a small islet to the northward, From this islet, when the storm had subsided, they wade the island of Po- zeat, which is inhabited by fierce sav- ages. . As the boat approached the island a fleet of canoes put off from the shore. There were about thirty canoes, with eight or ten menin each,all armed with kuives and spears, and some of the sav- agosin their eugerness jumped over- board and swam to the boat, each witha long, wicked looking kknife held between his teeth. The first of the savages to veach the hoat clambered in until it was nearly svamped. Then they began to strip the sailors of their coats and outer garments,throwing the garments aboard of their own canoes. The men were soon despoiled of everything but their undershirts; then the whole fleet drew in_towards land. The savages had all this time kept un a tremendous din of shouting and sing- ing, and a crowd of women and children on the shore were dancing and jumping about with shouts and cries. The sail- ors expected no better treatment than to be killed and eaten, but as they learned afterwards the natives of this island are not cannibals. While the shipwrecked crew were standing surrounded by the uoisy ccowd, & man dressed as all others, with only a cloth about his hips, came for- ward and spoke to them in English. He gave his name as Charles Irons, an Englishman by birth, and offered to tender any assistance possible. It seems that he was left at Pozeat by a trading vessel about four years ago, his business being to represent the traders in cocoanuts on the island, but the vesse! rever called for Irons since leaving him, and he had gradually as- sumed the habits of the natives. He finally became like them in appearance and manner. He had taken to himself soven wives, and was regarded by the natives as a man of importanve, second only to the chief of the tribe. Irons had even forgotten many of the com- mon details of civilization, but he of good sorvice to the castaways, doubt saving the lives of all. A day or two after landing at Pozeat Captain Gooding, who had been uncer- tain about his reckoning of time, not knowing oxactly whether the day was Thursday or Friday, asked Irons if he knew what day of the week it was, but he did not. Irons interested himself in behalf of the shipwrecked men and hired a canoe of the natives. oding, Second Mate George W. Harrison and one of the ship’s crew sot 1 ten days after thei rival, leaving the rest of thn men and Rirst Mato Richard Watcnon, seven men in all, at Pozeat. The captain and his men made their wi rom the island, touching at eight different points. making stops at each varying from two days to a month, They finally arvived at Ruk here there is amissionury station. Here they were cared for by the missionaries and obtained the use of a boat helonging to the station. The missionaries did not liko to let them have the bout, because if deprived of it they would be exposed to the danger of attackfrom the native s and deprived of their only means of leaving the island, but finally gave their consent. The missionaries also had they came ashore at Pozeat with any valuables the natives would cer- tainly have killed them, as they had others, In a missionary boat with a stanch centerboard the captain made sail back to Pozeat. He then returned with tho crew to Missionary islund. Two months lutter the missionary vessel, Morning Star, arrived and took them all to Hon- olulu, where they arvived Novembed 18, Krom Honolulu Captain Gooding and a part of the crew were bronght by the steamer Austraiia to San Franeisco, iving there November 24 Tho first act of Captain Gooding on reaching San Franciseo was to telegraph the vessel’s owners, Messrs. Chase, Leavitt & Co., of this city. This mess- age rveceived as veritable tiding from the dead, all hope of ever he: from either the ship or men having long been relinquished. Captai ing states that he left two of his men in tho hospital at FHonolulu, two more are coming on a sz2iling vessel from Hono- lulu, one man, the steward, has shinped as a hand on the Morning Star. and two mates and two seamen accompanied the captain to San Francisco. He estimates that his voyaging in canoo and boat around by way of the island of Ruk, and thence the return to Pozeatand back to Ruk, was about one thousand miles. During these voyages and stay on the islands, covering a period of about six months, the men eu‘)ui\h-d on cocoanut bread and natural products which form the usual food of the native In con- ciusion Captain Gooding snic It was the most thrilling experience I have ever had inall my scafaving life, captured as we were by such beings and suved in such a sensational n After it was decided by the natives not to kill us the sailors were given the widest possible liberties. You can imagine our gratitude to Irons, and we lost no opportunity to express it.” et ool TG UNCLE SAM’S EMPLOYES. no told them that Their Number is 200,000 and the Pay- voll Amounts to $165,000,000. An accomplished statistician has just completed a series of interesting c lations, showing the total numbor persons employed in all manner capacities by the Unjted States govern- ment. The results of his calculations show that there are 88,000 employed in all branches of the postal service alone and 62,000 others filling positions in the lenslative, judicial und m scellancous divisions of the government, with some 85,000 privates 1 the army, navy and marine corps, and between 12,000 and 15,000 men and boys who gain their livelihood from the government for work directly incident to the increase of the navy and the construction of heavy guns, making a grand total of about 200,000 persons enrolled in the glorious service of Uncle Sam. The number who would like to add themselves to this vast army in the ex perience of the active politicians, i probably something like 6,000,000 or 8,000,000 moré, says the Philadelphin Press, The postal employes compriso in_addition to the clerks at the post- office department, ail mail contractors, mail messengers, clerks in the railway mail service, postmasters with theiv assistants, and letter carriers, In the military and naval list proper only the names of officers are given, while the privates are not counted. There ave 25,000 of them in the army, 8,250 in the navy una 2,000 in the marine corps - The civil service branch in- cludes Dbesides the postoflice peo- ple, all employes subordinate® to the executive departments, the offi- cials of congress, all the secondary and independent bureaus, the govern- ment printing office, the Smithsonian institution and national museum, all the Indian agencies, mints, customs \quues, all the benevolent and philanthronic institutions in Washington and the government of the District of Columbia, Taking the statistician’s estimate of the average sulary received by all the government’s servants; not countin the privates in the army, navy an marine corps, the annual pay-roll ag- gregates not less than $165,000.000, Assuming that out of the 65,000,000 inhabitants of the United States at least 26,000,000 are grown-up persons, men and women, there would seem to be only one officeholder in_every circle of 157 grown persons, and one office- holder in every collection of 398 men, women and children, e For the Coming Influenza, Dr. Cyrus Edson gives the following as the proper treatment for the Euro- pean influenza, just imported: Let the patient who fancies he has the influenza procure 10 cents worth of solution of quinine and spread it fro- quently over the affected membrane, and take internally three graius of quinine, one-half grain of camphorand one-quarter grain of extract of bella- donna, all mixed either in ljquid form or in pills, the dose to be taken four or five times a day e Frank Gibbous, who died recently at Hibernia, N.Y ., was the greatest guesser of the age. His faculty was first de- veloped in a homely way, and did not attract a great deal of attention. It became @ recognized characteristio when the boy would stand at the end of a row of potatoes and guess with singu- larly close approaches to accuracy how many of the vegetables would be found in each hill, e could guess the num- ber of eggs in a basket, the quantity of milk in a pail, the number of sticks of wood in a load, how many bushels of cora would be husked from a patch, and in & hundred instances he guesscd within one or two how many grains of corn there were on an ear. e The force which a California pump- kin exerts while growing is equal to the strength of a large horse attached W a stick of timber, CHRISTMAS AT THE CAPITAL. The Day at the Pen, the Asylum and the Churches. QUIET THROUGHOUT THE CITY. Business Practically Suspended - Wesnel Banquets His Employes — Daughter of Reboknh Enters tain 1. 0. O, F.—-Notes. 1029 P Sturer, LixcoLy, Neb,, Dec, 25, There s nothing remarkable to record about the Christmas festivities at the capital city. “Cris Kringle” camo aftor the usual manner. Lastnight and today church people. gathered together at the usual places for worship, Sunday schools enjoyed the con- ventional Christmas tree, laden with treas- ures for the littie folks, rich and poor alike. Occupants of the mausion fared lavishly, while those of the hovel were thoughtfully remembered, Indeed, City Missiotary Howo states that Lincoln's poor were pro- vided for as never before. But all this is characteristic of festival days at tho capital. The convict at the pen enjoyed his foast and attending reoreations, and tho unfor- tunate at the hospital for the insane was provided with special attractions, with the hope, perhaps, that reason might be strength- ened and agam lifted to its throne. Warden Hopkins and Superintendent Knapp vied with each other in giving themr respective charges a glimpso into the life of other days. Tho *'boys in stripes” also emjoyed impromptu religious exercises, li- privileges and opportunity to write to friends and ‘loved ones at home.” The daft enjoved music, dancing and other practical sations, Busivess was practically suspendod during the day. State, county and city offices wero all closed. With the ¢xception of the absont excursionists, state officials spent the day with their families at home. The afternoon, especially, wus quiet, giving but little evi' dence that Lincoln is an active, bustling city of 50,000 people. Three mass services were held at Thomus, the first at 5, the second at 0 and the last at 11a.m. Rov tiviere preached at the first and Rev. Walsh at the last muss, Bishop Bonacum held three mass services at the convent, commencing at 6 o'clock this morning. Rev, Laliwiere sung the mid- night mass at the convent. The music at the mass services 18 said to have been very fine, The Christmas oxercises at tho chapel ot tho Seventh Duay Advent last evening were of a very interesting_character, They consisted of singing, recitations and a cat- Tlie World” being the subject. The king at the Furst Congregational church wass well attended. Something over #0 was realized for the 'Tabitha home by this somewhat novel entertainment, Good music interspersed the recitations and other exercises. ‘Uhe Sunday school of tho 1Virst Baptist church enjoved a creditable Christ- mas tree. The temple of this church at the corner of Fourteenth and K streots was filled to everflowing. St. Paul's M. B, church entertained tonight in a similar ma ner. 'The laden tree was the finestever seen Lixcony Buneau or Tiur OMina Bee, } St. in the city. The recitation and song oxer- cises were also exceptionally intercsting: ‘The Sunday school of tho Iirst Presbyteriai church entertains tomorrow evening, The cantata, *Sants Claus” will furnish the principal partof the evening's programme. Some One Was Intoxicated. Last nizht between 13 and 1o'clock & young man by the name of John Allen was arrested on the charge of maliciously de- ore was o bull in progress at the complaivant’s house, near “Chirteenth and I’ streets, and that Allen, upon being refused admittance, sccured au ax and burst open the door. On securing entrance in this uncivilized manner it is said he proceeded to demolish overything he camo in contact with, Sume onc of the men in attendance sought to prevent destruction of property and fired several shots at hun from a 43-calibre bulldog. None of the shots, however, hit him and he succeeded in knocking over 'a table und created havoo gecerally. Boll appeared before Houston and swore out a warrant for tho belliger- ent's arrest and he was taken into custody at the time indicated. Ho will have a hear- ing tomorrow, The wan was drunk. City News and Notos. Lew Wessel of the Capital City Courier banqueted his employes and a select party of newspaper men at Brown’s last night. The spread was all the epicure could ask. 1t is smd that E. Bigwe!l will be mado superintendent of the Burlington road he now controls as assistant superintendent as soon as Mr. Thompson’s successor 1s appoint- ed. His friends hope that ,jthis rumor is true, John Bishoo's will has been flled for probate in the county court. It is said that his wife is his soie legatoe and also that she has been named as e: i Hearing has been set for January ) Bishop Bonacum loft for St. Paul, Minn., today at noon to take part in the services and ceremonies attending the consecration of tho new bishop for the diocese of Winona, Du- Juth and Jamestown, which occurs on the 27th, He will be from home the rest of the weck. Members of the L 0. O. F. were royally entertained last night by the Daughters of Rebekah, The principal feature of the pro- gramme of tho evening was tho farce e titled “A Quiet Family.” Preceding this, however, the tableau, ‘“Rebekah at the well,”” impersonated by Miss lla Shomaker, was presented. At the close a bunquet was served that did the originators proud. gistor of Deeds John D. Knight wi aporopriately remembered by attaches of his offico yesterday evening. He was preseuted with a haudsome leather covered lounge. The donors were J. H. Frahwell, John Harmp, Will McClay, Miss Alico Boardsley, Miss Helen Gumar, Miss Mattie Helwig, Miss C. B. Wells and Mrs. Emma Cook. L. C. Bun presented the Elks lodge with a fine elk’s head last evening. hile on a trip o the Rocky mountains a little over a ear ago, Mr. Bun shot a largeelk. Ho rought the head home with him and had it dressed at the state university, ‘W'he head is suid to bo a very valuable one for the rea- - son that the horns suill contain the velvet ‘ that is shed every year. ‘Thelodge acknowl- edges the recaipt with thanks, b O. H. Clark, a dealer in pictures, opened a store in Lancastera few weeks ago, He tried to geta license to sell his goods by auction, but, a locul law prevented him. He was determined to ave an auction, and he got around the law by having his clerk issue an execu- tion against him for $1,000, and now the sherifl will seil his goods at auction. The local picture dealcrs ave greatly excreised about the matter, but can do nothing to prevent the shevill from sell- ing the goods in that way., Clark will reulize more from his goods in this way than if he had an auction of his own, because a sherifl’s sale will draw a big crowd., SICK HEADAGH Positively cured b theso Littie PUls, | TORPID LIVER, Tueyf rogulate the Howels, Purely Vegetable. SMALLPILL, SMALL DOSE., SMALL PRICE,