Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY B# ’ ESDAY. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— . . e K DECEMBER 31, 1889, -THE DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, Baitor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dafly and Sunday, One Ye Bix Months . Three Months, Bunday Bee, One Year . .. Weekly Bee, One Year with Premium. OFFICES Omana, Bee Butiding, Chicago Office, 67 Hookery Bullding New York, Hooms 14 and 15 Tribune Build- I ashington, No, 513 Foucteenth Street Council Blufts, No. 12 Penrl Street. LAncoln, 1029 F Sty Eolith Omahn, Cornet N and 20th Stroets. CORRESPONDE Al communieations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Editor- 18l Department, BUSINESS LE Imsiness lettors and remittances shonld headdressed to The Deo Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and postoflice oraers {0 * be made payablo to the order of the company, The Beg Publishing Company, Proprictors pee Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Strerts. TERS, The Bee on the Trains. There s no excuse fora failure to get TRk BEe on the trains, All newsdealers have been noti- fied to carry & full supnly. [ravelers who want Tre Bex and cun't gat it on trains where other Omaha b ure carried are requested to no- ity Tre B Tlense be purticular to give in all cases full informntion as to date, railway aud number ot Give us your name, not for publication or un- Tecessary use, but As a guaranty of wood falth, e THE DAILY BEBE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. tate of Nobraska, County of Douglas, Georire " I schuck, secretary of The Hee Fublishing solemnly swear that the actual eirenlation of Ting DAY Bxg for the cek ending December 23 1880, was as follows: Sunday, Dec, 2 Mondiiy, Dey Dec. 24 s, Average.... GEONGE, 18, ] 5 Sworu {o before me and subscribed to in my presence this 25th day ot December, A. D, 1850, (Seal.! N, . FEIL, Notary Puble. Btate of Nebraskn, |, County of Douglas, (® Georgo B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- ores and says that he Is sscrotary of The Bee lublishing Company, that the aciual ayerage daily circulation of TiE DAILY BEE for the mouth of December, 18, 182% coples; f January, 185, 14,674 coples; for February, 18006, coples: for March, IF, K84 coplest for April, 185, IR0 coplesifor’ May, 1:0 18,000 coples; for June, 1880, 18858 coples; f July, 1850, 18,733 coples: tor August, 661 coples: for Neptember, 189, 18, for Octobor 188, 18,997 coples 1480, 19.010 coples ' GEORGE Sworn to before me and subser Presence this 5ith Ay of November, A (Seal.] NP, Ounr Annual Tllustrated Review will be issued on New Year’s morning and delivered by carrier to all regular city subseril It will also be forwarded by mail or express either directly to our - muil subscribers or délivered to them through our agents without extra charge. All papers purchased by tran- sient patrons at the counters of news * dealers will be sold at ten cents per copy. Ovders for extra copies will be promptly attended to. THE mayor-elect already realizes that a public office is a private bore. M=. DAVIS was nof cast in the mold that makes honest and impartial presid- ing officers, s, THE interests of the city demand that the jobbers and contractors be ignored in the organization of the council. The mercenaries should be vigorously sat upon. ABOLISITIING the tax on tobacco will not materially benefit the people. The duty on tobacco should be retained so long as there is a tariffl on the meces- saries of lifo. Tae Russian grip is not half as dan- gorous to the public health as the Dod- lin granite grip on certuin members of the city council, The city can tolerate the former, but the latter should be vigorously purged. thousand railroad employes have petitioned the interstate commerce " commission to compel railway companies to abolish the death dealing bumpers on freight trains, If the law does not give the commission that power congress should enact o law to that effect. THE Zanzibar consular court has as- sessed Tippoo Tib's treachery at Gfty thousand dollars. By a swgular coin- cidence that is the sum total in the hands of Tib’s local agent, so that the court will not be put to the annoyance of collecting the fine in the remote African jungle. ——— THE total of Omahu bank cleavings for the yearshow an increase of twenty- four million dollars,an average increase of two millious a month. These figures “ are not inflated, but represent actual business transactions. As a financial . center, Omaha keeps pace with the growth of the surrounding eountry, Tur murderer, Kemmler, has ex- hausted the resources of the courts of New York in an effort to escape death by electricity, The court of last resort has confirmed the sentence, and unless the governor interposes, Kemmler will soon he dispatched by lightning. The, recent killing of linemen in New York bas removed all doubts as to the eficacy of electricity. E—— Tugr position of Speaker Reed re- garding steamship subsidies is not a matter of public knowledge, but the character of the house committee of merchant marine and fisheries suggests that the speaker is favorable to sub- sidies. The chairman of the commit- " tee, Mr. Farquhar of New York, isa pronounced advocate of the subsidy policy, and is understood to have ready a bill providing for the vayment of a tonnage subsidy, Mr, Dingley of Maine and MY, Bingham of Penunsylvania, amoug the republicans of the commit- tee, ure as fully committed to subsidies as the obairman, while AmosJ. Cum- mings of New York, among the demo- erats, is understood to heartily favor this policy, It would thus seem that thecommitiee had been ‘made up with especial reference to getting the most favorable attention and the strongest possible support for subsidies, in be- half of which a strong outside pressure unon congress is pretty well assured, CONGRESS AND THE WEST. The committees of the prosent con- gress show the first cordial recognition of the west that has yet been accorded by the national legislature. Speaker RReed's selections come with all the more grace from an eastern represento- tive and are none the less appreciated on that account. In both the senate and tho house the west will be given an opportunity to volce its views and to shape legislation. In the senate the great committees of appropriations, agriculture, foreign re- lations, public lands, mines and mining, patents, public buildings and pen- sions, postofiice claims and interstate commerce are presided over by western sanators. In the house, beginning with ways and means and running th the list, the west has been given a full and free recognition of her im- portance and of her republicanism. With a western president and a west- ern cabinet, with western financial ideas dominating through a western secretary of the treasury, with a western commis- sioner of the 1and office under n western secretary of the interior, the broad and virile idens of the heart of the continent ought not to iack for expression or for a rospectful hearing. The west has always heretofo fluence at Washington purtly by lack of organization and partly by lack of co- hesion in the nature of its demands, It has been the home of political ideas and the hive of progr sive theories of government, Its senators and representatives from diverse constituencies have dif- fered almost as much among themselves upon matters of public policy as have the representatives from the east und south. New responsibilities bring with them new conservatism. The increased rep- resentation given to the west in shaping legislation should notmake it, however, bashful in pressing its demands for 1 needed to reduce the burdens of government, increase the facilitios for commercial intercourse or develop, on national lines, interests and plans whose promotion will add to the gen- eral welfare. At once the granal the treasure house of the country stoudily reaching out to grasp the man- ufacturing supremacy, its claims for recognition in the national councils can only be ignored through lack of ability or of union on the part of its represen- tavives. JUSTICE 1O WANAMAKER. The public man who goes forwavd consistently and conscientiously in the performance of his duty is pretty ce in to ultimately receive just consider- ation from the American people. Post- master General Wannwaker has been the object of attack and of ridicule from certain newspapers, but his straightfor- waord and business-like course in the nd- ministration of his department is begin- ning to be appreciated by the public, to the discomtiture of the traducers and rough lostin lampooners. The people are beginning to understand that he kuows what he is about, that he is the most practical man who has been at the head of the postal sorvico in years, and thatthe president, desiring that the postoflice aepartment should be managed on business princi- ples, sclected the right man to carry out this purpose. The report of the postmaster general was the most compreliensive and thor- oughly practical statemeut of the changes and reforms uneeded in the postal service that has ever been made. He had no theories to proponnd, but with the clear judgment of a man long familiar with the control of a large Dbusiness and the management of men stated what was necessary to be done in order to mcrease the efficiency of the service. Many of his Suggestions can- not be carried out without the authority of congress, but to the extent that the postmaster general possesses the power tointroduce reforms he has done so, and the advantages aro alveady appur ent. The mail service in allits branches has been greatly improved under its present administration, giving evory reasonable assurance of further im- provement if congress shall allow the postmaster general to put into effect the measures he deems essential to a thor- ough reform of the service, All this the enemies and traducers of the postmaster general are compelled to admit and in view of the excellent vecord he has already made 1t is not surprising to” find it said that he is one of the most popular men in the cabinet, enjoying in the fullest degree the confidence of his colleagues and of thé president. It 1simpossible to say how far congress may be disposed to go in responding to the suggestions of the postmaster geoeral, 1t is a question whether most congressmen care to have the department run on strictly business principles, rather preferving that it should continue to be more or less of a political machine, But whatever dis- position that body shall manifest in the matter, the country will accord to Mr. Wanamaker the coredit of having im- proved the service to the extent of his suthority and pointed out the way to further reform it and increase its ef- ficieney. A SPEC I NCHEME. Itis no longer a secret that ade- termined effort will be made to relocate the Roscbud and Pine Ridge Indian agencios. The proposed change is part of the agreement entered into with the Sioux commission, by which the latter’s endorsement was secured in return for assistance in procuring signers to the agreement for a reduction of the res- ervation, But we very much mistake the temper of the indian bureau if it sanctions the agreement. No good purpose can be subserved by the removal. The object is unot so much the comfort and convenience of the Indians us to place the agencies on wheels and assist land speculators in booming towu lots when the reserva- tion is open to settlement. An agency is as effective as & county seat in boom- ing a town sive and assisting the pro- jectors in disposing of raw prairvie at fancy prices, The interests of the goyernment are secondary; if its busi- ness can be shifted from place to place to enable lund syndicates and politi- ciaos to unload their holdings on gul- lible speculators, The present location of both agencies ean bardly be improved. They are ace ceasible from ali points and possess con- veniences which would take years of labor to secure on the north side of the resarvation. Rallroad facilities are unsurpassed ana the wagon roads and bridges, constructed by the govern- ment, render communication between the Indians and the agency officials prompt and convenient. Possessing these advantages, how can the Indians or the government be benefitted by a change? On the contrary, the removal of the agenoy means the loss of thou- ands of dollars to the government. The warehouses and other necessary build- 1ngs, costing large sums of- money, would bo abandoned and left to decay, while large exvenditures would have to be made to oquip an agency at a new point, new roads and bridges counstructed, and railroad facilities se- cured, all of which are now adequately provided. Tn aadition the government has gone to great expense in enlarging Forts Robingon and Valentine on ac- count of these agencies. I the latter are removed, the usefulness of the posts will be soriously impaired, thus entail- ing greater losses on the government withont securing the slightest benefit. The Nebraska delegation should head off the speculutors soeking to enrich themselves at the public expense. The Rosebud and Pine Ridge agoncies now answer all purposes for which they were built, and they should not beabandoned. THE CLOSING ) The year 1889 will be memorable for several important political events. Iirst among these was the return of the re- publican party to the full eontrol of the national government, which it had not held for four years preceding. Perhaps equally important was the ad- into the union of four new These are the conspicuous facts in our own history of the closing year. In foreign lunds the overthrow of the moenarchy in Brazil is tho most notable event of the year, with the movement, promising to be suceessful, for a union of the Central American states holding the second pluce of political importaac Buropean countrics huve experienced no changes of a political nature of great significance. Most of the auestions that have commanded the atteution of the rulers and statesmen of Furvope for several years are still unsettled and continue to menace the peace of the nations. There is upparent, how- ever, in some of the Luropean coun- tries, notably in Portugal and Spain, a growth of public sentimert favorable to more liberal forms of government, and revoiutionary developments in more than one country of Burope, in the near future, ave by no means improbable. The ) will also be memorable for 1ts disasters by flood and five. The Johnstown flood, with its great loss of life and property, was the crowning calamity of the year. There were great floods in China by which thousands of lives were lost, but there was no such destruction of property as in the Cone- The great fives of the year, at Seattle, Spokane Falls, Lynn and Boston, destroyed property to the value of about thirty millions of dollurs. In the necrology of the year the most prominent names of Americans are those of Justice Stanley Matthews of the supreme court, Ex-Minister Geor H. Pendleton, Congressman Samuel S, Cox, Henry W. Grady and Jefferson Davis, while of Eughishmen there are the poets Browning and Tupper. Industrislly and commercially results of the year have been on whole satisfactory, showing a very considerable improvement over those of the previous ye This country harvested the largest grain and cotton crops in its history, and their move- ment has been so large as to overtax the carrving facilities of the railroads. The iron business has awakened from its own lethargyv and is now at the height of nactivity and prosperity. The railway constvuction, amounting to about five thousand miles, has not been so large as in other vears, but the indications are that the growth is healthful because consisting muinly sion es. the the of short branches and extensions of e 1sting lines. In short, there has been in nearly all departments of business, as compared with the conditions a year ago, a sound and substantial 1mprove- ment, which gives promise of being maintained. Thus the year 1889, great as have been its misfortunes, has been rich in bounties und benefits, and it will close with all the condivions favora- ble to the continued progress, and en- larged prosperity of the country. ———— Tarer carloads of Piukerton detec- uives have gone to a mining town in Pennsylvama where the miners are on astrike, It issafe to predict an early announcement of outrages by these ir- respousible hirelings. If the author- ities of the place to which these so- called detectives are sent do their ‘duty they will compel them to leave without any ceremony, and in the event of their refusal put every man of them where he can dono harm, The importation of these men is an outrage upon the people and an insult to the authority of the state of Pennsylvania which should be vigorously resented. E—— AN OMAA preacher goes out of his way to criticize the press for not devot- ing more space to the proceedings of recent prohibition gathering 1in this city. As a matter of fact the press re- frained from exposing what was an all- round failure out of courtesy to the mis- guided people of this city who were respousible for the alleged convention. — THE drop in the price of sugar comes just in time 1o catch congress discuss- ing the abolition of the duty on that articie, The move is doubtless in- tended to show that the tariff has no connection with the price of sugar, but the fact remains that the highest prices prevail when the national capitol is deserted. m———— THE passenger rate war inaugurated by the railroads will benefit few per- sons. What the producers of the west waut is a slashing of freight rates that will enable them to market their crops 80 that all the profits will not be ab- sorbed by the railroads. —— OMAHA did not make much noise about her progress during 1880, yet the record newpureceiving the finishing touches will shbw a surprising and sub- stantial inéfdnse over the previous year in every d¥pddtment of trade. KB WS COMMENT, It 18 strangdbut true that when a porson ots tiold of' ' this foreign grip he loses his own. About fivg thousand three hundred miles of railway wero coustructed during the past year, 2l The weathet prophets told an unusuflly severe wintor might now hedge by predicting an ice famine. There are 10,000 miners out of employment in Pennsylvania on account of the mild weather, It is a good wind which does not blow somebody ill, The telephone has been declarea dangerous to the state in Rossi: Everything appears to be dangerous in that country except official robbory and persecution. Boulanger declares that he is not coming to America to lecture, The general is a gen- tleman and o scholar. Public opinion of nim is rapidly rising in this country. These are the stages of our national con- gress: First, the opening; second, the re- cess; third, the recovery from the second; fourth, the horse-pluy of the close, Miss Kate Picld, through her new paper, tells the members of congress not to sit on their spines. This dictum will not be toler- ated, She is striking at the vory base of personal liberiy. The late cclipse of the sun was not much of a success from a spectacular or a scientific point of view. Foreign countries don’t soem to know how to manage tie curtains of the upper air. Four new synagogues were recontly opened in New York within the space of ten days. That city has now forty-seven of these tem- ples, a larger number than can be found in any other ity in the world. Georgia will raise asmonument to the late H. W. Grady and nearly $10,000 has al- ready been subscribed for that purpose. In the way of promptness in raising memoriuls the soutn can give many potats to the north. ‘The last confederate war horse died a fe days before Christmas, near Lynchburg, Va. His name was Stonewall Jackson, he was thirty-three years old and ho had received wany wounds in battle. He also 18 to have a monument. Tho girls of Wellesley collego want a col- lege o They say it must be a “wild, Iyrical cry, strong, but feminine” It is hereby suggested that a mouse might ve lot loose among them unexpectedly and such o yell as they want would invent itself in an instant, The southern who last fall fore- press displays much judi- cious shrewdness in caliing the frequent wassacres of the blacks “race wars.” Gen- eral indignation throughout the country is thus averted and wholesale murdors of col- ored people can be committed with a large degrea of impunity. Tho sultan of Turkey is Braziilan revolfition. He hus bromised to pay his soldicrs as soon as possible, and is suid to have hited that he would like to have back the diamonds he presented to the late'S., S Cox. His treasury is in a deplorable condition. George W. gVandorbilt, the millionuire family, nificeut private park of about five thousand acres in North Carolina. He paid $310,000 for the estate wud his improvements upon it will make the whole cost nearly $1,500,C00. In ordinary people, such an outlay for a mere pleasuce park, would seem extrava- gant. The prince of modern swind'ers is a Chi- namao who recently conducted a “washee washee” estaplishment in New York city. He went back to his pative lavd and repre- seating himaelf as a high oflicial collected lurge sums from various cities, in ail about $2,000, The government is out after him in full cry and when caught he is to be cut into cighteen picces. It will thus bo s that he bas a powerful incotivo to avoid his varsuers, for if captured, it will be dificult matter for him to get mumself to- gether azan, 'med over the the youngest of Las bought a mag- 20 S, And Probably Never Will, Boston Globe, No amount of extraordinary legislation has ever yet made prohibition prohibit. Gotham's thy Strects. New York World. The American Geological society is in sea- sion in this city, Its members might find some interestiug potrified cats and other specimens in the variegated strata of our streets. - is Murp Chicago Trivune, Francls Murphy continues to blunder along in his wickedly non-partisan way, in- ducing drunkards to reform by the power of kindness atone, This man is actually too busy saving men from intemperance to learn auythicg about the authorized mothod of doing the worls, which, as everybody knows, is oy passing laws. Fran s Way. i e Senator Allison's Election Sure. Louis Globe-Democrat., If there ever was auy resl opposition awong the republican members of the Iowa legislature to Senator Allison’s re-slection it has died out. Waen the vote is takon a few wecks hence he will get the full party majority. Perry ‘Heath for Congr Muncie (Ind.) Herald, The Union City Vimes is out squarely for Perry S. Heath for congress, with the pro- vis0 that General Tom Browne retires volun- tarily, The Herald believes that the Browno nag has done duty long enough. We don’t ‘want any wman that is in favor of taxing the American people 1 ceat a pound on sugar and giving iv as & bounty Lo Louisisus sugar growers. i e ¥ride and ' Dignity av a Discount, *, Washington Post, It Colonel Calvin S. Brice did not say what he is reportod having said—that *‘more rather than [3s4 money should be used in clck’llolls"~mo haif a wind to say it our- self. The pi wand dignity of Auwierican citizenship shold be maintained at any cost; and it comes hard to feel overwhelmingly proud or ously dignitied when you know your would fetch less than $2 1w the open maj If this country is to ve the noble asftdm of the oppressed and pur- sued of all ldfifs, and the glittering beacon light of human liberty we've got to sock up the price of yptos; and the only way to do it is to put mvr‘? joney into elections, e A Western Wonder, The American Grocer, New York, De- comber 25, the following complimen- tary reference to this paper: Tur Ovaua Bee is a wonder, tablished ang Edward Ii war was P erawr, in whl qualities of & distinguished, When he years ago (al It was es- conducted and owned by ter, # man who during the nt Lancolu’s telegraph op- position he exhibited all the and fidelity which bave in after life, lished Tur Bee twenty the time the American lished), it was in & lttle is year it moved into tho it among the mauny magnifi- cent newspapapbuildings of the west, built by Mr. Rosewater, expressly to accommo- date the immense business of his paper. The difference between the first copy of largest and 6 Tin Bre and the papor at proseat, is about the samo as the differoncoe between ihe American Grocer of today and its first issue, a fac sinuile of which wo issued ro- cently, AlL this, it goes without saying, has not been accomplished without intelligent, hard work; but Te Oxana Bee today is ono of tho grandest tributes to the opportunities af- forded by this country to euteprise, ability and integrity. - CLEVER WOMEN, Miss Maud Pauncefote, the eldest daugh- ter of Sir Julian Pauncefoto, the English minister, is one of the hanasomest of the le- wation girls in \Vashington. Her figure is tall and graceful. Sho is fond of outdoor exercise, chiefly walking. She has been rep- resented at court, but sho is so satisfied with this country that she suys that she never wants to go back to England. Queen Victoria has graciously her wiilingness to nc of Miss Wood's latest work on ‘nursing,” Special permission has to be obtained before a book can be sont to her majesty, Then the v ume has to be bouad by tho royal book- binders i color and material to match the other books in that part of the quoen’s li- brary in which the new volume will be vlacod, Ihe placing of Miss Emily Faithfull’s name on the Knglish Civil List, with a pension of Lia year, is a small acknowledgment of the many years’ dovotion and encrgy she has displaye organizing emplovment for hor countrywomen. Miss Faitfull is well known tiroughout both Eugland and the United States, and her immense services in behalf of tho poorer members of her own sex will never be forgotten. Mrs. Violetta Lamb, who died Yorl a few days ago, aged ninety the wife of a revolutionary soldier one of the eirls who threw flowers veforo Lafayette when bhe last visited America, Sho also presented him with a bouquet and received o kiss from him in return. She was the grandmother of Prof. Eugene Lamb Richards, of Yale university, who is himseif old enough to be a grandfattier, Ono of the noblest works in London is that conducted by Miss Mary H. Steer, who nine years ago took up her residence in the worst gistrict of that city, for the purpe of reforming the degraded’ girls and \women who abounded there, She founded the Ratcliff-Highway Refuge, St. George's-in the-East, but which has become more popu Larly and uppropriately known as the “Bridge of Hope." A new building has been erected 1o meet the increasod demund of the work Marrietta Holly, author of the popular Josh Allen’s “Wife" pupers, began to write when scarcely more than a child. ~She was born in the village of Adams, N, Y. where she bas resided most of her life voting herself to an invalid mother. She is very beautiful, with a rare classic profile of reck goddes: s are a deep brown, tender and expressive, Her head is crowned with masses of soft, brown hair, which is slightly touched with time's silvery fingers. - CAN WE CHANGE CLIMATE? expressed in New This May Be Among the Possibilities ofthe Coming Century. I¢ has been maintaned that the mild weather of this winter thus far and of the entire period of last winter is owing 1o a deflection of the gulf stream. 1f this 15 s0, why could it not be deflected some more und make New England tropical and raiss oranges in New Humpshive and pineapples in 'Maine? We be that certain audaciou gineers haveoffered to do this, provided capital enough is furnished for the un- dertaking. To a limited extent, even now, it is an admitted fact that & man can make his own climate. The meteorological con- ditions of the west have been greatly modified since it was first settled. Por- haps New Englanders may decide some day that, instead of changing our flan- ry wiuter, it will be cheaper in the long run to change our climate and dispense with flannels entirvely. Of course it sounds preposterous to advocate the deflection of the gulf stream, but many preposterous things have happened in the nineteenth cen- tury and who shall say that any scheme which is proposed for the twentietin century is chimerica After we have d the Orient and the Occident a bridge acress Behring’s Strait, ve able to go to Europe via Siberia in n Pullman car, we may turn our at- tention seriously to the gulf stream. - Across siberia by Rail. Two Russian cngincers, Messrs. Krouglicofl and Imchenick of St. Pe- tersburg arvived here today, says an Ottawa dispatch. They have peen en- gaged for nearly two years on a survey of partof the route of the proposed Trans-Siberiun railway. For the pres- ent only sections of the road will be built, the intention being for the time to utilize the magnificent stretches of wator communication in Siberia. Hav- ing completed their suryey the engin- eers spent a short time in Japan, and then were ordered to examine the Can- adian Pacific. They went over the Roc Mountain section three times and were greatly impressed with the engineering skill and boldness exhibit- od there. The route they surveyed also went through a mountsinous country, but the mountains are not so high as the Rockies and the road will ba much ier to coustru The Siberian plains, through which sections of the rond will run, are much like the Cana- dian northwest, but more plentifully timbered. The climate, while consid- erably colder in winter.is warm in r, and the country is well (itted griculture. Pera’s Whistling Jugs, The silvadors, or musical jugs, found among the burial places of Peru are wost ingenius specimens of handiwork, says the St. Louis Republic. The Wil- liam S.-Vaux collection in Philadelphia contains a remarkable example of this rude and ancient art. It is composed of two vessels joined togethor with & clay stem or pipe, after the tashion of the inmese twins. The stem is hollow; one jug is‘entirely closed up, except asmall opening provided with a clay tube lead- ing to the body of the whistle. When a liguid is poured into the open-mouthed jug the air is compressed into the other through the opening in the connecting stem, whence it is forced into the whistle, the vibrations producing the lovely songs of various forest birds pe- culiar to Pera and South American countries. The Clay collection in the same city also contains some wonderful samples af Peruvian art, among which are the robin vases aud the liama jugs. the former imitating the songs of the robbin and the latter, being fashioned in the form of tho liama, imitates the ejection of saliva, well remembered as being one of that animal’s disgusting habits, LS e Kemmler's Last Hope Gone. RocaesTer, N.Y., Dec, 30.~Joseph Kemm- ler, the murderer sentenced to death by elec- wrieity, appealed to the general term, claim- ing his sentence was unconstitutional as it proscribed an unusual and cruel maoner of doath, The court neld that the evidemce went 1o show it was not a cruel method of mflictmg the death penalty; that it was therefore constitutional, and remanded the risoner to undergo the punishwent. emmler's only chance of escape now is through the clemenoy of the governor,which is not likely to be exercised. e An O1d Railroader's Death, Savr Lakg, Utah, Dec. 80.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bek. |—Francis Cope, general freight and passenger agent of the Union Pa- cific lines from Green River to Ogden, Silver Hbw, Mont., to Frisco, Utab, Echo ana Park City, Utab, and the Nevada, Salt Lake & Wastern, died last night. He was the oldest railway ewploye of e Utah Central, haviog been with the company twenty years. Death was the result of overwork, THE LIUIDS OF THE CAPITAL, Thelr Pecullar Effect on an Omaha Grocery Clerk. GOVERNOR THAYER IN MEXICO, Brief Description of the Trip—An Important Realty Transaction— Supreme Court Doings— Notes About the Oity, 1020 P Straer, LiscoLy, £ G. Morroll, late a clork in Sixteenth grocery house! in this city on last I'rid. bly to o to work for James Millor, a grocer at the corner of Seventeenth and O streets It appears that on his arrival he met some boon companions and procoeded to have a time, as the saying goes. Whatover stuff he may have drank had u veculiar effect upon him, At « late hour he retired to his room but could not sleep, and in order ta embrace morph-us and secure needed rest ho took a drugof some kind. Instead of producing the desired effoct it went to his brain and since then he has been in a state bordering on insanity. Ho imagines ali sorts of things and among them that Chiel Seavy of Omaha i8 after him, So firmly was he convinced of this this morning that hie appealed 1o the police judge of this city for protection, His condition interested soveralof our citizens and at present ho 18 windly cared for, and if lis illusions do not wear off he will bo taken beforo the insane commissioners, if_ friends or relatives do not cali and provide for him, and seut to the asylum, Morrell is a nico looking fellow and bears no indications of having formed the drink hubit. LixcoLy Brreau or Tar Osana Ban, Neh } . Dee. 30, of tho arrived cvenmg ostensi one Omaha, The Governor in Mexico. The latest advices from Governor Thayer and party report a safe arrival at the City of Mexico Saturday, December 21, aftor a warm and dusty trip from Bl Paso. The principal scenery consisted of cactus and adobe houses. The first intoresting city passed was Jacaticas, a eity of 75,000 popula- tion, miles from El Paso. It is 8,000 feev above sea lovel and within its limits are some of tho richest silver mines 1in Mexico. The trip from this latter city down the mountain side quite interesting, a8 _was the next stop, at Aguas Calionties. Here was a sight unequaled on the trin. The city is noted for its hot springs and baths. The spring is located a short distance from the city and the hot water is brought to the city in a trench. In this trench the gov- ornor’s party suw men, women and children bathing and washing their clothes. This can be scen uny day iu the year. One of the party took photographs of the scene and 1 have no doubt will be glad to cxhibit them on his return. At this point the special car of the gov- ernor of the state of San Luis 1otosi was attached to the train. In the oveuing he called on Governor Thayer and party, and during the visit invited them to his state as his guests, He is a fine specimen of the Mexican gentloman, The scenery from daylight till the arrival at the City of Mexico (about four hours), was the most interesting on the trip. The road runs through a valiey whose chiof pro- ducts are corn, wheat and maquay. The lat- ter resembles the century plant und from it pulque, ice, carpets, and in fact nearly evers thing used in Mexico for food and d rink are manufactured. It is cultivated with wooden plows made in the most primitive manner, the ground simply being scratched over, aud yot fine crops are raiscd. At the Jardine hotel upon the arrival of the governor's party a band consisting of thirty-two piecos serenadcd them, plaving all the American airs. Sunday morning the museum was visited. A Mexican bull fight was also scen. Words cannot express the opwions of those who were present. On Monday afternoon President Dz teudered the party a reception and on Monday even- ing, December 30, Minister Ryan ‘ire- ceived’ 1n their honor, December 30 Gov- ernor Thayer and party start homeward bound. An Lmportant Deal. Mr. Robert Monnheimer of Chicago closcd o deal today that makes him the owner of some of the most valuable real estate in the city. He purchased two lots from S. Mec- Coniga, av the corner of O and Seventeenth streets, for which he paid $20,000. It is stated, also, that he bought a lot of auother party for which he vaid $10,000, making the total of his investment $30,000. Will be Appealed. The celebrated Osceola elevator complaint was called for hearing before the state board of travsportation today at 2 o’clock, As has been stated the complaint was filed by the Farmer's Co-operative Grain and Elevator company against the Union Pacific railrond company, The material points in this complaint are similar to those of the the Blmwood complaint, which was passed upon and decided by tne board three or four weeks ngo. To stute them, theretore, would be but to rehash what the public is already familiar with. Attorneys Tibbetts of this city and King of Osceola appearad for tho complainants sud W. R. Kelly of Omaba for the defendant. ‘Ihe arguments were heard by the board of secreturics, which will pass findings to the board of transportation for acceptance or objection. The caso, however it may be decided, will go to the supreme court, New Notaries Public. The governor today made the followiog no- tarial appointmen . 2. Kryger, Neligh, Antelope county; W. H. Platner, Omaha, Douglas county; J. W. McClelland, Fuller- ton, Nance county; George Holmes, Owmaha, Douglas county; Henry A. Kepler, Dor- chester, Saline coun 'yrus Black, Byron, Thayer county. An Assured Success, Jake Wolfe, who is deeply interested in the beef packing industry contemplated for this city, says that it is on the sure road to success. During the past few days tali has been somewhat strong that tho enterprise lacked bottom and would fall through., Com- ing from the source it does the rance given in the first sentence is suflicient to awaken new and firmer confidence in 1ts sta- bility. Indeed, no cne Who has heard Mr. Wolfe express himself doubts tor a minute but what it is & sure thing. $tate House Joutings, Articles incorporating the Arena-Ghio Fruit company of Lincoln, were filed in the office of tho secretary of state today. Capi- tal stock, $5,000. Incorporators: Antony ihio, Antonio Arena and August Bal droghim. As the name indicates this is an Italian concern. The case of the Call Publishing company vs the city of Lincoln, in error from the dis- trict court of Lancaster county, was filed for trial in the supreme court today. The case was brought o testthe constitutionulity of the ordinance law providing that 1o member of the council suould profiv from contraots swarded by the council. It ap- pears that the Call Publishing company se- cured the contract for publishing the delin- quent tax list, and at the time the contract was awarded Mr. H. M., Lushnell of the Call Publisbing company was # member of the council. When the bill was presented for paywment the poiot indicated was raised. and Bushnell asked that payment of the bill be suspended uatil the supreme court could pass upon the point. Accordingly the issue was jomu\l iu the district court wod final de- cision passed to the supreme court. City News and Notes. The Lincoln real estate exchange will oc- cupy the rooms in the Burr block, formerly oceupied by the Capital City Courl The annual meeting of the Woman's Chris- tian association will bo hela in this city Thursday, at 2:80 in tho afternoon. It will commence at the First Christian church, corner of Fourteenth and K streots. The Bethany Height Street Ruillway com- pany commenced business this moruiug. A pickel will now bear the sojouruers to the t any hour of the Aaye to operate electria motors next spriog. In the publication of his new paper, 1. D, Calhonn will associate with him J Coryell, an old Nebraska noewspaper bo; who now resides at Ogden, Utah. The first issuo of this paper will appear some time in_March. \ Watch night sorvices will be held at the Trinity M. E. church Tuesday evening, coms mencing at 9 and coucluding at 12 o'clock: The attendance at the services is expected to be large. The first woek of the mnew yoear has boen sat apart by the Evangelical alliance of Prots estant churches as n woek of prayor, and will be genorally observed as such by the various denominations of this city Willinm Gillispie, who was arraigned bes fore Judgo Houston for keeping o gambling house, this morning, vleaded not guilty and was admitted to bail in the sum of $30 He will have his hearing January 9. Goorga Miller, arraigned on a similar charge, als) pleaded not guilty, and his hearing was set for this afternoon, shionable Churches, Dec. 80.—[Special Telogram to In an address beforo the ¥ nomic club last night on “Tha Chureh and Its Attitude Towards Social Roforms,” Rev. Fattier Huntington of New York, the noted single tax advocate, dealt some pretty sharp vlows to fashionable church clergymen. 1t was a sad commentary on the chnrch, he thought, that tho great mass of humanity in all the great ocities, though they had no speeial hatred of the church, yet felt it was athing apart from them. Ahey felt thom- selves removed from the church by their condition in society and thus the muss of the peoplo was lost to tho church. Why this decadence of the influenco of tho church over the minds of the peoplet The aversion of the masses to the _church was, tho speaker tnought, due in A great weasure to the attitude of tho church towards the poor. The masses found tho preachers of the great churches ready enough to talk of future happiness, but when it came to doling out some of this happiness and peace in_this world, they were too often dumb, Tho utterances of preachers on tho social ilis of this world Wi cand timid. Nor was it bocauso the ministers were hypocrites that this w 80, nor yet because they we not awake the importance of theso questions. In most thought was " y were dependent for their sue- cess und for the success of the religion they taught upon the wealth of men whio made their money out of tho existing order of things, and to speak of social evils meant the loss of this patronage and the consequeat extinguish- ment of their power for good. And 50 the masses do not find their way to the great churches, and do you wonder they are aissat- asfied with the hard benches of the mission chapel and the tame eloquence of third-rate preachers! T00 many preachers preach to the poor on Sunday and dine with the rich through the week, Can it be wondered at that the poor fail to reconcile this with the teachings of the Master who dined with the poor and preached to the rich! ngs to Ir Burraro, N. Y., Dec. 30. gram to Tue Bee]—For several months Exile John I MecBride has been securing the autographs of statesmen in sympathy ith nowe rule for Irclaad to be presented to Premier Gladstone on the occasion of the English statesman’s eightieth birthda; De- lays have occurred and the book, which is a targe volume, will not be sent to England until tomorrow. President Harrison, Vice Presiaent Morton, several cabinet officers, balf of the United States senators and most. of the congressmen signed the book when it was presented to them by McBride. The closig inscription in the volume is writton by Chauncey M. Depew, who, under date of December 27, inditos this sentiment: “Mr. Gladstone holds a place in the vener- ation and affection of the American peo= ple never occupied by any other except LoFayctte, His attitude unon the [rish question received the almost unanimous appraval of the citizens of the United Stat The example of Gladstone's half century of ement puolic service is the prideof all English-speaking nations. His successful efforts for liberty and the welfare of man- Kkind are contrivutions to the peace and prosperity of the people of the world which Tele- | { & ] t [ L i t i [ ! | { | 1 i | W have given him a_permanent and conspicu- G ous place in the history of the centur Senator Ingalls said: *“Gladstone is ono of those great men who, with the poacerul weapons of truth and justice, has revolution- izod tho age in which ho lives.” o - A HORRIBLE SIGHT, ‘The Lynching at Barnwell Descoribed by One Who Was There, CHARLESTON Doc. 50.—[Special Telegram tho Tt B he ono topic of conversation hore 1s the lynching of the oight negro prisoncrs at Barnwell early § Saturday morning. Full details of the awful crime haye been received, and all unite in denouncing it as an outrage against human- { ity. Notonly wers the principals charged with the murdor of whitas lynched, but ac- cessories boafore the fact, aud even wit- nessos met the same fate, The ghastly scene at the place of execution is thus described by o man who inspected 1t: Phe mob divided the murderers, putting Heflerman's slayers on the left of the road and Murtin's murderers on the right. The negroos' arms were pinioned and tightly tied 10 troes before they were shot. They were not hanged, however. It is impossible to describe how many shots each man re- coived and where they were struck, as their bodies and heads were literally torn to ‘Some of the nékroes were old men, Morrall possibly being sixty years od and Peter Beil about the sumo age, unfortunate men had their eyos shot out. Others were wounded in the chest sud face. Blood covered tho ground upon which thoy laid, and a more horrible sight couid not ba imugined.” The {rightful charactor of tho wounds of the eighit negroos is shown by the testimony of physiciaus at the coroner's inquest, aud 18 in briof as follows: Henry lurse, ten balls in the body, age about twenty-four yeurs; Poter tell, one ball in back of neck @y the base of the skull, age about sixty; Hurrison Johuson, four balls 1 Lo body, agd about thirty-five: Rufe Morrall, six balls in head sud body, any one of which would ¢ have been fatal, uge about sixty; Judge Jones, eight valls, one in bram, about twen- & ty-cight years old; Robert Phenix, four ' i3 1 body, about twonty-1wo years ol Ripley Johnson, eight balls in_body, one in face, nbout thirty years old; Mitchell Adams, five balls, oug through the brain, about thirty-five years old. ent League, Mircugt D,, Dec. 30.—[Spocial Tele- | gram to Tue B he Lemperanco mass meeting held hore last night was sddressed by Rey. William 1, Fielden of Huron, pres dent of the State Enforcoment league, At the close of tho address the Mitohell branch , of the league was formed with following oficers: resident, L, N, Seawan; 8ocre~ tury, L. W. Adams; treasurer, G. H, Ratfiman, Temperance knforon '$ICK HEADACH ositively Cured these Little Pills, PID LIVER, &¢. They regulate the and prevent Constipation and Piles, smallest and easiest to take. Only ove pill dose. 40 ine vial. Purely Vegotable, 25 cents. OARTER MEDIOINE 00., Prop'rs, New Y Some of the {4