Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE.| ROSEWATER, Hditor. 'PUBLIB!J!EE HVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Danny and Sunday, One Vear.. v Six I . y lee, One Year ... Weekly Bee, One Year with OFFICES. I — e, ory Dl New York, Houtns 14 and 15 Triune Butld: Ing. W ashington. No. 613 Foucteenth Strest. Council Blufts, No. 12 Pear] Street. Lincoln, 1020 P Sty eet, South Omala, Corner N and 25th Streots. All communieations relating to news and odi- torial matter should be addressed to the Kditor- Ial Department. BUS S LETTERS. 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CALVIN BRICE is down with the grip, but at las| ounts his bar’l had cessfully resisted the contagion. —— retivement of Judge Maxwell from the supreme bench of the state would be the greatest railroad victory of the year. sue- Tie Council Bluffs garnishee sharks must prosecato their cluims in Omaha or rolire from business. Under Judg Doane’s decision their occupation’s gone. —— THE assurance that Sitting Bull is on amicabie terms with his agent strengthens the equilibrium of the na- " tion. The- agent’s scalp is secure for ~the time being. PIrrspuRae has succeeded in conviet- ing several aldermen and constables for conspiracy and fraud. The example might be followed in other cities with profit to the taxpayers. ON or about November 27 Union Pa- cific officials gave public pledges thatf the vizduct and depot bonds carried ground would be broken within thirty days. The bonds carvied. Thirty days have gone by, but the work on either structure is not visible to the naked eye. . Tue potters complain that they have never been adequately protected by the tarifl, and request an advance of the duty on imported, wave. This is one of the “infant industries which formed a trust lnst month to reduce the product and make a corresponding advance in prices. The pot makers seem to ba well able to protect themsel ves ENGINEER EIFFEL, the designer and builder of the famous tower in Paris, is endeavoring to revive interest in the Panama canal and invites his country- men to sink a few more millions in that miasmatic ditch. Eiffel will find on the neck of the continent a hole deep enough to swaliow his tower and all the money that could be piled on its bal- conies. CONGRESS)MEN ave utilizing the hoti- day vocess in féeling the public pulse on the question of giving each member u clerk at the expense of the govern- , ment. They are as much entitled to . clerks ns the senators, but it is doubtful whether the people would take kindly ““to a scheme involving an expense of at least half a million a year. If con- gressmen cannot provide their own secretaries there is no law to prevent “them from resigning. . ——— Tue value of a lawyer as a legislator has never been fully determined, but Kansas furnishes a few figures which may serve as a guide in the future. The Topeka insuravce company desired to secure favorable legislation last winter, and in casting about for ele- quent adyocates their choice fell upon ¥rank Gillette and J, R. Burton. 'This pair were leadersof the bar, The fact that they were members of the legisla- ture of course did not influence the company's selection or make their serv- aes more desirable. The compaiy wanted lawyers to plead the insurance cause at ail times sod in all places. % Wlulhgr the desirea legislation was secured dees not avpear. The company is now in the hands of a receiver, and + ity peculiar business methods are being investigated by the courts. The books of the insurance company show that Burton was paid nine hundred and , eighty-one dollars, while Gillette only " veceived tive hundred and fifty dol- lars for his services. Both declave that the money was not giveu as a bribe, but werely for “services as attorney.” Per- haps the distinetion is correct accord- ing to the Kunsas code, but most people + will stick to plain words and call a bribe _ 8 bribe, THE OMAHA DAILY B GLADSTONE AND BLAINE. It may safely be presumed that no contributions to tariff discussion during tho present vear will receive a moiety of the attention that will be given the articles of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Biaine, which appear in the January number of the Noith American Review. Elsewhers in Tne Bek of this issue will be found extracts from these papers which will serve to give a very good un- derstanding of their tone and tendency, though they necessarily fail short of supplying an adequate con= ception of the whole argument of the distinguished chanpions of antagonis- tie policies, Tt need hardly be said that Mr. Gladstone is the foremost living advocate of frae trade, as_ it is exempli- fied in the fiscal policy of England, while there are who will denv to Mr. Blaine equal eminence as the champion of protection as embodied in the American It therefore no ordinary privil that is afforded the Americs people, just at this time, to read the a guments of these distinguished expon- euts of opposite principlos and poliei presented, it must be assumod, with the most conscientious care and thorough deliberation. It will be seen from the extracts we present that Me. Glaastone presents his side of the subject with the keen pene- tration, of the enlightened economist and statesman, showing fam iarity with the question in its entire scope and range, and an intimate knowledge of the industrial conditions of this countr l vears of age his clear aad logical mind appears as vigorous as at any period of his life, his ability for logicai statement as thorough, and his powers ot philo- sophical analysis as strong. The fricnds of T veform will not fail to find in his arguments strong supports of their position, but Mr. Gladstone addresses an audience in which there are very few out-und-out free tiraders, and since the pitrpose of his article is to en- force the idea that free trade, pure and simple, is the true policy for the United 1tes, it is not likely to ve vhe force that a more conservative of onr situation and requirements wonld ca Mr. E ne’s intellectual methods widely dufferent from those of the great English statesman, ana those familiae with his past discussions of the tariff question will find him in this latest treatment of it following pretty much the lines, with g or care and elev . certainly, than the ordin diseussions of the subject, but with a like carnest and nggressive coufidence in the strength and wisdom of his cause. There can be no doubt of the able impression his arguments will make upon those predisposed to their influence. It was o wise thought to bring theso two distinguished men into the tari(l controversy at this time and no one who is interested in this subject should fail to give their d ssion of it most careful attention. perhaps f system. is view re in OUR MEXICAN TRADE. 1n a speech before the Pun-Americ: delegates during their visit to York, Senor Romero, the Mexi ister to the United States, took strong ground in favor of removing the e strictions upbn trade between this country and Mexico. The United States has no more sincere friend among for- eigners than Senor Romero, and any suggestion that he makes with regard to closer trade relations between this country and his own are to be uccepted with entire confi- dence as to their sincerity and as re- flecting the sentiment of his govern- ment and the more intelligent portion of the Mexican peopl: A good deal of ingenuity has been expended upon the question how to improve our teade with Mexico, with very inadequate and un- satisfactory results for both countries. It is a fact not creditable to our statesmanship, and less so to our en- terprise, that a country contuining eleven millions of people, lying immediately on our border for so many wmiles, should purchase only eleven million dollars worth of our products, which is the amount stated in the la report of the bureau of statistics, This may be an under estimate, as it is ex- plained that the facilities for ohtaining this information are very poor, but if the correct amount is double these figures ivis still less than it should be. The total aggregate trade of Mex is several times larger than these figures, and as & neighbor nation, hav- ing interests in common with ourselves. we ought to have the larger part of her trade instead of asmall fraction of it. Our policy, however, hus been such as to force it into other markets, and hav- ing goue there it is found to be no small task to get it away. The fault may not in the past have been wholly ours, and yet the [act is that for years Mexico has been avxious to ne- gotiate a treaty of reciprocity with this country, but the nepotiations hitherto have failed. It is now expected that ne- gotiations will be rengwed, aud there is assurance from the Mexican minister that his government and the commer- cial classes of Mexico hope for their sue- cess. Our own minister to Mexico has manifested a great interest in the sub- ject, and ex-Speaker Carlisle, who some time ago visited Mexico, has expressed himself to the same effect. With leading men in both parties thus favorably dispesed to closer commerciul relations with Mexico and the representative of that government earnestly desiring, as he always has done, to bring about that result, there is reasonable ground for the hope that the present administration will be able to effect such negotiutions between the Lwo governments as will result 1n very greatly enlarging our trade with Mex- ico. RAILROAD BUILDING. Five thousand wo hundred miles of main line were added to the railroad mileage of the United states during the past year. With the exception of 1884-5 this is the lowest record of the decade. From 1880 to 1884 the totalsranged from seyon thousand wiles in the. former year to eleven thousund six nhundred miies in 1882 and sixty-six hundred miles in 1883. The year 1887 stands at the head of the list, with & total of thirteeu thousand miles of wain line built. The total mileage im the United State at the baginning of 1880 wns eighty-six thousand. in six years it swelled to one hundred and thirty-six thousund, and in ten years to the grand total of one hundred and sixty-one thousand eight hundred wiles,an increase of nearly one hun- dred per cent. These figures clearly demonstrate the growth and developmentof the country. Although 1836-7 were distinctively hoom years in the west, they were pre- ceded and followed by dull vimes, so that the decade wAsan Average pros- perous onc for the whole country. The extraordinary progress in railronds is not due to spocial or loeal causes, but representsa general advance in population and wealth, By comparing these statements with the rest of the whrld it can be seen that the United States stands pre-ominent in transportation facilities. At~ the close of 1886 the railway mileage of the world aggregated the hundred and twelve thousand miles. Of this total the United States hac one hundred and thirty-six thousand miles. Twenty-five thousund five hundred miles were added in tho succeeding four year: placing tha railway mileage of this country within twenty thousand miles of the total of the rest of the world. The record of the year furnishes a steiling iilustration of the driftof popu- lation and indust=y. Nine New England and eastern states and five central northern states, comprising tvhe rich- est and strongest in the union, built thirteen huudred miles, while a group of ten southern states added eighteen hundred mi to their total. Twelve northwestern and southwestern states and territories completed fourteen hun- dred miles of main line and the Pacific states six hundred and saventy-fou Relative populations considered the we; and southern groups of states are far in advanpe of the eastern and middle They afford by far tho best field for the employment of energy aud capital to develop the resoucces of the No part of the statisties of industrial progress during lust yenr 18 move stri ing than the faets showing the develop- ment in the southern swutes. To begin with, more miles of railroad were con- stencted that section than in any other part of the union, and this con- stroction was not at all of a speculative but demanded by the hofenterpei vd the inc e of legitimate business, The growth of man- cturing industrics during the yourin- used the value of the manufactured products of that section over one hun- red milhon dollars, bringing the es- timated total up to eight hundred and {ifty million, or nearly double what it was at the beginuning of the le. The greater part of growth hus been in the iron indus- tries, which have bacome an established source of southern prosparity, the ex- pansion of which may be limited only demands of the country of the world, but a geont oty of manufacturing enterprisos ave veing profitubly operated in the south, and the number is anuually in- creasing. The statemeat that in the last four years fourteen thousand new manufacturing and mining enterprises have been organized in the south gives afair understanding of the rapidity with which that portion of the country is gaining the meaus of wealth and pros perity. The agricultural advancement has been almost as marked as the indus- trinl, the value of the products ot the soil last year amounting to-not much less than a thousand million dollars, the cotton crop being one of the largest in the history of the country. An ex- amination of the statistics of ten years, and it was not until 1880 that the south commenced to regain its former posi- tion, shows a really wonderful progress, in view of which it may well be asked when the hmit = is likely to be reached, for as yet there are vast resources untouched and lands capable of subsisting an immense population uncultivated. With the growth of home capital, the increase of facilitics for marketing products, and the enterprise and industry of the peos ple encouraged and stimulated by suc- cess. the future development of the south should be even more rapid than that of the past ten years, assuring that section in time a commanding influence upon the material wolfare of the uation inestimably more valuable to its people than any ad vantages to be obtawned from political power. And it is possible that out of this material progress will come the influences that shall ultimately solve the hurd problem which is now the chief, if nots the only, source of trouble and embarrassment to the south- ern people. AMEND THE LAW. The annual review of the business of the city brings into prominence the folly of the present building inspee- tion ordinance. As arecord of the city’s growth it is worse than useless, because it is incomplete and misleading. The primary object of the law was to obtain a truthful record of the building opera- tions of the city, to prevent the erec- tion of tinder boxes within the fire lim- its and to provide a system of inspection of buildings in process of erection. None of these ends have been accomplished. The system cf fees incorporated in the law is based on wrong prineiples. They ave regulated according to the estimated cost of the structure. The higher the cost, the greater the fees to be paid for a building permit. Thus the law operates asa premium on dis- honesty,us every applicant for a permit places the estimate of cost from twenty- five to fifty per cent below the actual cost, in order to escape payiug the ex- orbitant sums exacted. As a conse- quence the figures of the bailding in- spector’s office are worthless as a truth- ful record of the city's progress. This fact is clearly demonstrated by the building record for §1889. While the building inspector’s books place the ag- gregate cost at four million g1x hundred thousand dollars, careful inquiry nmoog owners and contractors shows that the actual expenditure of money in building coterprises was a fraction over seven million dollars, Nor does the law afford any protec- . tion agaifst firo traps. Tt is a notorious fact that ipermits have been issued for building® within the fire limits that are no better” than shells, The law has been dispegarded in the size of walls, ia,materin's used, 1n the width of stairways and in the size and strength of iron beams and timber sills, The duty of 1he building inspector does | not end wigh the approval of plans sub- mitted. Hesis required to see thut tho plans and $pbcifications are carried out, and to prevent ing proceeds, The inteyests of the eity demand that the law be amended, especially as to the fees exncted, so that the eit record shall be an honest one, Enter- prise and pub'ic spirit should not be taxed according to the liberality of the expenditure, AN exhaustive compilation of the opinions of leading business men of the country. prepared by the New York Sun, shows that with the opening of the new year tho greatest confidence pervades all departments of trade and industey. Thore is practically but one opinion that 1890 will be & prosperous and progressive year for the financial, commercial, and manufac- turing intere untrye The Kentucky Panacca, Lowisville Conrier-Jowrnal, Logislative bodies will proceed to fortify themsolves agaiust the deadly grip by promnt administration of the Kentucky prophylactic. - Has the Usual Quatification, New York World, Whiat purports to be an exuct estimato of Johu D. Rockefclier’s wealth places his for- tune at §120,000,000. How does it happen that Mr. Rockefeller has never aspired to a Unitod States senatorship! The G.-D.' - G i0se Bo St Louwis Globz-De noeral. It is the custom to laugh at the goose bone as a weather indicator, but it has been a better guide this winter than the signal ser- vice. All of its predictions so far have boen fulfilled to the letter, and it tells us that the winter will continue to be mild, with a few cold days now and then, and thut there will be an early sprin - ould Pull Up the Blinds. NewYork Heralld. Tho antho, of Rio ought to raise their curtaing and lei the whole world see what going on. A muzzled press is a relic of im- perialism, an element of weakncss, and any interference with free correspondence and telography is a serious blunder. The provi- sional government will be all the stronger if it lkceps no secrets and indulges in no mys- tery, but acts openly and above board. - Quality Counts, Chicago Horatd. The man with the highest brain isu't always the best man, Tho lurgest brain on record was that of & man who was quite idiotic. The brain of the msanc homicide and suicide Daley has been found to woigh fifty-nive and three-quarter ounces, which is justthe weight of tho murderer Rudolff's brain—an ounce heavier than Jim isk’s and six ouncos hcavier than Dauiel Webster's As with nost other things, in brains quality counts far more than quantity. -~ Brazil § A Grievons Mistak Ghicage Limex. This from Tie OMAHA BEE 15 & fair warn- mg: “If Chicago wsists on fleecing thefarm- ers of the west in elevator rates the farmers will find other markets for their produc Chicago bas not you annexed the earth.” “The object of the Chicaeo elevator owners appears to be a desire o give themselves, as grain dealers, acting directly or indirectly, an advantage over commission men. The burpose 18 not to fleece the farmer, but the effact will be disadvantageous to all grain growers who make Chicago iheir market, to Chicago itself, and Lo commission merchants iu grain wbo are not operating with ware- house owners. A protest has been made ou the board of trade, 1t will be re-enforced it need be by Chicugo manufacturers and job- bers and by Chicagoans generally. The notice given of & purpose Lo advance rates is a menace to Chicago interests and ought W be opposed with hearty unanimity. Some of the elevators have passed into the control of English capital, but their management is continued. ‘The proposed sqeeze 18 suicidal, The project ought not to be sinsisted upon. 1t 18 & ruinous combination. ittt gl FER THE AFTERNOON TEA. Before they wed tho dreams they droamed In outiines were the same, For fate had made thew one 1t seemed Ta all excopt the nawme. One impulse all their purpose fraught 1n ull that they had done, Two souls with but & siogle thought— I'wo hearts that peat as oue. But when they wed they quickly learned ‘Thoy sadly were mismatched ; Each one the other’s wishes spurned, And trouble quickly hatohed. Now two divorco suits have been brought, The tie to have undone— Tywo souls with but & siugle thought, Two hearts that beat 25 oue. Dude (to_shop girl)—Lovely creature, I adore you. Do you give me your love in re- tarn? Shop Girl—0f course I do. this afternoon! ’ Miss Prim—O 1t was awfu!! I dida’t mind their stealing the silver and my jewelry, but when oue of those burglars cutered my room and took o flashlight photograph of me in my—my—my curl papers, with a kodak, I nearly died with mortification. A young man who went wost ten yoars ago had not been heard of until a short time ago, when his father wiote him, saying that his family feared he was dead. His auswer was: “Iam nop, dead, but married.” The father can’t ypt make up his mind what idea this was intended to convey. Briggs—Wopder what possessed him to jump into the, miver! Braggs—There wus a Woman at the battom, 1 believe. *What's your idea of heaven as a place?” she asked us,ihey were coming from the symphony congert. And he growled: “It's where the women attend the harp rehearsals bareheaded.” | Wifo—Great heavens! that new hoarder has a fearful wppetite! Husband —I'm giad of it. Let us diope be will bite at our eldest daughter. J **Where do the ladies for he patronizes the, Mrs, Simps Anything elso 'suppose the sultan gets ali Yl facemt | “Duanor ‘Maybe erchant of Venus.” your servant kas run off. How foolf§H In her to leave a good howe like this, Don't 'you think she'll vegret it! Mrs, Sumpsont, Yoa; my-husband went, with ‘Wife (to husbaud at the end of a “spat’’ “The f aint all dead yet. Husband—Thoy ain’t, eht Wife—No, or I would have the amount of your usurance volicy before thia, ———— BTATE AND PERRITO Y, Nebraska Jottings. ‘The very best horses in (age county are being sold for $150 a head, Jobn Moon is the old soldiers’ candidate for postmaster at (iarrison. The Riley hotel at Plattsmouth will short- l‘y by opened with & grand banquet under the lirection of the board of trade. In the straw-pulling contest 1o see who should be aasessor in Liberty precinct, Cass conuty, Hy Strong was the lucky man aud Ezra Murpby will coatinue Lo be & plaiu oiti- zou. of Paddock, Holt county, both bl Billy Webster tumbled from & wagon and broke bo alteration as the build- | E | arms. Fvery momber of Biliy's family has nd A bone or two broken in the past three yoars. N. J. Isancson. his wife and ten-year-od son_hiad a close call from death by asphyxia tion by coal gas at Oakland the other night. They were discovered in an unconscious con- dition and were resuscitated after a hard struggle. A farmer near Loup City keted ninety-nine bushels of upon tweive acres, recoiving $51.10 for the crop. The eorn that could have been raised upon tho samo acroage would have barely brought vwo-thirds of that amount. W, H. Bakor, a_teacher i Bunker Hill precinct, Antelope county. is the recipiont of a half interest in the celebrated “Silver Star” gold mines at San Audreas, N. M. ‘The gift comes from his brother, whonfhe has seen but once in his life and of whose whereabouts he knew nothing of. Mr. Taker will finish Tis term of school and then 0 1o New Mexico to look after his prop- orty. Tho annual v board of hortic ceived from ( the baard. 1 interesting fruits, tre recently mar- flax seed raised port of the Nebragka state Iture for 1880 has been re J. Carpenter, secrotary of is a book of 204 pa full of informatiou in regard to the s, plants and ornamental shrub- seaska. Tnr Bre has also re- ual report of tho state boavd of agriculture for the year 1888, co Se ry Farnas, It 18 more prete aud extousive thau the volume on horticul ture, and consists of B31 closely printed pages, Tow ems, The new opera house at Anmwosa will be opened Junuary 15, Mills county shipped ples the past season. ‘There are 441 lamates of the foeble- winded insutution at Glenwood, ‘The new Presuyterian church at Jefferson will bo dedicated Sunday “I'be Polk County Bar association will hold 1ts acnual banguet danuary S0, ‘The temperance peopie of Blackbawk county have formed a county organization and chosen tweive delegates” to attend the state prohibition convention, One of the thriving industries of Hancock been nippod in the bud. It has ed that parties have swindled the county out of hundreds of dollars by im- porting wolf scalps from I{unsas and secur- ing the bounty. Lu the Jowa logislature there are two sen- ators and five representatives bearing the vame of Smith, while one senator answers to the namo belouging to the same fumily, Schuwidt. 1our of these men are republicans and four cemoerats. The body of Thomas Leonard was found near Worthington aiongside of the Mil- waukee track, ‘Tne body had b devourcd by hogs. He, in cc another nan, drove out of town Christmns, and it is thought be was struck by the Mil- wankee train and killed. His parents can not be found. ho house of Mrs. T\ A. Carpenter, at ort Dodge, was entered by burelars when the family ‘were away and a valuable gold ch tuken. A funny circumstance of the rovbery is that the house left in charge of Steriff Ad the well known thief catehd®, who was in the next room when the robbery’ occurred. C. J. Roe Moines nis life button. shooting chickens with a rifle, and his aim being a_little wide one of the bullets struck the collar button in the Roc's shirt and was turned from its course. “The metal button was smashed almost flat and mado quite a gash iu the young man's neck Adeaf and dumb woman narcowly es- caped being ran over by a teain ut Burling- ton, The engincer whistled and rang the beli, and seeing she did not movo quickly r versed tho engine, but could not stop the tran o time, When the engine was within « few feet of hor she suddenly realized her danger and jumped to one side, the pilot catching uud tearing her dress as it passed. 230 car louds of ap- probably owos A young vas The Two Dakotas. A public library has been estaolished at Alcoster. There are 275 da in South Dakota, ‘Lhe new Masonic xandria will be one of the handsomest in the state when completed. ‘Thirty-soven IRuss childron diphtheria durinz the epidemic in settloment in McPherson couaty. A Rapid City man hus invented a nonein- toxicating beer which tastes just like the old kind, but will pass the prohibition muster. Work on the Leeds branch of the James- town & Northern railroad will begin early in the spring. The survey extends through a very fertile country from Leeds to Dunsuth, Rolette county, a distance of about seventy miles. Itisa well known fact that timber is gelting very scarce up in the hills, says the Whitewood Sentinel. It is hauled as far as ten miles to the towns for fuel, the saw mills have gradually moved farther away until some are twenty wiles awuy, and the mincs and mills are supplied with wood ana timbers which are hauled fartber than that. There is quite a heavy growth of pine and oak around Whitewood thut will be worth nearly its weight in gold before very long. Rev. J. McFarland of Jamestown, state missionary of thé Baptist Publication aud Sunday School association for North Da~ kota, has had o rather vavied carecr. He stacted out in life as a hunter and trapper in the backwoods of Indiaua, from which he branched out as s star performer with Van Amberg’s circus. At the breaking out of the war he cniisted and came out at its close with several bullet holes in his anatoiy, the scars of which he still carries with han. He then went into the saloon business, in which he remained until rescued by the crusaders, when lie became a Baptist minister, and has gradually worked up to the position of trust he now holds, rand weekly newspapers died of the Heyd AL B YOUNG PRESBYTERIANS, They Meet Today to Engage Hgious Kxercises. A convention of the Young People's socie- ties of the United Presbyterian churches of the Missouri valley is to be held in this city commenciog this morning and continuing tomorrow. It will be held at the Coulral United Preabyterian church, The order of exercises for the two days is as follows: Thuesday_ 7:50 p. m.—Opening address, Rev. J, A, Duff, Minden, Neb. Orgauization. ‘Address by prosident. Social, Friday, 10:30 8, m.—-Davotional exercises. Paper, “Soul Winning,” Miss Grace Gowdy, Mo, Bible readig, “Holy Ghost Rev. J. G. Stewart, South Omaha, 'he Work of Committees in Local Societies.” Dliscellancous, i 2 p. m.—Devotional exercises. How to Use the Bible in Dealing with Souls,” Miss Mary Campoell, Pawnee City. Conference, “New Euterprises and New Demands,” opened by Miss Bessie An- derson, Collegh Springs, Ia. Resolutions. Miscelluncous. 7:30 p. m.—Address, “Christian Useful- ness and Highest Excellence,” Rev. William Johnston, D. D., Collego Springs, Ia. Con- lec‘rulian meeting, led by President Fare- well. Devotional exercises, in addition t those provided for in the wbove programme are left to the discretion of the presiding oficer. 1t 18 expected that there will bo much prayer und praiso during the exercises from the beginning to the end of the programme. in Re- Announcements, Bolossey Kiralfy's great *“‘Antiope’ com- pany opened its Owusha ‘engagement at Boyd's opera house this afternoon by play- ing to an audience that filled every seat in the theater, A better or more appropriate holidey attraction could mot have been pro- cured. It was the attraction at the Albham- bra theater, Condon, for two holiday season: and was immensely successful. “Antiope" abounds in grand ballets, maiches aad bigh- class specialties. Senorita Carmencita, the repowned Spanish dancer, and M'lle. Paris, the French premiere, lead the dancing. ‘This afternoon’s performance at the Grana was well attended. Tonight Miss Akerstrom will give *Auneite, the Dacolug Girl," for the last time. On tomoerow eveaing sud continuing the balunceof this week, the very ceessful comedy-drawa, ‘“‘Henah, the Gyp- sy's Daughter,” ‘will be given with Miss Akorstrom jn the title role. In *‘Renan’ Miss Akerstrom will introduce her famous terpsichorean efforts, which uave been pro- nounced unequalied by sl who have atlended the Grand Lhis weok. SHE COULDN'T SHAKE DICE. Mre. Mitchell of Eaet Lincoln Plays the Deuoce. A STORY OF DOMESTIC WOE. Supreme Court Decision City Citizons Suspicions Some Offcials—A New Kogland Dinner. ~Oapital of 1029 P Staeer, Lixcony, Neb, Jan. L Oficer Malone returned from Atma this afternoon at 4:10 with William Drce and his puramour, Mrs. Harry K. Mitchell of East Lincoln. Mrs. Mitchell's escapado is sensational features. ell's story he was married at Springfield, 0. in 188, to Miss Ollie M. Murkley, the petted daughiter of wealthy parents. Some three years later they sought & home in the west, locating at Beatrice, where an uncle and aunt of Mrs, Mitchell's resided. Hop- ing to still better their fortunes the young couple removed to Lincoln about two years ago and Mitchell engaged in the scavenger business, Until last spring they lived happily together. At this ume William Dice made the acquaintancs of the family and it grow into intimacy rapidiy. It appears, nowever, that Miteteil finally became alarmed at the intimacy between his wife and Dico, and he forbade tho latter his house. Shortly dfter this he observed Mrs, Mitchell in the back yurd after night in a state of agitation and he also noticed a man sneaking away. The wronged husband gave chase, and the feliow turned and shot at him, the bullet cutting a button from his coat. On returning to the heuse on tho night 1n question his wife con- fessed her sin and was forgiven, December 23 Mrs. Mitchell planned a visit to her rela- tives at Beatrice, but instead of going there, as her husband supposed she had, she pur- chased a ticket for Wymore, and from there went to Alma, where “sho and Dica were ar- rested yesterday by advices from Marshal Carder.” Mychell says he will forgive his wife and again take her to his heart and home, but that he will prosecute Dice to the fullest extent of the law. Livcory Bureav or Tae OMun Be: } not without According to Mitche Supreme Courc Opinions. Oviniovs in the following causos were filed in the supreme court late yesterday evening: Chenoy vs Campbell. Appeal from the aistrict court for Johnson county, Reversed and decree for pluntiff. Opinion by Max- well, J. Certain notes given for grossly usurious interest and secured by a second the security might be inadequate, In an action by his exccutor to foreclose the mort- gare; held, that the same rule would be ap- pited as ivhere the original consideration was wholly frauduicnt and the recovery would be restricted to the amount paid by the purchaser with legal interest thereon. Rowen v: Ercor from the district court of Saliue county. Afirmed. Opinion by Maxwell. J. arneau Cracker Company vs atmer. Error from the district court for Douglas coun}y, afirmed; opinion by Reed, Ch. J. 1. A verdict of a jury and juagment there- on will not. be st atide as being unsupported by the evidence, when the bill of exceptious shows upou its face that all tho evidenco submitted to the trial jury is not before the supreme court;- all prosumptions being in favor of the regularity of the proceedings of the district court. 2, Aninstruction that it was the duty of a master who employed a servant inthe use of machinery to ‘‘use ordinary and reason- able care and judgment” in providing suit- able und safe machinery for the use to which it was to be put, held, not errongous by rea- son of the use of the ' word *judgment’’: 1t being synonimous with ‘“prudence’ w 'the sense i which it was used, Kettler vs Kettler, Error from the dis- trict court for Douglas county, afirmed; opinion by Maxweil, . 1. Inan setion to dissolve a partnership and for an accountiug, the case was referred to a referee who made findings of fact and in favor of the plaintiff fora sum in excess of thatclaimed in the petition. Excoptions to the report were thereupon filed which were overruled, but the judgment was ro- duced to the sum clumed in the petition, with interest thereon: held; no error. 2. Report and judgment fully sustained by the evidenco. Hendrickson vs Sullivan, error from the district court for Cass county, reversed and remanded; opinion by Reese, C. J. ‘White vs State, error from the districy court for Douglas county, reversed and re- manded ; opinion by Cobb, J. 1. A title is no part of a complaint, made before a mazistrate charging a person with a criminal offense, and in a complaint charg- ing M. with haviag committed the crime of larceny, the words *“*State vs M. and W." placed in the upper left hand corner of the puper upon which such complmnt is written, beld not suficeient to make such complaint a joint one against M. and W. 2. A complaint under oath, made before a magistrate, held necessary to give such magistrate jurisdiction to make a preliminary examination of a person accused of criminal offense. 3. An examination made by a magistrate person accused of crime, where the magistrawo has not jurisdiction, i3 not ‘a preliminary exomination thereof, as pro- vided by law,.’ in the sense of those words a8 used in soction 585 of the criminai code. 4. An information filed in the district court by the county attornoy against an accused person for au offense for which such accused iporson had nov had @ preliminary examination as provided by law, confers no jurisdiction upon said district court to try and punisb said accused person for such offense, unless in the excepted cases proviged for in section 585 of the criminal code. Rice vs Saxon, error from the district court for Jefferson county. Affirmed, Opin- 100 by Maxwell, J. Hancock & Waters v Stout, Error from the district ‘court of Luncaster couaty. &v?'mu and remanded. Opiniou by Reose, Vorce vé Page. Error from the district or Douglas county. Affirmed. Opinion by Reese, Ch. J. 1. Where an attorney appears’ in s cause the presumption is that he has authority and that presumption is continued until the waut of such authority is establishea by proof. 9, The question of the authority of such appearance was submitted to the trial Jury specially and they found that the ap- pearance of counsel in proceedings upon Which plaintift's rights were based was with- out suthority. Held, under the evidence, the finding of the jury was conclusive. 8. Where service of notice is made by pub- lication and mo uppearance is maae by the defendant jurisdiction will be acquired for 1o other purpose thau granting tho release demandea in the petition, and of whieh no- tice was given, Brooks vs State. Error from the district court for Lancaster county, Vordict set aside and cause remanded. Opinion by Max- well, J., Reese, Ch. J., dissenting, Republican ey Railroad Company vs Fink, Error from the district court fur Gage county. Decree modified. Opinion by ll;il'mllh.l. - urtagh vs Thompson. Appeal from the distriet court for I'illmoro county. Deeree modified. Ovinioa by Maxwell, J. Wicks vs Nedrow. Appeal from the dis- triet court for Richardson county. Affivmed. Opinion by siaxwell, J. 3 The Village of Valparaiso vs Donovan, Error from the distriot court of Ssunders county. Affirmed. Opinion by Maxwell, J. Barton vs. Union Cattle company. Appeal ;2m the ul‘a'u:f:u eou‘n l(;r‘sar county. versed an ree for plaiutiff, O, Dy Cobb, J. wakn Schields vs Florbach. Appeal from the dis- trict court for Douglus county. and decree for plaintiff. Ovivion by Maxwell, J., Reese, Ch. J., dissenting, In 1864 one H. leused for three years three sud ope-fifth acres of land in O 10 S, at a yearly rental of $35, with the right to pue- chase for £1.600. S thereupon took ion sud_erected two houses thereon, one for his family and one for his foremsn. He then removed Lis family into one of said houses wud has resided there ever since. In 1873 a now lease wus made by H and also a *' mw to 8 1o purchase said premises’ for 1,046 with 12 per cent interest, ‘‘and may be_found due for taxes paid by mo for 1564, 1865, 1800, 1867, 1868, 1860, 1570, 1571 and interost at 12 por cent,” and stating that “this proposition is made 1o enable S 10 ac quire title to said premises as a homestoad, and this option to purchase shall continua during the lease he now HNolds,” ote. A large amountof crodits and moveys w paid by S to H _on prior indedteduess, and apparently on the contract. In 1878 a new leaso was executed by H as exacater, under which S continued in possession, held, that the proposition to purchase remained op 10 S 10 be accepted av any time during tlh existence of his leaso and that the leas 4 1878 was in effoct but a continuation of & of 1873 and 1864, and that 8 on payment of the amount due on the purchase with 19 por cent interest together with the amount of taxes with 12 per cont interest thercon was entitled to a conveyanca. Buchanan vs Wise, appeal from tho dis trict court for Cumng county, reversed and cause dismissod; opinion by Recse, Ch 1 The evidence examined and heid not to sustain the finding of the district court upon questions of fact. City News and Notes. Thé health oMoers ars waging war on tho flithy alleys. A New Yoar's soclal was held last night av\ the Capitai mills. Thero was o revival meeting last night as the J street Baptist church. The state kouse was practically closcd day, nothing being open but the library. The Lincoln indulged in a rand ball and lust night at farmonie hall, Tho cluss of 1880 of tho state university held a reunion last night at the home of Miss dna Bullook, 1441 T street. About one hundred and fifty members of the various Congregational churches of thy city indulged in a Now England dinner lust night at the Pirst Congregutional church The horse stolen trom W. Hallett of Rocic Creck precinct Monday night was found at the Checkered barn in this city yesterday evening, minus the bridle which was stolen with it Joseph Hill and William Mason wera restod last night charged with stealing th pairsof shoos from Sherwin's, Thoy wore found guilty this morning and finca 0 and costs and sent to the county juil. A thief went into rooms over Leming's Ninth atreet milk depot, whore Mr. Lemin lives, this morning and stole an overcout, his wife's plusi cloak and some other wearin apparel. Lemmg saw him and gave chasy, The thief dropped the clothes and opeuc: fire. No oue hurt. Marshal Carder and a number of officers make u raid on the Quick block gambling rooms ut midnight last night and_captured a half dozon men and a few poker tables, e did not, howover, go into the room adjo ing, where tho faro tables and the rou wheels were at work. Sherif Melick went out to Newton this morning and levied on twenty-two nieces of land, nggregating 1,520 acres, to satisiy a judgment in the case 'of the Citizens' Nu- tional bank of Hiilsborougl, O., vs E. L. Johnson for about $6,000 The land was up- praised ut &,200. Dr. Dunn, who is a rcla- ive of Johnson's, says that the land is casily worth §150,000. Lincoln’s increase in wealth for the ten yoars has been steady and sure, he seen from the following tigu +he taxable proper 1881, £1,680,0003 1852, £1,500,000 000: 1884, £2,800,000; 1385, §2, £3,500,000: 1857, $4,600,000 1859, £5,160,000. taxable property has been 80 35 malls, Tho state beekeepers' association will hold its sunual convention in the lecture room of Nebraska hall at the state univeraity Wedncs- day, Thursday and Friday, January 15, | and'17. The stato horticultural nssociuti will meet at the same time, and arrang! ments are about perfected for holding joint seasions. Partics intending to attend should take u receipt from tho home station agont ana have it read: *“To attend horticultural association.” turnverein exhibition Lo past as will -~ EVIDENTLY MISINFORMED, Senator Gorman and the Australian Ballot System. Oxama, January 1. To the Editor of Tux Bee: I reaa with considerable surprise a dispateh published in, last evening's issue, from Baltimore, in which tho Hon. Arthur P, Gorman is quoted as follows: “Our majorities from natural causes are growing less and the want of thorough co- operation among our people has cut down our majorities. he elective franchise has been abused. Mouey hus been poured out to canture elections fraudulently. As for the Australian system you had better label it a bill to throw the democratic party in the river. Thid® system has had two trials in this country, oue was in Boston the other in Montana. The former, for years a demo- cratic stronghold, went ropublican at the lass election under the Australian system by be- tween five and six thousand majority for the first time since 1864. Governor Houser writes me from Montana that we should have carried the state iustead of having i inging 10 the balance. The system that moves the voter from the influences of men of intelligence to o box, leaves him to the danger of monoy power. You pay a voter if you pay him at all in secvet, By the Australian system he 1s open %o the corrupt nfluences of brivery more than ever. Othe matters are to come before the legisiaturo that aro of vital importaace, but this is tho one great thing to consider."” And this from a dewocratic United State: senator! He wants the democratic party and the editors of democratic papers to fight tho bill because it hds been demonstrated in cultured Boston and in wild and wodly Mon- tana that under it the republican party gaivs 1n strongth, and for no other remson. His assertion that under the Australian system tho voter 18 more than ever under the infil ence of the briber is one of the most bra: attempts to misleud the masses, by m, asserting an uutruth—which a man of man’s prominence should have uvoided— that the intelligent and reading public has been treated to lately. A man who knows, avything at all about the provisions of th ballot bill, which has been introduced au passed by 4 number of state legisluturcs koows that bribery is the first evil it eradi- cates. The mun who would attempt to bribo au_olector, where the modified Australinn election law is in forcé, would be # fit sub. ject [for alunatic asylum. Whyl Recause law, modeled after the Australian sys- tem, provide: 1. That the ballots shall be printed by the i mat taay shall be a ). At they s istributed by sworn ofticiuls only. 14 4, That o single ballot, or & single set of ballots, be given to each elector. 4. That no ono but the swora election ofl- cers shall communicato with the elector from the time he enters the polling place until hu I“‘.’l;w;'h it it ball That in case a ot is sotled or torn it cau be exchanged for another. 6. ‘'hat no ballots but those furaished by the otate, stamped and initialed, shall bo e m T 1o oue will be allowed to carry o ticket away from the polling place. ! Under such provisions what man would bo I?nn-h enough to attempt o corrupt a voter ! Lo illustrate, would you purchase of a total stranger & horse you had never seen, vay for the same and expect the animal to be de- livered at your barn! Would you purctaso of the average run of your acquainta " piece of pmrtmy without seeing it! Would you order of tho average dealer auy artic) pay for the same and trust to his send you the thing you wanted? 1f you failed to et the after paying for it, who would have boen acuing the part of the foolishi If the property, instead of » fine residence lot, was io 4 hole a hundred fest deep, whut would be your estimate of nurullr' 1 bo- livve there would 4bout as many men A 48 thero " ure. Dunlaces. S e vt who wou buy the horse of the stranger. Mr, Gorman o is either vary iguoraut R»mmfi;. WOMPSON, ————— Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorta. When she was » Child, sho erind for Castoria, Whien sho becsro Miss, she elung to Castoria, Vb ousbio hat Children, sho gave them Castoris