Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1890, Page 4

al TH LT LAKE ELECTION, The election in Salt Lake City today THE DAILY BEE BE. ROSEWATER, Editor, will possess a national interest. Fora | FUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, | Month or more past a most vigorous campaign has been waged on the part of both the gentiles and the Mormons. | The organization of both is as thorough | | as possible, the former, styling them- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily aod Sunday, One Year Eix months Three Mon Kunday Jiee, Onie Vear, o M ) ) ) Weekly Ilee, One Year with Premium, so0 | selves the liberal party, having ex- OFFICES pended a large amount of money in Omata. Tise Tllding. | o idine. campaign work. Every gentilo voter New Sork, Heoms 14 and 15 Tribnns fuidiag, | in the e y,old and young, has taken Tonnent intin, No. 12 Danr, Siraet - an active vart in the fight and will b South Omaha, Corner N an 1 2th Streets. at the polls today. The suc- CORRESPONDENCE, cess of the liberal party Allcommunications relating to news and edi- | is confidently predicted. he {orial mutiee should be addressed o tne KA | agigtry lists, which closed afew days BUSINESS LETTEIS, ago, show seven. thousand eight hun T T R e maany, | dred and twenty-seven voters, of whom Omahs. Drafrs cherks and yl‘1;;ifvll‘ru'm der four thousand nine hundr 1 five are ¢ payable to the order of the Company. | .0 guncod gentiles and two thousand The Bee Publishing Comp TOPTIBLONS. | nine hundred and twenty-two Mormons, ek Bullding Far ! uth Str the former having a majority as shown by the registration of one thousand nine v e ) ne, N L ML L 1 | hundrea and eighty-three. It is ro- N0 excu A falluretoget Tk Her y on the trains, '.\vn Jealors have been noti- | ported that sever: hundred young flod to carry a full supply, ‘Travele SHBTR vB dunarty 4 11bei Tk 1k wid can't get it on trains whers other | Mormons huve deserted to the liberal “mnrhm Ay fia carried g party. The indications therefore are s e hecicular to give in all cases tunt | thut the liberal party will carcy the n;y;;.l\;:.w 1as to date, raily and number | oloction by a majority of from fiftesn (iive 118 your name, not for publication or un- [ hundred to two thousand. neccessary use, hutas a anty of good faith. "o UblaAY of the Mormons in Satt Lake City will be the culmination of the struggle to eliminate the Mormon clurch from politics. or tso scors bbbl o T years the “Saints” have been in undis- e B, uck, ratary of Tur Brx | turbed control of the local and general Publishing Company, does solemnly swear that ¥ s 2 ¥ theactial cirealation of Try DALy ke for the | legislative machinery of Utah. Being lareely in the majority, they have en- woeek ending February 8, 1800, was as follows trenched themselvesin power, and until THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Circulation late years exercised autocratic au- thority. The tide of immigration, the | influx of ecapital and the ener- getie efforts of the general gov- crnment to stamp out the crime of polygumy have undermined the king- dom of the saints and practically over- thrown the chureh as a political factor. These, combined with adverse decisions of the courts, have made the church leaders de: ate, and it would not be surprising if the hitterness displayed on both sides fonnd vent in personal conflicts at the polls today. TEORGE BT 8 1 t0 before me and subacribed to in y 4 8th day of February, l} 1800, Ktate of Nebr Connty ot orge 5 and i blishing Company, daily circulation of T ¢ sworn, de- of Tur e unl average BEE for the DALY copies: fo Mormon defoat will have several im- Seselh Tl nortant results, chief of which will vember, 18 Dacomber, 15, | be the effect upon the material progress 20,048 coples, GronGge B TZscHuck. 9 v sal ake City Sworn to before me and subscribed i my and prospevity of Salt TLalke City and the te tory. 1If not a final blow to the authority of the Mormon church in its great stronghold, it will cripple it so severely as to greatly diminish its fut- uro power in politics and reduce the difficulties of dealing with it 1 politi- cal force. With this accomplished Utah may be expected to spoedily ex- pe a vigorous growth, and the benefits to Sult Lake City especially arve likely to be very great. [t would seem that the end of Mormon rule in Utah is not far off. ssence this 4th day of Jannary, A, D,, 159, [Senl.] N.P.'F y Public. — Tt new county hospital is rapidly assumi lien and hungry look. is ever Tie prospect that the city will secure a surplus of bridge charters and a paucity of structures. enc ALTHOUGH the plans and specifica- tions did not provide for it, the county hospital hus been thoroughly plastered with claims. T demands of property owners for aduct damages indicate that the vul- A FEEBLE Coming right on DEFENSE. the heels of the blooming state of perfection along | focPle defense of the railroads by the Tenth stroe board of transportation will doubtless console the producers aud content with their lot. make them It must be ex- 1715 a significant fact that competeat city olliciuls are not crying for nadi- | [Tomely comforting o farmor whoso tional help. It is the political ward |* Aty A0 ERRLS product to market to official source that a ten duetlion 1s o learn from an per cent r generous gift, one which worker who wants deputies to instruct him in the duties of the position. Tut proposed court house tunnel | Willswve the state one million and « should nov be seriously considered, | M dotlars, Y Public pride will not tolorate any | The bourd goes out of ais scheme to undermine the peaceful re- [ PrOP the assortions of the r vose of the blind goddess on the dome, | FOuS, thut there hus been a steady «| reduction of rates during the past ten years. Considering the inexperience of the board, it is not sur- prising that it attempts to gul. the public by quoting frem the schedules. I'hese are misleading. [t is anotortous fact that bafore the interstate commerce et went into effect a system of secret rebates was in universal use, which in hundreds of instances amounted to oue- half the open rate, ke ompetitive shipping point in the state was favored with rebates, and the favorites of the corporations were granted still greater OF COURSE the various city officials protest against a reduction of assistants and clerks. The iden of rendering an equivalent in lnbor for their salaries is repugnant to their healtl gitution for five-cent fares on the bridge motor line fell on deaf ears. The stockholders having refused to tap the surplus, it is in order for the city council to exercise a little reform in the premises. — SEVENTY thousand dollars to | reductions, which enabled them to vomove snugs will not materially im- | Undevsell rivals. Discrimination was prove navigation on the Missouri. What | Widespread — and extended to all the country wants is an appropriation { grades of merchandise. Had the to remove the jags that obstruct nuvi- | board been —as diligent for the public welfare as for the corporations, it could have found right in Lincoln convincing proof of the claim that the present grain rates, even with ten per cent off, are higher by six to eight cents a hundred than the rate in 1885, And this eate is maintained in face of the fact that traffic has trebled in four years, The promises of further relief if the coming reduction proves beneficial are worthless. The future can take cars of itself. Tt istne present condition, not future contingencies, that demand vigorous action. A ten per cent re- duction will not meet the emergency or rescue the bullk of the corn crop from decuy. gation on land, ATTORNEY GENERAL [ 5 proposes to press to a conclusion 1n the courts the issue raised in the Elmwood elevator case. ‘I'he main question is, shall the ruilvonds grant equal privileges to ull shippers. This 18 the issue Tue Mormon legislature of Utah passed an election law for the sole pur- pose of shutting out the opposition. Now that the liberal registiars are vig- orously enforcing this law, and giving the Mormons a pill of their own manu- facture, the lamentations of the apostles are ludicrous. NOTWITHSTANDING Cleveland's ciaim to a patent right on ballot reform, re- wublican states and territories are steadily onacting laws to that end. The Australian system is certain to be adoptéd in Wyoming, making the twelfth republican legislature to adopt ballot reform. With one or two excep- tions the democratic states are yet to hear from THE HOPE PARTY. Congressman Butterworth of Ohio, in arecent interview, said he should not be a candidate for re-election unless thy present house does something toward a revision of the tariff, because there would be spect of his election, Heo expres: belief that the only hope of continuing the republican con- wol of the house lies in the fair and thorough reyision of the tariff, and he feared this would not be done. While in favor of the protection of American T'uE Montana senate imposed a fineof fifty doliars for the first day’s absence on the democratic senutorial fugitives, = indusiries, Mr. Butterworth be- “:‘::“l"‘d”’:‘f‘,: H%S::i"" ,l,'l'"."“fi“ L““"l"f" longs to that moderate element of 4 Y " - theroure twelve | yya" papublican party which hotds days of the session yet remaining, and if tho democrats absent themselves to the end they will ench have a fine of one hundred and two thousand four huudred dollars to meet. The vacation promises 1 be a costly oue, if the fines ave collected, e __J that the mmntenance of the war tariff is no longer necessary or defensible, He thinks our present tarill laws are in such a confused and complicated condi- tion that those who do not need or de- serve protection get a good deal more of it than those who do. There is an ac- cumulation of fungus, he is quoted as saying, unon our whole tariff schedule, with an infinite number of articles on Ttk total corn crop of Nebraska in 1555 amounted to oue huudred and for- ty-seven million bushels. The eleven | which the duties are excessive and Missouri viver counties raised twen- | ought to be reduced, and he thevefore ty-eight willion bushels, or a|iavors the thorough overhauling of fraction ~over one-sixth of tho | the system., *‘Unless this is done,” total. A conservative estimate of | gaid Mr, Butterworth, ‘*‘we mght the crop of 1889 places the total | as well hang up our fiddle a¥one bundred and sixty million bush- els. Taking the ratio of 1888, the river counties harvested thirty million bush- els. Yot the railroads ignored this vast crop aud refused the producers the pit- tance of a ten per ceant reduction in rutes, and go home without any expectation of coming back here again,” Counsel and warning of this kind from a leading republican who has been long in public life and is a good obseryer of the trend of public sentis ment, not alone in his own district and UMAILA WPALLL DENE) (ALY LA L state, but in the country at large, ought to make some impression upon the judgment of his fellow congress. For whatever of opinion elicited by and means committee representatives of the protected in- tevests that have appeared before it, there can be no question that the larger public sentiment of the country tho weight the ways from the the opinion of the masses of con- sumers—is in line with the position of Mr. Butterworth. The public man who improves his opportunities for in- formation is willfully blind who does not see that there has been a great advance in public opinion within the last year in favor of a general revision and material change of our tavilt system. What the people demand is not simply a reform in the ad- ministration of the system, im- portant as this is, or the re- moval of unjustinequalities, which give more protection to those who do not need or deserve it than to those who do, but a general re on of duties that will afford some reliof to the people without endangering the stability or prosperity of American industries. This the republican party 15 pledged to do, and if it fails w fulfiil the pledge it must oxpect the danger of which Mr. Butterworth warns it. The fear of the Ohio congressman that the representatives of the party in congress will not give the country such tariff revision as the conditions demand and prove to be groundless, but cortainly the outlook is not favorable. Unless there are enough careful and conserva- tive republicans in congress to doefeat most of the numerous projects that are advanced or contomplated for increas- warrant may ing expenditures it will be impossible to reduce the r ment. in all venues of the govern- The tendency to extravagance directions is as marked as at any peried of our his- tory, and the numerous schemes agninst the public treasury are sup- ported by powerful influences. If only a few of them succeed the government will need every dotlar to bo obtained from present sources of revenue to meet the additional demands upon it. Ata time when general depression suggoests retrenchment and cconomy, or at any rate urges that there should be no extra- ordinary additions to the expenses of the government, congress is being pressed with schemes which would com- pel the continuance for years w come of the oppressive drain upon thein- dustry and resources of the people. Tho responsibility for the result will rest upon the vepublican party, and it can not afford to disregard the counsel of such clear-heuded and candid men as Mr. Butterworth. —_— I is finally stated on the authority of Mr. Randall’s physician that the case of the distinguished demoeratic congress- man is hopeless. His illness arises from a cancer, and while it may not result fatally for weeks or even months, Mr, Randall will never again be able to per- form any public duty. His mental faculties are as clear as ever, aund it is evidence of the high esteem in which he is held as a parlismentary authority that the leading democrats of the house of representatives have sought his advice in the cou- test they have been making for the past two weeks. Notwithstanding his long public service Mr. Randall is poor, and an effort is being made to raise a fund for the benefit of his family when de- prived of his support. Such a fact is the highest possible testimony to his integrity in public life. For nearly a quarter of a century Mr. Randall has been one of the strongest men in the politics of the country; and in his death the democratic party will lose its ablest member and in some respects its safest counsellor. —— SECrRETARY TRACY will not retire from the navy department. Not only is tho president most desirous that he shall remain, both in the interest of the ad- ministration ana because ho believes it to be vital to the health of General Tracy that he should have the mental oee tion which the-duties of the oifice give him, but the secretary is himself deeply interested in the work that is before him. It may be some little time before he is able to actively resume his duties, but the country is to be congratulated upon his determina- tion to do 50 a8 s00n as possible, City election traditions tell us that the man who finds himself short on votes at the polls had better take his medicine und lie down. STATE JOTTINGS, Nebraska. Grant's new fire bell has arrived and is ready§lor business. Iarmers’ nlliances are springing up rap- 1dly in Cluy county. : A number of gamblers huve flod from Broken Bow w avoid arrest, The dates of the Dawson county fair have been tixea for September 23, 24, 25 and 20. The Citizens' bank of Gieneva is to erect a three story brick block the coming season. The Auanias club is the latest social or- ganization at Oxford, and the society is growing rapidly. The new town of Blanche, in Chase county, now has & newspaper, the Weekly Wave, edited by Will 8. Leonard. Lowis Spelts of Davia Oity has made ar- rangements to plant a patch of cotton as 8001 as the weather permits, ‘The prohibitionists of Knox county will hold & mass convention aithe Congrega- uonal churen in Creighton February (8, Mr. and Mrs. David H. Goodrich of Geneva celebrated their golden wedding an- niversary recently wich the aid of sixteen children and grandchildren. Burt Martin of York bad his ear nearly pulled off by his little sister, who in play placed a button hook in his soand receiver and then forcibly yanked the weapon out. ® The farmers in the neiehborhood of Sprin, Ranch, Clay county, bave begun to plow and harrow, and if the weather ocontMues fine they will commence sowing wheat this week. Campbell sportsmen will indulge in @ shooting match February 14, the programme of events including two live bird matenes, two blue rock mutches and oue gl ball shoot. H. Wilson was brought into Alma for -uan:x @ team of h“r“ll.llhu‘“n into oourt, pleaded guilty aod was sentenced to five Xa;rl iu the penitentiary, all in the same ay. Miss Rebecea Morrisou, & vesident of Ne- braska, was soutenced Lo one day's im- F:ruonmaut for disorderly conduct at a bristisn meoting in McGregor, Ia., the other day. Mrs. Nute Hicks, wife of a Dakota county farmer, while visitiog in South Dakota, op- vosite Ponca, mysteriously disappeared, and members in | it is supposed slip must have failen through an air-ole inghe Missouri Says tho Imperial Republican: Saturday it became knowp that Uncle Sam had oan celled twent{ déven of the claims that formed part 6/ the Harlem eattle company's extensive raneti along the Frenchman, and o0 Monday a small sized Oklahoma rush for the land eushied. Soveral citirens of our town were among the rushers. By night wo believe about eighty men had eitnor filed papers or conmtgneed work on the claims, wa ltems 25 manufactaring plants 11 Du- ‘There are | bugue. Fort Madison wants another wiolesalo grocery house, The Swedish paople of Callendar are to build a new church. A bonus of $3,500 hias boen subscribed for a flour mill at Marcus. A farmers' co.opsrative creamery will be built at Leating in the spring. T'he citizons of Toledo have raised $30,000 Jowards rebuilding Western college. Sarah Jano Holmes, the first whito child born in Chicago, is now living at Hampton, The scraper works at Mount Pleasant which were rocently burned are being ro buiit. The Creamery Journal is a new monthly publication which has made its appoarance at Waterloo Great proparations have boon made for and Army camp firo at Creston, Feb- 'y 20 and 21 iy A district Young Men's Christian associa- fon will be held at Muscatine and 23 1t i3 reportod tnat Kate Shelly, the Mo gonia bridge leroine, i3 soon to bo married o a Marshalltown youog man. The O'Brion courty jail has been con- demned by the judge and the prisoncrs have been transferrad to Orange City. The Greeus County Farmors' Mutual [n- surance company, which has been organized two years, carrics about 40,000 in policies, its losses last yoar amounting to only $70. ‘e state board of educational exawiaers have arranged a list of dates and places for holding examinations during the coming yearas follows: At Cornell colloge. Mount Veraon, Monday and Tuesday, Juue 8 and 4: at state normal sohool, Cedar Falls, Wednesday, June 4, Thuraday, June 5; at Towa colle, riauell, Friday, June 6, Sat- urday, June 7: at state university, Towa City, Monday, June 9, Tuesday, June 10; at department of public instructiom, Des oines, Tuesday, June 24, Wednesday, June T'he dates fixod for the examinations for diplomas are Tuesday, Juno 24 and Wednes- day, June 25, tue examinations to be held at the department of public instruction, Des Moes. Tne Two Dakotas. Brule county now pays a bouuty of $1 for wolf scalps. There is talk of a base ball leaguo in the Black Hills, The new Milwaukeo depot to be eracted at Sioux Falls will cost between $50,000 and $60 000, By o timber fire west of Rapid City 300 tons of hay, somo shads and stabling were destroyed. A lodge of Knights of Pythias has been instituted at Sturgis with twenty-six members, Somebody has counted up and announces there are twenty-three bald heads in the South Dakota legislature. J. H. C. Young; clerk of the South Dakota supreme court, has resigned and has been succeeded by L. W. Goodner. It is estimated that the mining industries of the Black Hills will in time give employ- ment to more than @ million people. (George Burnham, the young man who was 80 badly frozen, while lost between New- castloe and Deadwood, has had both legs amputated. i Aftor being married nearly balf a century, Alhert Peterson, aged seventy-two, has av- plied for a divoree from bis aged wife on the ground of cruelty and deservion. 1t is not improbable, says the Deadwood Pioneer, that Lauwrence county members of the general assembly will be asked to secure passage of a bill enacting that on_death of a mon without heirs his property shall pass to that county in which ‘it is situated, instead of to the state, as under the presont order. At the meeting of the Farmers’ alliance of the Black Hills district. held at Whitewooa, a resolution was adopted protesting against the proposed roduction in the number of members in the general assembly. The opinion expressed was that where there is a large membership there 1s less danger uf robbery. At Waterbury the other day Sauire At- kins had a miraculous escape from serious injury. He was bemg lowered into a well fifty feet deep by aid of a bucket and wind- lass. When about twenty fest down the crank shipped from the hand of the man above and Atkins tumbled clear to the bot- tom. When taken out he was found to have escapod with a few bruises, The soil of Butte county is particularly adapted to the raising of vegetables of ail kinds, and especially of potatoes and sugar beets. The Minnesala Star, ;n speaking of the prolific yield the past season, mentions one tarmer who raised a crop of boets rang- ing from twenty-five to thirty pounds in weight, and suggests that a beet sugar fac- tory be established in sinuesela. L HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, The Dally Life of the Famous Author of “Uncle Tom's Cabin, A story went out from this city a few days ago that tne famous woman who gave to the world “Uncle Tom’s Cabin™ was nearing her end, siys a Hartford, Conn., dispatch. Mrs. Harriet Beecner Stowe it is true, is failing, but her con- dition, today is far better than when she was brought from Sag Harbor io Hartford to die. A relative of Mrs. Stowe said this week: She has had no need of medical care for the last eigh- teen months. At the time when she came home in the summer of 1888, as her friends believed only to die, it was thought that apoplexy was imminent, It proved only to be nervous trouble. She is now in a good physical condition, She is neither insane nor an imeboile, but has reached the stage which we fa- millarly term second childhood, She is pleased with trifles, with innocent amusement, just as a child would be. She will meet you and chat and laugh, or even call you by name if some one mentions it to her. Otherwise she rec- ognizes by name her most intimate triends alone,’ . **Is she capable of carrying on a con- versation?” “Not a continuous one. She will dwell on a subjegt for & moment, then ramble off to e other topic having no connection whatever with what pro- ceeded. She writes quite as firmly and legiblo as evey, but is incapable of con- secutive lhougfm and if she writes even fi:xe briefest note it must be from dicta~- tion, Ou pleasant days Mvs. Stowe is much in the open aip walking or visiting her neighbors. Close by are theresidences of Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, her sister (i*m. Isabella = Beecher Hooker) and “others whom she hus known for yeard.© She comes and goes as she pleml.‘nfi‘ would a child, Eyery- where the ladies of the houschold try to entertain her. Meeting friends dur- ing her walks she swiles in pleasant return of the -greetings, although the faces have passed from her memory. Many will stop for conversation. It pleases her, and everyone is glad to Fl“ these kindly codrtesies. Often her responses will' go no further thao the inquiry of iaterdays very commonly upon her lips, ‘*Are you trusting in God?” Her sadly sweet expression in her '\'uel.in;i She is only in her sixty- nioth year, but the lines upon her face are thoseof o woman of eighty, Her life is uncertain, Her condition is not such as Lo excite any apprenension, but the machinery of the life is wearin away, and no one can tell whean the en may come. D MODNUAN L AL 1O IT WILL BE VERY EXCITING, Nebraska's Politioal Soramble in tho Mlancholy Days. LIKE LEAVES IN VALLAMBRO3A, Lhe Aspirants for the Righ Places of State are Many—A Sonsa- Turn in the Alen DI vorce Suit, The Battlo Afar Of. NCoLY, Neb,, Feb. 0.—[Spacial to Tan Bee. |1t 18 conceded here that the scramblo for the offices of governor' secretary of state and attornay general during the coming poli- tical campaizn will bo without precedent. Until within the bast day or two but littlo has been said rogardiug nspirants for the office of sccrotary of state. It is arzued that Cowdery bolds the position by appoint- ment and, therefore, cannot sot up the soc: ond term plea, and uutil chosen and olected by his party, cannot claim precedent as a fortification at the primaries or in convon tion. Upon this theory candidates aro shy ing their castors aund douglty tsen for the nomination, Among the candidates who can justly lay claims t some atrength may be mentionod Jarvis & Church of Nemaha, Erie Johnson of Phelo: and Senator Keckloy of York. Other can- didates aro suggested but thoso named are prominent. It is said, further, that sthe action of the Farmers' alliance of Platte county, Mr, Cowdery's nome, will have a tendency *o weaken his strength, As yet but little is said regarding oppo- sition to the incumbents of tho ofices of auditor of public accounts, commissioner of public lands and buildings and state treas - urer. Itis understood that eachof them will go into the state convention upon the claims of succession. *‘But) sug- gested @ stato official today and & poil- tician of prominence, *on the motion of these officials on the state board of trauspor- #ation relative to a lower schedule of local freight rates, in a word, Iowa rates for this stace, will hinge their chances of success at the convention and at the polls. It [am rightly ivformed, 1t _takes three members of tie ooard to call'a meeting, and if they un- dertake to shift responsibility by preventing it, further evidence 18 uunocessary that they are against the peopla. If possible a meeting of the board will be called during the present weok, and the rate question will e considored as' never before. The timo nias come whon records must be made. If the board does not meet very s0on the peo- ple will at once know the ‘men who pro- vented a meoting.” In this connection it may bo well to stato that solicitude is expressed as to the action of the Iarmers’ alliauce throughout tho state during the campaign. It 15 suggesied that tho atliunco will refuse to take a hand in the primary elections, thus loaving the machice in power at the conventions, and getin its work at the polls. FARRAGUT TOST KESOLVES, At the last meeting Farragut post, No. department of Nebraska, Grand Army of the Republic, passed the following resolu- tiou: Resolved, By the comrades of Farragut post, No. 25, department of Nebraska, Grand Army of the Republic, that we heartily en- dorsé the appeal of our comrade, Gieneral Alvin P. Hovey, president of the service ponsion association of the United Ssates, de- manding of congress the passage of a Ser- vice pension law for all surviving union soldiers of the late war, Our country is in an era of unparalleled prosperity; the national troasury is over- flowing: Wwe are at peace with ourselves and the whole world: our forn of government is made secure in tho affections of the peoplo, and_the union has been cemented by the blood of our comrades, ~ All this is due to the patriotism of the boys in blue. After the lapse of 80 many yearssiuce peace was declarod be- between the states, the remaining defenders of the union are broken in health, many ruined in fortune and more are invalids from wounds, disease and exposure. A Rervice pension is due them, and not as a pittance to paupers. Such a pension was given to the survivors of the revolutionary war, the war of 1812 and of tho Mexican “war, and by all that is right and just nothing less should be given to those who preserved our glorious union, therefore, Resoived, eral Alvin P. Hovey, in his appoal to con- gress, and demand of our congressmen logis- lution without delay for these rights which are duo every surviving veteran by all rules of justice and national nonor. J. W. Bow PHELPS PAINE, Adjutant. Post Commander. RELIGIOUS ITEMS. Revival services are in progress at the African M. E. church. The Brotherhood of St. Andrews of the Holy Trinity church meets Tuesday evening at 8'o'clock. ‘The pastor of the Universalist church, Rov. E. H. Chapin, preached this morning on the subject, ‘‘I'he ‘'rial by Fire.” Tho Ministerial association of this city meets in regular monthly session tomorrow moraing. - Discussions of the subject laid over at the last meeting will be continued, Charles i3. Newnan, pastor of the K'irst Christian church, discoursed this morning on the subject of “*I'he Acts of the Apostles.’ His evening theme was, “The Bible Student at work,” The Woman's Christian association held a gospéel meeting at the Kirst Presbyterian church this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mrs, Hurdy Curtis of Galesburg, IlL, led the ex- ercisés and lectured on the subject of “Tho Vine and the Branches.” The Methodist churches of this city have effected the wmporary organization of social union. Chancellor Creighton was elected president and John L. Doty secre- wary. Pastors of their several churches were appointed a committee on membership, THE GREAT DUTCH FESTIVAL. The kirmess, or ereat Dutch festival, commences in this city omorrow morning. During the day, throughout the festivai wealk, meals will be served from the Holtand inn, on the west side of the exposition buila- ing. ‘The kirmess proper, however, will only beopen during the evening. Among the attractions in the difforent houses and booths the occupations of the Holfanders will be shown, and all visitors will have the pleasure of secing a veritable Dutch village with none of the fatigues of travel. THE ALLEN DIVOKCE CASE. The Allen divorce case has become sensa- tional, The defendaut, Mrs, Stel'a M. Al- len, is out in an open lctter denying the charges of her husband and asserting that e forcod her to sign the damaging state- ments alleged by the plaintiff. Mrs. Allen states emphatically that her husband pulied a revolver ou her on the night of Junuary 25, and compelled ber to write as he dictated under peoulty of death, This she did hardly conscious of whnat she was doing, and Mrs. Rose, landlady of the Hotel Ideal, was called in to witness the docu- ment, which confessed unaue intimacy be- tween herself and Dr. Lawton, the Q street dentist. luo the presence of Mrs. Rose she further states that her nusbund repeated two or three times that Lawton would pay him §,000 rather thau have the coufession he held iu bis hands made pub lic. Mrs, Rose corroborates this statement over her own sigoature, and adds sub- stantislly that she belieyes that Mrs. Allen 18 u much abused womaa. Dr. Lawton states that Allen made de- mands on him for hush money before he filed his petition, It is also claimed that E. K. MeGinty of Wilber, counsel for the plain- tiff, sought to get him to deed to his client city property valued at $1,500, under stipu- lations thav favther proceedings should stop at once. The doctor, it is said, refused to conceae to either Allen's or McUinty's de- mands. He will risk the outcome in the courts of justico. : Mrs. Allen bas a host of triends promi nently connected who have faith in her, as lus also Dr. Lawtous. CITY NEWS AND NOTES. Governor and Mrs. Thuyer's publio recep- tion Tuesday evening will be the event of the weai, 2 3 The Lancaster county bar will formally dedicate the new court Louse tomorrow moraing at 10 o'clock. Ao earnest invita- tion is given o the public to uttend the ex- ercises. Farragut post, Grand Army of the Re- public, presented Dr. Haggard with a gold- headed cape last oveniog. The exsroises of the post were uuusually luterestiog. Its will vie with the Uhat we join our comrade, Geu-. membors are working hard to secure the re union for the Capital city Marshal Melick, Sergeant Miller and other members of the polica foros raided a gambling den on Thirteonth street last night. 1t was in the building back of Frank Rawlin's livery stablo. W, Bell, J. E. K mer, Frank Williams, Sam Miller, Low Johnson, H. ‘Thompson and Ewory Aloxan re arrested and will answor to the e of gambling. I'he Adventiats will commonce work on their new college building at ouce. Survey of the ground will bo mada during the weok. The institution will be known as Union col- logo aud will have a campus of twenty acres. W. (. Sisley, an arcnitect of Battle Crook, Mich., will furnish the piaus and specitications. o left for homoe today after epending most of tho past woek looking after building material and other details. The main building will be 180x70 feet. A Butler County Protest. Urysses, Neb., Feb, 9.—[Spocial w Tne Hek,| “To the State Board of Trausportation at Lincoln, Neb, Whoreas, Tho through ratos of transporta. tion from Nebraska to Chicago aro from 4 to 6 conts per hundred higher than prior to the sage of tho interstate commerce law: Whoreas, The farmers of Nebraska are now paying 2 cents per hundred more on corn to Chicago, n distance of 451 miles, than is charged on oastern lines from Chicago to N v York, u distance neacly tvios s great; and, Whoreas, The local froight rates are from 50 to 550 per cent higher in Nobraska thau in Towa; therefore be it Resolved, By the farme:s and citizens of Ulysses township, 1n mass mecting, that the present high freight raten are a travesty on justice and an outrage that ought to merit the condemnation of every fair minded man; and bo it Resdived, That the state board of trans portation, 1n its recent promise Wit the ilroad magnates in conference at Chiosgo, on a basis of 10 por cent per 100 ©0a through transportation, which is equiva- lent to the mere pittance of 1 cent and a frac- tion per bushel on corn from Nebraska to Chicago, knowingly did an unsatisfactory act; and be Resolved, That this meeting endorses the views of Attorney General Leese in holding that nothing less than a reduction of at least 10 conts por 100 should have been accopted, and that unless it is peaceably granted a war on local rates vigorously prosecuted by the state board of transportation, shonld bo the alternative until just and equitable through ratos are established d be it further Resotved, That we hereby give notice that no man will receive our support for state or legislative oftice who does not pledge him- selt to use his best offorts to seouro réasona ble and just local and through freight rate: and whose past record proves him to be ea; nest and fearless in the right, and strong enough to carry out such pledwe. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the governor and state board of transportation, aud to each of the Butler county papers and Tne Omaia Ber for publication, H. R. Crala, W. H. StoNE, Sucrotary. President C. H. Craruis, J. F. Bt W. H. H. STARBUCK, D. A, Wyxeoan, JAMES DARNELL, on IResolutions. LINCOLN'S FAME. Eloquent Tribute to His Great Heart and Fame. The following are the closing words of the “Life of Lincoln,” the final in- stalment of which appears in the I'eb- ruary Century: ‘‘Genoral W. T. Sher- man has repeatedly expressed the ad- miration aad survrise with which he has read Mr. Lancoln’s correspondenco with his geverals,and his opinion of th remarkable correctness of his mil views. General W. . Smith says: ‘I huve long Leld to the opinion that at tho close of the war Mr. Lincoln wus the superior of his generals in his comprehension of the effect of strategic movements and the proper method of following up victories to their legitimate conclusion.’ ieneral J. H.Wilson holds the-same opinion; and Colonel Robert N. Scott, in whose death the army lost one of its most vigorous and best trained intel- lects, froequently called Mv. Lincoln ‘the ablest strategist of the wa “To these qualitications of high 1i rary excellence, and eusy practi mastery of affairs of transcendent imn- portance, we must add, as an explana- tion of his immediate and world-wide fame, his possession of certain moral qualities rarely combined in such high degree, in oue ivdividual. His heart was s0 tender that he would dismount from his horse in a forest to replace in their nest young birds which had fallen by the roadside; he could not sleep at night if he knew that a sold er-boy was under sentence of death; he could not even at the bid- ding of duty or policy,refuse the prayer of age or helplessness in distress. Chil- dren instinctively loved him; they never found his rugged featuces ugly his sympathies were quick and seem- ingly unlimited. He was absoluteiy without prejudice of class or condition. Frederick Douglus says ho was the only man of distinction he ever met who never reminded him by word of man- ner of his color; he was as just and gen- erous to the h and w born as to the poor and humble—a thing rave among politicians, He was toloerant even of evil; though noman can ever have lived with a loftier scorn of mean- ness or selfishness, he yet recognized their existence and counted with them. He said one day, with a flash of cynical wisdom worthy of La Rochefocauld,that honest statesmanship was the employ ment of individual meanness for the public good, He never asked perfection of anyone; he did not even insist for others upop the high standards he set up for himsell, At atime before the word was invented he was the first of the opportunists. With the fire of a reformerand a martvr in his heart he yeot proceeded by the ways of cautious An and practical statecraft. He always worked with thiogs ne they were, while he never relinquished the desire and eflort to make them better. To a hope wh saw the delectable mountains of abso- lute justice and peace in the futura, o a faith that God in His own time would give to all men the things convenient to them, he added a char which em- braced in its decp bosom‘all the good and the bad, all the virtues and the in- firmities of men, and & punence like that of nature, which in its vastand fruitful nctivity knows neither haste nor rest, “A character like this among the precious heirlooms of the republic; and by a special good fortune every part of the country has an equal claim and pride in it. Lincoln’s blood came from the veins' of New England emi- grants, of middle state Quakers, of Virginia plauters, of Kentueky pio- ueers; he himsell was one of the men who grew up with the earliest growth of tho great west, Every jewel of his mind or his conduct sheds ‘radinnce on each portion of the nation. The mar- velous symmetry and balance of his in- tellect and character may have owed something to this varied environment of his ruce, and they may ficly typify the variety and solidity of the pub- lie. It may not be unreasonablo to hope that his pame aud his renown may be forever a bond of union to the country which he loved with an affec- tion so impartial, and served—in life and l'n death—with such entire devo- tion,” - - Rainfall on the Plains. Prof. Frank H. Snow of the Kansas state university said several years ago: “But the fact that thousandsof new comers, from ignorance of the climate, have attempted to introduce ordinary agricultural operations upon the so Y disnstrously oall plaing, and have failed in the atvtempt, placed an un- deserved stigma upon the good name ot Kansas in many far-distant communi- ties, and has undoubtedly somewhat ro tarded immigration during the past few ars, (b is time for the gencral v vecognition of the fact that, excopl in tho exceedingly limited area whore ir- rigation is possible, the westsrn third of Kansas is beyond the limit of success- ful agriculture.” The seasons of drough which have occurred since the above consorvative statement was written show the whole trath of the matter to De that tho wostward advancing line of sottloment is by no means an isohyetal one, but that it is merely a line repre- sonting in n way the overflow of the populution of our eastern stutos says tho Popular Scienco Monthl It needs but aslight acquaintance among the old settlors in central Kansas to know that they fear nowndays excessively dry wenther as much a8 they did twenty- five yoars ago. The people who live farther wost are losing faith in theidea of an increased rainfull, as i idenced by the fact thatover two hundred linear miles of main canals have lately been N\ constructed for irrigation purposes nearly s far oast ns Kinsley, in tho Ar- kan v of westorn Kansas, In the 1 loy 1n Nobraskn o ir- rigating systems ave at present being projected. - GLADSTONE ON NOVELS. The Grand Old Man's Opinion ligious Romancel iladstone has just written an reading “Ellen Middle anovel written 1884, and re- published a few years ago, by the late Georgianna Fullerton. Mpr. Gladstone, prefacing his account of the work, declares that it is seldom that readers have the good fortune 1o find the true preucher in the guiso of a wvovelisty, as well ] b with the vestmeuts of the femalo s Too truly it may be said_of many novels of the day that, while they have escapad from the rudeness and gross- ness of carlicr times, it has been by an __ artificial and unhealthy process—thoy” bhavediffused the poison, not expelled r Ro- it; they are whited sepulchres; and their unclennness remains within, be- cause they are still intended to stimu- late appetite, not to mimster food. Iu another class of remance, where relig- [ ion is more copiously infused and mory distinctly exhibited, the combination 13 generally inharmonious and repulsive “Indced,” the right honovable won- tleman nfficms, “we fear that many fic- tions of the class termed religious muy have produced a revulsive effect.” The authoress of “Ellen Middleton” has iled that which constitutes, as we are persuaded, the master delusion of our own time and country, and, in the way of parable and by awful ox- ample, has shown us how that they would avoid the deterioration of tho moral hfe within them must stranglo their infant sins by the painful acts and accessories of repentance, and how, if we fall short of this by dallying with them, we nurse them into giauts for our misery and destruction. Mr. Gladstone then briefly relutes a part of the story of “Iilen Middleton) “\ and proceeding with his analy: moralizing upon the case, conii “Religion of late years has been driven back in great part from that acknowledged position of prominenca and_authorized power which it once used to occupy in ordi lifo; al- though not absolutely wted into obscure municipalities and _rustic vil- lages,” yet it cowers and skulks in society, ind munifests not itself until by some capeful application of the 4 touchstone 1t has ascertained in what quarters sympathy exists. Or else in minds move fearless or less delicate it projects upon the surfuce, not in ity natural eflluence, but according to some harsh and crude form, with effort and with assumption, e S Lincoln’s Gettysburg Speech It has sometimes bean sald that this [the Gettysburg] speech was not appre- ciated at the time of its delivery; we therefore add the testimony of another high authority to that of Emerson, sa; the Fcbruary Century. On the day after the dedication Edward Everety wrote t the president: “‘Permit mo . . . .toexpress my ereat admira- tion of the thoughts expressed by you with such eloquent simplicity and ap- propriateness at the consecration of the cemeter, 1 should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came us near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.” Mr. Lincoln replied: ““Your kind note of today is received. In our respective parts yesterday, you could not have been excused to make a short address, nor I nlong ono. Iam pleased to kuow that in your judgement the little 1 did sny wasnot entirelya failure. Of courso I knew that Mr, Everett would not fail and yet while the whole discourse was eminently satisfactory, and will be of great value, there were passages in it which transcended my expectations, e point made against the theory of the general government being only an agency, whose principals are the was new to mo, and, us 1 think, is one of the best argumonts for the natioual su- premacy. The tribute to our noble..~ women for their angel ministering o the suffering soldiers surpasses in its way, as dothe subjects of it, ,whatever~"" has gone before, - Five Ways to Cure a Cold, 1. Bathe the feet in hot water and drink a pint of hot lemonade, Then sponge with salt water and remain in a warm ropm. 2. Bathe the face in very hot water every five minutes for an hour, 8. Snutl up the nostrils hot salt water every three hours. 4. Inhale ammonia or menthol 5. 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