Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 3, 1890, Page 4

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Sworn to pefore me and subscribed in my presence this Ist day of March, A, D.. 1890, al.| N. P. Fri otary Public, — THE report of the house elections committee in the Maryland contest case clearly indicates that Barney Compton’s name is Mudd. —_— TiE problem before the state board of transportation is not how to secuve a reduction of local freight rates, but to discover a member with sufficient nerye to second the motion of Attorney Gen- eral Leese. SENATOR INGALLS protests that the bill to prohibit the importation of liquors into prohibition states was in- troduced “by request.” This explana- tion trims the frayed edges of the sena- torial campaign in Kansas, TiE democratic proposal te test in the Bupreme court Speaker Reed's ruling on a quorum should be carried out with- out delay. The country is ready for a decisive settlement of the question whether congressmen can obstruct leg- islation by refusing to vot THE Virginia law providing for state anspection of aressed meat, slaughtered one hundred miles or more from the place of sale, is now in full force. The chief object of the law—to provide ploces for a small army of political fuyorites—has been accomplished, while the consumer as usual foots the bill. —_— I¥ contractors are to be relieved of the penalty for failing to do the work awarded them. how can the poard of {;uhuc works prevent straw bids or com= inutions to force up prices? The excuse of a contractor that the price of materinl is too high tor him to do the wark at a profit, is too transparent for serious consideration. 1115 very kind and considerate on the part of the board of public works to send contractors to the council combine for relief from their obligations. Phe liberality of the combine in paying the gas bitt refundiug ihe strect railway paving tax and multiplying tax shirk- ers, is an assurance to straw bidders that their certified checks will be re- turned for the asking. —_— THE experiment which one of our leading dry goods merchants has made an_keeping his store vlosed on Saturday hights for months past has demon- Btrated the wisdom as well as the jus- tice of the move. The sales of this pro- vessive merchant have not fallen off n the aggregate and his employes have had the benefit of his liberal policy. F'rom eight in the morning till six in the evening is a good day’s work for puy man or woman, If other retail dry goods houses should act in concert and Ao likewise they would lose no trade Bnd confer a boon upon their clerks. ——— Ararecent dinner of the Harvard club, President Eliot made a vicious nnd unjust attack on the reporters. Tuking the Boston reporters as types of the profession in general, he denounced them as drunkards, thievos, dead beats and bummers. Now the press of Bos- ton is largely if not wholly manned with college graduates, mainiy from Harvard. 1If they are such a hopelessly bad lot as the professor declares, they must huve secured their training in the polleges. It is ovident, howaver, that condiments of the banquet produced this overflow of spleen, or, perhaps, in- beperate indulgence caused intemper- Bt6 speech. In either case Mr, Eliot Js respousible for slandering a class of antelligent, industrious men, con- Beientious in the performance of their Butivs and bonest 1n all their dealings with mon. Like other professions, jour- nalism is not without i black sneep. The temptations are great, and not a few full by the wayside. But they are Dot true representatives of the profos- sion. A successful revorter must be bonest, sober and truthful, 1f he is de- ficient in either he iy soon erowded out of tho race. 1f Mr. Eliot will speud a week in the editorial harness in Boston pr any other ecity be will readily dis- eover that he has & wrong conception of the :auke-up of press reporters. CAN THEY AFFORD T0 REDUCE ? The January statoment of the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, just {ssued, shows the company to be in o very prosperouscondition. The earn- ings of the company, including the Burlington & Missouri River road in Nebraska, for Janvary, 1800, were two million, one hundred and eighty-one thousand, four hundred and seven dol- lars, an increase of two hunared and sixty-five thousand, two hundred and two dollars over the corresponding month of last year. The expenses for January of this year were ninety-four thovsand and forty dollurs less than for the same month of last year, so that the net earnings for Janu , 1890, were three hundred and fifty-nine thousand, two hundred and forty-three dollars greator than for January, 1889. The excellent showing of u year ago is thus largely exceeded, and it is remarked that if the company does only halt as well for the next cleven monthe as it did for January, it will casily be able to pay an eight per cent dividend on all its stock. The “effect of the showing was very favorable upon the price of the stock. What do these figures suggest? n the first place they show that the Burlington management is ap- plying the strictest economy, consist- ent with eficient service, in the ad- ministration of the affairs of the com- pany, in order to recoup the losses sus- tained in the conflict with its employoes two years ago. In the second place they indicate that the companycould make a material reduction in transpor- tation rates without endangering its ability to earn a reasonable dividend upon its stock. The Burlington man- agers can not, in the face of their state- ment of net earnings for January, give any satisfactory reason why they should continue to exact the rates on Nebraska corn which they are-now asking. It is obviously practicable for them to materially veduce the corn rate with cative safety to their inter- ests, and a further demand that they shall do so is fully warranted by the figures of their January statement. The state board of transportation will hold a meeting today. It will be well for them to give some consideration to the figures of Burlington earnings. They contain an argument of grent fovce for those who sincerely desire to assist the furmers of Nebraska in their exiremity. THE PAYMASIE)RR GENERALSHIP. In the contest for the position of pay- master goneral of ths army, the record of none of those seeking the appoint- ment has received higher commenda- tion than that of Colonel Terrell. Dur- ing the more than a quarter of a cent- ury that he has been connected with the pay department noofficer hasshown greater ability and fidelity in the per- formance of his duties. There is not a single blemish on his record. But hav- ing no ground of opposition on this score, a most disingenuous attempt has been made to defeat his appoint- ment by the statement that he relied for success chiefly upon the fact of friendly personal relations with the president. This has been freely pub- lished by the Washington correspond- ente of eastern newspapers whose sym- pathies are with other candidates and undoubtedly care has been taken to bring it to the attention of the presi- dent with a view to i1mpressing him with the idea that the selection of Ter- rell would be regarded as in the nature of a personal favor, It certninly ought not be to the dis- aavantage of a candidate for deserved promotion that he enjoys the personal acquaintance and respect of the presi- dent, and we do not believe that Presi~ dent Harrison would permit such a consideration to 1nfluence him in any ense. But as to Colonel Terrell it is wholly gratuitous to charge that he has given any value to the fact that he is known to the president personally. He has made his contest for the appoint- ment upon his rightful elaim to senior- ity in the pay department and upon his record of able and faithful service. There is not a reasonable doubt that Colonel Terrell is legally the ranking officer of his corps, and if the presi- dent belioves this to be the case Justice and his duty requive that he shall correct the legal wrong done Ter- rell and give him the appointment, If sectional considerations can prop- erly have auy weight in o matter of this kinc, Colonel Terrell has another claim. Including the army register of 1861, there have been fifty chiefs of staff departments of the army, and but five of the number have been from the west or southwest. No man born west of the Alleghanies has ever been ap- pointed puymaster general, It would seem but just that, services and record being equal, preference should be given to western men in the<e staff appoint- ments until the inequality involved in the uniform preferment of men from other sections has been corrected. The president will do an act of justice by appointing Colonel Terrell, which would be approved by the public and undoubtedly would be regarded with general satisfaction 1n military circles. NOT A PARIISAN VICTORY. Certain democratic organs were not pleased with the confession made by Governor Boies of lowa in hisinaugural address that be could not regard his eloction as a purely partisan vietory. Such frankness on the part of a dewmo- cratic governor annoyed the organs, particularly when associated with the aunouncement that he would furnish an administration as broad and liberal @as the spirit manifested toward him. Yot these organs cannot but undorstand that it was not a partisan victory. They must know that Governor Boies could not bave been elected without the votes of repub- licuns and the refusal of others to sup- port the ropublican candidate. The tigures of the elections of 1858 and 1889 are instractive. In the former year the ropublican vote of Iowa, in round nfim- bers, was two hundred and eleven thousand, and in the latter it was one hundred and seveoty-three thousand, while the democratic vote in the two years was respectively one hundred and y-nine thousand and oue hundred aud eighty thousand, Aaybody can see that the resuls last fall, which gave Boes a plurality of a little more than six thousand, was not ‘‘a purely | partisan victory,” and nobody familiar with the facts will pretend that Towa is now a democratic state, or doubt that on national issues the majority of her yoters are republicans. A democratic governor was elected | because thousands of republicans—the | difference in the vote between the last | two elections, as above noted, indicates | the number to be over fifty thousand— were dissatisfied with the polioy of prohibition and approved of the policy of regulating and restricting the liquor trafiic represented by the democratic candi- date. It is impossible to determine how many of these voted with the democrats. The gain of that party does not indicate that the number was large. But tho decline in the republican vote shows plainly the extent of the discontent of republicans with prohibition. That policy was the commanding 1ssue in the last Iown campaign, and democratic success was due to the fact of that party having taken a clearly defined posi- tion in favor of license and local option, which is acceptable to tens of thousands of Towa republicans. Consequently it was not, 1 o strict sense, a partisan contest, so little did any of the political questions which divide the parties figure in it. Governor Boies was therefore ontirely right in not regarding the democratic success asa purely partisan victory, and he is to be commended for the pur- pose to give the state an administration as broad and liberal as the spirit mani- fested toward him. There is reason to expect that he will do this regardless of the disapproval and eriticisms of the extreme democratic organs. DANGEROUS RESTRICTIONS. The most effective and unanswerablo nrgument against legislation pending in congress proposing to restrict Eu- ropean immigration and the naturaliza- tion of aliens, is embodied in the pro-, test of the national executive commit- tee of the North American Turners so- ciety. The committee declaresthat the proposed measures introduced in con- gress are fraught with the sam> mis- chief and breathe the same spirit which caused the founders of the republic to rise in rebellion againsta British tyrant and hurl at him the indictment: He hus endeavored to prevent the popula- tion of these states; for that purpose ob- structing the laws for naturalizavion of foreigners; refusing to pass others to en- courage their migration thither and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. The proposed legislation is, there- fore, opposed tothe spirit which forms the foundation of the republic,and can- not be defended on the plea of expedi- ency or self-interest. The industry, thrift and honest intelligence of the im- migrant has been the chief factor in the growth and development of the country and in placing it in the front rank among the nationsof the earth, The patriotic devotion of those who have in the lasi century immigrated to this country is indellibly stamped in history. What right have we to . assume that the character of those to come under a coantinued liberal policy of immigration will be one particle lofer than those who cawe pefore? In truth, the very pro- posal of these illliberal measures is an affront to the bearer of every non- English name, no matter how long the line of his ancestry that helped to build ap this nation. It is impossible not to view with alarm the bill proposing an educational qualitication as requisite to naturaliza- tion. The spirit which prompts a meas- ure of this classis an offspring of the spirit which harassed the continental army and gave aid and comfort to the hivelings of King George. It isclan- nish, mischievous and contrary‘wo that spirit of liberty which has made the republic the refuge of the oppressed. In the words of the protest, the very existence of large bodies of unnaturalized resi- dents would constitute a menace to our iostitutions. Love of a free country can best be bred in men by securing to thom the full and early enjoyment of its privileges and blessings. A The proposed immigrant inguisition by consular and governmental repro- sentatives is pernicious, impracticable and unjust. BEvery unbiansed citizen will agree with the Turners that the scheme wouid be a positive damage to the country. It would aid the wicked merely and deter the good. No Eu- ropean will assist in retaining its bad elements and forwarding the desirable. Such a system of espionage would be odious and degrading to honest immi- grants and demoralizing to the consul service. The committee declares that “‘the existing laws, if rigidly and justly en- forced, afford ample protection against all undesirabie and criminal immigra- tion, But no such system of laws as now proposed can be enacted without violating the fundamental principles of the national compact and darkening the brightest pages of our national his- The sentiments of the protest will meet the hearty approval of every putriotic citizen. With a century’s marvelous progress, directly due to the brawn and brain attracted by liberty, the nation cannot stultify itself by placing needless restrictions on immi- gration and citizenship. Tho pro- posed meuasures are violently antago- nistiec to the interests of the west and south, On all sides states and cora- munities are striving to increase popu- lation, offering tempting inducements to farmers, mechanics and laborers to aid in developing the limitless resources of the country. The warm hand of wel- come is held out to the thrifty and in- dust ious to share in, our pational wealth, Why then recall the invita- tion to the sturdy, honest toilers of the old world and substitute stagngtion for progression? ' Em— WARS may come and wars may go, but the Union Pacific bridge toll goes ou forever. In the new schedule of re- duced passenger rates between Chicago and Missouri river points, twenty-five cents is tacked on to all rates from Omaha. Nodirect toll is exacted for erossing the bridges at Davenport aad DAILY BEE: Rock Island, Burlington, Kansas City or other points, while the traveler to this city is invariably held up for a | quarter at thé threshold. Ve — HENRY WATTERSON dec fight between Hill and Cleveland 1n New York wll force the democratic convention to select a leader outside of the empire state. Calvin Brice’s Ohio bar’l nssumes néw jmportance in consge quence, es that the Chigago Tribuns. The too persistéut use of his mouth Senator Call of §" the jeatous dislike of the only Mr. Vest. - Tyranny or Anarc Phitadelphia Tnguire Government control in the south is The suuth without government Which woula you havel s An Imaginary Q Chicags News, When theUnited States senators engage in an investigation of an offense against their dignity they have appronched as near as possible o infringing upon Shakespeare's “such Ado About Nothing." - Montana Won't Beso Olose Next Time. St. Paul Ploncer-Press., The end of tho Moutana contest will bo not onlytho seatiug of the republican con- testauts (at Washington), but such a revul- sion of popular feeling as will make the nexv eloction 10 no way doubtful. —_— Short on *Jawbs." New York World. A councilman in London, O., has been caught in the act of blowing open a hotel safe. The Ohio councilman has pretty poor vicking and he cannot afford to follow the dignified methods of accumulating wealth common to 8omo of our municipal legislators, PN DR The Weight of the West, Kansas ity Jouwrnal, Referring to the world's faiv contest an exchange thoughtfully remarks that the west beat the east simply because it had the most votes. But why did 1t have the most votes! Because it now has the most people and altogether the most important part of country. by control is anarchy . S A Possibility in Reviva's. New York Tribune. A western religious paper pitches into the cowboy style of revivalists who are so much in vogue now. *“Will it be loung,” it asks, “'before the femcos of the city are adorned with lithographs and posters announcing the arrival of ‘The Mastoaon Evangelistic Com- bination#' 3 ) The Prohibition Plan. . - St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ‘The prohibitionists of Rhode Island have put a state ticket in the field to be voted for at tho state election four weeks hence. The prohibitionists know that their ticket can not possibly succeed. They will be just as well satisfied, howaver, if it draws enough votes from the republican ticket to put tne democrats 1o powe RN The Suggestion a Good One. Norfalk Journal. Tae OMaua Bee suggests that the old Fort Omaha grounds and buildings be mude over by the government to the state for a military academy ou condition that the state accept and use it for that purpose. Until wars cease in the earth a military education is desirable for a provortion of citizens. No one knows when it will be necessary and the suggestion secwis to be a good one. Crome o Faltry Defense o' a Mean Attack, Rochester Herald. It also has an editorial nearly two columns long about Mr. Sutherlaud’s reply in the New York Tribune to Bishop Fitzgerald's attack on the president and the United States seoate on account of Juage Brewer's appointment to ihe supreme court. ‘*The Voice" pettifogs its case badly in the editor- 1al on the Tribune letter, affording a striking contrast to the clear, logical and unanswer- able argumant of that letter. Buat then, of olt political organs in the country, *‘The Voice” 1s among the most disiogenuous and sometimes among the most unscrupulous. The Vital Question. Wellfizet Standwrd. No ono can sincerely dony the evils of in- temperance, nor can much b said for ths saloon except its reqogoition with proper legislation may ba loss harmfal thana sys- tem which ignores it altogether. In the hotels, on railway cars, in the businoss places the inevitable jug is brought forth with some light, jesting remari ibout pro- hibition, There is an air of insimcerivy about the whole business that must disgust those Who support it from a deep conviction of duty. £ The whole subjoct practically resolves itself into this: Can the liquor trafiio be bet- ter coutrolled by a well rezulatod high license law than by prohibitioh? - After oight years of constaut endeavor, assisted by the most extraordwary logisla- tion in Kansas, we must say high license is he bust mothod of regulating tho tra fiic. e FERSONAL AND POLITiCAL. New York Commercial Advertiser: Hill has been calied a peanut politician, but he is not, He is more of a chestnut than anythivg else. Hutchinson (Kan.) News: Now, if Ben Bautler could have an operation porformed upon his political chances he would not have lived in vain, Indianapolis Journal: One thiog seems certain; If the southern states remain solidly democratie many yeara longer there will be nothing left of their treasuries but the fur- niture, New York Tribune: It it select circles of Chiua the her callers when it 18 time for them 1o go, The goddess of reform-—as Mr. Cleveland will bear witness—has adopted this Chinese custom. Philadelphia Record: When Corporal Tanuer exclaimed' “To hell with the sur- plus!” ha could nardly have imagined that 80 powerful a lobliy would bave zathered in Washington to enfocee his eminently patri- otic sentiment. . Milwaukee Seutinel: Ex-Governor St. dohp, in & prohibition speech at Detroit, said that *'the hardest thing in the world to over- come is ignorance.” ' Still, if he had bogun earlier he might have overcome a good deal of his ignorance, 1! St. Louis Globe:Democy President Harrison is quite right in ng that the re- ublican party “‘has \never suffered from an ntelligent discussion of its history and it rinciples.”’ In thay respeot as u all ovhers, it differs entirely from the democratic party. Buffalo Express; (ieneral Fisk is sgain boasting that “the, prohibition pylrty is stronger today than éver before.' 85 itis 80 stroug that it keeps practical temperance men out of congress aud state legislatures and helps elect those who ere inimical to the cause. New York World: Tue youthful duke of Orleans bas beeu pardoned and kicked out of France. As the young may passes over the border he can exclaim: “What's bauished ut set free from daily contact with cigar- ettes and absinthe! 1 go, but whes I return it will be after I am sext for,” Kavsas City Journal: Mr. Cléveland re- cently asserted that thousands of New York dewocrats voted against their convictions in 1888 for &2 a) . his is not flattering to New York democrats, and argues the weak- mess of heir convictions. Butif $2, apieco will keep them in line w.th the democracy in 1862 they will not be neglected. Boston Journal: It isa very bad condi- tion of affairs in Florida which is disclosed MONDAY, MARCH 3. 1800. in the information sent to the senate by the attorney general. The peopie of Madison county should understand that northern cap- tul and immigration do not flow toward a sommunity which practices eloction frauds and sustains them by violence, Chicaro News: Young Willlam of Gors many may have noticed that socialism is oven more prevalent than the gripin his steel-rivited empire. - STATE AND TERRITO Y, Nebraska. Thero were 1,113 chattel mortgages filed in Dakota county last § ear. A social and commercial club has been or- ganized ot West Point with twenty-seven members. The store of R. A. Wherry & Co. at Falla City was burglarized the other night and silk valued at $160 was taken The sheriff of Dakota county proposes to purchase a supply of balls and chains and put the prisoners at work. A Nance county farmer named Beemer is under arrcst at Columbus, charged with rapiog his twelvo-year-old daughter. Tho Indianola gas well is now down about five hundred feot and funds have been raised to sink 1t to a depth of 1,000 foot or more, Whita caps have ordered Martin Muth of Wayne to leave town, but he will stay and try to make it warm ' for the partics who sent the notice. Indinnola figares on having-a paper mill, broom factory, packing house and butter and egg packing' establishment the coming season. The headquarters of the Woman's Relief corps this year will bo at Almy, the home of Mrs. M. R. Morgan, the president of the or- ganization, The Alwna roller mills, which were rocent- 1y purchused by Red Cloud parties, were en- tirely destroyed by firo last week. The fire is supposed to huve been of incendiary or- irin. There 13 trouble at Papillion between the congregation and pastor of the Presbyterian church and several of the church members have been publicly denounced from the vulpit. Vandals broke Into the Presbytorian ohurch at Admah, Washington county, de- molishea all the 'lamps and poured the oil over the floor. The parties are known and will be asked to make good the loss, Albert Phillips, James Guenther and Ed- ward Guentber were arrested on a charge of starting a prairie fire near Wallace, but were acquitted by the jury. 1he damage caused by the fire'nmounted to about $2,000. The elevator at Coraova was entirely de~ stroyed by fire last week, together with its contents, including a carioad o corn which bad been collected for the Dakota sufferers. The loss is about §6,000, with $2,000 nsur- ance. : Edward Morrison, 8 Sarpy county school teacher. has been declared insane and been taken to the Lincoln asylum. The young man’s sister is i the same institution and it is thought that brooding over her fate caused him to lose his reason. “The council of administration of vhe Re- publican Valley Old Soldiers'_association, comrising twelve counties in Nebraska and Kausas, decided to hold the next annual re- union at Alma, June 10 to 14. Last year no attempt wus mado to hold & reunion on ac- count of the state reunion being held at Kearney, This year it 18 the purpose of tho association to make the reunion equal to that held by the state 1f possible. lowa Items. Onions bring $1.70 a bushel at Keokuk. ‘The new clock for the government buila- iag at Keokuk cost $1,200. Ex-Auditor Rust of Bremer sounty died recently at San Antonio, Tex., of cousump- tion, A foundry is to be erected at Waterloo by the Gage Stove Works company of St. Louis, Tiiere are 100,000 bushels of corn and 50,000 bushels of cats in storage at Dun- combe station. Ihe Young Men’s Commercial club of Cedar Rapids will endeavor to secure the erection of a union depot. During 1889 there was shipped from Logan 261 carloads of hogs, ‘Tie number of hogs was 16,888, and the amount puid for them was $1062,375.71. ‘The first anuual industrial iostitute under e auspices of tho Iowa Falls Farmers' club will be beld in thut ety Wednesday and Thursday. A large sttendance is expected from the surrounding country, and promi- nent speakers will be present from different parts of the state. A Plymouth connty farmer discovered two men attempting to load his hogs into & wugon one pight last week. He knocked one down with & pitchfork and pursued the otber some distance in the darkuess. On returning he found that the first man had recovered and escaped with the wagon load of hogs. A firm in Migsouri Valley is advertising its business by means of hana bills which state, among other things, the following few facts: ““We are not crazy, nor huve we been, as has been reported, and wickedly circulated by some of the low blacklgg scuffs of Missouri VaHey, nor are we bluckmuilers, and we don’t spread on the streets and put on style with stolen proverty, and we don’t have to steal the birthright trom an infant to make our living. Nor are we low enough to carry a paper around the streots of Missouri Valiey to see how many we cau find of a dezraded cowardly kind that will sigu their name to & paper, to have some respectable citizen mobbed and removed from our midst, or concealed 1n some cave seven or eight miles from Missouri Valley, north. Wedon't have to sling nor hire othor poopie to sling porson about Gther peo- ple's places of business in order to kill them off 80 a8 tosave us from going to the peniten- tiary, and we don't take axy part in such thieving robveries as the one was that oo~ curred at the forks of the De Witt road, where Bunkor was killed and C. B, Ellis ‘was shot in the side and shoulder and L. W, Wordsworth, who is Mrs, Bresee's father and once a heavy stockholder in the St. Paul railroad, was reported captured and robbed and concealed 1n a pit. We are not friends to the class of people above men- tioned and shall possibly aeny their Presence.” The Two Dakotas. “There are 30,000 head of hogs in Charles Mix county, There are thirty-eight schoolbouses Faulk county. Lead City is to have a $75,000 hotel buut by a stock company. The contract for Pierre's new $30,000 opera house has been closed. Blackleg is causing the death of many cattle in the vicinity of Vilas. Madison capitalists wanuvra twine factory and harvester works to locate in that city, Minnie Bush, the sixteen-year-old daugh- ter of a Jamoestown hotel keeper, committed suicide by takiog poison. No cause for the deed is known, D A case is reported at Grand Forks whera gum chewing broke up & ouce happy home, orphaned two interesting children and placed the father in an insane asylum. North Dakots lignite coal, a ton and a half of which is equal o a ton of good bituminous coal for heating purposes, is being delivered at Mandan for $1.70 per ton, The A. O. U. W, 18 endeavoring to raise seed grain for its farmer members in South Dakota. Blaoks have been sent out to us- certain the exact amount of grain each mewm- ber will need and the money to buy the same will be raised by assessing each wem- ber in the United States & small amount. An assessmeut of 10 cents ‘o each wmewber wouid raise 25,000, A queer case of vervous excitement is re- ported from Oldh ury county, says the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, Theo' dore Bodish of that place, who for twenty ears bas steadily pursued his trade as a lacksmith, was, one evening last waek, taken with violent paroxysms that were manifested by a desire to use his right or bhammer arm, over whioh he seemed to have 00 control. Wiile eating his dinner hie sud- began to pound the table with his The table was removed, sud still the arm continued to pound & This conunued all the afterncon, snd in 13 _night it Was necessary to strap the arm firmly to bis body to prevent hm from in- uring bimself and those attending bim. 'no wost wonderful thing about the case is that Mr. Hodish is in perfect mental and :u sical th, aod nothing wroug wi L except the arm that has pounded away for 80 mavy years. Doubtless the csse will be an lnteresting oue Lo the wedical fra- teraity, [THE CAPITAL CITY CRIST. Peculiar Developments in the Hud- son Divoros Oase. DOINGS IN RELIGIOUS CIRCLES. Iwo ®amage Suits Againse the Bur- lington & Missouri—A Knights of Pythias Masquerade Ball ¢ Contempiated, The Hudson Divorce Case, LixcoLN, Neb,, Murch 2. —{Special to Tue Bee.|—It is learned that stipulations in the Hudson divorce case have been filed for record, but that procoedings to annul the marriage contract will move meraly on. They were filed ata late hour yesterday after- noon. Tomako a long matter short, Mr Huason has takon back the naughty charges he made against his wife as far as he can. He stipulates that thoy shall be stricken from his petition. The case will come up for fina! hearing some time during the week, No doubts are entertained, however, but what the decree of divorcement will be granted and that the receiver of public moneys of Lincoln will soon be a lawful subject for an other contract in the matrimonial lottery. PASTORS AND PULPITS, St. Paul's M. E. church wili be relocated during the coming summer. The present site is thought to be a better sito for a busi- ness house than u church. Its conveniences are also said o be inadequate. Rev. Mr. Lowis, pastor of St. Andrews church, announces a Lenten service for sday evening. He will deliver an ad- on the subject of ‘‘I'he Prinative Church.” Rev. Stein, pastor of St, Paul's M. E. church, commenced a series of discourses this morning on the subject of *“Politics and Religion.” Tt is understood that these ser- mons are ntended to awaken an interest in the amendment for coustitutional prohibi- tion. Pastor Ralston of tho Plymouth Congre- gational church discoursed this evening on the subject of *‘Life, Views and Living.” A large audience greeted him, Rev. Dr, Krum, rector of the Church of the Holy Comfortor, has just returned from Omaha and entertained his audience this ovening on the subject of “‘Danger of Living in Cities,” Eider 0. B. Newman closed his series of interesting talks on the subject of “‘The Bible Student at Work" this evening at tho Firsu Christian church, TWO DAMAGE SUITS. Henry Jobnson and John G. Furgeson have brought suits against the B. & M. Rail- road company fo recover damages in the sum of $10,000 each. These suits are built upon the fatal accident_that occurred at the Ninth street crossing of the defendant com- pany, last Decomber, when Arthur Wright was instantly killed and the plaiotiffs seri- ously injureéd. They set up carelessuess on the part of employes of thoroad and allege an unlawful rate of spoed. Furgeson was young Wright's stepfather. This makes three cases against the Burlington for dam- ages growing out of that accident. CITY NEWS AND NOTES, Some of Lincoln's Knights of Pythias lodges contewplate & grand masquerae ball in the near future. _P. Coursey Richards of this city was made historian of the First Nebraska regiment at the recent Plattsmouth rouninn. Lena Shuler is again entitled to the namo of Lena Duyhoff. She was given a divorcs from her husband, A. C. Shulera, vesterday evening on thegrounds of extromo cruelty. Charles Edwards and Miss Ada Bell were united in marriage today by Rev. Curtis. The contructing parties are both of this city. Croton Ford, No. 2, L. O. O. F\, is making arrangements to attend the sovercign grand lodge, which convenes at Topeka, Kan.. in April. Judge O. P. Mason, who has been quite sick for the past two weeks. is said to be conyalescing. The stote board of transportation will take up Attorney Geveral ieese's resolution to reduce freight rates to the lowa schedule to- morrow morning at 10 o'clock. Peter Jensen, the young blood who got away with $300 of O. C. Strickland’s money, has not been captured. Detectives, however, are on his track. ‘The pohice doeket shows that 158 arrests were made during the month of Iabroary. Of tnese 45 were for prostitution, 86 for lar- ceny, 18 for gambling, 18 for entertaining prostitutes, 0 for vagrapcy and 1 for crueity to animals, - HOW SOME BRAVE MEN DIED. Heroism of Thoie Who Went Down in the Monitor Tecum :an. It was at the battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, that - Admiral Farragut was lashed to the main yard, up to which he had climbed in order to be above the smoke and so be able to over- sex the operations of the fleet. All the world has heard of the admiral’s cour- age, but comparatively few will, per- haps, so much as remember the name of a_man who, in the same battle, per- formed a deed of still nobler heroism, suvs the Youth’s Companion. Dr. Hutchinson, in his account of the battle, says that the Conferate ram Tennessee started out from behind Fort Morgan just before the head of the Fed- eral fleet was nbreast of it, intending to attack the ships one by one. On receiv- ing wwo or three broadsides, however, she changed her course und ran back, closely foliowed by the Federal monitor Tecumseh. As the Tecumseh neared the fort, pounding away at the ram with fifteen-inch solid shot, she struck.a floating torpedo and exploded it. As was afterward ascertained by the divers, the explosion tore a hole in her bottom more than twenty feet square, and she sank like a stone, turning over as she went down 1 eight fathoms of water. By this feightful disaster 110 out of 120 men were lost in a single instant. Com- mander Tunis A, M. Craven, one of the most gallant ofMicers in the service, lost his life through his noble disregard of self, He wns in the pilot house with the pilot, close to the only opening in the whole ship, and this only large onough to allow one man to puss at once. Captain Cravon wus alfeady partly out when the pilot grasped him hy the leg and cried, “Let me get out first, captain for God’s sake! I have five little cnildren!” The captain drew back, saying. “Go on, sir,” and went down with the ghip, while the pilot was savea, A week afterward, when the divers examined the wreck, they found nearly all the crew at their posts, just us they had sunk, The chief engineer who had been married in New York two weeks betore, and who had received from the Hagship’s mail his letters as the line was forming, stood with one hand upon the revolving bar of the tur- retengine, while the other neld an open letter from his bride, which his dead eyes still seemed 1o be reading. R TARDY WIT, J. A, Macon, in The Century, A bright littie man sat bemoaning the fate Of the wit that is tardy and sparkles too late ; Of the keen repartce that is strictly one's own, But comes Into view when occasion has own. Oh! the ideas, apposite, bright and sublime, That travel like stuge coaches never on time, S0 siuggish in movement, 80 slow in the race That & new topic rendefs them quite ouc of place. 3 B0 the bright Little man, with 4 serious look, Rewarked to himself, us be opened his book, SOf regrels thut annoy & huworist's head. The lul(au.l is this: It wight have been said 1" CURIOSITIES OF BRAZILIAN LIFE Sconcs in the Markets--Life at Hotels «-An Elastio Curruncy. Among the most interesting noveltios to the traveler in a Brazilian city avo the markets and the bird bazaars, says Bahia letter in the New York Tribune, The market is ordinarily to be regarded a8 the pulse of the town. 1f it be weli- sorved, clean and orderly, the blood cir- culation of the community may eafely be considered as excellent. Judged by this test there arofew if any const towns in Brazil in which there is sound di tion, The markets are dirty, disordoer ly, and unattractive. There are scanty and ill-managed displays of meats, Tho poor live on jerked beef of inferior graaes, Of fish there is a larger ment, bat {resh vegetables are lackin, Bven the aisplay of tropical fruits is disappointing. Bahia oranges ave deli- cloug, but not superior to the best Flor- ida oranges n in the New York market. Mangoes are abundant and cheap. Bananns are smaller but more delicate in flavor th those scen iu the northern market. The most deli- cious fruit to be found in Brazil iy the pinoapple. Northerners who ent this fruit weeks after 1t has picked in its green state have only faint idea of its sweetnoss, lusciousnoss, and delicious flavor, Hero th pine- apple is picked when the tropical sun has perfected its chemical work wnd th fruit is ready to melt in the mouth. It would be an affront o nature tosprinklo sugar upon it when eliced. It 15 mel- low, overrunning with juice, and of in- comparable flavor. The finest pin apples are those found in Pernamb but the fruit grows nlmost everywhoe in Brazil. There are other fruits, such us alligator pears, melons, chirimoyas and sapotes; anda great variety of trop- 1cal nute, Fruit 1s cheap here, the fin- est pineapples being sold for 8 or 1 conts to the experienced native, and for 10 cents to the unwary traveler. Parrots are also inexpensive in the bazaars adjoining the market. The bird does not seem to acqui the Portuguese tongue readil for among the many 1 have seen I have not found one accomplished lin- quist. The plumage, however, is of be- wildering orilliance and beauty when hundreds of them are scen together. The parrots are exhibited in close prox- imity to monkey cages, the Amcrican tradition of & monkey-nnd-parrot apparently not having become current in Bra ‘Phe monkeys are all ages, sizes, colors and species, but nearly all that are seen in the bazaars are un- trained, the purchaser being expected to begin as well as to complete the pro- cess of education. Hotels are few aud ill-conducted in Brazilian coast towns, but there excel- leny French and German restaurants in Bahia and Pernambuco. A good table d’hote ainner of nalf a dozen courses is served, and excellent wines are to be had at reasonable rates. When one has the bill to settle he finds that the score runs into the thousands, The basis of the currency isan imaginary unit, tho reis, 1,000 of which make milreis, worth, apart from exchange, aboat 50 cents. The lowest nickel coin is 100 reis, worth five cents, copper cuins, 20 reis being the smullest I have seen—equvalent to a cent. If one dines with a friend at a restaucant the score will amount to 7,500 reis—a re- sult startling to the uwitiated. When real estate transactions are conducted the ligures rise into the millions. and when trade statistics are computed bil- lions and trillions are brought in. " IRe- ng the process one pa 000 reis a hoatmun to go ashore from a steamer, 1,000 reis, or a milreis, for a botile of beer and some cheese, A00 reis tg a guide for ptage through a public building, W reis for a ride on a street car, 100 reis for a tura gn the lift from the upper to the lower turn, and another 100 reis for having his boot blucked. This financial i;stum must tend to impart elasticity 1o poverty, for even a beg- gar must have some consci fluence when a 100 reis nickel is dropped into bis cap. For the American who comes south with a feeling +f honest pride in the fact that specie payments have been resumed in his country, and thut paper money there is as good as gold, un hour of humiliation is in re- serve. When he exchanges his $10 gold piece into Brazilian currency he receives for it as currency 18,000 reis; but the eighteen milreis are only gquiv- alent to $9---thut is to say, $1 has been sacrificed in the exchange. o com- plete this dissatisfaction the puper money is excoedingly dirty and irre- decmable in coin. Gold and silver aro never seen here, vet are heavily dis- counted when foreigners bring them 10, an inconvertible currency command- inga heavy premium, been time siousness of af- - Lord Nepi r's Wounds. It has occurred to no obituary writer to notice Lord Naupier of Magdula's utter indifference to wounds and tho wonderful celerity of his recovery from them says the London World. Two of his wounds he had not cared to notice at all in his record of services furnished to Hart's Army List. He was severely wounded at Ferozesha in December, 1845, but had recoved in time to take purt in the battle of Sabraon seven % weeks tater. Before Multan. in the mid- dle of September. 1948, a cannon shot all but took his leg off, but he was marching and fighting again by the second week 1n Novembher, The 12th of January following he was severely wounded in the trenches, but he was able to march several hundred miles across country and fight at Gujerat one month later to a day, He was shot in the leg at the first relief at Lucknow, but nevertheless rode out the next day and brought in the vear guard, ufter which throughout the entire blockade he did continuous und arduous service, At the second relief he was severely wounded, but thisdid not hinder him from taking up the active duty of ohief engineer at the Alumbagh a few days later. No man ever had more the mens sana in corpore sano. A vorite, Mr. H. 4. Peto, the leading druggist of Tombstone, A lnin’s Cough Itemedy atsell as a favorite in that community. OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. 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