Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 11, 1890, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEL, ‘]A;'I'URDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1890. THE DAITLY BEE . BOSEWATER. Editor. = = PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERME OF §UBSCRIPTION Dally and Sunday, One Year Bixmonths lire e‘mm ny | wekly e Omiha, The Onuha, Corner N 210 00 s OFFI¢ o Bullling, 1l 20th Streots. CORTE: All communieatlons @ditorial matier should Editorial Departmont SINFSS LETTERS sand remittinen Publishing Lo( and rmlufllv b toide puyable the order of the piny. The B(cl’uhllshlnqtommm Proprietors, The Beo 1'1d'g, Furmam and Seventeenth §ts: BWOIN ST AT CIRCULA TIUN Biute of Nebrask N . County of Dougls. { George B, T2 seorotary of The fee Publiahing company, aoes solemnly Swear toat thenetual eireulntion of Tk DALY BEE forthe wees ending Oct, 4, 150, was as fol- Jous: Eine Nond Miieed ny Wednesdny. Oct. 1, Thnrediy. Oct. 2, Fridav. Oct. 4 .. Baturdiy, Oct. 4. Ave ating to news and be addressed to the hould wny, rdors oom All Busine B y MENT OF 58 R 105 ot, 50, A0 ¢ v aire ivoie Eworn to Lefore me and subsribel in ny presence tnisitn dgyo? Octoner, A. 1), 1500 KEAT,| N Notary Fublio Btate of Nebraska, Iy sworn, do- s of Thé loe ul nverige DALY TiE 1880, 1 Spios: coples; for Do- for Ianuary, 1590, 19, copl e ¥ or ' July. opluas for Aviguat, 190, 0,7 copless o bor, 1800, 20,510 coples. SO UCK, Swornto before me. and subseribed in my presence, thishth day of Octoh orgaTaon of month_of ~ Octo! mber, 186, 1880, 20,0 coples; for for \,,n; 1500, 0, 360, 20,102 for Notury Publie P DN DL e ot st v offices and the farming of public funds must go. will bo a great opening for armers at the next session ture, vpay of numes on the demoe ecounty ticket in Chicago reads like a dircetory of the city of Cork, resident will witness the passing of the Veiled Prophetat St. Louis. It fsnotyet two years since he officiated at the pussing of the Stufed Prophet. IN SEARCIING for a rational cause for the disturbed condition of legislation in Oklahoma, the mesalliance of the demo- crats and independents is generally over- looked, Tie edict of Jay Burtows against Generl Van Wyck renders unnecessiry the appoiniment of a commission of linacy to inquireinto the sanity of tho alliance dictator. aled to ejole or coerce the United States on various disputes, John Bull s about to vecoup his wounded honor by pouncing-on the enfeebled go ernment of Pogiugal, BEN BUILER again invades the south. This time he goes as a capitalist to woo the undeveloped possibilities of Georgia and Alabama. And this time he will not bean unwelcome guest, Trk president remarked in a recent speech that “‘croakers never built a city.” Perhaps not, but acertain Rich- ard Croker of New York has proven equal to running a eity which he found already built when hearrived on these hospituble shores. Now that Mormonism ceases to be a disturbing factor in the affairsof Utah, the country confidently Looks for vigor- ous developmentof the great resources of tho territory. Fow scetions of the mineral west offor more inviting fields for capital and muscle intelligently ap- plied, —_— HE reduced rates on grain will bene- fit the westif they are made permanent. What the country most needs is a rad- feal reduction of the coal tariff and the wbolition of discriminating rates. Such a chunge would boappreciated by all classes—the workingman as well as the farmer. — TuE announcement made that the population of the United States will hardly reach si three millions. This {8 a fulling off of two millions from the first rough estimates of the census ofilce, und tends to confirm the widespread be- lief that the enumeration of 1890 was lurgely the work of incompetents. THERE §s no partis the late convert. ip like that of Governor Boies of Jownis anexample. Heis now trying 10 demonstrate that congress has no right to bethe judge of the election of its own members. A little thing like the constitution of the United States doesn’t bother him in the least, Tie melancholy news is again given out that Governor Hill is weary of pub- lie life and will retive from politics at the closo of his term as governor, Although the unnouncement comes from Lieutenant GovernorJ ones, the associate of David, few people will believe that the embodiment of the democratic spoils system will voluntarily retireto private life, Republicans will share with Charles A, Dana an inconsolable grief, They have longed for a nationl to assist David into retirement, promi hopes. chanco and 02 >d o brilliant realization of their RUusE BURROWS, the Alabama d. perado, Is dead. The ovent furnish. amjple cause for rejoicing in the south, Burrows was to Alabama and adjoining states what the James gang was to Mis- souri or Billy the Kid to Colorado and New Mexico—n cowardly assassin who roveled in taking life for the mere grat- ification of hearing his gun go off. The terror his name ovolked shielded him from tho punishment of his bloody erimes. Death came to him with boots and spurs on, and with the speed and of- fectivencss ho craved for, It wasarelie! 10 the people and a fortune for the officer who will pocket the rewardoffered for Liscapture. FORCING UP PRICES, The movement, apparently concerted among importers and manvfacturers to v the price of all articles on which higher duties are fixed by the new tariff, is not justified upon any sound cconomic principles, Tt was to be expected that manufucturers and im= porting merchants, assuming that for- eign competition would ho measurably excluded, and notwithstanding the fact that the country had been flooded with forcign goods In anticipation of the highor duties, would conclude that they could safely advance prices. This has alveady been done asto . great many articles andundoubtedly the marking up of prices will be continued until a limit is reached beyond which holders donot think it safe to go. But can thesead- vances be maintained? There are two thingsto be considered, the course of foreign values and the effect of higher priceson consumption. The former is the more important, because it is amatter beyond our influence or regula- tion. Thelatter might be met by com- binations of manufacturers to keep down prodiction 1n order to maintain prices; but this expedient would not be long ad- hered to, sinceit involves a restriciion of enterprise and investment which can- not be made permanent in this countr It may beadmitted thatthe new tarifl law makes room for numerous combina- tions in trade, but if the statute law shall not prove effective in preventing them the » immutable economic and bus laws which they cannot long run counter to with impunity. Referring a day or two ago to the throatened Buopean policy of commer cial retaligtion, we remarked that it was more probuble the countries of Europe would endeavor to overcome the differ- ences created by the new tarlff of the United States by lowering the prices of their products, This is the sug gestion of experien tempt to cut off the Am n demand for foreign productstends to bring about a considerable decline in the prices of those productsabroad. This country is 50 large aconsumer of many foreign pro- ducts that its consumption far toward making the price. An eastern financial journil of authority thatas soon as new duties go into effect, and Amerienn manufa and trad- ers have marked up prices as they think fit, therewill come o struggle between them and the foreign producers for con- trol of themarket. In some ses the prices to consumers will be held high for a time, until it has appeared that the demand for foreign products may thus be madterially curtailed. But in other cases the reduction in price may come quickly. It sometimes turns out that the home producers gain nothing, though foreign producers bear heavy losses for a time in order to control the marke But in most cases the losses are divided early, until inereased cost of production ren- ders the American manufacturer less ableto compete. The attempt to force up price ¥eosise a new tariff has msis 18 possible for pro- s to do so, is manifestly apt tohave a dangerous influence upon their perma- nent welfwre. Those who bought Largel, prior to the change of duties, will have o brief opportunity to poclet generous profits, but hereafter it will be nec to look very closely after the cost of pro- duction. There isample resson to be- lieve, from the facts of past experience and the conditions reasonably expected to operate, that higher prices as to most articles in common use affected by the the new tariff cannot be long main- tained. £oc observes REED IN THE ROLE 0F AN ISSUE. An esteemed contemporary, which is ‘“agin® the existing order of things but in favor of nothing in particular, dole- fullyremarks of therepublican campaign throughout the country,“And the bur- den of the song is Reed, and his acts of usurpation are lauded as the work of a patriot,” ete. That’s true, Tom Reed isone of the foremost issues in this campaign, a big, brainy, brawny issue; ready and able to meet all comers, and an issue of whom the republican party is not ashamed. When the Fiftyfirst congress assem- bled last December the issue was, Shall the public business be transacted? Shall the majority of the house, elected by o majority of all the paople, make laws and provide for the needs of the govern- ment? The ropublicans mev the issue by electing Tom Reed as speakor. He pro- ceeded to count & quorum when o quo- rum was in sight, though the democratic members declared, in tones that could be hearvd halfway to the white house, that technically they were not present. Inspiteof obstruction, insult and dis order, Tom Reed and the republican majority proceeded to transact the busi- noess of the poople and to carry out the solemn pledges of the Chicago conven- tion. When they had finished the work for which they were elected, the repub- lican majority adjourned and went home about its business. And now “the hurden of the song is Reed.” Theissue hasboen transferred from the house tothe country. Itawaits the verdict of the plain horse sense of the American people. If Tom Reed's associates are sustained, as ho was him- self sustained by alandslide of republi- can approval in Maine, the question will never again be raised as to whether a majority elected by the people shall rule incong THE FINANCIAL SI At this time the TON. financial situation is comparatively comfortable and satis- factory. How long it may continue so it would be somewhat hazardous to p dict, though there does not appear to be any reason for apprehension unless it be in the fuct that the surplus is beginning t pile upin the treasury again. A week ago the figures had reached sixty million dollars, and at this time they are probably not less than seventy million. The receipts from customs for some time have beon unprecedented, During the last fiscal yoar the average monthly ceipts fromthis source wore nineteon million dollars, but during the first three months of tho. eurrent fiseal year they averaged ovor twenty-two million doi- lars, the opening days of October show- ing a much higher average. This was due, of course, to theeffect of the new tariff bill in stinulating importations, | and hereafter itis to be expected that the Inflow to tho treasury from customs duties will decline. If the estimated re- duction of revenue from the new tariff is renlized, the payments into tho treasury from customs shouldsoon fall to fourteen or fifteen million dollars a month. Meanwhile the demand for advance in- terest on the four per cent bonds has been slow, and as the time within which thismoney could bo drawn expired on the 10th, the market can get no further reliof from thissource. With the funds available, however, it is not improbable that the sceretary of the treasury may issue another call for fourand a half per cent bonds which mature next Septem: ber, He could redeem ten or fifteenmil- lion dollars of these bonds without run- ning any risk, but he may take the view thata prudent regard for the future con- tingencios justifies him {n not putting outany more money until there appears to be a more urgent demand from thoe market than at present. It is impossi- ble to caleulute with any degree of cer- tainty what the effect of the new tarift will be on the revenues, and great cau- tion in the operations of the treasury is obvipusly necessary, At present there appuars to ho no apprehension that the money me wrket iy likely tosoon require relief from the treasury, and the fact that tho treasury is ina position to g fof it needed tends to create confidence. The new fiscal conditions necessitate business re- adjustments which it will take some time to accomplish, and until this is done all financial operations will bs con- ducted with more than usual eaution. But there is nothing to indicate that the situation is otherwise than sound and healthy THE CHEERFUL SIDE OF IT. The McKinley tariff is the law of the land. Its provisions are by no means wholly satisfactory to western people of either party, but now that it has gone upon the books and is 1i to remain there for ars, it is well to be philosophical and take note of the cheer- ful side of the matter. Sir Jumes Kitson, president iron and steel institute of is at present in this countey and was in- terviewed recently by a Now York news- paper. In reply ton question about the McKinley bill he snid: 1think your new tariff bill is caleulated to diminish the deliveries of English manufac- tured goods in the American market. I fear that that is the object of the framers, British manufacturers are so convinced of thevalueof free trade and of the necessity forthe import of frec raw material to their own country that no idea of retatiation on the United States is ever seriously entertained, You must be aware that for the year ending thed0th of last Junethe United S pro- duced more pig-ivon than Great Britain, ‘There is little doubt that the production as to quantity gives them the supremacy, which they are likely to muntain and advance, and the wholoof the enormous guuntity is con- sumed in the United States, But the tarift bill affects principally the manufacturers of tin plates. the last remaining important ianufacture which counts the United States its leading customer. James onis one of the first British manufacturers and a man of broad knowledge of affaivs. It will be observed that his comment on the effect which the new tariff law will have on America and her industries is by no means discouraging. On the contrary, he bears testimony to- the soundness of the McKinley doctrine and admits that the measure will give an impulse to our industries at the expense of Great Britain’ The press and the public men of the west entered their objections to the Me- Kinley bill when it wasup for discussion. It is now the law, and if Mr. McKinley and his friends have a large and varied assortment of tin, ironand steel indus- tries on hand, let them be trotted out. The western farmer will raise beef and corn for their operatives and, mean- while, will deliberate on the problem of whether the new style of protection is worth what it costs of the sreat Britain, of AUTOCRAT BURROWS, through under-satraps, has issued anedic inst Gener an Wyck to all the deluded independent Henceforth and forever Van Wyck is to be excluded from all popular gatherings and placed on the black-list for refusing to bear false wit- ness against ex-Speaker Hurlin, who w charged with selling Van W, out to Paddock in the sem- torial election of 1887, This manifeito is not likely to restore harmony inside of the Alliar and it tainly will not close General Van Wyek’s mouth for the balance of the campaign. Mr. Me- Koighan's fool friends have done moro to defeat him than his worst enemies have done. his ck PROPERTY owners justly complain of the lessness of contractors. Side- wallkes and crosswalks are torn asunder, broken or carted aw and the wvesi- dents as well astheeity put ton need- less expense for new walks, Contractors are requive alks taken up, but the offic fail to protect the people from the vandals. On the contrary, evory effort is directed toward swelling the work of the sidewalk con- tractor and increasing the taxes on over- burdened home builde rec A GLANCE at the names of the del- egates elected to the democratic county | convention will show that but few of the old guard got left in the scramble. The hopes of agencral ousting of the gang entertained in certain quarters failed of realization, and we shall presently wit- ness o Kilkenny serap for the spoils in sight, . DOwWN in ge county the commis- sioners have ordered proceedings against county offivials who have failed turn over their fees, That is eminently proper. Every officer, county, city and state, who receives fees should account for' them and pay them over at least twice o year. Poor Birkhauser! Kicked and culfed the council combine, and a foste thorn in the sdeof the roform may even the poorhouse brigade, hacked by We, Us & Co., could not save him from the crushing rebuke of his neighbors —_— THE new insurance underwriters asso- ciation promises great reform for the | oity. Woshall have harmony all along ing by his colleagues, tho Inughing stock of | | econtrol the line, & genewl improvement and elovation of thoiness, Itis proposed to secure a !\rnggtrul. to employ com- potent surveyors (g froquent thorough inspection of buildihgs, to guard ogainst tho accumulation of pubbish and to pro- tect painstaking morchants from their carcless neighbors, This is s commend- able move, and it is to bo hoped the so- called exchange will not falter in the good work. But will these precaution- ary mensures justify the foreshadowed advancoe in insurance rates? COMMISSION Y, N lhas been knocked out by Van ( .lmp. This is like jumping from the frying-pan into the fire, Anderson’srecord as commissioner will certainly compare favorably with Van Scamp, as a councilman. —— TiE composition of the democratic couvention Insures @ lavge crop of blunde Republicans can command success in the county by nominating roputable and capablo men for legisia- tive and county office — HAVING fattoned at the public eribfor twenty years, modesty suggests that Mail Carrier Overall check his ambition and give his colored brethren a chance, —— Tiiz Douglas county democracy will do the county a servicoby laying Ander- son on the shelf, hut if they have no bet- ter timber than Van Camp they mustbe hard up. 4 dof the sanitary savants of the council, Mujor Wheeler is ready to insure the residents against the insid- ious wiles of microbe Wrri his unr sle and do-nothing record in the council, Mr. VanCamp dis- plays abnormal gall in secking a place on the county board. THE American shot trust succeeded in wrapping its tentaclesaround the Omaha plant. An early upward shoot in prices muy be looked for. THE poorhouse brigade fought nobly inthe Seventh, but were insuflicient to save Moriarty and Birkhauser from in- glorious defeat. Tue fate of Birkhauser is achilling reminder of the bli i the council combine in Dec Tre Samosets exhibit symptoms of returning life. dently the bar’l has been tapped. THE Andersonian mercu degrees below the freezing point and still falling___ “She's All Riot. wrk Worll, Somebody should read the riot act to the Oklahoma legislature. e Not Up io Grade. Chicago Herald, Congross at its next session will have to clect anew postmastor of the house, Wheat did not stand inspection and was stamped “rejected.’? e e B g Mr. Huntington's Solemn Position. Chicago Times, C. P, Huntington, the miilionaire, never laughs or makes merty, it is said; aud no wonder. Ttis a terribly solemn thing to be compelled tosupport a prince. BT More to the Point. New York Sun, Ts itnot time that the modern American should be taught how to converse!—Boston Transcript. No. Better teach him to shut up. - The Decay of Bourbonism. St. Louis Globe-Demnerat, Bourbonism seems to be inas shaky a con- dition n France us it is in the United States. Many of thesupporters of the descendant of Henry IV. have become so disgusted with their champion that they ave joining the re- publicans. s gl o Still Continues Roland. Chicago Tribrene, Speaker Reed is reported to be still in good flesh. The fuilaro of the democrats fn con- wess to thank him for the signal courtesy with which ho had pr has not compellod him to take in lis sash the smallest fraction of an inch. ST S Madman Most. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Herr Johann Most has quantities of hair and whiskors, but his brains appear to bo wofully lacking in gray matier, He says that the ideal commonwealth whose foun- dation shall be communisim, whose soul shall athestan and whose pervading spirit shail warchy.” is one A R AThrifty Knight of the Razor, Kansas City Journal. By communic with the late Cardizal Newman admi tinguished ecclesiastic can secure a lock of his hair for a consideration. For several years the cardinal’s barber has saved eve hair that he has cat from the head of his dis- tinguished patron ana they are now for salo in bunches of ten, P NS, B The Postal Telograph Pl Americ Postma | Wancmaker, in a letter to General Binghamymegues effectively for the restoration of theflegraph togovernment control, where it startéd in this country, Ho combats the constitGtional argument put for- ward by the opponents-of such control, and 50 faras a clear case,gf reasoning b o the fundamentals of aw s coucerned, Mr, Waunamalker is a mateh, for the corporation lawyers who present the other side of tho fon. But itis neta question of constitu- tionality that bars theway to postal telegr phy. Thatis a pretext, not a reason. W do not suppose thert'rs a lawyer in the United States who doubts sheeompetency in law of the government to-assume coutrol of the means of commugjcation between indi- viduals 1 the maturp of the post. The telegraph is really o, part of the postal service. The ;u\mn‘mm can as well control the telegrapiras the mails. It can progerly prohibit the conduct of telegraphic communication by private or corporate par- ties as iv does prohibit the trausportation of the mails by such parties in competition with the government, All the argumentin theword canuot in- duce the masses to believe that it would be unconstitutional for the federal government to control the telegraph lines of this country. The people aveso far from doubting it that the public may confidently expect to seo the telegraph and telephone lines wholly in the of the governmont within fifteon years, Mr. Wanamaker has done well to put himself ourecord in tavorof such coutrol, for it is bound to come. England led us in cheap postage and it leads us in government control of the telegraphs. We shall catch up by-aud-by, ting arber of the s of that dis- elphia North Gene OTHER TANDS THAN OURS Kuropean interost is largoly contered upon tho state of affairs in the Amorican prov- inces, which is very serious. The Turkish policy has no more seruple In exterminatinga whole nation than an individual, In effect- ing its object of destrying the Armenian race, which dates to question the blossings of urkish rule, its instruments aro the blood- thirsty Kurds and the erucl Clreassians; fire, famine, prison, exile and the Bosphorus. The Tarkish governors, according to instructions recelved from the capital, summoned the Kurdish chlefs from their mountains to the plain, and distributed arms and _amunition to the Mohametan population, Tho Arme- nian villagers hardly venturo into their fields around tholr villages, The Kurds have set fire to the crops of the Armenians in many places. No ecaravans venture to circulato in cortain districts, and business has come to a complete standstill. The provinces of Moosh and Bittis have been handed over to)Djaso, Eumer and Ismail Beys—relatives of the in- famous Moussa Boy—who do what they please with the Aremenians. In this condi- tor hings what can the Armenians do? BeinZconvineed as they are by painful ex- perience that the sultan cares not a jot for them, and that the porte would not protect them if it could, and could not if it would, they resort to England, which is bound to in- terfere in their behalf by virtue of two treat- ies, to the signatory powers of the Berlin tre , and to the Christian world in . On the other hand they are driven to revolt by the foolish palicy of tho porte, which adds falschood to hypo and eruelty to perseci- tion, The Armenian colonics allthe world over arc stirred. The Armenians in the Caucasus are preparing to attack the Turkish troops near the frontier. All Armenians, both in the mother country and without it, are doing their utmost torid Armenia of Turkish des- potism. Theyare determined to obtain self- rule at any cost. The victos 3 radicals of the canton of Tic zerland, In the elections justheld left them little to spare—only 94 majority in atotal of 23,762 votes—and the closeness of the contest may not seem to augur well for future tranquiliity. But the extent of the triumph is shown from the that only last spring the conservat d the elections by s majority of 617 in atotal vote of 2 The radicals held their old strength well last Sunday. the conservatives lost a little, the re of the performances of the comservative treasurerno doubt having had some effect. Smill as was the fraction of change sinco March, it was enough to turn the scale. The issue, too, was one of fundamental importance —the tevision of the constitution of the canton S0 as to alter the present unfair apportionments and divi ions of electoral districts undor w! a vote nbout equal to the conservative, the radicals secure less than half s many repre- sentatives in the grand council of the canton. Two months ago they presented doublo the number of signatures needed for procuring a popular vote on the rovision of the constitu- tiou, and apparently were entitled to have that voto taken one month later. The con- servative authorities took no steps for this purpose, and the outbreak followed. When the federal authoritics intervened they put down therioters, who had overthrown the cantonal government, yet ordered the clec- tion for lasi Sunday, in which the radicals triumphed. wu Since France and Hollana have very sensi- bly concluded to settle the question of boundary between French Guiana and Duteh Guiana by arbitration, the emperor of Russia consenting to act as the referee, why should not England and Venczuela resort to the same method of settling the disputed bound- ary of British Guiana! The three Guianas have experienced many changes of owner- ship. Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, was v ited by the Frenchin 1640, taken by the Ei glish in 1650, occupicd by the Dutch in 16 retaken by the English, ceded to the Dutch in 1664, again taken the English in 1796, given tothe Dateh in 1802, recaptured by the English in 1504, and given up to Holland in 1814. Meanwhile Cayenne, or Prench Guiana, had been previou held by the French, the English, the Dutch, the French, the British, and the French, There was plenty of oppor- tunity for confusion in boundaries with all these changes, aid that a like difference in claims should exist between British Guiana, or Demerara, and Venezuela is not strange, considering the vicis of possession through which th s That the dispute still exists is partly Venezucla’s fault, since she has more than oncehad the op- portunity in past years, by making anot wholly unreasonable concession to Great Britain, to settle the affar, Since then John Bull has gone to the mouth of the Orinoco, on the coast, and has had his e, on the Yuruari gold ficlds in the interior, and now may be harder to satisfy. But the other Guianas have set this one a good example. 5 The announcement that the Gern em- peror and Count Waldersee haye come to an i reement with regard to military policy means that a most rious crisis has been averted. on what ground an agreement has been reached does not as yet appear; but it is to be supposed that the cmperor has won the day and t hat the army chieftains have yiclded to him, ~ After his recently manifested solicitude for the welfare of his subjects, the emperor could scarcely now consent to take another vastarmy from the industrial and producti trength of the empi nd roll upon the already overtaxed remainder an ad- ditional pburden of $125,0(0,00 a year, ‘Whether this attitude is an indication of the young emperor's strength or a premonition of the weakness and decline of his empive from a military point of view, may bea mooted question. ‘What is certain is that the very monarch who, on his accession, was regarded as an international firebrand, is now the fore- most opposerof an extension of militarism; and that is something for which the world may well be grateful, The French republic has in recent years made great advances in power and prestige, ‘The natural resources of the country and the thrift and industry of its people render the wealth of France practically inexhaustible, Its political organization, though oc i almost the largest possible basis, is so nicely adjusted that it gives opportunity to a people remarkable for its homogenity, for the ex- pression of the national will. As a result, there 15 great national self respect and a public spirit that is universal, growing out of aloveof country that has been deemed al- most fanatical. Then there is no longer any dynastic ambition or purpese to be served, The French army isthe largestin Europe, excepting that of Russia, and it is moro fully equipped, better organized, and more eficient than the Russian army, Indeed, counting all her reserves, France claiwms 4,500,000 trained soldiers, and the superiority of her navy rmor-plating of its ships, over that of either ( 1y, Russia, or 1d, has been recently made manifest by carest tests. It will readily be sqen that, in these circumstances, France, under T present government, is strong in hers, e has persistently shown herself superior to hostile taunts from without. She takes no initiative toward any of her neigh- o simply minds her own and, couscious of her strength, and boasting, pursues a policy of peace. Little Portugal must be conviiced of the uliar aptitude which John Bull has for’ | preseuting bis numerous clums agaiust Ler without business, | at fnopportune moments, In tho midst ofher cabinet crisis ho has made # peremptory de- mand for the payment of indemaity for the solzure of o steamer by & Portuguese sub- altern last year, Tt must be owned that this claim appears to bo well founded, The steamer was onoof throe belonging to tho African Lakes company, and employoed on the Shiroriver and Lake Nyassa, The company has boon in that regglon nearly & dozen years, yet when Captain Cardoso led his expedition up the Shire river lust jyear one of his officers seized this boat and hauled down its Briush flag. That was in days when Lieutenant Cordon, € doso and Major Serpa Pinta woro the boldness with which they attempted con- quests for England and Mashowaland and the Shire rogion. These protensions of Portu- wal were duly abandoned, under British com- pulsion, but of the claims for damages in- flicted by the too zealous leaders, this one seems to have been unduly neglected. Since England fusistson its settlement, Portugal, which has yielded as to the main contention, need hardly haggle long over this minor de- tail, “ Inseveral parts of Africa the unwonted spectacle s presented of thousands of men levelling the o ountry for railroads that ar to penetr Over @ theusand black laborers, directed by a hundred white men, are now at work along the south bank of the Congo, blasting a roadway through the foot of the rocky hills along the river, A fow miles from thestarting point they will turn abruptly up the narrow Mposi vall where the most dificult engineering problems will be met, and they will finally reach the plateau several miles south of the Congo, where the restof the roadall the way to Stanley Pool will be easily constructed. The first twenty- five miles of this road, about two hundred and forty milos long, embrace all the diMiculties which its builders have to meet. The com- ing year will probably sco lccomotives run- ningup the Congo shore and through the Mposi valley to the plains above, where fur- ther work will be rapidly carried on, 0 s The serious illness of the king of Holland hasrevived the proposal to proclaim a ve- ency inthat country. This will undoubt- edly bring the Luxembourg question up again as a factor in European polit The connection of the grand duchy with the crown of the Netnerlands will cease on the death of the present king, as the law of suc- cession excludes female heirs, The influence of Germany over Duke Adolph. who woula succeed as ruler of Luxembourg, might lead to just such a transfer of the duchy as was proposed by Napoleon I1I and objected to by the North German confederation, 10 DO session of Luxembourg would give Germany an immense strategic advantage in the event of hostalities with ne S S CONG RESSM AN CONNELL, Pawneo Republican: Mr. Bryan and the English, you know, are in fine accord on the tarilf question, Blue Springs Sentinel: Quite a number of republican papers who were opposing the re- nomiuation of Congressman Connell on purely personal grounds, are now giving him @ good support. The Sentinel is pleased to seo this, for the reason that Connell has made for the “big First” an excellent record, and there can be no charges of any kind brought agaiust bim, especially whero the laboring man’s interests have been at stake, Hurrah for Connell, Pawneo Republican Congressman Con- nell says he isn't carrying a chip around on his shoulder for somebody to knock off, but if Mr. Bryan wants to try that little tr he will give him the obportunity. Arrange- meuts are now being made for a discussion between these gentlemen, of the records of the dominant parties. Facts ave more forci- ble than words, and the eloquent Bryan will come out of the contest with a ¢ flourish that he can't control, but he will kunow a great deal more. Kearney Hub: The renomination of Con- gressman Connell in the First district w made by acclamation, as anticipated, and the occasion was one of the utmost, enthusiasm, Connell has made an excellent first term record and stands so solid in the First district that the strongest man the indevendents could put up (General Van Wyck) would not undertake torun against him, Hisonly com- petition is a democratic wind-bag named Bryan, who is wasting several months of valuable timo in a political wild goose chase. Nebraska State Laborer: The republicans of the First congressional district held their convention at Plattsmouth, Tuesday evening, and renominated W. J. Counell without an opposing vote. Mr. Connell will be re-clected by an cqually flattering vote. Everything points that way. And why not! He has made a creditable record in congress, and shown himself on the side of the people. In ability he stands high above the averago con- gressman, aud certa above any former representative of the First distri There is nouse to kick against the pricks. The demo- crats have already practically given up the fight. Pawnee Republican : Mr. Connell has been in Washington through one session, but he has shown the mettlo that he possesses and i cing a record that is rapidly placing Lim in the position of being the strongest man ever sent by Nebraska in the national house. Mr. Connell in his speecn at the Plattsmouth convention did not make a per- fect party of his own party, but he pointed the way to better results and proved by the work i sion that the de ation in Washington is to awake to the demands of their home constituents, Ou the great labor question which he places first in importanco of all questions, Mr. Counell shows that he has made a study of it in all its phases and that heis equipped for work for organized Labor that will count in the line of results. Nebraska State I Conuell’s speech i of the republican convention at unanimously conferred upon keeping with the good wo been doing in Congressman opting the nomination Plattsmouth, bim, was in which he has congress, and clearly outlined Tus fixed determination Lo continue his grand worls he has been doing in protecting the - torests of labor, &nd of promoting the pros. v of Nebraska aud the west. He dwelt atgreat length upon the labor question, and his exposition of this proble; of tho and most logicalever presented, He declared the labor question to be the par- amount one of the age, and its solution would r ¢ the most serious attention of the greatest statesman of this day, The ap- plause which grected his declavation of his belief in the governmental ownership and control of railroads and telegraph lines, and bis able defense of his position, demonstrates the rapidly growing scatiment in fayor of this reform, originally inaugurated by the Knights of Labor, The Laborer has claimed that the organi workingmen of the unanimous for Conne soundest od state were practical 's cudorsement and re- When Baby wan sick, we gave her Castorla, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When sho became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she bad Children, she gaveo thom Castoria, turn to congross, and the number of Kniehts of Labor and othor labor delogates to the cone vontion is the proof of our statoment. From Otoocounty wo mnoticed the stato workman of tho Kuights of Labor healing the delegation and the master workman of the local assombly, and tho number of Knights of Labor and other organized work- ingmen was ono of the features of the con- vention. , ith tho hearty support of the workingmon of the “Big First" Connell’s re- eloction fsassured bayond @ doubt and tho only interosting feature of this political con- testis tho sizo of his major Lot the workingmen show their appreciation of his carnest work for their interest by rolling up a good big majority, Wahoo Wasp: Tn the rnenomination of Con gressman W. J. Connell in this district the ropublicans have only carried out the wishes of the people, The people of the waest demand a largor volume of money with which to do business. S0 has Mr. Connell and s0 doos he still, The peonle of the west demand free coin age of silver and so does Mr. Connell. The peaple of the west bellove that tho money power of tho east is using every offort to oppress them. S0 doos Mr, Connell The people of the west believe that the we should be heard through its representatives So does Mr. Connell “The people of tho west are in fayor of a f and complete remonitization of silver. So Mr. Connell. Mr. Connellis a friend of has proved it by his rvecord, Connell, the people a Voto for W HE HAD n E His Latest Mash Know it, but Marrica Him Just the Sar Cmantorre, N, €, Oct. 10 gram to Tur Ber]—Miss Cori oneof the most vivacious and lo ladies that ever graced Charlotte s cles, is just now figuring in one of the most sensational marriages ever country. Last June Miss N known in this Neisler, whileon o t to Atlanta, met Charles G, Lamoine, a dashing young man, and soon she became on gaged to him, She returned to Charlotte un | the mateh was bitte opposed by her parents, but soon Miss Neisler was off for o visit to Richmond, where she again met Ia momne and an elopement was arranged. The went to Boston, wi laimed was his home, and thero they wer L Soon after this M moine of (' cinnati came here mul tolc l Miss Corin had married her husband, who had de: her last April, and she had been hunti hin ev She said ho had h ther wiv When Mrs. Lamome left 1 she was going to continue he until sho found her husband and brought b tojustice. Sho found him in Manchestor H., and ho wis promptly arrested and jailod, Wife No. 7 was also jailed. At the trial La moine was held in 00 "bail, and wife No 7 fined £20, and her marriage nullitied. Miss Neislor returned to her home here,but kept up o daily correspondence with Lamoinc, Wednesda; ht sh eived a tel n from him saying that his wifehad withdrawn the prosecution and that he was free and had secured a divorce from her, and his other wives were silent, He proposed that they meet in Louisville, Ky., and be united inmarringe. This Miss Neisler agreed to and left for Louisville to meet him, — A PIGEON'S WONDERFUL TOUR. After a Year's Abser Reaches Its Home, New Yomg, Oct. pecial Telogram to Tur Bre|—The homing pigeon Dude, owned by J. Harvey Sloane of Plinficld, has reached home after more than a year's ab- sence under circumstances which make his case one of the most remarkable in carrier pigeon annals. The members of the Scripp's league expedition, which sailed for P*aris on July 24, 1889, took with them six pigeons. fOf these four were released the first day out at sea foran ordinary ocean fly, Theothier two, Dude and Ariel, were sot freo tha second day, 700 miles from home, in au attem to break the ocean record of the worli Ariel flew almost to New York and dropped exhausted on_tho d of an steamer, Of Dude no tidings ever was given up for lost till his owner found the familiar f almost worn out with his tifteen months' journeying, onco morein his loft on his old- time pereh. A partly deciphered from the Scipp's league expedition still clung to his log, its oilskin wrapper tattered from constant 0xposure. It is supposed that the returned wanderer has been flying about constantly in various parts of the world in his_endeavors o reach home, and he is credited with the lougest flight on record. the Bird heréd form, CURSED THE WRONG JUDGE, A Real English Lord Committed to the Workhouse. Loxnox, Oct. 10.—[Special Cablegram to Tug Bee.]—Lord Cohir was arrested yester- day at Croydon, in Surrey, on complaint of one of his neighbors whom he had threaten with bodily harm. He Tocked up i cell in the police station over night and was arraigued in court this morning. . When his case was ealled he took tablo devoted to the use of solicitors swore freely at the magistrate and. otherw in a disorderly manner. The o mitted him to the workhouse that hois insane, Lady Wilton Sold Agair Lexivaroy, Ky, Oct. 10.—[Special Telo gram to Tue Ber.|—The two-vear-old nlly Lady Wilton has been sold again, Brasfieid & Co. having tured her over (o Marcus Daly of Anaconda, Mont., for the reported price of over $10,000. is by Wilton, dam by Kentucky Prince ) Baron Ellenh Loxnox, Oct. 10.—[Spevial Cablegram to P Bre—The death s aunounced of Charles Edmund Towry Law, third baron of Ellenborough. He was born in 1520, SIGK HEADAGHE] CARTERS| i it ugh Dead. these Little Pills, They also relievo Dis tress from Dyspepsta, In. digestion and Too Hearty Eating, A perfeet rem edy for Dizziness, Nausea) Drowsluess, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated n i the Std ORPID LIVER. Theyl regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALLPILL. SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. 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