Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 5, 1890, Page 4

cTESErmS Zomamecs = - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5 1890 THE DAILY BEE. —_—— E. ROSEWATER, Editor. i L PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI TERMS OF "'"-‘4";”'1"“”. Dally and Sunday, One Yeur. " Bix onths Three months 210 00 5 00 ¥ Yea OFF10F: i y Boe, One 1y Hee, One ding. r N i %5th Strects Council Blufrs t (hicago Office, cw Y ork.Room Washington, 513 F ~ CORKESPONDE All communieations relating to news and editorial matter should be sddressed to the Editorial Degartuent. BYSINESS LETTERS. { A1l business lotters and remit ould addres 10 Th e Publishing Company, Drafts, cliceks and postofiice orders de payable to the order of tie oom roe. Butlding Bee B'ld'g, Furnam nteenth Sts T OF CIRCULATIUN | s, { 8 Trschuok. seeretary of The Bes Publishing company. oes solemnly swear thai the actual eiroulation of Tik DALY BEE for the weex ending Nov. 1, 150, was lows Enndav. Oct, Monday. Oct Tuesday. Oct, 5 Wednesday, Oct Thursday. Oct Friday. Oct. 31, .. Baturday, Nov. 1., EWORN STATE: JGE B TZsonv ek, subscribed In mv wemner. A, Th.. 1500, 1L, Notary fublio 0 to before me un nce thislst dav of N.P.F g duly sworn, de- 5 crotary of The lee ing Company the nefual averige dnily circulation of Tuk DAY lke for the month of November, 188, was 10,510 coples for December, 180, 20,045 copie for Fehrun s that 4 1800, 20,18 for iy, coples Octoher, CK. pies, ) 10 before me. and b this Ist day of Noven hseribed my ther, A, D, 1500, X P, L2y Notary Public. P D RN ORI - Ol Tt ora of emotional insauity is at an end in Nebraska, THE people of Omaha put tractors to shame. their de- ttho battle comes the emic of political funerais, edlis sl A¥ the epi THi country is saved and a}l oyes are now turned on next vear's corn crop. ECTION weatherin Nebr reflects great eredit on the republican adminis- tration. t legislature is not yet clearly discerned througn the smoke of batt for all, let us return to the peaceful pur- suit of commerce and agricultuve, A rATRER day never warmed Nebraska citizens to their duty, Cloudless skies symbolized the rout of the hosts of dark- ness, —_— It may be stated with confidence that recent events effectually converted Col: onel Yardley to the principles of per- sonal liber! ND now the colonels and majors, the lieutenants and corporals, the sulvation shouters and tambourine thumpers, will fold their tents and silently snealk nway. Tue railroads which undertook to boy- cott the Union Pacific are in the condi- tion of the fellow that grubbed a loaded telegraph wire. They are exceodingly anxious to let go, but” cannot, while the allied lines are turning on the current. o THE lottery law was primarily aimed at national evils, To apply it to local wifles, sveh as vaflles, church fairs and the like, the publication of which in newspapers is a matter of news, shows a design to pervert the law and render it odious to the public. mere fact that the countr, appointed by the figures of the national census does not prove that it is not cor- rect. If Mr. Porter has counted all the people there are he has done his duty. He cannot bo expected to incrense the population over two million by his own personal efforts in ten years, however patriotic he may be. —_—— Davip B. HiLt has received handsome rebuke, He takes it from the hands of Secretary Noble, who replies to his partisan insinuations in regard to the census of New York in a manmner to suggest that even the governor of a greal state may sometimes be too fresh, The secretary’s letter is none the less cutting because it is dignified, and none the less just because it is severe. — REPUDBLICS are not only grateful but humane., Commander MeCalla, who was condemued to three years' penal ser tude on full pay and rations, with liberty % roam at will among the fashionahle esorts, has received permission to win- ter in Washington. Such delicate con- sideration for the hero of the thumb- w, the thumper of manacled men, and the groggy assailant of subordinates, lifts this merciful republic above the offete monarchies of the old world, E—— LAND COMMISSIO NER GROFF has or- dered a general curtailment of expenses in all land offices, The decrease in the number of entries as well us the receipts demands economy in ex- penditures. The work of the land offices has actually increased in the aggregate, while the cost of main- tenance, owing to the increase in number and division of labor, exceeds that of previous years. The present ad- mmistration is compelled to take up and determine the countless number of contests and rehearings hung up during the reign of Sparks, consequently the land department’s record for the present is forced to bear the burden of past neg-' ligence. So far as the land offices doing l¢ss business now than under Sparks, the actual work ‘done has been largely in excess, as appears from the record, which shows almost double the number of cases disposed of and patents issued during the first year of republican administration than during the last year of Cleveland’'s, Nevertheless, Judge Groff proposes to enforce economy all along the line. a very THE CRY OF FRAUD. For more than two months the prohi- bitionists have boen laying a foundation for a contest of the voteof Douglas county, They started out with charging that a great conspiracy was being hatched to import voters from Towa and Missouri into Omaha for the pur= pose of enormously increasing the vot- ing population. They also charged that the conspirators were organizing gfngs of repeaters and ballot-box stuffers who were to inflate the vote of Omaha and pad the returns of the election. To give these charges plawsible backing they concocted the reports of Inflated census returns and bolsteved up theiv cock and bull storfes through imported forgera and vagabonds who ransncked private offices and palmed off perjured affidavite upon the eredulous, wole But the vegistration of the voters of Omaha and South Omaha which was conducted open and ahove board under the most rigid scrutiny of prohibition detectives and agents, gave the lie to the malicious abrication. Every man who presented maltter re- himself for registration, no how prominent and well known, w quired under oath to testify to his eligi- bility asa citizen and place of residence by street and number. The lists were made public and prohibitionists were al- lowed to copy them. No city in America has ever made a more perfect and unim- peachable registration. As a last desperate resort the prohibi- tion managers howled about anavchy riot and outlawry in Omaha, while the; were importing thugs and challengersto obstruct honest citizens in casting their votos. But in spite of th talk about the reign of terror the election was more quiet and orderly than any that had ever taken place in this city, Every saloon and barroom was closed, and merchants, manufactur- ersand professional men were out doing volunteer duty at the poll In only four out of the forty-one vot- ing precinets was there the slighteat vipple or disturbance. In three of these precinets the trouble arose over the at- tempt of imported and non-resident strikers to obstruct the .election and an attempt to impose upon voters by hand- ing them bogus ticket: In the other precinet four men were taken into cus- tody by the police for interfering witha prohibition ticket peddle These isolated instances wers im- mediately magnified intoa tereible on- slaught upon prohibitionists and dis- patches were sent and circuluted broad- cast that a bloody reign of outlawry had swept over Omaha and deprived pro- hibitionists from casting their votes. These dispatches had a twolold object in view. One was tothrow a flrebrand among voters in the towns and villages and thereby increase the prohibition vote. The other wasto pave the way still further to the long-hatched scheme to disfranchise Douglas county by the cry of fraud and intimidation, From the present outlook the prohibi- tionists will get very poor comfort from throwing out thevoteof Douglas county. But Tnie Bee deems it its duty to dispel the false impressions which these zealots ave trying to create us regavds the con- duct of the election in Omaha. DILLON AND 0'BR 1ERT The Irish leaders have arrvived in America, fresh from the clutches of Bal- four. They have temporarily adjourned their cases from the courts of Dublin to the forum of American public opinion, and, whatever the resulls, they are at least in no dangor of being arvested for xercising the vight of freo speech. Dillon und O’Brien have come to ap- peal for help at a most eritieal time in the history of the home rule movement. Recent bye-elections hold out flattering indications of a coming victory. It is apparently only necessary for the fol- lowers of Parnell to keep up their vigor ous campaign inorder to place Gladstone once more at the head of affairs and to realize at last their long dream of home rule. The Irish statesmen ave pressed hard for funds to maintain the enor- mous drain upon them. The expenses of the party and of the campaign are great and constant. The immediato constituents of the men who are so bravely fighting for their people can do little to meet this demand. To America principally the home rule party is obliged to look. And itis to be hoped that it will not now look in vain, as it never has before, Ireland has a large representation in America, It is a useful and loyal cle- ment of our citizenship.. It is not strange that the presence of so many sons of the green isle should lend more than the ordinary American enthusiasm for freedom to the immense moral sup- port which has always gone out from this country to the home rulers. The influence of this united backing of American publicsentiment may not have been large directly as applied to British potitics, but without the financial aid which it has carried with it the home rule leaders would have been crushed long ago. New that they appear to be nearer success than ever before, the an- swer shpuld be even more prompt and hearty than formerly. Dillon and O’Brien represent a cause that Americans have sustained and ave still willing to encournge. THE DRIFT OF POPULATION. Westward the star of empire still takes its way, despite the attractions and inducements offered by other geo- graphical divisions of the country. The federal census for the past decade, just completed, proves that the great west is the magnet for the vust majority of home-seekers, The completed tables of population divide the states into five groups. Of these, the northern central comprise what may be termed the agricultural empive of the north, taking Ohio on the east, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas on the south, and extending north to the British possessions. Twelve states included in this group show an in- crease in population of five millions. In round numbers they contain twenty-one million souls. The Pacific and Rocky mountain states and territories, forming properly a portion of the great west, add to this total three million people, or a total increase in ten years of a frac- tion over six millions. ‘The north Atlantic division, compris- | the rules restricting debute, and Pennsylvania, ranks second In popu- ation and incrense, The total approxi- mates sixteen miltjions and the incresse, two million eight hundred thousand, The southern states, seventeen in num- ber, comprising the‘ two remaining groups, show the splendid results of the enterprise and activity which has been a conspicuous factor in the development of the new south, The growth in ten years is a fraction over three and a quarter million, almost equalling the average of the two western groups. The growth and development of the west is practically in its infancy, While the eastern states included in the north- ern central group have passed tho flood tido of progress, the great west and northwest, from the ssippl to the Pacific, afford the most inviting fields for home scckers and investors. Pos- sessing one-fourth of the entire popula- tion of the country, and increasing at the rate of three hundred thousand «o year, the vast agricultural and mineral resources yet untouched, will soon be made to contribute to the general wealth of the country, new avenues of employment and industry will be opened and limitless opportunities afforded for millions yet to come to acquire homes and a competence, as well as home and fortune, The thousands who have followed Horace Greeley's advice, bringing little more than a strong constitution and a will to do and dare, ave today in the van of progress and their success is a perma- nent invitation to brawn and brain to forsake the jostle of the crowded east and follow the mavch of empire. 10N OF CONGRESS. Tt appears to be generally understood that the president will at an early aay call congress together in extra session, The fact that there are more than thir- teen hundred bills on the calendars of the two houses would seem to sufficiently justify convening congress in advance of the constitutional date of meeting, the first Monduy in December, but the real cause of urgency is found in the election and apportionment bills, which will oc- cupy a great deal of time. The election bill has passed the house and is in the senate, where it may be discussed to the end of the short session unless the senate can effect a change in This is likely to prove a difficult matter, for the reason that a number of republican sen- ators bave gone on record as opposed to such a change, They may have altered their minds since, but even in that ¢ a departure from the uniform practice of the senate since the organization of the government regarding debate will notbe easily accomplished, The elec- tion bill probably cannot be passed with- out a rule restricting debate, but in any event the contest is certain to be pro- longed, and hence the importance of using all the time available before the date of regular meeting. The apportionment bill is also cortain to consume a great deal of time, It would secin to be a matter that might be very easily and quickly disposed of, but numerous difficulties are likely to be en- countered. The ratio of representation generally expected to be adopted is one hundred and seventy-five thousand, which would increase the membership of the house to about three hundred and fifty-seven members, but the states that would lose representation under thiscon- siderable increase in the ratio, and pos- sibly some that would only retain their present representation, are likely to make a fight for a lower busis. It is a very serious question whether the mem- bership of the houseshould be matervially increased, and whiie there are some who will contend that there is no valid objec- tion todoing so, the large majority are likely to favor the view that a house of about three hundred and fifty members is likely to be more efticient and a better business body than onme with a much larger membership, Tt congress is convened by the middle of the present month a good deal of un- finished business can be disposed of before the holiday recess, and the decks cleared for the contest over the eiection bill. There appears to be a general de- sive among the republicans for an extra session, and it is not doubted that the president will accede to it. A QUESTION OF QUORUM. A New York firms of importers has taken an appeal to the United States circuit court from the decision of the board of customs appraisers in support of the law classifying worsteds as woolens. The act was passed last May, and the journals of the house records one hundred and thivty-eight yeas, nono in the negative, and the presence of seventy-five members who did not vote. “There being present in the house when the act was put on its passage two hun- dved and thirteen membors, forty-seven more than a quorum, the speaker counted enough of those not voting to make d quorum and declared the bill passed. The question raised by the importers is whether the law was con- stitutionally enacted, and this question alone will properly be considered by the courts. The matter for judicial decis- ion issimply whether the language of the constitution authorizes the speaker of the house tocountas present members not voting in order to establish a quorum. The constitution provides that ‘‘each house may determine the rules of its proceedings,” and *u majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day,and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent mem- bers, in such manner and under such penalties as each house may pro- vide.” There is wide diversity of opin- ion regarding the scope of this provis- ion, though it certainly appenrs to war- rant the view that the power of compel the avtendance of members involves the authority to count them when present if necessary to establish a quorum, There is another provision of the constitution, however, which seems to give a differ- ent aspect'to the matter in controversy, and that is the one which provides that *‘the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desive of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal,” The act whose validity {s called in question was declared passed on o yea vote number- ing nine states sud including New York | ing less than o majority of the house T — and with nong in the negative. Does this conflict with the provision last quoted. - It appears io.have been uniformly de- cided by statd tourts that the record of | the house jowrnal is conclusive, but the matter now Hrotight before the federal courts raises 4 wholly new question and one of the vely highest importance, tho decision of whith will be regarded with general and very great interest. THE closing speech of General Web- ster at Nebraska City was a magnificent one. It was dn address worthy of the man and an honor to the cause of truth and justice. Mrs. Etanley Declines. Chicago nter-Ocean., Mrs, Henry M, Stanley declined the honor of being Mrs. Goveraor of Congo, aud Henry M. will tell the king of the Beigians so. funirinlhe Lokl i The Fair Thing to Do, Buffalo Erpress, If the counting and casting of negro votes were, in fact, an impossibility, faimess would demand the disfranchisement of the negro and the reduction of southern representation in congress and in the electoral college. But, the enforcement of foderal law is not an im- possibility in the United States. - A Count in New York "orid, The ups and downs of impecunions royalty are seldom better 1llustrated than in the case of Count. Sackendorf, who is now conductor of an elevator in a Cincinnati hotel. In addi- tion to this the count is defending himaelf in a suit for $300 brought against him by a base- born churl who keeps @ restaurant and sells baked beans. =35 i ot The Boot is on the Other Leg Now. Brookly n Standard-Undon, Bismarck is a_protectionist for Germany, but he never offercd an objection to a freo market in the United States for German products. It was remarkable that after the Franco-German war tiventy years ago both nations when over the struggle strengthened their lines of protoction. Bismarck and Thiers were agreed i holding that tho adop- tion of the protective principle was a neces- sity, aud they carried McKinley bills. g SOME NOTABLE MES. . Andrew Carnegie's mascot is a brass telo- graph kee. Hekeeps it in a glass Strauss is perfecting a waltz that will admit of conversation while dancing it. Medford peopie say H. J. Moon, aged sixty- one, is the original of tho village blacksmith in Longfellow's famous poem, Russell Sage keeps an old one dollar bill— the first dollar he ever earned—in a glass box in his offico. Mr. Suge thinks a great deal of it. General Joseph E. Johnston at 83 15 a sprightly, soldierly looking old gentleman, To the orlinary obsorver ho twenty years youager than he i The country place of G. W. Childs, Bryn Mawr, is said to be one of the finest in tho United States, The vay roll for scrvants ppears to bo * alone averages about $1,000 & month. General Butler owns the Craig ranch, Delow Pueblo, consisting of 100,000 acres. Ho isalso theowner of three-fourths of a 600,- 000-acre ranch in Now Mexico, The new state historian of New Hamp- shive, A. S, Batcheller of Littleton, is a law- and Dartmonth graduate, who has given much time to studing historic matters, Colouel Herbert, who has beon appoin tod tocommand the Canadian militia as sucer sor to General Middleton, §s a man of thirty nine years, und a favorite of Lord Wolsel Judge Howell C. Gleun of Atlanta, Ga., is dead. Hisold mother pronounced this eul- upon him: *In all bislife henever gave mo an impatient word, aud that is why Tlove him so dearly.” Avchibishop Eyre, of Glasgow, who is about to be raised by the pops to the Sacred college, is one of the most popular prelates in Great Britain, and his promotion will be hailed in Scotland by all classos with en- thusiasm, Iix-Secretary Whitney is forty-nine years old. His father was collector of Boston under Buchanan. Although a democrat, it was his vote in the Muassachusetts logisla- ture that first elected Sumuer as United States senator in 1851, Commander Dennis W. Mullan of the United States navy, who commanded the war ship Nipsic while that vossel was at Simoa, was presonted with a goid chronome- ter watch, chain and charm at Annapolis last Thursday. The gift was voted him by the Marylond legislature at its last session in recognition of his gallant services during the hurricane at Apia last year, The presenta tion was made by Governor Jackson. ———e Advice to Bachelors, Agree with the girl’s father in poli- tics aud the mothor in religion, says the Boston Satuvdny Evening Gazotte, If you have a rival keepan eye on him. Ifhe is a widower, keep two eyes on him, Don't put too much sweet stuft per. If you do you will hear it read in after years when your wife hassome spe- purpose in inflicting upon you the on pa- severest punishment known to a mare man, (Go home at a reasonable hour in the evening. Don't wait untila girl has to throw her whole soul intoa yawn that she can't cover with both hands. A litlle thing like that might cause a coolness at the very beginning of the game. I, on the oceasion of your first call, the girl upon whom you "have set your young affections looks like an icobery and acts like a cold wave, take your leave enrly and stay away. Woman in her hour of freeze is uncertain, coy, and hard tosplense. Jn cold weathér finish saying good night in the houses Don't stroteh it ull the way to the frout gute, and thus lay the foundation favfuture asthma, bron- chitis, neuralgia, and chronic catarrh to help you to worny the girl to death after she has married. Don't lie aboutyour financial condi- tion. It is very manoying to a bride who has pictured a life of esse in her ances- tral halls to learmyitoo late, that you ex- pect her to ask & baldheaded old “parent who has heen uniformly kind to her to take you in out 6f the cold. Flectricity Splves the Problem. Paper manufactyrers have for a long time been much pxercised with the pro- blem of procurifigat a reduced cost the caustic sodn and thy chloride of lime or bleaching powder which constitute items of considerable exnense in paper mills, It has been hoped that these two chemi. culs would be obtained directly and economically from common sult by the ald of electricity, and at length | this hope has been realized The apparatus which has been de- vised for this process is automatic, the salt solution passing regularly, and the caustic soda being drawn Off at any strength up to 10 or 12 per cent of pure caustic soda. The chlorine, which can also bo used direct for bleaching, is ab- | sorbed by slacked lime, and bleaching powder is thus produced. By this pro- cess, which is simply the passing of an electric current through common salt, an | increased prn‘!mruon of bleaching powder is secured and the quality of the caustle | soda is greatly improved. IS KATIE MARLAN INSANE? The Girl Under Arrest for Incendiarism Be- lieved to B: Mentally Unsound, SEVERAL MORE PARTIES IMPLICATED. A Negro Runs Off with a Street Oar Cash Box - The Electric Motor Power House — A Gay Eloper Captured. LixcoLy, Neb., Nov. 4.—[Special to Tue bee. | —~Whether or not Katie Harlan, the domestic employed by Judge Stewart, who is under arrest for setting fire to the judse's resid ence, is mentally unbalanced, is a dis- puted question. Nevertheless there is con- siderable method in her madness. Last night she broke the silenco she has hitherto maintained with the police relative to her cannection with the case, and told Marshal Melick that J. H. Hunt, who boards near L and Tenth strects, was the man who had induced her to set five to Judge Stew- art’s house, and that he had promiesd to give her 75 for doing so. Hunt was arrested about midnight by Marshal Melick and Captain Carder, He appeared to be greatly surprised at his ar- rest, and protested that he did not, know tho Harlan girl, When confronted by his accuser at the station he admitted his acquaintanco with the girl, but stoutly protested his inno- cence, Katie positively identified him as the man who had incited her tothe act of incen- diarism, and be wag locked up. Hunt says he drives a coal wa@bn for Oakley, and that all the acquaintance or conversation with the girl he ever had wus when he delivered coal at Mr. Stewart’s house. ‘The police are working on another clue, however, and the girl's wmanoer and Hunt's strenuous denials im- pressed them with the belief that the fiirl was trying to shield the guilty man at unt's expense The clue they wore work- ing upon resulted in the arrest at 2 o'clock this morning of A. W. Day, manager of the Lincoln steam laundry When the givl was put in the “sweat box" soon after her arrest she acknowledged hav- iug frequently taken walks with a young man, whom she referved toonly as Frank, ond said that he was a druggist. ~To Deteet ive Crow, who wormed the story out of her by representing himself as her attorney, tho girl told her story, She said that she came to Lincoln seven months ago from Leaven- that prior to coming here worth, and ho had been ruined by young man, Soon after e arrived at Lin- colu she to > with two pseudo dress- makers on a prominent street. These women had frequent visitors, and among them was “Frank,” who scemed to be attracted by Katie, and after the “‘dressmakers” had left the city he appears to haye followed her up. At an; she confessed to having hsd im- proper relations with “Frank,” and that ho supplied her with means and’ appliances for destroying the evidences of her threatened maternity. She said that she had froquently taken walks with the man, and that their relations had long continued. Duy was afterwards released on bail fur- nished by C. W. Mosher He refused to say whether or not he knew the girl, and isas mum as an oyster. He isa married man, and formerly lived at Twenty- first and S streets. He has been in the laun- dry business for a number of years being connected at times with the Peerless, Cry tal and other laundrvies. He has hitherto borae a good reputation. The police refuse to divulge what evidence they have against Day, but have placed the charge of arson against his name on the docket. ELECTRIC MOTOR POWER HOUSE. ‘The managers of the Lincoln street railway company have chosen the vacaut lots on the corner of K and Eighth stroets as the site for the power house where electricity is to be gencrated for the purposes of ~locomotion. to be The power The lot is 142x150 feet and the building Wx150 feet. ck. erected is to be house is to be built of by In addition to the rooms for the genc m of electricity there are to be other apartments to be used as machine, construction and paint shops. In the power house proper are to be four 100- horse power dynamos and four engines of 125-horse power each. Plans for the bmilding are being drawn and will brobably be completed by Wednesday next. In such event ground wiil be broken for the structure on the Thursday following. It is the intention to have the building completed by Januavy 1 if possible, By February 1 it is expected that the engines, boilers and dynamos will all be ready for use. Tighe and Barry, the engineers, left today for the cast to give directions concern- ing the machinery and the motor cors. There are to be thirty cars ordered, all of the latest and most improved patterns, and will be fin- ished in elegunt, style, By April 1 at the latest, Lincoln will be the best equipped in electrical locomotion of ny city of its size {u the country. ROBBED A STREET CAR DRIVER, Jack Hayes, a driver on the Rapid Tran- sit line, was robbed last evening by a negro, about $3 hcinrf taken. Hayes was driving north on Twelfth street, between T and U, the only passenger on board being the burly negro who stood on the front platform witih the driver. Hayes stopped the car near U street to let alady get aboard, when the col- ored fellow grabbed the driver's cash box and ran off with it. Pursuit was made but in vain as the negro was fleet and seemed to know all the alleys in that part of the city suitable for hiding places. A description of the thief has been left with the police and they are looking for the fellow. WAS HE A LINCOLN MAN? Eugene Carlat of Kaunsas City writes to the chief of police here concerning the identity of a man found in the river near that place. The body had evidentay been in the water for two or three weeks and was de- cayed almost beyond identification. ‘The corpse was that of a man somewhere be- tween thirty and fifty years of age, height five feet four inches, aud weight about one lundred and fifty pounds. A dark colored suit was found on the body. On the coat was found the trademark of A. Hurlbut, a clothier of this ¢ showiug that the gar- ment had been purchased bere. SUSPECTED 1ER HUSDAND, About a year ago Mike oy got tired of domestic turmoil and attempted to end his troudles by swallowing strychnine, but was dragged back to the stern realities of life by the physicians, It appears that all is not yet sercne in the Bailey houschold, and the head of the house is still annoyed with the jealous antics of his better half.” Last evening Mr, Bailey had oceasion to go up town and his wife got the notion into her head that he was gong out to meet another wom After he left she gotout of bed, although she has been sick for three woeks, and slipped out of the house without the knowl- edge of her daughter. Ne trace of the sick woman could be dis- covered anywhere, and at 11 o'clock the aid of the police was invoked, About miduight the woman was found several blocks away at the home of a friend, on whose doorsteps she hal fallen in sheer exhaustton. Sho declared that she conld not find her husband any- where, LR CAPTURED. est, Who ran off with Mr. Clark's wife aid six children, has been arvested ot Cedar Bluffs and the officers here have been notified of the fact. Inaddition tothe chargo of criminal intimacy, a warrant has been sworn out for the arrestof Hurst on the charge of running off with mortgaged prop- erty. OnDE AND EXDS, While N. G. Franklin was in the public reading room last evening, some thief walked off with his overcoat. While Jesse Allep was attending a meeting at a church two miles this side of Eagle, some thief stole his spanking team of horses and brand new bugg At 1 o'clock today thb fire department was called to 1143 L street to extinguish a blazein a house belonging to K. . Oakley, The roof was damaged about $50 worth, cause of the fire was & defective flue, And how the City of Mexico is mad about its census t00. It expected the enumerators to find 400,000 inhabitants, but all they could find made but 527,000 zens of the Mexican capital ureas mad with the government as the New Yorkers with Superintendent Porter, The census taker’s lot is notu | bawpy oue anywhere, THE BIRTH OF AN ISLAND. How a New Name Was Added to the Tonga Group in the Pacific. About four and & half years ago the | people on an island in the southern part of the Tonga group in the Pacific ob- sorvee a terrible commotion far out at sea, suys tho San Francisco Examiner It scemed to them that the waters wero boiling and that smoke was rising from tho surface of the occan, A little while before the waters near their shores had been agitated in an unsecountable man- ner, and big waves rolled in, although there was not much wind stirring. A fow of the bravest among the people launched one of their sailboats and started toward the scene of disturbance, They halted at a considerable distance from the center of the commotion, but they wore near cnough to determine ac- curiately the nature of the phenomenon before them, new island was coming into view. One of the voleanic vents at the bottom of the sea had spread its molton rock and ashes over the ocean bed until the growing mass reached the sufface. No longer impoded by the ponderous weight of water tno voleanic debris shot high into the air with a ronr that was heard for many miles and wassifted over the grow- ing mass. By far the lavger part. of it foll to one side of the crater through which the matter was finding vent. A very large part of the debris was nothing but ashes, and the prevailing wind car- vied nearly of it to one side of the ori- fice. The eruption lasted forseveral days, and when it finally ceased a new island had been added to the Tonga group, and it now bears the name of Falcon island. 1t was the old story, but one that has soldom hud eye witnesses to record it, says the New York Sun. In a similar manner the whole of Iceland was reared above the sea within a recent geological ugo by matter brought from the bowels of the earth, Hundred of islands along e of volcanic action, stretching the Pacific, came to the light in exactly thesame way as Falcon island, This lat of the valcanic islands was the product of a very moderate ernption, and we can imagine what_gigantic con- vulsions of nature attended the birth of many an island that is a hundred fold larger than the new little speck in the Tonga group. Those islands, which wore reared above the sea only by prodigious and probably long extended eruptions, are likely, even in these later days, to be the 0 of the most stupendous volcs ity. The great evuptionof S ¥ ago believed to have cov- ered a part of Iceland and the adjoining seas with a larger mass of lava than has poured Vesuvius and Btna com- he burial of Pompeii. It fthof the population, de- stroyed the arable lands and frightened the tish from the adjacent waters, so that for a log time the people were in danger of starvation, The voleano vent that gave birth to Little Falcon island is right in line with the great chain of volcanie islands in the Malay avchipelago, where most of the stupendous eruptions of modern times have occurred. It was on Sim- bowa, a little east of Java, that ag ox- plosion occurred sixty cight years ngo audible for nearly 1,000 miles, and so completely burying & whole province that only twenty-six persous escaped in a population of 12,000, PilOctober of last year J. J. Lister vis- ited Falcon island, then four yeavs old, and he has just reported the “results of his observations to the Royal Geograph- ical society of London, The fine grained dust or ashes, greenish gray in color, of which the island is composed, is very friable, and the waves dashing against the mew obstruction in their way, have torn off the edgos and con- siderably reduced the island’sarea. The largest amount of material is gathered on one side of the crater, through which the debris is poured; and there a cliti 150 feet high fronts the sea. Inland the cliff slopes gently down until it reaches the level of the tongue of land, about a mile in length and only ten to twelve feet ahove high tide, which forms the rest of the island, It is a bare, dark heap of ashes, which the ocean rollers are doing their best to bury out of sieht beneath the sea. As Mr. Lister walked over the hillside there was a distinct odor of sulphur in the air, and the distant parts of the island were seen through a thin blue haze. The explorer found that beneath the surface the mass was still very hot. At the surface Lhe temperature was 77 de- grees; two feet below the surface the thermometer registered 85 degrees: and six feet six inches below it reached 106 degrees. Notwithstanding these dis- couraging conditions nature was begin- ning to put forth efforts to cover the un- sightly heap with the luxuriant verdure of the South Sea islunds. Two cocoanut trees wore struggling upward, but they did not look prosperous. Specimens of grass and two other plants were found, and stranded fruits wore found here and there, all ready to germinate if they had uny encouragement. The only living things the visitor saw were u bird and a small moth, but he found the burrows of some creature. Mrs. Burw Pet Robin, A remarkable expression of bird intel- ligence has been manifested by u robin at Westville, writes a New Haven, Conn,, corvespondent of the New York Times. Early in tho summer of 1880 Mrs. A. R, Burwell, who resides near the end of the New Haven and Westville horse car line, found the young robin in her door- yard, It had fallenin_its fiest attempts to fly and was rendered helpless by the injury. Mrs. Burwell tenderly eared for the bird, and it gradually recovered and grew stronger until it was as vigor- ous a bird as any of its kind, It became quile tame, sceming to de- sire no greater freedom that the house afforded, and it learned to inswer the whistled call of members of the fam- ily by an imitating chirp. For anentire i,'n-m- the bird remained with the family, hut last June Mrs. Burwell decided to liberate Ler pet if it wished to go. The bird, when taken out of doors hovered about for a time and then disappeared. On Wednesday of this week Mrs, Bur- well was oceupied in front of her house, when she heard the familiar call of the robin above her head. She looked up and saw her little bird friend on the end of a branch. Holding out her hand, she liu\'u the old call, and instantly the bird flew down to the ground and then up to hior hand. It was borne into the house, chirping its willingness to bocome u captive, and since then it has shown no disposition to resume its liberty, Tt is belioved that the bird did not know what else 10 do aud s0 flew back toits previous | winter home, Mrs. Burwell is the wife of a con- ductor on the Derby railvoad. She re- | lutesthe story as here told, and there is 1o doubt of ils authenticity, The return of the robin was witnessed by people who were on a passing horse~ car, and scores of persons have called at the Bur- well residence o seo the bird, WHY HE WEARS A BnEARD. The Weird Story Told by a New Yok Yawye A woll-known lnwyor who ha taken consicerable pride in the mould of his clean-shaven fuce np | at the county court house re awell-doveloped growth of v coming beard, saysthe New Yo ivery friend that he met i ; know why he didn’t get shaved nally he corraled half a dozen i in a corner and told them the rog He had nover learned the art fng himself and had always pat one barber. Notlong ngo th dropped into the habit of 1 A that ho (the lawyer) had The lawyer didn’t mind much : barber thought of hiseye so lone oo 1, shaved him satisfactor discovered that the law, mesmeric, the barber went astop £ and once in a while after making: with his razor would explain was bocause he was mesmorizod he did not know™ what he wus Muttors went on this way for a s0, the barber insisting thut mesmerized every timo the looked squarely at him, and taking it for granted that the business was a dodge of the excuse the occasional cuts ol A different aspect put on t however, the last time tho shaved his lawyer customer, 1. over him after he had finished, T if the lawyer thoughta man wo excusuble for cutting the throat who mesmerizod him, The Ly, he cortainly would not be excus got out of the chair s quickly ble. He afterward learned thi barber had become a perfect cru the subject of mesmerism will persuade him that he a narrow escape. He will to another barber some present his nerves are so oceurrence that he profors to weu becoming board to sitting down barber’s chair, proba time, | MEAES Save the Teecs. Garden and Fores | war : cated saving the last grove of quoias, ‘the big trees,” in | county, California, and bhoth Lo congress have passed unaninmg setting apart the grove for lic park, says u writer in e weekly. The act secures also the of streams that flow through the and provides for the prescrvation o timber and natural objects, for (i tection of the fish and gan Wi fo intenance of the park in its ition, Garden and Forest now similar reservation should not | of a tract of the redwood forest coust range. The trees are so vi that they ave rapidly falling und.r axe, and trees almost as arostin the big trees, and even more bea will disappear. It hopes, also, that t committees will report the Yowu park bill, and undoubledly in rese these noble tracts from destruction gress might be sure of aniversul il approval. The public interest in foresty. whi hias boen faithfully and forcibly fost: by Garden and Forest, has arisen I pily in time to save much that ought 1o o saved, but could be saved only by i strong expression of opinion. Thoe griat heauty and the universal enjoyicut of the parks which have been luid ot within vecent years have shown wlhit immense benefit and delight a 11 tle forethought may secure to our cli dren, The reservation of Nia \ New York, and the earnest struggle for the Adirondack forest, are fruitsof tlo spivit which has been awakened | whether the parks arve vast tracts in tho wilderness or breathing spaces in | city, the feeling which reserves the and 'which in turn they develop and « courage, is a source of the purest pub plensure. asks w \ e Ravages of the Nun Moth From varvious partsof Ba alarming news of the destructive i agos of the nun moth, says the | Daily News. Fora coupie of centivic: ormore the forests on the contin have been attacked by this pest at lon: intervals; but never, it would seem,wit) more disastrous results than at ent. The Forest department of the i istry of finance reports that the pi: extends over nearly all Bavaria south of the Danube, and so great is the fertilily of the insect that no measures of dest tion are of any avail. It attacks chic the pine and fir, with which Bavarii forests abound, but does not despise 1! beech, oak and othor forest trees, and i» even known to feed on shrubs and den plants, It never attacks corn o wheat, and there is one tree it will not touch, namely, the horse chestnu! ““T'he means of destruction arve variol Forest bonfires are one, The insccls are attracted by the fire anil are smothered in the smoke, 1! only a comparatively smull number o killed, Children and boys are also s out, to destroy the insects. But the o really efficient general measure scois to be the cutting down of* whole forc when much infested. One other metho is used by the state, but is not witl roach of communes. A large elect light is placed in the forest by nig This attracts hundreds of thousands ‘nonnen’ to the mouth of a fun through which a rapid exhaust currc of niris forced, sucking in the in by thousands into a hole under t1o earth, where they are buried.” Wedding Girts, Harper's Bazaar, in an editorial on ding gifts, has this to say concerning i « tom which happily is no longer countens by the best society: *“That one may y recurring wedding festivals aro wedding days recurring, no one W deny. But thatone may turn any of the festivals into an excuse for begging and 1 ceiving, an_ excuse for imposing wuotl domestic tax upon friends und o Quuintances, noone now will assert, wii ever miy have been polite usage a at since. Indeod, whenver one thil of the great sacredness and tenderness of marriage relation, it seoms difficult t how any can be willing to vulgarize and | fane it by such a custom as the asking o receiving of gifts, and we would expec anniversaries 0 be celebrated not in waking, but with a sort of nity making such things impossibi LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Buys and sells stooks and bends; ney commeroial paper; recelves and excoulod trusts;actsas transfor agent and trusiod corporations, takes charge of property, o1 lects taxes, |Omaha Loan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK. A Heroic Florida Boy, Clarence Philips, a boy residing in | T A, hias been presented with a s medalof gold and silver by J. C. Williams, for bravery in put- ting out in @ leaky boat to the rescus of # purty of ldies in u disabled yacht, and | succoeding in geotting the imperilod o aft into safe harbor, Fngraved upon the | wmedy) 1s a view of Tumpa by, 8. E. 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