Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1891, Page 4

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Eworn 1o befo presence this Etate of Nebraska, County of Dot eing dnly sworn, de- otos and £iys that he'Is ry of THE BER ublishing company, th rage daly circulation of for the month of April, %0, D) 3600, 26,150 coples: for June, 1860, for Tuly. 1600, 20,062 copless for' A 20,760 coples; for September, 1800, 20,670 for October 62 coples: 1600, for coples for Fobruary, 180 1601, 24,065 coples. Eworn 1o Lefore me. and subserib presence. this id duy of April, A, oples; for Novem- ceniber, 15, 2,446 conles: N. T Fere, Notary Publie. THE Douglas street grade ordinance has been resurrected and passed. The hog back will come off. THE governor senator of New York is permitting his corpulent rival to do all the talking. David Bennett Hill is a re- ably shrewd polit NEW YORK police are on their mettle. They propose to demonstrate to the Lon- don guardians of the peace that no Jack the Ripper can escape detection and ar- rest on this side the Atlantic. Crr1z, who have been afraid Uncle Sam was living a trifle beyond his means are assured by his secretary of the treasury that while the old man has been a bit gay he will not exhaust his bank account. Traus far the Chicago & Alton has not experienced bankruptey from the anti-commission boycotters, but some of her competitors are actually squealing. The powor of the coupon ticket agent is not yet broken. DEMOCRATIC jokes about Grandfather Harrison’s hat were never so stupidly flat as now. General Harrison before the people honors his ancestry and vin- dicates his own reputation for tact, abil-, ity and stutesmanship in the speeches he delivers on his tour. PERSECUTIONS in the name of religion are a relic of the dark ages. Nothing more distinetly proves that Russia is a century behind the progress of the world than the efforts now being made by that absolute monarchy to suppress dissenters from the Greek church. SAN PRANCISCO gave the president a most extravagantly enthusiastic recep- tion. Nothing has equaled the display of fireworks, street decorations and harbor lights since the reception to General Grant in 1879, and nothing in this country has ever excelled that dem- onstration. THE less said about the Foraker speech at Cincinnati the better. It was a blunder f6r which the league is not responsible and fhis is the most charita- ble construction which can be placed upon it. Whether Foraker intention- ally uttered the offensive sentence or did 80 unthoughtedly is a matter of compar- atively slight importance. Whether Foraker hies or dislikes the president is of no public interest or importance. THE colered troops who saved General Forsythe at White Clay creek during the Indian troubles are to be rewarded for their bravery by a transfer of Colonel Henry, then in command, and one troop to Fort Meyer at Washington. This action on the part of Secretary Proctor 18 to bo commended, but the atmosphere of Fort Meyer will nevertheless be sharp and biting for the black soldiers. Fort Meyor is south of the Potomac river, and Washington society and sen- timont breathes a great deal of air from Dixie’s landing and thereabouts, AMERICANS with their free schools, and in many cities free text books, will be surprised to know that just now the parliament in England is in danger of being prorogued over the question of cutting off the tuition fees in the public schools of Great Britain. Thoy will likewise wonder that there should be anything short of unanimity upon the proposition. The denominational schools supported by voluntary aid are alarmed lest froe public schools shall cut off some of their pupiis and re- sources ond this explains gthe opposition in the house of commons. SENATOR REAGAN of Texas has re- signea his seat in the senate to accept the position of railroad commissioner of Texas. The American people will re- gret thisaction, It takes from the upper house of congress one of the most stal- wart, able and fearless champions of the people. During his entire service in congress Senator Reagan’s career has been honorable and efficient. Texas will search throughout the length and breadth of her vast domain in vain for a successor who can step into his place and fill it with the same integrity, independ- ence and statesmanship that have char- ncterized Senator Reagan’s incumbency. THE WAREHOUSE MATTER AGAIN. Roferring again to the subjoct of pub- lic warehouses, which eannot become a hackneyed topie until wo have estab- lished here a large grain and provision market, it 18 woll to remember that a grain exchango is not a bucket shop and a provision exchange is not a gambling device. Men may invest and speculate without gambling in al estate, grain, provisions, or any other article which people buy and sell. It is very common to denounce all transactions in grain and provisions, sold to be delivered in the future, as gamblin, There is no article of commerce which possesses a value upon which cash is so dily available, aside from cortain classes of bonds and securities, as grain, provisions and similar articles essen- tial to life. The man who buys city lots or farming lands expecting an advance may be disappointed, not only in his hopes, but find it impossible to realize on his invest- ment oven at a heavy loss. Itis not so with grain. It may decline, but it always commands a price no mattor how much the market may be glutted. Tn other words grain is lways saleablo for money. though veal estate is not. The question of futures is also mis- understood. It is merely the oppor- tunity for gambling. The actual futuro is a delivery of goods and as legitimate as the bargain to deliver a growing crop at harvest at an agreed price. In no other way could grain buyers and have the present use of money for trade except by buying for tuture aelivery and selling that delivery at the time of the purchase. Dealing in options and futures, as conducted on the boards of exchange where products are cornered and speculators are enriched or impoverished, are abuses growing out of tho system, but not the system 1tsell. Men will spocu- late, for the same reason that they w risk money in what aro termed legiti- mate occupations—for the hope of gain. Men will bet on horse cos, but tho breeding of race horses is not an ovil. So because men gamble in grain we should not cease to raise and store and sell i The speculators will make the Omaha exchange sensational and interesting, but it is the wavehouses which will make the market. Tt is the substance which is sold. It is the probability of an advance or decline which mukes the buying and selling speculation. We want the exchange, we want the busi- ness incident to both and we want the money in circulation ‘which is repre- sented by the grain and provisions in the warehouses, We do not want the evils of exchange gambling, but these are incident to the legitimate business which we do want and must be ex- pected in consequence. A BIG DEAL IN PROGRESS. According to eastern advices, which appear to be trustworthy, the country will probably hear before a very long time of the consumation of one of the most extensive and important railroad deals that has ever taken place in the United States. The conviction exists, s0 it is said, in circles in New York where such mattors are discussed, that the recent visit of Mr. Gould to the west was not designed to be wholly a pleasure trip, but had a great deal to do with some scheme of con- solidation or business of interests which might be to the advantage of the Mis- souri Pacific system. The view there is that Mr. Gould’s sole purpose is to do something which will benefit that sys- tem, and that he is prepared to make al- most any deal that will advance its in- tevests. This' opinion appears to find warrant in the latest reported interview with Mr. Gould, who is quoted as saying that he still has confldence in a south- western consolidation of railroads, but that it will take a little time to formulate it. It has been understood for a year or more past that he has had a plan of this na- ture in his mind, but whether it is any nearer consummation now than when he first conceived it perhaps no ome but himself is in a position to say. An indication that something of more than ordinary importance is in prospect is suggested by tho fact that for two months past the auditors of all the great railway systems have been very hard at worlk and have worked not only individ- ually with their own corpo tion’s account, but have also been working in conjunction. Railway men can form but one conclusion from this, and it certainly appears rational, that this work can have had only one object in view and that was the using of the ro- sults of it as a basis for consolidation, fusion or some other compict welding of the various interests. Honce raiiroad circles are said to be looking for some axtraordinary developments in the near future, and they are not beguiled from this idea by the pretense of the eastern railrond magnates who have recently visited the west that pleasuro was their primary object. When the Vander- bilt party returncd to New York Mr. Depew endeavored to malke it appear that there was no serious purpose in the wostern journey, but nobody doubts that it had an entirely practical object. It is altogether probable that the rail- way giants are wrestling with ono cf the most momentous problems that has ever engaged thoir attention. The agroo- ments they have enterod into have not proved satisfactory, and they desire something of a more binding character, something that will be more effective in preventing the practicos to which M. Gould refers in his last interview. The time seems propituous for pushing schemes of consolidation, and with the favorable outlook for the transportation interests the ex pediency of establishing thestrongest possible saf eguards against the demoralization of rates is obvious. Some highly interosting developments in railroad affairs before the crops of the present year are harvested is very prob- able, E— HIS FOSITION CLEARLY DEFINED. Nothing could be more gratuitous or unjustifiable in view of the most recent utterances of the president than the persistent assercions of the anti-adminis- tration press that he is not in full sym- pathy with the policy of reciprocity and is disposed to check and restrict tae operations of the state department with THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, MONDAY. APRIL 27, 1891 respect to that policy. In almost every speech made by President Harrison to southern audiences he referred to reciprocity with the countries of South and Central Amorica as prom- ising the most gratifying results to the agricultural and manu- facturing interests of the country, and heartily commended to popular ap- proval as a means of extending the na- tion’s markets,. No reasonable man could ask a stronger endorsement of that policy than the president gave at Gal- veston. “If you are content,” he said, “I am not, that the nations of Europes shall absorb nearly the entire com- moree of these near sister republics that lie south of us. It is naturally in large measure ours, ours by neighbor- hood, ours by nearness of access, ours by that sympathy that binds a hemisphere without a king.” As if to refute the assertions that he was not favorable to reciprocity he said: *“T'he provisions of the bill passed at the last session, look- ing to a recicrovity of trade, not only met with my official approval when I signed the bill, but with my zealous pr motion before the bill was reported.” It was practically and essentially an ad- ministrative measure, by whomsoever suggested, and in full and complete ac- cord with the views of tho president then and with his views at this time. If he had put any check or restriction upon the negotiation of reciprocity agreements he would not have told the people that “the arrangement with Brazil is not likely to abide in lonesome- ness much longer; that others are to follow, and that as a result of these trado arrangements the products of the United States, our meats, our broad- stuffs, and cortain lines of manufac- tured goods, are to find free or favored access to the ports of many of these South and Central American states.” There is not the slightest ground for assuming that President Harrison isnot wholly and heartily in sympathy with the poliey of reciprocily so far as Amor- ican countries are concerned, and this is as far s the legislation of congross was intended to go. What views he may have regarding commercial relations with Canada no one is authorized to say. This government has not invited nego- tiations upon this question, but the ad- ministration has signified its willingness to listen to whatever proposals the Dominion government may desire to submit, and a time has been named at which it will do this. All that is known s, that it will be to no purpose for Canada to proposo a new commercial arrangement on the basis of the treaty of 1854, This admin- istration will not waste any time in dis- cussing propositions for an exchange of natural products alone, and as the Dominion government as now organized will probably not have anything more comprehensive than this to offer, it is not unlikely that both President Harri- son and Secretary Blaine regard with no great interest or hopefulness the pro- posed negotiations. But as to American reciprocity the president is fully com- mitted to it, and will undoubtedly con- tinue to give it his earnest and zealous support. THE secretary of the treasury has an- nounced a discontinuance of the redemp- tion of 4} per cont bonds, and this first step in the preparations for meeting the large obligations of the treasury soon to be taken care of will doubtless be fol- lowed promptly by others already de- cided upon or in contemplation. Secre- tary Foster in a lato interview suys the department will experience no difficulty in providing for every demand upon it, and that there is not the slightest oce: sion for any doubt or uneasiness on thi score. The country is disposed to r poso full confidence in the secrotary of the treasury, who is a practical business man entirely competent to appreciate the importance and the difficulties of any financial situation likely to bo pra- sented. He has a somewhat more per- plexing task in hand than did any of his predecessors for a number of years, but he may be expected to miaster it advan- tageously to the government and the business interests of the country. THERE is altogether toomuch truth ia Captain Furay’s charge that theve are thousands of holes in the asphalt pave- ment. It is also apparent that some ono is neglecting his duty in connection with the paving question. Poor material cannot be up to the specifications. Who permits poor material to be plased in the street by the contractors, and who accepts the completed contracts on be- half of the city? OMAHA'S police force makes a good showing in full uniform at a parade. No citizen would suppose the great, husky guardians of the peace ave invalids, It is asurprise therefore to learn that dur- ing last year the average time lost on accountof sickness was nearly forty days per man. The aggregate was 3,500 days. Possibly the force 1s recruited from the hospitais. A WHENEVER Russian ambassadors at Constantinople hecome arvogant and talk in warlike tones, the impertrubable Turk takes the oholer out of the Musco- vite bully by sneeringly remarking that he is a very sick man, but there are sev- eral Buropean doctors who know how to brace him up for any style of knock-out selected by his adversa THERE is something wrong in the coroner’s office when the inquest upon the body of a man who died Monday in the Webster street depot isnot held until Thursday following. Where the cor- oner keeps himself on the occasions of his sudden and prolonged disappear- ances continues to be a mystery, A POLICE force of about ninety men which loses 8,500 days ina single year on account of sickness needs the intelli- gent attention of the board of fire and police commissioners fully as much as the city physician. —— DR. GAPEN must be content with one salary. He will not be appointed com- missioner of health ut $2,000 per annum until after he has been legislated out of office as city physician at $2,400 per unnum. — Eignt hours is now a day's work in any department of the city government. Theoretically, his 1s & victory for the labor reformapsy! practically, it is in- oquitablo in ity fesults, The laboring man employeddih private business toils nine or ten or Hore hours to earn the money with whinli to pay the wages of those supportet ftom the public treasury who work but el gt hours. And half of them are taxeaters who are on the pay- roll as ponsioners: RETARY NéBLE has selected three non-residents to dptermine the question of a boundary ling botween Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian reservations. The people of South Dakots are wondering why nobody in that state was deemed capable of passing judgment upon the controver PRESIDENT HARRISON has faced bul- lets fearlessly, but the California bou- quet throwers were too much for him. They buried him under a volloy of roses at Santa Barbara and drove him into the friendly shelter of his Pullman at Fresno. THE presont jury in the district court isan expensive one. It either acquits the naccused or disagrees. When it is finally discharged good citizens will feel that an obstruction to justico and the enforcement of law has been removed. THE weekly bank statement shows the reserve has increased #: 5,000, The banks now hold $6,975,000 in excess of legal requirements. Points on « hrisi New York Sun. Don't give a girl a pet name by which it is an impertinence to call any woman who is not nearly related to you or bound to you by the closest ties of friendship and intimacy. ing. - Broug':it Distress on Themselves. Milwavkes Bvenina Wisconsin, Hard times were due to causes with which polities and the financial policy of the gov- ernment had nothing whatever to do, and the chief of these causes was “‘sky-rocket speculation 1 real estate,’ it 75 Afraid of Intelligence. Phitulelphia Press The CommercialjAdvertiser of New York frankly sa Nothing hores a New York politician so much as a speech, especially if it is a good speech.” No doubt Mr. Harrison is boring tnese “New York politicians” dreadfully. Sl s Robbe ! of Their Thunder. Trenton Gazette. The abounding evidences that the republi- can party and the south are really muking up and clasping hands over the bloody chasm deeply disgusts the Bourbon pohticians, Nothing would really fill them with greater dismay than to seo tho bloody shirt buried out of sight. Rl K okt U 1t New Sectionalism, Murat Halstead's Covrespsnd:nee . Now the west ana south are summoned by the cranks to make war upon the east with the grand theory that the government must take possession of everything and confiscate all for the benefit of those who have toiled only m talking, and saved nothing but the fooleries of all ages. e . Tha H,wling Mob. ork Times. Some of the worsy old railroad war horses in the domocratic party are crying most loudly agmnst Governor Boyd, Can it be that the railroads feel that they have been injured by the vetot Such a thing is at least possible, and there fs no other reasonable ex- paination for the outery made by the rail- road wing of the democratic parcy. -~ Polivical heserves. Philadelphia Record. There wera 456,000 registered voters in New York who did not think it worth while to vote at the last election. Like men who reside in the neighborhood of a dyvamite factory, political partics in the Empire state live in dread of this stored-up energy, which may at any time bring about explosive re- sults. The act of registry is an indication ot danger. The people take the trouble to cock their guns, but do not always think the game worth the powder, P e T Reciprocity D>ined. New York 1ribune, Genuine reciprocity is therefore an exten- sion and strengthening of protection, because it operates to secure larger markets for pro- ducts of this country with whica home indus- try already supplies it and at the same time does not abandon or weaken the protection of any industry which protective duties are designed to encourage. It is a broad and na- tional policy and looks to the welfare of the people us a whole, and in that respect also is exactly in harmony with the system of pro- tection, Rizht* The confederate veterans of the Third Georgia Survivors' nssociation have received a hearty welcome in this city, They have fraternized with the union veterans of the Hawkins Zouaves. They hatve been ban- queted in the New York style to their hearts’ content. 'They have been taken to various theatres by day and at might. They have en- joyed the specches of sundry ready orators, as well as the strains of the music, and they have seen the sights of the city and its parks from the open carriages that were at their ervice. We trust that these confederats veterans from Georgia have had a pleasant time during the several days of their stay in New York. While they have been thus wel- comed here this week, two bodies of the union veterans of Massachusetts bave been warmly welcomed to Baltimore by confeder- ate veterans. It iy glways agrocable to get reports of such weidents, —————— NEBRASKA NEWSPAPER NEWS, ‘The Battle Creels Futerprise is four years old. . The Stratton News and Trenton Register have consolidatea; George T. Vandermenlon has sold the Leigh World and will seck a new location, Creth is to havé i new alliance paper with Mrs, F. M. Vires bf'Friend in editorial cou- trol. Goring is to Have a new alliance organ, the Independent Ynion, with A, . Soyder of Wyoming, as itor. The Columbus ram, one of the bright- est little dailies tho state, celebrated its secoud birthday last week. The Omaha Swedish Tribune appeared the past week in aingw dress and greatly im- roved in appearance. The Tribune has l:wu in the fleld for five years and it grows better with age, D. R. Carpenter, oditor of the late defunct Hendloy Rustler, 'Qanbury News, Bartley Enterprise and how many ~ other papers, will commence the publication of au independent journal at Indianola. The Beaver City Tribune has suarted in on its sixth year as sprightly as ever in spite of tue discouragements of ihe past season, F, N. Merevin knows how to make a good local paper and he aunounces that he is there to stav. The Oakdale Journal, successor to the late lameoted Pen and Plow, has suspended pub- lication. With its dying breath 1t exclaimed in the language of Editor E. E. Kepharl “It is not with regard to animosity, neither amiability, we do this, but on account of the very hard times caused by tho past season's drouth. When we vndertook to herald the principles of the Journal we did it with the oxpectancy of a discontinual in the near future, but as wo have did exceedingly well we oaunot lay any blame upon the peovle. The country and farming community not being flush with the ‘almighty dollar’ some- what makes o hindrance, but novertheless, our attention and labor is called in other fields, and we simply and plainly disfranchiso the ‘stick’ and ‘rule’ that alone has progressed this western country, and especially Anto- tr;po :‘_flunl.y,w its ‘vast populated civiliza- on. PRORKES - —, PASSING JESTS. THE RECKLESS GINL. “Put on your veil,” her mother cried, +Or you'll your beauty wreck ; o winds your face will frocklo o'er.” Quoth the maiden, ‘Lot 'em frock. New York Recorder: ‘Do brutes haye a language?” asked the president of the Mill- ville literary circle at a rocent meoting. “Do they " replied the secretary: “you ought to hear my husband when he loses his collar button.” New York Herald: *I havo just discovered why dead men tell no tales.” “Well, why " “They leave that to obituary liars.” Philadelphia Times: night.” ou a 'Store robbed last vtsay. What was taken y all. In tact the only thing not dis- turbed was tho watchman,” Wost Shore: Gentleman visitor (to best girl's littjo sistor) —Your sister lots me kiss her. Now, won't you let me kiss yout Little sistor (ioftily) T don’t lot all the gentlemen kiss me as sister does, There's @ great difference in people, you know. anir, Caps Cod Item. The landscape all around us With greening beauty greets us, And the bacillus that downed us Is receiving its.quictus, Indianapolis Ram’s Horn: No man ever finds out how 'd his wifo is to please until he begins to build a house. “Poor Brown, he's lost all his woney. Aw- fully bard up. Met him in the street. Told me all about it.”” “How much did you want to borrow " THE THERMOMETER PLANT. Tho countless buds cre long will burst And flowers from the earth peep out And even now the mercury bulb Is sending up its silver spout. New York World: We foot up, in the penitentiar 15, 44,000 male felons and 1,800 female—entirely too many women and too few men. “AlL who betieve lies aro weak,” somo one. And yet there are a great many strong men in both political parties, New York World: *“How much of the Lucky mine do you own " ““T'he hole of it."” Now York Herald: Bricks with straw will be much worn by bibulous gentlemen during the coming summe Boston Herald: ““That fellow must feel uncomfortable.” Why “He tried to shut the car window for the lady in front of him, out.couldn’t do it. After he gave it up the lady tried and succeeded.’ New York Recorder: Wilson—I suppose you have paid the last sad rites. Brown (the widower)—Yes. Everything's paid except the tombstone man’s bill. over there Somerville Journal—Even tho most con- coited of men may be pardoned his good opinion of himself if he remembers what his mother and neighbors said about him when he was a baby. e ODDS AND ENDS. A home for broken down bachelors has been founded in St. Louis. Kentucky has spent 199 days and $200,000 in framing i new constitution. The yield of quick silver i California since 1813 has reached a total value of 870,500,000, The much talked of Siberian railway will s00n bo bogun, the condemnation of land for the first soction haviag taken place. A favorite toilet mircor is a over glass framed in chased silyer, with the monogram on the back worked in blue enamel. A negro preacher of Waynesboro, tia., is culating u subscription paper in order to raise mouey to buy a set of false teeth A Lancaster, Pa., man recently received through the mail, with a letfer stating hat it was stolen from him forty years ago, A littlo’ boy living near Lexington, Ga., though hardly four years old, ean spell from a book almost any word and pronounce it, and can read as glibly us many a child twice his age. More than one-fourth of the peopld cf the United States now live in cities of 5,000 in- habitants or more. The urban population is sot down as 18,235,070, or 20.12 per cent of the total (62, Secretary Tracy, in adopting the name of Machias for one of the new gunboats to be constructed at Bath, Me., is said to have selected it because ‘it was 'at Machias that the first naval engagement of the Kevolution occurred.” A good many members of the first class in United States history would ship up on this in examination, e i MEN AND WOMEN. Miss A. P. Rodgzers has been appointed erseer of the poor in Boston, The empress of Germany sent outfits for all the children born in the lying-in hospital, Berlin, on the same day as the youngest prince, Mrs, Henry Ward Beocher is between sev- enty, and eighty years of age, her complexion is as delicato as that of a child and her dark eves and abundant snow white hair add to her comeliness, D'Ornon, the man who set out from Paris to walk on stilts to Moscosy, didn’t go all the way, The police on the Russian frontier wouldn’t let him proceed, and, after vainly trying to pass them, it commenced to ’Ornon him that he’'d better dismount. He is now ‘with an orainary cireus in Prussia, It is the intention of the managers of the Sherman memorial excccises, which are to be held at the Brooklyn academy of music on May 7, to muster in Chauncey M. Depew as commander of the new provisioual post of the Grand Army of the Republic. It will bear the name of William Tecumseh Sher- man. e e EAGL New York Tam tho American Kagle, And my wings flap tog: Likewise, I roost high, And I eat bananas raw, Rome may sit on her Seven hills and howl, But she cannot Sit on Me! Will she please put that In her organ and grind it Tam mostly a bird of peac And I was born without tecth, But I've got talons That reach from the storm- Beaten consts of the Aty To the golden shores of the Placid Pacific, And T use the Rocky Mountains As whotstones to sharpen them on 1 never cackle till 1 Lay an egg, ‘And I point with prido To the eggs Uve luid In the Jast hundred years or 8o, 1I'm game from Tho point of iny beak To tho star-spangied Lips Of my tail feathers, Aud when I begin To scrateh gravel, Mind your oyes ! I'm the cock of the walk, And the henbird of the Goddess of 11 The only gallinaceous E pluribus unum On record. 1'm an eaglo from Eaglevine, With a seream on me that u Thunder sound like Dropping cotton On a still morning, And my preser.t address is Hail Columbia, U. 8. Al Scel T™HE THE HAISH TRAINING SCHOOL. Contract Let and the Corner Stone to bo Laid on June 9. PREPARATIONS FOR THE SHEEDY TRIAL. Expected to Oc Weeks—1 for upy Two or Three roposed New Club House Lincoln—Other Oapital City News. Lixcovy, Neb, ~"T'he contr: April 20— |Special to T ot for tho building of the ing school has been let to | Stevens Brothers of Lincoln. 45,451, This, however, does not include the excavation and several other items. Tho cost of the building when comploted will bo £0,000. Tho building will be 120 feot long, 60 feet wide and fonr stories high. It will be finished in Kansas City pressed brick and trimmed with Dakota sandstono. Chancellor Creighton declares that it will bo the finest building for its purpose in the United States, Mr. Haish proposes to furnish it with the best modern machinory throughout, and to endow the department in addition to its equipment, so that its main- tenance will not be a burden to the univer- sity. The corner stones are to be laid June 9, 1801, at which time Mr. Haish will lay one and his wife tho other. Bishops Warren, Newman and Fowler will bo present and de- liver addresses. All tho barb wire men in the state of Nebraska who have been the customers of Mr. Haish will receive special invitations to be present at the laying of tho corncr stone, and_June 9 will be a great day for tho Wesleyan,” Commencement will occur on the 10th, at which time Bishon Newman will deliver the principal address. Tho mil department is making extraor- dinary efforts to make their evolutions one of the most conspicuous features of the attrac- tions on tho Oth, THE SHEEDY TRIAL, The trial of Mrs Sheady and Monday Me- Farland, the supposed murderers of John Sheedy, is set for May 4, and will be liable to engago the attention of the district court for two or three weeks, The county attorncy has endorsed the names of about seventy- five witnesses ou tho information. The de fense will also have a large number of wit- nesses. I'he names of 150 jurors ve been wn, aud it 1s believed by memt that there will be 300 or 400 jurors ex amined before a jury is obtained. The em- paneliing of the jury will therefore be a long and wearisome task, and it is. possiblo that that protin action will alone occupy nearly a week’s time, THE POSSIBLE GOVERNOR. Lieutenant Governor Majors has left the city and as far as can be learned without fil ing his intervention claim to the guberna- tional position in ease Boyd is ousted. A gentloman who is evidently conversant with Major's plans says that it was the inteution of the biue-shiried statesman to quictly file the papers without making any publicity about the matter and that he was astonished to find bis intentions heraided in print. The gentleman further states that Majors has not got the documents in proper shape yet for filing, but will have them in a few days. He will return about the middle of the week. ‘The lieutenant governor does not show much of. a disposition to taik about his course in this matter. WILL BUILD A CLUB HOUSE. As prodicted in Tire BErover a mouth ago, the Union club, Lincoln’s foremost social or- ganization, has decided to build a spendid club houso this season. A week ago a special committee, with C. O. Whedon as chairman, was appointed by the club to receive propo- It will cost sitions from parties having available sites | for sale or_from thoso who might_desire to build a club house on along lease. Last even- ing the membors of the executive committeo met and considered seven propositions svhich were presented concerning the sale of grounds und the erection of a building. Some of the best sites in_ the city were of- fered. rhe members have declared, how- ever, that thoy merely wish to purchaso a site and will build their own club house thercon without having any outside stock- holders connected with it. Tho members will therefore crect a 50,000 building. The structure will be the first one erected in the state for club house purposes. The prosent quarters of the club are in the Zohruug block. The club is now twelve yoars old and comprises some of tho leading professional men and capitalists in the city. A BIRD MONSTROSITY, R. D. Spalts has in his possession a queer looking bird that is evidently an owl mon- strosity. None of tho local naturalists ever heard or read of the like before. It was cap- tured by a man named Foreman on_the Bluo river near Seward and presented to Mr. Spelts. The bird has the eyes, body, appe- tite and habits of anowl. It sleeps during tho day and is wide awake at night. It cats rats, mi pugilistic inclinations. But thero resomb- lance to a bird ceases, s it otherwise has tho face of a monkey. The mouth is large, has no bill and the checks, chin_and other 'feat- ures are the counterpart of Darwin’s ances- Tors. A ONE-LEGGED FRAUD. Dr. A. S. Mansfelde of Ashland writes to the chief of police thata onc-legzed mau is making a tour of the state soliciting aid for somebody of something on the strength of a lotter of recommendation purported to bo signed by Mansfelde. The doctor acelares that the man is a frand and the lettor a forgery. He thinks that tho fellow is one James Place, who lives in Ashland, THEY WEUE MALIGNED. The members of union No. 71 of the Brotherhood of Pamters and Decorators of Awmerica arve very indlgnant over the false statement made 1n a Lineoln morning paper in regard to the memorial presented to the workmen in the various shops. The mem- bers of the union declare tiat on April 18 they simply met and declared that in keeping with the law recently passed and to take effect in about seven woeks that eight hours shall coustitute a day’s w GIBSON WINS. A series of law suits which have appearod in both Lancaster and Douglas counties for the pust vear or two, respecting the title to 160 acres of valuable land in the outskirts of this city, west of and adjoining Lincoln Heights, was settled last evening outside of the court ro During Lincoln’s real estate booming period syndicate composed of half a dozen men, inchuding one or two Boston capitalists, purchased this tract, agrecing to pay $100,000 therefor. Atto B A, Gibson of this city was a member of tho syndicate and paid his share of the first vment, but it appears that the others failed to come to time. Tho iginal owners of the land, M George W. Morrill of N closed last September, property at about 850,000 after it nad be appraised by the sheriff at §0,000. Mr. Gib- son at onco commenced suit against M Morrill—-her husband having died suddenly— alieging that he had entercd into n whereby he was to got a_deed to forty acres of land upon paying bis proportionate share of the original purchase price. He tendered the batance due to complote the coutract, but it was refused by Mrs. Morrill, and hence ho commenced suit to obtain psscssion of the forty ncres. Previous to this Mrs. Morrill had brought suit agaiust Mr. Gibson. Mrs, Morrill nas beeu iu the city several days, and last eveuin o settlement was effe whereby Mr. Gibson received a deed to haretoforo | rs of the | and fresh meat and is of decidedly, acres of the land, which, on account of its close proximity to' platted additions, is said 10 bo worth §1,000 per acro. PATRIARCHS MILITANT, In response to an luvitation from the Patri. archs Militant of York, a number of members of Canton Ford No. 2 of this city, yestorday donned their gorgeous chapeaus and shining swords and repaived in a body to the B. & M. depot, whero theg boarded tho train for the Athons of Nebraska to celebrato with their York brothron the seveuty-second anniver- ry of Oddfellowship in America. The hovaliers woro under command of Captmn yler and Lieutenant R. C. Haslett. With anners flying they marched into Yok and were roceived in the most hospitable manner, After participating in an excollont programmo prepared by the York fraternity the chevale lors returned late last night. ODDS AND ENDA, His excellency, Governor Boyd, will roviow the university cadets batallion’ Monday after- 100n on the state eampus. 1t fs voported that several business firms, employing many peoplo in this city, are mik: INg arrangoments to niro hauds by the hour, thus evading the eight-hour law, which {8 s0on to bacomo operative. No dissatisfao. tion hius beon expressed so far by tho e ployes of any such men, oy LITERARY NOTES, The publication "of “Campaigning With Crook,"” by Captain Charles King, willbe resumed by Harper & Brothers, on or about May 1, 18901, During the first three months of 1801 Book Chat has reviewed 128 n Ameriean and English books, announced 491 now books and endorsed 1,914 magazine articles contained in 3 of the leading Am an and foreign periodicals, In addition to this 1t has chron- icled the publication of 114 French book y yoars of great intimacy with contributes an article to_th May number of the New F d_Magazino, under “the caption of “Walt Whitman_ at Mr. Traubel's constant compani ship with the distinguished poet has or him o gain a clear and_accurato insight into tho characteristies of the poot and the result of his observations is very pleasantly related in his articlo, B In the May number of also bo found a bri late George Mifilin Dalias, United minister to the court of tho ¢ aro described the magnificenc tho court of Nicholas L. Mrs. Ma Hughes will have an article on ¢ " with explanatory notes b k. Mrs. Amelin Gere Mason will bute her final paper on the “*Solons ot mpire and the Restoration, 1. G.White will furnish a paper on Mining,” Sir on te 1t Whitman, tho Century series of papoers will v the Arnold, the prosented b I sketch to tho Book News, The Boston reviews of new books g | newsy, bright and well done, and with the “Notes,” and illustrations mirror overything of interest to busy peoplo in the busy * world of literature, A pago headed “University Extension,” announces that the May num- ber wiil be br ned 1 a scope to embrace information sought by many rega g this movement in the United States, 1ts past, present and future. er. . Hopkinson Smith, who spent some timo at Sofia and becamo acguainted with the state of affairs in Bulgaria, has written and illustrated a lively article under the tivle of “A Bulgarian Opera Bouffe.” At the time the paper was written the situation had an element of humor i it, but the days of trouble which the article pre- dicted have come almost simultaneously with the appearance in the May Century. The illustrations include portraits of ~Prince Ierdinand, his mother, Princess Clementine, and the prime minister, M. Stamboloft, The Cassell Publishing company havey'in press a bumorous and romantic book by-John Bell Bouton. It is entitled “The Enchunted an Authentic Account of the Strange Origil of the New Psychical Club,” It half its as- tounding pretensions are true, the favored members of that nssociation are much w0 bs envied, For they have the power of repro- ducing, at will, scenes and occurrences from ’ the works of the world’s truly great novelists and poots. Tho condition indispensable for these extraordinary feats—to stand on the places 1entified with tableaux which are to o conjured up by faith and volition. In the forthcoming May Century ex-Min- ister John Bigelow will furnish a rémarkable chapter of secret history in an article en- titled Diplomatists and | T 55 Mr. Bigolow proves in his paper by auibentic documents how the cabinct aud agents of the southern con- v were baftled in their attempts at negotiations in Europe by tho important place of slavery in the southiern constitution. e publishes interesting | tters from Secre- tary J. P. Benjamin to Slidell & Mason, lso from Mason to Benjamin, from Do Leon to Benjamin and from A. Dudley Maun to Benjamin, with other documents. Ex-Secretary Thomas . Bayard is pre- paring an vt for the May Forum on the power of the United States to enforce treatie: violated with o state's jurisdiction. The same number will contain “an explanation the new commonwealth of Australia, b, Roderick Camerson of New York, probably the best informed man in the Unitod States on Australian subjects, having been knighted by the queen for emient services to Aus- tralia by promoting trade with America. In Inglish poot and portrait and bio- readors of April Letter, with tho 1d the miscellany are serics of articles by General Francis A, Walker on the c “Tho tile of another timely article will be, *Reciproc Why Southward Only#" by Mr. Roger Q. Mills, any other good things promised for May is a new and ad- mirable portrait of the Hon. James G. Blaino and a well written article by T, C. Crawford, the able Washington correspondent, setting forth officially Secretary Blaino's views, labors and plans upon tho imporiant subject of reciprocity between the United States and Latin Amorica. o Maggs, Barbarian," a new serial story by Scott C: wenced in this number, whi among_other illustrated arti d,” by Frederick S. Dan ) Day in Japan,” by Norma Lorimer: “The Sandwich Islands and Their Voleanoes,” by Kdward Spring; *“The Wonderful Fireboat New Yorker,” by Frederick M. Dey; “A Robin Paper,” by Nelly Hatt Woodworth; “lephaut Sport_in Ceylon,” by MacMahon Challinor, and “The Ocean 'T' ph Cables of tho World ber with several short stories poems by Joel Hen- ton Douglas Sladen and others., Mr. Bol, the editor of the Ladics’ Homoe Journal, y gave some interesting figures rol 0 tho manuscripts received 3 during 1800, Owicg to its departments and peculiar chavacter, the Journal probably receives moro manuscripts than any magazine puvlished. Mr. Bok says that he received at his oftice a total number f pts. Of th 1,740 stories and 11, Of the pooms 06'were ncceptod; of the stories, only 21, und of the s 410, of which latter, however, over 00 were solic- rticles, Thus it will be scen that of the flu_over par cent. from t > 300 accepted artic itten at the editor tion, the net percentage of unsolicited mauuscripts accepted 12 brougnt down to 197, or a little mo an 1 per cent, Statistics such as these show how much utter trash is being writton, and the number of persons writing who ought to ba employiug their time at something clso and better. Deducting —— - To a 8hoe, Browning, King & Co's Monthly. High-heeled, high-arched and sha; ely, F'hou cear, delightful shoe, Thou hast contained ber dainty sole; And, therefore, my hear! Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report. Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE political , < y o this number will also appear the first of . - i ! i {