Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1891, Page 4

e EE, FRIDAY. MAY 1, 1891, THE DAILY BEE | B E. ROSEWATER Eniron, | il'[!],lhlllil) EVERY MORNIN TERVE OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daily Bee (without Sunday) Ono Year.. . Diatly and Sundiy, Ons Your Eix months. . Three months, Sunday Year Saturday One Year Weekly Bee, Onc Y o OF 1 Onaha, The Fee Bullding Bouth Oriha, Corner N and 90th Streota Councll RInfe, 12 Poarl Street. [ Chloago e, 817 Chamber of Comnieree, ew York, Rooms 1, 14 and 15, Tribune Buliding hington, 51 Fou nth strect. CORRESPONDENCE ons relating 1o news and should be addressed to the nt. | Al comninic editorial yitt Editorial Depart HUSINESS LETTERS, wsioftors aud remittances should be addresced to The Bee Pubiishing Company, Omuhu. Drafts, checks and postofice orders | 1o ho made payable to the order of the co pany. The Bee Publishing Conpany., Prooritors THE BEE BUILDING. Al busin | e— — | BWORN STATEMENT OF CIKCULATION. | Etate of Neliraska, | ounty of Douglas, { George 11, Tzschuck, secretary of Tne Ber Tublishing compuny, does solenmly swoar mof TRk DATLY BER April 25, 801, was as that the actual cirealat for the follows: Kunday Monday Tresdiy Ned ending week rsiliy vo Abril 24 Thy. April Averige.. Eworn 10 beforo mie and sibscriled in my presence this Xith day of April, A.D. 1L N. P FE Notary Publie. Etato of Nelraska, 4 County of Douglas, (% 1 ree ‘B Tzachu Ing duly sworn, de- Josmand siys that he'is sccretury of THE e Jublishing conpany, that the netual averag daly eirculation of T DALy Bee for the month of April, 180, 20,4 coples; for May, TH0, 20,140 Cop for July, 1800, for June, 18 I copies; fc 01 coples; 1enist, 1800, 20,560 copies; for Eepteniber, 1800, 20,670 coplos; for October. 1800, 20,562 coples; for Novem- ber, 180, 22,10 copie for December, 180, 21471 coples: for Junaar. 1801, 25,446 coples: for February, 181, 2,32 "copies; for March, 1601, 24,005 caples. GEOICE B TZ5CHUCK. Eworn to Vefore and subsceribed in my rresence. thisdd day of April, A, D., 1801, N. P Fem, Notiry Publie. —_— BURGLARS will hereafter fight shy of the Dundy mansion, exeept when the ladies are absent from the city — THE election of Rev. Phillips Brooks to the high office of bishop will not make that gifted preacher less popular, —— Ir the sanitary commissioner is to run the hoard of health, it will be a good idea toabolish the board of health, — T MHutchinsons have suddenly be- como scarce, One has dropped out of sight at Chicago and the other at Lin- coln, PUBLIC sentiment will sustain the board of county commissioners in mak- ing an appropriation of $1,000 for the reception to the president. VENEZUELA steps into line with an executive order removing the duty from Amorican cereals. Reciprocity and ro- publicanism shake hands across the gulf of Mexico now. WHEN millionaire railw 1y presidents Bee money in Omaha investments in these comparatively dull anys for real estate, citizens need not be discouraged over prospect COUNTY JUDGE STEWART of Lincoln goes on record in favor of Sunay base- ball. He decides that tho statute pro- hibiting sporting and ordinary labor does not include the national game, NEBRASKA farmers will be encour- aged by the intelligence that the report of blight in central Kansas wheat fields is without foundation. This is to be a good crop year unless all signs fail, — GROVER ( SLAND is in more dan- ger from tho two-thirds rule than from his silver letter. If this invention of the days of Van Buren is sprung upon the convention it will be goodbye to Grover. SINCE doctors of divinity disagree as to the propriety of opening the gates of the world’s fair exposition on Sunday, it will be well enough to leave the matter where it belongs—in the hands of the managers. SUPERNUMERARIES at high salaries and rotten limbs are to be cut off by President Dillon of the Union Pacific. The political agents are both super- numerary and rotten but the chances are that their salaries will be continued. A Gould railroad was never known to go voluntarily out of polities, A GENERAL round-up of suspicious characters would rid the «city of most of the thieves, highway robbers and midnight marauders. A special force of policemen should be secretly employed for the purpose and go quietly to work. There are t0o many toughs in Omaha for the good of the city justnow. — PAN-AMERICAN is & good name for a university vix the Gulf of Mexico, which shall be devoted to the languages, laws nnd customs of the Amorican republics, It is proposed to organize und establish such an institution. Education, follow- ing hard upon reciprocity and a Pan- American railroad, will complete the commercial union which should obtain among the people of all Americas. EVERY week brings Omaha nearer to second place as a hog-packing center, Last week’s roport for the season shows a falling off at Kansas City of 13,000 and a gain in Omaha of 20,000 hogs in the number packed over the corresponding poriod last yoar. Last year at this time Omaha was 96,000 behind her rival, She is now but 54,000 in the rear. Sioux City’s puck for the seuson shows a drop from 80,000 to 49,000, —_— AN editor who figures what are tech- nically tormed *‘not earnings” in a rail- road statement as dividends to the stock- holders displays a density of ignorance of the subject which should lead him to confine his editorial comment in the future to “corsets as a test.” Thomas C. Durant would fairly writhe in his grave if he could see what stupidity and ar- rant demagogism the proceeds of the old Herodon house makes possible in Omaha iournalism, MORIGAGE INDEBTEDNESS, The census burean has issued an extra bulletin containing statistics of farms, homes and mortgages in Alabama and lowi, two typical states having nearl the sume population, one representing | the conditions in the south and the other | those in the west. The bulletin is the beginning of a series which shall make public the investigations of the bureau throughout the union, Superintendent Porter explains that | the work of obtaining information in re- gard to individual indebtedness has boen | beset with great difficulty, Many coun- ties are sparsely settled and the special | agents of the bureau Linve been obliged to make long and laborious journeys to reach county seats. There is a wide di- versity of system also in the methods of ording thess instruments, In many | instunces investigators were obliged to | turn over the pages of every vol- | ume of “the county records in | order to locate tho mortgages :md: inall cases to read the entire instru- | ments and make abstracts of them. The carclessness and ignorance of county of- ficers and the indifference of in als as to the corvectness of papers the of mortgages were also o source of annoyance and delay. Some idea of the extent of the investigations is formed from the fact that 2,500 em- ploges were engaged in the compilutions in the field for from four to five months, lividu- | and velonses and they forwarded to the buvenu in Washington abstracts of moro | than nine million mor L es, As an incident of the difficultics, it is | gent examined | ges in obtaining abstracts of 62 res. stated that one special 5200 mort The records wero searched for the | years 1880 to 1889 inclusive, and show | actual land indebtedness of rocord Janu- ary 1, 1800, In making the investiga- tions, only those instruments which are | technically denominated real estate curit . Crop liens, me- chanies lens, judgment liens and chat- tle mort excluded for the reason that th of searching those out would have heen greater than thenppropriations for the purpose would wnt and chattel mortgages ave fre were take cro expense war quently duplicated by being orded in several counties. The real estate mortgages cover by far the greater po; tion of indebtedne and the order of congress upon a resolu- tion of S 1 did not compre recorded s, nator Cockrell hend a more extended investigation. The results are admitted! sarily inaceurate. Ixcept ¢ ind nec v a toilsome 8- inquiry into the private business mat- ters of the individuals intecested it would be impossible to deter- mino exactly what proportion of the recorded securitics are still actually in for and vepresent | actual indebtedness. The painstaking official has, however, followed the course of these instruments with a suflicient care in something like 102 counties in the United States to wa ant the conclusion that the percentage of errorin the result will not exceed 5 to 10 per cent. The figures collated will be of vast importance in discussing economic questions in the future and will furnish an excellent s for future investigations. In fowa the mortgage indebtedness placed upon record during the 10 yoars aggregated $431,288,542, covering 36, 627,028 acres and 202,097 city lots, The existing mortgage indebtednoss is $199,- 034,956, The average lifo of the Towa mortgage isnearly five years. The in- terest rates are 8 per cent on 4860 per | cont of the debt recorded in 10 yours, 7 per cent on 2191 por cent, 10 per cent on 13.28 per cent, 6 per cent on 1288 per cent. The interest above 10 per cent is 2100 of 1 per cent. The legal rate in Towa is 10 per cent, and has been for 10 years. In Alabama the mortgage indebted- ness placed upon record during the 10 years aggregated $91,000,623, covering 78,312 acres and 20,516 city lots. Tha existing indebtedness of the state is $39,- 027,988, The average life of & mortgage is two and seven-tenths years, The in- terest rates are 8 per cent on 63.60 per cent of the total, 6 per cont on 17.15 per cent, 7 per cent on 4.57 per cent and 12 and 124 per cent on 6.25 per cent of the total. The legal rate is 8 per cent and has heen for 10 ye The investigations show that in Towa the debt in force in 1880 was 905,447 and in 1889 it was $30,002,370. In Ala- bama the indebtedness in 1880 was but $2,610,505 and in 1880 was $13,419,149. In 1887 the amount recorded was $22,- 400,871, The industrial development of Alabama was coincident with the great and sudden growth of mortgage indebt- edness, It would appear that the mortgage in- debtedn of a community increases and decreases us its commercial growth is vapid or slow. In Towa, which ha been steadily growing, the increase been steady. In Alabamu the amount of indebtedness was trifling until 1886 when doubled, and in 1887 it almost when it more than doubled that of the preceding your, settling back to $13,851.84 in 1888 Tae probabilities are that the stutes of the west will all show a com- paratively large indobtodness as com- pared with the old states and those of the south. It will be interesting to make the comparisons and the census tables will be in gr demand by the political parties in the next presidgential eampaign. — NIGHT CAR SERVICE. There is a great deal of rot in the clamor for an all night street car service, The demand is made ostensibly for the accommodation of the printers, report- ers, pressmen and telegraph operators new | This would scarcely warrant one mule car for the entire langth of the street car system, What the patrons of the street car company really would appreciate is a more efficient on some lines where cars only run at long intervals Very few cities have an all-night car service. But most large cities requirve outgoing cars to be run frequently up to midnight. This is what the citizens of Omaha demand at this time. On of the lines the last ear leaves the center of the city at 11:30, Chis is the greatest source of dissatisfaction based on reason- able grounds. The street car company can afford to meet this general demand. service some ANOTHER STRIDE FORWARD, For more than fifteen yeurs The Beg hus occupied the front rank among metro- politan papers between Chicago and San It has ever been on the alert or of the current news of Francisco, as a dissemi the world, and its expenditure for telo- graphic news has boen so lavish that no | paper outside of the four or five leading American cities hasattempted to rival i For more than ten years the telegraph THe have been larger than the tolls tolls for special dispatehes paid by B paid for specials by Nebraska, Towa and k In order to keop dailies of the all the papers in 1sas together, at country, Te Beg pro- preast of the gr poses still further to enlarge its new: facilities. To this end a contracy has Jjust been concluded with the Western Associated press for an exclusive leased-wire service that will give "1 BEE the unabridged Asso- ciated press dispatches as they are now served to the Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and other dailies of the first magnitude. The North- western | Associated press dispatches which have up to this time been served in this city only embodied about 7,000 y. The full Western press dispatches exceed words d Asso- 000 ciated words daily. They include cable letters from Berlin, London, Paris and other capitals of Europe and cover very fully 1 general news and the financial and commercial quotations from the business centers, Beginning with next Sunday our tele- gravhic columns will contain these dis- v ow York Herald special cable service and the extensive atches, as well as the special dispatehes with which this paper has been supplied for years, In the marked improvement in our telegraphic ser very nature of things this ce will be chiefly noted in our morn- ing edition, which will be equal in al- most every respect to the great morning dailies of Chicago and St. Louis. ASSUMING RENEWED INTEREST. The Behring sea question is taking on renewed interest as the time for begin- ning seal fishing draws near. Ancording to the latest advices from Washington no conclusion has been reached in the negotiations betwean the government of the United States and the British gov- srnment looking to an arrangement for the protection of the seals during the coming season, and there does not appear t be a favorable prospect that any understanding for this purpose will be reached, It stated that the British experts strenuously deny that the fur seal is diminish- ing, thus taking issue with Prof. Elliott and others, nor will they admit that there is any near danger from the practice of marine sealing. It has beon understood, however, that as a measure of precaution and of comity toward the United States, the British government, was willing to bring about a suspension of marine sealing by British vessels in Behri for one or even two seasons, provided our government will engage that there shall be no marine seal- ing by Amorican vessols. nor any killing at the seal islands by th lossees or natives during the agreed period of suspension. Secretary Fostor intimated a few days agothat he re- garded it not. improbable that some sort of an arrangement between the two gov- ernments would bo reached, and stated at the same time that if none should be made the law would be enforced. The revenue cutters for service in Behring sea are under orders to sail the middle of the present month, it is presumed with the usual instructions regarding the enforcement of the law. though it 15 said their commanders will be confiden- tially instructed not to molest any vessel engaged in sealing beyond the jurisdictional limit of three miles from shore. The government will also | send out an expert to report on the con- dition of the sealing industry, and the government agent is to be given large discretion in his supervision of the con- tractors. It is believed that unless some extraordinary precautions are taken the slaughter of seal the coming season will be unprecedented, because it is known that there will be a greater number of Canndian vessels engaged ‘in sealing than ever before, [n the event of the failure of pending negotiations, the interesting question is, how far will the United States ven- wure to go in enforcing existing law re- lating to the seal fisheries? If it shall be decided not to molest any vessel en- gaged in sealing outside the three mile limit there will be no reason for appr | hending any new complication in the | controversy, but very little protection | would be given to the seal, On the other is ng ser who are doing night work. This clas of operatives is represented as number ing 500, If each of them patronized the strect cars the company would realize $25 o night. That would searcely pay the expense of fuel in the motor ‘houses, let alone the wagos of & separate night force of conductors, motormen and other employes, But as a matter of fact, the number of persons on duty in the newspaper and telegraph oflices after midnight will not exceed two hundred. Of these, a Wajority are singlo men located in boarding houses | within four or five blocks of their | of business. So that the actual after- midnight teaffic could not exceed on an average from five to ten dollars a night. cos hand, if the full intent and purpose of the law is carried out it is possible the British government will intevpose some- | thing more forcible than a protest. There | is nothing in the treatment of the Beh- | viog sen issue thus far by that gov- | ernment to indicate that it has any such intention, but it is hardly to be supposed that it would disregard an appeal from the Dominion government to protect | Canadian scalers in what it claims to be | the open sea. The situation is not such us to necessarily cause apprehension, but it would be more satisfactory if there wus some fair and equitable ar- | rungement betwee the two govern- | ments for the protection of the seal in- | dustry pending a permanent settlement | | of the controversy regarding jurisdic- tion. AN OBJECY The census Neow Mexico ject lesson of by supplyin ESSON ulletin rnishes an interesting ob- hat may bo accorplishod IN on IRRIGATION irrigation in ind with moisture in this way. Ol course even bettor illustrations could be obtained elsewhere, but this one is none the less serviceable for that reason. Ofwa little over four thousand ms in the territory, about three thou- sand ave irvigated, und according to the bultetin the average cost to the farmer, including the price of the land, cost of preparing it for cultivation, and first cost of water right, was #18.54 per acre, The estimated per cont value of the ir- rigated farms, including improvements, averages #50.98 per acre, an apparent prolit, less cost of buildings, of #32.44 per acre. The average annual value of the productions of these farms is stated to be 31280 per acre, deducting from which the annual expense per acre for water, $1.54, makes the annual return $11.54 por acre. This is a very generous return upon the original investment, to say nothing of the large increase in the valuo of the lands, and the return can he depended upon with absolute certainty from year to year if the sume careis reg- ularly given to cultivation Itis to be considered, that the farmers of New Mexico, most of whom are Mexi- cans, are far from being the best exam- ples of intelligent or scientific agricul- ulso, turists, and unquestionably a much higher average return than is now secured could be obtained with the appli- cation of better methods of farming than are employed. But waking no account of the want of better knowledgo of their business among the farmers generally of New Mexico, and doubtless some other drawbacks, farming on the irrigated lands of that tervitory is evidently profitable. It is estimated that there are at ieast 10,000 square miles of irvigable land in New Mexico, which, if reclaimed, could sup- port & population of between three and four million. That irvigation is a well paying in- vestment needs no more testimony than is furmshed by the results in our west- ern states and territories, and when one consid the vast empire that aw ma- tion by this means—a region that could be made capable of sustaining o popula- tion almost if not quite as largo as that of the entirve country at present—the im- portance of the subject can be under- stood and appreciated. It is the judg- ment of some “intelligent statisticians that the time isnot very remote when the existing cultural lands of the United States will not produce enough tosupply the home demand, and tho facts which lead to this con- clusion ave of a very convincing character. 1t4fy demonstrable that for some years the percentage of increase of the products of agriculture has not kept pace with the percentage of increase of vopulation, and ‘this disparity is likely to be more mavked in the. future. A partial. remedy.« will be found in im- proved methods of agriculture—and un- questionably American farmers have something to iearn in this direction— and perhaps in increased production from reducing farm avens and thus in- creasing the number of agriculturists, but sooner or later the vast arid region must provide new lands to meet the wants of the coming millions who are to people this republic, and this can bo done only by irrigation. It is intorest- ing to note thata sense of the import- ance of this subject is no longer confined to the west. . P —— It appears that Colorado is already experiencing good effects from the ro- peal by the last general assembly of the alien land law of that state. This act prohibited the acqpirement of large bodies of agricultural, grazing or arable lands by non-resident aliens. It also, while permitting aliens to loan the money on large tracts of land, pro- vented ownership uader foreclosuro of mortgages by penalty of forfeiture to o the state after three years. The result was to exclude foreign capital from the state, to the advantage of adjoining states or ter- ritories which had no such unfriendly legislation. Itis stated by the Denver Ieepublican that alveady since the re- peal of the law & large amount of alien capital has been gained to the state and more is in prospect. The policy of re- stricting the ownership of land by non- resident aliens is very generally popular, and unquestionabiy is founded upon a sound principle, but the application of the policy may not be equally expedient in all communities, as the experience of Colorado appears to ciearly demonstrate, P — SPEAKER ELDER is quite frank in his interview with a BEE reporter. He ad- mits that the independents passed the Newberry bill with the expectation that it would be vetoed by Governor Boyd, and that the veto was the best thing that could have hyppened to the alliance movement. Mr.idilder’s candor is ad- mirable, but the infinite assurance of the alliunce leaders ywill react upon them, The unwilling to pass a railroad measure which would have heen ap- proved by the gbvernor and have given velief to the farmer from railroad extor- tions,because thatwould have ruined the business of the yrofessional agitators. Without a railvogd grievance they felt wer sure tho alliagce party would go to pieces. They privented legislation in order to keep up the discontent of their constituents angl s perpetuate their own political power, i ——r A GAME of 'freeze out has just been played upon the counties and precinets along the line of the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska railvoad in the foreclosure of that road in the interest of the Rock Island. The subsidies in the shave of stock purchased by the counties aggre gated 32,000,000, The Rock Island takos the railway and the local stockholder, take the thin consolation that come: with the knowledge that they have heen robbed by due form of la ——ee CArrAIN J. M, LEE, who has stationed at Rosebud agency since the cessation of hostilities, is in Washington und pronounces all danger of an upris- ing passed. This will be a crushing heen blow 1o some of the miarmists who have | stendily predicted u renewal of trouble unless the war department is wiven sole control of Indian affairs, Captain Lee is an officor in the regular army and an | O old Indian fighter and ugent. [ S————— | ARTICLES of incorporation of the | Omaha grain and produce exchango | M have been filed as the first step towara establishing a grain and produce market in this city. The incorporators of this | § exchange are all well known grain men | and they propose to be veady for busi- | noss by July 1. THi BEk welcomes this FRON THE STATE CAPITAL, onsiderabls Speculation as to a Cortain Young Man's Whareabouts, E WAS IN SEARCH OF HIS SISTER. ome Critic’sm of the Lincoln Police Force at the Failure to Cayp ture Hutchinson Dis« evidenco of tholr faith in the future of | M this city as a grain market and on be- | i dLa half of the citizons of Omaha extonds | Lixcovy, Neb., April 40.—(Special to Tu the right hund of business fellowship, | Bre.)—Considerablo specutation has bean ————— aroused as to the present wheroabouts of 1to Kool With, ! Boston Globe, [ Patent marriage contracts like that of tho | b. spiritualists, Mrs, Lako and Mr. Peck, never | te seem to have boen a success, If tho terms | m of a marriage contract do not make it a de facto marriage criminal relationships RS involved, and if they do make it a de facto | & marringe people save themselves a deal of | ¢ annoyance and trouble by doing the regular | W thing, fc - b Paternal i.ove of the Poor. d New York Commereial Advertiser. it Sensationalism and hysterics have been so pronounced in the agitation for the suspen- | (s sion of child life fnsuranco that we aro glad | 4 tofind in tho April Ninetsenth Century a moderate defense of the system, writton by Edwara Berdoe, a physician in the East end of London. The defense does not convince us that the system s freo from abuses, but | 1 it must convince every one that paternal love | 1 is too strong among the poor for child life in- surance to even suggest child death insur- ance, excopt in the rarest of cases. Too Sa by th gl to 0 A And Thou, Too, Watterson. B Louisvitle Cowrier-Jowrnal (Dem.) " There is running through ail the short | P speeches made by the president a fervor, a ated her in a we of this city had accompanicd her, and afterwards retury -ouis 8. Waller, the young man whoachieyed ome newspaper notoriety a few months ago ¥ reason of his pursuit after an erriog sis- or. Walker arrived in the city about five 10uths ago to find his sister. Ho had been | engaged in his occupation of railvoad fireman 1 Washington state, and irl was here camo to see her, hearing tho fo tinally lo- Lknown family, where sho as & domestic, but on mquiring for here ound she had becomo itl and was sont, to a rivate hospital in South Lancoln, There o iscovered she had been spirited away, and was asserted that a well known p! or to No ¥, but ity and thence to Kunsas () ho irned nome a few days later ana after tho re. rother had started o Kansas City The young fellow spent several woeks in ie search of his sister, but failed to find od here, He had, is said, a stormy mecting with the doot ut the latter denied any knowledge of il or her whereal tho The brother weut b work for a fow weoks, and aftar oarning uts. Oome money again went on the séarch, On pril 1 he re tered at the Depot hotel, but n the same evening took a walk uptown, as 0 said, and since then he has not been s During his en frequent stops at the hotel ho tlerance, a patriotio sincerity ‘for which the | "0 becomo intimatoly acquainted with People woro not propared. * ¢ * Wo pre. 'I,m(ullu‘-r'd Charlos Emmons, and to hin 108 U8 11KbSH 4 diull ttitiiey sident | B toud a great part of his story. The search IR (o e (o DESIIBEL | g1 i A ot e o made at Knoxville, at Chattanooga and at Atlanta, and to remember that they came | I from the president of the United States, the ruler over a great and a united people, and to ioin with him in rejoicing that the conflict | £ Wwhich a quarter of a century ago raged over | 4, those fair ficlds and thundored from those | th mountain tops resulted, not in adivided coun- | m tEy, but in a closer and more glorious union, | Sobisihe Even the Mugwumps Applaud. e Epoch. p President Harrison's tour through the | n southern states has been characterized by ro- spectful and apparently earnest attention on the part of the people, if not by any very con- spicuous demonstrations of enthusiasm. The president's bricf addresses to the poople at various points have been, on the whole, un- pretentious and in good taste, with such inci- | ze dental references to the policy of his adminis- | D¢ tration and its effect upon southern interests th as wero naturally to bo expectod. The most | | gratifyiug thing bas beon the general recog- | n nition of the community of interests between | th the south and the west of the country, and a moderate acknowledgment of the progressive and patriotic spirit that provails. There has been 1o tone of sectionalism in the president’s words and he has doubtless gained some | of breadth of view by his casual coutact with th st still at #00, but he was not de it is not t small a vill, as he left been ter. down O street past a ° just after pi made a biuff at_blowing out his brams with tho rovolver, which was then empty, but the poudent. When he ot the hotel he was owing but 50 conts, and ught probable he would jump so vehind him a valise in ool condition and containing a lot of cloth- e and personal effects worth ten times th mount of the bill. Mr. Kmmons behicves it something has lappened to the young nan, a8 he is contident from his previous cor- uct that he would no b away without leav. ik some word behind him, as he had become favorite with the attaches of the hotel, to vhom he had told his story, and who all sym- athized with him in his troubles, There is o clue to his whereabouts, but those inter. ung man of him. THE GREENE MCRDER. Thero is considerable surprise expressed hat Edward Hutchinson, who so cruelly hot down Mrs. Greene on ‘Puesday night, is . A number of prominent citi- ous denounce the apparent lethargy of the olice, and it is not known that there has any effort whatever made to capturo ho murderer. Detective Malone of the po co force has been discharged becauso he ounded Editor Littlefield, and it is ramored hat no other ofticer is looking after the mat- Just after the murder Hutchinson ran audy copper,” and ssing the policeman Hutchinson re anxious to know Micer, it 1s alleged, made 1o attempt to ar- rest the man, The give as an excuse for their the southern people. lothargy in this matter that the feliow has e drowned or shot himsell in some obscuro PASSING JESTS. spot, whilo the majority believe that ho is | . — hidden away by somo of his relatives until Cloba: An Atchison woman has taken 80 | tho oxcltoment blows ovee. 1o ke i Diuch sulobur that' people £ay sho would | aome ono of His relatives seouren th o earrioes make a good match. of Hon. J. B. Strode to defend him if he is 4 ; caueht, and that insanity will be tho plea, Now York Commerciul Advertiser: Gov- | ““Tho gficers do not beaficve thas . he man ernor Hogg of Texas is very angry with his | o own people, but his conduct in the prey bt ing trouble belies his name, 5 1a ancee—I am_sorry to hear | papa 1s speculating so heavily. Le Fiance—By j for a man te ought to be saved for his son-in-law. T oLv, ot stony, New York Journal, At 2 p. m. now the clerk feels sick, H At 3 he leaves the store, At 4 0'clock on the baseball grounds He yells till his throat is sore, It is almost eriminal | p re; Puck: Mrs. Dusoe—O, dear! This vaper has published a horrid scandal about me. Miss Mina Ann Pussley-—How tecrible! How did they get hold of it} th me ta Denver Sun: The pootoss who wrote “Backward, Turn Backward. Oh Time, in Your Flight,” was like a good many actresses, She wanted a return date, m he Washington Post, "Tis now tho youth feels agony Of most distressing sort. His last spring’s trousers prove to bs More than an inch too short, hi th tion of the murderer peculate with money that | pof something ho held in his hand. supposed he was drunk, and were much re- lieved when he got up and w the alloy to the east, daughter as cruelly as ho did over the hand. which the gir mother and ) Junction not to visit with the Watsons. able to attend the ghost dar ho got the driuk at the saloon yesterday oruing was Hutchinson, and the ouly real ngible cluo is that obtained from somo dies living near Twontioth und K stree ho say that a man answering the descrip: seated himself on somo in the alley, and sat there absent- ly drumming on tho lumber with The ladies hard: alked off down Their cription fits utchinson exactly, even to his walk. SILE 1S BOUND TO BE BAD, Mr. A. D. Mills declares that ho had good asons for beating his seventecn-yecar-old He declares at she has become very wayward; she has persisted in going out nigtts, and when her other attempted 10 keop her indoors she at- cked her with a case knife, eutting her A pitched fight ensued, in received a black eye from her other, and when the father returned home > putiished the girl for assaulting her because she disobeyed his in- He inks siie was not badly beaten, as she was ou O street at night and have a good time. DEATIH OF EUGENE IEATON, Eugene Heaton, the promising son of Mr. > Rolica e cer givin | And Mrs. James Heaton, died last night, at anarkaRolicemanc Savhahatyerigtyil || At family residgence, 1119 K streot. Bugeno Philanthropist—'Sh! I'm a dealer in arti- | Va3 born in Crawfordsville, Ind., December | fiolal eyes. 22,1870, and was therefore not. yet twenty- | to w th New York Commercial Advertiser: A scientitic feliow who is compiliug a new geography makes it appear that the mount- ains are just as old as the nills, 1o Birmingham Republican: The thrifty po- | tato bug emerges to join the farmers' aliianco n & movement to prévent cheap potatoes, to Washington Post: Spring evidently means to stay, haviug brought its grip with it. "“ W n New Orleans Picayune: It takos a long one years of age. mer he went to Buffalo, N balming houses n the country Eight years ago he camo Lincoln with his parents, aud sinco then, ith the exception of a four months’ stay in e east, he bus livod in Lincoin, Last sum- Y., whero he ok u courscin embalmiing, and was' for wd of ono of the loading ewm- He returned the city much improved in hiealth, and his ne at the b robust appearance rendered the belief uni- versalthat his davs would be long in the nd. A few wecks ago he was attacked ith the grip, which gradually developed to a complication of discases and ending in time for a young man to become a good typhoid fever, from which he died. Tho penter: but he can learn enough in six wi funeral occurs at 2 p. m. Sunday. 1 join a strike, TO WELCOME THE PRESIDENT. — A meeting of the various committees ap- TIE POET AND THE EDITOR, pointed from the state, city and county ofi- Washington Post, cials, tho board of trade, Farragut post, Act I, Traveling Men's association, ete., was held Verselot, in the council chamber vesterday afternoon Act 11, at 4 o'clock. Mayor Weir presided, and after Curselot, discussing the matter it was deeidod to ap. poinu the fcllowing recention committes Major McArthur, John C. Allen, W. I, = S Churchill, M. Howe, C. M. Parker, Alva Sometviila Journal: Sowo men thigk tha | Sennacdanch, B Welr. J\H. McClay was endorstng the wood deods of other people s | “hp d uood d © pe w0 programmo us decided upon was to ‘!‘::“':"‘ ‘,{“":“"“' thing as performing them | , o6, ® presidential party at the depot with HRY s, 4 carriages aad extend a formal welcome, The party will then be escorted to the capitol Hazletou Sentirel: In one respect the la- | D2 dies bhavo a parallel. The spring chicken | never tells its ug an o mira Gazette: Dou't flattor it con’t get away just because y ed yvour food at sea, Boston Transeript: The most, polite man we know of is one who never pormits himself | | 10 look over his own shoulder. b . pa vourself that u have bolt- | i1 Somerville Journal: There is something dically wrong about the man who can have | te exaetly the same opiniou about his own baby | o that other peoole have. to New York Herald: Goodun -1 wonaer why did Talmage shave off his whiskers ¢ Badun—Probably becauss the wind was whistling secular tunes through them - o A SONG OF A * St Nicholas, Merry, rollicking, frollicking May 1nto the woods came skipping ono day: She teased the brook till be laughed outright, | Aud gurgled and scolded with all his might} She chirped to the birds and bade them sing | A chorus of welcome to Lady Spring: And the bees and butterfiics she set To waking the flowers tuat were sleeping ye Sho shook the trees till the buds looked out 0 see what the trouble was all about; And nothing in nature escaped that day The touch of the live-giving, bright young May, this morning nilding, where welcome addresses will be ade. After that a drive around the city, id the inspection of public bwildings will cuny the remainder of the allotted hour. The presidential party will arrive here about o'clock in the morning. ODDS AND ENDS, Judge Webster flled an waended complaint in county court against the sball boys, merciy for the purpose of wving the question” clearly defined when wssed upon by the upper court about $200, on which there Is an insuranco of $700 in the Farmers' & Merchants' coumpan s Thomas Noonan was given a license to se/| tiquor at the old Hotel Mack stand (his morning, the remoastrance and appeai filed by Frauk Lahr having been withdrawn Louts Wagner, who was on trinl yestorday chargod with buvelarizing Tate's houso, was acquitted by the jury ‘e high wind of last evening blew down tho walls of the new shoo factory iu Man chestor, tof this city, Tho loss 1s fully 5,000 Judgo Hall aud a jury ave at gagod in hearing the case ag: present o nst Charles Melson, tho young fellow who is charged S burglarizing Burr & Beesow's safe of 42, MAY Day. Then came tale May, the fayrost ground, wayd on Dockt with dalntics of her sensc pryc And throwing flowors out of hier 1ap around. Lbon two brethron's shoulders she did ride, The twinnes of Leda, which on cither side Supported hor, iike to thelr soveralgne een Lord: how wl creetures laughed when het they spld And leaped and dannc't as thdy had ravishy ocn And Cupid seite about her fluttered ail fn Kreeno SPENKEN May day ! the ehild of summer, not the old age of win The old Enzlish scribing May as a beautiful clothed insunshine and scattoring flowers on the Arth, while she danced to the musicof birdy and brooks. She has given a rich g wh poets delighted maiden, m do 88 to tho grass 1 his now tall enough for tho flowers t | play at bide ana among, as they are | ehised by th wind, | The grass ulso eivis a softne zling white of the duisics and the glite ing | ®oid cf the butterenps, waich, but fir tie soft border ng of green, would almost be too lustrous to lcok upon nthe ri green pastures there are souws saut life. The great farin house in @ of the rich mili-yielding meadow comos back to tendor recollection, and tha thought of the cooling curds and whoy luscious cheese kes and custards, ¢ that you could almost cut and strawberrie i growing in rows before the bechives in thg makes vour mouth water to be back in “on the But how these p ut dainties lose u their fine country flavor when brought i our smoky cities, while there they scem as if Cool'd along age in the deep deived carth, Tasting of flora and the country grec, KEATS, By the end of this month the trees will have donned their new attiro nor wiil they ever appear more beautiful than now, for tiy fohage of summer is darker; the delicaty spring groen is gone by the end of June and the leaves then no longer look fresh and new | Very suegestive of gracoful mwaidens ar. rayed in thewr dainty spring finery But beyond all other that pleaso th With their beauty delisht_ tha sens6 with their fragranc nd the May buds only seen in th 1 of this pieasant month or a few days beyond All the old poets have done reverence to the milk-white scented blossoms of the hasw th the May of pootry —which throw an undying fragrance over their pagos, ion at the end the “tight little island” this beautiful er is seen in profusion and this morn rural Bugland is afield, the villa g with one anotter in' the numb v of May branches which will decorate their | homes. Later in the day it will bo seen in the cottage windows, the fireloss grates of clean country parlors will bo ornamented with it and rarely does anyone return homo without bringing with him_a bunch of May, for thero is an old houschold aroma in its bloom which has been familiar to them from childhood and which they love to inhalo bet- tor than any other that floats around theis breezy homos tead 1n the middlo states it is to be found, but of course mot to the extent as in Kugland, Yet there is enough to give one soms faint idea of the beauty of an English landseape on afirst of May morning, when nature seems infatuated with itself. ‘The outbreak into beauty which naturs makes at the end of April and beginning of May excites so universal and admiring a fec ingin the human breast that there is no wonder the event should have been at al! times celebrated in some way A mad happiness goes abroad over tho earth that nature long dead and cold lives and smiles again. Doubtless there 1s minglec with this, too, in bosoms of any reflection, u grateful sense of the divine goodness which makes the promiso of scasons so stable and s sure, Among tho Romans the feeling of the timo found vent in their Fiovalia or foral games, which began on April 25 and lasted a fow da Nations taking more or less origin from Rome have settled upon May 1 as :Im special time for fetes of tho samo kind, With the ancients and moderns alike it was one instinctive rush to the tields to revel inthe bloom which was newly prosonted ou the meadows and tho trees; the niora cf pent - the population the more cager appdr- ently the desire to get among the tlowers and bring away samples of thom, In England one has to go back sevoral gen erations to find the observances of May duy in their fullest development. In the sixteenth contury it was still custo mary for the middle and humbler classes 1o go forth atan early hour of tho morning in order to gather ‘flowers and hawthorn branches which they brought home about sunrise with accompaniments of horn ana tabor and all possible signs of joy and merri ment, By a uatural transition of ideas thoy gave to the hawthorn bloomw the name of” May they called this ceremony “tho bringing hom the'May 3" they spoke of the expedition to the woods as “eoing a Maying.” The fairest maid of the village was crowned with flowers as the “Queen of tho May;" tho lads and lagses mot and dunced and’ sang togother with delightful freedom, hardly the propor thing in these fin do seivlo days, Washineton Irving, who visited England early in this century records in bis 'Sk Book” th 1 seen a May pole shall never,” he suys, *“forget the delight | felt on first'seeing @ May pole. 1t was on the bauks of the Dee close by the picturesque old bridge that stretches across the river from the quaint old city of Chester. 1 had already been carried buck into formor days Dy the antiquities of that venerablo pli the examination of which is equal to turnir over the pages of a black letter volumo or gazing on the bpictures I Frois sart, The May polo on the margin of tho stream completed the illusion. My fancy adorned it with wreaths of flowers and peo pled the green bank with all the dancing rov clry of May day. The mere sight of this May pole gave o glow to my feelings and spread a charm over the country for the rest of the day, and as I traversed a part of the fair plains of Cheshire aud the beautiful bor ders of Wales and looked from among s well ing hills down a lon preen valloy th ulu,'hP which ‘the Deva wound its wizard stream my imagination turned all into u perfect Ar- cadia, “I value every custom t peetical feeling into the tends to infuse ommon people and to sweoten and soften the rudoness of rustic ut destroving their simplieity of this happy th manners with Indeed, it isto the declin simplicity that the decline of may be traced, and the tural d grcen and tho homely My pire hate gradual y dis ppured in peopor.ion as the p-asuntey” huve become cxp nsiie and artiicial in- their pleasur s und 100 knowing for simpe onjoyment. Srue attempis, i deed, have boon wad: of Lo veirs by men of both tas e and leartiog to rolly bick t o porulir Leling to these standards of prun i tive simphe'ty, bu, the tims hes goue by the fecling nas become chilled by habits of custorm @ on the The fire department was callen to Seven enth and Elm streets at 12 o'clock last ght to subduc the flames which threatene cugulf A. B, Foster's grocery swre., Th r part of the store room was damaged Highest of all in Lezvening Power.— Reyal I 14 traflic - the coun ry apes the man ners 1 amusements of the town nd little is heard of May day at prosont ecept from the lamentatio s of 1u hors who sigh after it from among th - br ¢t walls of th iy, atest U, S. Gov't Report. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE /