Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1891, Page 6

6 LONDON FINANCIAL REVIEW. ! Weok's Monoy Market Siinply in a Btate of Stagnation. GERMANY BECOMES A BUYER OF GOLD. | Financial Situationin America Closely Studied by the Speculators of the Continent with a View of Hedging. Loxpoy, Aug. 16, ~Daring the past week business in the money mavket was simply in a state of stagnation, The discounts were 'g per cont for months and J per cent for shorts, with nothing doing. Germany has been a buyer of gold but not enough so to eltar the position, The enormnous amount of baukers balances weighs down the market and continues to prolong a period of un- hoalthy case, Tue financial situation fn | sw York is watched anxiously. | Exports of cercals are coming to Europe, while on tho othor havd the operation of the new American tdriff is beginuing to palpably effect exports to the United States, The British public has | Imost entively consed buying American | securitios and keop on the watch to roalizo | fmmediately when Wall street puts up prices. On the stock exchange the dullness was accentunted at the beginning of the week by unfavorable reports from Berlin where tho full in rouble notes und Russinu securities generally cansed n weakness. Later in the week another cause of uneasiness was the suspension of an important firm ut T 1though no airect loss will ac e to the creditors of the firm, the iucident b been a reminder of the general uncertuin Dealings during the past week had the char- acter of those of the previous week. High class investments continue to ve in favor. British funds show a riseof I per cent. Rupec paper was flat, in_sympathy with silver, In foreign sccuritics Avgentine Nutional advanced per cent after the receipt of telograms aunouncing that the Argentinc semate had voted in favor of the repeal of the three months moratorium. In English railways values tended dowuward. The discouraging natuve of the board of trade report returned, combined with bad trafiie, caused an average fall of 315 per cent. In American railroads the interest centered in Union Pa- cific. ‘The manifoid rumors about the finan- cial position of the company caused continu- ous fluctuations. Tho lowest prico reached was 331 per cent. and yesterday’s closing prico was #i per cent, Yesterday's deal- ings, takon nitogether, showed an immense ival of English buying of American rail- rond securities. Whether it is a mere spasm of netivity remains to bo seen. Considerable street business suggests that a permanent higher level of valies is about o be estab- 1shed, Variations for the week tn prices of Amer- fean railway securities include the following : Increases—Northern Pacifie, 214 per cent; Wabash debentures, 214 per cent: Erio mort- guge bonds, 2 ner cent; Lake Shore, 18] per cent; Central Pacific shares and Mexican Centr & Onio firsts, 1§ al 1 pev cent; New York, Pennsylvania por ad- per centy ' Brie, ¢ cent; St. Paul common, 1% per_cent; | iug, b per cent, Decreases—Union ' Puc shares, $ per cent; Louisville & Nushville, 2 por cent; Denver & Rio Grande, pre fered, 117 per cent; Norfolk & Western, Ohio & Mississippi, ordinary, % per centeach; Tilinois Central, 2 cont. Among the Canadian raitway securities, Grand Trunk wais dull and easy, G Trunk guaranteed stock declined i per cent on the week; and Trunk secends, preferred, 1 por cent; Grand Trunk thivds, preforred, ¢ per cent ench. The securities of the Mexican railways wore heavily sold, first declining 414 per cent on the weck, seconds #ly per cent and ordinary 17{ per cent. Among the miscel- laneous” securities, Rio, Bellastors, Hudson Bays aod Primatita nitrates all advanced 'y per cent. favis nnd Vienna Bours 8. Panis, Aug. 16.—The Paris and Vienna bourses were closed vosterday, which was o Catholic boli Priday’s closing prices here showed decreases for the week as fol- lows: Rontes, l0c; Bank of France, 15f; Crodit Foncior shares, 7141 Panama, 2. On the Frankfort Bonrse FranNkront, Aug. 16, —Business was stag- nant on the bourse during the past week, and especially yesterday, when, owing to its being the Feast of the Assuiaption, no orders were received from the bourses. The final quotations include the foliowinez: Ttalisn, 80.78; Portuguese, 55: Spanish, 70.50. On the tierlin Bourse. Brriy, Aug. 16.-On the bourse during the past’week prices were flav under the in- fluence of the continaed rise in corn, ana partly owing to tho belief thut the govern- ment means to make a reduction of the tar- iff. Tho final quotations iuclude the fol- lowing: T A0485 [ Harponor.... .0 W00 (Short Ex. on Lon.! 2081 5L (Long X, on Lon 20 | Discounts I 1 » I ¥ L1 Havana Markets, Havaxa, Aug. 16.—Sugar became quiet at the middlo of the week and remained in that condition until the elose, with prices quiet. The quotations are as follows: Mollases sugar, rogular to good polurizations, £2.185{ @218 gold per quintul; Muscovadu, fair to good, refining 80 to 90 de- polarizations, &2 185{@2.19%; cen; 00 degreees polarization, bugs and boxes, $2.57La81215. Stocks i warebouse at Havana and Matanzas, twenty- eight boxes, 1,021,000 bags, 2,100 hogsheads. Receipts from tho Ist to 11th instant is 635 158 howsheads. Exports, 100,000 bags ) hogsheads, of which 89,00 bags and hogsheads is to the Unitod States, Bacox—815.00 gold per qwt. Bu uporior Amorican, §20.00 gold quintal, LoUR- American, $! JERKED BrEr—§ Havs—Ameriean per quintal; northern, Lann—In koes, $12 Por LusnER Snooks—Nominal, Navy Brxs—#6.70 gold per quintal, Ciewing Tonacco—§24 gold per quintal, Hoors—Nowinal. Freianr-Nomival, pANIS ( . Rroes trifugals, 00 gold per barrel. .00 per quintal. sugar cured, §15.00 goid £20.00, wold per quintal, 1oks—Anorican, $1.25 per quintal, teady. S CLEWS ON THE OUTEOOK, the « Weekly € 10.—In at Bank reular, my last weok's iments of own in His Sen S NEw Yok, Aug. survey of the lufluences affecting the stock market, 1 gave special prominence o a set of factors which might bo construed favorablo to the selling of cortain securities, At that time those factors were so exclusively occu- pylug the utiention of operators that itap- pared probable that they might produce at joast a temporary decline; und, with that view, 1 suggosted sclliug special stocks rather than buying. At the same time, huw- ever, tho warkot had another side and an- othor set of influences, which though, for tho time being, dormant and influential, were *t‘l plaiuly destined to have a fuvorable in- uence upon prices sooucr or lator; and us the markot of tho past Lwo woeks secms to | have been in sowe measure moved by those considerations it may be proper to make due reference to thewm, The wheat Crop nOW promises to surpass both in quantity and quality the earlier esti- mates, 550 to 600 million bushels being now regarded as not an impossible yiela, The spocial importance attached to this fact is that wheat being s0 lurgely au export crop this unprecedented supply of it gives us tho greater power for controlliug the retury of tho abnormal exports of kold gfor the last elght montus, If Europe should need double the average supply of American wheat of the last ten years, we shall be in i position to seud it, This fact cannot reasonably ve de- nied & favorable allowance 1o estimatiog the robabilities of a reflux of vold to the Unitea | gmm it is uite possible that unfavorable foa- | of the Wall street observer. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, f.M().\’I)AY. AUGUST 17, 1891, tures In the condition of Furopean finances and commerce have boen exageeratod fn the common estimate, It always happens, after a panic, that foar and apprehension unduly sway the public mind aud mako their after. effects more serious than they might or no b, But 1t is well to remember that two panics never come in immediate succession mmediutoly after the crash, recovery sets in and though it may proceed slowly and amid timldity and caution on every side, yot tho DProcess is one of sure improvement. Extra. ordinary as have been some of the aspegts of the late Kuropean panic, yet the practiced financiers of iondon, P.ris and Berlin know how to guage the magnitude and bearings of the crisis with infallible ex- actness; and it is perhaps yuite safe to sa; that the {dea prevailing on this side tho Atlantic, that those men are trembling with apprehension at the propability of further great commercial or financial disasters, is & broad misconception, and one which does not reflect favorably on the average information In this connec- ton, 1t is worth while to repoat here the fol- lowing pregnant words of the govecnor of the Bunk of Englund—who is counted the most sugacious awong the great finauciors of [urope-as recently uttered to a representa- tive of the New York Herald: wish to sny emphatically t there 18 no 18 for the reports that w great finunciul dis- aster Is mpending in Great Britaln, It is quite natrue that any important banking house 18 Ind save one and the affairs of that one are now in b d. As for the chars tered bunks they are all soun |, %o far as [ know. There have been gr losses, 1t s true, but these losses have been spread over Liree numbers of persons. und, asa rule, the losses have been alrendy met and pald, leav= Ing the losers poorer, but still sol nt. There willho fow faflures of course any Importinee —none that eould money markess, The result of Josses i Soutn A ud been to bring peo Intion conple ditference 1 the wildness o but none of 't the al the and 1 sslon of this is the diffe tween the convex and the con there was woiiil there s i Lole e poorer und wiser, thit is the trath of the nit= ter, The talle about a coming panic 18 un- founded. As 1 sdd before. th 8508 Uro already known, and in most eases alredy On o result of the syndicates, t companies and the like is to divide the s amone n multitude, S0 prevent e selaration fal posit and. But | the strong efforts 1 Americn and onti panie without «ny Mr. Lidderdale also stated, in respect to the Baring Brothers, that “‘their affairs wero found to be in an entirely solvent condition, & mere matter of getting ‘time,” and ‘that be- yond a special liability of 7,000,000 to tho Banic of Eugland, “which in no way concerns the public,” the ‘estate now owes less than half & million pounds, ‘The governor further said tni L “the only overshadowing danger the recent crisis was the ability of Russia to draw from foreign banks large amounts of gold,"and that issue having been met,*Russia could not bring about a crisis even if she wished.” These explanations and opinious from the highest possible autnority carry a large weight of invaluable assuranc They throw upon the distrust felt quite extensively on this side the Atlantic just the kind of hight the situation calls for—the opinions of the one man 17ho knows with more broadth and detail than any other authority the true facts of the Buropean position. [n the light of these assurances, we are justified in dismissing from current estimates of the future at least all elements of special danger, all apprehen- sions of impending catastrope. We must ex- peet the dullness, caution, contraction of credit, commercial reaction, and decline in trado values throughout Burope that alwuys and necessarily follow a great crisis, and to say that is to say that we may not_calculate upon the usual “forcign demand for our se- curities, nor upon any speculative activity in them either at Loudon or on the continental bourses. The tone of Governor Lidderdal vemurks does not lend any even inferential support to the idea cheristiod here that any special elMort is likely to be made to prevent the reflux of gold to this country, should the natural course of our exchanges call for it. Rather, with the absence of any speeial im- ding dungers, the elimination of ia from the situation, aud the low rates of money and absence of speculation, it would seem t0 be to the interest of uropean bankers to offer no obstacle to the return of gold to the point whera itis likely to ba most uaturally and urgently needed, and where its use will be most beneficial to the world at large. It scems proper to add a word as to the prospects of our home money, We havo now —a week or two later than usual—reuached the turning point in the domestic exchanges, and mow has began to flow westward. Although the amount of the reserves of the New York banks is double what it was at the same time last year, yet thut way not pre- veut our local cash resources being drawn down to a poiut threatening stringency. That is a matter, howe, er, that can only be determined by experience. It is not to beover- looked in this connection that the active cir- culation of the country has increased some seventy millions during the last tweive months, which, in the absence of any increase in the trade of the country, should pass for an element of some importance in estimating the prospoects of the mouey warket. Having stated some of the factors which lack of spuce excluded from our last weok's review, we would nevertheless repeat the opinion then expressed —that the *‘beurish’ clement does not seem to have fully ex- Kking to create a Xeus _huusted itself; henoo the point does not ap- pear to have yet been reached at which it is otoload up heavily with stocks, excopt for brief turns, and the buying should be confined to periods when slumps are pro- duced by the active traders. - ED HIS CALLING. CHAN M mphis Doctor Finds Robbery More Lucrative Than Medicin Meymeins, Tenn,, Aug. 16,~Detectives last night avrested n man whom they strougly sus pect of haviug perpoteatod the outrage on Cotonel R. Dudley Frayser in this city on Thursday last. Heis Dr. James Cloments, a young physician. He has been partially idontified by every person who saw the rob- ber as that individunl. Ho can give no sat- istactory account of his whereabouts on tho dny of the robbery and his statements as to what he did that day are ot variance with other positive testimony ou the sub- ject. Dr. Cloments wore a full beard until Thursday —night. Ho was seen only oace on that day by persous who knew him, and that was bétween 7 and 5 o'clock in the evening. 'Then his whiskers were black orat all events much darker than he had been wearing them. Thursday night he had his beard cut off and shaved himself cleun, except for a small moustache. In addition to these circumstances, the suspected man has veen in financial straits and has been in hid- ing for about two weeks, protending to be out of town, though during all or a great por- tion of the time he has been in Memphs, If Colonel Frayser's identification of him is as ng s the others there is no doubt i the minds of the detectives that Clements will be convicted. e HIS NINTH ML Texas Desperado Cuts Another Noteh on His Revolver Handle, St Lovis, Mo, Aug. 16.—A special from San Antonio, Tex., says: Autonio Car a noted bandit chieftan and the slayer of eight men, has added another vietim to his list. Torribio Pastrango, a deputy sheviff who has secured evidence showing that Carresco was the murderer of Charles Fus- selnan, a sergeant of the Texas rangers, at. tempted to Arrest the bandit Friday night at a faudango given on the Toxas side of the river. As the deputy sheriff advanced into the room the bandit chieftan drew a revolver and shot Pastrango dead, after which he wado his escape. Fifty rangers buve fol- lowed his trail into the mouutains, but it is unlikoly that he will be caught. The resi- dents of the \mnlusuln have wade application to Governor Hogg that u detachment of state troops e stationed there. - . Fell hewr Deaths, COnicaco, Aug. 16, —William Clavk ana Jonn Budawasch were fatally, and John Gilbert seriously injured this morning by the fulling of an elevator in Libby, MeNeal & Libby canning house. The wire cable broke while |l\m elevutor was descending frow tho top tloor. 2500, — — Apollo’s Arrow. LovisviLie, Ky., Aug. 16.- Bugene Stealoy, the county clerk of Clark county, Iud., dropped dead from heart disease at midnight last night at bis howe in Jeffersonyille. He was forty-ouo years of age, was i brother of 0. 0. Stealoy, Washington correspondont of the Courer-Jourual, | SOME MIGHTY CERES FACTS. Oorn Humping Himself in This Imperial Dominion. 'IM SOUGHING, HEAR ANNIE DEAR, The Tasselated Columns of Nebraska Temple of Prosperity—Millions of Golden Ears for the Hungry Antonys of Europe. There is none to dispute the dominion of King Corn, His royal nibs was never more firmly entrenched in the hoarts of his coun- trymen, Peace and plenty smile upon his benign reign, and myriads of golden tassels wave responsive to the poean of praise. Croakers sulk in their t:nts, as from all poiuts come tributes to his worth. Here are a fow samples: Norfolk Nevs This yoar's crops ought to ing tho Nebraska farmer independent of the money power, Cambridge Kalsidoscopo: Story aud Mul- ford started their throsher last Wednesday. PeT, whon he told it, nut. T guess it's all right. 've hoard of people wha had to carry a step- Iadder with thori when” they shucked corn back east. but that cori’was only nubbi by tho sido of what my neighbor will husk this fall. Good day.” - IERBILT AV BALL, Description of “the * Social Ev nt of the Scason at Newport. The Vanderbilt cot ewport pas opened last Tuesday night to 850 of the local 400, with the first ball of the senson. According ' to a correspondent “Mr. Vanderbilt is not given to showy displays,” but the descriptions of the “eottage,” the decorations and illumin- ations, forming u veritable scene from fairylund, leave one amazed as to w Mr. Vanderbilt could do if in a showy mood. T'he New York Herald correspondent writes as follows: The stone bridge at the edge of the lawn and against which the angr breakers dash with relentless fury, w illuminated with caleium lights, the effect resembling a stage scene in a modern theatre, A hundred or more fai nps with deli tinted shadds wore placed on and about the rocks along the shore and.on the grounds, and these tiny lamps were also placed around and per a across the stone bridge, Beaver City T'vibune: Furnas county hiu I'he grounds were also brilliantly expericnced sore pretty hot weather the A { all olectric lamps means monoy, and that is what we are all hinese lantorns, ote. The effect was after more or loss. very realistic and will never be forgot- Curtis Courior: The first 1501 wheat sold | ten'by the guests. [t wasa weird and to our mill for cash was brought in last | picturesque scene and it att week by Truman Howe, who lives south- | much atiention as did the pretty g west of Stoc 84 vike, I bushels per acre, Norfolk News: Tne farmer who has at- tended strictly to business this sumier has raised a good, all-around crop, ana will sec that 1t is judiciously markoted this fall, will strilke a harder blow at the money power than the man who works his juws for a stump speech in every county of the state. Kremont Flail: King Corn is getting in His crop threshed out his work in excellent shape. The fear of two weeks ago that the crop would not mature is bemg dispelled and the most doubtful can now seo very good prospects anead for that important cercal. Stockvilie itom in Curtis Courier: Barley is turning out from 49 to 6J bushels per ncre; wheat, 20 to 303 rye, 23 to 40; 25 to 50, Platismouth Journal: The hot sun of tho past few days has perceptibly improved the corn prospects in this couaty. The heat has been ratuor severce, but when one reflects that heat makes corn, and, as common report has it, corn makes whisky and whisky makes demacrats, the average democrat is cousoled. York Times: Beots are becoming a staplo article in Nebraska. They are not only used for food, to mako sugar and fect stock, but & gentleman is in town today selling bect cider vinogar. He was exhiviting two grades, ona white and the other a_rich apple cider color. It is of fine quality and as faras we are abie 0 judge equal Lo the best quality of apple cider. Broken Bow Ropublican: C. T. Crawfonl brought in this morning some fine specimens of cabbage, turnips, beets and beans ho raised on his farm just east of town. He counted the pods on one bunch of beans that had ninety-three pods containing 455 beans. Who can boat it¢ Wayne Herald: June 1 A. G. Howara plantéd some c land east of Wayne for the purpose of rmsing fodder for stock. Last weck, just sixty days after plantinz to brought a stalk to this oftico measuring cloven feet in length, Now we call thata pretty byg growth for sixty days and pre- sume it can’t be beat, Minden Democrat: The past week has boen Nebraska's most favorable weather for corn and_harvesting. Corn has been hump- ing itself. Reports from all over the county are encouraging. Small grain is neavly all in stack, and the hum of the threshing machine can now be heard, and it is_only & matter of u few days whon thoere will be unprecedented activity in commereial cirele Hastings Nebraskan: *If I wanted a puff in the newspaper.)’ said Councilman Jucob Fisher toa Nebriskan man as he enterod Mv. Fisher's place of business yesterday, *1 would show you this,” and he proceeded to pull from ander tho counter a basket con- taining sowme samples of potatoes and apple that were immense. ‘These,” said he, “wero raised on my premises in the novih part of town. How's this for Nebraska; ain’t they beauties” And they were, Plattsmouth Journal: Tho favmers. of Cass county—at least some of them—are wisely beginning their fall ploughing now, with @ view of sowing winter wheat. Tho experience of the past four or five seasons in the line of raising winter wheat shows that it is a profitablo crop—far more so than spring wh and the berry is larger, heavier, and brings o far better price in tho markets, Pawbury Euterprse: W, W. Watson drove over Gilend preciuet, in Thaver county just west of Jofferson, in company with C. L. Clark, of Omaha, o lavge land owner. Thoy found that wheat there averaged more t twenty bushels per acre. Oats did ot s so well as expected, owing to the great growth of straw. The only growlers he heard were those who wera unhappy be- cnuse their neighbors ot a fow more bush- els of wheat per acre. Tho favmers seew contented. Corn w found to be in fine coudition, froe from weeds and growing rap- idly. Land there is steadily iucreasing in vailue, as it s in this country. Spocial from Crawford: ~ Mr. J. W. Reed threshed the first whoat Thursday. The yield wus twenty-five bushels to tho acre and the piece is considered oelow the avera: throughout the county. This season b demounstratea the fuct that Dawes county is unsurpassed as a producer of wheat and other small grain, Hastings Nebraskan: Corn is king in Ne- braska and Nebraska is the banner corn stato in the union, Yesterday Dr. Lyman drove in from his furm with soveral stalks of corn cut at random from a field. The stalks were ken into the ofice of the Queen City land company and measurcd and the larecst one was just thrteen feet and tho others ~varied from twelve to twelve and @ half feet. On tho thrrteen foot stalk there were ears of corn growing aine feet from the ground. If this can be boat we would like toseeit. Mr. Lyman says he has pleuty of this kind of corn on hus farm and so have other farmers of the county. The doctor wus asked how he ex- pected to pick the corn and he replied: *I am going to huve all the tatll men I cau find and have them each bring along a step- ladder.” Upon being interrogated as to the prospects of a corn crop Mr. Lyman said that t was his opinion that the crop of Nebraska would bo the largest in the history of the stato, both in yield and the number of acces. dams County Tribune: A Tribune cor- respondent called at W. B. Brown's farm in Highlund township recently and was more than ever conviiced that this is pre-emi- nently @ good fruit country, especially for apples. When Mr. Hrown came here thirteen vears ago, with a fow buudred dollars earned in an Ilinois coal mine, ho investea in au improved farm, and on this farm he found six trees of 1n their new gowns and dinmon A FORTUNE FO& FLOWERS The house decorations were superb, although not necded, in view of the elaborate fittings and furnishings of this modern Newport cottage. The florul decorations were principaily in red and white, more especialiy in the hall or ball room, with its mam- moth fire place, rich tapestries and ar- tistic furnishings, Tk vestibale and outer hall leading to the ball room were banked on_either side with green and variegated tropical plants. Daneing took place of _course in the large hall which was built with a view to such entertainments. It 1s. situated in the center of the house, and opens from the main floor to the roof, and is supported by heavy carved pillars. At the second floor a” gallery extends all around the hall, and the front was cov- ored with fragrant flowers, hanging on the face of the woodwor Just telow tho wallery were two broud, deep fringes of fresh flowes UNDER A CANOPY OF FLOWERS. To introduce electric lights with the flowers and to reduce the extreme height of thé roof of the bull room, there were suspended from the rafters several mammoth Japanese umbrell on the outer edges of which tiny electric lights wore hung ivregularly, boing partly covered by light garlands of lowers and green, through which the light threw a pale and subdued tint on the dancing floor, the whole being connected by gar- lands of roses with the fringe work of flowers on the gallery fronts ana contin- ued around and through the archways of the gallery in conventional garlands, with heavy pendant From tho heavy iron electric light brackets,of which theveare fifteen around the hall, were hung targo lloral plagues, festooned with lace lowers,and ezch light was covered with a tulip shaped shade. In the large stained glass window, which extends to the full height of the hall, stood an immense cyathea dalbatta fern, with long, gracefully sproading fronds, under which many of the guests were soated. A pyramid of feras was formed at the base of the tree. The wide stair caso leading to the galleries was heavily draped with passion vines in full bloom, and over two thousad roses were used as well. A TANK OF WATER LILIES. In the large reception room which ad- joins the halls and_ forms a passagewiy to the dining and billiurd rooms, where supper was served on small tables, as well as on the pinzzas by the Casino caterer, wasarranged a large water lily tank coutaining specimens of many of the various colored lilies of the rivers Nile and Tiber and an abundance of the sacred lotus flowers. The feature of the room was the dec- orations with wild grasses and bull- rushes. The dining voom, resembling a banquet hall, is in onk. The tall man- tlepiece aud huge fireplace were massed up with tall toliage plants of the nner varieties, and the shelf was a study of gloxinies almmandins and farleyens forn leaves, Over the mantel the panels were filled in with American beauty roses and fancy ferns, Centre picees of flowers and condelubras, with wreaths of flowers, wore placed on ench of the seventy-five small supper tablos. The verandas on the ocean side of the house were connected by two large tents, one of which was left, open at one end to 1 up the grand marine view, with alcium lights and fairy lamps. The sature of the decorations in the tents and on the stone floored verandus covered with rich Turkish ru, wero the tall pyramids of hydranges, flowers of various colors and laurel nobils stone pillars, while the roof was covered with oak boughs. Lovers’ corner: divans, vich furniture, tapestry, hang ings, ete, in the improvised additions 1o the Vanderbilt “‘cottage’” added greatly to the sceno, : A BLAZE OF ELECTRICITY, Japanese lanterns were hung beneath the red, white and blue canopies. The cut glass globe in the center of the mamuoth Jupanese umbrella in the ball voom was illuminated by a 250 candle electr light, while the one 1n the alecove was lighted with a 100 candle power light, while throughout the first floor 10,000 candle . power was used. Strenmers of roses und smilax, each thirty feet long and tied hore and there with satin ribbon, were attached to the center umbrellu and strung across the hall over the heads of the merry dancers and tied to the enclosing baleonies, The favors were eostly and unique and wow loaded down with as fine froit [ pins in peculinr designs, also Parisian a3 ever grew. Some ouo estimated | gauzo fans, sashesofdolicate shades of that thero were twenty bushels to | pink, blue, lavendpy and yollow ribbons each tree, Our correspondent saw six hittle | Govered with artifigiyl flowers, iod mo- trees of the duchess varioty loaded with | ohv'iCo bovs Gonsiating of eroeping bi- lurgo, flne red apples. Mr. Brown has a | Shanical toys consisting of croeping. b largo orchard and all the troos are proliio | Divs, performing bears, monieys and bearers this year with ns excellent fruit as | jumping rabits—all these being for tho can bo found ‘anywhore. His samples would | ladies. The favors for the men wore have been equal if not superior to any on [ silver scarf pins in catchy designs of exhibition at the state horticultural meeting and porhaps larger than any where. 1f any body thinks this will never be a suparior ‘0 indeed in view 1y murringenble learts—very appropr of the presence of 5oy frult country lot him visit the groves ot O, B, | omen—wish bong, lovers’ knots, etc. Shafor. W. B. Brown, A. F. and C. R, Ihe mammoth orchestrian — organ Powers and many otbers in Adams county. | Which was lately imported from Switz ‘The ‘Tribune has samples of apoles from My, | evland, and which is equal tou first Brown's ¢ ard and they are fine, cluss brass band, being complete in \'\mvllr.;uc'nu.»n. “Speaking of tall corn,” [ ovory part, played the *Torehlight remurked a Bordeaux man as he borrowed a c0h” while the gues o sup- Dhow of Glimax from & Triond, M1 heard § | Mo 'fl,l‘}]“"_"“ guests wore at sup Jittlo bit the tallest corn story yesterday, A | Pors ‘This novelty was not among the ueighbor of mine always hus about as fno a | WO pleasing features of tho bull. flold of corn us there is in the couuty, I dare a - - say. Well, this year it was a little tetter k) Gambling Instinct, than comwon, aud the way it grew wasuston- | “They may shut down the publie isbing to old settlors. My neighbor was | zumbling houses, but they cin’t stop plowtug the field the secoud time when ono | St RUE-SheY. S § G fay about Ume to uubitch for supper ho | BAMDINE, just the samo,! said a well et with @ trithug accident and had to | Known man about town to u Chicago leave his cultivator stand there in the | Times reportor, middle of whe field over night. That corn | *“The gawbling instinet is born in was growing faster than he had any idea of man,” he continued. and unless some By the next morning it had actually grown | zealous and inventive official can devise s0 big that no team could have vulled | 4 naans fo T F B 1 fonalon that ~ cultivator out of there, aud e Rlickiog Foriune 8 iora aok neighbor had to go _and get @ | Out by tho roots, why, men will continue ss-cut saw and foll the whole row of amble just in the old, sweet way s Noad of his teatn In order to gt out. | long as the world goes round. Now, I Tuat's protty big story aud I thought so was io a little game the other evening which possessed more elements of intei- est than any one I've sat in in years, 1t began about 10 in the evening in the private apartments of the junior mem- ber of a big commission firm on the board of trade. Besides the broker there were in the game a prominent physician, a big criminal lawyer, a rail- vond man and myself. t was the old story—a 825 limit with #50 limit on jack-pots to start with, and later on, about 8 in the morning, the limit off, n wide open game for table stakes or colluteral. Waell, it was an eventful contest all through. The cards were running lively, and the physician was about #1,000 ahead, The broker had been losing, so had the railroad man, The lawyer was a little to the good and I was about whole when it be- came daylight. ‘Let’s play just four more jack-pots and quit,” someone pro- posed, and we all acceded. The fiest three left the physician nearly $2,000 ahead, the broker even, the railway man broke, and the lawyer and myself a little in the hole, hen the cavds were dealt for the last. “*Cost o hundred to play,’ senten- tiously remarked the broker, ** “Flundred better,’said the physician. “Oout,’ sonut.? “Two eards,” said the broker. “Give me a card,’ chimed in the doe- tor, 4 Bet you £10,7 said the broker. “I'wo hundred harder,’ from medic the ve hundred better,” *One thousand better than you.’ **One thousand harder.’ il put my check in if you've no ob- jections.” ‘**None. with me. *“I'wo thousand better then. *Let's said the broker. haven’t that amount of cash in here. Won't you split it?" **No. D'ven pretty good hand, Can’t you get it? ***f can after 9.’ It's good for any wmount a bank or see,’ **Allvight. Weean fix that. My rules are never to take I O L even from a friend; but I'll tell you what. Seal the two hands up in two onvelopes and the stukes in a third. We'll down and leave ’em with the clerk to be put in the safe aud only opened in tho presence of three of this party. Then you raise the stufl and we'll all meet at breakiast at 12 sharp in the cafe, id the ownership of the pot can then be de- cidea,” *Agreed, that’s fair enough.’ “Well,” continued the gentlemen, “1t was done. Atnoon we all met breakfast except the railroad man, who had gone out of town. ‘I'he lawyer pri cured the stakes and the envelopes, the broker forked oyer four erisp $500 bills to make up his bet, and I opened the d envelopes. The doctor’s was . It contained four kings and a queen. The broker nearly jumped out of seat when he su it, ana the doctor grew pale at his hilarity. The broker envelope was opencd and contained four acos and a ten. He puid for the byeak- fast, and the bill wasn’t a light one, either.” ————— Ti ¢ Atlantic’s Appetite Five and water are natural elements, s the Boston Globe, and both are the common enemies of property. It would be hard to say which made the grreatest ravages during the history of the . but though the lutter works slowly and silently and with little d play, it is probably the chief of destroy- er Taking the Atlantic coast as n whole the ocean eats into the land at the rate of one rod a ye From Barneg sa inlet to Long Branch 515 feet of the coast has vetreated into tho occan during the past thirty-two years. Along the gulf coust, from Mo- bile bay to the mouth of the Mississippi, millions of dolla’s worth of villas, orange groves and cultivated fields have been swallowed up within the past few years.! cenes of once flourishing towns now lie buried in the bed of the Mississippi. One need go no farther than Cape Cod to have pointed out to him numerous dead harbors that have been closed to navigation by the ravages of the sen within the memory of old settlers now living. While the busy world hustles on the Atlantic and gulf coasts are gradunlly sinking beneath the ocean. The official sreologist of New Jersey says that this pracess is going on at tho rate of two foot per century, which implies the ob- literation of a third of a mile of low!and. The bottom of the ocean [rom fifty to one hundred and fifty miles scaward was once a part of the contivent. As time goes on it will requiro hereu- harbors len labors to save the great along the coust from being navigation. So vastly more power are the mighty throes of the Atlunti than the puny dredging appliances of man, that sometime in the far-off future Boston and New York are sure to become dond seaports. But it is suflicient for the present to note that inland transportation will, in the natural course of events, suporsed constwise commerce. A single centur has crippled the Mississinpi over a0 per cent igable stream, and only e can save it wnother " Scores of the small hurbers along . the coast have been wiped out within the memovy of men who sit upon their desertod shores, It will require at efforts to keep the larger one gabl Itis thus that silent but poersistent forces are slowly changing the whole face of human affaivs. Boston’s $8,000,- 000 foo harbor defence may check the invader on top of the water. ‘The silent one below it that is silently crawling upon us, century by century, will prove suporior to all the'expedients of human genius, Closer Trade Ielations Desived. St Jonxs, N. [, Aug. 16.—The Telegram (government orgun) says: “The ideas ex pressed by Coionel Vincent at tho Atbenneum hall ure not popular in this country, ‘The prevailing opinion here today is that’ New Foundland’s path of progress leads up in whe direction of free trado with the United States, The Hon, Caleb Jones' views on tho matter are more iu accordunce with the people’s wishes,” e For the Benciit of Hebrews Care May, N, J., Aug. 16.—1t is stated hero in real estate circles thut Wilson, Bunks & (o, huve sold to un ageut of Baron Hirsch, the Jewish venefactor, about nine thousand two hundred acres of land in Woodbone, on the West Jersey roud. The Jand will be used to ostablish another Jewisn colony, one hav- g already beeu establisbhed two uiiles 8voye the reported purchased trac o e Biased Politicall Hanrkisnvre, Pa, Aug. 16.—he secretary of the Kuights of Labor legislative commit- tee, P. F. Cuaffroy, is not pleased with Chauirmiu Butlor's report to the order aud is vrenis one of his own, which will be sub- mitted in a fow duys. Mr. Caffrey thinks the Butler rveport was biased politically in favor of the republicaus. McShane & Condon, INVESTMENT BANKERS, First National Baak Baild Omaha, Neb. seuritlos. 1al pn Dh lmproval O nahs res baak atuck, OF u be FiA N £t. bonds, 309 8. 13th Deal In s per. ete. Nt o loans Setate. Short timo loan Wpproy ¢4 collateral security OMAHA Manufeturers” and Jobbers : DIRECTORYL AWNINGS AND 1 Omaha Tent & Awn-| ing Uo. ham o elotly eatalogue. 1113 Far na oF BAGS AND TWINE Bemis Omalia Bag Co. | Importors and Manifw turors Flour $a ks Biriaps and T'wine. —_— BICYCLES. A. H, Perri-o & Co.| M. 0. Daxon, 106 Dodge Bioyeles <old on monthly Ay ments send for our cntstogie | L4 A rlcon tio . 10071 Farnam st Omah BOOK BiNDERS and STATIONERS Ackermar Printers, biuders, cle 116 Howard o, Omana, —_—— BOOTS AND SHOES Chas, A, Coe & Co. | Kirkendall Jones&Co Manufactiurers and Jub- | WholeloManufactue'rs bers, Azents forBoston Rub ber Shoo o, 1102, 1101, 1100 Howard stroet. | and 1100, Williams, Van Aer- | nam & Harte 1212 Tlarney stroot iarney street W. V. Mors: & Co., | 8hoe Factory Corner 1th | and Donelad sty Onihia Merchante Invited to Ouwn a, Nob! call and o xamine, BONES John L, Wilkie, | Omaln paper box factory 1517-1419. Dousla Ordors promiptly til, BUTCHERS Louis Heller, w and Packers 1l supplies, B wd xhoep ensings TS Jackson_at CARRIAGES, BUGGT W. T. Seaman, Owmaha's Larzest Variety WAGONS AND CARRIAC —_—mm CARPE CLOTHING. 7Gi]more‘ & Ruhl, Manufacturess and S, ETC. Omaha Carpet Co., Carpets, il eloths mit- thngs, curtaln goodsete [ Wholoal Clothiors, 1511 Douglas stre st 1104 Harney streot. —_— CIGARS. West & Fritscher, Manufactures fine clenrs, Jobhers of leaf tabuceo, 1011 Furn i Streat. COAL, CO Omaha_Coal, Coke & | KE, E1C., Coutant & Squires, Lime Co,, Hard and soft coal ship- S 6 1308 Falrnam streot Omaha atreots. | American Fuel Co,, | Howell& Oo,, it denlors A 27 th Streot, s conl 215 8. 1oth street. Omana, Neb, “Nebraska Fuel Co., 2158 Johnson Bros,, 014 Farnum Street, Lith Street, Omaha, Neb. Omalia, Nob. CORNICE. Eagle Cornice Works, | F. Ruemping, Manuf, pof | Galvanized iron cornle Galvanized Tron Corntee. | Dormiae windows, door Window caps, meilio caps, fintis, ete, Tin sieylights, ‘ete. 1110 and _lron and »1ite reofer. 1112 Doie St. 5 m St CEMENT AND LIME. J. 7. Johnson & Oo,| Cady & Gray, Lime, ccment, ete., ete. 2158 Lath Stroot, | 5 | Omaha, Neb Cor. dth and Douglus Sts. DRY GOODS. M. E. ¢mith & Co,, |Kilpatrick - Koch Dry Dry goods: notlons, fur- Goods Co., Blahing koo s, J0as, nation, onts’ Faishing o ds cor. 1t nd Howard Ste Dry. h and Howard, ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES, 1 Jo. | DETROIT-AUTOMATIC Electric Motors Dyamos, U 1A Kinne 825 NLY. Life i A catalogue tree. pitol Avenu FARM MACHINERY, ETC. Parlin, Crendoiff &| T, G Northwall, 3 Maztin Co., I wostorn agent Corner Skandia Plow Co., V01351 Sherman Ave, 1 S, FLOUR. E. L. Welch & Co,, |R. T, Davis Mill Co. 1012 N. 16:h Stroct. [ J. 1 McCray, Manager, MUt Hendorson, Minn. &, F, Gilman, G, Under Manuger at Omuha. Cor. Sth and Jackson Sty Omaha Milling Oo., 1013-16-17, N. 16th Stroot, [ Meichant Miller Oftic und ML 131 North Black - Manager. | 1 Street FURNITURE + Dewey & Stme Fur- niture Co., ND CARPETS, Beehe & R\mym Fur- niture Co, Furniture and cazpets, | SUCCOROTR 0L A Becbo 115-1119 Farnam Street. | Grace and 1ith &8 Omal il ittt Rt b tietotatity GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS. Sohne der & Loomis, | J. T\ Robinson Notion Co. Jobbers and lmporters of i s notions und furnishing | SOpE frIIANAK Koods Kkouds, Wick kon " ovor i pants. shirts, Coite, ot 111 Howard Stroot Cor 12th and Howard Sta GLASS, PAINT, C ML AND DRUGS, 3. A, Fuller & Go,, 1402 Douglas Streot, Keunard Glass and Paint Co., 051412 Harney Streot Ouiinhi, Nob Omuha William Cummings, | Blake, Bruce & Uo., 617 und 619 South 10th St | 101403 L eavenworth st Oumhia, Neb. Omalu, Neb. GLOCERIES. Paxton & (:ull;\gimr.‘ Meyer & Raapke, S05-71L S, 100 Street, | HOS-108 Harnoy Streot, | D. M Steolo & o, | Bloan, Johuson & Co, | McOord, Brady & Co,, it Allen Bros,, 0 Harney Strect und Leavenworth, Omahn, Nob. [ Omula, Neb | GUNPOWDELR, Mive binating 1415 Maruey s treet GRAIN AND Toncray & Bryan, PROVISIONS 8. A, MoWhorter 112 1st Nat'l Bank, Brow era. Private wires to New York, Chieago and St Louis' Cash grain bought for all markets. F. 0. Swartz & Co, Tirokars, Gratn, Provision ate Private wire to St. Ttile o Chieago. OM trok bids 10 15t Navl Baok, Omand. grain. 15t Natl Bank. | Exchange bld'g, 8 Omaha —_— e HARDWARE. Rector & Wilhelmy Co Cor. 10th and Jackson Ste " Cookrell Bros Trokers to Ne Private wires Omaha. IRON WORKS. Paxton & Vierling | Omaha Safo & Iron Tron Works, Works, Wroneht and cast fron bullding work, engines, | Manuf'ra firo and burglar brass work, genoral proof safe vaults, Jall fanmdry machine | and | Work, i on shutters and Dlackamien "" UMbl | e osnpos Ab- Ry. and dreen, Hth &dackson sts LIQUORS. Tler & 0o, R. R. Grotte, Liquor Merchants, Timporter and Jobber of 1112 Tlarney Streot, Manifnetur ra Kenni astindin Bitte " LKirsolt & Co,, Wholesn | Wines and Liguor nd 1022 Farnam St. 1o llsts ¢ ton. applic Frick & Horberts, WholesaloLiguor Denters lquor De; 074 8. 10th St £03-808 8, 10th St. LUMBE] G. W. Douglass & Co| John A Wakefield, Hardwood Lumber, | fmborted; Amertcan Vork- Koo' tydeaulio “Cenont and Quincy White Lime. Wyatt-Bullard Lum- ber Oo. 20th and Lzard Streots. Louiserdfi;rr oto. 1510 North 16th Stroet. Charles R, Lee, Hardwood lulor, wood carpots and purduot 9t i Douglas, Lumber, fme,como: 129 D uglas Street. —_— . ND NOTIONS. I. Oberfelder & Co., Tmuporters and Jobbers In Millinery. MILLINERY C. A, Stonchill, Millinery, Notions, Cloaks to. 116-118 8. 16th St.,, Omaha. :m:\ll’m“"uulh L —_— )fi‘\!( ',‘,Ii 7L\'S'I'IH JMENTS, E {\e.n.x Meyer & Bro Co A. Hospe, Jr. te. Farnam and 16th, Douglas Strect. 208, 2 Platt & Co., Ossters, Fish and celery, 108 uth 10th Bt OILS. Cons)lidated Tank Line Co. Refined_and Lubiteating olls, axlo grease, ote. R Kuth, Manager. — PRODUCE, COMMISSION. Ribbel & Smith, er & Co., Schroeder & Co., Deulers In country prod- | Ca i Luyers butter uce, fruits, vegotables, | exis, and goneral c wisslon merchunts. uth 11th Street. E. B. Branch & Co,, rro 207 Howard Street. Robert Purvis, 1217 Howard Street. Write for prices on but- tor, exks poultry, and ke, I‘(ir‘sch‘bm\m & Sons, Butter, eggs and poultry. duce, fruits of all Kinds, oystors, Lith and Haroey Streets. Jas, A, Olark & Co., Butter, cheese, eggs poultry and game. 600 South 13th Street. Williams & Oross, 9 Howard Stroet. " Bats & Oo,, Coun fruits, v " ape’ | Produce and fruits. cialtie 5, wpices, ete. 4 I. Randazzo & Son, 211 5. 12th Street. Forelzn & DomestiokTuits FloridaOrunges nnd Stelly Frujts. Braneh house 7 N Poters St New Orlvan PAPER. Oarpenter Paper Co., Curry n full stock of printing wrapplng and | bers all Wilting paper, card pa- | Koods por, ete. 1520 I 115 8. 11th St. 1214 Harnoy Street. RUBBER GOODS Omaha Rubber Co., urors and job- Kinds | Manufu rubber SEEDS Emerson Seed Co, Seed growors, doulers in wnrden, erass, gradn and tre TOVES. James Hughes, Stoves ropatrs of all kinds Cooks und Henters for male. (07 £, 13th Street. BLINDS, K11 Bohn Sash & Door Uo Manu fueturers of moulds iigs, blinds. doors, ete. Ol 1oom 42 I SASI, DOORS, M. A. Disbrow & Co, ar fucturers of wash Building. /R SUPPLIES. A, L, Strang & Sozs, 1002-1004 Farnam Streets U. 8. Wind Engine & | Pump Co,, | Talllday Wind Mills and (20 Jones Streot. G.F. Ross, neting manag's Owahn. Neb. TEA, COFFEE, SPICE Consolidatod Coffeo Company, Mleand 1l Tiarnoy Bt Omahn, Nob. BILLIARDS., The Brunswick- = Bulke-COollender Oc., H. Hardy Co, Toys, dolls, albums, funcy goods, BOWMO (UE | gyyjikard merchand ixo. e kwons, ehild- Saloon IIxturos 4 curringen. 407, 400 8. 10th Street, 110 Furnam Stroot. O e —— SOUTH OMAHA. UNION STOCK YARDS CO,, - LIMITED A. D, Boyer & Oo, 5360 Bxchange Bullding, 4outh Omaha. Hunter & Green, South Omabn | CUUNTIES, BCHO! Correspondence solicited. T Wa'l Stroet, NEW YOI in 4 good sound coms 10 Exchange Bullding, BUNDS WANTE DISTRICTS, WATER H.W.HARRIS & GOMPAK\'.HM&I& 70 Kiate S1-- BOSTON. 0 por cent dividend, | Total lasues of CITE COMPANIES, BT, R.R.COMPANIES,vie 163165 NDearborn Sireet, CHICA ‘ 1 O l \ VIS S I am offering stoc< Write for prospectas pany thit will pay a $100 shares for $80. e HARRY KEENE, Room 0, Ger, Am, B'k Bldg,, 8t Josoph Hn.‘ ‘1 \ E by