Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1891, Page 4

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B, Tzschurk, secre Publishing company, does solennly swear thitt the actual eireaiation of THE DAILY BEE for the weok ending December 12, 1801, was ns follows: Sundu, 20108 Nonds Thursdiy. Dee Friday, Dec. 11 Baturday, e CLisvuas 24,042 10, B TZSCHUCK. Sworn to tefore me and subscribed In my presence th s 12th day of December. A. D. 1801 SEAL Average. ... 1 L. Notary Public. The growth of the averace daily ¢irculation of Tuk BEE for six years is shown in vhe fol- lowinz tuble 5 T8 | TRET | T8 1057 | 16,260 15,200 1 Jnnuary. | | 109 14, Y0 | 16 | 1 February . Maroh... April.i 3000|1434 2080|1483 IKT10|20,670| 2,57 1K 07| 20.762| 25,100 T0AI0 22,150 24,69 20.048| 25471 Feptember Cetober .. 18041 November. 18,80 December .. 041118, LE now blood should be inject- ed into the Board of Public Works next year. YOUNG Mr. knows how to must all admit, Congr advertise ssman Bryan himself, wo i Charity Christmas Fund grows, but it grows very slowly. Somecbody should put u little elixir of life into it. CHINA in her present revolution is eighing for another General Gordon to drive these latter-day Taipings out of the provinces and restore peace. UNLESS something is done quickly for our reliof by the ecity government we shall go into the soverest portion of the winter with our streets in the worst possibia condition S1. Lours captured the prohibition convention in spito of the gallunt fight made by Lincoln. Why didn’t they go to Milwaukee, where the beer has a more pungent flavor? THE future of Counctl Bluffs is bright enough to warrant erecting a city hall to costnot less than $125,000. Tt will be false economy to build a $60,000 struc- ture. It would be too small in less than five yours. T Mississippi constitution is not so bad after all. In attempting to com- pletely wipe out the republican party, in which it was successful, it has also 8plit the democratic party into two al- most equal fragments, S0UTH CAROLINA has enacted a pro- hibitory liquor law. South Carolina has always been a trifle erratic, but this is a surprise. What will the governor of North Carolina now say to the gov- ornor of South Carolina? ALTHOUGH the beet sugar convention is mado up largely of lawyers and poli- ticians, there are farmers and practical men enough to keep the discussion to sugar beet culture and beet sugar fac- tories. It 1s an important and a suc- cessful convention. ONLY 217 plications for licenses to sell liguor have so far been filed. The probabilities are that there will not ex- ceed 230 for the coming year. The Board of Education may find it necessary to cut the gavment of expenses according to the cloth of probable receipts. |3 — Tae citizen of Omaha who is not warmed with gladness by the splendid displays of Christmas goods in the city deserves the compassion of his fellow men. None but rankest pessimists and most depraved anarchists can fail to enjoy the beautiful, useful and novel holiday presents offered in our stores. NO MAN who has given the subject covsideration doubts that the next few yoars will witness the extensive develop- ment of the beet sugar industry in this section of the union. No man interested in Omaha’s future can afford to lose sight of the importance of stimulating the establishment of refineries in this city and making this the distributing depot of the product of the scores of local factories soon to be in operation in NelLraska, wostern Iowa and South Da- kota. Tar amendments proposed to the interstato commerce act will strengthen MAKING THE MISSOURI NAVIGABLEs | By proposition to improve the waterways of the country ia sure to steike the popular chord. . Our rivers, Inkes and canals have always afforded o partinl check. at leust, to the rapacity of rarlroad companies, and during the sum- mer senson atill continues to be 1nvalu able as competitors of the ilroads in the transportation of heavy commodi- ties, such nas grain, lumber, salt and iron But there no excuse whatever for squandering mii- lions of dollarseach yearon so-called civer improvements that aro chiefly gotten up for the benefit of political spoilsmen This is espocinily true ke the Missouri pen Kansas City conl, is and contr of appropriations to w siver navigable bety and Fort Benton, It is vory doubtful money in the United States could make the Missouri navigable and keep it nav- igable. The millions alveady expended for improving the Missouri have done no good whatever, except 80 far s part of this money has been paid out to make the channel permanent in front of im- portant towns and cities on its banks. The Missouri is not in s good a dition for navigation as it was f years ago, A convention composed of politic impracticables and river pirates t hope to make fortunes in pulling snags out of Missouri and dumping in willows and worthless rock, has resolved that congress shall appropriate #5,000,000 more for making the Missouri navigable above City, Now $5,000,000 would not insure a permanent channel for the Missour: fifty miles above the moath of the Kaw, and five times five millions would not begin to minke i navigable between Kan City Omaha. Five millions of dollars, how- over, would very construction of a rond from Sioux City. Such a Ctors. whether all the Kansas near to Kansas road would be navigable all the year round and you would not have to tie up your freight trains in the night time to a cottonwood tree on the banks as they would have to do with the Missouri river steam- boats. The whole scheme of making the Missouri navigable is vision- ary and never will materialize. All that will come out of it will be more tomfoolery by wildeat engincers and more jobbing by contractors and politi- cal hucksters. The only thing that con- gress should be asked to do n connec- tion with the Missouri river is to malke appropriations for permanently protect- ing the hanks of the river adjacent to cities and towns from the inroads of periodic overflow: TAE YANKION ROAD, The Yankton & Omaha railway pro- ject has drawn the following significant comment from a South Dakota paper: At present Omaha is geiting very little ot loof this state. it being pretiy well amonz the other citles above men- and Sionx Clty. tis quite probable tha see lively times in toand if Oma +f the Missouri v Clty she must get & move on vretty the spring With the building of either a line from Sioux City to Pierre or the Tiimols Central from Lo Mars into this country the hope of Omaha is cut of., The jealousy of Sloux City and Omuha will undotbtediy ho 1o the advintizo of this se tion, s one or the othor mMust seo 1o 1t that a river road is built, and the one that does this 50 a8 to command the trasie of Bon Homme. Charlos Mix and the riv intios above will, when this country is thoroughly doveioped; securo trade enough therehy to wlone supply a pretty falr sized eity. We cannot t0o strongly urge upon our capitalists and manufacturers the impor- tance of reaching out into South Dakota. Tt isa grain and cattio raising rogion which promises in no distant future to be as thickly settled as eastern Ne- braska. Dakota is natucally tributary to Omaha. The construction of twenty-five miles of railvoad be- tween Hartington and Yankton would give u: s to the whole of South Dalkota east of the viver. If the North- westorn persists in its policy of fencing Omaha out of South Dakota, Omaha must stimulate the building of a rival line, even if it is not as direct as the Northwestern would be with the gap between Hartingtonand Yankton closed. It will take something more than nows- papor and Board of Trade talk to bring it about. We have been talking and writing and thinking of a northern con- nection these fifteen years. It is high time the talking, thioking and writing the yoar 1592 will Sloux arly in should materialize in action. MR, BLAINE'S POSITION, The nearest approach to an authori- tative statement regarding the position of Mr. Blaine relative to the presiden- tiai nomination next year comes from the new secretary of war, Stephen B. Elkins, It scems that when Mr, Elkins was considering whether he should ac cept the position he went to Mr. Blaine to ask him regarding the effert his appointment might have upon the presidential possibilities affect- ing President Harrison and Mr. Blaine. In this interview the secretary of state is reported to have very clearly defined his position in relation to the nomina- tion. According to the report Mr. Blaine is not unwilling to be acandidate. He recognizes that there may be n call from the party which he could not refuse, and says that the names of Harrison and Blaine will not be placed in conflict before the next nominating convention, which im- plies that there is a perfect understand- 1ng between the president and secretary of state. Accepting as authentic the reported remarks of Mr. Blaine, they the law. It is obviously wise to provide that echedules and tariffs and agree- ments between railroads filed with the commission, and also the statistics, tables, ete., contained in the annual re- ports of railroads to the commission, shall be prima facie evidence in investi- gations and in all judicial proceed- ings. The effect of this will be to simplify such proceedings and also to induce the railroads to exercise greater care, or perhaps it would be better to say, be more honest, in the information they give to the commission. Another proposed amendment which will help to simplify judicial proceedings under the law provides that the production of tes- timony shall be according to the estab- lished rules of evidence obtaining on the chancery side of the circuit courts, with the exception that the answors of de- fondants to complaints shall no weight as evidence. have show that he is wholly in the hands of the party, and there will be no expres- sion from him as to what course it shall take. He will make no effort to secure the nomination. He will do nothing to influence the convention in opposition to President Harrison, and if the latter should be renominated would of course give him hearty and zealous support. But if the convention demand that Blaine shall be the candi date he will accept the call. No other inference can be drawn from what he is veported to have said. This ought to dispose of all doubt and conjecture as to Mr., Blaina’s position, and doubtless will do so, It may be ex- pected to also invigorate the movement for his nomination. Those who have in- sisted that he must be the candidate of the party in 1592 have boen met with the question, which they were unable to answer, whether under any conditions or cireumstan Mr. Blaine would ac cept a nomination, and the ten- dency the doubt has naturally been ~ to restrain the enthusinsm of his supporters. The doubt being removed, they may be oxpected to push the demand for Mr. Blaine with all possible vigor, and it would appear with no danger of impairing the iriend] reiutions subsisting between the presi nt and ary of state, for itis cloarly implied in the reported remarks of the latter that there is no unfriendli- ness to his candidacy on the part of President Harrison, There is to be no straggle or confl between these dis tinguished republican lenders, and the one who is made the standard bearver of the party in the next national contest is assurod of tha earnest support of the othor, of sec.e PROTECTION OF PENSIO It is only recently that THE ek Bu- reau of Claims has undertaken to hundle pension cases. Its work originally was confined to Indian depredations, but it found its efforts in behalf of deserving claimants 5o highly appreciated that it finally undertook to comply with the re- quests iv was constantly receiving that it should take charge of other of claims as well. The pension work of the bureau hus since grown enormously and now occu- pies the eatire time of an expert ponsion attorney and a staff of assistants. Ther is nothing surprising in this when we consider the . to which the ve ns have suffered hith- orto from the rapacity of pension sharks. Much of the existing sion legislation has been initiated by men who expected to make their living off the pensioners, and before each bill has been signed the country has been flooded with the civeulars of scrambling claim agents. Both the soldier and the government have suffered from this state of things, and it is to the interest of both to have an absolutely trust- worthy agency which refuses to hand! any fraudulent claims, Under the act of June 27, 1890, com - monly but inaceurately ealled the do- pondent pension bili, every veteran of the late war who is now suffering from any disability, whether incurred in the service or not, which incapacitates him from manual labor, provided it be not the result of his own vicious habits, is entitled to a pension, and so is every widow or minor child of a daceased veteran regavdless of the cause of his death. The prosecution of a claim under this law does not interfere with the rights of the soldier under tho old laws, although, of course, nobody can draw two pensions at once. When a case is entrusted to THE Bek Bureau of Claims, two applications are almost in- variably filad in the pension office, one under the act of Juns 27, i8)0, and the other under the general law. The former requires comparatively littls ev- idence to establish it and is promptly aliowed. Thus the vetoran can be en- joving a moderate pension while per- foeting his claim to a larger one. The bureau makes no charges what- evor in advance. It does all neeeded preliminary work and corresponden; entively without cost to the applicant. It offers him an absolute assurance of protection from imposition, it gives him the guarantee of three great newspapers which could not atford to be even sus- pected of wrong, it putsat his disposal the services of trained experts and an oftice equinped with all the facilities for the prompt dispatch of business, and it asks nothing in return until the draft for his pension 1s actually received from the government. 1HE classes pen- THE NICIKAGUA CUINAL, Mr. Warner Miller, president of the Nicaragua Canal company, is not in favor of asking government aid for that enterprise. He believes that money enough can be raised for carvying the work to completion in the way that money is secured for the construction of railvonds and othor enterprise There has been little favorable response to the suggestion of the presi- dent’s message that the govern- ment ought to aid the canal company by guaranteeing intevest on its bonds, and in view of what Mr. Miller says it is to be presumed that noone in congress will venture to make the canal company u voluntary offer of help. At any rate there is not the slightest probability, hardly a possibility, of the present con- gress enacting any legislation in the in- terest of the canal financially. Meantime the enterprise appears to be making good progress. A careful and complete survey of the course of the canal has been made and the forests along the voute of the canal have been cleared away. On this work between $4,000,000 and ,000,000 have been expended. The estimated cost of the canal when completed is $100,- 000,000, which is essentially what the Suez canal cost, and that work pays annually over $12,000,000, a very handsome percentage of the cost. There is every reason to expect that the Nicaragua canal will do nearly as well, and it may do even better, especially in case the Panama canal shall be perma- nently abandoned, us it probably will be. Then the Nicaragua route, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, would be one of the busiest waterways of tho world. 2 There can be no question as to the great importance of this enterprise com- mercially, and the greatest benefits from it will come to the United States. Con- sider the saving of distance it will effect. At present vessels from New York to San Francisco sail 14,840 miles; the dis- tance by the canal willbe 4,946, & sav- ing of 9,84 miles. The distance from New Orleans to San Francisco by the canal will be 4,047, a saving of over 11,000 miles. Yokohama, the most im- portant of the five ports of Japan opened by treaty to foreign commerce, would be brought 6,872 miles nearer to New York. The distance to Valparaiso, Chili, from New York would be 4,688 miles instead of 9,750, as now. Auother important consideration is the effect the canal will have in cheapening freights between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, There can be no doubt that the ecanal will | greatly augment trade of every kind be- tween the east and west coasts of North America, between the east cousts of North and the west of South America between our eastern seaports consts BEE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1801 and Japan, Chinaand the spice islands. ANl these con¥iiferations establish the importance of tis onterprise and com- mend itto thé sapport of the American people, but they flo not create a vaiid reason why thégrovernment should ns sume any finaneisl responsibility in con- noction with th proje It was started s & peiv and when gress was askad for a charter it was dis- tinctly understidd that the government was not to be aplled upon for financial aid. Al the/¢dmpany desived, so it was said, was &iply to have the pro- tion which governmental recognition would give. [t should be continued and completed as n private enterprise. OMAHA does business enough in her postoffice to warrant her demand for a public building and she should have it. o entorpris con- A enats Secret. Chica o Tritnns. Tho news 15 givon out secrotly that Sevator Peffer snores in a most violent aud terrivle mauner. A Good Thing for the Other Fellow. Washinaton Post, Evorybody agroes with Pr rison on the gerrymandering business. of them want the other fellows to quit it. Whe Viltuin of a Narrative. Rochester Demoerat, David B. Hill is of no earthly good today but to point a moral. He will nover adorn a tale. He had the opportunity, but threw 1t away. sident Har ALl PR sl Sulking Outside the Broastworks. Phildelphia Press Mills seems to be the white elephant [n the democratic sidoshow. These “‘sacrod cows.” as the old colored womun suid, are “‘mos’ turr'bl when they gits stubvorn.” Sty Expert testimony. Boston Herald, There doesn’t scem to be any question that Mr. Spriuger of Iliinois is the man to lead the democtats in Cong Mr. Springer of [tinois intimates as much himself, _— A Blaineite hraws the Line. Cinctnnati Commereial. £ditor Arkell of New York writes that Mr. Blame will be nominated for president “if he lives.” Of courso Mr. Blaine's most cnthusiastic friends ave willing to draw tho line on a condition of that nature. A e precdin: € ¢ World, New York Reorder. American trade and industrial policy now practically domiuates the commercial world Tho action of the Giorman reichstag on grain duties proves this. Iinforcoment of tho poticy of “America for Americans’ gives to American enterprise its rigivs and opportun- itios the world over. o — A Suns-t Possibility. Chicwy Herald, John M. Palmer was not long in Washing- ton before the disdovery was made by many castern observers that he isa presidential possibility of very pronounced proportions. He is a man whonceds to ba seen and heard to be appreciatéd. ' He does not shrink on acquaintance, He wears well. He grows upon tho people. . Smart politicians lookinrg for a candidate to win with will not fail to appreciate that sortof a man. o VT e VES CASE LN 10 oA 300G METEL. Blughaniton Repibiican: land ‘s among the ariiest youth. Overs L1 Whaling in'lap- udventures of Lowell Courier: In th science the assassin ha Dlood wiil tell. @ days of chomical often found that Billville Bunner: e took out an_accident policy last Monduy and had the zood fortune 1o breik two of ouriezs ten minutes after- wards, for which we will et 5200, Bill Nye has exhausted lini- ment, Dut at last accounts had not becon addicted to the phial stutl. THERAPEUTICAL. K te Kield's Washi Nor Homeopath nor Allopath My house of clay can sive— Tt truth that otden sayinz hath, “All paths load to the grave!™ The stuge driver h1s a y of the whoas of life to contend + lust stook of St, Josoph News: good with. New York Sun: Mr. Reod—I shull be happy. Mr, Speaker. to lend you at any time th alitor that I found $o valuabl hut it you have ami ow 1t “for uso in d sec your incom tastos. She —Any one wno wants to marry 1an of very expensive tastos, Lam notu man of expensive mo s a Not to any extent. thouzh, in five of nobleman asks her 1o mar, New York IHerald: Bridzes—The troub] with Samson was his inubility to differontiato Dotween sl £ eXpressions. Brooks—Iow so? Bridges—Why, it was all rizht tor him toget a gadt on, but he shouldu’s nave minded op- probrious remarks about a halr cut. Sh suy ‘yos.' ny foreign Yankee Blade: She—Do you often visit your unel He—No, only in cases of extreme necessity. Judge: “Your marria:e was the rosult of love at first sight. wasn't it7 “Yes," replied ‘the neur sizhted friond. “T never will forget the day. Only time in my iife I was ever known to forget wy glasses,” Columbus Post: That hard-hearted fellow who sent a congressman a floral 1yro ought to Do Strung up. ETCHING FROM LIFE. New York Herald. She sat before me all the sorvice through, And_iooked so saintly, gentle, falr and good ‘Dwould make one better just to 0— "Twould change the very sinner from his ‘mood. ch hor Tlistened all enrapsured to the words The proacher spage. [ suw her cyes were wot. s Thosermon was aii dlog 1o toxt—well—réull Boston Transoripte The man who borrows trouble never th nks of pivying itbuck suve by distribution among his friends and acquaint- ances. nt appenl. 1 quite forgot. X st. Joseoh News: . Tt Is not physical so much as financlal aglliy that enables a man to run up a long bill and3imp i THE MAN n;flu KNOWS IT ALL. R.J. Burdette in Bro kiyn Eagle. Ilove the man whoknows It all, Kroni east to westy from north ta South; Who kuows ail th th groat and small, And tells It with' Ktireiess mouth; Who holds a listening worid (n aw e, The while ho worss his iron jaw. Ofttimes in evening's holy oalm, When twilight softens sizht and sound, And zophyr Dreathes o peaootul psalm, This follow brings his mouth around, Witk fra long galiop th o tire The vight-day clock's impatient ire. Uis good strons mouth! He wields It well! He works It just for all it's worth; Not Sumson's jawnono famed could tell Such mipfhl.y deeds upon tha earth, He pulls the thrott e open wide. And works her hurd on elther side. Upbill wnd down, throuzh swamp and sand, L nover stops, 1t never balks: Through alr and sky, o'er soa and land. Ho tatks und 5. and tulky and taiks, And talks and talks, and talks and talks, And talks and talks, and talks and talks. Good Lord, from eviis fierce and dire, Save us each duy, from fear and woe; om wreek and flood. from storm and fire, u suddon doath. fr ret £ blightia rain and burning drouth, from the man who plays his mouth. OTHER LANDY 11 « The brewiing off of relations with tho Bul- garian government by the Fronch diplomatio agent has caused some uneasiness | European political circles. The actual Bul- garian government is cordially bated by Russia, which country would surely take a hand 1 any sorious conflict arising betweon Princo Fordinand aod France. If the lator, in order to enforce hor demand on Bulgaria, abould send somo vessel to blockada Bourgas or Varna, Russia would support France, and the two governments wouald unite in asking the sultan to grant thoso vossels a passace through the Dardanellos. Kvon it that ro- quest shiould not be granted, the moro fact of the pressure brought to bear upon the sultan would bring a protest from England and the triple ailianco. But it is not likely that Prince Fordinand will persist in his hostilo attitude; if he should, Franco will be sati tled to imitate Russia, and to sevor all politi- cal relations with the Sotia government, which can hardly last much longer. All Europo 18 resounding now with tales of “Bulgarian atrocities,” which are committed aot by the Turks, as i 1877, but, by the Bul- gavian government itself. Prime Minister Stamboulof? is the real master of the country, and he maintains a reign of terror, which he hoped to hide from the eyes of Kurope. This is why he has persecuted M. Chadouine, but tho latter 18 not the only journalist who sent veracious reports concerning the situation in Buigaria, The wholo Kuropeau pross has velated the tortures inflicted upon political prisoners in the Balkan principality, and has printed the whole or a portion of the momoir sent broadcast by Bulgarian wowmen, who alled the attention of the civilized world to the horrible treatment suffered by their rels tives in Stamboulofi’s prisons. 1t 15 alveady known that the premier behaved in a mest cruol and illegal manner toward Panitza and his companions, who were arbitrarily sentenced to death and were execuied. But since then tho Bulgarian premior has sent to jail Karaveloff, one of tho political leaders of the country, and an ex-minister; and he has doclared that ho would not let Kavaveloff out of prison as long a3 ne himselt continues in power. There are strong hopes now that Stambouloff may rot remain much longor at the nead of the government, and that hun- dreds of patriots will be delivercd from the unhealthy jails in which thoy ave slowly dying through stacvation and the application of tortures worthy of tho middle ages. It is suid that Priuce Fordmand, on heaving of tho momoir addressed to the powers of Europe by the Bulgarian women, daclared that he was totaily ignorant of the atrocities vovealed init. Ho added that he would ve- press them: and it was rumored recently that ho had quarreled with Stambouloff. —Still, Princa Fordinand has never shown himsolt especially onergetic; and Kurope may be compelled to enforce in Bulgavia against Stambouloft the rights of eivilizaticn, as it toolk action formerly against the Turks, on benalt of the same country. It is a melancboly itlustration of tho isola- tion of Russia from tho civilized world that no effectual steps have been taken in other countries to relieve a suffering that is u doubtadly intense and widely spread. If tho samo thing had happened in any other European country, extonsive measures of ro lief would bofore this have beeu taken. Tnat thoy have not buen takon is one of the pen- alties Russia pays for her baroarism. In the fivst place, there is no way o finding out and pubnshing just where and just how great is tho nead for relief. IRussia has no means of collocting and transmitting intelligonco, such as tho press supplies clsewhere. Oficial re- ports are the only substituts for unoficial re- ports, and they have not been allowed to sce tho light., In the next place, there is no local Initiative on the part of the Russian pub- lie. In this country the local authorities would have set forth tho needs of their re- spective communitizs and theso necds would have been supplied. There is no ‘machinery for collecting and distributing relief in Rus- sia, excopt tho officials appointed from St. Potersburg, and these do not command the nce of the peoplo of their districts, It is a painful but logical cffect of the Russian system that tho Quaker delezates who vi ited tho country for the express purpose of inquiring into the distress with the view of relieving 1t should have been prevented by the authorities from prosecuting their inquir- ivs. Ius prohibition, like the intorfereuce of the ofticials with Count Tolsoi's work of reliof, and like tho warning of a Moscow nowspaper against Buglish duplicity dis- guised as philanthropy, probably proceads from dullness rather than from malignity. India, for which it would seem England and Russia-are about to contend, is a mag- nificent mpire. In area it is nearly half as largo as the Uaited States, including Aldska, and 1t has a population fully four times ns great as that of this country. It has cost England tens of thousands of Lives and many millious of dollars to conquer and nold ~this provineo, For a century past it has been considered the brightost jewal in the diadom of British greatnoss. 1f England should lose it much of her power and evou more of her prestizo and influence would have departed. Outside of the premiershiv, the post of head of the Indian governmont has long beon ono of the most im- portant and exalted of all the executive oftices in the Britisu empire. To retain pos- session of its Asiatic dominions Great Britain will exert all its immense resources in war and diplomacy. Already it as been said that she has entered 1ato a secret alliance with China with this ead in view. China, 1 is known, is also menaced by Itussia, and her intorests lic in an defensive aud offensive treaty with England as against the Romanoft government. So faras tuo intellizent out- sider is able to judge, the advantago in the oxpected conflict would be on the side of England, but whatever be tho outcome of tho struggle, tho world will witness a mighty conflict when tho lioa and the bear grapple in tho contest for the mastery of Asia. H Itis vaguely felt at Berlin that France cannot bo strangled in the meshos of the customs net woven by her enemies, so long as [ogland, the United States and the Latin- American ropublics remain outsido of the new commercial union, It is said that efforts bave been made to induce the British gov orament to enter the new zollverein, and that very tempting concessions have boen offored. It is clear, however, from Lord Salisbury's recent declarations, that no such arrange- ment would bo looked upon as practicable, oven by o tory cabinot, while as for Mr, iladstone, who, if ho lives, will preseatly return to power, his sympathies are known to e enlisted on the side of Krance and Russia. The notion that the United States would take part in a commeroial conspiracy intonded to injure our best friends, France and Russia, is of course preposterous. Political isolation is much more easily ac- complished than commercial isolation. It roquired all Bismarck's skill to keep France in the former condition, and it is not likely that Caprivi can condemn her to the latter. e Christian missionaries arenot apt to re- spect. the religious prejudizes of the heathen, and this fact may account for the furious opposition to them in China. A story which comes from [udia is very suggestive of the mischief that may be done and the ill-feoling that may be caused by the lack of common sense and good manners in mat s of this kind, A meeting of Mabaratta Hindus bas just been held in Bombay to protost against the dissemination by the missionaries of printed haudbills contaning what they believe to be a most libelous slur upon their God Krishna. Several prominent na- tives delivered addrosses in whioh they ox- pressod grent indignation at tho missionarios for interfering in their veligious affairs and defaming their goas, In the ena a resolution was adopted to call a mass mesting to adopt # wemorial to the government asking that the quoen’s proclamation of 1838, insuring them religions freodom, should be observed. Much earnest foeling was displayed at the moeting, which was large aod influential, and it 18 probable that moro will be heard of the affair horeaftor. - The Otos I Beatrice, Neb. Dec, 18, ~To the Editor of Tie Bre: Some ten years ago the Otos and Missouria tribes of Indlans, who occupled a large tract of land in the southwostern part of Nebraska, were persuaded to go to Indian torritory to a new reservation nds were placed upen the market, A groat deal of onthusiasi was aroused in tho vicinity of Beatrico, whore tho sale took place, in May aod December, 1583, Several scandalous schemes woro put up bebind locked doors and grand atLompL Was made 10 get possession of valuaole tracts for speculative purposes, At the time there was considerablo taik about the appraisement. A great many honost people belisved that thero was an Afvican concealed somewhere in the com- mission which placed prices on toe lands, It was almost universally agreed that the tracts offered were decidedly cheap at tho appraised value. It was tho low appraise- ment as much as the real value of the lands which brought out so many buyers on tho day of the sale When the sale was openad, however, nearly or quize all the syndicatos who ex- pected to profit by the deals made in advance were completely ‘knocked out. Tho people simply went crazy and the unimprovod [u dian laud sold at higher prices than 1mprovec lands in the same county wers offered fov in the market. The timo element had some. thing to do with the pricos offared, but the bestexplanatide is that the bidders were carried away by compotitive onthusiasm. Men who were shut out of ulieged deals bia up agaiust men belioved to have been ad- mitted to the land ring, and the latter in turn lost their hea It'is safe to say that the lands brought on an average 50 per cent more than they were really worth. The sequel comes now in Senator Pad- dock’s bill which proposes to refund to pur- chasers who paid the high pricos the diffor- ence vetween the appraised value and the purchase price and to allow those who are still in arrears upon payments a like rebate upon balances due. No doubt some of the purchasers have heen badly cheated in the land deals thev made in May and Decomber, 1853, when they bought at such outrageously high prices at the public sales, It seoms hardly fair, Nowever, to make the Indians suffer for this bad bargamning. Tho appraised vaiue of the land is in many in stances as much below the real value as the purchase price is above it. If the bill under- took to adjust the claims by collecting from purchasers only the roal value today instoad of the appraised yalue eight years ago it would seem more cquitable to the parties of the fivst part and fair to those of the socond part. It is observed, however, that tho con- sent of the Indians must be obtained before the proposed readjustment takes place,and as the Indians have learned a ood deal since 1883 and are now about to take their Okla- homa lands in severalty it is probably safo to rely upon them to protect themselves, B. W. T. a BilL B e o Able to Defend Herself. Pawsee Ciry, Neb., Dee. 16.—T the Bi- itor of Tue Brr: Tne Bek of Saturday last contained an article concorniug myself, writ- Ltou in a spirit of cowardico too low to call forth retatiation. Although through the un- fortunate circumstances of my life I am en- titled 10 the name of grass widow, I am not mean enough to use the weapons of a coward, but write the following in self defense and in my own name. Tho romance so graphically told is not so recent as its date would seoni, but has been | rohashed and enlarged upon to st the rovengeful purpose of & private individual. Johu Burr never reprosented bimself to'be u “physician of sevoral yoars | standiog and practice;” and never dofrauded me out of any money. What I gave nhim I gaveof my own free will. [t was my own and no one has any right to question my dis posal of it, as [ am amply able to support my- self and Owo 10 man or woman acent. Whatever injury he may have dono mo I have forgiven him, dead or aiive, and no one elso has cause to soy aught agaiust him, for ho was his 0wn worst enemy, 1am not tho fist or second that bave had thetr faith in human nature shaken by sad exporience, and mine never had such asovere shock, as upon reading the article in your paper, knowing as I did tull well its author or instigator, and his purpose. 'Inere is but ono_besides’ myself who knew tho contents of the letter announcing John Buri's death, as quoted. He, strange to say, 1s a doctor too, and until Sunday last u_ grass widower Through a pretended interest iu the where abouts and welfare of Joun Burr ho opened corvespondence with me some three months since, and by oxpressious of sympathy aud hypoeritical professions of Clivistian poeni- tonce ana spiritual need, continuod it several weales, until I brougnt it to a sudden closo ou raceiving aroquest for monoy. He found, to bis surprise and chagrin, that thero was a | 1init to woman’s gullibitity, and his repeated efforts to coutinue the correspoudence wero useless. Upon roceipt of tho nows of John Burr's death, which was two months ago, bis oex- pressions of griet aud sympathy were quito overtlowing, “bis only t was that he could not have aone more for him:" his vir- tues were laudod to tho skios; vices ho had none, his faults were forgot and accord- ing to tne doctor’s eulogy Jobn' Bure must bo an aneol in heaven now. ‘Tnat was whilo he | still nad hopes of inducing mo to let him have some mouoy. 'The doctor's viows have changed since then, but facts remaw the samo. and their | Gordon, thoso who have read the mo may know its author and his Pawneo papers please copy. - ANOTHER SUIT AGAINST FIELD, One More Craditor Who is Trying to Recover Money New Yonrk, Do, 18.—Joun V. Cockeroft, has begun suit 1n the supreme court against Id, imploaded with Emil Woltmann, and the firm of I'leld, Weichers & Co. to recover §1,500 on & promissory note. The note was executed by Woltmaun in favor of John 1% Woeichers, endorsed by him to the firm, by the firm of Cyrus W Iield, and by him to the plaintiff. ~ Kfforts ave been made to servo Mr. Kield person: { ally with the summons at his home, but thoy have been inefloctual. Judgo [ograham do cuded yosterday that the summons be left | with some suitable porson at his house, but it aamission to the house is not obtained it may bo attached to the outer door of the house. T'ho counsel of Edward M. iold will on- deavor 1o got thoir cliont out of the Ludlow street Jail tomorrow to tuke him before Judge Dickman's commission at White Piains for oxamination as to his sanity. Dis trict Attornoy Nicol was engagerd yosterday in making an examiuation of the books of the | firm of Fiold, Lindioy Weichors & Co As tho investigation of the districtattorney tho horizon darkens for ield. So as discoverea the crooked transactions ot tho defunct firm foot up nenrly $400,000, | This 1 volves many well known creditors of the partnerstip hoadod by Field 'ho grand jury toaay returned an ment against Field charging him with for- gery in the socond degree The indictment is prodicated on a statemout made by Bunikers Khauth, Nachod & Kubino, in regard to a bill of lading transaction, . B WILL CONTEST FLORENCE'S indio WILL, Relatives of the Dead Want Some of His I New York, Dec. 13, Actor percy. ‘There is to bo a con- test over the will of the late William J. Floreuce, the actor, which was filed for probate with the surrogate on Tussday last, a8 cortaln rolativos of Mr. Illorence claim | that he left a codicil which has in somo man ner disappearod. Iu tho will which has boon | tiled Mrs. Floronco is namod us thesolo | executrix and the entivo ostate of tbe doad | actor is left to his wifo, nono of tho actor's | brothevs or sisters getting oven as 1auch nsn | souvenir from among his largo collaction of | articles which Fe picked up duving his eventful cacoer. Tho brothers and sistors of | M. Florence, whoso real name was Conlin, | and who was a full brother of Inspector Con | lin of this city, profess to bo surprised that a | codicil to this will has not boen found. They say that Mr. Florenco had ropeatedly as- | surod various members of tho family, including tho inspector, that ho | nad “made & codicil somo tiwe be- | fore he was takon 1ll, in which o i had loft s relatives propecly provided for out of his large meaus, and had espocially maae broyisious for the care of his paralytio brother, John Conlin of this city. A QUARREL Fatal Row Between a I Fish Dealer. St. Louts, Mo,, Doc. 18.—Late last evening Dr. Thomas O. Gordon, ono of the wealthiest physiciaus of this city, shot aua fatally wounded John H. Stegge, o large wholesalo and retail fish dealer. The meu had borue an ill-fecling toward each other for some time, because of reports that Dr. Gordon had performed a criminal oparation upon a baau- tiful young daughtor ot Stegge. Last night the two men met in front of their residences, which adjoin, and a quarrel began, in the course of whith Steggo, according to Dr. assaulted tho' physician, beatine him sevorely. Gordon, during the meleo, manaced to draw a pistol, aud firing threo shots at random brought down his man with ono bail. Tho bullet entered Stogge's back noar the spine and in tho vicinity of the kid- ney, passing into the abdominal cavicy. Stegge was taken to bis homo where physi- cians, after an examination, pronounced the wound necessarily fatal. 'Dr. Gordon has been placed under arrest, pending an_offcial inquiry iuto the affair and the result of his shot. octor and a e HIS HEROISM COST HIM HIS LIFE, Brave Deed R s, Pu., A Reading railro seman performed an uct of hero ism yesteraay that will probaly cost him his life, The hero is William Gruss, 26 years ola, wno, while in the forward car of a train that was being pushed toward tho depot, obsorved the peril of a woman ricking coal ou the adjoming track. A train was ap. proaching aud Giruss called to her, but sho apparently did not bear him, As his train reached a point divoctly opposite hier, Gruss sprang from the car and seizing tho woman around the waist threw herout of harm's way. Iho exertion caused him 1o l0so his footing, however, and ho fell across the track. ‘U'be train from which bo had savod the coal picker cut off both bis logs aud at tho hospital the physiciaus say he cannof live, a Brakeman on the e THREE OF A KIND. 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