Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 25, 1891, Page 4

BEE. Evtrom DATLY ¥ ROSEWATER THE MORNING. PUBLISHED EVERY TER Dafly Bee (withe Tnily and Sunc Bix Month Thrae Moot Eunday Iire Buturduy Bie Weekly Bee, One 8 OF SUBSCRIPTION it Bundny) One Year 1y, One Yeur Vear. Yenr. OFFICES, The Bee Building, wha. corner N ond I Bu s 12 Poarl Streot 0 Offf 7 Chumber of Commeres. ork. K Waushingtin, 51 Fteenth Streot CORRESPONDENCH roluting to nows widressed 1 and the All_communications editorial matier should Editorinl Depurtment be BUSINESS 1 All business lettors and e be addressed 1o The Bee Pib) Omahn. Drafts, checks and 0 be made piyabie to the ¢ pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors THE BEE BUILDING, TTERS, ittances should shinz Compiny postoflice orders rder of the co SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Ftate of Nebruska County of Don Geo. B. Tzschuch publishing company hat the qetunl cireaiation of the week ending De follows: 1oa, (8% Seeret ry of Tug Rr Soleninly sweir Tk DATLY BeR ember 19, 181, was 19 2L Monday, Tuesdny Wodnes Thursdiy, Dec Eriday, Do Buturd Average GEO. R TZ3CHUCK ) Lefore me and subscribed in my | day of Decen! D. 1801, N Not « daily cireuiat on is shown inho fol- Sworn t presence th s I The growth of the ave of Tie BEv for sIX yeurs Jowin+ tible TR 16,200 11 1w 1248 53 15,051 207 11,080 10 20,57 12 TaE State Board of Transportation is not achieving much reputation of which to bo proud either in railway regulation or tho grain business. SENATOR PLUMB'S estate is placed at $1,000,000, though to look at him on the floor of the senate one would never have suspected him of such business thrift. MAYOR-EL Bemis will make no Christmas presents to his constituency, and stockings hung up in the passage- way to his office will not be stuffed with promises. RNOLD loves tho Ameri- —ospecially the newspaper Jdwin has all the keenuess of merchant in pushing his SIR EDWI can peopl folk. Sir an oriental business. CHANCELLOR CANFIELD has Michi- ganized the Nebraska State sity by gerrymandering the courses. It should be added, however, that the re- sult will probably be beneficial to the college and to the students. unive GARzA, the Mexican bandit, is neither 80 brave nov so shrewd as Geronimo, the last geatleman from this sido the line whom Cuptain Bourke interviewed in Mexico. It is safe to say also that Ger- onimo was Gavzu's superior in other pur- ticulars. 0. ST. JosErH has been agitated from center to umference over an ordi- nance prohibiting the leg drama and the operatic ballet. But the bald- headed men in the council were in the majority and the ordinance to introduce Minneapolis in@ivals has been pigeon- holed. St. Joseph will hoveafter as herotofore pormit the appearance of table limbs without pantal ettos. e OMAHA looks out over the state this morning with a Christmas smile upon her otherwise unrufiled countenance. Sho has passed through a season of de- pression safely and sees prosperity ahead. In common with the state at lavge, sho has felt the depression inci- dent to a partial failure of crops, but, like the state at Inrge, she has shared the prosperity of the farmer and felt the gradual restoration of confidence, cir A NUMBER of the patrons of THE Ber Bureau of Claims have that organiza- tion to thank for a specially enjoy Christmas. The Buveau is less eight months old and of courso this first Christmas. If its success in the future can bo gauged by thatof the past, the next Christmas will show n host of peoplo who will have been bonefited by its energy and faithfulness within the coming year. SIR EDWIN ARNOLD has come and gone, but his going has beea ulmost as wolcome as his coming. His visit to Omaha was made memorable by a very marked disregard of common courtesy, for which Siv Edwin Arnold has always heretofore been noted, Whatever may have been his contract with the lecture bureau, ho should have resented any attempt to close the doc of the lecture hall in the faces of the people who had come to hear him and held tickets that entitlod them to that privilege. The refusal to refund the money might have been condoned, or charged up to a dis- honest ugent, but the refusal of Mr. Arnold to entertain them left u very un- tavorable impression, to use a mild term, 8 regards Lis moral stumina. BISHOP JOHN SiArp who died in Salt Lake City on Wednesday was one of the best known as well as most pro grossive Mormons in the territory, He was a polygamist and has four familios living near each other in Salt City, Howeyer, when the Edmunds law was enacted he voluntarily accepted the situation and agreed to abide by the law, living the vemainder of his days with his first wifoe but supporting from his fortune the others with their fam- 1liea. Ho w zod for u time by the church but alterward others fol- lowed his example and respected him for taking the initiative. He was fore- most in the development of the mater ial interests of the territory and died, as he had lived, the confidence of tho business community of Utah with out regurd to religious faith. Lake possessing 1 and 15.Tribune Buliding | do: | THE ROLIDAY SEASON. The return of the Christmas holiday sonson is apt to suggest to most persons by, so short how rapidly t s go s they last gave and scems the time sin received the gifts of friendship and af- the senson sulutations ap: wnd wnd festivities the lieartily the return of with its boundless wenlth of ehild joy, fts dences of affection, its ties und the sweat and tender in. Charlos charact in geply to anothe Fad called Christmas a humbug huvo always thought of Christmas when 1t hus come round as a good a kind charit nsant the ¢ thmo I know of th ndar of the year wher \d womon scem by one consent to open their hearts freely.” This is the spirit which to regard this and ther yr aing it in any other light, for be mbered that He wted today had birthplace, Tt Christmas did people feel their common brothel thei ndence upon each other, and to think of the needs of each other, it would still be the best of all days in the While Christmas is rich in valuable ind kindly influences for all, its in the happiness it children and th clevating and ennobling impres- it makes child hife It is especially the children’s day, and the highest duty in connection with it is to make tho hearts of the little ones It 1 edifying reflection that all Christendom 1s of one thought and ono feeling in honoring this day, what- ever may be the sectarian or denomina- tional differences and controversies that divide it at other times. on, exchanged to the partici- its g who paus propriate pated in rdness Yot those to veflect upon sensof, its pric . ity generous chari- Dicl of his s sny ns mikos one to 1 time time: time; able, | in long cal men shut-up. yroper in time, et spect s to be justitied 50 or fortunate in a in re it rem birth i for 1 1 said that if whose L has been we no more than to make hood, dene lessons reatest worth brings to is the sion upon glad is g COUNCIL BLUFES Council Bluffs claims grievance against Omaha delegation went to Washington to pre sent Omaha’s claims for the location of the national republican convention. some very touchy people of our si city considered themselves slighted cause they not offered places on the delegation and asked to accompany it to Washington. The truth of the matter may as well be bluntly told. When the project Lo place Omaha on the track for the na- tional convention first came ances weve given by prominent parties on the other side of the river that Coun- cil Bluffs would join with Omaha in raising the gu nty of $50,000 to ¥100,000 to meet the expenses of entertaining the convention. When the guaranty papers were presented to the citizens of the Bluffs they declined point blank to sign a dollar, and the invitation that they contribute.a portion of the $3.000 toward defraying the expense of serd- ing the delegation to Washi responded to by a very discourteous ve fusal all along the line, including hotels and the bridge motor company that were expecting to profit largely by the convention. Inasmuch asour neighbors over the river had contributed nothing, and would guarantee nothing, they have no right to feel aggrieved over the fact, thoy not given places on the delogation. If they imagine that they deprived Omaha of Mr. Clarkson’s support by their re- monstrance they simply overrate their influence on the Great I Am from the state of Des Moines. He never in- tended to give Omaha loyal support, and had decided to disregard the resolutions of the Town republicans months before the committee met. It is equally puerile for Council Bluffs to duplicate Senator Manderson’s Omaha mint bill with the idea that it will beat Omaha out of a mint. The fact is, there is not the remotess proba- bility of congress locating any new mints during the present session. Omaha will not go into a spasm if the mint bill fails to pass, any more than she did upon failure to secure the national republican convention. One thing the Council Blaffs peoplo ought to know by this time; they cannot hope to build up their own town by try- ing to obstruct the growth of Omaha. IND OMAn to er since a ave a were up, assur- were SILVER MEN SA1ISFIED, The advocates in congress of the free and unlimited coinage of silver are said to be entirely satisfied with the compo sition of the house committea on coinago, weights and measures. This committee counsists of thirteen members, and the majority of them are known to be un compromisingly in favor of free silver Theso the chairman, Bland of Mssouri, Williams of North Caroli Kilgore of Texas, Pierce of Tennessee, Epes of Virginia, MceKeighan of Nebraska, Bartine of N vada, and probably Johnson of North Dakota. As already noted, the compo- sition of this committeo is regarded ns indicating that the speaker is favorable to the passage of a free coinage bill, and undoubtedly such a bill wil! be intro duced, But there is less probability now of a free coinage bill passing the house than there was before the ovganization. Mr, Mills and his supporters were commit- ted against silver logislation at this ses- sion in order that the party should not be compelled to make it an issue in the next campaign, and theve is no reason to suppose that they have abandoned this view, If they adhere to it they are strong enough, in union with the repub licaas, to prevent silver legislation, The that there will be a interesting contest in the dem- atic ranks over this The rep stat ques- coinage. are chances are very oc question, entatives from the eastorn unit touching the tion, and Cleveland influence, existing s it is not possible to determine, will be employed to keep the subjoot out of controversy pending the pre tinl campaign. It will hardly possible w accomplish this, however, against all the the value of which in circum- he memories | | purent - who | but the result may disappoint the o pvectations of the silver men, In an, Nt dis silver question In thoe pre Alrendy o fr tho Nevada <- of the Mgress bill and 1esion nt ¢ is nesured hus Senator s coinag been introduced in senate f made ihject he has Careful investi- fron biil nate, but if such a wsure should get through both hou it would certainly encounte veto, so that all time o cupled In discussing the subject will he practically wasted. It quite aj what valid the men can find for theiv satisfaction with the situation. THE SUATE UNIVERSITY, has the s Stawart ¢ his annual deliverance ng versoed ation s over the same ground many that a could not pues t times, W conage he s m of congr xecutive is n rensons silver The procoedings of the board of re- aity sutine and uninterosting. however, Chan- his ficst re- that o The <, in less than six months, gents of the State uniy ordi- narily At are mere Inst meeting wfiold submitted port and we renlize at once the ne pilot has taken the helm, Kans torapper to have revolutionized the methods the univ ity. Indeed, so far have his ideas been adopted by the revents that some friends of the institution fear that of has all thought conservatisim hoen abandoned I'ie new chancellor Michigan plan and the school yenr is di- into two instead of There no ri r 1sses”’ heveafter, of all students will be printed in alphabetical order with num to their exact standing in the courses. A has a made in the eredited from high schools, in the state, and the redited in the new sense of the term by which is meant, under the chancellor’s scheme, a topic puvsued one hour each day for five duys in the week for a semester The former graduates will hardly understand the new catalogue when it is The system of classification is os of study are so much reorganized as toconfuse them. Move attention is given to the agricul- tural and manual teaining departments, The students, elect to take such studies as they choose, and are geaduated upon new notions of what shouid entitle them 1o degrees. The *‘first year of residenc takes the place of the name freshman, and after that there wili be nothing in the catalogue to intimate how long the student has been on the ground. When he complotes twenty-five full courses he may graduate if fully prepured upon entrunce. Tho chancellor speaks in high terms of the beet sugar school, the patho-bio- logical laboratory, the experiment sta- tion and the colleges of law and medi- ine. He nlso urges the importance of securing aid from congress for the estab- lishmeat of a plant for pursuing <periments in sugar beet growing and beet sugar making. Oun the whole the report of the chancellor decidedly refreshing, being s - tirely inal in its suggestions as - compured with the olarly But more or less prosy reports of prede- o , whose ideas of conducting a university kept them in conventional lines. The impression made by a perusal of the report is that Chancellor Canfield has ideas of his own and has convinced the board of reg that they are worthy of a trial, He has burned the bridges behind him, however, and must sither succeed gloriously or fuil iguo- minioudly. His radical of the institution ground. wdopted th thiry semest to and are be names rals she s0 hoen preparatory work seminaries, ot pupils will bo the university with courses in course,’ issued. s0 changed and the cour is ori onts reorganization leaves no middle THE WAR I3 O It was not necessary for Mr. Henry Watterson to issue an elaborate mani- festo in order to show that tnere is s serious breuch in the democratic ranks. That made appavent when the democratic caucus set aside Mr. Mills and seleeted Mr. Criso for speaker, and all subsequent proceedings have coufirmea it, while also tending to widen the schism and increaso the difficultics in the way of closing it. What inducement ean be offered to Mr, Mills that would lead him to forgive the speakor for the slight put upon him in proposing to give him the second place on the ways and means committee? Tho Texas congrossman 50 relentlessly relegated to the rear must fight or abjectly surrender,and no one acquainted with his character can doubt that he will do the former, He has a strong following in the house, and, to all appearances, has the sym- pathy of the party 1 the country with him. Most democrats feel that he has been unjustly used, and knowing this Mr. Mills will be very likely to neither give nor take quartor. It is not quite clear how he will seek his revenge or vindication, but that ho will find opportunities to make his foes feol his influence is not to be doubted. On the other hand, what can be done to appease Mr. Crisp and Mr, Springer after the charge that there was o bargain between them? In respect of this, Mr. Watter- son is less explicit than some others, but he says of the selection of Springor as the ways and means chairman and leader of the house that it *‘smacks too much of the discharge of an obligation,” and this feeling is gewveral among the admirers of Mills and his extreme tarif views. Tt is a grave charge, which if true would be destructive of the political hopes of Mr Crisp and Mr. Springer, and they will not fail to vesent it. The spsaker is evidently a man not to be frightened or bullied into any surrender of his con- victions or purposes, and the chairman of the ways and me mmittoo is crodited with intrepidity and self-confi- dence, s0 that it will be no easy matter to induce them to harmonize with the men who have presonted them to the country in the dishonorable lLight of having bargained for the positions they oceupy. The war of the democratic factions is on, and the promise is that it will be waged not only in congress, but be car- ried into the next national of the party and even beyoud. There is no leader at this time whose domination is 80 complote that he can harmouize was he ns e »nvention tIDAY Mr. Clove) the these conflicting eleme land, it [rbX still standard-bonyer of 07l he does ngt ‘esive to again be ¢ date—lost higavily in influence in ths de- font Mills, o Hill is powarless to do anything in' Ghe interest of while the fudility of the counsel of Gor man, Caclslé and others has alveady showlf, 5/ A hus gone to front with the 1Ak the party | pecordin his of expediency policy, and thus far he has shown himself more than a mateh forall opposition.” Further developments in this confliet, bed by Mr. W, ‘a revolution both thooretical and aetual,” will be watched by republ s with great interest 1t ) to party voportad aspires be the next that wdi vear—and been harmony, been the tion the new Wppi roing to anu mun pnt detormina- to and guide own views des tterson as the wi the chief of 3 A PROPER enfore house law wiil not embare inspector, nor will it give the State Bourd of Transportation troubls. A little common sense and a good deal of dovotion tothe best interests of the state il keep the relations of the board and the grain inspection department peace ful. men SA MERE public life inent democrat who will in a very large measure dictate and control the legisla- and the vecord of the atie party, upon which it must fight the ensuing presidential campaign. WHAT sort of consistene places Jewry s on the com- mittee on arid lands and ivrigation and Tom Bowman of Council Bluffs on alco- holicliquors? King Daviit's Double. Washington [ Senator Kylo's remarkable political reach must challenge the admiration of David 8. Hill. the sea of Lowsville iventurer upon the way the 1l characterizes em- tion, the polic demox is it that 1pson S racked Champi Kansas City Journat I'ha sidetracking of those two champions of frec trade, Cloveland and Mills, had not a litle to do with the rovival of business acuvity. sid - Not This Year. Cincinnti Commercial, The vencrablo editor of the New York Sun smiles sardonically at the suggestion that he should seud to Grover Clevelana a Christmas card boaring the familiar “Peace on earth; good will to men,”” The Blandering Begur Kitnwas Citu Star. Senator Gormau's idea of the present ses- s10u is that it gught to bo a do-nothing con gress—au iden that is likely to ba fulfilled. Doubtless Gorman thinks that wheu a domo- crat is dolug nothing he cannot blunder. - Will Business on Be Warned? Hartford Courant. It's the old story (Mr. Plumb's career) of life at perilousiyhigh prossuro, continuous overwork and dverexcitement, the candlo burning briskly dway at both ends, nature's warnings unhieeded, madical advico un beeded, a breathless scurry and rusb of “business,” and (then a sudden stumble into an open graves Iy 1 A Ceaters. Butte (Mont.) Miner, Cnicago newspapers which took occasion to brand a Montaua artist’s potato bug etching as twild aud woolly ary” will please zive us a little editorial opinion of the advanced ci ilization whicn permits the holding up of a mail driveron tha principal streets of their city. Mail robbery as a fine art is some- thing with whicn Montaua can claim uo familiarity. et The Woman in t Salt Luke Tripwae. &b it soems that it is a vindictive woman insteud of “an impudent mau who has boen writiug the latters to the London Times from Santiago. Women are naturaily better than men, but a mean woman can be meaner than all the men iu the block, and this Lady Jordan seems to have the same opinion about the United States that some of the women in New Orleans had in 1562 i T 2orsted for Christmas. Fremont Flait. A white-livered, craven-hearted, leuther- lunged, dwarf-souled, chicken-gizxard, pud- den-brained, knock-kneed, bow-legged, mgeon-toed, weasel-facod, buzzard-billed, blear-eved, hawlk-nosed, claw-fingerca son of Belial suggested a day or 1wo ago that he would rather have the Ilail against him than for him. o thought differently befora this paper gave him a twist for his mean- ness. S PROGIESSIVE POOR LO, St, Louis Dispatch: An Indiau has ap- plied for a divorce in South Dakotn. Is not this a refutation of the charge that Lo can- not be civilized ! St. Paul Globe: An Indian in South Da- kota hus procured a divorce because his wife wanted to kill him with an ax. Such inci- dents are annoying among white people, ever Cleveland Plain Dealer: At last the Indian shows sins of civilization. A buck has been convicted of forging a bank check in Mon- tana and another has secured a divorce in Dakota. Baltimore Herald: A Sioux Indian has been granted a divorce from his wife in South Dakota. Lo is fast approaching that stage of development where he may be ad- mitted to all_tho rights and privileges of an American citizon, BRUTAL COLLEGE SOCIETY WORK, William Lloyd Garriso toasts the aculty,of Harvard College. Bostoy, Mass.i Dec. 2h.—William Lloyd Garrison bas published an open letter to the president and faculty of Harvard colloge in which he says: {‘I'he secret society known as the D. K. E. bas loug been a source of scan- dal and private Indignation. Aside from the witty penalties attonding the initiation of members, @ cruelty has been superadaed, akin to the burbarism of the Fiji islands and the pravices of degraded Indian tribes, As a culmination of ceremonies, and us an indication of pluck and endurance, the victim's arm is’ bred for branaing, In the case which has'just come under my obsorva- tion, six deep’amd savage burns from the shoulder to the eleow were infiicted with a lighted cigar. * Lifelong soars and disfigure- went aro bad enongh, but the shock to a sys- tem already reduced in vitality by previous hysical exertions is sovere and dabgerous. n comparison with a cigar & branding iron would be merciful, but il seews necossary to add to the daager of burn that of blood poisoning. Outside the circles of the univer- sity, such mutilation would call forth quick wterference by law, even though the weak and foolish suvjects 'yielded their consent, and it deserves to be an 1ndictable offense, *lo common with other crimes which tiour- ish In your sight, & bar providing intoxicat- itg hquors is hero maintained contrary to law and decont morals, Only last year many of our respectable citizens had the mortitica: tion of seeing their sons arraigned in opon court and fined for this offonse. “[ ask with solicitude whether such pro- ceedings are beyoud your coatrol! If you are poweriess to protect the charges confided to your care in the respects just mentioned there yet remains to parents the alternativ of invoking the Interposition of the courts. If you have the power or the influence to abate these evils, the responsibility resting upon your shoulders is a heavy one. If you have not, with whom does the sccountability lie” DE IBER D% CORN FOR FAMISHED RUSSIA. Every Nebraska Ooun'y Atkrd to tribute a Car Load. Con- REGENTS UNIVZRSITY IN SESSION. adical Departure in the Syatem of ANl Class Osgan- Abotished Gene News, Instruction, and Liscors, Neb,, Doc. Bk | ~Commissioner 24 —(Special to Tug Luaden is up to his stoulders in work 1n connection with the | projoct of sending a train load of corn to Russia. An effort will bo mado to raiso a car load of coen or its products in each county of the state. “Today Me. Ludden sont out a circular lotter to all of the county clerks in the stato, in which ho said We » opportunity to orgunize the virious ies Tor this work. | lve asked e Varlous county wgrienitural sodioties and County offenrs in the varions counties o tike of the work of Faising ot lent o of corn o corn food supplies in each county. We have had daring the past veur bountifal larvest, and it the mujority o farmiers in the viielous countes would give few bu Wi ® 1o trouble in makiy 0 this appeal for [ 1y O tos of tho State 1 Russians, some of them quite wealthy. and wo will neod some noney to piy The HECessary oxpenses abtend g this work wid in- having printed in the Russinn 1an- ke full directions s to the best method —of using - corn for food. W Bope you will use cvery ofort to seeuro from all Intorosted in this himane work i cash contribu tions, | 10 ask the loval papers to publish the appeal sent out by Goy ernor Thaver, and at the same e ask the ey of Uie county (o present the matter to th comgrogations, you would have no trouble in - raising your share toward this nobie work. I just what form ¢ pe the food supplivs will hive to be b or ship- ment Lo not kow. L awaiting fusirucs jons aion: that' line from Secrotary of Azrlonlture’ Rusk of Washinzton. 1 iy stito further that the millers of the stite. | minny of them, seem ready and willing to 2ive £00d products in this zood ciuse, from you to them would possivly whe millers of vour county in line. Lot me fron you by return mail upon this matter, 1 we i Tave prompt action by the county werlenltural societios and county officers, | think we will bo the first state in the union to respond with w ship load of food fo | Sl ko and“aword | the | heur ity Regents in Session The Board of itogents of the Nebraska Stute university met in annual session this morning. The first business taken up was the resixnation of C. H. Giere an chairman of the board. C. H. Morrill was selectea to succeed him. ~Among the itoms gleaned from the secretary’s minutes are the following Tho fiseal year was made to bein April | neroafter.” A chair of electrical engineering, to bo associated with tho department of physics, was established. A committee, con- sisting of Chancellor Canfield, Regent Mor- rill, the divector of the exvorimental station, dean of the industrial school and steward, was appoiuted to take some action looking to tho proper representation of tho university at the Columbian fair. A committecof threo was appointed and_authorized to advertiso for bius for tho ercction of the new library Chaucollor Canfield was author- to engage additional instructors in_moa- ern lnoguages, zoology and political science, with a view of strengthening tho course of | study, Michizanized' the University. A radical departuvo bas been made in the | system of wstraction in the Nobraska State uuiversity, The system has been modified to what i known in educational circles as the “Michigau plan.” Horeafter there will toys, candies, nyts aud other be 1o regular clisses in tho university, The first year, now designated as the freshman, will be known as “the first year of resi- dence.” After the first yoar there will-bo nothing to designate now long a student has been in attendance at the university. The numes of all the students will be vrinted 1n one list, alphabetically arranged. Following cach name will be iwo numerals, the first of which will indicate how many full courses were required of him, and the second, how many of these courses ho has completed. A gluuce at tho list will show just how long tho student must remain before graduating. In order to craduate the studeut will bo re- quired to completo twenty-five full courses. Gicaned in the State Ho The Crawford & Kort Rovinson Motor Live company was iucorporated today by Milo A, Manning, Cawp k. Bllis and Leroy Hall. The ovject of the company is to_coti- struct and operate a steam or_electric motor line from Crawford to Fort Robinson. The capitat stock is #0,000. Rev. L. P. Ludden today recoived a £ bill from an ancuymous philanthropist, who in a brief noto directed him to “forward the en closod to tho hungry Russians ' All of the offices iu the state house will be closed tomorrow. Articles of incorporation of the Citizens State banie of Elwood, Gosper county, Neb., werae filed with the secretary of state yester- day. The capital stack is £50,000 and the in- corporators are M. I\ Jackson, . W. Perry, Nettie B. Porry, imma B. Pierce,” A. K. itoso and H. M.'Haro. "The official plat of the canal to be cou- structea by the Mitcieil Canal and Irrigating company of Scotts Bluff county was filed in tho oflice of the secretary of state yesterday. In answer to an inquiry as to his opinion of a point ¢f lnw arisig under tho enactment of thy last legistature regarding the depcsiv ot county funds with some bauk, either state ¢ or national, Attoruey General Hasungs suid that the law was evidently intended to cover tno soveral county funds represected by cur- rency or cash, and that inasmuch as the stato law also provides for tho deposit of state funds by the state treasurer, no funds in the Lands of the couuty treasurer should bo in cluded with the couny funds so deposited by him. Secrotary Nason of the Omaha Board of Teade writes Commissionor Ludden that Omaha wili cortuinly do her share toward coutributing a car load of corn to the Itus- siau people. Fled Without His Clothes, The police raided a colored aive at 2 o'clock this morning, and as they enterea tho door some fellow who had been participating in the nocturual revels sprang through the win- dow and fled. He left his hat, overcoat, shoes and sundry other articles of wearing apparel bohind him, aud they are Low on ox- hibition at the polico station, where scores of persons have idoutified them as belonging to acitizon of more or less prominence. The in- mates, two colored girls, were cach fined $10 and costs this forenoon. se. Getting Decidedly Interestin The tug-of-war at tho Lausing last even- ing doveloped 8 contest that was not down upon tho program. The Irish team today entered & protest against awarding tho ro- sult of the mateh last evening to the frelght bundlers, and charged trickery upon the part of some of the men of the latter team. This afternoon Captain McClelian of the Irish team cuallonged the freight nandlers to a contest on the side, both partios to put up 100 on the result. The feeliug i the matter is running high, and considerable intorest is being taken in the controvers) Christmas for Poor Children, Following a custom which she inaugurated soveral years wgo, Miss Fannie Newman gave a Christmas “treo and entertainment this evening at her home, 1724 L street, to ton boys and ten girls selocted from the poor- est families in the city, These chilaren are those who have no parents and do not attend Sabbath school. The tree was laden, not | the well | commissioned ofticers, | that the officers maintain a select or only with artieles of clothing, but with dolls, things calcu lated to cbeer tho heart s well as to comfort the boay of the little folks An Early Morning © The large barn on the Funke farm, near the penitentiary, was destroyod by fire this morning at 6 o'clook, togather with six hoad of horses, 500 bushels of corn 1 finple: men pte. The contents of the barn be Touged to H. ', Wilson, the tenant, and he had no insurance. Wilson belioves that the firo was set by personal onomies azo. Oids an aw. Poles for the extansion of the olectric rail way south on Twelfth streot are up and tho Instof the Lorse cars will be rung out with the old year. Mrs, C. O, Strickland, who several wocks Ao was robbed of several fine dressos in a most mysterious mauner, today reportad the 1oss of a gold watch and chain under eircum stances equally mystorions J. G. Tate, the Hastings politician, was a Lincoln visitor today H. T Oxnurd, tho Nobraska sugar iror, was in tho city today ho Industrial Savings baiik of this eity filed articlos of incorporation with the county clerk today John Masters today petitioned the district court for u divores from his wife, Mary. He avers that sto isa habitual deunkard, and further that she has abandoned him in'spito of tho tact that he ias given hor an income of £1,000 a year T'ne Sneedy estate bobbeu court today and the matter 1ont. arkloy applied for a divorco today ud that e was forced 10to o mar- with bis wifo against his it and when ho was but 20 years of ago Cases of diphthe teouth and Foldro Fourtecnth streot Moses Ariovsky was arrosted peddling tinware without a license. Seth Bolen is sl a with a ehastly wound in his neck, but his chances for re covery are slim. manu fa in district still far from up is Soven- North today for D INVOLVING MILLIONS, Tmport m itender Suprem s o Lissixg, Mich., Dec. 4.—The Michigun supreme court has rendered a decision n- volving a ereater sum of money than auy do- cision od by it heretofor. In 1571 tho state brought suit against tho int & Pers Marquette road to obtain titl o 16,000 acres of land which it claimed came to the state under tho United States swamp land geant of 1550 instead of the raitrood land grant of 1857, under which the road has been in undisputed possession of tho land for twenty eight years. ‘The state secured a vor- dict in the court below, but coming to this court, the decision is unanimously set_ aside. The court says that the lapse of timo that the state has slept upou its rights effectunlly stops it from obtaining a title, and that it has 1o claim ir. equity, justice or good cotscience. The decision aflirms the titlo to lands ac- quired tho sume way by tho Jackson Lan a by the | sing & Saginaw and the Grand Rapids & 1 diana roads, and of ndividy all 1,000,000 acres, estimated from' 7,000,000 to §10,000,000. - SIND SPOUTER. Artesian Well-Borers in Wisc Givena ¥ uliar Surprise. Mitwavkes, Wis.,, Dec. 24.—Whilo August Hubner and his sons wera drilling an arte: sian well on their farm near Forest Junction, fifteen milos south of Depere, and had reactied a depth of 105 foot, thoir work wa3 unexpectedly stopped. 1t was about 8:30 in tho forenoon when they beard an_uunder- ground rumbling not uihke the rolling of thunder, und suddeniy a column of sand was spouted from the well anff was thrown near: 200 feot in the aiv. The drills, rods und de rick wero smashed and bent, while ono of the workmen lanaed about fifty feet from uninjured. Tho sand svouts con- tivued with short intervals, and gradually aecroased in force until 11 o'¢lock last uight, when aother column w as sent up in the air, Among the sand, whicti is lying six feet decp arouna the well, wore picces of clay weighing 100 pounds.” At least 100 wugon loads were thrown out. ‘The diameter of the s twenty-cight inzhes up to a depth of ninety feer, below that sixteen inches. No sign of water was scen. T 115 LOYAL . covering in to bo worth SIRUCK nsin T0 BOYCOTT LEGION. na the ty. Thereis overy Army Men Tired of 3x- clusive Officers' Soci Minwavker, Wis., Deo. 24, brospect that the war inaugurated acainst members of the Loyal Legion by Robert Chivas post, Grand Arumy of the Ropublic, ot this city, will spread. Posts all over the state are takimg sides in the controversy and Chivas post has boea eudorsed mc than it has been denounced. its demand is that a | boycott bo declared agaiust cho ex-oflicors of the rebellion by the ex-privates The groi 1a 1d 1 non- tion called the Loyal Legion, to whi X ofmcers are eligible, whilo tho Grand Army is opeu to all who have served their country. For the last twenty-five yoars the officers havo beon getting tho cream of political of- fices, say the Chivas post men,-nud it 15 high time' the privates had a show. To achiove this, they call on all Grand Army men to boycott the Loyal Logion men when it comes eléction time. — - HASN'T SLE WINK FOR WEEKS, Strange Case of a Farmer Which Attracti Attention, Crserssarr, O, Dee. 24.—Tho hospital pliysicians arc on the tip-top of expectation awaiting dovelopments in o new and nter- osting caso which has boen brought to thoir ation 1n the last few days. Docember o man was examined for admission who had uot slept a wink sinco throo weoks proviously. Tho man does not appear sick. His appetite is zood. ‘Chat he has an eno; mously strong constivution is evideuced by the fact that he has not broken down under tho strain of bis long wuking. John I Roverts, tho slecpless man, is & wealthy fa mer from Adams township, and ho s years old. Several months ago, after a s vere strain of work, he began to noti the loss of slecp and s afiliction at last becato s0 bad that his friends decided that it was best for him to come to this city for medical treatment, is . Missouri Paciiic Oh 'L St. Louis, Dec. 24.—Traflic Manager C. A, Parker of the Missouri Pacific nas apnointed W. A. Stith, al freight appoiutment is to take cffoct January 1. Stith 1s now general freight agent of tk: Kansas City, Fort Scott & Mewphis road and was formerly assistant general freight agentof the Missouri Pacific, to which ho now returns, —— 4 ANNOUNCEME Packed houses are the ruleat the Kden Musee this week and the chief attraction ie Jo-Jo, the Russian dog-faced man, born in the wilds of a Russian forest. Jo-Jo is smart and oducated. Ho taliks Knglish and Russian fluent!y aud his form is porfection His face Is coverea with soft, floccy buir, six wnches i length—a wonderful attraction Manager Lawler says no is well worth the sum of §100 per day, which he receives, Ho remains this week only. Come early and sce Jo-do. e Sunday evening will_occur the flest por- formancoin Omabu at Boya's New theater of — Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report. onl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE the threo-act comedy from the French, “Dr, ol Much has boon written regard this now famous comedy. [t ought to prove to beablg arawine card here. I'he original production in this conntry was at tho Garden theater, New York, where it was se'n for 104 nights. We underatand “Dr. BUl™ to be cloan comedy without spocialties, full of fun and a laugh all the way through Tho action | of the comedy is 80 quick that it is nocossary to procede the comedy with a_curtain raises which commences at $:15, ‘T'he comedy be ®ins at 8145, The advanco sale opens Situr day morning. Two performances of Hoyt's ereat Amor fean political sutive, A Texas Steer," wi bo given today at Boyd's now theater. A erand oliday “matinoe will bo given at 2 today at which tho prices will be very cheap T'ho evening performance will be at S o'clock Thero are many Hirst cluss seats left for both afternoon and night, but indications are that tho theater will be filied tiice today On Sunday night the Boston Howard Athenmum star specialty company will give a performanco at tho Grand - MEERY RIPPLES, points with pride to fts volumes of smoke as svidence of advaneed ilterary tasto New York Horald: Many & mise mark on Christimas day when the de wro fustened to the chandeticr 1 too th yrations Yankeo Blade: Ho admiringly You miko thit mat yourself She—-Yes, [did 1t all myself. alittle help I rovely sistors, And with t e Chicago Tines: Tho latest colony of divoree-hunt AL crogationnl minister, S htare runnning no for the upper elasses THE GRIPPY Somerville Ji An ache in your by A% you toss in y An‘ache in vour As it U wonli crack That's the A taste In your mouth Like & buffulo coat, A feeling you noty Of Inmeness and drouth That's the geippo. A uriinz s That ma A stiugg Back w yivid on. Thut's the g isation St. T She told me sho Toved me no lonzor," O conrsy growing Life you hav Wito (con would pleuse you Husband - What kind thinking of gotting? Nows you assured her you had stopped nd—What a splendid dinner Lneently)—Yos, dear, I thought it of u dress are you New York Press: [Tusband—We must eco omize Wite give up Phily has dovised i nieroly plekin sense 1t shoald Well, dear, what do you want me to delphia Ledger: A Vermont woman amp that can bo lizhted by the wick. In a_plekwieklan be w matehless aMalr Now, wonldn't usic honvenly? nly quite un- K Herald: May £, Pounderofaki® k—Possibly; its corta carthily. adstono’s an't it bo and Oid Consilering My with the aX, Wor propriate to call hin the achivve wioro iy Foller Lumbus Post: These mornings fow wish hie had 1ess get-up. make a BREVITY, Arkansas Traveler. Beo wiso, Conelso. 1o souso, Gondons *Thrice s ol B brof, Relief; And t Anne e A CHEISTHMAS 50NG. aarriet Prescott Spafford in Harper's Bazar, Sleep, dear, sleep, where nothing ill is. Lot no joy bells ringing in tho morrow, Give your tappy dream a thought's sux- Sereened’ from all the world of wrong au sorrow By the lilies Of your spotless purity and peaco. Steep, and only hear iu droaming 1a Y ating, fleeting Never lutlaby 50 sweot and blest— istmas bells the heavenly soug peating, Softly sceming Angols singing you to deeper rest. Ch ro. Sleep, love, whilo the gracious story Of another Child the bells are tolling, Whose dear hand is tolding yours to- uight, The swoot Christ Child dwelling Whoro His glory 15 thomselves with tonder bending from the Fills the he light. Sleep! the Christ Child keops the heavens above you, Stills the song upon your dream intruding, I0lds around you Slumbor's silent ficoco, Fills the mother heart about you brooding, 50 doth love you Thet Helends His purity and poace! L TALK WITH CARLISLE. Thousands of democrats vead The Bee, and for that reason lhe interview with Lix- Speaker Jolin G. Car- lisle of Kentucky, IN THE SUNDRY BER will be of extraordinary interest, Ile talks about Speaker Crisp, the Silver Question, and tells why the democratic party should not make it a Presidential i. sue; the tariff’ in the next cany PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES for'92 The great evpounder of democratic doctyine says the people are opposed U legis- lative interference with the currency; gives an estimate of Blaine; says lhe west and soulh coming lo- gether; considers THE FUTURE OF POLITICAL PARTIES In fact, the uppermost political questions of th day are discussed, forming the most brilliant interview ever contributed o a news- paper.: 1t is from the pen of Lrank G. Carvpenter, l. celebrated Washington cor vespondent, Read it IN THE SUNDRY BEE, aign; discusses are