Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 10, 1892, Page 4

i i THE DAILY BEE. ITOR, PUBLISHED 1Y MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Titly e (withont Sunday) One Year... 8 8 00 Dnily and Sunday, One Y 0 £1xM onths . niha One ¥ OFFIC maha, The Bee Bulldir FouthOmahn, o Couneli Blufs, Chicaso Offf New York. R Washington, f Commerce, . Tribune Bullding nth Street CORRESPONDENCE Al communications reluting to news and editorial matter should be addressed te the Editorial Department. BUSTNESS LETTERS. All busi lettors and_remittances shonld 16 addres 0 The Bee Publishing Company. Omaha. Drafts. checks and postoffice orders 10 e made payablo to the order of the com- puny. The Beg Publishing Company, Proprietors EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, }ate of Nebraska [ County of Douglas. Geo. BT c 1 ublishing thit the actunl olre i for the week ending March 5, 1502, Wwas us follows: funday. | Nonday, Feb. 20,010 Tuesday, Mareh 1., Wednesday, March Thursday, March3..... . Friday. March 4. ... Enturday. March s . 24,505 GEO. i TUCK. Bworn 1o before me and subscribed in my rresence this 5th day of Murch, A. D. 1892 BEAL N. P, Average....... ..o Average Cl THE council believes in building one viaduct at a time, and the council is right. PROF ONAL jurors will hereafter take pains to keep out of the jury box in Judge Davis’ court. MAYOR BEeMIS' veto record makes a winning start at all events. If it holds out tili the end of the term he wiil out- veto Cushing. KANsAS has a board of railway com- missioners with nerve enough to reduc railvond rates. Kansas is in that pa ticular far ahead of Nebraska. THE passage of the Gatch local option and high license bill by the Iowa senate is the first great step toward taking the liquor question out of Towa politics. TnE philanthropic interest manifested by the prosident of the Thomson-Hous- ton Electric company in providing a sys- tem of subways for Omaha is touching indeed. —— CHAIRMAN BIRKHAUSER of the Board of Public Works, is making war upon the peanut stands on the strect corners. The chairman is fighting an institution which is just about his size. THE Corning, Ia., c been exasperating, but the Corning toughs were cowardly. No excuse can be offered for the assault they made upon the Free Methodist meeting Tuesday night. nks may have THE Chicago university will have a department of journalism. The depart- ment will look well in the catalogue, but in competition with the Chicago newspapers its graduates will find jour nalism a very stormy sea. THE people’s party convention will bring 50,000 people to Omaha in all probability. Citizens of Omaha must arouse themselves to an appreciation of its importance and wake arrangements for entertaining the vast concourse. RHODE ISLAND holds a state election in April. She will have the honor of firing the first gun in the presidential campaign year. In off years Little Rhody is very uncertain, but in presi- dentiil years she is ulways reliably re- publican, THE Nebraska state central commit- tee and Governor Boyd have committed the democratic party against Billy Bryan’s 70 cont silver dollar. What will the young man say when he is con- fronted by an honest money platform by his party in this state? THE senate end of the national gov- ernment is grinding out public building bills as fast ne the calendar can be dis- posed of. These bills will be all right in the house after the presidential elec- tion, but prior to that time few of them will get out of committee pigeon holes. —— THE Indian office has awarded con- tracts for the purchase of 9,500 milch “ cows for northwestern Indians under the torms of various treaties. The prices varied from #18.69 to $20.88 per head. Judging from these prices it is safe to say the aborigines will earn whatever milk they manage to get from their government cows, CONGRESSMAN BRYAN is to deliver a funeral oration in honor of the late Con- gressman Gamblo of Dakota, Mr, Gam- ble died a few months after his election, never having occupied his seat. Por- haps this fact hus something to do with the assignment to Mr. Bryan of the per- functory duty of pronouncing a pane- gyric in his memory — **APPROACHING the railroad corpora- tions 1 the proper manner” has not thus far secured for Omaha & milling-in-transit rate, the aboli- tion of the bridge arbitrary on Towa business, a reasonable schedule of witching charges or a low differeniial on Texas cuttle. The best way to ap- proach railroad companies is with a reasonable request backed up by the power of retaliation. ——— THE lumber dealers have held their annual state meeting and their banquet. They enjoyed both immensely. This is good. How much belter it would have been, however, if the local dealers could have renewed their boast of a few years 8go when Omaha stood next to Minne- apolis as a lumber market and was the fourth great lumber ceuter of the coun- wy. Omaha has lost her prestige as a lumber center through local rates which bave practically shut her out of compe- Lition with eustern centers. THE PLOTTING POLITICIANS. The Philadelphia Press correctly dis- corns the object of the politicians who are endeavoring to create popular op- position to President Harrison. not to nc paper, “that these men ave invoking his popularity, but to get the control of state and district delegations that can be ueed for personal and selfish ends. Besides the affront to Mr. Blaine and the attempt to impeach his good faith, when he said a short time ago that he was not a candidate, itis an insult to the intelligence of the republican party for these politicians to imagine that they can deceive the party by their shallow tricks.” The success attained by these echeming politicians through deceiving the party gives them a cor- tain warrant for imagining that they can continue to fool it, and as trickery and intrigue constitute their only re- source in politics nothing elso is to be expacted of them. 1t has been the most of the republican party in the past that it has permitted such men to attain prominence in its councils and manage- ment. They are not actuated by any sincere desire for the success of the principies of the party. The interests and welfare of the country, as involved in the policy of the republican party, do not inspiro in them earnest and patri otic solicitude. They are not pro- foundiy concerned respecting the con- servation of those sound doctrines of government for which the party has contended during nearly a third of a contury, They wish republican success primarily for what it may bring to them in the way of personal political advance- ment, and for the opportunity it will give them and their friends to enjoy the spoils of political power. Unfortunately for the republican party in late years it has been afllicted with a considerable number of this class of tricky and nn- serupulous politicians who have been able to use it, but their real character and aims are beginning to be under- stood, and the end of their mischievous influence, it is at least to be hoped, is at hand. The rank and file of the republican party must see to it that the Minneapo- lis convention Is composed of earnest and honest republicans who will give no toleration to the plotting, self-seoking politicians. The men who shall be chosen to name the next candidate of the republican party for president of the United States should be as free as p ble from all prejudice and influence that might disqualify them from making a selection on the strongest grounds of availability. Thereis noman in the republican party who will not have the right to have his claims presented to the national convention, and they should receive careful and candid considera- tion It may as well be admitted that the party has bofove it a hard and un- certain contest. It cannot afford totake any chances upon democratic dissension, It must not loso sight of the fact that it has a new enemy to combat—an uncer- tain factor 1n the situation, it is true, but still one not to be ignored. The choice of the national convention must be made, therefore, as the result of a lm, cureful, and intelligent considera- tion of the availability of the candidates who shall bo presented to it. regardless of the prejudices or preferences of poli- ticians who have only their own per- sonul ends to subserve. serious mistake THE PERSISTENT AL QUESTION. The refusal of the British government to renow the arrangement of last year with the government of the United States for the protection of the seal in Bering sea against indiscriminate slaughter has caused a strong feeling of resentment in official circles at Wash- ington. The cabinet meeting on Tues- day was devoted entirely to the consid- eration of the decision of Lord Salis- bury, and according to the dispatches the unanimous opinion was that the po- sition of the British government is un- tenable and not justified by the condi- tion of the sealing indust Our gov- ernment holds, upon the presentation of the situation made by the American commissioners, that to permit the indis criminate killing of seals during the sea- on s0on to open would result in serious injury to the industry, if notvin its total destruction. The action of the British government is based upon the report of its commissioners, that there is no necessity for a closed seuson pending the final arbitration of the Bering son question. The cabinet is said to have decided to insist upon a renewal of last year’s ar- rangement and the British minister was 80 notified by the acting secretary of state. This reply of our government was immediately conveyed by cable to. Lord Salisbury, and the response of the British govirnment will be awaited with some anxiety. In the mean time the senate committes on foreign rela- tions has under consideration the treavy recently negoviated providing for arbi tration, and it is more than likely that 1o report will be made on it until the British government is heard from re- garding the question of renewing the modus vivendi. A strong opposition to ‘the treaty was developed in the discus- sion that followed its reading in the ex- ecutive session of the senate, and there appears to have been a pretty general sentiment in favor of the United States government employing every means necessury tojthe protection of the seal fishories, in the ovent of the British government persisting in its refusal to renew last year's arrangement for joint protection by the two governments, re- gardless of what the consequences of such action on our part might be. The feeling manifested by senators was that there should be no surrender of the rea- sonuble demands of the United States in this watter, that the government should rigidly enforce the policy it has announced with respect to illicit sealing in Bering sea, and that if trouhle rve- sulted from pursuing this course the sen- ate would fully support the administra- tion. It is to be apprehended, therefore, that this new cowplication may again rendec the Bering sea question critical. Unquestionably our government is wur- runted in regurding the deecision of the British goverument as a breach of good faith. The United States had every v #00 L0 expect a renowal of the modus 1t s | ninate Mer. Blaine,” says that | | for the renewal of that agreement is THE OMAHA vivendi. Since the object of that agree- ment last year was to prevent private sealers from entering the disputed | watars until the board of arbitration | should be appointed and should render its decision, the necessity Just as great as the necessity for origin- | ally making it. It is not easy to con- | ceive what explanation Lord Salisbury | can make in defense of his decision that | will relieve him of a suspicion of sharp | practice, if nothing worse. Of course | in the circumstances the government of | the United States might find a very fair excuse for calling a halt in the arbitra- | tion proceedings, but the policy or wis- dom of doing this would be questionable. The duty of the government, however, to use every means at its command to protect its intorests in Bering sea, pond- ing the settlement of the controversy by arbitration, will not be questioned. and tiiere is every reason to believe that the administration will meet every legal and reasonable requirement in this re- spect. VIADUCT PRELIMIN. The first step toward replacing the presont ramshackle wooden bridge that has for a number of years sorved s n viaduct across the railroad tracks on Sixteenth street, with a structure of stone and iron, has been taken by the council. The ordinance declaring that a new viaduct is necessary for tho safety and protection of the public has been passed and will doubtless be approved by the mayor, The next step will be the appointment of u board of appraisers to assoss any do- termine the damnges, if and, which may be caused to any property by renson of the construction of the proposed viaduct and approaches, The proceedings for this purpose will be the same as if the appraisers were required to detormine the damages to property owners by a change of grade of any street. If it'is found that any property will bo dam- aged the council will have to assess the sume ngainst the property benefited. The cost of the approaches in excess of 800 feet at both ends of the viaduct is also to be nssessed against the property directly benefited. In this instanco the appraisement of damages will ho merely a formal affair. There will be no damages to anybody’s property by replacing the present via- duct with a more substantial and com- modious structure. Unider the charter it is made the-duty of the Board of Public Works to deter- mine the width, height and strength of the viaduct and approaches, to designate the material therefor and devise the plan for its construction, subject to the ap- proval of the mayor and council. It is presumable, however, that the board will confer with the city engineer re- garding the materinls and plans. The Tenth street viaduct is an excellent model. If any faulty features have been discovered in the Tenth street viaduct, they should of course, be omitted. After the plans have been approved by the council, which will be some months hence, bids will be invited for the construction and the proportion of the cost to be paid by each of the roads over which the vinduct passes, will be fixed by the mayor and council. It be- comes manifest that under these pro- ceedings and with the red tape that al- ways attends the construction of public works it will take from twelve to eigh- teen monthe before the proposed viaduct | on Sixteenth street will be open for travel and trafic. It may even take longer if the railroads undertake to ficht it inthe courts, but that should not hin- der the city from vaking all the prelim- inary stops. Appraisers should be ap- pointed and the plans should be drawn and agreed uponso that the city may be ready to proceed with the letting of the contracts as soon as the courts have af- firmed the rights of the city to levy the cost of the viaduct upon the railroads. THERE appears to be a steady growth of the anti-Hill movement in New York. The provisional state committee, under whose call a state convention will be held ia May to select a contesting dele- gation to Chicago, is reported to be meeting with hearty support and ec- courngement, and undoubtedly tho May convention wiil furnish formidable evi- DAILY BI dence of the widesprerd protest against the action of the Hill-Tammany scheme for capturing the state delegation to the national convention. The course of the opponents of Hill in his own stato is also receiving some encouragement from the outside, there having been nowhere else as yet any notable development of intor- est in his candidacy, while expressions favorable to Cleveland continue to he common and general. It is admitted, however, that the national convention cannot do otherwise than seat the rogu- lar delegates, and the only outcome of the factional conflict in New York that seems at all certain is that the party will be compelled to take its candidate from some other state. Tux High School Debating society of 1872 was the most important literary orgunization in Omaha at the time. Its members are now among our leadiug business men. The proposed reunion on Saturday night at the Omaha club ought to be & memorable occasion tull of interesting reminisconscs and spark- | ling with the wit of years of successful business experience. The members of thut debating society can be justly proud of the careors they have carved for themselves in this and other_ cities, —— e A Stiteh in TH New York World, The coul combination bas prudently de- forred the increase In prices in the Lope that the storm will “blow over.” The time to tight monopoly is before it becomes estab- lished, -~ That Tired Feeling, Philadelph a Ledger, atiog a patition ealling upon one of the judges resign. They are ured argzuiug cases before @ full bench. —-— Gymuast b Springeld (Mass.) Republican. ‘Phe attacks upon President Hurrison made | | by General Clarkson through the Des Moiues | Itegister luspire Tik OMAMA Bre, 8 vigorous republican journal of the plains, to strike | vack in the president’s behalf. Clarksou, says Tur Brx, is o no small degreo porson- Lawyers in Star county, Texas, are sircu- | Hif,hitle candidues uying to e of that county either to take the pledge or | ally respousible for the decline of the ropub. lican party fo Jowa. “As & leador bo bus | always lod trem astray,” and consequently merits no recognition from tho lowa fippublicans. As Tur Brr de- clares, Clarksgn's manmavering has for its object not Blaige’s nomination so much as Harrison's llifl:n‘mfl(nr« in the convention. his present cwhwl ) Lincotn Sun. Whon the independent national convention meets at Omaba she delegates will find them sclves grootedl with true westorn hospitality. They will find on tho banks of the Grea Muddy a city_with ample hotel accommoda- tions and the peaplo with oue accord doing all in their power to make them foel at home. Like all citids, Omaha has its shortcom- ings: but they will not be visible to those who visit there on the glorious 4th of July. As a convention city Omaha has shied its castor In the ring. The capturo of tho independent convention s its first victory in that respect. There "will be 1,776 delegates, - as many alter nates, and tho usual followers, which will well the crowd to at least 50,000 peovle. 1f Omaha accommodates them, and she will, the word will be passea all along the line that our sister town is a grand place asa convention eity. In four years, then, sho will reach out with fair prospects of secur- ing other large gatherings. The national convention at Omaha will help Nebraska and it will help Lincoln. There will bo.thoisands of visitors from the east and south drop off here to take a look at Neoraska's capital and return home laden with praises of the grand sights they have seen. Let every town in the state sing the oue song of success for Omaha and her con- vention, and, like bread cast upon the waters, it will roturn to bless us all. Metty jealous- ies should never push themselves in to block the wheels of great machinery. Hurrah for Omaha, o chemers Doomed, Philadelphia Press. The field for the Minneapolis nomination is an open and a freeone. Noone hasa mortgage on it. The honor will go just where the untrammeled voico of the republican party accords it. Kvery membor of the party has a perfect right to ask for the dis- tinction. But thero is one thing the party will not tolerate, and that is an attempt to cajole it or to use the popularity of any man as a cloak for the schemes of tricksters. The men who are sitting up nights imagining that they can control this great republican party for their own selfish purposes should think on that and think hard. g Booming the Bogus Dollar, Chicago Post (dom. ). The free ocoinage wing of the democracy perhaps assumes too muoh in taking it for granted that their victory in this prelimi- nary skirmish is the sare precursor of tri- umph when the silver issus shail come up for final passage. On the other hand, the friends of honest monev may well be alarmed at the strengtn thus early developed by a cause so inimical to the country’s best inter- ests. It is fortunate that in the government, as at prosent constituted, the balance of power rests in the hands of & sure defender of honest meney. A Pubiic Misfortune, Chicago News. Nevertheless ftis ¢ public misfortune that tho silver question has become a leading factor in politios. The business security of the country is ayt to suffer when political parties trade on a possible disturbance of the nation’s financial standards. e A Political Popgu Pliladclphia Record. Rhode Island will fire her first gun at her spring eloction for stuts ofiicers this year, giving an indication of the volitical drift. There 1s a United States senator to be elected and no lack of incitement to bring out the full vote of both parties. Them Rope. Globe-Democrat. “Tne republicans are not engaced in puliing chestnuts out of the fire for the democracy this year. They are not going to place any obstacles in the way of the consideration of the free silver bill in the house. COMICAL AND CAUSTIC. Selfi; Philadolphin Times; Strawberries are in the murket, but every grain of sund concealea in them Is worth i cont an atom. Onicazo Post: 1t Mr. John L. Sulllvan will meet and conguer the oratorical pugiist, Mr. Chrurles Mitehell. wo will confess thut thero is some virtue in pugliism after ail Atlanta Constitution; be, doctor’ “Well. my friend, If you dle. [ won't charge you a cent.'” It's u great iInducement. Joh D cofiln with pewter handles! “What will your bill rder me a ob Somerville Journal: They suy a man o not do two thingzs atonce, but it 15 undenin- bly true the man who improves his time at the sume time fmproves himsolf. Clothier and Furnisher: Ringway ~Whut are vou walking over that rug so much for? Aren't you afrald you'il wear it out Feathierstone—You don't understand me, old mun My trousers are under thut rug, being creased. THE WICKET PLAN, Clinton: Seoltard. How came she hore? 1do not know, How oame I there? By chi T trjed to puss, She thought to zo. What held us?—but a glance! *TPwas thus she happened to be a bride, And I to be the s wuin One little glance exchanged beside The wicket in the lune, Cluginnatt Commercial: Enraged Constitu- ent—IU's A8 COTTUDL 4 MICASUTO a8 Wis cver proauced! Yet you are goluz Lo pass it! I am 0id by u man who knows all about it that the agent of the compiny expects to ot it through the council by the boldest kind of bribery, and— Aiderman from the ‘Steenth Ward—Iv's an tutamous lfo! Enraged Vonstituent -And lio's paying £,000 aplece for votes! Aldermun from the 'Steenth Ward—It's an tutamous—un infa— (wildiy) wh-where is ho? & Co.'s M. pinster is so nike ithiy: The modesty reat she would truth. S ith, Gr of u Boston ruthor lie than tell th Philadelphin Lods in this cou i 10 enter regular oo @ best bull pltchers rriers. who refuso tiold.” Even thoir s sure dolivery. hilo Tuying aside ¢ Lent. U0 not luy wantibof your charity. your x aside th Boston Transer ored lucking in even entert gt: A man may be consid- dspitulity when' bo will not Louisville Codfer-JTournal: The Jeip-year el mizht try him deliontely witha 1ittie pop- corn. 21 e TEN LITTLE CANDIDATES, Phiithdelphia Press, u (ittle candidates standing inod C.evelund and the “ there were ne hittle cundid@ites wishing (o be greav— C phell et MeKinley, then there were sht. b vit ¢ little cindidates waiting for the Jouven''— * g Brice tiod up his udoketbook, then there were Soven. Soven Tittle candidites ub Lo SOURVY Lricks— ttied, then there were 3ix. Roger got r: nive— then there iovernor Russell did tho baby us wore five. Five little eandidutes olamoring for gore— Crisp struck a silver snag, then there were four. Four little candidates lauzhing in their gloo Carlislo showed rebel record. leaving only three. Threo little enndidates wondering what to Ao Gorman's state Js sure enoush, thon there wers U Two littio ¢ Gray weurs paidates hav i gaitee, then ther 1ps of fun— Wits one. andidato lu Albiny u-shiver Gae litle New Y Liver THURSDAY, ‘s spring eloctions sont bim o Salt | MARCH 10. 1892. HIZZONER WOULD GET DRUNK Personal Popularity and Official Dignity Led Him to Excessive Indulgences. GOWRIE'S MAYOR HAD TOO MANY JAGS alt to Consequontly e Was Placed in Sober Up and Removed from Ofice by the Common Comncil—All In Prohibitory low Forr Donoe, 1a., March 4, —Two mayors, one of thom legally elected and the other ap- pointed by a self-adjudged, outraged popu laeo, are struggling for the reins of govern- mont in Gowrie. A bitter internecine war- fare is raging, and logal complications with- Tho marshal refused to nct under him wund recognized Mayor Good enough as the rightful incumbent. The citi 7ens Al8o stood by tho Iatter and promise (o wdorse all nis oMcial actions, notwithstand ing Mayor Daughenbaugh's’ claim that the appointment was an illegal on No More Jags Permittod. 'ho first act of the new mayor was to serve notice that in the future no drunken man can walk the strects of Gowrie, bo he mayor or justice of the poace or only ‘an humbla cit1 zon. Marshal Dennis has recoived insrruc- tions 1o that thom to the letter. propose, they say, to toat Mayor one, howover. I'he peonle of Gowrie wipo out. the disgraco Daughenbaugh and his fatal jag and order in the future. The dispute as to whother Mayor Daughenbaugh or Mayor Goodenough 1s the rightful ruler,of the city still remains unsettied, voth sides resting on their arms. The muttor will probably como into the courts for final sottiement.” In the meantime the new incumbent has docidedly the best of it, and will continue to arrest in- toxicated individuals and draw the mayor's out number are arising. All this grief might have been avoided had Mayor Daughen- baugh, the regularly elocted official, boen convinced of the efficacy of the Keeley troat ment and taken a course at Dwight a few weeks ago. Gowrio is & protty little village of about 000 people in the southern part of Webster county. Ior years Sam Daughenbaugh has been knowu as the most popular eitizen aud at the same timo the hardest drinker in Gowrie. For the most part his tippling nas been done on the Kuripean plan, and, although everybody knew that Sam loved the bowd not wisely but too well, very few of the good peonle of Gowrie had ever soen him tloating about rudderless on the sea of total intoxication, Sam's capacity was another point in his favor. Long voars of practice had made ardent spirits ‘as familiar to his Yumm as is milk o thut of a prattling infant. t was only once in a great whilo that Sam got full. When he did his friends would shake their heads and say: *‘Sam really ought to quit drinking if he wants to do business in Gowrie. If he keeps on we'll havae to send him to congress.” Was E Mayor, Sam did keep on, but_nis friends did not send bim to congress. Instoad, thoy elected him mayor of the city. It was largely a bro- vet honor, the yearly salary and fees of tho oftice not being suficient to pay one_of the mayor's monthly refreshment bill: But the honor, such as 1t was, was weighty enough to completely unbalance **his honor's" equilib- rium, It was justa year ago that Sam Daugheubaugh received the unanimous en- dorsement of the vorters of Gowrie and had the title of *‘mayor of Gowrie” affixed to his signature. Since that time his friends have found plenty of reason to do more than smile at his oxcessive con- viviality, In the first place the triumphant clection had to ba celebrated. Sam cele- brated very much in the sama manner as a Chicago ward politician would _have done under similar circumstance He opened a demijoha ot fine old rye in his ofice, and one after another the boys were called in to drink to ‘“Hizzoner's” health. Sam cheer. fully took his glass with each visitor and soon began encoring himself. The result was evitable. The mayor got drunk. The jag rapidly passed from one stage to another, and finally assumed mammoth proportions. T'ne mayor grew hilarious. He finally wob- bled out on the streot and began shaking hands promiscuously with every man,woman and child that be met. The village was scan- dalized, and a committee of frienas finally took the irresponsible official in hand and put him to bed. The next morring the mayor was peuitent and solemnly promised never to let such an aceident occur again, The cir- cumstances were considered to be mitigating and the matter was hushed up as quietly as possible. But the accident did occur again and again, not so ostentatiously, however. It was not until tho mayor was arrested and sent to Jal in Fort Dodge last fall as a common case of runk and disovderly” that any dis- tinct commotion was caused. In this “cas wo, the erring official's weakness was con- doned. He was let off without a fine, and munaged to again explain to his friends at bome bow unavoidable the accident was and how certainly it would not oceur again, ell Once Again. After this exporience Mayor Daughenbau, 100k unto uimself a decided brace and gau Lis indulgence in stimulants by his_ capacity with such commenacble exactitude that no more open scandals resulted. Last iweck, however, arother mistake occurred, and this time the consequences were so serious that the people of Gowrie are still talking about the shame oand disgrace that has come to their peaceful und law-abiding hittle city. Nobody kuows just how it happenel, but on Saturday uight tho mayor ap- peared on the strects in a state of apuallinegly evident intoxication. Nor was the mayor aldue. Arm 1n arm with the city’s chief executive was Jack Garvy, a notorious drunkard and ‘‘ne’er-do-well,” ‘who, nnder Mayor Daughenbaugh’s adminis- tration, spent most of his timo in the city jail. The pair staggered along the streets and defied the entirc population of the ocity to interfere with their happiness, City Mar- shal Deunis begged the mayor to go home, bug prayers, threats and entreaties were all useless, The marshal withdrew his forces and the fun went on. Some of the business men sought the marshal and requested him to urrest the diswurbers of the peace. The | ofticial was willing, but as Mayor Daughen- baugh was tho only justice of the peace in the village, as well as mayor, tuere was no ove to issuo the warrant, nor anyone before whom the cu'prits could be brought if arrested. So the mayor was per- mitted to pursue the upeven tewor of his way with his_congonial cowpanion. It was not until the hapny pair, in_the course of their devious wanderings, fell through the windows of one of tho leading dry goods stores that the outraged citizens arosn in their might and_put an end to the disgraceful spectacle, Marshal Dennis at- tompted Lo make the arrest on his own re- sponsibility, but failed dismally. The mayor and his friend refused to bearrested. Rinally the marshal deputized three citizens to help him, and after a hard fight Mayor Daughen- baugh found himself, in company with Jacic Garvey, occupying a cell in his own jail. Late on Sunday morning the mayor had so- berod off and was liberated. His wrath at the indignity that had beon put upon him knew 1o bounds, Ha could not wait until Monday morning before teying to get even with his persecutors. His first move was to writo out informations charging the mon who had arrested bim with illegal arrest and mali- cious prosecution. The papers he served in person, making tho accused put up bonds for their appearance. Bright and early on Mon- day morning the accused citizeus filed suit agaiust Mayor Daughenbaugh charging him with disturbing their Sabbuth meditations by serving legal papers on tne Lord’s Day, The Seat Declared Vacant, The mayor by this time began to wish he nado’t and his oldest and best friends com- menced Lo turn the vold shoulder upon him, Excitea groups of citizons gathered upon the strects and discussed the situation, Every- body thought the city had been disgraced, and’that it was tine Lo vemove the cause of the disgrace. ‘The men who were on the ayor's officisl bond got quictly together salary until rurther notice. = - - CONNUBIALITIES, Ho Do you think of investing in stooks! She—No. I prefer matrimonial bonds. The clergyman who ties the nuptial knot is usually summoned by the ringing of a belie, Miss Helen Hay Downing and Mr. William Pe al Do Witt were married 1n New York last Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Payvills— My dear Julia, when we were courting you were very dear to me, but now that we are marcied and I am paying your bills, youseem to gat dearer and dearer. The approaching marriage of Mrs, Liver- more and Baron Seilliere has been widely discussed in New York, but as yot they have not sent out invitations to their wadding. Miss Madeline Townshend, daughter of the late Representative Townshond of Iili- nois, and J, W. Weeks of Dalmer, Mas: were married in Washington last Tuesday. Skidds —You look disconsolate, Gurley. What's the trouble! Dossn’'t Miss Muna smile on_your suit! Gurley--She doos more than that! “How so!” *She iaughs at i, The Social Register for February indicates that during the past quarter in New York society thero have oeen thirty-seven mar- riages, as compared to twenty-six during the same period last year. One of the most notable of the few March weddings will be that of Miss Fannie Bost- wick of New York and Captain Alvbert Carstairs ot the Royal Irish rifles. The wedding will take place 1o this countr “My husban¢ ceceived a noto today in a woman’s handwriting.” **Did you open it ! “Idid not. Aud what is more, 1 left him by himself to read 1t at his leisure.” Don’t you worry over it?” *Noj; but I guess ho doos. It was from my dressmaker.’” If your sweatheart is giving you a ri #00d luck, and you ura to have tho choic it be an oval ‘moonstone surrounded with small, clear diamonds, writes Isabel A. Mal lon i tho March Ladies' Home Journal. This stone, more than any other, has the reputation of bringing happiness, and ey if you do not consider this the ring itself will be found a most effective one, the aiamonds bringing out the many colors in the moon stone, and the moonstone returning the coni- pliment by intensifying the vrilliancy of the diamonds. By some Scotch statistics recently pub- Lished 1t appears that, between the ages of of unmarried men 0 and 25, the mortality 4 100,000, and of married men only From 25 to 30 the numbers respectively are 1,306 and SG0. These figures, as above indicated, are de- rived from the death registry of Scotland, but the proportion of the bachelor to tho ben- edict death rate is believed to be about the same in this countrv. Taking the whole of the married men and the whole of the unmar- ried men, from the age of 20 to the close of Jife, 1t is comptued that the lives of the former average b0i5 yoars, while those of the latter average only 40 years—a difference of nineteen and a half years in favor of married men, Th8 beautiful, accomplished and rich Mme. do Barrios, widow of the renowned General Juan Rufino Barrios, who was at one time presivent of Guutemala, is about to wed the second time. The man to whon: this beauti- ful womau is abont to entrust her hand and her vast fortune, is Jose Martinez de Roda, a marquis of Spain, and possessor of some of the proudest titles Jkuown to the Spanish uobility. The wed- ding will tuke place in New York. After the wedding the marquis will take his bride back to Madrid, whare they will probably live. Mme. Barrios’' fortune is generally reputed to be worth §10,000,000 at the lowest . in the five yearsof life ' effect and promises to obev | brought them by a strict enforcoment of law | e < Throe Negroes Taken from Jail by Masked Men and Hang, THEIR BODIES RIDDLED WITH BULLETS the Shive rled to the Suburbs g Wretehes Fairly Torn to Pleces by A Volley from Winchestors Talk of Retaliation. The morning of threo Mewmriis, Tenn,, March 9. light disclosed the dead bodies negroes riddlod with bullets and partially covered with brush lyiug ia an open about a mile and a half from tho heart of the oity. The nogroes had boen taken from jail by seventy-five masked men this morning and shot to death, The names of the men ure Calvin McDowell, William Stuart and Theodure Moss, ‘The crime for which this summary venge ance was wreaked upon them was the am busting aud shooting down Suaday night last ot four deputy sheritfs in the locality known as “the Curve' whilo tho offic were looking fora negro for whose arrest they had a warrant. g About 8 o'clock this morning soventy-five™, mon, all wearing masks, appeared suddenly on Frout streot noar the jail. By a ruso throe men obtained entrance to tho jail yard estimate, and her jewelS are among the most costly in'the world. Mme, Barrios was mar- ried when ouly 14 years old, and is probaoly Dow 32 vears of ago. Her husband, Genoral Juan” Rufino Bacrios, president of Guate- mala, was killed in the battle of Chalchuapa | on April 2, 185, Ea S T T BLOODSHED MAY RESULT. Cltizens Arm to Prevent a Rallrond Track Belng Torn Up. NasuviLie, Ill, March 9.—The greatost excitement prevails here over the attempt ! of the Louisville & Nashvillo railroad com- | pany to demolish the track of the Centralia | & Chester railroad, and Mayor F. E. Leise called & meeung of the citizens yesterday. Fully 500 assembled. It was enthusiastically decided by the meeting 1o use every effort to rotect the property. 10 doso the citizeus nhave organized, and forty volunteors will meet with shotguns, Winchester rifles and revolvers, under orders of the mayor, at the signal given and repel any attempt that may be made. It has become quite a sorious thing and surely will vesult in bloodshed should it o continted. and overpowered Watchman O'Donneil, whom they bound and gacged. The others wers then admittod and the search for the negroes begun, 8 guara in the meantime having veen put over the watchman. There were twenty soven negroes thore,all under arrest for com plicity in Saturday night's affair, and it was no easy task to distinguish the three negroes wanted. The mob went from cell to cell, the thoroughly alurmed inmates coming to tho cell doors ana unwillingly aiding them 1a tho search. Alice Mitchell heard the noise and fromes her cellon the upper ter peered down ou the strange and silent crowd. Moss, the muil carrier, was tho first man identified, He was taken from the cell and bound and soon after MeDowell and Stuart were found and taken caro of in thesume way, ‘The captives being ready thoy were dragged, pushed aud Lurried out of tho jal. lu afew minutes the suvurbs of the eity wer reached, and in an open field near Wolf river the negroes met their doom. A shot from a revolvor crashed through the cheek of Moss. This was the signal for work. A terrible volley poured in upon tho shivering negroos, who instantly fell aead, ‘'ne bodies presented a horrible sight, Me Dowell's jaw was eatirely shot away and back of his right ear was a hoie large enough to adwit a man’'s fist. His right hano, too, was half blown off. Stuart was shot in thy mouth ana twice in the back. His nead ani hie body were riddled with buckshot. Moss had an_ear shot off and several bullet hole: in bis forchead. The mob turned about after it completey the terrible work aud coming toward town scattered and disappeared. The bodies of the dead negroes were brought to Walsh's undertaking establishment this morning. In less than fifteon minutes the placo was sur- rounded by about 200 negroes, all afraid to talk, however, on account of the near prox- imity of the whit The inquost was heid at 10 o'clock and the bodies were then sent to their homes at ““The Curve.” At 10:15 word reached thoe city that the ne- groes were assembling in large numbers at “The Curve.” Judge Dubose immediately equipped 150 mon with Winchesters and they have loft the city for that locality. 2D BY HIS BROTHER-I KILL Murder of John Greer in Which His Wifo Took n Hund, Cixcrsyari, O, March 9.—Last night John W. Greer, his wife and brother-in-law, John W. Mackay, quarrelled about a-deal in prop- erty. Mackay and Mrs. Greer both attacked Mr. Greer. Mackay used a hatchet ana drove the blade into Greer's skull. Mackay and Mrs. Greer were arrested und Greor wus taken to the hospital, whero he died shortly after 1 o'clock this morning. The affair took place at Greer's howme, in North Fairmount. ——— Wasn't Dressed Much, The musical critic ot the Cincinnati Fn- quirer thus noted the appearance of Patti the other night: “‘A maguificent creation of richest, ivory-white satin, shimmering like moonlight with every movement; a tremen- dously long train, edged with some wonder- fully fluffy pink trimming in waves ana cas- cades; repeated on the decollete corsage, showing the beautiful neck and srms, and cut very low in thoe back, showing an ex- vanse of very delicaiely tinted flesh on the perfectly rounded outiines. The potticoat of the dress was paneled 1n_deep vandykes of gold and iridescent embroideries, reaching from the hems to the waist. The corsago was one solid blaze of jewels; diamonds flashed like stars, and there was the gleam of pearls, ruvies, emeralds, and on hor left she wore two jeweled medals. About hor neck was a necklace of pearls, with a dia mond sun for a pendent, and_strings of the pearls fell below to the waist. Two milk white pearis hung in ber dainty ears, and in hor dari bair was a diamond star and two pearl combs. Patti was not dressed up much last night.” and notified the county auditor that they haa withdrawn from the bond. This practically lefu tho oflico of mayor vacant. As soon s the citizens whose riames were on Daughen bangh's boml us justice of the peace heard of this they followed suit, and the combined inayor und justice of ihe peace was thus temporarily shorn of bis two offices at oue fell swoub. On Monday evening a special mee'log of the city council was called, to which the eiti zons turned outen masse. Very little tinio was lost in discussing what todoor how tw doit. Councilmen and citizens were a unit in the opiniou that Sam Daughenbaugh sbould no longer till the ofice L hud 50 pub licly disgraced. Several spivited spoeches | werc made and resolution was introduced | | declaring the office of nazor of Gowrie vacant and appointed W. H. Goodeaough to £l the vacancy. The resvlution was passed | unanimously, and the mesting broke up awild | general applause, | Mayor Daughonbaugh was uot to be thus | easily disposed of, nowever. He did not pro- | pose to die until tho last ditch was reached, When apprised of the action of tho meeling | he cootly declared that the conrse taken was | iliegal aud refused to turn over the offize to | nis successor. e hLustled around among | some of his rumerous friends and with | proaises of future good conduct easily iu- | ducod them to back him up in the metier of | boods. T'aking tuo first train for the county | seat uo filed bis new bonds and weat. %t | thae fioid of battle prepared to stand up for i vl He found bis pathway & thorny coats coat $10 and up year. i fill mail orders. 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