Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 26, 1893, Page 4

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Oclobr. of October, 1808 11, Notary Public. Averngo Circutntion for Sept., 1893, 24,233 DoN'T fail to reg PARISIANS can now adopt the popular air to the words “After the Russians Desert U7 Is1mw to put a city contractor in the mayor's chair? The echoes of the past answer no! TaE World's fair comes to an end next week Monday. How aboutthe Garneau- Moore controversy? EVERYBODY interested in the main- lenance of good government should registor today. Lust year's registration floes not hold good. REGISTER today, else you cannot vote. The impending election will be hotly contested. You will want to be in the fight. Register. MOSHER is & hoodoo. The sheriff of Lancastor. county should beware or he, too, will fall a victim to public condem- nation after the fashion of Sheriff Bennett. AT THE present rate of expediting the hearings under the transfer switch law it will undoubtedly require no less than ten months for the State Board of Trans- portation to get thatlaw in working order. AMERICAN cities' day at the fair is bound to be an unparalleled success if it succeeds in exhibiting an aggregation comprising the mayor and city council of Omaba in apparent harmony upon all issues of the day. REMEMBER that the bond proposition to be submitted to the voters on election day provides for raising money by the sale of bonds which cannot be legally applied to the constwuction of the Platte river canal. It should be voted down. IF THE extra session of congress ar- rives at a settlement of the present sil- ver controversy people will be only too willing to have that issue withdrawn from the regular session. The senatorial windbags will bhave earned a well mer- ited rest. GEORGE MUNRO is one of the best known and highly respected members of the city council. ‘His record commends him to the people. He is a successful business man and a competent public officiul. His name will appear on the official ballots. Do not fail to vote for him. WE have said yery little about Mr, Bedford and his candidacy. But if he happens to bo knocked out of the ring when the battories are opened he will have to curse the fool killer for not deing his duty in time with tho conceited idiots who are championing his interests in the World-Herald. POPULIST senators are said to ex- pect their actions during the silver de- ‘bate to gain millions of adherents to the populist cause 1n the next national elec- “tion. None of those millions, it is safe ® tosay, will include any one who has heard any of the time-killing debate on the floor of the senate, WE have had disreputable and low down campaign literature hefore every election, but it remained for Sher- iff Bennett, to introduce a chain gang Paper edited by a convicted blackmailer who occupied a cell in the penitentiary and paid for by a bank wrecker, forger, embezzler and perjurer, — It 18 the duty of every patriotic oitizen to exercise the franchise which has been entrusted to his care. Do not shirk voting. Before you can vote you must see that your name is properly entered upon the registratiod books. See to it toduy. Let nothing dolay you. You cannot tell what may happen to interfore on' the registration days to follow. All previous registrations have no validity this yeur. THE course of Mayor Bomis through- out the present campaign is such as to commend him to all good citizons re- geardless of politics. Not only is Mayor Bemis not a politician in the objection- able sense of that term, but he has shown by both word and decd that he is _gemerous as well as fearless and inde- pendent, with ouly kind words for his envious rivals and defamers. He has oontinued to give close attention to the - ¢ affairs of the oity with absoluto indifter- ‘ence as to the result of the conspiracies sgeinst him. i ) WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY? Graxn Istaxn, Oet. 23.—To the Editor of Tie Bee: You have sevoral times asserted in' vour puper thas the defeat of Judge Max- | well was bronght abont by a treasonabio conspiracy and that Harrfson's nomination was due to the confederated railrond manag- ers. This is altogether too weneral. We want facts. STALWART REPUBLICAN. ‘There are none so blind as those who will not see. Can any intelligent man who has kept abreast with Nebraska politics entertain a reasonable doubt that the entire corporate power of this state was banded togethor to defeat Maxwell by fair means or foul? Tue BEE is not in the habit of dealing in fiction. When we chargod that Judge Maxwell’s defeat was brought about by a treasonable conspiracy we had abund- ant proof to sustain the charge. 1t is a notorious fpet that the candi- of I'rick was sprang by the emis- saries of the Elkhorn Valley railroad to n Maxwell in his own county. Judge Hayward of Otoe was injected into the contest by the railroads and the impeached officials whom he defended before the supreme court, The samo corporation and state house influence made Clinton N. Powell a vallying point for the cohorts of the corporations in Dougias county. The caudidacy of O. A. Abbott, whose delegation from Hall county was leaded by Hurvison, was merely a masked movement to cover the operations of the Burlington czsr and bring to the front the man upon whom the corporate conspirators had previ- ously agreed. Do these facts sustain the chargs that the railrond corporations had banded together to turn down Maxwell and force a man of their own choice on the supreme bench? If not, there is one fact that will clinch the nail and drivey it home. Douglas county was the centor of the contest for railroad supremacy in the state, and here all the forces were con- centrated to prevent the selection of a delegation instructed for Maxwell. The railroad organizer, Inodell, had de- voted all his energies to organizing the primaries for Powell, and he wuas ably seconded by the railroad lawyers and all the henchmen they could muster. The outcome of the primaries was the selection of about a dozen delegates who were in the employ of the Union Pacific railroad or the Pacific Express company which is practically an annexof the Union Pacific. The managers of the Union Pacific claimed tobe entirely neutral in the fight and had given assurance to that effect to the supporters of Maxwell. The Douglas county convention was held Saturday, Septembor 30. Just be- fove noon on that day, the editor of THE BgE sought an interview at Union Pacific headquarters with Mr. Clark, the president of the road. The follow- ing is in substance the interview: The ditor—I understand, Mr. Clark, that your company is taking no part in the con- test over Maxwell. Mr. Clark—That is our position. We have kept entarely neutral and wo propose to keep out of the fight. The Editor—Will you favor me with a statement over your siznature that your company hasno disposition to interfere in the choice of supreme judge and that tho employes of your road are at liberty to vote as they please? M. Clark—[ cannot grant your request. It would ba regarded as a breach of faith by the other roads and get us into trouble. What did Mr. Clark mean when he declaved that to give Union Pacific em- ployes a written assurance that they were freo to vote as they pleased would make him liable to the charge that he had violated faith' with other railroads? Is not this fact alone conclusive proof that a compact had been entered into by all the railroad managers to capture the republican convention and defeat Max- well? Was not this compact a treasonable conspiracy to defeat the will of the peo- ple? According to Blackstone, “The purpose of civil government, of all offices, constitutions, laws, courts, con- ventions, parties, caucuses and fran- chises existing under its authority, whether ordained by the constitution through a legistature, or the voluntary contrivance of any portion of its people {as a party convention], is to maintain justice and to provide for the generai welfare. Justice is the fundamental iden of the state. All its rogulations should be but the applications of the principles of justice. Whenever a com- bination of men undertakes the man- agement of government with a view to contravene these aims, it is an effort to secure control of the forms of eivil authority to enact the very wrongs and pverpetuate the very wants for the over- throw and prevention of which civil authovity exists. If this is done ina combination striving to subvert estab- lished forms of government, it 1s treu- son. Buat for a company of citizens to combine with each other under the forms of law, and, seeking private ends, strive thus to subvert the proper func- tions of government, and establish in- iquity by Jaw, is none the less criminal because a nameless crime Now if it is treasonable orcriminal for citizens to combine for the subversion of self-government, is it not equally erimi- nal for corporations to seek the over- throw of our supreme bench by banding together and exerting corporate power' 10 prevent a free choice of candidates? In the face of such conspiracies, what can the peopledo to protect their rights? HARMONIOL UFACIURERN, The annual meeting of the directors of the Nebraska Manufacturers and Con- sumers association, held yesterday, was partieularly gratifying in the evidence given as to the complete harmony of _!e-llng and unanipity of purpose exist- ing among the manufacturers of the state. Every matter presented for the consideration of the directors was dis- posed of without the slightest friction. The officers of the association were re- elected unanimously, ‘and it is to be re- marked that the compliment was well deserved by all of them. Mr. W. A. Page has made s most ef- fielent president of the association, and while he did not seek a re-election, feel- ing quite willing, after s service of two years, to give some other member of the association an opportunity to serve it, the directors manifested u wise and just appreciation of his worth i retaining assoclation, was continned in that posi- tion, and the confidence of the directors was substantially attestod by inereasing his salary. e has shown himself to bo the right man in the right place. The association, as shown by the re- port of the secretary, is in an excellent condition, and there is reason to exvect that the good work it has already ac- complished will bo extended in the year to come, giving more genoral recogni- tion to tho principle, “‘patronize home industries,” which it is the cardinal pur- pose of the association to promote. A great deal has been done in teaching the poople of Nebraska the value and im- portance of this principle but there is a great deal of work to be done before the habit of observing the principle, becomes as general as it should be, and the asso- ciation and its officers must not abate their efforts to firmly im- pre: upon - our people the -~ fact that it is essential to the progress and prosperity of Nebraska, and therefore to their interest, to patronize home indus- tries. All citizens of Nobraska should feel that they Lave & common concern in building up the industrial enterprises of the state, so that the field for the utilization of capital and the employ- ment of labor may be steadily eniavged, and the only way 1o do this is to make a home wmarket for the products of our manufactor which successfully com- pete in quality and prico with ilike arti- cles mado else where. The Manufacturers and Consumers association is to be hesrtily congrat- ulated upon what it has accomplished andshould recetvo every cncouragement in the work it has in hand. DUTY OF THE COUNTY COMMISSION ERS The county commissioners are by law charged with the supervision of the con- duct of county officers and empowered to try them for misdemeanors and dismiss them from the sorvice. The statutes of Nebraska provide that all county of- ficers, inclnding justices of the peace, may be churged, tried and removed from office for official misdemeanors for the following causes: Tirst—Habitual or willful neglect of duty. : Sccond—Gross partiality, Third—Oppression. Fourth—-Lixtortion. Fifth—Corruption. Sixth—Wiliful maladministration in office. Seventh—Conviction of a feleny.. Tighth—Habitual drunkenness. The flagrant delinquencies in the safe keeping of prisoners and the manage- ment of the county jail have scandalized the public service to an extent that makes it the duty of the county com- missioners to institute an official in- quiry. The frequent and numerous jail de- liveries afford indisputable proof that Sheriff Bennett has been guilty of habitual and willful neglect of duty. The responsibility for the safe-keeping of prisoners is with him and cannot be shifted. The liberties accorded to H. H. Henderson and Charles Mosher show gross partiality and willful maladminis- trationin office on the partof the sheriff. Section 119 of the act relating to counties and county officars provides that the sheriff shall have charge and custody of the jail and the prisoners of the same, and is required to receive those lawfully committed and to keep them himself, or his deputy jailer, until discharged by law. The manifest intent of the law is that the sheriff is pro- hibited from releasing any prisoner until he is discharged by a court. - This provision of the law has been violated in several instances, notably in the case of Charles Clifford, who was released without an order of the court. Section 162 of the criminal code pro- vides that ifany sheriff, jailer or other person having any offender in custody charged with, or convicted, of any offense made pumshable by the laws of this state, shall volunuarily suffer such offender to escape or go at large, ho be- comes guilty of a misdemeanor, punish- able by fine and imprisonment. Section 5,764 of the Revised Statutes reads as follows: 1f any sheriff or jailer or any other person having the care or custody of auny jail, shall suffer any person sentenced to imprisonment therein for any offenss to be dealt with 1n a manner less severe than is required by law he shall be guilty of 4 misdemeanor in office. * The favors and privileges granted to vict Mosher by the sheriff are an ex- ion Of such gross partiality as to leave no room for doubt that corrupt in- fluences have prevailed to bring this about. Notonly was this felon treated as if he were a personage entitled to the freedom of the jail, but he was allowed to roam at large, and visit dis- reputable resorts to sgratily his lust and passion for sport. And to cap the cli- max of lawlessness, the Douglas county jail was. converted into an assignation house for the bencfit of Convict Mosher. A shoriff who will misuse his office and scandalize the courts should bo at once impeached. The commissioners havo a responsi- bility in this matter which they cannot shirk. The fact that the people will soon be able to oust Bennett from office through the ballot box affords no ex- cuso for retaining him in his position from now until January. ARE the taxpayers of Omaha willing to plaster $1,500,000 mortguge on this city for buying out Mr. Wiley's electric ight factory? This is exactly what will be done with the proceeds of the so- called cunal bonds. Not a dollar of that fund can legally be used for building a canal or any other improvement. The proposition is plain and specific. Shall the city of Omuha issue #1,500,000 in bonds for the purchase or acquisition of watorworks or an electric light plant? You cannot buy out_the waterworks for 1,600,000 unless the city assumes the mortgage of $4,000,000 which now hangs over it. Such a bargain would be a gi guntic job. The only thing that the council will be able tdo legally with the proeeeds of tho boads is tu buy out the Thomson-Houston works at such price as the council and Mr. Wiley can “agree on, That price might be $250,000 and it might be $1,500,000. Wh‘bv.r twelve councilmen vote will be the price, The courts are powerless to intecfere unless absolute proof of brivery shall be him. Mr. Holwes, the secretary of the | pruduced. Mr. Wiey is too smart to be caught i lubricating of conneil- men. 1o i1 tep old a bird to be trapped or tripped. 2Ises any sano man donbt that hio willfife his twolve conncilmen override auygmivetr when there is a 31,500,000 job By han IN DISALLOWING & por diem salary claimed by afi mrmy officer for assigned work as membr of a houndary commis- sion the Troasury department is seek- ing to establish the rale that no person on tho army pay roll is entitled to ro- ceive additional compensation from the Juited Statés’ government. The gov- ernment will Fégard the officer’s time as paid for in his regular salary, and the fact that it is devoted tosome part lar duty not in the ordinary line of mi tary life will not give him an extra claim. Though this decision may ap- pear 1 be a hardship to certain persons it can scarcely be attacked on the giound of injustics. On the other hand, the old system opened tho way for fave itism and duty shirking that must have been demoralizing to the efficiency of the service. Officers played for appoint- ments to lucrative positions and shoved their work onto less fortunate wire pullers. Taking away the monctary in- centive will destroy much of the attrac- tion of assignment to spocial duty out: side of the military stations. ACCORDING to Senator Dubois, one of the leading spirits in the vocent fiii- bustering entertainment at Washing- ton, without the aid of northern or southern democrats filibustering would have been in vain from the first. There is no nced to search for the parties to blame for that disgraceful episode. Filibustering was resorted to by the free silver senators because they were aided and abetted by members of the demoeratic majority. The demoerats must shoulder the responsibility of the unnecessary delay in passing the relief measures for which congress was sum- moned. THaE Board of Education of this city is entrusted with thoananagement of one ot the most imvortant public institu- tions. A member of the school board should be not alone honest, well mean- ing and caveful of the public interests, but he sheuld diso be capable of appre- ciating what a public school education ought to afford. He is expected to see the defects of our school em and to provide for their remedy. No man with an ax to grind should be permitted to work his way into the school board. THIS is to be an educational campaign. The people are_not only given a chance to study cardinal; principles of self-gov- ernment, but they are being educated up to the standai‘d of discriminating bo- tween reputable.candidates and scamps. It 18 safe to predict that Mosher will not run at large in the streets of Lin- coln. There ave too many defrauded depositors there: = ——— A Jug-H: dle Aftair, Glob-Democrat. The Ohio campaizn would be more inter- esting for the country at large if there were any chance for ‘the democrats to win, but apparently their efforts aro merely to keop the republican majority below 30,000. L The One Danger. . Chicago Inter Ceean. 5 Onio aund lowa republicans have but one thing to fear, and that is overconfidence. That has often been fatal. Overconfidence permits thousands of business men to be absent upon election day, because “‘one vote doesu’t count much, any way.” ——— Boggars on Norseback. Loutsville Courier-Journal. Nobody doubted after last November's eclection that Grover Cleveland and the na- tional democracy had won an overwhelming victory. Itseems to have been all a mis- take, however. At present the silver-mine republicuus, the populists and the free silver democratic deserters are m complete control of the legislation of the country. e Commendable Liberality, Washington Post. If capital and labor would only be more generally tolerant of each other the condj- tion of affairs in thisand in ever) other civil- ized country would be much more pleasant than it is. Once in awhile a few rays of bright sunshine penetrate vhe clouds, but the illumination is much too infrequent.' For more than four weeks the King Philip mills at Fall River, Mass., were closed, and the employes, of course, were idle. Recently the 1mills resumed operstion and when the hands received their pay for the first week of toil after the reopening they were much sur- prised to learn that the mill owners—who also owned vhe houses occupied by their work people—had remitted the rent for the month of enforced inactivity. It was a pleasant and proper, and in a broad sense, n profitable thing 10 do. It was one of the best 1nvestments the mill owaers ever made, s Are Wearing, Buzar, Just at present the grand chio for the sireet in Paris is dark blue serge, or a simi- lar material called bure, the skirt maue clear to the ground, round and very full at the back, fitting closely over the hips, and with less fulness on the sides than even in the skirts made iv the spring; no trimming except several rows of stitching, ‘I'he corsage worn with this is either the always popular bolero, or else a tight-fitting waist with small round basque, quite full in the back, the front having wide revers turned back 80 as toshow a shirtof white duchesse satin draped with cream-colored Venetian or other coarse lace; the belt is of wide black satin ribbon, fastened each side of the front by Rhine-stone buckl The crowning touh 10 this most useful costume, and alsp the very latest novelty, is a tour de cou of ermine, the skin of the 1lit- tle antmal mountad With the head and_tail, A large black hat bows of moire ribbon and black ostrich f8hers completes a os- :ume as stylish a useful and comuae il aut. Double skirts ave reappearing, and the vresence of embroidery on the new costumes makes one realize| Vhat simplicity is no louger the_order gf the day. Tho Louis Seize and Directoirk styles are suparseding the 1830 horrors, and all the looms of Lyons are at work on sughi| lovely fiowered silks, Fancy and embrgiaered ribbons are used, und the most lovelgi effects are produced by them. - Dinner gowns now made in satin an- tique, or “panne, lawit is called, which is ueither satin nor velyet, but something be- 1ween the two, soft'and "BTM catching the light and making such lovely 'lines, which follow the movemenis of the wearerat every sura, = Two children of Mr. and Mrs. THE osc 1A TARRIERS, Chieago Inter Ucean: One ncconnt says | theso whito-cappors were moembors of the | Women's Christian Temperance union. For | the good name of that noble order we most | sincerely hope that th was not the case. Certaln wo are that the membors of that order would aunost uaanimously condemn such outlawry as abhorrent to the spiritof | 'L!mlr union and Judicial to their cause. T'he order was organized to pronote temper- ance by a practical avolieation of the princi- ples of the Christian religion and not to regulate social intercourse by a return to barbarism, Kansas City Times: White-capism is the modern carryiag out of the old Ku-Kiux iden and is abhorrent 1o the American concegtion of justico, whether it takes place in indiana or Mississinpi, Nob o Alabama. 1t is true that public ab imes become so flagrant as to demand unusual methods of dealing with thom, but this is too dangerons a doctrine to receive the support of law-abid- ing men. It would put into the hands of every lawless mob the power of rovenging itself upon any person or persons who might have incurred its displeasure, Chicago Tribune: The action reported caunot bo defended by any one excent a h_u\'\‘(‘l' hired to make out tie best case Ppos- sible for his cliont, irrespectivo of the real merits of the case, Tho procesding was a lawless one and savorod top much of south- ern Ku-Klux methods to pormit apology therefor. The women guilty of the utrage may have “felt that the namoof the vity was being scandalized by the action” of the young women, but mere lovity, or even im- morality, did ‘not call for porsonal punish- mant, and il tho conduct of the offenders were’ really unlawful the courts_were open for on under the law. The women \\‘h‘n undertook to chastise with bundles of swilches their supposedly erring sisto were themsclves law breakers and desery tobe punished ussach for a warning to others who presume to take the law into thieir own hands instead of appealing to the courts, —_—— THIE CRINSONED BATTLE CREEK, Philadelphia Press: Tho only system of train orders worth anything 18 under the block system, and it _consists in letting no train into a block until tho block is clear. "This is an order which it is hard to misua” derstand. Chicago Post: Madness, we think, may explain this and other accidents of the same nature. It may be the overwork incident to tho rush at the fair, the strain of their fear- ful responsibil d tho confusion of many orders cloud th ns of these wretched mea and seud thom, hoodless of conse- 5. into an actof temporary insanity, o be oxpiated. Chicago Inter Ocean: The car stove was responsible for the horrible fatality in_the vreck at Battle Creok, Mich. New York' has a law prohibiting the use of stoves in railway coashes and compelling railroads to use steam heat for their trains. This wreck and the burning of twenty-six people impris- oned in the cars isa forcible reminder that othor states should adopt such u law and make {mpossible such horror New York Tribune: The wreck on the Grand Trunk road at Battle Crock on Iri- day was tho most destructive and in its in- cidents the most dreadful of atl the railroad disasters which have added to the gloom and gri=f of this calamitous yoar. No lan- jznage can exaggerate its horrors. The most stolid reader of the dispatches in which they are described must shudder at the re- cital wnd join in_the demand that when the respousibility has been unmistakably fixed an adequate penalty shall be imposod. Detroit Froe Press: In this instance there was no failure of the air brakes, no excuse upon which a protended justification of the fatal collision can bo based. Orders were not obeved. An employe dared to take the awful hazard of running on the time of another train, and the result is ono to shock the entiro world. Where blame for such wholesomo murder s definitely fixed the duty of the authorities is too plain to,re- quire discussion. The man or mex who are responsible for the calamity should be visited with justice swifs and sure. There is need for such an example a8 will bring to railrond_operatives n full sensoof their re- sponsibility, and here is a case where the way to such purpose is mudeclear. The dead “cannot be rostored, but the living may be protected. NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Work on the new county line bridge near Crowell is progressing rapidly. The directors of the Kearney Cotton mill have decided to increase the capacity of the plant. Dick Thompson, who was recently sent to the asylum for the iusane is reported to be improv-ing. Thieves went through the stables of R. C. Golden near Nebraska City and stole every bit of harness ia the building. The pipes for the Fremont system of sewerage have been laid, and_ as soon as the flushing tanks are put in the whole work will be completed. J. M. Hol- landsworth of Gibbon have succumbed to typhoid fever and their father is lyingat the point of death. An attempt will soon be made to liquidate the indebtedness on the Youag Men's Chris- tian association building at Hastings, It will be necessury to raise §2,000 E. A. O'Brien, superintendent of the state hatcheries at South Bend, is distributing 19,000 young fish in the streams aloug the line of the I2lkborn road between Fremont and Harrison. Two spans of the B. & M. bridge near Oreapolis were destroyed by fire which started from a spark from an engine. Seventy-five men were put to work at once and a temporary structure was soon erected. The Grand Army post at Shubert has made arrangements to give a baked bean and hard tack supper tonight at McGechie's opera house, and the members propose that all who attend shall have a first-class time. Mayor Pond, one of the members of the committee of arrangements, had the distin- guished houor of participating in the cap- ture of Jeff Davis after the war was over, and his reminisconces would fill a volume with interesting matver. L Senatorial Pugs and Fluggers. Washington Star. A few conservative and estimable citizens have boen somewhat scandalized by the sen- ato's descent to physical argument and are properly horrified because there 1s popular movemant toward having the Mitchell-Cor- belt engagement come off in the seuate chamber, but what do they think of the as- sassinatory statements of silver senators who opeuly provhesy the sudden decease of the vioe president should he proceed Lo con- duot his presiding business in a businesslike way? PRACTICAL ETHICS, Sumerville Jowrnal, 1t doosn't pay o be too good— But then, fow of us ure. In fact, most of us do not reach "o standard mark by far. We criticise our neighbo Mostly behind thefr bac! But who, sets out o find Himsol most sorely lacks? 1t does: ay to be 100 good— But then, Wao ever knew who really wis too kood? Such folks aro inighty few. In most of us there Is & streak— As fat is streaked with lean— Of something thut unprejudiced Observers would call meun. ust ge 1t unswers pretty well for me, ‘And it will serve for you. % Don't fret. ul‘l‘lrul your lllrl hbors' faults— 1t isn't right you should— And bour 14 mifads iy iry s hard As you do 1o be kood: ! Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE They ara oxcoedingly useful fn rocky times. Indianapolis is convincad by about $700,- 000 that democracy and deficlt are synony- mous Senator Hoar's mental buuch o keys which fingor. Primed by the Geary iaw, a C: court has ordered Ching Gun tir the country, The annual fall uneasinoss is roported at Pino Ridgo agency. Poor Lo has a_long-felt want to flll with gsverumens rations. In consideration of §100 in hand paid, Con- ey Simpson will give a stere barometer 8 A ho danglos from his ifornin out of | | pro opticon exhibit of populist principles for the | benefit of Ann Arbor university students on November 4. Peter Jackson, the negro pugilist, ‘ng\n halcyon and voeiferous time down in New York. He makes his headquarters at the Toussaint L'Ouverture club, an otganiza- tion of well-to«io coloreu men, and wher. ever he goes he is followod by a crowd of admiring Senegambians, who rogard him as the greatest man of tho age. Ix-Speaker Reed gatns $3,000 to #1000 .a your by his pen outside his salary as congress- man. JHe commanis practically his own vrice and his market 1s alw awaiting him. If fv were uot for this income [rom the mugazines Thomas Brackett would enjoy very of the luxuries of life. He is a poor man and has no income boyond his and what ho gets by his literary hay- work. Cartor Harrison possesses a hade- mouth, but during its lonz and varied from its eagle flights in h warbling of *93, it y_for endurance, of the Nebraska chaipion in tho senate he smote beaver thrice and vowed to beat it. That he envies the famo of our own Senator Allen and would snatch the laurcls of loquacity from his . i ovi- dent from the offorte of the Chicago Times 1o pull the senator from his lofty podestal. Out upon such jealo: 1 Tho old, unpretentions three-story build- ing on Tenth street, Washington, into which Lincoln carried aftor the fatal shot was fired 1n Ford's theater, and in which he died twenty-four years ago, has been leased and converted into a museum of Lincoln relics aud gemorials. The collection, which is not yet complete, embraces all the interesting Tetics which Captain Q. H. Olroyd has been collecting sine ), and which, up %o last spring, wero retainod in the house at Soring- field, 1., where Lincoln lived when he was elected president. Tx-Senator Ingalls had a remarkable way of preparing his specches, according to IPrederick Haig, formerly his private secr tary. He first dictated a speech very rapidly. Th dictated another and altogeth n h on the same subject, and the typewritten copiesof both speeches, ho would cut, paste, erase and interline until he nad made one symwetrical and harmonious address out of the two, “Upon every other page or two,” says Mr. Haig, “would be interlined oneof those striking sentences which stood forth and comwmanded the at- tention of his audience. His speeches are models of diction and superb rhetoric.” A writor in the New York Sun, in a sketch of the life of Sam Houston, says he was 4 unique character, and at certain times howling drunkard. He once sat for an hour or twoon the upper porch of a Tittle Rock el roading nis‘newspaper. It was a hot unday morning, and Houston’s costume was precisely that in which he was born. The night after San Jacinto, when Saata Anna was brought into his tent, Houston was too drunk to be roused from his stuporon the ground. The butcher of the Alamo sat up all night in such mortal fear that he would not accept a cup of water. In the morning Houston wus sober and tremendously digni- fied and pompous. Santa Anna offered his sword, but his conqueror grandiloquently re- fused to take 1t.” Lucy Stone—known in Henry B. Bluckwell—died on the 17th inst. at the age of 76. Her caveer was a remark- able one, bringing into prominence the sturdy will_power and fearlessness of her New England ancestry. She was among the first to take advantage of a college course at Oberlin, then the only college open - to women, earning monoy enough to pay her way by hard labor during evening hours. Her first woman’s rights lecture was given from the pulpit of her brother’s church in Gardner, Mass,, in 1847, Soon after she was engaged to lecture for the Anti-Slavery so- ciety. ‘The novelty of a woman speaking in public attracted large audiences. She always put @ great deal of woman's rights into her anti-slavery lectures. Although frequently assailed by mobs and the meet- ings broken up, she never suffered personal injury. Her fearlessness and determination often made the mobs quail and turned ene- mies into supporters. As evidence of her Joyalty to the principles advocated, she pub- lished at her marriage, in 1855, a protest against the unequal features of the law, which at that time gave the husband the entire control of his wife's property, person ana earnings. She refused, too, to take her husband’s name, regarding this as a symbol of subjection and the merging of her indi- viduality into his. Omaha congratulates Oakland, Cal. The city on the bright side of Fogville hds suc- ceeded in restoring to the stage, temporarily at least, a star whose brilliancy dazzled Omaha for a season years ago. The wman is worthy of the occasion, and the occasion worthy of the man. To sig e the open- ing of the Midwinter fair across the bay, Oakland has arranged & musical and dra- matic feast, and the erstwhile Omaha star is booked for two courses: *Soloin A flat, I'm Mary Kelly's Beau,” and “The Mys- tery of Oakland’s Four Hundred, or gor arecr, ¢ to the limpid owed no marked en Carter heard rivate life as Mrs, How the numbers Beer Was Drawn'” both Trof. Kaisile Ah thers O'Brien" program states. Prof O'Brien’s n modosty heretofors re strained him from regaliog the public with melodions song, yot there lingers in the cor: ridors of memary echoes of his entertaining vocalization of the classics as well as the sentimental which oft broke unprovoked on the ears of former nssociates. It was in melodrama that the professor hore scored a wmph. 1 was a reprasontation of English country fife with the essor i the role of heavy vilinin, Hismakeup was realistio, his face inspiration for a Ivnching party, and such dinlect phrasi « nover hoard outside ol Lancashire, 1 fonrfuily and wonden fully madeup, so much 8o thal tho jury which was picked to convict another on the professor's testimony insisted on convieting the pro- T in the play tho professor laid and murdered, whon, however, the would-be nssussin drew a bead on the villain, the gun failed 1o do it duty as provided in the toxt. A look that si0pe a clock 18 rogarded as a fiction, Prof- O'Brien domonstrated that & tragia stride und lowering pace could stop a gun. Werepeat, Oakland is to be congraluted on u‘m approaching troat of artistio re- alisu POVERTY T0 WEALTH, Saven Heirs of Willlam J, Wood Witl Bee sessors of' Millions, Dexver, Oct. 25 By the decision of the supreme court of the United States in the case of the heirs of William J. Wood against Jerome B. Wheoler and the Aspen Miniug combany, soven hitherto poor peoplo sre made millionaires. The heirs ure James O. Wood, a sailor on Lake Michiygzan who livesat Chicago; Maggis Cavener, wife of the oldest son, Goorge Wood, hivingin Canada; Hiram A. Wood, living at Owen Sound, Can.: Thomas E. Wood, supposed to be in Alaska; Margares Billtugs, widow of William J. Wood, and W, 8. Scott, husband of Matida Wood. Each of vhe heirsis entitled to about §500,000 in cash and a share of the oviginal one-third interest in the mine. The income from the - mine will make them each worth millions in o few years, ——— Gunrd Agaiost the White Caps. St. Lours, Oct. 25.—A Post-Dispateh spes clal from Milan, Ténn., says: The white cap war upon certain ginners has reached here, and the gins of James Morgan, D. Caldwell and Butler & Uo., have bocn posted with the usual “‘ten cents per pound” warn- ing. The citizens here are wrought up by the affair and have arranged to guard the gins, which will be run regardlessof threats, g ——— TERSE TRIFLES, Buffalo Courler: The man who makes a suce cesa of che bottling business is gonorally 8 corker, New Orleans Plcayune pect a square i the lunch houses. No one should ex- al when making u round of erly—Would you call a mana in"the habii of telling litule, s fibs? Austen—It would dopend on how much weighed. olphia Record: Honx—Isaw a boil on Y, w'snothing. I saw a felon on a patrol wagon. Puck: Saidso—Mrs. Medd the old hen who sut 0 How? Saidso—Her ¢ swim, and she isu't, ers reminds mo of ducks' eggs. Hordso— ildren are all in the Siftlngs: Timo 1s monoy, they ssy. And Iy has been noticed that it tukes a good deal of monoy to have a good tiwe, Lowsll Courier: A subject soon tocoms up in congress, “removing tho dorolicts,” does nod relute to the sentte obstructionists. Somerville Journ sses and lossus men grow " said Bon Franklin, and thoy do, nodoubt, Bometimes, on the dther haud, they only scold thewr wives, Galvoston Nows: It1s onough to discourazo any funny man on earth to poko fun atun editor and huve him refuse to take o joke. Buffalo Courier: s n point in your favor,” said the lawyer 10 his new typewriter, as she completed u very nice jobof pencil sharpening. ly fond of his c { hoaven. His o hat he will smoke in Music and D Dbrother i3 passi belleve he will smoke Oh! there 18 no doub the heroutter. Miss Fum 2 Chicago Record: Mrs, Jhones—Fthel, you might tell mo who the young mun i3 that called last avening.' Ethel (just 17)—Certainly, mamma, if you'te curlous ibout it; thut's tho young man I'm engaged (0. Puck: She—Mrs, Robinson's health scoms to © very paor. vell, proplo of sedatory habits can'tox- Boalth ! Sho—What do y 11 tho time, unse! She's continually sitting on 1 mean? She's on the go IN THE NECK. Detriol Free Press. “Where the chicken got the ax." Is at present looking pale. As aslung phrase, and there's hope 1t will soon entirely fall; For word has just come to us From the cily of Now York That the chicken gag lins got it Where the bottle got the cork. BROWNING,KING Largest Manufastarars ani tailacs of Clovhing tn tae Worll. It's a pudding To sell goods hind you as we have better selection now, of course, than you will later, prices will never be lower. superlative clegance of our top eoats is common talk, fur they are made of the richest fabries, with the finest trimmings and most exquisite workmanship. are meltons and kerseys, alway$ when you have such a stock be- You gat a and the The There popular, single and double breasted, ranging in price from $10 on up to $35. But when you gel above $20 you get something fine; something that but few tailors can duplicate and none excel either for fit, fashion or fabric. The same is true of our suits, of which we have probably the larg- est assortment ever eountry. brought to this western BROWNING, KING & CO., Store open evory oventag uite | W, Gor 1011 and Daagis 3l