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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1881)
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : MONDAY , JULY-25 , 1881. DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER , EDITOR : The reaction in the condition of President Oarflold , which caused so inucliftlftrm nnd anxiety Stiturdny , lias awakened the country to ireal - ' ieation of the fuel that the president in by no means out ot danger. Ho lias safely passed another crisis. The surgical operation that was performed liy Dr. Agnew * of Philadelphia , Sat- \irday night , to prevent blood poisonIng - Ing , has produced the desired effect and the symptoms at last accounts- are rnoro liopoful. HBHBAFTKR a few senators may die , but none will over resign. Now that Conkling has capitulated , St will be in order for Mr. Brooks to retire and make place for the gifted Fred. Nyo. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ iK.tvny business man thinks the ad- vcrtising rates of THE BKB are ex orbitant lot him road the exhibit wo inako about comparative circulations of Omaha dailies. ONE of the most delightful develop- - TOonts of politics is the disposition of "the creature to got above the creator. Denver llcpublicnn. And Nebraska contains more of -those ingrates than any other state in the Union. UNCLE SAM is carrying a good many fflurgoons and doctors on his pay roll that do not earn their wilt. The Vnitecl States army of 25,000 men has a medical staff of some 200. The 2 navy , with 8,000 men , has a medical itaff of about 1,000. The marine hospital service , which has about 25 , ' 000 patients annually , has but thirty- Jive medical oflicora and the same number of active assistant surgeons IT is now definitely Bottled that the St. Louis bridge will , on the 1st day of August , pass under the control ol the syndicate organized by Jay Gould. "The syndicate has guaranteed wovor per cent interest on the bonds , five per cent on the first preferred stock , jpayablo in one year , and three percent -cent on the second preferred stock , payable in three years. The first mortgage bonds of the bridge amount to $5,000,000 , iho first preferred stock to 82,400,000 -and'tho second preferred stock t < $3,000,000. The stock of the Tunno' -company amounts to $1,250,000 With such a load to carry the now managers of the bridge are not likely ; give the people of St. Louis roducot bridge tolls. * * THEY do nothing by halves out in -Colorado , not oven in the matter o libel suits. Ex-Governor John Evans of Colorado , formerly president of the Denver Pacific and now president of a .projected railroad known as the Denver ver & New . .Orleans railroad , , has in voked the courts of Colorado to com pel the Denver Tribune to pay him the trifling sum of four hundred thousan dollars for damages ho claims to have austainod by reason of the publication of an alleged libel. Four separata libel suits , each for 8100QQO , have boon filed , nnd others may yet follow. One of the articles that has causoc euch tremendous damage to roputa- dionjnnd character as cited in the ' plaintiff's'petition , represents the ox governor as playing a confidonci game on the people of Denver in eon election with the road ho controlled that proved disastrous to Denver tax payers. This charge , according to th plaintiff , was caused to bo publishoi 'At the instance of the Djnver & , Hi Grande railway company , or som agent or ofllcor thereof , or Homo per son or persons interested in said com pony , and in preventing the , con atriictiori of a rival railway o the said Rio Grande railroad The proprietors of the Tribune ar asked to corao d own for dorfng to pro pound the followihg connundrum : There are two questions whicl John Evans will not answer and an amsr , truthfully. The first is ; Have you nd lianged original plans of tin Denver & New Orleans in a most radical do jgroo and with a purpose ? The second is : Did not this chanuo coino after the consultation with Jay Gould am Union Pacific authorities , and ni agreement whereby you were to re eivo a certain amount of money ? Those impertinent questions ar . , -also said to have boon inspired by the JDenw & , Rio Grande railway com pan y , wherofor the Tribune must com . down with $100,000 to , makq goethe -the damages sustained by the do " fumed ox-governor. If the experience of TUB BEE i iho matter of libel suits can bo con aiderod a criterion , a fair estimate o iho damage * which any Colorado jury ' -will award to the complainant will b iwonty-fivo cents for each $100.00 ( claimed.Asa - precedent wo can cit _ lhV verdict in the celebrated libe suit of ox-Consul General to Bhang Jiai , John 0. Myew , against Tu OUAIU BKK for 120,000. The plain tiff after three years of litigation BO oured a verdict of five cents , whicl -vru recognized by all parties as a , ' o t liberal alloHranqp for th.o plain tifl'i damaged reputation. * * * ' 1THE CAMPAIGN IN IOWA. The people of Iowa will hold their Ute election on the fourteenth of October. With a republican majority mying from fifty to eighty thousand , do election of the candidates nomin- ted by the republican state convon- ion , is a foregone conclusion. Tho" canvas for those candidates is now a more matter of form. The mon nominated at Dos Moines are , for the neil part , well known for high charac- or , ability and integrity. No serious hargo has been or can bo made against \ny of them by their political oppo nents , and therefore their nomination will bo ratified with the usual ma- ority. The only important and vital ssuo before the people of Iowa in the ircsont campaign , is the choice of oprosontativcs in the legislature. At 10 time in the history of the atato f Iowa have the people boon nero in need of honest , fearless nnd inpurchasablo low-makers. The coining legislature will determine who to represent the llawkoyo state in ho national senate. In making their hoico the representatives should not merely bo governed by personal or ocal preferences. The United States son- utors do not represent a pirticular ton n or county in the national legislature. They make laws not only for their own state but for the whole nation uid in the irrepressible conflict bo- woon giant corporations nnd the pro ducers of the country it is of the ut most importance that only tried nnd true friends of the producers should M chosen to fill such positions. The iody of the people of Iowa are farm era. It is their vital interest that their products shall bo transported to the markets on the seaboard at rcos enable rates. It is their interest .hat . the public carriers that have been chartered by their own legislatures , nd by congress shall transact their business impartially , and it behooves them to sco to it that no man goes to the next legislature who is not in active sympathy with them in ttio effort to curb the power and greed of monopolies. The dan ; or is that local politicians , monopoly iionchmon and cappers will manipu < Into the primary elections and nomi nating conventions nnd the farmers who vote the republican ticket will bo asked to support the nominations mado'fraudulently , simply because they are mado. The party lash will bo cracked over their heads and they will bo told , if they vote for any other man but the regular nominee of a packed convention , that parsy in terests will bo imperilled. There is no danger that the Iowa legislature will bo democratic , and there is no danger that honest repub licans , elected upon independent tickets , will vote with the democrats. Hero in our own state of Nebraska the people have long since refused to obey the mandates of monopoly man- agora when over they procure nomi nations of their henchmen by bribery or packed conventions ) Our republican farmers have in the ' last two sonatjrial contests risen in revolt against the misrule of corporation managers and in almost every instance mon who were known to bo monopoly cappers were defeated and independent republicans who were in active sympathy with the pro ducers have boon elected in their plnco. Our last legislature made up of ono hundred nnd sixteen members was overwhelmingly republican , but the independent anti-monopoly ele ment was in absolute control and all the machinations of the monopolies were unavailing to prevent the elec tion of General Yan Wyck a pronounced anti-monopolist to the United States senate. It is to bo hoped Iowa republicans will not falter in their duty. Wo know tha the editors of loading papers have boot subsidized , that many of the rural , papers - pors hnvo boon muzzled and'nearly al the working politicians are moro o less in collusion with the -railroads This should not discourage the groa body of the republicans. Lot them discard the counsels of al parties who < are not heartily in accord with them in the ! effort to elect an honest legislature and success is certain. Quito apar from the election of the Unitct States senator questions must oomo up before the next legislature tha will test the fidelity of members to the interests of the producers. Iowa has some laws on her statute boots to restrain railways from oppressing their natrons , but moro rigid laws are demanded in the very near futur9. TJio throat that capi talisU will not build railroads where legislatures limit their charges and protect their patrons agains Jitortion and discrimination is ab surd. Capitalists will build railroads where they can make it profitable They are building railroads in Wis cousin and Illinois , where the laws are moro rigid Jhon in Iowa and they will continue to build them until the entire field is occupied. The relations of the railways to the people will have to bo defined by low and the sooner thoyaro defined the bettor it will be for all. The consolidation of the great lines under ono management , the pooling of their earnings , and the watering o stock , are causing serious alarm al over th Union. The problem o ; protecting the * people against the buses incidental to the exercise of Imost linutless powers by great cor porations , is ono of supreme gravity , [ t must bo solved by congress in the ixorciso of its constitutional power o regulate Iho commerce bo- ween the states and the people of of the states must enact uniform laws regulating public carriers in their ocal trafiio within the states. In ox- crcising these powers no war need bo waged acrainst capital , but the rights of their patrons to fair treatment and reasonable tolls must bo protected at ill hazards. The people of Iowa will lave an opportunity to protect them- iclvcs and incidentally to protect the ) coplo of the whole country , by elect- ng a legislature made up of independent nnd honest mon who can neither bo bought with money , oflico or railway passes , mon vhoso solo object will be to faithfully represent the material interests of owa and conscionciously discharge ho trust reposed in them by their constituents. CHEAP PASSENGER FARES. The sharp competition in passenger ransportation between the great eastern trunk lines has brought down lasscnger fares and this so-called rail road war has resulted in a largo nnd ) rofitablo increase of business. While , here must bo a limit to the volume of travel it has time and again been dem onstrated that a cut in rates is always 'ollowcd by an increase of travel that < cpt the moosuro of ultimate profit up to.tho average standard. In oilier words , in this , as in all commercial transactions , the amount of business is governed largely by the inducements offered. The reduction of rates of oostago and reduction of telegraph tolls are ex amples in point which railroad mana gers should profit by. Wo never have boon able to under stand why railroad companies should charge so much moro for carrying n man from Omaha to Chicago or San Francisco than they charge for ship ping a steer or a barrel of flour over the same distance. Railway mana gers will point to the fact that passen gers are transported at greater speed , in more costly cars. But cattle and merchandise have to bo loaded nnd unloaded , while passcdgors put the railroads to no expense for handling and transfer. An other reason for high passenger rates is said to bo the limited volume of travel an compared with live stock and merchandise. This disproportion is , however , mainly duo to the high passenger rates. Lot the railway managers reduce their passenger tolls and passenger travel will multiply. A railroad company would make as much money in carrying ten 'men a given distance for $100 as it would in carrying five mon the same- distance for , say $90. The reduction in the rate per capita , and the required in crease of rolling stock and motive power , would bo moro than overbal anced by the constantly enlarging number of passengers ; and thus pas senger tariffs would bo regulated , nol by arbitrary figures based upon lim ited business , but by a calculation looking to the number of persons to ba transported , as freight tariffs take into account the quantity of stock am grain likely to bo shipped. It can never bo practicable , wo know , to ship passengers at so inucl per hundred pounds , as cattle ant hogs are shipped , ana wo do not con tend for anything BO absurd as that ; but surely if 200 pounds of beef or pork can bo carried from the Missis sippi to the soabord for CO cents , a man might bo Imuled'&vcr the sumo distance for considerably loss than fifty times as much , oven under present ont circumstances. Wo have in mint the great t-unk lines , mainly , when through travel is the rule. On short er lines , and in local business , there are certain modifying circumstances , both as to freight nnd passengers , that make the problem moro confus ing. But oven in tlieso cases there i room for improvement. There is no reason , for instance , why a throng ] ticket betwoan terminal points she uh cost loss , as it often does , than a tick | | ot to some intermediate station , when the cqst of delivering the passenger at said station can not bo said to equal that of convoying him on to the end of the route. This and similar forms of discrimination are manifest y un just and without any plausible excuse and it is nuch things as these that help to m&ko railroads unpopular ani to stir up public fooling in favur ol unfriendly legislation. The railroads would find it to the ! own interest in every sense , it seems to us , to manage their business witl a view to encouraging travel by less oning its cost. It is undeniable that , under our regular passenger rates , a journey to any extent is a luxury which the moss of people can not af ford , and in which they indulge only from necessity , or by a pro cess of "saving and scrimping , ' People cannot always make USD of ex cursion tickets , and four cents a milo in Nebraska is literally an embargo 01 travel for everybody who is not absolutely obliged to travel. The railroads on this side of the Missouri should reduce their passen ger rates and gut rid of the grand ar my of dead-heads who at present con stitute from tairty to forty per cent of heir passengers. It is unjust and un reasonable to compel the people who are obliged to patronize these roads to make good the expense of carrying tnoso dead-heads , who for the most part a'ro political bummers and barna cles. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE Kansas City Mail quotes' Shakespeare for the benefit of the fal- or. primate , as follows : Lord Cardinal Conkling : "This is the state of man. To-day ho puts forth the tender leaves of hope ; to morrow blossoms nnd bears his blush ing honors thick upon him. The third day comes a frost a killing frost and when ho thinks , good cosy man , his greatness is a ripening , nips his root , and then ho 'alls as I do. I have ventured like ittlo wanton boys that swim on olad- dors , this many summers in a sea of glory At length my high-blown irido broke under mo , and now has oft mo to the mercy of a rude stream that must forever hide mo. 0 , Cor nell ! if I had served my country with linlf the zo.il 1'vo served my friends it would not have left mo thus out of power and naked to mine enemies. " COMMISSIONER RAUM is said to bo incensed , and shocked nt the turn affairs have taken in the districts wh ro the moonshiners operate. Ho liad been led to believe that these ; iii-inill outlaws had ropontcd ani jtiit their bloody business. EIo now discovers that ho was mistaken. The moonshiners are as active as over wherever it is safe for them to bushwhack revenue oflicials. Commissioner llaum has Siis dander up and has organized a mounted patrol of eight able-bodied and fearless mon in buckram to watch , pursue nnd capture tha moonshiners that are operating in the Georgia district. The honor able commissioner might as we'l have armed a squad of women with broomsticks as to organize a pa trol of eight to pursue * nnd capture a band of gin-mill outlaws. JOHN W. BOOKWALTEH , the Demo- irrtic candidate for Governor of Ohio , owns 17,000 acres of choice l.vnds in this stato. Thrso lands are located in Pawnco county , and their value is $150,000. If Mr. Brookwaltor would come to Nebraska to settle down on liis big farm ho may some day run for Governor with a fair prospect of suc cess , providing ho returns to the re publican fold , from which ho strayed after strange Gods. There is no show for him in Ohio this fall , and in all probability thcro never will bo. AN EYE-OPENER That Exposes a Disreputable Confidence Game Has Been Placed Upon Credulous Business Men For Many Tears. On Tuesday last the contract for city Advertising was awarded to THE BEE by the city council without a dis senting voice , upon the unanimous recommendation of the committee on printing. This action is denounced by The Omaha Republican as a fraud , and the editor of The Herald has per sonally condemned the city council for awarding the contract to THE BEE. BEE.This This warfare upon our councilmen is not made because these papers re gard their action as unreasonable or unlawful , but in order to crcato the impression among the business men and taxpayers of Omaha , that THE BEK has been subsidized at the public expense. The award having been made purely on business principles , wo assort , and will presently show that although the price paid THE BEK is from fifty to a hundred per cent above the other bidders , it is by far the cheapest medium of advertising , and the only medium through which the popu lation of Omaha can bo reached. In 6ther words'THE ' BEE , when circulation is made the basis , is by far the lowest bidder. Incidentally wo also propose to expose - pose thof systematic impositions practiced by The Republican and Her ald upon their advertising patrons abroad where their relative value as advertising mediums is unknown. A. COSTLY EXl'EUIUENT. Two years ago the city council re quested each bidder for city advertis ing to furnish a sworn statement of the city circulation. THE BEK was the only paper that complied with this request , the other bidders refusing to furnish any information about their circulation. The council , nevertheless , awarded the contract to The Republican because it was the lowest bidder , but this cheap advertis ing medium proved to bo the most costly in tha end. Proposals publish ed in that sheet failed in most canes to reach the eye of bidders , and the city MUS compelled to print and circulate hand bills containing such proposals. THE CITY CIUCULATION , For the benefit of the taxpayers of Omaha , wo invite attention to the following statement ; IMwIn Davis being duly nworn , depones and says that he is manager of the city circulation of THK DAILY UEK , that the average daily circulation in the city of Omaha , for the month ending June 80th delHcred by carrier and exclusive of news deilero and street sales was 2012. That tlie average daily circulation , during the three week * ending Saturday July 21st dellu'red by carrier'and Melinite of newt dealers and btreet sale * wan 2020. KmWN DAVIS. Signed and sworn to before me this 23d d > y of July , 1881 , at Omaha , Neb. . John lloklcky. . Notary Public. Tliis only covers papers delivered by carriers within the city limits , but as will bo shown in another sworn statement below , Tun BEE circulates an aggregate of G03 dailies through nowsboysanddcalcrsmaking the total circulation in the city _ 2,523 papers. The ag fregato city circula tion of The Herald and Republican as delivered by carriers is as follows : Republican 440 , Herald C23 or both combined 1,003 , which is about ono- lialf of the doily BEE'S delivered in the city by carrier. TUB BKE employs 14 carriers in its city delivery. The Herald nnd Republican employ live carriers each , or ten carriers for the two. The average number ofp.v delivered by each carrier of THE Bjrs is 140. The average number de livered by each carrier of The Herald 104 , and of The Republican , 88. It is solf-ovidont from this exhibit that THE BEE is the only paper in which advertisers can reach the population of Omaha , and therefore its bid oven at 200 per cent , above any competitor would bo much the lowest. FICTITIOUS CIRCULATION. It is the custom of newspapers to Furnish the various newspaper direc tories and advertising agents with statements of circulation. These state ments are either certified under oath or made upon honor. While Tun BEE always has cheerfully furnished these parties sworn statements of its circulation and our subscription books are always open for inspection , The Herald and The Republican have never yet made a sworn statement and the directories and agencies have taken their figures upon honor. The figures they have furnished publishers of directories , advertising igcncies and business men range all the way from 2,000 to 4,500 daily , und 3,000 to 0,000 weeklies. Cook's Chicago directory , which claims to give exact figures for each paper , quotes the Omaha Republican daily , a , 100 ; weekly , 0,000. The 3maha Herald daily , 3,000 ; weekly , 3,250. Wolfe's city directory of Omaha for 1880 quotes the Omaha Republican , over the signature of C. E. Yost , man ager , dailies , 4,520 ; weeklies , 0,400. As a matter of fact , for which wo liavo the very best proof , the njjgro- into circulation of these papers is as follows : Omaha Republican daily , 1,720 ; Omaha Republican weekly , 2,100. Omaha Herald daily , 1835 ; Omaha Herald weekly , 900. The following is an exhibit of the aggregate circulation of THE BEE : A. B. Souer being duly sworn deposes ind says he is secretary of the Omaha Pub lishing Company , proprietors of Tun BKK. That the rue rage daily circulation of TUB BEK for the month ending Juno 30 was 4,584 , of which 2,523 are in the city of Jinaha , delivered to city subscribers , Bold to news dealers and news boys. That the average weekly circulation of TusWEKKLY DEE for six months ending June 30th was 12,843. A. 11. SOUEH Signed and sworn to before me this 23d day of July , 1881 , at Omaha. Neb. JOHN KOSICKY , Notary Public. J. W. Morrison being duly Kworn de- [ loscs and says that ho is the foreman of the press room of THE OMAHA BEK nnd keeps a record of the class and number of newspapers printed undar his supervision , and upon careful comparison of records finds that the above statement is correct as regards to the daily and weekly BEE. J. W. MonniHO.v. Signed nnd sworn to before mo this 23d day of July , 1881 , at Omaha. Neb. JOHN KOSICKY , Notary Public. Newspaper directories are published by advertising agents , and nearly all these agents quote certain papers way up and others way down as a matter of self-interest. Papers that live on a fictitious circulation allow them special commissions , which no publisher of an extensive circulation will consent to pay. THE CONFIDENCE GAME. The confidence game played upon credulous business men hero and elsewhere - where by The Herald and Republican would , if pursued in any other calling , bo regarded as the most disreputable swindling. Here are parties obtaining money from day to day under false pretenses and downright falsification. For a paper , that has only 900 weekly subscribers to sot up a claim to 3,250 is no better than selling oroide watches for solid gold , mixing sand with sugar or soiling 30 pounds of flour for 100. It is fully as cheeky and as criminal in the publishers of The Republican to sot up a fraudulent claim of 0,400 for their weekly at a time when they did not have over 1,800. IMPUDENT IMI'OSTOHH. The worst imposture has boon prac Used in this city upon churches , bo i- evolent societies , workingmen's or ganizations nnd other parties that havn paid for circulating hand-bills through The Herald and Republican in the papers delivered by carriers. Parties applying for this privilege are told that it will take from 1500 to 2000 hand-bills to supply the city subscribers of these dailies , and they have paid for printing 2000 hand bills when less than one-third were actually printed and circulated. This is not much bettor than robbing contribution-box or picking a blind man's pocket. Wo have exposed other frauds in this community and have boon tempted to show up this imposture , but wo have thought best not to engage in such warfare unless wo were forced into it. A WlOrOSITlON. Wo expect of course that our con temporaries will question the voracity of this statement. If so wo make thorn this proposition : Wo will do the official advertising for the city of Omaha free of charge for the next fiscal year , if the proj prietors of The Herald and Republi can will publish a statement sworn to by their pressmen and business man agers covering the circulation of the daily and weekly editions of their pa pers for the month of Juno , 1881 , or the preceding six months with a de tailed exhibit showing the number of dailies delivered by carrier , the aggre gate number of dailies circulated to subscribers nnd the aj-'greyato number of weekly papers mailed out of their offices , P. S. The circulation of Tut1 BE * is just as well known to the managers of The Herald and Republican as thoir's is to us because in a city like Omaha these matters are always with in the reach of publishersand the num ber of carriers , and quantities mailed through the postoftico and circulated through newsboys are readily obtained and compiled. What Other * Sajr. The OMAHA BEB has been awarded the city printing not because it was the lowest bidder in dollars nnd cents , but because its bid was the lowest and best when its circulation was consid ered. Another afternoon paper , with a very limited circulation , offered to do tlio work for loss actual money , but the council rejected its bid and gave the advertising to the paper that would reach the greatest number of reader ) . The council was right. Public advertising of tlm character is intended for general information , and the best medium should always bo secured. The saving of a few dollars is no equivalent for keeping people in ignorance of their most im portant municipal affairs. A paper with a larqo circulation cannot allbrd to fill up its columns at the cost of setting the typo , nny moro than such lawyers as Matijuolt or Jlason could attend to n police court , assault and battery case nt the regular price. There need bo no fear of steals. Wo have never heard of n respectable newspaper being overpaid. It is ono of the anomalies of life that a news paper is expected to work for cost , while other people are allowed to ox- pcct and exact a profit. [ Lincoln Journal , Juno 22. STATE JOTTINGS. Grafton is to have a school building to cost $3,800. The assessed value of Cloy county Is $2- 071,308.80. Burchard Is the name of a ncv/ town in Pawnee county. Work has commenced on the Platte Fremont. The new Methodist church nt Hastings las been dedicated. The new creamery nt Crete is mooting with flattering success. Hastings has secured n new flouring mill with four run of stone. The now Catholic church nt Madison was dedicated last Sunday. Ono man nt ITnrdyhnssliipped oer $100- 000 worth of stock since Juno 1. Lumber in Lincoln lias advanced In the last sixty days about forty per cent. It Is said Gen. Weaver received SoO for every speech delivered in Nebraska. The Universalists of Hebron nnd vicini ty are talking of building n church. The railroad from Nemnha to Calvert i'l ' be completed within thirty days. There are now 05,000 head of cattle at Ogallula , and a like number yet to come. The amount to bo awarded to fast stock at the coining Saline county fair is 1,600. Mrs. Fred Hush , of llislng City , was suddenly made insane ono day this week. There are in Dodge county 40,081 ncres of wheat to 12,208 of corn nnd 12,270 of oats. oats.Tho The Sioux City and Pacific company nro building extensive stock yards in Blair. The alliances of York county will hold a comentipn on August 20th to nominate a county ticket. A recent enumeration of Butt county gives a population of 7,451 = 4,042 males and 3 , 101) ) females. Cattle nro held at unusually high figures nt Ogallala this season , consequent ly sales are limited. Tltcrlieodauarters of the R. V. division of the B. & 'M. has been moved from Has tings to Ked Cloud. Atlce Hart makes a Ohciterfieldian bow to the mililic in assuming control of The North Nebraska Eagle. The B & M. surveyors have located a north and south Hue of railroad through Chester in Thayer county. A large number of sheep ranches have been located on Lodge Polo creek , north of Sidney this season. Eleven cnra of hog * , worth 83,000 , were shipp'ed from Oakland , Burt county , to Chicago one day last week. Mr. A. C. Crown , of Otoo county , was drowned in the Nemaha river , near Tecumseh - cumseh , last Sunday week. The total ta\ levy in Adams county is 17 mills on the dollar. In Lincoln county It is over 40 mills on the dollar. There are at present thirteen licensed sa loons in Nebraska City , and § 0,500 has been paid into the school fund. The demand for harvest hands exceeds the 'supply in all parts of the state. Wages range trom § 2 to $2. DO per day. Stone is being put in the ground for the U. P. hotel building , at North Platte. It comes from a quarry south of Beatrice. The B. & M. land department will send oat 100,000 bills for the coining soldiers reunion in Lincoln , to bo distributed in the east. dollar. It is estimated that there will be about 30,000 head of cattle , or about eghty trains of stock , shipped from Grand Island alone this fall. John W. Bookwalter , the democratic candidate for governor of Ohio , owns 11,720 acres of land in Pawnee county , worth 8120,000. A meeting will bo held in Oakland next Saturday to reorganize the B irt county agricultural society nnd arrange for a county fair in the fall. John Bruckner while - > t work with a gang of men on the U. P. branch , be tween Columbus nnd Lost Creek , fell dead the \ictirn of sunstroke , The farmers' organization of Thayer county propose selecting the candidates for office n few weeks previous to the holding of the political primaries. A little child four years old , belonging to a Swede family named Bredenburg. waa struck by lightning and instantly killed , near Wnhoo n few days ago. Recently a sister of Henry Arrant , of Kearney , came over from Germany. Thursday week she thought it would be nice to gu out and help to harvest , which she did without nny bonnet or covering on her head. The result was that she wag Bimstnick fnd died in a few hours. Superintendent Touzalin says the cars will be running from Neraaha City to Cal vert within forty days , if enough men con be found to lay the track in that time. The increase of Adams county Is figured thus : Wheat , CO per cent ; corn , 40 ; barley and rye , 35 : notatoes , CO ; broom corn , 35 ; flax , 40 , and all very much superior to the crops of 1880. A block of some sixteen or eighteen buildings in Hasting * burned on Saturday wek. Loss , 835,000 ; insurance , $17,000. Tills is the second large fire at that place within two years , Quite a number of enterprising citizens of Columbus have formed a new joint stock association to establish a fair grounds and driving park , with a capital stock of 82,500 as a Kiuiu. Norfolk , Oakdale , Albion and Genoa are making e ] > ecal ! efforts to secure the Congregational academy that la to be located bomewhere in the North Platte country within the next Year , Lost Monday the little son of Mr. Wai. temath , of Sterling , Johnson county , was horribly burned and died in great agony. after three hour'n Buffering. He poured kerosene im a smouldering fare. Under the operations of the Slocumb law C'olumbua has developed an enormous number of " ick" men. During the month of June 039 persons applied to the drug stores for their "medicine. " Old Mr. Seckaty , about teventy years of age , living southwest of Sterling , chot at but missed hi wlfo the other day , It teems he has attempted to take her Ufa nevernl tiinls previous but has not yet suc ceeded , The university heretofore located at Onccolo , has been remo > cd to Fullerton. President Fleharty and other trustees were nt theJatter place , and the citizens subscribed so liberally that the transfer was agreed upon at once. From the abstract of assessments Dodge county for ( he year 1881 we take the following figures : Total value of personal A property , 81,041,293.02 ; value of real ce. / tate , $1,320.305 ; number of acres of im. proved real estate , 132,105 ; acres unitn / I proved , 100.C07 ; total , 322,502 ; number o ! ] improved \illage and qltv lots , 1,244m. ; . linprmcd , 2,50 ! ) ; total , 3,813 ; number of ncres cultivated In wheat , 40,081 ; corn , 12,208 ; oUs , 12,270 ; barley , 008 ; mead , 4i ( > , Two crows of tracklayers on the U. & M. met last Monday in the vicinity of Diller. 0\er 200 miles of what will even tually bo the main line between Chicago and Denver nro now completed and It Is expected that it will bo the main line from Crete west until the gap between Wymoru nnd the Missouri is completed The road tra\erscs the best portion of Nebraska and is bound to do a large local as well aa through business , Fnlrbury Gazette. The pay car on the A. & N. had quite a little circus down near Tecumsch last Tuesday. Engineer Warren Fuller picked up a two-year-old heifer nnd made beef of her in rhort order , but in the mcnntimo the back trucks of the car were thrown oil the track. About this time , too , the train struck n small bridge where about fifty horses were tied that belonged to a party of men that were hunting for drowned boy in the Ncmaha. The ani mals stampeded nnd it is said thnt loose horses were scattered over the country for miles around. Bradford , Pa. Thomas Fitchan. Bradford , Pa , , writes : "I enclose money for SriUNO BLOSSOM , as I said I would if it cured me. My dyspep sia has vanished , with nil its symptoms. Mnny thanks ; I shall never bo without It in the house. " Price 50 cents , trial bottles 10 cents. j24-lw FEENEY & CONNOLLY. BOOTS , SHOES , AND SLIPPERS1 Of c'crj grade and site at At Prices Heretofore Un heard of , They 1m c tilts week added to their stock a splcndld'ncw Jot ot Ladles and lliBse'a FINEST FRENCH KID SHOES Received direct from 'the manufactory. Ladies. arc respectfully ln > Itcd to mil and sco them , Also their Side Lace , Polish , and Side Button , Pebble Goat & Grain. FROM ? 1.25 up. \ T THEY HAVE A VINE ASSORTMENT OT AMERICAN KID SHOES Chlldrcns'Shoes , Slippers and Sandals IncndlesSi tarlety. MENS' HAND-SEWED BOOTS AND SHOES , ot all kinds a SPE UALTY. The BEST QUALITY OF HAND-SEWED BOOTS AND SHOES IN THE CITY , AND Lowest Prices Guaranteed PcsROd , STANDAHD SCREW FASTENED and MACHINE SEWED from tl.25 up , Their SCOTCH EAGLE OHAIN CllEED- IIAII.WAY SHOES we selling rapidly and they ha\o this neck added an assort ment of , "GE1EDIORE"BOOTS To this department. Fecney & Connolly carefully study tha- requirements of their customers , always having on hands the leabt thing asked for. as their prices are acknowledged by every one as very moderato , their trade U boom ing beyond their expectation. A Perfect Fit Guarantee ! or the. Money Refunded. ONE PRICE ONLY ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. THEY CABBY A FULL LINE OF FARMERS' SUPPLIES , at prices beyond competition , 512 Sixteenth Street , Between Califor nia and COM ttrect. Opposite Wm. Gentleman's popular grocery store. . KENNEDY'S EAST - INDIA I 1 Ik x BITTERS ILER & GO. , Sole Manufacturers , OMAHA * .