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Ms III III III Vrfl I i i i Hi 1 1 1 "THERE IS NOTHING WHICH JS HUMAN THAT IS ALIEN TO ME." Terence. . VOL.L LINCOLNTnEBRASKA SATUBDAY, JAN. 11, 1890. NO.30. - ..I , ... , , . . .. , i . ' ' """ l ' ' i " .-. - V Hotice to Subscribers. EX ri RATIONS. As the -easiest and cheapest means of noti-iving-subscribers of the date of their explra feons we will mark this notice with a blue or ed pencil, on the date at which their sub scription expires. We will send the paper wo weeks after expiration. If not renewed , Iqr that time it will be discontinued. Subscribe for the FARMERS'ALLIAHCE 00 THE FARMERS' OWN PAPER ! -oo- Magnificent Premiums ! 00 Tite Alliance has been started as the official organ of the Nebraska State Farmers' Alliance. It has already taken a high place among the papers of the country, and is gaining patron age which promises to make it a bril liant success. It will be conducted SOLELY IN THE LNTEREST OF THE FARM ERS AND LABORING MEN OF THE STATE AND NATION. J. BURROWS, its Editor, is Chairman of the Ex ecutive Committee of the Farm ers' State Alliance. He has had long experience in newspaper work. He will bring to his aid able men in differ ent spheres of thought, and will make Tux Alliance one of the ablest pa pers in the west. MR. THOMPSON, the Associate Ed itor, is Secretary of the Nebraska State Alliance. The Alliance will be absolutely FEARLESS AND UNTRAMMELED in the discussion of all public ques tions. It accepts no patronage from railroads or corporations, and its edi tor? have no free passes. NO MONEY "WILL BUY THE OPINIONS OF THIS PAPER. THE ALLIANCE will be found in the front ranks of the opposition to all trusts and combinations to throttle com petition, and extort from the producers and laborers the lion's share of the fruits ..of their toil. We shall advocate the free coinage f silver the same as gold, and its re storation to its old time place in our currency; The issue of all paper money direct to the people on land security, and an increase of its volume proportioned to increased production ana population; Government ownership of railroads; The U. S postal telegraph; The restriction of land ownership to the users of land, and its reasonable limitation; The exclusion of alien landlords; The election of IJ. S. Senators by a direct vote of the people; And all other reforms which will inure to the benefit of the Farmers -and Workingmen. Now Brother Farmers and Working men, it remains for you to prove that the often-made assertion that you will not stand bv 3 our own friends, is false. We appeal to v-u foi support. Give us your support and we will give you a grand paper. Every member of the Alliance, and every Farmer, should make the suc cess of iliis paper HIS OWN INDI Y J 1) U A L CON CERN. We want an agent in every Alliance in the North. Tei nis, Sinple Subscriptions $1.00 per year, invariably in advance; or, Five yearly Subscriptions Four Dollars. Canvassers wanted. EE OUR MAGNIFICENT PRE MIUM OFFER in our advertising columns. All kinds of Job Work Promptly and neatly executed at rea sonable prices. J 'articular attention given to Alliance work. Address, Alliance Pub. Co., Lincoln. Neb. Jackson Day Celebration. Nashville, Tenn , Jan. 8. Jackson day was celebrated in Nashville by a grand pro cession this morning and the delivery of an address and permanent organization of the national Jackson club at ths state cap itoL A banquet in honor of the First regi ment. National Guards, state of Tennessee, was given in the afternoon by Jere Baxter, and at nieht a historic costume reception took placs at the Maxwell house, undf r the auspices of the ladies' hermitage asocia tion. which c oed tne exercises. C lonel A. K. McCiure of Pennsylvania was elected president of the national Jackson club, and among the viee-presidents are Dewitt Cregier, mayor of Chicago, and Joseph 8 jennson oi Alabama. 9 Passed Oft? Quietly. Naw Obleaks, Jan. 6. A special from Jackson says: The municipal election passed off very quietly and without dis turbance. General Henry, democrat, for mayor, and all the democratic aldermen are elected. Only about fifteen or twenty negroes all told presented themselves and asked the privilege of voting, but on being told by men stationed near the polls to see that there wan a peaceable election that the voting might cause trouble, they quickly withdrew, none of them insisting on voting. Henry's total was 375, McGili's 125 . There were a great many strangers In town, many of them coming here pur posely to assist the democrats. It is be lieved there presence had the desired effect of preventing trouble. NEBRASKA NEWS. State School Fund Apportionment. The Hon. George B. Lane, state superintendent of public instruction, lias tiled with, the auditor his semi annual apportionment of the state school fund. From it the following facts are taken: On hands with the state treasurer De cember 23, 1889 Interest on U. d. bonds ,....$ 30 J 00 Interest on state bonds..... 13, 5 69 State tax 67,338 41 Interest ou county touo. ....... 75,472 98 Inte-rest on unpaid principal school land sales 86 935 38 Lease school bonds 39.3"i8 Total 1283,45 21 Whole number of children of sooi age, 316,j5; amount, apportioned, $283.425. 21; rate per pupil, $ 89147. Tfl3 following table shows the county apportionment: Counties. No. of pnoils. Am'fcrtue. Antelope 4,t33 $ 3,55 34 Adamp 5,S(i9 5 23 i 19 Banner 8t3 7i5 86 Blaine 3)3 314 69 Boore 3.H 2,79'J 545 BorButto 1,416 l.k6J34 Bufto 7,'2i 6,3 8 19 BnwT! 1,718 l.?3l 56 Burt 3.9G3 3,5 94 Butlei 5 4-1 4,863 37 CaeP 7,556 6 736 2 Onerry 1,43d 1,274 83 Cheyenne 1,62 1,428 15 Chase 1.4 2 1,49 85 Cdar 2 2 '4 1,982 65 piav 5.867 .23- 31 C ltax 4,133 3 684 49 Cumintr V22 3.585 18 CusUr 7.074 6 3(6 33 D ivis 2,612 2 85 29 Dawson 3 2 6 2,858 08 f;ikova 1.835 1,635 87 Dixon... 2 8il 2,541 61 Deuel 847 755 '8 Dodgp 6 212 5.537 87 Doutriaw 24 646 21,97 1 41 Dandy 1.16 1,0:4 12 Fillmore 5.79 i 5,163 45 Franklin 2.9 4 2.S8S 86 Frontier 2 575 2.295 56 Furnas 3 59i 33 1 3 Oagp 10,19 8V9114 Girtifld 565 503 (9 Greeley..., l,7v 1.6 vl Gosper 1,678 1,495 9 Grant 28 24 S6 Hall 5, a 4 762 28 H-imiiLuu 5.Wt 4 511 19 HarJand 3,123 2,684 . 9 Hsyep J, 185 l,-f6 4" Hitchcoo 1.98'i l,77ti 48 Holt 5,897 5.257 05 Howard 3.4 5 3,' 62 23 Jeffeison 5,198 4,633 91 Joiim on 4jr.6 3.633 67 Kya Paha 1,533 1.36 64 Keith 724 645 43 Keamev 3 23 2,9 8 9 Km ball b3l 295 97 Knox 3 201 2,853 63 Lancaster 16.69 14. 878 79 L ncoln 2,837 2,5 trt 96 Logap 4 l 857 48 I oap 6 9 M2 91 Madit-on 4,f2t 4,123 30 Crrick ...........tv;. 3,t79 - 2 834 01 N ine 1,566 1 396 06 Nemaha 4,6i 7 4,U7 05 Nuckoll K.673 3.274 4 ' toe 7,864 6 6t t6 Pawnee 3,7 6 3,3 3 82 Perkins 1 381 1,231 13 Phelps 3,36 2,7H5 3 Pierce 1,6 1,453 11 Platte 5,398 4.M2 21 Polk 3 733 3,327 89 Red v mow 3.071 2 737 73 Richer Ison 6,993 6.2 4 12 Rock 98 J 873 65 Saline 7.47 i . 6.661 14 Sarpv 2.215 1.974 3 Sauautsr 7.811 6 963 Si Scocts Blbffa 46 361 9 Seward 5 678 5 061 83 3-ridan 2,551 2 274 16 Sherman 2 449 2.13 23 sioux 583 518 84 Stantou 1,575 1.4i'4 (8 Thayer 4,440 3,958 17 Thomas 131 ll7 87 Thursr,on 170 VI 55 Valley 2,578 2.S98 23 Washington 4 4 99 4, 10 77 Wavn 1 9 7 1.753 f4 Webster 4,085 3,(541 7 Wheeler 639 569 66 York 6 211 5,536 98 Another Silver Find. Xordcn special : fcsinee tae silver find on the Key a Paha some few days ago various of our citizens have been prospecting in our vicinity, The re sult has been beyond expectations, and the people of Norden are highly sanguine that they have "struck it rich." One of our citizens, Mr. David Johnson, examined the dirt that was excavated from his well at a depth of sixty feet, and found silver ore in quantities that, in the opinion of an old California miner, wiii assay $180 to the ton. The town is wild with ex eitement and quarter sections soar skyward. That the genuine stuff has been struck ia beyond the question of a doubt. All Over ttie State. Fines paid in Grand Island last month amounted to $240. .Judge Mapes of Nebraska City, has issued 103 marriage licenses during the past year. Hooker county newspapers an nounce that homesteads can still be had on geodl government land in that county. Nebraska City sets the winter style of snake stories, two large rattlers having been killed there a few days since. Four farmers living near Ansley have disappeared during the past two months, leaving their families in desti tute circumstances. Eight farmers living near Dickens recently shipped a car load of melon seeds and one of sweet corn to the Emerson Seed company. While Omaha will have nothing less than the la grippe the town of Sargent is plodding along with an old-fashioned epidemic of measles. "While investigating the mysteries of a loaded pistol Henry Pyle of Nebras ka City was shot in the left hand, the ball coming out near his elbow. A number of much needed public roads have been surveyed by the county surveyor of Lincoln county and petitions presented to the commis eioners therefor. An extensive prairie fire burned over a large scope of country south west of North Platte, but as it was in a thinly settled district no great dam age was done. Miss Nellie Bryson has been chosen postmistress of Garrison. She is said to be of the democratic household, her father being a prominent democratic politician A man named Corbin was arrested at Box Butte, on complaint of one James for having in his possession two loads of wheat which he could not sat isfactorily account for. Charley Beebe, a St. Paul boy, left his paternal home recently in search of a better one, but by the time he got to Loup City he changed his mind and returned somewhat the wiser. Grant special : It is stated here that an attempt is being made to move Lis bon, the first town west of Grant, four miles southwest along the railroad, The project is creating much excite ment among those interested in Lisbon property and it is feared that trouble will ensue. The epidemic of diphtheria, whinh made its appearance ia North Platte two weeks ago, is now under control, only two deaths having occurred, and no fears entertained of its spreading. The bonds of the officers elect of Custer county were not approved at the last meeting of the supervisors, so the old officers will hold over and the county will have two sets of officers to pay from January 1 until the officers elect take their seats. A. J. Isaacson, his wife and ten-year-old son, living at Oakdale, had a narrow escape from death. The house filled with gas from a coal stove and when found they were all unconscious, but after considerable work . were broughl back to life. The Kearney Hub has undertaken the task of interviewing 100 farmers who have resided in the state for sev eral years in regard to what price corn should bring to let the producer out even. While some fix the price at 20 cents, others cla'm that no man can raise corn at a profit for less than 25 cents, providing he has to pay any thing for labor. Gerin'g, located on land where, three years ago there was not a stick of tim ber, spent $40,000 in improvements last year. Washington special : Cougressman Dorsey has introduced rather a novel petition from the farmers of the Third Nebraska district. It asks congress to authorize the payment of a bounty of 15 cents per barrel upon each barrel of flour exported in vessels owned and built in the United States. Mr. Dor sey introduced a petition from Sedge wick post, G. A. R., of Kearney and the soldiers and sailors of Nebraska, asking for the passage of the Grand Army pension bill. Henry Koggenthen, a German farm er living in the northern part of Saun ders county, was in Lincoln Monday for treatment with the madstone. On the 2Gth of December one of his horses was taken sick, on the 27th it severely bit his thumb and on the 28th it died. The attending veterinarian said it died from hydrophobia. Mr. Roggenthen's thumb swelled up badly and the in flamation spread. He was treated by a Fremont physician, but on Saturday 7ot scared and came to Lincoln to try Dr. Garten's madstone, some of his neighbors having read of it. The stone was applied for two hours yesterday, but failed to adhere, and the farmer lef ; for home tins afternoon, convinced that the doctor got all the poison out. Disposal of Military Reservations. Washington, Jan. 8 The bill introduced yesterday in the enate by Senator Pad dock, providing for the diepopal of the mil itary reservations of Fort Haartstff, Fort Sheridan and Fort McPherscn to actual settlers under the homestead law, is in tended to carry out the idea of Senator Paddock which he has constantly main tained daring his two terms in tbe senate. The appraisal and sale at public aictlon of public lands in the western states is not in accord with the general policy of our land laws, as giving undue advantage to the speculators and land grabbers an against the claims of the poor nettlere. Under tht, law of 18S4 military reservations when abandoned are turned over to the interior department to be by tnem surveyed and appraised and in each case to be sold at public auctioa at a figure not less than the appraiser valuation. In the case of the Fort Kearney reserTation. during the sen ator's last term he mtrocu ;ed and secured the passage of a bid providing for the dis posal of the reservation under tb? home stead act. His bill yeeterday proposes to make the same principle applicable to the abandoned military reservations of Forts Sheridan, Heartsu'ff and McPnerson, two of which have been surv yed and the third of which is under orders for survey. A Decision Rendered. New Yobk, Jan. 7. The suit of George Bice against the Standard oil trust to com pel the trustees to transfer to him five of 'the trust's certificates which he bought in the open mark 2 1, and to allow him to ob tain such knowledge of the trust's affairs as a shareholder is entitled to, was decided by Judge O'Brien In the supreme court to c'ay. The court orders that the share." be transferred to Mr. R'ce on the trust's books and that he be paid the dividends thereon. The court holds that it cannot make any order in the present action to compel the trust to give Mr. Bice the information soughfe, but there is no doubt that as a shareholder he is entitled to it. The de fense was that Mr. Bice's oblect in acquir ing the stock was to harass and impede the trust, as he was doing by various suits at law. Judge O'Brien holds otherwise and eays the suits were apparently justified by discriminations against Mr. Rice. Packing House Troubles. Chicago, Jan. 7. The employes of the various packing fltnn at the stock yards who took action yesterday looking to test ing the legality of the contracts signed by them after the great strike of 1837, are evidently determined to push the matter. The objectionable contracts provided that the men must deposit with their employers a certain amount, to be forfeited to the employers should the men quit without notice. ? At Swift 4 Co.'s office today the manager declined to discuss the matter. One of the employes said to a reporter that the con tract is unjust. For instance, a man who gets $3 a day must deposit $30 in install ment. If he gets 3 a day steadily, that would not be so oneroup, even Respite its injustice. But many of the men work only two to five days a week. A man worked four and a haif dayaslaot week and earned $13.5. The company kept S3, and for his week's work he recaivt d $10.5 ). The contract is absolutely silent as to any repayment c the money to the em ployea," continued the workmen. "Some times when a man is discharged his whol deposit is given back to him. Bat coming late to work can be construed as a . viola tion of the terms of 'faithful pervici' and made tho ground for, tbe retention of the money. 8vift & Co. mnst have at least SJ OO,()00 of their employe's wags in their hands and on this tht y pay no interest. To the men who have quit they refuse to pay ttie balance of their wages and euits will be brought to recover the amounts. There are some fifty men on the strike and we will be sapported by the whole work ing force of the packing houses who are forced to pubmit to these actions " The packers claim on the otT hand, that this retention of part of the 1 tloyei' pay is the only method by which v y can secure themselves : against fetrikt and wholesale desertions without notice jy tbe men. . A Water Famine. Kansas Cnr, Jan 7 A water famine threatens this city. By the sudden gorg ing of ice in the Biar Muddy above St. Jos eph the stage f water h-r has been low err d about two feet feelow - the record. This unloosed for fall of water has caused the main suction pipe at the water works to become disarranged. He Concluded Not to Marry. MoNTEBAL. Que., Jan. 7. Forty guests assembled at the archbishop's cathedral this morning to witness the marriage of the youngest daughter of C. Beausnleil, M. P., a 1 retty girl of eighteen, to C Chaput, the ricn flour merchant, seventy years ot age. After waiting two hours the bride groom failed to turn rp and tne marriage was postponed. Mr. Caaput eavs he is old enough to bo the gir.'s grandfather, and upon second thought he rntae up his mind not to make an old fool of himself, Cattlemen In Session. Kansas Citt, Jan. 8 The Journal's To peka special say s: The cattlemen of Kan sas met in sesslon1$&flr today; A resolution was passed condemning the "dressed beef oomb'ne" and demanding of congress that laws be passed making it a conspiracy for buj ers of cattle to agree upon a price for their purchases and for "packers" to form a combination to raine tbe price of dressed meat beyond reasonable figures. A Case of Freezing to Deatb. Nevada, Cal., Jan. 7. Malcolm F. Mc- Lsod, a mail carrier, was frozen to death yesterday while he and a companion were carrying mail and express to Washington, eight mile distant. Deatb Claimed Her. New Yobk, J&uL 7. Mrs. South worth, the murderess, died in her cell in the tombs this morning. Judge Brewer Sworn In. Washington, Jan. 6. Judge David J. Brewer was sworn in as associate justice o the supreme court of the United States at noon today, and immediately took his seat upon the bencQ. Tne ceremony was per formed in the court room in the presence of a laTge audience immediately after the assembling of court at noon. Poisoned the Whole Family. Huntogtcn, W. Ya., Jan. 7. Edward Churcb, a seventeen-vear old boy living with his father near this place, is charged with poisoning the entire family by put ting poison in the bread. One little girl is dead and four it the family are in a c riti cal condition. Tbe young mnrlerer con fessed and then tied. Blackburn Re-Elected. Louisville, Jan. 7 Senator Blackburn was today re-elected senator by the Ken tucky legislature in joint session. National Prototypes. Washington, Jan. .The national proto types allotted to the United States at the ntemational convention of weights and measures in Paris in Saptember last were formally received and accepted by the president this afternoon in the presence of a distinguished company of representa tives and scientific men. They were brought from Paris in two boxes carefully sealed and marked, and had been vigilantly guarded from the moment of their manu facture. These new standards were cn structed by the co-tperation of the princi pal governments of the world. Their his tory in brief is hs follows: In 1869 the French government invited the otner nations to 6end delegates to Paris for the purpose of forming an inter national commission for the construction of a new meter for an international stand ard of length. Tne invitation was ac cepted and our government appointed Professors Henry and HUgard s del gates. In 1S75 a treaty was signed in Paris tor the establishment of an international bureau of weights and measures. The bureau was established and put under the adminif traiive direction of the delegates f 10m the varioue countries concerned, A large staff of learned men was employed to study methods for carrying out practically the theoretical requirements agreed upon as necessary by tbe delegates. The difficulties encountered were all sur mounted and the work was carried to a successful completion. Tbe standards or dered by the. various governments were distributed by lot last September. One set of standards set apart as International prototypes fs kept in a cave at the inter nal ionai bureau. The object of putting them in a cave is to secure them against accident and sudden or great changes of temperature, as it is deemed possible that a permanent change in the molecular structure of the materials of the standards may be brought about, by such fluctuations of the temperature. No single person can have access to the international proto types. The cave is locked up by three dif ferent keys in the hands of as many indi viduals, and every conceivable precaution has been taken. The standards distributed to the various governments are called national proto types, and the same care will be taken to preserve them unaltered as is deemed nec essary for the International standards. CONGRESSIONAI The Senate. Washington, Jan. 6. Tae senate reas sembled at noon after a holiday recess, the vie-president in the chair and with less than a quorum present. Among numerous petition presented and referred were two from Kansas and Texas, the former urging the selection of Chicago and the latter St. Louis as the place for the international exposition in 1892. Piatt presented a copy of the constitu tion adopted at Boise City for the proposed state of Idaho. Referred. Cullom (by request Authorizing the sec retary of the treasury to loan money to farmers at 2 per cent. Plumb offered a resolution, which was agreed to, directing the managers of the national soldiers' home to consider and re port upon the advieabMty of establishing a hospital at Hot Springe, Ark. , to which all disabled ex-union soldiers shall be ad mitted under the proper recomendations. Call offered a long preamble aad resolu tion setting forch thst the German govern ment is interested in assisting Spain to perpetuate her sovereignty in Cuba; pro testing against any such combination and requesting the president to furnish the senate such information as may be in the possession of the state department in re gard to the matter. Referred. Washington, Jan. 7. In the senate today Voorhees offered a resolution reciting the newspaper reports tbat Chambers, United States district attorney at Iadianapulis in terfered in hi efficial capacity to prt vent the arrest of W. W. Dudley, wfco in charged with the violation of the election laws of Indiana, and directing the attorney general to report what instructions the depart ment had issued to Chambers on the sub ject At Toorhee's request tite resolution went over till tomorrow. Morgan proceeded to address the senate on the subject of a bill heretofore intro duced by Butler to provide for the emigra tion of persons of color from the southern states. He had reached the conclusion tuat there was a natural incongruity and an irrepressible confhes between the races The return of the negro rac i u Africa was the only solution of tke problem. A message from the president in relation to the claim of the widow of John PauI. a German subject, arising out of his death at Wilmington, N. C , and. recommending an appropriation of f 5,0 .0 was presented to toe senate. Referred. After the executive session the. senate ad j jurned. The House. Washington, Jan. 6. In the house, under the call of states, a number of bills were introducid and referred. Among the bills was one requesting tbe executive department to change the extra dition laws with Great Britain so that per sons charged with grand larceny,embezzle ment and other crimes may be extradited from Canada. By L tne of Illinois To prevent the con traction of the currency; also fox a gradu ated income tax; also to tax trusts; also to ascertain tne amount of the mortiratre in debtedness of the. farmers of the Udited Stacee. Springer ot Illinois For the admission of Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico and Wyoming- into tne union. Perkins of Kansas For the creation of an office for congressional correspondence and departmental uusiness. ..This bill pro vides for an efflae in connection with the house, with clerks whose dutj it shall ba to utteud to the departmental business of the members. By Bland For the free coinage of silver. Pickler of Suuth Dakota For a public building st Aberdeen, 8. D. The iollowing appointments were an nounced by the speaker: Butterworth, Dodge and Wheeler, regents of the Smith sonian institution; Hits and H mptiiil, members of the beard of directors of the Columbia institute for the deaf and dumb. Washington, Jan. 7. There was an un usually small number of members present when the house wa? called to order. The prayer of the chaplain tor the divine pro tection of the sick representatives was listened to with unwonted interest. McComas of Maryland offered a resolu tion that the house resolve itself into a committee of tha whole for the considera tion of the District of Columbia appropria -tion bill, the committee to be governed by the rules of the last congress. Breckenridge raised ttie question of con sideration against the resolution. The speaker ruled the question of con sideration could not be rained against the resolution, because the resolution was m the nature of a motion regulating the bus iness of the house. After a protracted discussion the decis ion of the chair was sustained by a vote of yeas 135, nays 124 a party vote. McComas toen demanded the previous question on the adoption of his resolution and it was ordered yeas 13 J, nays 122 No further opposition to the resolution was made by he democrats and it having been adopted the house went into committee of the whole for the consideration of the Dis trict bill. Only the first paragraph had been considered when the committee arose and the house adjourned. Elevators Sold. Milwaukee, Jan. 5. Tbe Angus-Smith system of elevatore. "A," "B" and "C," lo cated on the south side, w.r3 sold yester day to an English syndicate. The price paid is not given, but it is understood to be more than a million dollars. Their storing capacity is 2,000,000 bushels. Mr. K. Shep oard, formerly a Mil w auk ee an , who has re cently returned from London, and who it is said represents Eoglish capital in some ether ventures, engineered the deal. The syndicate is the same one that bought breweries in Cincinnati, O., and Syracuse, N. Y. . some time ago. Settled at Last. Evansvtlle, IncL,' Jan. 5. A second con ference was held this eveniniug between President Mackey and a committee from the Evansville & Terre Haute, the Evans vilie & Indianapolis, the Louisville, Evans ville Sc St Louis and the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville roads, comprising the Mackey system. An agreement was reached at 10 o'clock and the men will return to work In the morning at 7 o'clock. The detail of the compromise are not known further than that Master of Transportation Hurd will be retained in his position. Governor's Banqueted. New Yobk, Jan. 8 The business men's democratic club tendered a banquet at the H ffman house tonight to Governors elect Boise of Iowa, Campbell of Ohio, Mc Kinney of Tirglnia, Abbett of New Jersey and Toole of Montana. The dinner was also in celebration of the battle of New Orleans. Governor-elect Abbett was the only one of those named above who found it possible to attend. The others sent re grets as did also Governor HU1. Among tbope prepent were Henry Hilton, ex-Governor Hoadley, W, E. Russell, Leon Abbett, J. Edward Simmons, Mayor Chapin ot Brooklyn. W. B. Grace, W. T. McManus, John C. Shoehan and many other lights of the party. Large Increase in Death Kate. New Yobk, Jan. 8. When the figures came in at noon the doctors of the health board acknowledged that they were alarm ed. When Dr. Nagle scanned the death certificates he found that two dea'hs, both of men over forty yearn of age, were due directly to the grip; fourteen to the grip complicated with other complaints, one of the victims being a child; thirty-seven to bronchitis ; sixty-one to pneumonia, caused or aggravated by the grip, and forty-four to consumption. The other ninety two deaths were due to the various complaints welch usually figure in the daily record. The death list from la grippe and its allies was5)prcent greater that at any time since the malady reached our chores. The undertakers are worked to the ex'ent of their facilities, and many funerals are still delaved beyond the advertised hour be cause of tbe demand for hearses. The police force it ttill in a crippled con ditiou, although many of the convalescent officers are returning to duty. The totul number of death in the force sinoe the epidemic began ia fourteen. Two occurred yts.erday. Patrolman Andrew Geddes of the west Thirty-seventh street station died of pneumonia at 9;15 o'clock this moiling after a short illness . The num ber of officers who reported themselve s un fit for cuy today was 89), against 412 yes terday. The drug trade hr.s sent out notices that they have more orders lor untip3rine than they can til In a month. The drug is m a tie in lleeee Danntdat, Germany, by a man named Knorr, and hn been on the market about two years. It is a product of coal tar and is evolved by a secret pro cess. It is said that phenucetine, a new drug discovered by a German chemist, is being used by tbe medical profession in the pres ent epidemic in rUce of antlpyrine. A cable dieparch ha? just b?eH received from Russia saying that phenucetine is the drug used in the prenent epidemio there. Telegraph Oillce Burned. St. Loujs, Jan. 8. Shortly bjfore 7 o'clock this raornnj a fire started iu the bat-etnent of the Western Union Telegraph buiiding, ccrar of Oiive and Third street?. The fire soon nscendtd through tae nlr ehaft from the fi.st to the top fl ior. The wiies are a total wreck. The firemen arj greatly hindered by the mass of meet taien wires. Several firms occupied offiies and stores in the building and their estimated lowers will n 9 0,0-JO. Of 1 1)8 $35,OJ will fall on the Western Union Telegraph company. Tha a jj.ning buildings wtre biidiy dam aged by the invoke aad water. Seeking New Homes. Charleston, S. O. , an. 5. The Atlanti coast line during the past week ha carried over 4,0X0 negroes to Florida. They are almost ail ah.e-bodied workingmea and are taken out under contract to work in the newly discovered phosphate mines or in the turpentine woous. R illioad people say thiols the beginning of an-exodus and that they will be busy for weeks moving negroes already contracted for. Atlama, Gi., Jan. 4. Two thousand ne groes came ifc to ihls city yesterday carry ing beds, furniture, pots, guns, children anl dogs. They took tbe traia for Louisi ana, Arkansas and Texas, w here they will work on the cotton plantations. They came from North CEiolina, induced to leave their homes by agents. These agents have issued gaudy circulars with engrav ings showing the negro first in poverty and second under his own vine and fig tree, with others doing his work. Excitement in Madrid. London, Jan. 8 Great solicitude is re ported at Madrid touching the exciting rumors in connection with the illness of the king and the political complications likely to ensue in thn event of his death. The beet information obtainable today was that the royal patient had suffered a turn for the worst. Something more thah a bui picion exists that the receut cabinet crisis tiad a hidden bignificar.ee. The move ments of tho republican leaders . are being narrowiy watched. In a word, the ques tion agitating Madrid is, in Spain really preparing lor a Coup d' Brazil? A Blow at Grain Corner. Chicago, Jan. 4. A blow at grain corners from a new direction was made today in the buit begun by Lamson & Co., who ask that Bayden & Co. be compelled to disclose all their transactions in the corner in No 2 corn in November, and to make good a loss of $40,000 sustained by the complainants, who were prevented by the corner from filling a legitimate contract The Pacific Roads. Washington, J an. 4. Senator Frye is hard at work preparing a report on the results of the investigation of the fc-enate commit tee on Pacific railroads and the affairs of the land grant roaas. Last summer, it will be remembered, this committee made a trip through the entire west over each of the land grant roada under instructions of congress tor the purpose of Informing themselves concerning the condition of their several properties and their ability to meet their obligations to the government Mr. Frye says tfiat his personal observation durkg the trip, which lasted some three months, did not materially change the opinion which he had already formed on the subject, but only stren&tbened it, and while he is not iu a position to say what the committee of which he is chairman will recommend, he is hinmelf in tavor of refunding the Union Pacific indebtedness into 3 per cent, fifty-year bonds as the best plan of settlement for the road as well kh for the government The s nator is of the opinion that the Union Pacific r .ilroad is a much more valuable property than is gen erally supposed, and that it is many more times valuable thaa the owners are dis posed to admit The coal property belong ing to the road will alone pay the interest upon the debt to the government, for it is one of the most valuable deposits In the United States, and la practically inexhaust able, while thero are many other resources that are Dot included in the assets of the company that are of almost incalculable value. Senator Fye is not willing to haz ard a prediction upon the probable action ef congress on the Pacific railroad bills, but will endeavor to get some legislation to quiet the agitation. lie w ill prepare the report on the Union Paotfio himself, while Senator Davis w 11 write the report on the Central Pacific. Needless Taxation. Washington, Jan. 8 Senator Harris to day introduced for Senator Beck a bill set ting forth statistics regarding the public debt, surplus, etc., and declaring that the maiitenance of taxation to provide fur ther for the sinkirg fund under existing circumstances is a needless and wrobgful burden on the people, and enacts that all laws "providing for a sinking fund for the payment of tho principal of the bonds of the United States be and are hereby sus pended until further erder of congress." FOREIGN AFFAIRS. A DAMAGING BTOkM. London, Jan. 5. A severe storm pre vailed firoughout Great Britain today,, causing considerable damage at several. ' points. The gale extended some distance wtt the coast and a number of wrecks ar reported. The protectant church at Byrr. Ireland, was shattered by a stroke of lightning. orposED TO a btbixx, London, Jan. 5. A vote baa been tken by the employes of Scotch railway lines on the ten-hour questlou. The rewult show that a majority of the men ore opposed to a strike and in favHt of a conference with the manager, with a view to relief from excessively iong periods of work. The Commercial Sitaation. New Yoke, Jan. 4 The new year opt na with a most confident feeling prevailing ia all parts of the country and yet with somo features which euggcut especial caution. The volume of business la progress, though a little more curtailed than usual near the tnd of the year in wholesale and jobbing lines, was neatly if not quite the largest ever known in holiday goodc, and on the whole close to the maximum. But In several important trade profits hav not been commensurate with the mugul tude cf transactions and blow collections have caused many failures, with apt rehen sions of mcra in the near future. Produce markets have been dull. Wheat has risen 4 cent, with pules of 8,(M),tHX bushels, ana oats .8 mucb, but corn ha decllaeu three-eicrhts, with sales cf nearly 80,000,000 buhels. Oits are an eUtita stronger, but pork ia ha f a dollar lower atd lard declines a fchnde. CUho esti mates of the Brazilian crop makes roflee an eighth weaker and cotton it unchanged; with small trading. The decline in price for all commodities from January 1, 1S to Januarj 1, 1889, was about AM per cent., and the runge is now a little lower thttu iu any previou January for telrty year. The average for 18M Has 4.W per cent bo low that ot 188. The stock market has been we akened by momentary prenure for tbe past two weeks, but the average of prlc s is 15 per share higher than a yearao. The larger earning and dividends would justify fully that advance if the prices of lata year were not too high, and the lecent strin gency, with considerable selling on foreign account, has caused but little depression In railroad stocks The treasury has put out only ?P O.ldKJ more tban it ha taken in the pns't week, the large dlebursemenUi for the year having not been felt yet, but the surplus h been reduoed $9,5C0.0 0 for the mouth cr Decenber. Indicating a largn addition to circulation. The decrease tu the net debt to December was $3,128,193, and tbe half year's revenue showed a guiu of S2,2) V 00, in spite of a decrease in receipts from ous toms. Foreign trade continues heavy, ex ports for five weeks at New York falling only 1.8 per cent below those ot the pre vious year, which indicates an excess ot $20,00V 00 or more in exports over Imports for December. Tb allures in If 89 numbered I0.88i in the United States or one in every forty-five firm". Inlb83the failures were 1 ,7'J in the United States and 1,077 in Canada Tho aggreeate of liabilities was $148,7H4,3-7 iu the United States against f 12,829.973 in 188S, and $14,713,223 in Canada agairst 114,081,169. But the average of liabilities for eacn firm failing was lower in Canada, 8,29 last year, against 18,1 in 188S, and the increase in the United btates, if an un favorable indication, was still not enough to denote an unhealthy state of commer cial credits, for th average la 18b9 wm but 13.G7i, againot $11,592 in 1888, $17,iT in 1887, and $20,62 In 1881 The business failures occurring through out the country during the lt seven days as rported to R. G. Dunn A Co., tho mer cantile asrency tMay. Friday. Dy telegraph. Y number for the United Rtates X91 t.nd for Canada 31, or a total of 322 failures, against 288 last week and 34'3 the week previous to the last For the corresponding week of last year the figure were 387, representing 359 failures iu th United States ani 28 in the Dominion of Canada The Uecember Jlcport. Wasetngton. Jan. 4. The December re port of the department of cgricutture con tains a detailed statement ot the efttlwiatco of the principal cereals by states, Includ ing the area, product and values. Tbe re ported are of corn, 78,31 9,bl acres, repre sents an increase of Per cent over the acreage of 1888. The wheat acreage, Ji?, 123,859 acres, shows that it is 2 1-10 ier cent greater than the aggregate for 18. The revision of tbe acreage fixes a smaller area In Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon and Well ington and a larger breaith iu Kansas ani Dakota. Dairying and meat production have for years bevn encroaching on wheat growing on the eastern side ot the great spring wheat belt, as the failures ot tn wneat crop in Kansas, Illinois and other states occurring from year to year, are the results of variable metcorlogical condi tions. The acreage of oate is placed at 37,462,310 acres, an increase ot less than 2 per cent The yield pt.r acre of corn is very nearly twenty-seven butel, or one tenth of a buhel per acre lesB tha 1 the product of 1879, and is the largest rate of yield since lb8J. Tbe product as estimated Is 2,112,8J2,000 bushels The largest yields are west of the Mississippi, Iowa taking first rank in the aggregate produced, and the yield per acre of wheat Is nearly twelve and nine-tenths bushels, or one-tenth of a bushel greater than the November average yield per acre. The variation from the current expectation of the last six month Is not over I per cent. The total product as estimated is 49 i.5fiO.(MiO bushels. Tne product tf oats Is 757,515,000 bushels, at, the rate of twenty-seven and four teuth- bushels per acre. The aggregate of all cereals is about 3.4J0,1 iXOOJ bushels, or at j fifty-five bushels per capita. THE MAltKKTH. Lincoln, Neb CATTLE Butchers' steers.... $2 00 a 3 00 Cows 1 50 a 1 75 HOGS Fat 8 00 a 3 25 Hackers 3 00a3 25 SHEEP 3 00 a 3 05 WHEAT No. 2 spring 63 a C5 OATS N. 2 12 a IS RYE -No. 2 25 a 27 CORN No. 2, new 17 a lh FLAXSEED 1 10 a I 02 POTATOES 18 a tfi APPLES Per bbl 1 7ia2 15 HAY Prairie, bulk 3 50 a 4 50 Omaha, Kr& CATTLE $3 20 a 4 40 Cows 1 50 a 2 (O HOOS Far to heavy 3 r,o a S 75 Mixed 3 25 a 3 50 Chicago, III. CATTLE-Prime steers $3 SO a 4 &) Stock ers and feeders . , 1 9 J a 3 15 nOGS Packing 1 50 a 8 75 SHEEP Natives 8 60a5 W WHEAT 79 CORN Sl$ Kansas Crrr, Jto. CATTLE Corn fed $3 30 a 3 00 Feeders 1 6a2 m HOGS-Good to choice 3 05 a 3 75 Mixed S 55 a S CO i 3' .'
