Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, May 05, 1881, Image 2
THE DAILY BEE. * " " IT Is snggested that the sUr rontea are the reorganized fast lines to the penitentiary. ST. Louis paregraphera who thought the rite in the upper Missouri excru ciatingly funny are now leaching for their rubber boots and fiatboats. ITALY will take the cansus on De cember 31st. It is unfortunate for Italy that ehe has no Dlllonville tramps This oversight trill compel & reduction of .thousands In the number of people listed by the enumerators. WHILE Immigration "of the poor is pourlsg Into the country , emigration of rich is going on with a good deal of gust Five hundred cabin passengers with nearly two thourand Saratoga trunks sailed by Europe last Saturday from New York. It is difficult to find out whether the Herald Is worse informed upon current events or past hittory. The announcement that Lieut. Schwatzka discovered the remains of Sir John Franklin will doubtless be news to that Intrepid explorer. A KUMBEK of citizens of Council Blnfia have applied for an injunction to restrain the American Construction Company from building water works In that city. The grounds upon which the Injunction Is aaked are In general the same upon which leading citizens of Omaha asked an injunction rgainst the Holly Company. The- same ays- tern of direct pressure was applied over there upon Councilmen and newspaper ! by the water sharks. Neb. , May 2 , 188L To th Editor of Tui Bit Will you please decide a bet throngh your columns : The population of Chicago ; the population of New York City and suburbs ; the population of Brooklyn , N. Y. , in 1880 by United States census returns ; and oblige sub scriber. U. P. The population of Chicago under the last census w 503,304 , St. Louis 350,522. The pupulation o ! New York City on Jane 1st , 1880 , was 1,206J690. This Includes only tha city proper. When thesnburba are taken into con sideration Brooklyn with 566,689 , Jer sey City with 120,628 and the adjacent towns in Long Island and Westchoster county with some 75,000 population additional must be added , making a grand total oil 1,969,000 inhabitants. In round numbers New York and surburba are , credited with ft popula tion of 2,000,000. The population of Brooklyn has been given. SOME POINTS IN POSTAL REFORM Postmaster-General James is doing a noble wotk in reorganizing and puri fying the postoffioe department , and no section of country Is better dis posed to recognize hie valuable ser vices than Omaha and the west. We cannot , however , approve of the order respecting the railway mall service recently issued by the department and whbh , if enforced , will work the gravest injustice to one of the hardest working class of public servants in the postofHce department. Under the operation of this order , the pay of three quarters of the malj clerks will be very seriously re duced. Out of sixteen men running on the Union Pacific from Omaha to Kearneyfour , will receive 51,303 per annum , and twelve , who formerly earned $1,150 , 'will bo reduced to $900. This reduction In pay , more over , Is made with no consequent re duction in the hears of labor , and is apparently directed only to those clerks who handle the mail on the eastern end of the overland routo. On the Union Pacific there arc only four clerks who draw the maximum pay of $ i800 ; yearly. On the Cen tral Pacific , which handles t. much smaller amount of mail than the Union Pacific , there are thirteen head clerks drawing the tame salary. When comparison Is made with the B. & M. railroad in our state the injuitica is even more apparent On that road the amount of mail matter is a trifle wheu com pared with that which passes over the overland route , and yet with only two clerks on a car one mail agent on the B. M. receives § 1,300 per annum and the other ? 1,150. It Is unfair to the highest degree that the Increased oflhiency and skill of mail agents who have been years In the employ of the postal railway service should be discounted In this manner. Within thelaat three years the amount of mall matter han dled by the overland postal clerks has Increased from 10,000 pounds dally to over 30,000 pounds , and to work this enormous amount of mail , three less men are employed than three years . In 1875 three ago. local agents were employed at the transfer at -salary of § 1,200 each to handle mail. Since that tl o the amount of mail has trebled and yet under the late order of the postoffice department the pay for the same number of men it $900 each. each.This This is not true economy. In- created officloaey In employes should bo met by increased rather than di minished wages , aud all the more so when new and mre laborious duties are constantly added. The whole country is intonated in Ike-overland postal service , and were the facts known we feel sure that the protest against this proposed change would ring out with no uncertain sound from every leading journal in the land. Senator Van Wyck has interested himself greatly Jn the matter and states that he will nso every exertion on his return to Washington to lay the roil state of affairs befsra the depart ment. He considers the order un just to a class of public servants whose labors have hitherto been too little recognized , and if personal in terest and active endeavors at the capital can accomplish it , he hopes to ee the salaries of the railway mall clerks restored to their former figures , 1 SENATOR VAN WYCK. OMAHA extends a cordial welcome to Gen. Van Wyck , who is In our city for the first time tinea hia election as United States senator. The senator is visiting Omaha for tha express pur- poee of acquainting himself with the wants and needs of the city and with especial reference to tha question of protection to our river front. No subject Is of more vital importance to Omaha , and when the barge line is established none will be of more importance to the whole ttate of Ne braska than the permanent protection ofthebanksof the Missouri rifer. The fate disastrous flood , which destroyed that portion of the riprap constructed by the government engineers above the smelting worksrenders , immediate action necessary in order to prevent the wrecking of the important estab lishments that are now exposed to the action of the water. Senator Van Wyck'a presanca in Omaha Is very opportune and Mayor Boyd as president of the Omaha board of trade has very properly issued a call for a meeting of the board this evening at which the necessities of the situation will bo discussed and placed before the senator. We hope that our merchants and manufactur ers will manifest an active interest by their presence this evening and that there will be a full meeting. ANTI-SUFFRAGE. Beatrice Express The few newspapers ot the state that have seen fit to raise their voice asrainst the proposed woman suffrage amendment , are either very short of ammunition or else are saving it for the final charge. Argument against it is something that has not appeared in a Nebraska newspaper , yet we notice a squib seml-occasionally that looks and sounds as though intended to bo funny or sarcastic. But for something real downright funny , that would cause a corpse to laugh or a bronze image to grin , THE OMAHA BEE has bit it. THE BEE refers to woman suffragists ( without the usa of quota tion marks ) as long haired men and short haired women. This remarka ble fannicism Is followed by a quarter column of trhat we suppose was in tended for argument , but in which wo find nothing for any champion of the cause of woman suffrage to answer ; and after reading the extract , we are sure our readers will wonder that Providence permits a lunatic , to edit a leading dally paper. Says THE BEE : "Why d n't they put all our young men who are over the age of eighteen and be low twenty-one on a r rfect equality with women ? A woman is of legal age when eighteen , a man is an infant in law until Le in twenty-one. _ A woman may inherit and own property in her own name when she ii eighteen. A man cannot _ inheiit , owu or dispose of property until lie ii twenty-one. A woman controls her earnings after she reaches the age of eigh teen. A man's earnimg's belongs to his parents up to 'the age of twentj-one. A woman may give herself away ia rm-n-vtro at the age of eighteen without consu.c..g anybody. A man under twenty-one can not legally marry unless he has the consent of hii parents or guardians. A man is subject to military duty from the age of eighteen. A woman can stay at home all her lifetime and let the war rage. When a man dressed in female ap parel appears on the streets ot a city he is dragged before the magistrate , fined and pat in jail ; while we see women every day on our streets wearing men's hats , sport ing breeches , rubber boots , ulsters and short nair without being interfered with. When will these barbarous impositions on .man cease ? How long are men to submit to such oppressive and unjust discrimina tion ? Will the gallant defenders of wo man's rights please tell ? " These latter questions of THE BEE are easily answered. Those "imposl tlcns , " sarcastically so-called , will exist only until the fool-killer gets around ; and as they exist only in the mind of. THE BEE man , we advise him to take legal steps at once to have the fool-killer aforesaid bound over to keep the peace lest ho should be hurt before he can get in out of the wet , The long-haired men and short haired women who want to abolish all distinctions between the sexes have a very happy faculty of clinching an argument. Whenever an editor dares to express dissent from their views he is at once branded a lunatic , a fool era a whisky toper. When THE BEE called attention to the fact that our laws recognize the difference In BOX by according to women special privileges and exemptions by reason of their earlier development , the editor is politely informed that he is a fool and a lunatic. Now , we ask , In all seriousness , if all political distinctions are to bo abol- fabed between the sexes , why should young nun over eightean be rated as minors , subject to the control of pa- rants and guardians , while women over eighteen are free agents aud be yond the control of anybody ? If this discrimination ic. favor of women is just and proper , because a woman at 18 is as mature in body and mind as a man at 21 , would it not naturally follow that women above the ago of 18 should have the right to vote , whlie men cannot vote until they reach the age of 21. Our aim , In calling attention to the recognition of the physical and mental difference between the sexes by our present laws was simply to show the utter Inconsistency of the long-haired men and short-haired women in clamoring for the abolition of all legal and polit ical differences between men and women. If every man who refuses to join in the effort to nullify the laws of God and nature is a fool , a lunatic or a whisky toper , the men in potti- coata and women In breeches will have to create a new world of their own. THE international monetary confer ence will accomplish nothing decisive. It's members are so thoroughly tied up with instructions that very little power is granted them for final nego tiations without further conference with their governments. Nowadays an ambassador is ' little else than' a clerk at the end of a telegraph wire. CONGRESS has expanded millions of dollars for the improvement of the Mississippi-river. Perhaps the late floods may induce the M. O.'a at Washington to bestow a little ICES at tention on Squedunk creek and more on one of the great arteries of trade which taps the richest agricultural country on the globe. Effect of the Rise In Wages and Prices Chicago Tribune. The general advance in wages now demanded In all pirts of the country should not bo accepted as an unmixed evidence of the prosperity it indicates , becauseit lacks thatpernunency which alone assures r/al prosperity. That community enjoys the highest degree of prosperity whose labor places within the resch of the greatest number of persons the possession of the greatest amount of the commodities contributing to the wants and comforts of the human family. This degree of prosperity is not to be measured by rates of wages , because wagea are but the mere agents for which other things are exchanged. The nearer the whole population can come to the enjoyment of the greatest abundance of the world's goods , the nearer they are to the greatest prosperity. Tha rise in wages is not of itself cvidencQ of an increase of prosperity ; thus , when wages advance 10 per cent , and tha cost of living advances 20 per cent , ( as the middle men mark up their goods , ) the means of purchasing are seriously reduced. During the last sixty days the demand for in creased wagea has bean general. In many employments there was un doubtedly a disproportion of the wages paid to those dependant on their daily earnings , and to the extent that this Insufficiency has been corrected no moro than justice has been done. While waes , are largely to be measured by the cost of living , it must also and always be remembered that the great factor In making up the cost of liv ing is this item of W RCS. Wherever there ia a gee oral advance in the coat of labor , which is properly the coat of production , the cost of living neces sarily advances in fnll proportion. In point of fact , therefore , the purchas ing power of wages , after a general and substantial advancement , falls to keep on an equality with the increased coat of living resulting from that ad vance. It is , moreover , attended with serious drawbacks. Any increaee in the cost of production is attended with a reduction in the demand for con sumption on the part of the great ag ricultural class , and consequently a reduction in the amount of labor em ployed to produce sooda. It should be berne in mind that the tillers of the soil constitute one-half of the American people. The amount of domestic manufactures and Import ed goads they can buy is is determined by the cost. They get a certain amount for their products , whose price is fixed by the foreign-market quotations. When mechanics and laborers in the cities are farcing up wages by strikes the farmers are an- ablj to work up the price of crops. Hence , as fast as town-made goods and wares are forced up in price by strikes the powerof the farmers to pur chase those goeds falls off in the same proportloa , for they have so much money to spend and uo more The dearer the goods tha less the farmers can purchase. Therefore the town-strik ers are cutting off their market for their manufactures by artificially en hancing the cost of producing them. But man do not usually stop to reason on consequences. Their rule is to grasp at a dime near their nosea al though they may lose a dollar at their arms' length. It IB possible , then , that the cost of living and the cost of production may be so sdvancsd by a general rise of wages that the purchasing power of the advanced wages may be less than it was before the rise , and that the amount of labor employed may be re duced as a consequence. This is just what is now happening. In viewing this matter as an evi dence of prosperity the fact must not be overlooked that there have been since January , and are now , an aver age of 2,000 workmen landing on our shores every day ; that , allowing ono- half of these seek homes in the coun try , there are ac least one 1,000 men daily thrown into the cities and towns seeking werk. These men come here with limited means ; they must find work or perisb , and that they will find work at the best wages they can obtain is a practical necessity. They have to support themselves and fami lies , and SO , 000 of these labor-seekers are added to our city population every month , who are thus becoming com petitors with the present population. How long can the rise In wages con tinue in the presence of this stream of competitive labor , which soon must accept employment at whatever wages it can obtain 1 Tha tide of immigra tion now pouring into the country is not limited to unskilled labor ; it in cludes mechanics of every branch of trade aud of every industry. These men are at our doors ; they arc asking for work , and asking for work that they may have bread. The inevitable consequence of every general advance in wages , is to so in crease the cost of all American manu factures that the country is flooded at once with foreign goods. The de mand being reduced , and the supply being far in excess , production must cease , and the goods on band must bo sold af a sacrifice. That is a story that has become familiar by its fre quent repetition. It has not been more than a year since it was most painfully and expensively repealed in this ceuntry. Two years ago there was a general advance in prices and in wages ; then came tha inflow of foreign goods ; then the stoppage of American production , the discharge of labor , and the reduction of wages. The boom had been calamitous , instead of being beneficial. Wages had returned to their ordinary level , and industry and production were resumed , and now comes another general demand all along the line for an advance in prices from 20 to 25 per cent. This rise ia demanded in the face of the fact that between Jnlv 1.J.880 , and July 1 , 1881 , no less than 100,000 able-bodied workmen have came into the country and are now and will beseekingemployiuentas a necessity for bread , and at whatever wages they can Ret. > The oft-repeated story will follow. The general ad vance in wages will necessitate a re duction of employment ; the increase in the cost of living will Icava The in creased wages l ss remunerative than before ; foreign goods will pour in from foreign workshops , and Ameri can goods will ceaae to be exported. The boom will be succeeded by a de cline. A decline In employment , a great decline in wages , and the seem- Ingprosperlty of the labor will close with a prostration that will continuo until prices go back to their natural condition. Now we are in a season of strikes , which are avoided by submission ; but sixty days honca wages will have less purchasing power than now , and then will follow strikes which will be met by suspensions of employment , lock outs , discharge of workmen , and a period of time and production lost. In this fitful , spasmodic , thoughtleES tampering with prices there is an im mensity of evil. The thoughtful man will search them in vain for any pros pective abundance they offer to any one. High prices and reduced pro duction are the opposite of prosperi ty , and any and all efforts to benefit mankind otherwise than by Increasing the material abundance which can be obtained for lab r must always prove abortive and disastrous. Scandinavians 10 the West. From an interview witb Bjornjen. In what condition do you find those of your countrymen who have im migrated to the United States } " "I have no hesitation in saying that the change they have undergone has been decidedly for the batter. Many of them who left the fatharland nearly pennileui ara almost wealthy at pre sent , and certainly none of them are want. I shall recommend emigration to our poorer peasants when 1 return home. "After remalnirg three months in Boston I set out for the west , in the terrible winter , for ihe sole purpose of viiiting my countrymen settled there. I found the Norwegian population ol Minnesota , Wisconsin , Dakota and Nebraska to aggregate ( irrespective oi Danes and Swedes ) over 600,000 souls. With such a strong represen tation one might expsct that these people w.ould take a part ii politics , and would bo important factors , for instance , in opposing and killing such ridiculous , narrow- minded measures as tba anti-traatlnc bill. But here the whole mlachiel lies. Although of all Scandinavians , the Norwegians are the most enter prising , pushing out into unknown regions and braving all dangers , they are unfortunately still a prieat- ridden people. The Norwegian church synod in the west , com posed of 175 pastors , controls the consciences of almost allouremigranta , and for fear the latter may lese faith in their rigid Cslvlnlstic creed , they are forbidden even to attend the American public schools. Thus they grow up in Ignorance , Ignore politics and the great social questions of the day , and are only good for manual labor. I have always opposed and shall always combat this narrow- minded , uumodern spirit wherever 1 meet it. " INDUSTRIAL NOTES. Bangor , Me. , is to have a new cot ton factory , with a capital of § 1,000- 000. 000.Two Two new knitting mills are to be erected at Schenectady , N. Y. , this spring. The Everett Mills , Lawrence , Mais. , have put np a 30-lamp Brush electric light. A new yarn mill , of brick , three stories high and 350 feet long , is to be erected at once , at Taunton , Mass. A now cotton mill is to bo built al Cahls , Me. , to contain 30,000 spin dies , employ about 500 hands and cost about $500,000. Buffalo , N. Y. , has twenty-eight elevators , with an aggregate capacity of 8,802,000 bushels. Three have a capacity of 600,000 bnahela each , two 650,000 each , and one that will store 1,000,000. The building of the Portland ( Me. ) smelting and reduction works"an nearly completed , and operations will begin In a few days. The most im portant industry it Is supposed will be the extraction of sulphur from cop per ores. The men employed in Krupp'o im raenae manufactory are working nighl and day in supplying orders for large guns from abroad. Itournania baa er- dered 100 ; Greece , 700 ; Sweden , 50 ; Holland , 110 , and Italy , 400. This does not look much as though tha reign of peace has actually com1 menced , or is very near. The weavers of Bohemia are in great destitution. In upper Silesia , Prussia , there la no improvement In the impoverished condition of the peasantry. Their situation Is summed up thus : "No grain , no potatoes , no food for cattle , no seed for sowing. Snow and cold without , hunger and sickness within. " Soup houaca and public kitchens have been started in seventeen villages. A new flouring mill la to be erected in Minneapolla which will ba the largest in tha world. The building will bo a ? much as 250 feet square and six stories high , betides a atorao ele vator with room for half a million bushels of wheat. It will turn ont 5i barrel * of flour per minute , 333 bar' rels par hour , 8000 per day , 2,400,000 barrels per year.(300 ( days ) . It will re quire 10,000,000 buahela of wheat per year to supply it , and the value of its annual product will be at least 814 , 000,000. There were packed in Chicago , dnr Ing the year ended March 1 , 1881 , an aggregate of 5,752,191 hogs , by far the largest number of hogi ever packed in any city in the world In one year. The receipts of live hoga dur ing the year were 7,059,355 and ship ments 1,304,690. There were made during tha year 316,884 tierces ol lard , 269,070 barrels of pork , 23"- 757,603 pounds of green meats , 38- 165,035 of green and dry salted , 11- 372,895 pounds of Cumberlanda , 60- , 642,845 pounds of short ribs , 38,109- 906 pounds of short clears , and 52 , ' 579,140 pounds of long clears. Pleaa for the Railroads. New York Times. Statements of some of the railroad magnates have lately been published , in which they reply vaguely to charge : made against the management of transportation interests , and Mr. Albert Fink , pool commissioner of the trunk lines , appears in one of the or gans of corporate monopoly aa the defender - fender of the railroads against the at tacks of those who advocate tboirregu lation by law. Neither the remarks at tributed to Mr. Gould and Mr. Van- derbllt or the letters of Mr. Fink meet the real case at all , bnt they seem to be Intended to divert attention and to give the Impression that all the railroads need Is to be let alone. The great operators scent the idea that they or any combination of men can exercise control over the transportation interests of the country or give the character of monopoly to any part of the railroad system. They declare that competition and the prin ciples of trade enter into the business to such an 'extent aa to bring it ia substantial accord with the general interests of the community. They cannot maintain ratal above a certain normal standard , nor command pa tronage except by doing justice to their customers. Mr. Fink devotes his efforts to showing that certain charges against railroads are wildly exaggerated , and that though there may ba cases of extortion and of un just discrimination , they do not con stitute the general methods and prac tices of the companies. All general pleas of this kind are apart from the purpose of controversy. There ia no doubt that both the wealth and the power of individual railway magnates is popularly exaggerated. There ia unqueatlonably a tendency to accept flagrant Instances of wrongdoing - doing as characteristic of railroad man agement , when they are In reality ex ceptional. But it does not satisfy the public to bo told that the power of wrong-doing ia not constantly and universally exercised. It may com mit its outrages only sometimes or in certain places , or when it suits its purpose to do so , bnt those who are liable to be its victims have a right to claim that it shall not be allowed to disregard the mandates of justice at all. If anybody pretended that railroad business was itself a monopoly , that all managers could maintain their charges at any figure they ple'ased , and tax the industries of the country at will , it would ba something of an ' answer to show how many millions had been sunk in transportation en terprises ; how many companies had gone Into bankruptcy , and what a moderate percentage on the entire capital involved was represented In the aggregate of dividends paid. Bat the argument in favor of criminal > legislation is not that all men are thieves and all human dealing rob bery ; bnt that the community should be protected against exceptional crime , aud that no instance should be permitted to pass with impunity. There can be no denial of the injury and ini'ostice that have been donu in certain cases by thoae practices of railroad corporattons which are subject to condemuation. Men have been ruined , enterprises have been wrecked , places have been rendered desolate , in order that other men might flourish , other enterprises succeed , and other places ba built np because railroada would for the tlm < profit by the wrong. The evils oi special ratei , of discriminations , anc of unregulated charges and methods have been too fully shown np , and the consequences too plainly exhibited lor any one to make denial of their exist enca or of their injustice. Neither Mr. Fink nor the other de > fenders of railroad methods can deny the specific facts , and they do not at tempt it , but they make broad anc sweeping statements about the whole transportation business which do nol meet the case at all. Railroads have done muh for the development of in dustry and commerce. They have become absolutely essential to the ma terlal prosperity ofthe community. They are in & general way subject to the laws and influences that dominate trade. They share in depression anc prosperity ; they ara subject to rivalry and competition , they muat conform to the requirements of their situation to succeed. And yet it ia true thai many lines can , within certain limits exercise a power over the interests oi citizans and communities that it ia not aafo to leave without regulation. If railroads do not generally practice extortion and have no desire to do so , there can be no possible Harm to then : in legislation for its prevention. I they do not , as a rule , practice dis crimination or pursue a policy by which their customers suffer Injustice , or if they have no desire to do any thing of the kind , why do they objocl to measures for the prevention o : theae things ? If there are cases in which considerations of sound policy in management , and of wide public interests as well , require & departure from rigid rnlcs , such aa could be laid down by legislation , why object to a tribunal which shall examine the re quirements of the situation end act as arbiter between tha roads and the public ? Ia short , can railroad inana gcrs who have no desire to do wrong or to enjoy Illegitimate advantsgea but are anxious that public Interests should be subserved and the rights o all equally maintained , give any reason son for opposing legislature whcsa sol purpose is to prevent wrong , oven In exceptional case ? , and to secure , at & 1 times and in all places , the juat right of all parties. Kenaminff and Extension of Streets OJUHA , May 3,1881. To the Editor of The Ceo. Any person who will take the trou ble to examine the plat of Omaha wil find that many ttreots already lal < out and built to in the different addl tiona arc on the same line but havi different names although extenaioni apparently of the original streets 01 streets of other additions. Asnggeation presents itself that thi city council ought to give ono name to all streets on the same Una and discan the several other names thereto attach ed and compel the proprietors of ad ditions hereafter to conform thereto. Take for example Phil. Sheridan Twenty-sixth , Centra and Oampbel streets , on same line and at right an glea therewith. Leavenwettb , Plum and Cobnrn streets and many others are in the same conditlen. Where a street is not exactly on the same line but takes the travel mostly from the extenaion nearest its ending , it migh ba well to give it the name of the streat of whioh it might be 'consider cd as an extenaion. It proprietors ol additions do not want ao many streets aa in the original plat , let Uern make what streets they do lay out conform to those with which they join. By following this arrangement the house numbers will bo regulated by the streets which have regular anc lengthy extensions to the limits of the city , although there may be some short streets intervening , and will an swer the same purpose of correction lines in surveys. To follow this plan will inj are no one , produce more uni formity , be more satisfactory to our residents and more easily understood byBlr ngera. It will coat nothing now , but If every proprietor of land ii permitted to lay out his ground anc obstruct streets there will be millions In It in the future , as we already no- tica persons erecting fine and coatly edifices , immediately in the line ol streets which probably may at some future time be forced throngh at great expense and considerable annoyance and detriment to the owners. Such a course of proceedure will produce more uniferaity , make a batter Impression , appear more regu- kr on the m pi and avoid much un pleasant confusion among our own citizens and others. The various names for the ssma street will bo fouud very annoying Tand unsatisfac tory to visitors and among onr people generally , but more particularly with thoae who reside in the additions where the greatest diearrangamants will be found , not only as to name of streets , bat more particularly to num bers. ALF. D. JONES. The Champion Swimmer of the World. The world-famed swimmer , Capt. 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Corner 15th and Douglas Sta. , Omaha , Prices HeJSenible. aj32-2w ICTOTZOE. Any ono jhariog dead animals I will remove hem free of chirge. Leave orders southeas corn r of Barney and Hth St , second door. CHARLES SPLITT. TWO DOLLARS WILL SEOURB THE WEEKLY BEE For One Tear. i T3BC33 Great German REMEDY FOR RHE1AV NEURALGIA , SCIATICA , LUMBAGO , BACKACHE , GOUT , SORENESS onus CHEST , * n SORE THROAT , QUINSY , SWELLINGS UlUlI SPRAETS , FROSTED FEET 4 > D EARS. SCALDS , GENEBAL i TOOTH , EAR 4MD HEADACHE , iSD All other Fain ; 1ND ACHES. No Preparation on earth equals Sr. JACOBS OIL u a sire , SCBE , SIMPLE and ciicir External Remedy. A trial entails tut the comparatirely trifling outlay of SO CKitrs. and every one suffering with pam can have cheap and positive proof of its cliims. UIKECTICm I.V LET S LANGUAGES. SOID BY ALL DBUQDISTS AND DEALERS IN MEDICINE. A. VOGELER & GO. Jlaltimorcjlftt. , U.S.A * D. Manufacturer and Dealer in SADDLES AND HARNESS , 1412 Parn. St. Omaha Neb. Agent for the Celebrated Concord Harness ! Two Medilsand a Diploma cf Honor With the Very Hlcheit Award the Judges Could Boatow was Awarded thla Harness at the Centennial Exhibition. Common also , Ranchmen's and Landle's Sad dles. Wo keep the largest stock In tbo West , and invite all who cannot examlno to send for prices. _ ap9-tf AST IND MANUFACTURERS HAMBURG - MAGDEBURG Fire Insurance Company , HAMBURG , GERMANY. Ca h Cipital , fally paid up $ 2J,00 0 Rcicrre for all Liabilities , including re-insurance , ftj C2S030 Tot l Assets , Jan. 1st , ISaO , Homo OIHce . S-S7.S030 OF ins- United States Basinesa , Jan. 1 , 1881 ASSEST. United States Bond ] depoaitid in United Slat s . $270COOC' ' And in hands of Tnuteea . 102U)0 ( Market Value 3:17,105 OC Ca h in banks , and under control of Trustees 4D.C03SC Premium * in courw of collectioj. . . . 22,4354" Interest due and accrued 110 " Total Unobjcctionni As < : olq S4S9.315 9 LIABILITIES. Unearned Premium Fund S15V93 6 Unpaid LUECS 303103 * Other Liabilities 010 GC Total Liabilities ? 1S2C31 , 5 Surplus § 303C3J 4 * Thi Company was oreanired by the Magdeburg Fire Insurance Co. , when that Company pnvo up Us entiri Trinp-AtlantIc direct burico i , ard transferred the field to the Ilamburg-Magdeburg the latter Company en its part agreeing t > do n < European business except at Himbur ? am vicinity , the Ma debur , howcrer.to bo interest cd by means of rc-incurancc , in the buaintt ! taken by the Hamburir-MngdoDnr ! : direct. The Matdebur ; maintain ! the rcost intimate busin-s relations with the IJaidebure Ilt-Insurance Co. , and the Ha deburg Qineral Injnrrnc Co. , com' Plisinr jointly a capital of G. H. KOCH , Manager. 8 No3. 101 & 103 L Sille St. , Chicago , III. MURPHY & LOVETT , AzecU , Omahi , Neb STATE OF NEBRASKA. INSURAXCE DEPARTMENT. AUDITOR'S Orncr. , \ IITCOLS , February 1st , 1SS1.j It IB hereby cirtifleJ that Murphy & Lovctt of Omaha , In the County of Douglas , S'ate ol Nebra.Ut , ii hereby duly authorized to transact the buslnn-a of Firi Insornnce for Ite currenl year In sold County , u Aecta of the Uimhurj- Magdebur ; Fire Insurance Company , of Himbur la th Empire ot 'Germany , subject to all the restrictions and HmitatloQS ot the law req atlnj Fire lasurance Compinieiia tbis Slate. In Trstinnny Whereof , I hive hariunto nt my band % nd tae > eal of tht Auditor ol I'ublie A - counti , tht day and year absT nritt-n. JOHN WALL1CHS , Auiitor of Pullic. AccouaU. In Chinre of Iniu/ancaXM rtmant , RHEUMATIC CURE War ranted a Safe , Certain and Speedy Cure for Rheumatism In all its forms , Neuralgia , Lame Bict , Pain in tha Breast and Side , Pain In the Stomach and KiJnojs , ic. It Is an Interim , remedy , a Tonic and Blood Purifier , and whileit removes the Dlscass it improves tbe genera health. SMITH , BLf CK & CO. , PROPRIETORS , PlATTSMOUl H. NEBRASKA. C. F. n n , general 'az ha LEGAL NOTICE. _ _ _ - Chirles Q. Let , non-res'd-nt defcndint : Ycuarc hereby notiCel th t on April 16t 1SS1 , a petition aa ? filed n * lie I islriet Court vithin and for Douglas C. u ty , fcebmkj , by san : Edif-infa. plaintiff , ajionn you , a $ defend ant , the objtct and praytr < f hi h petition U hat an account may bs taken .f the amount due on certain notoj , and a mcrt < i.e executed and delivered on April Hth 1F7S , by tajl Charles O. ! ot to one Theodore L V Doni.'and by the Old Van Dora duly ii i.ucJ tsaid plaintiff , and tint in defiullif ILC p yroent of anc i amouat so to hfutind due , with in erest , costs ltd attorney's fee , with a s"jcr time to bj fixed by said court tie prcto'-s s described in said moitga etoit : a uth 24 feet of north 11 eet , part of lot oie ( I ) , block 72. in the City of ) m\b * , ia d C unty and State , rozether wlta he anpnrteninces may be ordered to bg sal < J , and the proceeds applied to the pajment oi the tmount so foqnd due to sajd plaintiff , together With interestcosts and i rrtsoLabla turn which Ij > rayed to be awarded as anattortney's fee herein , ind that you may be fore er excluded from all if : lit , interest and equity of redompfon in cr to laid premis s or any pan I hereof , nd for gener al reTef you are required to answer cold ptitlon n the 30th day of May , 1SSL ISAAC EDWARDS , aplQes&Ut . Plaintiff , BAHXIHG HOUSES. THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED. IN NEBRASKA. GALD WELL , H AMI LTONICO Bsslacea transacted aaffie as that o an Incor porated Bank. Account * kept In Currency or gold enbjact to tight check without notice. Certificates of deposit lasuoj payable In thrw , Six and twelve months , bearing Interest , or OD demand without Interest. Advances made to customers on approved o- cnritloq at market rates of Interest Buy andlell gold , tlllaot exchange OcTein- mcut , StateCounty and City Bond * . Draw Sight Drafts on Enclind , Ireland , Scot land , and all parts'of Europe. Sell Enrcpcan Passage TlckeW. COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE. Mlgldt U. 8. DEPOSITOEY. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Of OMAHA. Cor. 18tb and Farnnam Stroeta , OLDEST BANKING ESTABLISHMENT IN OMAHA. ( SUCCESSORS TO KOUKTZE BROS. asTABLianiD is 186 ? , Ozganlz d M a National Bank. Angtat 29,15 S ; Capital and Profits Over$800,000 Specially i.uthorlzad by the Secretary or Treasury to rscelTe Bcbectrptlcn to the U.3.4 PER CENT. FUNDED LOAN. OFFICERS AND DJE3CTGHS HEUUX Keravzs , President. AnausTDS KOUKTZI , Vlco Ficcldaui. U. W. Tina. Cuhler. A. J. POPPLEIOH , Attorney. Jontt A. CEUiaHTOa. T. H. DATIB , A 't Oahler. Till tini i&cclroj deposit withoat regard to aaotinis. lima time certificates bearing Intertit. Draws dnf U en San JPrancIsco and principal cities of the United Etatea. alsj London , Dublin , Edinburgh and the principal eltico of tha conti nent of Europe. Sells fcsaije tlokaU tor Emigrants In the Ic. nun ne. muyldtf HOTELS- THE JRIGINAIj. Oor. Randolph St. & 5th Ave , , OHIOAGO ILL. PRICES REBDCED TO S2.00 AND $2.50 PER IMY Located In the business centre , convenlon to place * of amusement. Elegantly furnished containing all modern Improvements , passenze eleralor , &e. J. U. CUMMINOS , Proprietor. ocl6tf J Ccr. MARKETS ? . < & BEOADWA. Council Bluffs. Iowa : On line o Street Railway , Omnibus to and Jrc _ all trains. RATES Parlor floor $3.00 per day ; eocond Roor. $2.50 per day ; third floor , $2.00. The boat furnished and moat commodious honse In the city. QEO. T. PHELPS Prop F LaramioWyoming. . Tha miner'a resort , goad accommodations , urge Dim pi o room , charprca reosorabls. fc'pecUl atiaztion given to traveling men. 11-U H. O H1LLHKD Proprietor. INTER-OCEAN HOTEL , Cheyenne , Wyoming. Flrat-cbss , Fine arzo Stunpta Rooms , oaa block from depot. Train ? etop from 0 minutes to 2 hours for dinner. Free Bus to snd from Depot. Itatcs $2.00 , 31 to act ! $2 Off , according to room ; 8-nle meal 75 cents. A. D. BALC01I , Proprietor. W BORDEN , Cnief Clerk. mlO-t AOENTS WANTED FOR OUIl NEW BOOK , "Bible for the Younjr , " Bein the story cf the Scriptures by Rov. deo. Alexander Crook , D. D. . In simple and attrac tive language for old and jounfr. Profusely Illustrate. ! , making a most interesting aud Im pressive youth's instructor. Every parent will secure this work. Pre-iciors , jou should cir- culatelt. Price ? 300. Send for circulars with extr erma. J. U. CHAMBERS & CO..J St. Louis , Mo AND STILL THE LION Continues to Soar for Moores ( ) HARNESS & SADDLERY , 2 ! I hare adopted the Lion as a Trade Mark , and all my Goods will be stamp ed with the Lion and my Name on the came. No Gooda are genuine without the above stamps. The beat material la used and the moat skilled workmen are employed , and at the lowest cash price. Anyone wishing a price Hat ot gooda will confer a favor by sending for one. DAVID SMITH MOOKE. I. Vis CAMP , M. D. K. L. SIOOI58 , U. D. NEBRASKA IEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE. PRIVATE" HOSPITAL ? Now open for the iece lion cf M ! * nta tot tba CBEATMBNT OK ALL CANDSUEQI JAL DISEASf.3. RS. VA.V CA3IP & SIGGINS , Physicians & Surgeonat Proprietors. COD EUOY/S BLOCK- CORNER IdTH IOOCE iTS. , OMAHA. NEB- A. V. NiSOft 3D X S T , Jaeob' n ck , corner Ciplto A.T , \th Street , Omii ; < BID I /i THE NEW YORK CLOTHING HOUSE Eas Eemoved to 1309 FARNHAM STREET , ( Max Meyer's Old Stand. ) Where They Shall Keep Constantly on Hand an Immense Stock of MEN'S , BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTfiLYC ! , HATS , CAPS AXD GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS. PEICES ALWAYS THE LOWEST. . Call and Examine Goods and Prices.- HI. IMI. 4 HYL" . TPT ± ] _ A _ v _ 1309 Farpliam Street , Omaha , Kcb. MORE POPULAR THAN EVER" The Genuine SINGER NEW FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. Tha popular demand for the GENUINE SINGER in 1879 exceeded that of any previous year during the Quarter of a Century in which this "Old lleliablo" Machine has been before the public. In 1878 we sold 356,422 Machines. In 1879we sold 431 167 Machines. Excess over any previous year 74,735 Machines. Our sales last year were at the rate of over 1400 Sewing Machines a Day I For every business d v In tbc year , x&xmxaoaoExszaxs. The "Old Keliab'e" That Every REAL Singer is the Strongest , Singer Sewing Ma- ' . . _ tne Simplest , the Most chme has thio Trade y -t"uau Mark cast into the Durable Sewing Ma- Iron Stand and em- chine ever yet Con- bedded in the Arm of stracted. the Machine. THES ! STORING GO. Principal Office : 4 "Union Square , New York. 1,500 Subordinate Offices , in tha t/nitcd States and Canada , and 3,000 Offices in the Old World and South America. seplC-d&ivtf ORGANS. cr. s. AGENT FOR O PIAN And Sole Agent for Hallet Davis & Go , , James & HolmstromandJ.&C. Fischer's Pianos , also Sole Agent for the Estey , Burdett , and the B > rt Wayne Organ Go's. Organs , Ijdeal in Pianos and Organs exclusively. Have had yeara experience in the Business , and handle only the Best. 21816th Street , City Hall Building , Omaha , Neb. HALSEY V. FITOH. Tuner. DOUBLE AOT ) SINGLE A M MHfiJ girt HI y ri Steam PnmpB , Engine Trimmings , Mining Machinery- BELTING H085 , BRASS AHD IP.GH FITTINGS , FiPc , STEAM PACKIHC AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. HALLADAY WlHB-IKiS , CHURCH AHD SCHOOL BELLS & . L. STEANG. 205 Fnrnbam Strsat Omaha. Neb J. A W A K E F I E L D. WHOLESALE ASD RETAIL DEALER IN LUMBER , LATH , SHINGLES , Pickets , Sash , Doors , Blinds , Mouldings , Lime , Cement , Plaster , &c. STATE AGENT FOR MILWAUKEE CEMENT CO. , Fear Union Pacific Depot. OMAHA , NEB. CARPETS. CARPETS. CARPETS. TWILE THE CARPET MAN , Is now prepared to promptly fill all orders at his NEW AND ELEGANT STORE , 1318 Fu Street , In Variety of Design , Beauty and Elegance of Material and Finish , and in Quality and Quantity to elect from , Mr. D offers inducements to purchasers \ inequalled before or since the flood. Vi