THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : THURSDAY. JUJSTE 9 , 1881. The Omaha Bee. 1'ublLihoJ every morning , except Sunday. The only Monday morning daily. TKUHK 1JY MATL- Oiie yenr $10.00 I Tlireo Mnntlui.$3.00 Slx.SlonUw. . . 6.00 Ono " . .1.00 THK WKKIiY HKK , imlilialiod ev ery Wednesday. TKU.MS 1'OST 1'AIl- : Ono Year $2.00 I ThreoMonths. . W ) SixMonths. . . . LOO One " . .20 M COHHKai'ONDKNCK-All ' - f'oimnuni- cation * relating in N'ownniul KJitorl.tl mat- lorn Mioiild 1 /wltlreHM-d / to the KlilTon OF TIIH llir. : BUSIXKSS IjKTTHUS-AM llucinesi Letters anii licmittanccH nlioiild bo ad- drcM l loTini OMAHA runu.-miw COM. 1'ANT , OMAHA. Drafts , Clieckn Mid 1'oflt- office Orders to bo made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING CO , , Prop'rs ' E. ROSEWATER , Editor. John H. I'ierco in in Clinrvoof thoClrcU' livUon of THK JJAIIiV KKK. ttfTht Indication ! for Wcdnnday , in the Upjxr Mitnippi Vnlley : Pair wather , northerly trinili , Itcnming rarialtle , Italian nry or hiyhcr tctnptralure awl Utromtter. Ttovtr Mitioitrii Warmer , clear or cloudy vxathcr , north varying to lotitheait wiwli , ilationary lanintttr , IOWA'S governor is auldoin out of Gear. IOWA'H greonbackera havo'lust fully one-half their strength since two yeara ago. TUB Slocumb anti-treat lawa have boon suspended during the Siongor- foat. JT looks like a concentration on Dopow , to the exclusion of both Conk- ling and Platt. JAV Gouu > didn't stop long in Omaha , but ho dropped another rail road on his way. Mu. JAMKH WILSON will find harder to pack a convention than Marshal county primary. for Tun operations of the null-treating law have boon suspended until the closing of the Sniiigorfest. ALMOST every star route has proved ill r lo bo a very Milky Way , and the con tractors seem to have done very lively y , milking. his JAV COOKK and Jay Gould used to and bo called the two " .lays. " Since adjai Cooko's failure ho has been a very trull blue .Jay. as RIOTING : in becoming general in asMr. \ Ireland and the sight of a scarlet coat acts on the peasantry like a rod rag in nor the face of a bull. as Y has engaged Bob Ingorsoll pool for his attorney. Before the trial is CO over both client and lawyer are likely East lo believe in the existence of a hell. bless THK Empire state docs mt enjoy the humiliation to which she is sub bo jected by a senator who has placed the himself in antagonism to her wishes. THK Buffalo glucose works hayo not oral definitely decided upon DCS Moines , and will take into consideration Oma the ha's advantages as a place for locating. FUANK TWINKLKII , a coal minor at Canton , Ohio , has fallen heir to § 45- , is 000,000 in England. A man could to vroll afl'ord to twinkle on such a for Jim tune. has some soft official positions , and Fred Douglas seems to liavo fallen into ono of thorn with a $7,000 salary. His predecessor said , that his oflico hours were from half- past twelve to a quarter to ono every other Wednesday. (1 Mu. Co.NKi.iNu evidently feels thu weight of public opinion against him in his own . state and ia determined cither to wear his opponents out by a protracted dead lock , or else to com bine with the democrats and force an adjournment of the legislature until full. It remains to bo soon whether the republican legislature of Now York will permit itself to bo led by the none into the trap prepared for it by a wily schemer. INDIANA farmers are very despon dent over the crop outlook thia sea- HUH , The wheat crop of Indiana will not roach more than one-third the average of the past throe years. The acreage is fully equal to thut ol last , but instead of twenty bushels the yield will not exceed seven bushels per ucro. The corn crop ia not very promising , and the fruit outlook is ulso decidedly discouraging. a WK were told time and again that capitalists would no"cr invest another dollar for railroad extension in Ne as braska if ever the legislature should pasa u law prohibiting and punishing discrimination and extortion by rail road corporations. Such a law , al though not very stringent , has boon of passed and la now in force. But cap italist a , including Jay Gould and the 0. , B. & Q. Byndicato , don't appear to be frightened about those laws , judg- ingLby tlu > various Nebraska railroads -they are now constructing or liavo pro jected in the near future. A NEW TRUNK LIKE. The filing of articles of incorpora tion of the Missouri Pacific in Ne braska , of which Jay Gould is lo bo the principal proprietor , ia an event fill of promise lo this city. This new line will close a gnp which has long boon in exiatonco between Omaha and tin fertile counties of Cass , Otoo , Nc- nmha and Richardson. Apart from more local considerations , it will put Nebraska producers in direct commu nication with the whole of Gould's southwestern system and will bring the southern markets and the sea board in commercial connection with our people. In the days of overland stage and wagon traffic a very brisk trade was carried on between Omaha and the counties along the Missouri river. Ten years ago the subject of a down theM river railroad was actively can vassed by our citizens and preliminary stepa were taken lo build n line which should give a through connection with the Gulf of Mexico. The completion off the Kansas City , St. Joe and Coun cil Bluffs ro.ul by the aid oi liberal subsidies was the death blow to the Omaha and Galvcaton scheme and since that time this city has been practically cut oil from a largo portion oft the Irado of this state owing to im perfect transportation facilities along the West bank of the Missouri river and the embargo of the U. P. bridge. The now line , which wo understand is to bo begun 'immediately and pushed forward to rapid completion , will bo of the highest com mercial importance to our city , in the extension of fields for our jobbers and wholesalers. It will bo no less I important to our producers in funnelling thorn another market for their ! grain and in bringim ? them nearer to the Atlantic seaboard. Con necting Mr. Gould's gigantic southern system with the most populous and wealthy portions of our state , the Mis souri Pacific will afford a now and computing outlet for our cattle , grain and corn. St. Louis with the barge line : , and n river free from ice all the year round will bid against Chicago Nebraska ] produce. The great and undeveloped south will offer our pro- lucers another field for their com- lo noditicH , and receive " hog and lominy" in return for cotton and cane . 01 course , wo do not know posilivo- ed what Mr. Gould's programme with new i ! road is to be. Extensions feeders : may bo run out into the It uljacont countioa to compete for the traffic now controlled by the Burl- nglon syndicate. So long those are built with . Gould's ' own money and operatcdl / undc the law in an equitable man- for , Nebraskans will fool grateful. If , seems probable , the now trunk line of result in disrupting the Iowa eel which for years has lliroltlcd 'all ioiiipetition ] between the West and Eastern markets , it will provo a great ilcssing. IOWA fence-riders are putting up BO then ligh thing rods. They expect to al struck three weeks hence , when of state i republican convention meets. . Tm : attempt has boon made by sev for Iowa stalwart correspondents to make it appear that a largo portion of republicans of the state are indig nant at the course pursued by the ad ministration against Conkling. This infl the sheerest nonsense. Iowa went has the Chicago convention solid for An Blaine and rolled up 80,000 ma " jority for Garfield and ngainat Hie cit third term doctrine. They admit for Conk-ling's abilities , but don't like his am figure. goi mu A HAMi'LU of the manner in which wh railroad companies swindllo the public bii before a pound of freight is transport- tin over their lines , is shown by the an iiannor in which Gould's NDW York , its Lackawaniia and Western road is bo- wli ig constructed. The line is inton- led to add to the traffic of the Dola- rare , Lnckawanim and Western , and lao to connect Gould's ' Wabaahsys- em with the Lacknwana linen. The building and equipment of the road ' mi in the hands of a construction com- mny , composed of railroad niun , who realize handsomely mi their invest- nenl. Only ! JO per cent of their stock . ) lias been paid in , and already it is quoJJ ted at MO , with the probability that jj there will bo no further call upon the holders. Sidney Dillon is the nomi nal contractor , and thus the profits of the project are kept within the family. As soon as the road ia completed the construction company will pass out of existence , and the Now \'ork , I ackawnnna A Western Railroad Company , which nuw exists only the name , will become fact. The road ia being finished in convenient sections , and will be put together like u flute. Thia permits the work to bo done quickly , as soon each section U completed bonds will issue upon the certificate of the President and General Engineer lo amounl of SUD.OOOa milo for construc tion and equipment. The entire cost the road to the construction com pany will bo less than $15,000 per milo and § 10,000 in clear profit is ex pected to bo swindled out of the bond holders of the road and subsequently out of shippers who will bo forced io pay dividends on the t-xceus of capital stock. GERMAN SOCIAL INFLUENCE. The largo German immigration , which in pouring inlo this country , has given occasion to a number of eastern journals for moralizing over what they are pleased to call the Germanizing ol America. They inform , us that for eign thought , foreign morals nnd foreign - eign aocial customs are rapidly displacing - placing native American institutions and thai Iho United Stales is degcnor- aling into a now Teutonia with Kurotin pcan manners and German methods of lifo. There can ho no doubt thai the largo influx of Germans ia making its influence full in America. It made itself felt in thu civil war , when thousands of Germans shouldnrod their muskets and fought in the ar mies of the Union. It made itaolf atill moro strongly felt in Iho reconia struction period , when the greal mass of German voters were unflinching supporters of republican measures and the republican party. It boa mode itself fell politically for good in every election since the civil war , when the largo majority of Germans liavo cost their ballots for the heal candi- dales and in the interests of purily of government nnd liberty of political thought and action. German influence has made itflolf felt in Iho broad acroa of Iho woat , where the sturdy , plodding German homesteader has .insisted in building up Iho ngricullural wealth of whole atates and in leaving his impress aa an orderly and industrious citizen upon Iho community , of which ho waa a member. In a thousand lines of labor , in the workahop and factory , in Jio mill and at the forgo , in our col- egos and universities , in our high schools and seminaries , Gorman brawn and brain has boon fell and noted. Hut it ia in the ofl'ect of their social customs upon thu communities in which they reaido that German habit has made itself moat powerfully felt and has exorcised a healthy and bene ficial influence. A sound , healthy mind dopcnda greatly upon a vigor ous , healthy holy. The American of Puritan extraclioii , with Puritan lifo and habits , ia given lee largely Iho business of money get ting. Ho makes lifo dreary and cheerless by habitual intemper ance on work to the exclusion of need relaxation. The consequence is that Iho young American generation grows up enfeebled in mind and body. ia only through the infiuion of the vigorous blood of a people who know - - how to work during working hours and enjoy themselves during leisure ( hours , thai Iho now generation of .1 Americans are laying the foundation longer lives and hoalt'jior descend ants. The influence upon Americans the Germans is manifesting itself moro strongly in Iho largo cities where . . they are HO numerous. They are instilling among Americana a taste for musical and nhysicnl culture. This is notably ty in Cincinnati , Milwaukee , Chicago and St.Louis. The annual festivals the German singing and gymaatio low societies have developed a taste among Americans for music nnd bodily exercise cist and increased their capacity social amusement. In other ed words , the Germans are teaching iiiericans how to live happier and of this lat ia cerlainly something worth nowing. Right here in Omaha Iho ifluenco of German customs and lifo , as wrought a beneficial change among .mericans. Such festivals as Iho f Siengerfest" now in progress in our ity , is a meana of education which 11 orccs ilsolf upon Iho public attonlion ml exorcises a powerful influence for ood. And the whole soulcd onjoy- i lent and hearty social intercourse at Inch tliu members of Iho ' "Siungor- imd" and their families' o'xhibit in j.Jl " teir relations to each other is an exif > tuple which cannot help but leave ; ts influence upon every witness of hataoovor creed or nationality , l.in CHAUMK FoxTKit rouoniinatcd by o cclamation. Tl nit's almost aa good is being booked for a foreign mission getting confirmoiH > y tlio grace of . /ml Roscoe. nn hn A YKAU ago John Sherman couldn'l nil mister votes enough to nominate hin rosidonl of Iho United States , am th low ho has boon made president ol all the ( Ohio republican convention with tha out a dissenting vote. Glory enong ] ror an Ohio man. 'j JOSEPH ltouK , formo7ly city troaa uror of Jmflnlo , has boon'convicted o Tl embezzling § 100,000 in bonds. Th th thwl jnrora were out lifty-ono hours , 1 wl Uork had stolen a brass watch , o f robbed a henroost the ffa , jury woul fa have found n verdict in ton minutes til tildl dl WHY do the Gcrmana emigrate i It 1 | such largo numbers this year ? Ilig Fi taxes , low wages and compulsory mil th tli itary service are forcing thorn to expatriate 1" triato themaolvea and seek now home in the American republic. THE street car accident which killo off a span of horses and came vor , near killing and maiming a dozen mo : and women is very suggestive. I : the first place , il is a forcible romindo of Iho tcrriblo danger -to which ou people are constantly oxpoaod by be ing compelled to cross half ; n doze railroad tracks every lime they go t or conic from Iho dcjwl. In Iho noxl place / , the accident shows the criminal negligence of leaving the high onbank inent i > n Tenth street without a safe enclosure. BKOOKH thinks ho can get along very . comfortably without the aid ol the yoiiiig-mnn-afraid-of-liis-unclo. Tim competition of the Erie canal s making itself so powerfully felt on tin New York Conlral road thai ; oneral ] reduction in freight rates will > o immediately ordered by Pool Com uissiniicr Fink. .With the Missouri and Mississippi open to barge linca , tlu western rnilroada would quickly X ) brought to terms. "A KAPOLBojf of Financo"is what the Pall Mall Gazette calls Jay Gould. It ia now i said that in addition lo his elcgraph nnd railroad consolidations . lay ; Gould controls three-fourths of tlu entire anthracite coal interests of 'omisylvania. MOUNTAIN AND SEASIDE lii'iiernl ' Joseph E , Johnson will upend the . summer at Wnnn Springe , Virginia , Admiral Almy nnd family will end their Hoawm'ii ) aimtiTitigs < at' llich field Springs. New York and Philadelphia , unlike other cities of the country , are surrounded by mimmer place * of recreation. There are now about one hundred cot tages at New | > rt that can \m \ had at from $1,000 to $ liOUO each for the season. MM. .Tulia Farmstead of Boston , pister of Mrn. Colonel Jerome- Napoleon Bona parte , has just purchased a building site in Nowmrt. | The highlands of the lelewaro is n wild nnd rugged region in which the IJelewaro Itivt-r wrestles with Iviltatinny of Blue Mountain , forcing itself through this bar rier to the celebrated Water ( Jap and tak ing in many of Pennsylvania's prettiest The New York and University clubs have taken cottages nt Long Branch for the season. Koine of the cottages there are in the Queen Anne style , and liavo nine or sixteen rooms exclusive or servant * ' quar tern , an * ! rent for from Sl,000 to $1.800. Schreiner's orchestra of sixty-two pieces from Kurope is engaged at an expense of 832,000. Kev. Dr. O. II. Tiffany , wife and daugh of ters , liavo gone to Martha's Vineyard. Dr. Tiffany has been appointed delegate to the MethctdUt Kctimenical council in London , and with .Mrs. T. will sail the last of June and will probably upend some time on the Continent previous to the meeting of the council in .SejttoiDber. Kx-fovcrnor ! and Mrs. Van Zandt have ed sold a valuable parcel of land at Newoort , which is bounded southwesterly on Rhode Island avenue , and southeasterly on Kay street. The lot contains home 87,82-1 square feet , and the price per foot in 25 cents. The purchaser is Air. John Whipple , of New York , son-in-law of cx-Gove-inor Thomas Swnnn , of Maryland , This is the largeht sale of real etttatu that has been made in that vicinity fora long time. Long Branch has a beautiful spot ou by Park avenue which is termed "Actor's of Colony. " In this place there are cottages occupied by J. W. Wallack , Mrs. Kdwin Adams , Arthur L , Sewcll , Mrs. W. H. Floyd , Thomas Eaton H. T Paddock -M-UJVI 1 llVSlllltil - I V'II , * * O. 1 llllVIUUft. tit Maggie Mitchell's cottage , Thomas I { . Kiiiney , in Kdwin Booths cottage , and ieorge Wallack. Close by on Cedar venue arc the cottages of Mis.s Mary by Anderson , J. W. Albaiigh , Frank S. , William Henderson in "Kose- and John Itussell Young. N. The mountain land extending westward rom the Delaware Water ( ! ap over North H 1'endsylvmiiu , embracing the valleys of wa 10 Leliigh and the Suwiuehanna , is cole- jrated fur the strong contrasts of it land- Hipes Hcriioa of navage grandeur alternn- ing ' with others full of repose and ( pilot ) leauty. Of the latter character the world anious Wyoming Valley , which is watered the 8iiwiieliamii | , may l > e taken a.s an by ixainjilo , and of the former region of which lunch Chunk , in the Lehigh Valley isthe A seashore report is being projected be Norfolk. The Landmark Hays that a , company of that city have purchased a number of farms of the Atlantic coast , be ginning al > oiit seven miles below Capo Henry ami running southward along the bench for six miles. They have also secur the right o-f way for a railroad from Norfolk to their Iwach property , a distance and only fifteen miles. It is claimed that property will make ON attractive a minimer resort as Long Branch , on the New Jersey coast. The backwardness of the season does not lay the preparations for the summer bu- iness , though it may postpone thu arrival of visitors. There is an expectation that lie visitors to the seaside resorts will really outnumber those of last year , nnd lic along the Jersey beaches the arrange- iicnts In jirogress look for n greatly in- rinsed biininess from the class that do not ind it convenient to leave the city , but an run away frequently for a few hours or no day. On the north and south shores of ' lie state mechanics and laborers are busily work , and the summer visitors will bo urpriacd at the changes tli.it will have "yen wrought sinee the closu of last season. Hie ( improvement will embrace the routes travel , as well as enlargement of the fa- Hities for the lodging mid feeding of uei < ts , J ? Making tlio Iiaw Odious , .Incoln Globe , The B. & M. railroad have decided ruin several flouring mills along heir route in order > lo make Iho poo- understand Hint there must bo ' .ninporing with the laws. They iwvo commenced on Iho mill al Fair m mont. _ In times paat they claim to himi Imve given the Fairmont null special mi rates , thereby killingoH'other millafor Mn thu benefit of thia one. This law does not compel the road to raiflo im their ratea but it ox- shall says Ihoy treat * ali nhko and if find anybody can any ful thing wrong in thia wo would like to On have them explain where it ia. Wlior railroad ollicinla say that they have given certain parties special rates thoj ing simply mean that they have beet RUilty of robbery in every other case , . i'his is the plan by whicl they propose to repeal the Inv which provides that n common man can shall bo treated na well as a governor , but \vo mistake- the metal of Nebraska farmers if they do not elect n legisla twro in the your 1882 which will Imn- die this question without gloves. Tin. : * M. Jtailroud have selected out to Filinoro county as a good to bogii their grinding , because the people o that county have declared their indo and poiult'iico. Killed TJJ- National Associate. FOWLEH , Ind , Juno 8. During th prevalence ; of a heavy storm yt'sterdaj . Wm. Sharploy was struck bv lightC1J ning , and Miss Delia Sliarploy and 1" Airs. Samuel Hooper _ instantly . killed Z. - - no THK length of the railroads built the United States in the year endin of April 1 , 1881 , waa 6,113 miles , Iwic Iho mileage of the preceding twolv months. At 825,000 a milo , thos railroads would coal 9152,800,000. GREETING THE LADDIES.G The MonstDr Procession of Fire- men in Council Bluffs Yesterday , Dearly Twenty Thousand Visit ors Coming Down to the Bluffs. A Grand and Successful Colobrn- tloii. Still did Iho weather contiuuo to inilo on Council BluftY grand cole- iration. Yoatcrdny was n charm- _ ng day over there for ft parade , "roin early dawn , the city \VM alive with pedestrians , vehicles , and propa ations to receive now thousands. Tno chief event of the day , next to ho regular programme , was thu ar rival ; of the Omaha boys , accompanied > y the U. P. band. Pioneer Hook and Ladder company proaonted itself to the lowana , and was received with cnthu < si.vm ' ' , The magniticont team allached to the t company's truck was the familiar - iar ono hero , belonging to E.igino company No. 2 ; but in Council BlulTs it ; was difficult to aay which had the beat reception , Iho mon or Iho horses , bolh were so hearlily applauded The parade was to liavo begun at 10 n. m. , but it was noon before it got into motion. A moro creditable display could not have been expected , nd all along the route thousands ox- ircssod their delight at the spectacle. The slight rain during the night had aid the dust , nml made the day moat iropitious for a street demonstration.lf Col. John H. Koatly was the chief marshal of the day , and the following waa the order of the parade : The first division waa commanded by Assistant Marshal George Duggan , Denver , with Assistant Marshal J. G. Sheoley , of Omaha , as nido , nnd consisted of the following companies and organisations : Dales learn , Den ver , Colorado , and Moline and Omaha fire departments. The second division was command by Colonel Lyman Banks of Mu- acantino , with Assistant Marshall C. Woodruff as aide , and consisted of the following organizations and com panies : Cedar Rapids , Muacantinc , Walorloo , Independence , Marshall- town , Cedar Falls , DCS Moines , Bur ot lington , Toledo and Nevada. The third division waa commanded Assistant Marshal W. T. Stafford Atlantic , with Assistant Marshal G. Van Doran of Davenport as aide , and and consisted of the following delega tions and organizations : Atlantic , Boone , Ottumwa , Marion , La Porte , Manchester ; , Clinton and Iowa City. § The fourth division was commanded y- Assistant Marshal John Dugan of Creston , with Assistant Marshal H. of . McGrew , Ilarlan , as aide , and con sisted , of the following companies and delegations : Creston , Ked Oak , Ona- , Wall Lake , Denison , Oskaloosa , Ilarlan , Ay oca , Odobolt , Carroll , Clarinda - rinda , Orinnoll , Stuart , Sioux City , Dunlap , State Contnr and Council 31uT flro departments. The fifth division waa commanded Assistant Marshal Crenel D. B. Dailoy , with Assistant Marshal J. II , of Marshall as aide , and consisted of the following organizations : Council Bluffs Light Guards , Post Grand Army of the Republic , Potlawattamio County Veteran association , St. Pat rick's Benevolent society , and kindred civic societies , Governor Gear and aides , etc. , mayor , council , city officers clergymen in carriages. Arriving at the park , there was an address by Mr. J. W. Chapman , to which Governor Gear responded. The addresses wore happily short , and ' swept , aa I might be , and the crowds listeners did not grumble on that account. The writer has attended many pub festive occasions in populous dis , tricts of the cant , but the scenea in Council Bluffs for Iho past two days were now to him. No drunkenness , disorder , nothing to mar the feasl , 'lit everywhere thousands of men , vomon and children. Everybody ippears to bo salisfied in advance , to IMVO come to the jollification with , ' lotcrmination not to become diaaatis- iod. The city had over 15,000 trangera to accommodate yesterday. ho hotels kept a continuous run of neals all day long. At the Ogden , able after table was served , and the igned rogistory liat for the past 30 lours at this hotel covers about forty ages. From llus a reapectablo idea nay bo had of the influx of viaitora. L'ho Episcopal and Methodist churchci mvo , established eating houses , and hey provo of great value to Iho iiingry multitudes. Omaha made n good show yesterday. Many gentlemen attended the parade , ' mil a shining light in the streets was ' ox-Councilman Jim Stephenson , wit ! Thandaomo team and a most beauti- , ailver colored carriage. The Omaha boys spent most of their time ilaying pool al Iho Ogden and whirl to the strains of the bands. Tlit ) several committees in charge o ileuping accommodations report thai .heir resources are not yet exhausted and that all wanting accomodatiom hnvo it by applying at the lire * men's headquarters on Broadway. At 2 o'clock about 10,000 people began to Anther al the tournament grounds to witness the contest ii steamer and hand engine tests. ITJ 5 o'clock but three tests had beei made , us follows : The Rescue Engin Company No.3 , of Council Bluffs distance in throwing water 137 fee tl inches ; Red Jackets of Avoca listunco 175 foot and 10 inches ; tin Cataracts , of Independence , 150 fee and 10 inches. There will bo little spirit in th contests till Saturday , when the excitement citoment will roach a tromendou pilch. An adjourned meeting of Iho stat association waa hold last evening it the town hall to locate the next plac holding thu annual toiirnamcn and to elect officers for the comin year. year.About five o'clock l&al evening concert was inaugurated in front c the Ogden house in honor of Got Gear. At half past seven a lovco was bold by the governor , lasting till late in the evening. In parlors Nos. 1 and 2 of the Ojrilon the governor and lady received the long stream of call ers , with a brave cood-cheor , that did not lose genuineness by unliftng hand-shaking and continuous con- verso. . . . The city was very generally illu minated ! last night , and viewed from Omaha , what could bo seen , looked very imposing. The following is the programme- for to-day : 10 a. in. , trial of hook and ladder companies. First prize , 81 0 and siato championship belt. Second prize , S7o. Third prize , 850. 1:30 : p. m. , trial of thohoso compa- lics. First prize , $200 and the state clnnnpionship belt. Socoml prize , 8100. Third , 975. Fourth , ? 50. Fifth , 20. 20.DOWN DOWN IN TEXAS. A Blnok Wnlnnt Forost-Tlio Ma Who Wiw Murdered Rolls lously. Correspondence ol tlio Chicago Tribune. SAN i ANTONIO , Juno 3. The smarl cal < Tuxan , and in fact Iho Binaries farmer I have over mol , is old Sin Graves , who lives on A ono thousam acre farm weat \Vaxahatchio , i central Texas. After Mr. Graves ha Jiown mo his cattle and cotlon h look mo over lo sec hia woods. "Well ; what of it , " I said , as h pointed to a ten-aero forest. "What of it ? Why , them's black walnuts , sir. Ton acres of 'om Planted 'cm myself ten years ago Sec , they're nine inches through Good trees , eh ? " And sure enough there were toi acres of hand planted black walnu trees. They stood about twelve fee apart , 200 to the acre , in all , 2,000 trees. 'Well , how do you got your money bad * ? " I asked. "Black walnuts are worth 82.50 a bushel , 'aint they ? I'll get 400 bushels this year. That's $1,000. A hun dred dollars an acre ia uood rent for land worth ? 15 an acre , 'aint it ? " "Well , what elao ? " I inquiredgrow ing interested. "Tho Irpca , " continued Mr. Graves , "aro growing an inch a year. When they are twenty years old they will bo ninelcen inches through. A black- walnut tree nineteen inches through is worth $25. My 2000 treoa Ion years from now will bo worth § 50,000. If I don't want to cut them all , I can cut half of them , nnd then raise a bushel of walnuta to Iho tree that is , get S2,500a year for the crop. Two hun dred and fifty dollars an acre is a fair rent for S15 land , ai'nt it ? " Now , any farmer who has ten acres overflow land on the Illinois bottom can do just what this smart Texan has done. Ho can make it worth more than ten acres in the suburba of Chicago' inside of ten years. Any Chicago man can buy fifty acrea of low bjack prairie within fifty miles of Chicago at 825 an acre , plant it to black-walnut , and make it pay him 15,000 a year. The more I examine into the possi bilities and probabilities of ten acres black-walnut trees , the moro ns- lounded 1 become. There is no crop on earth that will come within fifty miles of it. Calculate it any way you may , ten acres of black-walnut trees will pay § 250 annually an acre for the first forty years. Ten acres of black- wa ut'lreca fifty years old would bo worth 8100,000. There ia no truit tha will pay S2.50 a bushel , the mar ket price of black-walnuta. Ten acres black-walnut trees , at any ago , would always find a market , like a marble quarry or coal mine. It could always be sold. Mr. Graves says ho has never seen n time since his black- ralnut farm was two years old that ho ouldn't have sold it for more than as lany crops of wheat. A UEUOIOl'H Ml'KDEU. Col. Albert C. Pelton , whoso bcau- iful 20,000-acro ranch ia out toward lie Rio Grande , near Laredo , has icon the Peter the Hermit of the 'exans for yoara. Ho lias believed hat ho has held adirino commission o kill Apache Indians. Col. Polton came from Texas in ' 844 , a common soldier. By talent nd courage ho gradually arose lo Iho ank of Colonel , and finally in 1850 omandcd Fort Macrae. That year 10 foil in love with a beautiful Span- all girl at Abequin , Now Mexico. Ier parents were wealthy , and would lot consent to their daughter's going iway from all her fronds to live in a 'arriaun. The admiration of the oung people was mutual , and paron- al objection only intensified the uffeclion of the lovers. The nature of x ho Spanish girl is such , that , once in eve , aho never clmngca. Finally , af- or Iwo years of entreaty and dovo- ion , Col. Polton won Iho consent of lie parents of the beautiful Spanish jirl , and they were married. Then commenced a honeymoon such as only ; overs ahul up in a beautiful , flower- : environed fort can have. The lovely character of the bountiful bride won the icarls of all the soldiers nt the fort , ind she reigned a queen among these 'rontiersmen. Ono day , when the 'ovo of the soldier and his lovely wife ivns at its severest , the two , accompa- lied by the young wife's mother and . twenty soldiers , rode out lo llio , hot springs , six miles from Iho fort , lo Uiko a balh. While in Iho bath , which is near the Rio Grande , an In- Jiiin's arrow paased over their heada. Then a shower of arrows fell around thorn , and a band of wild Apache In dians rushed down upon them , whoop ing and yelling like u band of demons. Several of the soldiers fell dead , at pierced with poisoned arrows. This frightened Iho rest , who fled. Another shower of arrows , and the beautiful bride bo and her mother dropped in Iho waler , pierced by Iho cruel weapons of Iho Apaches , With his wife dying before his eyes , Col. Polton leaped up the bank , grasped his ritlo and killed the leader of the savage fiends. But the Apaches were too much for tlio Col onel. Piorctd with two poisonci arrows , ho swam intw the river am hid under an overhanging rock. Aftoi the savages had left the Colonel swan tlio river and made his way back to of Fort Macrae , Hero his wounds were ty dressed , and ho finally recovered , bit ia only to live a blasted lifo , withou love , without hope , with a vision o liis beautiful wife , pierced with poi aonoil arrowa , dving , perpetually before fore his eyes. till After the death of hia wife , i change came to Colonel Pelton. II seemed to think that ho had n sacred mission from Heaven to avenge his wife's death. Ho secured the most unerring rillcs , surrounding himself with hravo companions , and consecrated crated himself to the work of revenge. [ Io was always anxious to lead any md all expeditions against the Apa ches. Whenever any of the other In- liana were nt war with the Apaches , Col. Polton would soon bo at the head of the former. Ono day ho would bent nt the head of his own soldiers , and .ho next day ho would bo at the icad of a band of Mexicans. Nulli ng gave him pleasure but the sight > f dead Apaches. Ho defied Indian arrows and courted death. Once , with n band of the wildest despera does , ho penetrated a hundred miles nto the Apaoho country. The Apaches never dreamed that anything jut an entire regiment would dare o follow them to their camp on the nountains. So , when Col. Polton iwooped down into their camp with en trusty followers , firing their Henry rifloa nt the rate of twenty times a niunte , the Apaches fled in collator- lation , leaving their women and chil- Iron behind. It was then that there darted out of n lodge a white woman "Spare the woman , " she cried , and hen she fainted to the ground. When the colonel jumped from his addle to lift up the woman , ho found 0 was blind. "How came you here , woman , with damned Apaches ? " ho asked. "I was wounded and captured , " she aid , "ton years ago. Take , 0 , take no back again ! " "Have you any relatives in Texas ? " iskod the colonel. 'No. My father livea in Albcquin My huaband , Colonel Polton , and my uothor were killed by the Indians. " "Great God , BellaMa it you my vifot" " 0 , Albert , I know you would ioinel" exclaimed the poor wife , blind- y reaching her Imnda to clasp her lusband. Of course there was joy in the old ancho when Col. Pelton got back vith his wifo. The Apaches had arried the wounded woman away with horn. The poisoned arroAvs caused nflammation , which finally destroyed icr eyesight. "When I saw the Colonel ho was eading a newspaper to hia blind wife , vhile in her hand she hold a bouquet f fragrant Capo Jessamines , which ho lad gathcrqd for her. It waa a picture f absolute happiness. DEAD DEMOCRATIC TOWNS. 1 do not know why it ia , but in 'exas , aa in Missouri , all the live oung towns are republican. Dallas , STCW Braunfels , Palestine , Brenliam , ? ort Worth and Austin six leading owns arc all republican. If you sco dying town like Bryan , you may put t down as democratic ; and , if you see in utterly dead town , you will find no epublican vote there. Republicanism , find , in Missouri and Texas , means outh , enterprise , and prosperity. St. > ouia , Kansas City , St. Joseph , Slater nd Warronsbiirg , in Missouri , old re- mblican cities , prove this statement ; vhile Hannibal and Jefferson City > rove that democracy is the twin lister of death and decay. Somehow rothertho , immigrant dreads a dem- cratic town aa ho dreads n pestilence , suppose thia is because the Southern emocrat is not a democrat at all , but n aristocrat. The Southern demo- rat docs'nt work. He looks down on lie laboring man. Ho was once a slave-owner and a slave-driver. The vorking emigrant doesn't like to live lext to the undeinocrat democrat. Ho irefers to live in a community of dem ocratic republicans. Many immigrants isk the question , before settling in a own : Is it democratic or republican ? f it is a republican , they stop and ook at the land ; while , if it is democratic - cratic , they pass on the other side. ELI PKUKINH. Awalio ! Arise ! Communicated. ) Irishmen of Nebraska , are you uvaro of the condition of Ireland ? Do rou know her wants , arc you con- craant with her heroic sufferings ? lave you forgotten the solemn prom- so of fidelity you uttered , as the last icad-land of the Emerald lalo floated 'rom your vision , or the curse of mtred and revenge which you regis- ored against her oppressor ? Surely fou have not become degenerate ons of patriotic sirca. Now ia your imo to show your loyalty. Away vith pseudo-patriotism and curb-stono oratory. Bo men. Show that you are Irishmen. Never in the checkered liatory of Ireland liaa there been such crisis. On ono side wo behold fivu nilliona of people imbued with thu irinciplca of nationality , mid acting iiulor the influence of modem civilization , quietly but firmly lomunding their right to live ; and on ho other a feudal governmental sys- om which knows no law but force , which adopts no principle but expedi ency ; n government which employs Lho moat brutal means to carry out its ends ; a government , which , had it jxisted elsewhere , would have boon long ago blown into oblivion. Irish Americans do your duty. A .jroat deal ia expected from you. Do not shirk your responsibility. The Concord and Lexington of Irish indn- pondonco have already been enacted. See that Yorkstown will follow. No more pcaco otleringa. No more Bor- vile petitiona. Let 'irishmen use crcr/ ; intunn that modern science has invented. Wo begged and prayed , now lot ua iforl ; . Give the men homo a chance. Send them your dollars and blesaing , Buy pow der and dynamite. A ferocious tyranical , infamous government must dealt with acording to its own tac tics. That will enforce respect. It will oven create friendship. What are the livea of Queen VictorianndGlad- atone , and Foratcr , and the six him dred scoundrels who make "laws , " compared with live millions of people ? What is the destruction of \ \ indaor palace and Aldorshot , and Atlilono to the starvation and sufferings of an en tire race ? No moro acruples , England has no conscience In the language the great apostle of God and Liber , Archbishop Croke , "What wo want a chance for our lives in our own country , and wo will forgot the past. " Wo will not forget the past , however , until the blood of our martyrs ia at- toned for. Landlords must perish un- the account is balanced. Irish men do your duty , and future meliora tions will bless you. MAYO.