i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SATURDAY , JUNE 11 , 1881. The Omaha Bee. PunlUlicd CTCry morning , except Sunday. The only Monday morning daily. TKKMSNY.MAII- : One vcnr 10.00 1 Three Monthn,33.00 Six Month , . . . MM I One. " . . LOO t TIIK WnKT.Y BKK , published ev ery Wednesday. TKUMS POST I'AlDi- Ono Year..S2.00 I Three Month" . . f.0 Six Months. . . . 1.00 | One " . . COnUKSVONnKNl'K Cotnmunt. colons relaUns to News nnd 1-Mltorial mat ters uliould be addressed to the KoiTOII or THE Her. BUSINESS I.KTTKUSAir.15usine Letters ftnd Itcmittances should be ad- drcMod to THE OMAHA la'tiUmitNn COM- I-AJ.T , OMAHA. Drafts , Checks and 1'oit- office Orders to l > c mode payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHINB 00 , , Prop'rs ' E.ROSEWATER , Editor. John 11. Tierce is In Charge of the Circu- atlon of T1IK DAILY HKK. OVKP. 2,812,000 cmiganU have land ed on our shores since 1871. GKXF.KAI. OAUHKLD has insured his life for 825,000. Sir. Conkling can proceed , the administmtion is all fixed. THE Buffalo Commercial thinks President Garfield s administration has been a failure. So do Messrs. Conkling and Platt. IT'S a lucky thing tliat our laboring people are not dependent for their sugar upon the department of agricul ture. Lo Duo's sorghum costs $ 'M a pound. THE Pennsylvania legislature lias adjourned , after passing fifty-eight bills and electing a United States Sen ator. The legislature was in session 158 days. THE English government has now in Ireland seven regiments of cavalry , < jloven batteries of artilly and twenty- five battalions of infantry. The whole force consists of 30,000 men. TAUMAOE attacks the now revision of the Testament in the most irrever ent and blatant manner. Talmngo knows the value of advertising and doesn't propose to have his pow rents drop if he can help it. COUNCIL llLUxrs holds her river convention on the 21st of Juno. The subject of barge lines and river im provcment will bo taken up. St. Louis merchants have signified their intention of sending delegates. Iy 1790 the center of population of the United States was twenty-three miles cast of Baltimore , Md. In 1880 , ninety years later , the center of popu lation had moyed 457 milen , being at the rate of over five and a hallf miles a year. A DAHINO attempt was made yester day to blow up the town hall in Liver pool. Two Irishmen wore arrested charged Avith the olfonso. It is inti mated that O'Donovan Rosso and the Irish-American nationalists instigated and furnished means for the affair. Mit. ULAINK has no intention of re signing , notwithstanding the frantic efforts of n number of Washington correspondents to make it appear no. He is building a magnificent residence in Washington , where ho will receive Ills friends an secretary of state for the next four yerra. A yew organization , entitled the International Telegraph company , lias filed articles of association under the Lwr of New York. The capital stock u Ciwl at ten million dollars , and the line will extend from Now York through th southern states to the Kiu Gnuide river. It will also take in the western Utw > and have a line ; through the caeUni states , which will ab > y vxtoiid iij Montreal and Quebec "There is a muuia it amounts , in- dwxl , aliuust to a dib u > for invest- mtxit in railway properties , " said Jay Gould in Chicago Wednesday , "and any kind of scheme can be floated uow. I bometimus think tluit the more worthless the bchume the niort certain it is of success. This surt of thing is breeding a borious financial crisis for this country J um afraid. " - This is very good , coming from man who } jas made hie inillionis b ) bailing his lines with worthiest schemes to catch foolish L'udgoons. OMAHA inercliunts should take im uiwlialo action in the matter of spnnk ling the streets. The dusty twiboi ims begun and the inconvenience ol the dust is already making itself felt The relief experienced lust summej from liuyiiig the streets watered bj private subscription should induce tin business men on our principal tlior ouglifares to repeat the experiment o last year. It will prove a proiitabh out- , not only to the public but also t < ourtnercliants whose stocks are oftei fieriously impaired in value by thi clouds of dust which sweep into store : and settle on goods. Let the street. be watered. RESISTING THE POPULAR WILL "Government by the consent of the governed , " is one of the axioms of American political institutions. This consent of ( lie governed is manifest by an expression of the will of the majority and peaceful submission to majority rule becomes at once the policy and duly of every loyal citizen. Sir. Conkling , however , in the contest which he ia now waging at Albany to secures the seat in the senate volun tarily vacated by him a few weeks ago , has placed himself above the will of the majority of his constituents , With a minority amounting to only one fifth of all the voles of the 'legislature , and slightly more than ono-third of the cntiro republican votes lie has steadily defied public opinion and used every ollort to push a candidacy which ho must know is obnoxious , not only to liis constituents but to the vast majority of republicans llirough- out the country. For the past four years Mr. Conk ling lias boon fx consistent resistor of popular opinion within the ranks of his own party. His determined oppo sition to President Hayes was carried on against the wishes and vot'-s of a largo majority of republicans , and failed to receive the endorsement of the leaders of the party in his own stato. The campaign in Now York state , which preceded the Chicago convention , WM marked by the same defiance of popuUr opinion which Sen ator Conkling exhibited in his contest with Sir. Hayes * administration. All the resources of MI immense federal patronage and the state administra tion were used to Hond. to the national convention n delegation packed in the interest of the third term doctrine. The "unit rule , " which was opposed by n largo majority of Now York re publicans , was the lever by which Mr. Conkling proposed to forcotho nomina tion of General Grant upon the conn try and the independent , attitude of dolo- gatcs like Sir. llobertson who repre sented the overwhelming sentiment of Now York republicans was stigmat ised ns treachery and treason to party principles. In the Chicago convention , Senator Conklings opposition to ma jority mlo is a matter of history. His subsequent tactics in congress over the nomination of Judge Itnbortson was only a renewal of his previous at tempts and failures to ride over the pronounced will of the major ity by obstruction and po litical trickery. Mr. Conkling is in a hopeless minority in the present contest at Albany. Ho has failed to persuade Now York re publicans of the wisdom of his politi cal course during the past four years in liis iiulfish contests with two admin istrations. He has still further failed to wring from a majority of liis con stituents an endorsement of his cow ardly action in deserting his post at Washington. Sir. Conkling has failed to learn the lesson of majority rule. The voice of the people legitimately expressed without bribery or coercion must bo the exponent of American politics. Any citizen , whatever liis rank or po sition , makes a serious mistake when ho opposes , for factional or Hellish purposes , his own personal preferences to the known popular will. A COMBINATION against Gould has boon formed in Toxas. If it stands , it will prove the first combination J which the railroad king has found himself unable to pick. Tin : Wabash company have at last secured an eastern outlet. An ar rangement has boon entered into be tween Jay Gould and the Pennsyl vania company by which a through line will bo secured for the Wnbash from Youngstown , Ohio , to Now York city. The intention is to use the Cen tral railroad from Jersey City to a point at or near Milton , Pa. , not defi nitely determined on as yet , thence over the Philadelphia and Kno rail road to Driftwood , and thenee contin uing over the low grade division of the Allegheny Valley railroad , which ia controlled by the Pennsylvania rail road company to Ited Hank. From this point the AVabash interest pro- po.scs to construct a line to Youngstown - town , O. , where connection will be made with the Wabash system , whose western headquarters are at Toledo , O , , with lines diverging to the south- wcijt and as far west as Kansas City , All the Pennsylvania railroad com jxiny agreed to do is to take the trallii at Millon and carry it over its line tc Hod Jiank , furnishing the track am' motive ixjwtr and receiving as com a pro rate portion of what1 ever the fi eight will bring. The Jlrriew has been favorable t ( the bill introduced by HeagonofTexai in 187'J for national regulation o transportation. Like measures were and are to-day encouraged by Mr Cunkling. Did the DKK then utter i word of encouragement for that meas uroY No. Does it to-day ? No , [ Fillmore County Iteviow. The impudent blatherskite wh < peiiuud the above MJUJ evidently labor iug under the impression that hi could pile blander upon blunder am falsehood ujwn falsehood ulxm the BKE , uncontmdicted aw unpunished because wo have for year ignored him. Nobody knows botte : than this brazen liur that the BKJ was at every stage of the lleagan bill through two congresses an outspoken advocate of that measure , and the member who represented his district in the senate in the legislature of 1870 will tell him that the resolutions in favor of the ItoApan bill , which he in troduced in the state senate , wore framed by the editor of the BKB. But why does this wretch whoso soul and body have for years been mort gaged to the monopolies , prate about , his sentiments on the Reagan bill at this time. Isn't ho the same ncamp who in 1870 fraudulently changed the ballots cast by the Fillmdro county delegation for congressman , in the republican state convention , from the recognized anti-monopoly candidate to Jay' Gould's choice. Tliat rascally trick has been condoned , but it ia by no moans forgotten ; and the tolerance of that infamous trickster by Fillmore county anti-monopolist's , may even some day bo exhausted. IN view ol the increasing interest in river improvement , the report of Sin- jor Suter , of Chicago , upon the Mis souri river is especially interesting , According to Major Suter , ten feet of water at low water mark may bo se cured from the mouth to Sioux City , a distance of 800 miles , at an expen diture of ? 8,000,000. Major Suter proposes to begin the work insections , beginning at the mouth of the river and working upwards. For the sum named , proper security to the banks , ho thinks , could bo assured , and a permanent 'improvement made in confining the channel within net bounds. Several river conventions are soon' to moot for the dis cussion of this important question. Incidentally the conventions should take into consideration the obstruc tions to navigation which now imperil property and lives on the river. They should take steps to bring before con gress the necessity of such action as will insure the safety of boats und barges passing railroad bridges across the streams. Thcso bridges have boon built under a law of congress and are subject to its action. A very small expenditure at each bridge will insure comparative safety and render barge transportation comparatively safe. . Ilccont developments in the case of the Manhattan company in Now York nhoTT that the elevated railroad in terest is not , and never has been , n legitimate business enterprise , looking to bona fide transactions , and dopond- inif _ upon f.-ir runt liowst earnings , but a scheme of mere speculation , in which " rapid transit" figures simply as a device for swindling the pub lic through the wildest and most extravagant watering of stock. The fact as to the Manhattan compa ny seems to bo that it has undertaken to pay to the Metropolitan and New York companies' ' stockholders 10 per cent dividends 'upon their.respective stocks while the earnings barely suf fice to pay 5 per cent. The necessary result is to pile up n mountain of debt. Watering the stock by unlimi ted issues of certificates follows , and ultimately conies the inevitable col lapse , which in the golden opportuni ty of the railroad wreckers. GKN. SIIKUMAN put on his sword and armor at the banquet given to the "Army of- the Potomac" the other evening , and attacked Jeff Davis1 "llisoand Fall of the Confedercy" with all his old time vigor. Ho de nounced as shamefully false ( ho charges made against him in regard to cruel conduct at Atlanta , and as to the burning of Columbia. Ho brand ed the ox-president of the confederacy M a falsifier in his statements , respect ing the campaigns of Hood and John ston ; and defended General Grant's military operations before Richmond. Ho wound up his speech by saying that Davis' statements had as much resemblance to the truth ns the arch rebel had to Julius Caesar. TIIK situation at Albany shows that a crisis in the balloting is near at hand. Thursday's break in the ranks of the stalwarts was increased by two desertions to the opposition. Mr. Phitt is evidently doomed , as the ad ministration pnrty have polled seven ty-seven votes and need only one ad ditional and concentration on a single candidate to elect their man. With Plait's defeat , Conkling will also go by the board. TUB Pennsylvania Equal llights League has won a victory at Harrisburg - burg by the passage of the bill pre pared by it for the abolition of the color line in the public schools of the Commonwealth. When the bill wae first introduced few people imagined that it would pass. Now it only net-da the governor's signature to become r law , TIIK demand for ocean cable facili ties , it is understood , is becoming si - grout tliul several now cable lines an projected , and already application has been made by the American Rapid Transit Company , of Huston , to Pres ident GurfirlJ for permission to lam : 10d two cablus on our shores--one fron : d England and the other from France. It Itd d KT , Louia is just now wrestling s with the paving question , and Onmlu tr will hftvo to grapple with it before tin I end of this year. THE IOWA CONTEST. The Ho" . James F. Wilsonof Iowa , vidriitly feels that ho has rested long noii.'li under the imputation of being ranri'itd ' man and an advocate of ioiinHilies. | He is now avowedly in ho tii-l'l as a candidate for the United tati * senate for the term beginning 1ni.li 4 , 1H83. The legislature elected lis f.ill will choose the senator. Guv. ear is also a candidate , and has many leim-ntsof stiength , not the last of hi. li is his "iitiro freedom from rail- : > ail i-.iiineclions. . Sir. Wilson has n known for years as the attorney f the Union Pacific railway , nd "f the other railway cor- or.iti"iis in Iowa , and it has been posed that he entertained ex- iu1 views on the subject of the ight * of tlio companies to regulate ieir own affairs without interference r dictation from congress. The f up- o c l attitude of Sir. Wilson on these ui-stinns has injured him politically ii Iowa , though his personal popu- jirity , always very great , has not suf- uml materially , liut it was esscn- ial if lie desired to bo elected sena- or in an anti-monopoly state that ho hotilil declare himself boldly in favor f the right and duty of the govern- lent to regulate inter-stato rail- nad commerce. Sir. Wilson dis- harged this duty well in liis [ > ci < cli before the Honncpin ! imxl convention , which afforded him recisely the opportunity ho needed f Cutting a hearing in court. Ho , -uiit much further than anybody ex- icctcd , not only averting the power f the government to control inter- ate railroads , but denying the right if the roads themselves to realize rger profits than should bo necossa- y to make improvements , pay a lir interest on the investment , and eep the property in repair. Ho imlly condemned the practices of atering stock , pooling , discrimina- 011. and all tlio other devices known ) railroad corporations to extort un- lir rates from the public. Tlio Iowa Hate Jteyister says that Sir. Wilson ID gone further in Jero Black's di- cclion than Black went himself , and lat he has "outgranged the Grange self. " Whether ho has done this or ot , ho has given a now turn to the icitatoaial canvass , and it will be a oiig time before anybody in Iowa will are again to charge him with being a ailroad "monopolist. " [ Chicago Tri une. Apostates are always more zealous lian men born and raised in the faith , im Wilson protests altogether too inch and his rampant anti-monopoly ipeeeh shows him to be a demagogue ml hypocrite. ' 1 ho fact that Wilson ; ocs farther than Jero Black in his iradc against monopolies is within self enough to raise grave doubts as ) hia sincerity. And when monopo- y and ring organs like the Council Muffs .MmjMtm'/ / , make sham attacks n Wilson , because of his extreme iiti-monopoly news , wo are more than ver convinced that th it Wilson and is trained strikers arc playing vero deep gams , J.to hood ink the Iowa farmers. Conscious that their praise would only ainn Wilson in the eyes of honest ion , they are bombarding him with Quaker gmm in order to create sym- iiithy for him. Wo apprehend , how- voVi , the Hawk-eye farmers have had heir oyo-tcoth cut and can't bo de ceived by Biiuh transparent humbug. I'm : London Miller gives a despon- lent forecist ; of the crop prospects in England and the continent , and foro- hadows a largo deficit at the close of ho seasons' harvest. Europe will ook to America to make up the de ck. TIIK Standard Oil Company con .iniies to flourish. The Free Oil pipe lill was defeated by the Pennsylvania legislature and the oil regions are loilingwith indignation over the open faced bribery of legislators in the in .ereats of the great monopoly. The late lamented Nebraska legis at lire made a bad mix of its railroad .egislatiou. The act requiring the i-ato to conform with that charged on ho 80th of November last would uake the charges for paaHcngors live : onts pur mile on most of the Nebras ka roads , whereas the present rate in 'orco varies from three and a half to 'our and a half cents per mile , in do- iaueo of the law as it wore. Hut the cutest thing is the forbidding of all special rates. This , if enforced , as it will not lu % , would kill all the whole sale and jobbing business in the state. Sioux City Journal , The Into lamented Nebraska legisla ture passed no such laws. The law they did pass simply prohibits railroad companies from charging higher tninsMrtation [ rates than they chiirged in 1880. It does not prohibit them from charging three cents per milo. If they see fit they may legally charge one cent , per mile. The law does not prohibit rail ways from granting as low car-load rates for any class of merchandise or products as they have charged before the now law went into force. They must , however , charge no higher rate for transporting any class or given quantity of goods to ono patron than they charge for carrying the same quantity and class over the same dis tance to another patron. They cannot legally charge more for carrying a car-load ol goods from a shorter distance than they charge for the same class and quantity for a longer distance. Ii other words they can't charge more foi carrying a car load of coal from Hlaii to Tckamah than they charge fron Omaha to Tokamah but they ma ) charge the same rates from botl points which shows plainly that the through rate to points within tin state can bo maintained , but the ratt from local stations between thosi through points cannot bo higher thai the through rate. Points beyond tin state boundaries are not included within the operation of the law so that through rates on products and merchandise , coming or going out of the state , remain entirely at the dis cretion of the railway managers. What is there unjust in such a law wo pray ? TUB dark liorso is regarded as the animal safest to bet on in the Iowa gubernatorial race. TIIK merchants and manufacturers of Omaha , should take an active part in the proposed Missouri river im provement. U.viiKU the new school law , as it has been interpreted , all our public school tcachsrs will bo required to un dergo a re-examination in the branchei for which they already hold certifi cates. This is u hardship to many of our most efficient teachers , but wo presume they will have to boar with it. The Chicago Tribune says that towns in the western states are at last com- ini' to their senses in refusing to vote aid to every railroad schema that is organized. Elections were held in the north tier of townships of Wayne county , Indiana , last Saturday for the puposo of voting a tax to the Indian apolis , IMoomington it AVestorn rail road , liut ono of the four townships voted in favor of a tax , and in this township unfairness is claimed , and the election will probably bo con tested. EDUCATIONAL , Thcro i.1 talk of founding a German uni versity ivt Milwaukee , Win. , and of rii 5iif ( $ L'OOU,000 for the project. The Swixlirtli government is considering the question uf uliulialiinjj Latin in a com- pulHory Htudy in the gynaaium. The new Hebrew Union college , tliu only Hebrew institution for advanced study in this country , hrw be jii opened in Cincinnati. The main building of the Jefferson Medical college uf Philadelphia is to be enlarged to give accommodation to 100 mure MtmlcnU. The two halls for female students at Ox- rd arc both full and are incn-asiug their ccommodation. The bent pnifusnoro have een t-ecured as k-cturvM , The C'lallin university for colored Htu- flits at Urangeburgi S. t' . . has had , dur- : ig the past year , 'i8.S pupils in its three upartmenH Tuition is free and the iin-es are thorough. Hugh S. Jfgartof South Carolina , who ixs been nominated as u cmlet at West lint by I 'resident CiarHuld , is the grand- in of I'roMilent Tyler's attorney general , ho fought John 0. ( . 'alhoun tifty yearn ; o. o.Tobacco Tobacco is prohibited to the students of berlin college , ( Jirard college , and the aval Kchool tit Annapolis. A similar rule as been recommended for West Point by V bo.ird of visitors. At Cornell univer- ty nearly all the httidentn have volun- \rily cigned a plcdgu of abstinence. It is proposed at Oxford to appoint in 'art ' at least , boards of examiners who do ot thenihelves belong to the body of Tesi- . lit teachers. The tendency of the present Into of things is to confine' tlio t-xamina- loin to one narrow groove , and to eucoiir- ! , 'e students to count with ceitainty upon eing asked no < | Ui-stioin the answers to 'hichtlicy have not been previously taught r , if Hiich questions are set , to ignore them , s abnormal , and almost to recent Ihcm as nfair. The American institute of Isturuction , 'ill hold its fifty-H'cond annual meeting nt it. Albans , Vermont , on July 5 , ( i , 7 and i. Among the speakers experted are Judge L'oiirs'-'t1 , President Buckham , nnd Dr. Jurry , agent of the 1'eabody Vund. It is bought that 'resident ( larfield will at- end the meeting. The Mibjects to be dis- ! iiv < cd iuclude "The Relations of Educa- ion to ( . 'itiz-riship in a Hi-public , " 'Methods and Itcsults , " "Education at , ho South , " etc. The summer school of Biology of the 'oabody ' Academy of Science , nt Salem , fill open July -1 , and will continue in cshion for four weeks. This school is in- .ended expressly for teachers of tlio public ind private hchools , and the classis limited o twenty-four course * in physiological jotany , analytical botany , anatomy and ihysiology of vertebrates , embryology , : ( i'lenteratps , t-ntoinology and invertebrate ninials will be t'iven. The correspomlent of The Uoiton Join-n il , who has lati'lv been discussing Oeru an ichools , ilecl ires that teachers teach more n ( it-niiany than tbeydo in America , and hat this is the reason that in the ( icriimn ichools hu was never in a single instance > een attention flag or interest lo.-t. He .i that in America "books have become .he sources of instruction ; books do all the liiestioning , books do all the answering ; MMII.H prescribe the daily lesson , books map nit the term's wholu work , and books lay lown Jtho very list of review questions .vith . which any teacher , with a superb lourHi , if hu huiipen to be n blockhead , nav wind up thu course of study , The .hole tnrth is that teachers are becoming ruchhu-h ; that they do not know their Kcholars ; that books nnd supervisions and .flmt have not actually t-stranged them 'ro ithu real | > otion ! they ought to hold , > md which in ( lermany they do hold , ' While tin--so statements may be somewhat exaggerated , there is , it must It- said , n , 'oo. 1 deal of truth iu them , Floods iu Pennsylvania- National Associated I'rtm. PiTTsnrwi , Juno 10. Rain fell steady hist night. The river is higher than known for years in Juno. Cel lars in the lower part of town are flooded. The water is seven foot in the Times engine room , ThoAlleghany river is twenty-two feet and rising 0 inches per hour. In the lower part of Allegheny City the inhabitants are moving into the upper stories Many mills are forced to quit operations. The IMttaburg and Lake Erie railroad is covered with water. At Denver Falls , 1'a. , a slide covered the track for fifty feet. No trains run on the Allt-ghany Valley railroad , A pas senger car on the I'ittsburgand West ern railroad floated from the track. Guests of the Robinson house have to use boats to get to and from the hotel. Ik-fore the flood the Alloghany river was full of rafts , inviting Halo. AH are lost. Some loss of life is re ported. Two men came down the river on a log crying "murder , " but they could not bo helped. Five men went by on a raft which they succeeded in steering cleat of the bridges , and went on their waj to the gulf , About noon a house went by. Furniture and bedding could be plainly seen. A number ol houses on llarr's Island's , wore swept away. The damage to the property ii : and around the city is estimated a < $100,000 , A POISONED PLUG. Death and Litigation , the Relics of a Horse Trade in Platt'e County , The Courts Cal'od ' Upon to Set tle the Case , and Dispose of Two Omalia Thugs. Grout Rojoloinc Oror the Return of tlio Prodigal Road to Coluinbn ! Collar County imd Its Capital , CorrcujionJcnco of Tim HUB. COLU.MIIUS , Nob. , Juno 10. The district court for 1'iatto county is now in suasion , and number of interesting - ing cases arc coining up for considura lion. Unusual interest is manifested in a civil suit for recovering the vnluo of sonic horses lost by a contagious disease. The case is known as Them- hardt vs. McKenzie , and these facts are ( tlnifl far established : Thoinhardt and McKcnzio traded horses and shortly nftcr Mr. T , noticed that his now liorso was sick with a loathsome disease of the mouth , glanders. It subsequently died as did nlso four other horses kept in the same stable , The plaintiff alleges that the de fendant had a horse die of this same disease prior to the trade , and that ho , the defendant , know the liorso traded to him to bo all'ected , and that was his reason for trading. The plaintiff now sues to recover the value of horses lost , and the expense of doctoring them , in all over 81,000. The parties both live in Colfax county , where the people are mostly Scotch , as is also the defendant. The plaintiff is Ger man , as are also many of the Matte county people. The grand jury have had a great quantity of business for consideration , but have not found many bills , as yet. They have found an indictment against Jack Lewis , a blacksmith of Omaha , and Charlie Wilson , a cigar manufac turer of the same place , for burglariz ing the safe in the county treasurer's ollico of Platte county. It is quite probable others may bo implicated. TJin particulars of this safe blowing have already been detailed in THE UKK. THE LATE OK ( IAMI1I.F.HN. The jury is now wrestling with evi dence agains parties for gambling. The forgeries of S. L. Barrett , and the suicide of John Lawspn , have been charged against bucking faro , and excessive indulgence in other chance games. Some dens have been in operation for two or three years past , but the keepers and feeders have all skipped town now. Some fty witnes ° es are in waiting on this aso. Lawsou wrote letters before ammitting the rash deed , in which o ascribed his dispondoney to losses t the gambling dens. Ho gave the ames of parties engaged in the busi- ess and some of the runners for them. olumbuH is prosperous , her mor- hants are kept very busy and the far- uers in surrounding localities have ino crop prospects and are very hopo- til. THE JUNfTIOX. The railroad is now completed mak- ig Columbus the junction of the U. . and 0. , N. & 13. II. railroads. A oo excursion to Columbus will bo ivon the people of Norfolk , JVIadison , ilbion , and other towns on the branch oads , one week from yesterday. On "lis occasion the U. 1' . railroad poli- cians of the region , assisted by po- tical manager John M. Thuraton , of ) maha , will deliver harangues to the eoplo thus assembled. 13. K. Smith , member of the last legislature , and Loran Clark , member of a former one , , ro advertised to bo on hand. "SVc resume they will tell how sweet and rofitablo it is to bo a railroad politi- ian and advise everybody to join lands and circle in the ring. They nay inadvertantly say the railroad is low built into Columbus because the oinpany calculated Mt less expensive o build the road into Columbus thane , o reconstruct the Loup river bride , ind that the $25,000 bonds voted was lesirod simply as a testimonial of their 'riondly feeling. The pride of the iivorago citizen will bo slightly ilovated on learning that hey have boon guilty of ; uch high handed generosity as donat- ng the muniflciont sum of $25,000 lends as a token of affection to men vho scarcely know whether they have ipntributcd 825,000 or $50,000 at a ingle specified time to a specified ibject The people may bo reminded if similar tokens sent in advance by mo sovereign when approaching an- ither in the good old Bible times , lowovor the most refreshened mem- > ry will hardly alight upon a king who ivith the donation in hand can organize limsolf into a stock company and inflate that peculiar animal'known is stock capital to ten times its nor- mil size , and utilize this as a basis for ovying upon the producing industries of other lands , for the development of which it purports to have been ap plied. List to the echoes. COLKAX COUNTY lias excellent crop prospects. There was considerable now ground broken in the county last year and there is an increase in acreage of all kinds of grain. An unusual amount of flax was sown this year. The ground hus been HO wet and weeds have grown so fast that farmers find it almost impossible to clean the corn ground , Schuylor , the county seat and only town of this county , has boon very quiet during the past two years , but ia now reaching forth in all lines of trade with now vigor. The merchants are all doing a fine business and also two banks. This county contains n great number of hogs and cattle and a number of small flocks of sheep , Hay has been the greatest export com modity , a largo quantity of it going tc the Denver market. JAY. IMPIETIES , The ( strawberry plows in the cocktaj ! with just as much heavenly abandon on i does in the Sunday Bchool jilntu made t < hold about five. Elijah Starling , of Monticello , Iowa claimed to be a mm of Cut } . Finding < reluctance on the part of hid wife to admi hi < i claim , he took an ax ixml sent her to licaven to make inquiries , The revised New Tcitsunent N already dointf good work. A Philadelphia woman knocked her drunken husband down a flight of Hlair * with a copy of it. For oale by all bookseller * . Always gn to church. It in n splendid place to show your bonnet. In order that uoltody ohall liiisH nceinK it , make yourself as conspicuous a * i issil > le. .hut as soon as it is demonstrated Hint the icviied New Testament will pros * autumn leaves M the old edition , its popu larity will increase. [ Philadelphia Chron icle. Taking up collections at churches h mighty dangerous business. In llrooklyn , last Sunday , while engaged in counting Mie receipt * of the collection * , William JIV- ( 'alley fell dead. Let this be a terrible warning. A preacher was lately addressing hi * congregation on the cvil.sof laziness. "My frit-mid , " aid lie , "there nru no lazy angels lying around the comers of the golden streets , whittling the sturelxmof ! the New Jerusalem. "Tho old version Is good enough for me , " remarked Mrs. lirown , ccntentioucly. They hod been speaking of the New Testa ment. "Yes , " replied her visitor , casting her eyes at the well-preserved copy at her elbow ; "it make * just as good a table or nament. " A clergyman was traveling through the Ifumboldt mountains with an old miner. Said the miner , "Do you really bcllevu that Ciod made the world iu six days ? " "Of course I do. " "Well , don't you tbink , " re turned the miner , "that Ifc might have put in one more day to advantage right around here ? " A clergyman was once forced to Hay tea a congregation that persisted in depositing buttons in the contribution box : "lirethren who wish to contribute buttons" , " said the financier , "will pleasu not bummer down the uye.s , for while that process does not in crease their value as coin it docs impair their usefulness as buttons. " The ncoplcVof a Xuw Hampshire town are MMearfully lazy that , when the wife of a minister who had just nettled in Unit town asked a prominent citizen if the in- habitauts eiierally respected the Sabbath and refrained from business , he it-plied : "Confound it , ma'am , they don't do cnoui'h work in a whole week to break the Sabbath , if it was all done on that day , " "I take for a text , " said a St. Louis col ored pastor , "the words : 'It is more blessed - ed to give than to receive. ' Theroaro many who come to church who would do well to remember these words , They are of that kind who comes litre and eat and drink of the good things , but who are never hero at the time the box is passed nroumlA tall brother stood up and said : "You're u liar , sir a liar a liar liar liar. " There was a great commotion , ending iu the ejection of the disturber. "Do you believe , " Mr. Uglimug asked his pastor , "do you tell me that you be lieve men are descended from monkevs ? " And the pastor looked long at Brother 1Tg- lining , nnd said , "Well , yes ; some men. " And then Brother Uglimug gazed longand earnestly at the pastor , and they both gazed long and _ earnestly at each other ! and by and by without going into a caucus they both resigned. The following is a striking paragraph from a Virginia'City daily : "The Kev. < ! . II. Davis , of Carson , was in town yester day sampling the religious cropping of the Comstock. Ho finds them HO largely composed - posed of rebellious material that nothing can bo got out of them by any free milling1 process with which he is acquainted , and lie is < lf the opinion that all must inevita bly be sent to the boss smelter of the big fire furnace , down below , that we all know of , " A clergyman lust his hat om > cveiiin last week and was obliged to go homo with a shabbier one. which was left in the place of it. Next day the hat was returned by the penitent appropriator , who said : "I'll never take a minister's hat again. You can't think what queer things I've hiul running through my bead ever Hince I put that hat on. " Baswitz & fells , i j OMAHASHOESTORE 1422 Douglas St. \ LARGE STOCK , GOOD GOODS , LOW PRICES. Burt & Means' Gents' Shoes and Ladies' Fine , Shoes a Specialty. 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