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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SATURDAY , JUNE 11 , 1881.
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E.ROSEWATER , Editor.
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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. "
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1422 Douglas St. \
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GOOD GOODS ,
LOW PRICES.
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Gents' Shoes and Ladies' Fine ,
Shoes a Specialty.
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Pains ,
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Foot and Ears , and all other
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