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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : MONDAY , JUNE 13 , 1881. The Omaha Bee. Published every morning , except Sutulny. The only Monday morning daily. TKUMSBYMAII- : One . $10.00 I Three Montln.8S.00 yew. Six .Months. . . : > .000nc | . . 1.00 THH wr.Ki.Y inn : , imWWi icv. Try Wcdnc" d.iy. TKUMS 1'OST PAID- : One Yenr $2.00 I ThrccMontlw. . JjO Six Months. . . . 1.00 | One " . . 20 COHHKSrONDKXCH All Communi cations rvlatini ; to News nnd Kdllorlnl mut ters should IK : addressed to the. Kmioii OK TUB lr.E. ! DUSINKSS LT.TTKKS-Air Un-ine Letters find Hcmittances should lie ml- drew ! to THE OMAHA rimJHiu.vo COM- TANT , OMAHA. Drafts Check * mid Post- office Order * to lxmndc | myablo to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING CO , .Prop'rs . ' E. ROSEWATER. Editor. John 11. Pierce U in Charge of IheCircu- .Btionof THK DAILY HKK. "luogris" to "Foxhall"- " Shako ! " OMAHA'S Sieugorfcst was n "howl- ing success. " THK half broods socm to bo thor oughbreds. Ur-nnxsKA is suffering from a mania for suicide. 2\KW YonK sporting men tire crying Kcene-o with great relish. THK American horse is creating even n greater sensation in Europe than the American hog. druggists are now wrest ling with the now liquor laws , and a test case is soon to bo taken to the courU. GKNKKAI. GKANT has arrived in Chicago' and concludes that lie won't take a hand in that senatorial mud dle in Albany. CONKLINO returned to Abany to day , and says ho proposes to show the .half-breeds of what stuir stalwarts are made. Poor , seems to bo a paying gamo. 1l\o members of the last wheat pool at Chicago cleared $1,250,000 by the transaction. NOTWITHSTANDING the refusal of numberless counties to vote bonds the railroads still continue to oxtoiul their lines in every direction. for the English mission . will mourn over the announcement that James Russell Lowell will retain his position at the court of St. James. Or eighty thousand Swedes who emigrate this year to America , the largest portion will nettle on lands of -the Northern Pacific in the north west. Bv the recent contracts the gov ernment will save $300,000 in four years on the cost price of postal cards , and § 10,000 in one year on Htampcd onvolopos. NOBODY is very anxious to huvo the late lamented Nebraska legislature re convened , but the present outlook is that wo shall have an extra session of that body of eminent Htatesmon next "winter , if for no other purpose than to apportion the state into congreb- aional districts. DKUXIATH pErnauiiW of Dakota is very confident th t mnitliurn Dakota -will bo orcanized into u state ly the iioxt congress. Ho claims * there are already 110,000 people in that part of thu territory and thousands will couiu in this season. The chances of Dako ta being the thirty-ninth state aio do- cide'dly favorable , but there will boa very lively contest over her admission in Congress. THK " Grand Prize of Paris , ' a race itocond only in importance to the En glish Derby and with a aubstantia money value of § 20,000 , has boon won liy Foxhall an American horse owned 1 Tjy Mr. James II. Keene , the Wai street speculator. The victory of Mr JLorillard'B "Iroquois" last week ai JKpaom Downs and the uplendii achievement of " Foxhall" at Parii yesterday will do wonders towards in creasing the interest in horsu-tyreud ing in this country. John Koach'u pouliar method fo controlling legislation is aptly illus iratod by thu unique manner in whicl lie and his agents lobbied a tmbsid ; through the Sandwich Islands Icgis luturu. Having bribed the majority of moinbeiii to vote for thu scheme ono of thu more shrewd of the Band vich statesmen proposed to move i reconsideration , when a burly black fiinitli proceeded to thrash him for i consideration on thu floor of the us numbly , and in the excitement i friend of the measure moved a Bin die adjournment , which prevailed , foi -the .members all wanted to see tin judo Dhow. So the subsidy was BU cured. The Pionttr Prtst pertinently iisk whether some ono can't get up a ugh on the assembly floor at Albany. THE GREAT FESTIVAL. The Smngorfcst has closed , and the visiting members of the Swhgcrbuml have left for their various homes , taking with them , no doubt , most pleasing recollections of the hospital ity of Omaha and her Gorman-Ameri can citizens , and of the festival which they assisted in making such ft social nnd artistic success. It must bo ex tremely gratifying to the energetic management of the Sicngcrfest to know that their efforts resulted in the accomplishment of their highest ex pectations. From beginning to close , not a ninglc failure marked the course of the week'a entertainment , nnd the enjoyment of the occasion was shared equally by guests and participants , Omaha , too , may congratulate itself upon having been selected as the place in which the musical festival was held. Apart from the fact that thousands of dollars wore put in circulation in the city , and that hundreds of strangers who had never before known of our commercial importance became ac quainted with the resources and de velopment of our growing city , the influence of the saongcrfest upon mus ical culture in our city has been marked and will continue to make itself felt for n long time to come. It brought to Omaha the finest orchestra which has ever performed in thin * section of the conn try. It introduced to our people a class of music which was entirely now to most of our citizens and gave im a chorus which wan the largest that was ever gathered in Omaha. lint naidu from its musical merit the Sacngerfcst has done much to tear down a prejudice which has existed in some minds concerning foreign social cus loins. It has shown that well bred people are well bred whatever their surroundings and that a man can bo aa much of a gentleman and as good n citizen while Hinging nongsand sipping his beer , as when chanting hymns or intoning gospel songa within the walls of a church. It must bo exceedingly gratifying to our Gorman-American citizens and their friends who assisted in ttccuring the Siungorfcst for Omaha to know that during its entire progress not a single act of disorder or breach of the peace occurred to mar its success or cost discredit on those who took part in it. It has become quite the custom for a pertain class of social reformers to take the measure of the entire Cer ! man nationality from the hineh fiends , bummers and hoodlums , who frequent low groggorios , and they have virtually charged that no ono can take a social glass of boor or wino without at once descending to the level of drunken bummers and row dies. The Siungerfeat has dispelled that delusion from the minds of all candid people , and this has been by no moans the least important of its many advantages. Ono thing more. During thia fes tive week Omaha has shown to every visitor that she is not disposed to take advantage of the necessities of strangora whether they are thrown hero by accident or come hero . -for pleasure. Over the never the complaint among visiting firemen was that they were mercilessly gouged by everybody who had any thing to sell , and a great many wont t homo with a grudge that they will 1 not BOOH got ovor. Here , hotels , res taurants and store keepers iniulo no advance in prices and all vied with each other in offering every accommo dation at reasonable rates to thu stranger visitors. i : Stanley Matthews evidently felt the force of the strong opposition which was made to liin appointment to the supreme bunch on the ground of his monopoly tendencies. In a speech delivered bcforo the soldiers reunion at Cincinnati , he made the following remarks on the ttupjcct ; Lot mo say , comrades , that if any man knows what an honest judge IH going to decide , they know more than he does , until thu time comet ) uftei hearing testimony and reading argu iiiont , ho deliberates in the chamber * of his own conscience and settles hit judgment under a solemn sense of re t" sponsibility to God. If I know ! anything of myself , T think I shall bo influenced by thai , consideration to administer the law for the pur pose of doing justice between mar ! and man without fear , favor or afleo , lion , impartial and equal ; and so ti build up the great temple of justice in which , and in which alone , wo can | find pence and propurity. And what 1 shall endeavor to do ia to cast waj behind me every bias , every prejudice dice , and everything which can pos sibly draw the mind away from a jusl comprehension of the truth as it 111113 bo presented in the present life , am to treat every question coming bofon the tribunal of justice us a new sub ject of investigation , to bo studied i examined , learned andtroatudwithou reference to any past consideration. Money is moro plentiful in Nov > York owing to the calling in of si many securities for investment. Sonn of the Now York bankers predict thai money will bo loaning at ono per cent U on call ( Seforo July 1. sa a In a recent speech at a parliumon 10 tary dinner , Prince Bismarckaaid ( ; " . r will write my name under no lu\ which murderstho ] poor workingnian. Bismarck has forgotten the Franco Prussian war and a score of law which have opposed and virtually murdered thousand * of poor working men. A CHEAPER POSTAGE. In the year 1852 the post oflico de partment for the first time ninco its organization found itself without n de ficit. Postage rates wore at once re duced on the ground that the public and not the government should share the profits of the postal department. It was openly announced in congress that when the .department again showed an oven balance sheet it would reduce ita letter rates from throe to two cents , and inaugurate a really cheap system of postage on the Bamo basis as that which prevailed in Great \ Britain. Thirty years have passed , and notwithstanding * the increased - creased use of the postal service and the largo additions to the wealth of the country , the department has failed to find itself able to inako the desired change , and the tlirco cent rate still remains in forco. The time seems to bo rapidly approaching preaching when the change to a cheaper postage can bo Hafely made. The annual deficiencies in the postal department are steadily decreasing year by year. For last year , the deficit was only 82,780- , 341 on a business of S.'t(5,105- ( 820. This year the deficiency will bo about § 3,000,000 on n business of nearly forty millions of dollars , which is less than half the deficit which several years ago was reported from the department. The question of cheap postage depends upon the ability of the postmaster-general to place the department on a self-sus taining basis , and on this account ev ery man , woman and child is vitally interested in the success of his plans for postal reform. It is estimated that the reductions in the star route service will save from § 1,500,000 to 92,000- 000 annually to the government , thus reducing the deficiency in the postal revenues to within § 1,000,000 , or at most ? i,500,000 of becoming self- sustaining. The three items of rail road transportation , star routes , and postmaster's Balaries make up moro than two-thirds of the total cost of the departments , and on the smallest item Postmaster-General James has saved one-fourth of the current deficit. Congress nhould now take im mediate stops to investigate the railway mail service. Charges are madu of gross frauds in the weighing of the mails by which the government is annually swindled out of thousands of dollars. A care ful and thorough examination of the service would result in a , largo decrease of the amount now piid ; out for rail way transportation of the mails and corresponding.saving to the govern ment. Even moio could bo done ii the matter of postmaster's salaries. It is a singular fact that the postofl'ico department is to-diiy the only largo transportation company paying higher oflicial salaries than before the panic. Statistics prove that the salaries ofjiostmasters have uot only kept pace with the increasing revenue of the government , but that they have grown faster than the num ber of postoflicos or the total business mi measured by the gross expendi ture. A comparison of the years 1870 and 1880 shows that while the num ber of postmasters has grown CO per cent , and their salaries ( ill per cent. , the number of postal clerks has in- creased 71 per cont. and their salaries only 54 per cont. If the growth ( f postmasters' salaries hud followed the mime law the department could make both ends moot in the current year The reason for this is plain. Post- maHtors' ' clerks are paid fixed salaries , but the salaries of postmasters , taken as a whole , are regulated by a per centage on the business done. The result is that as the business increases salaries increase , and the postmasters and not the people get thu benefit of the change , In thu case of the very largo offices thu percentage rule has been abandoned. While this method could probably not bo changed in the very small ollicen there is a largo claaa of medium tuxed ollicos whore a proper economy < would easily save from § 500,000 to § 1,000000. ; If an equal saving was made in the railway mail service thu problem of a two cent postage would bu solved. TUB New York Tvn\n \ , the cham pion of anti-monopoly principles in Now York fails to taku stock in the l charge that Mr. Conkling's defeat ia itbeing sought by the railroads on account of his anti-monopoly record , < It says : - , While wo are no advocate of Mr , Do | > o\v's camlidaoy , it seems a trillu ridiculous to find it assailed from such a ( itiartor. Did Mr. Conkling never o hold it brief for thu Central railroad , has ho not made u very comfortable , income during the last six months out of fees paid htm by railroad monopo lists , and is he not now the retained advocate of a paper-made corporation created for thu special purposu oi making the people pay divi dends ; on stock which represents nothing hut the greed of a handful ol speculators ? Whore was Mr , Conk- link when the confirmation of Stanley Matthews was at the mercy of n single adverse vote , and what vote of lib in the senate can bo recalled to shou that ho is on the side of the people 01 against the monopolists ? Is there t prominent L'onkling man in the logia laturo who lias been distingushed foi his advocacy of the railroad bills or of any of the meaaurea introduced during ttio lost few years to restrain the powci of corporations ] The Conkling ob ioctions to Depot ? are simply an oihi lition of hypocritical cant , AI , SUPREMACY The census bureau has published a ntatcnicnt showing the increase in all cereal crop" ? of the United States from 1870 to 18.eO. In 1870 the entire creago was 70,102,000 acres in com , heat , bcrlcy , ry ° oat-8 MHbuck \ - heat. In 1880 , 128,805,570 acres TO reported with an average yield per ere fully as high as it was ten years rovious. Corn went "up from 1,094- 55,000 to 1,773,100,510 bushels , an icreaso of nearly 700,000,000 , iiishcls. Wheat rose from 233,884- , 00 in 1870 to 45,500,000 ! ) in 1880 , i increase "f nearly 100 per cent. These figures are suggestive not ily of the rapid development of iur country , but also of its boundless gricultural resources. During ten ears our now acrogo in grain and oni amounted to 3,703,570 ! acres or ,478,737 moro than there is land in 1 England and Wales. In corn one , our increased acreage is equal o moro than two-thirds of the total crcs contained in England , and our icreaso in wheat farming , 10,500,000 cres , is five times the total wheat croago in England and Wales in 880. Such an exhibit may well cause espondoncy and despair among Eng- ! sh farmers. It is only a beginning f what American agriculturists can o if put on their mettle. The entire creago of first class wheat land in the Jnitcd States amounts to more than 00,000 acres. Wo have in addition 00,000,000 acres of excellent corn and that with ordinary cultivation nil yield forty bushels to the acre , hould occasion demand wo could in single year produce 20,000,000,000 'ushols ' of corn and 7,000,000,000 lushols of wheat with a few hundred nillions ofoatw , rye nnd barley thrown to make good measure. These gurcs are based on the > reductive capacity of our agricultu ral lands under the present system of ultivation. It need hardly be added hat with anything like the laborious nethods of foreign farmers in sub- oiling , draining , fertilizing nnd eco- omic management of waste , the totals ould bo vastly increased. Lands ow unproductive or yielding scanty reps could bo made to triple their .initial harvests. The question of a market for these mormons crops docs not seem difficult f solution. With the mighty emigra- ion pouring into our country , the lomo demand must be vastly in- ireased. The increase of transports- ion facilities will still further aid in 'ringing ' the consumer and producer icaror together , and our annual sur- ilus will be readily disposed of , por- laps at lower prices than now , to the Hungry nullions of England and the continent ? No competition can stand gainst our limitless resources , our cheap lands and our certain seasons , ivlion to these are added industry , economical agricultural methods and cady means of laying our harvests at the gates of the grain markets of the world. WITHIN less than forty days the principal throughfares of Omaha wil bo supplied with pure Missouri river water by the city waterworks com pany. This constant supply of water will enahlo us to keep down the dust provided the proper arrangements are made for street sprinkling. It is natter of vital interest to our mer chants that the principal business streets bo sprinkled regularly during the Hummer und fall. They must , however , take action in this matter at an early day if wo are to desire any advantage from our water works. They must n H de pend on the city council for carrying on the work of stieot sprinkling , Wo may at some future time bo able to raise a special fund for street sprinkling by taxation , but such a tax cannot bo levied for the present and the expense must bo born by pri vate subscription. Heretofore the greatest obstacle was the scant supply of water nnd cost of hiuiling it from distant points. This will no longer bo in the way. With hydrants in convenient places , and water ahuiys on hand in any quantity , the expense for carting will bo materially reduced. The four wheel sprinkling carts heretofore in use will , however , hard ly answer the purpose now , A two wheel cart with n round tank and largo sprinkling trough modelled after the sprinkling carts in use at Chicago , should bu built and put in operation in Omaha. It will take several weeks to contruet half a dozen such carts , and no time ought to bo lost in raising the necessary subscription for this rea son. WHKN ono considers the tact that Mrs. Mackuy's cook at Paris gets § 0,000 a year for frying omelettes , and Fred Archer , the English horse jockey , § 5,000 for riding "Iroquois , " who can say that the tine arts are not handsomely paid , The Irish Revolt. riillaJililua | I'IMU. Lord Cainarvon is right when ho describes the present condition of affairs in Ireland as civil war. It matters not that ho is assailing the Gladstone government because it docs not move fast enough to crush out the rebellion ; ho calls the thing itself by its right name , If Mr. Chamberlain is well advised when ho says that "tho land bill is the maximum which any English Parliament will pass , " peace is not near at liand. The land bill concedes moro than the land leagures asked when they be gan the agitation. It yields more than it was thought a British parlia ment would ever agree to. The bill is not perfection , andif the worst fears of _ the friends of Ireland shall bo re alized under it there will still bo cases of hardship and denials of justice where a poor tenant has to contend bcforo the local magistrate against a hard and unbending landlord. But the measure is founded on a just principle , and is of value because it is a concession , because it recognizes that the agitation is not without rea son and the cause of Ireland not with out justice. At any previous time a bill offering so much would have been hailed with joy throughout Ireland. The Ireland of to-day is a long remove - move from the Ireland of other times. The island was never so aroused , the people never so thoroughly organized , never so abundantly supplied with funds from outside sympathizers. Under the fostering policy of Great Britain a now Ireland has sprung up in America. It is a republican Ire land , enjoying freedom itself and dreaming of liberty for the Ireland across the sea , The old tics are strong to the second nnd third teneni- tion. The American Ireland is pros perous , with something to spare for the Ireland which suffers and sobs un der Britisli oppression , and money is poured in upon the oldsodwithlibcral hand. Not only money , but warm , active sympathy abounds hero for Ire land , whoso sad story is never heard unmoved by an American assemblage. The mails go loaded with this to Ire land , and her cause is immeasurably strcnghtencd by the encouragement , from this shore. If the Ireland of " 08 had had the America of 1881 to lean upon there might have been a very different issue of the rash and bravo rebellion. What is to come of this struggle the longest head cannot foresee. It meets every condition of civil war , except a formal declaration and the armed forces of revolt in the field. The best offer ever made by an English parli.a- meiit is practically rejected before it is tried. Violence defies the gov ernment , whoso civil process must be supported by the military power. The truth seems to bo that Ireland nil not bo satisfied with any measure liat a British parliament will pass , he is not staking her hopes on a tritisli parliament but on an Irish larliament , or , better still , an Irish ongress. She dreams of indepeii- lenco , perhaps a republic. Moro bit er days are in store for her , but she s as reckless of the cost as she is dc- crmined to join the issue. Peaceful : ounsels may prevail tor a time , but .ho volcano of Irish discontent will re- nain , to break out at some other nio- iient with a hot tide and a belching ury which even a strong government will find it difficult , if not impossible , o deal with. It cannot bo that Iro- and will bo ground forever. Is There Any Danger ? The following is what a few far-sec- ng , patriotic men have thought and iaid : The following extract from a recent cttcr written by Hon. David Davis , jnco a judge of the supreme court , now a senator of the United States , ndicates the serious nature of the problem before us : "Great corporations and consolidat ed monopolies are fast seizing the avenues of power that lead to the con trol of the government. It is an open secret that they rule states through procured legislatures and corrupted courts ; that they are strong in con gress , and that they are unscrupulous In tho"use of means to conquer preju dice and acquire influence. This con dition of things is truly alarming , for inless it bo changed quickly and thor oughly , free institutions are doomed to bo subverted by an oligarchy rest- "ng upon a basis of money and of cor porate power. " The present secretary of the treas ury , Mr. Windom , in a recent letter to the president of the AntiMonopoly ly League , says : "Tho channels of thought and the channels of commerce thus owned am controlled by ono man , or by a few men what is to retain coqiorato power or to fix a limit to its exactions upoi the people ? What is then to hindct these men from depressing orinilatini the value of all kinds of property t < suit their caprice or avarice , am thereby gathering Into their own coffers fors the wealth of the nation ! Where is the limit to such a power as this What shall bo said of the spirit of i free people who will submit without , protest to be thus bound hand am foot ? Hon. Jeremiah S. Black , ex-judge of the supreme court and ex-attornej general of the United States , recentl ; stated : "All public men must take the ! side on this question. There can bo no neutrals , Ho that is not for ns i against us. Wo must have legal pro lection against these abuses , Tin agitation once begun , and the magnitude tudo of the grievance being under stood , it will force our rulers to give us a remedy against it , Thu monopo lies will resist with all their arts am influence , but fifty millions of people in process of time , will learn thu im portant fact that they are fifty mil lions strong. " Governor Gray , of Indiana , in . message to the legislature of that stat in January hist , said : "In my judgment the republic can not live long in the atmosphere whicl now surrounds the b.dlot-box , Mon eyed corporations , to secure favorabl legislation for themselves , are takin an active part in elections by furnish ing large sums of money to corrupt th voter and purchase special privilege from the government , If money ca control the decision at the ballot-bo : it will not bu long until it can contio its existence , " This * is in entire accordance with th views of Daniel Webster , who said : "Tho freest government cannot Ion endure , where the tendency of th law is to create a rapid accumulatioi of property in the hands of few , am to render the masses of the peopl poor and dependent. " The press , with the exception o that portion which is owned or subs dizod , are with the people in th light. The New York Times. Rop. ) under date of May 19 , in an article re garding the encroachments of corpor ate power , says : "It is not only absorbing to itsel the fruits of labor and thu gains o trade and piling up wealth in th hands of the few , but it is controlling legislation and endeavoring to swa ; ic decisions of courts in its own in- crest. Wo are now at a stage in the ontcst where the people may vindi- ate their authority and j.l.aco these orporations under the regulation of aw. " The Brooklyn Daily Eagle ( dcm. ) , u a recent editorial , said : " There is a pretty general feeling hat the Continent of America was ot discovered by Columbus , and civil berty established by the Fathers of ho Republic , to the end that fifty lillions of people might be made tnb- tary to a bami of railroad magnates , r that farmers , artisans and mer- hants might , by hand work and keen ompotition raise up a dozen Vardcr- ills , with each several hundred mil- oil of dollars. Those who entertain lis feeling have become persuaded i.at the time has arrived for the ill ustrious masses of this country to rotcct themselves , if they over 111- oml to do so. It will certainlv not bo asier after the adversary has grown trongor. In this contest every de- ay is to the disadvantage of the peo- le. Let the issue bo deferred or a few years , and nothing but a liracle or n revolution as violent as hat of Franco will overthrow the op- ression. Of all misleading delusions liero is none more mischoyious than lie notion that popular suflrago and opular power are synonymous. Given lie moans of bribing multitudes , of iitimidating otherSj or wrecking op- 'onents ' , coupled with actual posses- ion of the government , and adverse mtiment must bo paralysed. If the uffrago is to bo our salvation , it must o applied sharply while there are till odds on the side of unbought and nlerrorized manhood. " A hundred columns might be filled r'ith similar expressions from news- apers published in all parts of the ountry and now on file in the oflico f the National Anti-Monopoly League. Jomment is needless. The public velfaro is in danger , and the influeuco f every patriotic citizen is invoked to vert it , IlcHpectfully , etc. , L. E. CHITTENUEN , Prcs't National Anti-Monopoly League. Headquarters , 7 Warren St. , Y. IOWA BOILED DOWN. Spencer will w on have n new creamery. Wnpello has purchased n new .MO ncre our farm. A new steam flouring mill is being built t Grundy Center. Webster City has received the plans for new 820,000 school house. The tooth of n mastodon was found in Ian-hall county recently. One hundred and twenty five houses ave been erected in Le Mars since last ill. ill.The The iicwS500,000 bank at DCS Moines ill be the heaviest financial in.stitution in lie state. Iowa City and Mupcatine are both tak- ng steps toward the construction of street ailways. . Iowa City recently made n loan of 813- XX ) for the purpose of redeeming city > ends then due. The fanners of Kossuth county are goii.p 0 organire for protection against the barb vire monopoly. A good many new settlers are locating , bout Sency and a large amount of break- ng is being done. Near Ely , on the Burlington road , a ingle stroke of lightning killed se\enteen iogs the other day. The building rush continues at Fort lodge , Among the new buildings will be ii three-story brick hotel. Arrangements have been perfected for he establishment of a first-class wind mill , a employ thirty hands , at ICeokuk. The Marshalltown canning works put up > ,300 cans on the lid , claimed to be the riggest day's work on record. A few days since Clay county sold its wamp land * , 2,200 act-en , for 810,000which vas8-,7M ! above the appraised value. The next convention of the Catholic Yotectivo society of Iowa , will bo field at 'ort Madison on the second Wednesday ol 1 line , ISSU. The ICeokuk canning company has 00,000 cans on hand , and is greatly en couraged with the outlook for a tine crop > f tomatoes. The Koyal canning company at Musca- : ine will be ready for business in a few- lays and will run a force of " 00 hands. Capt. Uoyton , floating from St. I'aul to 3t. Louis in his rubber suit , reached Du- liuque on the 8ti ] and was gicctcd by an * imense crowd. Them will be 1,032 delegates to the re publican state convention so that Till \otes 111 bo necessary to a choice , A fainter in Marshall county report * that in four weeks n stalk of coin on hii farm giew to a length of thirty-fonrinches The pension oflice at Des Moincs pai < out , dining the past quarter , ending Maj 31 , SU1 lr > 73.)2 ! ) , nnd during the month o May alone , -0i05..ril- : - From thu quantity of flax planted in the noithwestcin counties this season , it is in f erred that an oil mill heicabouts will be : [ iinfitnblu investment , \ccoiding to a recently completed ecu us of Iowa City , it has at present a popu lation of over 8 , IHO , The population , ac cording to the government census of 188 ( was 7,118. A stock company has been formed ai i ninety Center , with a capital of if 20,000 for thu erection of a steam flouring mil 10\iO ( feet , five stories high. It is said that with n little dredging the Townmcr can be made to entry grail barges. Two small steamboats are beinj , run on that stream this season , One of the parties interested in th starch and gluco-'e w-oikri to be put up ii Di-s Moincs , is negotiating for the purchase of 10,000 acres of land in Pocahontai county to make a farm out of. Something \ei-y much like the army worm has appeared in large numbers ii Delawaie county , AH yet the deprt'da lions of the pest June been confined t < timothy meadows and oat fit-Ids , Lightning struck a quarry nt Iowa Fall the other night and heaved out fifty cord of stone in as good ghapo ns it could havi been blasted out with jKiwder. Iowa is getting n full share of this year' immigration. There are several largo col onies of Scotch , English and Scandimu i nns forming , and besides that the stutu 1 receiving many settlers from Illinois , Indi ana nnd other localities to the east. J , II. liarnhill , the clerk who was found bound and gagged at Onflow , recently , when the store in which he was slaeping was robbed of Sfl.OOO to SO.OOO , was ar rested on tlie 8th and taken to Annmosn for examination. It is believed he robbed the safe himself , Near Iowa Falls the other night light ning struck the house of Jetso Cogswell and killed his mother. She was sleeping on u feather IXM ] at the time , which goes to show that the popular superstition that they are n protection from lii'litning is not well founded. On Col , lilandens stock farm in.Poca . - hontis county is a barn 50 by 200 feet , and this with the numerous other buildings on the place cost ? IS,000. Ho has an arte sian well , sunk at an expense of $5,000 , which famishes water enough ( o supply a city of 10,000 inhabitants. It ii proposed to hold a meeting at Ona- wa. Sunday , June 25 , for the purpoie of fonnini ; a Monona county Anti-Barb Wire association , ami to elect delegates to the Ale association to be held ftt DCS Moincst ic last week in June. The object is to. liso funds to fight cevoral cases through , le con its. Sometime clnce It was reported that licodoro Frank , a sk > ck dealer at Scran- on , had been chloroformed and robbed of 1,000 in caah. He has bincc quietly left 10 country , and there are renorti of crook- 1 work by which he w cnablml to pet way wi'Ii about Slfi.OOO. It is probable i.it'he was not robbed ntall ns reported by im. During n recent thunder btorm nt Iowa City lightning entered the telephone office n the wire ? , burning them off and i-ct fire o the building , creating quite a blaze , 'his is said to be the first accident of the : ind that ever occurred in a telephone of- ice. 0 , W. Johnson , a big , burljj negro , and member of Sprague' Georgia min trcls educed a white girl whom he first met nt ic WiNon house , where she was em- iloycd. She followed him to Dtlbuqne , vhero the plot of the rascal wnsdisco\ered , nit too Into to save the virtue of the mis- uided girl. When the officers went to nr- eat him , Johnson jumped out of a second- * lory window nnd mndo good his escape , le Is the fellow with the big mouth who. ings : "I'm going to climb the golden lairs. " The Dubuque Herald , however , athcr takes thu edge off the ticiisntion by iyinc that the woman , who gave her name s Alice Carmichel , is known to have been soiled dove of long standing nnd unfa ornbly known by those who frequent the esteru division of the Illinois Central ailroad. [ Sioux City Journal. BRUTAL MURDER , Unprovoked Killing of n Plow boy- Near St. Paul , Nob. Correspondence of tlio Itcc. ST. PAUL , June 11. Our usually- quiet town was thrown into a fever of excitement on last Wednesday morn ing by the report that a brutal and horrible murder had been committed about fourteen miles north west of St. Paul on what is known ns tho- North Loup table land. Our sheriff with several other of our citizens hastened - ' * * 1 toned to the spot when the following . particulars were learned. A young- man about eighteen or nineteen years old by the name of Paxton , went out on his claim to plow and not returning at the proper time , search was made by his friends when ho was found with a bullet hole through his head , and other marks of violence on his head , as if ho had been with Eoino blunt instrument , then a rope had been tied around his nock , and to the plow and the body dragged for several rods. The team had then been taken from the plow and hitched to the wagon and driven away , leaving the murdered man tied to the plow. The trail was followed , and erelong , one horse and the wagon was found . v in a deep ravine , and later the other- horse was found , but still no murderer , but facts were developed that cast , suspicion on a young German about eighteen years old by the name of Henry Tobher. To-day ho was urcstcd , when he confessed the crime , issigning no reason for the deed. He- vas brought to St. Paul and lodged n jail. Excitement is at fever heat , ind strong talk of lynching. While = ynching is none to bad for such characters , it is better that the law v > .hould . take its course. Q. K. \ The Convention. ) cs Moincs Itcglhtcr. A convention ia to bo hold nt Coun- * J oil Bluffs on the 21st of June , called' I n the interest of the improvement of" t J : ho Missouri , looking to the introduc- , ion of barge transportation. The convention lias been called largely under - ' dor the inspiration and leadership of" . : he Nonpareil , the first paper in Iowa | , o lead off in reforming commercial < relations and active trade between , , [ pwa and St. Louis and the Mississippi - { sippi river. Through its active efforts- . ; ho Wabash road was brought to Council Bluffs nearly two years ago , since which time that city has had , ; hrough the help of the Wabash road * and the active rivalry of St. Louia with Chicago such advantage in rates if freights as no other city in Iowa ! ias had. A short time ago The Nonpareil took up this work of inaugurating a. movement for the improvement of the Missouri. It has shown no jealousy of other interests in the matter , as it lias also encouraged and advocated every sensible proposition for the upper Mississippi , and also the Hen- nopin canal idea. But still it has kept steadily and earnestly pushing the idea of taking care of the Missouri improvements as well an aspiration in which all Iowa will heartily share , when the object of it becomes fully understood. At the convention at Council Bluffs on the 21st , every city and town in the state should bo represented. We hope DCS Monies will not fail to have able and ample representatives there. By a recent very able report of Major Suter , of the river improve ment commission , after a careful sur vey of the Missouri river from the mouth to Sioux City , a distance of 800 miles , it was ascertained that ton feet of water may bo secured at low water the whole distance for the sum of 88- 000,000 , and in making this improve ment to navigation the banks are in cidentally secured , which is a consid eration that will not bo lost sight of. His recomiiiencjation is that the work bo done in sections , commencing at. the mouth , which of course is the proper way to do the work. Torrlblo Cyclone. PiKitcn CITY , Mo. , Juno 11. A cyclone struck the village of Swan Star Springs , a small watering place in Barry county , yesterday , and anni hilated the place , A cloud burst , ac companied by a wind storm , and con verted a little storm into a torrent which washed away houses and prop erty of all kinds. So far as hoard from no lives have been lost , Ono family , a mother and Jive children , were swept down stream and lodged in a clump of bushes , to which they clung for two hours , being finally rescued by men , who with some diffi culty swam to them and carried them to shore. Experiences of many other families are similar and it is looked upon us a miracle that some were not killed outright or drowned. "Fun on the Bristol , " at 13aldwin'si theatre , San Francisco , came to aa abrupt close on Saturday , The sher iff seized the theatre on account of debts of the management. "Hazel Kirke , " at the California theatre , is. doing an immense business , drawing , the largest matinee on Saturday that was ever inside of the theatre.