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    THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : MONDAY , JUNE 13 , 1881.
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"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.