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PUBLIC spirit and Jamon E. Boyd
go hand in hand.
WIIKK finally completed Mr. Ar
thut's cabinetought to be well eca-
oned. .
THE issue Nebraska farmers are not
in favor of an unlimited issue of rail
road bonds ,
Ir it comes to a tussle between Ty-
nor and James , Mr. Tyraer will more
than meet his match.
THE Irish situation can scarcely bo
called nn eligible ono for 'young men
with political tendencies.
TUB political forgery dodge in Vir
ginia is said to have seriously reacted
upontho chances of the bourbons.
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. Pint AIIMOUR predicts a fall of ton
cents in corn within forty days. Phil
owns an elevator and in a perfectly
disinterested party.
THE health officer at Now York has
auch a lucrative position that ho con
tributes 810,000 a year for campaign ,
purposes. Quite a healthy office.
' t THERE is'much ' complaint from rosi-
v " ' 'dents in the Second ward over the
action of the registrar in neglectingto
publish notice of the time and place
of his sitting.
NEBRASKA'S representatives to the
river fconvention at St. Louis nroJ.
Sterling Morton , Clinton Briggs , M.
L. Hayward , 0. R. Ohase , Victor Vif-
quain , O. P. Monon , J. L. Carson ,
JJJolmV. Pollack , H. T. Olarko and
, f RIB ] Windham.
DON KKV is the term by which the
lato'postmaster-general is now * dubbed
by prominent postal officials. The
name would have been more appro
priate if ho had kicked against the
frauds in.bib department when it took
another administration to expose.
BY general consent the York town
celebration was a fiasco. The military
display was insignificant , the accom
modations for visitors inadequate , and
the speeches and orations a boro.
The centennial business has boon over
done during the post six years and
the people long for a rest.
fc service reform does not scorn
to bo making very rapid strides on the
floor of the sonuto when division of
ft npoils is involved. The sonuto military
committee has decided not to report
favorably the nomination of thrco phy-
aicians from New York to bo uiiatont
army surgeons , not on account of any
objection to their qualifications , but
' because "New Y * rk is getting more
than its share of now army surgeons. "
: - THE vicossitudes of politics make
many changes in congress. Of nearly
ono hundred and fifty republicans
who will bo in the next house ,
only twenty-two were there so far
back as the forty-fourth congress ,
which mot BIX years ago , The
changes uro moat frequent in the ru
ral districts , where the counties insist
on the principle of turn about. City
' members , as a rule , enjoy the greatest
t'- longevity. '
LYING in j urea any cauio however
. .good. At a mooting of the national
; prohibition alliance in Now York last
. week Jay Odell , an Ohio lecturer , put
4'tho number of "drunkard's wive * " in
the United States at 1,600,000 and
the number of drunkard's children at
6,000,000. The Philadelphia Preu
aaystli ; t Mr , Odoll lias made a state
ment which every intelligent man
knows is false , and which nobody but
\ a fool would make without. deliberate '
miattatemont. The estimate makes
ono child in thrco the country over
the descendant , and ono wife in six
the consort ( of Homo drunkard , Put
this way , the statement is soon by the
daily observation of oyory ono to bo
as rodiculous as the staple assertion
that all the "spirits" made in this
country rolls down the throats of the
American people ; loss than two-thirds
"i does , 'and less is usqdjthis way now
* in'proportion to tho' population than
forty years ago.
JAMES E. BOYD I
Among the prominent residents of
Omnlm who have for years boon idon
lifiod with her growth and of whoso
success niul public spirit her citizens
are justly proud , the name of James
E , Boyd stands pro eminent. Mr ,
Boyd is n striking example of a self <
made man who by industry , porsa
voranco nnd sheer pluck has worked
his way in lifo from the humblest bo
ginnings. Born in Ireland at an early
ago ho emigrated to America and
learned the trade of n carpenter ,
lie was ono of the first settlers in
Nebraska. Locating in Omaha nnd
working at the bench with hammer
and piano ho soon became known and
respected for those many sterling
traits of character which contributed
so largely to his future success.
Later Mr. Boyd located a ranch on
the overland trail , whore ho ranched
it for a number of yearn as a frontiers
man. Boyd'a Ranch soon became
widely known and its proprietor as
widely popular. When the Union
Pacific road waa uudor con
struction Mr. Boyd engaged in
the work of iU extension as
n railroad contractor , filling
his contracts with that promptness
and fidelity to his engagements which
has mode his word as good as * his bond
throughout the state. Subsequently
Mr. Boyd removed to Omaha , making
it his permanent homo and undertook
the construction of the Omaha and
Northwestern rood of which ha was
made president. In his various on'
torpriscs up to this date Mr. Boyd ac
cumulated a handsome competency ,
and Booing the need ef a packing
house at this point decided to in'
vest his moans in erecting the
largest atructuro of the kind in this
section of the west , in which business
ho is still engaged
The people of Nebraska nt an
early day .rocognizodj the clear
judgment , sound common ft'soiiso
and sterling honesty of James E.
Boyd and called upon.him . to contrib
ute his services in modeling the form
of government for the state. As a
member of the constitutional conven
tion ho WAS unanimously elected on a
non-partisan ticket and placed on
the important committee on rail
roads. Although a railroad man , ho
never forgot that ho was a represen
tative of tho'pooplo for whoso best in
terest ho applied the knowledge which
lie had acquired .through his I connec
tion with the corporations. It was' ho
who i framed , that article of the consti
tution which provided for the rogula-
latiou of the railroads by . .the people.
Any other manTin auch a' position ; 'if
disposed tp work' with the , , railroads
could easily have inserted provisos
which would have made all railway
legislation inoperative.'But ' ' James
E. Boyd , after a careful1 study of the
Illinois and other state laws , throw
around the subject every , provision
for the protection of the people and
gave to the voters'of "Nobrask ucon
stitutional right to regulate' the cor
porations and. prohibit those abuses
which have boon a blot upon the his
tory of railroads in our stato. Subse
quently Mr. Boyd served in the state
senate with equal credit to himself
and universal satisfaction to his con-
atituonts , Ho was always reliable ,
outspoken in his opinions nnd un
swerving in what ho believed to bo
for the beat interests of the stato.
No man has boon inoroclosoly identi
fied with the growth of Omaha than
James E. Boyd. Hero ho has sunk
several fortunes , and by the most in
domitable pluck and energy ho has
wrenched success out of failure. In
every emergency where Omaha has
boon threatened by rival interests
Mr. Boyd has always boon at the
front to ward off the impending
danger , mid in every instance
where a public enterprise has boon
inaugurated' ho. lias never withhold
his helping hand. In the bitter fight
against the Holly water works Mr.
Boyd was the first to place himself at
the head of these who applied for an
injunction against the water company
and backed bis position by becoming
a bondsman and assuming any damage
suits that might arise from n failure
to carry the pbiht through the courts.
It was the bold and fearless stand
which ho took in this emergency that
induced others more timid to
stand bnhind him in opposition
to a band of sharks , whoso operations ,
when they become fully exposed , will
surprise our citizens by the extent of
the conspiracy against the public in
terests. Summoned to the city coun
cil againtt his wiihos , and elected to
the inayorality of our city , Mr. Boyd ,
in the discharge of executive func
tions , has fully justified the confi
dence reposed in him by the people of
Omaha , and in many trying occasions
which demanded a firm and decided
policy , ho has invariably taken the
position , which waa hold by the bettor
'portion of our community.
It is not necessary to speak in detail -
tail of the crowning enterprise of Mr.
Boyd's career in the erection of the
beautiful opera house which ho has
given to our city. No other man in
Omaha dared to undertake it , It was
bocun nnd carried to completion
by Mr. Boyd while ho was al
ready engaged in heavy operations
which taxed his energies' nnd capitate
By Us 'construction ' another Install ; . '
ment is added to the debt which the
people of this city owe to its builder
Mid it will retrain as a perpetual re
minder of the pluck , energy and pub
lic spirit ot James E. Boyd.
THE PENSION OFFICE-
Nothwithstandtng the earnest pro
tests of Commissioner Dudley that his
office is working smoothly and satis
factorily rcporta of irregularities in
the pension bureau continue to be
published in eastern journals and are
repeated in the letters and dispatches
of Washington correspondents The
charge is mode that n conspiracy has
for some tinio been in existence among
the clerks , who have co-operated with
outside poneion and claim agents in
pushing through fraudulent claims.
The entire pension oflico needs
investigation , The arrcars-of-pen-
aions act which was pushed through
congress by the boldest demagogy
throw open tl * floodgatestofraudand
perjury , and inaugurated a raid on
the treasury which has cost the gov
ernment millions of money paid out
to bogus claimants. Under this act a
pension for fifteen yean already past
was conferred upon men who had
never believed themselves entitled to
any pension at a I. The methods of
taking testimony for applications
without cross examination or opposing
witnesses placed a premium of from
$1,500 to | 2,000 on purjory and
proved a bonanza to a host of pension
and claim sharks who scoured the
country for subjects on which to real
ize their bonuses.
"The increase in the number of pen
sions has been enormous. The Buf
falo Exprar has pointed out that
within three years the annual cost to
the government in the payment' of its
pensioners will scarcely fall below
1100,000,000 , a sum sufficient to sup
port a standing army of 200,000 men
in Franco or Germany. Before -
fore the new laws took
effect there were only 242,755
pensioners on the roll. There are
now 275,000 and the number is in
creasing at the rate of. nearly 8,000
month. In the twenty years since
the close.of. the war the government
lias paid out more than $300,000,000
to i its pensioners. Instead of the
pension 'lists decreasing in that time
as they certainly should have done
through the death of benficiariea they.
iavo shown a steady increase since
; ho new law came into operation. In
L871 the pension expenditure waa
134,443.60. JJrotn that date it slowly
'ell , dropping down in 1878 to the
sum of $27,137,000. In that year
; ho arroago of pensions'not came into
operation and the figures-rose in ono
year to $35,121,000 , in 1880 to 50-
777,000 , this year to .800,000,000 with
a prospect of $90,000,000 in 1882J
$100,000,000 in 1883 and an unlimit
ed'amount thereafter.
No nation in the world bears sTich
an enormous pension burden because
no other nation'has ' so loosely man
aged its pension department and giv
en such opportunities for frauds and
swindlers ' to prey upon it's
treasury. No qttizen of the United
States begrudges to the disabled sol
diers of the nation the pittance which
they receive from the government.
More than cheerfully do they submit
to the direct and indirect taxation
which-auch disbursement of the na
tional funds necessitates. But it is a
Tact which no soldier will dispute that
there are thousands of men now draw
ing pensions from the government
who never eiroit gunpowdes on Hio
battle field and whoso pretended
disabilities wore incurred hundreds
of miles away from the seat of war.
Wore the pension lists examined and
the names on the roll sifted it would
bo found that dead men wore drawing
with great regularity drafts from the
national treasury , that thousands of
pretended wounds had never bc n re
ceived and that injuries on which fif
teen years back pay had boon emboz-
zlnd from the government never had
any existence except in the office
of the agent interested in push
ing through the bogus claim ,
It is the duty of congress to pro
tect the treasury. The howls of
demagogues , who fear for the "sol
dier vote'1 should bo unheeded when
justice is at atako. A law should at
once bo passed requiring proper proof
of claims. Ex-parto testimony where
no cross-examination is permitted
should bo rigidly prohibited. An ex
amination should bo made of the
claims already passed upon as far as
practical , and the treasury saved from
a continuance of the raid which
threatens to prove a more serious
drain upon its resources than the
funding f the national debt.
TIIE nomination of Hon. E. D.
Morgan as secretary of the treasury
will probably be acceptable to the
country * t large and will strengthen
Mr. Arthur's cabinet in this confi
dence of the community. Mr Morgan
was ono of Mr. Lincoln's war gov
ernors and as chief executive of Now
York during the war strengthened the
'mnds ' of the president and promptly
and invariably responded to every
call for aid. As United States sena
tor , as governor ot a great state and
us a business man of wide attain
ments and great force .of character ,
Mrj Morgan will bring to/tho portfolio
'
vacated Ly , Secretary 'Window valua
ble cxocuHvo oxporioncp , , a practical
acquaintance with business methods
and acknowledged ability as n ( man
cicr.
IT is in accord with the eternal fit
ness of things that J. Sterling Morton ,
who for years has boon a notorious
monopoly capper , nnd Is an out and
out opponent of all legislation proliib
iting extortion and discrimination by
railway corporations , should bo ono
of Nebraska's representatives nt the
St. Louis cheap transportation con
vontion. Score another for Governor
Nance.
There was a time , nnd that not long
ago , when the publishers of that won
derful magazine for young folks , St.
Nicholas , wore able to put into ono fat
volume their monthly issues for ono
year. It speaks well for the enter
prise of the publishers that two well-
filled volumes nronow needed to bind
in permanent form the twelve num
bers of the magazine issued during the
year. The parts for the year ending
November , 1881 , are now received ,
and a veritable treasure-box of useful
and beautiful things is this two-vol-
umcd book. Do the young
people of these more for
tunate times appreciate their
advantages ? Do they know that they
have in St. Nicholas the finest maga
zine for young people ever produced
in the world ) The finest and best of
its. kind that is how in existence , or
ever has been in existence ? It is im
possible to speak in too high terms of
eulogy of St. Nicholas. It is confes
sedly unnpproachod and'unapproacha
ble in its peculiar field. It'is ' * mar
vel of perfection , both as regards its
literary excellence , its artistic merit ,
and its singular adaptability to the re
quirements of an eager and alert gen
eration of young readers.
The volumes of 1880-1 , now before
us , maintain.thu high.Btan.dard sot for
the guidance of these who have do-
ivot d their best ' ( talents to the pro
duction of St. .Nicholas. The index
contains the names' of some of the
foremost writers of the ! land , and
among its serial stories are two or
three which are likely to , be
come classic with the girls and boys
of the United States. Here wo find
the breezy .and . wholesome story of
"Phaeton Rogers , " by llossiter Johnson -
, son , who has struck an entirely new
'vein in story-tolling for boys. Wil
liam 0. Stoddard's "Snltillo Boys" is
another capital scries of sketches and
pictures for young folks.and ; the pa
pers entitled "In Nature's Wonderland -
land , " by Felix L. Oswald , are almost
as good as anything in that famous
book of adventures on which so many
boys of a past ago wore brought up ,
'
"The Swiss Family Robinson,7'
The phenomenal success of St. .
'Nicholas is duo , probably , to the wis
dom of its editorial management and
the liberality of its publishers. It
may bo reckoned among the curiosi
ties of modern literature Hint so many
eminent persons have been pressed
into the service of writing for young
people. It is very likely that , if this
magazine had not been invented , we
never should , hare heard of Longfel
low , Bryant , Wliittior , Bret Harte ,
Charles Duloy Warner , .Mrs. Olipliant
and Bayard Taylor as being engaged
in juvenile literature.- Perhaps , when
they first ventured into this rich field ,
allured by the bright pages of St.
Nicholas , they wore surprised to find
that they had in themselves the rare
faculty of interesting the , children as
well as theolder folks. If for nothing
else than this , wo should be grateful
that St. Nicholas has boon brought
iuto the republic of letters.
It may bo truly said that the boys
and girls of the English speaking race
have now'presented to them , in the
annual volumes of St Nicholas , the
best work by the beat writers for
young people. It will bo a happy day
for our country when such whole
some , attractive , and enriching litera
ture as this shall displace the wretch
ed stuff with which the land is flooded.
POLITICAL NOTES.
Mr. Aldrich la the youngest member of
the Senate , He waa born in 1841.
An Ohio Democrat who bet on 10,000
raajoiity must saw ten cords of hard wood
for a neighbor.
Spencer , the quondam carpet-bag senator -
tor from Alabama , has spruced up and
gno to Washington.
The liepubllcans of Ohio have elected
one colored man to the State Legislature ,
and his name is Green.
Senator Laphnnv will be 07 years of nge
next week'and has n venerable appearance ,
as his hair and whiskers are as white as
smow.
The qualities which the people of Nevada
say that they give Senator John P. Jone
credit for are tact , forbearance , and good
nature.
I will not fight duel ,
Said Senator Mahone ;
A flesh-wound I could never get
Because I'm skin and bone.
Iowa's representative on the Supreme
bench , Justice Miller , U now the senior
justice and takes precedence of all except
the Chief Justice.
Bayard made 822,60 by his three day's
Ecrvico an president of the senate , that be
ing the extra compensation allowed a sen
ator occupying that position.
The constitution of Maryland makes
ministers or preachers of the Gospel or of
any religious creed or denomination ineli
gible to etn In either branch of the State
Legislature.
A significant f ct concerning the Ohio
election is that this is the first time the
Itepubllcans Imvo carried the State in the
year following a presidential campaign
since 1809.
The prohibition candidate for Governor
of Wisconsin has an eye to themalnchanc'e.
He has sent bis wife out on H stumplnpr
tour through the northern prt of
the state , ana it is reported that she is
making a vigorous canvass.
They do say at Washington that many
office-seekers are ranking haste to with
draw their applications filled before
tha assasslnat'on of Garfield , with a view
to recomtructing them In the matter of
arguments and indorsements.
The llev. Beecher , who is Henry Ward's
brother , ran last year , in 'he Eluilra dis
trict , a * the greenback candidate for Con-
gresv , and was rewarded with permission
to remain at hi * clerical post. This year
he Is a candidate for assembly man. Next
year ho may be after a commission as constable -
stable ,
"What bhadows we are and what shad
ows wo pursue , " murmured Senator John
Sherman to himself at he stepped Into the
Hupremo court room in the caplcol1 while
Ilia clerk was calling up case No , 311
"Haas against Chester A. Arthur , imed M
the late collector of the port of New York. "
-Now [ York World.
James Tied path got out of Ireland Just
iu time. Had ho remained a few ilayu
longer ho would undoubtedly have been
clapped Iuto prison. As it it he U now
disporting himself on the free soil of Amer
ica. And can howl nt England as loud and
as long ni he pleaf-es , aad none will molester
or make him afraid.
President Arthur ii an cipert fuheraiAn
and Is very fond of fishing OR nn amuse
ment , ana he takes to piscatorial literature
a * a pastime now nnd then. During the
ses lon of the Senate , while he wan \Ice-
president , he frequently spent nn h ur nr
so in the Library of Congress , pouring
over the hooks on fishes and Bihlnc.
Horatio Seymour advised hl nephew ,
State Engineer Seymour , not to accept a
nomination for State Engineer for n third
time , on the grout d thnt "third terms"
were politically criminal , The State En-
rineer hm been swiftly rewarded for fol
lowing this &dvise. Hehaa.been proffered
nnd has accepted charge of BOIDO extensive
landed interested In Michigan.
Mr , Kelly's organ In Now York supports
the state ticket nominated at Albany in A
hearty fashion nil itfl own , M thusi "It is
the mUfortune of moat of the candidates
thnt they are net welt known in the stato.
Their names awaken no enthusiasm. In
deed , most pconlo never heard of them.
They have our heartfelt regrets , but shall
hnro our support and votes , nevertheless , "
An unbiased gentleman in Culpepper ,
Vrv , exorcsstft the opinion , after carefully
looking over the chances.of both parties in
the present hot contest in that state , . that
the Bourbons will have a small majority on
their iUt ticket , and that the Kciuljusters
will secure control of the legislature. The
Rcadjnster leaders are very confident they
will carry both the legislature and the
state ticket.
Senator Hn'o ' is litingnt the old Hooper
mansion in W hlngton , Senator Frye at
the Riggs House , Senator Blair nt No , 205
East Capitol street. Senator Edmunds In
his own house on Alassachusetts Avenue ;
and Senator Merrill will soon be in hln ,
nearly opposite : Senator Anthony is at No.
1807 H street , Senator Aldrich Is nt the
Arlington , Senator Hawley is at No. 312
C street , and Senator Platt is at the Arling
ton. Senator Hoar will pass the winter in
the house bollt for Secretary' ' Stsnton on
Franklin Square.
PERSONALITIES.
It is not believed' that Rlddlebergert
coat is mprtilly wounded.
Worth , the Parisian "man-milliner , ti a
regular John Bull by birth.
Governor poster I * the first Governor to
be elected his own successor in Ohio in 'ten
years.
years.With
With the exception of Washington , Arthur -
thur is the tallest and lamest President in
the list.
Sunset'Cox , who has enjoyed his trip
nbrood , ' .will1 return . .to ; this country about
the first of December.
' " John B..GoHghhasvTwritten his lecture
on pecnliar.peopK Ah yea ; he wanted to
get David Davis into it.
Mr ; Ediaon is reported to be worth
8 ,000,000. Probably .a lightning calculator
later was used In making thu.estimate.
, .Secretary Blalne told the Monsieur that
he couldn't talk French with them , lint
ha was ready to pick a frog-leg with them"
nt any time ,
Harry Garfield-playg-the piano in a fared-
liable manner. Harry's prospects of be
coming. dutinguiseu man , among the
ladles , are good.
Pftrnellhas been offered , the freedom.of.
the city by the authorities of Dublin , but
his facilities for enjoying the honor are not
any .too great just now.
Prince'Vlctor Napoleon , one of the two
young sons of Prince J > rorae Napoleon ,
has , with his father's consent , enlisted as a
private in nn artillery regiment. ,4 ,
Coninesby Kalph Disraeli , Lord Bea- '
consfield'a nephew nnd heir , is a clever but
somewhat eccentric boy. He is shy and
reserved ana loves music more than classic * ,
The Siamese Princes recently visiting
Paris before leaving bought 350 pianos for
the harem of their brother , the King.
Hereafter publ csympathy will.always be
with the King , no matter what he does ,
"I want silver , " said Jnna Jackson-
Louisville , in 'demanding the settlement of
Hanser's board bill. "I ain't got no sil
ver , " -the angry man retorted , "but I'll gfya
you all the lead you want , " and he' shot
three bullets into the.landlady. .
A refrigerator transit company. in thu
South baa elected for its president Charles
F. Adams. This is only d remarkably
well executed counterfeit of the eternal fit
ness of things. The gentleman called to
the position is not the frigid Charles Fran
cis Adams , of Quincy , Mass. , That would
be too huge a joke for the nerves of this
sensitive country to successfully withstand.
A dispatch from Washington states that
"the notion still prevails extensively < n
China and Japan that General Grant la the
Emperor of America.1 Our friends in
Chiua and Japan are mistaken ; the Em
peror of America fa a man named Sullivan.
He gives 950 to n man he cannot knock
out of time in four rounds. Honj Kong
and Yeddo papers please copy.
The late Louis A. Wiltz. governor of
Louisiana , whose death has been annouced
by telegraph , was born in New Orleans in
1843 , and entered commercial life at the
age of fifteen , He served in the confeder
ate array throughout the war , nnd became
an active politician in New Orleans after
its close. He was elected a member > f the
legislature , and alderman and mayor of
New Orleans. In the troublen of 187-1 he
took a prominent part on the democratic
BideIn 1879 he was elected lieutenant
governor , and in 1879 was president of the
constitutional convention. Upon the rati
fication of the constitution he was elected
governor for four years from April , 1880.
For a year and a half hi1 health has been
gradually falling , and a yeir ago he took n
trip to Colorado for his health. Wiltz
was a strong partisan democrat and his
administration has been bitterly anti-re
publican from the start.
IOWA BOILED DOWN.
The Reform School ot Eldora has 264
Inmntea ,
Hay sells at 815 and 810 a ton at Bur *
Huston
The Greenback vote of the State will
not exceed 25,000.
Charles City has purchased a 81,000
chemical fire engine ,
The Rock City creamery made last week
2,600 pounds ( .f . butter ,
There are 122 convicts confined in the
Annmosa penitentiary ,
There are 525 inmates In the insane hos
pital at Mount Pleasant.
Pressing hay for shipment is ft new in *
dufltry fn Mononn county.
The contract for building the Red Oak
street railway liaa been let.
The contract for building the Red Oak
street railway baa been let.
There are 108 children In the soldier * '
orphans' home at Davenport.
Another national bank will open for bus
iness In DCS Moine * , November 1.
A flock of 1,400 sheep arrived in Sao
county the other day from Missouri.
The pork-packing establishment at Iowa
City has been sold to Canada parties ,
A packing house is being built in Oska-
loosa with ft capacity of 1,600 hogs per day.
Iowa has a population ef 1,624,463. and
contains 35,228,800 acres of farming land.
The lixcelsW Coal Mining Company , of
Des Moinea , haa filed articles of incorpora
tion.
tion.There
There ore 160 Medics in the Kookuk
Medical College , and a class of 250 is ex
pected.
It is claimed thnt 1C. A. Abbott , of Mar.
sholltown , has made $70,000 in lucky deals
in com.
Klglityfive families of Hollanders , direct
from the old country , have just gone into
Sioux county.
. A new coal mine is now iu operation at
the Bronkschink 'ibank , five miles south of
Wetyter City.
Iu digging ft well in MuscnUno/well pro-
served cedar WM found thirty-six feet be
low tha
The cost of trio encampment of the Iowa
National Ruard at Des Molnes to the state
will be about $12,000 ,
Twenty.fi vo hundred pilcs'willtbo tiscd in
makinct the foundation for the big elevator
to be built at Bnrllngton ,
The attendance at the Baptist Unlvemi
tv at Do * MnineH , in one hundred , exclu
sive of the musical department.
JudRo McCrary , of the United States
Circuit Court , h s set next January for
hearing the barbed wi.o cine.
This year there hn * already been patd
into the city treasury of Red Oak for sa
loon and billlardllMmses , 57,000.
The new court honsa at Burlington ap
preaches completion. The furnishing of
the building has been let at 15,620.
There are 1,513 post-offices In the State ,
of which four are first claw , twenty-ono
second class nnd eighty-two third ( lass ,
Cedar Rapids reports 170,948 hogs pack
ed during the season to date , againit 304 ,
014 during a corresponding period last
year.
year.Onlr
Onlr seven out of tna ninety-nine
counties in Iowa failed to glva a Republi
can majority for the State ticket at tha
lost election.
The Standard Coal Mining Cosnpany , ol
Den.Momen . , has found a five foot v ! n ol
coal on ground about a mile northeast bl
the new capitol ,
In Northern Iowa the night of incn m
rubber boots in water up to their ankles
digging pototocs , is not unusual from the
deck of itcamera just now.
Mary Parks , aged ID , has brought suit
against William Barr , of Jcmcy Ridge ,
Scott county , to compel him to father her
baby or pay $5,000 towards its support.
The Swedish Lutheran church n Alto ,
now nearly completed , will be the largest
and finest in the place. It is designed
after one of the largest churches In Sweden.
Dr. Q , II. Hill has been appointed super.
Intendent of the insane asylum at Inde
pendence. The new appointee haa been
first .nmistant . of the asylum for seven
yeare.
A crazy woman was arrested at Ottunv
wa walking the streets drumming oh a tin
pan. She proved to bo the woman who
poisoned a family at Marshalltown last
summer.
AtKeokuk , on the 14th , 'the boiler of. a
switch engine .burst and the locomotive all
to pieces , and yet , strange to say , three
rnenln the cab were' neither of themuori
ously injured.
Over 100 'citizens have petitioned the
city council of IDesi Molnes for an ordi
nance providing for- abating the nulsanM
of smell caused by the pork packing estab
lishments in that city. ' '
Ottumwa officials are. after a female
fiend named Lou Hill , ' for the crime 'of , en
ticing 'away from home for evil purposes ,
Maud 'Beck ' , a child less than 14 yean hi
age , of previous good character.
W. 'H. ' Hitchcock , of' ' Montroat ) . has se
cured a second crop of apples * ' from the
trees in his orchards. JThe fruit is smaller
than the first crop , and but few * on the
trees , but the apples are perfect.
'The ' supreme' court has 'assessed the
Keokuk&Des Moincs railroad company
85,500 , to compensate Peter Jeffry for the
lose of a log , caused by .being . , thrown from
a flat car , on which he was standing. ,
A company of English capitalists , with
the Duke of Sutherland at the head , have
bought sixty square miles of land on 'the '
line of the St , Paul & Omaha railroad ,
sixty miles east of Sioux City , for a colony.
The senior civil engineers at the Iowa
agricultural college , Amev , have finished
a Howe trnss bridge on the college grounds ,
they doing all th'e work from sharpening
the piles to painting the bridge when
finished.
The Little Sioux river is at an unprece
dented hicht for this BOOS n of the year ,
and the overflow is doing great damage to
the hay crop on the bottoms. In Monena
county it islestimated that not Jess than
5,000 tons of hay have been ruined.
The golden , wedding .of Mr. tand Mrs.
James Burt.of Dubuque , ' wospelebrated the
17th. Judge Biirt is one of Dubuque'a most
honored cititens , having resided there for
forty years. Hls > immediate descendants
wire present to the number of twenty-five ,
Bradford , Pa.
Thos. Fitchan , Bradford , Pa. , writes :
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