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IK the aonato tlio bill for tlio sale of
the remainder of the Otoo reservation
1ms passed.
SENATOR .TBLLBiiis said to bo certain
o the secretaryship of the interior.
So was Sargent ,
OsoAn WILD has como and departed ,
-imdyot wo'hoar of no contemplated
changes in the architecture of our
now hotels.
WHITTAKKK'S oars are again iti pub
lic notice. The cabinet haa disap
proved the sentence of dismissal from
the service on the pround of technical
errors committed by the court mar
tial.
TUB city council in their buncombe
resolution asking Mayor Boyd to have
the troops withdrawn state that. they
"are no longer necessary. " It is an
interesting question at what time , il
over , they were necessary.
WE acknowledge the receipt of an
interesting volume of 070 pages en
titled "Department of Agriculture
Report , 1880. " The book contain !
many facts , several highly colorc <
plates of diseased hog's livers , togotho
irith a sensational account of cxpnr
monts with sorghum cano carried 01
n the government kitchen and gar
don. No farmers or editors can dc
without it. Printed and published a
the government printing bureau
Washington ,
TELLER IN THE CABINET.
The announcement is made on what
Is regarded as good authority that
President Arthur has decided to ap
point Henry M. Teller secretary of
the intonor. This choice , wo are told
by the agonc of the associated press ,
was made first , because Mr. Teller
lias boon a warm supporter of Oonk-
ling with two presidents ; Ho
voted against Morrit's confirmation
when Arthur was removed from the
Now York custom house by Hayoi ,
and ho also voted against Robertson's
.confirmation last spring.
Second Because the president desires -
-sires to place aPncificcoustman at the
head of the interior department , and
Colorado being identified in interest
\with the Pacific coast , would render
Toiler an avilablo man.
Lastly , Because Toller's appoint
ment will bo favorably received kby
the great railroad interests of the
west , particularly the Union and Kan-
nas Pacific.
This Htatomont places Prcsidont.Ar-
tliur ir n very discroditablo'.ligh't .bo-
fore the American people.
Nobody will dare question Presi
dent Arthur's right to fill his cabinet
vrUhmojijthat are in perfect accord
with him on all political issues.
? Nobody can justly .find fault .with
him for giving recognition to tlio'so ?
tion west of the Missouri in his cabi
net. But the country will view the
choice of Mr. Teller in the Interest of
the railroads with grave concern.
President Arthur knows enough to
bnow that the interests of the great
railroads and especially of the Union
& .KnnuaB Pacific must clasirwith the
interests of Ute United States. Presi
dent Arthur knows that the
control of the interior depart
ment by these giant monopolies
with their immense land plants
would jepordizo the inteicstsr.f the
people of the United States. Prisi-
jont _ _ Arthur"ought" ( JT know Hint
Henry MrToTTot7wTio"for yJais" has
boon the Colofado nttornoy for the
Union Pacific , would bo a very unsafe
man for the suction of which ho is
chosen as special representative , In
stead of gratifying the pjoplo west of
the Missouri , whether on this side of
the Rockies or on the Pacific coast ,
the appointment of Teller would bo
resented as an outrage. This man
Toiler was foisted on the people of
Colorado as Senator by the railroad
'influence , but the railroads know that
ho can never bo re elootcd. HK-- . SenT ? ;
His career in the senate has been
that of a patronage broker , jobber
and railroad capper. If Sargent was
objectionable on account of his rec
ord , Teller Is morei objectionable.
The constitution"requires' tho" president -
dent to advise with the senate in
making appointments , but the consti-
utiou does not require , nor oven con
template , that ho should consult the
railroad corporations in choosing his
cabinet. If the railroads are to dic
tate who should sit in his cabinet they
may as well dictate the decisions of
our supreme court.
FIVE slates will hold elections dur-
np ; the coming spring and summer.
Jhe first election of the year will take
ilnco in Khodo Island on the first
iVodncsday in April. A full line of
state officers , including the governor ,
and legislature will bo elected. The
republicans have an overwhelming
najority of votes. Oregon holds an
election for governor and state legis
lature in Juno , The legislature to bo
; ho8on will elect a United States sen
ator in the place of Leonard Orovor ,
democrat , whoso term expires in
L883. Oregon wont for Garfield at
U last election , and it is believed that
the coming contest will result in a re
publican victory.
On tlio first Monday in August ,
elections will bo hold in Kentucky
and Alabama. Kentucky elects a
[ lortion of the legislature and a clerk
of the court of appeals. When Ken
tucky goes republican the event will
bo apt to excite some comment Ala
bama , which is nearly aa strongly
democratic , elects a governor and a
legislature which will cheese a United
States senator to succeed John F.
Morgan , democrat. Tennessee holds
lior state election on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday. A governor
will bo elected and a legislature
which will cheese a senator in the
place of Isham 0. Harris. Tennessee
now has a republican governor , am
as party lines have boon very much
broken in the contest ever the state
debt , there are strong hopes for re
publican success.
ELECTUIO lighting makes slow progress
gross throughout the country. The
greater part of the attempts made up
to the present time to use electricity
for illuminating other have boon o
the character of experiments. Mos
successful of all the plans adoptee
seems to have been the illuminatoc
masts. In San Jose , Oalifornia , am
in Cleveland , this form of illumina
tion has grown greatly in popularity
Iho Cleveland Leader says if the cit ;
had sixty masts scattered ever its ter
litory , each aiding the rest more o
loan , with the aid of the roiloctioi
from the walls , clouds and atmosphere
phoro , every street , alloy , park , Hat
common , door yard , back yard , ant
out off the way place would appoa
on a dark night as if it wore illuminated
atod by the moon. A recent photo
giaphical teat has clearly proven tha
the light is twice as strong as that o
the full moon. The result would bi
that nearly all the burglars would be
scared out of town ; that the lumber
inon , railroad , employes and dock mon
would bo able to work nights when it
is necessary } that three-fourths the
number of policemen would bo able
to do the work of a full force ; tha
fire engines would be able to move
more rapidly to a fire ; the carriages
could drive bettor at night , and so on
ad infinitum.
For domestic purposes the light
seems to have made little moro head
way. A number of manufacturing
[ inns have employed it with success
in rooms where volume rather than
qnality of light was the principal thing
desired. But in dwellings the results
loukod for have not yet boon found.
The cost of introducing i ( very heavy
and constancy of flame has not boon
secured , Edison claims that his sys
tem when once at work in Now York
city , wore wires are now being laid in
every direction , will moot every re
quirement of a cheap , safe and steady
light. But Edison has boon proved
to bo bettor on claiming thaopor -
Eornmnco and the general im ssion
still remains that the light of the
future has not yet boon found by
Bush , Edison or Maxim , ail of whom
believed that they had solved the
problem of olectrio lighting.
1 WE will shoulder our muskets and
fight for our rights. You must not
drive us to desperation. " Those wera
the excited words of a member from
Hudson county , spoken last week in
the Now Jersey legislature on the eve
of the passage of ono of the most out-
rngrous bills ever conceived by cor-
jorato ; monopolies to plunder UK
pblic. By its provisions the entire
atcr front of of HuboKun ami Jersey
Cily is donated to the Pennsylvania
& New Jersey Central railto.ul com-
paiiies , the rujit of eminent domain
is taken ficm both the stat and the
municipalities nmlaccess to Now York
harbor io forever forbidden to
uny corporation whoso object maybe
bo to compote with the grasping mo
nopolies who control , body and soul ,
the legislature of Now Jersey. It
was a number of years ago that Wendell -
doll Phillips declared in a public
speech that the Union consisted of
thirty-six states and a railroad com
pany , With a slight amendment as
to the number of states , the remark
holds as good to-day. AH railroad
property in Now Jersey is exempt
from local taxation. j TwoJcities in
which the most valuable lauds , build
ings and waterfronts , have been seized
by the corporations , are already nearly
bankrupted by this provision . At the
present session of tlio legislature ,
when they appealed for relief the rail
road minions snapped their fingers
and refused to r&und the amount of
state taxes collected on the railroad
property on the ground that such re
funding would forcetho imposition of
state tax. Mr. Oorbin's remark
may bayo been "nihilism. " It prcb.
bly was in the opinion of the mono-
x > l managers , but it was a nihilism
which is rapidly gaining ground in
? ow Jersey and which may yet explode -
plodo a fatal bomb in the monopoly
camp and result In the regeneration of
the legislature ,
NOTES :
HAKPEJl's KAOAZINR
opens with the fitat of a series of pa
pers entitled "Spanish Vistas , " by
Mr.George P , Lathrop , with sixteen
illustratons. Mr. II. W. Lucy's pa
per , with seven illustrations , on "Mr.
31adstono at llawarden , " will bo read
with avidity. Mr. Abby gives
full page illustration of
Hcrrick's ' perm "To an old Wo
man , " and Mr. Thomas Moran con
tributes twelve beautiful pictures to
Mr. Ernest Ingersoll's ' "Silver San
Juan. " Wood engravers will bo in
terested in Mr. G , E. Woodborry's
early history of the art , as well as by
the fao-similos of old engravings
which accompany it. Six character
istic pictures are given to Mr. Davit
D. Lloyd's ' humorous treatment of the
Indian question , entitled "Poor Olga
Moga. " An illustrated article on "Do
corativo Art" will bo found of inter
est. Besides all these illustrated pa
pers the magazine contains two ful
page pictures , printed separately on
heavy paper , ono rela'ing to "Spanish
Vistas1' and the ether a portrait o
Gladstone. Mr. Eglestoh has an im
portant article on ' 'What wo ewe to
the trees , " which all should study.
Of the stories , "Anno"jis nearing con
clusion , "Prudonco" is finished , one
a sh ort ono , "A Hereditary Witness , '
is from the pen of Mr. N. A. Prontiss.
Several good poems and much inter
eating matter in the departments make
Harper's of unusual interest.
THE CENTUKY
for April is an unusually fine number
A portrait of Matthew Arnold forme
the frontispiece , and four or five illus
tratcd articles make the magazmo exceedingly
coodingly rich in pictorial features
"Tho Ago of Praxiteles" will find ad
inkers on all hands , while all ur
tistically inclined will bo vary mud
interested in its representations o
Greek suulpturo. The article on
"Opera in Now York , " with its portraits
traits of singers , many of them almos
forgotten by the present generation ,
will attract all classes of readers
"Somo American Tiles , " with its
illustrations , als forms a surious study.
The interesting facts concerning M.
Roustan's achievements in Tunis , ant
a picturesque description of high am
low life in tlio regency , are given by
Earnst von Hesse-Wartogg , the Ger
man traveler , in a richly illustrated
paper entitled "Tunis and Its Bey. '
The stories poems and miscellaneous
matter , together with Henry Walter
son's "Oddities of Southern Life ; '
dealing with the humorous side o
southern character in the days before
the war , give the magazinn a variec
and interesting tone rarely excelled
PREACHING MID PALMS.
Worshipers Without a Church and
Without a Pastor.
During the sad bereavement which
foil on the family of the minister oi
the First Gorman Evangelical Luther
an church , on Jackson , near Twelfth
street , the Sunday service as well as
the school of that congregation has
been suspended , nearly ever since the
appearance of the small pox in Oma
ha , the family of the minister being
serious suil'erurs by this plague.
On the first Sunday in March the
owner of the green house on Six
teenth , north of the bridge , volun
tarily oflorod the use ot his spacious
floral hall for the use of the worship-
era , and every Sunday there hau been
service there under palms and trop
ical plants. Once the scrvicn has boon
conducted byRov. Kattonhausen from
Louisville , Neb , , at other times by
the president of the congregation ;
the minister himself not venturing
among his flock on account tf the
contagious disease. The service , how
ever , was not the loss solemn and heart-
touching and the Lord was always
implored to end the plague. _
Last Sabbath the ovangolium of the
fourth Sunday in Lent was road ,
where Jesus foods the .five thousand
mon with five lotves of barley bread
and a few small fishes and twelve bas
kets of fragments wore loft and saved.
The Saviour's power was hold up first
as having mercy on the hungry crowd
which had congregated to hear him ;
second , the willingness to help , and
third , the help in itself but also the
i.butuliuico of the savin.s.
'j'ho service | was ended ! by singing
the hymn. "Make end , oh Lord , make
end of our distress. "
Next Sunday's services will bo conducted -
ducted by a minister tram Snith
L'latto , who has kindly volunteered.
Gustos volobat homines.
Before you begin your heavy
spring work after a winter of relaxa
tion , your system needs cleansing and
strengthening to prevent an attack of
Ague , Bilious or Spring Fever , or
some other Spring sickness that will
unfit you for a season's work. You
will save time , much sickness and
iM'eat expense if you will use ono bottle
tle of Hop Bitters in your family
this month. Don't wait. Burling
ton Hawkoyu. mar7d2w
FARMERS AND MEOH ANICS.
If you wish to avoid great danger
and trouble , besides a no small bill
of expense , at this season of the year ,
you should take prompt stops to keep
disease from your household. The
system should bo cleansed , blood
purified , stomach and bowels regula
ted , and prevent and euro diseases
arising ( rom spring malaria. Wo know
of nothing that will so perfectly and
surely do this as Electric Bitters , and
at the trifling cost of fifty cent a bot-
tlo. [ Exchange.
Sold by Ish & Mc'M ahon. 1
SEVEN hundred thousand dollars in
foes has boon gobbled by receivers of
broken banks and insurance compa
nies in Now York within the last fir
years , The receiver is generally be
lieved to bo worse than the thief.
STATE JOTTINQS.
The Coflar county district court meets
at St. Helena , April 15.
There-are eleven divorce cases on the
locVet for tha comlntr term of the district
court of Dodge county.
There ij conMtlerable Immigration
iito Hurt county this spring from Indiana.
The editor of The Madison County
Chronicle favors female suffrage , "to that
when ft VOUHR lady calls in and rent *
rooms of us and after a couple of weeks
icfiues to take them , wo can hold her re
sponsible for the rent , "
At Lincoln a young man , very respecta
bly connected , lias quietly packed his
clip-rack and lied to parts unknown. He
[ mi cruelly wronged a respectable slrl ol
that place , nml her father and brother
are now lookiag for him with something'
More formidable than a sharp stick.
The heavy weight pugilist of The Ous
ter I onnly Leader is spoiling for a fight.
Henr lilmi "If the nnimal that [ sent us a
card containing personal threats of \ io-
Iene , and which was neither dated , post
marked or signed , will convey his threats
to us personally , WB will giro him five
dollars. We simply wish to men ire the
the animal's ears iti order to determine
with what breed ofasicg to classify him. "
Two children on Clear creek , rihennan
county , wer j t > ol oned one day last week ,
by eating wild parsnip"rom the effects of
which one of them ) mi died.
.A&ve-year old son of Jacob Cook , living
near Puttsmouth , was burned to death a
day or two ago while hie father was bum-
ing the stalks in a field.
The citizens of Blue Springs , In meeting
tsiembled , decided to "Boycott" the B. &
M. , by withdrawing all patronage and re
solving "that we , AS citizens , will refrain
from and refuse to trade with or patronize
in any way merchants doing business hero
who ship or receive goods over the B. &
M. road In conflict with these , our ex
pressed sentiments. " This rnovo takes
fleet April 1. All wholesale merchants
will be notfie ! 1 to govern themselves ac
cordingly. This Is rank revolution , "sub
missive of law and order , " and should be
impressed at the point of the.bayonet.
"Ah DioV , " the Fremont celestial , has
gone to meet Confucius by the poison
route.
The twelve year old non of 0. M.Holmos ,
of I'lattumoutn , was severely brjuoj by a
stone fallint ; on him.
Anenthusiastic musical critic sends the
following soulful account of a recent con
cert at 1 romont , with n modest request to
publish. Wo commend to all lovers of
the intensely beautiful , and particularly to
the emaciattd bellows of The Republican.
ii * rnm gonRg wcre tno an(1
from the best mocking birds of the
United States. Their melodious voices
were like tmto the many notes warbled by
the pure European mocking birds , and if
there Is any heaven on earth surely there
was one. Theyarnwoithy of nil re pect
and honor as the beat singers that ever
went through our TveUcrn country. Th
gre.it elocutionist , Miss , can't be ex
celled. She brought the house down on
the Henry the V courtship , and her ex
cellence in elocutionary can't be beat
by any one. They will give an exhibition
in Wahoo , Saunora countyB Neb , April
3d , 1882 , and all lovers of music will get
their souls filled to last 365 dayd or ono
year. "
The cash receipts of the Grant ! Island
freight office for the mouth of February.
1881 , were 82,072.74. The cash receipts
for the same month of this year were § 12-
782.18 , showing an inureasa for the month
of February , 1882 , over the same month
of 1881 , amounting to { 9,808.54 , more than
300 per cent.
Grand Island will experience the great
est building boom this season that WAS
erer known in that region. More than
twenty buildings are In process of erection
or under contract on the north side of the
track , and there a-e equally as many un
der way on the south side.
A deputy U. S. marshal , who spo.ted
the name of J. M. Finkbone , camped at
Sidney last week. He alung so much style
that i very man in the town felt insulted.
A secret caucus was held and Finkbone's
fate eettled. His departure from town
was the si''iiil for a raid. He was side
tracked and thoroughly pummeleci , his
uobby suit enveloped in dust , and his op
tics shrouded in the habiliments of mourn
ing The somijrcro and the flannel shirt
still reigaa.
RAILWAY Ns'TES.
The Boston elevators of the Hoosnc
Tunnel line are said to be marvellous in
construction. They me nearly finished.
Colored colonies nro to be established in
the Elk river valley , on the Northern Pa
cific road.
The delay of the Wabash , St. Louis &
Pacific railway company in paying its em-
plovoi is making a great deal of mischief
and trouble. At bt. Louis the families
of the workmen aio actually differing for
necessities of life , and it is said there are
about 13,000 men on their pay-roll to
whom they are in arrears.
Ilegular trains are now run on the Bur
lington & Missouri Denver Extension to
the end of the track wast of Culbertaon.
The latter place is the division of the run
at present.
Some Idea of the enormous character of
the Union Pacific enterprises can be had
foorn the fact that Iti expenses wilt reach
about $31,000 a day , or over $1,000 per
hour , or $10 per minute.
The U. P. shops at Eagle Kock , Idaho ,
are running night and day repairing dam
ages arising from the recent numerous
wrecks that have occurred along the line
of the Utah & Northern , and work is
being dispatched with great alacrity.
The St. Paul , Minneapolis & Manitoba
line la nald to be doing tha largest passen
ger business for its train mileage of any
road in America , The ticket Riles at
Minneapal R and St. Paul for tha first
seven days in February exceeded the tot > 1
ticket B.ilea for the entire line in the cor
responding week of tVfBl. The -passenger
earnings of the road last month amounted
to 633,000.
CONOHKSH has appropriated an addi
tional sum of § 150,000 in aid of the
suiforors by the Mississippi deluge.
Every account brings more harrowing
details of the dreadful devastation
caused by the breaking of the lovecs
and the overflow of the river. The
country on each siuo of the banks of
the river now under water is stated to
bo from ton to twenty-five miles in
width , while ever 100,000 people are
reported homeless and destitute. The
wide range ever which thosu cases of
destitution are scattered renders as
sistance difficult and in many instances
impossible. It is certain that already
roany.doaths must have occurred from
starvation. Of the largo number of
sufferers , a great majority will have
be to fed and cared for until they ro
enabled to rebuild their homes or ore
restored to those which still remain
and also until they can plant and
raise food for themselves.
SOME of the objects of the Combined
Trades' union , of Philadelphia , are
stated to bo the passage of laws for
the legalization and incorporation of
trade unions , the prohibition of child
labor , the enforcement of laws for
compulsory education and the insti
tution of the eight-hour system.
The Rnilrond Problem-
San Francssco Chronicle.
The railroad problem promises to
become as serious a ono and as diffi
cult of solution during the decade-
from 1880 to 1890 as the question of
African slavery was to the statesmen
of 1850 and 1800. No plan yet pro
posed for placing these great and
growing corporations under the law is
without its weak and objectionable
points when practical enforcement in
attempted. The only headway made
against them has been in such stnto
constitutional provisions as prohibit
the states and counties from voting
them subsidies , supplemented by a
popular pressure upon congress which
bids fair to save what remains of the
public domain from their grasp. In
all else there lias boon no change for
the better. In defiance of stnto Ian s
they still as much an over discriminate
in their charges on transportation
against places and persons ) stillcnforco
their own rule of charging all that any
commodity will boar ; still , in the
face of positive prohibitory statutes ,
consolidate different competing lines
into ono combined power for the op
pression of the people ; still "water"
their stock and divide points on pure
ly fictitious capital ; still ovadostato
and local laws on their property , and
in many states exercise a power great
er than that of the state government.
Some of the proposals upon which
great tress was laid four or five years
ago are now by general consent admit
ted to bo practical failures and moro
legal rotten timber. If the state
commission haa boon of any practical
value to the people of Massachusetts ,
where it was first tried , wo can only
know of it through ono of the
Adamses , who was first a Com
missioner for the state , is now
in the service of the railway corpora
tions , and trying to solve the prob
lem of interstate traffic by suggesting
a federal commission of throe , to bo
paid a yearly salary of $10,000 each ,
and to be composed of ono "consti
tutional lawyer , one railway expert ,
and ono export statistician. " Ho oven
goes so far as to present a draft of the
bill and name at least two of the corh-
missicnors to bo appointed under it.
And after all this is done , Mr. Adams
admits that about the best thing the
commission r.ould do , and what ho
thinks it would do , is to let the cor
porations do as they please ,
The Reagan bi'I ' plan has been in
varying form before congress ever
ainco 1877. Its purpose is for con
gress to regulate interstate charges ,
and to prohibit discriminations bo-
twcon persons and places. There is
no doubt of its constitutionality , but
there have arisen of late serious
doubts that it can ever bo practically
enforced. Isaac L. Rico , late railway
commissioner for the state of Massa
chusetts and an export in railway mat
ters , points out that such a federal
law would bo no uio unless it fixed
minimum as well as maximum rates.
A law fixing minimum rates cannot bo
practically enforced and is of
doubtful constitutionality. The
rival corporations tried the
rule and had to abandon it. The
agreement between the great trunk
lines connecting the west with New
York , Boston , Baltimore and Phila
delphia , by which Now York freights
were $2 per ton higher than those to
Baltimore and Philadelphia , so seri
ously cut in upon the traffic of the
No < 7 York line and the trade of that
city that it led'to a war of rates , and
the absolution of Yandorbilt from the
compact. When ' those differential
rates wore $1 higher on the New York
line the western grain traffic was di
vided out as follows t
Per Gt. Per Ot.
Yew York 18.7 Baltimore 10 7
Philadelphia. . . . 18.5 Boston 15.8
This was the status of the western
grain trade in 1870-71. In 1870 .ho
differential rates still being in forte ,
this was the status.
PerCt. PorCt.
New York 38.0 Baltimoie 23.
Philadelphia..23.7 Boston 14.5
The Now York line could not boar
this cutting in upon its traffic , and a
further reduction of the minimum was
demanded. The rival lines refused ,
and a war of rates followed aqain. At
the end of it a reduction in CO cents
'
was agreed upon. The result , ns
stated in 1880 , was this percentage of
trade :
Per Ct. Per Ct.
New York 30 Philadelphia. . . . 20
Baltimore 25 Boston 15
Now York again robo''cd , and the
late fierce war of rates rc .ltud. Now
York demanded the right .o reduce
as low as the owners of her line saw
fit , and here is the outcome of the
fight of 1881 :
Per Ct. Per Ct.
New York 48.8 Boston 17.7
Philadelphia. . . . 14 Baltimore 21.3
It is because the Now York lines
are the longest that the agreements
restrained them to a minimum. It
was because she was losing her trade
to Baltimore and Philadelphia that
the owners of her lines wore forced to
recede from the conpaet. It is doubt
ful that nny act of congress could bet
tor prevail in the enforcement of min
imum rates than such a corporation
compact.
Wayne MaoYcagh , late United
States attorney general , now attorney
for the Pennsylvania railroad , informs
the Ileagan house committee on inter
state traffic that these roads are pri
vate properly and their owners have
the same right to use thorn for tlio
benefit of the stockholders that any
private man has to use his house or
farm for his benefit. This is not
true , and MuoVeagh as a lawyer
ought to know it. Railways and
oanali are quasi public property , and
the State that gave them their rightof
way and corporation powers also re
served to itself the right to regulate
th ir tolls. But the grave question
arises , whether , in case Congress de
cides to regulutt ) intorntaio traffic , the
State laws on that point must not bo
abandoned ; and if so , whether any
Congressional Commission , such as
Adams proposes to carry this Act of
Congress into execution , would not
soon find itself just where Adams and
MpYcagh are in the employ of the
railway companies in-fact , of the Gov
ernment in theory only ,
There is yet , after all these failures ,
one way to solve the railway problem
and restrain the tyranny of the corpo
rations. That is for the government
to purchase or construct certain com
manding lines of railway and operate
them by its own agonts. Its credit
being good ; it could do this cheaper
than any corporation. The rate of
interest 6n its bonded debt would be
2A per cent , below the average corpo
ration rate : .and as it would have only
the public ( o serve and please , the
lowest possible .rates would bo insured.
The corporation would either haTe to
come down to thcM ° r suspend opera
tions.
POLITICAL
There are In congress -ight Irishmen.
four Scotchmen , five Enfjli < hn. ' D , and
three Germans.
The Massachusetts senate fins
the woman suffrage bill o third reading by
a vote of 21 to 12.
( Jovernor Itobert , of Texas , has called
a special session of the legislature ana has
laid out enough work to keep it busy for
three months.
Governor Hagood , of South Caroli.in ,
has appointed the suiveyors and assistant
supervisors of registration for the entire
state , and the registration of voters will
commence in May.
The only derm cratlc congressman from
Massachusetts , the Hon. Leopold Morse ,
Is lonely In Washington and announces
that he will not be a candi late for reelection
tion under any circumstances.
The town elections throughout New
Knglnnd show no signs of republican weak
ness , though local affairs took precedncc
of political issues in most of them ,
The now arrangement of the congres
sional districts in Mississippi will probably
shelve Congressman Singleton. Ills coun
ty has been placed in Mr. Hooker's dis
trict. _
California U one ol the states In which
the democrats will look for gains in con
gressmen this fall. They now have two
of the four members from the elate. The
republicans , however , hope to make gains
also , and will try to win back the Third
distric' , which is now represented by C.
B. Berry. They lost it in 1880 largely
through the unpopularity of their candi
date.
date.Ex
Governor Hendrlcks , of Indiana ,
while in Chicago denied in an interview
the minor that ho had been converted
from free tra o to protection. That he
said , would be impossible , as he had never
been a free trader. Ho denied his posi
tion as midway between thcjtwo extremes ,
and added that he was "in favor of pro
tection only to a judicious and beneficial
extent. "
In the coming redistrlctlng of the state
of North Carolina the independents will
moke a strong effort to have the districts
so formed as to give them a chance to elect
Rome of the congressmen ,
The state of Missouri will bo redistricted
tricted in order , if possible , to insure a
complete congressional delegation to the
democrats. Of thirteen congressmen at
present , five are republicans or green-
backers. It U hard to see just how the
bourbons are going to gerrymander go as
to accomplish their purpose. The dissat
isfaction among the democrats ii not con-
lined to any particular district or dlt-
trictw , but is spread throughout the whole
state , During the pa-t eight years , the
democratic major.ty forg ivernnr ha' been
reduced from fifty thousand to seventean
thousand.
The democrats needn't lose all hope.
They recently elected a mayor in an
Iowa town. However , it was a rainy day ,
and a cold day , and the better class of
voters didn't care about venturing out of
doors. [ Denver Tribnne.
When Vermont was fittt admitted 'ntn '
the Union it was tJven two Repre. cut , i-
tives in Congress. This number wa < af
terward increised to six. Now , r k > n
period of ninety years , the State icunua
t j the original number ,
The legislature to be elected next month
in Ilhodo Island will choose a successor to
Senator Anthony. He is now approach
ing the close of bis fourth term of con'.in-
ous service in the Senate , and if he lives to
complete another term , to which there is
no doubt of his election , he will have
equalled the famous thirty years of Thus ,
H.Benton.
A new interest is given to the Senatorial
contest in Michigan by the announcement
that Congressman Hubbell will di-pute
the eucceselon with Senator Ferry. It was
thought that the latter would hate a walk
over , but late developments show that he
will have to fight for his seat. Mr. Hubbell -
bell has some strong backers who will do
their utmost for his promotion , while Mr.
Ferry's friends will not Bee him displaced
if they can provout it. It is thought that
other candidates will cuter the field ,
among them being ex-Governor Baldwin ,
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Which Regard the Death of the Late
A. N. Tunnel.
The railway employes at the Omaha
Transfer adopted the following reso
lutions in regard to their late fore
man , Mr. A. N. Tunnel , whose recent
cent death was announced at the time :
COUNCIL BLUKF& ' STATION , U. P. \
RY. , March 21 , 1882. J
Whereas , It has pleased the Great
and Supreme Manager of the Mighty
System of Highways on which are
transported upon the fleeting wheels
of time , the immortal spirits of all
mortal mon , to the mysterious destiny
of the unknown beyond , to call from
our midst our well beloved foreman of
this station our friend A. N. Tunnel ,
andWhereas
Whereas , Whilst wo meekly bow in
humble submission to the Supreme
authority to thus deprive us of so
valued a friend and faithful a servant ,
yet bo it
Resolved , By the employes of the
Union Pacific railway and connecting
lines at this station , that in the death
of our foreman wo have lost a faithful
and highly respected friend ; his em
ployers a servant whose place cannot
bo easily filled : the community a uni
versally icspected citizen , and his
family a loving husband and devoted
father.
Resolved , That wo extend to his
family our heartfelt sympathy and
sinceio condolanco in the hour of thei ,
sad bereavement.
Resolved , That a copy of this mo-
moriol be presented to the famijy of
our late friend ; and also that it bo
furnished such newspapers as may
wish the samu for publication.
"Oddities of Southern Life , "
Dy Henry Watterson ,
d\tor \ of the Louitvillt Couritr-Journal ,
See the April CENTUUT MAGAZINE
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FROM A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN.
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HOUSE
LOTS !
For Sale By
BEMI
FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS SIS ,
178 , Houses rooms , ( ull lot on Pierce near
2uth street , $1,660. N
177 , House 2 rooms , ( ull lot on Douglas near
26th street , $700.
176 , Beautiful residence , lull lot oo Casa Dear
10th street , (12,000.
174 , Two houses and S lot on Dodro near 9th
street , 91 GOO.
176 , House throe roomi , two closets , etc. , half
lot on 21st I oar Grace street , $800. I
172 , Ono and one-half story brick homo w-W-1
two lots on Douglas near 28th street , $1,700.
171 , House two rooms , wcll.cistern. stable , cto
lull lot near Pierce and 18th street , (950.
170 , Ono and one-haU story house six rooms
and well , bill lot on Convent street near Si.
Mary's avenue , $1,860.
No. 170 , House tbree rooms on Clinton street
near shot tower , $325.
No. 169 , House and 33x120 ( cot lot on
street near Wcbsti r street , 13,500.
No. 168 , House ol 11 rooms , lot 53x120 feet on
19th mar Durt street , $5,000.
OH 167 , Two story house , B rooms 4 closets ,
teed cellar , on 18th street near Poppleton1 *
W.OOO.
No. 165 , New house of 6 rooms , holt lot on
bard near 19th street , 81,850.
No. 164 , Ono and ono halt story house 8 mom *
on 18th street i ear Lcavet worth , $3.600.
-N , 161 , Ono and oiu.hitlf story louse of 6
rooms near Hanscom Park , $1,600.
No. 168 Two houses 6 rooms each , closet ) , utc
on Burl street near 25th , $3,500.
No. 167 , house 0 rooms , full lot on 10th street
near Leiucnwortb. $2,400. " , I
No. 160 , HOUBO 4 large rooms , 2 closets A
half aero on Burt street near Dutton , $1,200.v
No. 156 , Two houses , one of 6 and ono ol 4
rooms , on 17th street near Marcy. $3,200.
No. 164 , Three houses , one ot 7 and two of 5
rooms each , and corner lot , on Cass near 14th
street , 85,000.
Nc. 163 , small house and ( ull lot on Pacific
near 12th ttrcct , 82,600.
, No. 151 , One story houeo 0 rooms , on Leaven *
worth neAr 10th , 83,000.
No. ISO , Honse three rooms and lot 02x115
near 2Bth and Farnham , $2,600.
No. 148 , New house of eight rooms , on 18th
street mar Luuenworth $3,100.
No. 147 , House of 13 rooms on 18th street'
near Marcy , $6,000. < r
No. 140 , llouno of 10 rooms and IJloU on 18th
street near Marcy , $0.000.
No. 145 , House two large rooms , lot 07x210foo
onSliorunn tucnuo(10th ( street ) near Nicholas ,
gj.600.
No 143 , House 7 rooms , barn , on 20th street
near Lca\cnwortb , $2,600.
No. 142 , HoU'o 5 rooms , kitchen , tic. , on 10th
street near Nicholas , 81,875
No. 141 , House 3 rooms on Douglas Hear 20th
street , $050.
No. 140 , Largo houro and two lots , on 24t
near Farnhnm street , $8OU > .
No. 139 , lit use 3 rooms , lot 60x100 } foot ,
Douglas near 27th street , 81,500.
No. 137 , House 5 rooms and half lot on Caplto
avonus near 23d screet , $2,300.
No. 136'Houso and half aero lot on Cumlng
street near 24th $ S50.
No. 131 , House 2 rocms , lull lot , on Icard
ncan 21st street , $800.
No. 129 , Two houses one of 6 and one of t
rooms , on leased lot on Webster near 20th street ,
$2,600.
No. 127 Two story reuse 8 rooms , half Jot on
Webster near 19th $3fiOO. >
No. 120 , House 3 rooms , lot 20x120 feet
26th street near Douglas , $075.
No , 125 , Two story house on 12th near Dodge -
street lot 23x01) ) feet $1,200.
No. 124 , Large house and ( ull block near
Farnham and Ceniral street , $8,00u
No. 123 , House 0 rooms and large lot on Saunders -
ders street near Banocks , $2,100.
No. 122 , House 0 rooms and half lot on Web
ster near 15th street , $1,600.
No. 118 , House 10 rooms , lot 30x90 foot on
Capitol a\enuo near 22d street , $2,050.
No. 117 , House 3 rooms , lot 30x120 ( ect , on
Capitol cucnuo near 22d $1,600.
No. 114 , House 3 rooms on Douglas near 20th
treet , S760.
No. 113 , House 2 rooms , lot 68x99 feet on
near Cumli g street , S7KO. F
No. 112 , brick house 11 rooms and half lot o/i \
Cisa near 14th street , $2,800. S
No. HI , House 12 roomsjon ( Davenport Tina
02th stroit , $7,01.0.
No. 110 , Urlck house and lot 22x132 fco on
Cans street near 15th , $3,000.
No. 108 , Largo house on Harney near 16th
strojt , 88,600.
No 109 , Two houses and 36x1 foot lot DO
Cass near 14tl ) street , $3,600.
No. 107. House 6 rooms and half lot on Izar L.-
near 17th street , $1,200.
no. 100. House and lot 61x198 ( ect , lot on 14th
near Pierce street , SOOO.
No. U6 , Two story house Brooms with 1 } lot
on fteward near Saunders street , $2,800
No. 103 , Ono and one half story house 10 rooms
Webster near 16th street , $2,600.
No. 102 , Tw o houses 7 rooms each and } lot OD I
14th near Chicago. $4,010.
No. 101 , House 3 rooms , cellar , etc. , li lota on
South avenue near Pacific street , $1,650.
No. 100 , House 4 rooms , cellar , etc. , half lot
on Izard street near 16th , $2,000. ,
No. 09 , Very Urge house and full lot on Har 1 \
oey near 14th street , $9 000. * \ \s
No. 97 , Largo house of 11 rooms on Sherman
avenue near Clark street , make an offer.
No. 96 , One and one half story honso 7 rooms
lot 240x401 feet , stable , etc. , on Sherman avenue -
nuo near 0 race , $7 COO.
No. 92 , Largo brick house two lots on Daven
port street near 19th $18,000.
No. 90 , Large house and lull lot on Dodo
near 18th etro' t , $7,003.
No. 89 , Large hauso 10 rooms hall lot on
ear California street , $7,600.
No. 88 , Largo house 10 or 12 rooms , beautiful
corner lot on Casa near 20th , $7,000.
No. 87 , Two story house 3 rooms 6 acres eland
land en Maunders street near Barracks , $2,000.
No. 86 Two stores and a residence on leased
half lotnear Mason and 10th street , $ SOO.
No 84 , Two story home 8 rooms , closets , etc. ,
1th 5 acres ol ground , on Maunders street near
Oniaht llarrnclis , $2 600
No. 83 , 11 ouso ol 0 rooTf , half lot on Capitol
avenue near 1211) street. 82 , UX ) .
JNo 82 , One and one half story 1 ouso , 6 rooms
mil lot on PUrco near 20th street , $1,800.
No. 81 , Two 2 story houses , ouo ol 9 and one
0 rooms , Chicago bt. , near 12lh , $3,000 ,
No. 80 llousu 4 rooms , closets , etc. , large lot
on 18th street near Whlto Lead works. $1,300.
No. 77 , Large house of 11 rooms , closctu , eel *
iar , etc. , with 1 } lot tn Karuham near 10th street ,
$8.000.
No. 76 , Ocean ! one-hall story house of 8 rooms ,
lot 00x81 ( eet on Cassnoir 14th street , $1,600.
No. 75 , llousu i rooms and basement , Io
101x132 feet on ilarcynear 8th street. $075.
No. 74 , Largo brick house and two full lots on
Da\uiport near 15tli street , $15,000.
No. 73 Ono and ono-ha I story house and lot
36x132 feet on Jackson near 12th street , $1,800.
No. 72 , Large brick house 11 rooms , full lot
on Dave port near 15th street , f 6OJO.
No. 71 , Large home 12 rooms , full lot on Call-
ornla near 20th street , $7,000.
No. 66 , Stable anil 3 full Iota OD ran In street
near Saunders , $2,000.
No. 64 , Two story frame bulldlnir , store bole *
and rooms above , on leaked lot on DOUJJO uear
16tb street , $800
No. 63 , House 4 rooms , basement , etc. , lot
93x220feet on 18th street mar Nail Works.
1,700.o. .
o. 62 , New bouse 4 r > ems one story , full lot
No. 58 , House ot 7 rooms , ull lot Webitei
near 2Ut street , $2,600.
on Uarney near 21st street , $1,760 ,
No. 61 , Largt bouse 10 rooms , lull lot on Bui
near Zlst street , $5,000.
No. 00 , House 3 rocms , hal ( lot on Dtvenport
near 23d street , $1,000.
No 69 , Four houses and hall lot on Caw D
ISthstreet $2 600. . .
No. 12 , House 6 rooms acd ( ull lot , If&rnei
near 26th street , $2.000.
BEMIS'
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
16tb and Douglas Street ,
tZVOLJUBLA. ' - 3XTE33
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