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Ei ROSEWATEK , Editor.
How soon will John 11. Thuralou
grant that permit to Governor Nanco
iocall the legislature.
THE now secretary of the interior
agrees with THE BEK on ono proposi
tion. Ho bcliovca a dead Indian ia a
good Indian.
. next thing we shall hoarjof will
bo the erection of a monument to
the aalntcd Jesse Jamoa by the sorrow
ing citizens of Missouri.
WASHINGTON dispatches announce
that the cabinet has como to a decision
on the Fitz John Porter case , which
will bo made the subject of a special
communication to congress at an early
day. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
THE Now York elevated roads cost
518,000,000 and pay interest and
dividends on ever $04,000,000 of
* bonds and stocks. And yet Now
' Yorkers who ask for a reduction of
faro are denounced as implacable com-
V ttl , xnunists.
ill '
TiVc now secretary of the navy ,
'It li "Mr ! tlhandlor , was ' the loading
champion of district representation
in the national republican committee ,
and at the late mooting of the com
mittee ho got away with George 0.
Oorham , who was the champion of the
unit rule. When the committee
meets again wo shall BOO whether Mr.
Chandler has undergone a change of
heart since his appointment to Presi
dent Arthur a cabinet
IN connection with the rumored re
tirement of Minister Lowell and the
proposed appointment of Alphonso
Taft as minister to the court of St.
Jamo. , The Cincinnati Commercial
thinks that President Arthur will
conclude that the public service would
bo improved by sending a lawyer in
stead of a poet to London , as a poet
instead of a lawyer is going lo Cork.
SEMJLTOH CHILCOTT , of Colorado ,
was a citizen of Nebraska in 1850 ,
when ho resided in Burt county , rep
resenting Hurt and Cuming counties
in the lower house of the legislature ,
whicn mot in Omaha in the winter of
1850-57. In the spring of 1859 , Mr.
" Ohilcott loft Omaha for Denver with
others infected by the ' 'Piko'oPook or
bust" fever.
SOME of our congressmen are advis
ing the extension of the pension Hut
to the civil service. No country has
stretched the pensioning principle to
eucli a limit as the United States.
Out present list will bo a heavy bur
den to boar for many years to come
oven with the continuance of its pros
perous times. Any further extension
of its provisions to ether departments
than the army and navy ought to bo
emphatically opposed.
TOUONTO , Ont. , April 10. The
' , carpenters , the boot and shoo factory
girls , and the Grand Trunk checkers
and shod men are on a strike here.
A conference in reference to a com
promise between the strikers and
their employers is being advocated
by the press as the only way in
which the difficulties can bo arranged ,
This is in the British dominion.
But the Toronto papers do not denounce -
nounco the workingmen and workingwomen -
women aH hoodlums and communists ,
They do not denounce strikers as out
laws and call for troops , On the con-
trory they recognize the fact that the
only rational way to Bottle difficulties
between employer and employes is by
conference or arbitration.
JUDGE WYLIE is determined to per
mit no technicalities to stand in the
way of a speedy trial of the st
route ringsters. The counsel of
Brady , Dorsoy & Co. were quilo con
fident that the judge would quash
the indictments under the provisions
-of a Maryland statute enacted in
1882. They were mistaken. The
judge declared that the statue of 1723
was null and void as far as the District
of Columbia was concerned , and that ,
his court had undoubted jurisdiction
in the promises. Furthermore lie
decided that the indictments for con
spiracy both against the otar route
auid the straw-bond swindlers were
good and sufficient in all particulars.
He concluded by declaring the re
tf/t cognizance of Stephen W. Dorsoy
forfeited , and ordering his arrest. The
judge also remarked that the coses of
Dorjiey and Brady are eimilar in their
lracter. 7
THE resolution of Senator Morgac
calling the attention of' the senate to
the increasing commercial intercourse
between the United States &nd Mexi
co , and the desirability of a reciproci
ty treaty is exciting much comment
in the east. Mexico is perhaps moro
intimately connected with the west
than > ith any other portion of the
country. Railroads built with Amer
ican capital , engineered by western
men , and constructed by western con
tractors , or T rapidly penetrating the
country from all directions. Kansas ,
Now Mexico , Missouri and Colorado
are already connected by rail with the
republic south of the Jlio Grande- , and
much of the future trade between the
two countries must pass through the
woat before reaching its destination.
Last year wo sent to Mexico goods
valued at $11,000,000 , receiving in re
turn § 8,000,000 of Mexican products.
This small beginning , if stimulated by
a reciprocity treaty , will result in the
building up of a largo trade between
the two countries. The agricultural
productions of Mexico are almost lim
itless , owing to the different zones in
which her districts are located. With
little fuel and no water power she can
not become a manufacturing country ,
and must send her raw materials else
where to bo worked up into finished
articles. In return she would purchase
from us almost every kind of manu-
jactured goods. A proper reciprocity
treaty would make it to her interest
to trade almost exclusively with the
people of the United States.
THIS appeal of Messrs. Ingorsoll and
Burrows of the Farmers Alliance to
the merchants , shippers and workingmen
mon of Nebraska on behalf of the con
cealed anti-monopoly movement is
timely and worthy of careful consid
eration. The array of facts relating
to monopoly abuses in Nebraska and
elsewhere presented in the address
would bo startling if most of them
had not long ago boon familiar to a
majority of our rfcadors. Corporate
monopolies have never received amore
moro thorough and bettor deserved
scoring for their oppressions and ox-
hortions , and for the corrupt means
which they are employing to fasten
the chains moro closely upon the pro
ducers of the country.
There is no doubt of the necessity
for unity of action in resisting the
aggressions of the corporations. It
is a question , however , whether pro
fessional men and merchants in our
cities and towns , especially in Omaha ,
would enlist openly in a cause that
has their sympathy , and will doubtless -
loss , have their support when it can bo
given without risk of being black
listed by the monopolies.
The same is true of a largo portion of
our workingmen who do not care to
jeopardize their situations by openly
opposing their employers.
It is for these reasons that few antimonopoly -
monopoly leagues have afl yet boon
formed in Nebraska. 1 ho baneful in
fluence of the railway corporations
has made itself fait in supproasing
such evidences ot public opinion upon
the question of corporate political su
premacy as can safely bo expressed in
states and cities further oast. It has
boon given to the Farmers Alliance to
inaugurate the fust general movement
of the producers againet monopoly ag
gression and they will certainly bo
bo supported at the polls by the
largo majority of merchants , profes
sional men and workingmen who for
obvious reasons do not at present ,
doom it advisable to organize branches
of the National Anti-Monopoly
League.
WE have reached a crisis with our
fire department that calls for decisive
action on the part of Mayor Boyd and
the city council. The property owners
of Omaha are taxed from $15,000 to
$20,000 a year for keeping up a paid
fire department. > Every member of
this force , from cliiof down to drivers
of hose carts , draws his pay
from the city treasury. These
employes of the city are appointed
by the mayor subject to the approval
of the council the same as all ether
officers aud employes that are not
elected by the people. As chief executive -
ecutivo the mayor is hold responsible
for the efficiency of our paid fire de
partment , and it is wrong in principle
and dangerous in practice to relieve
him of this responsibility or deprive
him of the appointing power , by al
lowing the volunteer firemen to die-
tale whom he shall appoint
ohipf of the paid fire department.
It was proper enough , perhaps , in
our mayors to allow the firemen to
nhooso their chief as long as the vol
unteer and paid firemen were able to
agree upon such a choice , but the
disgraceful scramble for the office de
moralizes thoracic fire department and
is liable to produce a rupture between
firemen in the midst of a great firo.
Such a crisis calls for a heroic
romody. Mayor Boyd must now
assume the entire responsibility and
make his own choice of fire chief.
Wo don't propose to enter into a
comparison of the claims of rival can-
dldatos. Wo simply ask on behalf of
the common interest of all citizens
that the mayor appoint the man who
in his judgment is the most compe
tent and reliable for the position. If
the council disapproves the mayor's
choicest will bo his duty to appoint
Another. In taking away the power io
name their chief from the force the
mayor does not deprive the volunteer
firemen of their privilege to select
their company officers or other general
officers , such as president , secretary
and treasurer of the department. It
is now a matter of self preservation to
stop this eternal squabble ever a
chief , and it can only bo done by
abolishing the annual elections which
were allowed a choice by courtesy
only , When it becomes known that
these annual elections i don't moan a
scramble for n $1,500 office , ther *
will bo moro harmony In the depart
ment.
Tnr sooner some means are taken
for cutting down the surplus revenues
of the country thn bettor. In the
first place an unnecessary tax of $150-
000,000 is laid upon the people and in
the second place the presence of such
an enormous surplus in the treasury
is a constant inducement to the moil
gigantic jobbery and fraud at the na
tional capital. There aronow , enough
subsidy schemes before congrcsa to
s tramp the treasury for ton years to
como. Ono effect of ho great num
ber of unworthy jobs which are boiig
forced upon the attention of congress
men is to prevent action on such sub
sidies as are really necessary for the
proper development of the country.
Another effect is to postpone indefi
nitely a readjustment of the taxes on
on imports which the changed condi
tion of trade since the taxes were im
posed renders advisable in the inter
ests of our people. * The carcass hun-
tons are afraid of diminishibg the
funds available for ether purposes and
have joined in urging the tariff com
mission which , will effectually , put
aside the question of revenue reform
for a number of years abd meantime
keep up the surplus revenue.
ATTENTION was called a few days
ago in THE BEE to the urgent neces
sity of providing some reserve water
supply in case of damage to the mains
or reservoirs. Our former remarks
are omphacizod by the report of the
accident to the Denver water works.
By the bursting of thu main water
pipe in that city , on Tuesday last ,
several streets were submerged , many
collars flooded , and the entire water
supply of the city cut off for
several hours. During that time ,
if a fire had started ) there
would have boon absolutely no
fire protection , ' and the hose carts
would have been useless. Fortunately
for Denver , her works have ] been re
cently reconstructedso that the old wa
ter works were still available , and after
four hours delay water -for domestic
use and fire protection was flowing
through the pipes.
Omaha is loss fortunate in this respect -
spoct than Denver. There is only
ono main leading from the river to the
reservoir. Should this main burst the
city would bo entirely with
out water. On this account
it is highly important that the fire
cisterns snould bo kept filled. The
suggestion of the city engineer for an
additional main pipe from the pump
ing works to the storage reservoir , is
also worthy ot adoption. When the
water works are completed according
to the terms of the contract with the
city and accepted by the council
Omttha will have a system of _ water
works ample for all ordinary wants.
But wo should take all reasonable precautions
cautions against accidents that'ars
liable to prove disastrous.
TUB OMAHA BEE and the ticket set
up by the laboring men carried the
day in Omaha , and that city may look
for another year of mismanaged affairs.
When such conflicts spring up aj the
late ono in Omaha it is next to impos
sible to secure competent men for
office holders , for the simple reason
that the best men cannot bo elected
because prejudices are too strong
against thorn. [ Pawnee Enterprise.
Why will Omaha suffer from another
year's mismanage ! affairs ? Are the
men elected this spring incompetent
or dishonest ? Are they in any respect
inferior to the men that were retired
or defeated ? Why can't editors of
papers in the interior of the state
divest themselves of prejudice and
inform themselves bettor about affairs
in Omaha ? Why do so many of them
form opinions on nothing better than
baseless slanders and hogwashjovolvod
by the corporation organ grinders who
always predict terrible thinga if THE
BEB is sustained in n political contest )
NOTHING but a contested seat in
congress seems to bo able to bring out
the true inwardness of southern oloc.
tion frauds. The Mackey-Dibble case
has shown that in the Second district
of South Carolina in 1880 , in forty-
five precincts , the total list indicated
27,070 persons as voting , while the ballot -
lot boxes showed 33,320 ballots. In
ether words over six thousand ballots
were stuffed into the boxes to return
the Bourbon candidate to congress.
POLITICAL NOTES.
Kx-Goveraor Marks , of Tennessee , Is a
pOHslble candidate for governor in the
coming campaign.
Mr , Ame , one of the new stockholder *
of the Isoston Advertiser , lias an eye ou
the lieutenant governorship In Hasancbu.
eetta , It la tulcl ,
The prohibitionists will open the cam.
galgu In Connecticut by holding their
ttate convention at Hartford April JO , A
full ttate ticket will be nominated. >
James U. Weaver , the Rreenback candl.
date for president in 1880 , will contest
ono of the Iowa congreslonal districts this
fall. The new arrangement of thedlstrict *
will probably end hU political life.
Congressman Craco Is said to have con.
seated to enter the field aa a candidate for
the nomination for governor of Matsv
chuietti. He la Tory pdpuUr in hti own
district , harlot ? been elected to congress
by Almost 10,000 majority.
Proctor Knott is A likely candidate for
governor of Kentucky. The present exec
utive , Blackburn , oeeraa to be almost as
tinpopn'ar ' In hi * own party fti among the
republicans.
'Jhe reappearance of ex-Governor Hend-
rick * , The New York Times say * , In hi
celebrated act of riding two horses will
deepen the popular suspicion that this em
inent rtradiller is malting ready for the
presidential ring of 1881.
The Minnesota Senate , by n vote of 30
to 8 , found Circuit Judge Cox guilty of
iovcn oL the eighteen articles of impeach-
went. The Verdict deposes him fn.m . the
bench , anil disqualifies him from holding
office for three yoars.
The Nevada Republicans will hold their
State Convention September 4. All the
Important State fTicn are to bo filled and
Legislature elected. An earnest effoit
will be made to redeem the State from the
Democrats and Rend a Republican to Con-
Kres .
Democratic candidates for governor o
Ptnnsylvnl are getting plenty. Besides
James H. lioplttns , Robert E. Paitetfton ,
Uobert K. llonaghan and Kckley 1J. Coxe
have their supporters. The latter It Raid
to be rich , able and possessed of n first-
cl M record.
Ex.Senator Oglesby , it IB reported , will
enter the race fur the succession to Acting
Vice President Davln' chair. The other
candidate * most frequently named arc
OoTornor Cullom ana Green Ii. Uaum.
The legislature which will choose the new
senator U yet to bo elected.
Jasper Blackburn will be the republi
can candidate for congre man-at-large In
Arkansas. The democratic state conven
tion of Arkansas will meet at Little Kock
on June 15 to nominate a state ticket , a
congreisman-at'large , appoint a new state
central committee , and frame another
platform.
Major Townnend , the present secretary
of itate of Ohio , is said to dexlre a re-lec
tion. He has not escaped criticism in the
administration of his oflice , however , und
earnest opposition will no doubt be made
to hH renominution. Tlili in the most im
portant Rtate ollico to be filled this year in
Ohio.
The sentiment of the Georgia independ
ents at their meeting the other day in
Atlanta seemed to be in favor of nominat
ing er-Congrcssman Felton for novernor.
A mass convention of the party has been
called to meet at the same place Juno 1 ,
when a state ticket and a coagrestman-nt *
large will bo nominated.
The Kentucky Independents are mak
ing an energetic canvass of the State.
Even the Bourbon papers admit that large
audientes attend their meetings and much
enthusiasm is manifested. The Inde
pendents , show their faitli in the justness
of their cause by Inviting their opponents
to discuss the issues with them in public.
The recent redlstrictia ? of Mississippi
Is eaid to be the wont gerrymander ever
perpetrated , and it is causing widespread
dissatisfaction In the Democratic ranks.
Ono district has 70,000 more people than
the oue next to it. The blunder is likely
to lead to a serious split in the party , and
may result In giving the Republicans sev
eral Congressmen.
AfUr looking over thenewcomtroisional
districts in Wisconsin , The Milwaukee
Sentinel concludes that the republican
representatives from that state will be re
tired with the exception of Pound and
Uuenther. The new arr.ingtment of the
districts has been the subject of much
criticism , and is ascribed to William T.
Price , Ha has long been a candidate for
a nomination to congress , having been de
feated nine consecutive times. It is be
lieved now , however , that ho will succeed
in securing a nomination and lection.
The new apportionment makes six strong
republican and two strong democratic dis
tricts , and one that ia doubtful.
A Voice From Omaha ,
1412 Dodge Street , Omaha , Nob. ,
May 24 , 1881.
H. H. WAKNEH & Co. : Sins I had
suffered 15 years from a combination
of liver and kidney trouble until cured
by your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
aprlO-dlw lO. B. ROQEIW.
8T6.TB JOTTINGS.
St. Helena h without a saloon.
St. Paul is forcing the Ice cream season.
The press of Alma and Orleans lie'down
right together.
Telephones In Grand Island will' rent
for 54 per month ,
The round-up of the southwestern Block-
men commences May 15.
Airs. James Knox ha-i been appointed
postmistress at Elk Valley.
Wayne wants a brick-yard bad. There
is plenty of good clay thers.
Salt Creek is now in a condition to ac
commodate the political dead.
There will be n great gathering of Odd
Fellows at Red Cloud on the 20th.
A terryboat Is running between the
Ponca landing and the Dakota shore.
Lincoln ia to have another bank with a
capital of § 100,000 , Judge Kelly at the
head.
The Blue Springs light artillery are prec
par.OK to give C. M. Murdoclc the grand
bounce. ,
The annual shearing of the Bouthern
Nebraska sheep breeders' association will
commence May 4.
Travel to thu Black Hills via the Sid
ney route is assuming something of its old
time propositions.
Tom Turner of Fremont has bought 15-
000 sheen in southern California , \vnlch h
wdl drive to Dodgecounty. .
J , G. Hunter , a Sidney tcockmau , dropped -
pod his wallet near a peanut stand , hist
week , and now mourns the loss of $140.
During the patt year theru have been
351 arrests mudo in Lincoln , 287 of which
were convicted or bound over to the high
er court.
Wymoro can now lift up Its head and
feel aa proud as any burn in Nebraska. It
hud its cyclone , aud all ii lacks now is a
murder to make it a tint c'aas city.
The entire floating and bonded debt of
Lincoln is lt > 7G79.b9 , and the assessed
valuation will tills year reach nearly $2-
000,000 , or an actual valuation of $ C,000-
000.
000.A 10-year-old hey named Kenwitz , liv
ing near Hcrlbner , the other day caught
nil arm in a corn bheller * which eo muti
lated it that ninputatitn at the shoulder
was necessary.
Serious losses by the storm of last Fri
day are reported in Gage county , Ruaaell
nd Hugh Dobba lost eight beau of valua
ble cattle by drowning , and Mr. Brazil
lost 1,100 sheep ; valued at $5,000 , , in the
eauia manner. Bridges have baen washed
out of a number of small utrcams. and the
wind wrecked several barns and buildings
lu the vicinity of Beatrice.
The railroad company are "kicking
against the pricks" and endeavoring to
avoid th 9 payment of their taxes levied
tor school purposes , and through their at *
toruey. A. E. Harvey , want to compro
mise witb our commissioners , but in the
language of Holdrcdge , at the recent
Dmaha labor strike , the commissioners
can't see astheyhaye anything to comprn.
inUe , it being a fair , legitimate levy , and
the company should pay their taxes the
simo aa homeateaderi. { Arapahoe Pie
neer.
Won't RaiM the
National Associated ITCM .
PHILADELPHIA , Pa. , April 13. A
prominent operator in the Olearfield
ogion eays emphatically they won't
rive the 15 cents advance demanded
or any fraction of it , preferring , if
necessary , to keep the mines idle any
ongth of time.
/no wjpvi ioj , , 'maUVO JC 3NIA\i
AH APPEAL FOB ORGANIZATION ,
To the Merchants , Manufactur
ers , Professional MOD ,
Mechanics ,
Shippers and Workingmen ot
the State of Nebraska ,
NFfiiu KA STATK FARMERS' ALLIANCE , }
SKCRBTAnt'fl OFFICE , >
MKi.nor , April , 1882. J
FELLOW CITI/.ENS : One of the
fundamental principles of our government
mont is that every individual citizen
shall have equal rights bpforo the law ,
in the pursuit of happiness , and in
the accumulation of thia world's goods.
Our government in its origin waa to
bo a government of individual opinion
fairly expressed by the ballot , the ma
jority to rule. But the combinations
of private interests known aa corpora
tions , have entirely overridden
these fundamental principles. In
the case of railroad cor
porations , they were created by the
law-making power for the solo pur
pose of carrying on the business ol
transportation. By law their work is
limited to the work of building and
operating railroads , and the rights
actually conferred upon them are only
the rights necessary for that purpose.
Bat taking advantage of the power
growing out of association and combi
nation , they have usurped rights and
privileges which , if allowed to con
tinue , will soon destroy every
vestige ot the traditional liberties
of the people , Leaving their legal
and proper sphere , confined to which
they form ono of the most bonoCconl
agencies of modern times , they have
thrust themselves into every economic
and political interest , and hero their
influence has become blighting , anc
malign. What branch of the govern
ment have they not invaded and cor
rupted ] What source of gain have
they not grasped ? \Vhat private
rights have they not abridged and in
fringed ?
Wo have elected our legislators to
see them vie with each other which
shall most quickly bond the willing
knee to these corporations. Wo have
sent senators and representatives to
congress to see them become their
supple instruments. Wo have chosen
( governors to find them only their
most obsequious and humble servants.
Wo have established courts of justice
and law those most sacred deposito
ries of thn liberties of a free people
to BCQ them debauched to bo the ser
vile tools of theao great corporations.
What source of gain have they nol
grasped ? The black list is too long to
enumerate. By watered stocks they
have evaded the reasonable restric
tions ot their charters , and imposed
enormous unearned taxes upon the
products and labor of the people. By
adopting the rule of "what the traffic
will bear , " they have made themselves
partners , without investment , in
every industry of the country the
principle of the highwayman.
By discriminations between individuals
they reward political favorites and ar
rogate to themselves control of pri
vate interests. By discriminations
between places they interfere with
natural laws of growth , ruining some
localities to build up others where
their own interests are concentrated.
They have monopolized mines and
rendered our supply of fuel precarious
and unneccessanly costly. By their
rings within rings they levy
an unnecessary tax upon every
ery staple article consumec
by the people. By chicane
and trickery , aided from time to time
by their tools in congress , and by supreme
premo court decisions on put up cases ,
they hold 9,000,000 acres of laud in
Nebraska , Kansas and Colorado , in
their own right , salable and transfer
able by them at will , but unpatented
by the government and free of all tax-
aion which im poses an annual bur
den of taxation of § 500,000 upon the
people.
'What private right have they not
abridged and infringed ? When the
value and the purity , of the greatest
private right which can insure to the
American citizen are Impaired by their
invasion of our politics and their cor
ruption of our government the righl
of a free ballot what need of nam
ing any other invasion ? This is
the sum and totalthe final expression
of all private rights in the United
states. Destroy it or abridge it , and
you destroy or abridge every righl
and every liberty which is buildoc
upon it. That these corporations do
systematically destroy or abridge it by
injecting themselves illegally into our
politics by their interference with
the machinery of our elections , and
by the corruption of our officers after
they are elected , no intelligent citizen
will 'for a moment deny.
Every ofHco , every position of trust
or honor , every interest , the private
rights and material welfare of every
individual citizen , ia subordinate to the
gains and ambitions of tins unshapely
monster which has been misconceived
in the womb of free institutions. Pile
upon this Polion the Ossa of their endeavors
deavors to undermine our free press ,
and control our thonght and our in
telligence , and nothing remains to
make up the appalling total but a final
epitaph upon our faded liberties , and
our subverted government.
Follow citizens , shall this melon
choly epitaph bo written ? Wo say
no 1 ton thousand times no ! We ,
twelve thousand farmers of the state
of Nebraska , appeal to you , mer
chants , professional men , manufac
turers , shippers and workingmen , to
join us in this mighty negative. Wo
appeal to you to organize to stand
shoulder to shoulder with us for
what ? To doitroy any healthy rule of
law and order ) to subvert any useful
institution ? to infringe upon any
established and just right of
property ? No , not for a sin
gle moment. But to say that you are
opposed to any further extension of
corporate power as assumed and con
trolled by monopolistic rule to say
that you are in favor of restraining
the riffhts and privileges of corpora
tions within the reasonable limits pro
scribed by law , and to say that you
will vote with us to sustain these prin
ciples. Wo point you to the growth
of this power for the past twenty
yaars , and to the fact that it is yet in
the infancy of its development. Wo
warn you that another twenty years at
the same rate of progress will place it
entirely bsjond your control. Wo
appeal to you to organize , as organi
sation affords the only means of
giving the force of law to your
views. We ask you to organize in
rlow of the approaching election.
While wo do nol invite you to join
our Alliances , which nro composed
exclusively of farmers , wo point you
to the National Anti-Monopoly
League , whom all can meet upon com
mon ground , in which simple rules of
organization are already formulated.
Wo are informed that a call will soon
bo issued ( or n meeting to organize a
state league in Nebraska. Wo invlto
you to form clubs and send delegates
to that mooting. Wo invite you to
our meetings wo will meet with you
and consult with you ; and will fully
co-operate with you in all measures
for the general welfare.
The organization of the nnti-mcnop-
ely league ia by townships , counties ,
districts and states. It comprises to
day JXB largo , respectable , wealthy ,
and influential a body of men as were
over associated together in this coun
try for a laudable and boneficient pur
pose. It is open and honorable , with
no secrets , pass-words or dues. Its
secretary , Henry Nichols , GO Barclay
street , Now York , will furnish docu
ments and information.
Issued by the Nebraska State
Farmers' Alliance.
E. P. INOEUSOLL , President.
H. 0. BIOLOW , Oh'n Ex. Com.
J. Battnows , Sec. and Oh'n Stata
Organizing Com.
AH Nebraska papers are respectful
ly requested to publish the above ap.
peal. _ _ _ _ _ _
It Was His Slstor.
Louliilllt Courier-Journal.
Four years ago , in the neighboring
city of Cincinnati , lived a young girl
whom it will do to cill Florence. She
was the child ct wealthy parents , am
brought up amid all the luxuries anc
refinements which riches alone can
procure , bho was naturally bright
and the advantages of intollootua
training in the best private schools o
the city were nv't thrown away
While she was possesc2d of all these
attractions , they were not the best gift
thatnaturo had bestowed uponhor. She
had inherited a voice that an ango
might have envied. Sweet an clear
it caught the ear of every listener
and won admiration on all sides. She
became not only the pot of the don-
sorvatory whore she studied , but the
pot of society as well. Her father's
partner had a son , who both physi
cally and mentally.was scarcely loss
attractive as a man than she was n
woman. Ho was a graduate of Harvard
'
vard college , and a man of 'more than
ordinary parts. His sister was Flor
ence's intimate friend and schoolmate ,
and those three constitute the dram
atis persons of the story to be re
lated.
Financial reverses impoverished the
family of which our heroine was the
all-important member. From a resi
dence in the most fashionable quarter
of the city to u small house in a seclu
ded neighborhood wont the bank
rupt's wife and child , and he , a
crushed man , died with the chagrin
and mortification of his failure. Wanl
and penury and neglect were the lol
of the survivors , and forsaken by the
friends of their prosperity , actual star
vation stared them in the face. It
was then that the girl , overcoming her
maidenly modesty with the Jove
of a dependent mother , took
to the stage as a ballad sin
ger. Night after night she drew
rounds of applause from the enthusi
astic audiences of the Vine Streel
operahouse. As she has been a pel
of refined society in palmier days ,
so she now captured the admiration
of the loss fastidious audiences at the
varieties. The reaction had set in ,
and she gave all her energy to the
work in hand. The atmosphere was
just enough tainted with the
abandonment of sin to make it excit
ing , and girl like she was ioo enthusi
astic to see the danger.
It was about this time that her
father's partner's son , the young Har
vard graduate , fell at her feet. She
yielded to his entreaties and fell. Be
fore her shame had become evident ,
the mother , for whom she had risked
and lost her most precious treasure ,
died. Grief sent the girl deeper intc
shame and her life became ono ol
illicit pleasure. Whatever may have
been h r course after that it matters
not. About 1 o'clock this morn
ing there was a singularly
sad scene in ono of the
Jefferson street "cigar fronts. " Flor
ence was there a common prostitute.
She was the centre of an admiring
group. After a while the madam came
in and said that she had a now girl to
take her place among the houris. She
called her , the girl camo. There were
two shrieks and two women fell sense
less on the floor. The now girl was
the sister of Florence's seducer.
Gen. Torbet'FWay.
Torbot , of cavalry fame , who was
lost at sea last year with the ill-fated
Vera Cruz , was a good fighter and a
hard worker. While having a kindly
heart for the trooper who was always
ready for "boots and saddles , " ho
hated a shirk and had his own way of
meeting the complaints urged by
shirkers to get rid of duty. Just before -
fore breaking camp in the spring of
18G5 the general attended a sick call
to BOO the state of health in his com
mand Ono after another of the boys
came in for prescriptions , and by and
by a strapping big trooper , wh'o was a
notorious shirk , entered the tent with
his hands on his stomach. Torbet
took him all in at a glance and then
thundered out :
"What are you hero forf"
"Sick , " was the faint response.
"What ails you ? "
"Snake in the stomach. "
"How long has it boon there ? "
"Six months. "
"Surgeon , " said the general , as ho
turned to the officer , "sail in two
men , cut this man open and remove
the snake ! Wo are going to break
camp in ton days , and wo haven't time
to coax the reptile upi"
Fifteen minutes after that the man
ivas out on the line grooming his
10160 , and by noon ho looked well
enough to eat his way through a bar
rel of pork.
Bucklln'a Arnica Salvo.
The beat tah e In the world for cuts ,
> ruUes , gores , ulcers , salt rheum , fever
area , tetter , chapped hands , chilblain ? ,
corns and all skin eruptions , and posi.
Ively cure ) piles. It ia guaranteed to give
> erfect srtisfactlon or money refunded ,
'rice , 25 cents per box , For sale by 0 ,
. ' .Goodman.
A Mil package of "OLACK-DRAUGHT"
rra of charge. L
HOUSES
LOTS ! >
For Sale By
FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS SIS , ,
No. 187 LAROR FIN * HOIM Ann CORMIR LOT-
near 22nd and Webster streets , 10 rooms , stable
and splendid order. A bargain at $0000 ,
178 , Home s rooms , ( dll Rot on Pleroa ne
2Uth street , (1,660.
177. House 2 rooms , full lot on Douglu DO *
26th street , $700.
17E , Beautiful residence , full lot on Can near-
19th street , (12,000.
174 , Two houses and J lot on Dodre ucar 8th ,
street , 11,600.
176 , House three rooms , two clototo , etc. , half
lot on 21st t oar Orace street , (800.
172 , One and one-halt story brick housa aa
two lots on Douglas near J8th street , (1,700.
171 , Ilousotwo rooms , wellcistern , stable , etc
full lot near Fierce and 13th street , (950.
179 , Ono and one-halt story house six room *
and well , hall lot on Convent itroot Dear SI
Itarj's arenue , $1,860. r-ffii
No 170 , House three rooms on Clinton ( treat.
D'r shot lower , (325.
No. 169 , House and 33x120 feet lot on
street near Wcbsfc r street , (3,600.
No. 168 , Housa of 11 rooms , lot 33x120 feet on
18th mar Hurt street , $6,000.
on 167 , Two story house , 9 rooms 4 closets ,
( rood cellar , on 8th etrcot near Popplcton' *
No. 165 , New house ot 6 rooms , half lot on
Izard near 10th street , $1.850.
No. 161 , Ono and ono half story house 8 rooms
on 18th street t oar Leavenworth , $3,600 ,
N. 161 , One and one-half story Lousa of f >
rooms near Hanscom Park , $1,000.
No. 163 Two houses 5 rooms each , closets. teen
on Hurt street near 26th , $3,600.
No. 167 , house 6 rooms , full lot on 10th street
near Lea > enworth , $2,400.
No. 166 , llouio 4 large rooms , Z closet *
half aero on Hurt street near Button , 81,200.
No. 166 , Two houses , one of & and ono ol ft
rooms , on 17th street near Marcy , 83,200.
v No. 164. Three houses , one of 7 and twc otS
rooms each' , and corner ot , on Cass near 14th
street , (5,000.
Nr. 163 , email house and full lot on PaclQ I
near ICth street , (2,600.
No.If 1 Ono story house 6 rooms , on Leaven
worth near 10th , $3,000.
No. 160 , House three rooms and lot 92x11
near 26th and Farnham , 2,600.
No. 148 , New house ot eight rooms , on 18th
street marLeavcnworth , $3,100.
No. 147 , House ot 13 rooms on 18th street
near Marcy. $5COO.
No. 146 , HOUKO of 10 rooms and IJlots on 18th
street near Marcy , JO.COG.
No. 145 , House two large rooms , lot 67x210 foe
onShoraan a\cnuc(16th ( street ) near Nicholas.
5.600.
No 143 , House 7 rooms , barn , on 20th street
near Lcavenwortb , 2,600.
No. 142 , House 6 rooms , kitchen , etc. , on 10th
Street near Nicholas , $1,876.
No. 141 , House 3 rooms ou Douglas Bear 26th
street , $050.
No. 140. targe house and two lots , on 241
near Farnham street , $8,000.
No. 139 , House 3 rooms , lot OOxlGOJ fccr ,
Douglas near 27th street , $1,600.
No. 137 , House & rooms and half lot on Caplto
avenue near 23d street , $2,300.
No. ISO , House and halt aero lot on Cumlng
street near 24th $350.
No. 131 , House 2 rooms , full lott Izard
ncan 21st street , $ 00.
No. 129 , Two hr.ueea one ot G and ono ot i
rooms , on leased lot on Webster near 20th street ,
(2,600.
No. 127 , Two story bouse 8 rooms , half lot on
Webster near 10th $3,600.
No. 126 , House 3 rooms , lot 20x120 feet on
26th street near Douglas , $075.
No , 125 , Two story house on 12th near Dodge
Street lot 23x03 tcet (1,200.
No. 124 , Large house and full block near
Farnham and Central street , S8,0uu '
No. 123 , House 0 rooms and large lot on Saun-
dcrs street near liarrocka , $2 100. \
No. 122 , House 0 rooms and half lot on Wnb-
ster near 16th street , $1,600.
No. 118 , House 10 rooms , lot 30x90 feet on
Canltoi a\enuo near 22d street , 32,950.
Ko. 117 , House 3 rooms , lot 30x120 Meet , on
Capitol a\enuo near 22(151,600.
No. 114 , House 3 rooms on Douglas near 26th
street , $760.
No. 113 , House 2 rooms , lot 66x99 feet on
near Cumlng street , $760.
No. 112 , Brick house 11 rooms and hall lot on
Cass near 14th street , 82,800.
No. Ill , Housa 12 roomsjon [ Davenport nea
02th street , 87,0.0.
No. 110 , Brick house nnc ot 22xlS2 fee on
Cass street near l&th , $3,000.
To. 108 , Largo house on Uarnoy near 16th
strnst , $3,600. CT ]
No 109 , Two houses and 36x132 foct lot
Cass near 14th street , $3,600.
No. 107 , Houao & rooms and half lot ou Izard
near 17tn street , $1,200.
n o. 100. House and lot 61x198 feet , lot ou 14th
near Pierce street , $000 ,
No. 1C6 , Two story house 8 rooms with 1 } lot
on Sowurd near Blunders street , $2,800.
No. 103 , Ono and one halt story house 10 rooms
Webster near 10th street , $2,600.
HNo. 102 , Two houses 7 rooms each and J lot on
Uth near Chicago. $4OoO.
No. 101 , Housa 3 rooms , cclltr , etc. , 1J lota on
South avenue near PactHc scrcer , $1,650.
No. 100 , House 4 rooms , cellar , etc. , half lot
on Izard street near 16th , $2,000.
No. 99 , Very largo house and full lot on Har
noy near 14th street , $9 000 ,
No. 97 , Large house ol 11 rooms on Sherman
avenue near Clark street , make an odor.
No. 90 , Ono and one half story house 7 rooms
lot 240x401 feet , stable , etc. , on Sherman are-
nue near Grace , 37 000.
No. 92 , Large brick house two lota on Daven
port street near 19th (18,000.
No. 90 , Large housa and full lot on Dodo
near 16th tre t , $7,003.
No. 89 , Large bauso 10 rooms halt lot on SOtb
car California street , $7,600
No , 88 , Largo house 10 or 12 rooms , beautiful
corner lutonCasa near 20th , (7,000.
No. 87 , THO etory house 3 rooms. 6 acres o
and on Saunders street near Barracks , $2,000.
No. 80 Two stores and a residence on leased
ball lot.near Mason anil 10th street , $300.
No. 84Two story hou > o 8 rooms , closets , etc. ,
with 6 acres of ground , on Saundirs street near
Omaha Barracks , $2.600
No. 83 , House ol 9 rooTS , halt lot on CapKoI
atenuo near 12th street. $2,600.
No k2 , One and one hall story louse , 6 rooms
lull lotou 1'lercu near 20th street , (1,800.
No. 81 , 'Iwo 2 story houses , ono ot 0 and one
0 rooms , Chicago St. , near 12th , $3,000.
No. 80 Housa 4 rooms , closets , etc. , large lot
on 18th street near White Lead works , $1,300.
No. 77 , Large house ot 11 rooms , closets , cel
lar , et : . , with H lot on Farnham near 19th street ,
(3.000.
No. 76 , Ore ani one-hall story house ol 8 rooms ,
lot 66x8d leet on Cass near 14th street , (4,600.
No. 76 , House 4 rooms and basement , lot
16U132 feet on Marcy near 8th street , (676.
No. 74 , Large brick house and two full lots on
Ducnport near 16th street , $16,000.
No. 73 , One and one-half story house and Hot
86x182 feet on Jackuon near 12thbtrcet , 81.800.
No. 72 , Large brick house 11 rooms , full lot
on Daveiport near 16th street , $6,000.
No. 71 , Large bouse 12 rooms , full lot on Call.
ornla near 20th street , (7,000.
No. 66 , Stable and 3 lull lot * on ran In street
near Saunders , $2,000.
No. 64 , To etory frame building , store below
and rooms above , on leased lot ou Dougu nwr
16th street , $800
No. 63 , House 4 rooms , basement , etc. , lo
93x230feet ou Ibtb itreet mar Nail Work * ,
1,700.
No. 62 , New house 4 rooms one story , lull lot
No. 68 , House of 7 rooms , ull lot Webitet
near 21st street , (2,600.
on Hartley near 21st street , (1,760.
No. 61 , Large house 10 rooms , full lot on Butt
near 21 t street , S5.000.
No. CO , ilouso 3 roc ins , half lot on Dtvenporl
near 23d street , 1,000.
No 69 , Four houses and hall lot on Casa near
13th street $2600.
No. 12 , House o rooms acd lull lot , Harnojr
near 26ih street , S2.COO.
No , 9 , Three houses and lull lot on Casa Dear
14th street , $3,200.
No. 7 , House 0 rooms , well , cistern , etc. 3 toil ,
on 17th neir Jtard ttrcet , $3,000.
No. 0 , House 7 rooms , lot 00x88 feet on CM *
near 17th suutt , $4,000.
BEMIS'
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
ifitn and Douglas Street.
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