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THE DAILY BEjfiJ-OMAHA , FttlDAY JANl/AllY" , t < 1884. THE OMAHA fcEE. Otnntta Office , No. Olfl Fnrnnm St. * * Council UliiflV * OlYlco , No. f Tcnrl Street , Ncnr Mrortdwfty. Now York Ofllcc , KoomOS TrlOnno Building. _ ruMlnhed erorjjrornlnft , eicepl Sunday. The tel ) Uoml&rtnornlnRiUllf. lltUS RT HAIL. ne Ye r . $10.00 I Three Months . JJ.OO StxUonun . 6.00 | One Month. . . . 1.00 I inn WWM.Y nix , musnta IVXRT W DTHDAT , OnoYeur . J2.00 1 Thrco Months . t CO Billionth * . . 1.00 1 Ono Month . 0 American NOWB Company , Sol EAgcnU"Now < Jo&l' * n In the United Blatcs. A Oommunlaillons rcUtlnft to News uml Editorial mttten should bo oddronsod w the EDITOR , or Tin Dn. BUStlOCAS LKTTXRS. AIlBmlnefW totter * and Ilomlttanoes ehould 1) addressed to Tim n n Purusmvo COMPART , OMAHA Pratt * , Chock * and I'mtolllco ordori to be made p y ab ! to the order of the compunf. THE BEE PUBLISHING CO , , PROPS , E. nOSEWATBR , Editor. Tun now year starts out with "n clmp- tor of horrors , " and it bids fair to rival 188U. Tun Hastings Gazette-Journal "wishes its thousands of readers n happy Now Year. " Hovr many thousands ? TUB free canal system in Now York is a great BURCCSSS. Governor Cleveland , in his moss Ago , says that the tonnage shows an increase of 32-1,350 tons , while the shipments of grain from Buffalo by canal voro 42,350,910 bushels , against 29,439,088 last year. IT is related in an ancient book called the Bible , that n whale swallowed Jonah , but in more modern chronicles it is said that the Burlington , a greater body than the Biblical whale , couldn't swallow Yin- ing. Wo are inclined to believe the latter story. KAN.SH CITY papers publish ait elabo rate review of the events of the year. The first local event noted on Now Year's day , 1883 , was a dog fight , and the clos ing event of the year was n church fair with an oyster stow. Kansas City is growing more pious every year. THIS protracted session of the pool- makers caused the Philadelphia Record to say : "A follow in Omaha doesn't know whether to stay west or come east , the parties to the railroad pool are BO long in making up their minds whether they will shako ono another , or shako their custo- , mors. " OLXVKLAND , of Now York , la altogether too sanguine. Ho fcols sure that the Now York capital , at Albany , will bo Cuishod by Now Yoara , 1880. The people of that state hava already taxed themselves $10,318,680 for this white elephant , and the chances are that it will not bo finished before the year 1900. GHKKUAI , MAHAOKH HANLOH is issuing his annual passes over the Omaha bolt lino. As this railway was built on a Sunday , it is fair to conclude that our olorgymon will return their passes when they receive them. By the way , they are only tie-passes , good until usod. Ool. Hanlon will not forgot the members of the city councilwho were never known to return anything. V To TUB surprise of everybody the Emma Bond case resulted in the acquit tal of the prisoners accused of the out rage. Nobody , however , will bo sur prised it the telegraph should announce the lynching of the villains , whom the Illinois jury has sot froo. It is just such burlesques on justice thatmako the whole jury system odious , and incite people to take the law into their own hands. "PttOF.1' TnoMrsotf , the theoretical farmer of the Nebraska State Agricul tural college , has started out on a ton week's lecturing tour through Nebraska. Ho _ propones to toll the farmers of Ne * . braska just how to do it. Ho has drawn ' lot of crayon sketches with which to illustrate the different atogda in the evolution lution of stock raising. Ho is also drawing his salary from the state univer sity fund with the usual regularity , and the question la whether ho will draw largo enough crowd * to pay for his fuel and candles. TUB United States Wy find some use for a navy of tor all. Portugal has taken offense at the p&ssago in President Ar thur's raessagj , wherein it is stated that it might become necessary for the United States to co-operate with other powers for the safeguard of their rights of trade cm the Congo river. It teems thai Portugal tugal labored under the impression that if she bad a large fleet like that of Eng land , the United States cabinet would tare taken a dUToront view of the mat * tor , Portugal now p poses to pro para two new naval divisions for service along tliOcoaoU of Africa and South America. GOVKKNOH OumvAY , of Dakota , is in i peck of trouble. Ouo of the charge/ / against him is that he received $5OOQfoi appointing a man unmed Hhaw as com Mfosionor to locate the county seat o Potter county. This charge , which hoi grown out of the light against the reappointment - appointment of Governor Ordway , issup < ported by an ailHavit. It has raised quito a breeze , or rather a blizzard , it IkoU , and it ii believed by many thai there must bo souio foundation for the charge , Other charges are being broughl out , and the tcuo inwardness of Dakota'e affairs ate being exposed to the public , There is no doubt that extensive land frauds hava boon perpetrated b/ sonic one , and it is high time that a check should be put upon ( hem , saints. Senator Siibin cornea to the front with a financial scheme which merits serious consideration. Senator Sabin has reached the conclusion that the payment of the national debt should cense , for at least ono or two generations , in order to give the country time enough to recuperate from the burdens and losses incident to the civil war. In his opinion the pay- inont of the national debt should have boon stopped a year ago. Thin has boon the view held by TIIK llr.r . There is no doubt that ono of the chief causes of the present depression in the commercial affairs of thin country has been over taxation and contraction. In our effort to pay off the national debt wo hava put the industries of the country to the greatest strain that they could boar. Wo have not only taxed the producers to moot the heavy expenses incurred in carrying on the government and levied n tax to pay the interest on the public debt , but wo have taxed them at the rate often ton to twelve millions of dollars per month to pay the principal. While the greater part of the national debt boars only three percent interest wo have boon paying it off when money commanded from five to eight par cent. If the mil lions which wo have collected in federal taxes were lying idle in the coffers of the rich the policy of paying the national debt would bo in the interest of economy , but | when it is berne in mind that wo have taxed the laborer , the artisan , the farmer , and merchant , upon everything which they oat , anddrink , and wear , to pay off a debt that boars only three per cent interest and could just as well bo paid off a hundred years hence , the policy of such rapid reduction is not only a blun der , but a crime. It is an outrage to compel ono generation to moot all the sacrifices of lifo and property that were made to preserve the national lifo and wipe out slavery. The coming genera tions , who will reap the benefits of a union preserved and a country grown prosperous and prolific through the sac rifices and labor of the present genera tion , should bo made to contribute to the fund which has insured to tho'm a priceless heritage. Senator Sabin favors the consolidation of the national doot into a two per cent fifty year bond , into which all bonds should bo converted as they mature or are called in. These bonds ho proposes to make the basis for bank issues. Iln believes that a majority of the national banks would accept this basis if they were allowed to issue notes to the par value of the bonds , and the ax on bank circulation was repealed. That would solve ono of the problems which will soon have to bo mot by the jovornmont. A two per cent bond on the irosont national debt would require a tax of loss than $10,000,000 a year , or about $3,000,000 a month. Up to the present time wo have boon taxed from $80,000- 000 to 9100,000,000 a year , to moot in terest on bonds , besides from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000 a month to reduce the prncipaL In other -words , if Senator Cabin's plan were put in operation wo could reduce the taxes $150,000,000 a year , or at the rate of $3 per roar for every man , woman and child in the country. There is no doubt that a two per cent bond could bo made to servo as a basis for national bank circulation on the conditions proposed by Senator Sabih. That wouldhowovoronly take up about 8300,000,000 of our bonds. [ t is a dubious question whether the romain- DR $1,200,000,000 could bo disposed of at par if they were bearing two per cent. There is a very largo class of people in , his country who have boon unalterably opposed to national banks , and would continue to oppoio the system. Many of Jio opponents of thu national banks undoubtedly the safest and most reliable banking system that any country 103 over established do not scorn to un derstand that national banks are no Ion- jor a monopoly. They do not compro- tioud that under the present law any company having the necessary bonds to deposit as security is entitled to a national bank charter. There are still others who understand this fact , but insist that the currency of the country should bo issued directly by the government , in the same manner as the greenbacks were issued. On this question there is great divergence of opinion. If the government is to issue all the currency it will bo difficult to devise - vise any plan by which currency will bo supplied from the United States treasury when and where it is needed , and with drawn when there is no demand for it. During the war , and for seine years after , Uioro was a largo army , and also a navy , to support. Millions upon millions ol greenbacks were put in circulation as payment to soldiers and for war supplies. It is different now. Our army is n mora skeleton , and our navy n more thadow. The only legitimate out lay uf the government is to pay its em ployes mid pensioners , together with suol incidental distribution of funds as maybe bo required in constructing public build ings aud making river and harbor improvements provoments , and running the fedora courts , aud paying interest upon the public debt. All these expenditures du not involve over 9250,000,000 a year whereat it takoa over $700,000,000 a year to supply the country with currency. There are periods In caoli year when largo amounts of currency are needed in distant sections to move the crops am live Block. In what way would the uov- eminent supply the currency when the national treasury has no dealing with local banks. Thoao banks would have tc accumulate currency dui ing those period : to meet the demand. Money Mould buuomo stringent and the money tharLb would reap the benefit. The abolition of the national banks would iu duo time bo followed by UK establishment of state banks , and that would bring us back to the wildcat cur rency of our fathers , when every store- keep had tc consult % bank detector to ascertain the value of the different bills , and to protect himself from loss by spu rious issues. It Jf hardly conceivable that wo shall ovorroturn to that condi tion of financial chaos. While there may bo bettor schemes to moot the financial situation than that proposed by Senator Sabin , his views are well worth considering. K AND MODERATION. There were 1,097 murders committed in the United Stales during the year 1883. The causes of G23 of these mur ders were quarrels. Jealousy caused 218 murders and liquor 107. The yoar'emi- | cidos foot up 727 , and liquor is hold ac countable for only 87 of them. These figures flatly contradict the generally ac cepted statement that liquor is responsi ble for nine-tenths of all murders and suicides , As a mattorof fact , berne out jy last years' statistics , liquor is the cause of only about one-ninth of the murders and suicides , and it is fair to presume that liquor is responsible for ether crimes in about the same proper tion. Conceding that liquor is responsible for a great deal of crime it would seem that oven total abstinence would not abolish the worst of crimes , which is murder , and the constantly increasing destruction of lifo by suicide. Those stubborn facts seem to bo utterly ignored by prohibition agitators , who labor under ho delusion that there would bo no murders , no suicides and no grave crimes if only the sale and consumption of liquor could bo stopped. The worst of it is that the attempt to stop the con sumption of liquor by law has proved a failure wherever the moral sentiment of the community did not sustain it. Those visionaries forgot that true temperance is not total abstinence from intoxicating drink alonebut moderation in alljthings. They acorn to forgot that the human 3ody and mind are so constituted that an excess even bf grief may produce oven , ho most horrible of crimes. An excess of religious zeal has driven thousands nto. insane asylums and prcmaturo graves. GBNKUAI. PASSKNOKK AOKNT MOKSK , of .ho Union Pacific , in his circular regard- ng the issuing of passes to the press , says in substance that , among others , correspondents of daily newspapers will ic given free passes if engaged exclusive- y in the newspaper business , and not in sollim * stationery or soliciting for job housoa. Ho adds " muting : "Correspond ents found canvassing for job work , or selling goods of any kind , will bo prompt- y discontinued from the free list. " This rule if carried out will bo a severe blow ; o the chief industry of the railroad organs , the Republican and tliol/crald. Those establishments have made a ; roat deal of money through so- called correspondents , who , while traveling on free passes , have soon soliciting job work and selling sta- ionory. By moans of free transporta tion the Republican and the Herald stationery departments have boon enabled a undersell the legitimate stationery dealers , who have to pay for the trans- > ortatiou of their traveling men. The same is true in regard to job printing. Hr. Morse may not bo aware of those 'acts , and then again ho may. There are exceptions to every rule , and ho probably makes exceptions in favor of the Jicpub lean and Herald. The discrimination against legitimate dealers by giving Bassos to the traveling salesmen of the stationery departments of the Re- tubllcan and Herald is simply an out rage. It shows to what extent a railroad can interfere in legitimate business out side of its own affairs. If thu subsidized organs can send traveling salesmen for stationery and books all over the western country upon free passes , they can with equal propriety establish and maintain a boot and shoo department , a clothing store , a grocery , or any other line of business , and it would not surprise us to see the in branch out into mercantile es tablishments , which will include every line of trade. a great deal moro truth than poetry in the following comment of the Chicago JVcuw : Judge McOrary is another distin guished ornament of thu bench who is to abandon the woolsack and the ermine to bucomo the attorney of a big railway cor poration. It is a nad commentary upon the institutions of justice when a man finds it moro profitable business traveling up and down a railroad , arguing before rural juries as to the value of a dead cower or thu value of a broken leg , than ex pounding the law from the bench of a United States court. Yet this seems to bo the ambition of every man who en gages in the legal profession first , to bo elected to the legislature , then to bo elected to the bench , aud finally to go to work for a railroad corporation. ilourimUum and 1'olltlcs , Chicago Nuwa. John A. Kasson must bo afflicted with softening of the brain or some ether form of idiocy , if it is true , as printed in an Iowa paper , that ho intends retiring from politics and engaging in journalitm at Dos Moinca. It would bo as sublime a piece of folly for Jphu A. Kasson to go out of politics ana into journalism as it would bo for Charles A. Baun to go out of journalism into politics. Konson is n successful politician. What reason has ho for believing ho would rise nbovo me diocrity in journalism' Journalism'sgravo yard is full of the corpses of politicians who fondly imagined they could run a uowaptpor as { successfully as they conducted a campuiun or worked a scheme through a U'givlatiiru. The DCS Moliies Leader says ; "With the splen did personal and political follunin which Mr. Kneson could command , added to his acknowledged ability , ho would speedily build up a strong , iofluonthl party papnr. " How many paying sub- ictibors would there bo among Mr. Kns- ion's splendid personal and political fol lowing ? Would there bo fifty who would iiot expect and ask to bo put on the frco list ? The personal and political friends pf a newspaper nro apt to bo the most insalinblo dcadbcats in the community. VVhat "acknowledged ability" has Mr. tvasson over manifested in the pro fession of _ journalism ? Is it pretended tended that his career as n statesman affords any criterion of his capabili ties as the head of a newspaper nt DCS Moincs or any where else ? Carl Schurz was a bigger statesman than Kasson over liopcd to bo , and it didn't take very long to wind Carl Schurz up when ho took lipld of a doily paper. There is all the lilForonco in the world between leading the theatrical life of a national politician md grinding away wcoK after wcok , yp.ir in and year eut in a newspaper oflico. Neither his reputation as a statesman , nor his personal popularity , nor his pol itical influence can make a successful journalist out of Mr. Kaason. The rmndorous amateur finda journalism a joistorous sea ; in two years lip sinks to ho bottom or steers his ship into port , dismantled , leaky and worm-eaten. Deserters from the Army. San Kmiclsco Call. General Howard recommended , some lomo since , that deserters from the army bo marked with the letter "D , " from which the inference seomcd fair that ho thought the marking should bo douo with a hot iron. Under the newspaper fire which this suggestion called forth , Gon- jral Howard retired in Bomo disorder and iias only shown himself since to state that ! io had India ink in his mind when the marking penalty was advised. The in credulity with which this modification of the original recommendation is received is not flattering to General Howard's reputation as a Christian soldier , but aa lie is _ not entirely unused to newspaper criticism , ho will probably preserve , in a degree , his equanimity. Doubtless , Gen. Howard was annoyed at the frequency of desertions from the army. These amount , in some of the frontier posts , to 20 per cent of the entire force in a year The number in the whole army who clan destinely declined further aorvico lostyoar was 3,721. In an army of 20,000 odd , this ia a percentage that might excuse an officer for devising some remedy. The pay of a soldier is $13 a month the first two fours of service , $14 the third , $15 the fourth , and $10 the fifth year. There is nothing in the service but pay and ations. There is no advancement , no dis tinction of any kind not even the future > f a soldier who expects to bo tilled in some great battle for the good of his country. The loldiors are a moro police iorco to coop unruly Indians in order. There is not much excitement in this service and absolutely no glory. Consequently the ; ow dollars a month the soldier receives is all there is in the service for him. In a republic the military jand naval service oupht not to bo the only fields of enter prise and industry in which there is no promotion. In every other department } f human endeavor there is an incentive 'or these who fool that they can do bet tor than remain in the ranks of common toilers. While but a small percentage of all rise out of the ranks in any occu pation , the fact that the chance is open ; ivos them patience to wait. The soldier ias nothing to wait for. There is noth ing whatever at the end of his journey , md not much to bo gathered by the way. So in too many : ases ho takes a light view of : iis contract with the government and re signs. Probably the branding iron would not remove the ovil. The disgrace of do- iorting a camp on the eve of battle might bo expressed by hot iron in ineffaceable terms but a desertion from an idle camp in the midst of a peaceful community is at worst only a broken engagement. Penal ties that are out of proportion to offences are moro apt to inspire sympathy than ensure. Without going into details , the idea may bo thrown out that the way to keep soldiers from deserting is to .mako the position worth holding. This cannot perhaps bo done by increasing the wages , but a little increase of wages and a reasonable chance to work up in the lorvjco might accomplish more that hot iron. STATE JOTTINGS. LINCOLN. Mr. J. W. SmJth celebrated the Now Year > y going to I'latteinouth nnd inurrjlng MUs Simmons. Eldorllnwo vraa the victim of a donation > arty Tuesday nisht , but contrary to all uattgo tliBIctim cnmpout uhead. Mlus Minnie Hellloy was married on New Youra'duy to Knrle Kllbum , of Loup City. [ t wan a cola day butMlnuo | ! got tliero Kurlo. llcv. C. L. Chaffoe , the retiring pastor of > lie First Baptist church , vtas cancit by his frlondi the other oiling , nnd his wife made Jio recipient of nn olegaut lot of ulhorwaro. J. Huttxel Worthingtoa waa fined $30.05 for ; hit > K a fraudulent order on the 1) . & At. : otnpany In payment of a board bill. Worth- Ingtou in a hard nut , and the fact that he has baen cracked by the court will be cheering to the pair of wives he has loft to rustle fur tliBiiuolvos Iu Colorado. Now Year' calling and reception * were few and far between , Tuesday. The pleasant Hoursclub , rhnuged the monotonous custom by giving their ludy friondu a chance to en joy their leap yenr privilege. A rocuptiun wan lield In Masonic temple and a largo number ofladioa called during the day. Kach culler wna preHonted with n handsome card bcaritii' the words , "Compliments of the Pleasant Hour Club , 1881 , New Yours Kccoptlun , Ma- Bonlo Hall , Lincoln , Nebraska , " and the monogram of the club. TIIK Sr.VTK IX OK-VniUL The yenr's improvements la Pierce urn w- tlmatoiUtS78.0i5 ; , Ulyiuca rejoiced over the cortainlty of n brickyard this ueuson. A naloon keeper of Daviil City was knocked down last Saturday evening , \uillo returning home , and robbed of $30 , It It definitely nettled that Hon. W. W. MorrUoii will succeed Jacob Drum as [ Kwt- nuiator in the city of lioatrlco , Nobraakft City boa fifteen Haloonahich yield a revenue of $75,000 under tha Hlocuui Irw. against thlrty.ulx and a revenue of $ J,60fl under tha old uyotom' . O. A. Sprague , living a mlle ewt of Kdgar , captured a gray eagle hut week whteu imtaa- ured beven feet from Up to tip of ulugn , and three feet from head to toea. The Wayne Herald fathern Uia following ! "If C. h. Hunter Imau't dona hiu duty iu the way of | K > nulatingVayuo county , we know of 110 one who has. HU lourtoentu child , n girl , w s born on Friday. Of the fourteen , live boys and five girl ) survive , " The Seward Blade hai put on the glot ea t knock out a noted wife thumper in town. ' Tbo thumper has amused ulmnolf several time * lately by gutting drunk and beatiue hi * , , , J'ot , Oi"y twi but h annoys the vTLolu nu ghborhood by hla everlasting racket , and if It U not itoimed ha will find hiimelf playing chcckeis with hid nosu in the cooler , " The lla.itli.-gn Democrat nays : "Tha Dur. jlngton k MiMourl lallroad surveyors ho boon bt work for tUo pMt ten weuki surveying fur a new road totvn from Do Witt and con nect with the malu Hue somewlwjo below this CU , > ; ? mlAtu y > vo decided Uut tha iilaco BUttll ba Ajr. Thei newroad vlll cro tha 8t , Joa & \ > Mtorn t Vahfiold , and will run only n few yard * south of Mr. D. O. Oltustaad' * w ldeiica ou tU.8 Uttlo liltio rivqr , thence to DESERTIONS IN THE ARtfY , TreaUmcnt of Privates nl Fort Mc- Klniipj- , To the r/lltoT of Tlio Doo. There is much dissatisfaction hero among the private soldiers of the Fifth cavalry in regard to the way they are treated. The men are compelled to > labor daily and do their military duty be sides. A short time ago all of 0 troop woio compelled to labor on Sunday at barn raising. Add to this the overbear * ing way in which enlisted men are treated by incompetent oflicors , and ibont half enough to cat at times , and' ill- treatment and bulldozing in various wajs , it it ii 'iy wonder that the men desert BO frequently from this post ? A short time ngo nn enlisted man ov dontly iniaocd n roll-call ; ho was confined and tried and sent to the guard house. Another was absent for three or four days on a debauch and never as much as got a reprimand. IB that fair ? Ser FT. MoKirraEV , December 28. An Abscnl-Mlndctl To lhu Editor ol TIIK IIr.it. The letter of to-day's paper signed "J. Lambonstirjo , " was BO signed by mistake. I was thinking of a man by that name who deserted from my battery while I was writing the letter , and I did not know I wrote his name until I saw it to day in Tim BKE. The man Myors , from Niobrara , I think is entirely wrong about all the sol diers in the army boin ? drinking men. I do not think they drink BO awfully much as a great many suppose. A drunken soldier is , of course , a great deal moro conspicuous than n drunken citizen , [ torn the fact they are dressed in uni form. But they are not near as liable to i ot drunk as n citizen ; they get moro pun ishment than a citizen for getting drunk. They first got pulled by a policeman , are tried and punished by civil authority pretty severely ; next by n so-called mili tary court. And I will say I think , as a general thing , there is very little justice in a garrison court martial. So your in telligent readers will BOO the soldier is surrounded on all sides by injustice dealt out by unprincipled oflicors , who the sol diers know are a great deal moro guilty of crime than they who are being tried. The consequence is tliat the thorough sol dier has nothing but contempt for his superiors in rank but inferiors in reality. Yours , respectfully , W. "W. Cox , Ex-Sergeant Battery E , Second Arty. West Point , Nob. , Jan. 1. Some Good 1'enru , Hardy Far North. Dr. T. 1L Hosltlna , in The Uural New Yorker. There are "iron-clad" pears aa well aa apples. I am not now referring to the now Russian pears lately brought to notice by Prof. Budd , of the Iowa agri cultural college , aud Mr. Charles Gibb , of Abbottaford , Quebec Of these it would aeorn that a large num ber are as resistant to cold as the Sibe rian crabs , and some of them , such as Bor amotto Sapieganka , are "equal in quality to Flemish Beauty , " while Boa- aaminanka is "pleasant and satisfying in quality. " These , and others of the class , are undoubtedly valuable , especially for the northwest ; but I now refer to varieties which do not wait for the testing , of years and a slow multiplication before they can bo had for planting. Among known sorts well tested , Flem ish Boautv has proved with mo ( lat. 45 dog. in the mountains of Eastern Ver mont ) as hardy as the Famouso Apple. Clapp's Favorite is even harder , and Onondaga , subjected to five hard winters , comes out with a largo growth and with out. losing a bud. These varieties can bo had anywhere , and I recommend1 them for trial. Flemish beauty is bearing a fiho crop hero this year on trees six years sot. Two other kinds thatr are well known , Beurrod'Amaulis and Jackson , seem'also to bo well adapted to apvoro climates. The first is said by Downing to suc ceed best far north , and fruit cf it grown in my garden , and just tested , is cer tainly very good. Jackson is a Now Hampshire seedling , of medium size , tree vigorous and productive , and an early bearer , a September pear , "good to very good , " by the judgment of Down ing. _ The only millionaire in Iowa , according to Bradstraot's , . lives in Dububue. Charles Wesley Allen , , wanted on a charge of seduction at Jollbrson , wan ar rested last Saturday near Fremont. Nob. where ho had engaged to work on a farm. lie had § 225 with him when arrested. Of the § : i868,472 expended in DCS Moines last year § 275,000 was expended by the state on the now capitol building , $1G53T : ! by tha city for paving , Bower- ing , etc. , . and § 29,200 for school build ings. It is also said that the figures of the wholesale trade of the city are $ .10G03G30 ; , and the value ef its mauu- facturcagj.8,183.8."it > _ THEGI1EATGERMAH REMEDY \ ( * * unj curt * Nouralgln , Sciatica , Lumbago , SORE THRUST , b\\ . Softness , Cud , Dm ! * * * , IIDIIVS , SC.tl.&M , ml nil other l vlll > clie FIFTY CENTS rt GOTTI.C. DlriTlloiii In II i Chariot A. Vogclcr 11. . * 1 UACKJSI tR H ) Coal. C. B. MAYN3 & CO. , 1509 Faniam Street , - - Omaha , Heb , WJIOLK3ALK HUIPl'rUS AND DCALKIUJ IX AND OONENLSYILLE COKE ! STEELE , JOHNSON& CO , , Wholesale Grocers ! stock. Prices mid samples furnished on application. Open orders intrusted to us shall receive our careful attention Satisfaction Guaranteed. AOEtfJS FOR BENWOOD NAILS AND LAFLIN & * RAND POWDER CO D. B. BEEBIER , Agont,0maho. JOBBER OF EASTERN PRICE * DUPLICATED ] 1118 FARNAM STREET , - - OMAHA NEB. C. F. GOODMAN , OMAHA. NEBRASKA , J. A. WAKEFIELB , W7IOLK3&LE AND RETAIL DEALKK Df nrs SASH , DOORS , BLINDS , MOULDINGS , LIME , CEMENT , PLASTER , &C- STATE AGENT FOR MILWAUKEE CEMENT COMPANY. Union Pacific Depot , - Double and Single Acting Power and Hand ' 5 Engine Trimmings , Mining Machinery , ? Bolting , Hose , Brass and Iron Fittings * Steam Packing at wholesale and retail. HALBADA'Y WIND-MILLS , OHUROH AND SCHOOL BELLS. Corner 10th Farnam St. , Omaha Neb. DEALERS IN Hall's Safe and Lock Ccrnp'y FIEE AUD BUKGLABEEOOF XOS30 IStroot. OsaoL0.3a. [ SPECIAL NOTICE TO Growers of Live Stock and Others. WE CALL TOUR ATTENTION TO Our Ground H la the bout and cheapest food lor stock of any [ kind. Ono pound In aqua ! to three pounds at oot oak fej with Ground OU Cake In the Fall and Winter , Instead of running dowrt , will Increase In vrelxb e ItL eoxl marketable condition In the spring. Dairjmon , aa neil as others , who uuo It can teetlty in i ti . Try It and Judge ( or youruehea. , rrlee $25.00 per tea | nocruunre for nicks. Address I ra e * WOODMAN LINSKK.D OIL COMPANY Omaha HAVANA AND JOBBERS OP DOMESTIC GIG1BS , TOBACCOS , PIPES ! SIQIEBS' ' ABHDEES PROPRIETORS OF THE FOLLOWING CELEBRATED BRANDS : t ? Eeina Victorias , Especialea , Kososin 7 Sizes from 8& * to $120 per 1000. AND THE FOLLOWING LEADING FIVE CENT OIGARK : Combination , Grapes , Progress , Nebraska , Wyomingatt& Brigands. WE DUPLICATE EASTERN PRICES SEND FOR PRICE LIST AND SAMPLES. 0. M. LEIGH10N. H. T. OLARKK. LEIGHTON & CLARKE , KSUCCE830IIS TO KXNKMlD 1IKOS. H CO. ) in DEALEUS IN Paints , Oils , Brushes , Glass. OMAHA , - - NEBRASKA