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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1884)
THE OMAHA BEE. Omaha Office , No..OlO Farnam St. Cauncn.BtnnVomoo..No. 7 1'carl SI BtrootNcar Broatlway.l | Now Yorkjonico , Itonm 05 Xrllmn Building. raWlaJiixl rerj nrrnlnj , etecpt SaniUy' Tt enl > Uondty morning daily. taxi T HAIL. One tdii . 110.00 1 Three Uontht . . . . . .f.t UtfODUU . B.OO ( One Month. i . LC Per Wetk , 15 Cent * . Cn T r . . . . . (3.00 1 Threa Uonthl . . .I I ill Months. . L 00 1 One Month. . S Amarlmn Ntwi Company. SoloCAgcntr , N wide 8I la lh Unltod SUUs. oo&iraroiniiitci. A 1 OoamnnlontloM roUtln ; to Newi tml Edltorli utun h ulil be addressed to tha EDITOB or Tn Du. All Buclntm Letttri n4 Reinltttnotj ihould'b ddrMsei to Tn 0 roBLismira CouriHT , QMABJ Drtfte , Checks and Pottofllea crdtn to b m d p ; tbla to tha order of th oomnnnr.3 3HE BEE PUBLISHING CO , , PROPS B. ROBBWATKK. Editor. A. It. Fitch , UABkgn D Uy ClrauUUon , P. O.Boi Nob. WE fear this Trill bo a smut-mill cam fa ign presently. sorao ono toll us what Grlggi wants anyhow ? Ho must have it. TUB heads of * ho tickets may bo n lit tlo'off as to morals but the tailsaro nbon ausptcion. - THE next thing they will charge 8t John with making improper proposals it ilia widow Butler. TUB cold weather of the past week has eont Iho summer tourists in largo num bers homo from tbo watering places. THE dark homo in the third district very numerous , and the chances are that ho will carry off firot money. Now that Mr. White is out of the way , it is likely that Loran Olark will stop to the front once moro as a candidate for atato treasurer. GOVERNOU DAWEH is not endorsed for To-oloctiou where ho is best known , at his own homo in Oroto. This is the .straw which breaks the camel's back. TUB police court ought to sustain the marshal in his effort to keep the alloys clean and abate nuismcos. It is no use to attempt to carry out oanitary regula tions if the officers of'the law don't co-op- orate. , A LONDON paper has discovered that an the cholera epidemic of 1&2 ! not ono tobacconist died from the disease. This is a neat way of starting a boom in the tobacco business. Wo suppose every body will take to smoking now. GROVHR ODBVBLAND'H friends have worked up a case of seduction against Blaine down in old Kentucky. Wo thought it would como to this. There was no trouble in celling affidavits against Blaine attho Oonfodrit X Roads , "but it will bo hard to make anybody bo Jiovo ( hem. N.-Ki G moos' chances to bo land commissioner are good. Ilia boom in tiago county last Saturday was a grand oucooss. liluo Springs Motor. Yes , it would bo a very nice thing to put Mr. Griggs in as land commissioner. His foot -would just fit Glenn Kendall's flhoos , and nobody would know that a change had been made1 "COLONEL" E. P. SAVAOB , who holds the important position of superintendent of the state agricultural farm , has at lost found something to do. Ho proposes tq compile the live stock statistics of Neb raska and publish thorn in a catalogue. This ia about all the work that Suporin- tondout Savage will do during his term .of office. DUUINO the month of July there were 170 firoa in the United States which do Btroyed property valued at 810,000 and upwards. It is estimated that the prop orty'destroyed in this country and Oana da , during tile past month amounted in iralue to 88,800,000. It was a disastrous zuonth to the insurance ) companies. THE death of lion. W. B ! White , of 'Tokaraah , will create profound sorrow not only among the people of Burt county who had learned to respect and love him for his social qualities and sterling ling integrity , but ( \nong all classes of people in every part nf this slate where ho was so widely known. Had ho lived there is no doubt that ho would have triumphantly been elected to the office of otato treasurer , to which ho was nomin ated by the republicans two years ago and out of which ho wna notoriously de frauded. made by some of the cit irons of South Omaha that they are vir tu illy ruined by reckless grading on streets ihat can never bo mod for anything ex cept residences. Wo are told that heavy -damage nulls will bo brought against the city with & fair show of their being BUS- tained by the courts , Whllo wo have no knowlodgo.as to the justicopf these complaints wo must say that there may bo euch a thing as too much improvement in the way Degrading. There are many streets ton the hillsides which never can become thoroughfares. It is not only damaging to properly along thosj streets to make unsightly cuts , from twenty to forty foot deep , but it is ft reckless waste of money. The city of Omtilia pays one-half of the expense of all this grading , and every Ux.payor is intoresled'ta'preyenting ' needless expen diture ? It'ls also unjust to tax people for ho called improvements which nobody lug asked 'for , except perhaps the con tractor , and. which are really a downright injury to the property-owners who are xuppoie-d to bo bonoGttd , and for whom theio improvements are supposed to bo ' * ' made , ELECTRICITY AS A MOTOR. When Solomon said that there was noth ingthing now under the sun ho evident ly had no conception of the appliance o steam , electricity nnd magnetism. Steam ships , railroadstolographs , telephones am oloctrio lights have all como into exist anco within a very comparatively recon period. The appliance of steam to loco motion on the water was made at th dawn of the present century. Sixt ; years ago the world was without a rail road. The first American tolcgrap ! line was completed only forty year ago. The marvellous appliances of olcc tricity and magnetism to the transmis sion of sound , the production of llgh and motive power , are all the product of the present generation. Scarcely i day passes without some invention in thi varied appliances ot electricity and magnetism notism which are revolutionizing almos every branch of industry. To most pee pie Iho appliance of electricity as a motive tivo power for the propulsion ot cam 01 street railways will appear tut an ontirol ; novel invention. The recent auccossful introduction o oloctrio motors on street railways in Berlin lin and Cleveland is after all not so muol of a novelty in electrical science as mos people are led to beliovo. Beginning with the discovery of the oloctro-magnol by Sturgeon and Henry , which preceded Professor Morse's appliance of ulcclro magnetism to telegraphy , there wore numerous experiments both in this coun try and Europe with electric motors , Ai far back ai 1832 Prof , Sturgeon followed up his olcctro-magnotio experiments , with the invention of a ro tary motion oloctrio motor. With thie improved motor Sturgeon announced in 1837 that ho had succeeded in propelling a boat and also a locomotive carriage , but no capitalist in Great Britain or America had faith enough in this invention to ad vance the money to put it into practical use. Prof. Jacob ) , of Russia , was moro successful in procuring the necessary moans for carrying into execution his appliance plianco of electricity to locomotion. By the aid of the czar of Russia ho con structed a boat propelled by elec tricity , and in 1839 ho made a successful trip on the river Nova , to demonstrate the practical use ot his in vention. The only reason why Prof. Jacobi's motor was discarded was simply because it was too cpstly as a substitute for steam. Slroot railways were not then in use in any part of the world , hence Jacobi's wonderful motor did not take the place of horse-power. Uriah Olark , of Leicester , England , built an aloctrio locomotive in 1810 , which was > peratod on a circular track for two uontha at the Leicester exhibition , where it attracted considerable attention , and vas regarded as n great curiosity , rhomas Davonportof Brandon , Vermont , nrho , in 1837 , invented a small olootric motor , which operated a turning lathe run an oloctrio locomotive on a railway near Glasgow in 1815. It weighed five tons , was of ono-h'orso power , and at ainod a speed of four miles an hour. i.t about the same time Prof. Page , ol Philadelphia , constructed an oloctrin ocoraotivo which ho ran from Washlng- on to Bladonsburg , on the Baltimore & ) hio railroad. In all the inventions so far referred to 11 this article the motor was carried by ho locomotive itself , but there were thors in which a stationary generator ras used , the electricity was conducted o the propelling motor by moans of con- iuotors along the track. Such was the aso with Pinkor'a electric railway in Cngland in 18 JO. Messrs. Lilly Jolton , ot Pitlsburg , invented an olc rio railway of this kind about the year 817. Twenty years ago another oolootrio ailway was invented in England , and ari6us ocleotrio appliances for railway ocomotion have sinoo boon patented in Imorica and Europe from time to timo. Sdison's ocloctrio railway at Menlo Park ras really no now invention. Ho has not lade much advance upon the ideas of arlior oclootrical invontora. Nor is ho ideas of the Cleveland colootrio Iroot railway a now thing. In that system , the electric generators re placed on ut. permanent stations , and lie current is convoyed along the track y conductors in underground oondiuts. 'ho ' inventors , Messrs. Knight & lontloy , do not claim that it is really nythlng now , they simply maintain ! iat they have taken up devices which re open to every inventor , and by deices - ices of their own have rendered loctrio railways an economic and a prao- iqal success. That olootrio motors will cro long sup- rsedo horso-powor on street railways , weave ave no more doubt than wo have that loctriclly will supplant petroleum and as as an illuminator. It is only a quos- on of time when petroleum and gas will e employed to generate electricity for II the uses to which those illuminators ro now put. There are those who oonfl- imtly boltovo that electricity will super- ) Jo steain in all its varied uses as a mo- ir. That would not bo a greater rovo- ition than has bepn wrought by steam nco iU appliance as a motive power on nd and water , TUB Litest issue of Poor's Railroad "anuul presents some interesting stalls- o. At the close of the fiscal year 1883 toro were in the United States 120,552 lies of railroad. The share capital ag- egatod $3,708,000,682 ; the funded > bt , § 3,455,040,383 ; the floating debt , 332,310,345 , , or a total indebtedness of r,495,471,311 , or nearly three times the nouut of the public debt at the close of 10 civil war , The gross earnings of all illroads for 1883 were 8823,772:020 : , jainst 8770,209,300 , for 1882. The not irnings were $309,708,721. The amount f freight transported was 400,463.439 ms , and the total number of pauonqera exclusive of these carried on the Noi York elevated roads , was 312,080,641 In other words , each and every inhnbi tant of the country took about six ride in the course of the year. Finally , th total number of passengers carried on milo was 8,341,309,074. , DELITTLINO OMAIIA. The next time that the Chicago , Bui lington & Quincy railroad company advertises vortises 'Tho Rowdy Wcat , " it shouli do Omaha justice. In its two-page re view in the Chicago Times , of the conn try traversed by its system , Omaha receives coivos about one-third of the space dc voted to Council Bluffs , and about ono half as much ns is given to Lincoln am Plattsmouth. That would bo all vor well , were it not for the gross mis statement about our popula tion , which is given a 35,000 , while that of Lincoln is placed a 20,000 , and that of Council Bluffs 25,000 The fact is that Omaha has ever 00,001 population , and nobody conversant will the truth will dispute it. The .Chicago Burlington & Quincy cannot afford t < belittle Omaha through a hired ponny-a liner , who probably was not subsidizot by our merchants. As a sample of thi malignity as well as stupidity of the reviewer viewer , the following extract will suffice The long bridge between Omaha one Council Bluffs cost 81,600,000. But thor Omaha doesn't care about that ; anything to connect with Council Bluffj. Whoever is in charge of the advertising or puffery department of the Chicago , Burlington & Quincy road has exhibited reckless negligence to allow such flingi and falsehoods about Omaha to bo cm boddiod in the article , or there is a dis position on the part of the officers of the Chicago , Burlington & Quincy to dlspar ago Omaha. Omaha has no jealousy oi or ill-fooling towards Council Bluffs , Lin coin , or any other city or town in Jowr or Nebraska. She has outgrown all'lhc potty strife for position or prestige lone ago. All she does ask is fair treatment , to which she is entitled by her position and patronage. Wo are putting it mild when wo say that ltho partiality and want of voracity in this so-called review , will make no friends in Omaha for the Dhloago , Burlington & Quincy and B. & M , which companies may at no distant iay want some important favors granted o them by this city. WILL Marshal Oummings , of Omaha , osign ? Sioux City Journal. Not until the Mother Hubbard of the Herald orders him to stop down and jut. TUB Boston baked bean bourbons have utifiod Cleveland and Hondricks with a ; rand hurrah , but Ban Butler is still out. EX-MAIISUAL Guthrie is onoo moro railing for the verdict. Ho is waiting o hoar from the supreme court. Tlio Future of Steel. Wo do not moan the future improve- nOnts in the art of making stool , for lioao no ono can predict. But to what ; roat uses nhull the enormous deposits > f stool-makinp ores , lying idle under tbo urfaco of such great slates as Ponpsyl- ania , West Virginia , Ohio , Michigan ud Alabama be applied ? Railroad build- ng will continue to absorb enormous uantitios of stool rails , but it is not koly that the annual construction will oep up at the rate of recent years. Stool ross ties are likely tc supplant wood to larga extent , and that will greatly In- ronsu the present demand. , A larger possibility , however , is ; 'that American capitalists will begin to put the ntorpriso and money into stool ship uildmg that they have so freely given to railway construction , that for risk and Bhivomonta hasno'parallol in industrial istory. Uilhorto Great , Britain , has lonopolizod the currying trade ond.natu- illy , the ship building. This has boon uo partially to our absurd navigation IVFS , now happily repealed in part , and nrtiivlly to groalor push in finding and jctirinp fore'gn markols for the produo- ons , It. is anomalous and not al- ) gothor credilablo to Yandoedom tat Great Britain rather than 10 United Status supplies Mexico nd the Soutlt American republics with leir manufactured goods. She does iis by maintaining direct steamship mimunicatlon with them , by keeping iterprising commercial ngonts there lat are something moro than wooden iurt-hoada ; , and not least in importance Y freolv Inking in exchange the raw latoriafs that South America produces. ut United States capitalists enter upon i equally liberal policy and it will not , ko inany years for the Delaware and ip rivers of Alabama ( the latter state sing where iron is produced cheaper toy - * y than anywhere in the world ) to leave 10 Olydo far behind as ship b'uilding inters. TUB TUIl'AKTITK. iirthor npnrtti us to the Dissolu tion of the Fool. CUICAOO , August 0. A climax has been nchod iu the aUnlrn of the Western Trunk no associations , formed under what lias uiu lo ba known e the "tripartite aprvo- put , " The informal anoounooment by the licngo -Noitlnviwturn railwwy to with- aw from the lunoclutlou waa A waull not tiruly unlookcd for , on tbo Htro K proba- lity of Htich n result waa indicate ! In theao ( patchcj early during tha pretoot weak. It confidently anticipated tlmt the Wabiuili Jiugemeiit may follow this , leaving tha > ck Inland , Milwaukee & tit. I'aql anil iiion 1'ncillc , the originul muinbori , the o&ly CM remaining fa tbo ) x ol. It hai boon con- iidcd on the p rt of tbo Hock Island , in the fiit of the retirement nf tha two roads in rntiou , that it would hold ths Union 1'ncillo the tonus of the tripartite agrouuit-nt nod inpel it to turn over nil .its bufilnors at lulm In Iho Hock Inland end .St. 1'aul roatls. 10 Bi-nttrnl view uxpren od by tha railway iciau licru , ho\vu > ur , 1 tlmt the comiuut iinot now bo aanily nmliiUiood , but that the ittoi h ono which ran only bo dt'tormiued Iho lioea Btlll lemihiing a jmrty to it. Holler tlxploslon. fit LoL'ia , August 9. Th boiler of a Id engliio exploded ou tbo farm of Ma thaw Kidea , Jackiion county. ' 111. , yesterday , kill- ; lloib rt Nowtou aodInmea , .1. Hullivan , d eorloutly wounding ] d Jtlloy. Three rie wure liu killed aud all whaat aur- iiiullngtho uoRlue which was driving a rtuhlug nittchlno at the time waa burned. Gar Wheel Kautorr Unrnrd. ULIZAUKTII , N. J. , Avgunt 9 , Tbo Utndlng ilroad car wbeel factory barucd thh morn- I- WOS1BN IN THE WEST. Ncw YonK , August 7. Editor OMAHA BKE. A clipping from your paper in thi Now York Evening Post , August 4th has attracted my attention , and had i read , "Como West , Young Woman,1 would have boon just the invitation I an longing for , You say , "thoro is plenty of room loft for young men of energy am character ; " may not this apply equally t < young women , or to women , who an past the giddy time of life , drinking it * lees , as it were , and walking soberly it the shade , to women engaged in the aw < ful struggle for the " mighty dollar , ' who in our crowded cities of thi east , are driven to the wall b\ \ young men of loss energy and ca pacity , and oftentimes of no character Your closing remarks , "if you hav < only brain and muscle you will have n < trouble in finding a market for then hero , " prompts mo to ask : What are thi chances for brains , minus muscle ? or , it other words , what prospect Is there it your state for honest working women Don't reply "husbands , " because the ] are to bo had hero if wo will take them and the Now York papera'teem with ad vortisemonta for housokpopore , cooks etc. I speak for myself , and say I wan to find the land Trhoro thi last dollar ono earns need no go for board and keeping up appearances , where a fair day's work , will bring a fail day'a wages , and where these "fertile lands , at reasonable prices" might be turned into homesteads so that ono mlghj contemplate , the advent of old ago , with out a shudder and resolve only to grov old gracefully. To quota Mr. Mantolini , "Life ( inNov York , ) in ono domnltion grind. " If yoi earn ton dollars a week you pay eight for board , and if you earn twenty , you ay fifteen , for a little moro stylo. Noth ng can bo put away , for the inevitable rainy day , and when sickness comes youi portion is Bcllovuo hospital , and later on , you servo for tho.deloctation of the medi cal student , and for the advancement ol science. Now 1 am a healthy subject , and I fear , aho , that for many years te como , I shall have to count the mills that make a cent , and for the sake of loved ones I long for moro than tnat. I want to make a homo in the west. What in- ducamonts can you hold out to a ltd ; stenographer and typo-writer ? Can thie bo included in your list of "lucrative em ployments ? " Could I obtain a professional foothold as stenographer , either in legal , architectural or railroad work ? You have bankers , brokers , agents and com missioners who can offer work in my line , or do they prefer "energetic young men" who can cast a vote , and ultimately hope to lobby their schemes through con gress. gress.Wdat are the chances for women to earn a lucrative living in Nebraska to oarn"it by thorough , pains-taking work , without sentiment in favor of or preju dice against them. There are hundreds of women in New York who crowd hare in the hope of an honest living , and vrho are unable to go elsewhere for lack of in formation and who dare not trust to iho uncertainty and probable fruitlossnoes of a search for it in other places. Of course in viewing the far west , as the country of the future - uro , ono is prepared to partially "rough it" wo do not expect electric lights , elevated - vatod railroads , nor Control park , and wo shan't pine for the daily privilege of passing Dolmonico's. By this , Mr. Editor , yon must perceive that I am very much in earnest , in this matter , and if you can find time to give informa tion of the probable success in your state , ot woman's labor , in any life beyond - yond that of moro house-hold drudge , your kind ness jwlll bb appreciated by ono who would gladly learn , what are the real resources of the west. And if you should decide that there are no openings at present for women such as I , I hope you will continue your earnest invitation to the young men to some to that delectable land , that advan tageous locality where they may acquire "fame and riches" in the hope thereby ihat there may bo many vacancies hero which wo can suitably fill. But I fear in answer , you will only lear what "Dickons" made the bolls say : o "Arthur Clenham" in hia lonely Sun- lay musings , "They won't como , they von't como. " MAUION. Candor compels us to state that brain ind muscle combined are moro in demand n the west than brains nlono. A man ir woman who comes equipped with robust icalth , industrious habits , and iutolli- ; once need have no fears of starving in ho west. All things being equal the roung woman who comes west with mus- 10 and brains has decidedly the advan- ag6 ever the woman who depends upon trains alone. The working woman need not ook for a husband to support her , and a the sphere of activity to which she is dapted she will moot no obstacle on no- ount of sex prejudices. Women f culture and professional raining , who are not disposed to drudge i the school room as teacher * , are not 11 such brisk demand as to insure acrativo employment aa soon as they ind in far western towns and cities , iiiy considerable number of such ladies i quest of employment might moot with isappointmont owing to the fact that iio field for professional women , outside f the school room , la limited not only i the west but everywhere. A idy stenographer and typo-writer * pablo of expressing herself aa clearly nd forcibly aa "Marion" , would in our pinion have no trouble in securing per- lanont employment in ono of our rail- aad oflioos , banking houses , or other bus- less establishments. A woman who ames west with self-denial enough to > rogo the pleasure of supporting a bus- and is n gem of the first quality that will [ ways bo iu demand. BTATE JOTTINGS. The Minden Reporter ehoutu for Ben But- r. r.Tbn Tbn I'latto river bridge at Bchuyler U com- Icted. The new Methodist church at Sidney coat 5,800. HarriWton haa voted 92,000 to build a heel bouse. Nebraska npplos are Belling In Itaatiicu for 1 a bushel. Oroighton is to h vo nn opera homo and : tln rink , to coat $4,000. Tim OoDKreRatlonattt * of Beatrice are mak- ft effort * to build a new IIOUBO of worship. The Beatrice canning company booked or- urn for 2,600 CHUB of gocda for Colorado last oek. Lightning killed a number of valuable cattle 11'ttwnoa county during one of tbe late orcn , The report cornea from .Holt county that oil u boon itruck on a claim eight inlloj from luart , With seven tickets at its masthead the Orel Videtto rises above partisan clamor and ticklt all clnsscii. Me Cook bon t rf n fine new school built ! ing which is now nenring completion , nt CM ofeoooo. Tlio Gftgo county fair opens September S and continues four days. Uver $4,000 I olTcred in premiums. The supreme oi/urt hai granted a new trio to Dr. Jtlchmond who was convicted ll Plntlsmouth of nn Msault on a little girl. A Tokam.ih girl of nenMlivo nerves had i row with her sitter nnd failing to have the Ins word , attempted suicide. She waa pumpei dry. dry.The The Tccumseh Chieftain is willing to con tribute n "copiom sum , " if Jtcan bo borrowed to help raise n republican flagstaff In tha town. The roung town of Holdrognaclaimit tin title of the magic city of 8outhwo t Nebrnskn Though leis than a year old she clainu n pop ulntion of 1000. The Wnkofield rrcabytcrinnn will commcnci work on their new church tnllding about tin 20th of Ibis month. It is to bo 32x18 fcot with tower nnd steeple. The winter wheat crop in Snllno county ii turning out well. Where the crop was wol put In , nnd not damaged by storms , the yielc n 28ta SO bushel * per acre , The Btiprcmo court mndo nn tmiwrtnnt rul Ing lostiww-lc to the effect that "nn cmployi of n rnilrond compnny is Incompetent to nit : n Juror in n case where the company is n par The Nebraska rrjitv distillery IB to star again nbout the middle of September. Thi lumber for its cattle sheds hns been orderet nnd the work of preparation will bo begun im mediately. mediately.writer writer who made himself too numerous ous in Grnnd Island wag pulled and fined 95' , for disturbance of the peace , It ia a costh business to fool with the peaceful end o Grnnd Island. Stout's qnary at Loulsvillo turns out twen ty-fivo car loads of crushed lime stone eacl day.Ho runs three crushers and over 10 ( i men in the quarry. "A mnn who is BO menn nn to thui sue i widow woman ought to bo kicked to death bj a jackdss , " Raid a Tecuroseh attorney nt a recent cent justice court , "nnd I with the court would appoint me to doit. " The disciples of St. Jolmlln Butler county call upon nil "who nro ready nnd willing tc face the Cro that over rages In the van of trtu reform" to gather at David City to shout foi the tompernnco ticket. The Httlo son of Dan Wagoner of Red Cloud is slid to have boon kidnapped from hia homo. Ho has boon mlislng since the 20th of June. Aromardof tlfty dollars ia offered for his recovery. It was rstltnatod this spring tht $31,000 would be expended this year in building ! hi Wayne. These n ready completed nnd under way will cost considerably more than that sum , nnd it will most probably roach ? 0),000. The assessor of York county never misses a chance to increase the treasury surplus. He swoopodMown upon nChlcagojrnlndealioglfirm ( who avoided taxes on their cries nnd compelled them to pay up before being allowed to ship. A man named Brlttenburg , loaded with dis tilled dynamite , went off the straight nnd nar row path , near Lincoln , last Friday , nnd Inld down to rest on the 0. & Ii. V. track. His rcmaiiu were gathered up by the train hands. Tbo supreme court has tstued a writ of error in the murder case of Qulnn Bobannon , sentenced to bo hung nt Nebraska City Aug. 8th , which will postpone ths hanging until after the January mooting of the supreme court. A steam thrashing mncliino exploded ncnr Kencaaw on the 4th , killing J. A. Smith , the former on whoso place the machine wns nt work. Smith wns blown about twenty yards , his bowels ripped open nnd hia head nenily cut off. Tbo report of D. II. Wheeler , recenely pub- htmed , makes n splendid showing for the stite. Nearly nil the nvurngos nro several percent. over one hundred , which is ba < ed 01 the crops uf Jastycnr. when nil hinds of cereals and veg etables were abundant. The innocent revolver got in its work nt Cherry Creek , Buffalo county , last week. Mrs. II. M. Porter stood in front of Ellsworth Murphy while ho toyed with his gun and re ceived n twenty-two caliber cartridge in the lowed around nnd found , Mrs. Porter from belnir bottled. The total number of B. k M. engines now number 117 , and ten more nre ordered ind nro to arrive this fall. Severn ! ynars ngo the B. & M. bad 2G locomotives bud other rolling stock in proportion , and whna the new ocomotiv&j arrive the increase in the number ) f now locomotives hn the rood in seven years .vlll . be just nn eyen hundred , { Plattsmouth Fournal. The Beatrice Gaslight nnd Coke company las incorporated. The amount of authorized iiDital Ktockii { 50.000 , divided into shares of 5100 each. The corporation ia to continue for ifty ycnra. Tne limit of indebtedness la S30- 00. The incorporators nre Charles G. Dor- ey. , T. D. KHpatrick , > Thoa. Yule , J. K. Smith , Frank Barclay. Tbo cannon ball trnin on the B. & M. was brown from the track nt VV ymore , last week , iy an opou switch. The entrino and all the are except the rear coach nnd sleeper were rreckod nnd are still lying in the ditch where hey were thrmvn by tbo nccidcnt. The sleep- r and conch kfj/t thorail3. _ The train , was uniting slow nnd no ono wan hurt. A fnd accident occurred in Nanco county , ear Fullurtou. on the 2nd iiist. The two cms of G. II. Cluao follovvod their father into ho harvest Held. Returning homo the young- r ono wandered into tall gr.isa , laid down nnd all nsli-op. The father , returning with n load f grain , drew over tha prostrate form of his lecping boy , crushing out his lita. Mr. J , A. Smith , who lived upon tha E. M. ) utton farm , three miles northeast from Loncsnw , county , waa instantly killed by he explosion of n threshing mnchluo boiler n the -1th. Ho had just commenced to broad with n steam throahrr , und just no the ngmo wu9 started up the boiler exploded , lowing Mr. Smith about twenty ynrdu awny , aaring out his bowles , neurly cutting off his end nnd mangling Ms legs. Pieces of the oiler were blown nbout forty rods. An old man named Ming , nt Beatrice , had daughter. A young fellow by the name of > d u 'persisted in ( laying bin nttenllniiH to th * irl much to the chagrin of _ tlio old mnn , but ot to the nppiirnnt sutisfactiim of tbo damsel , 'ho young c < iui > lo were nut walking th other veiling \vlum Ming came upon them near the' pern lioune with u revolver in his hand and load in his i-je.s , threatening to blow a hole irough hi * daughter' * lovw ni big as n pump- in. Odea struck the old codger and knocked hn down. The girl shrieked and was carried way while the Irate old gentleman won cared > r by the crowd. An oxplnsion of gnsolino literallr cremated Mra. Scott , living on Raymond's ranch in luster county , Friday evening. The ga'ollno in waa kept in a closed cellar , gas from which ud hlleil the colUr. Mr * . Scutt , w s going ito tbo cellar with n lighted lamp in her nnd , nnd when the lamp came in contnct ith the ROS it explodixl. setting her gnrmonU u fire , which were literally burned olf. Sbo tn up stuirn nnd wrapped hemulf in the bed 0 thing .ind told her nvo little cbil Iron to in out of the houao. Fulling to smother out ia fira who gut out of l d , tore elf her cloth- ig. carried out the gasoline nnd coal oil cnns ad ran to the birn , h r sha WM found by ur husband almost burned to death. The BUir Republican calls for Ilia banish- tent of ' 'Mother Hubbard * " up there nnd iy : "Why don't our city nuthoritlc * fpllow | > the example of Omnhn nnd eupprea < tha .other hubbirds ? Not only Indies flaunt lem la tha fcon of the public in u manner to iralyzu , petrify and bringiiito disrepute good dor * nd morals , but mio Cliaa. Slndcr and la employe * at tha red livery ( table persist 1 arruyiug them elvei in baggy and tuiqui- ms garment * ) of tlie _ atno description , ic > n- xliilng the town , frightening inulcw , bent's , id men and women of weak nerves. We ik fur lofocin , hoop sklrta nnd pull-backs ! " Quin B hnnn , the spelling professor whoxo into ce of death b&s been deff rrixl by tha iprume court , Is writing lellem tn the pnpor * jout "how a man feel * who is under sentence ' death. " In ono of them he nays : "iha tUt ; va gonu forth that I mutt bo coolly and do- Iwrately lill l on the 8th day of August. " ho tiat which Quin "coolly nd deliberately int forth" wni a bullet which pierced the ; art of hi * victim iu Waver ! v. He had no me to contemplate tha "awful inyaUry of wth" when tbu luurderera bull t winged his ) lrit tn the other ihorv. The \ictim waa an juorcd buslnetti man ; his murderer a brow. sating loafer. The criiua w s deliberate nnd > 'd lilonded. Out with gjinpithy ud enti- tent it such a cue. CITY WALKS AND TALKS , Frotwoll , the auctioneer , rocontl sold two largo lots nf unclaimed package ago for the express companies. Tiies package sales , which occur about once year , are made up of trunks , valisei bundles , boxes , etc , * and occasionally ; purchaser secures quito a valuable priz for n small sum of money. The packaRo are sold without examination , and th purchaser does not know what ho is getting ting until after ho has paid his mono ; and opened up his package. The pur chasers are prohibited from opening th packages in the auction room as it attract the attention of the crowd am interferes with tno sale. "Somo vorj amuring things happen at these sales , ' said Frotwoll. "Ono young man bough a package for $1.25 and got a nice silvo watch and chain and $3.00 in old coins The next package that was put up wai markou 0. 0. D. $20 , and a Dutchmoi bought it for § 5.00. It proved to bo ibex box of Fishblatt's medicine. Ho boughl another box marked U. u. D. $30 , and that too turned out to bo some of Fish' blott's preparations. Ho was somewhat exasperated at the result of his investments monts , but nevertheless bid oil anothoi box marked C. O. D , 850 , which also carne from Fishblatt'a laboratory. Gott im hlmmoll' ho exclaimed , who is dis Blattfish , anyhow ? Ish dor , any tings iu dish house except Fishblat ? ' Notwithstanding our ruloagainst opening anything in our house , ho uncorked this medicine and the room was immediately filled with a horrible stench. Ho won ordered out on the sidewalk with his perfumery , and a policeman who hap pened along just at that time told him to move along with his stink factory. I picked up a long and thin package and announced that it once belonged to Sara Bornhardt , and like ila owner it had gonoastray. It sold for $7.50. The pur chaser 'found in it ft pair of blue over alls , an old clay pipe , two pairs of old stockings , and other rubbish. The next grip , which had once belonged to Lieut Groely , in my mind , sold for $3.00 , and contained a pair of Arctics , a pair of fur gloves , and a sealskin cap. The very next grip , which sold for a dollar , had a $36 velvet dolman iu it This was followed by the aalo of a box for $2,25. It con tained three now suits of clothes , a feather bed , and eight or ton sheets. The purchaser was a woman , who soon after bought a fine suit of broadcloth for $3.00. tiho went away happy , as the clothes would just suit her old man , BO she said. " * * * "Tho greatest fraud that I have known for a long time appears to have baoa this Dr. Fishblatt , " continued Frotwoll. "Ho used to send out thous ands of hi medicine packages all over the country , marked 'collect on delivery. ' The prices marked ton the boxes ranged from $10 to $50 , although the medicine was all alike. Ho marked his boxes ac cording to hia ideas of how much this or that victim would stand. Hundreds of thoao boxes were never taken out , but were returned to the home express oilice. Finhblatt refused to receive them , as they wore evidently of no value to him. [ remember of a barrel of this stuff com ing back from Kansas City , aa the con. jignee refused to receive it. It was marked 0. O. D. , $125. Fishblatt di rected it to bo sent back to Kansas City ind collect $100 for it. This didn't work. Elo then dropped to $75 , and finally to ? 15 ; whereupon the victim took it , and ; hon Dop. probably made $10 out of the transaction. " * * * "I wont ever to Chicago the other lay , " remarked an Omaha man , "and iccupiod a , lower berth iu a Pullman car. Chore were only six other passengers in ho sleeper. When I retired I found thi ipper berth was lot down , although then vaa no ono to occupy it. I tried touhov t up , but couldn't do it , as it was locke town. I found It very inconvenient mdross , and in the morning it was very iwkward for mo to got my clothes o ; , gain. Now , why could not the uppd lerlh just aa well have been kept up ir toad of down , as there was no call for it . asked the porter that question and h aid that it is a rule of the company t equiro payment for a whole section in auo the upper berth is kept up. Go coma that it is a way they have of ma ug it as uncomfortable for a passenger as ipssiblo. I think if a pa&sonuor pays th ligb price of three dollars for a berth , b 3 entitled to all the accommodation thai an bo conveniently given without incur ing any extra expense to the company , So there is no possible way for a lower lorth passenger to have the upper bortl ; opt up , ia there ) ' I asked of the porter , Well , sah , folks dat has traboled know iuw to fix dat business. If a passenger lips a half dollah into do portor's hand , ip goes do berlh , and don't you forgot t lut do company is mighty strict about at business , and wo has to bo kind o ireful and not get cotchcd. ' So you see bo porter makes a pretty good thing of ; , as ho probably picks up a good manv alf dollars in this way. " * * # "Tho sleeping portera make moro lonoy than the public have any Idea of , jntinued the gentleman. "Thoy make tore than the Pullman conductors , al- lough the conductors got $70 and the orient only $10 per month salary. The arters receive at least 25 cents from wh passenger , and frequently they get half dollar. I venture to say that their icomo from this source ranges from 100 to $125 a mouth. I have hoard of imo portora making as high as $150 a onth. Some of them accumulate quito ipidly and invest their savings in real itnto , while others spend their money as 4t as they got it , " * * * "The greatest train robber of the ; o , however , ia the newsboy , " said theme mo gentleman. "Tho way the news > y works the train is a caution , I ked him the price of a pear , and ho do- anded ton oenta. The aamo sized'pear could buy in Ohioago two for five cents any fruit staud. Peaches , that sell in liicago three for five cants , he sold four r a quarlor. Bananas , which are being Id four for a nickel in Chicago , he sold ur for a quarter or two for tttuonj and rerything else ho had was held at theme mo extortionate prices. Yet he found enty of passengers on the train who lowed themselves to be robbed by ktronizing him. Ono of his tricks is to ither up newspapers that he has sold ice and soil them ever again. This ii course , all profit to him. I can hardly i c move that the high pricea that he asks ii for his goods are authorized by his'om- gloyers. " * * * "On my way bnck from Chicago , " continued my friend , "I thought I would economize a little by going without my dinner , but when ono of the dining car waiters came through the train distribut ed nn inviting bill of faro headed with the line , 'As wo journey through life , lot us live by the way'I changed my mind and wont into the dining car and got an oxcolloiit meal , I felt bettor sat isfied with myself and everybody el so after that , as a good dinner makes a man feel bettor naturod. This shows that n little judicious advertising is a good thing. Had not the bill of faro boon headed with 'As wo journey through lifo let us live by the way , ' I would have gene without my dinner , and felt moan all afternoon , and the company would have had 75 cents less in its treas ury. " "It was in Iowa that I took dinner in the dining car , " aaid the passenger , 'and I noticed that the bill of faro con tained the usual wino list. 'Give mo a pint of Piper Hiedsiock'said I to the wai ter. 'Can't do it , sah. Sorry , aah , but do prohibition law won't 'low us to sell liquor In dis yor state , ' replied the wai ter. 'Isn't there any way to lot mo have some wino , or oven ale ? ' I asked the conductor. VFhoro is no way to got around it , ' said ho. 'The company's or ders are very strict on this matter , and wo can't take any chances. ' " THE THIRD DISTRICT A. Lively Protest from tbo Homo of Olarkson. SCIIUYLEK , August 10. Major Clark- son's mnn Friday is very much incensed and seriously objects to the epithet given him by THE BEE. Mao is a comparative stranger in this district. Ho came to Schuyler recently and ever slnco his ar rival trained with the wrong crowd. Ouo of that crowd is Friday's taan "Crusoo , " alias T. S. Clarkson. These follows have made It their business to run the prima ries in town and county in the interest of the machine and carefully ezcludo the kickers of two years ago. Now THE BEE may not bo directly interested in the "Bloody Third , " but indirectly it has on interest , and if it can prevent the nomina tion of a man inferior to the present In cumbent , or it it can frustrate the schcmo of the railroad directors to smuggle in ono of their tools , it will have the ever lasting gratitude of every honest republi can in the Third district. Of all the small fiah in the congres sional frying-pan this mnn Clarkson is the smallest. Ho has neither the knowl edge nor ability nor training for this office. Even as a business man ho is pronounced by all who know him as im practicable , visionary and unsuccessful. I shall give you at some other time a his tory of bis business career ; for the pres ent it will suifico to state that the major don't sail any more under his own initials , but prefers to do business under the name of M. B. Clarkson. Hia numerous friends in Dakota regret this change very much. As a politician , ho is one of the ringmasters , and in ' 82 hurrahed a delegation for Valentino against the express wishes of two-thirds of the party. As a public orator , ho made his first debut in Fremont two years ago bv delivering a harangue , using the vilest language. He this for Valentine stumped county , L denouncing Turner a traitor and demo- * * r k Brat. Then ho went to Hastings , where f be achieved some notoriety by bringingf in a resolution censuring Postmasler- Sonoral Gresham for the removal of that political bummer , Paul Vandervort. This was the first and only great public 3ffort of bis life. Speaking of Vandor- rort reminds me of the striking simi- arity in the make-up of the character of ; heso two great men : "Your General Pan ! " and "Our Major Thad. " Both are mediocre men , with any imount of cheek , brazen impudence ind overbearing arrogance , which luolilioa , when well combined , rod blended , will pass with some people > lo for brilliancy and dash. They nil rork the "hail-fellow , well mot trick" for .11 that is in it. They treat the boya pith a sort of condescending familiarity , lap Jim and Jack on the back , toll old arns , nnd do most anything just for the ako of getting their name up as "ono of bo boys. " They both use the Grand irmy for a political stepping stone. They Jth hold government positions nnd oth were bounced. Your Paul , howov- r , is n "general , " our Thad is only a ) ajor. There is where the imilarity stops. Our Thad. is out of a jb and wants an office to retrieve hia roken fortunes ; a congressional seat a referred , but if needs be , he will not efuse a land or postoflice , or even a post radorship. Colfnx county will doubt- iss give him their delegation out of mere empathy , oven if they do not want him. There are plenty of good men of supo- lor qualities in the Third district , and it i to bo hoped that our next convention 'ill select for its candidate not "ono of iioboys , " but a man with a clean record nd ono who has the ability aud integrity J represent the interests of the citizens f the Third district. "Sixrt-Six. " BO.BO Ball at Central CJty. pecial to THK But. CKNTIIAI. CUT , Nun , , Aug. 8-In the game : base ball at thtti pl ce to-d y , between oi-th Platte nnd Control City , the score ° ° H. 8 ln favor ot tlln latter. Tbo orth I latte boys came expecting an easy ctory tot could not bat the Central City ! . ! ? ' Y' ' ° yBU e d five whitewashes out nine innings. jj > < , c < > Plm ' ° lal nd Art Depart osJHJiKlmltUd. Tuition low , Fatally Burned. > ecial Dispatch to Tin BUB. PIKUCK , Neb. , August 10-Mrs. Scott , liv- f on Raymond's raiich , was fatally burned it evening by her clothes catching firti from rnxohno Inruj ) , which eroded. , \ " - - Bank Statement. > v 'I ' YOUL , Aiurust 9. 15an statement : AMI ' 86 ' . ? ' ' "Iecio ' " "ease JK O 200 ; denoait * lncrea.e , SlW8,400 , re- * T f Increase. S984l < > i. The banks now hold 1,109,000 m exceai of legal requirements , "Tho best Is the cheapest. " This is nn I odsge and the essence of wisdom. 10 beat medicine , nnd the only niro re for diseases of the liver , kidneys d bladder is the old and reliable HUNT'S idnoyand Liver ] RJSMEDY. Phyai- ins endorse it highly and prescribe It their prac'ico.