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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. "
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"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. "
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"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. "
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"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 , "
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"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. "
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"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. ,
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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.
