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THE DAILY BEE-MONDAY ; MAY 11 , 1885.
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TitK cold woiihor la damaging Iho base
ball crop.
HAVE wo no offensive partisans outsldo
of.PJatlsmon.tti ?
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i.1 WINTER lingers too long. It la about
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. Umo for It to eoofc uorao other lap.
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IT is now the general Impression tbat
Gon. Logan will bo his own successor.
WHAT has booomo of the exposition ?
Has It boon'frozan oub by the polar
wave ? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
THE still-hnnt for offonslVp partisans
is becoming tiresome to the thirsty and
hungry. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
QUINT'S doctors say that his death ii
only a question of time. So it is with
all of us.
TUEHE are too many cattle running at
largo In Omaha. The ordinance prohib
iting the nulsanco ought to bo moro
otrlctly enforced.
CANADA now has the opportunity of
learning what an Indian war really. is.
She will no longer riclcnlo the Indian
wars that have taken place In the United
States.
THE Herald continues to publish a
daily list of Nebraska postmasters who
have resigned. The Omaha democrats so
far hare failed to discover the name of
Postmaster Oontnnt.
ARBITRATION has settled the railroad
war , but whether It will BO til a the Anglo-
Rnaslin difficulty depends upon whether
the international arbitrator possesses as
clear a head as Judge Lake.
THE recant death from alleged hydro
phobia Is suggestive. In the first place
there are too many dogs running at large
In Omaha , and in the next place there are
too many doctors who cannot agreo.
BIDS will v ill bo received for the re
moval of the now court house to the va
cant lot adjoining the Republican office ,
which is in danger of taking a tumble to
Itself unless It is propped by something
substantial.
WE understand that the Republican
will file with the county commissioners a
petition for the immediate removal of the
now court honsa from ita present site bo-
causa Rosewater and the BEE Publish
ing company own a half block facing the
court house.
THE postmaster at Aurora , Illinois ,
against whom charges of a political na-
tnro had boon filed , has been removed ,
not by the president , but by the hand o :
death. Ho was one of the few who
would rather dlo than resign.
WHEN such an Inveterate office beggar
as Tom Hendrlcka says that ho cm hole
out no hope to such democrats as are
anxious for a general and rapid change In
the civil service of this country , and that
Cleveland will probably continue hfa
present policy , it begins to look as if the
officc-soekors will have to curb their im
patience and give up their frantic appeals
to the president to rush things.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to establish t
Baptist college in Nebraska. It Is pro
posed to secure a suitable slto and erec
a building to cost at least $25,000 to star
with. An eflort Is io bo made to estab
lUh an endowment fund of $100,000 tc
pay the current expenses. The city o
town that offers the boat inducements wll
iccuro this institution. It strikes u
that Omaha , if a proper cilort Is made
ought to bo able to get this prize.
TUB Baltimore postmaster , who ha
boon removed , eaya that ho is now we !
satisfied that the appointment of Mr
Pearson as postmaster of New York wa
the payment of a political debt , and tha
ho cm and will prove it. It Is entlrolj
unnocesiary for the deposed Baltlmorear
to offer any proofs , as the administratior
has virtually acknowledged what he
charges. The appointment of Pearson
was In response to the demands of the
mugwump press and politicians , and i
was nothing else than tbo payment of t
political debt Civil service had nothing
whatever to do with it.
BOYD WINCHESTER , who has the repn
tallon of being the beit poker player it
Kentucky , goes to Switzerland as consul
general , Instead of to Nice , and gets an
increase of salary from $1,560 to $5,000
by the change. This will enable him to
play his hand a good deal higher than if
ho had accepted the berth at Nice. Mr ,
Winchester is under obligations for this
piece of good luck to editor Wattenon ,
of the Louisville Courier Journal , with
whom ho has had many a tilt at pokrr ,
Wattenon ia anxious for Winchester to
bare a large salary because he thinks he
sUnifs eomo chance of winning it from
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AN INSULT TO THE ARMY.
The appointment of Gen. Fltz Hugh
, of Virginia , as ono of ( ho honorary
liltors to tha national military acidemy
t West Point is an insult to every man
hat wears the loyal blno. It Is not only
high premium paid to treason In Us
most odtloui form , but it is a demoralizing
xatnplo to the riling generation of the
ntnre commanders of our nrmles and
navies. The naval and military acade
mies of the United States above all other
nstituttons aio entrusted with the
acred guardianship of the honor of the
American fli g. At the very threshold
of West Point academy a solemn oath is
akon by every cadet to uphold and de-
end the flag against all enemies , whether
domestic or foreign. The highest ideal of
every American officer , educated at West
Point , must always bo loyalty to his
country , even unto death. No
obligation rests heavier upon
the shoulders of any. officer than
its oath , and no power orfoarth can ab
solve him from it ' "
When Fits Hugh Leo was chosen as
pand marshal byjho manager jpfGrovor ]
OlpYoInnd'fl inauguration it was , to say the
east , decidedly In bad taste. The fact
hat ho was cheered moro vociferously
and received with moro enthusiasm than
thopresidont himself , wasas wo are crcdi-
> ly Informed , very distasteful to the
many thoughtful democratic loaders as
well as to Grover Cleveland himself.
Chora was , however , no official responsi
bility attached to thli cholco. It was
purely a blunder of the managing com
mittees who had the Inauguration in
charge. But when President Cleveland
and the secretary of war deliberately se
eded File Hugh Lee from among all
others to represent our government at its
national military academy they sot at
defiance every precedent and all the tra
ditions of the republic. There are thou
sands of democrrts all over the land who
were loyal and true to the flag during the
war , and whoso career would entitle them
to honorable distinction as visitors to
West Point or Annapolis. Suoh men as
Generals Slocum , Rosecrans , McClellan ,
Buell , Bragg , Butter and others are
passed by for such a man as Fltz Hugh
Loo. Any man who , like Fitz Hugh Lee ,
received a military education at the
country's expense , and who swore un
swerving fidelity to the national emblem ,
and then turned traitor , is utterly un
worthy of any such honor as visitor to
West Point. Rebellion may be
'orgivsn and treason has been con
doned. Fltz Hugh Leo has
been restored to citizenship and
tils own state may confer upon him any
honor that it may see fit , but there is one
place at least In which ho , and all like
him , should never bo allowed to set foot ,
and that Is the military academy. Like
the traditional arch-angel with the flamIng -
Ing sword at the gates of the garden o' '
Eden , the national conscience shoulc
stand at the doors of West Point to bar
out every scoundrel who violated his
oath , raised his sword against his own
country , and trambled the flag In the
dust. How can the cadets of Wea
Point aalutn a man like Fliz Hugh
Leo when they remember his base
betrayal of the highest trust of a soldier' '
How can they reconcllo the lessons o
undying obedience and fealty to their
oaths with the act of the commander-
in-chlef of all the armies In
appointing as ono of their honorary visit
era one of that class of West Pointers
who had no regard for the teachings o
their alma mater ?
This is no partisan raving , but an ox
proasion of the sober sense of loya
Americans regardless of patty. There
must bo a line drawn somewhere. Wo
have no desire to revlvo the Issues of the
war , or wave the bloody shirt. We have
no spite to vent npon ex-confederates because
cause they are democrats. Wo wonlc
regard the appointment of Longatreet , or
Moaby , or even Mahono just as execrable
and Improper as that of Fitz
Hugh Leo. Wo know that Grover
Cleveland as governor of Now York
would hardly have dared to select among
all the citizens of his state a man who
bad doffed the blno for the gray. Then
why should he do so as president of the
United States , when his constituency
comprises the whole republic ?
MARSHAL Cujiraas has an importan
duty to perform , and It must bo done a
once. There are too many thugs , sluggers
gors and thieves in Omaha , and consequently
quontly the slugging and robbing of ou
citizens has become an almost nightly
occurrence. Thorojbas recently locatot
In this olty a portion of the old Canada
Bill three-card monte gang , and It i
fair to presume that among them are a
number of sluggers who are doing al
this villainous and murderous work
Marshal Cnmlngs is not responsible fo
their coming hero , but ho Is certain ! ;
responsible for their remaining hero. I
he does not know them ho can easily fini
out who they are. It is his duty to im
mediately rid the city of this gang , anc
then drive out all the other desperate
charasters. If ho does not act at once in
this matter , the citizens , among whom
tliero Is great indignation , will probably
maVe up a round-up for him and make
It safe for people to be out after dark
Those villains have been driven out of
Denver , and there la no reason why they
should not bo compelled to move on ,
THE supreme court of Massachusetts
has just rendered a decision of great im
portance to tbo people of that great and
good commonwealth. The public statutes
deo'aro that "whoever travels on tbo
Lord'd day , except from necesieslty or
charity , shall bo punished by fine not ex
ceeding ten dollars for each offense. " It
WAS upon this law that the court waa
called to p a judgment , and In doing so
it defined what a Sunday walk In Massa
chusetts must be In order to bo lawful.
A short walk for air or oxerclso or to call
n a neighbor ia not , in the opinion of
he court , a violation of the Sunday law.
t would seem therefore that Sunday
jailing Is not a sin , but the decision Is
lefeotlvo In that it does not give any idea
of how long a walk must bo in order to
> e punishable. There certainly must bo
limit , and until that limit is fixed the
matter mint bo loft to the opinion of ft
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ry.THE s
THE great doalro of General Grunt Is to
complete hla memolri , and tha probability
a tbat ho will succeed. His Improved
condition permit * him to dlotato for sev
eral hours each day to a stenographer ,
The first volume is written and revised ,
and only about ono hundred pages are
needed to finish the locond. Each volume
umo will contain about five hundred
pages. It having boon published in sev
eral nowapapora that the work was in
reality being written by General Badcau
General Grant has sharply replied tbat
any such statement ia wholly false. Gen
oral-Grant says that the composition ia
entirely his own , which aaanranco adds
value to the work. It la gratifying to
know that these memoirs will have an
mmonso aalo , and consequently provo a
source of revenue to the author. It Is
said that over 150,000 orders have al
ready boon received by the publishers
without solicitation or advortiiing. They
expect to Issno the first volume about the
1st of next December and the second
about March 1st , 18SG.
SENATOR DAWES is authority for the
statement that the last days of the Indian
in reservations are near at hand. It Is
about tlmo that the reservation system bo
done away with and the vast tracts of
land thus tied up bo given up to the
actual homesteader. Nearly all the game
having disappeared and the support ol
the Indians being entirely thrown upon
the government , they should bo allowed
to have no moro land than a white man.
If it continues necetsary to support them
it will bo just as easy for the government
to take care of each family on 1GO acres
of land as it is on the reservation plan.
To make the Indiana self-supporting la
only a question of time , if proper and
systematic stops are tat on. With each
succeeding year they will need less assist
ance and leas instruction , and finally they
will become not only self-supporting altl-
zens but will have a surplus for a rainy
day afler the manner of Industrious and
economical agriculturists and stock-raisers
among the whites.
DR. MEIERE , of Colorado , will not go
as consul to Nagasaki , Japan , after all
His appointment has been revoked no
because ho got drunk , and shouted that ho
was a rebel and glad of It , and was a
rebel still , but for an entirely different
rsason. It was supposed that by giving
him on office and getting him out of the
country , a great favor would be conferred
on his wife by securing support for her
but just as his commission was about to
bo delivered ' to him It was discovered
that on the very day tbat ho got drunk to
celebrate his twenty-fifth wedding anni
versary , as ho said , Mrs. Meiere got a
dlvoreo from bun on account of his con
Unued brutal treatment. This elegant
gentleman was Indorsed by a petition
longer than the moral law , and the pros !
dent is moro than ever convinced that
petitions and testimonials as a rule are
not worth the paper they are written on
MR. LEEPER , the defeated legislative
candidate In the thirty-fourth district cf
Illinois , declared immediately after the
election that it was fair and honest , and
that ho would not make any contest
Mr. Leopor's declaration was a little too
previous to suit the leaders of the dem
ccracy , who summoned him to Chicago
The result of his visit to that olty Is that
ho has boon persuaded to change his
mind , and has signed the necessary papers
to contest the election. It is fair to presume
sumo tbat the promise of a fat fedora
office in the near future was the induce
ment that led him to take this stop. It
Is a desperate move on the part of the
democrats , and possibly by delaying mat
ters it will prevent the election of a re
publican senator , and thus after all leave
the appointment to bo made by Governor
Oglesby.
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THE Wlsconaln high license law , owing
to Borne oversight or trlok , permits brew
era to retail their own beer without pay
ing a license. The supreme court having
boon called to pass upon this point holt
that under the law the privilege was un
questionable. The consequence i
that Milwaukee brewers have re
cently purchased a quarter of a
million dollars' worth of cor
ner lots In the central part of the city
and are now opening "agencies11 for the
sale of their own products. The license
paying liquor sellers are not pleased a
the prospoit , as the brewers will natur
ally monopollza the retail beer trade.
HON. G. W. FROST has received
letter from llev , J. P. Newman" who
says that he has no doubt that Gon.
Grant's improved condition is in answer
to prayer. It is true that Gen. Grant
began to Improve almost Immediately
after Rev. Dr. Newman offered up
prayer ! in his behalf , and It has atrengtb-
enod hla faith In the power of prayer.
Our private opinion , publicly expressed ,
la tbat the credit for Gen. Grant'a tem
porary recovery should fairly bo divided
between Rev. Newman's prayers and
Lord Stanford's clover tea remedy.
THERE are nearly 62,000 poatoffices In
the United States , and they will all , with
a few exceptions , be supplied with a new
postmaster within six months at the far
thest. So aays a prominent postoffico
official. This ought to afford some little
comfott to the hungry democrats In gon-
ral , but the Omaha democrats hero-
abonU would like to know whether the
Omaha poitofiico is included among the
exceptions.
IN Valencia , Spain , they ara trying in.
ocnlatlon with the cholera virus as n
moans of lessoning ( he force of the
scourge , and success appears to have at-
-ended the experiment , the persons inoc
ulated generally recovering from the dis
ease within forty-eight hours after the
operation. Whether cholera inoculation ,
oven If conceded to bo a success , will be
come popular , Is a question.
SPEAKER HAINES , ot the Illinois house
of representatives , has been robbed in
Now Orleans of100. . When ho fur
nished n description of the men whom ho
thought committed the robbery , the po
llco oxproiacd the opinion that the
thieves belonged to the Illinois excursion
party. This is rather rough on the Suck
ers ,
THE offensive partisanship charge works
like a charm , It has boon trlod in Ne
braska on a ronto agent. It Is said that
ho made himself very obnoxious during
the last campaign , and ho has accordingly
been let out. It strikes us that any
republican office-holder Is and alwnyn
was obnoxious to the democrats.
MR. LATIIROP , the Mlohlgindor who
goes to St. Petersburg as minister plen
ipotentiary , is credited with having been
a warm supporter of the government
during the rebellion , Among the many
foreign appointments ho Isj therefore , a
notable exception.
IN the contest between roller skating
and baseball , the former plainly has the
advantage. It even gives the circus a
sort of a knock out. [ Philadelphia
Call.
Call.You
You ought to come to Omaha next Sat
urday , and see the circus got away with
everything.
CLEVELAND has boon president two
months , and there have been only about
ha'f a dczen Nebraska democrats re
warded with office. Are wo never going
to Imvo reform ? Are the rascals never
going to be turned out ?
STATE JOTTINGS.
HartinRton's creamery la ready for business.
Papllllon has four saloons and six churches.
Grand Island is manufacturing a base ball
club.
club.A
A weekly stage runs from Gordon to Rush-
rllle.
rllle.Eight
Eight tramps wcro fired out of Fremont one
day last week.
The West Point creamery employs fifty
men and women.
A new bank is to bo opened up in HarttDg-
ton on tbo lat of Juno.
Musainger , the Clay county fire-hup , got
ninety days and $50 fine.
The business at the Niobrora land office
keeps five clerks humph : g.
Imperial la tha latest town and prospective
connty seat of Chase county.
The professional tramp and footpad are be
coming dangerously numerous in Blair.
A Nebraska , ' * Olty brewery plugged Ita
bung boles "rather than pay $1,000 license.
Twenty thousand dollars will be expended
in improvement a at Fort Niobrara this season.
Nebraska City claims to rank third in size
in the ctate , while Fremont travels on her
shape.
The commissioners to select the site for the
new postoffico in Nebraska City are on the
gronnd.
The board of public lands and buildings ore
examining tour plans for the Norfolk Insane
asylum.
The temperance revival in Fremont yielded
a large crop of moderate tipplers and several
veteran soaks.
C. D. Olln ii confined in the Osceola jail ,
awaiting the certain approach of death frorr
hydrophobia.
Building material is BO scarce in the White
riyor country that Intending settlers are ad
vised to bring tents along.
York county has a bonded debt of 890,500 ,
all but 8500 bein r railroad bonds , which aio tc
ba refunded in six per centa , ,
The squatters on the Santee reservation are
organizing for protection against a possible
raid from stampeders on May 1C.
Thirty Baptist pastors concluded a "profit
able season of prayer" at Central City last
week. This explains the cold wave.
Dr. A. Bowen , a man of sixty , fell down
the hatchway of the packing house in 'Ne
braska City , and was severely injured.
Settlers and squatters along the Niobrara
are petting into trouble by cutting timber on
government land. Several have been arrested.
Effrota are being made tc secure a new
mail route between Wakefield and Ponca.
Congressman Dorsey has indorsed the peti
ton ,
The Northwestern transportation ; com
pany will transfer Its entire freighting busl
ness to Chodron or vicinity by the middle of
August ,
Mr. Camp , a Kearney business man , was
knocked down by a frightened team In Shelton -
ton , and three dangerous gashes cut across
his scalp.
Dr. Wltbonpoon , of Fremont , claims to be
the possessor of the watch worn by his grand
father while signing tha declaration of inde
pendence.
Humboldt is building a largo brick achool-
house * and a firm In the same town is bulld-
ing a large factory for the manufacture of a
patent churn ,
Tha Columbus Watflr Works and Gaslight
company has been incorporated. Tha com
pany proposes to Illuminate and liquidate at
an early day.
( { Central City's bank account shows a bal
ance , for the year ending May G. of $131.89
The municipal expenditure for tbo same time
was $2,838.70.
Quinn Bobonan , the condemed spelling
profouor. has improved his dreary bouts be
fore death by Inventing a corn iheller , which
be has patented ,
Kaa > ascol ° nies are raiding western Ne-
Lroika for speculative purposes and perma
nent settlement. Many Nebraskans return
the compliment.
Henry Fink is NebraikaCIty'dmissIngman.
He waa in poor health , has been missing some
time , and ia thought to have drowned himself
in the Platte river ,
Diiappointed burglari , evidently amateurs ,
unable to crack the afo in the granger store
at York , made kindling of the till and aur-
roundinp shelving ,
A gang of ten or twelve confidence men are
fleecing every thins preen In the neighborhood
of Valentine. Tha citizens nigh for the
regulators of other daya.
The long-drawn-out school contest In Cen
tral City was brought to an end last week by
a majority of one in favor of building. The
election was a close and lively ono.
The report la abroad In Gage county that
the Uurllntjton & Missouri la about to build a
branch from Beatrice to Foirbury , Con
tractors are looking over tbo ground.
The offer to build a $10,000 opera house at
Went r lut , conditional on the donation of a
81,200 alto , hua not as yet been accepted by
the public spirited citizens cf that town.
The wbuat and outs in Valley county never
.noked better when May came than thia year.
The plowing for corn ii well under way , and
qnito A number of fields ara already planted.
'W. B. Cnihirg , ofJunlatn. lost an eye by
! Mling to hit a nail iqnato in the head. It
new at his eye and instantly the light wont
out.
out.Tho
The stand pipe of the Lincoln water works
will not be completed for several weeka yet.
Meantime the old stuff can bo had till 10 p.
in. without a prescription ,
1511i Perkins Is fabricating n newthemo to
l > o sold by the yard In the Interior towna of
the state. It Is reported ho is lying low in
western counties at the present time.
The editor of tha Ilumboldt Sentinel
mournfully crlts , "Tho fact that wo MO bald-
headed scorn B like nUod- end to our enemies. "
ContiacU have been 1st for the Burlington
Missouri branch from Republican City
south into Kansas , The line will be seventy-
eight miles long , and will bo completed by
Will Dill , on employe in the West Point
paper mill , wai caught In the ghafllng , and
before released his clothing was entirely torn
from his body , but , fortunately , without In
jury to his person.
Four companlas of the Fifth United States
regular cavalry have left Fort Niobrara for
their now station in Texas. They will bo re
placed by the Ninth United Btates colored
rcglrront , now In Texas.
Ilaitlngs builds hleh hopes on securing nn
extension of the Chicago & Northwestern to
that city in case the road la built to Lincoln.
The Democrat urges that "mulltio action be
taken to offer Inducements. "
A widow In Boone county calls of th
bondsman of two saloonkeepers for $8,000o
damages for the death of hrr huiband , who
was killed while under the Influence of liquor
purchased of said partner.
The B fc M. has built a depot at Blue
Springs. The attempt of the company to glvo
the town a perpetual go by , gave rlso to the
law compelling railroads to build depots in
all towna of over COO inhabitants.
Eight society young ladies of Hastings have
organized a cooking club to perfect thom-
eolves Ia the culinary art. They recently
gave a recaption to thalr gentleman friends to
test tha quality of their viands. None of the
cases are reported fatal.
Several towns In the state have adopted an
Ingenious method for diverting a portion ol
the liquor license from the school to th ? town
treasury , A plain , unvarnished license costs
S7SO , but the trimmings in the form of a town
tax costs S250.
Broken sidewalks are moro dangerous to
town treasuries thin the average safe cracker.
A. verdict of $1,000 has juit been rendered
against Plattsrnouth where A looco and lively
plank disjointed a man named Mitchell. A
nail in time saves a thousand.
Pedagogue Dortheimor , of Central City
who ditcirdcd text boiks in teaching morals
to the young girls of his school , wan i ound
over to the district court in the sum of $1,000.
Ono of hn un tilling pupils , a child of thir
teen , is about to become a mother ,
The amateur base bailers of Plattsmouth
threaten to challenge the Omnha team and
knock them out with bluffed cluba. They are
the remnant of that famous nlno that did
such muscular blowing last year when the
victors were thirty miles away.
During a heavy rain and wind storm at
Kearney last week a heavy r'oor. blown from
a llvory stable , smashed in its flight a buggy ,
a c t and a fn mer'a wagon , A number ol
lighter buildings were also shifted from their
foundations , but no one injured.
Wo are pnined to observe the serious effect
of that Laflin joke , the joint production ol
Drs. Nye and Calhoun , hurled by thorn at an
unsuspecting and undeserving state press.
The equally unfortunate authors of that con
solidated pun did not know it-was luad > d.
We cancorriously condole with the fraternity.
Three horse ? , two cows , onecalf , buggy and
harness , 500 bushels of corn , 10 ? bushels of
oats , fifteen to twenty tons of hay , two bar
rels of meat , one barrel of flour , set carpen
ter'a tools , about all hisagricultnral machinery
and many other valuable articles were des
troyed by ths burning of the barn of V. P.
Peabody , in Nemaha City on the night of tha
Gth ,
A baby cyc'ono struck a portion of Dawson
county on tbo 28th ult. For fifteen minutes
pigeon-egc hailstones fell , smashing 1,500
lights of glass in Plum Creek. Several teams
cavorted wildly around the directs. The edi
tor of the Pioneer measured the whirligig ol
wind and found It was 38 feet around the
waistband.
The U. P. is said to be getting away with
theetcck and baggage of the iJ. &M. at
Crete. Droves of cattle are driven
to Lincoln and shipped over the for
mer road , effecting a saving of $20 per car.
The Vidette suggests that the B. & M. re
duce rates and glvo cattle shippers the price
of the prod.
P. J. Nichols baa made a proposition to
the peopla of St. Paul and Harvard connty
to plant twenty miles of the Union Pacific
branch in that county , if the proper financial
encouragement is given ; if not , only three
miles of the road will touch the county. P.
J. lays great stress on the point that if the
county votes aid It will secure ample returns
In tbo increased mileage of road to be taxed.
The people aio thinking it over.
There is a prospect of abundance of [ small
fruits in the gardens of Blair Bays the Re
publican. V Grapes have wintered well and
plum trees are full of beautiful bloom.
Planting trees , fruits , and shrubbery and general -
oral improvement of lawns and grounds bear
a promleo cf future usefulness and beauty.
Such improvements are cheap , permanent ,
and within the reach of all who own homes.
The Ulyssoi Dispatch thus comments on
the BxE'a scoop of all would-be rivals : "Xbo
OMAHA BEE is the most enterprising journal
Ia the entire west. Last Wednesday it nave
Gladstone's speech nn the fifty-five million
dollar war cred t. Tbo dispatch contained
nearly four thousand words , and In order to
expedite matters it was transmitted over five
wires for Chicago to Omaha in forty mlnutea.
The cost of the same must have run up Into
the hundreds of dollars , The BEK takes the
lead for news "
The Lincoln Journal cannot eea any "fur
ther necessity fer the B. & M. holding its
headquarters at Omaha , on a switch off from
its trunk lino. " The Journal does not want
to tea. The business of the company in
Omaha is sa great as to require an addition ,
22x132 , to the present headquarters , making
a building 78x132 , and four stories hl < h
Twelve trains a day are devoted to the city's
business. But the company forgets not ita
duty to the cajjital , and the Ashland cut-off
la specially designed to bring the Journal fif
teen miles nearer the Union hog yaids ,
The unloaded shotgun continues on its
travels. Up in Dakota county last week a
farmer named Tattle removed the caps from
bis muzzle loader aud started for town. His
thirteen-year-old thnuldered tbo gun , bor
rowed caps of a neighbor , and commenced ex
perimenting. Three caps were exploded , but
the charge would not waste itself on nothing.
As son as the boy's little sitter appeared in
range the gun was ready as well as the boy.
The charge entered the child's breast , killing
tier almost instantly ,
John Wirn , of La Platte , has commenced
suit in the county court of Sarpy against
Henry Schuman , for tha value of a horse
promised him for service rendered in securing
a wife for Schuman. Schuman , the victim of
Wirn'a wiles , is a prosperous young German
farmer , and his new wife is a winsome German
maiden , An the story goes , Wlrn has been
working on Schuman'a credulity formonthi ,
and finally really did bring him In contact
with and induce bis present wifq to marry
him. Schuman was to give Wirn a good
young horse for his services In bringing about
the match , but after securing his bride ba bad
no further use for Wim , and refused to give
him the horno. The animal waa valued at
two hundred dollars , and Wirn sues for that
amount.
Corn Contracts Awarded ,
NEW YOBS , May U. The board of Indian
commissioners to-day awarded corn contracts
for the ensuing year The principal awarda
are H. 0. Slavena , 200,000 cwts , to be deliv
ered at Cald\vell , Kansas , for Cheyenna and
Wapahoe agencies at 1)3 ) centa per cwt , , B , F ,
Moorhouie , 300,000 cwta. , to be delivered at
Gordon City , Nebraska , for Fine Ridge agen
cy , at $1.13 per cwt. , and 4CO.OOJ cwta. , to be
delivered by aorne contractor at Valentine.
Nebraska , for the Rose Bud agency , at 8L09
per cwt. Tha highest price Riven is $1.95 per
owt. , awarded to H. 0 , Slavens for 200,000
cwt. for Nat a jo agency , and the lowest price
on tha Hit of awards U 77 U-10 cents per cwt. ,
at which price Asel Keym Is to delher 200-
000 owts. at Bloux City.
Big Whale at the Old Museum.
STItlKING OIIjBYTOIU'EDOES.
Interesting Ulstory of nil Import-Jim
Factor In Opening Oil "Wcllr.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ,
On August 28,1859 , twonly-fivo years
ai(0 , Col. Drake completed drilling on
the lUls , ncnr Tituavillo , PA , the fir t
oil well over sunk In the United Slates.
It was , compared with aomo of the groal
wells alUrirard dltcoverod , a " null
affftlr , " pumping only twonty-fivo bar-
rola of oil a day , but U was aufllclont tc
cause an influx of adventurers from all
parts of the globe , rivaling anything
known in the gold excitement of ' 49.
Thousands of wells were aeon put down
along the banks of OH creek , and every
day brought forth norno new phenomenon
In the now Industry. Among other
things It was discovered that ono well
sunk mthin a few feet of another already
producing was not certain to got oil.
Often , ono dry hole was drilled in the
pace between two flowing wells. ThU fact
and others gave rlso to the "crevice
theory , " which , turned Into common
English moaus that the oil Ii not alwa > y
hold , as water Is , In a apong < > , In nil the
rock * in which it IB f jund , but run
through the rocki in so ms or veins
Thoto veins of oil wind through th
strata of oandatono by thousands , and Ii
zlgzig tortuous courses. Now , altbpugl
thisa veins nro very close together it i
possible that tbo drill can enter the rock
and p ss through It without touching o
brooking ono cf thomand hence the wol
Is diy. It occurred to several men In
dependently and abant the _ aimo tlmi
that wore a torpedo lowered into the wel
hole and exploded at the bottom it would
shatter the rook and open the fisnuos t
the oil veins Of the several men wh
had the Idea , only onn carried It to prao
tloal results. In 1805 Col. E. A. L
Roberts , of the army of the Jfotomap
now deceased , visited Tltusvlllo with six
lorpcdooa which ho had constructed in
the fall of the previous year.
People looked upon the Invention
rather oddly at first , and It was not un
til the Slat of July , 1805 , that ho was al
lowed to put up two of hla torpedoed In
the ladles' well on the Watson flats to the
east of this city. The well had boon
pumping oil , but after It bad been torpedoed
podoed It commenced flowing. Pooplj
began to think that there might bo some
tiling in this torpedo after all , and In Da
comber , 1800 , ono was lowered into the
Woodin well on the Blood farm and ox
plodod. The well had never produced r
drop of oil , but it now commoncec
yielding from olfiht to forty barrels a day
Ono month later another torpedo wai
uted , and the production of the well In
creased to eighty barrels This assured
the success of the torpedo for purposes
other tb n destroying ships by bloivlug
them up.
After the result at the Woodin well the
torpedo came Into gencial uno thnngh
out the oil region. A company vraa
formed with a capital af § 300,000 to
work the patent , and a torpedo
factory was erected in Titnsvillo.
The cfl'ect of torpedoes upon the
production of the oil regions was mar
veloua. At the time the Woodin well
was shot (1800) ( ) the production of oil was
declining rapidlyand alarmieta were pro
dieting a apoedy collapse of the petrol -
eum Industry. With the Introduction ol
the torpedo the condition of affairs rapid
ly changed. In the summer of 1807 the
output of the walla on Oil croak was In
creased many thoaaanda cf barrels. Ir
1800 the total production was 3,097,52' ' ;
barrels. Wells that had never producer
a drop of oil were torpedoed and cautoc
to flow ; wella of small production were
converted Into "gushers , " and old wolla
nearly exhausted were revivified and in
their second lease of life did moro than
over before.
But the great part played by the tor
pedo In the oil .business did not really
begin until the opening cf the Bradford
field In 1875. Tbo sand hi this field Is
blackish and hard , and yields its oil re
luctantly. The district , however , ia of
great extent , and contains thousands
of wells that bavo been steadily
producing for years. Had it not
been for the Bradford field the Immense
stock of oil above ground , now amountIng -
Ing to 38,000,000 barrels ( of forty-two
gallons each ) , would not bo. It IB isfo
to s y tbat fully one-half of the produc
tion of this field is directly duo to torpe
does. There are to-day nearly twenty
thousand producing wolla In the oil re
gions , and there are thousands of ex
hausted wells abandoned , and their der
ricks slowly rotting. It ia estimated
that on the average tcrao torpedoes have
been put in every will drilled. Many
wells are torpedoed pretty nearly every
month for the purpose of cleaning away
the pirafino In the hole , opening fresh
fissures In the rock , and thus maintain
ing the production of the welL The
Modoo well , on the HcGulro farm , in
the Church run district , near Titusvlllo ,
was torpedoed twenty-four times.
Tfio first torpedoes were comparatively
inoffensive when compared Vilth those
now In use. Tbo torpedoes with which
Col. Roberts made his first experiments
In the Ladles' well and the Woodin well
were email cylindrical tubes , from four
to six inches in diameter , and holding
a few pounds of gunpowder. Those
were lowered Into the well hole , covered
with water so as to prevent the force of
the explosion from acting upward , and
were fired by means cf a weight dropped
upcn a fulminating cap fixed at the top
of the torpedo. Later on nltro-glycerlno
WBB substituted for gunpowder , and the
charge of explosive increased until now
torpedoes containing as much as 350
pounds of mtro-glycerino are not uncom
mon. A few days ago such a charge w s
used at the Markbatn well in Thorn
creek , and the explosion w s felt for
seventy-five yards on the surface around
the well-hole. The torpedo waa down
1,000 feet In the earth. Thousands of
pounda of nltro-glycorlno are dally used
In the oil wells ; indeed , nltro-glycerlno
was first brought Into commercial use in
the oil regions. In 1847 Sohonboin dis
covered gun-cotton. This was Immedi
ately followed by the discovery of a
score of analogous exp'oilve ' sub
stances , snob is starch , dextlno
and augar , with a mixture of nltrlo
add and sulphuric acid. Tbo manufac
ture of nitro-glycerlne waa described as
early as 1817. On July 27th of tbat year
a paper was read before tbo French acid-
amy detailing how to make from glyoar-
Ino an explosive "analagous to fulminat
ing cotton. " The process la to cool a
mixture of two volumes of sulphuric
acid , density GO degrees Bamno , end one
volume nltrlo acid , density 43 degrees , in
a freez.ng mixture , and Into thia pour
jlycorloo , with agitation so os to prevent
elevation of temperature. The entire
mixture la to bo emptied into water , The
nltro-glycerlno collects aa an oily liquid
at the bottom of the water.
Throughout the oil regions there are
many manufactories of nitro-glycerlne ,
When a well ia ordered Is ordered to be
"shot" a wagon constructed In numerous
small padded compartments , etch Urge
mough to hold a can containing tbrco or
'curpoundsof the expletive , departs from
the magiz'no with as many'qnarla of
nllro-glyccrlno as may bo needed. At
the well tbo contents of thoao tins nro
emptied into a long torpedo , nnd thia la
lowered into the holo. The ( greatest euro
Is needed to avoid explosion , lot the com *
pound goes off with a very slight blow.
Accidents , of course , have boon numer
ous. Only a few weeks ago six thousand
ponnda of nitro e'yoorlno ' exploded in n
factory near Bradford. Several men were
present at the tlmo , nnd nil Uiat remained
of them , a few ponnda In weight , oonld
have boon put ia a bureau drawer. Ma
terials subjected to the action ot this fear *
ful explosive Boom to bo vaporized. An
other alnngo thing to bo noted about
nitro-glycorlnco explosions la that the
force acts principally In B downward di
rection , soooping an Immense bole In the
gronnd.
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