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THE DAILY BEE MONDAY , JULY 6 , 1885 THE DAILY BSE. OMAHA. Ornoa No , 914 AND 31C FAIIKAM ST. Hiw You Omen , Itoou C5 TBIBCNB UOILD- nuu IT Kin. . l-On * Te f . JlfcOO I Thr MonttU . 0 > M BlxHonthi . .M | On UonUa . 1-M Th Weekly B e , Publishwl orery W dncfday ntua , romiM. OncTew , wtthprcmtsd . . . . . t &M On Ye r , without premium . . . . . . * " * Blx Uonthi , without prtmlam . . " ' Ont Month , on trl l . 10 All CommnMo tlen rel tlng lo New ndEdllor\l ! tnitUri should b * iddrcsied lo the Uniroa or TUI tlU. irsrxus trmu. Alt Bailneu Ilter ml KemHtvieM * ' 5 nldJ' > . * Jilte ceJ to Tnii n Pu tuiii ! o Confiirr , OHAKA. l > r ftJChecln and Post omooorJm t bi nwe pv nbl * to th order oi thi oompany. THE BEE PUBLISHING CO , , Props. E. RO3EWATER , Ennon. WHAT the Chicago ntrcot c r compa oilcs need most just UOTT Is a patent car xiarter. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SINCK Charles Francis Adams has become como a hnmorht , Dr. Miller has become n oatlrlst. FOU.OWIXO the example of Chicago the Omaha board of trade did no buslnoK on the Fourth of July. is surmieod that the reason tha Governor Dawoa did not appear in thl city with his staff Is that a portion of hi Bluff la badly bent , and ho was nnablo to take the crook out of it. UroN hearing of the appointment o Sam T. Honsor as governor of Montana ox-Dologato Maginnis of that territory who was himself as aspirant for the place , exclaimed , Sic sender Maginnia. A IIECEIVEU has been appointed for the Missouri , Iowa & Nebraska railway This road may bo described as beginning at nowhere and terminating nt the aam place. Ita principal oEsata are its thro otato narnos. TUB assistant adjutant-general of Nebraska braska failed to put in on oppoaranco In the Fourlh of July procession as ho hat no horso. There was a tlrao , however -when ho had a gal'ant ' atood , even if 1 was borrowed. GENEKAL GRANT bravely continues th atrugglo with fatal dlecaso. His condi tlon has slightly improved during the las ow days. It is the wish cf every on that ho may Hvo to see and cclebrat another Fourth of July , but it is no probabls that ho will llva another year ASSISTANT POSTMASTEU GENEHAL HAY who has made hay while the enn shone his tendered his resignation , owing to poor health. His successor , ex-Congress man Stevenson , of Illinoln , Is said to b an able-bodied man who can decapltat ICO poslmostors a day without the leas fatigue. That's tha kind of a man th hungry postoiBco seekers have been look Ing for. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Mr. . JAMES CKEIGUTON positively do dines to accept a roappolnsment a chairman cf the board of public works and Meyer Boyd will donbtlets nominat his successor next Tuesday evening Whoever may bo selected by Mr. Boyt should bo a practical man and thorough ly competent to supervise the pnbl ! improvements that will bo carried on in tills city during the next throe years. THE Fourth of July celebration Omaha was very creditable , when It I taken Into consideration that hardly week's time and less than § 1,000 were expended ponded In Rotting up the affair. It dcm onstrated that Omaha cm create a grea deal of enthusiasm on abort notlco , am it is to bo hoped that hereafter uho wi ! have n celebration on every Fourth o July. If the proper stops ere taken w can draw thousands of people from a ! parts of the atato. r. . . . . i . a FIVE thousand acres of the Omnha In dian lands nro to bo appraised by thre appraisers , ono of whom ia a member o the tribe. The two others are from dla taut Btatce , Mieniielppi and GoorRio This is going a good ways from homo. ] otrlkos us tbat the administration coul have found democrats enough in No br&ska for this appraisement , and ! elands to reason that Nobraakans know moro about the value ot lands In thl etalo than the gentlemen from the sunn Bouth. _ EMOKY Sroiius has made the discover that ono of the jurors in the Mackin trie is insane , and ho has accordingly mad i y motion for a now trial. AB the verdic of gullly was in perfect accord with-th .evidence acd with ranlty , Mr. Btorrs wl Iiavo difficult work to convince anybody that bin Iceano juror was not eano at th llao that verdict was rendered. Th insanity dodge Is getting to bo oltoftothe too common whqn attempts are made t prove that jurors who render just ver dialsaro Iniano. IN BQUlinr ; eomo of tbo Indian trouble that are now brewing in various oection .of the country , it would bo advuable -while quieting the Indians , to sit down on the fcfiUva cowboys who h&vo done jnoro to stir up ill-feeling than anybody .else , This it tha opinion of Mr. Atkins , the.eoinmlsslouer of Indian affairs , anc It is eminently correct. Upon being urged to disarm iho Indians of Arizona , bo sogRCOtcd that the cowboys also bo disarmed aa ho failed to BOO &ny reason why cowboja should bo permitted to canynnni If the looiana wcro denied that privilege. Ho cannot nndcntand why any peraon white , bLxck or rod should bo allowed to ildo over the conn- trynrmod with Winchester jfllea and urroy revolrcre , fr o to elioot f ny ono in rb.h OMK RECENT CENSUS FIGURES. Boslon , according to the recent Msssa- hnsjtts atato census , has n population of 20,000. Now York , figuring five por- ons to every name in her now directory , lalms a trifle over 1,500,000 , nnd Ohl- jgo claims 700,6CO , multiplying her dl cctory narnos by four. Bnffalo has had i census taken by her police , who have oturned 202,818 , names , bnttho Express claims that the population of the city is eally 220,000. Eighteen months sgo the collco census made the population of loveland neatly 201,000 , n gain of ever 40,000 in three yeara and a half. The Leader asys lha1. the increase in ono year and o half at this rata would bo L7OCO , making the preEcnt population 218,000. Kamas City claims n popula tion of 128,000 , nnd wtli ( her suburbs 140,000 , in roundnumbeiir. Des Molnes accoiding to the census of Iowa , which boa just boon completed , has 40,000 in round numbcra , Council Bluffs has 29,000 and Sioux City 18,000. The state conau of Nebraska , which Is nearly completed will show that Omaha has 60,000 popu latlon. The last city directory , publlahcc last oprlng , contained 19,872 names , and If wo were to multiply by five , is Now York has done , wo would have 99,30 people , and multiplying by four , as Chicago cage has done , wo would have 70,48 population. "Whon our directory wa hsuod , wo claimed a population o 59,010 , the result of multiply Ing 19,87 * by Ihroo , and the census , which plvcs u 00,000 , shows that the multiple 3 i the most reliable In calculating popula tion upjn the basis of the directory although , perhaps , it is onlj fair to allow the use o a larger multiple in the largo cities of th cast , where there are raoro persona I each directory lumo than there are in western cities. Incidentally , wo are in cllnod to the belief that Kansas City ha naod tbo Now York multiple of 5 , in cal cnlating her population at 128,000. I she had used Omaha's multiple of 3 in multiplying her directory names eh would find her population to bo abou 100,000. That the multiple of 5 is al logolher too largo even In Now York 1 admitted by the Evening Post of tha city , which eays : The failure to take the decopnlnl state ce au3 thia year , through Governor Hlll'd veto o the legislative b'.ll , leaves the city director as the only moans of estimating the growth u tbo metropolis. For obvious reason ? ' , tha d rectory-inakor dooa not como anyway nea taking the place ot the cccsua-takcr , bu when the directory ot any city is compile year after year by the aamo firm , it affords reasonably fair basis for comparisons. Th volume just issued indicates that our popula tlon has increased during the post fiv years at a rate scarcely below that whic held between 1875 and 1SEO. The di rectory for 1885 contains 310,740 names which , on the theory that each narho iu tb list represent ! an average of five persons i the community , would make the whole num bar of inhabitants no loss than 1,053,730 , Bu experience has proved that this Is far to high a ratio , the national consua of 1880 show ing that the actual proportion waa only abou four and a halt. The directory of 1880 contained tainod 200,232 names , and the new velum has 310,710. Applying the "rulo of three , wo find that the eamo ratio as hold ia 188 would make tha present population of th city 1,108,052 , as against 1,200,077 fiv years ago. The incmasa between 1875 nn 1880 was 101,091 , and the increase of 201 , 475 between 1880 nnd 1885 , accepting th above estimate for tin ) latter year , althougl much larger , represents almost exactly th same ratio. Business depression has checks tbo normal growth In one direction , but o the other hand , the foreign immigration int thia city , of which Now York city alway retains , a considerable rcaiduum , haa boo nearly three tlmea as largo in the last fiv years as In the previous five , so that th actual growth of the whole population ha probably been about aa rapid in the later & in the earlier period. It eocms reasonable therefore , to conclude that New York no\ contains moro than 1-100,000 peoplo. ST. PAUL'S PRIDE. It must bo admitted that St. Paul 1 an enterprising and llDeral city. Th erection and opening of * ho Ryan hole ! a magnificent seven-story structure costing in the vicinity of a million dollars is an event of which the people of tha city may well fool proud. The now hole would bo a credit to any city In th world. St. Paul to a great extent owe Its marvelous growth and prosperity t tbo liberality , public spirit , and unite action of its prombont citizens , notabl the wealthy men. If Omaha's rich mon although fewer In number and as it rul possessing individually less capital tha thoao of tit. Paul , had in the past exorcise the proper spirit of liberality , enterprise and harmony this city in plto of th various obstacles that hvo from time t time boon thrown in its way , particular ! by the railroads would to-day have ooe built up in a much moro metropolis style and would have had a least 75,000 inhabitants. When Air Kyan , the projector and proprietor made his proposition to build this grant hotel in St. Paul upon condition of bonus of $200,000 tbo citizens prompt ! ; accepted the offer , and had no difficult , In securing subscriptions amounting tc $205,125 , the surplus ever $200,000 be inp taken to make up any deficiency tha might occur by reason of any defaulting on the part of subscribers , One man alone subscribed $25,000 , aovcn others pledged $10,000 eicb , eight others pu down their names for ? 5OCO , each , while o largo number subscribed fros $1,000 to $3,000 each , Tha Pioneer-Press ; ave $5,000 , which was certainly a lib eral donation on the part of a newspaper. Tlio most notable nubscriptlon , however , was that of the Chicago , Milwaukee & St. Paul raihrny company , which -vvo S10.COO , When did any of the many railroads centering at Omaha ever do anything like that for his city ? Omaha hai naror received any uch substantial gift and encouragement rom any of the railroads , bat o ; the con- nry the has paid oat hue deeds ot' thou- ands of dollars to the bogging nd has not got a dollar's benefit in re- urn. But , putting aside the Illlborality nd graipicg character of cur railway ompanlcs , wo hope our business men ill profit by the example tot by St. 'aul. ' Let them hereafter ba united in n their action in regard to public enter- tisoo , and whenever money la needed to remote tha public welfare in a eubatan- ill rrunner lot them subscribe liberally. ? hey will find tint money thus Invested will soon yield a handsome return in nero ways than ono. DISLOYAL POLYQAMISTS. The Mormons of Salt Lake city made & dltgcacafnl spectacle of themselves on the Fourth of July by lowering tbo national K to half ma&t on their public bnlld- loga. Their impudent assertion , iu ex planation of their conduct , that Iho Fourth of July wai n day of mourning for them because "their best mon arn in the penitentiary by acts of officials sub vcr-jlvo of all principles of law and liberty orty , " will cause great Indignation among the law-abiding cltizans of this country who conaldor the curse of polygamy a blot upon the nation and who heartily ondorsa the enforcement ot the antl- polyramy laws. The evident object of the Mormon officials In making this disloyal demon strntion was to call universal attention t what the polygamista regard as anoutrag on their civil and religious liberties. They nant all the world to sympathlza with th martyrs who are now within the polnton llary walls for violating tho'lavrs prohlb Iting polygamy. Instead of aronsln sympathy for this relic of barbarism , th sense of the American paoplo will bo thn polygamy must bo auppreesod , and tha federal authority mutt bo oxcrclood on every foot of American soil over whle the national flag floats. The lowering of the stars and stripes on the national holiday by the polygamlst was an insult to the loyalty of the people and a challenge to the United State authorities. That insult will no doub prove a costly venture for the Mormons and the challenge to execute the law will bo accepted by the federal author ities.i It was not a though ! less act on the p&rt of th Mormon official ) , but was in accordanc with a premeditated plan. The wcndo is that a bloody riot was averted. No only were the cx-uniou soldiers wrongh up to the highest pitch of indignation but also prominent ox-confoderatca The democratic federal officials In Uta are certainly to bo commended for th firm stand which they took in behalf o loyalty and law. "When the Mormons d away with polygamy , respect the nation al fijg , and obey the laws enacted by congress gross their Individual and religious llbor ty will bo respected as much aa that o any other class of citizens. TUB recent decision of the Unltec States supreme court that a man chargoi in the federal courts with "an tufamou orlmo" mast bo convicted on Indlctmen instead of information will have the cffec of turning a number of laacals ont of the penitentiary. In fact , it haa alroad ; done so. Do Walt , the Leadvlllo ban ! wrecker , who was convicted on "Informs tion , " and sontoncnd to ten yean , ha taken advantage of thia sentence , and ha bocn discharged from the penitentiary Although yet in custody , his conviction on Indictment is regarded a very dif&cul matter , and the probability Is that h will soon bo a free man , thus defaatlni justice by a technicality , a not unusna thing. HON. SAMUEL T. HOUSEII , the new governor of Montana , has been arcaidon of that territory for twenty yeara. Ho i a prominent banker of Helena , and ha done a great deal towards developing th material resources of the territory anc building up its public interests and enter prises. Ho no donbt will make an excellent collont executlvo. Hh appointment i the second recognition of the platforn recommendation that territorial ofihc should bo filled ty citizens of the torrl tory. It Is to bo hoped that the admin istratlon will henceforth follow this ral in all the important territorial appoint merits , aa it is only a matter of justice t the mon who have undergone the bird ships of thu plonoor period in the torrlto ries. ONE would suppoeo from the fus mcdo about It in the cablegrams that th rccont election In the borough of Wood stoek , England , involved the casting o not loss than 50,000 votes. Wo ar therefore eurprlcod at the statement tha at the oloao of the polls the votes stood Lord Randolph Churchill , 532 ; Mr Oorrlo Grant , 405. Thii makes the elec tlon dwindle into en insignificant affair not to bo compared with an Omaha ware election. Lidy Randolph Churchl ! wonld bo a poor politician , indeed , if sb could not nave carried llttlo Woodstock for her lordly husband. THAT Independent and outspoken paper , Justice , which , during the three years of its existence , has done so mucl to advocate and sustain the principles upon which our government was founded announces that it Is to bo merged with Our Country , the organ of the "Society For the Promotion of Justice. " Our Country will advocate the sarna object ] as Justice has done , and will bo made a superior paper. It will ba sent to the subscribers of Justice , and no doubt will make substantial headway among the general public. TUB city of Das Molnes has refunded Us city debt Inli per cent bonds , which Is a reduction of one-quarter in the rate of ntorcit. This is a much lower rale than Jmaha has yet ancceodcd In obtaining for icr bonda , yet tbero is no good xoseon why thia city should not baebla to gat ns ow n r.\te as Dei Holne * . B may ba bat the good fortune of Des Moines ia no moro to the superabundance of money n the osstern market and Its consequent hoapness , than to tny inperior credit liat m y bo claimed for that city. Tun Chicago Times aays that the late war destroyed n good many thingi , among which w&a the Font th of July , nnd it ns- eiti that there bni not been a single lenrty celebration of the national Inall- ution ainco Mr. Lincoln , traveling Incog nito , reached Washington , via Baltimore , mnllled in n cloak , and crowned with a Scotch cap , The Times is mistaken. The Fourth of July , It is trao , TTRS dead during the war , bat it was resurrected when Mr. Divla , dlgulsod in crinoline , p<lcoats , a calico drcsi , and it bonnet , was captured by the federal forco3. PHIL. Armour has become a director o : * the Chtcigo , Milwaukee & St. Paul rail road , and if ho la ns tucccsnfu ! in corner ing railway stock cs ho is In park , wo shall expect to BOO St. Paul quotations go to the top notch. When the unload Ing cornea somebody Is liable to cob hurt Mr. Armour , however , may find that In voatora now-a-daya prefer pork to rail way stocks. IT ia rather singuhr hortbo 'uarn Idea tomotlmos strikes about nlnoty-fiv per cent of the noirepaperj. Out of on hundred papers received nb the Biu. ofilco during the last two days wo hav bocn nblo to find only five that do no refer to Lady Randolph Ohnrchlll as the Mrs. John A. Logan of England. THE Pioneer Press subscribed $5,000 to St. Paul's ' big hotel , and paid it in cash. It did not liquidate with a lot o Bab sock fire extinguishers ai an Omaha newspaper did some years ago in Bottling a thousand-dollar hotel sub scrip tion. THE American William Henry Smltl made hia fame and fortune in the ban dllng of news for the associated press The English William Henry Smith , the now secretary of war , became a million alro cs a railway newsdealer. IIIEKF. was very little drunkenness ob served on the atroats of Omaha on the Fourth of July. . This la accounted for b ; the fact that our patriots are drinkln moro beer and lots corn-juice. TUG latest estimate places the winte crop of Kansas nb 12,233,38 bushels. This Is a decrease of 21.72 po cent compared with last year's yield. STATE JOTTINGS. The Palls City Observer has croaked. The village of Grafton ' .populates at177 The now school house at * Oakdala will cos SG.OOO. The Mothobiats of Fonca nro building a church. The census returns give Hastings a popula tion of 8,000. Sheridan county is In the vortex of an im migration boom , A building and loan association has been formed at Scotia. The David Ciby tiger dens were aseessoc $100 a head , last weak. A company has been formed in Sutton to build n S.5.0CO hotel. Hog cholera l\at \ broken out again among the porkers about Scribner. Work will commence this week en a now Congregational church at Nellgh. Astatobank with a capital of § 25COO his hung out its uitn ; at Republican City. Weeping Water has organized a manufac turing company with $6,000 capital , Dr. Coleburpr , ono of the pioneers ol Otoo county , died on the morning of the Fourth. Dotectlvo round , of Lincoln treasury no toriety , ia m constant receipt of threatening letters. The Beatrice canning factory clurinpr tha year just closed turned out $18-ISO worth o product , Substanial now rosidoncee , barns and grana riea are the evidoncea of steady growth viaibl in Tliayer county. Two hundred aud fifty thousand pounds o freight were received at Ohadron , within two weeks , lately. The representative of a stove factory n Ironton , Ohio , ia skirmishing for a location In Nebraska Oity , Tha new town of Dawos City ia located on White river , at the mouth of Ash creek , ton miles west of Chadron. Don Rochon , a ton-yoar-olJ. dropped into a corn bin in the elevator at liellwood am narrowly escaped suffocation , A braying of patriotic mule ushered in th glorious morn of tha Fourth at Grand Island A salute of thirteen bray a was fired. Johny Benson , n Superior boy , while play ing , run ntjalust a barb wire fence and nearly cut his windpipe. Ho was stitched up. A number of wealthy Swedes of Kearne ; county , have organized a mutual fire insurance anco company , with headquarters nt Axtell. The Nebraska Ohatauqua assembly openoi at Oroto on Wednesday. Some 250 poopl wore in attendance at the first day's eoaelon -John " recently from Illiuolr Young" , , anc Chnrlos Johnson , a Dane , were ilrownoi whlia bathing in the river near Culbertson Friday. MaltBmouth will vote on the 1 Ith Inetnn on tha proposition to fund the $53,000 , hlgl school debt into twenty year six and a hal per cent bonda , Fremont furnlnbed 150 kega of enthusiasm for tha celebration nt Hooper and Scribnor There ware several parched throats on th Sabbith morning. Some of the far sighted citizens of Fgnca are thinking of building caves for the purpose of having a safe place of retreat when tha tor nado comes along , K Shed , a former Fremont man , lost $16- OOJ worth of goods by tha burning of Ills store in Denver last week , The insurance , however - over , will cover the amount , At tha election in IMair , on the proposition for thoinuanco of bonds for the constructioi of a water worka system , the question was carried by a largo majority , Wheat is heading finely and the prosptcis for oats were cover bettor in Antelope county , A short period of good weather will now as sure immense crops of bc/tli , Six of tha Colby gang arrested at Contra ! City some time ago , have been eott to the r > enlteutiary , Thla gang has been a holy ; error to Central Oity for yeara , A sad accident marred the festivities nt Eioca on the Fourth. Mr , Smith , a tchool ; eacher from liennctt , was drowned while swimming in the mill pond near town , It haa been dUcovered lint n half-witted ; irl In Ainaworth It to become a mother , thn > ropettlvo father being one of the "popular" nd moral young men of that town , Kdirnrd Jioyle , ot Ore to , look a bath Iu the ilua river last Sunday. Delng uutblo to wlm ha went beyond liU depth and tank to iao no more. The body waa resovered. f A Hgttaicg'rodfnHn , a slict talker , dom up roitioBs of Halioo county by the usual note icthod. Ono farmer contracted for a rod at > t-i , hut KA ctlia bill was rendered It reached < s 7. As long mutts enter into contracts with strangers they mast p y dearly for Iho xperlenco , Durinc Iho month ol Juna llicro has been early 31OCO acres of the publla domain on- ored at the Noligh land olfico under the lorocstead nnd timber culture nets , and 8,000 crcs under the preemption laws , The entomologists of 1'lntUmouth are ex * itcd ever the discovery that the common loree fly possesses nthletlo nbllitlcn which the imnftn rnei has yearned for ninco the daya ot Adam. It cantcrntch ita back with ita hind lfg . Forcit Kllis , a boy about thirteen yoara of go , wna drowned in the Blue river , nt Blno Springs , on Monday afternoon. The boy could not swim , widcJ out into tha river end tcppod off whore it was over hla head nnd quito n current , Mr , and Mrs. Jack Conklon , living twelve miles from Noliqh , started for town with A ibk child ono day last week. The mother wrapped tha little one in ehiuvln to prevent il catching cold , nnd before half the journey was made Iho child was dead , Smothered , Lon Harvey meandered into Beatrice Fri liny with n bullet wound on the right shoulder nnd eovornl club marks about tbo head. Ho came ( rom Jefferson county ncd refused to give the nntno ot his nssnilont. Lon gave him eclf up to the doctors , who promlso to biing him to , The people of Orleans nro somewhat cxcitei over the recent suppossd murder nt tha placo. Su far no clua has been discovered n to the murderer cr ns to by wlmt means St Olnlr came to hia death , All that ia kuowi is that the unfortunate man was found levera days nfter his death , with n bullet hoi through hla head , In the county seat election In Brown county nbout a year ngo .Long 1'ino was tba succcsfu city , but Alnsworth has contest ; d the olectloi atd proved In the courts that there was fraui iu Thatcn precinct , in which Long L'ino Is sil uatcd , thereby throwing out the count In tba precinct , nnd Riving thu county teat to Aius worth. An election to settle the matter fo good is soon to had , The Gordon Press paints anil prints the fo lowing picture cf the town : "Horsoa nro be ing stolen , crops are being destroyed by tres passing nnimnls , And in return tome horse have been shot and killed. Fighting an pounding people over the head with revolver nro of dally occurrcnco. Robberies have bee committed on our streets. And wo bava m means of redress under the law , on account o no county organization , " JESSE JAMES' ' GANG , A. liot of Boys Piny Highway Itoubcr and Hnnti Ono or Their Number. Friday a gang of boys , nnmborln about thirty , and ranging In ago from > to 12 yoirr , were playing In an old barn on Thirteenth stroeb. Some of the nnm ber had heard of JOHSJ James and hi notorious gang , and the boys concludcc that it wonld ba jint oceina of fan to play highway robbers. After they hai boon desperadoes ( in tfiolr minds for awhile , they thought i was about tlmo to do something desperate , co they slezocl ono of the num ber and proposed to hang him. They procnred a strap and tied ono end of I around the victim's neck , whllo the othe end was securely fastened to n rafter The lad waa standing npon an old baric and after everything had bson txrrangec the lo&dor of the gang kicked ever th barrel and down came the lad , hangin by the neck. It was lots of fun until tha hangin ; boy had began to choke , anc then the desperadoes , in min oturc , got frightened , ran ou of the barn and began tc hello at th top of their voices. A gentleman , vrho chanced to bo passing rnshod tn and ca down the lad , who by this tlmo was blac ! In the faco. It waa quite a eorlons joke for the boy who was hang , and had it no been that aid was at hand ho woah doubtless have bean a case for the cor oner. TWO MEN SLUGGED , Tbo Uaual Fourth of July Slugging Matches. Saturday morning about o'clock & man Jsck Maloney waa picked up near th United States hotel , oornar of Tenth one Douglas streets , in an Inaonulblo condi tion. Ono of his ears waa neatly oovorad from hla head and ho was otherwise in jured. It ia supposed that ho waa elaggot by some person , but his assailant ia nn known. Ho vr.ia taken to the city jal and nude as comfortable as the clrcum stances wonld permit. JAKE JIAUT THUMPED. Sa'.urday morning a negro named Jake H&rt was badly p mndcd by a bartender In Illf gins' oalnon by the name of L. 0 Gibson , Ilsrl's head was badly cut anc ho was taken to the city jail for treatment Glbfnu was arrested , bat Insisted that ho only struck Hart with hla fnt bzcauso ho waa "too fresh. " Judge Stonborg released leased him upon $15 bill , which was furnished nishod by a trlend. Ijabur TrnubloH In Chicago. CHICAGO , July 4 , Everything la qulot in tha west division this morning. No nttemp has or will bo made to run carp , and there nn comparatively few paoplo on Madison street the scene of yoeterday'd disorder. A few o the strikers are lingering around the com pnny'a etablo apparently on guard. At tin strikers' meeting last eight It was decided ti keep watch over the barns during the -Ith am to ba on hand at the usual hour Sundai morning to prevent the cara from starting A mass meeting has been called for this after noon ou the laka front. In addition to the Btieot car men's strike there has been conoid erablo t-roublaon the lumber docks here lately caused by the lumbermen attempting to un load their lumber with their own "gangs' of men instead of employing mem bgrs of .the lumber shovors union , whlcl organization has heretofore enjoyed t complete pleto monopoly of this sort of work. In sev eral casoa barges have remained unloadei Boveral daya because tbo lutnbarmen woulc not employ union men , and the latter woulc not permit thorn to employ any ono else , Non union men have been beaten and terrorizec and yesterday at South Chicago a serious riot waj only prevented by the timely arrival of a ( quad of policemen. At their meeting to-night tha strikers am their allies passed n resolution accepting tha mayor' * plan of settling the diflicultiea with tha company by arbitration nnd appointed a committee to wait on the mayor to-morrow to ascertain whether the plan was satisfactory to the other side. In view of this apparent poa- ( ibility of arbitrating their difference } the meeting took 110 action aa to operations on Monday , Harrison Itlngn in KB Peacemaker , CHICAGO , III. , July -I. Mayor Harrison ms written lott'rs to President Jones , of the West Division Street railway company , and ; o the President of thu Car Conductors nnd Drivers ateociation , suggesting that each nida of tbo present dispute select an arbitrator , nnd that between them they select the third , making an abritatiou committee of three , whoso decision with reference to the strike hall ba final. OIUOAOO , III , July 4. Morning fjame-- Hiicagott ; New York 0 , Afternoon namu Chicago ( ij Nmv York 3 , DKTEOIT. Mich. , July ! . Morniutf game Detroit 8 ; Boston ! , Afternoon Detroit 11 ; Jritcn U , UDKKALO , N. Y , , July 4. Morning game Julfjlo C ; Philadelphia 10. Afternoon Buffalo U ; Philadelphia ? . Si LODIS , Mo. , July 4. Morning garce t. LOUIB ; Providence Oi Afternoon St. Louis 5 ; Providence 2. , FREEDOM'S FOES. Elcmal Vigilance Not Only the Price ofLilicrtylintDfNalionalLifc , Tha History of Anoiont Eepublios a Warning to the Poopld Tlio malign Irnt ! - Aeo of Corporate I'oivcr In ttio Avctnc3 or ( iOveni jmcnt TIioNoccsBlty of Con- stnnt AVatchl'ulncss. XOKKOI.K'S CKIiKIUlATlON , OHKAT SPEECH 11Y SGNATOn VAX WYCK Special Telcfirnm to Tlio Bin. NOUKOLK , Neb , July 5. The Norfolk celebration was n greater success tlmu il warmest friends liad over hoped for Tralno loadul with people came from uvcty direction. Thotuandit of stranger wcro la the tonn. Archoo lined tin principal streets. The red , whlto am blue streamed from almost ovoty houar The inuslo , voc.il and Instrumental conl ( not bo escollnd. The street parade wa the Cncet ever ser > n In the Elkhorn val loy. Beautiful young girls , each on representing n state , wore Btotcd la n ca drawn by richly a'parisouod horses am proceeded by n band of inualo paraded th street ? , followed by leprotoatatlonf. of trades , fuu and frollo , The raombor of the grand army of the republic pea and firemen entered into the exhibition Arriving nt the grove , n beautiful shadcc lawn , af'cr ' prayer by the Rov. Parker there followed an Instrumental ploco b the Norfolk band , and the ulnglng o " America" by a chorns of ono huudrcc voicso. Col. Cotton , iu ono of the boa introductory apccohca over offered it this portion cf the atato , presented Senator ator Von Wyck to an audlenco of a least 8,000 pooplo. For ever an hon the senator hdd the vast bcdy wit nn attention never exceeded by npy orator in thla ttato , frequently intai rnpted by cheers nt the point ] whlc pleased hla hearer ? . The oration wa was a masterly dlscnstiuu , given in forci bio language end manner , of questions o practical Intercut to his audience. Senate Van Wyck'a was In good voice and n platform orator over produced a bettc or raoro profound impression In tb.lt city The committee waa well selected froi Norfolk's ' boit and [ moat ropresentatlv citizjns mid are to ba congratulated on the succsts of the whole ontartsinmont. Following is the address in fall : ladle and gentlemen : Liberty on this continent will bo preserved served while this great nation bows i humble- adoration and uncovers at thl suurblng of this glorloua anniversary day venerating the spirit as well BO the sym bol which typifies all that nukes life a joy and banodlotion. While the starry flig Is dipped in th brood Atlantic , amid songa of praleo shouts of rf jolclng and booming of can non , making a continuous roar and pro longed echo throe thousand miles nn folds over stream and river , mount * ! : and plain , stirred by breeds of the broac Pacific , snows n shining belt of red wnito and blue from ocean , to ocean. As citizens of the republic wo have right to boat. The great privileges w enjoy will bo lontjijr maintained , th tnoro wo oiteom and value thorn. Whet wo CSBBU to bo proud of the brilliancy o the gem of universal liberty it will b only tinsel and n trinket in our possession and bo wrested from our nerveless hands It is meet that the old should come am renew strength and hope by recalling a ! that liberty has done for them , am youth should come seeking Inspiration t cherish and defend this boon , which cos so much yet BO frail BO to bo easily lost To know its value wo must not forgo Its coat. To know Its permanencVj w must not forget how easily It may b wrenched from our grasp. TUB HISXOUY OF ALL IlEl'UBLICS attest both , and shows that this pearl o great price- never was taken from a pee pie until they had ceased to apprclat ita value ; until they had suflbrcd th concentration of great wealth in th hands cf the few , withdrawing from thi many the frnlta of honest labor ; am with great wealth thcs acquired tc pro fane the tcmplo of justice , to purchasa the halls of legislation , and corrupt even themselves in the source and fountain o power. A free people has novcr bocn manacled aclod until they themselves luvo placet In the hands of on oligarchy thu nuterlu to forge the chains and then basely ex tended their arms to receive the fetters Taking the ages past , history generally presents but ono piRo ; tint of wrong , re presslon and Rtiflerlng , Wo gaze upon the earth , sea and sky , beautiful to the eye and thought ; abandon t to provide fo the wants , and cdmliiister to tbo happl EQ of each , even the humblest , of the hundreds of millions living to-day , and o the thousands of hundreds of millions on tombed. Yon need not read the record of all the yean ; only contemplate ono day , this very day , among the nations of the oortl and roalix.3 how llttlo six thousand years has accomplished for the world. F/gurcs / have not yet boon found to compute the years that would bo required at this rate of evolution , to glvo all men. who are made only a llttlo lower than the angels , a full fruition cf what they should possess' Again gnzo upon the earth , and eoa. and sky. Imagine- nations , apoaklnt languages innumerable , with divcrao theories of government , and religion , separata from them the handful of ruler ; and the oligarchies who rnlo the rulers , and that vast multitude without a dltsont Ing volco , would raise ono piteous cry , that all mon should enjoy what the God of creation intended ; freedom of thought , of worship and of government ; freedom from extortion , from robbery ; the rlghl rf every man to the fruits of his labor. Yet the cry of this vast multitude goes unheeded ; wrongs and injustice continue ; accumulation of power and wealth tyrau zes to-day as In the early dawn of his * : ory , and the masses are still laboring for tbo few. TIIKMmtfnYOKTIfK WOBtKM ncreasos with passing years how the masjoi can continue to bo enslaved ] No nutter tbo particular character of the despot or tbo form of the dccpotlcm. The subjection by n foreign conqueror WAS no moro galling than that Iciiictod by the volco of the paoplo of lerao ) , when they demanded a king to rule ever them. History repeats Ittolf. The world moves in a circle , tbo orbit advancing lowly during each revolntton , Wo Ightfally bojst that wo are the grand est and freest republic on earth , No for- Ign potentate places any burden on our neck. The tailoring wo tndore , the In- mtlce and wrong wo bo > r are solMn- tctcd , but they are as irkiomo at if In- Ictcd by a power wo could not resut. The power to remova them s with ourselves. You remember Kforo the whittle of the oeoraotive echoed on theto treeless and j trackless plains , when breasting tho- rouch currents of the Missouri you would watch some landmark on the ahoro to observe the prc-greta of the sturdy stronm , So lot us breast the waves lm podlcg our national progrcs' , and sight , landmark in the world's history to eomo note our projresi. It is BMd the nggrccalo ; of wealth in creased ; unfortunately tli3 opgrcgntlono are ptinclpa ly in the hands cf the few , The number of tellers rMng ! to tbo ownership of nn humbln co'tngo ' in thi oity or n qtuiti r of toctlou cf land which gradually Increases in value by labor of husband , wlfo nnd children , Is Increas ing ; but the addition of wealth to each or the entire class is elow , The Jaruo portion of the results of the toil of the multitude beyond cctnal subsistence sistence- finds Its way into ant ? enlargcn the fortunes of the fow. Strong men jostle each other in the ranks of toil brgt-lng the privilege to work for wages , barely tnflioUnt to sub- clat wlfo and children. Mlncrj , dragging out cx'ttonco by delving under tho- ground. Edoc.itcd women , in froa Christian America , wearing tholr lives away STITCHING HGAUT THUOr.S INTO S1IIKT8 , receiving the plttanco of two of thrco cents each for making , llow mach Im proved Is the condition of thcso from these who raised corn iu Egypt , or tended Hooka far the patriarchs four thousand years ago , over the pkbians on tbo bankn of the Tiber , or the fishermen whom Christ fonml on the banks of the Galli leu ? Tun word ovolntcs slowly. Tnko nn early L\nd mark the Juwlub. common wealth ; note the four thousand yoarj bc- twoHii ; and wo wonder that they enjoyed S3 much or wo BO llltJc , and when Abraham - ham loft hlo homo in Babylonia and journeyed to the then west , to the wilds ' \ / of Palastlno , whcro ho could enjoy po litical and religions freedom. When , as did tbo pilgrims from the Afaj ( lower , in tbo "congregation of leraol" selected rulers by stifl'rago of the people with schools like our common and parochial schools with laws to prevent oppression and usury and to protect the poor and weak , with a homestead law giving to each family twenty and one-half acres of land , which could not bo alienated and if sold by creditors would at the fiftieth year , the jubilee year , bo restored to the original owner or his heirs certainly on early exhibition of communism. Evolu tion , from the time of the Israallto , has . bcon slow indoed. Centuries later Greeoo deposed hot kings , rssumed an obligarchy afterwards a republic. Five hundred years before Christ , she was great in refinement , in literature In art , tha founder of Euro pean civilization. Greece territory no longer than Ncbrasko , with brilliancy and grandeur never oxcollul , evoluted bide into anarchy. So Carthage , whoso founders , driven from Tyro , were the Puritans , the pil grims of the c.iet , the peer of Greece , whoso great nnmoj still adorn the world , from her dizzy height , r' EVOLUTED INTO DKOAY AND DEATH , ( M Rime , so long the mistress of the world , dethroned her klnB ; ; , destroyed her oligarchy , and became a cclostal re public , distinguished in nrnu , arts nnd clvlllzition ; following others , she dif fered the few to obtain tbo wealth and the poor to bo dependent. The inevit able result followed , and oho perished in the same gulf whera othdr republics were buried , and again evolution wont back wards. Do you siy that nations like indivld- nala must decay and perish ? Certainly : but the world has ovolutod only a short distance beyond the laraolltlsh common wealth , Carthage , Greece and Rome. This day manifests the pride and thank' folno33 for all wo oojoy ; butstandioc ; now near the mountain top of oar great ness , ahall wo not learn from the lessons of the ogcs ? Rome had no homes'oad law like the Jews ; but In her early days a decree that no man should own to exceed iivo hun dred acres ; though never repealed , this becams a dead letter ; because the oligarchy garchy despised and ignored It , and "bought up the estates of amall hnded proprietors , placing them under cultiva tion by slaves or using them for parka and ornamental crounds. " Even then , some patrlotio Romans sought to stay the deadly tide , bub the Gracchi had few influential symputhizrg and the people had bosomo powerless. True , her citi zens were cultured in Greek philosophy , in history , poetry and the aits ; but the spark of indupondonco had perished in the hearts of her people and THE SI'IllIT OF FUEEDOM HAD FLED before , Cwnr had crossed the Rubicon. The world's mop ani history la unrolled - rolled before us The natural good and bul of the human family is practically the aimo as amoug the Jowa , the Greeks , the Carthrigonlans and the Ramnns. The same ambitions , the same patrlotiem , the Bruno greed , the same deairo to oppress and uxalt ; the avarlco of the rich as great , the sufferings of the poor 03 In- tamo. tamo.Wo Wo are now faoa to face with grave problems ; shall we learn the lonson of four thousand yosrs to our benefit or bindago our oyca and rush madly into the abyeo where republics are entombed ? True the teachings of Christ have como -J\ , between the past and now ; but the on- croachraonta of power and the aggres sions of wealth are the same as thon. Besides wo must contend with the ele ment of corporate , exacting , law-defyln ? * power which never vexed the soul of the Israelite or the republics of ancient times. This octopus must bo graplod by our time. To secure and continue illimi table wealth , corporations must exerclso V uncontrolled power , which they do by directing state legislatures and congress , the executive departments , and too fre quently tbo courts. They are already entrenched and unless driven ont by the Intelligence and firmness of the people the property of the nation , and in tlmo its liberties will bo assailed. Monopoly sympathisers will offocfc much dfoguat and horror at theto few ? laln truths. You remember when Samuel remonstrated with the Jo ITS for demanding a king. They heeded noj , ant reviled him. When Demosthenes In ill phlllplcs attempted to aroueo tbo Athenians to their danger , some lawyers employed by the robbers denounced him as a dlatnrber of the poaoa of Athens. Are they not entrenched ? Sea the courts of ttio omplro ataie , a ntsto grander Lan Rome in its palmfoit daya ; WHEN DECISIONS VfKUK TUllUHASED , > nt where the people haJ yet sufficient lower to impeach and depose the corrupt udgc ? . See the testimony of railroad inegnatos n the aamo atato , whcro the ballot box nd tbo loglulaltiro were bought as atocku m the markat. See the ptraphio hlotory y nuntiiigtoi ) , of the skillful use of mney to Influence and control legislation t Washington. Sea the supreme court f the United States , deciding that n ailroad has sufficient title t ) sell and lortgago lends ; and in the next breath oaro ! with ( qual Rravity , that it has ottitla oiiouuu to bd taxed by the pee < ile of NcjbrAtka , And the poor won