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THE DAILY BEE TEUJRSDAY , AUGUST 27 , 1885- ' THE DAILY BEE. OMAHA Omen No. OU AND niG FAIWAM ST. KKVV YOHK OFFICE , llooii to TBIDONB BUILD ING , rub'ltlied every nnrnlnj , except Sunday. The only Mono/ morning daily published In the tatc. TFRV4 ST Mtlt. r > n Year . JIO.OO I Tlireo Month . $ 2 BO filxMonths . 6.00 | Ono Month . 1.00 The Weekly Bee , Published every Wednesday TfRMI , rOSTMIU. Ono Year , with premium . 2 CO One ( ear , without premium . . . . * j Blx Months , without premium . JS Ono Month , on ttlal . 10 All Communications rtUtlng to Ncwsunil Editorial matters should bo addrciied to the KDITOB. or Tin But. tiC'Mias trrriiw. All Builncsi Letters nnd ItcmltUnces thouM be tddto el to Tits Un 1'uiti.wiino COMPAST , OMAIU , Vifti.Ghecks and Post otilce enters tj lo made payAble - Able to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING CO , , PKJJ U. ROSKWATER , Kmton. A. n. Fitch , Manager Daily Circulation , Omahn , Ncbrmka. PUSH right nlong with public Improve ments to the fnllost extent of the public pnrio. _ _ _ _ _ _ WK hope the council trill second Mayor Boyd's urgent nppoal In favor of grading Hnrnoy'ntroot this aoaaon. ANOTHER long-Jolt want will bo nnp- plied In n few days nt the ttock yards In the nhapa of a dally papor. OMAHA must maka the railroads under- ntind that uho has no patrontRa for these who discriminate agilnat hor. BY the way , who ii governor of Ne braska just now ? Governor Dawca has boon oat of tbo elate for moro than a Tun Indiana nt the Djvll'a Like agency have harvested 00,000 bnaholo of vrhoat. They find raising wheat IB moro profitable than raisins ooalpi. AITAIRS ara goaorally bccomingnerioua bstfroon Spain and Germany. The towns of Arjgon have decided to boycott Gor man beor. This ought to bring Bismarck to tormj. . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE Omaha exposition Is bound to bo a nucoasir , but wo would Improaa npon our marchanti and minuhoturen the impera tive ncosoally of oich nnd a very ono luik- lug a cr'dltablo exhibit. Now that Senator Siundora has de clared very emphatically to a St. Paul Jionecr Press reporter that ho will not bo a cindldata to succeed Van Wyok the senatorial problem has been materially simplified. LETTEUS from Dublin , Ireland , bearing date of August 1C , reached Chicago on Monday at 9 a. m. , taking only eight days. This ia the quickest time on record of the transmission of mall between the two countries. manner in which the great rail road companies are jumping onto the Omaha Belt railway Infant with injunc tions leads us to bellevo that the infant is really going to amount to something. It may bo a giant yet. 'OMAHA Is to have a sldotr&lk Inspector. The creation of this cilico Trill make an additional expanse , but the tfHoes of boiler Inspector aud building inspector would not est the city a cent , as the salaries of these officials could bo paid out of the feoo. PAUNKLI , has given a fearful twfst to the British lion's tall. EU Dublin apeooh in favor of the repeal of the union is characterized by the London Standard as a dilatation of war , and it calls on the statesmen of both parties to crush him , HAVING paved Fainam atrcot , between Hinth and Fifteenth , without any cross walks , wo are now doing half-way work on upper Farnatn. If crocs-wslks ere desirable and in our'opinion they are an absolute necessity they should Hack clear across the ntroet. Under the di rection of the board ot public works the oross.wclks are being laid on each sldo of the street railway tracks , but between the tracks only caramon piving stones are being put down. Why not lay the flit- otono cross-walks as well ? TUG Caroline "incldant" promises to itlr up a largo-slzsd European family roTT. The latest cable advices are lo the effect that Bismarck declines to propose or accept arbitration of the differences between the Gorman government and Spain. Meantime the French nowt- papers are patting Spain on the back for the stand eh a baa taken. They advlso the Spanish to maintain tholr attitude. It would seem that there Is a strong ten dency to form a Franco-Spanish alliance , and this n&turally excites the ire cf Bis marck. The French cannot forgot the drubbing which they received at the hands of the Prussians. England , it Is under stood , tides with Germany in this contro versy. So it will ba seen Hut some very interesting complications may aria ? . TUK republicans of Iowa have hold a veiy enthusiastic and haiiiocious con vention. There never was a tlmo In the history of Iowa when tbo patty was to thoroughly united and determined. Whatever factional differences tbero may exist have for the tlmo being been for gotten , and the party enters the cam- pilgn vrlth nn unbroken front. The out come can not bo doubtful , Although pro hibition has been a serious drawback ID many respects in the past two years , but it is safe to predict an oUMima majority for tbo n publican ttsto ticker. The fusion batwoen the democrats and rsen- baokcrs Is noUntlafsciojy to many in tin- ' bcri of ollrrr tf them patties , and an at tempt to cirry the state with a fusion ticket Is doomed to bo a dismal failure. RANDALL'S ASPIRATIONS. It is a lltllo early ytt to dltcais the tpeakershlp of the ntxt house , but never theless the Washington correspondent ; , perhaps bccanio of the dnllncta at pres ent prevailing at the national capital , are handling the tubjeot for want of batter material. They nitnro ns ( hat Mr. Car lisle intends to bo a candidate , and that his old opponent , Randall , may alio ap pear In the field. This would renew the factional fight in iho democratic ranks w 1th regard to the tariff question , Ercn If Randall docs not finally conclude to make a contest for the spoakershlp , it is predicted , tilth a marked degree of certainty , that his friends will put for ward another man In the hopes ol defeating Mr. Carlisle , the free-traders champion. Who this man wll bo , in that event , the prophets have not yet told us , but wo are assured that ho will bo from the south , and that his vlowa with regard to free-trade will bo much lots radical than these of Carlisle. Furthermore thormoro , that ho will bo a man who , 1 : elected , will bo moro careful than Oar- Halo in tbo selection of members of the coinage commltteo , It would scorn , then , that the friends cf Randall care not so much for tholr principles regarding the tariff , as they do to get rovcngo. Ths recent professions of friendship on on the part of the Randall men towards Carllalo is viewed with considerable sus picion. The adherents of Carlisle are slid to have no confidence in Randall's professions in favor of a revision of the tariff. It la oven Intimated by thorn that the pretended turiondor of the Randall- Itos on the Bpeakorshlp question Is simply a part of a plan to strengthen him as a presidential candidate to suc ceed Grovnr Cleveland. As confirmatoiy of this ntatoment , an intciviow with a western democrfitlo congressman is pub lished in the Now Yory Tribune Ac cording tothls _ eminent democrat , Clove- land's administration is going to bo a stormy ono , with every prospect that it will end his political career. Ho tolls us that althongh Sam Tildon is keeping pretty quiet , ho ia still alive , and is din appointed in Cleveland and his odmlnis ( ration. Tildon does not think that a real democratic victory haa yet been won , but ho hopes to live to ceo it achieved in 1888 , and will spare no personal exertion to that end. This knowing democratic congreesmanwhoBonamoiBnotgivonaTray , assures the country that Tilden's hopes depend very largely upon the sucnoaa of > ils efforts to promote the political for tunes of Mr. Randall , whom ho regards as the ono man under whoso banner the democratic legions can march to victory n the next presidential campaign ; and lad it not bacn for his advlco Mr. Ran dall would have accepted a seat In Clove- and's cabinet. If Mr. Randall Is not a candidate for the spoakerahlp , then the labile may take it for granted that ho jai pitched up a trnco or compromise in regard to the tariff question , and has gene nto training under Tlldon'a direction for the presidential nomination in 1888 , even f it is a good ways off. THE NEW SOUTH. The prosperity of the southern states a a matter of congratulation for the nholo country , as it tends to create can * tontment among the people of the south and occupy their minds with the buiy .honghts . of to-day rather than to brood over the bitter memories cf the war and the long period of depression that fol- owed the great civil strifa. The intro duction of northern enterprise and the nvostment of northern capital In mann- 'aoturlug enterprises , the construction of railroads , the devolopomont of mines , and the efforts of the southern people homselves , together with abundant crops , have indeed brought about a won derful change in the south. The acreage of the corn , cotton and tobacco crops is the largest ever known , whlla the jiold will ba the most abundant over iroduced. In South Carolina there will ) o 4,000,000 bushels moro of corn and 300,000 more bales of cotton than la&t year. In Georgia there will bo 40,000- 100 bushels of corn this year , aq&lnst 31,000,000 in 1831 and 24,600,000 in L888 , and reports from other states show a proportionate incrossj. It is estimated that the south will produce 50,000,000 jushols moro corn this year than last and 1,500,000 moro bales of cotton. The increased ccrcsg ? and the abundant yield of the staple prcducta are largely duo lo the modern methods of igiicnl- tnro which were unknown in the south during the days of slavery. In its railroad mileage the south Is rapidly Increasing , According to Poor's Manual , the total number of miles of railroad constructed in the United States last year amounted to 3,077 , whih was. a considerable decline from 1882 with Its 11,002 miles , and even from 1883 with its 0,800 milei. To this total the south contributed 1,490 miles , or moro than one-third. North Carolina , which In 18&3 made only 36 miles of new railroad , built 174 miles last year. But the great est relative progress has been mafo in the long-neglooted state of Florida , which last year constructed 182 miles of railroad and 790 miles in the last four year/ . With the exception of Texas and Arkan sas , all the southern states have initJo noteworthy progress in railroad construc tion. In Tens there has been a mate rial reduction from the feverish aoilvlty of 1881 and 1882 , when 2,705 miles of r.ilroad wors constructed In Its territory. Last year the number of miles of new railroad constructed In Texas vras only 113. In Arkansas the same reaction is visible , though In leas degree , iho mileage of railroad in that state declining from 245 In 1883 , to 33 In 1881. The south , slnco the abolition of slavery , has taken very kindly to ra'lroid ' enterprises , but before the war much opposition was manifested , especially by the pUn'ors , who were the wojUhy and Inflaontlal men of the tunny south in nnto-bsllnm dtys. Their appa rition was based upon the belief that rail roads afforded too many opportunities for the escape of elaves. All this is now changed , however , and the railroad Is a welcome visitor. It has beooma an Im portant factor in the development of the now south , nnd has insisted as much as any other nqcncy in uniting the friend ship between the two great sections of the countr/ . BIRKHAUSER'S DISLOYALTY. The surveyor-generalship of Nebraska Is a big hone upon which there Is now but very llttlo picking , inasmuch ai fat surveying contracts are no longer at the disposal tf the surveyor-general. For all that , Iho office has booomo a big bone of contention In the demoor&tio camp. Ever sLco Dave Stephenson stopped down end out to make way for Mr. Gardner , whoso appointment was among the things expected , there has been a terrible wranalo botireon Dr. Miller and the democratic backers of Mr. Gardner aa to the political record of the now snrvtyor-gonoral. The latest broadside fired by the Omnlu Herald at the surveyor-general's cflico , charges that Surveyor-General Gardner ia not only not a democrat , but who does not know a democrat when ho BOOS ono. "It has boon proven , " says the watchful boss of the Herald , "by the nbort record which Mr. Gardner now holds at Plattamouth whoa ho installed BIrkhauser as his chief dep uty over the heads of Bound democrats. Blrkhausor must bo a bold , bad mm. His "chorack-tor" Is given by Dr. Miller in the following pou-and-inkskotch : lirlgadier-Gonoral Birkhausor is a "dcmc- craV'nitor the following manner : The gal lant brigadier has bean a hybrid eort of indf pendent-antl-monopoly-republlcan political pi rate who , for ten yeora , did the llttlo ho could to defeat dunocatlo men and democratic tickets , no was a member of the legislature In 1677 , when ho voted for Charles P. Man doraon , the present republican senator , through thick and thin when Buoh democrats 08 Gforpo ] ; . I'ritchott , who was a member of the earns body , voted "first , last and all the timo" for James W. Savage. Wo are not in a position to take up the cudgel for Mr. Birkhauaor. Wo have no part or parcel with the democratic spoilt- men , nor do wo care a straw as to which democrat draws a salary as turveyor-gen- oral or chief clerk. The allusions to the senatorial cnnpalgn'of 1877 are , how ever , very ill-timed for Dr. Millar , whoso reference to Blrkhanser'a votes in the leg'shturo ' rocalb some memorable Inci dents in Dcujlaa county politics. Blrk- bauser may have voted for ManderBon In stead of his partner , Judge Savogo , as he bad a right to , because neither of them at that time stcod a ghost of a show of be ing elected. Mr. Prltchett , on the other hand , was boned oy a solemn pledge to vote only for a democrat. Ho voted for Sav age as a moro ) matter of form , with the rest of the delegation , who were each pledged In open convention to vole for a democrat for senator first , last and all iho tlmo. Bat Dr. Miller , who had bar gained to deliver the democrat ! ] vote of Doughs county to a republican , Mr. Hitchcock'under the piotcnso that Hitchcock would sustain the tltlo of Sam Tildon lo the presidency , came very near getting Prltohott to bolt James W. Sav- ag ? , and vote with Blrkhausor for a rc- mbllorn. The only reason why Dr. filler failed to deliver the goods , in an unbroken package , was that Charles H. Brotrn , James Orelghton and several other democratic members refused point blank : o violate their pledges and the instrne- ; lena of tha nominating convention. Dr. Miller should ba consistent. If It was right and proper for the ten democratic representatives of Douglas county , ( o cast their vote for a republican for United States senator in 1877 , it corteinly wes not very criminal for Birkhauacr to vote for Mandcrson at tbo same tlmo. Blrk- lauser had been elected cs an indepen dent , and his actions wcro in fuH accord with his constituency. But the trno in- wardnets of Dr. Mlllcr'u anxiety to have Mr. Hitchcock , the republican senator , re-elected was not EO much to ccsist Sam Tllden and his parly as it was to plcaso and aid Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon. Ix eooms to ns that the tlmo has como o compel the gas compiny to carry out is contract with the city , or at leist the city should notify the company that the contract is annulled. Tha reports of Inspector specter Glib or t show gross negligence on the part of the company and pro- nounca the quillly of tha gas Inferior. Now the company cannot justify Its failure to glvo us gas of the best qual ity or its neglect to replace tbo wxotohed lamps which its managers hive folstod upon the city in place of the lamps re quired by the contract , No other busi ness in Omaha Is as profitable aa the manufacture of gis. The cost of water gas is eaid to ba about 57 cents per thou- eand oublo fear , miking a profit of about 400 per cont. for the gas company. Wit1 ! such enormous profits and a constant in. crcaso of consumption , the company cer tainly ought to be in condition to comply with its obligations and tupply gas of the best quality. Foil public convenience the county commltsioners desired that flat-stone cross-walks bo laid across the ntrcot from each wing of the grand stair-cao of the court house , so as to enable parties to cross the street from the stair-way In stead of walking to the street corner ) . 3o far , however , the board of public worko has given no aider to the con tractor. It saoms to ns that such an order should bo nude at once , as the pavement betwoan Seventeenth and Eighteenth ttroata will bo laid within a week. of tbo beat uvldeucss of educa tional progiojs in Japan Is shown by the sudden and wonderful development ol jouruilUm in that country. Twenly-fivo years ego there was not a single journal In that country. To-d y thofo are two thousand newspaper * , a greater number by far than either Italy , Austria , Spain , Russia , or the whole continent of Asia o n boast. \VEsXKIlN NiWVS. MONTANA. In Btnton on tha 14th the mercury went up to 103 in the shade. Ths office of the Bntto Town Talk w s burned by n firebug lait week During the recent hot weather the mercury at Billings went tip to 115 In the ihade. The capacity of tbo great smoking plant of the Anaconda company , at Butte , ii to bo doubled. It Ii estimated tbat 05.COO head of cattle will bo shipped east from the Montana'ranges this year. There were 700,000 pounds of wool shipped from hillings this season , up to the middle ol this month , Seven thousand five hundred and forty head ot cattle have boon shipped east this month from Miles City. Fred Dorwent bat returned from the Street Grass hilli with furly-throa ouncss of dntt , which ho sold In Helena for 8703 , An immense vein ot fine marble Imi been found in Blp Hole- river , near Dowoy'i plat , The innrslo Is sa'.d to bo equal to any quar ried in Vermont. A number of the woolgrowcra of Northern Montana , whoso ( locks are becoming too large for their rangeii , will ship from 2,100 to 4IUO wctliurs to the Chicago market this fall. A fire at the depot , Helena , on the IStb , burned Fault' * btkery , Mr * . Lsurenna'd store and tha Denver house , causing n losa of $12- COJ to S1G.OOO. Lack of water crippled the fire department's efficiency. r rt Mnginnis is at present commanded by Gon. Forayth , lieutenant-colonel First cav alry , and garrisoned by three troops.O. A and F of thn First cavalry , and two companies , I ) and G , of tbo Twentieth infantry. UTAH. The corner Mono of the Catholic college at Salt Lake was laid on Sunday evening last. The Chinpso are moving out of Ogdcnatn lively rate tinea the Knights of tjLabor got after them , The wash water from iho Chinese laundries in Salt Lake Oity ii a nuisunca of loud smell ing proportions , A Salt Inlte paper tells of Rhcariog sixty- seven pounds or wool fiom a aheap in a single fleaca ot twcuty-thrco months' growth. Tha official canvas of the votes cast at the late election showed 21,620 for the Mormon candidates nnd 1,705 for the opposition. The banks of Salt Lake City report the receipt - ceipt for the week ending August 10th , Icc'u- BIVO , of § 35.2)1.00 in bnlllun nnd S10.MO.OO in ore ; n total of $101,342 OS. "Tho ptesont condition of the Salt Lake ore market , " says the Tribune , "is moat encour aging lo mine owners nnd business men. Il has not bonn so active for years aa It ii at the present time , and , what la batter , n good price ir paid for all the ore that is brought in , ' OALIPOBmA , The assessment roll of Sacramento city and county howa a coin assessment of $209,530. 'JCflo pay rolls of the several Comitcck min - ing companies for the month of July aggre gate $115,000. A poker game which lasted for seventy-Biz honra without intermiselon la one of Sacra- mento'rf latest sensations. Some hoodlums at Amador City eoakod the t ° nt belonging to tha Salvation army with coal oil , and then set fire to it , The schema to buy the peninsula near San Diego and convert it into n watering place has fallen through owing to imperfectiou of title. title.A gcmlomin in San Bernardino county marketed -f.G.O pounds of blackberries grown on a single 'patch. They brought $322 , being nt the iafj of $1,000 an acre. San Franclsco'j death rote for the past year 10.58 per'V.COO , is lower than that of thirteen foreign and eleven American cities and the lowest of any city of its tlze in tha world , The Lo3 Angelas Herald says that n largo bed of choice potter's clay has been discovered ia the Tomeacal mountains , about sixteen miles from the California Southern railroad , A duel was fought with French rapiers near the Ocoau house , San Francisco , on the 15th. The participants were a Frenchman and a German. The former is named Goccon , and it is said ho owns a ranch of 2,000 acres in Msrlu county. Tbo latter , whose name could not be learned is eaid to bo a San Francisco lawyer. Both were mounted. Too fight was desperate nod bloody. Tha German cam a off vieoii .u * . Both were wounded. Tha French man waa badly cut up , The work on the Merced irrigation ditch In the San Joaquin vf ) IoyCaUforma , was be- Rua on March 13 , 1883 Its entire length will bs thirty-five tuilee , of which sixteen rnilca ia now completed , and for the first ten niilon it is sixty feet wide at ths bottom and ten feet deep , while for the rest of its length the width at the bottom is fifty feet and the depth eight feet. The company have already expanded $709,003 nnd it ia estimated that thu entire coat of the undertaking will donblo that turn , PISUSON/ % till IBS. Kx-Vico President Wheeler is troubled with rheumatism. Secretary Whitney will spend n month at Louox , but will cot go gunm'ng for dolphins. Senator Sharon recently put his servants at Menlo Park m knco breeches and befogged coats. Bob Toombs. appears to have decided to let iTfff Davir ana the New York Tribano fight out tha war alone. The venerable Simon Cameron , aged 87 , made $300,000 by sharp financial transactions last jear. He is worth $4COOOCO. It IB even said that Albert Edward hates Brother Bnttenberg so much ho won't let the upstart Dutchman use hU tennis racket. T. B. Aldtich asseverates that BO fortune of $75,000 hai fallen into hij bands , as currently stated. Ho withes the report were true. A gentleman familiarly known ni "Snatch , em" recently died at Rockaway. He was a policeman , and they say ho actually did. Ooa of Gen. Santa Anna'd widows is still living In Mexico , and is bright and interesting as over. She was married at tbo ago of thlr- teen. teen.Chi. . Gilder , the Arctic explorer , Is at Long Branch , enthusiastically talklntr about the pole , which he thinks can bo reached by ilcds. ilcds.A ' 'new book by Rose Elizabeth Cleveland , daughtnr of the president of tha Unlied Stater , " Is announced by tbo London Literary World , Mrs. Bayard , wife of tbo secretary of state , hts recovered from her recent Illness and Ii DOW at < t seaside resort near Glouces ter , Mass. An Omaha woman has threa huibandi liv ing and was photographed with all of them the other day , Tire of them were divorced , lint kindly conronted to sit for tha group , Chicago Herald , W , D. B bccck , the inventor of the patent Bre-extlopulsher , Ii a pauper in tbo San Fran cisco poorhouie. Ha haa madu several for- tunei Roeculating , and received nn annuity of $5,000 for ten years for his invention , but re- nentedly failed ia business and finally took to drinV. General Joseph E , Jobnuton , ths oldest of the mourners who followed Grant to the uravo , ii 78 years of ago. Shendan id but 54 , though lie looks much older being much the young- eat of the great military generl > on the union tide. Sherman is OS Buckner 7'1 , BickUe C3 , Hancock 01 , SchofUld 54 , and Wade Hamp ton 07. Admiral PcrUr Ii 72 , and Admiral Itowan 70. If General llobert E. Lee weie alive he would bj neatly 80 , and "Stonewall" Jacknon 01. Abraham Lincoln would be 70 , and Jefferson DivU Ii 77 , Ida Lewis , the Newport harbor heroine.his bad , for dozen years , a faithful companion en h'r little rocky iilaud , a big. bluck Nov. fonudland dog , which recently died , ciuiicp her great prlet. "I rcmeinbo ; well , loner azo , ' raya ona of hfr acquaintance * , "her putting bur arms arcund tha big gilccttonata fellow and s'jyiop , 'men have not been good to me and I love dogs better. ' " Her matrimonial adventure wax most ditaitrour , and this ( log HUI her only protector , THE CORPORATION APPERS the NeMa Railroad Commissioners to Sew Tnefr Masters , Freight Ilntes From Chicago to Omaha unil to PApllllon An An alysis of Both TUo Commls- 8lon' OrRftunnrt Its lo- liislvo Gab. To the Editor of The BEE. The r.ilroad commission , at the Bag gostlon ot Manojr end Howard , of PA pillion , had nskod Taos. L. Klmbjll , manager of the Union Pacific railroad why that road charges ai ramh for haulIng - Ing freight from Omaha to P.plllloa , a distance of 14 mlloj , ni from Chicago to Omah > , a dlstnnca of 500 mllos. Mr Klmbill replies vrith an arriy o ! rates prepared by hlauolf ani tuys it don't The Lincoln Jonrnil prints thocorros pondonco , nnd with an editorial a column long , ondoavora to prova that not only la the rate to Papllllon from Omaha as low , bnt In fact , relatively , a lotromto than from Chicago to Omah.3. The Journal is easily canvhuod by Klmball's logic nm haa "other rallnblo Information" ready ta make the case moro clear for the rallroac company. Lat us look at the facto from a dllTjrcnt standpoint than that of a railroad com mlsiloncr , for a moment , and analyze tholr facts and logic in an Impartial mm nor. nor.Tho The rixlo from Omaha ta Paplllioa on carload lota la 7 canto par 100 pounds. This la $1.60 per ton. The distant IB 14 mllce. The average rate la nearly 11 cento per ton per mllo. The Journal ra- contly pub iihud a statement to the dF ct that the average charge on iho 0. 15. & Q rallrcad. for the preceding year , as aaown by Poor's manual , waj about ono cent per ton per mllo. The rata from Omaha to Papillion la over ten times the overage rate charged by the 0. B. & Q railroad. If Magney & Howard wtra not correct in tholr assertion , they have developed the fact that the rate from Omaha to Papllllon IS MOUE THAN TEN TIMES the average rate charged by the 0. B. & Q. railroad. Mr. Rlmball gives their rates on nine chases of freight from Chicago cage to Omaha. From these figures the Journal concludes that the averaso rate is about 54 cents , the lowest being 23 and the highest 00 cents. This is not a fair way to consider the question. Mr. Ktm- ball does not utato what the dlfioronl classifications include' , nor what proportion tion of their freight Is covered by cash classifications It may bo that a very few articles are included within the classes for which 50 , 75 and 00 centa poi 100 pounds are charged , and but a sm H amount of such freight Is carried. II may bo that nearly all the fro'ght ' trans ported from Chicago -Omaha falls within the classes on which the rate la from 23 to 35 cents. If EO , that fact should be known and a comparison of rates -from Omaha to Papllllon and Obi- oigo to Omaha should bo matta as to theao lower prices. A very little information mation seems to have eailsfied the com mission and they were not only ready but eager to rush before the people of the state and endeavor to convince tLcm , on a deluding and imperfect statement made by the railroad manager , that Paplllou had not only a low but ia fact a cut rato. Mr. Gere says that the avorigo charge from OhiciRo to Omaha Is 543 per 100 pounds. This ia $1080 par ton , or a f rifle over tvo ; cents per mllo. The rate from Omaha to Papillon U moro than five times as gioat. But ia Mr. Gore crrect in asserting that the average rate from Chicago to Omaha Is 54o per 100 pounds ? This rate would make a carload of fifteen tons from Chicago to Omahi cost § 102. Will Mr. Klmbill or Mr. Gero tell the people upon , what ariioUs the rate from Chicago to O naha is $160 pr car and how much of such articles are transported ) But it must ba recollected that this la the average - ago charge. There .must ba as mnoh charged at a higher rate as at a lower. What la charged higher and how mitch of it Is hauled ? The hiul frjra Chicago to Dmaba la a long ono , and must exceed in length the avenge haul by the rr.ilrr ad compauloa hauling it. Therefore the charge for it should bo at a lets rate thau the avtrago charge of the cirapony. But wo have the Journal nnd Poor's Manual as authority for the statement that the ftvcr.iL'0 charge of ono of Iho campan'.eu ' that carries freight froru Chicago to Omaha , ( ind it is well known that all the companies ohargo tha same through rate ) for thu preccoding year , was b.it one cent per ton per mile. Mr. Gore lua ; athorcd from Mr. Kimball'u figures that ; ho average charge from OaJcigo to Omaha was over two cents per ton per mile. Mr. Gore muit bo substantially near-root'In his conclusions drawn from Mr. Klmbill's rate * . But ho tays the haul from Chicago to Dmiba is a long one and froai Omaha to Papillion Is a short one , and that on ac count of handling the freight at "termi nal paints" the rate from Omaha to Pa- pillion should ba higher than from Ohl- 3igo to Omaha , tils "Pamphlet An- ihority" written concerning tbo Tehaun- tepoothlp canal , svys tha handling cf Frtight at terminal points is equivalent In expense to a haul of 100 miles. There fore the haul from Chicago to Omaha is : qnlvalcnt to a 000 mlle haul end the baiil from Omaha tc Papllllon to a 114 inllo haul. If the avorngo charge from Chicago to Omahi Is $102 , and the hsul CCO miles , on the above theory the cost of handling the cua at "terminal points" would be $27. There would bo tbo same jxpsmo In handling the car from Omaha ; ) PapilhoD , and as iho company charge 3ut $22 60 lor this latter haul by Mr. Zero's caloulitlon , the company are haul- ng from Omaha to Papllllon for $4 50 ess than cost of handling at terminal joints alone. This Is so ir rot sly Improb able tbat wo most conclude that Mr. 3ero Is In error lu this proposition ulsy. Mr. Gere calls on any one who knows o toll what the seat of handling freight at terminal points if , If | tii not worth us much as hauling the frtlght 100 mlloit That Is a dltlicult question for ona no. cngsged In the railroad business to an swer accurately , and U ia a question ( hat wo Tronld not expoot to ba answered truthfully and faUly by artllrcai roau- ger. If the answer wai not falte In Its specific stMcmoats It would bo false in tub. sticoa and clTeot , by reason of Us partial BtMemonts and truths half told , Ai men of ordinary Intelligence we can form some idea of the- east of handling freight nt terminal points In car load lot ? . The rai'road ' compiny neither load not unload thu cur. It simply switches the out ) on to otio Rwi'ch ( n ho 1 iadcd and nwilcho them back again into n train , Who theyhavo arrived at the other end of th terminal point the same process f ro vercod. lloir much dooi this cost fo cart ? Oeitalnly not aa much as Ii han the tame ctr ono huudr&d m les a days tun with a freight tr in. In fact the nn tire business , ordinarily , does not amonn to moro than hauling the otr ono mil 3 a each of the termini ! points. At ono can per ton pur mlle it would cost ( a car con tnlnlng tifteon ton ) fifteen cents at cad terminal point or say thirty cents at both It is true this ehort haul is attended wit ! moro ozpenso than hauling the car the aamo distance whllo the train is la mo tlon , by rossin of the necessity of em ploying switchmen , brakemen , flagmen oto , about the tormtnsl points , Proba bly eno car is moved several times o several cars are moved to roach ouo ctr But It Is unreasonable to aisumo that I requires movement of cits equivalent tc hauling ono cat 100 mlles to snitch a single glo car in and out of n station. If It wa placed at twenty inilrrf It would teem moro nearly right. At the avornzo rate given by the Journal for tr.nsportlni Insight this would amount to $3.00 po car. Now If the rate per ton per mil was the same from Omaha to Papllllon a the average charge over the 0. B. & Q the ohargo per ton from Omaha tc Papillion would bo fourteen cents , or on a otr containing fifteen tons $3. 10 Adding $3 00 for terminal chargis , woo Id mak the charge of hauling n car load o freight from Omaht to Papillion , § 5.10 inatoid of $22 50 , the amount now chirged. The rate from Omaha to Pap 111 loii Is not very exceptional In this state The common local rate is from 5 to 1 cants a ton per mile , all through tin state. If tha average ohargo Is 1 con per ton per mile , the people of Nebras ka are piylng five to ton times ns much for hauling Ice U freight aa the averag chargi of the Chicago , Burlington Qulucy. In other words the railroads are hauling at cheap rates for some cthor people , nnd are miking the people o * thU utato pjy for Ir , But It Is oiid white wo pay high loca rates that wo get oh cup through rates , and much choipcr through rates than partita cast of us. The rate given by the Journal on freight from Chicago to Omaha is twice the rwto they otato as the average charge of the Chicago , Bur lington & Qalasy during thu past year. Thu rate on corn , a chonp end bulky product , and on which the ch&rga nhoulc be below the average rate , frjrn Lincoln to Chlcigo is 30a per 100 Ibo. This is $00 per ton. The dlstnnca being 550 mllua , it is moro than ono cent a toe a inUe , or moro thau the average charge of the company for all classes of freight during the past ; year. Certainly on a haul of 550 miloa , of so cheap , easily handled , abundant nnd bulky an article 0.3 corn , wo ought to get a rate less than the average rate , but we do not. Wo pay fiva to ten times the average charge for our local business , and moro than the ay erago ohargo on our through business , ana the railroad commloilon BOO no cause for complaint , but herald all criticism as "mid and groundless newspaper charges. " The fact la that the people of the aUto of Nebraska are in the iron grip of great railroad corporations. The profit of their unremitting toil is taken away from them in an unseen , insidious , but cffootnol way. The robbers who ctocd at thu straights of Gibraltar , en the heights of TarlfTtin , and levied toll on the patslng commerce were not EO thorough , so rcluUhas , so exacting In their demands M are tha railroad managers who levy : ell on every industry in tha state of No- iraska. GliANCiEit. Itailroncl Commission. Sutler County Press , The mountain has labored and bohnld a mouse. The railroad commission bat rang up the cnrtain on the first act of .ha . comic drama , furnished by its ci-ea- , or , the Nebraska legislature , the Opera Oornlqno company has completed ibo : ircuu of all the Burlington & Missouri Inis The actors have learned their mrtj well. Mr. Gjro la the star , end 3owdry and Busouow enpportera. Mr. Eloldrogo , of the Burlington & Missouri , 3 prompter and slago mantger , and travels with the troops night ana day and hauls them around in his own special car , lest some cf them should gat away. Tnis august body has mada a report and ibo peoplu are laughing all over the state. In ft ct , the roar of their haw 1 1 haws ! HI can bo hoard from Cheyenne county , on the wett , to tbo Missouri river , on the east , and from the Niobrara , on the north , to ttiR Kansas line on the couth. Thu commission don't like to see tha iiooj.1 ; qoietjw glcufr.1 , for fear they willtlre.of tnu sbow too toon. The following is a fair sjmplo of the recommendations of thu oomaiistion , ; ravely notify iug Iho railroad company that the snitch nt Bell wood needs length onlng cut ; that tao hog yards at S.aplo burse nro cramped r.nd muddy , oto. Oh - Sogirl The Kfectiou Cjntont Cn.no , Yettordny morning ( ho Murphy-Boyd election contest ciso came up for hearing n Iho connty court. Attorneys for both ftldea and a number of in' crested parties were present. Mr. Joseph Southard , city clerk , was first summoned as a witness. The affidavits , the validity of tome of erne of which tro disputed by the friends of Mr. Murphy , wore produced by him , and submitted io the court. Judge McOullooh decided to submit the flidavlts to a committee of two , ono rep- estntatlvo of esch side , In order that they might be "tabulated. " This tabula ! inn is o show the natno of the voter sworn In , .ho . attesting wltnot ; , the notary , ho reason why the parsons ntmo does not appear npon bo rrgular list , oto. In this way , It is bought , tha nflidavits will bo reduced to uch a form thit the question of their validity can ba moro easily determined. 'udge McOnlloch has appointed Capt. J. H , Wood as represent ! g Mr. Murphy , id John F , MoManns , represent- ng Mr. lioyd. The cato will bo taken up far argument as soon as ho committee announces Itself prepared 9 maka a report. Clt/ Mortality , "IIow haa the mortality in the city > eon this cummer in comparison ttith asU" was asked of City Physician Lsls- nring yesterday. ' Not greater than that of last yoir , when tha lucraase in population it taken nto consideration. On Iho Whole the ity ia in a pretty Loilthy condition. The greatest mortality last month was to noticed among children under ono ear of ego. I believe the number of otths of Infants under ono year , In July , VBB thirty-eight. These deaths are mostly of summer complaint , nnd occur > rncipil'y ! 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