THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : WEDNESDAY , APKIL 28 , 1880 ,
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OMAHA rose to the occasion again , last
week in bunk clouring. * , whieh showed
an increase of moro tlinn eighteen per
cent over those of the corresponding
week of Isxst year.
A jfAN was killed in Allegheny City
the other day by coining in contact with
a lamp post , charged with electricity. It
won't do for tired men in these days of
electric light wires to lean against
lump posts.
SENATOU VAN Wvcrc has ticon heard
again in the senate on the anti-monopoly
question. His sarcastic pen picture of
Jny Gould will be best appreciated whoie
the prlnco of railroad highwaymen is
known the best.
SENSATIONAL , prayers aru- becoming all
the rage since the blind chaplain of the
house of representatives stirred up tlio
Washington menagerie. The chaplain
of the Ohio legislature has created tv sen
sation by pitching into the tax-ovmlors.
Ho ought to bo invited to Omaha for a
brief season.
A SMALL trifle of $ lf3,000 more is needed
to pay the expenses of putting the Bar-
tholdi statue in position on its pedestal.
The people of the country who paid for
.tho construction of this ornament to New
York harbor will permit the generous
citizens of the great metropolis to make
up this little delicieney out of their own
pockets. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
THE editor of the Herald denies that
that journal is "out of politics , " but calls
renewed attention to the fact that Doctor
Miller has quit dispensing patronage
through miscellaneous endorsements of
rival candidates. This move of the doc
tor's towards harmonizing the parly
seems to bo particularly appreciated just
at present in his own wing of the
warring democracy.
NEBRASKA 1ms no desire to retaliate
upon any system of railroads which has
treated her people unjustly in times past ,
by crippling its resources. With her
rapid increase in population and pros
perity , this Plato will throw no obstacles
in tlio path of railroad extensions which
aim to join together by commercial bonds
her widely separated sections. In de
manding justice from the railroads the
people of Nebraska do not propose tenet
not with injustice towards tlio corpora
tions. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
THE Herald shouts in clarion tones
over the appointment of Mr. Critos to tv
federal position. Mr. Critos has been
made chlof of the division of captured
anil abandoned property , irhntover that
is. This is a great victory for Dr.Millor ,
If : but meantime Mr. Pritchott who was
the only man in'Nubraskutlmt the doctor.
According to his own declaration , really
cared to have appointed to a federal
oilloo continues to practice law nt the
old stand. The promised appointment
of United States district attorney has not
yet materialized.
A NEW YOUK temperance paper , the
Voice , carelessly credits the HUB with a
long assault on high license , taken from
Uio columns of the Christian Hour , of
this city. The position of this -paper on
Jrigh license is well known. It advocated
the movement when it was inaugurated
and it bos seen no reason since that time
to change its views. Jt believes the Ne
braska law to bo thu best restrictive meas
ure of its class ou the stututo books o !
' * .any state , flexible enough to bo adjusted
to the sentiment of any community and
capable of rigid enforcement whorovci
communities demand it. So far ns
the success of the Slocumb law
is concerned it has accomplished
more than was anticipated by its promoters -
motors , In fact it has cut dowu and
t , kept down the number of saloons , di >
minlshed drunkenness , as shown by the
T * nvrosls by the police , and thrown the bus-
1 ( ness of liquor soiling into the hands ol
? ri men responsible for the abuse of their li-
iimk'onso' I'10 ' earao results arc noted in
nmvery ( ; { largo town and city in the state ,
yviis is u measure to restrict the evils of iii'
the | > nuporanco , the high liconio bill is a
ami biiuino success. It is so , because it has
was proved itself capable of enforcement
Jml has iirawn to its support the law-
abiding elements in evury community ,
i Experience has proved that uo license
i means frco license. High license it
/ .nothing moro than a heavy tax on the
/ liquor tnilllc , imposed to decrease the
uumbor of dealers and to secure parties
Buttiicially responsible for the damage
Which they may iullict through violations
, tt the law.
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A AVny Oat of the Woods ,
The movement on the part of Omaha
business men to suggest a method by
which the Union Pacific can raise funds
o build branch lines in Nebraska with
out menacing the rights of the govern-
ncnt and the interests of the people is
an important and a timely one. The
company , through bungling and dishon
est management in years past , now finds
tself face to face with disastrous competi
tion and assailed in its own territory by
.vealthy . rivals. Through the operation
of laws framed to protect the
jovcrnmcnt nnd the people from
.lie operations of slock jobbers and
swindlers in its management , the
road is now placed at a serious disad
vantage when compared with its com
petitors. Under the Tlmrman act it is
oinpclled to lock up hundreds of thou
sands of dollars every year | n the national
treasury as n basis of refunding Its debt
.o ' the government. In addition it is pro
hibited from borrowing on its credit or
from increasing its indebtedness for any
purpose whatsoever. In consequence
there arc no funds in its treasury avail
able for purposes of construction , and
unless some relief is found the road must
stand helpless while its territory
is invaded by rival lines and while
the state of Nebraska will bo
debarred from the advantages of several
liundrcd miles of now railroad within
its limits. It was with this condition of
all'airs in view that Senator Van Wyck ,
some weeks ago , introduced his bill per
mitting the Union Pacific to apply the
$7,000,000 , , now to its credit in the tread-
to branch line construction in this state.
Opposition to some of the featuies of the
senator's bill having arisen , it is pro
posed to draft : v measure which will re
ceive assent from both fides and which
will secure the sanu ; ends.
Omaha , Nebraska and the Union Pacilic
are all interested in finding a solution to
the perplexing problem of how to relieve
the road without diminishing the secur
ity on the government loan. This is the
one objection to be overcome and which
will bo sought to bo covered by the bill
proposed. The people of Omaha are in
terested that the Union Paeilic shall
draw to its main line as much business
as it can secure throughout the state.
Other systems are busj' in directing traf
fic to Kansas City ami Chicago. They
are pushing rapidly into sections which
should have the benefits of the Omaha
markets and carrying produce beyond
our borders to exchange for goods from
tiic cast and south. Every mile of rail
road built by the Union Pacific will be
come at once open to Omaha jobbers and
manufacturers. The people of Nebraska
are equally interested' in securing rail
road connections and the benefits of
competing lines. If the plans of the
present management can bo carried into
effect GOO miles of branch roads will bo
added to the system this j'ear , by far the
larger portion of which will bo laid in
Nebraska. Senator Van Wyck will be in
Omaha next week , and we suggest that
the committee make it convenient to con
fer with him regarding the matter. The
object sought has already received his
approval and support , and the senator
will doubtless bo found ready to cordially
co-operate in furthering the movement.
Xax It To Death.
The bill reported by the house com
mittee on agriculture which proposes to
regulate and tax the oleomargarine business - '
ness will bo cordially endorsed by the
country without regard to geographical
sections. The bogus butter business is
driving our dairymen to the wall. Five
years ago we exported 40,000,000 pounds
dairy butter. Last year wo exported
scarcely half that r amount. In 1831
40,000,000 , pounds of grease were sold as
butler in New York. Since that time the
amount produced throughout the country
has increased b"y GO per cent. State after
state has passed laws forbidding the sale
of the stutl' under false pretenses. They
are not enforced. The profits in hand
ling colored grease and palming it oil'us
creamery butter are so enormous that
manufacturers and dealers can all'ord to
disregard the law and to pay the lines
imposed. In Now Jersey the legislature
recently passed a law requiring those
who sell bogus butter to brand it with a
distinguishing label on each package
sold. But so demoralised have
the grocers become that they
have risen in indignation and
employed counsel to test the act.
The bill placing a tax of 10 cents a pound
on every y'ound manufactured ana rn -
quiring a special stamp on every pack
age goes lo the root of the matter. It
throws around the production of oleo
margarine the same restrictions which
surround tobacco factories and distil
leries. Not a pound of bogus butter
could be marketed unless stamped and
every mill would be placed in charge of
a government officer.
Such a law carried out would very
soon work a transformation in the
business. It is kept alive by fraud.
Sham butter is sold because purchasers
believe it to be real butter. If it bore in
true character on the face it would soon
bo driven out of the market. Our dairy
interests and our farming interests , as
well us the public health , demand that
bogus butter must go. Taxing it to death
with exposure of the colors under which
it masquerades is a good way in which
to disposu of the butter fraud.
OPPOSITION to home rule is showing a
bold front in England during thu caster
holidays , Doth parties aru holding pub
lic meeting ! ) and striving hard to influ
ence public opinion for and against the
proposed measure , looking to legislative
indopendcnoo for Ireland. Lord llurting-
tion , Mr , Chamberlain and John lirighf
are the most influential opponents of
the measure , but the homo rule liberals
arc not lacking in able orators to counter
balance the effect of such prominent de
fections from their ranks. One of the
most significant speeches on the question
was that made bv Karl Spencer , late
Lord Viceroy of Ireland. No one in that
position ever more strenuously attempted
to carry out a policy of coercion , and yet
ho now admits unreservedly that it was a
failure , and that neither crime nor con
spiracy was sanctioned or encouraged by
the Irish party. In view of Earl Spencer's
previous course such an authoritative ut
terance ought to carry with it great
weight , and it will undoubtedly have a
marked effect in shaping legislative ac
tion. Mr , Chamberlain docs not appear
io have changed bis position materially
' further than that ho has promised not to
gather around him any malcontents and
retire iulo a cave -Adulluui. . The llir-
miughum association has indorsed him ,
but' the liberals have burned his portrait
and the disaffection from his standard of
such an important factor as the Lancas-
.or radicals will moro than counterbal
ance any advantage that ho may have
, alncd from the action of the Dinning-
lam caucus. Although it would not bo
safe to forecast the falo of the bill on its
second reading , yet it is plain that the
prospects pf success are brightening.
The Business Situation.
The general volume of business during
: \\o \ past week has continue ! only fair.
The temper of traders in most lines is
very conservative and there is a disposi
tion to move very cautiously until the
labor troubles cease to bo a disturbing
clement in the situation. Reports from
manufacturing centers note that the dis
tribution of goods , and notably boots
and shoes and dry goods , has been more
active under the stimulus of favorable
weather , which has hastened purchases
for consumption. The opening of inland
navigation and a general improvement ,
in the condition of country roads have
also had a helpful iullucnue on business
in the interior. Cotton planting in most
parts of tlie south Is making favorable
progress , and the prospects for winter
wheat continue very encouraging. The
diversion of attention to spring seeding
in the ngricultutal sections is causing a
comparatively light movement of grain
and other produce from the hands of
fanners , but an increase in flhipmcnt *
may bo expected in the near future.
The sugar market has been excited and
unsettled by the strike of workmen in
the Now York and Brooklyn rellnerius.and
prices of refined sugar have advanced fully
1 cent per pound within the week. The
strike has curtailed production to Ihe ox-
U'lil of about 15,000 barrels per day , and
there is a general uneasiness as to the
future of supply and prices. Cotton ex
ports have continued liberal , nnd aru
now ahead of the total for the previous
crop year to date. The demand for
home consumption has continued mod
erate , and there has been little activity in
the speculative market. Wool is moving
very slowlyand only in small lots for actual
requirements , and values arc weak and
unsettled. The cautiousness of buyers is
due to the general uncertainty as lo fit-
lure market conditions , which is caused
by the competition of foreign yarns and
fabrics , the labor and tariff agitation and
the near approach of the now wool clip.
The general jobbing trade in dry goods
is fairly active and values in most depart
ments rule firm.
Wheat prices ruled higher by 2 cents a
bushel during the week until Saturday ,
when there was a decline pf a cent. The
rise was largely the result of speculative
buying , both for long and short ac
count , which has been stimulated
by llio recent'improvement in export
business , the Greek war news , and a fear
in some quarters that stronir parties in
Chicago who are extensively interested
on the long side of the market are laying
plans to corner the May option. The ad
vance lias checked new business on for
eign orders , and while there arc fair in
quiries for European shipment at lower
rales , exporters do not show much dis
position to follow a further rise in prices.
Crop prosnects continue favorable , and
current trade estimated point to a .yield
of 1)00,000,000 ) bushels of winter wheat , as
against 212,000,000 bushels last year and
1550,000,000 bushels in 1881. The unex
pected largo movement of grain by the
water routes from the west started last
week , and about 0,000,000 bushels are now
under sail on the lakes in transit to Buf
falo. The corn market has advanced
slightly , owing to light receipts at all
points and a steady demand for home
consumption and export. The progress
of spring work on Hie farms has delayed
shipments to the commercial centres , and
the smaller interior movement in connec
tion with the reduction in stocks by home
requirements and exports has caused a
decrease in the domestic visible supply
amounting to 1,250,000 bushels of corn
and 1,800,000 , , bushels of wheat. Pork
prices are 12J cents per 100 pounds lower ,
but other hog products show no impor
tant clufngc. Exports lust week showed
a gain in both meals and lard. The
homo trade distribution has been a little
more active , and further improvement is
expected now that Lenten season is over.
TUB war upon the "Mother Hubbard. "
which was started in Omaha by Mar
shal Cummings , and extended all over
the country , has not yet died out. The
other evening in Burlington , N. J. , a
well-known young lady appeared upon
the streets jn a "Mother Hubbard , " and
was mobbed by a crowd of men. Her
father , a prominent citizen , proposes to
take legal proceedings in the mutter. The
result of the queer affair was the issuance
of an order by the mayor forbidding the
wearing of "Mother Hubbards" on the
streets ot Burlington except under cer
tain restrictions. Young women will
hereafter be allowed to wear them us
loosely as they please while seated
on the steps of their own
residences or upon their own grounds ,
They will also bo allowed to
wear them under the sanction of the law
upon the streets if the dresses are belted
but not othenvioo if Ihe girls are alono.
If they huvo escorts they can wear
"Mother Hubbards" as much in the Hewing -
ing boudoir lashion as they choose in any
part of the town , both in' the day and
the evening. The regulations , it is ex
plained , are simply for the sake of pro-
tecling the girls of Burlington from the
wrath of the populace , and arc not in
tended especially as reflecting upon the
toilet itself. These regulations are com
mended to the attention of Marshal Cum-
ings , in case he should find it necessary
to revive the war upon "Mother Hub-
bards" in Omaha.
THE recent visit of Chailes Francis
Adams to Omaha will no doubt bring
about several important improvements
in this city at a much earlier day than
any one hud reason to expect. Mr.
Adams is warming up towards this
growing city of 75,000 people. Ho begins
to realize that the Union Pacific has too
long neglected its duty to Omaha , and
that it is to the interest of the road to
build up the city.
TIIK showers that como m the spring ,
tra-la-la , are rather depressing for real
estate agents but 11103- cause a 7x1) ) smile
to spread over the face of farmers who
have finished their seeding.
So Jit : Systematic and thorough method
of gurbage-cleahing.should bo provided
by the city council. At present there is
uo regular or convenient way of dispos
ing of garbage. Tins is an important
matter , and the hcaltkof the public de
mands immediate action in regard to it.
THE "Poet of tlio terras , " writes lethe
the Chicago Times a1 defense of Gen.
Crook. There is nrorc trtith tlmn poetry
In what ho says.
Mn. HcitMAX KUUNTZE Is opposed to
the cable line crossing tlio viaduct. Ho
gives his reasons in this issue of llio BEE.
POINTED l'Atti\G APIlS.
A kiln ought to bo ihadjj of fly paper.
A motto for the Knights of Labor : "All
that Blltlers is not Gould. "
Anyone who Is quick at repartee must nec-
ccssarily have a great response ability.
If cases of drunkenness were nrigncd before
a full court thcro would he no convictions.
They say the word "chestnut" has reached
Intel lor Africa. That seems to bo carrying
i joke almost too far.
The master woikiuan is the bin strain ham
mer in Krupji'H gun works. Strange to say ,
that \vhilo It H always on duty it is always
on stiiko.
There nro SOIIIP men who have "schooners"
nmnliip Into them every day , and yet nro not
v recks. Tills shows that the human frame Is
tougher than a big iron steamship.
Kdward Atkinson's argument that a man
can live on B100 a year In Boston is all built
upon the presumption that there will never
be a lii'iin famine.
The word salary comes from the Latin sal-
arluiii , literally salt money , from sal ,
salt , which was part of the p ay of Roman
soldiers. Tills will pnjlubly explain why
certain young Indies u'g.ird .voting incii who
receive meagie salaries us being entirely "too
fiesh. "
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Auotlicr Voting iMun Going lllclit.
A'nrrMoicii Herald.
AVe shall not send our son to Vale College.
Its base ball club was defeated last week.
Brayo I with tlie Drove.
.iffttmu/icr / Join-lint.
Itcv. Bceuher called tlio democratic
paity a double-eared ass he doubtless foigot
that he brayed with the drove in 1331.
Only One Kxooptiou.
St. rsntlsl'itst-Wwitcli.
Public sentiment Is , with one exception ,
unanimously In laver of arbitration. Tins
exception is merely the Missouri P.ielliu rail
way management.
Clergymen 21111 ! Kdilors as Husbands.
/iniiOTx Win Times.
Clergymen , as a rule , make the worst hus
bands in the world. Kdltors rank next.
The reasons arc that , while t'ditois aie away
day and night , clergymen are at home night
and day. _
nnd l > r. Tanner.
Llittnlii Journal.
Fred N'ye has a good deal to say about the
fare furnished to Ih'e Inmates of the Home
fin the Friendless. 0 Jook at the Inmates
and then at Fred , ope would , conclude that
he had himself a regular.Dr. . Tanner time of
it as lo victuals. ,
Showed Its Gtnxi Sense.
Ktiiisug Ctlii Journal.
The city council of Omaha has passed an
ordinance providing/or a.system of building
inspection and creating theofiiceof inspecto
of buildings. Such a System has been in
operation in this city , for several years with
the best results. The Omaha council baa
shown its good sense. *
It Is Human Nature to be Stubborn.
litmtnA Herald.
Poor human nature Isl pretty much the
same all around. IK'Hay Gould eager to cor
rect his mistakes ? Eve'ii the Senate of the
United States cannot back down cracefully
from a wrong position. And our excellent
and courageous president is not disposed to
withdraw or revoke bad appointments that
he has been led to make.
Why the Jjaborliif ? Men Support Vail
Wyck.
lllimniiiiuton Justice.
If It was true that Van Wyck was doing
half that the corporations intimate that he
was , wo would not support him ; but the very
fact that money-sharks , corporations and
blood-thirsty monopolies oppose Van Wyck ,
is the greater reason for his receiving the
support of all laboring men. If these arch
knaves could control him , they would sup
port hi in.
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\Vliite-Houso Kalliul.
Kiigtnc I'iettl in Chicago NiH'S ,
"AYlint of these tidings , CJrovordear ,
That are reported far and near
Upon suspicious breath ?
And is it true , as eke 'tis said ,
That you have inado your mind to wed ? "
Quoth iMe Elizabeth.
AVith that his conscience smote him sore
lie cast his eyes upon the floor ,
lint not n word he saith ;
Then did she guess his secret tlame
In sooth she was a craftv dame.
Was Itose Elizabeth.
She flaunted out Into the hall
In grievous wrath nnd tears withal ,
Did Hose Elizabeth ;
A ml when ho saw her gruwsomn rage
That no entreaties could assuage ,
Ho fiercely muttered "S'death 1"
STATE ANO TEUHIXOilY.
Nebraska Jottings.
A member of the Smith family is going
to start a paper in Sioux county.
A prairie fire near Gothenburg last
week destroyed $1,000 of property.
The water bonds repently issued by Co
lumbus sold at a premium of 2 } per cent.
Tecuni.scili'H ambition in the hotel line
has dwindled down from $10,000 to noth
ing.T. .
T. Vf. Pommel , of Auburn , boasts of a
stone jar , a family heirloom , 180 years
old.
old.The
The bankers and educators of Ains-
worth knuckle down to marbles us un
evening pastime.
Ex-Governor St. John is billed to deliver -
liver a perms of cold water epistles in
various towns in the'stnto. '
Ex-Mayor LuntryVfaf' fftl , is charged
with nmbczzliug$7 " . ' " , cemetery funds ,
and the city has sucil h.S ii for the money.
Gamblers are biipkiqg against hard
luck in Hastings , fj'x professional chips
werorakod in by thpjpouco last WCCK and
liuea $100 and costs'jsacji.
Chadron is rapidly foiling to the front
as a wholesale distributing point. The
town already has sciven.wholo3alo houses ,
all doing a good biiBJnegp.
Our own Mary Anderson is said to bo
negotiating for n stock .ranch near North
Platte , What u delicious prairie picture
it would bo to see i-Jind < hoar the great
actress declaim in tragic tones , "Come ,
bossiol" I'I- 'it
kossils are coming1 td'lhe ' surface , Out
ut Edgar the other dliy U deer's horn was
found at u depth of sixty feet. A petri
fied Easter egg was found at a depth of
twenty feet by the graders of the Belt
line in Omaha ,
"Kids who monkey with a eun and live
should bo raised with a hand , " remarked
Mr. Lofnndcr , ot Oakland , as ho grabbed
a vouth who toyed with a gun in a group
of chilrron. And Mr. L. promptly
smoothed the fur on the boy's spine with
his palm.
The salutatory of the Sidney Democrat ,
just started by J , F. Melliiigton , is a
model of brevity and breadth. Hero it
is ; "Domocratip in politics , temperance
and religion. Terms $2.00 a year in ad
vance. " The paper is planted lirmly on
the path of the now land ollieo.
The soul stirring uilvico given bv some
of the provincial uapors , especially ou
"mre\Tell" occasions , dcscrvcscniumeud-
able notice. The following is from the
Htishvlllo Standard : "Shorty" Griswold
is the of "Iloll-Koarln1
upon eve a trip to -
Creek , " in Wyoming. Our fa re well word
of advice to Shorty is never weaken.
Map peddlers in the sta.to have little
trouble planting now towns and making
railroads gro\v where none grew before.
If a patron objects to purchasing a map
because the latest grade stakes and town
additions are not plainly marked , the en
terprising peddler hurries to his room
and with pen and pencil makes the town
a railroad center , ns well as a prospective-
county scat. That fixes the sale.
Nebraska City is just now tryinjj to
unravel a mystery and a romance spring
ing from the humbler walks of life. Mrs.
Miranda Jennis cheerfully put on the
malrimoninl yoke at the ago of 14 with
u man tottering on llio phtuly side of 40.
The folly of ti union of May with De
cember was soon apparent. Jealousy ,
abuse and misery trailed about the do
mestic hearth for six weary years , when
Miranda attempted to sever the unnatural
tie with u pisloi. She put two bullets in
her husband's body and loft him for a
lifo of toil. Lust week , so the story goes ,
she suddenly loft her work in u promi
nent hotel , because the brother of her
husband had arrived in town in search of
her. Ono false and foolish stop leads lo
another. At , the age of ! 21 Miranda finds
herself \vandcrer with peace of mind
aud conscience replaced by fear and
poverty.
Iowa
Corning is building a $13,000 , aeadcmy.
There aru over 200 additions to the city
of DCS Moincs.
Crawford county's saloons have been
shut up witli an injunction.
Clarion tools a loud bugle in praise of
the potters' chij found in that vicinity.
The bounty for wolf scalps in Louisa
county bus been cut down from ? 5 to $1.
A Shollsburg lady dislocated her jaw in
attempting to dislodge mucus from her
throat.
In Elk township , liucnu Vi.stu county ,
2,000 hogs have died from cholera during
the past"vcar. .
The Pleasant street M. E. church of
DCS MoiiiL-s raised $1,000 on Easter Sun
day for the benclit of Simpson college , at
Indinnola.
An Emmet county man with a long
memory says this spring resembles that
of 18(10 ( , in the north , though there is less
wind in the south.
The Irish people of Burlington have
raised about $100 , which will be sent to
the starving families of the fishermen of
the islands of Achill , on the west coast
of Ireland.
What is believed to be the smallest calf
on record was born on tlio Humphrey
farm , in Dickinson county , lust wceff.
The calf , which is in perfect health ,
weighed at birth only eight pounds and
was twenty incites high.
A \Vaterloo contractor was caught by
his wife in the embraces of a courtesan ,
and a wild tjmo ensued. The angry
wife tickled his bare shins with n raw
hide and made him dance a lively jig
before ho got a hitch on his suspenders.
Mr. John L. Hubbell died at the resj-
dence of his son in Davenport last Fri
day. Mr. Hubbell was born in Connecti
cut in 17DO. He came of a long-lived and
prominent race of mechanics and manu
facturers. The family lived in Fuirlield
county , Connecticut , a century and a
half.
half.A
A 20-months' old child of Charles
Bramble , of Hartley , was scalded to
death last week by falling into a dishpan-
ful of boiling water. The mother was
washing , ami had set the water on the
floor while she emptied a tub. The little
one was walking around a chair , and ac
cidentally fell into the pan.
A Marshalltown man insulted a re
spectable lady of that city. The citizens
turned out and gave the man a coat of
tar and feathers. The man thereupon
instituted a suit against the husband of
the lady who was insulted for damages.
The case was tried lu.st week nnd the
jury returned a verdict in favor of the
defendant for $1 , thus throwing the costs
of the suit upon the man who brought
the suit.
Dakota.
A large elevator is being built at Ord-
way.
The last semi-monthly output of the
Iron Hill and Kelt mines near iJcadwood
nelted $200,000.
Wheat in Hughes county is several
inches above ground , and farmers are
putting in corn.
A company has been organised at
Rapid City to build a , narrow gunge rail
road to the tin districts.
The Northwestern railroad company
has purchased 500 acres of land near
Liulden , Dickey county , for a town site.
Groton college , in Brown county , has
113 pupils. 'Ihe town of Groton pre
sented the college with forty acres of
hind.
There will not bo us much flax sown in
Douglas county lliis year as Ihoro was
Just. The farmers are favorable to mixed
farming.
The annual meetingof tlio Dakota Press
association will be held at Aberdeen , be
ginning Monday , Juno 21 , and continu-
iu < ! ; two days.
The Dismal Canyon strike near Buffalo
Gup is said to pan out well. Ore taken
from the Mother lode last week assayed
! ! ) ( ) ounces of silver to the ton. A ton of
the mineral has boon sent to Omaha fora
thorough test.
A Scottish syndicate has recently pur
chased .seventeen sections of land in the
counties west and north of Cass county ,
paying $87,000 for it. There is no better
ummp'roved hind in the territory.
The Kingman farm near Hillsboro is
not among llio largest of the bonanzas ,
but in culture and equipment is a model
and the admiration of visitors. It IIIIH
for some time pust been putting in ICO
acres of wheat a duy with seventy horses.
An enormous kite was raised ut Puk-
wana ono day last week. It was 11 by 10
feet in size , and the tail , composed of
grain sacks , was 70 feet lontr. A largo
rope 8,000 feet Jong was attached to the
kite , and it required a windlass to draw
it down when it was taken in ,
The Question of tlio Hour.
The Current , Avrtl 17.
The editor who writes with a free pen
may lay his mind to Gladstone , to silver ,
to unnecessary public debt , to executive
aggrandizement , or to the admission of
now states into our union , but his
thoughts over turn to the crisis in the af
fairs of capital and labor. That is the
question of the hour. The artificial
scareily of our currency may have hur
ried the matter to n head , but the cause
lay somewhere beneath , and would in
time have worked its eflt'cl. It has often
happened , ot lute , that employers and
their men huvo quarreled ; the men have
stopped work ; the slate has taken but
ono view of Ihe ease that the work must
go on , not that the inen.inubt go to work ;
aliens have been brought in by the sellish
employers ; llio slatu lias mar.shalod iU
Iroops ; tlui aliens have been hooted ,
stoned , maltreated , killed ; the
troops have fired into the
crowd , and have silmost always
killed a woman , sometimes a woman and
her babe. This has had effect of settling
the disorder. The work has proceeded ,
and the self-evicted workmen huvo
migrated , the state having made exiles
out of citizens. This has happened in
Illinois twice of lute ut Lempnt and at
east St. Louis. Each time that the vni
ployers and employes quarrel ana the
matter is settled by law lo suit the cm-
ployers , there is an added nuuiburof con
verts .to the belief that the social system
must bo changed , This idea coin pro1
liends so much which Is tp.rrlfylng that
the men of conservative nature ami con
victions recoils in horror from any
such forcusto , liut his horror only adds
to the dangers of tlio time , for in that
horror wo have the opposing force that
% vottld make the social readjustment all
the more difficult. Now , in the strikes
of the spring of 1830 , which are
nxactly like many other strikes
we have- had , we must got the
lesson thai all strikes should have
taught us , or we mu < a go on striking.
anu burning , and killing women ami
passer-by until we shall be willing to
learn. If wo look back over the lamentable -
able affair of the last month , wo may see
that on Sunday , March 29 , Jay Gould
gave his word tliat he would make peace ,
nnd that the strikers accented Ins word
in good faith. Tlio next day Jay Gould
equivocated , and the strike was begun
again. It is said that Jay Gould suc
cumbed to tlio pressure brought on him
by eastern magnates , who did not want
him to make peace , lint , whatever the
cause , had Jay Gould acti'il In good faith
instead of bad , the strike would have
been over , anil the woman would not
have been killed at East St. Louis , if
such a proposition bo acceptable to llio
thinker , does there not remain , as a rea
sonable sequence , the idea thai , when wo
mil down a strike , we are but ointiiulliu
sore ; wo are not cleaning the blooilY Is
there not some central truth in this thing
that we have overlooked for years ?
Jay Gould is a great cap
tain of industry , llio general of
an army. His army are mutinous. What
can there be done with a mutinous nrmyV
Nothing. What did Homo do ? She ac
cepted tlio mutinous armies' ' omnprors.
Now is it not limn to inquire into tin ? con
duct of the general-in-oliief are the in
dustrial army unsnat the government it
self ? Is it possible that , in all tluwu
years , the generals always have been
right and their armies always wrong ? Is
it liki-ly thai Jay Gould was right when
lie equivocated on that March Sunday ?
Now , if Jay Gould were wrong , why wan
the woman killed by law for his benefit ?
That is the question wo must ask ? Why
srouldtho statute always take the part of
the employer , right or wrong ? Will there
over be permanent peace so long as that
kind of law shall ho all the law we have ?
The Current does not believe thai liicrc
will bo any such peace during the con
tinuance of any such state of
things. The very aliens who
como to the aid of the employers
are Ihe ringleaders of llio next onslaught
tigainsl peace and property. Now the
law should lirst inquire into the general
ship of Ihe army ot induslry. If u iron-
oral or two were roundly punished when
ho or they had erred , there would bo a
renaissance of law and order. In law ,
for a ; es , the workman has been llic only
possible offender against industry. The
nirer could Uo no wrong. This came
from the poverty of the world. But the
world has grown rich through the use of
machines. Labor and not canitul is now
the moro important factor. The old ad
justment of the ever-arising difficulties is
no adjustment at all. There must 'bo a
change , and men may either accept it
with bloodshed or without. The envy of
man has been aroused. He can make
more than he could in former centuries
and ho is determined to have more. Jay
Gould says the hired man shall have no
moro. The law says Jay Gould
is righl. But the law must be changed ,
or it will surely be trampled under foot.
We can have our own republic or we can
have its successor , just as we choose ; but
with either we will have a law thai will
inquire as freely into the action of capi
tal as it would into the action of labor.
The present law and the present repub
lic may not have gone to their utmost
limit in supporting Jay Gould , but , if
they have not yet reached that bound ,
they will soon arrive there. The present
idea of the law is doomed. The legal in
dustrial dictum that the employer can done
no wrong is to-day wilhout moral force.
When work may cease at any place , the
nublie desideratum is not that the work
per so should resume , but that the men
should resume their work. Any other
arrangement should be illegal.
IteaulU'iil AVonicu.
arc made palid and unattractive by fac
tional irregularities which Dr. Pierec's
"Favorite Prescription" will infallibly
cure. Thousands of testimonials. By
Druggists.
_ _
Weeping at tlio Gettysburg Puuo-
ruinu.
Detroit Free Press : Among the crowd
present at the panoramic buttle of Get
tysburg the other evening ; was a boy 10
years old. He had been ga/.ing around
him for about fifteen minutes , when he
began to weep. The fact was noticed ,
and directly a gentleman said :
"Ah , poor lad. This painting revives
some episode of grief in his life. My boy
why do you weep ? "
" 'Ca-ca-causc , sir , " was the broken
reply as his tears fell faster.
"Docs the sight of this battle move
you ? "
"Y-yes. "
"Diil your father lay down his life on
this field ? "
"No. "
"But you lost a relation of some sort ? '
"Not not that I know of. "
"Then it must IMJ these- bloody scenes
that overcome yon , poor child. "
"N-no , sir. 1 como in hero on the
money which dad gave me to buy mo
lasses with and it bus just .struck me that
the whole union army can't stop him
from giving mo a bimuwful whalin'
when I git homo. I reckon that feller
over there on a stretehor is me after
dud gits through bringin' up his
reserves. "
BLOODrlUMORS
UMIMATINO Eruptions. Itclilnfr niicl Hum-
H IngKkln tortures , lonthsomu BOIOS , mul
every spi-fins of Jtclilnx , scnly , pimply , Inher
ited , gcrofulnug mid contusions ! cll&ou&cs of llio
blood , sUIn and ucalp , with loss of liulr , from In-
f uticy to old ago , wo positively cured l > y Cull-
oiiru , thu ( treat nUIn euro , nnd Cutlcurii Soup ,
un exquisite Edln Ix-iuitltlor , cxtcrimlly , uud
Outlcuru Hesolvent , the now blood purifier , In-
tornully.
_
COVKHEI ) WITH SOUKS.
Ilmvoboou uftllcted Rlnuo lust March with a
skin Uisuuso the doctors cull pcicuiti. My fuco
witscorcrod with scubs and ser < ; , mul ttiu ilcli-
IiiKtiml bnrnlnir wore almost unbuitralilu. Boo-
iiitf your Cutlcurn Hcimcdlo.s no lilKlily rccom-
mended , concluded to glvo them n trial , nsliiR
the Cittlcuru und Cutlcuru Soup externally , innl
Itestilvunt iulLTiiully , tor four umnllis. I cull
myself curort , In Brntltudc lor wlilcli I imiUo
this puhllo stutomuut.
stutomuut.Mas. . CI.AIIA A. FiiKucmcK.
Ilrond llrook , Conn.
SCALP , FACU , KAKS AND NKCK.
I was ultllcted with OCV.CMIII on ( lie sculp , I'uco
ours nnd m--ck , which tlio dniKKfct , ivlmri.- iot
your rcmodlos , pronouuocil into of tlio worst
( . iiso.-i lluil hud como under hU nollce , lid ad
vised mo lo try your Ciitloui-a Huniudles , mul
nIHT tlvo iluys1 usu my tcalp and purtoi my
Iiiciivoro entirely cured , mid I hope In unotlu.T
wcol < In liuve my cum , neck , nud the oilier part
of my JHCO cine I. HKUSIAN Sr.Ut.
li.0 U Mill fclrucl , Now York.
1TCHINO JHHKASES CUUKD ,
Cutluiini BUI ml 3 ut Hio lioiul of ' 1 8 era
ospoeluyy Is this the uihti wild llio Ciitlom-
Houp. iluvu hud 1111 n.iuiilly IO < H ! uilo tills Micd
nii-owiiif ! { to Hio provtilfiiiH ) of un uuKruvatua
lui-ju of Itch through tiiuiu Jocullllus In tlu
country , In which ihoCiilliMirnromodlusju-ovcd
suiNfuctory.V. . 1 < , lUumua , Urujfsist.
Ciilniitown , Ky. _
CUTICtWA UEMUDIES
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