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\ THIS OMAHA DAILY Stiff : TUESDAY , itAY 4 , 1880. | . THE DAILY BEE. OMAHA OFFICE , No. OH ASH 910 FAHNAM 8r NKW YoiiKOrriCK , Boon KJ.Tiiinu.si Duit.nlNO WASHINGTON OFHCK , No. 613 FounnKmt ST. Ptililshf ) > (1 every morning , except Sunday. The only Monday morning pupcr published In tbo etnfo. TFIIM * nr MAtr.t Onn Vcnr . $ ianoThr , ( > n Months . fSM EUMonths. . fi.lXi.Oiio Month . 1.00 THF. WEEKLY nr.r. , Published Evnry Wednesday. TF.IIHB , I-OSTPAIO ! * One Vrnr , with premium . . . . . f2.no OnoYcnr , without iiromlum. . . . . . . . 1.23 KlxMontlu , without premium. . . . . . . . . . . "ft One Month , on trlnl , , . . . . . . . . 10 An communications relating to new * nncl ndl- torlnliimttcrn should bo nddrusscd to the Km- jon or "Hi : HER. HER.BDHINKM BDHINKM M5TTEM ! All bii'lness letter * nml remittances should bo imdro ; ed to TIIR DRR PuiiMRiiim ) COMfANr , OMAHA. Drafts , chocks nnd poMolllco orders to bo niQilo imynblo to the order or tbo company. IKE Bit POBllSHIIlGliPJlllh PBOPBItUW K. HOSRWATEH. BDlTon. TJIl'J 1JKI3. Sworn Statement ot'Clrcitlntlon. State of NebnxsUa , 1 _ Conntv nt Douglas , t Mt 8l N. P. Veil , cashier of ( ho Ueo Publislilnc rotnpanVi < l < > us solemnly swear that the nc- tttal circulation of the Dally lice for thu week ending April IKHIi , Wbtt , was a3 follows : Morntnu Evcntno Date. Million. Ktlitlnn. Total Saturday. 21th 0,500 5,070 l'J,470 Monday , SJGtli. . 7.10U 8,005 13,705 Tuesday , S7lli . O.itOO 5,715 13.01B M'cdiHsiliiy.ss . OHW : 5,845 12,145 Thumb v , iiOth. 000 ! ! fioft-i ll.tXW Fihlny.UOth 0i7.r : 5.800 13,173 Average . 0,470 5,777 13,050 N. P. Fr.it. . Sworn to nml subscribed before me , this 1st day of May , A. D. lean. SIMON , T. Fistrr.n. _ Notniy Public. N , P. Fell , bolnt ; llr > t duly sworn , deposes nnd says that bo Is rnshier of the Hco Pub lishing company , that thu actual average daily circulation of the Dally ICG for the month of January , 1830 , was 10 , 78 roplas ; for Fcbnmry. 1BSO , 10,69j copies : for March , 18SO , 11.B37 copies. Sworn to and subset Ibcd before mo this 17tli day of April , A. 1) . 18bO. ruuiic. Notice to Agents nnd Subscribers. Hereafter all orders for papers , all complaints about postal delays , and all remittances should bo directed to the BKE Publishing company , Omaha , Nebraska. Mr. Filch will still continue as manager of the circulation of the HICK , west of the Missouri. Tun law to which Labor bows submis sively is the liiro law. SEVEN thousand sausage makers struck in Chicago yesterday. The canines are happy. MORE brick blocks for wholesale pur poses and residences is a crying demand in Omaha this .spring. STEADY work at fair wages is bettor for workiugmen than high wages for a few months and long "lay ofl's" during the rest of the year. CLEVELAND is said to have let the contract for his wedding shirt. It collar and Jcflbr- has a twenty-inch a - sonian frill down the front. A BANJO serenade from the editor of tno Ilcjntbtican under Senator Van Wydk's window , during his stay in Omaha , may bo safely predicted. IT may not bo inappropriate to remark that there is a great deal of Folsom flat tery going the rounds of the press in con nection with the president's approaching nuptials. WE observe that Jeff. Davis during his triumphant tour has said not a word about velticoiits. Perhaps his iunato modesty prevents him froin referring to such a. delicate subject. THE Mormon hegira into Mexico has fairly set in , says an associated press de spatch. Mexico beats the penitentiary , into which there has been a Mormon hegira for two years past. WHEN BEATIT comes back from Wash ington Hastings will not bo able to hold him. A man who dipped coup out of the BAmo dish with Grover Cleveland is alto gether lee great f9r this latitude * EVJSUV day of Omaha's growth brings her into closer Competition with her rivals. Hard work and small margins are the keys by which our business mon will unlock the door to coninuueial sue- cess in the wholesale trado. if _ ln. STANDING BKATI likes Washington. r .Like all the other Indians who go on to , ( too the Great Father , Chief Standing r Boar- goes back to Norfolk with an en larged idea about the white man. Ho thinks "white man mighty uncertain. " THK Union Pacific has been helping itself to Nebraska for years , but under a changed management Nebraska is will ing to help itself by helping the Union Pacific out of the slough in which it has been stink by the ringstors and jobbers who fattened oil'its resources for twenty years. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The presence of Senator Van Wyck in -Dmuliu will afford our business mon and .tho manager of the Union Pacillc an op portunity to interchange views with re gard to the proposed bill to enable that toad to construct branches nnd fowlers to its main Unit. The senator comes with no other fooling than a dosirn to serve liis constituents , The bill which ho In troduced some weeks ago , authorizing the Union Pacific to use the sinking fund deposit for the construction of branches , was designed for the sumo purpose. If its provUlons do not incut thu requirements of the road wo Imvo 110 doubt that the senator will cheerfully modify it ; providing that the changes asked for do not leave the way open for stock watering and in. aide construction rings. If It is thought best to abandon the oftnrt to sucuro the USD of the sinking fund surplus , and sim ply abk congress to grant authority to the Union Pacilio to use its credit for the construction of feeders with proper re strictions against n buses , wo buliero Soli citor Van \Vyok will use his bust oU'ovt * to secure the passage of such a bill , Wo understand the senator hts : notitlod the .president ot the board of trade that ho would meet members nnd other parties JiuoresU'd to consider this mcnsiuo , and wo have no doubt that a s-aUsfnolory un- .clorstnudlng will bo arrived at by which the soniitor ami the entile Xnlmiika ( Julo- gatiou eau act in concert. A. .Square Ilnok Down. Mr. Edmunds and his third resolution received another black eye on Thursday from republican senators nnd republican voles. The one ciwo upon which the senator from Vermont hinged his causa nnd on which ho brought on his contest between the senate and the president was quietly and peacefully disposed of in executive session on Thursday with scarcely a gnrglo of dissent. A Washington dispatch gives the history of this sad nflair as follows : When Senator. . Edmunds de cided to bring on the contest between the senate and the president concerning the richt of the former to demand any papers the executive might have regard ing a person suspended from oliico ho selected as a peg upon which to hang the struggle the nomination ol John D. Burnett to succeed Gcorgo M. Duskln , suspended from the oliico of United Suites district attorney of Alabama. It was upon the refusal to furnish the papers in this case that the judiciary committee , under the lead of Mr. Kdmunds , presented the report to which was attached the famous resolution calling for the rejection of all such nominations as that of Uurnctt. No sooner had Mr. Kdmunds' secured the adoption of the resolution than it was freely predicted that the senators wco voted for it in open session would not live up to it in secret sessions , but everybody believed that it would at least bo regarded in IJurnolt's case. There were no charges against Burnett's character , or any intimations that ho was not qualified to hold the ollice , but lie was to be rejected because the president would not give up private pa pers to the senate. The programme has not been carried out , and Mr. Bur nett lias been confirmed. It hap pened that while lii.s nomination was pending in the senate Duskin's term expired. The president sent in anew now nomination of Burnett , this time to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration nf DuBWtj ; ar Ii Jnlo7us reached the other daj' , and ho was confirmed so easily and quietly that some of the senators did not notice .that his name had been read at all. The fact of his continuation has not j'ot boon olllciallj * made public , and it is reported that one of the ropub- lican.soiiatoi'3 entered a motion to recon sider the vole , which will have the effect of holding up thu matter until the mo tion is disposed of. Mr. Edmunds' third resolution was sheer buncombe. It passed the senate by the skin of its teeth , because senators who were too cowardly to vote against it on the floor of the senate chamber agreed among themselves to disregard it behind the closed doors of tlio secret ses sion. Its threats have not been carried out in a single instance because they never were intended to be carried out. Senator Van Wyck had the courage of his convictions. Ho declined to support the resolution in open session because ho has always declined to pose before the public in one attitude and act privately in another. The action of the senate since the passage of Mr. Edmunds' reso lution has vindicated Senator Van Wyck's position , while it has shown up the skulkers in no vcrv enviable light. Homo Rule Prospects. The bitter opposition which Mr. Glad stone's measures for Irish relief awakened upon their first announcement is rapidly subsiding. Three weeks ago the failure of the homo rule bill was confidently pre dicted by a heavy majority , a largo part of which was to come from the liberal ranks. To-day its passage to its second reading is conorally conceded and tno contest is postponed almost by common consent until after its consideration in committee. Under the parliamentary procedure of the house of com mons a measure may be killed at three stages. The house may decline to consider it on the motion for leave to introduce. It may again throw it overboard after its intro duction , and before amendment on the motion that il bo passed to the second reading. This motion carries it into committee of the whole for general dis cussion and amendment , after which the bill may bo llnally disposed of when mit upon its passage. Mr. Gladstone's mea sures have passed their first stage. Their more introduction without divis ion marked an epoch in Eng lish history. Five years ago the government could Jiavo boon over thrown on the bare official proposal of home rule. An English parliament would have Declined to Jimon oven to William K. Gladstone in explanation of such a measure ns that which loss than a month ago ho presented to an overflowing house of English wealth , aristocrauy nnd intelligence. There is little doubt now , siueo the Easter mas ? has given oppor tunity for discussion nnd dohatothat both the home rule bill and the land bill will pass to a second reading. This means that parliament is not only will ing to listen to the measures for the rcliof of Ireland but to discuss them. Mr.Morloy'a speeches have greatly contributed in fostering a favorable ) pub lic opinion. He has announced that the cabinet arc united in their support of Mr. Glndslono'd mo.ttmrcs , and that the min istry will not oppose amendments which do not strike at the vital features of the bills. In other words , the ministry are prepared to make reasonable concessions such as the majority may demand , m order to secure their assent. Among thu-rto Mr , Morley especially named the exclusion of the Irish members trom parliament , The prospect for the passage of the Irish bills with doino modifications , grow bi ighler day by d\y , Mr. Gladstone has now , as ho always had , behind him the solid body of thu English , the Welsh and the Scotch liberals. Birmingham and London may show opposition , but ( hey will bo more than compensated for by rural Great Britain. With the passage of thu Irish bills by the commons will begin - gin the end of the great struggle. Both mnasurcs , in whatever form they may reach the lords , will doubtless be thrown out. Then will coma r. dissolution of parliament , an appeal to the country followed by the elnotion of a parliament in which home rule will have a sweeping and victorious majority. Gov , WRSP is in the city on the way to his nnw dominion ia Utah , W Ind him to lo n man of culture and stroug "horse sense. " lie says he uxp ots to do his duty and docs not expect to sleep an n bed of roses , Judging from our personal im pressions of the governor wa expect that lui will prove to l > au vlHcient executive. Uko liis predecessor , Gov. Murray , ho hnils from Kentucky , nnd has n good many of the sterling qualities of the gen tleman from the hluo grass region. Eitucntlon nnd the Tariff. There nro symptoms of a speedy resus citation of the Blair educational bill from the pigeon holes of the committees on la bor and education. The measure as passed by the senate proposes to distrib ute the small trifle of seventy millions among the states -proportion to their illiteracy. Nebraska , which has for years , placed a high premium on educa tion , will secure practically nothing , while Alabama , Mississippi , and other southern states which made it a criminal offense to tench ignorant blacks the rudi ments of education , will revel in millions as a reward for their policy of promoting illiteracy. Quito apart from nuy rivally or jeal ously about the distribution of the sum proposed to bo appropriated by this measure , it is bad In principle nnd ill timed in its application. It is n premium on illiteracy. This fact stands out clear ly above all other objections to the meas ure. Thu west , which over since its or ganization into great status , has pursued a w'lso and prudent poiluy of fostering education and filling the youth for the duties of citizenship should not be called upon to-day to furnish states which have pursued an opposite policy with the means ' of correcting llio blunders of thu past. This vast sum of seventy millions has been accumulated in thu treasury by national taxation. Custom duties have furnished a largo portion of it. The western farmers who pay more than their proportion of the exactions of the tariff have contributed largely to this treasury surplus. They are not anxious to see it dissipated among the southern states by protectionist votes cast for the Blair bill to prevent the argument o.f a treasury surplus from being used as a club to boat down thu inequalities of the present tufti" . Evety representative of the great manufacturers is in favor of the Blair _ bill. Every congressional lobbyist who is working against any revision of the tariff support it in the holy cause of edu cation. These mon know very well that the moment the bill becomes a law any reduction of the tariff would bo declared impossible. The arguments of tariff re formers would bo promptly mot with the answer that the treasury require ments would not permit of any reduc tion in the revenue. Four years ago the opponents of tariff revision centered upon the bill reducing internal revenue taxes as a means to re duce the treasury surplus and block the path for a reduction in custom duties. Failing in that they drafted the present measure which passage would produce the same results. It ought to be defeated audit will be if the people understand the real motive which lies behind it. A Word AVItli Our Workinxmcn. The workingmcn of Omaha are now on trial with their fellow-laborers of the whole country. Upon their conduct at the present crisis depends their future prosperity and welfare. It will take level- hcadc'd , cool , temperate counsels to bring about the improvement of their condition which the laboring masses desire. It is not simply a question of enforcing the rights of labor and securing a proper share of the products of labor for the in dustrial class. It is conceded by all thinking men that labor properly organi zed has the power to enforce its just de mands. But in making these demands , workingmen must not imperil success by imponing unreasonable and extravagant terms upon their employers. Such de mands can only result in disaster to labor , bcuausn it could not sustain itself in the unequal struggle against capital backed by public opinion. Our workingmcn hayo , in the main , been prospering. The outlook for the season is very favorable to an active de mand for mechanics and laborers , and their earnings will as a consequence be greater. This will benefit the merchant ns well as the workingman , providing al ways that no enforced stoppage of work occurs. There is sucli a thinE as going to extremes. The demand for reduced hours is within itself right and proper. But. it is a serious question whether at this time a change from ten to eight hours' work with ten hours' pay would not bo too radical and force u contest in which labor would suffer more than capital by paralyzing all industry and enterprise. Tuko it for instance in the matter of building. Capitalists who have not al ready contracted for the erection of blocks and residences would naturally hold back and leava a large number of mechanics and laborers idle for the sea son. The same is true of manufac turers. As a friend of labor , the BEE would counsel moderation. A reduction from ton to uino hours with ton hours' pay would , it seems to us , bo a fair compromise , which capitalists , con tractors and workingmcn alike could af ford to accept rather than to enter upon a conflict , costly to all parties , damaging to enterprise , and seriously retarding the growth of Omaha. Above nil things , workingmen should not act rashly. They should take no stops that they will regret or that they will have to retrace , Those who are tem porarily Idle should stay away from the saloons. They need sober judgment in fiottling any dill'urcnee.s or dilliculty. The- great mass of Omaha workingmen have families to support , many of them have homes which are only partly paid for , and < ill of them have their own pros- purity at stake. They have shown on former occasions that they are law-abid ing , orderly and forbearing under the worbl provocations , nnd we feel confident that they will not belie their former record , PnoiJAur.Y thn queerest demand made yesterday by Chicago workingmen was that of thu beer makers , who struck , in addition to other demands , for an allow ance of fifteen glub&ctf of beer between the hours of 7 a. m. and 4 p. m. IT is estimated that fully 20,000 work ingmcn In Chicago yesterday won their point for eight hours' work for eight hours' pay. The- men who demanded ten hours' pay for eight hours' ' work were not quite so successful , In many instances however , their demand has bcuu taken under advisement. SKNATOH MANDKKSOK.III an interview , intimates that New York intluonces .se cured the veto of thu bill making Oatuha a port of ' iuiiucJiato transportation. "Whether this to ) lo or not , people will agree with the spndtor that the president's two vetoes of tlic bos Moines river lands bill nnd that to further Omaha's commercial morcial Interests -vff.ro unfortunate for his popularity in this section , MAIISIIAI , Bir.nnbwEii says ho does not care how well Dr. Boar is treated in the president's kitchenso long as ho holds on to the solid meat and draws the salary. PKOMINKNT I'KUSONS. Judge D.xvlil Davis Is reported to bo gel- ting ominously thin. lolin 0. New Is traveling In the Illo Gnuide. Xew Is growing old. Count Herbert Bismarck Is suITorlng from Inflammation ot the lungs. Francis Murphy has pinned on more blue ribbons than all the world's cmpciors put to gether. Miss Clara Loulso KclloRR dotes on dear old Kurope. She will do the old rookery this summer. lion. Lionel Tennyson , son of the poet laureate , died baring a passage from London to Calcutta , Don Cailos Is wllllni ; to bet on his chances of being king of Spain , but there seems to bo no one ready to take him up. "Woerlshoffcr , the cront Now York specula tor , has accumulated over 80,000,000 , by fortu nate ventures in Wall street. Franz Liszt Is salil to bo wholly dependent upon his loyalties and an annuity of 81,500 , 'which ho gets fioiu the duke of Baden. Mine. Aluanl , the once famous singer , has Just celebrated tlio sixtieth nnnlveis.iry of hcrbhthday. She Is living In Paris In line style. Verdi , the composer , lias taken live years to one opera , but when finished lu < thinks it will break un all tlio organ-gtindcrs in the world. Gov. Long , of Massachusetts , is going to marry a Massachusetts school teacher. The governor has U\o beautiful daughters by ids lust wife. llcnrv 1'nlpps , of Allcghany City , has * given the park committee 525.000 to onen frs 5hb\tSes \ wlilcU'wlirbiToiien to' Ihc fiuullc on Sunday. Col. Tom Curtis , of Buffalo , who was Cleveland's chief of police , Is said to bo likely to succeed Brooks as chief of the secret service buicau. Hon. C. J. Crosscy , the California million aire , besan lite on the slopii ns a wood-chop per. Gettlnir a few dollars ahead ho hired men to help him nnd thus began to rise. Mr. Gcorgo William Curtis' whiskers hnvo long been the aduiiintlon of Hie literary mon- aichs of Kmope. In London Mr. Curtis Is gencially taken for the emperor himself. Miss Annie Uoe , daughter of Col. U. II. Hoe , of tlio famous New York Proas Manu facturing company , who was recently mar ried In Florence , Jtnly , to Mr. Chas. A. Platt , was n most charmlm : bride. Even critical Florence acknowledged her grace nnd beauty. t The new minister < to Slam never played but one game of draw-poker , and then he called a CO-cent pot on four kings. Can such a man litly iciiresenttho American people In n foreign court ? ' Dr. Hammond the distinguished authority ou mental diseases. Is good enough to sug gest Inferentially that clergymen neeil a trip to Europe. There isnot a dissenting voice. T. B. AUlrleh does not believe the current newspaper paragraphs that ho was disgusted with the cool treatment ho recently received at the capital , while1 W. D. Uowelts was llonl/eil , and bases'his ' disbelief on the fact that ho has not been been lu Washing ton since 1S02. 1S02.Mnnt Mnnt lie n Mistake. Denver Trtlnme-ltcptibltcan. The New York Sun lias discovered a man who admits that ho would not know how to run a newspaper. This must be a mistake. There Is no such man. Not an Offensive Partisan. St. Louis Republican. This talk of another mistress of the white house is plainly opposed to the spirit of civil service reform. Miss lloso Eli/.abeth Cleve land , the present incumbent , is not nn of fensive partisan , and there are no charges against her. tbo Big Muddy. Kansas OitjJournal. . The only notice cougiess seems Inclined to take of the Missouri river , Is to pass bills au thorizing the construction of Bridges over It , amoiii : other "navigable streams. " When It comes to the question of maklnc tlio river more navigable , congress at once becomes apathetic. _ _ Htver Improvement. /unman Cflu Jnuinnl. It Is pleasant to observe tlio pertinacity with which the Missouri members insistupon a reasonable appioprlatlon for Missouri river Improvements. It Is far more pleasant tlian to note the equal peitlnaclty with which eastern congressmen endeavor to secure for some measly little river In the east the money that should go towaids improving the "Big Muddy. " Van Wyok's Speech. Chtcayu Tribune. Senator Van Wyck made a caustic speech in the senate last Tuesday on the bill for reg ulating Interstate commerce , In which ho paid his cordial respects to Mr. Jay Gould , to Sen ator Blair , the gond man from New Hamp shire ; to certain Nebraska editors , and to various other persons who have come within the scope of his disapproval. It was a speech that was listened to with interest , and , t > o far a.s tin * philanthropist of New Hampshire was concerned , In perfect silence. Mr , Van Wyck , as the New York Times remarks. Is not In nil regaids the model nf a constructive statesman , but his faculty of dcstiuctivo cilt- leism Is highly developed. My Charming Little Housekeeper. From Uofxl Hou eltccer \ , She dusts tlio s vmand brlc-n-brle , With just the ilaint'st ! | little knack , And always puts my papers back , My cliarmlngjllttju housekeeper. Ham jellies rnakcs-r.meiliigiies and creams , Moio fair than o > er poets' tlieams Like drifted sunv | your frosting gleams , My charming little , housekeeper. Nor docs the pioso of cooking slight Her biead Is \\oet and white and light , Her biscuits arum eoodly sight ( Ah , charming little housekeeper ) . blio reads with inn tlio magazines AlthoiiKh to one blio always leans- She makes the uiot.nrtlstlo screens , My charming JlttlA housekeeper , She sings to inot.wHi | dulcet voice , ( Fair Pattl's notes are not so choice ) , Shu does my classic soul rejoice , My charming little housekeeper , What wonder that I love her then As much and even more then wiieu Last May , the church beslilo the gleu Oh , charming little , housekeeper. Received a bright nnd Joyous throng | lllch voices swelled n nmrriacu song To mo you piomiscd to belong , My darling little housekeeper. A Point Well Taken. CJifwioo Ttnut. Senator Van Wyck , In his speech on the Interstate ralhoail bill , drew a striking pict ure of the effects that might bo expeclcd to follow the admission of Jay Gould to the New Jerusalem. According to tlio Imagina tive senator , Mr. Gould would there conspire , from force of habit , to buy a railroad , tear up the shining avenues , anil steal the golden pavements. Hut the senator's picture Is less impressive , perhaps , than It might otherwise , be if a seal good people did not bulleve tliat " " IT" Instead of reaching the Now Jerusalem , Mr. Gould will go to Hint plow where tko wntcr supply Is not sufficient to meet the demands ot thirst , much less to water railroad stocks. Cannon's Sacrifice. WilMCM Titiu * . Mormon Cnnnon , who has fled from Salt Lake City to escape Imprisonment for big amy , Is said to be hiding In Arizona. Ho attcsls the nrdor of his love of liberty by leaving four wives behind him a wrench upon tlio heart strings only one-quarter of which cnn bo understood by the man who , when fleeing from justice , has left but one wife behind him. Jeff In the Olden Time. ClMctnmilf Cumnificlat Gazette , Mr. Jefferson Davis is not saying qulto ns much nowadays ns ho taid in 1801 , a lllllo earlier than this In the year. Twciity-fivo years ago ho made twenty- live speeches on the way from Jackson , Miss. , lo Montgomery , Ala. He delivered his alleged inaugural at Montgomery , February 17,1801. That Mr. Davis was not a very wise man at that time wo have sometimes thought oven the southern people might some day bo able to ascer tain. Ho said at Jackson thai there might be war , but the union men of the north little knew the southern heart nnd endurance , We quote his words : "England and l-rauee would not allow our great staple to bo dammed 11(1 ( within pur present lmitsthostnrving ! ; thousands in their midst would not allow it. Wo have nothing to apprehend from block ade. But if they ntlempt invasion by land wo must take thu war out of our territory. If war must come , it msst bn upon northern and not upon southern soil. " At Stevenson , Ala. , he said : "Your border states will gladly come into the southern confederacy' within sixty days , as we will bo tlicir onlv friends. England will recognize us , and a glorious future is before us. Thu grass will grow in thu northern cities where thu pavements have benn worn oil by the tread of commerce. Wo will carry war where it is easy to advance where food for the sword and lorch await pur armies in the densely populated cities ; nnd thotigji Ihev ninv pome and spoil our C-ropS , 'we can l'n'l6 uiem'aS bcfOi'o , tviiTS Ihe'y can not rear the cities which took years of industry nnd millions of money to build. " _ AVliy nn Actor Reformed * Correspondence Sacramento Bee : Sheridan , the actor , paid us a brief visit. Ho came quietly , and as quiofy slipped back to Australia. Sheridan's habits have under-gone a complete change. It is a matlcr of public knowledge that few men who trod the boards were such abnormal tipplers as that talented tragedian. But ho looks upon the wine no more. Ho is a model of sobriety , and his appearance is infinitely improved by the fortunate change. Few know how the reformation came about. I had it from his oxvn lips. "One afternoon , " said the actor , "I was on Ihc stage at , rehearsal. The play was King Lear , tlio lines of which I am no familiar with as you are with the Lord's prayer. I came on , but , judge of my dismay nnd nstonislnncnt when I found out I could not remember a single phrase or spcecli in the part , I sent the call boy for a bottle of brandy , took a couple of drinks and tried it again. The result was Ihe same. My memory was a blank. Then I slipped back lo my dressing-room , look down n book of fa miliar recitations , and tried one which I had known for years and declaimed , I might say without exaggeration , not less than a hundred times. Not a line of is could I remember. I tried more brandy , but my memory con tinued a blank. I was terribly shocked. It seemed to me that I was forever ruined , and that my profesion had slipped out of my grasp , that this was the beginning of imbecility , and that I should wind up in a lunatic asylum I rushed from the theater , jumped into a hack , and directed the driver to take mete to the oflice of a doctor in whom I had utmost confidence , and who had often braced me up when enervated from tlm effects of a prolonged spree. Tlio fact that I could remember the number of his room filled me with inexpressible delight. I felt that there was yet some shred of intellect left nnd that all was not lost. He told mo not to bo alarmed , that my brain was not serious ly affected , and promised that I should bo all right within a month. But only on one condition , and that was absolute and rigid abstinence. I followed his ad vice , though it was a hard pull at the beginning and you see mo now better than I have been for many n day , " And ho looked it. The crimson nose , his most striking feature , wns toned down so llutt little of the old Hash re mained. His eyes were clear and bright , and ho seemed in every respect a now man. ' A Witty Indiana Lawyer. Detroit Free Press : A somewhat eminent lawyer in Indiana , Judge 7 , given at times to bibulous conviviality , on appearing one morning on the streets hi Washingtonin that state , wns accosted by a minister of the gospel as follows : "Well , drunk again , as usual , judge. " To which Judge Z answered "So am I , " and passed on. The same la.vyer visited an Illinois town and got on n spree. A police oflicor told him if lie did not go to his hotel and keep off the streets until he got sober ho would be arrested nnd looked up. To this the judge answered : "You c.m't ( hie ) do it. " "Why can't IV" inquired th ? officer. "Because , sir ( hie ) , got no jurisdiction ; this Is ( hie ) nn Indiana drunk. " While getting shaved tills lawyer , who is quite bnld-noadisd , wns attempted to bo guyed by a doctor whose hair was very profuse. The doctor said : "Why , judge , you are getting quito bald. " To this the judge answered : "Yes , brains and hair don't grow to gether. By the way , doctor , I observe that you have a line head of hair. " Colonel Muploson Mnclo to Pay. Special Dispatch to tlio St. Louis Gloko-Dmnocrat from Louisville , April 20 ; Tlio Missouri Pacific Hallway Com pany brought suit in Common Pleas this afternoon against J , 11. Mapleson for J 1.-8J , alleged to bo duo for transporting "Hor Majesty's Opera Couiimy" and its baggage from Kansas City to Louisville , . The plaintiff alh'ged that of into biun only $101 G-1 : md an acceptance of John T , ilncauloy for $10308 have been paid , and prayed judgment for the balance. An attachment wns procured on the ground that thu defendant was a non resident and wa about to remove a material part of his property out of the state , not being enough to satisfy tlio plniutiA's claim. The suit was brought for the phiintilf by Messrs , Bucknor mid Wpodloy , A slight abatement was made in the charge wiien Mr. Mapleson paid tlio amount , and thu attachment was re leased. It is said he was obliged to borrow tlio money from one of thu mem bers of this company. Mine. Minnie Hnuk left yesterday for Indianapolis. The Irrigationists have become strong enough in California to form a political party bused on the needs ot thu ngrioul- tural iutcrcils in the dry raugo. Birmingham , Ala , and Chattanooga , Tcnn. , owing to an abundance of iron ores , coal and labor , are putting pig iron on the market cheaper than Pittaburg can , An association of young men hns bcrn formed m New Yorker the promotion and practice of social rnuity. All ballots operatic-are tabooed. THE TIDE OFJOME BUILDERS The Billowy Frairios of Oheyonno County Covered With White Oaps. A Continuous Procession ofSottlcrs Extortlonnto Tolls nt Clark's BHileo Proposed Division of the Count- . SII NEY , Nob. , April a ? . [ Corrospon- ilunco of the HUB. ] The limnipintlou to this state this j-ear Is slmpiy enormous. The white \rngoii3 of the homo seekers , you might ns well say , nro nearly n con- tlnuotis procession along the whole line of the Platto. At every station thrro nro piles nnd piles of wnsons.farm machinery of all kinds , household goods in endless quantity , iuul variety , boxes of chickens , cows , calves nml n few plfis , niitl lots of horses nnd mules. I believe Cheyenne county will receive twice ns ninny settlers tlors this year ns any other county in the stato. Tlicro is now nlnrgc train of immi grants going north of the North riatto river ; tlioy cross the country following the old Sidney trail going to Dcnttwood , up us far as Camp Clark. At this point is Clark's ' toll bridge across the North Platto. This brldgo was built , by the present owner in the days of the early discovery of gold in Dead wood , and the rates of toll charged strikes the poor homesteader us simply extortionate. A bare statement of the rates of toll is nil that is necessary to show that the growl of the emigrant is not grounded in his iinmagmaUon. Tnis is the rate : 1 WHKOII , 2 hot ses and dilver S3 00 lhnv.su and rider 100 1 giangcron toot 50 For each additional team 100 For each person In a wagon after tbo ill Ivor 50 The rush across the North Platte at this time makes a line income. Your cor- rospomltmt/lou't know that this is a char tered incorporation or u private enter prise , and don't care , for cithur way it is a gross injustice to the traveling public , and i hoj'o the next legislature won't lose sight of Cheyenne pountv , but do some- Using W'JiSffity Wih wireaiouaSfq charges for toll across this bridge , that gives evident signs of old ago at this time. This enormous charge of crossing the Platte on Clark's bridge is sowing tl e seed that will eventually crush it. Thu lumber is now on the road to build n ferryboat twenty miles above Mr. Clark's bridge , at the now town of Tabor , nnd it lias been further talked of organizing a bridge company to nut in a pile bridge hero and charge at least decent rates of toll. Tliis bridge built , nnd Kimball on the North Plalte would bo Hut tranship ping point for the territory north of the North Plntto , being the most direct route , nnd is one that can be madp a good line of road , but this will not relieve the set tler on the North Platte east of Camp Clark. There is a good deal of talk about di viding Cheycnno county. It is proposed by some to divide this county into six counties. Cheyenne county as now con- fctiluted is 101 miles east and west and 70 miles north and south , containing 7.280 srjuaro miles , being larger in urea than either Massachusetts , Now Hampshire , Vermont. Rhode Island , Connecticut , Now Jersey or Rhode Island. If this county is divided into six , each county , if divided even , would give 1,215 , square miles to each new county , or 770,0120 acres. This would make respectable sized counties and would make a division that would not bo changed in the future- Anyone can see that there Is great econ. ouiy in tinibhing un the division at once. FUONTIKU. The Fellow's Wit Saved Him. A brigade was encamped near Charles ton , Va. , says Allen F. Hall in the Grand Army Sentinel , and a guard had been de tailed to protect the property of the citi zens in the neighborhood and strict or ders gjvon uzain&t foraging or taking anything without paying for it. The colonel of one of the regiments was out one day with his stall'and all of a sudden he came upon a private of his regiment with a sheep on his back , evidently just killed , lie rode up to the .soldier and nskuil him : "Where did you get that sheep ? " Ho answered : "Up hero in the field. " "Did you buy hiraV" "No , sir ; I just killed him , so. " "Why , don't you know that strict or ders have been issued against doing any thing like that ? " "Jes , sir , I know it , and will toil you how it was. I was going along the road whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner , " nnd this sheep held up ins head and looked straight at mo and said Mia-u , ba-u , ' and , sir , I up and killed him , as I won't allow anything to say 'ba-a' at mo when I'm singing or whistling the 'Star Spunglud Haulier. ' " It is needles * to flay that the colonel ' told him to go ahead. 'Tho fellow's wit saved him that time. A MonJsey us Smart ns Any Women. Ho was un itinerant Italian with noth ing left in the world to convnrt Into legal tender save his little ringtail monkey. "Fine monk , " ho said , patting the little brnto on the head. "Smart monk ; will sell him cheap for live dollars. " "Is hu trained ? " we observed , anxious to have tiio monkey perform her unties. "That monkey is as smart as any women ! " ho replied. "Here , monk , stand on your ] iua < . " Cut the little ape paid no attention to her master's voice. " 1 thought you said that your inonkov is as smart as any woman. She hasnrt obeyed the llrst order you have given. " "Well neither would a woman , " replied - plied thu Kalian us ho picked up his brute and ubuOicd out upon thu struct. The 1'irgcst ' silvci producing mine in the world was the Ontario , of Utah , which yielded , ai3,887. Examination of the boj of the Erin cunal shows it to bonurrowed and thickened by accumulations of debris. BILIOUSNESS Willed may bo term oil AN AFFECTION OF THE LIVER , And can bo cured by tbnt crntid Hujfjlntorof tbo Liver null Ullluiy SIMMONS LIVER RECHJLATOR. "I mllrml with IjllioiiMiusj nnd HVLT mid wimlcl rrciiuuiitiy tliixiv 1111 lillu. I procuicd a bottle of Simmons JJ\er Hniniliilor mid utter iislny i > bo\il oiio-hidf of II 'vus com. plololy enroll. Ono of mv ImJy oiutomi-u lold mullio ottirrtluy Ilittt filmmond Llvor Xcxtiln- lor ciiiiiletily | uurud her of slot ; lioadncliu. JI. OI.PS , Uruunl3t , Cixlur UupjUs. IOUH "Win liiif Itio lust ej J inomli * I una vc ry blllniiii.cfcftsloimliy Iimlnffd dumb uliili followed by fuvore , wblrli pioiliulti.l mo , ] took rtlmtimtia Llvor llo ulaiur , iiuU Kir 8ov ; rcil months I nuv bi'cnitibuml nnd limit ) Hi tiny mini could clcslro HI tiu. 1 Bin llioioiiubly sutlstlDd Hint It It. nil It l lecoijmiondoU for billuiia lO-iiplrtliild , lur inliio ivtuiTrtnlnly * g'.ubtmiu IMI.O. 1 liava beard miiii ) nr : ny frli ml * > jiuiUof : It unil tliuy tii-ii < c > it | > o o c/i ( > l | tbinir- luo vl.imiO'l for it \ II. Hu.inowMi , Conductor mi il. 4W , It. It. USEDIHALL ODKIAHRIAGEI 0. XMATI , II. K. A. Calil * Adtlrcti. COO-CJN B3T PERRY D AVIS' PAIN-KILLER IS HUCOMMKNDKD nV riij-alclnns , Ministers , Mlolonnrlos , Mnn ( ror of V'nctorlc.i , Work-shops , Plantations , NIIKOS In Ilopltnlg ln short , everybody - body ovorjn hero who has over given It n trlnl. TAKBN isip.ns u.t.T IT wit.t , nr. VOUMJ A cimr. rou SUDDKN COLDS , CHILLS , PAINS IN THU STOMACH , CRAMPS , SUM- MKtt AND DOWEL COMPLAINTS - PLAINTS , SOHE THROAT , &o. n urrcit.NAU.v , IT is TIIR MOST C'pKCTtvn AND IIKST ON KAItTIt IOII CD 111 Nil SPRAIN'S , HUUISES , IWEMATI3M NEURALOIA , TOOTH-ACHE , WJHNS , FROST-BITES , &o. Prices , 25c. , OOc. and $1,00 per Bottle , FOR SALE BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS C3 ? * Beware of Imitations. WHSTYIER 617 St.C'nnrIcym.NM.onl iMo. rtolt'iridaftttof two UtlleftlCotlirvi , hti t > t n tantw tlieirtftlkltrikttaoat of Cu ntc. NIBTOCI. Stn , t and ALOOD bi ttu ILinanr oth r I'hriletai ID 81. Loola , ti ell ; ftfttt ibow * B4 > ll oil roldtnti now. Nertojs Prostration , Doblllly , Mental and Physical Weakness ; Mercurial and other Affec tions ol Throat , SklnorOonos , Blood Poisoning , old Sores and Ulcers , > r < tmtri with nop riiiti i laertii. eh Ulcit lei'titlflo principle a Purely , rrlrnltlr. Diseases Arising from Indiscretion , Eicest. Exposure or Indulgence , which prmino. mm or th. folo ! ln fff.ttn btr > oain < ii iltMlltr , dlmotii or llifcl ind dcreetlft armory , flrapln onlhi hit. tihtitatldMir , It.r.lontolhi i.tlelfor rra te , , couru.loi of M i , tit. , rumltrinj Morritje Impropar or unhappy , ti rtrmiointir inr J. r mrhl.t88r | > incn ) tb wVe. tmi Initaltdtnrtlop * . fr loner ddmi. Con ullttlOQalor. Cot or bj null frn > . InrlleJ and Itilelly c nndtntl l. A Positive Written Guarantee iirtn lnirca. - MARRIAGE GUIDE. 9BO PAOE9 , riNB PLATES , llrnnt cloth and jtllt tlDdlnr , irtlrtl forOOo. lo poilageoreurrenflr. Orer nrtr itondtrful | i < ailctum , trui to llf | rllelei ca ( he rollowlif abjectt wtiomft ; rairrf , who Bet , why ) nitnbood , iroraio. 11041 ] . plirdetl drear , effect * or ellbftej > Ddcteesithe pbri. loloijorrfliro-lunllon. nn.lrnnr lunr . Thoi nirrlti or coDemputlBg niirrlita iliouM r n < 1 It. p-prUr edition i , | --r"corr.Ef.o. Jl < tdr j lM D' UhltMtr. ' RESTORED. RrmriTy Kroo. A victim of youth , fm hni > nidenco causing .r.Miniwwi vous ITcmaturo Doldllty. rol Man. good. Ac.liarlnir IHed In Ttt'noverr known reniMr K" discovered n niniilo | nolr.eiirowlil ( li ho will tend iF'f.K ' , . .1 ! ' . " Mliw-'iin'erors. Aildmsj J. U. UEEVUS. U Clitthan troot. Mow York Cltr. PAUL E , WIRT FOUNTAIN PE BEST IN THE WORLD. Warranted to clvo satlsfno- tlon on aur work nnd In nnr bunds. Price $ 2.50 J.B.Trickey&Co WHOLESALE JEWEU5RB , Lincoln , Solo Wholosulo p.ronts for Nebraska. DKALKUS SUPPLIED AT FACTO UY HATES. . U. TUs ! Is oot a Rtjlo pencil , but first claw Coxlllo cold pen of nuy do- 11 elrucl tiueucss ot point. Do you lyant a pure , Iilooni * lug ( 'omjIoxiou ) { li' KO , a i'CV nnnhuations of Hngun's M AGNLIA. 1JALM will grat ify you to your heart's com t nt. It < lees away with Sal- lowuess , Itodiioss , I'implcs. ) ilotciicHanl ( all diseases and Imperfections of Hie 8kiu. Jl overcomes tlio Hushed appear ance of heal , fatigue ami ox- ritoiiicnt. It nuilics a lady of TH J HTV appear but TWlSN- TY ; ami so natural , gradual , nml perfect are its ellocte , Hint it is impossible to detect Us application.