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it THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : . WEDNESDAY MAY 5 , 1880. THE DAILY BEE. OrrttR , No. > t AND fllfl KAIINAM ST Nf.w Voitk OFFICE , Itoou Co , TIUBURK Ilun.nino WASHINGTON Omen , No. M3 FOUUTKENTII ST. FnhllhM fjvorymornlnr. ( ixc'1pt8tin < lny. The only Monday morning paper published In the Unto. niiMg nr Attt Ono Ycnr . flO.OOTliroo , Months . 92M Six Months. . G.OOOno Month . 1.00 THE WtEKl.Y llEn. Published Kyrry Wcdnosday. TFJtMP , I'OSTPAIO : Ono Ycnr , with premium. . . . . , . . . $2.00 Ono Ycnr , without prntnlnm. , . . . \ff > PI * Months , without premium . . . ? r' Ono Month , on trlnl . . . 10 COIinKSrONDKNCB ! All commnntcntloni rolntlnir to news nnd oil- torlnlmntlrrs ihuuld bo mldroMoi ) to tlio Kui- ion 01 * iii : IIF.K , tlUKtifEM IKTTF.n9t All InulncsilottorHiind remittances should ba itiidrcwil lo Tin : IIF.K Puiit.isiitno COMPANY OMAHA. Drnftn. chocks nnd poMofflco ordew 10 be mndo pnynblo to the order of tlio company. IKE m nmmtlmvm PROPRIETORS K. llOSEWATKIl , KDiton. TillDAIIjY ! IIKK. Sworn Btntoiiicnt oCCIroulatton. Stale of Xebraskn , I _ Countv of urtuslas. f N. I' . Fell , caslncr ot the Bee Publtshlm ? roinpaiiy , does solemnly swear that the ac tual circulation of the Dixllv Bee for tlu > week ending April 'Will , WJ , was as follows : Mnrntna Krrntno Datt. A'llKJ.m. Ktllllnn. Tntal Saturday. 24th. . nr.OO , fi.OTO 12,470 Monday , Mth. . . 7,100 13,705 TiicAday. 27th. . oreo r,7u ; 12,015 Wednesday , 23th , ! > , S45 12,145 Thursday , iSHIi. otoo , : Friday , tioth oirri : 5,800 Average 0-lTO 0,777 13,250 N. 1 . Fr.iL Sworn to nnd subscribed bo [ ere mo , this 1st day ot May , A. 1) . 18SO. SIMON J. FISIIKIU Notary Public. N. I1. Fell , bclnc lli-Kt duly sworn , deposes Biul says that ho Is cnshlor of tire Hco Pub lishing company , tlmt thu actual nvonuo dully circulation of the Daily Dee for the month of January , 18SO , was 10,378 copies ; for February , 18SO , 10,603 copies ; for March , IBSfi , 11,5:17 : copies. Sworn to nnd subscribed before mo this 17th day of April , A. J ) . 18SO. SIMON J. FISIIBU , Notary Public. Notice to Agents nnd frhibscrlbcrn. Hereafter all orders for papers , all complaints about postal delays , nnd all remittances should Undirected to tlio BKK Publishing company , Omalm , Nebraska. Mr. Fitch will still continue as manager of the circulation of the BEE , west of the Missouri. DAHIY.HAIDS' festivals are all tlio rage. When buttorino is legislated and taxed out of the market , thu dairymen will hold their festivals. Now that the strike in the southwest is over , the chances are that the striking epidemic will have run its course in u very short tlmo. I i Tnr. board of education has reor i ganized for the year and oxhibitcd'agood S deal of non-purtisiin feeling by electing t two democrats and a mugwump as oili- e ccrs. c ccrs.THE 2 THE New York Commercial Advertiser : asks why Crook doesn't catch Goromino. General Miles has that job in hand just now and ho isn't feeling very cheerful about it , cither. GOULD returns his personal property . at $100,000 , for taxation purposes. Sev eral of Omaha's most wealthy capitalists use the same kind of arithmctico in deal ing witti the assessor. LAAV and unequal assessments cut both ways. They prevent local enterprise in the way of public improvements aud Cll frighten away foreign capital by causing nn apparent raUicr than a real high levy on the assessed valuation. WHILE manufacturers are protected by b. high tariff labor is assailed the a a , by open au competition of immigrants from every country in Europe. A tariff on foreign laborers would benefit labor more than a tax on the products of labor. o | tf WHEN the red Hag is hung out in front if llR of an auctioneer's store it is a sgn ! that ff bis stock is to bo "knocked down. " The Ci rod Hag , when displayed at the head of a socialistic procession , ought to bo a sitr- mil to the authorities to knock down the istj ( outfit without any further ceremony. 5 THE democratic Now York World gives 5I the following hint for the consideration I of southern democrats : "Iho people of "the south should bo careful not to overdo I1 the Jefferson Davis business. " The sug gestion is too late. The damage has been p ol ) done. Lot the south look to it tint the olRl oboes of the cheers for the arch traitor , Rl do not reverberate unpleasantly in the Rlb -text national canvass. THE Herald Is blowing hot and cold as tl wual oh the labor question. Its working ditor talks loudly for the rights of labor 'ol ' Mid the down-trodden masses and against monopolies and the tyrrany of capital. ? Dr. Miller , who boasted before the senate tl committee tlmt bo was proud to bo a mo- tln aopollst , would like to liavo the strikers n and Knlglitb- Labor blown from the o1n Mouth of a cannon as thu British did with n the Sepoy mutineers in India. i ? is no doubt that the position of it itV Mayor Boyd on the question of raising .iho salary of the building inspector is tj correct. The Inspector of buildings should not only bo n practical mechanic , but u man versed in reading plans and competent to detect their defects. Wo kavo had so much delay in this needed reform , however , that it scorns to us that jvko mayor should loose no time in sending - ing in his nomination. Thu council can . the salary at HA pleasure. WHEN the board of public works so- loots the inspectors of paving nml sewer ing , great care should bo taken to secure the proper kind of men for tlio positions. Omaha has sufl'ered greatly from the If wretched inspection of her pavements wliile being laid. Shoemakers , tailors and man of about every trade except those connected with public works huvo teen chosen to supervise the work , and the result speaks for itself. Take , for instance - stance , the Furnuin street pavement. The blocks make no pretensions of following out the specifications. They are badly vut , irregular und poorly laid , although they wcro put down under the very nose ej inspectors employed to protect the in- lurests of the city. The inspectors in the licet place should bo competent men. i 31 > y should also bo honest menVe \ . -"w dtno inspectors controlled by conVectors - . Vectors , and who foci that tliero is an tester way of making money than by k plng their eyes open nnd attending ,4klclly to the business for which they are nml American Railroad * . A member of tlio American Society of Civil Knglncnrs , Mr. Edward Dates Dor- soy , has published the results of his pro fessional comparisons between American and English railroads. Mr. IJorsoy notes ns the most striking contrast , the diller- cnco in the cost of construction of mil- roads In the two countries. The average cost per mlle of English roads is said to 1)0 about ? 200OCO wlillo that of American roads Is fixed at $00,000. Tills sum in the latter case represents the cost to the stockholders. The actual cost is prob ably less than half Unit amount , the dif ference being made up of construction ring profits. The ( llfl'uronco of $ MO,000 a milo outlay In the case of the English roads is duo to the expensive permanent wnys , the solid stone bridges and archc.x , the costly road bed , the durable stations and buildings , and the higher land damages. Alt these of coin-so count in cheapening the cost of maintenance , but Mr. Uorsoy lliuls by calculation that this enormous expend- ! lure on permanent way hi England does not earn its market interest for the balance sheet. Operating expenses are also found by the author to bo heavier on English than on American lallroads. This is stated to bo owing to the small size of the car loads , the rapidi ty of the freight trains as demanded by English merchants and the fewer labor saving devices used in the handling of freight. English shippers insist on rapid transit for their goods. and as a consequence freight Is trans ported over the English lines at n faster rale than passengers between Chicago and Omaha. This of course entails ad ditional cost and must bo taken into con sideration in comparing freight charges in the two countries. According to Mr. Dorsoy's tables a comparison of acci dents on American and English rail ways is decidedly in favor of this country. Taking Massachusetts and Now Yrok as a basis , lie finds that the number of passengers killed for each billion persons carried ono milo is in England 5.15 , in New York 5.78 , in Mas sachusetts 3 ; injured , in England 143 , New York 70. Massachusetts 43. Very few railroads in either of these states are run on the block system , and all have many grade crossings , while in England both these sources of danger are entirely lacking. Fogs would probably explain some of the aceidonls on England roads , but in spite of this unfavorable condition the ratio of casualties seems largo. In regard to speed , the writer makes a very satisfactory exhibit by a list of the dozen fastest trains in each country , taken from official time-tables. The fastest schedule is a train from Baltimore to Washington on the Haiti more & Ohio railroad , forty miles in forty-five minutes fifty-throe miles per hour ; the next on the Midland of England , London to Not tingham , 135 miles in two and one-half hours just fifty miles per hour , but for a longer distance ; then follow several others of somewhat less speed about equally divided between the two coun tries. On longer distances the English trains do rather better , the run from London to Glasgow , 444 miles , being made at the rale of 43 miles per hour , while of the two American instances ot trips of almost precisely the same length , the ride from Now York to Buffalo on the New York Central is made at the rate of 31 , and that from Jersey City to Pitts- burg on the Pennsylvania 39J miles per hour. The Chicago expresses on the Now York Central and Pennsylvania rail roads , which run nearly 1,000 miles at respective rates of 89 and 37 miles per hour , of cource lack , a similar length of line in England for comparison. In common with all observers , Mr. Dorsoy finds our railroads superior in the provisions made for the comfort of pas sengers on the trains in the roomier coaches , and the system ot baggage- checking. > The Senator from Now York. Senator Van Wyok has often been sneerlngly called , the senator from Now York. A little incident in his career while ho was a representative in con gress from the state of New York shows that Nebraska , and especially Omaha , had a very warm tricnd in the senator before he ever resided in Nebraska. It has not generally been known , but is nevertheless a fact , that Omaha is in debted to Gen. Van \Vyck for the appro priation that secured for her a postnllico and custom house far in advance of the plans originally proposed. The follow ing extract from the Congressional liccord shows that the senator from "tho state of Now York" has done some ser vice for Nebraska in the years away back ; The house on Fob , 27 , 1871 , having under consideration the funulry civil appropriation bill , Mr. Taffo , of Nebrnska'inoved to amend , the clause making appropriation for the post- ofllco at Omaha by making the' amount S50- ' 000 Instead of'S25,000. After remarks by Mr. Taffo Mr. Van Wyck said : Mr. Speaker , let mo say In this connection that we have already done the thing which the chair has decided Is In order. The postofflce building at New York city was limited to 53,000,000. Before this bill was reported the cost ot that buUdiiii ? could not exceed that sum by express - press provision of this law. Yet In this ap propriation bill , * as reported from the committee that restriction upon the cost of the Now York city post- ofllce has been repealed. Now another mil lion will bo added to the cost of that building. The proposition of the gentleman from Ne braska Is to add only 825,000. Jt was limited by previous legislation to 813.5,000. Omaha Is the only place In Nebraska where any pub- lie biilldlnc at present is located , and It Is only just to the government , as well as to that growing city and growing state , that this building to bo erected there should bo commensurate with the wants of the people ple , a building of which the government shall bo pruud. I hope there will bo no ob jection to the appropriation. Considerations of usefulness alone do not control In the plans or urchltectmo of inibllc buildings , Tliey are constructed or built with a vluw to bo ample In .size , nud also grand in architecture ; othcrwlvvu would not bo justified In spondlir.- over 54,000,000 on a postonico in New Yoilr. and ovur 82,000,000 for one In Boston. The gov ernment should not constiuct a building which will bo 1 nfoilor to any already built in that distant city by pilv.xtu subscription or the city authorities , The population of Omalm , the growth of Nebraska already Justifies all asked for by the gentleman from tlmt state. While we are Ir.vlsh In our appro priations In other localities , Ictus bo just If not generous to a people who have paid 525. . 000 for a location for this building ; Just and generous to one of the youngest In tlm sister hood of states , widen has sprung up as by magic on the plains ot the west. 1 hope thoie will bo no serious objection to this ap propriation asked lor , Mr. Dawes. Is tlio gentleman willing to limit It to JlSO.OOOi' Mr. Yon Wjck. I am wllllm- conseu to what Is agreed to by the gentleman from Nebraska. Mr. Dawcs. I ask you as an Independent representative. Mr Van Wyck. I will not object to It. I onlydeslro such legislation as will secure a a building suitable to the wants of the i > co- plo , and somewhat In keeping with the stir- roundlnes of Its location. Air. Taffo , The work Is already commenced. It Is commenced on a scale different from what seems to be understood by the chair man of tlio committee on appropriations. 1 am willing for the prcsmit that Sl.tO.OOO shall bo suggested as the limitation , although I do not believe It will bo sufllclcnt to complete the building as contemplated by the sccrc * tary ot the treasury. Mr. Dawes. 1 do not object to the gentle man's proposition. The amendment was agreed to. The Week In nufilncsB Circles. The tendency of business operations during tlio past week has been to restrict dcstributlon to tlio actual wants of con sumers. In most branches tlio movement has been moderate in volume * Business conditions are not favorable for the in ception of new enterprises or for any ex tensive dealings in advance of assured requirements , and moruhanU and manu facturers are disposed to pilrstio a safe nolicy of conservatism until calculations lor future operations can be made witli some measure of security against now and unsettling complications in the adjustment of the labor troubles. Crop prospects are uniformly encouraging , and the general situation is favorable for a gradually improving con dition of trade were it not for the preva lent uncertainty as to the effect of tlio" labor agitation ; but for the present this consideration outweighs all others as a disturbing factor in the world of business. Tl o western and Pacilio states furnished about half the total of 207 failures re ported at the close of the week in tlio United Stales and Canada. This was an increase of thirteen as .compared with the week proceeding. Wool remains much depressed ami there are no impor tant changes to note in the dry goods market. The iron trade is quiet and without feature. The. produce markets remain inactive ) and weak. Wheat shows a heavier de cline at the seaboard than in the interior , duo to the expectation of largo arrivals by lake and canal , the ofl'oct of winch is being discounted by speculators. The visible supply of wiicat shows a decrease of 1,250,000 bushels , but this decline was smaller than had been expected and con tributed little strength to the market , which has been adversely affected by the quieter politieal news from Europe and the industrial disturbances in this country. A good deal of spring wheat has been contracted for in the west , which is probably intended for export , but there has been little trading in winter wheat except in a small way for domestic consumption. The growing crop of winter wheat remains in good condition , and the promise of a largo in crease in the yield and of a surplus from the present crop fully up to the average of previous years arc discouraging in vestment in anticipation of any material advance in market values in the near future. Corn prices are from lg to 2 cents lower than a week as.o , owing partly to the lull inexpert export demand and partly to the absence of speculative support. Corn is grading badly , and , as the germinating season lias commenced , there is a general disposition - position , to avoid the grain as a specula tive investment Several lots of corn have been already posted as out of con dition in the New York market. Hog products are moving fairly for export , and there is a good distribution on homo trade orders , but prices are a shade weaker as a rule , in sympathy witli the recent decline in hogs. Tlio Chicago Riots. Law abiding : workingmcn and all true friends of labor have no sympathy with such outbreaks as those which for two days have disgraced Chicago. They seem to have been incited by a gang of , ignorant and worthless blatherskites who for years past have been trading on the name of labor in that city and living from the earnings of industrious work- ingmon. Such men always come to the front in times of trouble , and put them selves at the head of move ments to array labor against law and order. If no ono else suffered in the armed conflicts which en sue , the public would care little. Unfor tunately an excited crowd is easily moved and hundreds of well meaning workingmen - men are led astray by the inllalnmatory harangues of men of the Hcrr Most stamp who use the red Hagas a rallying standard. Witli such agitators American workingmen have nothing in common. Their cool , level headed , sober common sense tolls them the cause of labor can never bo advanced by the torch" and the revolver methods. Every dis turbance such as that which * took place in Chicago is n blow to tlio elllciency of labor organizations as moans for the promotion of labor inter ests. Public opinion is a court of lost resort in all questions between largo bodies of citizens and their fellows. Popular agitation to bo successful must bo popular. The moment they clash with the laws cither they or the laws must go under. At such a crisis tliero can bo no question which will succeed , The worst enemies of labor to-day are tlio conscienceless agitators who urge upon workingmoii that defiance of law and social order is tlio readiest means to secure the advancement of their in terests. AT tlio last council meeting tlio mayor sent in the names of a largo number of sewer and pavement Inspectors. The ordinance which authorizes the employ ment of these inspectors provides that the board of public works shall choose and employ them. The ordinance may not bo in conformity witli the spirit of thu charter winch confers upon the mayor the power to appoint all city officials that are not elective. Hut as long as the ordinance is in lorco thu mavor has no authority to override its provisions , Unless the ordinance is re pealed or overruled by the courts the inspectors specters of sewers and paving will liavo to bo employed by the board of public works. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Tnr. executive committee of the Knights of Labor has declared the strike in tlio southwest off. This ends a struggle which has been protracted for more than six weeks , and in which millions of dollars lars have becu sunk. The causes of the contest will bo fully investigated by the congressional committeewhich is now on the ground , and , -Jlipj public will await its forthcoming report irith much interest * Whatever else the gfxjatstrike has taught it has forcibly illristttitcd the truism that strikes are wars'cosily , to all parties , and conflicts that should never bo entered upon except as the last rcaort , when all other means of settling difficulties liavo failed. Gov. LAimAiuii , of , Iowa , has issued a vigorous proclamation regarding tlio en forcement of the prohibition law , Ho strikes straight from tlio shoulder , and says the dram shops must go. So far as the enforcement'of tlio law Is concerned Gov. I.nrrabco is 'eminently ' correct. If the p'eoplo of Iowa really want prohibi tion they ought to liavo it and "liavo it straight. " It is unfair to enforce it In one part of the state and not in another. CHICAGO policemen to the number of two hundred found themselves amply able to handle a mob of three thousand nien on Monday without calling for "trupcs. " Firm and determined action on tlio part of civil authorities in nine cases out of ten can nuell symptoms of disorder in this law-abiding country. IP Weaver Weaver of Nebraska- keeps on with his graveyard jokes ho will sooii establish a reputation as a humorist. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Poou Quin Hohaimon , " exclaims tlio Herald. That paper always has a great dcel of sympathy for murderers. SENATOUS AND .CONOH12SSMKN. Senator Mitchell , ot Pennsylvania , is seri ously 111 at his home. lion. Logan Is paid to be working regu larly four hours a day on his book. Congressman Loutltt , of Cnllfornln , was born In a stable and educated In the common schools. Senator Blair , of Xcw Hampshire , has hopes the presidential lightning will strike him In 18SS. According to the Florida Times-Union Senator Jones has been made the victim of a political Intrigue. Senator Dawes has been In the senate so long that ho wauls to stay. Some people ob ject to him because lie is 70 years old. The Philadelphia Ueconl accuses Mr. Kan- dall of being haunted with what Emerson called a "hobgoblin of little minds , a fool ish consistency. " A Washington correspondent declares that It Is astonishing how much Is being said iu a quiet way In favor of nominating Senator lloar for the presidency. Senator Beck would like to see Allen O. Thurnmu , Jos. K. McDonald and lioscoo Conkllng appointed labor commissioners at salaiics of 810,000 3 , year. Congressman Hunk -of the second Ten nessee district hastlib ; Honor of receiving the first nomination toHhVliftleth congress. Ho is now serving liNlbunliteun , his last ma jority having been 10 , : ! . < J. The Philadelphia , , Press reminds Senator Fryo that a lislilug { iiiu'k : carrying tlio Amer ican Hag has been .Hvlzoj. in Canadian waters , and that he may now have an opportunity to make good his promise to Introduce a bill closing all American ports against all Cana dian vessels , i I Congressman JanicaT' Buchanan , of New Jersey , w.-w thought t'o be so lazy tlmt he would never uccouinlbji 'anything , but con- tiary to expectation be has pushed ahead Into prominence. iOn.e/ofthe chief worries of his life Is that Jio has. a double , a brother lawyer ot the same ) name , witli an olllce in the same block who Is always' ' getting his mall. ' Senator Dolph , of Oregon , is regarded by the ladles , " says the Washington Post , "as the handsomest man In the senate. Ho is tall and broad shouldered and speaks with a rich , deep bass voice. But his chief claim to admiration Is his magnificent full beard , which fails in wavy profusion to the mludlo of his waistcoat. He has , besides , a striking face and a majestic bearing , which attract immediate attention. " Saving the Country. FhOadeWita Times. The true patriot will now save the country fay sturdily pushing on the handles of the plow. _ Campaign Ammunition. C/ifcaoo / Herald. The mutable southerners who are toting Jeff Davis around may not know it , but they electioneering for a big republican congress next fall. . Plenty Large Hnough. Chlcuuo Times. The addition to the white house will cost 8300,000 , and almost double Its capacity. There are persons mean enough to declare that the present white house Is quite largo enough for all tlio reform of the present administration. _ _ BUBO Ingratitude. /vJnisas City Jnurwal. , The president has vetoed the bill to make Omaha a port of entry. This , In spite of tlio , Intimate relations which exist Irchveen Mr. Cleveland and the editor ot the Herald , and In spite of the Invitation he had received to visit Nebraska during the summer. What Ingratitude _ May Call for the Correspondence , Cedar llaplil * ( lazettc. Cleveland will marry Miss Folsom In June , sure. Oh , Grover , you old dude , look out , or your appointment will be rejected by the senate. They will send for your correspond ence In regard to tlio matter. Railroad Soap. The Times Is Informed that the railroad cappers have already attempted to establish antl-Wyck agencies In Sarpy county. The fight has opened n\Uwr ; early , but wo take this late opportunity .to Inform , the half clov en enemies of the people's senator in the county that by tlio mpsti.lavlsh use of rail road "soup" they \ylll , b < j unable to scud a railroadman fromithls.lcouiity to the next legislature. Mark 'the prediction , and save your money. . V ) - ) ill < 'lf - Not Always \Vjmt They Hootn. AVio OrltAnit Plun/une. Dcro's a mighty lot'df ' u't'ttplo w'at's got heaps o' common senseJ Datalnt allui pedicular about dcro mood an * tense. K : , ! ion passes lots of pretty gals dat's hid be hind a veil , An1 dero's piles of 'sSpoilsiblllty rests on an Iron rail. " * * Halnt de blggcs' , sllcUen'ihoss ' that makes do qulckes' time , J i 'Taint alitizfrom doirjclios' man the poor ono gits do dime. It's a mighty slender policy to go tar out to bea In a boat w'at's rotten to the core , to show how brave you be. 1 oo big a crop ob apples isagwiue to bust do limb ; An' do gal's lips alluz tast best w'en delight Is kinder dim. STATUS AM ) TKIUtlTOUV. Nebraska Jottings. There are nine dirorco cases on the court docket in Plattsniouth , George Kohls , of Cedar county , owns 1,600 acres of land in that aud Yuuktou county , Dakota. Track laying on the main litio of the Klkhorn valley road west of Clmdron is now being pushed at the rate of a mile or more a day. A man' named Bond , living near Fair- bury , bccnrno disgusted with the cmllcsj toll of life , and strapped his throat to n ratter in his granary. Ho was dead when found. The Waterloo Gazette has been discon tinued , the editor moving to Napoleon ( Dakato. Uryant will become the Col , Sellers of the now burg. "There are mil lions in it. " lioono county employs seventy-six teachers , nineteen male and fifty-seven females , at an average salary oi $28.69 per month. The county has 4,200 school children and eighty-six school houses , valued at $37,000. Fred Ashton , a Syracuse boy of 14 , car ried a loaded revolver in ins hip pocket while plowing. Tlio gun went oil with disastrous results. For the next week or two Fred will take whatever comfort tliero is in life standing. The iirospnctivo Inauguration of prohi bition in Fullerton has sirred up. the In ner cussedness of all the bums aim , mod erates in town. Painting expedition are of nightly occurrence and tlio town con stable has both hands full of business. A. L. Fees , of Broken How , took his best girl out for a ride , and in a moment of mental weakness permitted her to drive. Both wore dumped in the ditcli and fragments of the buggy scattered over a mile of road. Fees has recovered sulnclenlly to propose and will hold the lines In future. The young son of S. A. Krriekson , of Harvard , toyed with a kernel of corn , and mistaking it for the llexiblc end of the milK bottle , sque.o/.cd it into his mouth. Although three doctors wrestled with the youngster the kernel strangled him. It has came to this thai Nebraska months must be enlarged or corn reduced in si/.o. At Springviow , Keya 1'alia county , a man who had recently lost a horse took a pitchfork and going to a neighbor de manded pay for the los. of tlio animal , saying that ho had received orders direct from heaven to kill tlu > neighbor if pay ment was refused. The neighbor con cluded tlio mau was insane and had him locked up. The artesian well near St. Helena is .100 feel deep and Hews at the rate of 1,080 gallons an hour. About twenty rods dis tant a second well is being sunk with a view of testing each strata and determin ing whether or not coal really exists in paying quantities. A dopiTt of 270 feet has been reached and a four-inch vein of coal has been struck. Iowa Items. All saloons in Silver City have been closed up. Rod Oak Baptists have decided to build a $0,000 , church. Sioux City's new hotel has been sold to an Atlantic man for $28,000. A prominent real estate man in Waterloo lee is thodcfcndantinabrcaciiof promise case , damages $30,000. The Grant memorial fountain recently placed in the public park at Atlantic will "be dedicated on Decoration Day. An ancient tomcat belonging to John Thomas , in Monroe county , is raisins ; a family of eight timber squirrels. The railway telegraph operators of tlio state will meet at Cedar Uapids Juno ! , to organize an association to promote their interests. A Creston man advertises ice at the rate of 100 pounds for 40 cents and "private families washed and put in ice box for 73 cents. " That beats a Turkish bath. A largo number of farms in the vicinity of Spencer will remain unworked this year , the owners having hired out to work on the new railroads which are being built in Nebraska and Dakota. The Burlington small boy goes loaded and is a menace to life and limb. The youngsters carry and use a small rifle , and residents on the outskirts of the city have petitioned the police to suppress the nuisance. Knoxville is considerably excited over a fhost in the cupola of the Baptist church , very night a light may be scon from the south , resembling in appearance the light from a transom of a well-lighted room. No cause can bo given for the phenome non. The citizens of Knoxvillc ought to straighten their drinks. The "intelligent compositor" is the most generous and commodious piece of furniture in a printing office. He shoul ders , without a murmur , all the mistakes and blunders of the rest of the shop , aud is the convenient and abused pi-box of journalistic salvation. The DCS Moines Lpador accuses him with mutilating a pull' for a contemporary , charging the nuwvdisciploof Greeloy with being of the "free love order"instead of the "free /lance order. " As the i. o. strikes a ton , his funeral was indefinitely postponed. A correspondent at Castana , Monona county , writes : ' 'Farmers are very late with seeding this season. Bad weather has delayed operations and roads are almost impassible. Railroad excitement is at a high pitch. The surveyors of the Chicago & Northwestern are busy locat ing towns alone the Maple vafloy and setting grade stakes. Castana is working hard for a station and round house. Tlio Milwaukee road has commenced work on the grade cast of Sioux City with 100 teams. The Maple Valley is ono of the most beautiful in the west.and can easily accommodate two railroads. " Dakota. > Fargo is troubled with a vein of natu ral gas. Buffalo Gap is agitating the water works qupstion. Chas. Mix nounty farmers planted corn last week. Tliero were hundreds of hcrps put into the ground. The flow from the artesian well at- Kimball increases , and is now estimated at from 15,000 to 30,000 gallons in twenty- four hours of pure , clear water. Traokl ying began on the Black Hills extension of the fell khorn Valley road tU Buffalo Gun Monday. It is expected that , the iron will be laid to Rapid City in forty working days. And then the natives will paint the earth. ' George W. Poussin , of Pierre , is the possessor of a map of the United States which was published in 1778. Jt shows Dakota to bo a desert as well us an unex plored country. At the time of the date of the map , the maker located the western orn town of the states in New York , and everything west of there is a howling wilderness. Wyoming , The Hcliool expenses of Choycnno for the coming year are estimated at $22,000. , J , C. Howe , of Fort Colllnp , Is making arrangements to cruet a $10,000 , flour mill in Choycnno. Recent assays of ere from the Gllchrist mining district , near Cheyenne , show COO pounds of lead to the ton , which Is said to bo "encouraging , " Tim plans and site for the territorial university at Laramlo have been secured , and work on the building will begin be fore the end of tlio month. The cost of the building is limited to $50,000. Utah and 1(1 nil o. The truck patch of Chambers & Whit ney covers 25,000 acres iu Hear river valley , Utah. Five million dollars' worth of ere is piled on tlio dump of the Ontario inino near Park City. Tlirco hundred and fifty men , Including shop men and diteli diggers , are employ ed at present at Eagle Hook , Idaho. Mark Lori , a San Francisco jewolrj' drummer , was chloroformed and robbed of $140 and his watcli in Salt Lake City , The mining districts of Idaho are opening.up in line shupo , and a largo army of prosncotbrs are already in mountain rtnd valley. The Decline of the Duel. Atlanta Constitution ! It baa been Icfti than twonty-soycn years , loss than the average llfctlmo of a ccnerrtUont since Robert Toombs delivered In the senate ol the United Stales a eulogy on Sunaloi Broderick , of California , who had bcou killed in a duel with Judge Terry. In referring to the manner of Mroderlck's denth Toombs snid : "lie fell In honorable contest , under a code which ho fully recognized , While I lamonl his sad fate , I have no word of censure fet him or his adversary. I think no man under any circumstances can have n more enviable death than to fall in vindication of his honor. " When those worrts wcro uttered they probably expressed tlio sentiment of a largo majority of the senators of the United Stales. There was probably not a senator from the south at that time who. if lie did not approve the "code , " would liavo been bold enough to de nounce it. This speech , which was in thorough accord witli the manliest spirit of tlio tilim when it was uttered , is a moral mile-post from which wo can measure the great advance madn In tlio popular opinion on tlio subject of duelling In a comparatively short time. If a member of either IIOIIMI of congress were to-day to apologise in a speech in the cniiitol for the practice ot duelling. It would prob ably bo the death-knell to his political ambition , It would , at leant , mark him as a victim of that uncompromising pub lic opinion which in every part of this country basset the seal of its condemna tion on'duelling and abolished "tho code. " This sudden and almost universal abolition of a custom so entangled with the highest conceptions of honor , so firmly fixed in social ethics , and so soft- e'iied as to tlio real foaturesoflls barbario cruelty , by a gentleness and courtesy that preserved tlio romance of inediiuval knignthood , is indeed rcmarKable. It is probably tlio bostsinglo proof that could bo offered of the advance of our people in good morals and true culture. It had been twenty-one years silico Terry killed Hrodenck in "honorable combat" when ho received a signal blow of popular condemnation for the deed. He wim a candidate for oleetor-at-largo on the Hancock and English ticket in California in 1880. Hancock swept tlio state. Every district was earned by the democrats and a solid democratic delega tion was sent to congress iJudtre Terry ran thousands of votes behind Ills ticket and was defeated , while all liis associates on the democratic ticket were elected. The only argument used against him was that ho liad killed Broderiek in a duel. The last retreat of the doomed custom was Virginia. After it had been abjured almost everywhere else it seemed to flourish there. This was because of the peculiar political complications in Ihat slate widen brought men into sharp per sonal anta < ronism. In the heated cam paigns of 188.0 and 1881 personal dillieul- ties were numerous , and frequent expe ditions wcro made to the "field of honor. " While most of those engaged in this de plorable business were men of unques tioned courage , the percentage of danii nge to the number of duels was so smalr as to bring these combats into general ridicule. The term "Virginia duel" was coined , and is still extant , to express an affair with nil the pomp and ceremony of a bloody encounter minus Iho blood. Gentlemen wore known to fight two or throe terrific duels a day at ten paces , with pistols carrying a small grapeshot , and at ( i o'clock on the evening of the eventful day to show up at the club as serenely as if nothing mid happened. The thing became ridiculous , and the sensible people of Virginia laughed duel- imrout of existence within their borders , as Cervantes smiled away the chivalry of Europe but much more speedily. An intelligent Virginia gentloihan , who was , until late years , a oclicvcr in "the code , " told me the other day that duelling was dead in his state. Ho said that the crystallization of the best public opinion in that state against it within the past two years had been simply wonder ful , and that there was not a county in Virginia where a man would not now ele vate himself higher in the opinion of Iho people by declining a ohallcngo than by accepting one. There never was a time in a truly civil- i/.cd country when men did not revolt from tlio thought of slaying or being slain in these deliberate combats. Men who faced each other witli deadly weap ons to tight to the deatli had no anime sity. They were slaves to a custom which bad drifted from barbarism into civilization ; to an idea which had hold its place in some hard portion of the pop ular conscience untouched by the influ ences than were beautifying and refining all the other sentiments of the popular heart. Public opinion bolstered duelling into an unnatural prolongation of its sway. Now that public opinion has not only withdrawn its support , but has lifted its implacable cry against the miserable custom , it must go. Tlio world has seldom been liberated from a moro tyrannical or a more cruel habit. The duel of the future , the fatal com bat which must sometimes come between man and man , will bo in the mad burst oi passion , not in the cold and calculating exercise of the art of killing our fellow- creatures , The formal challenge hiding beneath its smooth and artificial courtesy the dark design of death ; thu mathemat ical pacing of the line , at each end of which men are to stand and try to mur der each other ; the hair-t rigger , the ac complished second , and the surgeon calmly awaiting his opportunity against all those the voice of civilization , of justice , ot humanity , is raised in the cry which will- not bo disobeyed "Away with them i" ECZEMA And Every Species o Rolling and and Uurnlng Diseases Cured by Outloiira. EC7.KMA , or Salt Illioum with Its agonizing Itclilnif mid burning , Instantly rellovoU by u warm buth with Cutluuru Soup , and a sln lu up. plication of Cuticura , tlio Kroat Bkln euro. ThU ropOHlud dally , with two or thruo tlosou of C'utl- curu Itobolvunt , the now blood purlllur , to keep tlio blood cool , tlio iiorrfplratlcm puio mid unlr- rlluthiff , tlio buwuln open , tlio llvonunl kidneys uctlve , will speedily euro ociunm , toiler , rlnir. worm , psoriasis , llulioii , pruritus , Bculil Inuui , tlamlruir , unit every siiucles of Itching , ticitly mid pimply humoni of the sculp anil lln , wlmn the best | ) hyalciiuia and till Unowii romudles full. \ftUt McDONAMt.ZXCJ Doiirbnrn St. , Chicago , gratefully ocknowlcdsej a CHID of cc/finn , or null rheum on head , neuU , luuo , urnis mid luiru fur seventeen yeuis ; notiiblo to wulk nxcopt on haiHla mid Unoos lorono your ; lint tililu lo help lilmt > elf for old lit yours ; tiled liumliuilsof rumo tiles ; doclora pronounced his cuso liopulcsa ; porinruu'ntly en rod by Cutlcurii Kn/tnlvunt lilood pnrlllor ) Internally , iind Ciitlmiru and Cuticura Houp ( tlio grout skin cured ) externally , Crus. 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