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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : . WEDNESDAY MAY 5 , 1880.
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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"
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