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1 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE 1 : - - THURSDAY . , JUNE 10 , _ 1880. THE DAILY BEE. OMAHA OrncK. No. H AID CIO FAIIWAM ST. Ktw VonKOrncr. , HOOM ( K.TrtinuNR HDII.MNO OIHCK. No. r.13 FOUIITREMH ST. ovorymornliiB , except Sunday. The only Monday morning } > | > or published In the ttato. w.n i i nr MAir.t One Vpnr tlOOO.Thrrp . Montln , fZ/'O Ell Months CUU.OnoMonth 1.0) Tnr. VTEEKLV nnn. PuMlnhul Hvnry Wcilncsday. TTItHfl , POSTPAID ! ' One Tear , with jirfinlum 12.00 Ono Year , without premium I.2J Plx Months , without premium j Ono Month , on trial 10 connEsroNDKNCEt All communications relating to ntws and edi torial mnuotr should be addressed to the Lot' TOII or rim m.E. All htiilncM lMter nnd remittances Miotild bo nadtessed to TUB llr.K I'um.tfiiiino COMPAnr. OMAHA. Dmflu , checkn nnd poMollleo tmlors to bo timdo pnyahlotolhoordcrof the company. WE Bit PUBllSHINGliPW , PBOPfilEIORS K. IlOSKWATElt. KniTon. TJ1IJ DAIIiY IIKK. Sworn. Blnloincnt of Olroiilutlon. State of Nebraska , I , . 8 < s- County of Douglas. [ N. 1' . fell , cashier of tlia l ! > o Publishing company , does solemnly swear that tlio ac- ttml circulation of tlio Dally lire for the Yrt'ck emlliiK Juno-Hli , iSbO , was as follows : Saturday , 2th ! ) 1U,120 Monday , nist li,07r ! Tuesday. 1st Ili/iV ) WctliiPtilay , 2d 12.UW Thursday , fti itti40 Friday , 111 , 12,175 Average 12.425 N. 1' . KKIU Sworn to and subscribed bcfoto me , this Clli day of Juno , A. D. 1880. Sl.MOJf iT. FlSIIKR. Notary 1'ubllc. N : P. Foil , bclnp Hist duly sworn , dcinosos and says that ho Is cashier of the lieu Pub lishing conniany , that the actual average dally circulation of. tlio Dally Uco for the month of January , IbSfi. was 10H78 , copies ; for February , 18N ) , 10,69. > copies ; for March , 1880 , 11,637 copies ! for April , IbbO , 12,191 copies ; for May , IbbO , 12 , WJ copies. N. P. FIIU : Sworn to and subscribed before ino this 8rd day of. June , A. D. 18SO. SIMON J. Fisirr.n. Notary Public. Republican State Central Committee. OMAHA , Neb. , June 8,1830 : A meet ing of the Republican SUite Control com mittee will bo hold ( it the Millard hotel In Omaha , ou Tuesday , Juno 29 , at 7:80 : p. in. C. E. YOST , Chairman. CITIZENS of Omaha should turn out in force to puck the exposition building during the musical festival. As between Gladstone and Chamber lain the British voter ouplit to Jitu-o no difllculty in deciding. This is tlio trist of the coming election whatever diverging issues may bo injected into the canvass. A ci.r.uavMAN in Chicago , following Talmngo's sensationalism , is preaching on the "Man Traps of Chicago , " giving locations nnd descriptions. Tlio sermons nro largely attended by young bloods seeking pointers for new amusements. MARK TWAIN proposes to spend the summer "in a good old-fashioned loaf. " Mark's newest fashioned loaf is of the publishing enterprise nature , which takes three-quarters of the dough and gives the author the balance. His profits from General Grant's memoirs have cleared him a cool quarter of a million. PKOBABLY no man in tlio United States could boar the criticisms and abuse of the tory press and representatives of England with greater composure , and oven satisfaction , than Mr. liluino , and the more feevoro they can bo tlio bettor he will like it. Wo shall bo surprised if the Maine statesman does not speedily iind another opportunity to draw the tory tire. TnB Mexican reciprocity treaty has boon thrown overboard. The only ro- elprocity between Mexico and this coun try which wo arc likely to have for some years is n reciprocal flight of troops over , the border with Ocronimo and his band of hair raisers in full dispute. For further particulars sco small bills of Gen- i eral Miles. . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SOME days aaro the Apaches were re ported as corralled by General Miles in the Dragoon mountains. A fuw days Liter the dispatches had the troops cor ralled by the Apaches , and at last ac counts the soldiers were near San Carlos and Geronimo in Old Mexico. Who is who and which ia which in the "vigorous war" which Miles is waging so brilliantly in the canyons and defiles of Apaohodom ? Wo heard a great deal some months ago about Crook's failure , but it takes a largo ized telescope to discover where General Miles has improved on his predecessor. EVKKV effort to open the foreigh mar kets meets with a robuu" from congress.i The Mexican reciprocity treaty has been helved by an adverse report of the ways and moans committee , and Canada has been snubbed through the failure of tlio government to make proper provisions for the interchange of commodities be tween the two countries. Meanwhile the Idiocy of a high tariff has lost us a mar ket In Franco and Germany and closed the doors of the colonies to American products. This ia the sort of protection Which protects the trade of foreign com petition and knifes American industry fcy stimulating overproduction and a dull home market. TUB Tammany wing of the Now York democracy Is said to be a good deal exer cised over the question of the future gov ernment of the organisation. The death of the veteran chieftain , John Kelly , left 'tl without a head , and there is really no ttftn In its ranks who has tlio qualifica tions to wisely wield the sceptre laid down by the great sachem , Whatever may bo thought of the political methods "of John Kelly , it must bu granted that lie was a man of extraordinary force , certainly without a peer among the de mocracy of Now York as a leader. Dur ing Inn illness Tammany was managed by a committee of twenty-four , which is a Somewhat cumbrosomo method of con ducting such an organization , and now the serious question confronting the so- iety la whether this method shall bo con- d or an executive successor to the chieftain bo chosen. It will not bo a natter of great regret if the agitation el this < ; ueatmn shall result in breukiug ftp the organization , which in its char- peter and methods la one of the most tin- political cabals , which hu : the prolific ) source or convenient in- ftrurncut of mischief in the past , aud rkich can bo spared without detriment to the democracy of Now York and with oubted udvautago to the politics of KfTorts to Tax the The crank who grinds the republican railroad organ of this city thinks that Senator Van Wyck'a passage of the bill to compel the land grunt railroads to take out patents nnd to pay taxes on their lands was no are.it victory after all , nnd asserts that Van Wyck ought to have finished the job long since , nnd calls at tention to the fact that Valentino had the same 'kind of n bill introduced in the house four years ago. Mean time , remarks the disgruntled antl A'an Wyck editor , the railroads have been selling their lands. "Tho Union Pacific land ofllco Is all but out of business , and the passage of the hill now would affect that corporation so little that it is supremely careless of the matter. " The door ia to bo locked after the horse is stolon. Facts give the lie to this gatizv fiction. In February , 1830 , the Union Pacific rail road had taken out patents for 2,110,831 acres out of 13,221,000 of its grant. Of this amount of the original land subsidy brtwccn five and six millions were in Ne braska. According to the books of the general land olllco in Washington there remained , loss than four months ngo , 2,500,000 acres of Union Pacific lands in this state which wore still tin- patented. So much for the usolcssnuss of Senator Vun vVyck's land tax bill as affecting the Union Pacific. Hut suppos ing that every acre of Union Pacific lands had been patented , what bearing would that have on the right or wrong of corporations sharking their just bur dens of taxation. Tlio nation has do nated to great monopolies more than 215,000,000 acres of the public do main , of which many millions of acres are still in the hands of the corporations , untaxcd and untaxable , without national legislation to force tlio issue of patents. A senator is supposed to legislate for the whole country , and not to confine his at tention to the interests of his homo con stituency alone. Such a calibre of man would doubtless suit the small , base crowd who act as cappers for the Ne braska railroads , but will hardly ( ill the requirements of the voters of the state which ho represents. It is the height of impudence in the Omaha republican . organ of the railroads to challenge tlio work of Senator Van Wyck to compel the land grant roads to bear their duo proportion of the burdens of taxation. That paper has never in its whole existence advocated the taxation of railroad lands. When Judge Crounso in 1873 got his bill through the house of representatives compelling the Union Pa cific to take out patents on its unpat ented lands , the republican state conven tion made that bill a part of its plat form. Tlio editor of the IIE $ , as chair man of the committee on resolutions , framed this resolution and after a hot do. bate carried -it through the convention. The only opposition to this plank was from a former editor of the Republican. The bill went to tlio senate as several such bills have , and was there defeated by the late Senator Hitchcock , one of the owners of the Omaha Hcpublicaii. It % vas this invaluable service which made him the choice of Jay Gould and the senatorial factotum of that Wall street worthy. The refreshing impudence of claiming credit for Valentine for getting a bill through to tax railroad lands is equal to Jim Laird's claim for credit for introducing a similar bill dur ing the last session. The point involved was that tlieso great railroad strikers managed to got bills in about the time that congress adjourned and when they knew that there was no possible chance that the measure would ever see daylight in the senate. From the time when Crounse got his bill through the house there lias never been much trouble in securing land grant leg islation in that body. The opposition always came from the house of lords where tiio corporation attorneys and laud syndicates have controlled ma jorities and thwarted the will of the people ple , This is the citadel which Charles II. Van Wyck has assailed with increasing perseverance nearly live years and which last week ho took by storm in a charge which is described as the most brilliant piece of parliamentary strategy witnessed in the senate for years. Indicting Ills Party. It is not at all remarkable that Secre tary Manning , having passed through several months of severe illness from which ho is not yet fully recovered , should have as one of the lingering effects of his ailment a somewhat morbid state of mind. It is remembered that Mr. Man- nine carried with him into his chamber of sickness a keen and perhaps poignant recollection of the repudiation of Ins theories aud the defeat of his plans at the hands of a majority of his party , and it is evident that lie has been brooding over this unhappy experience at the very out set of his public career. Having been a rather successful politician in New York , exerting at last as the most active sup porter of Mr. Cleveland's ' causa an almost undisputed influence in the councils of his party , ho went to Washington doubtless with little misgiving as to his ability to project his power to the con trol of other wings and elements of the paity. Ho encountered disappointment and defeat , and to-day hardly any man in the democratic party exerts less influ ence than Daniel Maiming. It is obvious ttUo that Mr. Manning realizes ills for lorn position. There is no present interest in the financial or economic views of the secre tary of the treasury. They have been re jected , and whether ho remains in a posi tion to again present thorn to the public attention or they are renewed , by a suc cessor , there is every reason to bcliovo that the history already made respecting them will bu repeated. Neither is it im portant to consider the pessimistic opin ions of Mr. Manning regarding the pres ent condition of tlio country. It would not bo diUlcult to show that they have a very slender foundation , ' and it might with equal case bo demonstrated that whatever has recently retarded the industrial interests of the country , or whatever dangers now threaten them , are duo rather to the essentially sectional policies announced by the administration than to the rejection of those policies , The unquestioned power of Wall street ideas iu shaping the financial opin ions of the president and his secretary of the treasury was not reassuring to the country. It is , however , a matter of Interest that Mr. Manning , iu his letter to the presi dent tendering his resignation as secre tary of tholtrcasury , very unequivocally arraigns the democratic party as having been unfaithful to Its traditions and its pledges , and in this ho has the concur rence of the president PiKgcn the lines that oppress the solicitude of Mr. Manning respecting the policies ho has advocated , nro to bo read n clear and severe condemnation of his patty , the force of which Uyory greatly increased by the full acquiescence of Mr. Cleveland. There Is reason to suspect that with all his political oxpc rionco Mr. Manning had given but very superficial attention to the later charac ter of the democracy , or ho would not bo seriously affected by its failure to regard either traditions or pledges. It is more than probable that Mr. Manning will not return to public life , notwithstanding the apparently urgent desire of the president that he shall do so , and In such event his letter will have very great value as the deliberate and final judgment of a distin guished democrat upon the conduct and character of his party as at present or ganized aud controlled. ANT class of men who seek to revive the labor agitation , now generally sub siding with the promise that before the summer passes all controversies will bo adjusted aud peaceful relations between employers and employed bo universally1 restored , deserve to bo branded as enc mies of workingmen and tlio public wol faro. Yet there are agitators and mal contents who are talking of stirring up now strife , and members of this class are reported at work iu some localities to this end. They are for the most part men who live by strife nnd controversy , thriving upon the disorder which brings loss and privation to their fallows. In tclligent workingmen are In no danger of beinc misled by these agitators , but the thoughtless fall a prey to their deceptive tivo arguments , and unfortunately the thoughtless often outnumber the judicious and thus have the power to coerce them into a false position damaging to all. There is good reason to bcliovo that were there a gen eral subsidence of labor difficulties , with fair assurance that tiioy would not bo re vived for at least a year or two and wo do not think such assurance impossible if wise counsels prevail among working men the oflect would be to materially stimulate industrial enterprises and im prove business in all departments. The matter is one which commends itself to the serious consideration of intelligent workingmen , and those who give it such attention can safely be trusted not to 3'ield to the appeals of reckless agitators. Fortunately for Omaha there are no indi cations of any renewal of the slight labor troubles of last spring , which the Knights of Labor in this city assisted materially in allaying. Poor Economy in Grading. The lively debate upon the grading or dinance in the last session of the council brings up once more the subject of the costly mistakes which Omaha has made by her hap-hazard system of grading her public streets. It is high time that the solution of the problem shall be left in the hands of professional engineers and the responsibility for success or failure placed on the shoulders where it ought to rest. For years past the establish ment of grades has meant a sharp light between tlio public interests and those of the individual prop erty owners directly affected. Every change of grade has been bitterly re sisted. Every original grade has been moro strenuously attacked. The engi neer's oflico has been besieged by a score of opposing interests each anxious that the grade established should be fixed with a view to doing the least present damage to property and all quite indifferent as to the future effect upon the city at largo. As a consequence wo have had grades and changes of grades in every direction , one year a cut and another year a fill , and the next year a wholesale abandonment of all previous profiles. This has been a costly and a disastrous method of doing business. The time has come when all improve ments made in Omaha should bo built on a permanent foundation. There ought to bo no moro half-way business. Our thoroughfares should be made on grade lines which will servo the purpose for all time to pome , no matter who is temporar ily inconvenienced by the improvement. It is the height of folly to cut a street six feet one year , and to go through the same process of appraisement of damages con test in the council and suits in the courts in the year following. The council should stand firm in resisting pressure to force them to modify or abandon grades which professional judgment and their own coincide in deciding arY > the best for the interests of the city. Half-way work work is always poor economy. IT is amusing to hoar the pathetic com plaints of public corporatious like street car and water companies that patronage will not yet justify extended improve ments of their systems. Such enterprises based on franchise rights are tlio most profitable in the country , and map the richest returns from their investment be cause they become public necessities and enforce a growing patronage with the growth of the communities where they are planted. An investigation by a trade paper into the value of thirty seven street railways in seven cities of the country shows that the stocks of all but seven are above par. The stock of thirty is above 115 , while that of twenty-seven is above 135 , of seventeen 175 and over , and of fourteen above 200. The stocks of water companies of equal ago will show scarcely less favorable statistics , The value of those corporations consists largely in the value of the franchise for the occupation of public thoroughfares , which once acquired can never be seri- iously invalidated by threatened com petition. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ rfcnn : of the relaying of disturbed pave ments is being very poorly done and shows either ignorance on the part of the workmen or wretched supervision by the board of public works. \ \ o refer especi ally to the granite blocks on Farnam street. The paviors are attempting to do what has never been done anywhere else to ram into place twenty-pound stones with light pine scantlings for rammers , The result is a surface of hummocks and hollows , which is destructive to rolling stock and horse flesh , and which is driv ing travel to other streets. PUESIDENT and Mrs. Cleveland are now at homo , but the bulldog in tlio front door of the white house has boon un- chained. _ . Gcnernl Lntal ' Commissioner. There is no qucs'Uori' that Secretary Lamar and Mr. SpHrks. exceeded their powers in suspending land entries while the laws under wtiicji such entries wore made wor.0 atill in operation. The prompt revocation off the order was the only course to bo pursued. Hut there is no reason why a mistake admittedly made with the object of protecting the govern mcut should bo used ns a bomb to shell an honest and capable official out of the fortress from which ho is waging such effective war against the thieves and plunderers ot the public domain , The very day after the secretary of the interior aud the commissioner of the general laud ofllco revoked the obnox ious order , the houao repealed the preemption emption , timber culture and desert laud nets on the very grounds which Mr. Sparks made the basis of his suspension of their operations. The howl against the laud com mis sioncr arises from the fact that for the first time , with one exception , in twenty live years the ofllco Is In the hands of a man who cares moro for the interests of actual settlers than for the pocket books of railroad wreckers , land syndicates and pre-emption grabbers. The surgeon's knife has been used freely to cut off the oxcrcseiicos which have grown with the growth of the operations of our land laws and the vigorous policy of for rettingoulfraiulnnd jobbery , lias stricken dismay to the hearts of the plunderers of the public domain. Mr. Sparks has made mistakes. Hut unlike liis predecessors every mistake made has been in the line of a more rigid execution of the laws for the purpose of preserving tlio remnants of a magnificent landed inheritance for actual tillcm of the soil , lie has made no mistake which , con trary to the laws , has donated millions of acres of the public lands tb giant corpo rations. He has made no mistake through which wealthy syndicates have been able to divert vast sections of tlio public do main to their own personal aggran- dixement. lie hns committed no error that has caused a suspicion of his honesty on the part of honest men. And that is why the chorus against Sparks rings along every watercourse monopoli/.ed by bogus pro-emptors , floats in waves of sound across miles of timber claims on which a tree has never flourished , nnd echoes loudly from tlio offices of great monop olies , whoso dishonest possessions have been wrested from their grasp by the strong arm of the general land com missioner. THE gentleman contributed to the dip lomatic service of tlio country by Mayor Harrison , of Chicago , Mr. F. H. Wins ton , and who was sent as minister to Persia , has tendered his resignation and it has been accepted , , liis reasons for abandoning a mission winch , it was un derstood , ho greatly desired are not an nounced , but that itlis of little cense quence. Winston ii ) something of a character. Before gqlng'jaway lie gained notoriety by his alleged effort to secure a military position that would give him a prestige at the court of the shall , and an nounced his intention to live in Persia on a scale of magnilicenco which should put to shame the representatives of all other nations. About twp njonths ago his name was uneuviablyiassociatcd with the chief actor in a &ad occurrence in Chicago , a young and handsome woman who died from the excessive use of opium. Altogether W inston seems to bean an entirely natural product , politically , of Chicago and Carter Harrison. For the good of the country ho cannot too greatly prolong his proposed journey around the world. Wnr is there no power sufficient to make Tom Murray remove tlio unsightly mass of building material , which for more than a year has obstructed Four teenth street , contrary to the city ordi nance and in defiance of the orders of the authorities ? The time for forbear ance has passed long ago. If Mr. Mur ray still pretends that ho is on the verge of building , he should bo forced to give a bond for the removal of the piles of lum ber , lime , sand , bricks and .second hand iron within a reasonable time , or stand a daily fine in the polio court. RIOTIKO is reported from Ulster. Coercion for northern Ireland should now bo promptly supplied. ATTEND the musical festival. CABINKT PUDDING. Secretary Whitney will spend most of the miiuiuorlishlng along the shores of LakoSu- Secietary Whitney Is just boiling for a fight. Ho thinks that one scow ought to settle Canada. Mr.'Raynrd would like to challenge Laus- doxvno to a quiet game at tenpins and arrange it that way. Secretary and 3frs. Manning have KOIIO to the Hot Siniiigs , where they will remain about a month. Secrctaiy Endleott Is cndcavorine to cot Pi esldcnt Cleveland to attend the Harvard commencement. Secretnty of State Hayard Is very much shocked because Minister 1'hclps was present at the reception to llxoythe actorln London , Secretary Lamar has a cousin , Joseph Liiinur , who Is a blacksmith iu Plttshurg , He N said to bear a stiong lesembl.iuce to the sec retary. ' * Seoietary llayard has presented the Histor ical society of Delaware AN Hli1 a valuable and Interesting collection of photographs of Cieneral Grant , 1 1 Secretary Manning's fAce has boon warmly welcomed upon the bi Idle-paths of Washing- ingtou. Ho has had a Ijnrd pull , but It takes a good deal to finish an AJbayy man. Secretary Endleott aiuI-nU thesiuvlvIiiB descendants of the original Kmlicott who came over in the Mayflower nw now honored by the icnamlng of Klmtraofh suburban to Jlostonhleh ! icncoforiii.k\nll bo known as Endleott. _ ff Very Somen'tlte Jiunml , In Pails the city owns the stieet cars. They do these things butter abroad lloio In America usually the street cars own the city. Tricks of a NauRlity JJoy. Clecelanil 1'Uitn Dealer. Canada reminds us of a luhboi ly hey , \ \ ho , after sassing a playmate and laying the foun dation fur a light , ran homo to get hU big biother. A Symposium on an Important Question. KC\K \ Ymk Tilbune. The Arizona Howler leceutly asked Its readers to send in answers to the question , "What do you take for a cold ? " ' Neaily all the answers .thus far roceUed show that whisky Is f ho great cold curer In Arizona us well as In other parts of the world. The Howler announces that It will soon have symposium to the queMlon , "What Should a Man Do When a Galoot Has the Utop on Him ? " Owed lo the Pump. 7'tni * Stftlngi. Some one has f-ent us a poem coucernlnf milk , which ho entitles "Odoto the Cow. ' If It be city milk It w ould be more appropilal to head It "Owed to the Pump. " Ono of Cup Id's Shapes. JXiyfon Jotirnnt. An exchange says that "Cupid Is preslden to-day. " Just Imagine n fifty > car old Cupid with a nineteen Inch neck and an Immeasur able bay window I Oh , lordy 1 Kclfer IV III Not Kcop Quiet. . It Is rumored that J. Warren Kclfcr If ngalu bestirred with an ambition to get back Into congress. Verily , there seems to be no end of Influences calculated to keep the stnti of Ohio conspicuous In public odium. Matrimony nnd Politics. Flittadclphta Hecoiii. All of the two term dcmociatlc presidents have Decn mnrrlcd men. A bachelor is a single glo baneled piece , only Intended for firing one time. 4ly doubling himself up Mr. Cleve land has doubled his chances of rciiomlnntlor and re-election. Salaries ofnishopq nnd nail Players Kew York Tribunt. 11 Is snld that the aycratje salary of the Episcopal bishops Is about 5:1,500 : a year. I times Improve they will probably receive as much as a gilt-edged baseball player , and thei the free thinkers will have a chanro to de nounce pompous prelates whoiiotou princel ) salaries. * Bullet Holes and Buttons. VlitlaMMa Iteconl. General Gordon will probably capture the democratic gubcinatorinl nomination It Georgia. He has more buttons on his coat and nmio bullet-holes In his hide than his opponent. Constituted as men are , bullet- holes and buttons usually count for moio tlmr either bialns or breeding. Hut General Gor don has brains also. Another Dose of Hough on Khoa. CMcauo Kcics. Mr. James W. Morrissey , ex-manager of the Uhea company , wns In Chicago on Saturday , and he talked pretty fieely about his troubles with the distinguished Dutch acticss. He claimed ( lint llhea bccainclinsanely jealous ol the bocliil attentions which were being show- eiedupon MNs Julia Wheeler , a Washington hello who joined the company some month' ' ago. This jealousy became so violent and manifested Itself in so many embarrassing complications that a dlsbaudincnt of the com pany became a positive necessity. Mr. Mor rissey retuins to New York , where ho be comes manager of old Jim Duff's Standaid theater , and Mdlle. Ithca will wend her way aciossthe sea for a new ossoitmcntof line clothes * What she intends to do next season has not yet been developed ; theio was talk at one time of her swooping down on Illo Ja neiro and Dom Pedro's meiry court , but it Is probable that no South Ameiican dates will be made until the talented and handsome Hollander has found a man with a boodle who Is willing to direct her destinies in the capac ity of manager. STAI.E AND TniUUTOUY. Nebraska Jotting" . Milford talks of adding an inlirmary to her attractions as a summer resort. A family of four heavyweights in Ulysses pull down 970 pounds after meals. The Fremont creamery turned out and marketed 38,761 pounds of butter during May. The assessed valuation of Plaltsmotith properly is $734,871.83 , an increase of $50,000 over last year. This is the season when bccrless cubs decorate the shady side of street corners and anxiously await an invitation to smile. The Blair girl who married a rubber stamp man in Omaha i.s learning the mysteries of "biscuit shooting" "in a Fremont hotel. So says the Tribune. The temperance agitation in Blair is growing warm with the weather. The store of a prominent advocate of water was painted with eggs one day last week. L. M. Anderson , of Fairmont , had his ear shaved off by a limber-heeled pony. _ Ho succeeded in getting the pieces stitched in their proper place. The "oil" oar resembles a fragment of a craiy quilt.Mr. Mr. Comma , of Rook Creek , Otoo county , mourns the loss of a horse , which was taken from his stable Sunday night. Mr. Comma would cheerfully put a period to that thief's career. Out at Pierce , last week , Milt Swancy touched the trimmed skull of Van Mason in search of a soft spot. Van jeikedhis elbow back aud Swancy fell to the floor breaking a leg bstwcon the knee and ankle The soft spot is still missing. Judge Post opened court in Fremont Monday morning , sent two crooks to the penitentiary , cleaned up the docket and at noon adjourned court till August 9. The session was f o short and lively that the lawyers did not have time to sncozo between motions. Iowa Items. Madrid Masons are building a temple. The Lohlgh coal company digs out GOO car loads of coal daily. Snvcuteen-year locusts are singing death to the trees in Davenport. Professor D. D. Sheldon , a well known instructor , died in Davenport Saturday. The Eighth Iowa cavalry will ex change yarns-at Mun > lmlltown Augustas. Outstanding warrants to the amount of f-ii'j.OOO draw 10 per cant in Dos Moinos. A Crcston lady boasts of having been a schoolmate of Mr.s. Grover Cleveland. The assessed valuation of Scott county is $10,007,071. The valuation of D.iven- port property is ? 1,180,330 , inclding 783 dogs , ( icorgo I ) , llcndricks , of Anita , claims to be the oldest mem her of the ( r. A. U. in the state. ' Ho is eighty-four years of ugo. ugo.At At the Mlnisteral association of the Musoatino district hold at 1adorn last week , Samuel Huston , of Iowa county , gave $0,030 to the Freodmon's aid society of the M. K. Church. James Johnson , of Columbus City , quarreled with his son. John Johnson , one day la.st week , over miHiness matters mil stabbed him in tlio abdomen , inflict ing serious injuries , Prohibition has no perceptible effect on internal revenue iccuipts at the collec tor's ofllco in Davenport. The receipts for May were $201W1J ; ! , and for eluven months of the fiscal year , $2,039,071.53. Captain A. J. Comstook , of Oskalposa , lias picked nome monster strawberries in liis garden this year , Ono of them meas ured sovmi inches In circunUorenco , another six inches , while those which measured five inches were numerous. Iu the district courtut Davenport Mark A. Jones was found guilty of bigamy. Ho married a Cincinnati woman in 1800 , and aftersjuandering$7,000ot ( her money lie abandoned her and married a young lady of Davenport , from whom bo ob- taincd $5,000. When arrested for bigamy lie hail made proposals to a Hock Island woman to elope with him. Dakota. Knpid Cityites have subscribed $3,030 to the fall fair fund. A French colony has recently located u the vicinity of White Lake. Dickinson county has voted to bond tlio county for ? 15WO to build a court house end jail , The Milwaukee railroad company lately paid 5100 an acre for some laud adjoining Andovcr. ' Over ten thousand dollars' worth of blooded stock has gone into Drookings county this sprlne. There are eighty-four lodges of Odd Fellows in the territory and the number is rapidly increasing. The assessed valuation of property within the corporate limits of Handrail will approximate $250,000. A suit in court four years against the Fargo trotting association to recover purses won In trotting races , was decided a few days ngo. The court hold that to trot for money is a violation of the laws of the territory , and payment of such debts cannot bo enforced. _ Wyoming. The foundation for Uio now $30,000 re duction mills at Silver Crown Is com pleted , Thomas Qucaly , superintendent of the Union Paeihc coal mines at Coino , Col. , wns accidentally killed Monday. The body was brought to Laramie for burial. There is great need of rain on the Lar- nmio plains. It has been so dry that the Irrigating ditches cannot carry enough water to moisten the earth but a short distance from the outlets. The oounty commissioners of Larimer county , Col. , have petitioned the railroad commissioner to require the Union Pacific railway company to ieopcn ; the Colorado Central road between lort Collins and Cheyenne. _ Colorado. Rico will build water works this season. Property in Hlllsdalo county is assessed at $500,000. The great Hogback mountain , in Gar- fjcld county , is bristling with timber on fire. fire.Tho The Denver & Mio Grande road in the Aninias canon has washed out , .nut now the company intend to build on a higher grade and at the same time shed it for winter protection. This is the way the Pueblo DoubleHeader - Header speaks of a forthcoming mar riage : "Mr. John 11. Lynch and Miss Isadoro lloyer have filed their papers of final proot and will keep their clothes in the same trunk. " Utah and Idnhn. Thellailcy , Idaho , Anti-Chinese league is 400 stroug. The coal mines in Cassia county , Idaho , give promise of rich returns. The banks of Salt Lake City report tlio receipt for the week ending June S , in clusive , of $90,909.80 in bullion aud $83- 080.CO in ore. The Salt Lake Tribune recently revived the report that a narrow-gunge railroad is to be built from Utah to the Pacific , crossing southern Nevada and entering California near the 13ig Tree region. The shipments of ore and bullion out of Salt Lake City for the week ending Juno f > , inclusive , were 30 cars of bullion , 870,201 pounds ; 17 cars of ore , 509,877 pounds ; 10 cars of copper ore , 305,700 pounds ; a total of 03 cars , 1,003,781 pounds. There is great activitv in a'l ' the mining camps in Idaho , and all accounts agree that the present will bo the most success ful and prosperous year to mining men of any since mining first began in the ter ritory , and the output of gold and silver will run into the millions in excess of tlio yield of any former year. Journalism From Two Sides. Somerville ( Mass. ) Journal : Managing Editor "Wo nad a mighty good paper this morning ? " Business Manager "Right you are , Mr. Jenks , right you are. The great moral organ is growing better and better every day. " Managing Editor ( gratified ) "Thank you , Mr. Gibbs , thank you. I'm glad to hear you say so. But 1 mustn't take all the credit to myself. My assistant , Mr. Johnson , was the man who won fame for us this morning. Bright young man , Mr. Johnson , very. " liusincs manager "Mr. Johnson ? Not a bit of it. Our now man , Mr. Thomp son , was the one that did it. A most extraordinary young man , Mr. Thomp son. Bound to take the front rank in journalism before ho is thirtj'l" Managing Editor "Thompson ? Non- Konso ! It was Johnson , I toll you , that did it. " Business Manager "And I say it was Thompson. Why , he brought mo the contract himself. " Managing Editor "Contract ? What contract ? what are you talking about , any way ? I mean that leading editorial on the eastern question. Don't you ? " Business Manager "Hang the eastern question ! I mean that full-page ad , of Quackcin's Bitters. You fellows up stairs don't know what Journalism is , any way I" Angostura Blttors , the world renowned appt'tl/erand luvigor.itor. Used now over the whole civilized woild. Try it , but beware ot Imitations. Ask your grocer or druggist for the genuine article , manufactured by Dr. J. G. B. SicRcrt & Sons. Bore Her Away. Wall Street News : "George , " said the old man after the wedding guests had departed , "you have now become a mem ber of an old and respectable family. You are about to boar away my eldest daughter. " "fes. " "I didn't present von with a check on tlio bunk or a puekugo of railroad bonds , as is the custom in the east , but . " "Oh , I wasn't looking for any sueh thing. " "But you wilt not go away empty- ( landed. Here is $25.000 worth of stock in a silver mine which shall bo yours. Take it , pay the three assehsmonta of forty per cent each , and if you want to buy mo a gold watch or a trotting horse i.s a sort of memento , you can bo sum your gift will ho treasured and ipprccinted. " A Poet 'a Itliiudor. A delinquent versifier erroneously rhymes 'M. Tillers" with " " "npixsars. The name of , ho ev-presldnnt of Franco Is properly pio- lounced "Empty air. " Catarrh to Consumption , Catarrh Iu its destructive foroti itiuicls iiuzt to iinJ undoubtedly lends on to consumption. It H tuuroloro ainirular tliut tlicne uilllctixl with liUluarful dlr-ou- gliuultl not iniiku it the oh- nut of tholr lives tn rlil tliomiteh on of Jt. Do cojitlvo ruincillu'i ouncuctuil by l iinrittit | > ion - moillctil knoHloiltjo nuvutiakunoj hurnnflilcnctiof the n'tit inttjorltyof nuirorurd n all advertised rumraiuu Tlioy liocotno ro- eljrnoil to u llfoof inNcry rulliur llnui tortuit ) huuibclvenrllli doubtful iialllntlvoa. Hut this will norordo , Cuturrti umat bo motel ol every sUitro uud uomDiuttxl with tul our iiluhl. In muny cusos the diuiuwo him assumed humorous n > mi'toiii8. 'lliulxuics mid carllliiiro > r the no8u , the orcun > of liuiiriny , ot sc'ciujf md of tiiitiiitf KI > iilloctod na to bo tmoluss , the uviil'igo elongated , the thiout to Intlumed nnd rrltutfd us to produce u constant unu distress- 111.COUKM. . HAH/OHD'S HAPKML Cum : moot * nvnry phute > ! Catarrh , I rum a bluiilo | houd cold to the uioit oiitlisomu and duMructivo btujfea It is ioca uud conutitmluiml. Instmil In iDlloving , pur iiuuunt In cutlnj , sufo , economical and novur ullltiu- , K'lo'i incltutfo contains 0110 bottle of the n.\u- cui. CuiiK.ono bor CAT tiuuiu , Hoi. VINT , and in jMi'imvKii INIIAI.KU. with truutltu ; prlco f | , 1'OTlEllDllUU iCHKVUO tl , CO. , IlOSTO.V , RHEUMATIC PAINS. Neuralgia , Bclatlo , Sudden , Sharp and Nervou ] i'lilim uud ctrnlui rollcvivl lit one minute by the Ciitluura Antl- 1'aln I'lustor , the uunt perfect itnll- dote to pulu uUd liilliitiiinutuin oter . .ooiniioiinilixl Row , original , IMOIUM- antoug , liifullililo nnd oufo. At nil diuiriru > u , lo j tlvu for tl.W ; or ponUtKd tiouof i'otler LruK ) und CUumlcUl Co. , Ro&tou , Musi. fcgr * PERRY DAVIS' _ ! PAIN-KILLER IS 11ECOMMENDKD UV I'lij-dclnns , Minister ? , Missionaries , Mnnrtfrori of rnctorlta , Work-shops , Plnnliillont , Nurses In Hopltnl * In diiort , every body o > erywhcro * ho has over given It ft trlnl. TAKSS mr.imt.t.r IT wit.r , TIB J-OUNII A NEV CUHK roti SUDDEN COLDS , CHILLS , PAINS Qf TUB STOMACH , CRAMPS , SUM- MEIl AND UOWKL COMPLAINTS - PLAINTS , SORE THROAT , &c. AtTI.lBt ) K.\TimXAI.t.V , IT 19 THE MOUT KFTKCTIVK AND W.Sf UNIMCXI ON KAIITII TOR CUIUNO SPRAINS , HUUISKS , UllHMATlSJt NEURALGIA , TOOTILACHE , BURNS , FROST-IJ1TKS , &o. Prices , 26c. , 60c. and $1,00 per Bottle , FOR SALE BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS Of Imitations. DOCTOR WHITTIER 17 St.Chnrlc Nt.Nt..I.orilsHo. lrrjitiritrOu l ef two MtdUalCnllrcti , kit lt o lonpr eDRtgpd IndietrecltHretltndQt of CHBOVIC , Mirepi , SKIN nJ yioon DIIIIIII th n nr othfrrhjilclin lugl.Lo U , ueltpiperilhow toil KlloUmldrnti know. Nervous Prostration , Debility , Mental and Physical Weakness ; Mercurial and other Afl c- tlons ol Throat. Skin or Dones , Blood Poisoning , Old Sores and Ulcers , re trcnlcJ lth nnpinlUl * ! intern , in Ittiil .clfnlino prloolplti turtlr. Prlr.lelj. Dlsme * Arising from Indiscretion , Exccsf , Exposure or Indulgence , which rrodno torn * or iu followlDf tir ui utriouinc , , Jtbllllr , dlmncn r ilb 0 < 14tr llTjnrmorr , raifon \ \ Ih , ( . Phiile ldect/ , milontollie i.clci/of r.railn , eonruiloi of ( Jt i. W.J renturlne Murrlnao improper or unhappy , nrnnjiilj iirtJ. r.mphlft ( J p t ii.n ( h beT . na Ininlrd tnrrlopt , rr Mo inj ndjrc.i. ConiultfttUnit ( Ee or lij mult trrr. liulltJ lad itrltttr f nOJ ntl l. A Positive Written Guarantee iirtn tnemrct. t bl tut. Utillelat i nt trjn lute If mall t tiprtii. MARRIAGE GUIDE , a 0 PAOES. FINE FLATXS , tl > l t cloth tit ( III blndlDr , < l > iirorCOo. In poiUctorcurrcner. Our Onr wondrrful p.u picture. , true I. Hie j irtlclu on the rollowlnt nbjttlil wbo m , vlionot , , . y mirrj whj | miohooj ti n. hood , phriletl < u cur , n l > orotllhicr un.Uitc.i. I tie pbji. lolcir orrfnreJuclfon , mi m or aor . Ttiont Wmte4 0. conttmpUtfuR tnirrUlt iboiitd r d It. r * > pUr JU | M Mtue , jiopercoror , aflo. Addrtit l > o MAXMKVER A : KItO. , Wliolcnl supply Audits , Oiiinliu , Nch. Nebraska National Bank OMAHA , NEBRASKA. Paid up Capital . $350,000 Suplus May 1 , 1885 . 25,000 H. W. YA.TKS , President. A. E. TOUXAMN , Vice President W. H. S. HUGHES , Cashier. , . . VV. V. MOK3B , JOHN S. COLLINS , H.V. . YATES , LKAVIS 3. UEKU , A. E. TOUZALIN , BANKING OFFICEi THE IRON BANK. 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