Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, June 22, 1886, Page 4, Image 4
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : TUESDAY , JUNE 22 , 1880. THE DAILY BEE. 6MATTA OmCB. M6. VII AND SIB FAIINAM ST. NKW YonKOrncr , JlortM 05Tianu K DUILIIINQ WASHIKOTOW Omens , No. 613 IOUIITEBNTII ST. Published oreryrnornlnir , oxcTtPitnd'&r. Th" only Monday morning paper published lii the I BV MAIM OnoTcftr tlO.OO.Thro'Months J2.V1 EU Months 6.COOno Month 1.00 if i ] lot WZEXLT Ilr.n. Publlrhcil Evorr Wednesday. TKIIKS , I'CWTPAID : One Year , with prrinlum , J2-W One Vcnr , wlthmit picmltim ! > Hli Months , vpllliotit premium Is OnoMoiitli , on trial. . . i ID All comrminlcntlonii relating to news anil cat- toriiilmntlciH should bo addressed totlioUui * aoit or rj HKR All InulncM letters nnd remittances RheuM bo undressed to Tun llr.r. Pinii.iiiiifn COMI-ANT , OMAHA , Drnftd , checks nml postoluco orders to bo mmlo pnyablo to the order oftho company , IB. Bit POBLISHIRfiliPAM PHOPBIEIQflS , E. 1108RWATEH. HDTTon. THIS DAlhV JJKIC. Sxvnrn Btntcmcut of Circulation. State ot Ncbrnskn , ) nf . " a- County Douglas. ( N. 1' . fell , cashier of the Hco Publishing company , ilot-s Bolcmnly swoixr Hint tlio no- timl clrculntlon of tliu Dally Uco for the week cmlliiK Juno 18th , 1HSO , was as follows : .Sr.timln.j12lh 1V2- " ' Monday , Will 12,770 Tuesday. Ifith 1B.2IO Wcdnui-doy , 10th 12,000 Tliursilny. 17tlt 12.050 Friday , IBtli 13,100 Avcrapo 12,270 N. 1' . 1'cll , bclnp first duly sworn , deposes ondsays that ho Is cashier oftho Uco 1'ub- HslilnfT company , tlmt the nctiuil average daily circulation of the Dally HIM ) for the month of January , 18SO , was I0i78 , : copies ; lor Kcljrtiary , 1880,10,595 copies ; for March , 18W , 11,5.17 copies : for April , 18SO , li,101 copies ; lorMay , 18bO , 12,489copies. N. I' . Frir , . Sworn to nnd subscribed before me , this 32th day of June , A. D. 1880. SIMON J. Fisiinn. Notary I'ubllc. THE proprietors of the Piixlon liottso IKIVO no inoro right to obstruct travel iu dcGauco of law tlmn Tom Murray. WE can never hope to secure honest nnd impartial assessments until wo re peal or revise the present assessment laws. OMAHA , again ted the procession in the percentage of increased bank clearances last week. Her increase was sixty per cent over the corresponding week of last year. . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A CHICAGO paper lias a loncthy article on "Chicago's big bores. " A careful pe rusal of the article failed to reveal any biographical sketch of Mayor Harrison. ' , r.uero has been a bis oversight on the part of some one. A NEOKO who stole § 13 has just been imprisoned for life in Kentucky. If ho had stolen if 13,000 ho would have been rich and respectable , and in hardly any danger of going to the penitentiary. Verily , the ways of justice arc some times past finding out. WHY docs'tho board of mibhc works allow Harncy street , which has just been graded , to be obstructed by monstrous cottonwood trees planted thirty years ngo In the middle of thosidowalk ? Why does it allow property owners on that same street opccial privileges in leaving their sidewalks above grade ? . J. STERLING MOUTUN is going to Eu rope , and it is now an open secret that Dr. Miller intends also to visit the old world once more , ho having made ar- rnngoraojitj } tojje. nbfjont for six months. The question that now agitates the friends of the two gentlemen is whether Europe is largo enough to hold Miller and Morton at the same time. FAVORITISM should have no place in eur public improvements. Wo cannot countenance a privileged class of prop erty owners , who may at pleasure violate late sidewalk ordinances , obstruct the streets , and defy the city authorities. The law Is no respecter of persons , and the ollicors whoso duty it is to enforce the law have no right to favor anybody. ACCORDING to advices received from Washington the bill to re-locate Fort Omaha is being pushed by the parties in terested and it is expected to pass the house daring the present week. If our citizens desire to defeat this Job they must bestir themselves. A remonstrance , numerously signed , stating the true facts oftho case , would , in our opinion , cause the committee on military affairs to hold the bill and make inquiry as to its merits. The sonata rushed the bill through with out consideration or discussion. UNTIL a few days ago Now York had n law , one ol the "relics of barbarism , " authorizing unlimited imprisonment for debt. Last week n now law wont into ef fect limiting the time of imprisonment , for debt to six months , and yesterday the Inmates of Ludlow street jail , the debt ors' prison , who had boon incarcerated there for six months and oyor , wore re leased. Great injustice and hardship ro > Bulled from the old law , and it is not creditable to the former legislators of Now York that it was allowed to remain until now on the statute books of the state. L THIS voice of Nova Scotia is overwhelm- inply for secession from the Canadian , confederation. The United States cannot - not consistently encourage the sentiment , Imt it Is undoubtedly approved by the majority of the people of New England. What ofluct the determined stand of the * people of Nova Scotia , which reflects the fooling in all the maritime provinces , will have iu shaping the future policy of the dominion in its commercial relations with the United States , cannot bo cer tainly foretold , but it ought to bo safe to . nssumo that it will tend to at least reduce the arrogance of the government. THE decision of the supreme court of Ohio , sustaining the action of the state seriate iu unseating the Hamilton county democratic senators and giving the seats to the republicans and declaring the sou- nto to have been legally constituted and to have hud a legal quorum , nolwith- Etandlng the doinooratlo desertion , is quite as important in its practical as iu its uolitlctxl bearings. The principal measures that would have boon destroyed by u contrary decision are the bill author- faring the state to borrow half a million dollars , for wldoh there la most pressing necessity ; the Dow bill taxing the sale of Iiquorfrom which u largo revenue will be derived for municipal use , aud the bill restoring the congressional districts as hey wuro before the domocraUo gerry of four years Reprobate * nnd IlencRfxlofl. The war Is on. The curses that the would * be booses have so carelessly expended during the past ten years are going home to roost , The men who have been abused arc prepar ing to sccuie reprisal and Immunity. The republican pnrty of Nebraska Is making ready to assert Itself and to punish the dema gogues who have attempted to ruin It. I Omaha .Republican. This is an excellent text , but It comes with bad grace from reprobates nnd rene gades. The coarse and vindictive tirade to which the Young Men's Republican club at Platlsmotith has been subjected , because forsooth it had committed the unpardonable offense of Inviting Senator Van Wyck to its annual banquet , shows what a small pattern of manhood can aspire to party leadership in Nebraska. He has the conceit and insolence to institute comparisons between his per sonal labors for republicanism and those of General A an Wyok. He has the arro gance to hurl curses and threats at republicans - publicans who dare to lunoro his preten sions of political autocracy. Van Wyck was expounding republican doctrine in the halls of congress while this pusll- animous blackguard was still in charge of Ids wct-uurso. Van Wyck was fighting the battles of his country In the rauks of the Union army while Nye was a mere stripling. "On what moat dotli this our Ctesnr feed that ho Is grown so great ? " Have the reprobates who iissall the Plattsmonth Republican club forgotten that tlfoy live in glass houses ? What right have they to set themselves up as model ropttb- Henna I What have they done to make the parly strong , honored and respected ? Let us rolresh their memory , and present them to true republicans in the light of political history. ' When republican supremacy was im perilled by the political treason of Andrew - drew Johnson after the close of the war , Casper E. Yost and many of the swashbuckler stalwarts who now seek to rule the party deserted and went over to the enemy for n , mess of pottage. Yost nnd his clan supported J. Sterling Mor ton for governor of Nebraska iu 1807 against the regular republican nominee. As n reward for political perfidy Andrew Johnson retained Yost as United States marshal. When Grant became president ho promptly dismissed these renegades from ollico , and put tried and true re publicans in their places. Then Yost and his associate stalwarts hurled curses loud and deep at Grant. General Thayer , who was then republican sena tor from Nebraska , came in for his share of abuse and slander , just as Van Wyck is receiving it now. In 1870 Yost and the renegades turned bolters against the regular republican legislative ticket in this county , which waste to elect a successor to Tlmyor. They imperilled republican success in the elec tion of a senator out of rank venality and vimlictiveness. When the republi can legislature met in caucus to nominate a senator , they broke up the caucus , ana finally defeated Thaycr by a combination of renegades and democrats. Eleven of the democratic members wore bought outright with money. Tliis was the beginning of n reign of jobbery and reckless public plundering that must forever remain the most dis graceful page in the annals of Nebraska. Six years of renegade rule , in collusion with the railroad bosses , who made use of the republican party to subserve the greed and rapacity of Jay Gould and his minions. From being the party of equal rights , free speech , free press , and an honest ballot , the republican party in Nebraska degenerated into an engine of oppres sion , a cloak for robbery , and a refuge for plunderers and embezzlers. Those were the days of chain-gang republican ism , when an Omaha postmaster boldly broke open the seals of letters containing returns of the vote on the now constitu tion of 1871 , and had these returns changed before they were returned to the secretary of stato. Those were the days when Boss Cunningham carried on sur veying frauds with n high hand , and a small army of political bummers was quartered upon Undo Sam from the pro ceeds of crooked surveys. Those wore the palmy days when Paul Vandervoortjpacked republican primaries and conventions with vagabonds and re- poatcrs , and honest republicans wore driven by rowdies and roughs from the polls. It was chaingang republicanism that foisted Dick Adams upon the Deadwood postoulco , and kept the embezzler there until the penitentiary yawned for him. It was during the reign of thcs o confed erated plunderers that jobbery at the state capital became popular , and honest ra- publicans who dared to raise their voice against the corrupt loaders were de nounced , hounded down and ostracized. As a natural consequence the bettor elements of the party resented this ty ranny , and thousands ot them rose in re volt. What else could they do while rail road attorneys , section bosses and subsi dized editors were at the helm , deter mined to rule the party or to compass its ruin ? The young republicans of Plattsmouth are old enough to remember all this. Some of them remember how John M. Thurston , was defeated for district judge by the Omaha Republican bolters. That was before Thurston became Union Pa cific attorney. They remember how that staunch republican , W. J. Connell , was bushwhacked and beaten by order of the Republican , when ho was a can didate for district attorney. Tlioy remember how Yost and Nye treacherously defeated the party fifteen months ago and helped to elect Juruea E. Boyd mayor of Omuha. They remember that last fall and again this spring the Republican gave no active support to the republican county and city tickets. From such model republicans , good Lord deli ver us ! "But the war Is on , " and curses , like chickens , are coming homo to roost. The republican party of Nebraska has been cursed long enough by treacherous load ers. It Is making ready to assert itself and to punish the rogues , jabbi'f ! and railroad cappers who have brought disas ter and disgrace upon the party by their nefarious schemes and misrule , A. Sltfnlfloaut IlcsulU Republican politics in Vermont ana there is none other worthy of serious consideration is of general interest , not so much by reason of immediate effects in promoting the ambition of local leaders and politicians as of the influence likely to be exerted by the results upon cvouU two years hence. We some davs since noted the apparent fact that a formidable opposition to Senator Ed munds had developed in his state , and that according to the estimates of corre spondents , evidently sant into Vermont to give the opposition to the senator as much importance as possible , there was great probability that Mr. Edmunds would not find his pathway to a renewal of senatorial honors so free from obstruc tions as it had hitherto been , If , indeed , he did not find it quite impassable. It was given out that the course of the sen ator in the last presidential cam paign had created wide dissatisfaction , and that if Vermont consented to further honor him it would bo chiefly because the republicans of that state were mag nanimously disposed to subordinate their own feelings to the wish of the repub licans of the country that Mr. Edmunds should continue In the senate. The re publican convention met last week nnd its result demonstrated how very little there was In the reports , surmises and predictions that preceded It. Out of a vote of 003 , the pronounced Edmunds op position could muster only GO. It Is charged that the effort to organize an opposition to Mr. Edmunds proceeded from the close friends of Mr. Blalne and was encouraged by that gentleman. Herein lies its far-reaching signifi cance , for whether or not it bo true that the Maine statesman was a pnrty to the schema to defeat the senator , having entered , as is alleged , Into ti combination with Poland and Kx-Governor Smith for that purpose , it is hardly to bo doubled that ho will be compelled to bear a very considerable share of the responsibility for the move ment , and that his enemies and the friends of Edmunds will not bo back ward in giving it all the importance it can have. Equally is it a matter of cer tainty that the unquestioned unfriendli ness of the Vermont senator to Mr. Blaine will not bo diminished by the alleged fact of the latter having used his influence to foment discord and dissen sion among the republicans of Vermont , but rather may it bo expected that when the proper time comes it will assume a , much more pronounced form than it did two years ago. In short , Mr. Blaine and his friends have good reason to count Senator Edmunds hereafter among the most formidable opponents of the aspir ing Mniuo statesman , and to expect not only no quarter from that source , but an active hostility that cannot fail to bo damaging if not disastrous. A Blntnnt Demagogue. Of all the demagogues who have ever sought cheap notoriety iu this community none could hold a candle to the blue- blooded editor who proclaims himself as the only outspoken foe of the wealthy tax-shirkers. Years before this impudent hypocrite had taken possession of Jay Gould's boodle , which caino to him by inheri tance , the BEE had denounced the out rageous partiality of assessors and ex posed the operation of the system by which the burdens of taxation have been sh'ltcd from heavy capitalists and wealthy corporations upon the shoulders of the middle classes whoso homes are often mortgaged for all they are worth. Three years ago ox-County Clerk Man chester was employed by us at consid erable expense , for the special purpose of compiling the assessments upon prop erty in our principal streets and acre property held by heavy land owners in the heart of the city. Wo then published a comparative exhibit of assessments , and urged the commissioners and city council to equalize them. Last year the BEK hired n special reporter to compile the list of property exempted from taxes in the city. After three weeks' labor this report was presented to the public. It made the startling exhibit of COO city lots exempted from taxes as railroad right of way. This exposure was followed up by a call upon the assessors to do their duty impartially. The tax shirkers were severely overhauled and the present system of tax evasion thoroughly ventilated. It was mainly through our efforts that the assessors last year raised their assessments very mater ially. The wholesome sentiment in favor of tax revision created by the BEE has had its salutary effect this year in one or two wards at least. It is the height of impudence for a pampered nabob , whenever never earned a dollar by his own labor , to pose as the valiant champion of tax reform in behalf of the laboring clas.scs. It takes sublime cliook for such a person to claim all the credit for tlio sentiment that prevails in Omaha in favor ot impartial assessments. It is the essence of meanness for him to charge the BEE with shirking this issue , and mounting tlio fence for fear that it would injure the chances of Van Wyck. It is decidedly amusing to hear the closest landlord in Omaha , who inherited (200,000 , ana has never been known as n philanthropist , rant about tax-shirkers , and proclaim himself as the , only man In Omaha who has the courage to grapple with glaring abuses. Would it not bo well for this conceited young man to use the broom before his own door before ho runs the sweeping machine in front of the promises of his wealthy neighbors ? Tlio Business Situation. There Is but little change in the busi ness situation , the tendency being towards greater quietude , as is generally the case with the closing days of Juno. The vol ume of trade , however , is fully up to tlio summer average , and in some depart ! meats there is a much bettor demand than had been anticipated at this stage of the season. Crop conditions have been much improved bj timely rains , which have materially bonotlttod the growing grain throughout the west. There is abundant evidence that tho'commercial and industrial interests of the country are ou an improved footing as com pared with this time last year. While the business of the half year shows a de cline in seine directions , the gain in others more than balances the loss. Pro duction and consumption per capita are larger in spite of the discouragements of the labor strikes and agitation , but the profit on employed capital has been rela tively small , and in the unsatisfactory returns from such investments is to bo found the chief ground of complaint in business circles. The situation as n whole is an improving one , as indicated by the growing confidence of traders , the encouraging crop outlook , the activ ity and rise in the wool markets , and the large prospective increase in rail way construction In tlio west , The change ( or the better is not likely to become general for some weeks yet , but there is growing expecta tion that it will bo widespread nnd pro gressive as soon as -midsummer lull is over. There was d largo decrease In the failure list In nil sections of the coun try last week. Thoitotal for the United States nnd Canada was 155 , as against 209 the previous week nnd 187 the week before. Cotton prices aro.n shndo easier on en couraging crop reports nnd slow trading. Exports for last week were comparatively light , and speculation was very tame. Cotton goods have b'ccn ' more active , and n few lending makes of bleached shirt ings have been advanced 2J per cent. Printing-cloths arc nlso n shndo higher , and all standard brands of staple cottons are steadily held , with Supplies under very good control. Wool prices advanced 1 to 2 cents per pound us a re sult of larger purchases for consumption , reduced slocks of old wool and stimulat ing reports from foreign nnd domestic markets. There are Indications of a growing consumption of fine wools , which have stiffened tlio views of grow ers in the washed-wool sections. The primary markets everywhere show nn In creased firmness and activity. The rise iu wool values at homo and abroad has caused a firmer fooling in the woolen goods trade , but there has been no ap preciable advance in prices. Buyers show more confidence , but are still oper ating conservatively in all lines. Wheat prices have declined and par tially recovered under speculative in fluences in great part governed by crop conditions in this country and in Eu rope. The foreign crop advices have caused some covering of short lines in domestic markets , which has contributed to strengthen prices. There has been n better export demand for corn , but very little speculation , and price fluctuations have been unimportant. The market is a shade weaker , however , ou account of timely rains in the corn belt. INTISKKS'JCIKG FACTS. The steamer Great Eastern will hereafter bo used as a coal barge at Gibraltar. A solid bed of alum 600 feet thick has been riiscovwed in Graijani county , Arizona , A Now Haven linn nianufactiues over 400 kinds of barometers and thermometers. In the fifty-two Maine savings banks on May 1 the deposits aggieguted 530,19i,5W.93. : A look Is on exhibition at the French Crys tal palace which 1ms 3,747,1375 combinations. The object glass for the Lick university telescope weighs 450 pounds , and cost 551,000. The Japanese government has ordered 120,000,000 feet of lumber troin Oregon mills. The presents sent to tlio white house for Mrs. Cleveland are estimated to bo worth 5100,000. ' Bell's Life , whichrecently throw up the sponge in London , was < started hi 1SS3 by John Bell. , \ It Is thought that over 3/000,000 / tons of Iron ore will bo shipped , from Lake fauperlor ports this season. This season's orange , crop In Southern California aggregated 730,000 boxes , or 108,000,000 oranges. . Seven hundred babies tovo been named af ter Cleveland sinceho became president nnd their photographs till the drawers in a white house cabinet. . ' What Is claimed to be an original water color portrait of Washington , painted on Ivory In 1850 by J. Locouowned [ In Spring field , iloss. , is offered to the government for the moderate little sum of $ 50,000. An Immense drove of rats recently took possession of the premises of S. W. Galnes , near Sclo , Or. Although ho has killed about a thousand there aio many left. They have killed about 5500 worth of chickens and other fowls. Minister Lament , Louisville Courier-Journal , Colonel Daniel S. Lament will hereafter bo Icnown as the envoy extraordinary and min ister plenipotentiary at the court of Cupid. A Representative JBlaa , Clitcago Herald. There IB something very appropriate In William S. llolman's rcuomlnation for con gress In a district where nearly every demo crat Is kicking over the distribution of the federal patronage. He Is a chronic fault finder himself , and therefore is a thoroughly representative man. They are llnroly Punished. Kansas Cltv Journal. "The names of many of the lynchers are known and stops are to bo taken to prosecute them , " says a dispatch from Nebraska , after reciting the death of a horrible lynching af fair. The lynchors are often known , the steps aio always taken , yet how rarely are the lynchers punished. Tlio Mortons Should Bo Just. Clttcago Newt , The Nebraska City News has said some very mean things recently about the late Wilbur IT. Storey. The edltorof the Nebraska City News Is near of kin to the lion. J. Ster ling Morton , who owes his prominence in lifo to Wilbur F. Storey uiore than any other man or men. Therefore the Morton family should bo just , if not kind , to Storey's mem ory. But perhaps the Mortons no longer care for Storey , since ho is dead , and since his paper preferred not to bo edited by the Hon. J. Sterling. Not Creditable to Nebraska. Kansat Cllv Times. Nebraska's adoption of what has come to be recognized as the Kansas idea Is by no means creditable to her , Not that it may be believed that Kansas will be at all jealous of the attempt to deprive hnrof Unquestionable privilege of lynching criminals , for some months have elapsed since she exercised that privilege. But a lyii.chlng usually means that the law Is In iequatc. and that can haidly be eala of Nebrpk . In another year we tnibt it mny not belaid of Kansas. A Big Advertisement. Chicago. fie\i' \ . When Colonel Chailes , JJ. ilasbrook , busi ness manager of thq Kansas City Times , heaid that Ur.Munfoiiteditor , of the paper , had been shot at by a.crnnicy lawyer he was sojomnlng at one of : the Atlantic coabt watering places. Ills /Irst / eare was to learn whether the editor vyas' seriously hurt , and upon learning that the wound was a very slight onu ho indited iusti'nctlons to his tub- ordlnates at home , as1 follows : "Send out double orders to all newsdealers to-inoriow and boom the thing nil'you can , It's the big gest advertisement we've liad In ten years. " Mutability. Dana Miller in the II * t n Transcript. The king hath power for a day 1 What then thu monarch's ttnillo or frown ? Miter and crozler , what ore they ? Scepter and signet , swoid and crown ? A narrow grave hath Timour , him Before whom nations bowed thum down , ( And Himalayas' rising dim , With niibtcio Irony look on , See Beckct mount the steed , the King \ Holding tlio btlrruii for his grace ; 1 But later MM > the bishop's brains Dashed redly on the altar place. Sen Cromwell from a gibbet swung I A mass of poor , dUmembeied bones Who wrou.'ht u nation's freedom , hung For London mobs to pelt with stones ! Power 1 nu airy , baseless dream 1 Glorlusl they vanish at a breath ! Only thu uiliul hath rulu supieme And triumphs over Jute and death I TUB Fort Otnnbn Job , In the sonnto of the United States , March 13 , 18SO , Mr. Mandorson Intro duced the following bill , which was road twice nnd referred to the committee on military affairs , April 0 , 1830. Reported by Mr. Mnndcrson without amendment ; A bill to provide for the sale of the site of Fort Omaha , Nebraska , the sale or removal of the Improvements thereof , nnd for n now site nnd the const i action of suitable build Ings thereon. Bo It cnectcd by the t-cnnto nnd house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled. That the secretary of war is hereby authorized to sell tha military reservation known as Fort Onmlm , near the city of Omnhn , in the state of Ncbrnskn , n'nd such of the buildlnc * nnd improvements thereon as cannot bo economically removed to the new silo heroin provided for. In dispos ing of said properly the secretary of war shall ciutflu the grounds to bo platted in blocks , streets , and alleys , If In his judg ment it will inure to tlio benefit of the government in making sale of said silo , hnving duo reference to the rcmiiroinetits of the houses nnd buildings locntcd on snid grounds , In such cases as they may bo sold with the ground. The secretary of war shall also cause the lots , lands , nnd buildings to bo appraised nnd sold at public or nnvatc .tulc. at not less than the appraised value , hnving first been offered nt public sale. The expense of advertis ing , appraisement , survey , and sale shall bo paid out of the proceeds of said sale , nnd the balance paid into the treasury of the United States. Sen. 2. Thattho secretary of war Is nlso authorized to purchase suitable grounds of not loss than three hundred nor more than live hundred acres , in extent , to be situate within n distance of ten miles of the said city of Omaha , state of Nebraska and construct thereon the necessary buildings , with appurtenances , sufiiciont for a twelve company military post to bo known its Fort Omaha , in accordance with estimates to bo prepared by the war department ; and a sufllciont sum of money , not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars , is hereby appropriated , out of any money in tlio treasury not otherwise appropri ated , to enable tlio secretary of war to comply with the provisions of this act : Provided , That the titles to the lands au thorized to bo purchased under the second end section of this act shall bo approved by the attorney-general. Sec. 8. That section ono of this act shall bo of effect when the purchase of a limy fjito provided ? or in section two shall have been effected. STATJ3 AND TEUIUTOIIY. Nebraska Jottltifjs. The Lutherans of Sidney have organized a church. Blair is laid in : i supply of fuel to fire out tramps. Blair's canning factory started up this week on peas. Cherry county has organized nn agri cultural society. Logan valley corn is looking up and over its neighbors. Tlio town of Shickly has been platted in Fillmore county. The Waterloo mill on the Elkhorn started up last week. Tccumseh will treat to free lemonade and straws on the Fourth. The bazar of tlio Episcopal guild' at Sidney last week netted $100. An elevator with a storage capacity of 25,000 bushels is to be built at Noligh. The new Presbyterian church ut St. Edward was dedicated last week. It cost $2,270. Adams county prohibitionists will rally at Hastings oh the Ud and celebrate oil lemonade and soda. Grand Island is extending her hands to the Northwestcru people iu the hope of inducing them to build to that town. Ed Stagg attempted to boost his finan cial condition by forging u deed for forty acres of land , and landed in the Cuuiing county jail. T. C. Newell was run over by.i team nt Algernon , Ouster county , last week. His injuries are serious and his ago so great that it Is feared he cannot live. Nebraska City is brightening up under the cheerful sunshine of two railroads heading toward her. The Missouri Pa cific and B. & M. arc surveying routes toward the city. A young miss about fourteen years of age was killed over in Logan county on Thursday. She was riding a horse and yyas thrown , her foot catchinit in the stirrup she Was dragged to death. The railroad bridge which will span the Platte river at Douglas , the new town near Fcltermnn , Wyo. , Is being put in shape at the company'd ' yards at iremonl. It will have forty-six spans sixty feet each. The bond craze is spreading rapidly through the southern tier of counties. The enthusiasm of tlio residents proves that the Hock Island has n slick nnd en ergetic corps of political engineers at work. Says tlio Sioux City Journals "F. H. Whitney , of Atlantic , not long since of fered $ ' .27,000 for the lot and a Half that John Pierce bought a few months ago of Wcaro & Allison for $ ; > : > 000. The offer was refused , and Mr. VVhitnoy wont to Omuha and invested nearly $70,000 in real estate. " There was an interesting poker game in a grading camp in Custcr county , ono night last week. The players became so eager to scoop the pot that they pulled revolvers and commenced to shoot. Ono was shot through the leg , nnd a horse was killed by n stray bullet. The pot was emptied during the row. Waco's prince of dudes and low priced merchant , Monroe Sayre , collected in all thu collateral ho could possibly get and departed for Canada , or some other sea port , ono day last week , leaving his cred itors to mourn his departure to thu tone of about $1,000 , Monroe is n Loyal L , on a reduced scale. Bill Barlow's Budget says ; "A very singular incident came under my obser vation , recently , on the train between Omaha and Chadron. A young lady boarded the cars ut Dromout , carrying 11 small satchel , a purse and u handker chief. In placing the satchel in one of the racks near the top of tha car , her handkerchief , which was exceedingly fine and small , foil into the lap of u near sighted gentleman , who was looking out of the window , On turning around he behold what he thought was the end of his nether garment , and proceeded with duo haste and modesty to remove it from view. The young lady at once changed her beat to ono iii the further end of the car , and tried to interest herself in u book. " Iowa Items. Potato bugs are busy in Greene county , A $20,000 school house is goiug up ut Algona , Grasshoppers are stirring in Davis county. The Burlington high school turned out sixteen graduates this year. There are sixty open saloons in Bur lington , six school houses and thirteen churches. . There will bo no change in the date Juno SO ) of holding the democratic stale couvimtfou. Winnobago county will refund its outstanding - standing bonded indebtedness , amount ing to $50,000 in 0 per cunts , ( The Widow Van Cott mot with ill suc cess in awakening a godly fooling in Sheldon , and she wont away sorrowing . to Emmctsburg Mr. Shontz , a Burlington businessman , rescued two drowning boy * from the Mississippi Saturday and positively re fused a reward. Au ordinance is now before the city a council of Dnbunuo appropriating $55.- 000 to nid In building n pontoon bridge across the Mississippi river nt that point. The estimated cost of the work is $34- 000. Lightning struck n house In Rockwell City and demolished most of the furni ture. ( T W. Hnndnll had hishnnd on the door knob nt the tlmo and the cloctric current ran up his nrm and down hl i body. Strangely enough it left no mark upon his body , but his feet , which were bnro , were horribly blistered. The family of the late Governor East man have erected a monument in the cemetery nt Eidorn to his memory. It is more than nine feet high anil weighs over three tons. It bears the inscription composed by him for tlio Washington monument ; Iowa The affections of her people , like tlio rivers of her border , now to an insepruble union , Dakuln. Thu flft'.llors1 and sailors' reunion begins - gins at i 'utclioll today. Sampling and assay works nrc to be es tablished nt Custcr nnd Rapid. The Mnsonlc grand lodge of Dakota , in session nt Bismarck Inst week , numbered i15 ! members , including 118 members of subordinate lodges. A largo force of carpenters is at work in the railroad yards at Scotland , fram ing thu live depots for the stations ou the extension west of that place. When Mitchell aldermen got into a warm wrangle they adjourn to n com- miltco room and settle it with bare knuckles , prize ring rules. It is a rare sight to sea n member with unclouded eyes. eyes.A A couple of ovor-zcalous north Dakota lawyers not into a dispute in court latcty. One offered to but fftO to $10 on n point of law and > yas promptly taken. Tlio judge was appointed stakeholder , ami when tlio money was put up ho liuud both attorneys for contempt of court and appropriated the stakes to pay tlio lines. Wyoming. Laranno is talking up a ? 20,000 hotel. John Connors , n fireman , was killed in the yards nl Larnmio last Friday. Father Nugent , parish priest of Chey enne , has been transferred to Uawlins. "Boys , I guess I'm ' called for , " was the exclamation of N. L. Parko , nt the now town of Douglas , as the bullet penetrated his abdomen and caused his death. The gun was in a trunk from which ho was taking clot icgj nnd was wcidentnlljMlis ; cunrgcu. raruo was a former rcbiilcni 01 Grand Junction , la. The bounty of five cents for each and every prairie dog scalp by the territory has had the effect of greatly diminishing the number of these pests in thu localities nlllicted by their presence. In Sweet Water , Carbon , Fremont and Johnson counties , scalps are pourhur into thu clerks'offices , aud warrants aggregating heavy sums have already been drawn in favor of prairie dog slayers. The oil can and the domestic are bitter enemies and the cause is the same the world over. For instance at Fetterman , Delia had a little oil can , as the Itowd)1 West did learn ; she poured some coal oil in the stove to make the p. elm burn ; then bustles , bangs , and other things went llyiug through the air , and modestly we closed ono eye as she climbed the golden stair. Colorado. Four lots ou Sixth nnd Curtis streets , Denver , recently sold for § 105,000. Silver Cliff is without a newspaper , ami talks of running for the county scat. The Utes have organized a nights of labor assembly. They operate on con venient stock ranges. The recent rains havcgrcatly improved the grass , and cattle of tlie slatti are look ing remarkably well , considering the hard winter passed through. Six engineers are now located between Golden nnd Coal Creek , surveyingground for the Burlington & Missouri river rail road , a now road to bo constructed through Middle Park via Rollinsville. It ia reported along the Santa Fo road that tlmt company has contracted for the shipment of an enormous number of cat tle , which will bo brought up from Texas this season and come Through Colorado on the way to Montana and Wyoming , One report says that during the season the company will transport 80,000 cattle , which will bo 4,000 car loads. Compulsory College Prayers. Now York Commercial Advertiser ! Harvard college has nt last decided to make the attendance of students upon religious exercises voluntary Instead of compulsory ns heretofore. This is n stop in advance which has already been taken by some other institutions , but which Yale , Harvard and Princeton have hitherto resolutely refused to venture upon. Yc call it n step In advance upon more than ono ground. Those persons will so regard it who hold that nn institution of learning should bo n seat of intellectual , moral and religious freedom , whore stu dents are trained for lifo by practice in the art ol self-government and by having daily to regulate their conduct upon such principles moral and social ns they may accept. On the other hand , those who most stoutly contend for the necess ity of a religious clement in education should find no difficulty in seeing that to make attendance upon religious cxcr cises compulsory is to degrade such ex ercises to the level of ordinary college duties , and therefore that the removal of the requirement tends to elevate the in fluence of the religious exercises and to increase their offoctivonuns ns educa tional agencies. It is dillicult to believe that anybody was over rciilly bcnofittud by prayers which ho attended unwill ingly aiid under compulsion of college law. law.wn wn this ground alone some of thn most onliirhtcnud and most devoutly religious of educators the course of ono of whom has been mentioned in these columns IKIVO resolutely set their faces tigiiiust the compulsory system , in full conviction that to make attendance upon any relig ious service compulsory is to degrade ) the service and rob it ot its power to work good. The course pursurd by Harvard will doubtless bo followed by Vain and Prince ton , though hardly yot. A ballot by thu faculty ot Princeton where youiip pro fessors nbnimd would probably result oven now in n vote for freedom ; but tra dition is strong in collagen , and it will probably bo some yours yut before the rule of voluntary attendance i generally adopted. _ Trotters of tlie Dny. It Is just fifteen yonrs ngo next fiilj since Goldsmith M-iid beat Duxtur's time of 3:17 } . The font wsis accomplished at Milwaukee in September , 1871. It was regarded ns n wend rfitl performance , nnd so it.was. TJiilil : of 2:17 : fifteen ynars ngo ! Now look at this array of hordes that have gone bulow it. while ) the names of Goldsmith Maidnml Dexter are well nigh forgotten : Time. Thud. JIaudnS . 2OS ; % Phyllis a : .lay-Kye-Scp . . . .3:10 : Alitno . , . -in'i : Ht , Juliuu . SWf ; Kdwln Thf > rno.3ltf : ( ! Itarus Kiinnlo Wllher- HpOUM. 1'hallas . 2l : J Clingstone . ,3H : Miiud Messen Tilnket . 3M : ger iohhmifh Mala 3:14 : Aniorlciin ( llrl.i Hopolul . 3lljf : Darby , , .aioK : Hary Wllkes..315 ; .Jerome Kildy..a:10K : Lulu . . . . 3:15 : 1'hll T h o in p- .Majolica , . , . 3in : 8011 ,3injj : Smuggler . 2:15J : Charlie ForU.alf. ; % ClemmioC . 3:15 : OccidentlW : } ( Jluttlo W o o d- waiu. . . , . . 2 The Cuban budget , for n wonder , shows surplus of $125,000. PAIN-KILLER IB HKCOMMl'.NDED lit riirslclnn < ! , MlnlstrM , Mtolonnrlo * , Mnnitnorj ot VactorU-f , Work-shoji * , Plantations , Nurse * In Hnplinls- snort , every body everywhere who hns cror clvon It n trial. TAKKSISTEnSAl.t.T tt VIM. HE rOf.XO .1 NCV * cons ron SUDI1BN COLDS , CHILLS , IIA1NS IN TUB STOMACH , CRAMPS , SUM MER AND BOWKL COMPLAINTS - PLAINTS , SOUE T11KOAT , Kc. xTF.nx.u.t.Y , IT 19 TTIE MOST nFTECTlVB ANt > T1E3T ON EAHTII rou crniso SPRAINS , BUU1SES , ttUBMATISM NEURALGIA , TOOTlt-ACHK , BUKNS , FUOS'MJITKS , &o. Prices , 25c. , OOc. and $1.00 per Bottle , FOR SALE BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS Of imitations. . , 3 National Band OMAHA , NEBRASKA. Pnid up Capital . § 250,000 SuplusMny 1 , 1880 . 20,000 II. W. YATKS , President. A. E. TOITZ.VUN'ico President. \V. H. S. HuuiiES , Cashier. _ . . , JotiNS.Cor.MNay U.V. . YATUS , LKWIS S. HKKD , A. E. TOUKAMN , BANKING OFFICEi THE JKON BANK. Cor. 12th nnd Fnrnnm Stroots. 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