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THE OaiAHA DAILY BEE : TUESDAY , OCTOBER 12 , 1886. . .THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Dfillr Ofarnl.iff Edition ) Including' Sunday UKB ( > nn Year . 81001 For 8.x Month * . 6(0 ForThrro Motitln . 2W Tiio Omnhii Sxndny IK ) : , mullotl to nny dJrc-4 , Ono Vcttr. . . SCO OMATIV nmrt : , N'o. 911 Ann Blfl FAUNA * ! P MrwHIIK nrnrn , Iloon ia.Ttitnr.vc HI-II.IIIMI. U.V UrrlCE , No SlIKOL'lltltSXTIlStllEKT. All communications rclstlnir to npw nn > 1 fill- ) orml inntlclioukl tje uddiesseJ to thu llui- tw or inn All I > ulno44l ( > ttor ami remlttnncM should bo BtMres oil to 'I'm : linn ] 'IIII.IHIIIMI C < > MP\NY , OHUM. DrnfM , olio -In inul po-tollloo order * to bv mndo paj ublo to the ordr of the compiiny , THE BEE POBLISHlSlflMPMT , PBilPnlEIQrlS , E. KOSEWATKil. Knirnn. TUB DAILY 11EIJ. Sworn Stntctnctit of Clrcul.-xtlon. Stnto of Nebraska , I , , County of Douglas , i " Will "ll. Kopnlp , cashier of The Bee Publishing company , ( low solemnly swear that tlio actual circulation of tlio Dally leo ! lor tlio week cndliii ; Oct. istli , ISfcO , wasos follows : Sfttlllday. Oct. 2d 13,07.1 Sunday , ad W.O.VJ jMotnlny , 4tli 13.V > t Tuesday , Mil W.r.to Wednesday , Oil l'J,8.1i ) Thnr-ulny. 7th Vi.v.o Friday , fatli I'-.S-lO Average M.OrX ) WH.I. II. Kor.Nto. Sworn to and subscribed In inv juesonco tills Otli day of October , A. L > . . 1 > SC. N. I' . Knir. . fSKAL ] Notary Public , Oco. 15. 'JV.scliiick , being first duly sworn , deposes and says that ho Is aecietary of tbo Uee Publishing company , that the actual av- erairo dally circulation of the Dallv Heo for the month of January , 18x1 , was 10.J1.S copies , for Kebrtiarv. 1SW , 1U,5'J. * > copies ; lor March. IhbO , 11KIT"copies ; for Apiil , IW , 12,1)1 ! ) copies : for May. 1W . VJ.tO'J copies : for.lunu , 12si3colesfor.luly ; | ( ; , ISM' , , 1-j.iiHcopies ; for Atteust , Ibso , 12-lG , } copiesfor ; September , 18SO , 13o ; copies. OHO. B. T/.srntVK. Subscribed and sworn to before urn this 2d day of October , A. L > . , IbbO. N. I1. KKII. , [ SEALI .Notary Public. UEPUHIjlCAN STATE TlOlCIiT. For Governor JOHN M. T11AYKH. For Lieut. Govcrnor-II. II. S11KDI ) . For Secretary of Stato-O. W. LAWS. For Troasurcr-0. H. W1LLAUD. For Auditor H. A. BA11COUK. For Attorney (5cneral WILLIAM LEE8E. For Com. Public Lartds-JOSEl'll SCOTT. For SupLPubllcinstructlon-GEO.B. LANK. ItEPUllLiICAN COUNTY' TICKET. For Senators * OEO. W. LININGEU , 1JUUNO TZSCUUCK. For ] { iprescntaUrc3l W. G. WI1ITMOHK , F. B HIBUAKD , GEO. J1EIMIIOD. n , S. HALL , JOHN MATTIIIESOX JAilES R. YOUNG. T. W. BLAUKHUUN , 31. O. UICKETTS. Fop County Attorney : EDWAIID W. SIMEUAL. For County Commissioner : ISAAC N. PIERCE. MiKisir.n JACKSON has been recalled by Mr. Bayard from tlio Mexican mis- Blon. This will unpleasantly recall Sedgwick to Mr. Jackson's niomory. Nr.w YoitK reports ix loss of § .T 1,000,000 whor bank reserve- from the nmouut huh ! a year ago. This is an indination that the hoardings ol capitalists have left the bank vaults and gone into the chan nels of tradn. IN London sewer gas is destroyed by electricity. The geniun who can invent nn electric plant to destroy the stench from Omaha slaughter houses will bo placed a nlcho nbovo Edison in the pop ular esteem. DTiiK senatorial boouilets of the railroad candidates ought to bo sot in soak for sprouting at nn early day. The election is only three weeks away , and General Vau Wyck's supporters seem to bo in a heavy majority. JAICK SIIAIIP will squeal on the boodle nldurmou of Now York. The man who squeals on the boodle candidate from Noniaha will create almpst as much of a sensation if ho tolls the whole btory of Church JIowo's private and public career. EX-SKNAIOU HILL of Colorado claims that his dofo.it for the semite was duu to the corporation who puid as high as SO.COO for votes against him. Mr. Hill overestimates his Jmportanno. The average Colorado legislator can ho cor ralled for a quarter of the money. Six republican collectors of Internal revenue h.ivu go far escaped the olllcial guillotine at Washington. Tholr death warrants are being prepared. Mr. Cleve land proposes to enforce his peculiar views of civil service reform If it avrcops tbo nnmo of the last republican olllco- Lohlor from the pngcs of the blue book. CKKKIIAI. KAUMIAJLS still remains in Bulgaria inolting opposition to the government and fomenting insurrec tion. General Kaulbiir.i' programme is somewhat similar to that of Uaron Wentchlkoff nt Conslautlnoplo in 1853 \rhoru ho tried co bully the sultan into conceding the ozar's claims nnd sue- - > eM > ( loil in drawing on the war for which was thirsting. SKNATOH VAN W voids the only avowed candidate of the republican party in this state. There are said to bo three or four other candidates in reserve who base their hopes on the support of the rail roads , but General Van Wyck is the only onoj who has upucnloil to the party for a ro-cleoUon based on his past record and who has been endorsed by convention tifter convontlon of straight-out republi cans as tUcir choice for the senatorial succession. ' > LAND COIIMISSIONEU Ss'Aiiics has sent Ills annual report to the secretary of the Interior , It will bo an interesting and readable document for the lantl-irrabbcra when the details are made pubho. In spite of abuse and detraction , Mr. Sparks Las kept at work unearthing frauds nnd throwing now safeguards nronnii the rapidly decreasing publlo domain by Tyhich several millions of acres of the public lands bavo been wrpsted from illegal holders ami restored to the people. Clinrnctcr In Candidates. The moment that political parties stand ready ( o ignore character in the candi dates which they present to the people for endorsement at the polls , that mo ment they begin to die tiio grave for party success. Political parties are in tended to voice the sentiment of the ma jority of citizens allilinting with the or- Kani/ation. They are a convenience and nothing more. It can roidily bo con ceived how candidates could bo placed in nomination and elected , as they often are , without the brand of a warty nomi nation vouching for their fidelity to a political platform. The advantage which n candidate nominated through a political organization possesses is the belief that ho not only roprccntd party principles , but is the choice of a majority of the party. Tlio day has gone by when the most disreputable of rogues can cloak their sins in a mantle of party endorsement and claim the support of honest men because they have man aged to capture the machine. Party lines sit loosely on the voters of the First district. Overwhelmingly re publican for years , their fidelity to re publicanism has been made the excuse of corrupt party managers for foistingupon them for their support , blackleg * and swindlers , straw mnn and corruplionists , undcr'tlio plea that as regular nominees they were entitled to receive the entire party vote. It is high time that the republican - publican party of Nebraska should learn that Nebraska republicans have some sense of decency , and that character aa well as capacity to capture conventions must bo taken into neeount. Tlio nom ination of the most corrupt and dis reputable tnrkctor in the party as the republican candidate for congress in this district is an insult to the intelligence of honest republicans which they will not be slow to resent. In defeating Church Howe republicans will teach party man agers the luason which they must learn sooner or later if party Buecess is to fol low party nominations. Tlic IMfrci'Ciicc. The Chicago anarchists convicted , not of murder but of conspiracy against soci ety , are to hang. Tlio public nnd the press generally applauds tlio action. 1'car of social violence and of tlio results which maj- follow the teachings of these misguided men has aroused a pressure of public opinion under which they have been crushed. But how is it with regard to oilier conspirators and other conspi racies ? The coal carriers of Pennsylvania , roll ing in wealth and high in social influence , have conspired to restrict the production of coal at the mines. They have ) decreed that to raise the product used alike by poor and rich , thousands of laboring men shall bo thrown out of work and women nnd ch'Idren be deprived of a more than bare subsistence to increase the hoards of millioliaire capitalist1) ) , llungcr and poverty , perhaps starvation will be results of this con spiracy against society. Hut not a voice is raised to talk of lynching or f ho gal lows , and press , pulpit and lecture plat form dismiss the subject aa ono of trilling importance at best , outside the reach ol law and small in comparison with the conspiracy which led to tlio llaymarket riot of last May. In St. Louis Jay Gould and his asso ciates have conspired to throttle all competition in transportation. Within the past few days they have gathered to gether all the outlets from Illinois coal mines , the belt line which circles East St. Loins and the bridges and ferries which cross tlio river. With no aim but their own personal aggrandisement , these cor poration conspirators have carried intc successful operation a plot against the liberties of one of our largest cities bj which every man , woman and child can bo taxed at their mercy. But no court ol criminal jurisdiction will bo invoked No jury of their pcera is likely to pass a verdict upon the offense. No judge will assume the black cap and pass sentence upon u conspiracy whose effect may be more widely destructive than that for which Spies and Fielden , Parson , Sehwal and their associates will suffer before the year has ended. It is easy to reach and easier still to en force the ponaltio.i of the law against men whom poverty and vlco drive intc antagonism to human life and social order. The anarchism of the poor IE hemmed in by statute xeatrictions. Ofll ccrs of the law stand ready at any niO' ' ment to apprehend the ofTonders. The press may be counted upon to moult ! public opinion against the criminals , and society will applaud the sound of the drop which hurries them of ] ' into cter nity. But the socialism of the rich , the conspiracies of capital , the attacks upon the economic laws of supply and demand , whoso free and untrammelled working il Is to the highest interest of society tc preserve , stnnd on a different footing , "Enemies to society" seems to have n restricted application , bounded by the wealth of tlio offender and tlio glamom which millions of money throw ovci wrong-doing. The Tides of Trade * . Bradslroot's record of failure ? through' out the United States for the nine months ending with September , as comparoi ! with the lame period of 18S5 , Is very far orablo to tbo current year , the ntimboi being 811 less. The assets this year t ( liabilities wore $7WI7,070 more than las yo.tr , fallowing an improvement also li that direction. In Now York city , however over , there has been an increase of 18 failures In tliisyoar over ISSi. The reconi of Irad ! trcct' > * shows an in timate connection between failures , rail road building and immigration. Thin in 1873 wo built 4'J70 miles of railroad nnd in 1873 the great panic , proiUpHntoii by the failure of Jay Cool : , began. Thei : Immigration foil ofi'str-adily , reaching it ; lowest point 111,857 in 1878. In that year also we had the greatest number o ] failures before 1881 , viz. 10,473. As ttu country began to recover from its deprus sion the resumption of railroad building and the increase of Immigration wcni hand in hatrJ , until 1833 , when we buili the extraordinary amount of 7,265 mile ; of road for the nine months and received n foreign access of population of 788,1)9:3 ) : In that year business failures foil to 7,0t ! ( for the sama period. Then followed another depression. Ir 1633 failures increased to 10.2DO. and bui 3,095 miles of road were built. In IBS ; there wore 11,020 failures , and but 3.01 ! miles of road built , nnntfsrutlou mean while having fallen to something lik < 830,000. Last year our faUurea-werfc KX Joss than in 18Sfandor the nine month ! wo built but 1CW ) miles of roads , w'lulo Ihla yonr wo hans .already built 8,071 mile * , with a largo-reduction of failures. As in 1873 and 1 31. the failures were largest , and in isn tlio bu lnoM boom began , it is argued that the largest num ber of failures immediately precede a healthy revival , and therefore all indica tions are that wo arc fully over the de pression which culminated in 19M , and are reasonably certain of several pros perous years of business. But as in Pharaoh's nroam tlio seven fat kino and the seven lean kino indi cated respective periods of plenty and famine , so Urailstreet's holds that from its records may bo calculated the cyclo.s of trade and the recurrence of panics or years of depression , and tlio next is looked for to ariivc about 18SO , lasting , perhaps , tilt 1992 or 1S9J. Our readers being duly warned , can sot their houses in order. Flcndini * in the World. In fcntt'iiring the anarchists on Satur day last , Judge ( Jury said in reference to their elaborate stict'ches : "I am quite well aware that what you have said , al though addressed to me , has been said to the world , " ll i.s an evidence of tlio se curity which our authorities feel in an in telligent public opinion that these men were given full liberty and as much time as they die < e to preach anew their doc trines. They knew , as tlio court did , that the tnlgraph would carry their ut terances abroad over the land and that every socialist and anarchist in tlio country was as much a part of their audi ence as if tliny had been present in Ilaymarkot square when like language incited to deeds of blood. Not in Franco , Gormnny , Austria , Rus sia , in fact , not in any country in Europe would these men have been allowed , as Parsons and Spies were , to occupy nearly a whole day each in tlio utterances of llicir treason against the peace and order of society. It was an abuse of their priv ilege to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon them , for them to re iterate their sedition and insult the olli- ocrsof justico. It was taking advantage of the court's mercy and the people's forbearance to justify their hellish acts and call upon their fol lowers in effect to rcvongo their deaths. And should those men escape yet by any quibble of law , they would be sure to at tribute that cseape to thu intimidation of tiio higher court by tlicir seditious speeches. The whole country will join in the earn est hope that not a loop-hole exists for those murderers' escape. Their speeches in the court room would justify their hanging as enemies of civilization , law and order , had they done no more. They repent of nothing that they have done and in effect declare that they would do it again. Everything that civilization gives us of any value the acts and teaoh- ings of these men imperil , and they should have no more mercy shown them than the laws of all nations show to priates. Tlio press dispatches represent the judge , aftersontcncmg Nccbo to tlio pen itentiary , as saying "that each of the other defendants * * * dhall be hung by the neck until ho is dead. " Presumably the judge would make no mistake in this matter , nnd yet it seems curious to sen tence men by wholesale instead of each one seperately and by nntno. It would indeed bo strange should every other de tail of the trial stand , and this bo a fatal do feet. Ploiii-o Pneumonia. The frequent appearance of plouro pneumonia among eastern cattle at vari ous places widely separated is most alarming. The danger of a general epi demic and the urgent necessity for the use of every precaution against the spread of the disease cannot bo too strongly urged upon the stock growers of the west. The evident reluctance ot the authorities to take prompt and effective mo.isuros to stamp out the malady where it has appeared is a piece of criminal negligence from which the 'entire west may bo made to suffer. Plcuro pneumonia is the most insidious and deadly disease to which cattle are subjected. It is communicable on the slightest contact and no known remedy has been found to stay its ravages in affected herds. In its rapid spread it is without parallel among dis eases to which cattle arc fubjcctcd. In England alone since the effects have been noted $100,000,000 worth of stock have fallen victim to its ravages. Such a scourago is not to bo tampered with. It cannot bo handled with gloves. While doctors and commissions are dis puting , the seeds for millions of dollars of loss to the stock interests of the United States are being swiftly disseminated. Every animal that has boon exposed in the slightest degrci ! may at some future time become a now centre for contagion. Every stable or feeding ground , box car or cattle pen where ono of these were kept may poison a healthy herd. Unco started on its tour the deadly infection can scarcely bo stamped out by any amount of care and energy. The duty of the authorities east is plain. Every infected animal should bo at onno slaughtered with every animal that has been in the least exposed. Tlu-ro should bo no tninporizlncr , no counting of tlio present cost , nor figuring up of values l bt or injury done. The value of all the bcasU in the Chicago yards would be a trilling bagatelle to the damage which might be caused by the escape of a single affected animal. ' r M-M-M IT was a bit of pleasantry indulged in by ono of our reporters when ho said that a mother who entered her baby fora prixo at the exposition was so mad at another being preferred that she wont out , leaving her buby behind , nnd the father came back just in time to save the little ono from being carried off by the police. The paragraph , however , has been going the rounds ever since , its last appearance , changed to suit , being In the Now York Times , copied from the Chicago cage Intcr-Occan , as follows : "Maternal pride out west reached high water mark in the person of the Omaha woman who entered her Infant in the baby ehow und then walked off and deserted it because it failed to capture the prize. " Take our word tor It , gentlemen of the scissors , the thing didn't happen. Omaha mothers are not built that way , CONTIHCBU complaint is made of the drenchinx of our streets by the watering caits. The complaints are well founded. The contractors who have the job in hand should be brought up with a round turn and compelled to change the size of their sprinklers. As an alternative to steady dust we now have contlrttial mutl.Tt Citi zens owning carriage'complain as lomlly as pedestrians. | ten minutes' drive on some of oui pavcd streets in thp wake of the sprinkling carts , a buggy or carriage looks as if it had been wrestling with the mud of a country road after a spring shower. Smaller holes in the sprinklers and more fmjncnt trips of the carts are what are m'oded. THE report comes that Secretary Entll- cott is anxious to hatld in his resignation as Secretary of War , the reason assigned being his disgust with the interminable jealousies and wire pulling" in tlio ser vice nnd tlio quarrels and backbitings among officers of high rank. There is doubtless mtiuh truth in the complaints of the secretary. In those piping times of peace promotion is slow and rivalry runs not. Washington , however , is the worst place to observe the operation of the army. The "soft service brigade'1 with which Mr. Eudicott is thrown most in contact exaggerates all the faults and and shows fewer of the virtue's of the army officer than in any other station in the country. As the Sixteenth street viaduct approaches preaches completion , the value of this important improvement becomes more apparent. It will give Omaha a north and south thoroughfare , practically level , for four mile.s of its length and paved for nearly half that distance. Six teenth street has improved as rapidly as nny of our leading streets , and nt no distant day is destined to bo a great retail thoroughfare throughout a largo portion of its entire length. Hut the viaducts on Sixteenth and Eleventh streets will not only improve the streets for which thny form bridges. Their com pletion will ral-)0 property values in the entire section across the tracks which is now rendered inconvenient of access. HON. G 1:01101 : : 1) . MKIKUIJOHN has been rcnominatod for the state senate by the republicans of tlio Twenty seventh senatorial district. The endorsement is a deserved ono. Mr. Mcikcljolm has done good service for tiio people of Nebraska nt the state capital. His record in thu last legislature was without Haw. Hon estly representing tlio wishes of his con stituency , he set liis face firmly against the blandishments of the railway lobby , and proved an able and efficient advocate of the interests of the producing classes. Sir. Meikeljohn will receive n rousing majority. WHEN Mr. S. II. Calhoun formally no tified the democratic convention at Hast ings by letter that } having been ap pointed to a federal oflica ho could not , in obedience to tlio pro.iident's circular order , be present at their deliberations , he made himself needlessly conspicuous. It is probable that he "would not have been missed had ho liot written. It is probable also that if there had been any chance to elect the nominees ho would have been there anyway. As it was , ho had a chance to show lita 'loyalty ' to the president without huHing1 thu party. Tur.uc is not a i republican on the Douglas county legislative ticket who favors prohibition. Ne > t tne. Each and every candidate stands firmly on the platform adopted by the republican county convention several weeks before the republican state convention passed their submission resolution. Douglas county republicans , like the republicans in dozens of other counties in Nebraska believe in home rule ami will voice their belief in a practical way in the legislature. ANNOUNCEMENT is made of the comple tion of the "Belt Lino. " The "Belt Lino" is the Missouri Pacific entrance into Omaha , nothing more anel nothing less. It was n shrewd schema to enlist local interest in a pretended local road which was in reality only the extension of Jay Gould's southwestern octupus. GIIADING has begun on Harncy street and is in process of completion on Learenworth. Omaha is rapidly bring ing her cast and west thoroughfares down to grades which materially shorten time and distances between the city suburbs and the neighboring county precincts. THE cable load is still a puzzle which is being solved very slowly. The ques tion is whether it is ' 'a combination" puzzle in which the street car company will ultimately have something to say. Anot'T the time tlio cable cars begin running , and regular trips of suburban trains nro made on the "Belt Lino" the real estate boom will take another riso. KINGS AND QUEI3N3. The king of Portugal hates the French re public so much that lie will not crpss French territory to visit his friends and relatives In Cicrtnany , but KOCS thither by water. The prince of Wales dined recently at the "Pahnongarton. " After he had left an Eng lish family bought , nt a very hlu'h price , thn table-cloth and the knives and iorks that his loyal highness had used. Prlnecss Beatrice Is busy getting togellier the nucleus of a waidrobo for tlio coming in fant Among other Interesting baby gar ments she has been presented by her majesty with with an artistic pleco of needlework which the queen took a fancy to.and piomptly annexed at tlia Kdlubur exnlbltlon. It is in the form of a hnby'K lobe1 , and was worked by ono of the students at the Wemyss Caslla school. ' ' The emperor of Germanyjls subject to fre quent attacks of somnolpnce , which , his phy sicians sny , If ] > rcmlrted to last longer than Is absolutely necessary ! to allow him to rest , mlcht itsult in death. , Every two hours ho Is given Boup or broth and waited up by Ids attendants during tbo , day. Ho i.s troubled with a wenknoss of thoiicart and os.sllicatlon of tlio veins. Still h continues to woik and ( supervise all things relating to the army. Prince Alexander , Idle of Bulgaria , was the favorite of the Empress Maria , mother of til ? present tzar. In her will the empress loft tbo prince 2,000,660 , cntbl63 , but tlie hitter refused to receive thp principal , pre ferring to draw the yearly Interest from it , which was regularly paid him out ot thn ] ( u 9lan treasury. It Is gaid tlio prince now demands the two millions , and that the c/ar dedaios ho shall never see a ruble of It. Ills Majesty Doin Luis of Portugal , ac cording to the Paris ( Jravols , has returned from his continental tour to London only for tlio purpose of arranging with Queen Victoria for the projectwl marriage of Ids eldes sol'i ' 'he ' Infanta Alfonso , duke of Cainbila. with the Princess Lonlse , daughter of the prince of Wales. It U a bublcct ot talk in European aristocratic circles that the princess of Wales and her daughters hast ened their dcpatturo from Copenhagen the other day and returned to London In order to meet his Mnjosty Loiu ) Luis on hU arrival In the city. Delicate AVaHliincton Persiflage. Waihtnatim Critic , "Is Cleveland back ? " said a visitor to a fuuuy man In Newspaper How. "Tlio paper * > ay so , " was the reply ; "but I think he U inoro stomach than bock. " Keep It Before Tlcpubllcans. The republicans of the First distrio should ask themselves whether a man having such a record as that of Church Howe has any rightful claim upon tlio support of nny decent republican. Leav ing out of question his corrupt methods and notorious venality wo appeal to re publicans to pause and rolled before they put a premium upon party trea son nnd conspiracy against its very exist ence. Ten years ago , when thp republican party was on the verge of disaster , and every electoral vote cast for Hayes nnd Wheeler was needed to retain the party in power , Church Howe entered into a conspiracy to deliver republican Nebraska into the hands of the enemy. This infamous plot is not a mere conjec ture. Thu proof of it docs not rest on surmise or suspicion , it is not to bo pooh-poohed or brushed away by pro nouncing it ono of Ko t'\valcr's malicious campaign slanders. The records of the legislature of which Church Howe was n member in ' 70-77 , contain the imleliblo proofs of the treasonable enable conspiracy , and no denial can stand against evidence furnished by his own pen. Bnolly told , the history of this plan to hand ovnr the country to Tildou and democracy is as follows : In 1870 Nebraska elected Silas A. Strickland , Amasa Cobb and A. II. Connor presidential electors by a vote of 31,010 as against a vote of 10,1)51 ) cost for ho Tilden and Hcndricks electors. After the election it was discovered that tlio canvass of this vote could not lake place under the then existing law before the legislature convened. The electoral vote had to bo canvassed in December at the latest , and the regular ces sion of the legislature did not begin until January. In order to make a legal canvass of the electoral returns , Governor Garber called a special session of the legislature to convene on thciHhof December , " 70 , at Lincoln , for the pur pose of canvassing the electoral vote of the state. The democratic effort to cap ture republican electoral votes is historic. Tilden's friends , notably Dr. Miller , had been plotting for the capture of one of the electors from Nebraska , and it is also historic that a largo bribe was offered to one of tlio electors , General Strickland. The call of the legislature broke into thu plan of the plotters , nnd they found a will ing and reckless tool in Church Howe. When the legislature convened at tiio capi talChurch Howe Hied a protest which maybe bo found on pages 0 , 7 and 8 of the Ne braska House Journal of 1877. The fol lowing extract makes intcrnstingrcading : "I , Church Howe , a member of tbo legisla ture of Nebraska , now convened by procla mation of his excellency , Governor Silas Garber , for the purpose of canvassing and declaring the result of the vote cast in Ne braska for electors for president and vice president of the United States , hereby enter my solemn protest against such act , denylnc tnat the governor has power to call this body In special session for any swh purpose , or that this body has any authority to canvasser or declare the result of such vote upon the followlnc grounds : First. This lozlslature now convened hav ing been elected under what Is known as the old constitution , has no power to net in tbo premises , the now constitution of the state having been in foieo since November , 1875. " The second and third clauses deal with technical objections and arc somewhat lengthy. The concluding sentences of this precious document are as follows : "For the foregoing reasons I protest against any canvass of tlio electoral vote of the state by ( his body , and demand that this , my protest , bo entered upon the journal. " ( Signed ) Church Howe , member of the legislature of Nebraska. The democrats did not respond to the call of the governor and there was * barely a quorum in the senate , while there were several to spare in the house of which Howe was a member. The protest en tered by Howe was doubtless prepared by the Tilden lawyers in Omaha and Howe had the glory of being the sole champion of Sam Tildon. The legisla ture ignored Church Howe , spread his protest on its record and canvassed the electoral vote in spite of it. When the legislature convened in Jan uary , 1877 , the presidential contest was at its height in Washington. Church Howe had changed places from the house to the somite. Early in the session , a resolution was introduced expressing the conviction on the part of the senate that Hayes and Wheeler having received a majority of the electoral votes were en titled to their scats. This resolution gave rise to a very lively debate which lasted two ( lavs. Church IIowo asked to bo excused from voting when it first came up and was so excused. On the final passage of the resolution tlio record [ page 870 , Senate Journal 1877 , ] shows the following result ; Yeas Ambrose , Baird , Blanclmrd , Bryant , Calkins , Cams , Chapman , Colby , Dawcs , Gar- finld , Gilham , Hayes , Kenuard , Kuapp , Pcpoon , Powers , Thiimmol , Van Wyok , Walton and Wilcox 20. These voting In the negative were : Aton , Brown , Covell , Ferguson , Hinman , Holt , Church Howe and North 8. During the same session of the legisla ture , Church Howe's vote on United States senator for the first throe ballots is recorded as having been cost for E. W. Thomas , n South Carolina democrat , [ pages 103 and 203 Senate Journal. ] All this time Church Howe professed to bo a republican independent , republican on national issues and a temperance granger on local issues. Wo simply ask what right a man witli such a record has to the support of any republican , Pont i cut Grammar. Three little words you often sco Are articles , a , an and the , A noun's the name of anything , As school or garden , hoop or su ing. Adjectives the kind of noun , As irrat ; , small , pietty , white or brown. Instead of nouns the pronouns stand Her head , Ids face , your aim , my hand. Verbs tell something to be done To read , count , laugh , sin ? , Jump , or run , How things nrodoni ) tlio adverbs tell , As slowly , quickly , 111 or well , Conjunctions Join the words topt-ther , As men and womun , wind or weather. The proposition stands before. A noun , as In r through the door , The Interjection shows surprise. As OI how Pietty , Ah ! how wise. Tne whole are called nluo parts of sper-ch , Which tending , writing , spelling teach. Honors to Minnie IIauk. Chfcaai Utrabi , When Minnie HanU sang at Bozetnan , M. T , , the other evening the resources of the territory -were taxed to their utmost by tlie gentlemen who wished to do her honor. One admirer sent up between acts , two gold nut'- gets ; another n silver-mounted tooth from * boar ; another an Indian's sculp , and Mil another a Slouwnr bonnet fmtnd oil the ( 'lister battlcllrld. It Is passing strange tlir no our thnuijiit to j-lvu her a photograph ol the last mnn the citizen ? hrul for brcaktnst. Sam Jones Kc-Ktiihrccil nu the Coast. San lYtinrboi Call. llcv. Sam Jone.s says that oveiy kind of sin dRscrllxHl In the Bible Is committed In Chi r.u'o. The papers In thntclty are mad. Thej pildo thciiiM'hes on havlmr a larger list. Too llralny. lftM ( fl Tlmrt. Mr. Henry George Is making a rcmarkabl } pnereotle canvass , nud Is aroti'lnj ? much en thusiasm , bid , nevei tlicle , he will probabl ) bo defeated. Holt altogether too bialnya man lor a mayor , as imiyois go nowa days. _ I'ractk'nlilo I'lotilhllli.ii In Illinois Oi ( < viiA > Trllmnt. At a recent meeting of the state prohi bition committee the Uov. Isaiah Vlllors peripatetic state lecturer , declared "higl license the most infamous fraud evot placed on the statute book , " and assorted that it led to "tho death of moral con- EciiMieo.1' Mr. Villers fraudulently en deavored to produce the impression that high Ik'i-nse is the only legal restriction under the laws of Illinois that can bo ap plied to the liquor tralllc in this state , whereas it is only a remedy furnished communities that will not employ a stronger ono. The "high-license" law ot Illinois compels every locality to tax the trallic heavily and show "couseienco" to that degree , at least , while it holds out the means , tlio opportunity and an in ducement to municipalities to estab lish prohibition by loeal enactment. Pri marily , the law of Illinois is prohibitory , and it Is only by allirmativo action that a locality can release itself from that rule and sanction the opening of dramshops. If any community will keep its hands oil and refuse to issue saloon licenses the snlo of liquor for drain-d.inking will bo absolutely illegal within its jurisdiction. It is only by an outrageous perversion of truth that a fanatical clergyman can speak of such a statute us the leadinjr to "the deatli of moral conscience. " If the Hev. Mr. Vijlors desires to know how "moral conscience' ' in respect to liquor-selling is being crushed out in Illi nois , lot him cast his eyes ovnr the re ports sent to the Tribune from tlireo- lourths uf the counties of the btatc , pub lished in Tuesday's issue , and see now the area of prohibition is being rapidly extended in the rural portions of Illinois and wherever tlie conditions nro favor able. Reports received so far not only show counties like Cumberland , Ful ton , Johnson , Platt , Putnam , Schtiy- Icr and Wayne , in none of which can an open saloon be found , but there is a long list of others whom the rule is virtually prohibitory , as in BooneBrown Champaign , Clark , Crawford , Douglas , Edgar , Edwards , Franklin , Uallatin , Hancock , Henderson , Jefferson , Macon , Massac , McDonough , Menard , McLean , Kno.v , Pike , Union , Vermillion , Wnbash , Warren , Winnebago and Adams outside of Qnincy. Prohibition is the rule in all these counties and license towns the ex ception , nnd where granted the tax in many cases reaches § 1,800 or $2,000. In a large number of counties in another class the prohibition towns are in a ma jority , and there seems to be no doubt that under the excellent law the Hev. Villers so maliciously denounces prohibi tory regulations have been extended until they now cover two-thirds ot the soil of Illinois. Such results in a state having six years ago 227,000 adult males of foreign birth are certainly remarka ble and ; show that nominal prohibition can bo established wherever a majority of the community is brought to dcsiro it. An inllexiblc state prohibitory law would bo no benefit to the counties named nbovo. They have all the pro hibition the law , can provide and that public opinion will enforcn. Why , then , should the law bo changed in a manner that cannot benefit the temperance portions tions of the. state , but will strip other localities of the only restrictions they can enforce and leave them to the rule of free whisky ? Such a policy would reopen open the 4,000 saloons closed bv the high-license law and shift a burden of four or live millions ot dollars from the saloons to the shoulders of tlio tax payers. The experience of Kansas and Iowa proves it impossible to force sumptuary laws on any community against the will of its people , and while cranks and vlMonaircs advocate such at tempts , the actual results arc free whisky , riot , disorder , nnd defiance of ' law. 'Tho fact that such demorali/ing notions are propagated in Illinois , where the law provides prohibition for every community that will accept it , and stops short only of attempting to impose it contrary to the will of the people , merely shows tnat the eleemosynary mstitntio.is need enlargement so as to furnish a larger measure of accommodation for well-meaning but crack brained and dis tracted persons. SEND BACK THE OBELISK. Cleopatra's Nceillo In Now Yorlc a Reproach preach to the Nation. Charles Chaillu Long In the Isorth American Review : The secretary of state at Washington was doubtless kept in ignorance not only of the state of public teoiing , so manifestly hostile to the re- movalof the obelisk , but , moro import ant still , of the opposition of thekhedive , which was only too apparent in his reply to the interested consular agent , who did not scruple to employ the authority of his office to force the khedive to consent. Tcwfik said : "Mr. Consul , take it ; my people complain ; I am delighted to see that tlioy appreciated these antiquities ; f ajcreo with them that they are of great historical value to us , but 1 do not wish to oiluiid the great republic. " Tliwte not the language surely of ono who makes a voluntary gift , mil ono made under compulsion , and its acquisition was neither "creditable to our nation" nor "to our day , " and it is certain that Mr. Evarts would ucvor have authorized such action hud ho been kept advised of tlio true condition of nflairs. But then it was idle to expect that this should bo no. Tlio United States consulate in Egypt has been for many years an Augean btablo , and quite beyond the control of tlio secre taries of state , who fccum to have aban doned It heretofore to thn questionable care of their subordinates. And hence the series of scandals which have made it "famous , " Otlior nations , it may ho objected , have taken obelisks irom Egypt. Trtit ? . but ijioy found them buried in the mum , or they took them from Jsomo remote and ruined city. Cloopatra'H needle stood on a fixed and solid foundation In the beau tiful and populous city founded by Alex ander the Groat. It was the only inonn- mont within the limits of the city. It WBS a monument of Egyptian fame , Egyptian art , and bore the name of a celebrattHl Egyptian queen. In Egypt It represented a part of her gjorious his tory. In America It is meaningless and seiist'lesa , Had ono been constructed qf soap it would have been as appropriate ana perhaps just as enduring. At any rate , no wrong wonld have been com mitted no country despol'ed. ' Who shall say that the acknowledged disintegration of the obelisk now is not duo to the intervention of some avenging bpirit. who senks to redress Its wrongs , and tiiiiH commits its crumbling sands to winds \vbich waft them brick to its east ern home , there to commingle with the dust of ugfts from whence it came ? Bu this as it may , lot us anticipate its abso lute decay , and as I have already sug gested , raise a popular subscription and "return to the despoiled and outrajjcd city of Alexandria her lost mount . . Tins would bo nn act worthy of a g < i ou people" This la far better 1. i paraillne waterproof , which onlr i < - longs the ngony. The obelisk Is sufiVi-p from consumption , and only a ohai.c of climate can save it from annihilatio.i. THE CONGO. A Doubt that tlio Country Is Worth Developing. The Italian traveler Bovo has lat ' . joined in the unfavorable verdict tin i the value and the future of the Conn > stale. In n letter dated from Liieun i. which the Homnn paper Ua < segnn i prints , he savs : "Tho part of the touir \ through which 1 have traveled 1ms ! . altered the unfavorable opinion wli i-i 1 had formed ot the Congo ; on the nn- tfhry. uverj thing 1 have seen conlin mo In the. belief of the InsignilieeiH vali n of tlie district. When 1 remember tl. great stir has hi nu made with regard the Congo bacin , tlu confercnees ai. I transactions , the numerous vessels wlii. i have been sent out , tlio homage and tv i- gratulations which tlie King of Belgir.n has reeeivcd : when I think of the IHCHM jealousies , the Ill-will , and the calumin i tions , 1 am inclined to believe Hint man kind has advanced very little in the real love of truth , an I that even great statesmen r- > itumblo in thn dark. Tlio journey warn Alntmli to Lucunga was heavy piece ot work ; chains of mountains , stoop hills , deep precipices , endless hollows , rivers full of rapids , and everywhere sandy des erts , and underwood six or seven yards high , through which the way lay for hours , n.s through a tunnel ; the whole body was whipped by the hard grass. Thu excitement became quite feverish to get out of this torture and breathe once more the free air. Iluro and there 1 catuo uion n tiny wood and every two or three hours upon a village of four or live huts ; then grassy de.-erts again and hard rocks. All travelers unite in praising the Upper Congo state , its boundless for ests , its wide water-veins , and the fertil ity of its soil. Well , before long wo shall see how far tills is truo. Mannri appears to think as little of tlie upper state n.s of the low.T , and 1 share his view that a greater part of the Upper Congo district is covered with immense swamps. The .slo > v current of thu river , its width , the numerous slow tributaries , and the largo lakes from which these tributaries spring , must indued , lead ono to tlio be lief that the upper Congo district is an immense plain. And supposing oven the that the country on the upper Congo were a paradise of fertility , what good would it bo to our emigrants to go to a country where it is almost impossible for Europ. ans to work , and where they would have to pay half their earnings to doctor-j and ehomisUy Nor do I see for the present any market for our com merce. I have repeatedly said that it would bo far more useful to direct our at tention to the coast of west Africa , to Sierra Leone , Liberia and the Niger district , where traffic is on the increase , where there is a numerous and commercial population , and where shortly the produce of the western Son- dan will pass along the great highway of the Niger which is indued the river which is of greatest importance to Africa. An Arab Theater. A correspondent gives an interesting account of a performance ho attended at an Arab theater in Cairo. Largo rosn- colored bills posted on the doors an nounced that the troupe of Abou-Chalila- el-Kabbani , of Damas , were to give a series of performances of the lovo-tragedy of "Emir Mnhmoud , " in the presence of tlio nobility and gentry of tlio neighbor hood. Tlie theater was crammed ; it pre sented a picturesque scene. Tlie gallery was filled with the white turbans and blue sinooks of the lower classes. The gentry , dressed in colored slaiuboullnes or black caftans and fez , occupied the pit. As for the bokes. they were sot apart for the nobility , who worn all la irreproachable European costumes. No ladies wens there save two English girls in a stage-box , probably daughters of an olliccr belonging to the army of occupation. Loud gcs iu and laugh ter rose from all sides. Tin ; purveyors of refreshments , kept up a most Infernal din. The theatre was stilling with the smoke of cigarettes. At length the cur tain rose , but it wad sonio time before the actors could get a hearing. They were attired as Bedouinsand gesticulated furi ously. There were no actresses , the female - male roles being plaved by young men , as is the custom in the casr. It was the same with the ballet , the girls being re placed by youths , who wcro got up so skillfully that at a certain distance the delusion was complete. The audience applauded , not with their hands , but with their feet and wiilkirig-jticks. The delivery of tlio actor. * was tlio most mo notonous and somnolent that could bo im agined. The solemn , comic or tender passages were all given in tlie same tone. In short their nciim. ' resembled Unit of a child who ha.s learned a fable by heart and recites it without any knowledge of what ho is saying. 'I ho singing was of thcHamo kind ; it was ono monotonous nasal howl or Hhriek , which either drove you to sleep or out of the theatre. Pavy's Whlow a Pensioner. The secretary of tlio Interior has rn- versed the ducfriqn of Commissioner Black on tlio claim of Lila May Pnvy , widow of Dr. Octavo Pavy , late acting assistant surgeon United States Army , under contract with the Greoly expedi tion , who died of starvation at Capo Sabine about Juno 0. 1881. Some days prior to the termination of Or. Pavy's second yearly contract ho notified Lion- tenant Greely that ho would not renew his contract for a third year , but would continue to servo without pay. A bhort time thereafter Lieu tenant Greely placed him under arrest , charging , among other thing.s , Insubor dination. While still imdor arntst and after the expiration of his service contract - tract ho died. Tlie commissioner of pen sions rejected the claim upon the ground that ho was not at the tlmn of hi.1 death in the worvico of the United State * . The secretary , in reversing tlio commission- er's dufisioii , is of the opinion that , being - ing undiir orders of an army olllcor. at tlio time of his death , ho was , under liberal interpretation of the law , in tlio government borvlco , and tlio war and navy department having paid his widow for his service's up to his death tin peti tion should bo granted. Mm. Pavy's name was ordered to bo plaoud on the pension roll at $17 per month. Our Kconntrlu Lnnir nKC. The eccentricities of the English lan guage are often tlio subject of foreign rlissuUsfactioii , and form the obnmclo of the most 'cultured linuuifctic perfection , A Hollander of education who mib lately called upon to address an American meeting illustrated the trials in Janpningo by a most natural slip in synonyms : "Ladies and gentlemen , he said , feel ing hin way with care , "it is great pleas- nro for mo to speak word * to you. The 3onvontion is so homelike to me , and the | ieop ] ( > of the convention urtt f > o pleasant nnd so homely. " At thly point a sub- ; lued laugh interrupted him , but us ho proceeded it was evident that ho wus in nocent of the turn his compliment hud laken. Bonvin , the painter , arose at his mar riage banquet , and , addressing IIH ! wlfo n an inllated style , remarked ; "Never forget , my wife , that you have entered a family of the gown and sword. Was not ny mother n seamstress and my father in .ho rural pohcei" An oak that was cut bcforo Shakes * icaro's day furnished a bit of tlmbur low in lisa as a bunch In an English 'armer's kitchen. The timber did duty is a roof beam in a church for BOl years. It ib bull as sound as iound can bo ,
