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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1880. TIIE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TKrtMS OP SflWCIItPTIO t Pnlty ( Mornl.i ? Hdltlon ) Including Sunday HKR , Omi Vcnr . $1001 TorSif MdntlK . f > W I'orTliri'o Months . " 60 Tlio Oiimlm Bxnilny HRI : , mnllod to nny , Ono Votir. . . . Sou A orricr , No. Jill \vn mn KAHWI "fnrrr. VniiKfUrtcr. ItimM io. Ttiini M : lirnniNn OIHCK , No ADKoriiTEKMiisrutbr. All communications inlntlim tonows torlnl innttor MiouH lie addiosSuil to tlio Llil- SOU Of Till. lU'.K. All 1vitnpssli'tloi | nnil i omlltnncoq should lie nddiOHKcd to 'lint III : . IM III.IXUIMI CoMi'tsv , O.VUIIA. UnifM , flmrks linil im-triinro onlnr * to be inndoimynlilo to tin * onlcrof the company. 1HE BEE POBLISHI 7ciPAHY , PROPRIETORS , E. IIOSKWATKH , Knrron. THIS DAILY jinn. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska , I , County of Ioiigla ) < s. r Will II. Kopnlu , rnshler of The Bee Publishing comiuny , docs fiolemnlv swear that the actual circulation ot the Daily Bee lor the Week ending Oct. Mb , IbW ) , wiiaas follows : Satuitlay.0ct.2d 1",075 Sunday , lid ii.o.v : > . .Mondayilh ii.n. : > l Tuesday , nth 13 , : ! 10 Wednesday , ( ith 12.S.V ) Tlmr-tlay , ? th 12.V.O Filday , Mh 12.SIO Wn.t. H. Kon.viu. Sworn lo and subscribed in mv presence this Oth day of Outuber , A. D. , 1S80. N. P. FKII , , [ JSKAl , ] Notary Public , ( ico. B. T/scluick , bolus first duly sworn , deposes nnd says that ho is swietaiy of the Bee Pimllslilimcomnany , that the aenial av- crane dally circulation of the Dally Bee lor the month of .Innuaiy. ISbO , was lO.iii.S copies , forKuhnlnrv " , ItM ) , lu,5l.ir > copies ; for MairJi , IJfcfl , 11.K17"copies ; for AptII , 1 5 , 13,11)1 ) conie.s : lor May. iv > rt. lL'ir.'J ' conies : for June , issi. 13,293 copies : for .July , lsMii2iuoopIi : * ; for August , 18S0 , 13,101 copiesfor : September , 1SSO , iio0 : , : ! copies. Oio : B. Txsc Hue K. Subscribed nnd HWOIn to hefoio me this'M clay of October , A. D. , ISbfl. N. P. Pr.li. , [ SEAM Notiuy Public. HTA.T10 T1CKI3T. I'or t.ovcrnor-.JOHN M. TllAYIlK. For Lieut , Governor II. U. SllEIJD. ForSccietaryof Stato-G. W. LAWS. For Troasnrcr-C. H. WILLAUD. For Auditor H. A. BAUCOOK. For Attorney General WILLIAM LKI5SE. For Com. Public Lands-JOSKlMl SCOTT. ForSupt.Publlcliibtiuctlon-aKO.U.LANli. . KKPUBMCAN COUNTY TICKET. V * 191 For Sonntora' GKO. W. L1NINGKII , BIIU.NO TXSCIIUOK. For Kepresoiitatlvcs : W. G. AVlimiOUK , K B IIIUliAKU. GKO. 11K1MUOU. 11. S. HALL , JOHN JIATTI1IESON. JAMES U. YOUNG. T. W. BIiAUKBUKM , M. O. KICKETTS. ForCouuty Attorney : KUWAHU W. SIMKUAL. For County Commissioners ISAAC N. P1KRCE Now that tlio nominations are made , friends of General Van Wyck throughout the state should work earnestly to call out tlio "popular voto. GUNHKAL SnnuMAN threatens to leave Now Yortif the bands don't stop playing 'Marching Through Georgia. " Ho says it is worse played out than Johnston's nrmy of twenty years ago. TimJIcraltl thinks that the prohibition ists should start a ticket of their own. 'Nobody will object. In Douglas county , however , they would find it hard work to llnd followers enough to (111 ( up the ollices. GKOUND is being cleared nnd contracts let for the now hotel on Fnrnam street. The project is an enterprise which is assured of success from the start. Omaha Is badly cramped for hotel accomoda- tlons. When her leading two hotels wore erected it was believed that the demand for hotel accomodatlons had bcpn fully mot for yqars. To-day there is us jnuoh of a need of additional hotel facilities as there was three years ugo. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ CHUKOH llowi : is parading gomo letters in .the papers which ho claims to have re ceived from eminent republicans who are said to fyo overjoyed at his nomina tion. Ono of these is from ox-President Arthur , another from John A. Logan anil ono from Congressman llico , of .Massauhu setts. Those letters are altogether too spontaneous. Ex-President Arthur lying on his back with Blight's disease and Air. llico in the midht of u campaign , have rusho'l ' tO'tio ' | po.stoIUc.o to bid Uod , flpccd ( to llowo's candidacy. General Logan , who probably doesn't know IIowo out gdu | of the bnpf inxuiainianoo Iu | made with him during the campaign of 1881 , dropped all his voluminous correspondence once to chuor Howe on hi.s rugged way It is hardly necessary to say that thcsp letters arc in response to nn urgent rq quest from Howe for a fo v words of good cheer for him to the republicans of this district who are inclined to give him the cold shoulder. None of these loyal ami distlngushod republicans are familiar with Church llotyo's checkered In this state. TJIE editor of the Herald raises no ncty point when ho says that the ability tp build a railroad is ono thing and tha tibll iiy tomaltuajn it Is quite another matter In all discussions concerning the no\y road to the northwest thL-s question hai been carefully coiud.erqd. ] It viH bo weighed still further before Doiiglaj county commits itsglf to subsidizing thj outerpriso , Lovol-hcadod business men and heavy capitalists , speaking after ful inquiry intp existing conditions and conference foronco with railway uion of cxporicnco believe that the natural business whlcl the new road wuuld attrac wil | , bo suHloIont to main tain It as a paying enterprise "JHs assumed , in tha lirst place , that the road is to be honestly built , lionobtly capituli/.od and lioncstly operated for the lionotit of the slockholdors and in the in teroats of the community. The IICHV ; bontisos to inside speculators , the sttl more heavy Interest charges on tictitlou indebtedness , and the dividend * on wat crod stock will bp olliuinatod. These ii pyory other system of wiiich we have knowledge form n lieayy cLnr 'o on the maintenance of the road. Phlftllty to Pnriy. Once nioro wo hear the appeal for iilclity which has been rung in the cars of Nebraska republicans every time they niyo lisen in .revolt against dlslioticst candidates ami corporation nominees. Once more ( he party la h is raised to vhip In weak-kneed and credulous re- Mililicaiis whoso votes are wanted to elrct men with whom the party mask only covers the monopolist and jobber vho has managed to secure a nomlna- Ion. The luno which the rejuvenaleil llejittbliran plays for Chnrcli Howe is the same old tune which that paper has ilayed so often in the years gone by. A loleful appeal is made to republicans of ho 1'irst district to stand by Church lowe or bo drummed out of the parly is traitors and apostates. Wo are old that "for twelve years Church Howe ias been in active political life in this slate. Upon the record ho made he stands. Upon this record a republican onvrntion nomiiiatcd him. In making ho nomination it'selorlrd him to cast n cpuhllcniiolo in congioss. Any ropub- lean wlio antagoni/.es him is playing in- o the hands of tlu > democracy which has HO long dominated the lower house and ) n so doing , is antagoni/inir the republi can party of the country of which his vote will bo a material national part. In 10 way can this fact bo dodged. It should bo snlllclonl J'or any man who be lieves in liis parly. " Ao admit the fact that Church Howe lias for twelve jears had an active politi cal life in the state and that he must > tnnd by the record he has mado. That record has been a continuous record of nfamy. For twelve years Church Howe ias boon an active agent and principal n corrupting Nebraska politics ami jringing dishonor and disgrace upon our pgiilaturos and political conventions. Ever since lie has Set foot west of the MIf-onri river , in Wyoming as well as in Nebraska , his name has been as > ooi- Ued with all kinds of rascality , jobbery and bribery. The republican party owes "ilm no thanks or support. Ho deserted t on every occasion when it was profitable to do so , and his record shows him to be one of the most danger ous and treacherous of reprobates. Why should any republican who is a roimbli- an from principle feel compelled to sup port a man who sought to prevent the counting of the electoral vote of thi- > state 'or president In 18TC , and hid : contiactod to defeat the party in itH national suprem acy ? What does any decent republican owe to a man who voted forabar'l demo crat for United States senator ? "What possible assurance hayo republicans that such a man would vote with them in any emergency when his vote in the house would decide which party should control ? A man who in ' 70 was willing to give over the whole country to the democracy would certainly not iiesitato in 1880 to give the democrats control of the house if they made it his interest so to do. Wo are told that "Church Howe is the regular nominee of a regular republican convention. " So ho is , but what does this regularity represent ? Does it reilect the sentiment of the party or express its choice ? Does it expunge Ins record of twelve years to which the Jlcjniblican re fers ? Is it not notorious that the Gage county delegation which nominated Howe was the product of a disgraceful outrage upon the rights of republicans at the primaries ? Does anybody pretend to deny that the resident republicans df Beatrice wore kept from the polls by hired gangs of democratic railroad graders and waterworks diggers who did not even claim residence in the county ? Is it not high time for republicans who desire to pcrpotuato the principles of their party to resent such frauds by which they \yero disfranchised , by defeating the candidate who holds his title by sncli dishonest methods ? The name of Church Howe is the last which should bo coupled with an appeal for fidelity to party. Before the party can command the iidelity of its followers its loaders must show themselves true to its principles and worthy of theirsupport. A. Northwest Passage at Imst. Whatever else may be said of the gov eminent ana capitalists of England , it must be admitted that both are keenly alive to the importance of keeping abreast of the progress of the ago , and of developing every resource and consoli dating every interest of the vast English empire. They bujld extensive railroads in InUia to reach the wheat and cotton areas of the interior , and by cheapening transportation to seaports stimulate in creased production. For the defense of India against the designs of Russia they build an expensive road from its north ern boundary to Afghanistan. To shorten the route to India , China , Japan , etc. . through their own territory , they build the Canadian Pacific raihyay , and will establish and subsidize a line of stoani- shjps from its western terminus. Now , to make n still shorter line irom the great wheat Holds of Dakota nnd the British northwestern territory eastward to Kng land than that via Quebec and the Gull of St. Lawrence , it. is proposed to build a road from Winnipeg northward to Hud son's Bay , a distance of three or four hundred miles. At the Hudson's Bay porr , whether Fort Churchill or Tort Nejsoi ) , octtau steamships can load nnd clear on an average six ninths in a year , Init to roach the Atlantic thiough Hudson's strait they must go 0 ° further north , and with the best scamenshlp nnd the strongest ships the passage of the strait is always one of danger on account of the ice Jidda , nnd is really not practicable on an average more than thr e end , a-nilf | or four months in n year. The ( 'jinad.hui Pacific railway was built not only to secure a shorter route to ( ho far cast over British territory , but also to do < yolop thu natural wheat Holds in that part of the Dominion and to furnish grain transport to BrltUh ports on the Atlantic. Is this new project a tacit confession thai after all our roads will reach northward into that territory and carry the grain to our Atlantic ports ? This is not unlikely , And yet , although this npw route from thu great northwestern region to Liver pool , is stated to bo from one thousand to llftcon hundred miles nearer than via New Yort , the grci\t \ advantage of beins nblp to roach and to s.lin | from Now Yorlj at all seasons of the year , will in all prob ability , ovcu after the now road is built , send the bulk of grain that way , But it is manifest that those British rallrpods. In the north are going to fur nish lively eompotion with our transcoiv tiucntol system. With their subsidized line of etcaniera on the Pacific , they wil bo able to cut rates seriously from China nnd Japan to the Atlantic sen-board , nnd n order to pet even our Northwestern roads will have to go Into tlitlr territory and cut their rates. Possibly , howo\cr , in International pool may soon put an end to International competition , and thu people bo no better oft" than before. Forty to sixty miles of tiie Hudson's Bay road , its president says , will bo inhhed this season , nnd the whole road s expected to bo completed within two 3 cars. Thus in a modern way the nfic'onl ' Iream of a Northwest passage is to bo realix.ed , and by its MICCPSS or failure a luster estimate of the widnm of those who coneieved \\illboafibrdedlhan can be made now. Freedom Mni-olies On. The recent decree of the queen regent of Spain freeing the slaves of Cuba from further servitude is a notable event. Some sixteen years ago , after the de- thtonement of Isabella , tlio movement to abolish slavery in Cuba was begun , and it has had a halting progress on account partly of insurrections aii'l ' partly o the opposition of the masters. About seven years ago the cortos passed a law liberat ing .slaves on arriving at a certain age , with compensation to masters , and by successive laws sinee the age of libera tion has been reduced , until now bj linal decree all are emancipated. It will bo curious to observe what the eft'ect of this conferred freedom upon the former .slaves and upon the nidus- tiial condition of the island will be. England abolished H ! avery in the British Weal Jndies by purchase , in 1880. The United States abolished it during our civil war as a war measure , and Brn/.il is now engaged in carrying out gradual emancipation in n manner similar to tlm plan as begun in Cuba. It has often been charged that emancipation was disastrous to the prosperity of the British Ibles. and it is yet to be seen how Cuba and Bra/.il will bo ail'ected. In our own ease the former slaveholders themselves admit that the abolition of fifavery has been no loss a blessing to the south than a boon to the no < rroos. It is not khown if citi/.unship is conferred upon the former "laves of Cuba , and it is not to bo expected that oven such inade quate ollbrts to educate them as we are making for our former slaves will be un dertaken. It can baldly be calculated upon , therefore , that the condition of the Cuban frcedmen twenty years hence will bo as favorable ami encouraging as that of our.s to-day. But they will bo legally tree , although it would not bo surprising if tlm masters sought to substitute , as our former slave holders did after the war , a system of peonage for slavery. For a time there will bo disturbance in the labor market , and the production of sugar and tobacco may temporarily fall oil' , but if the freedmen - men are at all fairly treated , our own ex perience shows that they will be as faith ful ami ollicient workers as before. The American idea of freedom has berne glorious fruit , and soon there will not be a bondman in all Christendom. Our work will not bo complete , however , until wo break the shackles of ignorance as we have those of physical bondage. Then our former slaves will bo free in deed. Not From Hint Quarter. The intimation that Jay 'Jould might bo induced to build the "Omaha & Northern , " if properly approached , will not awaken much enthusiasm in this sec tion of the state. That should be the last resort ot the merchants of Omaha in their eilbrts to secure a competing line up the Elkhorn Valley. As a way station of Jay Gould's Missouri Pacific with its Ions haul to Kansas City , Omaha would bo lit tle better oil'than as a station on a stub line of the Northwestern , with its long haul to Chicago and the lakes. If Mr. Gould desires to extend his road north from Papillion to Yankton no one will bo inclined to hold him. The Held is open and it Is n good one , Wo know of no manner in which he could better invest a portion of that latest issue of : ? 1,000,000 Missouri Paoilic stock than in pushing northwards to the Da kota border. But Omaha wants first of all a ro.ul built in Omaha's interests with guaran tees that it will not pass out ot the hands of men who will see to it that its con struction does not throw another obstacle in the path of our commercial progress. She has had quite enough of the Jay Gould style of railroading , beginning in construction and ending in destruction. With proper management there is no reason why the road should not bo self- sustaining. The pcoplo of Omaha are not yet ready to admit that the process of consolidation and absorption lias gone so far that no railroad can bo profitably operated outside of the ollices of the trunk line managers. Started on a sub stantial basis , honestly built and run as n business enterprise , and not as thu basis for stock jobbing , there is no valid reason why the now road should not bo able to holdits own and to earn a substantial in come from Omaha and one of the richest and most prosperous sections of the state. The UusliiosH Situation. The condition of business during the the wcok has equalled expectations , The trade movement has been active , and the general promise of commercial af fairs continues favorable , Itoports froin the principal jobbing centers show that demand in most departments is absorb ing production and stocks in nearly all branches of the distributing trade arc under good control. Omaha clearing ? now reaching up to the five millions weekly indicate the usual henvy increase in the volume- business when com pared witii that of the corresponding pci iod of last year. The iron trade &itf tuition is strong. Prices are stiffening for both crudp and finished products , and orders for close delivery tire far ahead of the capacity of mills nnd furnaces. Wool is held higher anil largo amount of stook has been withdrawn from the mnrHot in consequence. Cotton is lower and weaker. The grain trade | s sluggish and prices wpak.or. Wheat is from 2 } to 2J cents per tuuhcl lower than Jast week. This is largely the result of the increasing visible supply nnd the ; indifference of foreign bufurs. According to an observing writer , "tho dullness of trade in the face of accumulating stpoks forces the disap pointed bul ) operator to pay pioro money to transfer his deals into Jatcr months than the storage and insurance would cost to accept the alternative of carrying tbe wheat himself. As the average speculator cannot afford to do t'lthor a good deal of wheat is imsinjj in to the control of 5t class of operators in the principal commercial centres who derive their prolil from tlio c\ce : of price which they e'an obtain by selling futures agaln't purchases of the actual grain. This is a weak feature of the sit uation , as it increases tlio ilifllcnlty of till ing foreign orders for prompt delivery and blocks the free movement of the trraln , to the increasing detriment of Ihn market. It mattor.s not to the carrier whether the market goes up or down , as his prollt is assurqjl in cither event. " ( oneral Thnjor's Appointments. In the list of General Thayrr's appoint ments published in the Bii : : of last Satur day there were some errors.Vo are now able to give an authoritative and corrected list , as follows : The general will speak at Kearney , October 11 ! ; at St. Paul , October M , and at Fairmont on the evening of Octo ber 20. it is hardly necessary to bespeak for our veteran .soldier and candidate for governor a rousing reception from the voters in the localities named. He is known more generally in the state than probably any other man , and wherever ho is announced to speak ho is sure of an audience. Ami his hearers are also sure to huyo republicanism , pure and undefiled - filed , dealt out to thorn. Voters of Kear ney , St. Paul and Fairmont ! Lay aside all other engagements for the time being , and go to greet and cheer our next gov ernor. Tin : unqualillud and pr.ictically unani mous declaration of Nova Scotia for sep aration from Dominion confederacy , made at thu election held lat MI miner , and the report that New Brunswick nnd Prince Kd ward'.s ' island are also dissatls- lied with the union , presents a curious case for England's decision. The inter ests of the provinces do not harmoni/.u with those of Quebec , Ontario and the northwest , and tl.ey feel that the union has been a burden with no correspond ing advantage. But to withdraw means .secession , which the other provinces would have no right to resist , but which would be rebellion if undertaken without the mother country's consent. The English government justified and aided the sec"ssion of the southern slates in 1801. Would it now think that right in it.s own dependencies whioh it then thought right for the southern states to do ? Or would it make a dilVerence , as of old , whoso ox it was that is gored ? One thing is very certain , which is that England's hold upon her American poa- sessions is not strong enough to make it safe for her to deny to them wiiat form of government they , want and insist upon having , and the ijominion confederacy s therefore not likely to last. * JoiixF. AXDISBWofi Massachusetts , is the first mugwump'tob'6 formally adopted into the democratic p irty and given a place of honor on | i paijtv ticket. Like George William Ourtisj he bolted Blaino's nomination at Chicago. It is time that some of these mugwumps should be co- warded , if only byitliC'Uinpty honor of a nomination that cahnoji result in an elec tion. Of ooursq , they would rather a recognition shouldconla from Cleveland , for that would mean substance instead ot shadow , but Grovo'r.believes in reward ing the old wheel horscK of'tho party first , and he is right from a democratic stand point. K.AXSAS , like Maine , is to have a trian gular fight this year. The republican party , in obedience to the will of the pco plo , declares that it will support prohibi tion ; the prohibitionists wantmoro prohi- lion and the democrats oppose it alto gether and want the question rc-sub- mlttcd to a popular vote. It is for the republicans of Nebraska to seriously con sider whether our peace and our politics will be increased and improved by adopt ing the three-cornered situation of other states. Tin : high license law is prohibition whoroyor the people so decree. It is county option or in other words precisely the kind of prohibition which Georgia is experiencing. The people of Nebraska are not yet ready to change from high license to free license. Tin : South Platte country will make an emphatic protest next month against the political bossism of the Burlington road. There are several counties which are bigger than Cap Phillips and Tobo Castor combined. oxi1 IMJKSONS. The Count do Lessors will attend the dedi cation of the Bartlioldl stntue In Now Voile. It Is reported that Thoorloro Tilton Is to marry Mrs. Laura Curtis Billiard , a well- known society lady o New York. K. Stone Wlfulns , the Canadian prophet , lias loft Montreal for tlio Interior until the storm about his own ears blows over. airs. Gariield Is polnf , ' to Wichita , Kan. . shoitly to attend the exercises incident to the opening of the Gaillcld unlveislty In that city. Christine Nilsson Is staying at piesent In Bi.iriltz. She will return to Madrid In a few weeks , and will reside permanently in that city. city.Sir Sir Charles Dllko's now position will bo that of an unpaid volunteer In the news ser vice of one of the great ' , press a onules In London. j , , Voting James A. Uarnpld Is studying law with Judge Doyntn.ii , of Cleveland , and Is s.ilil to be the most like las father of any of the Gniliuld family. , j President Cleveland's puruoso in putting a barbed wire funco spvofy feet hlili mound his country purchase1 n/nv apparent. Ho intends to locate h Is i qtlvHn-lnw ) on the In- sjde and carry the koyi toitho front pate him BQlf' I n Common nd'Ohromos. ' It will only be a/lyw' ' , years npw until country editors will pj ) fi lnj ; nvyny sea serp ents as premiums to subscribers. Suuunor IH (7. M Cio/l * . Queen summc'r Is dylnc , Her ( Mfnutles aio faillin ? away ; The rosf.s are sliddng , The lillliuaiuciyliiK , "How ilcctlng , alas I is our stay. " The robin Uslnglm ; ( Us teiuler lulli'ii tolils nest ; The bluebird uii-prlnglngi Swiff southward U wincine \\ithadbge In his biuast. Hoar frosts nio descending To pllttur with cold on the gieon ; Jtlch purple Is blending And loyalty lending To the t iineial pomp or the Queen. Farewell to thyt'lory , Queen Summer , on hill-top and leal \VVJ1 tell tliy swee ; story Wheu llll-top | Ishoaij- , And chill is tUe breath of the sea. , Keep It rtnforo Kepubllcnns. The republicans of the First dlstrlo should nsk themselves whether a man haing such n record as that of Church Ilouo has any rightful claim upon the support of any decent republican. Leav ing out of question his corrupt methods and notorious venality we appeal to re publicans to pnii'o and relluct before they put a premium upon party trea son nnd conspiracy against its very exist- once. Ten years ago , when the republican party was on the verge of disaster , and every electoral vote cast for Hayes and Wheeler was needed to retain the party in power , Church I lowe entered into n conspiracy to deliver republican Nebraska into the hands of the enemy. This infamous plot U not a mere conjec ture. The proof of it does not rest on surmi < e or suspicion. It Is not to bo pooh poohcd or brushed away by pro nouncing it one of Hoscwaler's malicious campaign slanders. Thi records of the legislature of which Church Howu vra n member In ' 7(5-77 ( , contain tlio Indelible proofs of thu treasonable enable conspiracy , and no denial can stand against evidence furnished by his own pen. Briefly told , the history of ( his plan to hand over the country to Tildon and democracy is as follows : In 1870 Nebraska elected Silas A. Strickland , Amasa Cobb and A. 11. Connor presidential elector.s by a vote of 31,01(5 ( as against a vote of 10,1)51 ) cast for ho Tildon and Hondrioks electors. After the election it was discovered that the canvass of I his to could not take place under the then exiting law before the legislature convened. The electoral vote had to bo canvassed in December at the latest , and the regular ses sion of the legislature did not becin until January. In order to make a legal canvass of tlio electoral returns , Governor Garber called a special session of the legislature to convene on the 5thof Daueinl > * r , ' 7 < , at Lincoln , lor the pur pose of canvassing the electoral vote of the tatc. The democratic effort to cap ture republican electoral votes is historic. Tilden's friends , notably Dr. Miller , had been plotting for the capture of ono of the electors from Nebraska , and it is also historic that n largo bribe was offered to ono of the electors , General Strickland. The call of the legislature broke intolhu plan of the plotters , and they found a will ing and reckless tool in Church Howe. When the legislature convened at the capi talChurch Howe filed a protest which maybe bo found on pages 0 , 7 and 8 of the Ne braska House Journal of 1877. The following - lowing extract makes intorostingroadinjr : " 1 , Church Howe , a member of the legisla ture of Nebraska , now convened by procla mation of Ills excellency , Governor Silas Garber , for the junposo of canvassing and declaring the result of tlio vote cast in Ne braska for electors for president and vice president of the United States , heieby enter my solemn protest against such act , denying mat the governor has power to call tins body In special session for any surh purpose , or that this body has any authority to canvasser or declare the result ot such veto upon the folio wins : grounds : First. This legislature now convened hav ing been elected under what is known as the old constitution , has no power to act In the promKcs , the new constitution of the state having been in foico since November , 1S7.V The second and third clauses deal with technical objections and are somewhat lengthy. The concluding sentences of this precious document are as follows : "For the foregoing reasons I protest against any canvass of the electoral vote of the state by his body , and demand that this , my protest , be 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 liowo had the glory of being the solo champion of Sam Tilden. 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 hoisht in Washington. Church Howe had changed places from tlio 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 seats. This resolution gave rise to a very lively debate which lasted two davs. Church Howe asked to bo excused from voting when it lirst came up anil was so excused. On the final passage of the resolution the record [ page 1170 , Senate Journal 1877 , ] shows the following result : Yeas Ambrose , Baird , Blanchard , Bryant , Calkins , Cams , Chapman , Colby , Dawcs , Gar- Hold , Gilham , Hayes , Kennard , Kuapp , Popoon , Powers , Thummol , Van Wyck , Walton nnd Wilco\-20. Those voting in the negative wore : Atop , Brown , Covell , Ferguson , Hinman , Holt , Church Howe and North 8. During the saino session of the legisla ture , Church Howe's vote on United States senator for the first throe ballots is recorded as having been cast for E. W. Thomas , a South Carolina democrat , [ pages 108 and 203 Senate Journal. ] All this time Church Howe professed to bo a republican independent , republican on national issues and n temperance granger on local issues. Wo simply ask what right a man with such a record has to the support of any republican. U'lioy Hull Primp. Jwllnnapolts Journal , Full-page advertisements of jewelry stores In theClmileston papers Indicates not only that business la recovering Its tone , but that vanity \vas not shaken out of the pcopb by the earthquake. AVIio John Hliormim Is , .S < . lxU ) ( * flliibc-Dcmncrat , The Loulsvlllii Com lor Journal asks , "Whp Is John Sherman' ' ' " Wo hasten to day that ho Is a brother of tlio man M'ho recently ob served that thu men who fought In ( lie con federate army occupy the position o" paiolcd prlsoncia , "which some of them Eeem to forget. " STATI3 AM > Jotting' ) . Go-s is rated at $3.28 in Fremont. Ainsworth Is promised a Hour mill. P Good corn buskers aio in demand in Otop county. The Brpkon Bow Statesman is out in a tasty fall suit. Wahoo has organized a bouid of trade with E. E. Lyluut the head. Vast quantities of hay hayo been destroyed by prairjo fires near Hush- vllle. George Frye , of Grand Island , is build- ing n roller mill in Broken Bow. It will have a capacity of ItO bushels a day , Jalto Joss , jr. , of Fremont , slashed his throat with a razor and made a nasty job of It. Ho will recover and try It again. The young town of Litehlield , in the valley of the Jluddy In Sherman emmly , lias a newspaper , the Monitor , published by K. \ [ . Bradley. Lyman Howard , n carpenter , tumbled from a scallbld in Broken Bow , breaking a leg and seriously slinking up his Inter ior department. Chanters of that annual ferial , "The Delinquent Ta\ List , " Inn o broken out again , and the country editor's wallet is M\elling handsomely. Chadron boasts of a land ofllcp , a machine - chine hop , twenty the stall round house , and an arle-ian well , us evidence of frontier growth and prosperity. Civighton In ? forwarded S.-I'M tons of inetchaiidiip and product ) and leteivt'd 8,721 tons during the .season. Tluo ship ments netted tlm railroad company The Beyschlag brewery in Nebraska Citv is to be enlarged audits capacity doubled. It .should bo stalul for the beiiellt of prohibitionists that a largo share of the product goes to low'a and Kansas. A temperance orator from Maryland sobered up in the Nebraska City jail re cently. He had foniiht the "demon" at long range , yet when ho hobbled up to the bar lor a rye straight ho was soon knocked out. A Chinaman and Irishman quarreled about a cow in Gordon. The bon of Krin was handv with his dukes , but un- fortunatelv the Mongol pulled a gun and clipped his antagonist. The feeling against everything celestial in the hibernian - nian section of the town 1 = so great that even Shanghai roosters brotiso on the lee hide of the bainyards. A spiritual fakir gave si seaneo at In- dianola , recently , and invoked the ghost of a former eiti/en from the realms of torment. A friend objected , and pro duced a letter showing that the owner of the alleged ghost was living in Colorado. The spiritualist , unabashed , claimed that thu "weary and heavy laden" gave un the "ghoat" in that region for the "edifi cation of friends and benefit Of the QOUII- ti.y , " and the present ua.s an instance of large-heai ted generosity. Then the lights went out with the fake. Iowa 1 Hins. State warrants outstanding amount to H. H. Severish committed suicide at Shell Hook by shooting himself. Creston schools have an enrollment of l , ! ] . " , and employ twenty-eight teachers. Alice Ilutchinson , of Burlington , took laudanum and died , all because her hus band ran away with another woman. The supreme court has reversed the de cision of the Ap | > anooso district court in the case of David Archer , convicted of manslaughter. Bishop PC try , of the dioce.so of the Episcopal church of Iowa , can boast of as many degrees as any other member of the American Episcopal hierarchy , lie is a D. D. , an LL. I ) . , and a U. C. L. Win. Pfcnningcr , of Burlington , made un attempt to stop a biuz-saw by shoving his left hand into the running gear. Ho was unsuccessful , but escaped without any further injury than the loss of his hand. Two colored men were so badly scared by seeing a sea serpent in the river near Keokuk that their complexion has since been three shades lighter. A permanent injunction ought to bo granted against his snakcship. The irood ladies of Cherokee have reg istered a virtuous kick against the numerous poker parties that the "boys" of that city have organized. The "boys" think that the ladies are "Mulling" and will call them down. A singular case is reported in last week's Decorah Republican , nnd ono for which the guilty party should bo made to ' btiller the severest'penalty. . A man named 10. H. Cochran , of Omaha , tele graphed Brink Ward fit Decorah that his sister was dead and that the body would reach Decorah Saturday. Of course all preparation for the funeral was made , the grave was dug , the hearse taken to the tram to icceivo the corpse , friends asked to act as pall bearers , clo. The corpse did not arrive on the train and no tidings could bo learned regarding it. Friends , thinkin < r the body might possibly have been sent to Calmiir , went there and found the supposed corpse sitting in the depot. The young lady had been ill , but was alive and on her way home. The telegram was a mutter of spite , in rela tion to some real or fancied wrong done Cochran by Ward. Dakota. , The mills and hoisting works of the Homestako mine burn ninety cords of wood every day. The Pioneer says that the Dead wood narrow gauge will bo built to the coal - fields early next spring. V Five hundred head of cattle were forded' U across the Missouri at Pierre last week , an undertaking seldom attempted. K Tlio Synod of Dakota will convene in V regular session in the Presbyterian church W of Aberdeen on Thursday , October 11. \ John Ronoy , a farmer living near Ham ilton , Is alleged to have deserted his fam ily and left lor parts unknown. His lia bilities will aggregate $10,000. The now Fargo Argus building is said to bo the most , complete newspaper ollico in the territory. It is a largo four-story n brick building and cost . 100,000. , The citizens of Raymond have organ ized a joint slock com/niny and will erect a grain storage warehouse which will allow farmers in that vicinity to ship their grain direct to Chicago. In mining the tunnel on the St. Paul tin lode a band of line grained quart/Ito , of a delicate gray shade , and very hard , has been struck. It is over a hundred feet in width so far as developed. This quartzite is new to the mines of the tin district. It would take a line polish and pruftmt a handsome appearance , if usfld in stone or brick buildings. THE FRIEND DISTRICT FAIR. anil ImrROHt Htook In Nnbraslca. Neb , , Oct. 12. ( Correspond ence ! of the JlEU. ] Last month tlio weather interfered with our fair so that tlm directors postponed it to October 14 , 15 and 1C , when they nxpect to have ono of the finest agricultural and stock shows ever had in western Nebraska. Some of the largest stockmen in the a state have already entered their blooded ' cattle and expect to bo hero with their entire herds , as this is about the last fair of the season of ' 8U and there fore will bo the la < t time In this year to ( their itook. Great inUirc.st Is also manifested In the agricultural and horti cultural line and a linu display of thp prod not. s ot the farm and garden will bo thu natural result and the farmers cannot - not but b'o benefited by attending the fair. fair.The i The racing will be one of the events of a the season. All other 'counties having in hud their fair * , brings all the heat horses to the district fair at Friond. there being already forty well known horses on the giouncl who will outer the lists. Many of them have n reputation not confined to the boundaiios of thu state. Among them wo might mention , in the running races , biich hor.ses as Ludy Gratie , Maui ] Marston , Harry Jiti wards , Bi'llo K. , Arban , Duke of Kentucky. Vercola , ilosalind , Gray Kaglo. Mouud City Belle , and Colonel John Hodman. Trotting Maud D , , Lymun B. , Count Wnldenmr , Maud Cook , Novelty , Stock. Inc Chief , Mattte. S. , Kltid S. , NOIK- . Will Cody nnd Pilot. Pacing- Hilly Button , Charley E , , 1 No-Nnmd and Pilot , dome of the aim have a record under 2.CO nnd noiu them but boat 2-10. The association have managers d > i ovcri thing to make the fair a suecc- but among them all John Franl/ , < ( tary , and D. P. Burllph , general supei tendcnt , deserve most of the credit. WIGGINS' ' PROTOTYPES. e'i'iorfl or tlio Canadian In the Hole of Prophets of Disaster. London Telegraph : Wiggins is i the ' lirst prophet to foretell tinexae ! d M of < Ihn fujlilmiciit of Ins prediction , i > yet the first to create nn onithqu \ > soaro. Whlslon , an Englishman , < > elared that the world would como to : > end on the lth ! ! of Oetober , 170 ! , And , i fs recorded that the people of London , on the appointed day , sallied forth to tin- olion spaces between Holborn and Hnmpstcad lowliness the destruction i the metropolis , where the devastate i was llxed to begin. Pope and ( Jay wros- n satire on tlio subject , entitled "A Tin niiil Faithful Narr.tlivo of What Passed ill London on a Runic i of the Day of Judgment , " nfterwiml printed in a Swift's "Miscellanies. " A quarter of n century later I\vo5onon- shocks of cartluiuako did occur , one a1 tin ; oust end of the town and the other in the northern suburbs , the first on ( he 8th of February , the second on the 8th of March. Thereupon "a crackbrained lei low" named Bell , n trooper In his majesty's life guards , ran up r.nd down the .streets shouting out that a third was Used for the nth of April , thus antedating Wiggins' notion by exactly a centuiy and a quarter. Many persons laughed at Bell , as their posterity may bo inclined to smile at his transatlantic imiluatorjbut thousands believed in the prediction and took measures accordingly. As the day dro.v nigh the o.xciteniont increased , and the credulous peopln ran away to outly- in ; ' villages within a circuit of twenty miles of tlio metropolis. It is said that the inn-keepers acil poorer soil of householders of Islington , Hlglignto , Hampstead , Harrow , and Blackjieath made a market of the terror-stricken folk , charging them exloitionately for bed and board. When April IT , 1701 , ennio and went minus an earthquake the only thing which sull'cred a shock was Boll's prophetical reputation , and a few months later the poor fellow was consigned to an asylum for the insane. Wo may , indeed , travel much further back along the fitream of time and come upon similar manifestations of human credulity here in the good city of London. It was pre dicted that Fob. 1 , 15' ' I , would witness t'jo ' swelling of the Thames to Biich a height that the metropolis must bo sub merged and all living things therein drowned. As in 1701 , the prophecy met with credence , and many people lied into the surrounding country. Bolton , the prior of St. Bartholomew's , built a fortress at Harrow-on-tho'Hill , which ho stocked with provisions for a couple of months and repaired thither with his brethren. Many wealthy citizens peti tioned the prior to liud them house room in his retreat , but ho would only enter tain his personal friends , of whom a goodly assemblage was forthcoming. When , however , the llrst of Feb ruary arrived , ' 'the Thames , unmindful of the foolish crowd upon its banks. Mowed on quietly as of yore. The tide ebbed at its usual hour , flowed to its usual height , and them ebbed again , just as if twenty astrologers had not pledged their words . " The tojtho contrary. astiol- ogcrs subsequently put it about that the stars were right nnu they were wrong. They had made a miscalculation by ex actly a hundred years. Yet it happened that when February 1 , 1024 , arrived Lon don was not dust roved by water ; but the prophets had passed beyond the reach of mnndana criticism. Doubtless during their after-stay on earth , and when thinking the matter over , these wise men comforted themselves with , the re flection that , whether the astral bodies Were ri"ht ; or wrong , they at least had eli'ected a profitable time bargain. These few facts , drawn at random from the long and deplorable history of supersti tion , are presented with every mark of necessary and becoming rc.spuct to Pro fessor Wiggins , of the United States of America. _ Klectrlo rturjjlnrs. Chicago Mail : 1'ho Pinkcrton men and regular police gathered in a great torco about the wholesale cloak house of tiJ Joseph Bollield& Co. . 250 and 853 East Madison street , at 7:20 : last night , pre pared to capture a gang of burglars who were supposed to be ransacking the premises. The place had been seen to bu suddenly illuminated , but when ono of the thief-catchors scaled the building by means , of the fire-escape , and was about effecting an entrance through a window , the lights were extinguished as suddenly tlv they had been lit. 'Ihu oflicor , re volver in hand , struck a light and lit the gas-jets. The plaeo had apparently boon vacated by the burglars.as a close soarph , aided by souii : ot the clerks who had buon liastilv summoned to lend the aid of th'olr Knowledge of the interior , failed to re veal the suspected burglar. Three men wore left in charge , and keiitncloso watch until business was resumed this morning. The mystery was explained when nn employe of the Elcctrly Light 'Company called around to see if tlm new dynamos Llioy had bcon testing last night had in jured any of the incandescent burners. The only visitor to the building had been stream of electricity , which had caused the alarming illumination that had , of con r.M > , ceased when the dynamo test was completed. "Horrors" In tlioiiomlon Press , Pall Mall Gazette : No wonder that publishers of shilling shockers are crying out about the llatncss of their once aotiyu market.Vhy , every morning the papers are converted into penny dreadfuls , lull of rpmantio "and blood-curdllnc sonsa- IOIIH , such as would hayo delighted a I'oo , a Lo Fann or a Gaborisiu. It is the sheerest IIOIISOIIMI for purists in literature to decry plots , or to say that' the taste for liorrors ( decent horrors , that is ) is on the decrease , It la a constant quantity which never varies that is to say , the taste for murders find disappearances , if they ro- quira unraveling , and furnish employ ment for tlm mind morn exciting tlun word puzxles is inborn ( ' ' ' , in J'J'J.D'Jil pcoplo out of 1,000.000 , Who then is going to pay n shilling for a ' 'shocker'1 In big typo when he can get a whole battery in broviur for a penny ? A young hprso cut his nasal bone and also great gashes in his neck while mi- langled in n barbed wire foneo at Han- dolph. A veterinary surgeon has put pieces of ordinary garden hosointho colt's nostrils and throat for him to hrnntlio through , and be if ) gutting along irst rnto. _ Continental straw hats arc marvelous In shape and color. A Baron or a Count , with a ribbon of some order in his button- liolu , sports n slate-color. Bailor-shaped tat , or a dead ochre hat , with u long string ; or. perchance , by way of variety , fjray brigand hat , with a black band , or Tyrolean brown , with a small feather tlio band. Wanted. Five drug stocks and two hardware stocks In exchange for some very line Omaha property. L. P. PUUVN. Choup JlniieoH. Wo have four neat houses'and good lots in desirable locality , which wu will sell cheap If taken this week. Easy terms. Cux.siNaiuM & BJIKNNAN , _ 1011 Dodge. Tultle & Allison , liis.Ajjts. , 211 S. 13th.