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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : TIJUliSDAY , OCTOBER 14. 1880 , ITIIE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. or scnscntn-ios i Dnlly OtM-nl.ii Kdltlon ) Including Sunday Ur.r , Omi Your . $1001 rorTlireo Moulin . 2 W triio Omnhn Smvlny llr.K , mulled to nny , Uno Voiir. . - . " 00 orptrr. ? o. tni Axn ow TAnvAM PTRCKT. VOHK ( HrK. IKHIM nj. Tnnii'NK nrii.niMi. 'AHIIIXOTO.X OFFIce , NO. 61J FoUHTEBHTII gTHEEr. C'mncs i- All commtinlc.itinu i-elntlntr t" IIPWI nml ll torlul MinttoolHiul.l . bo nililru seil lo thu l.Dl- ion oc mi : Hr.K. All tm lnc l-ltor ntut n-nilttnncc * Mioiild 1m Mdi-ci'cil to TUB llun I'IUII.IKIIINII C' < IMI'NV , OMAHA. Drafts , rh t > k4 and po tnllrn ! nnlpri labomailui > nyiiblotothpoiiloruf ttiocompnuy , THE BEE FUBLISHIsTiklY , PROPRIETORS , E. llOSRWATKIl , KDITOII. THIS UAlIiV I5IC. Sxvorn Statement of Circulation. Htaleof Nebraska , > , County of Dmiglai. t" ' Will 11. KocnlK , en-Oiler of The Koo Publishing company , does solemnly swear Hint the actual circulation of the Dally lien lor tlio week ending Oct. bth , lbb(5 ( , wtis as follows : Satmdny. Oct. 3d n.0. . . Sunday. Bd iu : > - o Itlonilny.lilt l.,5.jl ! Tuesday , rjtii i .I,1. ; ID Wednesday , Oth 1'JS-V Thur. day , 7lh 1'V-W bth liSIO ! Average t\.0ao : \ Wn.i. 11. KOKNIII. Sworn to nnd subscribed In my piesenco this Oth day of October , A. U. . IbSO. N. P. KB 11. , faiCAlj ] Notary Public. CJco. H. T/schuck , boliif * first duly "sworn , deposes and says that he Is secrutary of the 3Jeo Vnhll.shlincompany , that the ncttmtnv- crntro dnlly circulation of thu Daily Dee for the month of January , isso , wns 10.iT8 : copies , for Kubmnrv , wso 10,505 copies ; for March. 38Srt , Il , ( > : i7 copies ; for April. 1SM5 , 12,11)1 ) copies : tor May. lS < i. 13-Mt ) copies : for June , im. l'J,2i > 3 copies : for July , 1KS5 , V-VH-J copies ; ioi-Aucust , 180 , ia-lMroplesfor ( ; September , laso , iio0 : : ! copies. GKO. U. T/.snaicir. Subscribed nud sworn to before mo this ! Jd tiny of October , A. U. , 1SSC. N. P. KKII. , ISEAM Notary 1'ubllc. STA.TK T1CK13T. For ( Sovcrnor-JOHN M. THAYEIt. ForMetit. Governor II. 11. S11EDI ) . KForSocretary of 8lato-O. W. LAWS. -For Treasurer-0. H. WIU.AKD. For Auditor II. A. IIAUCOC1C. For Attorney General WILLIAM LEESE. For Com. Public Lands-JOSEl'H SCOTT. 1orSupt.PuulleIustructlon-t5EO.IJ.LANK. UEPUIJUCAN COUNTY TICKET. For Senators' GEO. W. L1N1NCJEII , liKUNO TZSCHUCK. For Reprcscntntlvos : W. G. W111TMOUE , K 1) IIIUBAKD. GEO. UEIMUOU. It , S. HALL , JOHN MATTHIESOW. JAMES It. YOUNG. T. AV. HLACKBUUN. If. 0. RICKETTS. For County Attornojrt EUWAUD W. SIMEUAL. For County Commissioner : ISAAC N. PIEKOE WITH Dr. Miller , the Inst ticket is al- ways the best ticket in twenty years. " LONG JIM " vill bo snowed under such n mountain of voles thnt the weight will bo heavier than his best city con tract. FIIKD MIST/ politely declines to lend Ids name to llio democratic licket. llo intimates that ho is a little particular about the company ho keeps. CHAHLES B. RUSTIN'S name looks very lonely on the democratic legislative ticket. It will have plenty of company nnioiig tiio defeated a month from now. Mil. JAMKS CuuionToxis altogether too nnxiotis to represent this county in the Bonnie. Mr. Creighton is the heaviest contractor of public improvements in this city and as such ho 'ins ' no business to make our charter. Mu. CON GAU.AOIIEU'S envy of John A. McShano took a practical turn when lie forced his fathor-in-law on the top of the democratic county ticket. Con thinks ho ought to have gone to congress in- utcnd of McShnne. A curious case in politics has occurred lu Delaware. A minister of Wilmington ftccopted llio nomination for the office of sheriff from the temperance- reform party , "just from a souse of duty" and to help his party present a good ticket. As the contest with his democratic rival ' Krow warmer ho began to fear that ho would bo elooted , and ho came out in n card saying that when ho took the nom ination he had no idea that there was tiny chance of his being elected , but as Ids ticket was likuly to win lie must r * tire as H would not suit" him to bo jslicriff. ( this js the firet instance on veoord where n candidate withdrew from fenr that he would bo elected , although ninny decline a nomination from n con viction Hint they would fail. Wo do not intend to give Ibis case nny local upplleation. There is not u democrat in longh\s ) county who need retire for tlio reason given by the Wilmington cleric. Wo want them all to stay on the track have their llttlo fun. AUHAM S. HKWITT , of Now York , con fesses that his labors in congress to re form the ttiriu" linyo been fruitless , and ho gives up the fight , recommending his constituents to confide the cause to younger hands. Meantime Tammany hall nominates him for mayor and the county democracy endorses the nomina tion. Ho is in doubt about accepting , but should he do so , nnd the committee of 100 endorse him also , ns they will bo likely to do on the rt-coinmoiidnlion of Orlando I ) . Potter , who denlincs their nomination because of the union of the two democratic wings on Mr. Hewitt , Mr. George will have no show of boinjj mayor , especially as the republicans wil , Imvo their candidate ulso. Mr. Hewitt is H thorough democrat , but ho IB a riot man , and having had his full share o : jMiblln honors , Is not the kind of man could bo induced , cither from per ambition to continue in office , or desire to build up the fortunes of any UnBorupulouK party lenders , to enter Into nny genomes for robbing the city ; his ad ministration , therefore , would bo as clean fu nny democrat could make , and cleaner Uiuu moat. Self Defense ! Imperative. The lively discussion evoked at THOS- lay's meeting to consider tlio railroad project , brought out a number of com- | ilnints from our business men over the railway situation here in Omaha. Tlio elmrges of discrimination niado openly by responsible merchants , and HIP specific instances cited worn of n character to force themselves tipon the attention of all the e pre ont. The necessity for ad ditional railway facilities which will bo used not to Injure but to build up the commercial interests of tins city , wa made so clear and plain that denial was Impossible. Interests centering five hundred miles east of this city arc seriously menacing its future wlillo they arc materially injuring its present advancement. The great north west is practically a sealed section to our merchants because the Chicago & Northwestern finds it advantageous to compel its traders to transact their busi ness on tlio lakes. The JJurllngton. whoso lingers reach out over more than half our state is silently but steadily di verting all tratllc across its bridges and hurrying it around ami away from Omaha eastward and westward. The Union Pacific , under a mistaken policy , which ignores time and distance , is forc ing our people to compete with cities two hundred miles farther from the points of distribution by giving them equal rates with merchants of Omaha. With trunk line managers east com bining with Nebraska roads west to throtllo Omaha trade Interests , tlio only remedy is a road built by Omaha capi tal and controlled In Omaha's interests. Cincinnati experienced the same danger and remedied it exactly as Omaha now proposes to do. When her commercial supremacy was threatened the business men of that city promptly raised the needed funds to build the Cincinnati and Southern roait. Uuilt and operated in the Interests of that great metropolis , it at once throw a barrier in the path of rival corporations and held the position for Cincinnati wholesalers. Omaha need no longer hug the delusion that the roads whosu interests lie east of the river will treat her with fairness , until forced by self interest to do justice to our shippers.Ve are largo enough and strong enough to show to grasping corporations that wo will not be ignored and that all other means failing wo can carry llio war into territory which is not as much their own perhaps , as they are inclined to boast. General Ornnt'H Ijpi\olcs. $ On Monday lust Mrs. Grant received from the publishers of General Grant's memoirs a check for $200,000. She had previously received $150,000 , and the pub lishers say that within a few months she will probably receive $100,000 more. An edition limited to 000 or at most 1,000 copies of a remarkably unique character Is now being prepared , which will sell for a high price. These sots will contain pages or parts of pages of the original written manuscript , will bo beautifully illustrated and will contain some photo graphs entirely new to the public , taken within a few days of the general's death , one of which represents him sitting and writing ; the last pages of his book. It is easily calculated that Mrs. Grant will receive altogether tully $500,000 for the work which her husband undertook after Ward had ruined him , and prosecuted during all the months of suffering as his life wasted away. It was his legacy to his family , and between the lines on every page can almost bo read at lenst can bo fully understood the throbbing agony of pain , tlio fainting , wasting strength as ho wrote and tlio indomitable will-power , born of his devotion to those ho loved , which sustained him to the end. General Grant's love for his sons and his dcsiro to promote their welfare led him to join the house of Grant and Ward , in which he lost the savings of his life , perilled his great fame , uud the crash of which caused him more mental suffering than the world will over know. What return are- these sons making for tlio love of such a father , for the heart- tears wrung from him as ho paw his glorious name smirched and become fern n- time a by-word of reproach on the street , and for the months of agony during which his weakening hand coined his closing his life into gold , tlmttheyand his loved wife , their mother , should not want when ho was gone ? This return , that they have allowed the undertaker's bill for embalming their father's remains to bo hawked about among strangers , seeking some one to pay it. It was only for $500 , yet for their sakcs he lost at least $250,000 , and during his months of physical ] agony ho earned lor them $500,000 , more. Tinally a stranger paid this bill to end a scandal and give a poor man his just duo. General Grant died in poverty ; ho had given up all. From a few magazinn articles and from his retired pay after March the great expenses of h'S Illness wore mot nud Jft family supported. lie had 'nothing loft to bequeath , nothing to pay his doctors. Ihit ho directed that out of the proceeds of his book should bo paid certain small legacies , one of which was $5,000 to Dr. Douglass , who had for months devoted nil his time and skill and strength and health , to sustain his illus trious patient as ho wrote for his family's sake. Humanly speaking , Dr. Douglass and General Grant wrote that book , the one prolonging the life and soothing the pain of the other as ho wrought. That $5,000 had not boon paid to Dr. Douglass out of the $150,000 received by Mrs. Grant months ago , and it may not be out of the largo sum just paid to her. Dr. Douglass was not serving General Grant us an ordinary physician , but from a personal devotion as intense as th\t : with which a mother hanga over the cradle of a dying child. Yet his profes sional skill , bin time , health and strength are his means of living , but ho will never ask for his legacy. If it. is not graciously given , the Grant estate will remain his debtor , and the country will blush that its greatest soldier , the restorer of the union , should leave those to boar his name who are conspicuous for the absence of all his virtues. Anarchist Tliura is morn work for justice to do in Chicago than the hanging of those an archists already convicted and sentenced , and that is the complete protection ol witnesses and jurors in the late trial , whose lives have been threatened ami irene one case already attempted. Juror Cole Is being persecuted mid his home invaded vadod , and Witness Waller has been nearly killed. If there Is to bo any fur t her prosecution of anarchists Ju Chicago with any hope of conviction , the honics , IIP business , the peace and lives of wit- losses and jurors , who lor the tune being nro ministers of justice , must bo pro- cctcd and defended. Witnesses cannot | > e expected to testify or jurors to convict on HIP plainest evidence , if ill doing so they become targets for anarchist bullets ind bombs. The personal safety of every witness and juror in tlio late tr.ial should > o absolutely secured if lo do so requires the employment of the entire legal force of Cook county. Another matter calls for instnut alien- .ion. At the Saturday night meeting on : ho lakn front , after the anarchists were sentenced , two justices of the peace , Kug- uirt and Presselman , openly advocated vengeance , and the cr.y of "Organize for revenge" was passed through the crowd issoinblod ami adopted as its motto. When ollicers of the law , men who arc a iart of our judiciary system , openly side with violators of tlio law and conspirators igainstthn pence of society , giving them countenance , aid and encouragement , it becomes our duly to consider if we should not henceforth adopt the old revolution ary precaution ami "put none but Amer icans on guard" in the courts and olliccs of justice. Wo owe much to foreigners in this country , but they owe much more to us , and should remember that self-preserva tion is the tir t law of nature. They will themselves bo responsible should tlicir conduct , or the conduct of even a small [ > art give occasion for another "know- nothing" crusade In this country , at lenst to the extent nf excluding foreign born citizens from judicial or ministerial posi tions , lu the meantime not a moment should be lost in removing Justices Kng- liarl and Presselnmn from the ollicos in which they have proved traitors to the people who honored them. 1)1- . Millei-'s Mission. Dr. Miller came back from Wall street two weeks ago with a triple mission , which 1ms for its object certain political ind personal ends. First and foremost , lie has come as the emissary of Jay Gould to defeat Van Wyok and he.lp to elect Church Howe. Next , ho has como .o block any effort on the part of Omaha to build a railroad which might in any way become a rival to Mr. Gould's system. And third , he is here to see that Nebraska democracy does not pass from under the thumbs of himself and his co parcener , James E. Uoyd. Ills anxiety to lefeat Van Wyck is now an open secret , llo knows as well as any man docs that the democrats in Nebraska have no more chance of electing a United States senator this year than the democrats of Vermont have had for the last tcwnty years. Ho feais that Van Wyck's strength before the people ple will prevent the election of a railroad republican. His frantic ollbrts to hold the democrats solid for a democrat , or in other words , to throw away the popular vote which would otherwise go to Van Wyck , are only designed to serve the rail road schemers. Dr. Miller's efforts on behalf of Church Howe are illy concealed behind : i gau/y mask. Church Howe has been closeted with him by the hour a number of times since ho was nominated. In live days the Herald only found time to publish six lines about Church Howe and four lines about McShano. His pre tended joy over the democratic county ticket is coupled with an assault on Van Wyek's republican supporters whose votes McShnne needs in order to succeed. Privately , except , perhaps , to Jay Gould , Jim Boyd and Church Howe , ho professes great anxiety for McShaiic's election , while ho is work ing all the wires to defeat him. Ho hates Jim Creighton as the devil is said to hate holy water , but he is delighted over Jim Creighton's nomination , as it is likely to cut down McShane's majority in this county. Such knavery and hypocrisy would make a saint swear. Tlio Democratic Ticket. The democratic county ticket is one of those peculiar conglomerations which can only be brought forth by a demo cratic convention. It is awfully tophcavy. If it wore turned upside down it would make oven one of Jim Steven son's untrained mules'wag his tail and ears. It would look about this wa. P. Garvcy. M. Donovan. David Knox. Chas. J. Smytho. Hugh G. Clarke. Aloe M cGavock. James S t o p h o n H o n. A da m Str i n gl oin. J. Creighton. C. 15. Uustin. This is n dish lit for kings. It is a gen > nine Irish stow with Charley llustin thrown in for desert and Ferguson and Mount as side dishes. No wonder Dr. Miller Is overjoyed. It is just the ticket that sultd him to a dot. If elected it would give Douglas county a delegation which would bo all harmony on one issue at least , and that is the election of n democratic United States senator. On every thing else li would bo a Kilkenny affair. llnclalmlnc Deserts. Some years ago , it will bo remem bered , n French engineer , Colonel Hou- dairo , proposed to form inland lakes in some of the African deserts by admitting water from the Mediterranean , the level of which is about eighty feet above the portions of the desert proposed to bo inundated. Nothing : , However , came of the proposal , but Colonel Landos , an other Fronohman , thought it bettor to irrigate the desert by means of artesian wells , and has already demonstrated its practicability. Ho 1ms just reported to the French academy that a well sunk only 80. ) feet is now discharging fresh water at the rnto of over two thousand gallons a minute , whioh sufllces for the irrigation of an area of GOO hectares , or something over a thousand acres. This area was n desert a year ago , and is now a fertile and woll-stocked district. A second well Is now being sunk , and the work of fertilizing those vust deserts will continue. This Is another uud striking illustra tion of what is possible to man , Stretch ing away back Into the dim pro-historic ages these great deserts of Africa have been maii'd terror , and their glaring and shifting sands have been strewn all over with the bones of ven turesome travelers. Should those seas of sand bo reclaimed and clothed in verdure , made to yield fruit and flower and grain , it will bo the most wonderful of all the Wonderful achievements of man. And success in Africa will show what is possible in America , We have vast arid plains in New Mexico , Aruonu and other portions of bur great domain which are Valueless without water , but with It would add many millions of acres to our fruitful soil. tn tjio Pacific slope vn t extent. * of territory are now growing grain and fruit where formerly sand and cactus only could be found. In Now Mexico a small colony of hardy and per sistent Scotchmen Iinv6 reclaimed a desert and made it fruitful by urteslan wells. The arable land of the country is fast being ab.-orbcd , anil soon all will be occupied. There haVd been a few al- tempts undo by government to reclaim waste lands by means of artesian wells , but thus far without success. Hut that should not discourage It from further clVorlM since it is shown under circum stances far more discouraging- than any existing here , that success is possible. The time is not far distant when this reclamation of our arid plains will become - come the great ( inesiiou at Washington , and should even now engage the atten tion of our leading statesmen. THE flight of Suyles , one of the boodle aldermen whoso trial would begin in n few days , has resulted In the issue of bench warrants for the arrest of not only the other three whose trials wore also set , but of nil those who wore under indict ment. Di.striol Attorney Marline asked that bail in each case bo increased from ? ' V,030 ) to $75,000 , but doubts if any amount of ball will keep these rogues within reach of the court since the failure of Jaehne's appeal and the statement that ho and Sharp would now toll the whole story , makes it morally certain that conviction will follow in every case yet lo bo tried. The court increased the bail to $10,000 in eacli case , which four of the nine re-arrested furnished and were released , and live being unable to get , wore locked up. Four mor cremain , and they were doubtless brought in yes terday. In view of the great danger that in many of these cnses oven $100,000 bail would not hold the rogues with a yawning prison door before them , it is much to be regretted that the amended extradition treaty with England was not passed upon by the senate. It would not have touched these cases but it would have npplicd to several other big rascals who .have gone to Canada this summer. TUB democratic ticket with which Dr. Miller is so well satisfied will be snowed under on the 3d of November if for no other reason than that it is overloaded with ono nationality. The Irish Ameri cans are entitled to u good share of legis lative honors but when they monopolize the entire ticket they are not likely to poll a full vote. ' ' Wnuy Con Gallagher foisted Jim Croighton on the democratic legislative ticket , lie knew wolljeiioiijh that people would object to vdtjing , for two ot the Croighton family on , onoticket. Hut he is so anxious to get tluitpostoflico , and so jealous of MeShand that ho was bound to nominate his fnthorMn-law just to show Miller and Hoyd that , the postollico was nearer to his heart than family tics GURKENT \ Tbl'lCS. Thirty Indians drove irilo < lnndanTnkotn' ' , last Saturday , with ox' ' teams loaded with wheat of their own raising. A blind bepgar who sits on the corner of Uroadway and Fifteenth street ? , New Torn , is said to receive from S3 to ? 10 n day from charitable folks. David Drctzfchlcr , a Hebrew letter-carrier In Xew Haven , Conn. , has become a Unman Catholic and married .Miss Kitty Cannon , n member of that church. Amos Ferguson , an eccentric old man , known as tho'Minrd of Chautauqua , " is dead. llo lived near Jamestown , N. Y. , and trans lated the Bible Into verso. An eagle ilow Into n hotel In West street , New York , the other evening. A policeman captured It and took It to the station house , but it showed light and had to bo killed. It measured 5 feetfljf Inches from tip to tip. Henry F. Kconan , the novelist , author of the "Money Makers" and "Trajan , " has only made § 1,800 by three years of steady literary work , which Is about § 12 a week , lie Is going back Jo newspaper work , In which he hopes to realize at least S13 a week. A white man sun-Ing out a sentence of twenty years in the I'ratt mines , near Birm ingham , Ala. , made a remarkable escape a few days ago. lie climbed a polished wire rope extending UOO feet up the shaft , and In some manner lifted an Iron door that requires the full strength of a man on a srdo footing to open. Ijnniont'H Grip , 1'iUxiiiira ntsimMi. Daniel Lament is said to bo real premier of the administration , and now tiio question arises : What crip has Garland got on Dan that prevents him from being lired out of the cabinet ? Ho Can Well Afford It. CMcaao Ueralii. Senator Sawyer , of Wisconsin , lias made the city of Oshkosh a present of 8100,000 , for a free library. If the people of Wisconsin had all the plno land which Sawyer got his hnnds on In ono way and another every town might have a free library , and no thanks to him. A. HliiiilllHtintf Chtcuan News. Ills the most humiliating of our continen tal disgraces tlmtn man can steal 5500,000 In the United States nud bo protected from pun ishment by the Canadian government. And It Ib a sad commentary pn our civilization that the two greatest nntlons of the earth cannot ngroo upon n Man of extradition which shall not be nil Hi favor of thieves and rascals. - ' ' o Autumn toJSpnlrif * . Kiillti M , Thnmatt > titi Nicholas. 1 wish the stately golden-rod Might kiss thollttlo'wltid-jlowcr sweet , IwlshmyLlttloSelftxndl JIlKht sometime cropseacli , ( tiller's way. My Little Salt Is wombrqiiflj8liy ; I can not meet her rin'v day , Ilowe'cr 1 search , liowq or 1 pry About these meadows , nidjnnu-gay. The runaway , the teasing elf 1 She lilts where woodland blossoms drift ; She has a world of pretty nelf She gathered from the ripples swift ; Such Joys she has , my I Jttlo Self Will not be lured by any gift. She's light ns bird upon the wine , Her checks and eyes are all UK low. To mo what gladness she could bring I To her I should be stranito , I know. My Little Suit holds fast the Spring , And Autumn will not lot mo go 11 Yet still I wish the goldun rod Might kiss the little wind ( lower sweet. That asters might , to cowslips nod , And eyebrleht run in hitste to greet The violut from the April sod. Hut the Fall and Spring can never meet I Dr. Hamilton Warren , Eoleutlo Physi cian and Surgeon , Uootn 0 , Crounsu block corner Itlth and Capitol iivcnuo Dayaud night calls promptlvuttouteU to Keep It Hofore The republicans of the First dlslrlo should ask themselves whether a man having such a record as that of Church llowo has any rightful claim upon the support ol any 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 tnitl conspiracy against its very exist ence. Ton years ago , when the republican party was on the verge of disaster , and every electoral yote cast for Hayes and Wheeler was needed to retain the parly in power , Church IIowo entered into a conspiracy to deliver republican Nebraska into the hnnds of the enemy. ' This Infamous plot is not a more couje'e- ture. The proof of it docs not rest on surmise or suspicion. It is not to bo pooh-poohed or brushed away by pro nouncing it one of Hosownlor's malicious campaign slanders. Tin records of the legislature of which Church Howe wn n member in ' 70-7 ? , contain the indelible proofs of the treasonable enable conspiracy , and no denial can stand against evidence furnished by his own pen. Urinlly told , the history of this plan to Imnd over the country to Tildeii and democracy is as follows : In 1870 Nebraska elected Silas A. Strickland , Amnsa Cobb and A. 11. Connor presidential electors by n vote of 01,010 as ngninst a vote of 10,051 cast for ho Tildcn and Hendricks electors. After the election it was discovered that the 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 ses 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 tholjtliof December , ' 70 , at Lincoln , for the pur pose of canvassing the electoral vole of the state. The democratic ell'ort to cap ture republican electoral votes is historic. Tilden's friends , notably Dr. Miller , had bucn plotting for the capture of ono of the electors from Nebraska , and it is also historic that a large bribe was offered to one of the electors , General Strickland. The call of the legislature broke into the plan of the plotters , and they found a will ing and rcckloss tool in Church llowo. When the legislature convened at the capi- tal.Church llowo llled a protest which may be found on pages 0 , 7 and 8 of the Ne braska House Journal of 1877. The fol- lowingextract makes interesting reading : " 1 , Church Howe , a member of the legliln- ture of Nebraska , now convened by procla mation of his excellency. Governor Silas ( Jarber. for tlio purpose of canvassing and declaring thd result of the vote cast in Ne braska for .electors for president and vlco president of the United States , hereby enter my solemn protest against such net , denying that the governor has power to call this body In special session for any stu-h purpose , or that this body has any authority to canvasser or declare the result of such vote upon the- following grounds : First. This legislature now convened hav ing hcon elected under what is known as the old constitution , has no power to net In the premises , tlio now constitution of the state liavlim boon in foico since November , 1S75. " 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 , 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 wore several to spare in the house of which Howe was a member. The protest en tered by llowo was doubtless prepared by the Tilden lawyers in Omaha and liowo had the glory of being the solo champion of Sam Tildon. The legisla ture ignored Church IIowo , spread his protest on its record and canvassed the electoral vote in spite of it. When the legislature convened in Jan uary , 1877 , the presidnntinl contest was at its height in Washington. Church llowo had changed places from the house to the sonnto. Early in the session , a resolution was introduced expressing the conviction on tlio 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 days. Church IIowo asked to bo excused from voting when It lirst came up and was so excused. On the final passage of the resolution the. record [ page 370 , Senate Journal 1877 , ] shows the following result : Yeas Ambrose , linird , IHanchard , Bryant , Calkins , Cams. Chapman , Colby , Dawcs , Garfield - field , Gilham , Hayes , Kcnnnrd , Knapp , Popoon , Powers , Thummol , Van Wyck , Walton and Wllcox 20. Those voting in the negative were : Aton , Drown , Covell , Ferguson , Hinman , Holt , Church llowo and North 8. During the same session of the Icgisla- .tnvi > , Church Howe's YOto on United Slates senator for the first three ballots is recorded ns haying boon cast for K. W. Thomas , a South Carolina democrat , Lpagcs 108and208Sonato Journal. ] All this time Church llowo professed to bo a republican independent , republican on nation al 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. STATE ! ANDjriSKRITOUY. NolirriHlcu JotlltiKH. The first regular train reached Curtis on the 10th. The town of Mltford is putting up a $5,000. sanitarium , William Innis , of IJutlor county , is har vesting 10,000 bushels of potatoes. A Central City ] > oy named Ponnyroyor was caressed by a rattlesnake and died. Hon. J , Sterling Mortont has returned homo from a six months' visit to Europe. The public well at Howon struck a copious supply of water at a depth of 172 feet. Fremont has rejected the Godfrey sys tem of wells for supplying the water works and will try the Kichardson plan. The Madison Chronicle assorts that "moonshiners" are diluting corn in that neighborhood , Here is a fair chance for a "Mill" hunt. The two-voar-old daughter of J. Cf Livosay , of Albion , while playing on the railroad track , was struok by tin onsrino and Instantly killed. Minnie Hank refused to warble Jn Ne braska City because she could not got into the opera house without tripping through the notes ot n barnyard. , Andy Luntz , of Oakland , lost n pocketbook - book containing $75 nud some papers u month ago. Last week his dog found the pocketbook and returned it to him. Abe Parish , a cherry rlpo barkeeper , is in jail in Nebraska Citv on the charge of adultery. His lognl wife charges him with promiscuously dispensing his ulleetions. A couple of Nebraska City bloods have jumped the town to avoid the police. A few nights ago they broke. Into a business man's office and passed the night there with a pUr : of town blisters. Christ Dp Wai ! , living near Platte Cen ter , exhibited nl tlio Columbus fair two mammoth squashes , whose actual weight was sJ5 ; pounds , measuring MX feet seven inches nnd sis leet six indies in oireum- iHreiice. The two filled the bed of a two- hoiNo wagon , and would have grown muelt larger , but from the fact that they were planted very late. Iowa item * . CMnrengo has contracted for an artesian well. Sac county will invest $8,030 In a poor farm. A two-year-old child of K. S. llcnnett ; living near Ueinbeck , feat down in it pall of boiling water last week , receiving scalds from which it died on Sunday. David Hammond , living in Monroe conntv. owned u tloek of 800 sheep. On last Fridny morning dogs got after them and killed thirty unu injured a great number. Wancllo county people nro truly rust lers. A couple wore married in that county recently and within a week the enterpris ing wife had presented her better "half with a pair of twins. Wednesday night John Murphy , of Iowa City , while asleep , walked out'of an open window nnd fell to the ground , re ceiving internal iujurie.3 from which he died the next t'ftornoon. Prof. Foster , the Burlington prophet , intimates that his storm of October 0 struck a snag nudas wrecked in some out of the way place , llo now asserts that on or about theluth things terrestrial will take a whirl. The natives will therefore put their caves in order and prepare for another false alarm. Jacob Mayer , of Marshalltown , was last week the victim of ono of the mean est petty robberies ever committed. Jacob was married only the night before , and while he and his wife wore absent for n few minutes , thieves ontured the house and took everything of value tlio young people had , including the wife's wedding ring. D.iUotn. Sioux Fnlls shelters lifty-ono lawyers. A field of whdiit raised in Union county this year averaged thirty-two and one- half bushels lo the acre. Nothing lins as yet been discovered concerning the whereabouts of the six jail birds that recently escaped from the jail nt Dendwood. The Kussitins that emigrated from lion Hommc nud Hutchinson counties lo Campbell county last spring are reported to be in destitute circumstances. Furious prario liri-s have been raging in Kichland county , and have done great damngo. Houses , barns , machinery ami hundreds of tons of hay have been de stroyed. WyutniiifT. Delegate Carey lias been renominatcd by the republicans. E. E Cpmstock , a cowboy , near Lusk , while riding at full speed , collided with n steer , nnd wns thrown violently to the ground. The fall broke his neck. A boulder weighing lifteon tons dropped on three men iii the Horseshoe quarries , near Lnranue , last week. The unfortun ates were pried out and still live , though considerably out of shape. The Wyoming Reduction company , of Cheyenne , tins filed articles ot incorpora tion. The nuthorixcd capital is $2.0,000 ; cash capital , sfSri.OOO. Plans for the works are being prepared. George C. Leighton , proprietor of the Leighton hotel , Cheyenne , wandered aimlessly about the plains for four days last week nnd was found by searchers fifteen miles from town. Ho is mentally off. off.Big Big Ben Carter , a cowardly brute nud a b-a-il man from Kawlins , visited the camp of Johnson & Sons , on Sand crock , bowled up on diluted cacti , picked a quarrel with Ids mnto , and put him to sleep with his gun. Carter was caught , and taken to llawlins , and the charge of in urder lodged against him. Articles of incorporation of the Pacific & Western Colorado company , of Wyom ing , have been filed in the olljco of the territorial secretary. Tlio capital stock of the company is fixed at $500,000 , di vided into 5,000 shares of $100 each. The corporation is formed to construct n rail road from Fort Stoclo 'oiitlnvard up the valley of the North Platlo river to the Colorado line eventually to connect with a road now in contemplation in Colorado. The trustees ami mcorporntors are Charles Francis Adams , jr. , S. H. Cnlln- way. S. T. Smith. T. L. Kiniball ami G. M. Cummlngs. Two hundred and fifty men nro already at work on the road. The annual report of Commissioner Sparks shows there are -1,700,000 acres of unsurvcyed public land in the territory. During the year U087 cases of entries were investigated nnd 1,108 , embracing 175,000 acres were cancelled ns fraudulent. The commissioner says his attention hns been called to 87fi.OOO unlawful enclosures , em bracing 0,410,000 acres , thnt proceedings to compel the removal offences have boon recommended in eighty-eight cases in volving 3,250,000 acres , nnd linal degrees ordering removal , obtained in thirteen cases , involving 1,000,000 , acres. Agents report sixty-five enclosures removed from 1,37-1,803 acres and forty-seven en closures , covering SHO.OOO acres , removed without resort to the court. In several cases no area is given , and in ono case the amount of fencing is stated nt 120 miles. , Colorado. The manufacturers exposition is in full blast in Denver. Building operations arounu'tially brisk in Denver tins season. A thrifty ranchman started a Mormon colony near the northern boundary line , and was enjoying the society of four wives when a pos.so scooped in the entire family. John F. MuLces , n mountain tough , threatened to cut out the heart of the marshal of Montroso. The next morning MoLous was lound hanging from a gate post in the stock yards. Juke Blount , n notorious clmrnntor , and H remnant of the James and Younger gangs , threatened to shoot a Limdvillian nnd when ho nailed to execute his pur pose Jio wa greeted with n bullet through tlio door , winch laid him cold. How SUson wns Kuvod. Overland Monthly ; About Christmas , in the year 1850 Snow-shoe Thompson saved tlio Ufa of James Sis on , who had been lying in an old ( it-sorted cabin in Lake Valley twelve days with his foot frozen. There was was sorno Hour in the cabin , nnd on this Sisson had sul > - nix tod. He wns in the cabin four days without u flro. During that time hn atu tlio Hour raw. just as It catii ) > from the enck , On the liftn day , while rummaging about the filmnty , ho had the good for tune to llnd Homo matches. Those wore where no ono would have thought of looking for matches , as they were scnt- torcd about under some hay that lay on the floor. After finding the matches Slsson made a lire and thawed out his boots , when ho was able to got Ilium oil' . For four days he had lain in the cabin with his boot ? fro/.en to his feet , When found by Mr. Thompson , eight tlay.i later , Sissoivs legs wore purple to thq knees. Sisson was confident from the appearance of his Ingg that mortification hud eo tin. llo knew thai unless Ids legs were amputat must soon die. As ho could expect nssistnnce from the outsitl. ) world lie l-i < 1 concluded to himself undertake to pn form the required operation. There \ \ * nn axe in tlio cabin , and with this he h.ul determined to cut on" his frozen legs. Itul for the opportune arrival of Thompson Sissonyould Ihonexl day have attempted to disjoint Ins legs nt the knees ; for llml was tlio day he had fixed upon for uiulov- tnking the operation. At the time ho found Sisson. Thoinv was on his way from Placorvllle lo C..r- son Valley. It wns In the night , and on coming to the log house which was ( > - eupied in the summer as a trailing post - Thompson halted for n moment and \vn- knocking the snow oil' his shoes by strik ing them ngainel tlio cabin when he heard some one cry out. Going inside , he found Sisson situated ns related nbove. A considerable amount of pro visions had been left in the cabin in the fall , but nil except the Hour liail been stolen by the Indians. Thompson chopped a supply of wood for tUo unfortunate man , and inakli'j : him ns comfortable us pos sible with the menus nl hand , left for Genoa ( o obtain assistance. While Thompson was utit ting the wood Sisson called out to him nnd begged him not to dull the axe llm place being full of rocks as ho might might yet waul it for tlio purpose of taking of his legs. Sisson wns firmly of the opinion that when Thompson left him ho would never see him again , Ho thought Thompson would never be able to get down out of tlio mountains , ami was of the opinion that in ease ho did succeed in reaching the valley ho would not attempt to return to the cabin. Thompson told Sisson ho would surely return nnd take him away , nud advised him not to think of attempting to ninpii- late his legs , an , on cutting tlio arteries , hi ! would bleed lo death , lint Sisson had thought of that. Ho intended to make n sort of compress or lurniquct of some pieces of balling rope , which ho would twist around his legs witli n stick in such u way that n bit of rock would bo pressed upon the arteries. Then with lire brands he would scnr the ends of the arteries and tlio raw llesli ot the stumps of his legs. Slsson's mind wns so much occu pied with his plans for the amputation of ids legs that Thompson was almost afraid to leave the n.\o where ho could got hold of it ; lie did so only upon re ceiving from Sisson a solemn promise thnt he would wait three days before nt- < - if - tempting to use it on bis knees. On leaving the cabin Thompson trav eled all night , .ind early next morning arrived at Genoa. Ho there raised a party of six men W. B. Wade , Harris , .Jacobs nud other old settlers to return witli him nnd bring Sissou down thu valley. By Thompson's ndvieo the party carried with them a few tools for use in making a sled. Suow-hhoos were also hastily constructed for the men compos ing the relief party. As none of these men had over done much traveling on snow-shoes , they furnishcil not n little. amusement during tlio journey by their mishaps and involuntary antics. After much hard work , the party ar rived nt the lone cabin late In the even ing , to the great joy of Sisson , who at sight of so many man felt that he was saved. That night they construclcd a hand- ' " sled on "which to carry the frozen man down to Carson Vnlloy. In the morning they awoke to find Unit nearly two feet of new snow had fallen ; there wns a depth of eight feet before. The now snow made it very hard to get along with the hand-sled. Under Slsson's weight it ploughed pceply along , and nt times wna buried almost out of sight. The first dny the party got no further than to Hope Valley , whore they en- . camped. Sisson wns made as comfort able ns possible on n bed of boughs. AH they had expected to roach Genoa in ono day , they had tnkon nloujr with thorn no blanket , , and but few other comforts for the frozen man. The second dny they reached Genoa , and al once procured the medical assis tance. which Sisson's case so urgently demanded. The doctors found that it would bo necessary to amputate both of Sisson's foot. Before the operation could bo performed , however , the physi cian said he must have some chloroform. As Snowshoe Thompson never did any thing by halves , ho nt once sot out.crosscd the Sierra , ami traveled all the way to Sacramento , in order to get the required drug. Finally , the long-delayed opera tion wns performed , Sisson survived it , and nt last accounts wns living some where in the Atlantic States. Ex-Scnntor Tabor's Cordinlltjr. Chicago News : A gent Ionian recently returned from Colorado , tells of un amus ing experience ho had in Denver. Ho took his wife to the Tnbor opera house to hcnr the Madison Square company in ono of their elegant comedies , and shortly after the play ho noticed that an elderly gentleman , with a big black mus- taelie and conspicuous diamonds , nnd accompanied by a lady ( apparently his daughter ) , entered the box across the auditorium with a terrible llourish. After this conspicuous old gentlemen had finally got himself sealed ho happened to discover the Chicago stranger iii the op posite box , whereupon ho arose nnd exe cuted a profound bow -a bow nt once BO ostentatious nud so respectful ns to at tract the attention of the multitude in the auditorium. The Chicago man nnd his wif were greatly einbanm-iod , and tlioy wondered who under the sun the funny old gentleman could bet He looked like a reformed gambler , yet they cer tainly had never made the acquaintance of any member of the sporting fraternity. To satisfy curiosity the Chicago mun otolu out cntro actcs and asked one of his Denver acquaintance who the btrangooltl parson was. "Why , that's Tabor , " was the reply ; "old Senator Tabor ho of the rllli'd-niglit- shirt fiimoV" "But ho bowed to mo , " expostulated llio Chicago man , "and 1 pledge yon my word 1 never miw him in all my life be fore , " "Oh.tlmtdoesn'fmnko any dlficrcnco , " snid tlio Dcnvorjto. "You Bee that the old man wants to make us Denver people believe that ho knows everybody. Ho saw you in the box , nnd hoKnw you wr.ro u stranger , llo didn't ' know you , but ho accepted the chniico that you wore u dis tinguished man , and ho executed ono of his prodigious iiowu to you merely to make the rest of ns think Unit ho know you , oven if the rest of us didn't. It Is onu of his favorite tricks. Hit hits you if you are n door nnd ho missus you J/ / you are a calf but ho thinks Hint the , effect is all the same on us simple ' Denver folks. " ' Horse Doctor' * Bootnl Position. IJnsion Post : Naturally the cstabllNli- mont of a veterinary uchool at Harvard has helped 10 dignify the horse doctor's culliuc when reprosunted by thn possessor ser < > f its diploma , though conservative gentlemen hnve sometimes poked fun nt U.o system , The late Francis E. Parker like to point 11 joke with a comlo refer ence to it. On ono occasion , when allu sion wns made to the assistant professor at the Harvard Veterinary school "Ohl" Bald Parker , "that's llio fellow that sleeps in the stable over the horses , isn't il ? " , to Shoot. Yesterday morning D and II companies of the Second infantry went by way of the U. & M. nt 11 o'clock to Hcllovuo , whore they trill practice at target shooting until the first of the month. 1) company was in charge of Captain Hnyncs and H In phnrgo of Colonel Daggett , who was also In command of the detachment. They carried camp supplies of all kinds and relieved companies A and O which Imyo been on the range for several weeks ,