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< THE OMAUA DAILY BEJU. SATURDAY , DECEMBER 4 : 1880. I iii n ! II'MIIII HI I i iM ainna ! IHIIirimm ! TlMir I fc li Mm * M mam mar ii i i JL i i i TIIE DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TKIK3 Or BUDSfllUPTJOX : Datlr ( Mornl.u Edition ) Inclmllnir Sun'lixr ' ORR , Onn Vcar . SIO Fnr Bit Month * . . . . . fi I'nr Three Mmith * . 2 Tlin Omnlia SMinlnIlur. , innllotl to uny * , OHO Yotir. . . . . - nrnrr. . Kn. 911 AMI nt P\nvAJf STIIK Nisw voilt tiretrt , liii'iM ( . Tllliirxr. lit'iMits tiM orncr. No. on Kotmrr.r.vi n Sritsi All cointnunlontions rclntltDTto ii'-ffs nmtf < torlnl nmllorxhouiilUe u-l'lioisod In thu Hi Toil or Tilllliu ; UfSl.VC83 t.ETTKUS : All liu lnc U'ttfrRaiilrcmlttnnco 6boiiM 1 nildrcs fil to Tun HKK I'L'iii.nniNO COMPAN ovi.uu. Drnfts. cliockl und po tofflco ordo tobcnuvJoi > a\lilu totlioorderof thuconiiin | m m pOBLiSHisTcipusy , PBOPRIETOHS , r. IIOSE\VATKJ'H Run-on. THIS HAlIiV IlKE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Slntc of Nebraska , I ' s County of Uoti ltis. ) < < ( ! PO. H. T/fclnick , srrretnry of The H rubllshliif ; company , does polninuly swc Hint the actiml clrculailnn of the Dally 1 ! I'or tiio week ciullng Nuv.aotli , 1VG , was follows : Snlnrday. Nov. SO . in.t Siiinlav. No * ' . 21 . lt.O ! .Monday , Nov. ' J . U'.T ' Twdlniv. Nov. 'it . t'J.t' WiflncMlny , Nov. iil. . . . * . l'J.ti TliniMlay. Nov. ! ij . l'Js Kriilay , Nov.X . 1 , I Acrnuc . 1 .1 ( Jr.o. Ii , T/isriii'f ' K. Subscribed and sworn to ouforo mo this 21 day of November , A.H. , 18&0. N. r. Knit. , [ SHAM Notary I'uulle. ( ! co. I ! . TzAclnirk , Imlnc lir.st duly swoi deposes nnd snys that ho Is secretary of tl JJeo I'lilillsliliiu'cnnipniiy , that the actual a crime daily nliculatlun tit' tlm Duilv lice fi the month of , ! aminry. 16W ) , was tO.it8 : rnpie tor Kubriinry , ISfct'i , lo,6i3 ! cdplcs : lor Mart- li > Srt , UKi7 copies ; for April , 1WG , 12,1 copies : lor May. ItvSO. iy,4ra copies ; fnr.Jun I K > , i'j3Mrniil ! ! ( > : rnrluly , 18br > , r-iiicoplc : : forAuuiiRt , IK'sl , 18irlcintcsforHoiteiiibc ( ; IbW ) , 111,000 copies ; for Uctnhur , IHsO , 12y copies. Oio. : 13. Txsc IHICK. is reported as being 1'u of scandal.Vaihington must have bee reading the late cablegrams fro : English divorce courts. MR. UANDALI , thinkn there will bo i tarill' reduction at the coming session but lias strong hopes of the repeal of th oppressive internal revenue Uixos wnic bear so heavily on whisky drinker.an ) tobacco users. Aa a revenue roformc Mr. Handall is an unmitigated fraud. JAY Got iD has cither lost a great des of money or gained an even greater pr < licicncy in the art of lying , lie retun bis personal property for assessment r ? 100,000. This is just a hundrcth part i the sum which the ( 'olosniis of Kogu'i Ktole in his consolidation of the Kans : 1'acilio with the Union 1'acilie railroad. DAVID 1 > . L'OKTKU , in Ii annual report to the government , urgi that hereafter war vessels should be eoi structed with greater reference to spec' ' I'M than has hitherto boon observed , lie say that the navy needs vessels of 0,000 , tons capable of making nineteen and a ha , knots an hour- David has evidently bcc reading the accounts of Hie performance of the Atlanta which John Uoach wa not allowed to finish. Pitr.biiixT Ci.r.VKLAND has decide that all the Apaches miibt go to Florid ; This is just where they wanted to g when Crook surrounded them months ag with a handful of ofliccrs. At that tim Mr. Cleveland peremptorily ordered thn no such lenient terms should bo gran to the savages , ( jcueral Miles KOCIUS to hav understood the presidential temper bettc than Urook. lie went right , ahead , di ; obeyed ordorn and was sustained. A CoiTNCii , ULUI'KS subscriber writes t ask what effect the recent election ii Nebraska will have on the prohibitio question , and whether the legislatur will have 10 submit the question to th people. Tlie efl'cct remains to bo .suei One visible efl'cct of the unwise action o the late republican convention was th transfer of Several thousand ropublicai votes to the democratic party. Ttio ac tlon of that convention was , bowevet not considered mandatory by u iiumbo of republican coiiHtilunnts , notably i Omaha and Lincoln und generally in th larger communities. There will bo in compulsion upon the Icgtalaluro to sub mil prohibition. No prohibitory ainoiul inunt is likely to bo submitted for At lea : four years to conin. Tin : commitibioncr of agrleulturQ doe not present an encouraging report n gardiug the progress of forestry in th United States , lie says that in coin par ! son with the enormous animal consum ) lion there is practically no rcproductio attempted or forest planting douo. It thinks that as a first step of reform Hi land policy of the government in the tin bored regions requires a change accon ing to the conditions of those tonalities The government should take better car of its own timber lands , and besides gel ling this example it might extend il operations by planting on a largo seal in bodies of several contiguous section in the treeless states and territories t the weal. The military reservations Ii those states would form a most desirabl Held of operations. In the opinion of tli commissioner it Is only by such oxtonsiv planting that a desirable moilillcation < tlie extremes of climate on the wester plains can bu expected. THE American opera company enconi tored Its tirst trouble at St. Louis , the"fi turesrreat" of Mr. ( lould's latest propheo ; Hofore arriving there the ropurtory c the company was discussed by a ehurc assembly , which concluded that some c the operas were not tit for public repn suntation and advised Christum pcopl not to patronise these works. On aid' ing there the pnma donna , Mine , I'tirscl Mndl , Theodore Thomas , and the stay luanagcr , spciu all to have found the cl mate unfavorable to good temper , an the consequence was so serious a dUturl anco of the harmony that hud been n ported to e.xlst as to threaten a complcl break-up. Such , occurrences are con mon enough with ( icrman and Italia opera companies , but It waa rcasonabl hoped that an organisation having a mi : jorily of cool-ltcmlcd Americans in i presumed to be less susceptible than tli foreigners to professional joalousiei would be an example of what operaslu crt > thus associated might Uu in their n Intions with ono another. That hope i of course dispelled. Hut wo trust Hi trouble will not prpvo permanent or dl ticult of arrangement , and tbutpoac will speedily rcstuno sway and remain i control to n successful ending of Hi company' * tur.sou. I ct Us Have Tnlr Play. Governor Dawes lias served suinmni notice on Dr. Matlhcwson to hand in h resignation within fifteen days or yield up the keys of the slate hospil for the iimno to a successor , \Vo cann learn that any new charges have bc < preferred against the doctor on wldi the governor bases Ids demand. Tl action seems to be in the nature of surprise all around. Dr. Matlhowst protoHs thai il has no foundation In Ii conduct of the institution since the la legislative session. The governor seen to assign no reason except his own c ccutivo will. * Under the circumstances Dr. Mattlur son should certainly decline to ylcl Within a few weeks we sh : have a session of the Icglslaln competent to investigate any chare which may bo brought against the supo inlcndcnt. The ground was fully goi over two years ace and on the showii made the doctor's administration was c dorscd. To resign at the present tin wo'ilt be to give color to all the charg whichpersonal * enemies and dtsgruullt employes have circulated at times win there was no method of proving the truth or their falsity. The quarrel i.s one which can bo sale left to tlie next leglslaturo to scttl Tiicrc are conllietlug opinions re-par ing Dr. Matthowson's administration < the asylum , but there ought to bo no co Hiding opinions with reference to II injustice of removing an ofllclal durii Ids term of olfico without a hearinj Kair play is a jewel. Tlie Last Coal Combination , The combination recently entered in between the bituminous coal operators < Ohio and Pennsylvania and certain coa carrying.railroad corporations , for tl purpose of reducing and limiting tl production ami advancing the price i soft coal , is deservedly denounced as a outrage upon the public quite as grci and as reprehensible as that of the ai thraeite ring whoso rapacious and m lawful policy has been universally coi dcmned. Nothing quite so recklessly ii different to the public ? interests or . ' boldly defiant of public opinion as H present operations of these comblualioi has over bufore been attempted , an they show what may be cvpcctcd in tl future if the people do not make som adequate provision for their oefon- against the soulless greed of the corpon lions which now hold the public at the mercy. In Pennsylvania the constiti tional and statutory provisions appear I be ample for crushing Hie atitiiracil ring , but although more than a mout ago there was a vigorous nianifestalio of zeal on the part , of the authorities t proceed against the combination , nothin has since transpired to show that an real action lias been taken to have tli laws executed and respected. The ring : carrying out its policy to the letter , audi course profiting thereby at the price c untold mibcry to thousands of people i localities where the supply of coal is in equal to the demand , or because the ai vauccd cost precludes the poorer clas from providing tlinmsclves with a sufl . ient supply for their comfort. At man points in tlie west there Ls now complain of a short coal supply -.nd serious fea if a fuel famine if the generally prevail ing cold weather should bo prolongci The policy of this last combination wil increase the want and the danger. Hcsidcs the inhumanity ol the cours jfthc.se combinations , in the vascamoun af human sullering involved , theirsordi policy affects injuriously the inanufac luring interests of a wide region of conn Iry , cither in increasing the cost of prt luetion , which can bo made good if a ill only out of tlie wages of labor , or i restricting their operations , as has bcoi found necessary already by inanufac Lurcrs in Chicago and elsewhere. Kron ivcry point of view , except that of tin . oal operators and coal-earr ing roads the policy of these combinations is harm [ ul to the general interest and wcltan It is to no purpose , however , to poin : nit the wrongs and appeal to the 11101 engaged in this business for the remedy The only way to deal with Ihe matter is b , strong laws making such combination lionspiracios against the public welfare imil then cleet ollicial.s who will vigoi Biisly enforce them. If it is conapirac , for workingmcn to combine in order t maintain or increase their wages , as i some eases the courts have hcld.surely tht term , with all it implies , can bo quite a justly applied to combinations fpr re. striding the- supply and advancing th price of 0:10 of the chief necessaries c life ami business. Tiio lIoiu-H of ICiectton. The proposition to shorten the hours ci election does not strike us favorably m less it is to bo combined with a state ln milking election days state holiday- Kvuii with the present hours many of on working men got no chance to cast tiiei ballots. They begin their days liar work alt-even In the morning and la down their tools at six in the evening Of course , the noon hour remains , but a hour is a short time in which to poll Hi votes of three thousand workingmen an muuhaulcs. There are two intore.sts to be coiihii crcd In changing Hie hours for pollln votes. The demand for a shorter tim comes from a dobiro thai the votes Mia be counted with more dispatch and tlm an additional hour is to bu given to clerk and judges in which to foot up the n turns. A speedy count is to the interest of the public. liul is il nr equally to thu interests of th public that we should have a fu vole upon questions , cf general moment And will a shortening of hours durin which election may be carried on sccur thisY Thu two proposition , should bo ( route separately. Our dilatory count result quite as much from the large number u ballots cusl in each prccincr as from an other cause. The election law ought t bo changed so that in eities of the | dgt cst class no poll list shall boar more tlm 500 names. In New York the limit i 100. Omaha , with its present voting poj ulatiou should have at least twenty poll ing places. With such . division of labo the clerk and judgca would find no dl ! ticnlty in getting through with thei work within a reasonable time after th polls close. So far lib the time of opening and cio ; ing the polls is concerned , Hie llm ! should bo fixed with a mm regard to th Interests of our vvorKiug classes. Thor might lobe at least two hours .m wjdel such voters can have a chance to yet without leaving their work. Any otho arrangement works virtual dlsfranchis mcnt. IJut what would be belter 61 would bo a law making election days In idays. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > _ . Un dig til II eel Action. It I * amusing to hear that the cti company will probably not bore m farther for coal unless their request for sweeping monopoly of the river front granted. This sounds very much like sulking child in n game of tag , who wor play unless somebody else is "it. " It very undignified to say the least. Rlr. Her and his associates have rtmji ground upon which to determine wlicth llioy have aelnnlly found coal in payli quantities. Having decided this vit point , they will find nodifllctiltyin sect ing generous concessions of undc Ground fight of way from the cit The city has begun in a liber spirit by furnishing a lot upon which M tier ami his associations can prosccu their explorations. Jt is not likely to i fuse any reasonable extension of pviv cjres for the same purpose when il lj comes plain Ihal such extensions a necessary for continuing the work. II it was ill-advised in the company to i quest , at the very outset , a grant of n derground privileges to presumed ml cral land , so sweeping and lar rc.ichit as to prevent , if granted , any compc lion in coal milling on the bottoms. Tl city has no right to create a mouopol Its hands are quite full enough at pre mit in attempting to curb those wliii have already been created. The National Finances. Tlie treasury management of the la few months lias been generally common able and Hie presentation of results whh will be made to congress on its mcctii next Monday will merit and doubtless r ceivo the approval of that body. / though the surplus resolution of M Morrison , after having been amended 1 the senate oul of all recognition in pu suance of what was thought to be the d sire of the administration , reeoived n better regard from tlie president than pocket veto , the members of congre liuil not all left Washington after the iv journmcnt before the treasury began act agreeably to Hie requirements of tl resolution , and it kept steadily along i that course. As a result the iulere. ' bearing debt has been reduced biuccJu 1 , by Hie amount , in round figures , i ! ? 73,000OOD , , thereby cutting off a consic orablo annual interest accounl and pu ling a large amount of money into circi latiou. The opposition lo this policy w : made on the ground that It would dai gcrously impair the .surplus , but that still larger than was maintained undi republican administrations without tl slightest feeling anywhere of iuaecurit , There is still subject lo call of the 3 p ! cent , bonds a little less than § 0-1,000,00 and as it is not probable that tl treasury will recede from the conn it has pursued for the past five niontl these bonds will doubtless be all r deemed by the cud of the current fisci year , Juno ! IO next. After that time , in less congress reduces the sources of rev line this winter , the surplus will increai with great rapidity , as there will bo n more bonds subject to call for four ye.ar and il is not probable congress would ai thori/o the treasury to buy bonds iu tli open market in order to dispose of i accumulating funds , Jl would seem Hi ; the treasury situation , with the fact Hui Lho revenues are steadily incrcasitif must so impress congress that no elemei will be found there to oppose an immed Lite reduction of taxes. Other facts of the situation are that tl tcold balance is increasing , the amoui on hand December 1 being in round lij tires " $1G 1,000,000 , the largest in for years , while the silver accumulation decreasing notwithstanding the couth ned coinage , Hie amount on band on th first day of the current month being fraction over $83,000,000. It is believe by the Iroasury officials that the muxi mum of silver dollars that can bu kci nv circulation has been reached t very nearly so. There is now an activ demand for the silver certificates , wtiic il was foreseen might largely ropluco tli coin in the circulation. The total rcdui Lion of the national bank circulation fi : the year was a little over $83,000,000. O the whole the treasury situation is show to be entirely safe and satisfactory. Otlinr IjnntlHTIinn Ours. Conciliation having failed to satisfy tli people of Ireland that u reduction in o orbitiint rents was butler Ihan peasun proprietorship and home rule , the ol machinery of coercion is being oiled ii ] to be put in active operation , and the n taliation of the nationally members i imrlhuncnl is lo bu scotched if possibl by a change in the rules of proceUun rendering "obitruetion" impossible. Th Irish people have accepted this issue , an a not ut all improbable result may Ii civil war. United Irctttnif , speakiug ft the people when Salisbury Ilrst cxpitiinc Ins coercion policy , which gave way t Churchill's measures before being pi into practice , .declared Hint the premier words wore a declaration of war. "Hi the people of Ireland are accustomed t roslbl tyranny , " concluded thut jourmi "War Jet it be. in the mnnuof ( Jod. " Th ! in the view that scorns to bo taken atnoii the more liory agitators tliroughoul thn country , though the more intolhgonl i the home-rulers ttill hope that irclan will go through thu winter without blooi 6-hcd , in order thai she njay thus dcinot strate to the people of Knglaml horabilit to govern heruoU. It may bo in just to tax the tory government with a templing lo bring about bloodshed i order to iibo liibiirrection us an argiimen against home rule in the future , and y < many honest members in Dlr. 1'nrnoll' ' party believe that this course Is bein deliberately adopted. Of courno Mi 1'urnell mid his party are laboring no\ \ with only one end in view , and that is t bring thu Knglisli people over to Mi ( iladstono's home rule bill at the no.x election , and to thut end il is ncccssar thai Ireland shall keep her temper undo nil provocation , A Dublin correspond nnt telegraphs that thu longuo will 01 ilcavor to test to the end the govern inont's brutal policy , but that il i feared the ; people will bu Controlled wit liitliculty. Hut if Ireland is actuall forced to fight , tlm effect will undouui udly toll us disastrously against thu tor , government us the most ardent horn ruler could wish. V The deputation of Hulgarian repr < iciitutivcs now visiting the courts u I'luropu are pressing upon the attuntioi Qf the powers thu claims of Hulgarlau iu Icpeudeuce , They protest that Hulgari will no longer c oust-ill to bu made th tool of UusMnu inlrigue or to accept her ruler any cahdidolu Whom the cz may see fit to place on her throne. \ tor Nicholas of Mingrelia , they dcclii llallv to consider hi ? candidacy. Austi and England seem to bo fully dotermiu to stand by that provision of Iho Her ! treaty which prevents any Citcassi : from residing in Hulgaria. If they ins upon this unllincliingly , nil Russia w have to do is to back down or go to w with Ihctn. Germany's announced intention of i creasing her armanent has created a s iu Europe. It is significant thai she arming lirM of nil her garrisons on t French and Russian frontiers , with t nnw rifle which tlie various arsenals ai forges are turning oul with such Ironic dou ? speed. The German infantry is be furnished with a new sabro bnyom The Austrian emperor , in his rccc ppccch before the imnurhil parltnniei took occasion lo warn the taxpayers th they must expecl lo bo burdened wi taxes , caused by the necessity of kccpii up the Armament lo the high stnndn maintained by Germany , Franc and oilier countries which live constant dread of being called lo wi Hut while prepi'.ring for war from wit oul Prince Htsinarck is struggling wi dissensions' within lit * empire. Tl police are having no end of trouble wi the socialists , and the policy of roprc sion is being carried out as rigidly , with not so much brutality , as the an nihilist crusade ot the Russian gover mcnt. One evil result of this course w be the virtual expulsion from the empi of a host of socialists wlio will pour iu the United Stales to continue iu this lai of Irccdom the bitter War against govcr incut and society , as now organize which they have been goaded into bcgi ning under the iron rule of Hismnrc European monarchies make dospera agitators and then send them across tl seas to plague America. The midnight dash of Dacoils upon ll Hrilisli barracks al Hliamo Ls a fresh pro of Ihe perilous condiliouof Htirmah. Tl intruders fired the guardhouse , killi three Europeans , and made off in safe ! As Hhamo is tlie chief commercial tov above Mandalay , siluatcd on Ihe In waddy , near the Chinese frontier , ai inclosed by the blockade , Iho dacoi scorn lo have entered it by way of for vado. The present is the season win the caravans with silk and other goo find their way into liliamo from Yu Kau. As the mosl importanl point upper Hurinali , next to Ihe capital , tl preservation of British prestige will i cjniru its being made safe from Ihoinroa of the brigands who arc now ovcrru ning so much of Hie country. * * . The opinion thai the rebellion al A ghauistan is Hie result of Russian intrigi is quilc prevalent. The war has taken ( great dimensions , ana threatens to pro1 a revolution. The ameer is iu ill hca ! and it is witli the utmost oilort thai ho ( I fends himself against llio iusnrrcctionisl Russia is stronger in that territory tin she was two years ago , while England much weaker. Or.XKH.u. HAZKN recommends the r tention of Lieutenant ( Jrcely at the si < mil ollice as his assistant. The requc. should bu crantcd. The government In done very little for the gallant ollici who braved famine and the terrors of a Arctic winter , and whoso cxpeditic planted the Has of the United States ; the farthosl north. For some moiitl after ids return there were spasmodic a tempts to retire Lieutenant Urecly as major or lieutenant colonel. Hut arn jealousy and thu rivalries of ranking of ccrs prevented. Lieutenant Urecly is broken-down man. At the best he Ii : not many years to live. Other natioi would vie with each other in heapin honors on such a rcproseiitalivc of a n : Lion's pluck and courage. Our own ha 'lone ' nothing except to discuss the pr < priely of pormilting ( Jrcnly to rcmai 30 long upon "detached service. " PUANCISCO is sullering from at other panic in mining shares. For tc days past there lias been a fever of e : citcmcnt over reports of new strikes o the Comstock lode. Hrokcrs' offices lm\ been crowded with speculators anxioi Lo purchase on a rising market , an stocks have been boomed to a polr higher than any reached for eight year On Thursday came the inevitable n notion , The bubble was pricked , Hire large linns failed for sums running up t the millions , hundreds of smaller invc. tors have lost the savings of a lifc-tini nnd the air is filled with reports of broke companies , defaulting officials and al jconding swindlers. , Hooms witlioi hacking invariably become boomerang : At--rr.it having subdued all Ari/.on md a great part ot Mexico , if his ovv reports are to bo beliovcd , General Mill lias beat a hasty retreat from Washliii ion upon rumors Hint Crook's friend "would make trouble for him if ho n innincd , " This is decidedly entorlalnim I'hu worst trouble which any of Crook' ' friends could make for the rcdoubtabl Miles would bo to force him to oxplai Ids contradictory reports about Ins sin render to Geroniino. There are dar mysteries in Unit connection which hav never yet been cleared up , Tin : president has Jiignod the rociproc ty.troaty with Jajian. This ought t Jiiabbi us to reolprdchto for the ilapanes inarch in the Mikado hvpresuntiiigjapa ivjth Prof. Prait's opera of Xonobla en .ire. II nnvur will bu ndssod. AND now coal has boon struck in Can ula. Canada always , does things from ; nonth to a hundred years behind th itates , Tney are si.ill sowing postag damps on letters in' Isaac Murphy , the colored Anieiiea ockey , is the nearest apjironch wo have t Pml Archer , nls mimml earnings bcln ilacwt at floiu 310.000 to Slli.OOO. Minister Jlannlnt' is ropurivd ns feoliii rery badly over his recent debauch Ii kloxlco or wilier over Iho publicity civi-n t t. It nuij l > w ( ulileil that tSecictary Jiuyan las also received another bcvero blieck to hi euuer susceptibilities. Mrs. Margaret Jerome , widow or Genera lerome , tlm dashing r il/ederate oltU-cr , did n a Now Vgik tenement bouso lust WtU'li lavlns existed for several years past | i ibje t poverty. Shei > cr iKteuy ( | refused ah join the charitable , and Is haiU to nave dlei if a broken heart. Mr. Li ret Ilur to ( t writing away us lnttut.tr ! ouslyafivcr. He Is becoming tiblcgcrm every day In English estimation. lie Ii just written a story In Ids own peculiar vcl which Is to bo brought out in the llli tratcd News nnd simultaneously in one Hnrpcr's periodicals. AVIIHam Lock-port Hunter , the tame Texan hero , who was ono of the fourteen si vlvors of the mnssnrro of ( iollnd , died a fi days since nt Amlin , Tex. Ho was also o ot three men who left the fated Aim In the hope or GcurliiK help for the calln garrison. At the time of his deatli ho h reached his eightieth year. The former husband of Adelaide Xclls died In hnglnnd a tew weeks aco. Hov * o nearly forgotten at the time of his den tnnt only one or two newspapers tin noticed It. 1'ldlip Henry Lee uas the sou a "lorRyinau nt Derbyshire whuu. about 1 lie wooed nud nnd won Adclaldo Nellso Ho was with her whou she came to Auicrt for tlie llrsl time , late In 1ST2 , and ho we back with her. The slates never saw h nKiln , though she came hero twice nfturwni I lioy lived together unlmpplly , nnd thci dlvorco separated them torevcr. Afitrwa he ninn led the widow of Charles Thorpe Londoner. A Confidence Unmc. Aeie York Tribune. Civil-service reforai Is a confidence Rai by which the iircsidnnl has imposed upon t credulity of our ftlcnds , the imiKWitr enemy. No I'uro 1'jtiKllHli. lti < lianai > oli.i Journtil. Secretary Lamar Is quoted as sayinc tli c.vMluislcr Lowell Is a ninstur of pu Knellbh. Without disputing this statoiiiei the Journal merely Use * to remark that Juil IUR from the divorce trials iu London tlie are no puic Kngllsli. Asking too Mue ! > . "Italy Utiying to borrow n,300.000 llres While the I'ultcd States ml hl not bo able lurulhh ro larne a number , It could lei Italy one liar quite canal lo any three in lien and a half that 11 could borrow eli where. She Went Helmut llio llctuvns. Sun I'ntnrttrn .Hid. Francis Palms ol Detroit Is dead. He w woilli S1HI > 00,000. ami was the gcntlcim elected by Jones , of Florida , as a lidiicr-1 law. Miss Palms went behind the rctun however , and Jones has no interest In t will. The Duty of iht I ntnvfr Tribune. It woiild'uc a great blow to the widc-awa puoDlo ot the United Slates It' Mr. Clevelai should stop monkeying with tlie press. It the duty of the press to amtiiro as well as I struct , and the president of the Unit can assist iu this If ho can't do anytldi else. The 15lilit iliiatl. / lla HVrtVr in/cor. / " 1 have lost the load to happiness Docs anv one know it , pray I1 1 was dwelling tlicio when the morn was fa Hut somehow i wamluiud away. 1 saw rare tic.isurcs In scenes of pleasures , And ran to pursue them , when lol I had lost the path to happiness And 1 knew not whither lo KO. I have lost the way to happiness Oh , who will lead me hack'.1' ' Turn oil' trom the hlgltwav of soltislincss To the. right up duty's track I Keen straiu'hl alone ; nud yon can't go wren For as sure ns you live , 1 say , Thn fair , lost lieldsof happiness Can only bo found ( lint way. STATE AND TIOnUtTOIlV. Nolrnsltn Fremont will bore for coal. Hastings is moving for an enlarge postollice. An iron foundry is to be built ai operated iu Falls City. York county has voted $50,000 in aid i tlie Kansas City & Omaha road. A packing house , to employ twenl men , is to be started in Hastings. The Nebraska City ojicra house is t bo rejuvenated and i'nmigalcd if il coa $5,000. Aurora's grain syndicate , recently o ganixcd , will put $20,000 into corn th season. Six business houses and contents , a vuluod at $12,000 , were destroyed by fii in Ulysses. The melting enow of Monday swcllc the Loup river so high as lo carry out Hi bridge at Columbus , The Rowdy West , of Douglas. Wyo maintains that Omaha is justifiably craz on thu coal question. The absorbing conundrum in Gran Island at the present moment is , "Di Uod make a mistake ? " The bowildcrc residents can garner comfort from Sni Jones , wiio allirmcd that the Ileavctil Ruler isn't built that way. W. H. Storrs , an extensive cattle rancl man near Glcncoo , Dodge county , lol his home for Hie purpose of suendin Thanksgiving with his parents in Hrac ford county , i'a. , and was drowned in a templing to cross thu Siiaqaclianna rive in u skiff , "II seems very probable that Onialu in its alleged coal discovery , has ills struck a good deal of natural gas , " sav the Sioux City ilonrnal. Thu product V Lho Iowa mctrouolis , witli its fumes c blood and bootleg jam , will never find rival in these parts Iowa 1 1 em D. The packing house sit Ottuinwa kill .ibont WO hogs per day and employs 20 men. Davenport celebrated seventy birth.1 llfcy weddings und thirty l'u no rub dm nig November 'Iho ordinance shutting up Hie harbe shops of Sioux City on .Sundays has bee lectured invalid. A young man of Creston answered in idvertiseinent nnd enclosed f 0 cents fo i receipt to cure thu appidilu for llquot I'ho other day ho received thu followiuj liroscriptioii ; "Quit. " Charles W. Trendy , a discharged cm > loye of Iho Fort Dodge road , was do eeted in Hie act of placing lies news hi ) rails near Woodward on Hnndu tfturnoon lai l and proinptlyarrested.il md u hearing at I'.trry on Monday am tvas held to answer in thu sum of flo.OOU A young printer named William Hum > vas wayh'.id , bound and gagged iu : nest brutal nuuinu" at Lucas on Katur lijy evening , and relieved of his mono.i mil valuables , lie was then thrown o'l i barbed-wire fence , and when found wji laiiging to a barn in an uncoiiscioii itate. Ilattio Rawson , a beautiful young lad. ' )1 Atlantic , has Itton sunt to llio insum isylum. The story of her mania I iomuwhnt sadly romantic. .Shu was en ; aged lo marrv a young biiHini'ss man o Council Hlitffs. Jll health forced him t < jo west early in the spring. Chaiigu o ilimato proved of no avail , and on tin ! 0lh of October she attended Ids fnnera il Ids late home Fruni that day bei ulnd began to decay. SUu i twenty hreo years of ago. Thu following accounl of a legal balth n n Dus Muincs court will furnish sonic 'point ? " to the attorneys in the Luuei 'iiso : Justice McCjibe and Dennis Demean an appeared on opposite * sides in a cim inforo United States Commissioner Ian , They complimuntcd each othei [ iiitu vidiously , and thu air was btrcalci ; | t'ith bninsroiu ) blue . Thu biiltle of gal ndcd with thu adjournment of 'court , mt ut that moment McCabu lapped Don' ivnii under .tho right eye , The bUW tun nud the attorney for asecoiid , during , 'hich ho appeared far more -astonished IIHU di > zcd. However , iu uu in&tunt he revived and proceeded to reai h for M Cnbo. The keen willingness and evldc Kcsl with which Dennis reached tor Hu1 ; uiciiil physiognomy left no lingoringdoii ns lo ultimata Intentions. Throwl his whole weight Into the effort , I let go Ins right nnd countered heavily i the proboscis of the chancellor , win heels and head nt once reversed posilloi the latter coming in contact with t lloor with such violence as to Jar t building. Meantime , justice , tliott , crushed to the earth , made a dcsperr attempt to play back nnd kept clnwii the air and Dennis' face with his liny nails , jyul succeeded in a marked depi in leaving evidence of great exerti upon the face of Ids antagonist. Dem had just settled himself in position make an angel of the justice , when l > c nly Marshal Hthridge , Kd. Finch , a several other spectator. * , grappled wi and pulled him oil' , and the light was t clared a draw. Dakota. Stork county Is to invest $ ir > ,000 in court lioti o. The amount of vacant lands subject original entry In Dakota is estimated 18,500,000 acres. Four years ago the town of Wobsl was unpeopled , but last Sunday prayi were ofi'cn.-d in live different churches the town. Forty bachelors ale their Thanksgivii tliuuer at the Park Place , in Abcrdee with the understanding that Ihe one w ! was the lir-,1 married should pay the bi Tlie Sliylocks of lie ! territory are grc stumllin ) r blocks on the roail to slat hood. They know that a state legisl lure would curtail their four pur cent month. President II. L. Loucke has called special session ol the Territorial Fan era alliance to meet at Huron on We ncsday , December S'l. ' to take action regard to needed legislation through t legislature , which meuls in January. The boomers of Dakota , as estate , ai the olileurs elected to enact the coined have called a session of the " .state legi laturo" to meet in Huron. December 1 to take such action as will "force" co gre.-s to open the doors of .statehood ai admit the giant bljxy.ard of-Uio uorthwu- U yoinlntr. Douglas U to have a $10,000 hotel lie year. year.A A coal company and a comet baud a the latest additions lo boredom iu Don las. las.Tho The Dougln * Coal company is alrcai warming "the future groat" with its pr ducts. Rails are laid on the Cheyenne Korthern to a point thirty miles beyoi the city. Clioyciino is figuring on a new ai mammoth hotel , to take the place of tl burned Pacific , It is rumored that the Union Pacific i tends building a line depot in Laramiu the near future , William and Steward iUelntosh we aeipiittcd of the charge of murder in tl distriel court at Choyonuc Tuesday. Tl result was a surprise to the commnnil I be Sim asks , ' 'lias ' il come to this Hi Hip courts arc powerless to punish grc crimes ? " The Rowdy West , of Douglas , is i wool ami curried at home. Patent i ternals and ready prints proved t < slow for tlm community and were di carded. The Kimball boys seem to 1 floating cheerily on the crest of pro penty. Colorado. Intensive glass works are to be opont at Golden. A Denver dentist disjointed tlie jaw i a prominent lady while pulling a 'tOotl Her husband rewarded him with a choc for ? 50 for the peace and comfort it jra\ him. him.Tho The making up of llio official rolnn of the late election in Colorado expose the ignorance or negligence of pruaiiu officials. The tibles from evcrj count were loaded with clerical errors and confusion ot names worthy of backwood pedagogues. Francis L. Carter , : i confidential agen of several investment companies , settle down in Fort Collins ten years a-ro. Las week lie skipped the country , Icavin debts estimated at $800,000. , lie will ad a halo of dollars round the America colony in Canada. The annual report of Hie Adam mining company , of Lcadvillo , shows revenue for the year of . Io,750.ri1 ( ; , ; , o which $247,500 was paid out in dividend. ' with a cash balance iu the treasury c ? 1 ! > ,2UO. : ! : Total number of tons mai kntcd for the year , 10,1128 , which broujrli J2B.27 per Ion. in nil. Thorn are 100 telephones iu oporatioi in Salt Lake City. Work on the Union depot in Ogdcn ha been stopped by frigid weather. The banks of Salt , Lake City report Hi receipts for the week ending Novembe M , inclusive , of $ I05,807.:13 : in bullion , am P2t7.50 : ! ! ! ! in ore , an aggregate of $ li7 ! , 9 lUt OS. The crowded condition of Hie pnn ha 10 effect on the proseeiition of the polyi ; imisls. In the words of tlm revised cdi .ion , "Wluil proliteth n man if lie em jracus all the women in the world am lands in the punitoiitiary1 Thu Salt Lake Tribune , rnferrinsr ti .he enlargement of the Omaha Snielliii ) ivorks , says the improvements made an mportant to the mining iuti rest of ( ha : crritiry , as the work's are capable o mndling all kinds of ore and iu air piantily. IMmilaiiii , The strike in the Anaconda fiineltor.- inded hint week and the men returned t < , vorK. Montana milling umn are cnderiYorini 0 have refining works established a lelonu. Helena's bnllionairesare going to erec 1 five story biick blook and use it for ai > pera house. A. Corey , the notorious gold brlnl iwindler , slipped out of jail in liutto lit- vcok , and IK now on Jim hunt for viutlm-j Henry C. Stephens , j Hulte miner , MIO jpsifully warmed a uianl powder cart idge iu u blaek.-iiiiilh'jj lire , and blew him ell-into eternity. Al Ilutti ! City , a sixty-stamp quart ! mil was started hut week I'or the ! ii > i iiue. U was built for the Hliiebird com Kiny , alii eoal of $ ; ' 0'uoy. ) and is UK H0) ) > l complete stnicture of tiio lunil ii he world. Thn I'fK.'illo Ooust. During the past week 700 inimigranls rrived in Calit'ornui. Tiio riial estate transfer * in Los Augelc or a single fortnight tln.s month annnuil o nearly | ! l,0HiOUO. ! Residents of towns ihrouglioiit Nevndii riii liolding inciutiiigs and orgnni/iug ar- usiiin well boring companies. Itissnid that Flood's stone hoiiie in inn Franeiseo cost 2,000,000 Tlie c < nt f Stanford's wooden liouao i.-i ektimatcd t $ l-OiOlX ( ) ) . It Is ( ixpectitil Unit between 700 and ,000 men will find employ nient nt AJhlna , cur Portland , Ore. , when thu now shops hull have been built. Thu Ruv. Dr. Kprcclmr deelare.s ( hat olice statUtie.H prove San PrauoiAcn to o "the wiekedest city In Christendom , 10 proportion of arrests lo population dug as ono toninu. " P. J. Wullrjith , a wuniJturncr , in S.tn 'runciscu ' , lived ten ilaye vvith twoouiiees f a siool chisul iri hU brain. Tlie hteel a driven into hi-i head hv a revolving utter or grooving macldno. A gt-nuinu siJVu'r tipped griiwjy bo ; r 'us killed in thu Hju.u uiouutams lUppnc-r , Ore , recently , which weighed 1,0'XJ pounds and'measured eighteen feet , from tip to lip and eighteeninclica between the oars , According to the birth statistic * Hint are furnished 'o ' the state Achool superin tendent by the census marshals through out the state Sacinmcnto ranks last as a baby producing county. Los Angeles , with not twice as great a population , produced l.lOil babies iu 1S80. against Sacramento's 183. Snnta Cm/ tips Hie beam .at Sfi ! ! , Alamcda at Set ) , and San Irnnoisco at 8.RH ! . w The dislrnclod husband of a f mah' sovereign sounds a warning note through the Washington Territory Advocate "iM.V wife has been gone away on the jury four days. I have not had a square iiieiil since she left. My children are crying for bread , and everything gries wrong I am hungry , angry , anil nil out of soils in every respccl. I write this to warn the puoplo who advocate woman's rights in my presence again must be a very largo man , and if ever the sherilV comes after mv wife again he hail butter bring a pos u with him , for my .shotgun is loaded and I will not hcsitato to use it. ' ' "Dentl Under the WoooK1' SI. IoiiisO'liMlfnii. ' . " Mr. Kdwnrd Drohan , the Kentucky en gineer who threw his two children from his cab , reversed Ids engine and wailed InevllnBle death on the Cincinnati South crn railroad , furnishes an example of manliness which is Hie rule with men of bin calling , so much so that it Is taken almost as a mailer of course. In the ae counts , if railway wrecks there is OIK- line of eonilant recurrence as a part ol the news of the disaster. "The engineer was found mangled under the wreck of Ids engine. " Courage and heroism in extraordinary emergencies are not rare * traitin the human character , but there is something in the death ot thc.so men that is above heroism. ' 1 here is no llour- ish of trumpets heralding there self-im imitation. There has been no call upon them to sacrifice themselves for great principle * , which make death easy and hcioic with the halo of mnrly'rdom around il. For men are so cowardly thai pressure from without on greal occasious--llic feeling thai they cannot be cowards without being detected and scorned will not make them bravo ; but on these loco motive engineers there ha * been no pres sure from without , no force of public opinion urging them on to death. It has happened , on the contrary , that the pub lic is only made aware of their devotion bv accumulating testimony , the. record of death after deatli in the discharge of duty , whore death might have been avoided without dangorof condemnation from the public. After Mr. Oroliau saved his children he reversed his engine. H was not in his power to do more to prevent a collision , and had he left his cab hu would have been blamed bv no one , but the thought does not seem to have occurred to him. His engine was his trust and ho died rather than abandon il. This is the manliness that is above heroism. It is harder lo bo a man than it is lo bo a martyr. The locomotive engineer is part of a high pressure civilization , which , in many of its results as ii affects human nature , the moralists find deplorable. Hut , if it brings a M-USC of freedom from old responsibilities and restrictions to those who are victims of its overcnltiire , it adds graver responsibilities to plain men and tits tliem tor the higher trusts by the development of higher qualities Hum we arc as yetablo to fully appreciate. Modern civilization gives the lives of hundreds a trust into Hie hands of one . j maii.'and taking the trust as a matter of course , ho lie keeps it lo the death as a matter ol course. When examining Hie feoliuirs that prompt .such devotion we find how much it diners from the devo tion and eourage of the martyr to vainly , dlory , patriotism or religion ; we feel the ivant of a new word to express a new condition. Larkintr it , we can only write is the obituary and epitaph of the Dro- ians : "Found dead under the engine. " Sleeping Our Fiirc . HI. I'aul ( Unlit. There is no reason why the Pullman onipnuy .should not reduce the fares 'harged by it for the occupancy of its iloopingcars , lo a more reasonable basis. iVitli annual earnings of nearly $ : iQOO- , , KM , Iho yearly payment of an H per cent , livldcd upon a capital stoek of $10,000- , 100 and a surplus of it,000OCO ? ! , the com- latiy is certainly in u position to make : ome concession lo Hie traveling pnblie. The rale now charged of $2 for each light's lodging \ oxorbiiiint , and entirely ILsproportionalo lo the .service rendered. A'illi a lecher rale the company vould .still a fair profit , if ndeud the increase in patron- igc would not bring abotil ivun larger profits than are now obtained , md the tax imposed upon Hie traveler vould not be HO onerous. The matter is me in which legislative interference can veil bu taken in the way of bringing .bout a more oiuitablo | schedule of rates , nil might well be brought before the at untion of Iho Minnesota legislature vhich will iissumblc thin winter. When leeping cans were a novelty and their mtronngu limited it was necessary ( o xae.t high rates in order to make the scr- ice sdf-suHiiiining. Now thai the cars re in general use , and are pnlroni/cd so ibur.illy an lo bring In the onnniiniit irolit.s indicated , il in time the rates hould be so adjusted as lo heller ae nmmodale the public without at the ame time dolni' Iho Pullman eompaiiy an lljllitlct' . ' i Let IK ; be thankful that any poor suf i-rer can buy with 2. ' ) cents a bottle of ialvation Oil. Veunor's prediction" , though in the tain pretty , accurate , lire not infallible , lid Dr. Hull's Cough .Syrui ) \\a-never mnvii to fail to cure a eoiigh. Athuila'H " , lnjj Spri-ial Hie'hicago ( Daily News trom lew York. Kx-Ciiivurnnr Itullock , of Al uila , ( in. , speaking of prohibition in iiltvfi city to-day , said"J'he elty doi-s big jiig business now. Thcjv nr cvund rountir.ailjucent that have no iral-nptinn law in force , mid they I'm tish the thirsty uili/ens of Atlanta. An xpniia tram eniue * in every al'ternoon , ailed the 'jug ovpiv > V with MHIIO him red or BO jiign filled with good whliKy oiialgned to eili/.uns. As much intrn-M i taken in the arrival of this train as of nc bringing a nireu.s. Tlicn < is no law ) prohibit wbixky being eonu'jod to u riviilc residence in a jug. "J think prrlty nearly a * inuoh whinUy i drunk as Iwfore , only it is not done penly. Native wine In iuit prohibited , ml u great deal ot it in cniiMimod. At mta is naturally a wet cil.y , but the ( iiiitry ii dry , ami tin dry yotcMif tin- mil try with the - of Hie city defeated 10 wets. Allunla ha& not Milinroii from . ! | ; . ' - ( ) 111 hllslllO.S , as hiillU : allege , . ( MUSH of prohibition. At Hiu HIM ! cf vi yearfs I lie term expires , and I think e will adopt u | | igli-lnun ! uHy tum. ' Weal ; lung * , spittmif of blond , con iinptiuu unit kindri-ij allVetion , citivd jljit'iil a pli.y.sii-ian. A'hlresi for tini MI , wJlh lilcent.i ii ) * tamp > World's I ) i usury Me.dieul Assoeintion. 'ijt ( : Main ; ivi-i , Uiid'.do , N. Y. A Siniill I'uitcrn. A New Haven infant over two months d \\ii ) n > only two and one-half pound * . in U well formed and beulthv , and ol iie vocal equinmenl. Her height ' - > iirtci-n iiichuN , her wrisu evv < xiilH | a- : > inch in oircdinfen-nee , the buck of ; r head mciisim-.b ouu infill aui'On , mi'l ' -r fool ii ftii jiicU und u qutirtor long ,