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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : WEDNESDAY , FEBRTJAKY 23. 1887. I . TIIE DAILY PUBLISHED EVEKY MORNING. TEUMB OF BUMSCrUPTtOV t Dullr fMornlair Hdltlon ) Including Similar Ilr.r. , Ono Yenr. . . $1001 Tor Blx Months 6 CO For Thrco Months , 2W The Omnhii Hominy HEE , mailed to nny address , Ono Voiir. . , 200 OMAHA nrnrc. No. mi ANH BIS FAIKAM RTIIRFT. Ntnr vonic OfKtri ; . Know . Tiirni'vi1 WJIMIINO. WAIWI.NUTON orrtcr.Mo.finKounTEr.xrii8Tii r. conncarosnEHaci AH communications rolntlng to news nndodl- torlnl matter Miould bo nd'lressod to the Eul > ton or Tin : HF.K. J1DSJNES3 r.KTTF.nS ! All b lnm letter * nnilromlttnncos&houldlio RrtdroRsocl to TUB DKR rum.isniNO Com-ANr , OHAllA. Drafts , chocks nnd ptntoftlco orders to bo mnOoparnblo to the onltr of the company. THE BEE POBLISHInTclPAHY , PHOPfilEIBBS , E. IIOSEWATEU , Entron. THE DAItiY BKK. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Blato of Nebraska , I . County of Douglas , f Oeo. U. Twchuck , secretary of The Urn Publishing company , does solemnly sweat that the actual circulation of the Dally IJeo lor the week ending Feb. 18th , 1BS7 , was as Saturdnv. Feb. 12 MM Sunday , Feb. in H.WW .Monday , Feb. 14 H'iA1. ' Tuesday , Ful ) , 15 VU2 > Wfilnesilay. Feb. 10 Hl > i Thursilav , Feb. 17 Kl'- Friday , Feb. 18 .03 Avcinpo 14.USO ( .tKO. U. TZSC11UCK. Snbscrlbcdln mypresenco and sworn to before - fore mo this 19th itny of February A. D.,1887. N. P. Kniu ISKALI Nolarv Public. Oeo. 1) . Tzschuck , bchiR first duly sworn , depoRcs and says that ho Is becreUry of The Jeo ) Publl.shlnecompany , tlmt the actual nv- craeo dally circulation of the Dally Ueo for tlio month of Fubruarv.l880was " 10,5'J ; ; copies ; for March , 18SO , 11537 copies ; for April. 18SO , is mi copies : for for May , 1880. ia,4S copies ; for Juno , 18bO. 12,2t)3 ) copies : for.JuI" 18t < 5 , 12,314 copies ; for Auctist , 18SO. 18,41 colesforSpptombcr ] ; , 1880,13.0IH ) rnpics ; for October , 18SO , l2b'J ( copies ; for November. 18SO , 13 , 18 copies ; for Dcrenibor , Ib80.13,237 copies lor January , 1887.10,200 copies. QKO. U. TZHCHUCK. ( subscribed nnd sworn to bctoro mo tills 8th day of February A. D. 1887. fSEAL. I N. P. Fin : , . Nolarv Public , . seems to have cast its vote against Hismarck , but Germany is still to bo heard from. OJUIIA can stand the defeat of her charter if the remainder of the state can afford to fihoulder the responsibility. LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN has been sold for a largo sum. The point of the sell will bo sooner or later appreciated by the capi talists who have purchased it for a sum mer resort. ENOUGH outside additions have been platted for ton years to come. Ken estate agents of farm lands should now devote their attention to making collec tions on contracts. WHEN Omaha real estate agents follow the Kansas City plan of receiving nil payments in checks and checking back to customers for whom they are the nccnts our clearings will doubtless reach the old figure. IK Senator Plumb's amendment to the river and harbor bill is adopted by the house the Missouri river commission must go. This will bo a clear saving of some $7,000 a year to the government with little resulting detriment to the Big Muddy. A LITTIH : : fro.m the capital of Corca says that the king's winter palace has boon uowly finished and furnished with American furniture , costing $18,000. The largo contributions of American lumbermen for foreign missions are now explained. ACCOUUIKC to the babbling Hurrows , of Indiana , Matthews , the colored man who has boon twice appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia , used to play poker with President Clove - land. Mrs Cleveland may now bo ex pected lo join her protests to those of the senate against Matthews' confirmation. AT the conservative conference on Monday , It was decided to push the change in tlio procedure rules first and to inaugurate coercion afterwards. The plan is to choke the Irishmen in parlia ment and to follow it up by strangling them in Ireland. Lord Salisbury is evidently - dontly preparing a winding sheet for his coalition ministry. WITH n whoop and n yell like n wild Indian , the Herald bounds into the ring with the startling announcement that the city engineer has bought and sold city lots during the past year. Well what 'of it ? Wo presume the dreadful charge is true. The Omaha citizen who hasn't iri- vested in real estate during that period should bo put in n glass case and labelled as a curiosity. Hit. lloiiEHT FOWLKK has ordered plain drawn for a largo boot packing house at South Omaha. Mr , Fred Amos will shortly construct tha largest bust- ness block in Omaha. The Northwest ern has purchased grounds for shops. Those throe incidents of a day are respectfully - spoctfully commanded to envious Kansas City contemporaries as reasons why Omaha does not wcop , Tha boom keeps right up , "Business is business1' | ami business seeks business. It will continue to do so as long as largoprolits and quick returns odor inducements for invest ment , Tun imprcbsion that thoiiuiou ofl'ected between the Tammany and county de mocracy , in the last Kow York mayoralty election , was the beginning of an era of democratic harmony m that quarter , the advantage of which would accuro to the national administration , appears to have boon a misttiKuu one. So , too , the re ports whleh have been since current that the antagonism of Tammany to Cleveland - land had died out , and that if the democ racy or the country wanted him again as a presidential candidate there would bo no opposition from that source , Boom to have been erroneous. The latest announcement is that Tammany is ro- lonUcss , and that if possible that organi sation Is now moro keenly hostile to the president than it has over boon before , nnd proposes to show him no quarter. Irving hall , also , has Us tomahawk poised , mid promises to do its humble part toward slaughtering Mr. Cleveland with infinite satisfaction , Developments pf this kind must utako the president fool that efforts to harmonize the democracy of New York are well nigh hopelcsa. LJII ifS TJatilffit. . i it ir The Gnrmnti Rlcctlopn. The result of the Gorman elections will probably not bo accurately ascertained sooner than the end of the present week. A second ballot will bo necessary In a number of districts. The facts at hand nro somewhat confusing , but the indica tions appear to bo favorable lo the gov ernment. It seems to bo evident that the joint oflbrls of the Vatican nnd Bismarck for the disintegration of Ihc center have not been fruitless nnd that the faction tinder the leadership of Wlndlhorsl , the most formidable against which the gov ernment had to contend , has been mate rially weakened. It appears , also , that the liberals and the progressists have lost ground , the latter moro especially , the eccodcrs from thcso factions having doubtless swelled the ranks of the social democrats , who have made gains all over ho empire. The progress of this cle- ncnl will bo regarded as ono of the nota- ilo and significant mrcumstancos of the lections , and it is easy to understand hat its development should have caused omo anxiety to the imperialists. In Her- in the government candidates , with a ingle exception , were defeated , and in wo of the thrco districts of Hamburg ocial democrats/ wore elected. The act is to bo remarked that the oclallsl gains wore almost wholly n the cities , and the organi sation of thl ? element seems to have been fory thorough. The stalemuntthat it re ceived both moral and national uneotir- igement from Franco and America islet lot incredible. Most of the factional eadors were re-elected and will bo pres- onLin the new reichstag to renew their opposition to the government , though with poor promise of sueeosi. The districts from which thcro are complete returns show a considerable najority for the soptennate , and the gov ernment is credited with a gain of twenty out of the forty necessary to carry through its military measures. The sources from which returns are yet to come make it reasonably certain that tlio other twenty will bo scoured by tlio gov ernment , and it is not improbable that the supporters of the septonnnto , and of the other military demands of tlio gov ernment , in tlio now reichstag will have votes to sparo. In this event Bismarck will undoubtedly improve his advantage to put the government in a position not lo bo again easily balked in its military designs by an adverse parliamentary majority. Granting the success of the government , ivliich the facts at hand appear to usstiro , how will it cu'eot the peace of Europe ? It has been proclaimed by the organs of Bis marck that a , defeat of the government would mean war. Logically its victory should count for ponce. Europe has been assured by both the emperor and his prime minister that Germany desires peace , and that it is to maintain the peace that the government has projected its military i measure and advanced its warlike preparations. The world will not have long to wait for a demonstra tion of whether or not there wai any sincerity in these assurances. Tlio Kornker Ki Wo were not astray in assuming that the Forakcr episode at the republican gather ing in Now York would cause some tin- easiness among the friends of Senator Sherman in Ohio. A dispatch from Co lumbus , O. , gays there is no disguising the fact that the friends of Mr. Sherman are greatly annoyed by the events of the past week , and it is generally conceded that the speech nnd presence of Governor Forakor in New York have had the effect of enlarging tlio list of possible presi dential candidates. It is also suggested that the retirement of Foraker from pub lic life would bo very gratifying in cer tain quarters , and that a determined ef fort will bo made to smother him. It is not diflleult to see that the information proceeds from a source friendly to the governor , but it is not therefore to bo dis regarded , nor does it stand alone in evidence - denco of what it nllirms. Foraker has been getting since his speech a largo amount of complimentary attention from some of the loading republican papers of Ohio , most of them , it is important to remark , exceedingly friendly to Mr. Blninc. It is not for an instant to bo supposed that any of these journals seriously regard the Ohio governor ns among possible presidential candidates next year , but if ho can bo kept in that position it may servo their purpose to obstruct the chances and per haps defeat the nomination of Sherman , which is a desire doubtless much stronger with thorn than that of promoting the political fortunes of Foraker. The obvi ous fact is that Senator Sherman will have to again confront an insidious op position in his own state which is already developing. Meanwhile the friends of Senator Sher man will find grutifyinc evidence that ho is gaining ground in other directions. The careful and intelligent Washington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser says of the Forakor incident that it is not made much of thcro , and ns the result of his inquiries and observations respecting the Sherman boom remarks that it "is slowly but steadily commending itself to public sentiment. " The thoughtful men of the party are disposed to consider other qualifications than Unit of per sonal magnetism as of supreme value in the next presidential candidate of the republican party , and a comparison of records cannot result to the disadvantage of Senator Sherman. So far as Ohio is concerned , there are honest nnd able republicans there who , remem bering the loss of influence and charac ter which the state sullbred in consequence - quenco of the course of her delegation in the last national convention , will do their utmost to prevent n recurrence of the blunder in the next convention. It should bo hoped that the Inlluoneo of this clasi will not bo wasted , A Damaging Defense. Dr , Miller has no other defense to make for the Murphy-Gallagher paving ring whoso champion ho has made himself in trjiugto defeat the charter , than an at tack upon the city engineer. Ho im agines that ho can hoodwink our citi zens by filling tha entire editorial page of the Herald with assaults and pretended exposures , Thatoflicial is able to take care of himself , nnd needs no dcfcuso at our bauds. Our exposure of the paving ring depredations on Omaha tax payers was not inspired by him or any other outsider. Most of the facts wore gathered from various con trac tors who have sulercd ] at the hands of the Murphy gang. Tho. engineer was , howoverj called upon 'to verify those hargcs r.ncl incidentally WM requested , o explain the operation of fhe present no'ttiod ' of contract-letting nnd execution f public works under the beard ns now jrcnnized. Our conclusions as to ho objects which the paving Rang lave In view in lighting ngalnst ho proposed change of the board of pub ic works were reached without any out- Ida inspiration. Thn facts nro plain and slcar that n radical change In methods of ontract letting and supervision is cssen- lal to protect the community against windle , fraud and imposition by con- motors. It certainly Is not in the inter est of property owncra , or for that mat er , of working men , Hint the charter bo uncndcd to suit the contractors. tlio Katci. When the railroad magnates of the country procured the questionable opin- on from ox-Judge Dillon that the inter state commerce law , which prohibits un- luo advantage between patrons , meant hat all passes except those to employes ivould bo illegal , the people did not feel aggrieved in the least. It was generally nssumed that the abolition of passes everywhere would naturally result in the reduction of passenger rates. Hut oven f passenger rates were not reduced there would bo general satisfaction in the nowlcdge that the dead-heading and dead-beating system of free travel had received its death blow. The evident purpose of the abolition of insscs is now becoming manifest in the edict that freights nro to bo raided be tween nearly all important commurcial centers. This means that our railroad rulers propose to punish the American pcoplo for daring to attempt to regulate public carriers. The raise ot freights at the opening of spring on lake ports , as well as at Missouri and Mississippi river points , shows that a conspiracy lias been entered into lo make the law as odious as possi ble and force the whole country to revolt against inter-stale commerce regulation. What else can these railway managers moan by the general advance in freights on nil classes of products , The law cer tainly was not enacted for the purpose of increasing'Ihu ' earnings of railroads , butte to reduce and equalixo tolls and indirect taxation. It was expected that an honest compliance with the law might raise the rates in a few exceptional instances where special favoritism had ruled. On the other hand it was expected that the rates would bo reduced in other in stances where Ihoy had been excessive. We are yet to hear of those places. The railroad manogers have failed to discover any locality entitled to lower rates. The immediate ed'ect of this wholesale levy upon llio country's products will of course decrease the farmers' profits , re duce the merchants' income and rob worLmgmcn who are buying provisions and fuel and clothing , while the railroads will increase their earnings and dividends. This will only bo temporary , however. Politicians who cannot travtl any longer on passes may feel indignant at the law makers , but their clamor will be overborne by the curses loud and deep that will pour upon the bonds of the rail road highwaymen from valley , hill top , village and city. It is a trite saying that whom the1 gods wNn to de stroy they lirst make mad. Nothing but sheer madness could impel the confederated orated railway barons to do the very thing which will drive the pcoplo to des peration and force the issue between them and the railroads in the very next campaign. The inevitable efuct will bo stringent maximum rates on local trallic by the btates , followed by n general reduction through congressional enactment. In- stand of forcing a repeal of the in tot- state commerce act the country will com pel congress to make it more Directive by laws which will cut down existing max ! mum tariil'j ahd bring the railroad die tators lo their knees. IVlint About the C ! nrtor. Wo have been asked a hundred times within the past three days whether tin Omaha charter bill will pass. Our an swer has been and is "Wo Cannot Tell. Nobody else can give any assurance ol its passacro. The bill is now in the hands of the judiciary committee of the house whoso members are for the most purl , in active sympathy with tlio opponent ? of the. bill. Tlio judiciary committee is expected to point out tlio features whicl are claimed to bo unconstitutional , but wo presume- the committee in reality will bring in amendments on all sort of subjects , merely to satisfy the clamor of bilks and blather h kites of llio lobby who are in llio pay of llio railroads and the , paving gang. The commitleo may rn- port llio bill back Thursday with suol amendments as it sees fit to recommend and then the bill will have to lake its chances among tlio hundreds of others now pending. If it is amended by the house it goes back to the senate , and tha body may ami probably will , refuse to concur lo any amendment except such as the DonghiJ delegation in both houses will concede to bo satisfactory. In case the senate fulls to concur in the amend incuts , the bill goes back to the house and if tlmt body does not recede , the bll goes into a committee of conference which may cr may not agreo. If the re port of this committee is not adopted b > both houses , or if the house absolutely refuses to recede then the bill will fail. . There is , however , another serious problem , and that is whether the bill wil receive two-lhirds of the house , 07 votes on its passage. If it does not , it canno go into ctl'ect until Juno , and Omaha will either bo governed by the Lincoli charter from tno time that passes , orhayc nnarchy in its municipal afl'airs for tin next year , This is the real sltiiatlot without varnish or coloring. If the bill does not become a law bj March 5 , it will hardly be possible U organize and elect the now city govern ment under il. The city election comes oil' the lirst Tuesday in April , which wil bo April 6. It requires thirty day.s to reorganize the city into new wards , pro vide additional registrars and got ou proclamations for election. And who is to blame ? Fifteen of the most piominent citizens and tat payers labored twenty-seven days to perfect this charter , after carefully comparing the existing charter with those of other largo .cilies. The work of these men was pub lie and the papers that have since denounced most of it na dangerous nnd full of jobbery , had no fault to fim until the charter had been reported bucl favorably by the senate coiutuittco 01 cities mid tqwua. 'Then we beard for the first time that tm outrage was per pctratcd by the charter committee n continuing the clause that requires each cotmcilmanlo bo a freeholder , which renllv means nothing more than interest , n any lot even If the interest does not exceed $10. Then the cry was raised that the now board of public works , created by Guy Barton , Frank Murphy , lerman Kountzo , Andrew J. 1'oppteton , high Clarke And n majority of Hie com- mitlee w.13 nn'lnfamous piece of jobbery. Hut beneath aM Hits clamor from sporting editors who n vcr paid a dollar of taxes ind never will , from hireling shysters who have not rjald for the clothes on their backs , from the claim agent of the Union Pacific , who owes old Mrs. Wyman over five hundred dollars for board , gotten years ago ; was the prim try grievance of the railroads that the charter required them lo pay city laxcs on their grounds and ) ols. At the in stance of certain citizens , who went to Lincoln ns peace-makers , the delegation agreed to modify the railroad tux seclion upon nssurnnco by Judge Savage and Henry W. Yatcs thai llils concession would put an end lo warfare on llio charier by the railroad lobby and ensure its speedy passage. It was. however , understood that no change would be made in the senate. Those promises were repudiated by the railroad attorneys who did their level best to de feat the charter in its passage in the sen nto and finally had it sidetracked in the house so they could make it a foot ball in connecti'in with railroad legislation. And now Omaha presents the humiliating spectacle of n great and growing city which pays one-tenth the entire state tax , but whose representative * in the legislature are not permitted to se cure for her a law for local self-govern ment framed by her leading citizens and tax-payers and approved by ! ) ! out of every 100 of her citizens. It is certainly u commentary on the wretched sub serviency of our capitalists nnd bu-iness mnii who have not the manhood to resent villainous interference of the railroad managers with the vital interests of the community. In any other oily there would have already been ; i popular uprising that would have stamped out the disreputable gang that has had the indolence to hound the mem bers of the legislature under the pre tense that it voiced tlio wishes of our people. Tlio l The legislature reconvenes to-day after its three days' recess. It is a serious question whether it would not be well for it to adjourn for another week. By that time the recount of the vole on llio con stitutional amendment will have progressed grossed far enough lo determine whether the life of the legislature is to be ex tended and whether the session is to con tinue for eight or for twenty-eight duys. If the session is to extend for nearly four weeks longer , as seems probable , there is no reason for haste. Thcro will bo ample k-isurn to digest bills and kill on" the bad ones and pass the good ones. On llio otiicr hand , if only eight actual workin _ days remain , it will take night sessions and great pressure at that to get tiie up- proposition bills through nnd pass the bills that are absolutely essential lo llio stale. It is useless tp count on any session lasting more than a day or two after pay is stopped. A majority of the members nro not in condition to work for glory without rations. An Ininortniit Witness. Thu Ilejntltlionii serves notice upon the legislature that it will expose .mil sonil to the penitentiary a number of persons whom the editor of that sheet knows per- sonnllv to have given or taken bribes. In other words , the editor proposes to turn states evidence against certain of his as sociates whoso bosom companion ho has been at Lincoln. In the interest of good government , about which this man al- wnvs prates wo hope ho will bo called upon promptly by an investigating com mittee. When a man like him sleeps in tlio same bed and wallows in the mire with a gang of whisky drinking , gam bling and ( lliaoluto bummers , hired to do the dirty work of jobbers and ruilrogues ho is just in position to purify the govern ment. Sueh a witness lias been wanted for a long tlmo. Wo have been trying very hard to get somebody to squeal on this gang and wo rojoiqe that lie has turned up. Up lo this lime llio Hcjiubli- can has rather boon n disappointment tinder the new management to its moral and conscientious patrons , but now that its editor has decided to turn informer llio paper may do something to redeem ilsclf. IT is currently reported that the pres ent proprietors of the Omaha Jlernld are about to dispose of tlio paper to n syndi cate of democrats , whoso sympathies are more in accord with the rank and file of that party than Dr. Miller and his nsso- cinle wrecker have shown themselves to be. This change , if made , will doubtless prove beneficial to this city , whoso inter ests have tinio and again been sacrificed by Iho flcralil's dollish poliuio-i and mer cenary methods. This city has become populous enough for a well-conducted metropolitan daily , domocratio in poll- lies and honest in i\s \ < ! xprcssionson every question vital to this community and the Male at largo. 1 THE fishery industry of the Unitci States is a moro oxlensivo interest thai is generally supposed , The last ofllcla returns are as follows : Number of vns sos , 0,005 ; tonnage , 308,307,820j , persons employed , 131,120 , capital invested , $ ! 57- 055,310. The New vngland states imiko the following report for thn past year Vessels engaged in all branches of the fisheries , including ! oyster and whaling 1,950 ; tonnage , ll lSOj men employed 17,000 The fishing interest is Now Kng- hind's oldest industry. In its early his tory it was carried on in small ves ols or boats , which had no occasion to go far from shore , on account of the abundance of the fish. In thosfl days the near-shorn fishing grounds along the Now England coast worn well supplied with nil the leading and desirabio varieties of salt water fish , and were of great value to the producer. Hut since the genera introduction of Iho purse seine it 1870 , nearly all Hie mackoro catch has boon on Iho high sensor or more Ihan llirco miles from shore. O late years mackerel , in common will nearly all other kinds offish , have coasei to be found in abundance within thrco miles of jand. Though sciont'ilio research search hiis added much lo the knowledge , of the fisheries , yet whore 'the uiacKorc come from in the spring , whore they go nto In the fall and spend the winter , why .hey ate found in great .abundance off the Now England coast for n scries of years , nnd perhaps the next year in the Gulf of St. Lawrence , remains ns much n mystery and matter of theory as 100 years ago. The fact remains , however , [ hat while the near-shore fisheries of New England and the British provinces nro to n small extent valuable to the fish ermen adjacent to them , they nro not to others , the amount of fish there caught , compared with the aggregate cntch , being insignificant , thn bulk of the catch being taken on the distant fishing banks of tht' high seas. STA.TI5 AXnjTIOUUITOnY. Nchrnakn < Iottini : < t , Wahoo smiles with rays electrical. The Chanron coal vein is said to bo fifty inches thick. Kiiox county is talking of voting bonds lo sink a coal prospect hole. Falls City is strugpHncJwlth Iwo dailies Hie News and the Ueltector. The main question in Stuart is lo bridge or nol to bridge the Niobrara. Hrass founders nro shoving largo quan tities of snide jewelry in the northern counties. Now conies West Point with a coal find ninety feet from tlio surface. Par ticulars are wanted to case the anxiety of doubters. Henry Furhmnn of Fremont Is talking brick in Kapid City and wants to buy a few thousand to ship homo in his grip sack. Henry carries "rocks" in his pocket. The creditors of winsome Eddie Cooper , of Weeping Water , are still anxiously wntelnng the list of arrivals in Montreal. Cooper hooped them up to the amount of $10,000. D. W. Clancy , ono of the pillars of Ciiming county-democracy , has been ap pointed deputy internal revenueeolle.c - lor in tlio Nebraska district. Mr. Clancy has held the ollico of county treasurer for n number of years , and ran for state treasurer on the democratic ticket in 1831 The people of Amsworth were treated , to a beautiful mirage view one morning last week. The banks of the Niobrara river , thirty-live miles distant , stood up in their majestic splendor , while ordinar ily they cannot lie seen. Johnstown and Long Pine were visible , both towns being hid by high ground at any other time. Twenty-seven miles of telegraph _ wire and poles along the Union Pacific in western Nebraska were laid out by last week's ' galo. Cheyenne papers say a "groat many cattle were killed in Ihe rnilwav culs by Ihc trains during the con- tinuaneo of the blizzard. 'Jho entire country , as far as the eye can reach , presents un endless succession of deep and bewildering snow drifts. " Iowa Items. Crcston has 5.000 inhnbilanls and two daily and six weekly newspapers. Thcro are live building nssocialions nnd two savings banks in Clinton , and all are highly flourishing. The people of Cedar Hapids will acnin decide by ballot whether it wants if 100,000 worth of sewerage. Creslon has contracled with n New York jinn for a complete water syctom , with fifty hydrants. Alex Anderson has been sent to jail for fifteen days in Dubuqtic for polishing his wife with a broomstick. Crcston lias granted the freedom of the city to the town cows. Sunflowers will soon bloom on the sidewalks. The amusement managers of DesMoincs have entered into an agreement to play alternate attractions at a uniform and higher per cent. , giving bonds to insure the closing of one house while the other is open. There is to bo no rivalry what ever , oven in the way of amateur per formances , concerts or conventions of any Kind. Wyoming. The sports of Cheyenne will indulge in n live pigeon shooting match for ? 500 a sitle on the 10th of March. The Big Sandy Colony nnd Canal com pany in Sweetwaler county has 20.000 acres of land under ditches. Two female shoplifters nto enjoying limited quarters in the Laramie jail. Their pilferings amounted to $1 1) ) . Fred Kicker borrowed a lively team in Cheyenne last week and skipped for Nebraska. Ho was overtaken at Ante lope station and boosted into jail. Sweet Kdgar William Nye writes to his friends in the territory from North Carolina that ho feels as brisk nsn Chey enne zephyr. Ho lias corralled iv book of COO pages , which will net him $200 a pajit1 , and thinks his condition is a trillo bettor than that of a preacher. "Tho last coach on the Black Hills stage line out of this city , " says the. Cheyenne Sun , "left for the north Friday morning. It was with a general feeling of regret that our citizens witnessed the departure from this city of the largo coach with its six handsome horses attached. The Cheyenne it Black Hills stage line lias so long made this city its headquarters , Hint it seems like bidding adieu to an old pioneer custom to have no more stages running into tlio city. All who saw it depart were vividly reminded of the d.iys of the iron coach , the road agents and Indians with which the traveler had oiton to contend. " PIIOMIM2NT I'KItSONS. Millionaire Jlepicsontaiivo Scott cooks his oysters in the UOUBO icstuurant. Senator and Mrs. Fryo will sail for Kmopo on Muicli 1" Sarah Uornhardt will ho In Washington the last went ot tlio congressional session. Kx-Unlteil States Sunntor IJruco is lectur- Imr in the northwest on "Tho Itaco Problem. " Leon Uambettn's father lives at Nice. Ho Is soventy-lour years old , and lives on ttio proceeds of his Iruit business. Kx-Governor P. JJ , S. Plnchback paid 310,000 the other day for the taco horse Mon tana Itcscnt , at Lexington , Ky. Kiln Vfhcolor Wlloox bus been encased , so they say , to write the words of an oporn , to bu stimr by the Aineilcan Urern company next season. Charles Longfellow , a son of the nont , was one of three yichtimm : who crossed the Atlantic In the hfty-loot sloop Alice , Irom lloston. Congressman Kcngnn , of Texas , now sen- ntor-elect , was with Jell' Davis when the lat ter was captured. It Is said that Davis had more uoiiliUenco In Hcagan than In any other ot ills cabinet nilnUteis. Tlio 1'jiiropenn Objector. Ctitcaun TrOnmr. Kussln Appeals to bo the Congressman Dolman man ot the Kuropean situation. A Slrouc 1'robatilllty. Clitcugo WHIM. Out of ton Harvard students recently ex amined for the medical staff of the navy , nine failed. Thonlno failures were proba bly Iht ! college base ball nine. How to Cure Ills DeliiKlon. CMcaan Tlinn. A inan in Now York has been sent to an Insane asylum afllicted with the delusion that bo can knock out John U Sullivan. The Now York lierahl thinks that the best way to ciirg hlm-of this delusion U not to ( Kit , him .Into an asylum , but let him stanit up before Mr- Sullivan for < * round. < two DeserllnR the BlnklriR Hlilp . t. Any mnn Who will reMzn IhoBCcrolnryMilp ot the United Status tn-Miity lo become. IHC.H- Idcntof a second or third claw Imnk , limit have n poor Idea of the ml ml iiNtr.it Ion of which ho WAS a part. Jlopc 1 n lonely vigil till the 1i y star lliiimer ! ( pnlo the clonus nmonir , . . Hlio hears the voices nt the linm.in thfomt. Thohopol < w muriwri of world outworn , The tumult ot linnilti nlile .scorn , The old ancestral cry of mortal \vronu' , Kound like the weary bimleim nf n vimr. Love loveless lelt , and faithless fnlth for sworn. . . . . , . . , . . She hears , unheeding. Her mill-blinded eyes Keep still tmillminctl the plnry of Iho vlotr Which once was hers , whun nil the world wnsnnw ; Her eats , tlmt catch ono stialn which never dies , . . . Ilold linn , through chance unu chnngoot earth nnd skies , Her dumb , unswerving faith In GooJ and True , A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. WlmtVns Golnu on In tlin Year 17HO After the " 1'Mrst ' War. " Judy's Annual : What was doing in the world a hundred years ago in 1780f Let us see. now. He.ro nto newspapers , magazines , and nnoldnockotbook. What is this ? The story of tlio queen's nook laco. Cardinal do Rohan had nursed for ton years an insane love for Mnrlo Antoinette ; nnd Iho Countess do In Motto , to make capital of this folly , induced the cardinal lo believe that the queen recipro cated his passion , and , nflcr extorting various sums of money , persuaded him to buy a diamond necklace , made by Boohmor for Mine. Dubarry , as a present for the queen. Do Kohan swallowed the bait , handed the necklace to the countess to give to tlio queen , nnd received n letlor of acknowledgment signed Alnrlo Antoinette do Franco. The countess in reality sold the necklace in England , but , the jijnolcr not boina paid , applied to the queen for his money , and , ns the queen denied all knowledge of the matter , brought an action against her. The trial lasted nine months and created immense scandal. The Comto do la Motto was fully convicted of contempt of court , and condemned , when taken , to bo whipped nnd marked with the letters U A L , and to bo sent to the galleys for life. Mine. Joanne Vulois do la Motle was or dered to bo whipped and marked with the letter V upon her two shoulder * ) , with a halter round the neck , and confined for life in the Salpotriero. Viletto was ban ished. The Cardinal do Kohan and M. do Cnglioslro were discharged from all accu sation , while Mlle Oliva was dismissed the courl. Tlio sentence on the unfortu nate lady was carried out Juno21. When Ihe sentence was read to her it throw her into the most f ran tic rage and she uttered fearful imprecations against the court , the parliament and the cardinal , but her courage deserted her when she felt the hangman placing the rope about her neck , while at the sight of the instru ments for her further punishment , Ihc brand , etc. , nnd red-hot lire , she ctir.sed and swore in the most unwomcnliko manner. It was with dillieujty that the hot iron could bo applied to her shoulder. She rolled on the ground and kicked al Hie executioner with such violence that some strength was required to perform Iho ignominious operation. Tlio instant it was accom plished she was conducted to tlio Salpelrierc. What was doing at home. Here is an English cheat a dangerous one. too. An impostor , under pretense of being u cripple , had long been n charge upon the jjans-h of Gladstone , in Surrey , nnd , on being doteclcd by a sur geon of that town , throw a handbill at that gentleman's legs as he was proceed ing with his son to the poorhouse. lie then pursued , nnd overtaking them brought the father to the ground by a biow from his crutch. This was iol- lowed by a repetition of blows on tlc : head with his handbill , until it was ac tually buried in the skull , The unfortunate surgeon's hand was _ also severed from the arm in endeavoring to save his head , and a thumb was afterward found some distance. At this terrible moment ; the little boy , seizing the murderer's crutch , struck him such a blow that it staggered him , but fearing his father's fate lie ran to call assistance , and in the meanwhile the villain made oil' , Ihough soon after he. was found bid-in a copsa. On being seized ho lamented that the overseer had escaped hia ven geance. They hanged people in the streets n hundred years ago. In January John Ilog.in , a mulatto , was executed on a gibbet in Charlotte street for the mur der of a servant of a Mr. Orroll of this street. It appears that the last gibbet erected in England was for George Uoolr , n bookbinder of Leicester , who was exe cuted for the murder of Mr. Pa = s , a Lon don commercial traveler. Conk's bodv was put on n gibbet thirty-three feet liigii Saturday , August 11 , 18:52in : , Saffron lane , Aylodtono , near Leicester , but , owing to the grant disturbances which arose among llio crowds of people who thronged the place Sundays , it was broken down by order of the socretaay of state , and buried on the spot whore llio gibbcl slood. Shooting a Pilot to Save His Hoat. St. Louis ( ilobo-Domocral : One of the bravest as well as the mosl notable river men who ever navigated Hie Ohio is Captain David M. Dryden , who now lives in Ballard County. Kentucky. Captain Dryden is seventy /ivo / years of ago , and spent sixty years of his life on the river. In 1BIIO ho was pilot on the Swiftsuro. a mail line packet plying between Louisville and Cincinnati. The Paul Jones also ran in the same trade , and a great rivalry existed between the two boats. Ono cold day in January , 18)0 ! ) , both boats pulled out of the LoiiHvillo harbor , and the cap tain of oaoh resolved that his craft should bo Ihe firsl to land nt Cinrinnali. Pine knots.coal oil , baconanil everything that would make a blaze wore thrown into the furnace , and the engineers received orders to turn her wide open. For some miles they were exactly side by sldo , and although both engines wore doing their iilmost , neither had the advantage. The captains nnd crow wore greatly ex cited , and the boats quivered under the immense Mourn pressure. Finally the SwiftMiro began slowly to forgo ahead of its rival. Sylvester Edwards , pilot of the Jones , saw the race was lost , and in- Manlly resolved thai it ho could nol ills- taiicolho SwiftMiro ho would sink her. Ilo accordingly turned his bow toward the side nf tie ! other boat Captain Dryden - don whistied and shouted to him to keep oil' , but ho did not hoed the signals , and i n a few moments the Miarp iron-covered bows of the JOIIOH were nearly against tlio SwiftBtire. Captain Dryden realized al once that unless fcomething was done his boat would bo sunk and his pahsengors drouiuiil , Hastily snatching a rifle Irom llio Iloor ho tired through the window , nnd , the ball si.'iking Edwards in the center of the forehead , killed him in- slantlv. The Jones then veered oil'nnd the collision was averted. Captain Dry den was tried nt Burlington , Boonu county , and acquitted. A Ctiook for Over $1 1,000,000 , Now York Mail : The biggest check ever drawn in the United States was that drawn by John D. Taylor-now dead , but then treasurer of llio Pennsylvania rail road , to Leo , Higgins & Co. , of Boston , in payment for the Boston stork in the Philadelphia , Wilmington & Baltimore road. About ten million ! } of it was owned in Boston. Nathaniel Taylor was the larccbt stockholder , nnd ho luid agreed to deliver to Jay Gould enough to give him u controlling intcrcstan.il enable him lo bring the rona into harmony with tlio Jersey Central , nnd then dispo&u of ttio two as lie thoughl boil , But Mr.Tnylpr wui In lilc old ngo and ho was unable to fulfill tlio contract. Enough got out lo put Urn Pennsylvania people on ( licit- guard , and Uioir rpjircsculatnos met the Hoston bankers in tltl ? rily , and never adjourned until mo papers wore drawn tin by which they ngrced to deliver a majority of the slock in the road at MO on the dollar which WHS about 10 par cent more than they had over been able to sell It at , nil the Individual slockholdets being allowed lo come and well their stock at I hat figure. Tlmy brought it to the Hoston bankers and on the lirst day of July the Hoston party received Mr. Taylor's cheek on the National Hank of Commerce ! of tht citv for ? 1I,250'IIO. This is bcliovcd to bo the largest chock over drawn in this country. UARAMIE AND KIT CARSON. ItucoltccuoiiB of n Kntnom Spot nntl l''nmous Scour. In view of the fact that railroads am opening up that vast region of Wyoming territory wluoli Is drained bytlio Lnranno nnd North Platlo rivers its 'early history urowa moro important and interesting. Fort Lnrnmio is Hituated immediately in the point of land lit the junction of the North 1'Jalto and Laramlo rivers nnd the spot is n center of luiu-h liistorlo interest. In 181'J General Fremont and his exploring party visited Fort Laramk' , nnd with them ns guide was the famous frontiersman Kit Carson To those who have novcr read a personal tlescrltion ] ) of Kit Carson it is gunurnllv supposed that the famous Indian lighter unct guide was n bearded unit leather- clad Riant , loaded with death-deal ing weapons , suvago of aspect , and voiced like an enraged lion , with the Ooarnago and swagger of a pirate king or a boss brigand. Ho was , { in reality , a plain , good-natured , silent , and unobtrusive little man , with mild blue- eyes , slender form , pleasant face , delieuto hands , curly brown hair , soil voice , and the suave manner of nijuiet and thorough gentleman ; but when the best typo of manhood was needed on the plains ho was all there all the time. Ho was the hero of hundreds of desperate lighls with outlaws anil Indians ; was the chief in plamsoruft and border knowledge ; did no boasllng , avoided notoriety ; blushed when applauded ; and wept at the sMit of human sullbring. Ho was over vigi lant , keen of eye and scent , never hail a quarrel , nnd never took a life , except , in self defense or as n measure of justice , nnd then ho did it unhesitatingly , as a matter of 0911 0. Ho was never p'rof ano , always strictly temperate , rode like a Comuncho , nnd his shot was always un erring , ( icneral Fremont , in his "mem oirs , says of him : "Mounted on a line horse without a saddle , and scouring bareheaded over the prairies , Kit was one of the finest pictures of a horseman 1 have over seen. " Ho was a Kentuckian by birth and n frontiersman by nature ami was considered by ( Jencrnl Fremont to Do the ideal scout , nnd the boat guide that ever crossed the Rockies. His almost count less deeds of heroism gained him marked attention and distin guished consideration from leading people ple when ho once visited Washington. Ho was then the guest of Senator Demon and under the patronage of Mr.s.Fremont he was the lion in society. President Polk appointed him a lieutenant in the army and sent him homo with an escort of cavalry. The jcnlousv ol nnny ollieers in Washington had the e/leet / , however , of defeating his confirmation by congress and when Carson heard of ( his he was so disgusted that ho dismissed his escort and went to his homo in Taos. N. M. , where ho was a ranchman until the day of his death , except during the civil war in which he enlisted as a private but rose to the colonelcy of a Colorado regiment. In 1808 ho died tit Fort Lyon , Col. , sixty year * of ago , from injuries received oiglit years before when the mule ho w.s rid ing fell with him upon a pile of stones. lie is buried at Tues , and there is a handsome monument , to him in the pub lic place at Santa Fo. Jn 18-18 the United States bought Fort Lnramio nnd ina.ic it a military post for the protection of the "Oregon route" but it seems that the post was not KO well garrisoned as to numbers in the days when troops wore most needed there as it has been since. Many romantic , and heroic.nnd trying incidents are connected with its history , the recital of which would bo too voluminous for a news paper article and this sketch shall therefore - fore close with pno incident of serious importance during its early occupancy by United States troops. In the spring of 1851 Lieutenant Oral- tan , who was a cadet of the West 1'oint academy from Vermont , joined his com mand .11 Fort Laramle nnd was without experience in Indian warfare. In Au gust of that year n Mormon emigrant train , bound for Salt Lake , encamped at a point about ton miles east of the fort. Near their camp was a village of Oga- lalla and Brulo Sioux. A young bravo returning from an unsuccessful hunt willfully shot a cow which belonged to the Mormons to give von I to his ill-leol- ingover his luck. The Mormons arriv ing at the fort complained lo tiie com mandant , and he sent young ( Jrattun out with twenty-eight nion and orders to bring in the culprit. The Siouv chief pretended to desire to give up the of fender , but the latter went to his tepee , and Ins relatives refused to allow him to bo taken. Lieutenant ti rat Inn rashly en tered the camp , and , the Indians said , afterwards aimed a howitzer at the tepee and fired , Killing several Indians , where upon the entire village fell upon the sol diers and | killed all of them but one. Ho was mortally hurt and was drugged into some bushes on the river banks by a friendly Indian , who during the night managed to convoy the man to the fort , where ho was wildly delirious for three days and then died without giving nny account of the aflair. The men of Lieu tenant Grutlan'ri command were buried on the spot , which is to this day marked by a heap of stones , The body of Lieute nant Uruttun was sent to Vermont. After Ithis incident the fort was in a state of great anxiety and alarm , there being only thirty mon for duty in the garrison , and all expected to 1m massa cred by thoinfuriatod savaves. To their astonishment , however , the Indians on the following day struck cmmp and wont away. To-day , a few miles north of the scone of the ( jlrattan massacre , n railway lies , ovcrwhlch rattling trams nnd screaming locomotives nro running. All of that vast area of country of which Fort Laramie - amio is yet a trading center , nnd whloh , less than half a conlurv ago. was the grazing ground of countless 'thousands of bull'iilo. with herds of elk. door and antolouo , Is now covered with nourishing ranches and mighty herds of cattle. The place which was then the lighting-ground of warlike tribes of Indians , each of which claimed the region as their own , contains now one poor , old , sad-eyed , blinking Ogallulu Sioux , ami Fort Laramie , gar risoned by four or live companies of the Seventh infantry , is a delightful vino- embowered place , where the ollieers nnd their wivus , clstors , daughters and their mothers have a delightful hoeiety , in dulge in amateur theatricals , bathe in the 1'latto. play croquet , and enjoy a doleo far nionto , Wyoming , the least known of nil the territories , is n great empire of itself which the railroads will rapidly develop. It contains vast deposits of soda , enough to supply thii world for centuries for all uses ; it has almost inconcuiyablo quanti ties of the finest petroleum , immense for ests of excellent timber , inexhaustible quarries of the bosl building stone , un touched mines of gold , silver , copper , mica , oto , , and a great urea ot rich 'soil which irrigation will yet cause to bloom ns a garden. A wonderful gold inino has boon , dis- eov.ored in S.onorfr , Mexico. Tho'iuiiio.rs got purti nmtal by breaking the quartz with hummers.