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. ' * r-fM-fr r-i " ' , - r THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : THURSDAY , MARCH 8. 1887. . THE DAILY BEE , PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS or pnllr ( Mnrn.ii ) ; Edition ) Including Sunday flK.t , Ono Vonr . . . { 10 01 For Blx Months . : . fiW J'orThreoMonthi . . . " W The Omaha S n < ! ny Hr.c , mailed to any HJdross , Ono Year. . . . . 200 Orrtrr. No. on AND OM FAUN-AM STIIKKV. Nun VOBK oirtcr. UOOM i3 , THtiip.vs Iiaii.ni in , omcr , No COrUUMI'OSDF.KCt t All communications rolRtlnif to HOTS nnd Ml- tor I nl mutter stioulcl-bo HtMrusiod to the EDI TOH or TUB lice. BUSINESS LSTTCIIM All liuslnem lutters and rumlttimces should be Odrerwod to TIIK HER I'uiiusitivo Coui-ANr , OMAHA. Drafts , chocks mill postoHlco orders to bo made pnynblo to tlio enl ref the company , THE BEE POBLIHIlTciPW , PROPRIETORS , E. KOSEWATKK. EniTon. " " " " THE DAIIjY DISK. Sworn Statement or Circulation. v State of Nebraska , 1 , - County ot Uouclas. ( ' * Uco. U. Tz&clmck , secretary of The c ( Pabllahlne company , does nolcranlr swe-ai that the actual circulation of the Dally lici lor the week eliding Feb. 'JMh , I o7 , wits a- Sundnv. Kcb. 20 . I Monday. Fob. 21 . 14.MX Tuesday. Fct ) . 22 . 14.1.V WrdnfiSday , Feb. 23 . HOIK Thursday , Feb. ! ! 1 . IM'- ! ' Friday , Feb. V > . 14. S2i Average . 14.2G dico. n. TZBCIIUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to IKS loiouio tills zcth day of February A. U.lbsn N. 1" . FKII. ( SEA I , I .Votary T'ublic. ( ieo. U. 'IVschuck , bring first duly sworn deposes and saya that he is secretary of Thi Kce I'lilillshlnc company , that the actual nv enure dnllv circulation of the Dully Lice fo tlio month of February. 1 880 , was 10,5'J5 copies for March. IbSO , 11K7 ! copies ; for April 1830 , 12,101 copies : for for May , IbSfl. 13,43 ! copies ; for June , lbW5. 12,803 copies ; for.lulv IBtC , 12.3U copies ; for Aueust , lifcC. 12,4 copicajfor September. ISSfi , is.oao copies ; fo October , 1880. 12t S9 cople ; for November ISM ) , ijMS : ! conies ; for December. ISbO , ia,23 copies for January , 1887. 10aon , copies. Quo. U. TZSCIIUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before mo this 8tl day of February A. D. 1W > 7. [ SEAL. I N. P. Fiir : . Notarv Public. TMEKK certainly can bo no significanc in the fact that democratic presiduntia nominees are most talked of. JONES will try to reform Orleans. Archimides of old one thought he could move the world. IT is stated that Secretary Bayard i going to bo married again. It is usclcs to say that his intended docs not live ii Mexico. A WOOD-CUT picture of the fair lad now being printed , robs the beauty an sentiment from the wonderful lines c Ella Wheeler Wilcox. WITH Dr. Miller a resident of Noi York , the sage of Arbor lodge can no\ nriso in all his glory and exclaim , "I ai monarch of all I survey ! " THE thought of a half million Amor cans going to whip Canada , and all sail Ing in the Dolphin , would make oven sea serpent ashamed of itself. GENEIIAI , CKOOK , now in Boston , hn recovered from his recent illnes : Apache Indians were bad enough , bi lioston society proved too much for th general. , NOT In this world alone are they \\n\ \ ing dynamite explosions and earthquake ! A largo chnnk was knocked off a passin Btar the other night supposed to bo th work of refractory communists and th deadly compound. IN answering a yonug woman's quo ; lion , of how she could dispense with a objectionable suitor , the historic Williai Nye suggests that she sing to her love "sad , soulful songs , like 'Mush , Mush nnd 'In the Gloaming.1 JOHN B. FINCH is attomptinj : to sho1 ) o the uooDltJ ot Massachusetts that pr < ilbition is best. If the people of the Bn state know John Beef as well t wo do out here , his receptions won ! hardly bo as grand as now. THE convict labor bill was passed I 'the senate , and now goes to the go1 cruorfor the required signature. An It should bo recorded that Mr. Moslu did not pay the Republican outfit tr money they wonted and demanded. A MAN was sentenced to bo hanged 5 Kansas City the other day. Ho told tl ; judge that when ho made his few r < marks upon tlio scaflbld , he pr < . posed to divulge the secret regarding tt wonderful statements of their cloarin house. The judge at once apologized I the prisoner antl extended to him th freedom of the city. FOHTY days of the legislature ha passed Into otnrnity. There have boo more disastrous occurrences consnmin forty day's time , in the history of th world. Wo can now recall but one hit torio happening , however. That wr the flood in which Noah played a prom ncnt part. But even the facts conncctc with that , nro shrouded in mystery an doubt. The more recent happeninj liowever , admits of no donbt. The grii and checkered spectacle of large sums < money wantonly squandered with pra tlcally no good accomplished willforovc haunt the burdened tax payers. An twenty days more arc to follow I IT is greatly to bo hoped that union these measures sure lo fail at this fcossiei of congress for lack of lime lo pai them , the joint resolution for an amom mont to the constitution changing thob ftmnlngof the presidential term and i the term of a congress from March 4 I April 80 , will not bo included. The res. . Ititlon has passed the senate and bee favorably reported on in the house. N objection is urged to it , anil It could l passed In live minutes if reached , andv , hope it will bo. The time for the chanf ? is appropriate. April 33,18SO , , will bo tl 100th anniversary of the inauguration < George Washington , our first prosidon Wo do not know why or when this da was changed to March 4. but it was unwise change. At the beginning i March the weather In Washington 'often ' beastly ; at the end of Apr ! ) it always delightful , ard therefore muc more fittlnc for the inauguration cer monies. Another good reason for tt change is that two months will bo addc to the second session of congress. \ \ will gladly accept two more mouths i 'Cleveland to secure so desirable n chaiuj iu this. DclAlrtR Appropriation mill. The policy of delaying appropriation ) ills until the closing days of the session of congress owes Its origin to Mr. Han- lull. It was not the practice when the republicans were In control of the house , and did not come into vogue till the ircsont chairman of the house appropria- ions committee discovered that it was an effectual method of obstruction which vould clvo him n practical control of cglslalion awaltlnu action in the last lays of a session , and thus enable him to lofeat measures to which he is opposed. Mr. Randall's power in congress dates from tlio inauguration of this nolicy , his > ersistcnt adherence to which has been u source of no small amount of annoy ance and trouble to Ills own party. Oppo sition to his methods , however , have jeen unavailing. Changes In the rules were made at the first session of the pres ent congress with the avowed purpose of preventing the chairman of tlio appro priations committee from continuing this [ > olicy , but they utterly failed of the ob ject. The closing days of the session last year , although it was the long session , found Mr. Randall in the same attitude of obstruction that ho had be fore occupied , and men wondered at th < r complete futility of the carefully prepared schema to circum vent him. In the present icssion his pol icy has been carried out with greater boldness and obvious deliberation thtui ever before. The most important appro priation bills , involving largo expendi tures of money through many channels , have been deferred to within four days of the close of the session. For example , the legislative appropriation bill was not considered in the house until Mondaj and did not reach the senate until Tues day night , where it of course had to go to thu committee on appropriations of that body. Preceding this bill by only a few hours in tlio senate came the navai appropriation and deficiency bills , so that alt three of these measures wore crowded upon the senate committee ai onco. Regarding the deficiency bill , Mr Cannon , a member of the house appro priations committee , stated that ho hat not seen it until Monday and cnmplainet that tlio republican minority of the com mittco had been ignored. A democratic member of the committee acknowledge ! that the report on tlio bill had never beet submitted to the committee , having received coived simply the informal approval o the majority. In other words , the bil had been drawn to the satisfac tion of Mr. llandall , his demo cratic colleagues of the commit tee approved it without a question and that was deemed suiliciont. Obvi ously it is not desirable that legislatioi of this character shall be subject so en tircly to the direction of one man , how ever safe ho may be. It has boon said in defense or palliatioi of Mr. llandall iu this matter that i serves to prevent objectionable legisln tion that would almost certainly ge through at tlio close of every session i thu appropriation bills were not in th way to take precedence. This is doubt less so , but while undesirable legislatioi is defeated , some which is desirable ma ; also fail. Such is very certain to be th case at the present session. There are a least half a dozen pending measures every very considerable importance which i will bo hardly possible to roach and pas in the brief time remaining of this con gross. They can wait , but there is n < good reason why they should unless it b to gratify tlio presumed opposition t them of Mr. Randall. Another soriou objection to this policy is that it does no allow the senate sufficient time to giv the more important appropriation bill the thorough consideration they shouli receive from that body. Senator A ] lison , the chairman of the set : ate appropriations committee , say the necessary work will bo ac complishcd , so far as his committee i concerned , so as to avoid the necessity o a called session , but Jt Is clear that 1 order ( o do this a great deal must bo ac copied on the authority of the house con ; mittco , which is indeed the case as to th house Itself. Fourthormoro the orcslilcr docs not got a fair opportunity to proi crJy examine these bills and is compollo to act largely upon confidence in Hi judgment of the house committee. In word , under the prevailing policy , the ni propriations for carrying on tlio goycn mont are practically direolcd by th house committee having charge of thi important duty , which in turn is undc the very nearly unquestioned dircctio ; of Mr. llandall. The Pennsylvania congressman enjoy in this matter n very mi/h larger an more important power than ought to b allowed to any one man , and his arbi trary exercise of that power , more pronounced nouncod at this session than over before suggests that there should bo a radios change in the rules of the next house o some one besides Mr. Randall ought to b placed at the head of the appropriation committee. Ho has grcally Intensified th opposition to him in tlio present house which will undoubtedly make itself fel in tlio next , and it is by no moans ur likely that ho may at the close of thi congress finally terminate his career a chairman of the appropriations com lulttco. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The I'rcifliilent Outs a Trotter. The proverbial obstinacy of Presidou Cleveland is again conspicuously illus tratcd in his nomination of a Massn chusclts colored man , J. M. Trotlor , t bo recorder of deeds for the District c Columbia in place of the Albany coloro man Matthews , twice rejected by th senate. The chief ground of opposltioi to the latlor was the fact of his not bcin ; a resident of the District. There wor sound objections to him on persona grounds , which doubtless had their influence fluonco in causing his rejection , but tli supreme objection was the fact that Ii was an importation , for which thcio wane no necessity , which was in violation c the pledge of the democratic platfon regarding territorial appointment , an which was foil lo bo an unwarrantabl insult and wrong to the faithful dome crats of the District. The assumptio that color had anything to do with th rejection of Matthews is baseless. Th president has been made fully aware c the sentiment in the District , but it i plain that ho Is determined to wholly di ; regard it. It could bo of no profit to al tempt to divine his motive. For whal ever reason he has never shown any cor corn for or interest iu the people of th national capital. He lias as far as poss bio kept aloof from them , and it Isgenei ally understood among thorn that' the , are oulside the palo of executive sympi ; thy and respect. There are strong dome cratio organizations there , composed of worthy nnd reputable citizens , wliloh did cflicicnt SO/VIM for the nirty in the last national campaign to ho extent of contributing liberally to the > olitlral fund , nnd did n very great deal , o mn.'to the Inauguration a brllUntil suc cess , but lliolr views and wishes have no weight with Mr. Cleveland , The demo crats of the District of Columbia received more consideration from republican ex ecutives than they have from the presi dent of their own parly. And there is no ( ) lace in the country having an equal number of democrats where the presi dent has fewer friends. This last deliberate Insult to the people , and more particularly the democrats , of the District , will greatly intensify the popular displeasure there with Mr. Cleveland , nnd wo shall bo very much surprised If there is not an earnest cflbrl to make that displeasure widely felt. Il was doubtless expected that after the ex perience with Matthews , who seemed tt liavo a peculiar special claim upon Mr , Cleveland , the president would sec the wisdom of according some consideration to the wishes of the pcoplo of the Dislricl in this matter. His failure to do so 1 : not onlya severe disappointment , but the insult is aggravated by t cvi dent iact that he has been scour ing the country to find anothci colored democrat , to import. A1 foreshadowed iu our Washington dis patches yesterday , the Dlstricl of Colum bia committee of the senate has roportci adversely on the nomination of Trotter so that ills rejection may bo regarded ai assured. The result will doubtless bo i repetition of tlio experience will Mathcws. After the adjournment o congress , the president will undoubtedly rcappoint Trotlcr , who will hold Iho of lice and secure Us emoluments until Mr Cleveland is disposed to send his nami to tlio senate , lie qan pursue the coursi ho has thus far followed to the end of hi ; term , and it is not doubted he will do .so in order lo keep a cilixen of the Dislric out of the ollico. Tlio disgusl ex pressed by democrats of Washington I very liKely to extend to the party every where. Tin : rejuvenated Jlcjutblican with it invigorated and exhilarated editor con linucs at Iho old sland with the sami code of ethics. Its columns arc lillei with the same old song about Roscwatcr The tune is the same. The music i identical. The only dift'orcnco in tin now concern , compared with tlio old , is that Rothacker occupies Nye's chair ii playing this railroad organ while Tai lor turns the music instead of Yost. Not withstanding claims to the -mtrary , tin audience grows smaller and tLi applause from the railroad quarters i labored. The JtcpnMicau of to-day is but ! melancholy reminiscence. Us fev staunch friends confess in secret that i is a miserable failure. They admit tha as a wrecker its editor is a success. A an editor he is a wretched error. T < the community he is an eye sore. To tin licpublicun ho will prove a burden However , the Jtejntblicmi has never boci in the way of the BKI : or its editor. Ii fact it has never been in the way of any body. It tried to get a largo sum o money out of Mr. Mo&hcr. It wantci him to employ it to say nothing abou the convict labor bill. Luckily , Mr Moshcr knows a bargain when lie sees it It continued to abuse bin and oppose tlio measure. It wonderful rhetoric and astounding log ! succeeded in passing the bill. The Id publican can continue to abuse Rose water. Like Mr. Moshcr ho will neve pay it to keep still. Us editor may con tlnue to jabber. It was Macaulay wh said "every age produces those links bo tweou the man and the baboon. " THE river and harbor bill havin , passed both houses will doubtless rccoiv tlio president's signature an4 bfccomo law. Tile gratifying feature of the bi is the appropriation of $25,000 for prclin inary surreys of the Henncpin canal , an 100,000 to begin constrticlion. It is : small beginning , of course , but it cstab lishes the work as a national ontcrnns and assures its ultimate accomplishment Our internal waterways , natural nnd ai tilioial , are of Iho ulniost importance t tlio people iu time of peace and to th nation in time of war. The closing c Iho Mississippi during Iho rcbellio taught us what the possession of tlui great outlet to the ocean by an oncm meant to our interior stales , ami a WH with England , with her access from Hi Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Lakes fo vessels through the Wolland canal woul leach us the value of thellonnopmcana which would give us like access for ve sols to the Lakes from the Gulf of Me > ico. But In time of peace an interio nolwork of waler communicalion is o incalculable importance as a check npo and regulator of our railroad systen Intor-stato commerce bills are well , bu cheap water competition is holler Kvcry natural advantage lo commcrc should bo foslcred and developed. Mn. BEECHEH says : "If a man be lloves in the old idea of hell to-day , ho i a candidate for a lunatic asylum. " Poss bly , but without a hell what shall wo d with these r-'lroad ' managers who sen out disabled engines to stall on a Irac and bo crashed into by an express trail the result being the firing of the cat and the roasting of the passengers ? 0 these other managers who send a tral rushing ever a broken rail that by ordi nary watchfulness should have been di ; covcrcd.whoroby the train is precipitate down an embankment into a frozci river , where thirly or forty more ucopl nro burned to a crisp In the inevilabl fire from car stoves ? J'heso manager meet with no punishment by law ; wh should they not bo burned .hereafter a they almost daily burn other peopl now ? These people and many mor like them who hold human life nin human rights so cheaply as against thoi dividends , flourish like green bay Ireea They wav fat as they gallior Iho dollar wet with human tears , stained wit human blood , and tainted witli Iho smol of burning human flesh. If thu ncx world is to bo made as pleasant for tlier as Ihis , it would seem that humanity' ' last protection against corporate rapacil has been destroyed. OMAHA and Council BlulU rejoice allki to-day , and well may they continue the ! : rejoicing. The bill granliug a charlo for a wagon and railway bridge acres the Missouri river , at the foot of Broad way , has boon passed by congress. Whil those directly interested in securing th passage of the bill will bo greatly bone filled , by reason' ofheir ' owning largo tracts of bottom lamUon the cast sldo of the river , it is nofto them alone that this will prove n priceless boon. The entire city of Cuiincll Ulufl's , ns well ns the onllre cily of ; Omaha , will be benolltled. That * Ihoro nro largo tracts of land on the cast side , which without the bridgeware almost worthless , assures the construction of the long missing "link" which Is to make Council Blufl's und Omaha ono and Inseparable. THE llcpubhcnn makes n cheap and stale allusion lo the physical peculiarities of tlio editor of the HUE , whloh Is worthy only of this comment. The editor of the BEK was not his own creator , but never theless ho has no disposition to quprrcl with nature about his size or shape. Ycl had the power been given him to order these things differently , had ho had Ihc power lo make himself , and Ihc edllor of Iho licpuplican been Ihon living antl present as a model , ho docs not hesitate to say thai ho would promptly have re jected thai model on physical , moral and intellectual grounds. Ho might have done no boiler for himself lhan nature did for him , but in his estimation he could not hav. ! done worse both for him self , his friends , his profession and UK community in which ho resides , than tc have duplicated the editor of the Itcpub I lean. _ WITH General Butler and Carl Schur ; laid up with sprained material frames 'lis a good tiling for the counlry lha Mrs. Colby's husband recovered fron Ihc mumps. WE might remark as wo go along tha nothing but natural "gas bags" have been discovered in tlio way of the ncv gas boring enterprises throughout UK west. _ _ LET the strccl cleaning commence. A ; long as Ihc licpublicnn continues undei Ihc proscnl management there will bi mud enough thrown around the town. JI AN has fifty-one active valcimocs And yet wo do not sue any mention o her clearances. Kansas Cily's boaslfu manager Miakcs that country timid. A CALIFOKNI.V millionaire bcqueathci $1,000 to the most graceful man in Hi United States. Pat O. Hawcs lias sent fo Iho money. Iho shortest month in tin year as far back as wo can re member , bronchi March lo us in all he loveliness. Tin ; Lincoln correspondent of the Chi cajro Times is a crcj'alive genius. To hin truth would indeed be "stranger thai fiction. " , , MK. RUSSELL , of'the ' judiciary commil tec , is a living example ) of Pope's trulli that "a little learning is a dungorou thing. " A NEW broom sweeps clean. Thi wcalher Is boiler than any Ilazcn eve furnished us. Tin : street commissioner should cleans the cily. Spring is almost hero. CUHU13NT TOPICS. John Franklin , a colored porter In Louis ville , found nn old army canteen in a ware house cellar ihe other day , anil fioiu it ho e > traded 83,023 in hard cash. Nathaniel lltickcr , operator In the ofllco c tlio UulTalo Commercial Advertiser , has bee nt the key t'ortyrone years , and Is the olde telegraph operator in the United Stales. Miss Louise Lawson , daughter of Dr. L. W Lawson , of C'inclnnntl. Is tllstlnpilshlng hei self in Homo by her Hue work In mnrblo. i notable statue by her recently arrived in Ne\ \ Yoik. rominen. _ CIti | iinatiaus e fTius 10 urcet a monument to Wllllai Henry Harrison at North Jiciul , O. Th ex-president's grave Is said to bo neglecte sadly. T. C. Crawford , the New York World' Washington corro.spoudent , haa been ordere to Europe as the correspondent of thai papei Pulitzer thinks he hears the baying of th war-dogs. ( Joorgo Bertram , a Philadelphia grocer was at the dinner on February 23 , 1827. n which Sir Walter Scott formally a < knowlodgcd thu authorship of Iho Wavorl novels. Heitraui was present as a newsna per man. WIlMam Comstock , the oldest convict 1 Auburn ( X. Y. , ) penitentiary , who died recently cently , was received at the prison In lisSSo a life sentence for killliig his father an mother and culling out thuir hearts and cal Ing them. Ten years aso Thomas F. Clark jokingl gave Miss Julia A. Malcolm , oC New Haver a deed of certain Colorado InniH , which Ii thought to be valueless. She said that she'i keep the document to remember him b ) locked it up , and has since been earning he living teaching school. The other day Ah received a letter from Colorado , saying tha there wrs a lead mine on her property , an < 8250,000 wasolferod for It. Miss Malcoln thought It a joke , but Unillng that It wasn' ' she accepted thn oil'cr , and the check Is o Its way easl. A Timely Conundrum. Kantag City Journal. There Is no sort of truth in Iho report thn Dan l.aiuout U to have the secretaryship c tlin treasury. Why , who would bo presldcn then' . ' Kentucky' Crying \rcel. San FratsciAlta. \ . Mr. Watterson coiiirHalr of the president' "arid nature. " WlmtjKpfitiicky wants is nature out of wklchjyou can wring hitsh wines. * * J About ( lie ; Sf&o or It. few Totf : t fder. Democratic cconomr iniconcress consul in cutting down tlio wages of skilled labn wherever a tew republicans icmaln on ' ployed. , ' , A Sensible ] Vlv of It. It must bo clear to ejxerylionpst advocate o prohibition that If public Rontlmoiit will no support the enforcement of high license I would certainly not support prohibition. Coining to Their HenseH. It Is interesting to note how quickly th railroad companies nro ascertaining that hi proved and perfectly safe m < . > thoJs of ca heating are feasible. U must bo said c them that they reallzo tlio dan o.of attompl ! nc to further trlllo with the public on thi vital matter. _ It ! Nothing Now. Lincoln IMinoemt , It Is related ns a great achievement tha some scientific fellow has discovered how t transmit telegraph messaged without wire : Our esteemed morning contemporary ( th Lincoln Journal ) produces every day wbol columns of telozraphlc message * with no othc appliances limn a pair of scissors and the Chicago exchanges. Tbo Last Furrow. 0. K. Marltliitm. The Spirit ot Earth , with glad restoring hands , 'Mid ruin moves , In gllmmcrlutr chasm gropes , And IIHHXXS mantle and the bright llowcr opes : Hut Death the Ploughman \vnuilers in all lauds And to thclnst of Earth his furrow stands. Tliu-grave la never hidden : fcartul hopes Follow tlio dead upon tliu fnilmi elope ? , And there wild memories moot upon the sands. A\ hen willows fllne IliPlr banners to the plain , When rumor ofimls and sound of sudden showers Dl'turb the dn-am of winter-all In vain The grasses hurry to the craves , the Unworn Toss their wild torches en their windy towers : Yet are the bleak graves lonely In the rain. STATE AND TBKIUTOUV. Ncbrnnka Jotting * . Georco H. Uardell , furniture dealer in Columbus , has closed uu for financial re pairs. If 100 scents make a dollar , there are fortunes laying around in thu alloys these thawing days. The now bridge at Nebraska City will be completed by March 1 , 1833. So saya the engineer in charge. A juvenile boom is knocking at the b.ick doors of Fremont. The foundling will doubtlt'.ss bo taken in. Nebraska Cily packers have purchased 05,000 hogs in tno past four months , for which nearly one million dollars were paid. The lirst low murmurs of Iho spring rush of selllers pervade Iho land. Seventy carloads of emigrants and their move- ables passed through Hastings wesl bound , last Saturday. A Norfolk banker named Friedolar at tempted to end a dispute witli Mr , Schoreggo with a revolver. Dill Dial called ins attention to a cocked shotgun and Friedolar tlropped the argument and departed. A prominent senator in Lincoln is put ting in his spare hours on "An Analys ! < of llio Vernon Kick. " Il will bo illus Iralcd with sketches taken on the spot and distributed gratis lo occupants ol Iho front row. Tlio Klkhorn Valley road Is said to have invested $50,000 in Fremont real oslalo ir Iho last two months. This is .in ofl'sct Ic Iho purchase of two thousand acres m and near Omaha for shops and trackage The Broken How Times of last WCC'K contains a pictorial representation ol "the honorable member from Shcrmat : and Custer counties. " The pose is refreshing freshing and stimulating , mounted on wheels and spiked with a corkscrew , The biographical sketch is highly com plimentary and must be read to bo ap predated. Ropresenlalivo Walson of Otoo county tells it on himself. Last week , wink lying very sick at the hotel , a committee came to consult witli him regarding the cemetery bill. John was feeling as if hit days might be short , and , while it waf rather a grave subject , ho readily con sentt'd that the law should be made goer and sound and put upon its passage ai once. The groccrymen of Grand Island have solemnly agreed todlspcnso with solicit ors. This is a despotic raid on the right ! and privileges of domestics. In thi whole vocabulary of kitchen gossip then is nothing so thrilling ns tno fiolioitoi skipping the back tencn at earlv morr and opening the foggy eyes of tno cool with a chunk of scandal or a smack 01 the jaw. Clmdron Authorities have been trylnf lo break up the dance hall at that place and hayo arrested Ihe proprietor and hi : wife several times. The woman's evidence donco at the trial last week evinces t startling depth of depravity on the par of her husband , who is evidently a brute Ho was released on bail , while she won' ' to jail. The authorities , however. hav < determined that the dance hall must go The Plallsmoulh Journal complain : that Omaha papers do not display sulli cient enthusiasm In mentioning social business and other features of life in tha city. Go to. The DICK watches the cur rents of life in the Cass metropolis ant pounces upon every change of passing interest ftnd COPBjJ.H.t ? P"it , tbO 4Ytirj.oi ttloiGS m readers by the thousands. Go a 5 o'clock move on yourself , kill off tin mossbacks and cremate Iho kickers am Ihc HEI : will make your valleys rlnj witli songs of praise and prosperity. Wyoming. A new oil field has bcon discovered OT Salt Creek , between Douglas und Duffalo The Cheyenne Leader has abolishee dcnd "ads" and out down its size to mcc the requirements of the city. Duililings planned and mostly con traded for , to go up in Cheyenne th ( coming summer , will cost in the neigh borliood of half a million dollars. Roadmaslcr Alexander McGregor , o Iho Choycnnn division of the Union Pa citic , who has been transferred to Omaha was presented by friends , on the eve o : his departure , with an oleganlgold walcl and olhcr testimonials valued at $500 These included a beautiful silver tea so to Mrs. McGregor. "Our local sky pilot , " says the Buffalc Sentinel , "was out of luck last Sunday He had previously announced that 01 Sunday cvcnine ho would preach as hii sermon "tlio value of good men to tin world , " but some fellow broke into hii "shack" on his ranch and stole tin manuseripl ho had prepared on the sub ject , and consequently the mcetin' wai busted up as far as a sermon on the above subject was concerned. " Thn plans of the proposed now Railroat hotel were in Cheyenne Sunday , but have been sent back to Omaha. It fs proposes to begin the erection of the new hotel bj abput the 1st of May.and possibly sooner The now hotel is to have two fronts , one toward the track and ono on the west toward the now depot. The frontage ol tlio hotel will bo considerably more lhai 100 feel , and its wnllh about half thai distance. It Is to bo three stories higl and will cosl in Iho neighborhood 01 $00,000. Colorado ; The surveyors of Ihn Alchlson , Topok : & Santa Fo road are staking u road u Denver. The operations of tlio United State ; mint at Denver for February amountc < to $181,001.91 , gold and silver.Of this amount Colorado contributed $129. 410.05. Reports received at the oflice of the Colorado Cattle Growers' association in eliontu that south of Montana to thu Gul of Moxco , catlle have wintered bettoi than for years. Charles C. Green , the colored tonsoria artist , who carved the lifo out of Amos E Nickons in Denver , and who was con' viclcd and sentenced to bo hanged , ha < bcon granted a now trial for thu reason that the prosecution failed to produce in court tlio clothing of tlio dead man. A lively race riot occurred Sunday night at Granite , a station on the Rk Grande road , cighleen miles from Lead' ' villo , in which the daL'o Inhabitants ol the town wore put to flight and their Ha loon deliberately burned down amid the wildest excitement. The allair grew out of a Sabbath morning episode , is which a party of dugoa who had previously sus turned some violence al the hands of the whites , seized an Ignorant Gorman and thrust him until his veins were frozen through a hole in the ice thnt covers the Arkansas riyor. ills shrieks finally brought the whites to the rescue and the liondisn diversion of his tormentors was slopped. "ASMS" AND AMUSEMENTS. Doings nt the National Capital During the Lontou Mornine. FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS Grand Social ami Historic Keocptloit to AVIIUoti Hnrratt The Ho.intlful Rllm Hnstlnke Four Iiittlo Clicrubs. WASHINOTOX , Fob. S7 [ Correspond- cnco of the HIE. : ] Pious Dent 1ms drawn its ash-luted sack over mock society and for the next forty days nnd forty nights wo shall bo deluged with fish breakfasts , congressional clambakes , tnrtlo lunches , ( these arc delicious when two's n com pany ) wild goose dinners , ( tlicso nro fes tive ) champagne suppers , headache for desert senatorial poker parties ( with the Scjicnck improved patent ) , nil sorts of church pln-ctishlon swindles , ( with pray erful considerations ) and numerous "informals. " What solitude these last mentioned do have ! Oxr theatres will bo crowded to the brim. Lent is the time for the theatre companies to come to Washington. And yet our the atres have been filled during the tray season , society having away of attending a play ilrst and then playing its own part after ; a most dramatic part. There are romances in real hfo hero that have dra matic situations which would rival any thing seen on tliu stage. For dramatic situation see the Forty-ninth congress. Such tragic scenes in the sen ate when Miihono , of Virginia , and Kvarts , of New York , are trying to swallow each other. When "Judge Waxem , of Wayback , " and Governor hong , of Massachusetts , are matching pennies for romantic eloquence the stao lias nothing to equal it. Dernhardt , the emotional goddess , will bo hero March 1 to give live entertainments. No doubt the churches will bo oncn day and evening to counteract the intluenco. No got People , especially intelligent ehrist- inns , must see and hear things for them selves in order to pass righteous judg ment. Sara Uornhardt will have packed houses and the ticket scalpers will got rich. SOCIHTV WENT C1JA/.Y over Willson Harrctt and Miss Eastlako. Such applause I have never hoard in n Washington theater as that which greeted our English cousins. And such a magnificent audience , too , made up of our best pee ple. Willson Harrott and Miss Eastlako captured the Washington hearts as well as Us money , and they didn't charge any more than those other English cousins , Irving and Ellen 'lorry. These worthy artists wore feasted nigh unto death. Society took them as soon as the play was over , to some reception , or supper , or lomothing , anil several in one night , and as Harrott himself said , kept him uu all night and all day , and nearly killed him with kindnrss. The only thing that saved Darrctt and kept him from being the rival of u New York coachman is the plain fact that ho is the husband of a wife and the father of five children way off in some English village. It was a very pretty scene.not down on the bills when "Ulilon was pelted with roses and bouquets. thrown by a whole upper box full of pretty girls , under the charge of some staid matron , finch pretty , merrv girls in their lovely girlish attire , like so many roses and pinks and violets themselves. Miss Eastlako , as those who have had the pleasure of seeing Her know , is a beautiful girl , and as chaste and lovely as she is beautiful , I am told. Said a gentleman at my side : "This young ar tiste is far more beautiful than Langtry , and hasn't that much-talked of beauty's , sonsuousucss of appearance. " The future gives much promise to Miss Eastlako , provided she doesn't get stagy and marry some cad. I am told that one of our susceptible M. C.'s has been poking his nose into the cloak room over since Miss Eastlakc took her depart ure. Ho says in early life ho had great fondness for the stage ( disease peculiar tq sentimental youth ) , but finally drifted into politics , and by the sheerest luck * " . . . . Jil * - i- - * * .fH * ? 1 urnieu into congress. Aim now tno noo'r devil , no , I beg pardon , I mean con gressman , is drifting toward the stage again. "Water will find its level , " al though there isn't as much level water iu congress as there ought to bo. A BKAUTIKUL PICTUKn , and one that makes even a hard-shell Washingtonian catch a glimpse of "something bettor" and feel there is , after all , a pure life , was the appearance of four little creatures who might have dropped direct from a heavenly land , into one of the boxes { near the stage at the "Erminio" Saturday matinee. Per fect little chnrubs were thny , and with their quaint dresses and round faces looked like pictures , the box sottina making the frame. Throe little boys the eldest did not look to bo over four and a woo maiden , who from appear ance was the oldest by a couple of years. Two sweet-faced ladies , evidently happy mothers of these souls' purity , sat in modest retirement while the little dar lings sat or stood in front of the box. It was a study to watch those four little faces as they watched the opera , and when the curtain went down they clapped their tiny little hands and helped to biing back the well-doors. The attention of the audience was di vided between that box picture and the fetago the children getting the lion's share and every glass in the house was leveled nt that box. The attention of the actors was also directed to them , and the applause that came from those little hands scomcdi give inspiration. As the drop curtain foil I stopped to thu box to ask the finest and chubbiest , littlti one hia name : "Julian May Wright , " said he in a clear , musical voice as ho put his tender little amis about my neck , an act that sent a thrill of happiness to my heart , which was' not down on the bills. And in what sharp contrast to the picture seen in that bov a few nights bo- fore. A whole lot of young ladies of society with an equal number of flats and sharps motioned by one of our "leaders. " 'I ho young ! ndcf ! > ( ? ) dresses wore so lev , in tact so little dress was visible , and so much of the real flesh antt bones scon , that barring the stage and audience , one might fancy themselves in a Turkish bath establishment getting ready for treatment. A most disgusting picture. Of course people did look , people will , just tts they linger around the spot v , hurt ) murder was committed. liut no one was made bettor by looking atttiat scene. So drawn was I , and many others , to the little ones that wo waited on the pavement to see them loaded into u handsome wagonette , drawn by a spun of pony matched horses , long tails , and driven by a Imndsotub man , no doubt the happy father of our little Julian. As they drove oil' I thought of an aerial chariot loaded with little cherubs and driven oft' through the rosy clouds by one of the gods of love. Attor this soaring oil' into the realms of bliss it is pretty hard to come down to common ad'alra. MIM. CLIiVKLA.NO'8 LAST Saturday afternoon's reception was the largest smash she has had yet. Just roaring , rushing humanity that reminded a looker-on , from afar , of Niagara falls at high tide. Nothing like It ever seen by the oldest inhabitants , and some of those weary mortals stood in line four dreary hours just to help Urn the poor , dear mistress of the white house all out. So tired and dizzy was she after shaking Hands with Rovnn thousand of more , Eho really had to cry "halt1 , leaving several thousand otitsido i'.1 ' , K ° howe , disgusted with Mrs. Cleveland for not being made of Iron instead of beautiful llosh and blood I I fancy our good naturcd young Indy of the white house will got on her "high horse" and refuse to share witli the "vul gar public" after a season or two when the newness of the position will wear away. She looks palo and society-weary , and no doubt will bo glad to rest and havu time to say her pnyors. The president's public reception , Titos- day evening , was not such a joy- ns anticipated. People staid away think ing there would be n perfect crush of life and limb , and so those who did go had n chance to inllato their lumrs and slunv their good clothes , n kind of happi ness that must bo felt to bo understood. Cox. INCIDENTS OF TilK MUD. Various Scenes About the City "CrosiJMK Mmstreets. . " Mud is different from snow. Any observant person , these last few days in Omaha would discover this in many ways , but there Is one way that conclu sively proves the difl'oronco. If the palo , crisp snow wore knee deep ladles could bo scon floundering through it without making any display of hosiery or a sub stitute. Not so with her who essays to stir the slumbering plasticity of Omaha mud , so highly prl/.ed and priced at the present time. The wide awake business man , who advises all men to keep their eyes open , may bo partially responsible for the sights scon , which might have been unnoticed in the days of mud , stickiness and horse and vehicle splashing. Yesterday morning a lady was walking across Seventeenth street on Farnam. She had on rubbers. Her gentleman attendant preceded her , whether ho was her husb and or hold some oilier relation , is proba bly nobody's business. When she reached the middle of the crossing she throw through her arrow formed rod lips a minimized "Owl" and placed a pebble- goat boot in the mud , minus a rubber. Site jumped and M > lashed through to the opposite curb , 'I he lieol and back part of the rubber stuck up out of the muddy POO.J like the picture of the Cumberland's parting shot , nut the gentlemanly escort yanked It out and put it where it be longed. A short while afterwards a lady moved along Thirteenth street She had a black , lovely velvet sacquc around her fair form , and a maroon moinio cloth itresa danced attendance around her , also re sponsive to the jerky motions of the very conspicuous bustle. She had a pyramid hat , with the apex sawed straight across off. She was a dashing along woman with round , rogue- ish , independent , sweet looking face. When she came to Harney street she had to cross it. She did not pull herself tip on her toes to go through the mud that lay across her path , butdashed in. She throw her right hand around below the bustle , graubod fa fistful ! of gathered moinio cloth and its concealments and lifted the mass twelve inches over the ground if it wcro dried and waded through. Hov stockings wore safely en- sheathed in a pair of men's rubbers , with their round , inflated looking blnck ankles. She crossed over and stopped off , as unconscious and lively as a pedestrian. She was sensible. TALKS WlTlSTrUAVKIjI-IllS. Short Interviews Gathered In the Hotel Rotunda * . Lewis KiniI'ttlabitri / , 1'a : "Yes , everything is natural gas with us now. It has wrought a wonderful change in heating and lighting. 1 use saven stoves in my house for cooking and heating , and together with all the light I want my ex penses in this direction are Jethan fifty dollars per annum. The natural gas revolution has also dos troyed an old time feature of I'ittsburg. It is no longer the 'Smoky City.1 i know many merchants who deal in fine wares , dry goods , etc. . who have been saved many thousand dollars sinoo the smoke has ceased to bu . an annoyance and a smut producer. Notwithstanding the fact that natural gas lias entirely supplanted the use of coal and coke , doing away with about 850,000 bushels a day , still the price of coal has been raised. Queer , ain't it ? " r . T- William Kevins , DCS Moines , la. : "I am looking for some important news from Iowa's capital to-day and it may beef of considerable moment to Omaha. 1 refer to the decision of President Kidd.of the great International distillery iu the first named place , whether it shall bo moved and to what place. The distillery employs 500 men , winch means u popula tion of at least 1,500 persons , wlio con tribute to the business of the city. I as sure you it will bo a great blow to DCS Moincs if the distillery changes its loca tion and a great gain to tno city that gets it. Business men there wre very much excited ever the matter and sever al condemn the prohibitionists. This dis tillery is the largest in the world and did not make a drop of spirits for con sumption in Iowa. All was for export. Still the fanatics on some technical plea , got the courts to intcrtero with its busi ness. " The Origin of Verdi's Otollo. From Cornere del Mnlliio : Verdi was first induced to undertake the composi tion of Otello on the occasion of the performance of his Messa da Hequiem.ot the Scala , for the benclit of the fauffcrors by the inundations at Forrara. The next day ho gave a dinner to the four princi pal .solo singers , at which were present Hovcral friends , among them Signor Faccio and Signor Hicordi. The latter laid siege to the maestro , trying to persuade - suado him to undertake a now work. For a long time Verdi resisted , and his wife declared thai probably only a Shake spearian subject could induce him to take up his pen again. A few hours later Faccio and Kicordi went to lioito , who at once agreed to make the third In the generous conspiracy , and two days after sent to Verdi a complete sketch of the plan of the opera , following strictly the Shakespearian tragedy. Verdi .approved of the sketch , and from that moment it fell to the part of Giulia Hicordi to urge on the composer and the poet by con stant reminders. Every Christmas ho sent to Verdi's house an Othello , formed of chocolate , which , at first very small , prow larger as the opera progressed. Verdi did not wish tu include the choruses In his opera , but yielded to the fact that they uru indispensable iutho presoiilcon- dilion of the theatrical art. It was tin also who desired that the opera should open with the tempest ; but enough said for the present. An Entiru Crew lOntcn Up , St. James1 Ga/.ollo : The tragic seems to verge on the ludicrous onuu iigam when wo read that a number ot Melanesian - esian laborers , who were being taken back to thu Solomon islands at the ex piration of their contracts. , ate up the entire crow of the vessel convoying them. The crew in question consisted of Patagonians and other Polynesians. Thti shocking event will produce great ex citement throughout Occanica. Thu Solo mon islanders are in great roriuo.il us laborers because of their physical Htrcngth and docility , and it was supposed that the influence of the missionaries and other Europeans had entirely eradicated their old cannibal habits , lint inherited tendencies are not to be got rid of all at onoe. The civilization of these Polyne sians is a thin veneer on the top of a solid fabric of original barbarism. Ex perience has shown again and again that the tamest savages are always capable of * guddcu relapse into their old custom * . f