Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, May 07, 1887, Page 4, Image 6
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SATURDAY. MAY 7. 1887. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. tr.nvn or stnwciitrrioN ! Dully ( Mnrnlntr Edition ) Including Sunday- IJr. . Ono Vonr . . . $1001 Tor Blr Months . 6 fO ForTlirco Months . W Tlio O in aim Butulny llr.E , mullcxl to any , One Vcur. . . . 200 , . m * FATIVAM Smirr. OMAHA Own : No. Ml VOUK ( in-irc , Itoii ( . . TnimtMi Httii.nivn. WAKUIXUTU.X ounce , .No. 61) FUUIITCCXTU smscr. At ) communlontions rolatlnx to no rs nndetlN torlttl inallor ( Mould bo tuMruosoJ to tbo Em- Ton or THK UKR. 11USINBSS r.T.TTJjrUt All biif InoM letter * ami remittances should tie ililrcHsod to THK lice rum.isiitNO CUMHANV , OMUIA , Drnfts , chocks and poaloffleo nrdord to bo mnde payable to thn order of thu company ! THE BEE POBLlStillTcOMPJlir , PROPRIETORS , E. ROSEWATEU. Enrron. THK-DAILY BEU. Sworn Statement of Circulation , BUte of Nebraska , 1 , County of Douxlas. { " " ttoo. I ) . Tzschueic , secretary of The Dec Publishing nompany , does solemnly sweat that thu actual circulation of. tlio Dally lice for tlio week ending April - * . > , 18S7 , was as follows : Saturday , April 33 H4M Sunday , Anrll 34 14,000 Monday. A | > ril2r 14.7J.1 Tuesday , Aprll'JO 14,100 Wodnftsday , April 27 14,100 Thursday , April 28 14,10(1 ( Friday , April SO 14,10(1 ( Average 14.221 Or.o. b. TZSCHUOK. Subscribed and sworn to before tne tht 80th day of April , 1837. N. P. KBIT , [ SEAL. ] Notary Public. Oco. B. Tzschuck , being lirst duly sworn , noposos and says that ho Is secretary of The lice Publishing company , that the actual average dally circulation of the Dally lice for the month of April , 1880 , 12,101 copies : for May , 1880 , 12,439 copies ; for June , 1880 , 12.208 copies : for July , iSSrt , 12,814 copies ! for August , 18H , 12.4&4 copies ; for Septem ber , 1830 , 18,030 conies ; for October , 1830. 12HS9 copies ; for November. 1880 , 13,84s copies ; for December , 1880. iu,237 copies ; foi January , 1887 , 10,200 copies ; for February , 1887 , 14.10S copies ; for March , 1887 , 14.40C copies. OEO. B. TZRCMUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before mo this 1Mb day of April , A. D.,1887. ISKAL. | N. P. Ficit , Notary Public. GKNKHAL SHKUIDAN quietly sits down on General Rosscr , and the latter will continue to squirm. THE hotel proprietors will soon pcti- tion the intor-stato commission nskiuj that passes bo grautcd to all politicians as heretofore. THE passionate poet , Swinburne , hsf hurled an ode of one hundred lines at Gladstone. Such ingratitude is not pun- isuablc. Yet if a man throws- tlynn Suite- bomb in Russia ho is immediately hanged. England's laws are lax. llicitAUD A. PUOCTOR , tbo scientist , In- slats that there are sea serpents , and says the stories regarding them ought not tc ' bo ridiculed. The next thing wo hear oi Mr. Proctor ho will be trying to prove that tlio moon is not grccu cliecso. ONE of the Chicago boodlcrs has coughed up 11,000 in currency , saying il belonged to Cook county. Conscience occasionally makes a money thief feel Borious , bnt generally speaking it ia no ) until ho has squandered the money. Av Tnrfion from the Omaha icscrrn- lion , Ta-wa-hae-zin-ca , recently called on Governor Thayer. It is understood that Ta-wa-hac-zin-ga wants to bo oil inspector , judge in the First district oi councilman from the Tenth ward in Omaha. Du. EDWARD Kxox , of Fontress county Tenn. , on Monday tied up naked his four- toon-year-old son for some boyish India- .torction and whipped him with a blaok- jmako whip until ho died. This is a case where neither the rod nor the child was Spared. . . HorrutN , the Nebraska train wrecker iwho is confined in jail at Nebraska City awaiting execution , has called for a bible. Had he thought of this the even ing be obstructed the railroad track- perhaps ho would to-day bo a bettor and Iinppior man. GA.TH , in the Cincinnati JEnqttircr , tomes to the rescue of the James boys , and excuses them for all their crimcsi This is rather late in the day to help Jesse juuoh , bul may succeed la drawing largci crowds for Colonel Frank when he makes his annual speeches at the county lairs in Missouri this fall IT the organ of the state printing thieves , known as the Soodlert' Own , had Jciven the republican candidate foi ftnavor in Lincoln as much' attention as il , , ka > given Mr. Broatoh , perhaps it could ! $ ave elected a republican , instead of the Democrat who now fills that office. A NBW YORK ox-alderman , supposed tc have boon a poor man , dropped dead or the street on Monday , stricken with heart disease , and the coroner found or his body $35,000 worth of street railwaj bonds , concealed in a bolt worn between bis outer and his undershirt. It is though' ' that ho placed the bonds in his boll while doing alduriuanio duties and hat forgotten them. It would bo in order tc examine Joke Sharp's bolt. A Missotnu paper alleges that Colonel A. C. Dawes , of thn Kansas City , St. Joseph oph & Council Bluffs road , has boon ten dered the position of geueral manager ol the Oregon Rail way und Navigation com' "It not known " the pany. is yet , says Missouri paper , "whether he will or wiL pot accept the fine position olTorcd t < him. " It is hoped , in tlio interests of tlu Oregon Hallway and Navigation com pany that the Chicago , Burlington Qulncy road will not lot him go. Colonel Pawes is certainly no decided improve ment over lug namesake once governoi of Nebraska. FINANCIERS will understand what ii Bieant by the reduction la the discoun rate of the bank of England to 2 pei ceaL It indicates an abundant prcsen supply of money in the London marke and a conviction in the minds of tin managers of the great banking institu tion that that * will be enough to meet al probable emergencies in the near future Two per cent is the minimum rate of tin Bank of England , and is the best evidence * denco of a money plethora. That cir oumatance Is not unfavorable to thi country In a political direction the sig nificance of the reduction is that tbi .leading financiers of Great Britain an not approheative of any serious conflict in Europe in tbe nwufuture. . It ia in al a reassuring eiga. Willing to Compromise. We some time ago noted the fact that Congressman Springer ol Illinois had expressed himself in favor of a compro mise bntwccn the hostile factions of the democracy on the tariff , In order to effect n reduction of the revenues which men of all parties concede to Ifo necessary. It now transpires that Mr. Carlisle takes a similar view of the situation , except that he expects rather more from re publicans than from the protectionist democrats. Iho Kentucky congressman is qnito san- gulno regarding a reduction. Ho has no doubt that the next congress will reduce revenues , though he does not expect the passage of such a bill as the revenue - reform form democrats would like to have , It will bo remembered that when Mr. Hand all endeavored , near the close of the last congress , to bring forward a bill re pealing the tobacco tax. Mr. Carlisle would not permit him to do so. Ho seems to have modified his views some what in this direction , and now says "it might occur , in the efforts to get through a bill reducing the tariff , that some com promises should bo made. Under the circumstances , with an opposition senate , and with a division of opinion among democratic representatives , a compromise that was fair would bo hon orable , lu such a state of the case the obacco tax might be repealed. " The whisky tax , however , ho insists should bo loft undisturbed. There could bo no bettor indication than this of the position that will betaken taken in thu next congress by the rev enue reform democrats , who will bo more completely than ever in the control of Mr. Carlisle , since Mr. Morrison will nol be present to divide influence. It may be remarked also that the modified attitude of Mr. Carlisle is in accord with the understood views of the administra tion , the president in his last message having counselled , in relation to the tariff question , "a willingness to yield some thing for the public good. " But will the limited compromise suggested by Mr , Carlisle bo met in a similar spirit by the tariff men ? The repeal of the tobacco tax would out down the revenues nearly $30,000,000. Will the protectionists , democrats or republicans surrender an equal amount in tariff duties ? The solu tion will still rest ohiolly with Mr. Ken dall and his faction , as it did in the last congress , who will continue to hold the balance ot power. The republican as sistance that Mr. Carlisle now counts on will not bo strong enough to effect the desired sired object. What Mr. Randall may do or refuse to do no man can tell , but it is evident that he can dictate terms if ho is able to hold his faction together. He will exert himself as never , before to do this , for the break ing up of his little band of adherents in congress wquld bo his political ruin , lie understands that nine-tenths of the party , with the administration in sympathy , desires - sires and socks his downfall , and would pounce on him with both foot if ho should fall. Ho must keep his contingent solider or go down , perhaps never to rise again. It is certain , therefore , that Randall will fight with desperate cucrgy to keep his little force intact , and if ho accomplishes tins ho will again bo master of the situa tion. It is tills unfortunate phase of the situation that detracts somewhat from the confident assurances of Mr. Carlisle , and suggests a fear that experience frith the ncAl uuugrcss lu this matter may be little if any more satisfactory than it was with the last. Tlio Labor Alliance and the Chinese. The labor alliance , of San Francisco , is yet making a determined fight against Chinese labor. The white men claim that it is impossible for them to success fully compote with the cooling in many branches , especially in the manufacture of cigars. At a meeting of the new trades union alliance this week , a com mittee previously appointed to devise a certificate for the use of those dealers in cigars who do not patromzo Chinese labor , made a formal report The cer tificate read : "To whom It may concern : The holder of this certificate has pledged himself to the Labor Unions' Mutual alliance and the Cltarniakers'International union not to buy , sell or make any Chinese cigars , wholesale or retail ; and , further , to foster the interests of home industry. " It was unanimously agreed by all members of the trades unions that num erous mass-meetings bo hold , and u united effort be made to abolish Chinese labor in manufacturing goods of all kinds. If the coolie is to bo tolerated in this country at all , a place must bo made for him in the kitchen , on the railroad grade , In the orchards of the coast or other places whore his labor does not interfere with citizens. Re must not insinuate himself into white men's positions , lower their wages and take the paltry pittance received for his day's labor and send it out of a country of which ho refuses to become a citizen , to purchase his articles of food and clothing.- This country offers inducements and extends the hand of welcome to all classes of laboring men yet at the same time ii has no par ticular use for tlio almoned-oyed heathen who offers his services at what to any other m an would necessarily bo starva tion wages. Reduced Taxation. When wo stated in our last issue thai the assessed valuation of property in Omaha for municipal taxation , would , al three percent , yield $ 400,000 , during the present year ; our estimate was based on an aggregate assessment of f 16,000,000. This is at least 13,000,000 below what the asssessmont will be , if made on the pre vailing basis of one-fourth or even oue- iifth of actual values. Instead oi 110,000,000 as figured in our previous es timate , tbe assessed valuation of Omaha last year was $19,000,000. The increase for the present year , by the nse of real estate values , improvements and annexa tion of now territory , should at a Ion estimate , add to last year's assessment roll from 14,000,000 to 15,000,000. On a three per cent tax the city's in come In 1687 , would reach over half a million dollars. With this enormou : urn at its disposal , there will bo no ex cuse for an overlap. Last year the citj taxes wore 4 per cent This year Si mills will more than meet all demands ol tlio muaicipal government. Tbe ira provemcnta already under way this yeai justify the prediction that the city taxet can bo reduced to 9 per cent in 1883 with out In the least embarrassing the cltj government. Lait year the county tax was 3 per oonl on assessed valuation. This year it car bo reduced to 15 mill * . That would yield nearly 1300,000. The couuty commit sloncn ought to bo able to make ends meet with $300,000 a year at their dis posal. The funding of the county debt which Is to take place this fall will very materially reduce the interest charged , The annexation by Iho city of territory which has heretofore rlepondcd on the county for its grudingbriiiging and other improvements , will relieve the county treasury of a heavy .dralf , The incorporated villages and towns in tlio county will also losseu the cost of mamtalning highways , There is no vnlid reason why taxation should not bo reduced both for city and county purposes during tlio present year. While taxes have been very light in Omaha on the basis of real values , the high rate levied on assessed values has had a tendency to frighten capitalists and investors. A rcrtuction of the tax rate will have a very beneficial effect. ExtrAvneant Hydrant Tolls. The suburbs of the city ask for fire protection , and they ought to have it as speedily as possible. But before the council orders a further extension oi water mains , it should como to an under standing with the water works company , with regard to the cwt of additional water hydrants. When the charter was voted to the water works company six years ago it was estimated that Omahi : would be well protected by 200 fire hydrants. To-day the city is paying foi nearly five hundred hydrants at a rental of ? 80 a year for each hydrants. In othei words the hydrant tax has run up from $10,000 to over $40,000 a year , which rep resents interest at 5 per cent on an investment of $800,000 or interest at 0 poi cent on $060,000. It is safe to say that the present waterworks plant can bo dupli cated for less than $600,003. It scorns to us that the time is at hand for a readjustment justment of the contract between the city and the waterworks company , on a basis that will assure a fair income to the company without imposing needless bur dens upon the taxpayers. With ? -10,000 a year income from exist ing hydrants , the company can well af ford to reduce the price for additional hydrants to $25 a year. Thoro.ls a hand some profit in the investment for exten sions even at that price. We have op posed the proposed repeal of the water works company's franchise , bnt we deem it just and proper that the company should bo required to reduce its extrava gant rental for additional fire hydrants. "TiiE liquor license laws of Pennsyl vania , "nays the Philadelphia Record , "ac they are now construed arcs a jumble and a puzzle for lawyers and laymen. The indelimteness of their provisions gives excuse for the most cranky and in consistent constructions by the courts. In some judicial districts the theory ia sot up that the granting of h license is a matter of judicial option ; in others , that it is a matter of local option ; and in still others , that the option lies in the hand of the applicant for a license and depends on a literal compliance with certain necessary formalities. " This is the result of agitation. A sensible high hconso law , such as is on the statutes of Nebraska , admits of no puzzling con struction. Plainly and distinctly the re quirements arc written. Tlio mau sell ing liquor .under the Slocurnb law under stands its conditions and consequently complys with them. The result is regu lation , and as a general rule orderly places whore liquors arc sold. THE State of Ohio , which has main tained a good credit since the war , has been having considerable trouble with its finances for the past two or three years. The management of state affairs during the Hoadloy administration was reck lessly extravagant , and before thai 'ad ministration expired It was compelled to anticipate the collection of taxes in order to meet the demands ou thu treasury. It left to its successor a bankrupt treasury , with largo demands in sight. The repub lican administration by wise manage ment provided for these obligations , and the legislature reduced expenditures , but it refused to increase the tax levy , and it now appears that the resources of the treasury will bo exhausted by Juno 1 , mid from that time until August the state will have to bo run ou credit. The legacy of recent democratic government in Ohio ought to make that state safely republican for a long time to como. ONE of the first things the new council will have to deal with , will bo the printIng - Ing steal in the shape of over one thou sand dollars for publishing Mayor Boyd's election proclamation in two morning papers , in addition to the publication in the official paper , which circulates more thau twlco as many papers in Omaha as both of these papers combined. MOST great men have found some par ticular i..l'nenco ' productive of ill effects upon thorn. The especial bale noir of Mr. Lamar appears to bo a dark skin. In the case of Quoeu Kapiolani it has produced the extraordinary result on Lamar of "neuralgia in the face. " Pathologists - elegists may find this case worthy of their attention. WE arc reminded by Mr. McShano's paper that there will bo a few planks loose m our sidewalk as long as Mike Moaney remains on the staff of Mayor Broatch. Wo are not troubled about Mike Muanoy just at present. Ho will go on the re tired list in a few days. TUB official invitation and programme for the eighteenth reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland , to be held in Washington on May 11 and 12 , has been issued. Its interest and attractive ness are not diminished by the fact that the name of General Keifcr does not ap pear on it. ONE of the conundrums of the hour is : When will Tom Murray finish his six story block ? Wo know ho has heaps of sand , but it is piled up on Fourteenth street In iront of his building. THEKK will be a grand bluzo some of these days on the triangle between St. Mary's avenue and Uarney street , which is being covered by tinder boxes and fire traps ol every description. IT is said that when the queen of the Sandwich Islands called at the white house "Mrs. Cleveland was not at all embarrassed , and the president appeared to bo perfectly at his ease. " According to this official announcement , the queen Is not of so much importanof after all. Many a backwoodA office-Maker ku em barrassed Orovor. The report says nothing.of how Colonel Dan received her royal highness , i Tun splenetic attack of llossor on Gcu- oral Shcrldau slioulil have been per mitted to pass withojit attention. Borne people will seek notoriety at any sacri fice of manliness and honor. Tito proper treatment of all buch is uuuttcred con tempt. 1 THE zigzng route which the Chicago & Northwestern is building to Omaha , is an improvement on tljo old ox-bow by way of Blair , but it la by no means what Omaha should and must have. Nothing loss than a direct line up the Elknorn valley will fill the bill. ONE thousand houses erected m Omaha for renting , during the present and next years , would bo a profitable investment. The demand is now largo and will bo larger for houses that will rent for from $30 to $40 a month. Other I/ands Than Our * . The London Times having followed up the Parnell forgery by denouncing Dillon as a liar , that journal lias occupied rather more attention in England during the past week than any other subject. A motion in the house of commons to insti tute proceedings against the nominal publisher , on the ground that the course of the paper was a breach of privilege , has occupied the attention of the house for several days , to the exclusion of all other matters , including the crimes bill. That measure has consequently made verv little progress during the week. In the discussion of the motion regarding the Times , the torlos have manifested the'most partisan and unfair spirit. The fact that the language used by the newspaper was a plain breach of privilege they cannot escape from , but they seek to escape from an evident duty to defend the character of a member of the house by the subterfuge that Dillon can have recourse to the courts for redress. It is a contemptible exhibition of the sacrifice of all precedent and right to party hate. While the statesmen of Eng land arc wrangling over this matter , the relentless agents of landlords in Ireland are turning tlio miserable tenants out of their homes and the heartlass work of coercion goes on. * * The week has developed no events of interest on the continent of Europe , nothing having occurred from which even a plausible conjecture ot future dis turbance could bo drawn. The popular demonstrations in Paris , , since the Sohnaebelcs affair , lmv.e served to show the very strong auti-Gtirman feeling , but there has not been ahv'considcrablo rep resentation ot the betlcjr element identi fied with those demonstrations. So far as official expressions go they indicate the prevalence ? of an entirely friendly sentiment , tfid ] it is evident that the better class of people are well pleased that the last cause ot 'misunderstanding between Franco and Germany was so promptly and satisf.icl6rily settled. The incident has made 'Scjhnaobolns ' some thing of a here , and ha * inured to his permanent advantage. ; Germany having sent the prisoner back to his own coun try , has dismissed all thought of the mat ter , but doubtless the beoplo are taking Uuo account of thu popular manifesta tions of hostility in Paris. % The French licet is shortly to engage in a series of grand manoDuvros , thn most important which have been undertaken since the war. Its first operation will be the transport of troops from France to Algeria and the attackingof the convoy by a squadron 6f torpedo boats , having Corsica for their base of operations. The squadron will bo composed of four ironclads aud four cruisers escorting the convoy , of four other ironclads , which will bo considered as transports. It will leave Toulon and sail for Algeria. The torpedo squadron leaving Ajaccio will have for its mission the attacking of the convoy as it leaves the port of Toulon. The second operation will bo the attack by u torpndo squadron upon a squadron Bailing from Toulon to Brest. The third nnd the most important is the appear ance off the Mediterranean coast of France of an inimical squadron to bo at tacked by torpedo boats. This latter operation will take place in July , . % Twelve men and three women are now on trial on the charge 'of conspiracy against the life of the czar. The prison ers are guarded in court by soldiers and the public is excluded. It is a star chamber trial in effect , though the ac cused are represented by counsel and the lorm ot defence is permitted. There seems to bo no hope of acquittal , and the penalty is death or at the best exile for life. One of the women , a young girl , lUisa Schmidova by name , is said to bo more beautiful than Charlotte Corday , . and her share in the plot and certain fate are the gossip of St. Petersburg. Tbo re lentless and unending war against the czar , maintained by men and women of every social rank , forms ono of the most extraordinary chapters of modern his tory. * # A great deal is bcinc said and written in Franco about the German trick of learning the French biuslo calls with a view to misleading the jyjf my during an ' engagement. There is'uothing very new about the idea. DuringjtUe war of 1870-1 Gorman buglers frequpljtly .sounded a halt for French troops at the critical point of a charge , and $19 French regi mental band once savotj a division by playing the Gorman Atonal unthom. This was during a sortilt'from ' Metz in the course of which one of ) the strongest French divisions mistooj 'a word of com mand and marched right up to the mouths of the German cpnnou. It was only the intense darkncfts and the mu sical device which saved'it ' from dicima- tion if not annihilation. ' , j { * ril' Tbe mortality statistics Wt published tor London are interesting as showing the working of tendencies that are in operation throughout most of the civil ized world. The death rate and birth rate are each on the decrease. The fall ing off in the former , however , is greater than In the latter. That is to say , the average ago attained by people before they die is greater now than it was ten years ago , while the number of persons born , in portion to population , is not so great as formerly. But the Increase in the aico limit BO counterbalances the do orcase m births that the number of in habitants , leaving immigration out of the calculation , is iteadilj growing larger. * The Scotch universities have been ap proachcd by the musicians of Scotland with rcforcnco to the grautiug of de grees m music , The matter has boon under consideration for some time , and there is , it is understood , some disposi tion to ncccdo to the general wish ou the part of thrco out of the four universi ties. Ono of the universities , though possessed of an endowed musical chair , has taken no active stops in the matter , Another having found that it is empow ered to confer honorary degrees in music , has taken thu initiative , and , upon search being made , documents showing precedents for admitting candi dates to examination have , it is said , been discovered , and it is therefore not unlikely that tlio wishes of the Scotch musicians will soon bc carried out , * % Afghanistan-is likely to disappear alto gether from the map of Asia before ion g What with England's "scientific ) fron tier" ideas on the south , and Russia's still more decided absorption policy on north , the ameer's territory is gradually diminishing in area. A dispute on the northern frontier has just been settled ou the convenient "compromlso" of giving Russia all she claimed and withdrawing all the claims to pecuniary compensation made by other contestants. Towards the fall the process will bo repeated , and during the winter another treaty will be forced down the ameer's throat. * * The Sonnbllck observatory , in thopro\ inco of Salzburg , Austria , is the highest in Europe , being 10.177 feet above the level of the sea. It was established chiefly through the exertions of M , Rojachor , proprietor of the mines In thai district , in conjunction with the German and Austrian Alpine club nnd the Aus trian Meteorological society. It remains to bo shown what use can bo made of the observations on such elevated sta tions for the practical work of weather forecasting. The observers of the Pic du Midi claim to have foretold , from the conditions at that observatory , the dis astrous floods that occurred in the south of Franco at tlio cud of June , 1875 , and thereby to have rendered important serv ices by their timely warning. V Something very much like white slavery is practictlcod in Nova Scotia , whore pauper boys and girls arc farmed out , to the highest bidder. The farmer purchases the right to the child's labor till it becomes of ago , and then ho can sell his interest in the contract to any ono who will buy. At an auction sale at Ditrbv recently a boy was sold , ana so outraged were the spectators that they have petitioned the Dominion parliament to put an end to the scandal. Cardinal Manning's nice distinction between sell ing a man's labor und selling the mau himself is evidently not appreciated in Nova Scotia. V Ono of tlio most melancholy incidents of tlio eastern manoeuvres in England was a disastrous test-of the sword bayo nets with which the volunteers armed. A dummy of cotton waste enclosed in n truss of straw was a fair substitute for the human body , and not a bayonet pene trated it unharmed. A Crimean sword passed through it easily , but every sword- bayonet was bent double and twisted out of shape. The regular army is armed with the same species of worthless bayo net. Tlio volunteers are suitably equip ped for the sham battles which they fight once a year. * # * English women have done much to rescue the queen's jubilee celebration from merited reproach for lack of public interest. While other schemes for com memorating 'the Victorian reign are languishing and expiring through sheer inanition , the women are bestirring themselves in every borough and shire , ind are confidently expecting to raise S250.000 before the anniversary day. This 13 the only one of the countless jubilee enterprises which excites popular enthusiasm. KINGS AND QUEENH. The queen of Sweden , who has been stay- ini ; at Amsterdam for some time , where she underwent a critical operation , is convales- : ent , Of all his birthday gifts , which filled two rooms of his palace , Kaiser Wilholm most values a life-sized portrait of his eldest : rcat grandson. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austrja is re ported to take the part of his daugTitor-in- law In her quarrels with her husband , Crown L'rince Hndolph. King Milan ot Servla makes skittle playIng - Ing a hobby. He was recently presented by the prince of Montenegro with a carved set if balls snd men manufactured of extremely liard wood. lier Majesty Queen Victoria Is to erect a memorial church at Cannes , France , on nrhieh ls to be placed a recumbent figure of the late duke of Albany , which will be a rapllca of the one lu tbe WoLsoy chapel at Windsor. Queen Olga , of Greece , Is fond of swim ming , and a pond lined with white marble Ute to be constructed In the ( -rounds of the roral palace at Athens so that the queen can dis tort herself with her attendants like Diana ind her maids. King William , of Germany , has sent a beautiful diamond bracelet as a wedding present to a Jewish uiald whom ho used to ( eo at a window opposite his hotel at Uas- loln , and who Is soon to be married. lie has isked her to come to Oasteln yearly during tils sojourn there. IsThoro nn End. Is thera an end to weariness In life I I'o all this ceaseless aud tumultuous strife ] i'hat , from the very cradle to the grave , \ppals the hearts of e'en the strong and brave ? Is there an end to this anxiety i'hat haunts us hour by hour and will not flee ? [ ) r ore wo made to mourn through day and I'o walk In'shailo and never In the light ? Is there an end to losses and to pain ? & .nd will there come a time when naught bnt gain Will follow all our unremitting toll , Mid when no foe shall cause us to recoil ? Is there an end to this dull , dreary mode ) f life ? Or must our feet still press the road Leading through place * dangerous and dark , Where scarce an eye discerns ono shining mark ? STav. do not look for perfect peace and rest ! \ lite of noble conflict Is the best : A.nd chivalry will win a brighter crown 1'haa we could gain by casting burdens down. . Tbe Boela flight. Crcitjltton Flonttr , The Pioneer does not think that all the 3mahaUEK says Is gospel , but on the main Issuer It U correct. As a newspaper It can- lot bo equaled In Nebraska , When It says .hat Nebraska towns are overcrowded with iew p per it tells the truth ; and the Jlepub- lcn does not know , when It says that It Is aot BO. There is a false notion In the minds of a good many men that they can run i newspaper a little better than somebody else a little better than the man who has made that profession a life study and work. Then are always a lot of politicians who want "ai organ , " nml there are always men who wll Oil the billfor the time being. Hut tlu county newspaper N a work of weeks am mouths and years. The people , as the coun < try gets down to business , will support tin newspapers of the two parties ictmbllcan and democratic , and , as the Hr.r. says , tin others will gladly fall out of line. BTATB AXo'rKunmmv. NchraskM Jottings. Holdrcpo is pulling for a creamery aui waterworks. Saloon license in Seward is an over 11,000 a year , half of which is an occu patlon tax. Plans for a five story opera house ar < beinc prepared at Heatrice. The build ing will bo tt5xl38 , and will have u seat ing capacity of 1,500. Scraps of coal have boon pumped uj ; from a well in the DcSoto bottom noai Blair. Mr. James Wild is the owner ol the lucky well. Next. A reward of f 100 will bo given for tlu return otJ. N. Dykumau to Clarks sta tion. The long haul prevents bim from aiming up und claiming the reward. J. JJ. Marshall , of Beatrice , dropped i burning match in loose hayin his wagon A can of coal oil expedited the bla/.cs but ho managed to save his life and tin team. Blair commiserates Fremont on tlu boycott of Omaha and otters tomplim inducements to the boycotters to tradi there. It is twenty miles nearer thai Lincoln. A mad dog scare in Rock Creek lire cinet , Otoo county , has produced a deluge ugo of lead. Twenty-live curs have boor hushed. The people are considerably excited and armed with pistols,1 clubs ami rocks. The Seward canning factory will be ready for business in a few weeks. The machinery is being put in place. The company expects to put up 000,000 cans of corn this season and 000 barrels ol pickles. Jack McGinty , of Republican City , tossed a burning match Into the bung hole of a gasoline barrel. Ho lives' to whisper the aftorclap , with a score ol blisters and a hairless head to emphasize the periods. The threat of the Fremont Tribune to turn the trade of the city to Lincoln does not appear to satisfy tlio voracious ap petite of the Democrat. Hero is a speci men squeal for more : "It is folly to fold our hands and talk of peace and plenty , when there is neither when rivals , little and great , are tearing away at our vitals and raiding our cuuboards. Let us all understand this thing and all act to gether like men of sense and courage. " Trio delegation of Wayne businessmen had a general talk with the people of Yankton last Wednesday on the subject of a railroad to Omaha. The result of thu talk was the appointment of i\ com mittee of four prominent Ynnktonians , to join committees from Wayne , Hart- mgtou and West Point , examine the pro posed route and nrocced to Omaha , where a conference will be hold with business men and railroad ollicials. The fooling in Ynnkton seems to bo that the Missouri Pacific will build the road for a bonus of $500,000. The Yank ton Press says : "There is in this move a grim determination to win. Keep your eye upon it. " Iowa Items. Burlington had thiny-thrco deaths in April. Clannda's waterworks , which cost $41,000 , are pronounced a failure. The residents of Folsom station , in tlio southern part of the state , are jubilant over the discovery of iron ore there. The state association of Congregational ministers and churches of Iowa convenes at Charles City on the 25th to 29th mst. What Cheer is counting on a new $1.1,000 hotnl building , a new Baptist church and four substantial brick blocks as a part of the season's work. The body of John Conrandy was ex humed at Bowen last week for the pur pose ot burial In the Exira Catholic ceme tery. Although it hud lain in the grave nine years , dissolution hail not taken place and the corpse was as fresh and recognizable as when first consigned- the earth. A sad accident occurred on the farm of John Bcal near Missouri Valley last Thursday. The house caught fire while Mr. and Mrs. Heal were in the field work ing. They left the infant in the house with several other small children , and were not warned of danger until one of thu children caino rnnnmg and scream ing to them. When -they arrived at the terrible scone the house was wrapped in Ihitncs both inside and out. and the grief- stricton parents were subjected to the terrible ordeal of watching the flumes ilevour their little child. Only by force af neighbors was the mother restrained from rushing into the seething flames for hur darling and meeting a fearful death. Dakota. Spcarlish is getting ready to build a waterworks system. The Jamestown artesian well flows at the rate of 400 gallons per minute. The G. A. U. post of Yankton will incorporate - corporate , purchase a lot aud build a me morial hall. Ever sinca the year that General Cnster camped at Yankton there has been a heavy growth of blue grass on the old samp ground. A great many of the iTanktou people remove yards of the sod and transplant it in their yards , where it thrives admirably. It is supposed the command carried baled blue grass for forage and the seed , scattered in feeding the horses , took root and each year more seed is scattered , thus keeping up the supply. A Sioux Fulls alderman recently got mud and threatened to pound a stranger till ho couldn't see because ho said the paving stone quarried here weren't the Dest in the world. The alderman would probably have used the stranger pretty rough if , in trying to catch him , ho had not attempted to cross thn main business street in town and got stuck in the mud so that ho had to Do pulled out with a team. The Puulilc Const. The vineyards and orchards in Sonoma ralloy give promise of abundant yields this year. A company has undertaken the project } f buildinc a canal from a point on the Colorado river , twenty miles above I'll ma , Arito the Sonoru line. Ou tbo east side of Panamint valley , [ nye county , is a very'largo lodge of an timony ore. The metal was quoted re cently in London at IISO pur ton.No iflbrt has ever been made to do anything with this ledge. A stoiun wagon , that runs on ordinary roads and hauls 30,000 pounds , is making lucccsaful trips between Bisboe and Fair- aanks , Ariz. The distance is sixty miles , ind the trips are nuulo wholly DV day light. The wagon is owned by the Copper iiecn Mining company. Ten thousand persons witnessed the aying of the corner stone of the new Catholic cathedral in San Francisco last Sunday. Archbishop Uiordan , with a icore of clergy , led the ceremonies. The julldinc is located on Van Ness and Myr- Jo avenues , has a frontage of eighty- light feet and a depth of 11)0. ) The style s Romanesque , with Italian towers. The Virginia City ( Nov. ) Enterprise lays : In the first range of mountains to the eastward of thu Sink of the Carson is in outburst of water that is phenomenal tnd a great curiosity , lialf-way up a aountam that U two or thrue thousand foot in height there bursts out n stfeatrt of thirty or forty inches of pure and sparkling water. It tumbles down over the rocks on the side of ( ho mountain in ( .uverul falls from Uni or twenty feet in height. The nolso of the falling water can bo hoard a distance of half n mlle or uioro. _ Tjio Union V'aolhc. W. fotitcjmMfrdti. ( . The fact Hint Iho Union ruelie ! rnilrond has at its head the grandson of onu presi dent of the United States and the great * grandson of another is pressed as nu urg ent claim , on the government's special deference to that railroad. An eastern paper says "there never was a railroad management more honest than that aow controlling the Union Pacific , " nnd it adds : . "Ever since Mr. Adams entered the omco all Ins endeavors have been used to bring about an adjtutment of the relations with the covernmont. " It is well that this compliment to the honest management of thu road is quali fied by the adverb "now , " for there was a time when its management was little else than fraud , bribery and robbery so foul a thing , in fact , as to provokn Mr. Adams himself to join in the uni versal execration of it. The enormous fortunes gotten through these shameful methods exist in Mr. Adams' statu to this day , and constitute the basis of the politi cal power and social influence of their owners. The present management of the road in the hands of Charles Francis Adams 4s honest ; but Mr. Atlnms ought to rimiomber that the coriwrutlou ovur which ho presides is the self-same ono whoso management was such a stench twenty years ago , and that a corporation cannot , any more thau an individual , ex cuse the villunics it committed yester day by pointing to the honest course it Is pursuing to-day. If the present management is as anx ious to pay its obligations to the govern ment as it pretends to bo , why docs it not prove it by devoting all its not earnings 13,500,000 a year to a fund for that purpose ? That would be an evidence of honesty which the government would bo bound to recognize. But when the com pany , after having divided among its members and its favorites $50,000,000 , tlio proceeds of the very subsidy bonds the government gaVe it to aid it m building tlio road , anil dividing its uct earnings from year to year , tolls the country It cauuot and will not pay the debt it owes the government unless allowed sev enty years additional time to do it ih , the case docs not look so exceptionally up right as is claimed. A report was current in Now York a short time ago that the Union Pacific company contemplates building a new road parallel to its present line and ad justing all connections to It , so that when the time comes it may turn over the worthless old road to the government , The report was promptly denied ; but It looks for all the world like a trick for forcing the government into an accep tance of the company's term" . To exe cute such a scheme would indeed be a fraud picturesque nnd novel ; but the early history ot the company reminds us that it has dones oven worse tilings , and that its capacity for such work may not yet bo exhausted. AN AGKD SINNER. One of "Doo" U < tdlbtoirn 1'als on ItU Wny to the Pen. The morning train to Lincoln carried among its crowd of passengers Ncls Anderson , thcQsheriu * of Cedar county and two prisoners , A. Brcrnau and A. S. Davis. The latter is on his way to servo out a sentence of two years for forgery , and the for mer will keep him company in the "pen" for a similar period for horse stealing. The party arrived m this city and was hospitably entertained by Jailor Joe Miller until the truin left for tlio capital. There is nothing notable either in appoarauco or history about Davis but BrcmanI Ah there I Ho is regarded as ' the most export horse thief in the west and was not only " " the partner but the preceptor of the famous Doc" Middleton in the equine larceny business. He is sixty-nine years of ago. gray haired and gray boarded , n picture of a patriarch aud as venerably meek as the Krandfathor of saints. Under browsy white eye lashes , however , are blue "windows of the soul" that no youthfulness - ness can exceed in piercing ( Strength. They are mental stilettos. Breman was dressed in jeans , the regular uni form of the horse-thief , nnd possesses the usually reticence of the trained criminal. Ho acknowledged knowing "Doc" Mid- llcton for years , but , of course , was ac quainted with him only during his days of virtue. After his arrest on the charge for which ho is to remain iu durance fllo for two years , ho name very near escaping. The Hartigan jailor was ibotit locking him up ono evening when lie skipped behind the cell , and in answer to the question regarding his presence he replied lira voice that sounded as if it : amo from thu coll. The door was sloscd and the turnkey about to depart when , by an accident , his presence was discovered. The sheriff of Cedar county inys that Brcmiin is undoubtedly the shrewdest horsothiof In thn went. THE PERFECT i Quickest Selling Article Ever Invented. PRICE OF DASHER , $1.35 foods no talklnir , butrcatlrl.i thol'rottlost Showing Arllcloun the Market. OMAHA , Neb. , April W , 18S7. This is o certify that we , the undersigned , have ' h'is day witnessed a churning by ' The erfect Self Revolving Churn Dashers , " vhich resulted in producing 8V , pounds of irst class butter from one gallon of cream n jnst one minute and fifteen seconds. W. U WrUht. proprietor "Omiiha IMIrn" O. W. Vueclor , manager "umaba Italrn" 1'aul II. Tt , lerehanti' National Biinki A. I ) . 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