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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ; ITUBBDAft tJGUST 23. 1887 , ft THE DAILY BEE. * PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TEHMB or utrnscnirrto1 * t Dntlr ( Morning Edition ) including Sunday UK * . Ono Year . $10 00 Tor Six Mentis . BOO For Throe Month * . 8M The Omahn Humluy UEK , mallod.to auy ddroM , Ono Year. . , . 209 OMAHA ornnt , NO. nil > vn BW FAU AM STIISRT. Nrw YOIIK orricit. UOOM r.o. TutniiNK linit.niMi. WA8UINUTU.X OFFICE , NO. Ml KOUUTllC.VTnBTHWIT. ConntsroNnRJCii All communications relating to nown nnd Ml- torlal matter nliouM bo ad'lrossod to tbo Em- ton or TUB IIKE. All biHnesi letters and remittances ihould lia Mdrodsod to Tnc DCB ruiiMSiliNa COMI-ANY , OMAHA. Drafts , checks and pontofflco onion to be made payable to the order of tuoeompanjr , THE BEE PDBLISIIIvTcirm , mOPRIEIOBS , E. , K03EWATEU. EDITOR. THE DAILY BRE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. BUto of Nebraska. I , _ County of UoutlM. | ° ' " Geo. 11. TzschucK , secretary of The Tlee Publishing company , , docs solemnly sweai that the actual circulation of the Dally Hoc for tlio week ending August 1C , 18b7 , was at follows : ( Saturday. August 13 . U.15C Hundav. August 14 . 14.20C Mondav.Amjnst 11 . 14r 7f TitcHdnv. August 10 . 14,100 Wednesday. August 17 . 14,000 Thursday. Aueuit IS . 13.97C Yriday , August 1U . 18,9yt Avorasro . 14.141 OEO. ii. T/Bcitucic. bworn to and subscribed In my presence this ! M day of August , A. D. 18H7. , , . N. P. Fntr. . ( SEA * 1 Notary Public. fitfttoof Nebraska , I . Douglas County. fss Ceo. U. 'JVseliuclc , being first duly sworn , deposps and sajs that ho is secretary of The Ecu Publishing company , that the nctnul ly circulation of the Dally UPO foi the month of August , IbfeC. ia,4C-t copies ; foi September , 1880 , 13,030 cdples ; for October , IbbC , 12,089 copies ; for November. 1880 , 13 , 4t oorfes ; for December , 1 80. l.'VW copies ; foi January 1887 , in/jcn copies ; for February , 1887 , 14,103 copies ; for March. 1887 , 14.40C conies ; for April. . 1887. 14,310coples ; for May , 887 , 14,227 copies ; for June 1887 , 14,141 copies ; for July , 1887 , 14.093 copies. _ . , . . . OKO. B. TzscrrocK. Subscribed and sworn to before me tills CUth dayot August. A. D. , 18S7. _ _ rHRAL. | N. P. FF.IL , Notary Public. " 'TWAS the catl" 'Twns Scavoy That's the usual outcome of every sensa tional report about police blunders whiot finds Us way into the council combine organs. A MUUNT-'COKK minstrel mnn suicided ftt Kookuk yesterday through the agonoi 6 < chloroform. The propriety of hii choice of route is ns unquestioned a ! that the executioner should chop off hii own head , the soldier put n gun she through his heart and the lawyer tall hlnisolf to death. Tin : entries in the speed trials , whicl naturally form the central feature of the coming fair and exhibition were closet yesterday. Just as a spur to closer scru tiny , the board of control is warnoi ngainst ringers and outlaws who ooca flionnlly campaign tlio western turf Memories of Lothalro still survive and t Jocky trick of any kind can mar the bos devised event. MAUUICK HOSKNFELDT , the Chlcag < stock and grain broker who was caugh in the'Juno wheat crash on tlio Chicag < board , just now feels the rebuke of hi Into distinguished father. A codicil ii the old man's will , inserted during tin brief interval between tlio breaking of tin corner and his death , devises to the wife of Maurice the share of the hnndsomi legacy naturally falling to that son. THE indignation oyoked from thi friends of liburty under all skies save British , by the proscription of th National league of Ireland , swells to thi expression of some stirring sentiment from the distinguished Irish citizens c Lincoln. The resolutions passed in tin meeting of the branch of the Lan < league m that city , ns given in thi morning's UEK , appeal for endorsomen to the spirit of our own free institutions TUB brutal and deliberate murder o the Newer brothers near Friend , yester day , puts another chapter to the serial o crime which Nebraska has been issuinj in rather rapid installments of late. 1 Would sooiu that neither the life cell , th execution by law and the swift rctnbu live judgments of 'Squire I < ynch , whicl liavo steadily mot each outrage , ofl'ur bu little dismay to the robber , rapist and as Bussin. A SCOTCHMAN recently arrived in Nov York under contract to work for a Ken lucky farmer. The collector sent hire back , as his landing would bo in violatioi of the foreign contract labor law , and thi United States circuit court sustained hint In this decision. Poor people are son bark because they may bcoomo public charges , and when they have arranged lor work they have disqualified them lolves for lauding. It will soon bo casiei [ or a cnmol to pass through tlio eye of ; nondlo than for n poor man to enter th territory of the United States. AN elevator full in New York las week , killing ono person , fatully injurin another : and more or less seriously main : ing eleven other vfctims. This disasto was brought about by an attempt to sav < the dill'eronco in expense between a cost iron and wrought-irpu cog whool. Suol parsimony is criminal , and the proprietors tors should bo prosecuted. The clovato is coining moro and more into gonem USD ana it should bo constructed in sue n mannar that a person may not feel u though ho were taking his life In h bands every time ho avails himself of oni So many improvements have boon mad in elevators recently that if they are mad of the best material and properly mannc there need bo little risk of life in usin them. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE president of Venezuela , Guzma Blanco , now stopping in Now York , sa ] Great Britain has become very nggrci ive in acquiring territory in his ropubll and south of the Orinoco , lie is aui prised that the proas of this country h ; not made note of thta aggrcssivonos Venezuela has suspended relations wit England in .consequence and hai a | pcaloil to the United States to act as a bitrator for tbo South American countr , The English government has denied th right of arbitration , and the republic pr poses to appeal to arms. A few the sand soldiers have boon raised to drh the usurpers from the territory. Th country ought to take a stand la favor < the sister republic , for the matter is ' considerable import 16 the United Stati both directly aud indirectly.- The RlghtR of tbo Farther. , Addressing the farmora at the inter state convention rcccnlyhcld nt Atlanta , Senator Colqultt said : "Could you bo allowed to sell where you could cot the best price and buy where you could buy cheapest , your incomes , lot thorn bo great or small , would bo enhanced perhaps - haps thirty-thrco and onethird'per cont.1' Tlio proposition applies as well to the farmers of the west as to those of tlio south. The policy which operates to the detriment of the producers from the neil in ono section , is in a dogrco , If not equally , to the disadvantage of produc ers in all sections. The farmora of the hole country nro .compelled to sell in ho cheapest market and buy in the dear * st. The price of their products is cs- ablishod In a foreign market , subject to he frco competition of the similar roducts of other countries , but when hey come to buy the implements neccs- mry to sow and harvest their crops , or ny necessity not of their own produc tion , they find that it has been protected gainst competition aud they must pay n lounty on it. Their wheat and corn must take thn chances of supply and de mand with the wheat and corn of other ountncs , but the manufacturers of 'lows ' and harrows , mowers and reapers , nd all the other implements of the farm , re subject to no such conditions , but re in a position to tnako every year's roductlon yield n profit. So it is with ivcrythlng oluo thn American farmer has buy. Senator Dawns , of Mnssa- husetts , in a speech some tnnn ago which as been extensively commented upon , deplored the inadequacy of protection in vorstcd goods , The duty on goods cithot mtinlly made of worsted or wholly made f that material is 83.18 per emit and i3.15 per cent , and this industry employs , majority of women aud children in rdor to secure cheap labor. Does it lOOd moro protection , in order that the armor shall have to pay an increased > rico on the garments ho must buy for imsolf and family ? It is said that a powerful effort is being made through Indian merchants in Eng- and to secure reductions in railway 'reights in India in order to compete more effectually with American wheat. This is but one of numerous facts whicl how that the ether grain-producing lountrics of the world are making every possible effort to divide the trade now enjoyed by the American 'armor ' , not , however , as nt ntolllgont and fair-minded po itie.il economist has recently said greatly to their profit. The gram ? rowoi f the United States may see his market ; narrawing and fool the growing prcssun t a competition from India , Russia , Tur coy , Egypt and South Amnrlca , but he has no alternative but to grin nnd bear it n his patient and trustful way ho wll lontinun on sowing and reaping as the leasons come and go , hoping for a bottoi ttxto of things. Meanwhile , the protect cd manufacturer will soil him all that lu : an afford to buy and take their goncrou : profits without a qualm , willing to in crease them by adding to the duties , a ; Senator D.IWOS would do in the case o worsted goods. The fault , however , i : argcly with the farmers thomsolvns They have it in their power to apply tin remedy , but they have submittot so long to the control of theories which lowevcr justifiable In th6 past , are m ongcr applicable , that they seam unable now to free themselves of the control , They cannot misapprehend the triu character of the situation or the meaning of the facts of evory-day experience , and hat they do not rnvolt against a system .vliich they must know to bo an oppros siou can only bo explained on the scon of that strom ; conservatism which i characteristic of the farming element and is repelled by anything which seems to bo reactionary. But whatever the nlluonco that holds them to the sup port of a policy which continuall : robs thorn , and is every year increasing their disadvantages , it cannot bo mucl onger maintained. The oppression i becoming so heavy , the yoke so galling that before long there will bo heard a do niand for relief which will startle tin tariff monopolists from their dream e security and force them from a shoo sense of their own safety to make a fai concession for lessoning the burden o taxation they have imposed on ttiral industry. The Nicaragua Routo. The fact that the company which pro poses the construction of the Nicaragu canal lias deposited the pledge of gooi faith , $100,000 , demanded by the Nicar aguan government , must bo regarded a an expression of confidence inthat enterprise terpriso and an assurance of business in tontion-that give tho-projoct a claim t regard as something very likely to b rciili/.ed. The sohomo has been in con tcmplation a number of years , and th question of its feasibility has receive the most careful consideration from so entitle men , chiolly ofllcors of the Unitoi Stutos navy. Very little doubt is no < entertained that the canal can bo sue cossfully constructed at n cost not to o ccotl $75,000,000 and in a period of fror live to six years. The project is purely a privat enterprise , aud does not seek subsidy from this or any ether govern mout. The company , which is cntirol American , last May obtained from t ! the government of Nicaragua liberal coi cessions , which are to continue for tw hundred years. This corporation wi look to private capital wholly for carrj ing out tbo enterprise , boliovine that is not only entirely practicable , bt would certainly become immensely pr < titable. The commercial advantages o : pectod from the completion of this worl if they should bo realized , are of tbo mo important character. Ono of these , it thought , would bo the establishment of great lumber trade between Alaska an the Atlantic. It would doubtless effect great increase of the guano and nltra trade with the west coast of Soul America. Germany would use tl canal for her trade with thu Soul soa. Spain for commerce wl the Phllipino islands , France with Toi quin ana Utahito , Holland with Jav and Russia with Eastern Siberia. Mm of the English trade with China , Japai Australia aud Now Zealand would ui this line of travel. Most of the trad which goes in sailing ships betwee Europe and the cast would use the no routo. It would , in short , iu the opinic of the projectors , open up a great avem for commerce for which there is a gro and urgent demand , and from which tl United States would secure almost it measurable benefits. The ultimate completion of the P nama canal is still regarded ! by capable scientific mou but ovcu If that bo accom plished , the enterprise h likely never to bo a profitable one. U will bo burdened with an enormous debt , the Interest of which will call for all the possible earnings and which will compel the exaction of extremely - tromoly heavy tolls , Tills , with the un favorable climatic conditions , which do not exist on the Nicaragua route , will tend to keep dcrwn the business of the Panama canal , and with the former ns n rival the latter would perhaps never pay , and certainly not for generations. The fact that tlio Nicaragua project is purely an Anierlr.au enterprise , to bo built by the capital nnd under the management of Americans particularly commends it to the favorable regard of the people of this country , and now * that the pro jectors nro pushing the matter in earnest aud have given an ampb plcdgo of their faith in its success , it will bo no surprise if it shall speedily take practical form nnd become a consummated fact within the time proscribed for its construction , IMnn For Electoral lie form. Mr. Allen Thorndiko Rice , editor of the North American Review , has drawn up a plan for the prevention of bribery at elections. Ills method contemplates open nominations to ofilco which will do uway with primaries. This is no doubt a move in the right direction , but Mr. Rico's system , in detail , Is cumbersome and would bo found to bo imnracticablo. Iho plan is substantially ns follows : T ho registration oflieurs are to receive and print live days before the registra tion the names of all the eligible persons who may be recommended by a certain number of voters ns fitted for the oilices to bo filled at the ensuing election. When a citizen regis ters ho will bo requested to designate such of these persons as ho may wish to bo put In nomination , and any person thus designated by one-tenth o ! thn voters registered at the' last election shall bo placed on the list of candidates , nnd the expanses of election iiro to be borne by the county. The registration officers will prepare the ballots contain ing the names of the candidates , there being as many different ballots as there are offices , and the names of all candi dates for the same olllcc to bo upon one ballot , oanh ballot to bo attached to n stub or counterfeit , which must correspond spend with a book of ballots of the same form to bo given to the inspectors on the morning of election. At the election the voter takes his ballots aud marks off from each the candidates for whom he doe : not wish to vote , compartments IE the polling place being provided for this purpose. Before the ballol is delivered to the elector hi : number , name , and description must IK called , a mark must bo put on tlio regis tration list to show ho has received the ballot , and it must bo stamped by thi chairman of the board of inspectors ; and ufter thu canvass of the votes the stubs ol the ballot-books , together with all de faced or mutilated ballots , all unused ballots , and the stamp , must bo filled in the same manner and nt tlio same time ns the poll list or registry list is required tc bo tiled. Mr. Rice says : "This plan would givt any stated uumbor of citizens the legal power to secure the nomination of nil honest and competent candidate in then district or ward wlthoutoncouutoriug the uoisy perils of the primaries. " TIIEKE appears to bo nnonllict between th&wino-growcrs of California and Ohio and if wo may judge from the remarks o ; a San Francisco contemporary it is no' ' likely to bo easily settled. From thii one-sided statement it seems that Call fornin growers insist on mnkiug onli pure wines , whllo those of Ohio nre no averse to making n spurious article am really do so. The evident opinion of oui contemporary is that in any event goot wine cannot bo mmlo from thu Oliit grape , and it does not hesitate to sny tha the wine industry there is not a genuini industry. Therefore , it Biakcs no refer vation in inviting nnd welcoming th < conflict which is expected to manifest it self in full vigor when Oongressmar Romics. of Ohio , who represents tin chief wine-growing section , shnl introduce his pure-wine bill in th next congress. Lot us make tin issue , " says the San Frpncisco journal "nnd fiirht it out. Lot us show the ens where wo stand nnd where Ohio stands Lot us force the Oliioans into thn groun < they seem to want. It will do Cnlifornii no harm to bo advertised as ptrainin * every nerve to supply the east with pun wine , while persons in Ohio are exertim themselves to maintain the manufnctun of n mixture of grnpo juice nnd con spirits to bo sold as winu. " This is ; matter which may have an interest enl for wine-drinkers , but wo desire to sa1 that until Ohio is heard from the verdic must bo favorable to California. A win that can evoke such rhetoric as the nbov nnd much more likoit has very decide merit , whether it bo purer than som ether wine , and particularly the Ohi vintage , or not. E inspection of oil has disclosed th fact th'at no petroleum oil was being of fercd in the markets of Nebraska fo illuminating purooses below the re quired tests. All such oil inspected dm ing July was passed. Thu gasoline in spected was condemned for lighting There is good reason to believe that th enactment of the law was immediate ! effective , in advance of the nppointmen of inspectors , m substituting a good an safe oil for the inferior article , a gres dual of which unquestionably was sol before the law was passed. If curotu and honest inspection is maintained th people of Nebraska who usa oil fo illuminating purposes may rest assure of hereafter getting a reliable article. Tin : city treasury is running low. Th council should lop off all supernumoi nries if it desires to retain funds enoug for legitimate municipal expense ! There is no reason why the city shoul pay $4CO per month for three duput city treasurers whoa the charter pr < Tides only for ono deputy. There is n excuse for squandering money on o : pensive deputy city clerks , or any othe deputies or clerks where the principal are paid to do the work and oan do it ! disposed to devote thnlr time to thei ofllolal dutiei. The city of Omaha is nt running a pension bureau , nor an invall rotroat. As is usual in such cases , importan booJcs of account , used by the luloa Napoleon of fiuonco , are musing : ' Th withholding of such books when de manded by the proper authorities is con- cmpt of court , nnl [ Houry S. Ives may uddonly find himself In jail niter all. mportant booTcs wore reported missing n the recent IJnlon Pacific investigation also , but Stanford ! lluntington , Crocker iVCo. . did not sccrii to bo takou to task n regard to th'o matter as they should lave boon. In these attempts to bring hlovcs on a largo scale to justice , moro horoughncs3 ,1s , .neccessary , It looks nero as though the proceedings against hem is morolyU snare to pacify the pub ic which is beginning to clamor for moro equality in the administration of ustlco , without nny real desire to bring about decided results. THE G. A. R. Glee Ulub Is rehearsing 'or n worthy rendition of "Marching L'hrough Georgia" on the occasion of the grand reunion shortly to bo held here. A lappy inspiration prompts this step , for of all the war songs of the nation none so vividly carries the martial spirit in melody and words. It is a singular cir cumstance that beyond a few catch words of the refrain the words of this ringing battle hymn , "ono of the surely > ermancnt musical legacies of the war , " arc almost if not entirely unknown to the people. An air so closely linked with .he proudest achievements of our arms should bo Wedded to words of equally thrllliuir measure and put into the brain nnd heart of every patriot son and daughter who can lift a volco in loyal song. A CLAIM is now pending before the council for the swooping of Doilce street in July. The board of public works has rejected this claim bocnuso the work was never done , and could not have been done on account of the obstruction by the cabin rend of that street. But the couti' cil committee has over-ruled the boaro and reported in favor of allowing this bid. The question is , ' what use is there for tflc board of public works , nnd whj should the city pay for sweeping streets that have nuvor been swept any more Minn they should pay for paving street ! that have not been pnvod. THE county commissioners will be obliged to make the division of the conn ty into live commissioner districts within n week. This apportionment is of tin utmost importance to the interests ; of tin county , nnd upon it hinges very largely the character and make-up of the county government. Miss POITLV.TON'S realistic sketch o ! Jefferson square1 its : i park presents gooi argument for tlie improvement of thn square by the Council , but no logica ' reasons nro prevj'qntod in support of th < proposition thutiU public library then would make the iqunro a moro ngreeabh and sightly resorf. A CHEAT deal'of plotting nnd under hand scheming is already going on ii political circles i for the nominations tt the district bt'hch. Any man who wil descend to the level of the pot-housi politician in his anxiety to become : judge , is utterly unlit for the place. JOHN M. TimiisioN will doubtless b ; gratified to learn that the Pacific r.ulr.oai . commission bus nbout concluded its in vustigation , nnd has no disposition to re turn to Omaha to into.rvlow him nboui oil rooms nnd legislative boodle. the months of Mny , Juno nnc July the city street commissioner gaiif has drawn out of the trensury $8,344.88 The question is , what has the city toshov in the way of improvements for thi enormous sum ? I'RO.HINHNT PERSONS Stanley has more lives and deaths than i cat. cat.Mr. Mr. Parnell has lapsed from health ngaii and isaillntr. Fifty members of the Marsh family met li Hartford , Conn. , the other day. . . Newman "Grunt's " I Itov. J. P. , paison , the guest of Senator Stanford , in tinn Tran cltco. cltco.Wall Wall sticut has not yet decided what th < effect of tht > birth ot Jay Gould's Krnudsoi \\ill have upon the m.ukct. The widow of Louis Spohr , the composer Is still living In Cassel. She recently celebrated brated her eightieth birthday. ( iouerul Furron , HoulanKot's successor a French minister ot war , is n tall , fino-loolcin : man , with gray hair and mustache. General of the Army Sheridan has gone t Newport to join his family , and will not ic turn to Washington before September. lied Shirt Is disgusted with the Brills ! parliament After his viblt to the bald headed liouso of commons he remarked thn there was not a "scalp" to be soon from th gallery. And now It Is said that Senator Kiddie bcrccr wants to light a duel with Judge Now man. Illddlrborger seems to bo a good ( let moie fitted by nature for breaklntr laws thai for making them. Ex-Governor itoadlcy , of Ohio , ts going t build a 340,000 icsldenco In New York. II has recovered quickly from his alleged bank ruptcy through the operations of Archblshoi 1'iirccll's assignee. General Kosser , having demolished th general of our armies , now inoves upon th national treasury , t\ud proposes to bankrup the general govern awnt by using its assests I payment of the debt'Of ' Virginia. Pobedouncznw 'Is ' ' the uncompromlsln ; name of the man Who will probably succor the Into Killlor KatkJjr as the leader of th Russian Panslavlsts. * A sun of the actress Rachel , M. Felix , lieu tenant In the French nrmy , died recently I the interior of Africa , lie distlugulshe himself by his bravery In the war of 1870. A monument of beautiful design will see : bo placed over the grave of Chester A Arthur. Besides this he will have a menu meet in Now York city , erected by volun tary subsrclptlons fo { ho amount of 530,000. Colonel Thomas E. Row , commander a Fort Court to , Tex. , to at Cape May. Colon < Rose Is the man who'originated the famou escape from Llbby'prVson whereby forty-nlti union soldiers retained their freedom on th night of February 9,1804. KOJCOO Conkllng U making a reputation a a swimmer. Ha U very fond ot the iport an his specialty la floating , lie can float fe hours at a time. TQelung development h has obtained as an orator stands him In goo stead when he enters tbo water. Colorow , the Ute chief , who Is making tli disturbance In Colorado , Is an enormous ol savage welehln ; 800 pounds. lie Is what i kuown ID the base tall slang as "a kicker. He has never been satlsQed with the govern moot , aud has been more or less rebellious a bis life , Mrs ; Cleveland has grown very brown i Marlon. Her complexion Is one which H In proved by a coal of tan , and she now look like * Spanish beauty. The name "Uonn Frances" which was Riven her by her friends at Wells collcRO has followed her to her pres ent abiding plnce. nnn oven the countryfolks nbout Marlon call her by that romantic tille. Onrljong Armed Politicians , Philadelphia TfmM. Wo havn't any emperors In this country to embrace when they meet , but wo have plenty ot politicians wno will embrace anything from a department clerkship to a cabinet ofllco. Lninnr at * nn Anti-Poverty Society. The rate at which Secretary Lamnr is re storing railway lands to the public domain ; lvcs rise to the suspicion that ho has organ ized himself Into a very effective null-poverty- society , _ A Lesson From llussln. A station Is to bo established in St. Peters burg for the examination of food materials ottered for sale In the city , It will be under the charge of scientists appointed by the government. A Mllltnrr Question , Chicago Herald. Isn't it a little severe on the secretary of war for the treasury department to dcclilo that the horses which draw him do not come under the head of ' 'army transportallonV" If the secretary Is not the army , who' Is ? This Hns n Familiar Sound. StocMnn Matt. When nu eastern man arrives nt Los Augt'lcs and deposits his wealth In ono of the local banks , the bank president cl.ips on his plug hat and frantically hunts up a real estate spectilntor with the Information : "There's n now sucker In town. Got S2. > ,000 Go for him I" Did Not Socin In Feel itt Homo. llouiftioM Jmti Mill. John Stevens , n frltiml ot ours , attended a spiritual seance last week , nnd was In con- veisatlou with the aulrlt ot a voting laity. After borne talk he asked her where she was. Shu said , "in hca\on. " Ho asked her how she liked It. She said : "Pretty well ; but it Isn't Now York. \VnttlnR. Sam T. Clover. Serene I hold my hand and wait , Nor care tor bluff , nor full , nor pat , linvo no morn'gainst luck nor fate , For , lol the stakes will settle that. I stav my haste , I feign my delay I inward quake yet show no siirn ; A diamond soiiminco smiles my way , And tells mu that tlio pot is mine. Slnco yesternight till tearly day. This little game I've bucked In vain- Anil wntchud tin ; dollars eo astray With sinking heart and aching brain. What matter if the cash hns flown ? I wait with joy the coming hot ; M } ' hand shall reap what has boon sown , Aud make mo even with them you So let them draw ; I little care For nidilvthish or tempting straight ; And thotmh I cannot show a pair , All blull'b will 1 accommodate. With each now bet my spirit roars Tim ending plilnly 1 forseo ; Notllitsh , nor lull , nor oven ' 'fours" Can take the put away from mo. Damu Fortune long Ins proved unkind , But now at lust she deigns to smile , And In mv bosom sits enshrined , Fen , lol 1 gather in the pile. " STATK AM ) TI3IUUTOIIY. Fnditott ! is the latest Nebraska town tc announce the discovery of coal. Harvard anil Clay Center can saj "hullo" to uauh oilier over the tele phone. Grand Island citizens go thirsty on Sunday now , the saloons having been closed on that day. Beatrice was very quiet last week , there not being a Ringfu cn.so to bo dis posed of in police court. Mrs. llob'orts , of Nordon , foil down a llight of stops the other day nntl cnmc very near climbing the coltiun stairs. Mrs. Frederick llnnzo , of Fairfield , has left her licgo lord , but carries a bullet in ono of her legs as a last token of regard from her Into consort. Iladnr , Pierce county , hns lost its post- oflico. The poitmnstor removed from town the other day nnd nobody else wants the job. The wife of Peter Howard , living neni Doniphau. has bean bunt to the insane asylum. Her mnlady was caused bj being frightened by a severe storm. Some twontv citizens of Endicott have signed articles of incorporation of the Kndieott Milling nsisocintion , nnd a Hour' ing null will bo built at that place in the near future. A human suoloton wns discovered six foot under ground by workmen in n stone quarry near Culbortson. The spinnl column was curiously incased in rock and thoroughly putiiliud. Sid Flyto , a Hitchcock county horse thiet , escaped ftom jail at Culburtson will ; the aid of a friend , and is now roaming nt large , with no 'particular cllbrt buinp mndo to recapture him. The Chuyenno county commissioners have boon asked to submit a proposition to the peoplu nt the coming election tr vote $45,001) ) in bonds for the purpose ol building three bridges across the North Platte river. Hitchcock county is so lenient with horse thieves that the Stratton Gazette advises young men out of employment tc enter the business , giving as substantial reasons that "tho profits are large , the work light , and the risk nothing aftei the officials get after you. " A young man named Bogps , while driving a team near Beatrice Saturday , wns struck by lightning nnd rendered in' ' sensible. The electricity tickled the horses also nnd they ran away , but the young mnn recovered in time to stop thorn buforo nny damage wns dono. H ward's hose company has been or ilored not to use nny moro water from the railroad tank. The boys got a little funny thu ether d'ty and turned the hose on a passing passenger tram to cool of the dusty travelers. This action .caused n coolness on the part of the rail rout ; company and the above order was the result. The Sidney Telegraph reports the town full of cowboys Inst week and says "Thursday morning ouo of them made an olit-fitshioncd display of getting full nnd running through the streets on horse back tiring his revolver. That's FO old a chestnut wo supposed the boys had learned better and turned such work oyui to the 'shavetails. ' ' " Iowa. Iowa has 8,000 miles of railroad that cost over $250,000,000. The next annual session of the grand lougo of Good Templars will bo held m Hampton. Allamakoo county Is considerably excited - cited over the discovery of iron Mid the preliminaries for the development of the minus. At the competitive examination in Con pressman Holmes' dUtrict Hay Burgess , of Boone , carried oft' the honors and re ceived the appointment. Geo. Trout , the murderer of Ed. Hatch , has fallen away fifteen pounds since con. lined in tbo Anamosa penitentiary. He does no work , his health being very poor , and It is thought that ho will not live t great while. E. D. Fenn , the democratic postmivBtci at Nevada , who is also a merchant , tws failed. It is said to bu a very bad failure the liabilities being f9,000 nnd the asset * very small. Giving too much attention to politics is said to bo the cau&u. Morrison ; prisoner at Cherokee , broke iall Wednesday night by knocking ; the jailor down with a chair. Ho stole a horse from a farmer with which to got out of that region , The farmer , however , gave chase , nnd with the sheriff cap tured the culprit. Eliza Toby Dodge , of Mineral Point , nn old colored woman who came to Iowa county with Governor Dotlgo , the first torrltorlnl governor of Wisconsin , died in the Iowa county poorhotiso hoar Dodge- villo , aged seventy-eight yours. She was born a slave , nnd took with her to the grave scars made by lashes in the bar barous days of slavery iu the south. / Dnkotn. Work will soon bo begun on the court house at Aberdeen. Yankton is arranging for a lecture course for next winter. Governor Mollotto thinks division will carry oven In north Dakota , The corner stone of the territorial nor- nml school at Spenrllsh , was laid last Friday. The Aberdeen , Bismarck & Northwest ern has made n proposition to the citi zens of Watertown to build their line in there. ' The Dondwood authorities raided Chinatown Friday nnd captured liftcen celestial keepers anil inmates of opium joints. * Thu Milwaukee company has now ttos and stool rails scattered along its line from Vermillion to Ynukton. It will Im prove its road. Mitchull has sent a committee to inter- vluw the Manitoba and Illinois Contrnl railwny companies rolntivo to building their lines into that city. Hallway Commissioner Grlggs says that before lone all the warehouses will bo obliged to tnkc out a license ami give bonds for the storing of grain. Ho con siders it protection nliko to elevator muii nnd farmers. Oliver Dnlrymplo , the extensive noith Dakota farmer , says wheat is not thrash ing out ns much within three or four bushels per acre as wns expected. Cnss county's yield will bo but twelve or thirteen bushels per acre , W. II. Phelps , sovuuty-spvon years of ngc , a brother of Minister Phelps , who represents this country at the court of St. James , earns his daily broad at Sioux Falls by sewing m u tailor shop thoro. Ho was oncu a successful writer on the Now York Herald in the days of the older Bennett. Mr. Phelps lias visited every state iu thu union , hns done busi ness in fourteen states nnd in South America. Hu is very eccentric and hns not spoken to any of the Phelps family for thirty years. Thn family is ouo of the most noted in Vermont , and the Sioux Falls member is a college graduate and highly educated. Wyoming. The slstors of uhanty are to build n hospital at Evnnston. The now flouring mill at Lnrnmio will bo completed in sixty days. A magnificent ledge of lima rock has been discovered near Cokovillc. Stops nro beinir taken toward estab lishing a public library in Sundance. , _ A blind mnn named Stanley , claiming to bo the grandfather ot the African ex plorer , is playing the piano to large houses in Larnmlo. The Y. M. C. A. young mon of Choy. cnno will harden their muscles for the chrl.stinn fight in a gymnasium to be opened September 1. Mat Murphy , of the Murphy Cnttle company , mut with an nccident a fo\\ days ago at thn Crow agoncy. Ho was assisting in rounding tip homo cattle ami the horsu he was riding foil , whorcb > Mr. Murphy broke his leg in two places between the knee aud aukle. Ministers are so scarce in Idaho that when ouo happens to citop over the line from Wyoming ho Is immediately cor- ralcil for the purpose of tying nuptial knots. Sylvester ( 'ollutt ami iSorn Tnnnui captured llov. F. L. Arnold , of Kvhtiston , the other day ns ho wns riding across the country and were doubled up in an open field of sago brush. Jlio I'ncllio Const. The Montana Press association meets in Helena this wccki A colony of 000 families from Missouri is to bo located iu San Barnardino county. Butte citizens have been entertaining with honor Mrs. Mengher , widow of Gen eral Thomns Francis Alcaghor. It is roportctl Mint a Chinese lopcr ex ists in Sobastapol , nnd the authorities tire taking stops to have him removed. Three hundred Chinpso employed In fruit-drying near San Jose , last Friday became engaged in a fight. Clubs and knives were frcoly used. There nro porspns in Arizona who bo- liuvo the latu train robbery wns planned and managed li.v Dick Luldoll , ono ot the notorious Jesse Jtiiues ganp. The Cluneso who were driven out of Bloomficld recently are endeavoring to make arrangements to return , but the citizens of that place- declare they shall not. Lyman Crandull , known as Brother Crandnll , a well-known eccentric char acter in the mines , died at North San Juan Saturday night. Ho was a a Mexi can veteran. An examination of the registry ol tourists nt the hotels in the National Park last week shows that moro people from Helena nro visitors there than from any ether city in tlio United States. Wm. Mnllory , known" as Tobacco Bill , who lives nt Cherry Hill. Nevada county , i.s on a rnmpago. Ho owned several line hives , which wore filled with houoy , and a pack of prowling bears in search ol something sweet came upon Tobaccc Bill'i ) store. They soon cleaned out the whole business. William is on the big gest boar hunt ho over undurtook. Hi. Eminence , Jnmrs Gibbonn. cardi nal archbishop of Baltimore , will bo n cuust of the Right Uov. J. B. Brondel , bishop of Helena , for a day or two in the early part of October , and will bo accom panied by a number of distinguished gentlemen , who will journey with the cardinal to Portland , whither he coes to confer the Pallium upou Archbishop Gross. About two weeks ago , says the Salmon City ( Idaho ) Uucordur , tha editor of the Kccnrdur hired the building so lonir oc cupied by Colonel Shuii ) > , on the corner of Main" and St. Charles streets and leased the same for five years. Tons of cold dust had boon weighed out in the building , and ns u mntter of course , much had been spilled. Mr. Booth left I ant Saturday with Iho intent of nttunding the press convention nt Shoshnnu Falls , and stopping at Franklin , Onclda county , to visit his son n lad of nbout ton years. lu the meantime the carpenters nud other men hu had left in charge had scraped the iloor taken up thu bdards and collected about three barrels of dirt , which upon being washed yielded the sum of $1,200.01. This was panned out near Fudge's house ami wan altogether in excess of anything that had been ex pected. A hundred or two dollars was all that tint most sanguine had predicted. \Nu expect that a division or a law suit will bo the result. Quito u severe accident occurred Sun day morning to FranK Edwurds.tho four- tcen-ycar-old son of Edward J. Kdwnnls , of Omaha View. Thu boy was invusti- gating a bran now pistol of the bulldog patternwhen tlio weapon was discharged and thu ball entered the calf of the right leg , traveling with n downwnrd course and coming out in thu right hide of tno foot below thu ankle. Dr. Uuthurford was summoned nnd found thu bull in thu young man's stocking. Thu bull was of US calibre , nud thti dl.stanuu It traveled iu the boy'ri limb will naturally make the wound a serious ouo. t - - , j & k * ' A ft / 'S. .Jt- ' . L.V \ CITY HAIMVAY8. Now Sloven Doing Made liy the nival Companies. Yesterday the Motor line company put ft gang of men nt work cutting the pavement of Fourteenth street nt the in * torsuotton of Davenport , for the purpose of laying their rails for a continu ation of the track southward from that point. The rails were laid to the Intersection n fuw weeks ngo. Besides , n corps of engineers wan on tlio ground and ran a line along Fourteenth southward. The objective point of the company is the now bridge ncross the Missouri , which they will probably ronch by menus of Douglas struct. When the mils will bo laid , seems at present problematical , because no iron ' hns yet been delivered , and when it Is , it ij will have to bu of the style specified in $ the ordinance which is different from thu & T rail already laid laid by the company , w The steam motor on the Benson Hue J was out practicing yesterday. No cars a have arrived ns yet. ' jj TUB CAULK TRAMWAY. ? It Is now understood that this company $ has decided to run a line down California 7 street from Underwood nvenuo on the > * Patrick farm down California street to ' Lowe avenue. Where the outlet cityward ' , will bu from the latter point ia uot yet . known. , ' NOTTS. E. G. Lomnx , passenger agent of the . Chicago , Burlington & Quinoy , at Cht- \ cngo , is expected iiero in n day or two to join the Union Pacific official forces ns I successor to Assistant Pas ungcr Agout ' S. B. Jones. ' Thomns L. Klmbnll. of thu Union Pa- oilic , hns gone to St. Louis via the Kansas City & St. Joe routu. It Is re ported that ho is going to met S. H. H. Clark , with reference to a promised ap pointment on the Missouri Pacific. Till : llUFIT.f OAKS. Contrary to nrrnngomunts nnd expectation - ' tation , the Buffet cans have not com- U menci'd running yot. One wns tnkun out Mf- ' of the shops on Saturday at 0 o'clock * t and is now bolng slocked ncross t' the river. A rumor was currant fj yesterday , that the Union Pacific had signed a contract with the Chicago , Milwaukee As St. Paul for tlio lease of the > latter's lino" to Chicago , nnd that the , J bullet car.s would not bo put on until a , ' through routu could be made from the lakes to thu coast. NKIIUAKICA Oil IOWA. ' ID Which of ThcHo States la Cut-Off j Island Liooated. i Mayor Broatch yesterday , expressed I some solicitude over the state of affairs | recently dnscnbed in an nrticlo in the i - BKK , as existing on the shores of Cut-Off lake. Ho said that for some time back , the police had been watching in the neighborhood because a number of re port * had reached headquarters of . ' strange doiturs in that part of the city. Thu difliculty experienced in keeping watch over the district wns bccnuso of the inadequacy of the police forco. The niayor also denied that the beer hut on thu ' island surrounded by Cut-Off lake was in lown , ns claimedand said hu proposed to investigate the matter. In this hut beer is sold without either Omnlm or Council Bluffs license , the proprietor ' paying only the government tax. In op position to thu opinion of tha mayor , is that of the proprietor ot the plnuo , as also ' all the residents on the island who hold that the place wns surveyed years ago as a part of lown , nnd that the shitting of | the river did not of itself change the territory - ! ritory into Nebraska. With this und in viuw those settlers have gone through the formality of claiming thu land , and arc taking steps to have an official survey of the same ns government land made , which , nftur being held a num ber of years , will become the property of the settlers. Tha iilnoo seems to bo too far from Council Bluffs , not worth the attention of the commis sioners of Pottawattomio county. Iowa , and ns n consequence , , the sale of all kinds of liquor , as mentioned above , is unrestricted. _ 1 * U HLIc'woitKS. McArthur again Talks * about the Eleventh Street Viaduct. Me Arthur , Into superintendent of the Eleventh street viaduct , who haa boon making objection to the acceptance of that structure by the board of public works , has not abandoned his intuntion of bringing the mnttor again to the at tention of the board. Hu showed a BKH reporter an envelope address to Mayor Broutch , which ho said contained pings of iron which ho had dug from old con-- detuned material that had been incorpo rated into the viaduct. Ho hnsgot tired , he claims , of going to the papers , ami proposes now to tilu u formal and specific complaint of the work done on the viaduct with thu board of public woikH. In viuw of thu fact that ntits last moot ing that body unanimously voted that the constructors of tha viaduct had complied with nil the specifications , it is n matter of doubt ns to what good McArthur's act will effect. The Fowler-Stock Yards Cnno. On the 5th of this month , Messrs. Fowler ler Bros. , packers in South Omnhn , sought an injunction In the United States court , restraining the Stock Yards com- punv from issuing $100,000 slock ns n bonus to sccuro the removal to this place of Armour , the packer. The Stock Yards company have filed" their answer getting fourth their mem bership , time of incorporation , also that thp plaintiffs were granted 1,000 shares of stock ns it is proposed to grunt to Ar mour ; that another 1,000 , shnres wore granted Swift nnd that ono of the Few ler's was present nt the meeting nt which this was done ; that the ; board of directors authonzod the president to enter inton like contract with Armour , but that the contract ban not yet been executed ; that in making the said contracts , the directors of the defendant's company were moved solely bv their concern for the bust interests of the company and its stockholders * . All unlawful combination or con federacy in denied nnd the net is claimed to bo in accordance with thu rules of the company. For those reasons the ilcfund- ants ask for the dismissal of the case. Walking the Wholesale BIon. C. H. Barnatto , nlins C. H. Johnson , was arrested yesterday charged with obtaining money under falsu pretenses , and was bound over to the district court. Ho had a well worded subscrip tion paper , with a.i imitation of the olliciul stamp of thu Switchman's Brotherhood , bodge No 41. impressed upon the right hand corner , nnd spoilt thu af ternoon Saturday calling on thu wholesale houses of thu city "and soliciting contri butions in behalf of Itulplt Howard , nn invalid switchman , whoso friends wished to send him away for medical tieatinent. AH n further inducement Johnson ntatud to thu merchants that hu was assistant hand switchman in the yards hero , nnd that ho would HOG that their cars should always bo run up early , nnd nn especial lookout kept on their freight matter. The following merchantman ) among Mr. Johnson's dupes : Pnxton , Gallagher & Co. , $ * > ; Sloan , Johnson & Co. , $ r > ; Dewey & Stone , | 5 ; Blake , Hruro & Co. . $5 ; Purlin , Orendorff A ; Martin , if'J ; Fred Krugo , $5 ; T. W. Hnrvey , | 5. Yesterday cvtmilig a demand wrw mndo by thu olHcIals of tha Medical college upon Coroner Druxitl for thu rumaliiH of John G. Wallace , thu mnn who com mitted suicide in llanscom park on Fri day last , nnd they worn accordingly turned over to thu in titutlon by U > u ollioor in question , as Wallace's relative * bad not boon heard from.