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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1887)
THE DAILY BEE , PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. * renws or s'trMcmnTto < : Dnlljr ( Mornl.1t ? Edition ) Including Sunday * llr.R , Ono Year . * 10 M For Six Monttu . 6 f For Three Months . SW The Omahn Sunday DKE , mnlloJ to nny uddrcss , Ono Vonr. . , . 800 OMAHA Orrtcr. No. mi ji.vn 9H TIIIVAM Urnttr. KKW VOIIK orrtcK. lion * ts. THIBUM IIDIUIINU. WABItlNUTON UITICC , NO. & COnnrsrONDINCEI All cemmunlcntiont rolntln r to news nnd od- ( torlal matter nhonlil bo addressed to the Em- Ton or TIU : LIKE. All bu lncn lot tori and remittances ihould bo felilroMod lo THE HE * I'unURltiMl COM PA Mr , OMAHA. Drafts , checks and poilofflce ordnri lo bo tnnilo payable to tlio ordcrof tba company , HE BEE FOBLISHIHTSPHHT , PROPRIETORS , _ E. ROSEWATEU. KniTQB. THE DAU/V BEli \ - Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btato of Nebraska. I . County of Doiiemi. | B < " OPO. B. Tzschuci : , secretary of The Bee Publishing couijiixny , docs solemnly swear tliat the actual rirr-uintlon of tlm Dally lice lor the week ending Sept 9 , 1837 , wa § as follows : Saturday. Sept. 3 . 14.3.10 Hundav. Sent 4 . 14.200 Monday. Sept. 5 . 15 , 5 Tiifwlav.Hept.fi . 14.800 Wednesday. Sept 7 . 14,800 Thursday. Sept , 8 . 14. : xx ) Friday , Sept. 0. . . . 14,295 Avernco . 14.424 C'oATj Ewr. 89.25 : nut , 89.50 : range. 89.50 ; Iowa lump , gn.OO ; Iowa nut , 82.75 : walnut oek , 8:1.105 : Illinois , $ t.S5@4.76. GEO. U. TZSCHUCIT. Sworn to nnd subscribed In my presence this loth duy of September , A. D. 1887. N. P. FKU , . H.rSKAL.1 Notary Public. Btato of Nebraska , 1 Dotielas County. IOT Oeo. U. Tzdchuck , being first duly sworn , depones and says that he Is secretary of The Hoe Publishing company , that the actual average dally circulation of the Dally Uee for the month of September , IKK ) , 18.030 copies ; for October. 1880. 12.U89 copies ; for Novem ber. 1880 , 13H8 : copies : for December , 1S80 , 13.SJ7 copies : for January 1887. 10,200 copies ; for February , 1887 , 14,108 copies ; for March. 1887 , 14,400 copies ; for April , 1887 , 14ilO : copies ; for May , 1687 , 14,227 copies ; for June 1887 , 14,147 copies : for July. 1887,14.- 093 copies ; for August. 1887 , 14,151 copies. OKO. 11 Tzscrrucii. Sworn and subscribed in my presence tills ntli day of Sept. A. D. , 1837. [ SEAL. | N. P. FKTL. Notary Public. SINCE the exposures of the Castle Garden abuses the railroad pool which formerly hud full swing there , has de cided. to lower thn rates for carrying im migrant baggage. Thus the press of the country day by any compols'tho strangl ing monopolies of the land to loosen their grip upon the poor. MOPUSTV is not ono of Chicago's dis tinguishing traits. Her latest piece of effrontery is pushing forward the name of Charles U. Farwell for the republican presidential nomination. Chicago la a bard rustler for everything in sight , but in this her aspirations cannot bo grat- ilicd. Gr.ouon HAMILTON , who has boon on trial ut Wyandotte , Kan. , on the charge of wrecking the Missouri Pacilic train near that place n year ago last April , has boon acquitted , lie was a prominent Kight of Labor , nnd the verdict exoner ating him from the crime _ will also close the mouths of those enemies of that ordei who have endeavored to lay the das tardly dued at its door. THE lowly dogs prefer doatli to clean liness. Sunday three Italian soldiers wore sent out to disinfect n little villcgo near Naples , when they were seized by a mob and ordered to drink the disinfcc. tant carbolic acid. Ono of them swal- lowoa a dose of the flrery liquid and died in horrible agony , while the other two refused to drink and were beaten to death. The Italian soldier's lot is not a happy ono. _ _ _ _ _ _ As the tuna draws near for the race be tween the Volunteer and the Thistle in the Now York waters , the interest In the contest increases. It is generally conceded - coded that the liritish yacht stands a fair show of capturing the cup this time and bets are about oven. The owner of the Thistle arrived in Now York last Friday. Ho says that if his boat does not win an other yacht will bo built for next year's race. Given time enough and'trials enough the day may come when the cup will recross the ocean. SINCE the coercion law was proclaimed in Ireland the Irishman on the ' 'old sod" is restricted in his actions much more thau a subject of the czar. Ho can not go out after 0 o'clock la the evening ; must not attend any kind of mass meet ing ; can not carry a pistol without a government permit , etc. , and is ham pered in his individual liberties in many other ways. No wonder that the senti ment of the Knglish nation is undergoing a change in favor of the Irish and against the government. \VoitD has been cabled from Russia hat Count Milkicwicx is a fraud ro fai as his claim to nobility is concerned. If , however , the gentleman secures a firm grasp on the cool million which ho is said to bo likely to obtain from his Chi nese concession , that little discrepancy will not count. Thd American public overlook such a thing in a rich man , and ho can still retain his noble title , He may ovun como to bo known as the "Grand Duko" Mitkiewicz if his pile in. creases sufllciently. Tin ; Mexican jinlgo that committed ut assault upon Consul Brlglmm has boor suspended and thus another intornatlona episode lias come to a peaceful termina tion. There is ono thought in connco tion with tli2so little squabbles botweot citi/.ens of the United States nnd Mexi cans which might as well bo expressed Tlio Americans are generally more tc bhxtuo thun our neighbors. When a citl /on of this great , wide-awako republic goes down into that little sleepy ono he commences at once to not as though iu owned the country. Ho begins to assor himself. Hu wants things done more rapidly than they are done there and in a different manner. Ho wants to wake the people up from tholr lethargy , make innovations , show how things ought to bi done , give advice , oto. Now the genuine Mexican does not want to hurry. To morrow is his favorite word. The wayi of his fathers are good enough for hiu , Ho does not take kindly to innovations thinks he can got along without prccopi or example from anybody , and linally being master there asserts himself. Be there is a clash and the Mexican suddenl ; makes up and the American conies t < jrief. More Misrepresentation. High license Is the thorn in the flesh of the prohlbhlonitta. The success of that policy , wherever it lias been properly en forced , in reducing and restricting tbo number of saloons , nnd therefore aiding the cause of temperance , has been so market ! and conclusive that candid and mprejiidlccd people everywhere are ; elng drawn to its support ns the only wise and practicable means of control- ng and regulating the retail liquor ralllc , which It has been most amply shown prohibition laws are powerless to prohibit , The growth of the intelligent iontimeni in favor of high license trou bles the prohibitionists , and' they are combatting the policy with especial zeal and vigor. Unfortunately for their cause , however , they are driven to mis representation , since tlio truth Is all against them. This is a most ill advised and particularly dangerous policy for moral reformers. Wo have called at tention to the miislatcmcnts of the Mas sachusetts prohibition convention re- carding the results of high license and local option. The Now York conven tion appears to have been no better. The following from the Syracuse Standard possesses a local interest : A prohibitionist sneaker at the recent con vention declared that high licenses have little or no clTrct upon the number of sa loons , lie asserted that In Omaha , wh cire a license costs | S1OUO , there are 57 saloons to every 10,000 inhabitants , and in Brooklyn , where the license costs S75 , there are 5U sa loons to every 10,000 Inhabitants. AccordIng - Ing to this reasoning , whiskey which costs 81,80 per class would bo sold extensively as whiskey which costs ten cents a drink. Hut comparisons llko that between Omaha and Brooklyn are misleading. Omaha with 100,000 Inhabitants has , according to the pro hibition estimate , 570 saloons , against con siderably more than GOO saloons In Syracuse with a population of 78,000 ; but In Omaha the average amount of money spent by residents is much higher than In Syracuse or Brooklyn. The clearing house transactions are ten times as great In Omaha as in Syracuse. liulldings worthy of Now York city ore being erected In Omaha , and the town by virtue of ils paving1 , Its schools and Its public works rs far In advance of eastern cities of twice its population. Omaha Is well satisfied with Its high license system. The revenue gained from the restriction of the liquor traffic sup ports Its public schools , and without waiting for a millennium when nobody will drink whiskey , and when , obviously , prohibition will not be needed , the temperance people of Nebraska are making the best of the case , by imposing an annual fine upon an evil which is still necessary In every state of the union. Our contemporary reasons well , and its reasoning will gain very greatly in force when tlio real facts are stated. Tiio figures of the prohibitionist speaker quoted are a gross misrepresentation , for which there can bo no excuse. The truth is that the number of saloons at this time in Omaha is about 200. or 20 to every 10,000 inhabitants , which is a considerably lower proportion of saloons to population than existed when high license wont into cfl'ect. The immediate cfl'ect of the law was to close a considera ble number of saloons , and particularly the more disreputable nnd dangerous sort , but witli tlio rapid growth of the city the saloon interest has also 'increased though nothing approaching iho extent it would have grown had there been no license law to restrain enterprise in this direction. It is entirely probable that but for high license Omaha would now outrank Syra cuse in the number of its saloons. Wo are not only bettor off than tlio smaller Now York city in having only about one- third as many retail drinking places , but we obtain from those wo have a revenue which is utilized for the best purpose to which it can bo put , and the great ma jority of the community is evidently sat isfied with the policy. It was brought about only after a great deal of hard work , persistent effort nnd earn est argument , made necessary by the opposition of familiar prejudices , but the results have so en- tivoly vindicated the policy that the number who would now bo found to an tagonize it is relatively small. Prohibi tionists make a very serioui mistake when they indulge in such misrepresentations as our Syracuse contemporary reports. They are not the means by which a pro fessedly moral party can expect to strengthen its claim to popular confi dence , and tholr weakness and danger , for those employing them , lies in the fact that they are not easily and conclusively exposed. The diameter or "Trust * ' At the laying of the corner stone of u now stock exchange building in Now York a few days ago , ono of the brief ad dresses delivered was by the well-known lawyer , Algernon S. Sullivan , nnd de fined the character of that latest develop ment of monopoly , "Trusts. " He char acterized the principle upon which the trust is founded as bad. Its first purpose is monopoly , pure , simple and thorough. Its methods tempt and must load to the ruin of every individual who would com pete. It facilitates and therefore gener ally leads to a swindle of the public. In practice it has generally been carried out on a basis of exaggerated capitalization , upon which a monopoly can forcibly col lect a dividend. It enables false values to bo imposed upon a public dealings in trust certificates , be cause its records are secret , and the state cannot , as is claimed , demand publicity and exercise a visitatorial power , as it docs in the case of corporations. In trade and commerce , and in all indus trial economies , tins new creation is not tin agent for sound , wholesome , just and honest business. It is the device of inge nious wits to got control in unapproach able hands of the corporations which are the creatures of the law. Mr. Sullivan was clearly of the opinion that a corporation which has become the slave of a trust , in order that it may thus continue with other corporations nnd smother competition which has been deemed essential tojtho public good , could not justify itself in a demand , were made for the amendment of its charter for misuse. The corporation is an artificial person created by nubile law. The first implication of its duty is to servo public use and to harmonize with public policy. That is the law of its being , and this law it contravenes when it enters into the form ot combination known as a trust , for the purposes which such combination seeks to accomplish. Uy sued confederation the corporation agrees to submit the management of its affairs to outside parties that is , to the confederate companies under the trust- instead of retaining it in the board of di rectors selected from , its own stockhold- era. la form it observes tlio law , In spirit it stamps upon and violates it. It is well that this now and dangerous form of monopoly , ( vhich Is rapidly ex tending and threatens to speedily reach every class of Industry to which it can bo applied , Is receiving such intelligent at tention. The public mind needs to bo thoroughly Informed ns to the true char acter of this latest "device of Ingenious wits to circumvent the law , " to the end that the people shall bccomo so Impressed with the necessity for legislation to de feat the dovics that their representatives will bo forced to take action. There is no fact in connection with cur present economic situation more menacing1 to the interests of the people and the wel fare of the industries and commerce of the country , than this newest develop ment of monopoly , which if permitted to go on unchecked will in time bring under the control of a few powerful combina tions , to be manipulated solely in their interest , nil the great industries of the nation and the chief sources of Its trade , Unquestionably a practicable way is to defeat this design of aggregated capital , which iu the very nature of things must bo hostile to the interests of the people , and statesmanship can address itself tone no worthier or more useful task. Gnlite Into Court. The chief spokesman for the anarchists of the council , asked Commissioner Gil bert at the recent board of trade moot ing , why the police commission had not gene into court to test their rights to make appointments on the police force , if they had any , before the council passed an ordinance for the regulation of members of the police forco. Mr. Gil bert , if wo remember correctly , was con- lent with replying to this bit of imperti nence , that it was none of his business , adding further that the commission had taken legal advice , and would soon ap peal to the courts. lint Mr. Gilbert might very properly have asked , why don't the council take the case into court if it believes' its course to bo legal. Eleven members of the council under Hascall's lead and advice , have declared by reso lution that Scavoy is a pretender and pronounced his title to the position of chief of police to be fraudulent and illo- eal. They notified the chief of police and every policeman appointed by the commission that they were acting with out authority and no pay would be voted to them for "pretended" services as po licemen. Now , if Mohammed Huscall has confi dence in his mission , and believes what ho preaches , why don't lie take tlio initi ative stop to oust Scavey bv legal pro cess ? Why have not Hascall nnd his confederates who comprise the majority of the council , ordered the city attorney to bring an action before the courts by quo warrantor In other words , why has the council , which claims to hold itself re sponsible for good government iu Omaha allowed a "pretender" to remain in charge of the police force for four mouths , when by a simple action they could depose him if the courts find that Im holds his ap pointment in violation of law ? A\ ill not Mr. Popplcton concede that his clients , who sought to turn Omaha over to the tender mercies of crooks , pickpockets and roughs , during the fair and reunion , have shown very little faith in their ability to sustain their arrogant preten tious iu the courts ? It is different with the commission. They had no case to take into court until the refusal of the council to appropriate money to pay the salaries of their ap pointees gave them a cause of action. Had the council dared to interfere with the functions of the police chief nnd his patrolmen , tliero would have been no trouble in asserting their right to make arrests of law-breakers. Hut Hascall is n shrewd trickster. Ho lias made dupes oi his associates and used thorn for his per sonal ends by making them believe that they stood on solid legal ground. He has taken very great care however that no conflict of authority should occur which would force the issue in couit on the main point , namely : whether Scavcy's appointment is illegal and his assump tion , to discharge the duties of chief ol police is in violation of the charter. The BEE has from the very out set favored n prompt aupcal to the courts. It is now in favor of testing the right of the conn- oil to dominate over the police commis sion and police force. But if there is any blame for the present disgraceful and deplorable conflict it is with llascall , Bocliol and their confcds. They have shown themselves capable of the mosl villainous plotting and dirty work whicli decent men ot all classes must condemn ns beneath men who are trusted with the government of a metropolitan city. THE final arrangement of the Baltimore & Ohio has not yet been determined among tlio railroad kings. There is , consequently sequontly , a good deal of uncertainty and dissatisfaction among the stockholders Many stories are alloat about Jay Gould's activity in trying to got full control. Hi is reported to have become angry ovoi these rumors the other day and to have threatened a descent upon the markoi that would make the feathers fly. But n should bo borne in mind that most o : Gould's tits of passion have been care fully planned beforehand. A consider able irruption in Wall street is probable however , before tlio Baltimore & Ohic matter is finally settled. There was r rise in Western Union at tlio latter par of the week and the Morgan syndicati are said to bo dissatisfied with their HUM acquisition. THE reported statement of the collectoi of the port of San Francisco , rcgardinj the methods by which Chinese immigrant ! are enabled to land there in violation o the law , suggests the necessity for i prompt and thorough investigation. Tlili statement implies that there is systematii collusion umong the federal judicial au thorities to defeat the law , aud that tlici all profit by it. This , if true , is a mos serious state of affairs , and the treasury department should lose no lime In insti tuting an investigation to the extent o its jurisdiction , and in calling upon tin department of justice for such assistant as it may be empowered to lend. Tin allegations having been made by an of ficial of tlio government , who claims tha the conduct complained of practical ! : nullities the law restricting Chinese im migration , they make a demand for at tcntion which must not bo ignored. IN the absence of Mayor Broatch , wlu will bo actually acting mayor Bechcl 01 bascaUf V * < S atttJiiAaillhrrf'i Ifi THE political campaign In Ohio is In hill progress , nfedwlll doubtless grow In Interest as It adiruncos. It was opened by the dcinocrullctgirtidldalo for governor , Powell , in n spaooli which did not betray the most astutogutjgmont cf the demands of the situation ) but this may , perhaps , bo explained when ono reflects what n heavy burden an Ohio democratic candi date has to carry at present. Compelled to fight almost wholly on the defensive , it was doubtless a relief to Powell to lind an cxcuso tor attacking his opponent on the part he playcdin , the Wheeling epi sode. It is by tip tyeanscertain , however , that it would not have been wiser lo allow that circumstance to drop out of memory. It was an unfortunate matter all around , but Ohioans are not likely to condemn 1'orakcr for his part in it. The republican candidate took the field a few days after Powell hat ! spoken his picco and went to work in his peculiarly ag gressive stylo. There is perhaps no better "stump" speaker m the country than Governor Foraker , and ho will bo at his beet In the present campaign , not only because ho wants to win , but for the reason that ho is looking for something beyond Senator Sherman and others of prominence will doubtless take n hand on the republican side , nnd amonti those already booked to assist the democratic cause is Speaker Carlisle. Mit. CAIIUSU : ill make no other de fense of his right to his seat , winch Ills opponent m the last election , Thoebn , will contest , than that offered by the rec ord as it stands. Tins shows him to have received n majority of 815. The determi nation of the is3iio will ba loft , so far as Mr. Carlisle is concerned , entirely with the committee on elections. The result is not at nil doubtful , and Phoebe will only get some further notoriety. If ro- elcctod speaker , of which there appears to bo no question , Mr. Carlisle will prob able decline to appoint the elections com mittee , for which it seems there * is ono precedent. In the twenty-eighth con gress the seat of John 11. Jones of Vir ginia was contested by John Minor Bates. Jones was elected speaker and appointed all the committees except that on elec tions. Calling a member of the house to the chair ho submitted the matter to the body and the house authorized the acting speaker to appoint the committee. It is thought likely that Mr. Carlisle will , in the event of his re-election , bo guided by this precedent. Ouu suggestion to erect a soldiers' monument in Omaha to replace the tem porary triumphal nrch , has met with popular favor from , every direction. Such a project cannot , however , materialize without concerted action. It will require the active co-operation of lending mem bers of tlio Grand Army to begin with , and citizens of Omaha generally. Wo shall have to organize a monument asso ciation , which is to take charge of plans and construction , and assume responsi bility for disbursing the funds. THE session laws of the lust session of the legislature will bear close scrutiny. They present tlio , appearance of having been hurriedly thrown together. On wage 000 n very grave blunder has been made , the effect of which will bo to repeal sec tion 2 of chapter IV , of the criminal code , a provision which , in view of re cent events in this state , is ver3f essen tial. It is a happy reflection , however , thnt Judge Lynch usually takes that sec tion of the code into his own hands , and that he has uopularized its provisions to n gratifying extent. CATTU : raising on the ranch lias soon its bust days , but the American hog holds his own. According to the commissioner of agriculture there were 2i82,1C7 ! hogs in the state of Nebraska at the beginning of the present year. Kansas had 2,101,419. Colorado , Wyoming nnd Utah have each a much smaller number , but the percent age of increase is very largo. While the raising of cattle on the Wyoming and Colorado ranches is becoming more and more difficult , the production and mar keting of hogs has been greatly facilitated. LIIUI : < suits do not always vindicate an alleged injured man. The Grand Island Independent comes out on top in blip- porting its statements against W. II. Michael , the man whom Senator Man- derson honored with the position hold so long by Ben : Porley Poor on the senate printing committee. The Fremont Trib une will doubtless bo pleased to learn the result of the trial in Hall county. CBOOKEDNKSS is contagious. A tramo agent of thn Beatrice Insurance company has recently worked the blind note confi dence game in Syracuse bv inducing hon est men to sign an alleged application for doubtful insurance. The company may not be responsible in this particular case , but one cannot expect to pluck figs from thistles. ONB thing the physicians at Washing ton ought to have done before dispersing , that was to humanize professional eti quette among themselves. Their iron clad code of conduct is a relic of the in tolerant ages , and ought not to have sur vived so long among such an intelligent , and in other respects liberal minded , class of men. ' OMAHA is not sollish. After enjoying the pleasures and benefits of the human alligator , the threo-lepgcd calf , the Hying Dutchman , the pop-corn fiend , the health-lift and the target gun Jakes , wo unhesitatingly part with them that Lin coln and her state fiyr may know what it is to bo blest. MAYOR BUOATCH is out of the city. Acting Mayor Bechel will feel like n cat in a strange garre Jwhon he takes his scat in the meetings of Ihe police commis sion. It will bo very interesling lo hear him explain Iho motives for freezing out the commission and starving the PURE water is healthful and beneficial. No legal restraint should bo put upon a man's desire for it. But there are men in this city who should bo enjoined from mixing water with milk not because the mixture is harmful , but because it is a fraud on their patrons. THERE are only nineteen paid police men on the forco. The others uro being starved by Hascall , Bechel and their coconspirators - conspirators of the city council. SoMEinmn must bo dono. to stop tlm promiscuous tearing' up of streets by street railroad companies. THE police cannot do anything to sat isfy the roustabouts in the council who are trying to starve them out. Their pap-fed organs have not lost n day in finding some pretext for slandering and abusing them. THE FIELD OP INDUSTRY. Ground has been broken nt Fall Ulver , Mass. , for Ulobo yarn mill No. 3. L. M. Eastman , Baltimore , Md. , will re build his furniture factory recently destroyed by tire. The Albion Manufaelnrlini company , Al bion , Mich. , Is building a large addition to IU shops. The Englehnrt Elevator company will soon begin the manufacture of elevators at Springfield - field , Mass. The Waco fTcx. ) Woolen mills have de clared a dividend of 24 per cent for the year Just ended. A now company , known as tliO Davenport Foundry and Machine Works company , will erect works at Davenport , la. The Annlston ( Ala. ) City Land company are negotiating with capitalists to establish works for building Iron safes. J. II. Marklo ami J. C. Tlllotson of De troit , are forming a S W,000 Edison Electric Light company In East Saglnaw. Mich. The Grand Itapuls Heed and Knttixn Fur niture company , of Fourth street , Urntid Rapids , Mich. , arc preparing to Incorporate. The eight pin factories In Now England produce 0,720,000 pins a year. In England the yearly production of pins Ic set at 4,095- , 000,000. The works of the Ccllonlto Manufacturing company at Arlington , N. J. , which were re cently destroyed by an explosion , are being rebuilt. The Now York and Now England railroad Is said to Intend building shops and a round house capable of employing 2,000 men at East Hartford , Conn. Work has boon commenced nt Mnncfleld , Mass. , on n new shoo factory 100x40 , and four stoilcs hlch , to bo occupied , when com pleted , by Ramsey Bros. , of Lynn. British manufacturers are expecting to prolit very largely this fall nnd winter out of the activity in the United States. An English company , called the Moss Bay com pany , expects to move Its entire works to the United States. There are 827 blast furnaces In operation In the United States , producing 123,539 tons per week , aud ! il31dlo with a weedly capacity of 122.012 tons. The anthracite capacity has Increased from 33,703 tons weekly a year ago to 05,278 now. > There Is a great demand for fioight boats on western lakes and rivers. A Cleveland company 1ms increased Its facilities to enable It to turn out a Inige freight steamboat every thrcn months. All of thn lake ship and boat yards are doing n good business. The prosperity of the farming communi ties in the west Is resulting In the building up of n multitude of little Industries near the markets. The larger concerns In the leading cities are discovering competition from these now sources , and are putting forth special elTorts to protect their future trade from the little ones. A Great Dlffnrcnoc. The Jmlue. When n voung man sits in the parlor talkIng - Ing nonsense to his best girl , that's capital. Hut when ho 1ms to stay In of evenings alter thuy'ie married , that's Iibor. Taxed Too Much Already. I'ltivttltnie Jmiinal. Every one who has studied thn subject of tnxntlon knows thnt personal property , under existing metnods of taxing , escapes its fair share of public burdens. The great problem now Is , Indeed , to arrive at some system of levying nnd collecting taxes which will relieve lievo rent estate of Its unjust burden. Under ihcso circumstances , any system , like Oeorce's , when alms to Increase tlio disparity between the two lorms of pioperty , Is not likely to receive a moment's consideration by thinking uieu. Potter nnd Adams. Chtcaao Herald. The St. Paul directors are watching the relations between Tour Potter and Charles Kianels Adams pretty closely. They hope thnt the Massachusetts man won't get nlong with the rough-and-ready western railroad manager. The writer saw a note from a prominent St. Paul director on this very topic n lew days ngo. Tom Potter knows there Is n good berth for him In the St. Paul president's chair at any time , and perhaps this may help to maUo the inteicoiirse be tween himself a nil Adams even a little more strained. STATE. AXI ) TnUIlITOUY. All roadstead to Lincoln this week. Kearney has contracted for a $50,000 court house. Tlio Youzalin hotel at Wymoro is nearly completed. The Masons of Kearney will erect a ? . " > ,000 temple. Tlio Adyontists have the freedom of Grand Island this week. Kearney's biir hotel , representing $50- 000 , is nearly completed. Franklin can have a cheese factory if the residents put up a liberal bonus. A sneak ripped tlio till in the depot at Shclton a lew evenings aero aud se cured 125. The county clorlf of Buffalo county is $9,000 hliort , nnd his bondsmen have been invited to pony up. Beaver voted almost unanimously for court house bonds. The contract for the building will bo let next month. B. & M. furvoyors are agaid prowling around Fort Robinson and visions of new railr > : us ! are thick enough to cut. The corn crop of Otoo county this year is swelling out In great shape , and far mers are correspondingly happy. A Saunders county farmer named Gu- lick , living near Corosco , found n live young babe , surrounded by barking dogs , in his back yard , recently , and hurried to Lincoln in search of the parents. The youngster was sound ot lung and limb. Some llmrdcnod felon has faked the summer pantaloons of the Duwson County Herald. Pending a donation the ollico will bo barred to visitors , as thn editor is not anxious to open a can-can establishment. Bring on your misfits. Captain Yodcr , of the Salvation Army iu Fremont , was tackled by a gang of young hoodlums Friday evening nnd cul- ciinined with uuripuchiokon. 1 ho young- fctcn * aped the metropolitan style , but , unfortunately , missed the fatherly em brace of a policeman's club. The Lincoln organ of the railroads , commenting on the letter of the Omaha freight bureau to the state board of transportation , declares that "us an ex hibition of gall it takes the champion bolt of the United States. " This expres sion is in keeping with tiio narrow gnu go qualities ot the concern that suppressed all mention of the Omaha fair last week. Chadron has been thrown into a lively riot by the action of the county commis sioners in awarding the court house con tract. The bid of a local bidder , though lowest by f 01 , was set aside and the con tract given to a Lincoln man for $28,500. The action of thn ollleiiils is vigorously assailed by the Journal , and the oourts will probably bo asked to step In and pre vent the consummation of a fraud. Inwu lionii. - There are' twenty-three artesian wells In atid around Bella Plaino , The Hock Island Railroad company has commenced the erection of a now passenger depot at Oskaloosa. Britt has decided to give n $3,000 bonus for fifty-barrel per day Hourlng mill. M. V. Gannon was nominated by the democrats In convention at Lyons for district judge , Dr. Carver , the great shot , broke 1,000 balls In forty-three minutes and twenty * three and one-half seconds at his Dubuque - buquo exhibition , The present capacity of the pumps of the water company of Cedar Itapids Is 3,500,000 gallons , and now pumps with a capacity of 3,000,000 more have just been added. The wheat crop of Iowa is estimated at CO.000,000 bushels , or 4,250,000 below the yield of last year , while the oat yield is estimated nt 0,000,000 bushels more than last year. John Moody , of Blaok- Oak , onjoya the distinction of having the largest crab orchard in Iowa , having about 200 trees , aud they arc certain bearers every year. Ho has always found a market for his crop , which this year will bo nearly 300 bushels. Jack Reed , the notorious loader of the Ramsbargor gang , was arrested last week near EUIora. Ho had been living near Iowa Falls with the wife of the dead outlaw. Ho has boon in the penitentiary once and will be again sent tliero for stealing , The Bee Keepers' association mot Thursday at Des Moincs and elected of- licors as follows : President , J. Sp.tnlding , of Charles City ; vice president , Mrs. O. F. Jackson , of Sigournoy : treasurer , James Nysnwandor , of Dos Moinesj sec retary , D. W. Moore , of Des Moiucs. Dakota. Eighty students are enrolled in the Yankton college. B. & M. surveyors are at work in the vicinity of Buffalo Gap. Fargo will enjoy free mail delivery beginning next month. Yankton is to build a now city hall , a lareo aud attractive structure. The question of local option will bo tested by vote in Dcuel nnd Hughes counties. The Odd Follows and Masons laid the corner stone of a joint lodge al Lead last Saturday. Civilization is cutting hugo swaths among the Indians. One hundred noble rods attended a circus performance iu Yankton recently. Bislion Marty , of tho'Catholio church , has established Saint Rose academy at Sioux Falls aud an effort will bu made to got the cathedral and make that- the Catholic ECO city of Dakota. The building of the Dakota Town and Trust company at Watertown , now approaching preaching completion , will bo one of the finest blocks in the territory. It is built of Sioux stone with Duluth stone as trim mings. Three bold highway robberies were perpetrated in the Hills last week. B. W. Valentino was brutally beaten and robbed of f40 on Elk creek , Lewis Erric , of Ter- ravillo , was wlicvcd of $275 and Fred Sweeney was hit in Dead wood for $150. A Word llnslon UoaM. Failing to lind occupation in the great cities , the confidence men seem to have adopted the plan of following up unsus pecting farmers in the country. Two or three cases are reported from Pennsyl vania of sharp practices on the part of some of these swindlers , who have visited farmers at their homos and inveigled farmers into card playing , and in this way cheated them out of considerable sums of money. It is difficult to under stand the degree of human credulity that would permit a farmer to bet heavily while playing cards with two strangers who came to his house , but the incidents wo have referred to show that this credulousness - ulousness does exist , and as a warning wo should ndvise the Now England farmers to bo on their guard when in company of respectable looking strangers who seem to betting with each other , and losing or winning each other's money in a way to provoke the cupidity of a clear-headed man. The trap is usually set in this way , and the farmer will be anything but clear-headed it ho walks into it. To Tell the AK" > r a Horse. Tntnnto Truth. To tell the ago of any horse , Inspect the lower jnw , of course : The blx front teeth the tale will tell , Aud every doubt and fear dispel Two middle "nippers" you behold Before the colt Is two weeks old. Before eight weeks two more will como ; Eight months the "coincis"cut the gum. The outside grooves will disappear From middle two In just one \eiir. Iu two years , from the second pair ; In three , the corners , too , are b.iie. A t two tha middle "nippers" drop. At Unco the second nalr can't stop , When four years old tlio third palruous , At live a full new set he bhows. The deep black spots shall pnss from view At six ycaia from the middle two ; The second pair at seven years , this each ' 'corner" At o glit spot clears. From middle "nippers" upper jaw At nine the black spots will withdraw ; Tlio second pair. at ten are white ; Eleven linrls the "corners" light. As time goes on , the horsemen know , The oval teeth three fiidcd grow ; They longer eel , project belore Till twenty , when we know no more. THE REVENGE OF A GENTLEMAN. Ono of Aaron Burr's Correspondents lirnugtit to Terms. Brooklyn Engln : A neighbor told mo a good story the other day which goes bans to the time of Aaron Burr , although ho is not the hero of it. It was about Davis , Burr's biographer and literary executor. My neighbor is n relative of Davis * fam ily. Burr placed all his correspondence in Davis'hands before he died , but would not allow him to destroy a sinitlo missive \vhilu he lived. After Burr's death Davis sifted the correspondence , making se lections for publication. Hu found a vast accumulation of letters from women , and he was so careful about that class of cor respondence that ho not only made no copies himself , but allowed no one olsu to copy or even see the letters , Thiry were all burned , and , judging from the enistles which Davis received from all parts of the country , when it was known that Burr's correspondence was in his hands for editorial purposes , a good many hearts were lighter after tlio ashes had cooled. Now comes the cream of the story : Among the letteis Davis found one to Burr from a ludy , then high in Now York society. It wait that sort of a letter which a lady would not wish to have made puhlia. It so hap- pmiud that some time before , this lady lind treated Davis in a very haughty and discourteous manner. IIuro was his chance for revenge , but being a gentle man Mr. Davis diil not propose to bu guilty of an act unworthy of a man. He took his ro venire in another way. Armed with the letter hu called at the lady's house and sent up his card. The ludy front buck a reluxal to see him. Ho sent back a note begging her lo recall her re fusal , as hu desired to fou her on business of importance to hurhclf hu had a letter of IIITS to the late Mr. Burr. The speed with which thu fair darno descended to the parlor upon tlio receipt of that nils- sivo was only e'liimled by the haste which Davy Crockett's coon made to "como down" when the historic rillu was pointed al him , Mr. Davis greeted her with grave dignity , informed her tLiit as the Kturnrv oxceutor ot the late Aaron Burr , a coustduiublu amount of corres pondence ! had come into his hands. Among other letters ho had found this ono from herself to Mr. Burr. lie ha < road It , nnd so found out who was th ( writer , nnd ho ( Davis ) wai so anxious that ( hero should bo no possibility of n V mistake , or of the letter falling by chance ' into the hands of a third party , that 1m find m ail o bold to come himself and de liver the letter to her with his own hand. This ho did then and there , and then , without further vwloy , gravely bowed himself out of 'ho ' house. There Is n delicacy , a keenness of edge about that revenge upon a haughty woman worthy ot the old days when social fencing was the most artistic of all sciences and the most scientific of all arts. Hu did exactly what a guntlotnan should do , returned the compromising letter to the writer se cretly , kept her name inviolate ; but ho had his ro\onco. But with -what impo tent hatred that woman must have re garded him over afterward ! A SNAP. How n Tenderfoot in California Lost Ilia Fortune. Puck : "Talk about being bitten on wheat corners , " 1 hoard an old man nay the other day , while seated on the piaz of n country hotel. "Talk about losing everything yon put into it , and having the mortification of knowing that some follow got away with you in addition. Why , 1 toll you , I had an experience that , for absolute , downright cussed ness was the very worst case of beat thai any white ! man can conceive of. " "I didn't know you ever speculated , " I his companion remarked. I "I never did , " continued the old man , "but this once , and It cured mo ; yes , sir , ' it cured mo for good. It showed me how blind a man can bo lo tlio vcrv simplest dotoils when the glittering possibility of a big prolit is before his eyes. 1 wasn't taken in quite so badly as some of our Wall street friends , because I didn't have the capital ; but , in proportion to our re spective wealth , the ratio of effect on mo was just the same. " Hero ho broke off for n moment and walked up and down the room , laughing y" heartily to himself , which showed there was sonio point to his coming story , and indicating also that ho had outgrown the depressing result of his loss. In n mo ment he resumed : " 1 was in California nt the lime , at a little place called 'the Mission ; ' every body who has ever been lo Ihat glorious state will recall this name at onco. It's n pretty place , and while 1 had no especial object m going lliure , yet I observed the exceeding innocence of the natives , nnd the idea suggested itself that an oppor tunity might occur to make a few dollars oul of their innocence , and I determined to boar it in mind. The Fourth of July was approaching , anel an acquaintance I had made , a particularly verdant indi vidual , I had always thought , remarked one evening just before thu Fourth that there was a glorious chance to do a little speculating if anyone was'so inclined and had thu money to invest , incidentally calling attention to tils own lack of funds as tins only hindrance to his taking ad vantage of the opportunity instead of giving it away to others. Of course I * was all attention at once , and asked bim what the idea was. ' "Well , you bee , ' ho replied , 'there ' is always a scarcity of meat here , and it' sells high ; for that ruason everybody wants it. All Iho meat wo have is brought' ' in by wagons from the city ; a lot cumu to-day ; there won't bo any more until after the Fourth ; this is thu second. Somebody could buy up all thu meat in town and supply the rush to-morrow night and next day. 1 toll you there's bip money in it. " "It struck me the same way , and I en gaged him then and llioru to go with mo ami make tlio purchases. In less than an hour I owned u very chop and steak in the county , Thun 1 sat down and chuckled over the prospective profits. " ' 1 lie old man stopped hero for u moment to wipe his /rlasses / , then hu continiicu : "It was mighty lucky I laugcd just at that time. " "How so , " asked his friend. "Because 1 didn't have another chance , I lost all 1 put in it. " "How in the world did you lose it ? " "How ? Well , because the Fourth came on Friday ; every man , woman and child in the township was a Catholic , and they ate nothing but salmon all day. On Saturday my meat was fly-blown. " Why Mr. Slioedy Succeeded. New York Sun : Probably no person who has made a business of what is known as a snorting manager has been more successful in such risky enterprises than Mr. Palnok Slioody. Ho has , wo hear , accumulated quite a handsome property , nnd ho has also set a most creditable example to ovcry ono engaged in business , whether sporting or trade , of the value of sobriety , promptness , and honorable conduct in all respects. In a briuf interview wifh Mr. Slioody this morning hu explains some of Iho methods he adopted as a business man to whicli hu ascribes some of his success , For instance , ho says. Sullivan Rajs that 1 pay attention to the newspapers and Lret too mnny notices. Hu is right 1 do pav a heap ot attention to the newspapers. Neither of us would have amounted to much If it had not been lor the newspapers. Thuru are some men in public lifo who do not hold Mr. Sheudy's opinion about the value of newspaper comment lo any person who is engaged in daily toil. Some politicians are fond of exhibiting contempt for newspaper comment , nnd it is sometimes ilippuntly said Ihat this or that is only a newspaper story. Yet Mr. Sheedy , as a successful busi ness man and an expert advertiser , un derstands that the average newspaper comment upon men or events very fairly nnd accurately presents the truth. Instead - ' stead of pretending to dc.spiso newspaper comment ho not only appreciates ita value fully but docs not hesitate to say so. And ho knows that though thu lloii. John L. possesses a formidable arm and a capacity to dual a dro.'idfnl blow , these gifts would have availed him very litllo had not the newspapers made publicity of them. Mr. Sliccdy is quite right in thus ae- knowludging IUH indebtedness to thu nuwsnapord , and thuru are very many business mini , who. if they followed thu hint thus given by Mr. Sliecdy , would lind that thuru is nothing that can moru satisfactorily help thulr business thun the newspapers. A Komnitnn with .Millions ! In It. Montreal Letter. A romantic * casu has just came to litiht hero. At thu begin ning of tlio century Michel Loblanc cunie from Fruncu with his father nnd brother and settled in Philadelphia , where thuy invested largely in real estate. A few years after Michel removed to Canada , whore lie purchased a farm in Glengarry and married Margaret MacDonald , niece of thu then bishop of Kingston. During Iho war of 1812 Leblanc , who was very null-British , wa.s taken prisoner and convoyed to Quebec for transportation to Kngland , and when on board thu ves sel ut Quebec he jumped overboard and was believed to have been drowned. Three months later hu turned up in Glen garry , wheru hu shortly afterwards died of pleurisy , and was buried in St. Rufaco'fl churchyard. His father and brother died soon after , but Michel's family , consisting of three girls and onu boy , knuw nothing of the Philadelphia property. Mai guru ! Leblanc , onu oi Michel's daughter * , married Richard Kennedy of Glungnrry , and fourteen children wuru born to them. Klght of these are mill alive , six living in tlm States and two in Montreal. It appears tuat thu city authorities of Philadelphia have appropriated the land formerly bu- longing to Lohlano , and thu money IIHH nciuimnlateil to nil enormoiiH amount awaiting thu production of Uro hulrs , who have ruui-ntly been advertised fur. The nuec sfiry stops are lining takmi by thu members of tlio family to substan tiate * tliuir claims. . ' ' . ' '