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. OMAHA DAILY BEifi : THURSDAY. JANUARY 5 , 1888. THE DAILY BEE , I'UIIMSIIKft EVKHY TnibtS OK fiUIIHCHHTION. DMlylMorntiiK Kdltlou ) Including Sunday llKK. duo Yvar . , . 110 fm IVirNIx Months . MX ) rorThreo Months . -60 The < ) nmlm fluidity HKP , malted to any nil- ilrcsH , One Year . 200 OM All A OrrlCK.NOq.Ul I AMI ( \II.MUSTIIKKT. . NKW YOIIK OxritT. ItixiM ffi , TIIIIIUM : lli'ii.n- ' iwn. WAFIIIMITOX OtriCK , No. MiFouu * 1KRHTI ! STltr.KT. _ COKIIKSI'ONDKNCK. AH rntnmniilcjitlons relating to now * nml editorial matter fdiould bd uddrcsied to tlio KlIITOItOCTIIK IlKK. IIUHINKSS J.KTTIJIIS. All business letters nnd remittances should ho addressed to Tin : Hut : I'imuMiiMl ( 'OMI-AM- , OMAHA. Drafts , ( hecks nnd postoflico orders to bo tiiudo payable to the order of th company. Tlio Bee PnWisliiDgCipany , Proprietors , K. ROSKWATKH , KIHTOU. THIS IMIlhY 11KK. Sworn Hlatcnicnt ofClrciilatlon. BtRtn of Nebraska , I _ _ ( Xmntyof liotiKloM , [ " " ( leo. II.'fz-srhiiik , hecretary of The lleo PinV lishtnc company , does Kolcmnlv swear that tlio nrtunt circulation of tlio Dully lleo for thu week ndlntr Due.IK ) , 1H7 , was as follows : Saturday. Dec. XI I".4'iO Knmlny , Iec. ) r , 1B.WM Monday , l-c. ) l , 1Mfl ( Tui'xday , Dec.'J7 i 1VJ75 Wednesday. Dec. 88 ll.HV ) Thursday. Dec. yj 13.0.H ) Friday , Dec. UU n.ON ) Average 15.110 01:0. : ii. T/.SOIIUCK. fiwnrn to and subscribed In inv iircsrnro this Sddny of Juniiury , A. D. , 18W. N. 1' , I'lIII. , Notaty X'ubllc. Btatoof Nehinska , I , , County of Douglass , [ Bl1t Oeo. I ) . TzHchnrk. being first duly sworn , < lc- poses and says that lit ) Is secretary of Tlio lleo I'ubllsliInK cotniinny , tlmt tlm actual dally ( Imitation of tlio Dally lleo for the month of January , lu7 , lfl , " i copies ; for I'cbruary , 1SK7,14,178 copies ; for March , 1887 , 14,4(10 ( copies ; for April , lt7.14iin : copies ; for May , 1SW ) , 11,227 cojiles ; for June , 18h7 , 14,147 copies ; for July , IWV7 , U.tWI copies ; for Ammst , 1W , H.IM copies ; for September. ISH7. 14tl : coplos ; for October , lwi7. I4.ctl : ; for No\timber , 1 7,15,120 copies ; for December , 1SW7 , 15M1 ( copies. ( lio. : II. TZSCHUCK. Sworn and subscribed to in my prewnco this 2d day of January , A. I ) . 1888 , N. P. Fl'.l I , , Notary Public. ' hits been enjoined from mov ing his motor. There was no danger that thu motor would move itself. WK may as well put tlio brake on our booms at onro. The Battle Crock ad- vonti.sts say that the world will vanish in flro and smoke this year. IF the Pacific railroad report is cor rect there tire ut least half do/.on bil lionaires in the country who should bo clothed in zebra stripes and earning their board in a ponitentiary. Iv there is to ho open executive ses sions of the United States senate , the beginning ought to bo miulo when the Lainar cube comes up. The country will bo very much interested in knowing how senators vote on that case. Tin : farmers of Minnesota arc dissat isfied with the existing railroad rates in that stato. One granger association has sent resolutions to the governor asking that the correction of abuses committed by railroad monopolies against agricultural interests bo not longer delayed. IN this age of bombs any method by which a real infernal machine may bo distinguished from a bogus ono will bo welcome. Dr. Edson of Now York , has discovered a simple but conclusive tost. Ho recommends lighting the fuso. If the package explodes and kills you it is I. - genuine. If not , it is a humbug. RECKLK8S driving is altogether too common in Omaha , especially upon the crowded business thoroughfares. The time has arrived to station a policeman at the intersection of Fiirnum and Fif teenth , Douglas and Fifteenth , and Dodge and Sixteenth streota for the protection of pedestrians , who at pres ent are in danger of life and limb from reckless and fast drivers. Women and children frequently are in need of es corts in making the crossings at these intersections , and it is the duty of the chief of police to station olHcers at these points for tlmt purpose. Tins Chicago Tribune suggests that re publican politicians who are troubling themselves about an issue may find ono certain to command popular attention in the reports of the Pacific railroad commissioners. "What party , " asks the Tribune , "will take this matter up and pledge itself to BOO that stops are taken to punish the crimes of the Pa cific railroad wrecKers and compel resti tution , ? " It is very likely that neither of the parties will have the courage to do this , for the reason that both of them will have in view the financial assist ance which these very wreckers . may give , but none the loss the issue has been made be fore the people and they are not hkoly to permit it to drop out ol consideration. This would seem to be understood by the corporations , which are already seeking to counteract the ulToct of the disclosures made by the commissioners , for that purpose working over , with Bomo now embellishments the familiar pleas that have served them in the past. THE public judgment unquestionably is that all express companies should be subjected to regulation under the inter state commerce law. The opinion o the commission , recently rendered , ii that an express company which ii merely a branch of railroad comes with in the operation of the act , but it doci not regard the law as clearly applyin ; to independent express companies , am therefore asks congress to define it powers respecting such companies if i is intended that the act shall apply ti them. It is not easy to sco how an ; class of express companies doing busi ness with the railroads in the handllni nnd transportation of proper ! ; can bo regarded as outside the categor ; of common carriers , in howovorre Btrieled a BOIISO that term may be tip plied , and if this bo admitted there i no further question that the act shouli bo made to apply to them. It is also ini portant to consider whether , if the lir , is not made applicable to these com panics , a wide door will not bo left ope for evasion of the spirit of the law thu would in a measure defeat its purpose Tlio weight of argument is certainly i favor of subjecting express compiufk to regulation , whether operated as branch of a railroad or as indopondon enterprise ? , and wo have no doubt till view will prevail in cougrcs * . PnclH For Mr. Ulnlr. s That somewhat peculiar old gorttlo- man , Senator Dlalr , of Now Hampshire , , whoso quality.of persistence is qulto as reinurkablo as some of his Ions meritori ous characteristics , soonis determined to challenge another defeat of his educa tional bill at the hands of congrow. ilo has now been laboring for this pot measure since 1881 , and though the close of each session has left him no nearer success than at the beginning , ho has scorned to acquire increased af fection for his hobby at every repulse , and has brought it forward with unfail ing promptness at the opening of each gcpilon only to have it knocked about in the most careless and irreverent fashion in order to make "way for some other bill or allow some senator to start a debate. It is again being subjected to this sort of treatment , but its kindly old parent is not a bit discouraged and will not think a bit less of his battered and neglected offspring. On the contrary whenever the chance is allowed him ho will talk about it and fondle it in the presence of the senate with'tho samaold terms and manifestations of affection that ho has bo often employed. Of course Mr. Ulair has not the slight est idea that there is any loss reason now than there was six years ago for Ills bill. Ho in ono of these people who haying hettled upon a pro ject , for which at the time there appears4.o ho some ground , can not thereafter conceive that there may have taken place a change of conditions which nofonger affords any justifica tion to their project. Very likely Mr. Ulair doesn't want to learn any facts that militate against his pot scheme. Ho will hardly fail to hear from some one , however , that the south , for whoso special benefit his measure was con ceived , has been making progress in educational matters in tlio past six years , and that some of the states of that section are really able at this time to show a percentage of illiteracy no greater than Mr. Blair's own state of Now Hampshire. It will undoubtedly sur prise him to learn that in Virginia , West Virginia and Tennessee the school year has been extended , with a notable increase in the attendance upon the public schools ; that in Alabama during the past four years the number of school houses has increased nearly one thou sand and is now 5,000 , , accommodating a quarter of a million pupils ; that in Ar kansas and Georgia the figures show a rapid growth of the public school sys tem during the past three or four years , and that in Florida and Texas there has boon a steady and marked increase in the facilities of pub lic education and in the pop ular interest regarding it. In short , all the reports thus far made of school superintendents in the southern states for the past year show that the people of that section are wide awake on the subject of public education , and determined that the rising generation shall not want the advantage of a com mon school education. Perhaps it would bo just to Mr. Blair to credit this awakening in part to his bill , but how ever this may bo the fact that the south is pushing forward with most commendable vigor in educational work is unquestionable , and haying caught the spirit , with much greater ability to carry it out than over before , the people of the south can safely bo loft to take care of their own interests in this particular. If there is any greater interest in the present congress in behalf of the Blair bill than was shown in preceding con gresses since that measure was first in troduced , it will be found among these who see in it a way of providing for the expenditure of a considerable part of the surplus revenue from present tax ation and thereby furnishing an excuse- for a less reduction than would otherwise bo necessary. Wo do not believe , however , that the number of such who will dare declare themselves is suUlcient to give this measure a chance of success. The party that should become responsible for voting away the eighty million dollars Involved in the Blair bill would simply invite its own destruction. A Frionil at Court. It would scorn that the advocates of ship subsidies have a useful "friend at court" in the person of Mr. C. B. Mor ton , commissioner of navigation. In the report of this olllcial , just submitted , ho presents with some elaboration the aids mid advantages enjoyed by the shipping of other nations , and presents as hu conclusion the opinion that it is impos sible , without a changaof the present conditions , for the United States to ro' gain its lost supremacy in the foreign trade. Ho says our vessels must bo put on an equality with , foreign ships , by which ho means they must be pait subsidies or bounties , or they mus1 bo gradually forced out of the contest There is nothing now in this statemen' ' of the situation. It has been ropeatct in every report that has come from tin bureau of navigation since the subjec' ' of restoring the shipping interest of tin country has bcun discussed , and it ha : boon presented in every possible torn by the advocates of ship subsidies. Yo it has thus far failed to convince an ; largo portion of the people that it is tin policy or duty of the government to g < into the business of building up a ship ping interest by a system of bountie that would almost certainly bo o endless duration , and the limi of which in amount , after tin policy had become established , no ono can pretend to foretell. We do not np prohond that the opinion of the prcseni commissioner is likely to accomplisl any more in this direction than did similar views of his predecessors. As a matter of fact Americans an now sailing foreign-built ships , under dor foreign flags , at a profit , and it is said that the Pennsylvania vania railroad company , under anothei name , is asking congress to permit tin registry of a licet of ships owned b ; itself in order that it may sai them as American ships in the foreign oign trade without any bounty a all. This is testimony that th sagacious and thoroughly practica corporation sees its way to profitable ro la | turns in this business , and merely ask that the absurd laws which discrimiuut against American slilp owners shall , bo rolaxcd BO that its ships can call the seas under the American flag. But if thifi were not so , and American ship owners could not sail their vessels at U profit , under present conditions , why should the government bo called upon to jnake good their losses ? It Is obvi ously no part of the government's busi ness to pay any portion of its citizens to carry on a losing business , and clearly if it could bo justified in doing so with respect to ship owners It would bo very difficult to draw the line at which such a policy should halt. The sentiment that is infused into the ship subsidy argument is all very well , but as a prac tical question , in which character alone it is proper to consider it , it docs not and wo bollovo never will commend , itself to the favor of a majority of the people. - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 'Flint Tjlbrnry Itiillftliig ; Scheme. The scheme to cut up and disfigure Jefferson square by the proposed erec tion of a public library building , has at last taken shape in mi ordinancecoupled with a proposition to vote 835,000 in city bunds for the proposed building. Wo hope the city council will save the city the trouble and expense of voting upon this project. JolTcrson square should bo reserved for park purposes and beau tified by fountains and monuments. If the only breathing spot In the heart of the city is to bo abandoned for public buildings , lot it bo given up for a great market houso. For that purpose the location is admirable and the space ample. Instead of issuing $85,000 in bonds to erect a library building which is not needed at this time , let that sum bo voted for a market house , which has been sadly needed in Omaha during the last ten years. Kighty-llvo thousand dollars will build an elegant market house , but it will enable us to build only a very commonplace library building , if that building is to bo ( Ire-proof throughout. If it is not to bo fire-proof , there is no object in 'constructing it. The whole library building scheme is premature and impracticable. The interest on $85,000 at 0 per cent is $5,100 a year , it will cost fully $2,600 a year for heat , light and janitor ecr- vico. For one-half of $7,500 a year the city can rent all the library facilities it needs , with light , heat and janitor service - vice , in a lire proof building more cen trally located than Jefferson square With the present bonded debt of the city , ranging over $1,1200.000 , there should bo no bonds added oxccpt for paving , sewerage , parks and public buildings that are absolutely necessary. THK committee of the board of trade appointed to induce manufacturers to come to Omaha should soon give some sign that it is paying attention to this duty. The business record tit last year has been published , and there should bo compiled from this such facts as neces sary to show the commercial progress of Omaha , which together withaprcsonta- tion of the special and conspicuous au- vantages of Omaha as a manufacturing point should bo widely distributed to manufacturers , particularly in the eastern and middle states. Judiciously conducted work in this direction cannot fail to have favorable results , and it should bo done with as little delay as possible. The first thing to bo done is to arouse an iiHorest among manufac turers toward Omaha and encourage in quiries. There are many industrial enterprises now unsatisfactorily located that could bo brought here wore reason able inducements offered them. PiiEFAlivriox is being made for the open ing of tlio cooking class in tlio high school. The idea scorns to incut with general ap proval. It will bo a new experience for a good1 many of tlio young misses. 7fc iiWI- cuu. cuu.Wo Wo should like to know who among the patrons of the public schools have asked or petitioned the board of educa tion to engage in this tomfoolery. The young misses who have no chance to dabble in dough and wash dishes at homo are not likely to profit very much by the novel experience in the cooking school. The Omaha school board is more lavish and reckless with the public school fund than any other school board in America , San Francisco not oxcoptcd. They employ more useless teachers , and have quartered more pensioners on the public , than any similar body wo know of. The addition of a cooking professor ss nothing more nor less than a pension scheme. UNLESS Chairman Baleombo BOOS fit to stop down and out from the board of public works on his own volition , the re quest that Mayor Broatch should take his head oil will bo made in vain. The mayor has no such power under the charter. lie may invite an appointive ofllcer to resign , but ho cannot compel him to do &o. The power to remove city ollicials , whether elected or appointed , is vested in the district court. The mayor may prefer charges of malfeas ance against any olllcial or member ol the council before the district court , and if the charges are proven to the satisfac tion of the court , the ofliccr must go. That is tlio only method prescribed bj law for deposing ollicials , and any at tempt to remove them by any othei process is simply a wild , goose chase. the chief of police makes n specific charge to the mayor and license board that a certain resort Is disordcrlj or harbors crooks and thieves , and this charge can bo backed by the police au > thoritics and the police court record , the board has but ono duty to perform , ant that is to refuse the proprietor of sucl resort a liquor license. ' Tin : commissioner of navigation ir his report states that without a change in the present condition of our naviga tion wo can not regain our lost supremacy acy in the foreign trado. The commis sioncr is doubtless not far from right but so long as wo have great inland ro bourceslo develop navigation must oc cupy a secondary place. Ai.Tiiourm the Chicago Times has according to numerous reports , bcoi sold to a syndicate , the legend , "By W F. Storey , " still maintains its place a the head of the editorial page. Evei death cannpt mako"tho old man" lost his grip. Ho evidently runs the Time , by a private wire from the spirit laud PKOMlNliNT PERSONS. 'i The marquis of Lbrno i ; threatened with cnnoor , ' \ Weston ; the pedestrian , Is nn editor on the Now York Star. ' Tennyson recolvfcs $25,000 n year from the sale of his books. * % { August Holnionl , tlio New York banker , won fcil.OOQ with Ills'racing stnblo lust year. Whlttler's congratulatory letters already number over live hundred and the end Is not yet. H i Queen Victoria- refused to allow Mrs. Mnckny to bo Invited to a state ball or con cert. Joy Gould never smoked but ono cigar In his life. It made him so 111 that ha never tried another. Mrs. Joseph Harrison , the widow of the nmn who built the ilrst railroad in Hussla , is worth foKX,000. ( ) San Francisco has nioro representatives In the United States senate than any two other cities In the country. The richest socialist In the United Statci Is Courthuid Palmer of New York , who ranks among the millionaires. Mr. Hundull him introduced m congress a bill to Increase the pension of General Kick- ett'H widow to > 0 n month. Colonel Uobert Ingorsoll 1ms been formally pronounced dcnd by his associates of a Thir teen club because tie failed to attend the last annual dinner. Hugh M , Brooks , alias Maxwell , the young Englishman under sentence of death In St. Louis for murdering Arthur Preller , bus em braced the Catholic faith. Congressman "Tom" Kecd , of Mnlno. Is comparatively poor. Ilo has never taken a house , kept a carriage nor given a dinner since ho ilrst went to Washington. Dr. Mackenzie states that for more than a month the Crown Prince Frederick William has been free from the unpleasant sensation In his throat which ho ilrst experienced last January. The prince is hopeful and eheorful. .lay Gould is reported to have said recently that the speculators have made a plaything of his lieiillli for years , and that he could shake Wall street to its foundations by simply standing on thn steps of the Stock Exchange building , striking his foroheiid with his hand und giving u groan. Theodore Tilton is living in n remote quar ter of Paris in by no menus uflliieiit oltcum- stnncps. Ills dress is almost shabby and with his hair hanging about his shouldais he presents a peculiar appearance list he w.ilKs nbout the streets of the Fieneh capital. Ho does a little literary work now nnd then , but writes with no regularity. A Nation nfllicli Heirs. SltittrfMii.lliulrr. One of the most profitable kinds of business hat wi' Isnow of these days is to bo n Choro- tco Indian. Every child of a Chrtohco is mm to n foituno of . $7,000 and m.my very , 'ulu.iblo government miuiuisitcs. A Monltfj's-C.rln on Fame. A'em > ( irf tt'orltl. The sportive monk ? ; ? that fired the town of Wakcficld , Wis. , b.v"ovcrturnin'a lamp can Hilin n small place It ) Yho niche of the teniplo > C fume occupied by tfio cow whose kick eon llugitttcd Chicago. Jlj Su New : jHifc .Sun. In the west they deli't think that a town is enjoying much of iVrOal estate boom unless > coile | are wandering 'around ' with lanterns ut night ic.uly to cyso ) desirable bargains. OlnnslcHl KIckerH. There nraiune Harvard graduates in the , ( Fiftieth congress-No\vouduv there is kick ing there. The Fljjlit for Life. Ilnticit Lnuii Stcvcnt > n. Leave not , mi soul , the unfoughtcn field , nor leave Thy debts dishonored , nor thy place dcsort Without Uue service rendered. For tny life , Up. spirit , and defend that fort of clay , Thy body , now beleaguered ; whether soon Or late she fall ; whether to-day thy friends liuwull tlico dead , or after years , a man Cirown old In honor and the friend of peaco. Content my soul , for moments and for hours ; Each is with service pregnant , each reclaimed Is us a kingdom conquered , where to loiiifj. Onn Case of Nightmare Explained. Clilrauo llcntlil. Uobert Louis Stevenson is a great admirer of Wagner's music. Is it any wonder that he has most horrible dreams. Astonishing Modesty. Loularll'e ' dun ttr-Juurnal The tin und coppei syndicate docs not want the earth. It wants only a few leading min erals. r STATIC AND TKllllITCWY. Nel > ranlui .lotting" . The schools of Fremont have abolished ished the recess. Dodge county is feeding and Shelter ing U0,000 Oregon sheep this winter. Ogallala is alllictcd with a surplus of thieycs , and a vigilance committee is talked ot to read the riot act to thorn. The State Firemen's association will hold its annual meeting at Plattsmouth on the 17th , to select time and place for the reunion. There was a solitary exception to the unanimity of the voters of Weeping Water on the proposition to issue $16,000 In bonds for waterworks. The town will experience high pressure at an early day. The daily press of the state , with two exceptions , insignificant and envious , are unstinted in glorifying the growth of Omaha in 1887 , and her unrivalled career as the commercial and manu facturing giant of the west. The Lin coln papers are appalled and unable to express their disgust at the exhibit. Several enterprising country papers have gallantly rusjied to the aid ol the eligible girls anxioiw to swing the pre rogatives of leap yutw. Lists of unmar ried men , their looks , dispositions , pros pects and piles have been published , and the maidens of the favored towns can safely look before they leap into the surging seas of marriage and divorce. Chase county , with barely two years of settlement , has a population of 4,000. Imperial is the counU' seat. There are six or seven thrivirigyoung towns , with nearly all lines of ' rado represented. The principal town's ? are Wauncta , Chase , Winchester , Imperial , Cham pion and Can by. Land can bo secured by relinquishmcnt pr deed. Deeded lands are selling atjrom $4 to $10 per aero , while in the remote portions ol the county government land can still bo. had. had.Tho The republican workers of Nomahn county gathered in melancholy numbers a few evenings ago , to gaze into the empty depths of the political treasury , The defeated candidates had exhausted their surplus in an olTort to exalt them selves and the party and their condition cried out in the wilderness of blighted hopes for reimbursement. The mooting developed oceans of breath but not n penny jingled for the suffering. Th < inner feelings of the members regard ing backsliders were thus voiced bj Rufus Leech : "They are mugwumps lot them go to the dovll and stay there,1 and as ho slapped his hat on his hand he declared : "Ills mxtanio majesty , .will all hU modern appliances for roasting lulling , frying , hasn't a corner one-half hot enough for republicans wlio will vote the democratic ticket , and that's the Hind of a cat I am. " Town Items. Sanborn la frco of saloons. Burlington claims a population of 27,000. Coal of the lower grades , for manu facturing purposes , la delivered at Bur lington for GO cents per ton. The number of hogs packed at Cedar Rapids this year Is 1)0,000 ) , against 100- ; U2t ) for the previous year. The total number of arrests made at Cedar Rapids for the year just closed is 'MO less than the ono preceding it. Fifteen hundred head of cattle have been dishorned in the southern part of Osccola county during the present win1 tor. tor.Tho The agricultural department fixes the average of Iowa's corn crop at a fraction over twenty-five bushels per acre and that of Nebraska at twenty-four. A Charlton man had a carload of broom-corn from Nebraska , upon which the freight was $9 per ton , the same as ho had been paying from Chicago , at which ho complains bitterly. Davenport Masons are feeling good over tlio completion of their now tem ple. It is supposed to bo among the finest in the slate , and IB MX 150 foot , and four stories high. Its cost was $75- 000. 000.A A Washington county farmer gavohis hogs so much salt and water on starting to town with them that ninu ot thorn died on the road , end live after ho got there and before they were weighed. His little piece of rascality cost him about $ .1GI ) . The past year was n prosperous ono in Davenport. Factories costing $ i.-)0,000 were built ; business blocks $ -l tM , ( ) ( ) and residences $1M,700. ! The Second street railway expended $20,000 , and ton miles of the Davenport , Iowa & Dakota rail road were completed at a cost of $150- 000. 000.Tho The biggest holiday exuitomcntatDCS Moines lint boon created by a bloody butcher. A largo cattle firm thonglit that the butchers should either pay a better price for the beef they were buy ing or sell lower. They refused , and so the cattle firm has put in a first-class market and sells meat at cost , at from o to II feu U ) per pound for best the lo s being a out of ( I cents per pound. AH the eattlo linn has herds of its own , and plenty of capital , an era of cheap meat IH 011 the people of the capital city , with no signs of rebellion on their part. Dakota. 'Possum and deer are getting coin- ion in Dead wood. Rapid City's building improvements ) r the past year amount to $1,000,000. The actual valuation of Yankton city rt fti 'iOjOOO , and of Yankton county O.'JoU.tMW , mid both will double in 1888 inlcss all signs fail. The Manitoba road has carried to the ast this season , from Manitoba and Jakota ranges , 21,000 head of beef eattlo ml ! ! 0,000 head of sheep. Yankton has one artesian well which lows over 2fiOO gallons a minute and nolher which Hews 1,500 gallons iimin- ites , the water supply being tapped COO eet down. The farming lands of Dakota are said o bo passing into the hands of actual .oltlerHtit . the rate of 4,000,000 acres aeh year. Twenty-five per cent of the entire territory still belongs to the gov ernment. The noted ox-Indian agent , Dr. V. T. IcGillicuddy , has boon notified that his iccounta as agent have been thoroughly examined by the government and a dis- [ Toponi'y of only 8120.50 found. The doctor now resides in Rapid City. Yankton is the cathedral city of the Catholic diocese of south Dakota , under , ho dispensation of Bishop Marty. Plans or buildings which will cost fci,0X,000 ( ) ire being made. These will be con- tructed during the next few years. The ite for schools and hoapitills has already been selected , and the bishop's resi lience and convent wore built several i'ears ago. Lackwanna is the name given to the now coal Holds in the Black Hills. They ire ton miles southwest of Hot Springs Did cover an area of twelve square niles. The coal is of a bituminous haraeter but there are thin stratas of a lard , bright and extremely black coal which is believed to bo anthracite. If struck with a hammer it breaks up into inibes and is remarkably clean. To the lOuth and between the coal fields and the Cheyenne river is a wide and beau tiful stretch of valley comprising about 5,000 acres. The B. it M. survey crosses the C'hoycnnu river from the south com ing down Cottonwood creek , and al touching some of the coal locations. Colorado. Denver turned out 14,000,000 cigars last year. The authorities of Don venire waging war on the gamblers. The San Juan country turned out 12,044 tons of mineral last year. The government mint at Denver handled last year $1,07:1,453 : in gold and $10,401 in silver. The total bullion deposits - posits from all soilrces amounted to ,84i,258. ) Ricliardson , the collapsed contractor of thu state capitol building , has sued the capitol commissioners for $72,000 damages because they refused to accept his style of work. Denver's improvement record for 1887 sliows nearly $ : ! 0,000,000 in real estate transactions , more than 2,000.buildings erected at a cost of $5,000,000 , and $12,000,000 in value gained by the re duction of interest rates. During the holiday cold snap , Robin son , near Leudville , captured the meteorological icicle. The thermome ter registered 55 degrees below zero , and the mercury was fro/on whenever it was oxpoaed. Voreo , the Colorado plug ugly , is a Virginian by birth and forty-bovon years of ago. Ho was a guerilla under Mosby , lived in Cheyenne when the Union Pacific reached there , and has since divided his time between Colorado rado nnd 'Wyoming. Until ho blos somed out as a full Hedged terror ho was employed as a cowboy. Tlio Golden licit. St. Joe ( Mi > . ) Gazelle- . It Is well known to all people who know anything of the geography of thig country , its topography and resources , that tlio region embracing central and western Iowa , eastern and central Ne braska , eastern Kansas and northern Missouri , as well as all other portions of the state lying along the Missouri river , is metaphorically a golden bolt flowing with milk and honey , and really an ag ricultural garden. The land is prolific of corn and every other class of grain indigenous to a temperate zone , and the toil is so strong and fertile that not onlj these flourish with more strength then elsewhere on the habitable glooo , but all other kinds of vcgotatior peculiar to such a climate , flourlsl abundantly and spontaneously The region raises the best ani most suceulont grasses- for cattle , horses sheep and swine , the growth of timboi Ifl not surpassed on the earth , slono for building and coal for fuql is plentiful , the seasons 'arc faithful , and altogether IhU region Is peculiarly the abiding place of this age of man. The result of which Is thatmaiiy cities nnd towns have mining up within the territory men tioned almost as If by inaglcamlon overv hand every class of the best and most of- fectlvo machinery that human ingenuity has produced Is in constant and satis factory uso. The reaper and thresher on the farm , the saw mill in the forest , the wind mill and pump on the plain , the telephone and press in the towns and cities , the telegraph and railway everywhere , and all and singular the appliances that man's handiwork has furnished to help and perfect case in everybody's work , from the noodle of thn housewife to the pile driver of the bridge builder. In every way the region Is flourish ing and producing and it Is surrounded by a vast area of country roadv to swal low up and consume all the golden bolt can produce and all that its people can spare , and more too. To the great ex panse of Texas and the Rocky mountain region and the grainloss territories of the northwest go our corn and hogs , us well as to lands beyond the sea. and for everything that the Golden Bolt pro duces there is an illimitable market throughout the boundless world. This prosperity makes healthy and pretty women and children , strong , bighearted - hearted , broad-minded men , a popula tion that is the salt of the earth and pleasing in the sight of heavon. "If He WantH It. " I'Mltiftdiilila A merfttiiifrp. ( . ) . The suggestion has been very cooly made , and is as cooly received in cer tain quarters , that "Mr. Blaine can have the nomination if ho wants it. " Tnis Is merely ono way of misrepresent ing the actual situation , in the Interest of that sort of "boom" which is so much employed and beloved by Mr. Blainc's advocates. As a matter of fact , there is no possihilty of the nomination being tendered him by the convention. If ho should got it at all , which wo do not now believe possible , It would bo as the result of a contest , like that of 1881 , but more prolonged and severe. The reason of this simply is that the party does not want to load up Mr. Blaine again. It has its own work in hand , not his ambitions and interests In 1870 ho was pressed upon it ; in 18SO ho was again a candidate for its nomination ; in 1881 his claims were presented a third time ; and now in 188S it is still "tho same story con tinued. " The party is tired of his case. It has made an earuostand honest effort to oleet him , without success. It cannot afford to give a quarter of a century , in a most momentous period of American history , to the effort to carry and elevate a single ono of its members. If Mr. Blaine were much more entirely its Icaderand representative ; if his services to it had been immensely more , valuable ; if his statesmanlike qualities were mul tiplied ; there would still bo neither rea son nor justice in its forsaking its legiti mate duties to the country , and becom ing a more pack-horse for his concerns , It is perfectly evident , as wo have said , that there is no general willing ness to give him the nomination. Any pretense of that sort collapses the mo ment it is examined. Every test of the public opinion of the party exhibits a thorough distrust of the possibility of his election , and an anxiety to secure a stronger candidate. The canvass of the delegates to the New York state con vention , the canvaws of members-elect of the Now York legislature , the can vass of republican members of congress , the inquiry just made among the re publican newspapers of Illinois , Kansas and Missouri all those develop the same state of facts , and prove the wide spread prevalence of the wish to take u new man. Moreover , the now men are already suggested. There are cer tainly half a dozen other prominent can didates beside Mr. Blaino. Mr. Sherman' will have a largo following nitsido his own state of Ohio. Ho will invo , wo believe , delegates from fifteen : > r twenty other states , including Penn sylvania. Indiana will send , it is now piito certain , a solid delegation for General Harrison. Connecticut is very likely to do as much for General llaw- ley. And there will bo votes for Mr. Lincoln , Mr. Allison , Governor Rusk , Senator Cullom , and perhaps as many more. Nobody presumes to doubt these facts. They are perfectly well known. What , then , do they show ? Do they signify that the convention is going to tender its nomination to Mr. Blaine on a silver plate ? The absurdity of such a theory is manifest the instant the facts thorn- solves are admitted. It is evident that the party is seeking its best candi date. It is undertaking now , not futile attempts at redressing the past , but the performance of the duties of the present and future. Thu milk that was spilled on the ground in 1884 by the com bined misfortunes which brought defeat in Now York is spilled entirely. No amount of bewailing can recompense the loss , and no sort of effort can gather up the milk. That captor is closed , and the plain duty of the republican party is to go forward upon a fresh line of attack. Its candidates and itself have now a clean sheet. There are no old claims. It owes Mr. Blaine nothing whatever. If there bo any debt either way it is from him to the party for the great and fruitless effort which it made to servo him , and for the disaster which his candidacy entailed upon it. Such a debt Mr Blaine can with dlfllculty discharge , but ono of the means of un dertaking to do so would bo for him to withdraw from the canvass. As it is plain ho cannot got the nomination , ex cept by a struggle , and in all probublity cannot got it at all , ho must certainly see that the party would bo relieved by his withdrawal , and that at a time so tre mendously critical in the history of American affairs ho should not hellishly add lo the party's embarrassments and burdens. Meantime , lot no ono bo so weak as to bo deceived by the pretense that Mr. Blaino's nomination is something cer tain , "if ho wnuU it. " The sober son so of tlie republican party docs not want him , and is showing the fact more openly every day. "XV. II. Mac'Doimld on CiiHtern. Minnoapolas Journal : These who know W. H. MacDonald , of the Boston- iaiiB , know that ho is one of the most graceful actors on the operatic stage. Ho poiscsics unusual histrionic talent. But ho was not always thus. When "Mao" first wont on the stage ho used to make the statues painted in the scenery weep. But ho thought ho was im mensely clover until ono day his brother came to sco him. "Well , Sam , what did you think of my performance ? " asked Mr. Mao- Donald. "You sang splendidly. " "What did you think of my acting ? I was just a trillo stllT , wasn't I ? " "Well , I think they could have moved you about a good deal easier , and you would have made a better ap pearance if you had been on castors. " That is what made MauDouuld study. HIRAM HOWE'S NEPHEW. ICentuoklnn.s nt Draw-Poker on I tin Coney Island lloulovnrd. Many frequenters of race-courses and trotting-lrnckR , as well as roadmen who speed their horses along tlio Coney Island boulevard , are aummlntod with Hiram Howe's nephew , Amort. Albert is a remarkable man. 1 to Is smaller nnd weighs less than Tom Thumb did when Mr. Barnum took him to Kuropo and made a fortune by exhibiting him. If It were not for a deformity that mars the symmetry of Albert's form ho would bo the most famous dwarf in America , if not in the world. Although ho has reached the age at which the hair of some men begins lo turn gray , ho has the piping voice of a child ; but when It collie's to nerve ho is the equal of any Long Islander who ever backed a horse or played an unlimited amount of draw. Ho Is well versed in horxu lore , and often talks about the performances of thorouL'hbreds and trottorsjfrom Boston and Flora Temple's time to the present day. Ilo attends all the great races , and sometimes places moro money on a horse than many club men who are looked upon im heavy bettors. His judg ment is so good that ho generally car ries more money away than he takes to the races , and no always dresses richly and in good taste. His chief enjoyment , however , Is a quiet little game ot cards. They toll a story at Hiram's about several horsemen from Kentucky who stopped at the roadside hotel nftor a visit of inspection to the thoroughbreds at Sheopshead Bay. While partaking of refreshments a furious rain-storm came on that made them rejoice that they were under shelter. "Lot's have a game of draw lo pass away the time , " said ono of the party. Three others were ready to chip In , but the man who proposed play objected to sitting down with less than five. "I guess Albert will join you , " re marked a silvor-haired turfman , whoso dollars run up into the million , "Who is Albert ? " inquired the Kon- tuckian. "There ho Is , " replied the turfman , pointing to the dwarf , who sat with his back to the parly , ga/.ingat a horse pic ture on the wall. Albert turned around at this and in a modest way said that he had no objec tion to join I ho party. The voice struck the Kcnlucklan'H car with astonishment , and Albert's size nuulo the poker-player's eyes ex pand with wonder. "Wo don't want to play with a boy , " ho exclaimed. "You will find him man enough , "said the silver-haired turfman , with a look of confidence at Albert. The game was soon in full blast. The Kentuckians made the cards sail around the table silently and rapidly. Albert tilted bib little derby down ever his forehead to shade his twinkling eyes , shufiling and dealing deftly when it caiiu ) to his turn. He lost his lives and tens like a little man in the occasional hots ho made in the opening half hour of the piny. Then luck began to turn In his favor. Within an hour ho had made his losses good , and was nearly three hundred ahead. TlioKon- luckian who had objected to playing with the l > oy who had lost more than the others. Feeling a little nettled , ho proposed to raise the limit for $10 lo $100. "Barkis is willin' , " said Albert. They played on with fiucluatiug luck , Albert at times increasing his stock of velvet until one of the purty opened a jack-pot for $20. All wont in but one of the party. In the draw the man who was lying for Albert called for ono card. Albert took three and the other players two each. The boy had next to the hist say. The first man chipped in $20 and the second raised him $10 , which Albert saw. Then the last man said , "I'll raise you $100 my boy. " This drove the other two out. The boy porrod at his antagonist , and then placed $200 on the pile , saying in a cool ivay , "I see your $100 , and go $100 better. " The Kentuckian hesitated a moment , nd then , throwing up his hand , asked : "How old are you , my boy ? " "Thirty-nine next birthday , " piped Albert. The Kentuckian had drawn to a bob tail Hush. Albert held a pair of eights. From TOXIIH to W. T. Seattle Press : Yesterday nftorrfoon the steamer Josephine loft Yeslor's wharf for Seabock with twenty-seven colonists on board eight adults and nineteen children. The Josephine had been chartered to take this company of colonists to Seabeck where claims had Already been located by them. Ton years ago these people emigrated from Tennessee U ) Texas , and during all these years they struggled to create homes and competence for themselves , but tone no purpose. Ono misfortune after an other came on them , and at the end of each succeeding year they found them selves less able , physically and finan cially , for the battle of life than the preceding one. Fever and uguo prevails In almost every part of Texas , while droughts and hot winds succeed each other with precision , rendering life anything but enjoyable and property of no determinate value. During ten years' residence in Texas they lost 1,400 head of eattlo , the greater part from want of water , though some from cold winds and lack of pasture. Having decided to leave Texas , their next business was to find the most de sirable place to locate. They gathered information from California , Mexico , Arizona , Montana , Oregon and Wash ington ; indeed , for tow years previous to leaving Texas they were seeking in- tolllgonco from which to determine where to locate. The burden of evi dence was in favor of Washington , and they decided accordingly. The com pany six families in all arrived in Seattle six weeks ago , and the men of the party have been looking up the country eVer sinco. Catarrhal Dangers. To bo fnodfioni the dancers ot gnlTocutlon while lying down ; lo brcutlio frt'rlysliup sound- lv and undisturbed ; to rise refrctltcil , head clear , brain nctlvo nnd frro from pnlii or ache ; to know that no poisonous , mil rid mutter do llies the breath und rots nw ay the delicate ma chinery of Hindi , tusto and hearing ; to feel thut the system duoH not , thiouxu Its veins and nrterlm , Buck up tlio potnon that in Huro to undermine and destroy , ii induod a blessing bo- yoml all other human enjoyments. To purchasu Immunity from Mich n futo bhonlil lie the object of all uflllctcd. Hut these who Imvo trIM many remedied und phyaldans despair of relief or euro. BANFOun'R lUntOAi , CUIIE meclR overv plmso of Cutiirrh , from u nlmplo htad < otd to the mont loathsomi ! nnd do tnictlKtiws. . 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