TIUU OHIAHA DAILY BEE : FKIDAY , JULY ao ; 1888 ,
THE DAILY BEE.
I'UliMBIlKD kVKUV MO1UNINO.
TEUMS OK SUlf-OHIITIOX.
Dnlly ( MortilnK Killtiou ) Including Sunday
llrK , Ono Year . Jl" Of )
1'or HlxMontlm. . t , (
J'nrTlirea ; Mouths . , " WJ
'Jliu Umnlin Sumtuy IlKH , malted tunny ml-
arcs * . One Year . 203
OM.tll.\ < > l'KICF.No3. \NtiniGFAIlSXM.STHKCT. .
Nr.vr YOHK UkfiCK , Uoou H ANiilSTiiiiursis
IIUIMIl.MU. XX'ACIIIMITON OFUCK. NO. 5IJ
COItHKdI'ONUENCB. . , . .
All commuuicntlons rt'latliiK to ucivs nnd i-a |
torlal nmttcrMiutihl bondilrfi < c < l to thu Klirroit
, , .
, ,
All ImilUUNS loiters nnd remittances should lie
nddreiseil to Tim MKK I'IIIII.ISIIINU COMPANY ,
< ) MUA. . DrultH , rhfcka and puttolllte orders tel
l > e mndo p.iynblo to the order of thu company.
The Bcc Pull isWDgCoipanx , Proprietors ,
E. UOHEWATEU , Editor. _
xi 1 10 iui ; : .
Rvorn Statement orClrculntlim.
ftnte of Nebraska , I ,
Couuty of Douglas , | B' ° '
Oeo. II. Tr.schutlc , secretary of The lice Tub-
llffilim company , does solemnly swear that the
actuarclrcumtlon of the Dally llee for the xvoek
udltif ? July 7 , 18 * $ . waa us to Hews *
Saturday , Juue3U ! " ' ! " ' ) !
,
Hutiday , July 1 18- ( ]
Monday. July ! i IVM
Tuesday , July ! 1 JMr.
Wednesday , .mly 1 J'MWI '
'Hiursday , July r > g1 * '
Vrlday , July ' ' . -
ATera8C aKo/nLTZScuiiUhS01
Fvorn to before mo and subscribed lu my
presence this 7th day of July , A. 1) . . 1IW.
N. 1' . Kiiu ; Notary I'uullc.
Btnto of Nebraska , i
I8 > s >
Comity of Douglas ,
Oeoi o II. T7.sihuck , beliif ? first duly sworn ,
Arpobus ud says Hint ho Is scorelary of The llee
I * I'tiblliihlni' company , Hint the actual average
fe dally circulation of the Dully Hee for the
month of July. IbS" , xvas 14.1MJ copies ; for
AiiKint , 1887 , 14,151 copies ; for September , 1M7 ,
144 : ! ( copies ; for Ocloler , IW , ll.iCCtcopies ; for
Novemlxr , U7 , 10 , 0 copies ; for December ,
IW , irWI copies ; for Jamiorx' . 1 88 , IB/JlW cop
ies ; for February , Its1 , IfuOSiS copies ; forMui-ch ,
K 10.CIU copies ; for April , 1N-H , 18,711 coliItM.
' .May , IbXP , 1 , I81 copies ; for Juno , It * * , I'J.-MI '
OKO. II. TXSnitTCK.
8x\orn to bcforo me ami siibHcrlbed lu my
presence this ixitli day of June , A. D. 1W.H.
N. 1' . PHI I. Notary IMhlle.
YKSTKUDAYtho price of hogs reached
the highest figure of the season S-5.95.
GKNKIIAL HAUUIHOX is in luck. Al
ready ono hundred and forty-four babies
have been named Bon Harrison , and
the campaign IB not half over.
OMAHA should make it a point to
maintain at. leant ono great central at
traction in the summer season and onu
in mid-xvintcr. There ia both xx'isdom
and profit in it.
WITH the steady hand of Chairman
Quay , of the republican national commit
tee at the throttle , the "limited" carry
ing Harrison and Morton xvill reach
Washington on time.
Tin : high school grounds are noxv
lighted by electricity. A subscriber sug
gests that the cable company could
make a few nicklos by giving a series
of sundown open air concorls there.
Tim decision of Judge Couch , ol
Iowa , that ginger ale falls under the
ban of the prohibition laxv , xvill in all
probability increase the consumption ol
"cold tea" in the proscribed districts.
TUB noxv system of street sxveoping in-
ppcction seems to bo xvorking bettoi
than the old way. The city cngineoi
will please keep his xveathor-oyo open ,
hoxx-evor. That is the only xvay lo in-
buro clean streets.
THIS is nn ago xvhen people seek fet
something noxv and novel. All the
Omaha fair projectors xvill have to do is
to meet that demand , and people xvill
rush into our gates as they did into the
ark.
JOHN C. NKXY of Indiana , xvho ac
ably championed the cause of Mr. Harrison
risen , has been dubbed Tippeca Noxv.
That just suits him and ho is striking
some vigorous bloxvs in his paper for the
republican ticket this fall.
Tint farmers of Crnxvford county , Illi
nois , have determined not to raise any
wheat , barley or rye for the next throe
years in an effort to exterminate the
chinch bug. This is a boycott drix'cn
ns it were , into tlio ground.
"IN the matter campaign clothes , '
Bays a loading democratic newspaper of
Noxv York , "wo can say xvith equal con-
Mldcnco that the democratic suit is graj
in color. " Gray gray xvasn't thai
the color the democrats inarched ii :
during their four years' campaign ,
txx'onty-llvo years ago V
AT the close of the last state legisla
ture Tin : llKU published the names o
those illustrious men xvho comprised n
galaxy of treacherous boodlors and dis
ciples of Ananias. The goats xvore
cast out from among the sheep foi
future reference. The time is ubou
ripe for a foxv pointed observations.
L indignantly refuses to clcai
himself before the special commissioi
appointed by the tories of the charge :
uiado agaiiiHt him by thoLoi don 'fintcs
Although Pnrnoll himself had asked foi
the opportunity , ho does not propose t <
appear before a packed and biased jur ;
of his enemies. It xvas a clover scheme
but the tories xvill have to bait thoii
trail with another kind of choose before
they can hope to catch the Irish loader
TUB bill passed by the senate placinj
General Fremont on the retired lis
with the rank of major general is i
measure xvhioh the people of the xves
can heartily approve. The service
which General Fremont rendered to tic
union us a gnllunt soldier and darlni
explorer can never be repaid. It i
only mi act of justice to recognize ii
BOjno xvay the public services of thoyroa
'imthtlndor. "
TlIK Indiana republican stuto commit
teq has very properly taken charge o
the matter uf fixing the time nnd pine
nt xvhich General IJurrifcon will roco'ivi
clubs and de-legations. This is noccs
enry lu order to give the cnndldat
needed relief from the rather inconsiderate
orate xvay In xvhieh visitors croxvd ii
upon him at nil hours , as xvell as to al
loxv him time for giving attention t
some other matters besides that of re
colving these visitors. The state com
mlttoo xvill do. wisely to arrange th
sohedulo so that General Harrison cm
obtain a required rest and bo * onablei
to get n ful.l night's sloup at least thrc
times a week.
The "Q" Dynamite Cit- > .
The development on Wednesday in
the invcBtigalion of the alleged dyna
mite plot ttgaiivst the Burlington road
go far to justify till that Tills UKU has
heretofore said regarding this matter ,
and especially its suggestion that the
public should not hastily form it judg
ment unfavorable to the accused on the
presentations of the prosecution , but
wait until both sides xvero fully heard.
It xvas shoxvn on Wednesday that ono
of the prisoners , Wilt-on , is not , as had
been reported , u member of the LJrothor-
hood of Locomotive Engineers , but
a full-Hedged Plnkcrton detective.
This is clearly ono point gained
for the brotherhood , but this is
not all. This man Wilson xvas a hire
ling xvho had u xvoll'doilnod xvork to
perform , obviously that of making a
case of conspiracy against members of
the brotherhood. This xvas to bo done ,
it is fair to assume , at all hazards , and
as a xvell-trainod detective , especially
selected for peculiar lituess In xvoll-un-
derstood respects , Wilson xvould not
scruple at anything necessary to ap
prove himself xvorthy of the trust con
fided to him and to earn the probably
generous roxvard of success. Ho ad
hered to his task faithfully , but the dis
closure of his true character xvill
of necessity militate against the
force of his testimony xvith all
fair-minded people , xvhilo it in
jures the cause of the prosecution in
showing that it has not bcon clearopen
and straight-forxvttrd in its proceeding.
Of course it was known to the prosecu
tion that Wilson xvas simply a doled ! vo ,
yet It permitted him to appear in the
character ot a member of the brother
hood , thus unjustly and unwarrantably
casting a stigma upon that organiza
tion. If it could Imvo had its choice in
the matter the prosecution xx'oulddoubt-
lesH have adhered to this policy to the
end. As to Informer Dowlos lie is a
bolf-coafesocd falsilier , and nothing he
has said or shall hereafter say should
receive any credence.
Whatever may bo the outcome
of this investigation , it is evident
that the attempt to involve the
brotherhood of engineers as an organi
sation has already failed. There is no
reason from xvhat lias thus far appeared
that the order should suffer in tlio
slightest degree in the respect of fair-
minded people. Speaking through itw
highest ollicials the organization has
declared as strongly as the circum
stances render necessary , that it is op-
po = ed to all forms of huvlcf-sness , and
that if any of its members are proved
to bo guilty of unlawful conduct it xvill
deal xvith them to the extent of its au
thority. More than this no reasonable
man xxill expect of it. Meantime it xvill
not hesitate to use all -propei
means to protect the innocent , and
it will bo sustained by intelligent and
unprejudiced public judgment in doing
this. There is still ground for the
opinion that this alleged plot xvill bo
shown to bo more of a detective than a
dynamite conspiracy.
Precept null Practice.
The fourth report of the civil service
commission presents some facts of inter
est regarding the progress of reform in
the service , and also submits several
recommendations for HSJ extension
xx'hich it is to bo expected will have the
full approval of reformers , While not
claiming that all has boon accomplished
under the laxv that its moro sanguine
friends expected , the roportstates that
"in the results of its execution is shoxvn
the wisdom of the principle of dix-orcing
the subordinate olllcors of the govern
ment from politics and elections , and
making continuance in oflice dependent
not upon party service , but upon
merit and good behavior. " In
the professed vioxv of the commission
the laxv has in this respect produced sur
prising results.
This is said in face of the fact that
subordinate otlicers of the government
have been conspicuously active in every
democratic caucus and convention of
the present year , and xvorc on hand in
formidable force at St. Louis as an out
side inllucnce to asoist the administra
tion managers in carrying out the pro
gramme arranged at Washington. It
is said in face of the further fact thai
the senate committee to investi
gate the civil service has found a
number of instances of removals
from ollico in xvhioh the question ol
party service undoubtedly xvas consid
ered. In revioxving , not long ago , the
course of civil service reform during the
past year the president of the national
league said that the anticipation re
specting the progress of reform undoi
the present administration "has been
largely disappointed , " and broadly
intimalod that the temptation of a second
end term had induced the president tc
abate that interest in the reform of the
civil service xvhich ho had so strongly
profos&cd at the out&ot of his adminis
tration. Referring to a puVllo denial
by a member of the cabinet that reform
had boon abandoned by the
administration , and his assertion
that the laxv has boon rigidly
enforced , Mr. Curtis frankly remarked
that "if the constitution had made the
prottlduut ineligible for re-election
there xx'ould Imvo been no reason for the
assertion that reform had been aban
doned , the application of the law \\-ould
have been much moro xviduly extended ,
and its spirit would Imvo been so gener
ally observed thai no successor of the
provident xvould have dared to return tc
the old abuse , and the president him
self xvould have happily identified hia
mime xvith ono of thu moat benellconl
political reforms in our annuls. " liut
Mr. Cleveland can enjoy no such dis
tinction , and on the contrary is
shoxvn by those xvho xvould gladly
conceal his shortcomings to have
largely failed in practice to carry out
his precepts , under the inlluonco ehioll }
of the allurement of u second term.
It xvas hardly possible for the admin
istration to have done lcs < ; than it has
in observing the civil service laxv , anil
it has absolutely no claim to credit foi
xvhat has boon done under the hnv. II
is noxv putting forth a little extra efforl
to make it appear to the mugxvump re
formers that it has resumed interest in
reform , bul il is merely a campaign ex
pedient. The fooling of the democratic
party regarding civil service rofortii
wtw cU'lonccd in Iho omission
from the national platform of
any approx-al of the reform , or of
Uny promise or pledge committing
the party to Its future support. It Is a
ixjlicy hostile to democratic traditions ,
and it would not bo maintained a day If
the democracy was in full control of the
government. Mr. Cleveland determined
some time ago not to bo any longer at
war with the general sentiment of his
party on this question.
A. Free Kridgc.
Wore the now bridge made free of
toll , the rich products of Pottawattamle
county would How into our gates , cre
ating a better market than is now en
joyed across the river , and lessoning
prices on domestic fruits and garden
truck in Omaha. In many other lines
of trade the two communities xvould
greatly profit by a perfect commercial
union.
With quick transit between the two
cities many business men in Omaha
xvould much prefer a residence in
Council Bluffs , for no other reason tliuu
that which loads them to build palatial
homos in our suburbs , away from the
heal and dust and noise of a bustling
city.Those
Those who look forward to the day
whoa Omaha and Council I31utrs shall
bo merged into ono great business com
munity , can realize their hopes in no
surer way than by advocating a free
bridge between the two prosperous
cities.
Money \vill secure it.
Tun democratic candidate for vice
president has a very extended public
record , and it may take the greater part
of the campaign to look up and expose
its faulty features , but lot no democrat
doubt that such are to bo found in suf
ficient number to make the xvork of ex
planation and defense a very serious
task. The fact that the "Old Roman'
xvas the author of the resolution in the
national democratic platform of ISOI ,
which declared the war a failure , is no !
denied , and it is important to romeinbei
that Mr. Thurman was not at that vital
period in tlio rebellion a supporter ol
the union cause. The declaration oi
the democratic convention of that yeai
gave more aid and comfort to tin
confederate cause than any other ex
pression of the democracy during the
\var , and was really worth more to tin
enemy than would liavo been several
victories in the field. It xvas the most
elTcctivo attack on tlio union cause Iron
the rear that could have been planned
and it is xvoll remembered lioxv cheer
tully it was received by tlio friends 01
the confederacy everywhere. The pa
triotism of the north rejected it , however -
over , as false and cowardly , and over
whelmingly repudiated the party thai
adopted it. If Mr. Thurman and his
party could have controlled the cour&c
of alTairs then ho would not now bo tin
candidate for vice president of an undi
vided country.
SOUTH OMAHA can fairly lay claim tc
the name of magic city. The xvonder-
ful groxvth of its building operations foi
1SS7 , and especially for the first &b
months of the current year , can not be
equalled by any city of its size in tlu
country. Cottages and dxvollings spriujj
up as if at the touch of a magician' !
wand and business blocks seem , like
Jonah's gourd , to spread themselves it
a single night. The various largo pack
ing companies arc extending thcii
plants , and before the year is over thoj
xvill have almost doubled their capac
ity for handling beef and pork
This is clearly indicated by the oilicia
reports sent out from Chicago , Kansas
City and Omaha. South Omaha ii
credited with a gain of 60,000 xvhik
the other named cities show a decrease
crease in the number of hogs packet
as compared xvUh the returns o
a year ago. The very fact tha
since January 1 , 1S8S , nearly $000,001
have been spent in the erection of per
uianoat improvements is a snlllcien
index of the prosperity and desirability
of South Omaha as a city for the invest
niont of capital.
Tim imposing mooting botxx'cen Alexander
andor and William at St. Petersburg ii
not likely to have any political sigmfi
canco. Bismarck has not accompamei
the young German emperor on his visit
and it xvould not bo diplomacy for Wil
liam to enter into any serious ncgotia
tions xvith the czar xvithout the pros
oaco of the old chancellor , It will
however , bo a great social ovent. Rus
sin , so to speak , xvill lay herself out t <
entertain her royal visitor in mugnifi
cent style. The barbaric splendor o
the Russian court will be displayed before
fore the Germans xvith all the spectacu
lav accessories.
BKLYA Locuxx'oou confesses that sh <
has celebrated fifty-four Novembers
and an authority assorts that a grea
many more xvill frost her head before
she gets near the presidency.
The KIUIXV Nolliluun.
\ \ ' < iihliHtnn Ci fife.
A convention of the American party xvil
bo hold la Washington in August. W <
Knoxv Nothing about it.
Some Other Day.
Clilcauo Tribune ,
Wo congratulate Cliauucoy Dcpoxr on bii
snfo arrival on tlia other shlo of tlio
inulu ,
He xvho resigns nnd Halls axvay ,
Muy live to run seine other day.
One Point ol' Difference.
Gtiilic-Demociat ,
General Harrison tins boon making speeches
every iluy smco ho xvas nominated , and IK
lias not yet drawn a single fact or suggcstloi
from the cyclopedia. This is only ouu of ttii
many ways , however , in wlucli ho differ :
froia Mr , Cluvolaml.
Us Proper Place
.1 melted.
In the Kclqn Musco's Chamber of Horrors ,
Noxv York , tborois n sat of tableaux illus
trating tlio story of a crime murder , arrest
conviction rim } execution. In tlio lust scene
the criminal belli ; , ' led to the scaffold has tlu
noxv fuinoil biimliiua xvrapped carefully
iirounil bis nock.
1'rotoctiMl Out ( > r KUsleuco.
I'htlcuMvhtit aVIftfrrijih ,
It xvill bo tlmo enough to talk about sub
eIdles , or even about Increasing the compeii
hiitioii of steamship companies for mail c.ir
rmgo in tho. scumhiuly innocent xx-uy pro
jioicd by Mr. Hiiigliiuu , xvhoii the laws whicl
have protected the American transluutU
Mourners practically out of existence and
Imvo contributed ouo American Hug to blue
water xvburo there ought to bo 100 nro re-
po.ilfd or amended , BO that American ship-
exviicrs xvill Imvo a fulr chance.
The Democrat Hat.
A conwpomlout of a Uaurbon exchange
tuipiiros whether the democratic- hat of this
suasou should bo hunt ono xvitli 11 dark
b.ind or a dark ono with a lliht baud. It
ought to bo a hat with an clastic baud , cap.x-
bio of expanding tiller a democratic meeting
mid of shrinking to its ordinary dimensions
when the head sliHiiks ,
Not Altogether Happy.
fVjrildini Ortoimtan ,
For Its oxvii part tlio Oregon Ian I * free to
soy there are snx'oral parts of the protective
system It would llko to sou given up bo fore
tlio taxes on liquor * ntid tobacco are repealed.
For example , It would like to sec sugar nnd
rice mid food products gouorally put on the
free list , but this the democracy xvill never
nlloxv , bocauao they xx'aut to continue pro
tection to the states that furnish straight
democratic majorities manufactured to ordur.
i Own Country.
Htntrlcc Dfnincrat.
While loxva , Dakota , Minnesota nnd Wy
oming tire being devastated by cyclones , No-
braslta , and especially Oiigo county , is
indulging in balmy skies and glorious
weather. As noon us it gets it little too
xvarm for comfort , refreshing shoxvors loom
up nil nrnuntl us and happiness reigns su-
promo. The quiHtion noxv agitating our
farmers Is xvhether lo lay in extensive lad
ders lo gather the corn oren or tlo the tops
doxvu to kuep the tassels from brushing the
dust oft tlio clouds.
When People are Dry.
Rock and rye
In July
Should by topers bo passed by.
When It's ninety in the shade
They xvill llnd that lemonade
Uleurs the e.xe.
Mukes them spry ,
Quenching thirst \yhou they are dry.
STATIC JOTTINGS.
Norfolk lox-ora oC snort hox-o organized a
base ball association.
York expects to have a Y. M. 0. A. organ
ization in the near future.
The Itcd Willow county republican conven
tion meets at Imlumola August-I.
CiTho Webster county republican conx'cn-
lion bus bcon called to meet at Red Cloud
August 1& .
The receipts of the York postoulce this
year will entitle it to be raised from third to
second ulasrt.
The fifteen Ivnights Templar living in Nor
folk have petitioned for a dispensation to
organirc n counmindery.
Hall county claims there is less litipation
in her borders in proportion to the population
than in any other county in thu state.
Mltidcu will soon bo connected by tele
phones with Haitwcll , Normun , Kceiic ,
Lowell , Holdrcgo and all the little towns
uioiind.
Fruit trees in the vicinity of North ISoiid
are dying in piv.nt numbers. Tlio apple
trees begin blighting at the ends of the limbs
and keep on dying doxvn to the roots.
Hex- . Father Simeon , of thoUatholicchurch
of Hastings , hus iciigned his pastorate , ami
preached his farcxvell sermon lust Sunday.
He has been pastor of this church seven
years.
Fred Lutlmn.station agent atPlattsmouth ,
played the role of peacemaker betxveon two
lighting dogs and noxv canies hts lug m a
sling as the results of tlio bites of the angry
brutes.
Dr. A. C. Smith , of Silver Creek , a prom
inent cili/en and veteran of the xvar , died on
Alomlaytho Kith nist , aged forty four years.
The funeral sorx-iios xvuro conducted by tlio
Grand Army on'Tucsda.v afternoon.
Thomas II. Douglas and Mattie E. Johnson -
son , of Graham , Tex. , found out they loved
ono another xvhile making an overland drive
to Nebraska , and upon icaching IJed Cloud
Wednesday xveio made one by Hex' . Mr.
Sxvccz.v. They then continued their Journey
in double harness.
loxva.
West Liberty is reported to have n case ol
small pox.
Andrew G. Uiggs , charged with horse
stealing , stole out of jail at Gleaxx-ood ami
cannot bo found.
A lot of stamps and a $10 bill rewarded the
burglars xvho broke into the Lucas postoftlce
last xveek.
An insurance accnt named A. W. Seymour
has been arrested at Altu xvith forty charges
of forgery hanging over his head.
What Tipton wanted to bo an artesian
xx'cll only prox'es to bo a hole m the ground
2,700 feet deep , xvhieh cost $5,000 ,
Governor Lurrabco has issued a proclama
tion offering a reward of SoOO for the appre
hension anil conviction of the murderer or
murderers of Alice Kelly , at Ottumxva.
Perry Summers , a farmer near Fail-field ,
and Hugh Copeland , an employe at thu
guard lock of the government canal eight
mllus south of Keokuk , xx'cro killed by light
ning Sunday.
The case of the Turnoy box- , who wus so
unjustly sent to the state prison txx-o ycurs
ago from Jackson county , is again coming to
tuo front , and the flagrant xvroug demand
ing to bo righted.
For the past ten years the oxvnor of a Hour-
lug mill at Dubuquu 1ms hud a sign on his
lire proof safe reading : "No money here.
Please call at the liouso. , " It xx-as intended
for burglars , nnd the other night ono called
at the house and secured $1,870.
Within the past four or live days a ncxvnnil
peculiar disease has appeared among the cat
tle of Washington township in the vicinity of
Duucombc , that has already c iucd the death
of ox'er tweaty-nvo head of cattlu. The dis
ease appeared very suddenly in different
drox'us of cattle , ami rapidly spread until entire -
tire droves are noxv affected. Thu approach
of the disease is marked \-omitiiig and
loss of appetite , and generally xvithia txx'outy-
four hours death reiults , Only txvo or three
have recovered after being attacked by the
mysterious disease. _
Ncarly : iOUO ( ( > O Souls.
'J'lie Kimch.
Troxv'a city directory for 1883 esti
mates the population of New York city
at 1,070,110. This is according to the
Panic authority , 100,001) ) more souls than
this contained a year ago.Vhon
Brooklyn's thrqe-fluartors of a million
are added and a.Ji\\r \ allowance is made
for the population of suburban New
York" in Winoluistor county and Nexv
.lernoy , it will be found that the metropolitan -
politan district cbntains a population
but a little short of ! i,000,0l)0 ) souls. It
is estimated that the day population of
New York city exceedsby 100,000 that
to which it affords sleeping room , and
it is perhaps as good an illustration as
could 1)0 had of the enormous aggregate
of people to xvhoin tlio city is thu centre
of business and the source of livlihood.
Wlnu-t'uno Conic * Illuli.
f 10 per daj lor ouo year $ . ' 1,050
$ Jor U per year for fourteen yours 51,100 ,
Fourteen years ago , saya the Noxv
York Herald , the then secretary
of the navy Bent the double tin-rotted
monitor Terror to Cramps'shipyard for
estimate for repairs that xvould make
her seaxvorthy , but the price xvas more
than congro&s thought it advisable to
pay , so the vo& > ol xvas left at Crampat
an expense of $10 per day for xvharfuge.
Rattier than have the Terror entirely
taken xvith the crampsSecretari Whit
ney somu nfonths ago had her hauled
axvay to League Island navy yard and
began preparing her for removal to
New Yoric navy yard. In n foxvdnys
she xvill bo ready for her voyage and
xvill bo towed around by two government
tugs. When she rcacnc-j Noxv York she
xvill be fitted up xvilh noxv decks , steer
ing apparatus , furnlturo , etc , , xnd xvill
bo taken to Boston tor other noces-iai'ios
and ammunition.
It may bo recalled that the Terror
xyill carry four fifteen-inch guns.
FROM A FRENCH STAND POINT ,
A Parisian Journalist's Itoaumo of
the Irish Question.
EVILS OF EXCESSIVE POPULATION
The Abolition of Fnrtti llent Would
Only Partially Ilcmcty | the
Trouble AVIioitiHalc
I tun Her Bulvntlon.
The 1'ovcrljr of Irolnnrt.
Translated from nu ni-ticlo In the
Paris Revue dos Uoux Monties : In n
population of ; i.KKIJOO ( ) there uro 1100,000
landlords , of whom 170,000 go to Eng-
laml , 110,000 to Iroliuid and 10,000 to
Scotland. In other terms , one Knglish
landholder to twenty-six householders ,
while In the United States' ' there counts
one to ex cry three , mid in Franco one
to every two. In Ireland the dispro
portion in yet greater ; one to every
fiftv-two ; while the soil is poor and the
population donfor 160 to the square
mile. There Is a limit in everything.
No country exclusively agricultural as
is the case with Ireland , deprived % of
manufactories and machine shops can
support a population of over one hun
dred inhabitants to the .square mile.
Therein lies the whole Irish problem.
Spain , Portugal and Hungary are , in
Europe , the three countries which , like
Ireland , depend chielly upon their field
products ; yet their other sources of rov-
cnuo exceed hers , while the proportion
to the square mile is hut eighty-six in
habitants in Spain , 120 in Portugal , and
128 in Hungary.
If in Franco it reaches ISO , at the
same time showing an average pros
perity greater than elsewhere , one
mubt attribute it to the fact that France
post-esses far superior resources , largo
machine shops , numerous manufactories
and an accumulated capital invested
abroad ; and the one-half of her popula
tion derives from these various sources
an income independent of that xvhioli
the land produces. If in England , the
density of the population , which was
" > 0 to'tho square mile in 1881 , had risen
to 100 in 1871 , and is now 450 , thus at
taining a ligure whoso equivalent may
be found only in the rich flanges valley
or in certain provlie2s ) of China , it i's
because England is the most enormous
xvorkshop in the world : because she pos-
sos-es the most formidable accumulation
of machinery and capital ; because one-
fourth only of her population look to
the coil for their subsistence , and be
cause the other three-fourths live by
trade , industry , navigation , or on in
comes derived from the savings of pre
ceding generations.
The annual rental of. the cultivated
land in England is estimated at C.r)0- ,
000,000. Tliis is only one-twentieth of
the total revenue of the nation , and ,
according to the latest calculations , the
culture of the soil provides , moreover ,
foMho needs of 1,1)00.000 ) inhabitants.
If then. England , with a more fertile
soil than Ireland , with double her su-
ncrlieies. with considerable capital at
command , and perfected agricultural
implements , cannot succeed in obtain
ing therefrom a livinir for more than
about 0,000,000 inhabitants , landlords ,
farmers and cultivators , it is easy to
conceive how miserable is the condition
of 0,000,000 Irish , distributed over a
surface of but one-half the extent , and
dependent almost exclusively upon the
tillage of the earth anil what it
brings in. Ireland pos-osses 1,000,000
inhabitants whom she knows not.
what to do with , and whom she cannot
feed. The excessive poverty of the
people is an insurmountable obstacle to
industrial development ; there is needed
in the first place , a , certain degree of
individual prosperity before a people
ple can create for itself now resources
and extract from the land it occupies
all that the latter is capable of pro
ducing.
A division of the soil other than such
as now exists would nowise moilify the
terms of the problem , because it could
not add anything to the tillable sur
face. The reduction or oven the aboli
tion , of farm rent would not increase
the agricultural productiveness of the
country ; it would transfer to these
what it tool ; from the o , but the total to
be divided among all would remain the
sumo. Divers utopists do not hesitate
to behold in such a spoliatioa a means
of public salvation. As they put it ,
Ireland would thus bo bouolittcd by the
sums which now go to increuse tlio in
comes of her absent landlords , who
spend them out of the country.
They do not take into ac
count the fact that tlio greater part
of the rentals of farms it > appropriated ,
in the country itself , to the payment of
overseers ami workmen , that a meagre
portion only gets abroad. Cl,000,000 at
the most ; that this million pounds
would not give 000 francs a. year to
.10,000 people , hardly enough to taveoll'
starvation ; and that the question is not
one of feeding 60,000 or 100,000 individ
uals , but of supporting 1,000,001) ) human
beings , the surplus of a too dense popu
lation , every day increasing , yet unable
to emigrate for lack of resources.
It is not the largo territorial fortunes
that ruins Ireland , but the want of
equilibrium between the superficies of
the arable soil and the number of those
who look to it for their daily bread.
Consequently we have seen the same
causes produce the same effects in Ire
land as in Injlia and China a too dense
and too miserable population , decimated
in IK" " ) by famine and sickness , losing
in a few years one-fourth of its ollee-
tive , the survivors being alleviated by
that cup of terror and darkness , which
caused a period of relative comfort to
follow abruptly upon one of unspeaka
ble misery.
THE FETE DAY OF FREEDOM.
Years Ajo tlio Frenoli
Was Sat'keil.
Noxv York World : In blood and lire
the first now republic of tlio Old World
was born ninety-nine years ago. The
throes in xvhich a dibtiMiight nation
brought forth that glorious cloud , con
stitutional freedom , xvoro the llorct-stof
modern times. The column on the 11th
of Jnlv is the birth btono ut up to mark
the advent of the IiVonch republic
among thy nations of the xvorlil. And it
also murkrt an event that takes prece
dence in ox'ery Frenchman'H heart , of
all other joys to be celebrated. That
event xvas the destruction of the ba-tilo
July H , I'M.
The "Third Estate , " as the people of
France , apart from the clergy and no
bility xvoro called , did thisglorioiwdeed.
Hut'already the peoples Jiad rechrls-
toned themselves. The third estate
had become the national assembly. The
national iihaumbly hud created the
national guard. ThOhO xvoro the throws
of parturition , for in Franco ovm-y-
tiling comeby throes. Then , after
giving fhoiiHelves a namp and an army ,
the people ) saoked and i'u/.ud the crown
ing monument of inoinuvhica ! ' ! . : : ,
and freedom xxu * born !
The ilubtilo wiu a great deal more
torriblc in the French people of a cun-
vv a'o : tnun it Is possible ; .now to fe.ul-
l o. Oppression , oruolty nnd brutality
oxolUi so hearty nnd ItiHtnutnncouH n
tloxv of fndignfttton , so eager tt thirst
for justice and retribution in the aver
age American crowd or community that
they cannot imagine xvhat it xvould bo
to liavo in their midst , yaxynlng ever
for a prey no human machinery could
compel it to disgorge , a vast black dun
geon nnd inquisitorial tomb. A
hundred years ago no French father
rose In the morning xvithoul
the sullen , remorseless recollection that
ho might sleep thenceforth no more in
his own bed and under his own rooftree -
tree , but on ii stone lloor of noisome
dampness in.sidu xvalls twelve feet thick ,
xvhoro lie knew not , save by the horror
and mystery of ills surroundings , and
removed forever from thn knoxvlodge
and love of his family and the rescue of
the laxv.
The great gloomy mass of masonry
xvhluh Frenchmen called La Bastille ,
"tho building , " as if it xvere a building
apart from and above all others , reared
its eight gigantic castellated toxvor.s
near the gate of St. Antolno in Paris.
It covered a good deal more ground
than the Now York postotllco doe.s. and
the battlements rose nigh in the air be
yond the reach of ordinary attack. A
great ditch Ixvoiity-llvo" foot deep
guarded the bases of' these toxvors , in
xvhieh ( though the world knoxv it not )
were the cells of the prisoners , brain
ing out of this moat and through some
of the underground dungeons xvoro the
ditches that carried oil the prison
drainage and filth. Into the moat horrible
rible of nil the cells the specially un-
forUmato. the most bitterly hated xvoro
thrust , tj suffocate in darkness alone.
shut forever beyond the hearing ol
mankind.
The Bastilo. xvhieh the people almost
regarded as a living thing , a monster
more frightful than any wince the Min
otaur , had three epochs in its career of
existence. It xx'as built by Chnilos V.
in litW ) . So it stood for li > ( ) years ,
At first it XVIIH a royal fortress , not es
sentially differing from many other
fortresses in Franco , except in the fero
cious strength of its xv.ills and sullen
depths of its foundations , in xvhieh the
dungeons xvoro afterward dug. Being
the royal fortress of P.iris , it got to bo
recognji'.ed as the citadel of Athens.
Very different xvas the stately fortress ,
the impregnable safe deposit of the
royal and municipal majesty from xvhat
it xvas to bo.
Charles VII. made the Bastilo the
great state prison , and it at once took
on a strong resemblance to the Toxvor
of London , But cruelty and outrage
xvere not yet associated witli its xvalls.
In 1418 the people of Paris broke into
the Bastilo and readied the cells of the
Princes Armagnao , xvho were confined
there as state prisoners. The princes
xvero massacred. This xvas the B.istile's
baptism of rapine and blood. Those
twin furies never lott it afterwards.
Tiie third and last change in history
took place when tlio Bastilo became a
common jail. This xvas after the dcatli
of Louis XIV. From that time on until
the end the minister's rival , the prince's
pel iivoriion , the queen's enemy , the
king's discarded faxorite , the trollop.
the murderer , the thief groaned and
sullcred and starved and died in a com
mon agony , under a common roof , and
xvitli a common hopelessness of redresser
or release.
For 100 years the Bastilo had been
the supreme logic of the tyrant ,
whether on the throne or beneath it.
The suspected , the hated , the danger
ous , as xvell as the criminal , xvero forced
to yield to its arguments.
Nobody knoxv xvhat xvent on within
the Bastilo. But fearful rumors of remorseless -
morsoless xvrong , strange , faint cries of
despair and death , pierced its monster
xvalls sometimes and stole out into the
city. Such voices in the night kindled
a mighty fire of rage and revoiiiio ,
xvhieh smouldered for years. The very
xx'alls of the big don of all that x\-as de
testable stauk in the people's nostrils
and reeked in the morning sunlight.
At last this torrent of fiorv halo burst
its barriers , and as if amazed that they
hadn't done it long since , on the morn
ing of that eventful day. just ninety-
seven years ago , the people made a rush
for its hoary xvallt. Outside of the moat ,
and completely surrounding it and the
baslilo itself , was an outer barrier , xvith
ramparts and a "garrison of thirty-txvo
Sxviss soldiers. Within , the main struc
ture xvas garrisoned by a fcxv able-
bodied men and nearly a hundred super
annuated or invalided troops of the
king's guard. Governor Dolaunny com
manded thorn and the prison. But they
didn't stop the mob long.
Such popular fury had not dared to
come to the surface since the crusade of
Peter the Hermit , the first Salvation
Army preacher. The entrance to tno
prison was adorned by throe gibbets.
Under these the t > ooploin xxild disorder ,
yet strong as giants in their common
purpose , rushed with the ruge of a long
pent mountain torrent and swept the
guards under and .smashed the gates
and fired the xvoodwork , and poured on-
xvard and forxvard into the mouldy hell
xvithin. Then for the first time xvoro
the secrets of the Bastilo shown in the
open day.
On roared and foamed the popular
overllow. Wealc men and women xvho
couldn't have laid a course of stone on
its xvalls seemed suddenly gifted with
superhuman strength , and tore whole
towers down. Hopes , axes , bludgeons ,
torches , bayonets , daggers and crow
bars wore the woajions xvith which they
did their dreadful work.
As tower after tower of the grim
eight was reached and ransacked , the
fiendish hardships of the prisoners be
came apparent. No prisoner xvas nearer
to light and air than two foot. That
xx'as tlio least thickness of tlio toxver
\\alls. Some of the cells xvuro in the
center of a mass of musonary twenty foot
thick in all directions , communicating
with the outside air by a barred "xvln-
dow'1 four inches square , in xxhich the
light xx-as spent long before it could
punetr.ite the dripping trough.
Hero Had lain , and in some cases
rotted , such distinguished prisoners as
thu Sieur do liiroa , the marshal of
Franco ; Kiclielieii , the satosiuun-eardi-
ual ; Voltuir , Bassompierre , Latudo , thu
man xvith the Iron mask , and lastly ,
Blaixot. the librarian of King Louis ,
whose shockingly cruel treatment nnd
causeless confinement had been the
straw that broke the camel-back of pop
ular patience. Here had lain , unknown ,
unheeded , en Ing out to chilly walls
and implacable , inaccessible xvarders.
hundreds and oven thousands of the
bravest and best of France , shut In they
know not \xhy , and their friends and
families know not xvhere , dying xvithout
the cold consolation of a tear on their
tombs without oxen tomb- , themselves !
Only seven living prisoners could bo
found'by its cuptow in the Bustilo.
Among them xvas a hollow-eyed , ragged
man oil xvhoso pale forohuad youth had
withered before his beard sprouted.
Ho was the Count do Sul'ago , a prisoner
olnco he was eleven yearn old !
Another xx'as named Tnyornior. Ho
xx'us clothed only in chains , and his
matted white looks. He had boon in the
b.istllo thirty years. lid xvas dragged
nut of one of the dungeons below tlio
moat , which opuiuid open only in thu
iower. fjo looked aghuatat his savior * ,
ilaoil , distraught by thin lorriblij ox-
poriuneo.
The plUnblo spoolaclo of this victim.
uf diVtimtlaiA 'tiddod ' lluo to the fury ot
Lilts c\ptors. The s'uavds had long bfnco
fallen or fled. Door after door \vn3
burst , stnlrxvay after s.tnlrxvny fired.
At last the xx'ull.s began to fall xvith n
thunderous crash and a roar and uu
avalani'ho of dust that aroused nil Paris.
The battlements tumbled Into and tilled
up the moat , the subterranean cells
xvero dug open only to bo closed forever.
and the place xva.s ru/.od to the guttural
level and loft free to the xvinds of
heaven and the minshino.
On its site rose the column of July 1 1 ,
n tall , graceful shaft , that rises straight
to hoax-mi nnd polntH like n warning
linger a moral for all succeeding gener
ations of tyrants.
Let the fall of the bnstllo be cele
brated by Frenchmen and freemen in
Noxv York and ulwoxvhoro by all lovers
of that liberty of xvhleh the price in
eternal vigilance.
( lonnral Grnul'H Humor.
Noxv York Hornld : It is it fact not
generally knoxvn that General Grant
xvas a humorist. Ho hud n propensity
thai ho could not oven rosint , while
punning or dictating his memoirs , to
draxv his conclusions of people and
events in it foxv sharp , dry sentences
thai have boon described by "Mark
Twain" as indicative of a power beyond
Burdotte and himself.
The statement has been recently
made that a great manvot the humor
ous passages and cominontH occurred in
General Grant's manuscript and that
they xvore ruthlessly clipped bv the
publishing firm of xvhieh Mark txx-ain
is the head and front , for the reason
that they xvoro out of place in it xvork of
that description.
That they xvoro cut out of the gen-
oral's manuscript is true , according to
Colonel Fred Grant , and for the reason
given , but Colonel Grant declares that
the excisions xvoro inado by General
Grant him&elf.
Mrs. U. S. Grant , xvith the colonel
and his family , are spending the sum
mer at Cranston's. Colonel Grant
chatted freely on the subject with a
Herald reporter , xvho called upon him
at the hotel last evening.
"Yes , " lie said , "it is true that father
xvroto it good miinv humorous stories
xvhilo engaged on his book.
"Ho cut them out himself , however ,
and I am not aware that Mr. ( 'lemons
or IUH publishing linn hud anything to
do wall it. I don't think hat they hud ,
although it may have been at Mr.
Clemen's advise that ntio funny pas
sages wore loft out.
"Some of them xvoro very good in
deed. I liavo them at homo , but thej
are not for publication. Most of them
are too severe.
"You know father used to road xvhat
ho had xvritten to many cf the friends
that called upon him. No doubt Mr.
Clemens hoard all of it. Before com
pleting the xvork father came to the
conclusion that some of the stories xvere
too severe , and all xvero too humorous
to be printed in a historical xvork such
as his book xvas. Then us * said , lie de
cided to omit them. That's all there is
to the story. "
Mr. Hall , a member of the Charlea L.
Webster publishing company , said yes
terday positively that no humorous 'pas
sages xvore stricken out ol General
Grunt's autobiography. "I ttok down
several chapters of the book in short
hand , " ho explained , "at the general's
request , and I know that no changes
xvero made except such Blight ones us
xvere suggested by the general , Colonel
Fred Grant and the proof readers. It
is absurd for any one to suppose that the
publishers had mangled the general's
manuscript , and I am confident that
there is no foundation for any contrary
. "
statement.
_
He Divided With tin ; Company.
Noxv York Sun : "Not long ago u
prominent Eighth xvard politician vc-
oininended a man for the place of Con
ductor to the president of our line , "
said the starter of a hor&o car line yes
terday , "and the man xvas promptly
made a conductor. lie had been a faro
dealer , I believe and he xvas very quick
at learning. When ho had learned the
business ho xvas put on the 0 o'clock run
the car on this trip generally being
xvoll filled. Ho got back to the depot
and turned in twelve fares. The re
ceiver thought il xx'as strange but said
nothing. The 8 o'clock trip is tlio
heaviest in the morning. lie returned
to the depot and handed the receiver
seven faros. A few minutes aflerxvard
ho xx-us invited up stairs to meet the
president of the road. The folloxving
conversation ensued :
"You are Air. Blank , " said the presi
dent , "xvho was recommended by Mr.
- , politician ? "
"Yes. sir. "
"This is your first experience as a
conductor ? "
"Yes , sir. "
"Don't you think you ought to got in
some position xvhoro .xour talents would
have greater scoop I mean scope. Suy
cashier of a bank ? " asked the president.
" 1 try to do the best I can xvlierever
I am , sir , " meekly replied the con
ductor.
"I had gathered that. Lot mo sop :
You xvont'out on the six o'clock trip
and turned in txvelvo fares and the re
sult of your management at the eight
o'clock journey xvas seven. "
"Correct " the .
, xvas reply.
"Well , Mr. Blank , xvliile it is a very
unpleasant duly to inform you that our
business relations muni co.iso somewhat
abruptly , I desire in behalf of the
trustees and stockholders to thank you
for bringing back the horses and the
car. "
The man xx'alked proudly out of the
ollico.
The KnlgliH or ImlKiiIn
New York Sun : .Some years ago the
Knights of Labor xvere planted in Eng
land * but they have been a small and
feeble body until very recently.
Within the present year they have
Ijiien growing and spreading in a re
markable xvay. Michael Davltt , who
lias both ability and experience as an
jrgani/.or , is assisting the growth. Wu
llnd some news on the subject in Hoy-
uoldS Nexvpaper ( London ; . It allt-gos
that the organi/.ution is spreading , es
pecially in the northern mining and
manufacturing regions , knoxvn as tlio
Black .country , that its suc-
L-ess surpasses the mo-it sanguine
j.\jieclaUoiiH of the promoters , anil that
t is attracting all grades of labor , from
the scavenger to tue writer. The an-
.agonism of the trades unions to the
knights of Labor that him bcun HUOII in
, ho United States is unknown in Kng-
and , and many of the strong trades
inionti in the cities are in fuvor of the
ibjecU of the I'oxv organi/.atlon. Wo
earn from lluynolds' Newspaper that
, he methods of the K. of L. in England
I lifer from thee of their brethren in
.he . United States. As Englishmen do
tot laver secret , misturmus and dieta-
orlal procedure , neveral i hango.s in the
nothods of the order have been made-
n uccordanco xvith th.U fact , and there
shut little secrecy about the English
iiBsomblics.
_
Vigor niul Vitality
\ro quleU.v given to every imrt of llio
mdy by Hood's Sursaparilla. That
, ired foaling is entirely overcome. The
ilood is purifiod.oariuhud and vitalised ,
tnd uariioa health Instead of disease to
ivory oigan. The stomach is toned and
itrongtlicnud , the uppullto restored.
I'ho kidneys n.nd livnraru roused and
nvigoratcd. Tito brain ia nfre ) < linu ,
, ho nilnd mad' ' ; clour and ready for
vouU , Try 'U.
