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THE DAILY BEE. KVEHY A1OIININO. THUMB or SUIWIU1TION , Dolly ( Morning IMltlon ) Including SUNOAY llKK.One Yenr . Up 00 J'orHlxMontlu . 6 < JO VorTlirt-o Months . . . - W U'lir. OMAHA Hl'NlKY ' HKK , mailed to any ndilreno. uneYcnr . 2(0 ( OMAIIA'trlKNS.l)14AMfirAllNAMStllKKT. ( ( ( ) ) ! | Nr.w YOIIKOWCK. HnoM4 It AM ) l&Titint'.M : Ili'ii.iiiNd. WAPiiiMtTON Omci : , No. 6U . FOUIITKCMII STIII.LT. romir.9I'ONt > tNCi ? : , All communications ralatliii ; tonetvsnnu ftill- torlnl matter nhould bo addroweel to the l.Dfnm . . . All business li-ttors nnd romlttunros Miould l > o nililrpitsed to Tut : HKK I'IJIII.ISIUMI COMPANY. OVIAIU. Draflu , checks nnd postoinco orders to be umdo imyablu to tlm order of thu company. y , Proprietors. E , nOSEWATKU , Editor. TIIK DAILY HKK. Sworn Statement ol Clruulntlon. Btnt of Nebraska. I. . County of Donning. ! " " ( Icorgo It. Twltuek , sprrfltary of tlio HPO I'u1 > - llnhlni ? company. doeH xoluinnly swear tliut the actual circulation of TIIK DAH.V HKK for the week ending October 13 , IbSS. was as follows : Humlny. Oct. 7 18'Jffi Monday , Oct. H IH.fWi Tuesday. Oct. U l . tt Wcdncs'iay. Oct. 10 IH.ONI Thursday , Oct. 11 IK.UW Friday , Oct. 12 IH.niO Saturday , Oct. 13 ln.m' > ATtraco 1W188 OKOItOK II. T7.SC1UJCK. Bworn to bpforp tue and nubturlbed In my preHenco thin Utli dar of October A. 1) . IWW. Seal. N. P. KKIU Notary Tubllc. State of Nebraska. I County of ItoUKla * . | B3' Ueoruo II. T/.Hchuck , being duly sworn , de- PO IM and says that hu l.s Hucrutary of Ttie Hoc 1'nbllMilng company , that the actual average dally circulation of TIIK DAII.V HKK for the lliontn of October. 1887. H.IECI copies ; for No- vamlxir. 1W. I5 , ucopies : for December , 18H7 , Ifi.OII copies ; for January , 1888 , IP/JM copies ; for February , WHX. 15Ucopies ; for March , ISHH , JP.fts'.i ' copies ; for April , IhW. 1H.7H copies : for Mny. Itw. IK.IH1 copies ; for June , liflH , l'J.L'4,1 cople * : for July , IKsrf , IH.OTJ coplea : for August. 18HH , IK.IS.I copies ; for September , ISW , wan 1H.154 copies. H IXJltOi : II.T/.SCIHJCIC. Bworn to before and subscribed In my pres ence , tills Uth day of October , A. I ) . IMS. N. P. KKII. . Notary 1'ubllc. 8uiM\iit : , the inventor of Volupuk , is iloud. It would litivo been bolter for tlio world if father Sehlcycr hud lived and liis Volnpuk had died. TIIK buttle of the ballot has begun. Jn all the largo cities of the country the preliminary skirmish of registering for the November election is taking place. TIIK later reports from the Mud Run , Pn. , railway disaster fully confirm the first rumors of a terrible holocaust. Since the Chatsworth horror no railroad accident has boon so fearful iti the de struction of life. Owixa to a lack of proper freight depot facilities the merchants and ship pers of Omaha arc subjected to serious delays by the Union Pacific. In no other city would the Union Pacific pre sume to disregard the convenience of its patrons in the way it does. TIIK democratic national campaign committee has turned another screw on the luckless ofliceholdcrs of Washing ton for funds. They luivo all just re ceived polite notes from headquarters to call for a personal interview on "urgent business. " Everybody knows what that means. KANSAS CITY is anxious to extend its city limits. But millionaire owners of aero tracts just outside of the limits have succeeded in defeating the project iu the city council. Their object is to escape city taxation , and in this they Bucceoded , just as many rich tax-shirk ers of other cities have done. IT SKKMS that Mayor Hewitt's en mity to Mr. Cleveland dates back to the time when the President issued liis order for the destruction of Hewitt's fences upon government land which had been built by thu cattle syndicates of the west. Mr. Hewitt has now an op portunity of retaliating by smashing Mr. Cleveland's political fences in New York. TIIK real cause of the marked falling off of migration to Kansas and the ac tual decrease in population considering the natural increase by births , is pro hibition. Kansas , like Iowa , is paying dearly for her attempt to enforce tem perate habits by Puritan blue laws instead of restricting the evils of in temperance by rational police regula tion and leaving the task of temperance reform to moral suasion and exemplary living. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TIIK Now York Lifo Insurance com pany will , in all probabilities , think twice before rushing into court to do- 'fond its actions in continuing the exca vation under Seventeenth btrcot after &s permit lias been revoked by the douncil. The company has been granted no franchise for using the public high way for its own use , and therefore whatever privileges the building inspector specter has granted to them without sufficient authority can bo recalled at his discretion , or by the order of his superiors. TIIK latest dispatches show that Now Orleans , as foreshadowed in those columns , has formulated a most string ent quarantine against the western part of Florida. The trained nurses who have given their time , their energies , tTieir knowledge to the cause of human ity , who have risked their lives and ex hausted their own pecuniary resources for the yellow fever sufferers , are warned away from Now Orleans. The United States surgeon who has charge at Camp Perry and who has sent some nurses homo by way of Now Orleans was astonished when they returned , ant sent a sharp remonstrance , which produced ducod no effect. A SIOST vigorous pressure is every where being brought to bear on fedora ofliceholdcrs for campaign contribu tions. The coaxing process having failed to produce the hoped-for results it has evidently boon determined to adopt a different policy. The mos significant indication of this that has appeared is u luttor of the chairman ol the democratic national committee , Mr Barnum , addressed to clerks in the do partmouts of Washington notifying them when ho would bo in that city and inviting them to cull on him. O course everybody can understand the nort of interest that Mr. Uarnura would hare in the department clerks. THE IXCKEASE OF POPULATION. A writer in nn eastern journal who ias been studying with evident care ho statistics of the growth of popula- Ion in this country presents an inter esting nnd suggestive computation of vhat the population may bo a century icnco. Assuming that the rate of in crease will bo thirty per cent pet decade luring the next hundred years , which is i little below the percentage of the past , in equal ratio of population with Gor- nany will be reached before 1980 , nnd a r.routor ratio than that of England by 000 , two years more than u century icncc. Estimating the population of the Jnitod States a fraction over sixty-five nillions , which doubtless is not greatly out of the way , the computation on the issumcd Increase of thirty per cent each decade gives a population in 1000 of a Ittlo short of eight hundred and nlnoty- line millions , a ratio to the square mile of " 09.HO against a ratio two years hcnco ) f 21.70. "If carried to the end of the twentieth century of the Christian era , " bays this writer , "this compulation vould show a population of the United States of the astounding number of 1,110,180,942 , with a ratio of three hun- Ircd and eighty-nine to every six lundrcd and forty acres of ground. " iVs the pnrccntago of tlio pa.st ms been about thirty-two per cent. , and \t the old world countries have nearly ill reached that growth of population which the soil will sustain , and as their > opulations continue to increase despite , hcir loss by emigration , it is thought ,0 , bo not wholly improbable that the uturo increase of population in this country per decade will bo nearly or iito thirty per cent. These figures have a bearing on the question of immigration , and it should > o said were intended as an argument for restriction , but before giving too reat importance to them it will jo well to reflect whether they ire likely to bo realized. It may quite reasonably bo observed at the outset that it is questionable whether it is incumbent upon this generation to concern itself about possible conditions i hundred years from now. It can do very little to influence them in any way , .uid if it shall bo successful in meeting its own requirements it will have done all that it ought to do. It can only > roporly concern Itself , therefore , with the question whether the country can it present profitably utilize a proper class of immigrants , however numerous they may be. If it bo granted that Lhcro is room hero for fifteen times as many people as we have there cer tainly appears to be no reason why wo should trouble ourselves about the accession of three or four hundred im migrants a year if they are people of Lho right sort. But looking at the matter - tor practically , it is by no means cer tain that the ratio of increase will belong long maintained at anywhere near the percentage of the past. One of the jreat attractions possessed by this coun try , cheap lands , is becoming every year less , and a few years hence , when the public domain is all absorbed , this at traction will bo gone altogether. There will still for a long time re main greater opportunities than in the old world , but they will not bo so easy of attainment as in the past. It is inevitable that a generation hence the United States will not hold out the inducements to the people of other lands that they do at present , nnd consequently fewer will coino to this country. Meantime pro vision will bo made for a share of the increasing population of the already overcrowded countries in other portions of the world. There are great schemes of colonization now in progress by the European nations which will make places for millions of their people within the next generation. Wo bc- liovo the computation of the writer wo have quoted could safely bo divided by two in order to give a reasonable cbUmato of the population of this country a century hence , and it consequently loses by just one-half its force and value as an argument against immigration. TUE WHEAT nisn START'S A PROB LEM. The rise in flour has already created suffering in Now York , whore the small bakers who buy a little at a time have boon compelled to raise the price of the standard household loaf. If the rise can bo maintained , and it should bo in justice to the farmers of the north western states , this suffering will bo terrible during the winter. It has boon assorted that low prices for food pro ducts invariably tend towards the low ering of wages , because men who go into the market for labor will give rates according to the cost of living , ir respective of the value of the work which they obtain and the profits which they make. That this should bo so is a proof of the false relations of capital to labor , which the most earnest re formers believe can only bo changed by the introduction of the guild system. That this is so is at any rate a reason able conjecture in the absouco of per fect knowledge. Now , the converse of this should also bo true , and higher cost of living should lead to an inevi table rise in wages. But if this should not bo so , if the power of capital should bo equalled by its injustice and its cruelty , wages will remain stationary in spite of the advance in the cost of food products. Can this civilization of ours be genuine which demands either that the farmer should bo ruined to en able the worklngraan to exist com fortably on his small wages , or that the latter should bo forced into degradation and misery whenever the farmer manages to obtain fair remuneration for what he pro duces ? This problem , but in a more intensi fied condition , coirfronts the people of Franco nnd England , fu the former the government has sustained the pro ducing elements ; in the latter a rem edy has boon sourght by scouring the world for cheaper food products to the ruin of the producer. The English farmer has been so robbed that ho is no longer tlio small capitalist that he used to bo , and the landowner has been com pelled to lower materially the rent of the farms. Consequently the value of the laud has diminished thirty to forty per cent In splto of the fact that It pays no tax to the country , and bears not an lota of the coat of government. There is , it will bo observed , in the minds of governments no idea of solving the problem. It is simply n choice of evils to protect the producer at the oxpon&o of the consumer , or to abandon the pro ducer for the benefit of the consumer. Ono of tlio two must bo ground into the dust. But not ono word has over boon uttered of the necessity of touching the monopolist. Ho is the driver , and it is the galled jades that wince , and whether it is the near or the off side animal the producer , or the working man Is nothing to him. Ills withers are unwrung. nr/rrun ADJOUUX. Senator Hawley sot a good example the other day in the senate when ho baid that ho had abandoned his inten tion to speak on the tariff bill , because his heart was in another place , meaning the field of political battle in his own state. The sanator very correctly said that the people were not looking to the senate or caring what it baid or did in the matter. "Nobody believed , " ob served the senator , "that the bill could bo discussed item by item anil disposed of at this sobbion ; it had to go over till December. " lie intended to go homo hinibclf , and he thought that the best thing for all the senators to do. The senator is not more tired of playing a part in the congressional farce than the country is of witnessing that farce , for such it has been for more than a month past , and such it is cer tain to continue to bo until there is a recess or adjournment. Why keep it up ? The house has got through with the last of the appropriation bills , and there is not enough of its members in Washington to make a quorum. They arc at homo looking after their political fences or wandering about the country campaigning , and many of them can not bo induced to return to the scat of trovernment until after the election. There is certain to bo no more legislation at this session. So far as the senate is concerned , the dis- cubbion of the tariff there is not receiv ing any attention from the people. The popular mind is finding ample employ ment in other directions , and nothing that senators may bay in Washington will divert it. Why then , wo repeat , keep up the farce of which everybody has grown tired'/ The trouble is that while nearly every member of congress is anxious to have a recess or adjournment , neither bide wants to make the confession. Each party is afraid to origin ate a proposition for bringing the session to a close for fear the fact would bo somehow used against it in the campaign. Wo bcliovo this to bo a foolish fear , but it unquestionably is the influence which is keeping up the congressional comedy. Some ono of those members who are styled "inde pendents" would do the country a bor- vice in moving to bring this session of congress to a conclusion. FAIltCUlLD IK SELF DEFENSE. Secretary Fail-child addressed a meet ing of business men in Now York on Saturday , his speech consisting chiefly of an explanation and defense of the policy and course of the national treas ury in dealing with the surplus. Ke- ferring to the deposits of treasury money with the banks , amounting now accord ing to the secretary to fifty-bcven mil lion dollars , he was candid enough to say that ho does not defend a deposit of largo sums of government money in banks , on the ground that it objection ably mingles private with public busi ness , but he claimed that the only choice was a choice of evils , and main tained that the administration had chosen the lessor evil. The other was , of course , the purchase of bonds. Secretary Fairchild is doubtless sijj- cero , and at any rate it is not ho who is responsible for whatever faults there may have been in the treasury policy , and particularly for the extraordinary p-ivilogo accorded the banks by the financial department of the govern ment. Ho took charge of the treasury department after its policy had boon very fully and eloarly defined by his predecessor , with the undoubted con currence of the president , and although subsequent exigencies necessitated a de parture in some respects from this pol icy it has been adhered to as clo.soly us possible in its main features. Ono of these was to interfere as little as pos sible with the accumulation of the sur plus by ti process known to the law and which had boon practiced under pre vious administrationsthat of purchasing bonds. Depositing money with the bunkb docs not reduce the .surplus , but buying bonds does. The former policy enables the banks to make prof its out of the money of thu people without paying anything for the privilege ; the latter returns the money to the people and stops interest on the government's obligations. In his message to the present con gress Mr. Cleveland said : "Tho proposition * to deposit the money held by the government in banks throughout the country for use by the people Is , it scorns to mo , exceed ingly objectionable in principle as es tablishing too close a relationship he- twoon the operations of the government treasury and the business of the coun try , and too extensive a commingling of their money , thus fostering an unnatu ral reliance in private business upon public luncls. " Yet at the time of mak ing this virtuous declaration the treas ury had deposited with Now York banks , among others that of which the first secretary of the treasury undur the present administration was president , largo bums of money , and when it was urged that the law contemplated tlio employment of a part of the surplus in the purchase of bonds a Hiuhlen doubt took possession of the president and the secretary of the treas ury as to the extent of their authority under the law to buy bonds. , Until con- grob.s reassured them there was a cessa tion of bond purchases , and it was dur ing this period that financial circles bu- euino extremely anxious and the exi gency was felt to bo so urgent that re course was had to doK)3lts | of the sur plus with the banks which finally amounted to about sixty million dollars , wholly to these institutions , or paying it out for bondsatjiilurgo premium , with no other advantage to the government than that of stopping interest , but in view of the professed hostility of the ad ministration to the deposit plan its re course to it on so largo a scale demands boino more convincing defense than is offered by Secretary Fairchild. The truth is there would huvo been no ne cessity for adopting this plan but for the doubt of the administration regard ing its authority to purchase bonds and its suspension of such purchases on that doubt. Had it gone on ns the law clearly provided there would have been no impairment of financial confidence , the public debt would bo less than it is , and the favored banks would not bo so rich as they aro. KFLL XELLSOJTS EIW01J. The recent failure of Zimmerman ft Co. , wholesale cloak manufacturers of Chicago , will tend to dispel an error into which Nell Ncllsou innocently foil , nnd which necessarily created a false impression on the minds of her many readers. Her work was so necessary , and was done with so much effective ness and such a passion of sympathy for the victims of an abominable condition of things , that it may have an effect as great as "Uncle Tom's Cabin , " and may lead to the enfranchisement of white women slaves. She thought , and bho recorded her impression frankly , that the sordid avarieo of employers was to bo blamed , and that an immense profit was wrong out of the misery of the poor wretches who toiled at their needles like galley slaves at the oar. But this bankruptcy is conclusive evi dence that the cause must be ascribed to a frenzied competition between man ufacturers by which wages were cut down to tlio starvation point , work was increased to the killing point , and yet there was either a very narrow margin of profits or no profits at all. For the firm of Zimmerman & Co. failed be cause thoTradors' bank closed its doors , the cloak manufacturing company having a deposit of eight thou sand dollars. The temporary depriva tion of this money , and the pros pective loss of the greater part of it compelled this firm to suspend opera tions. Thov had no less than ono hun dred and fifty women in their employ , whoso condition was precisely similar to the descriptions of Nell Nellson. It must not bo supposed that frenzied com petition exists only among cloak manu facturers. There can bo no doubt that it rages furiously among the whole class of makers of furnishing goods. There can be no doubt that it has existed among every class of manufacturers throughout the. country. Tlio trusts were ostensibly established to remedy this state of things , and as there were many illegal nets , such as egregious block-watering and corrupt compacts , the public beliovud that the reason al leged was a nioro excuse for the acts of monopolists. But in the fnco of this failure it must bo admitted that this suicidal competition is a fact. The establishment of the guild system would seem to bo a more legal , a more equita ble , a more trustworthy remedy than the trusts. IT "WOULD bo giving just considera tion to General Harrison to allow him al least a week of rest , aud il is under stood to bo the intention of his friends to bocuro this for him. Ho has been by all odds the hardest worked man in the campaign , and ho has had bul one brief vacation. The effect upon the popular mind of visiting delegations is no longer what it was earlier in the campaign ; in fact the influence of this sort of demon stration is at an end. General Harrison having done his duty to the cause , and done it well , should bo given at least sufficient rest to enable him lo recupe rate his energies for the final onset of the great battle. TIIK highest compliment that can bo paid Mr. Kiorstead is the protest of Cadet Taylor against his confirmation ns member of the board of public works. The support of Taylor would have at once aroused tlio suspicion that Mr. Kiorstead was either a knave or a fool. In other words ho would bo liable to the suspicion of collusion with political vultures and birds of prey , or still worse , ho would bo reckoned among the dupes whom Taylor has roped in to invest in bankrupt newspaper stoclc. WliiHtllni ; Up Courage. Keiv Yntk Telrtirnm. Uncle Don Voorhecs says Unit Indiana "is as safe for Cleveland ns Toxus is. " The Tall Sycamore often deals in rosy language , but it will bo remembered that all his senatorial are in this November basket , too. Itcmnrknlle. Kanuis City Jbiirtinl. It is a most remarkable thing that ( Jon. Harrison .should have been milking speeches for three months without having "luiU him self open" once to his watchful opponents. No other publlo speaker in the country has ever equaled that record. Lot Them A'orh..4inr ( > i. The bitter fight between the democratic factions in Now Yorto has progressed In a manner that Is eminently satisfactory to the republicans , for It hasbccomo | clear that the national democratic ticket will suffer. The "counties" nre no doubt honest in their sup port of Cleveland , with Hewitt for mayor ; but as their chief aims to defeat Tammany , it would not bo surprising if they traded the national ticket to brinp about their cherished desire. Tammany , on the other hand , cares nothing for Cleveland , ami ho will bo Sacri ficed whenever a vote can bo obtained for Grant for mayor. Mr. Cleveland foresaw this , and soul both Colonel Lament and Sec retary Whitney to New York as peacemakers , but their mission was a failure. Between the local flpht in Now York City and the enmity of the Hill forces , Cleveland's lot is therefore not a happy one. For tlio Children. irafMnyton Critic. Do you lee the two little boy si Ono Is Jimuilo Blnlne. The otbor in Donnle Dlokin- son. Are they mad at each other ! Well , wo should smllu. They huvo beou calling each other nainot. Dear little boys , do not call each other names. Jimuilo has said Donnio was ignorant. That Is a long word , children , but you will learn what it mean * by aud by. And Domilo 1ms called .Tiinmld a Don Quix ote. You don't ' know what n Don Quixote H , do you , children 1 No , and you must never knoxv , for It is very , very naughty. See , they have drawn back their little flsts. Let us hope , dear children , they will not dtrlko each other. Jluimlo has told Donnle ho shall not slide on his cellar door , and Douulo snys ho will not play with. Jimmic nuy more. Children , how slid Is It that httlo boys should net naughty. Good little boys go to heaven , but bad little boys do not. Try to bo good little boya , children. Now , run along to your Innocent , happy games. PHOM1XI3NT i'HUSOXS. lins scut to Philadelphia for n dorcn pairs of canvas-back ducks. But ho still refuses to eat American pork. Mr * , Cleveland knew what she was about when ho ran ir.vuy to the Adlroudacka. Fiilthouse-cleauliig Is iiowsoing on at the White House. Emperor William is said to be seriously thinking of taking a trip to the United States after the completion of his journey- lugs in Europe. Mrs. Blnir , wife of Senator Blair , has been elected u trustee of the Now Hampshire normal school , the first instance , it Is said , of n woman being chosen to such u position iu that state. Mr. Blackburn , the famous chess-player , played eight simultaneous games blind folded at the London Chess club u few nights ago and won live of them. The other three were drawn. Mr. Summers , a Ghidstonlan member of the English parliament , has been spending some time in Washington. Ho brought let ters of Introduction to Senator Hawle > - nnd has been shown much attention. Ho has be come warmly interested in the tariff debate. Mary E. Tyler ineo Sawyer ) , who bccamo historic , together with her little lamb , and Is Btlll living nt her home in Sonicrvllle , Mass. , at the age of eight ) -two years , has furnished "American Notes and Queries" with an authentic account of how the familiar verses came to bo written. A brother of the late ex-Marshal Baznmc is still living m France. Ho is an engineer , and has two sons who are promising young olllcers in the French army. They have been autliori7ud to add their mother's name to their father' * , and are given iu the army list as Bazaine-Haytor. Archbishop Corrigan is the youngest of the Roman Catholic bishops and presides ever the largest sec. He is tall und well built nnd has tne stop of an athlete and the manner of a courtier. Ho seldom uses a coach , aud when ho cannot walk rides In a horse-car. In his dress ho is altogether un assuming also. Bishop Corrigan was born in a little white frame hoimo on Market street , Newark , N. J. , used since as a saloon and later as a newspaper olllce. .lames C. Flooil , one of the bonanza kings , lost fully f.1tWOKX ( ) by the Nevada bank wheat deal , but is still worth about $15.000- 000. Yet Mr. Klnod is on his death-bed at Heidelberg. His wealth will bo equally di vided between his wife , son and daughter. The latter was always Flood's ' lavoi-ite , and at one time she possessed In her own right S5XXl'OJ ( ) 'n real estate and government bonds. She gave much of this to help her father out of ill * embarrassment a year ago , but she still owns about $3,000,000. Reguluto the Regulator. Impure blood ib dangerous. Warner's Log Cabin Sarsaparilla is the best blood purifier. Largest bottle on the market. STATE AM ) TEiCKITOUg. Ni'lirnskn Potatoes are scarce in Hamilton county and arc selling at 00 cents a bushel. Miss Mutton , a teacher at Hooper , and two of her pupils were bitten by a mad dog last week. The Presbyterian church no wbolng erected at Gaudy is the only church building in Logan county. The C.iss county democrats liavo nom inated Joseph C. Gilmore for senator , aud Frank K. White and T. M. Murquurdt for representatives. Ton prominent business men of Ogalalla are about to incorporate a stock company with ample means lo aid and encourage im migration to western Nebraska. Lightning entered the depot at Edgar over a telegraph wire , knocked down the operator , turned over a lamp and shook up everything in general the other day. How the fluid made its cscapo is not known. The Knox County News says that up to the present time there have been upward of 30.000 prairie chickens , grouse and rabbits killed in this section of the country and sdld to the refrigerator men at this place. At this rate there will bo no game another year. Joseph Molntyro , of ICoarnoy , was ad- Judned insane Thursday. Several physicians tcstitied that his insanity was caused by ex cessive drinking , and his wife began suit against five saloonkeepers of that city for $10,000 damages. Grceno & Hosteller , her attorneys , think they have a good case. Last Juno the county board of Buffalo county notified Emery Peck , county clerk from 1SSO to 1SSI , that an examination of his books showed ho had failed to account forever over ? 7,000 excess of fees allowed during his two terms. He replied to this , claiming the right to all ho had retained. The county board then Instructed the county attorney , Evans , to bring suit to recover if he thought it advisable. Ho has brought suit for $2,075. Peck will contest the suit. The house of J. Foreman , n few miles north of Oakdalo , was set. on lire late Thurs day evening by the explosion of a gasoline stove. Hu had cooked his supper and after eating had primed the stove and relit the iliimo to heat some water. Leaving the house on an errand , a rod or two from the house ho heard a hissing sound , and looking back saw a red glare In the window. When ho opened the door ho found the steve enveloped in llamos. Ho had time to kick a rocking-chair and bed tick out of doors and Jump himself , when the tank exploded and the entire house m an instant \\a * aflame. The Mead Advocate says : Oscar Erickson , residing about seven miles south of Mead , is the iKssessor of a small , iron gray mule that has been pensioned for life by the society for the prevention of cruelty to farmers. That mule will never again bo compelled to haul the plow or bray In vain for grub. The blizzards of December or the cyclones of August will uover again disturb his Iran- quility. Henceforth ho will reside iu a stone barn , within a box-stall. " What act of charity has this mule performed that ho merits such high consideration ? " Three weeks ago last Sunday "Jack" 'that Is the mule's name ) was basking In the autumn sun on the warm side of a coltonwood grove , when a well dressed man tickled oae of his hind feet. As if by manic , "Jack's" ' foot touched tlio well dressed man on tlio head. The deceased was n book agent. That mule buildcd butter than ho knew. _ town. Arrangements have been perfected for starting u broom factory in Clarion. The Burlington waterworks are pumping about one million tivo hundred thousand gallons lens daily. D. W. Waulkner , of Anita , has harvested a crop of over ten thousand bushels of pota toes from tlfty acres of land. Dubuque is the homo of humorists. To duto 571 have remarked that a hugo vegeta ble displayed at the Illinois Central ticKet of fice is the biggest boat in town. The Tumu postoflico comes under the pro visions of the now law recently passed by congress to allow rent , light and fuel to post- offices of the third class , 450 being the limit fixed for the above compensation. Tlio Burlington Huwkcyo says that a well known nhysiclun of that city is drinking nothing but soda water since ho was sum moned to appear as a witness in the prose cution of a saloon a few days ago. Two cases of smallpox are reported from Speucor township , Clay county. They oc curred iu a family of Norwegian emigrants. Ono case proved fatal , but the other is doing well. An effective quarantine is In force. D. J. Gibbons , a farmer living near Lenox , was fined t\ und costs last Thursday for as saulting A. K. Puller The assault consisted of unlng insulting and threatening language , After he had paid the line Gibbons asked : "About what would it cost mo now to lick him } " "If your jury is carefully selected , " said an attorney encouragingly , "it wouldn't cost you anything. " After turning the mat ter , over , Mr. Gibbons concluded not to In vest and drove home. All lovers of the delicacies of the table use Angostura Blttors to secure H good digestion , but the genuine only , manufactured by Dr. Siegert & Sons. ' ' The Happy Bchomo Hit Upon By n Llucoln Pastor , HE TURNS ADVERTISING AGENT Antl I'orn Small Sum Act-ecu to "PufT" a Mcrohnnt'H Wares From tlio I'ulplt-Cnpital City Notes. LINCOIN HviiEtu or THE OMIIH ntiB , 1 Kni'J ' P STIIKKT , } LINCOLN , Oct. 14. ) The great world Is full of schemes and scheming people. Step from the busi ness room Into the church and this fact is forced into realistic life. There is no escaping its truth. To-day , placarded on the walls of one of the prominent churches of the city , was to bo seen a unique advertising 'card bearing the names of Lincoln merchants , grocers , druggists and saloonkeepers , all of whom asked public patronage , and described - scribed in flattering terms the goods and wares they had to sell. From the altar , at the close of the service , the good pas tor recommended one and all of the ad- yortlsers to Ills parishioners as reliable men with whom to deal , and it is said that it only cost them $5 each. It may be possible that no apology is necessary for thi.s seeming business transaction. But It comes to the effect that the money thus earned is to be put into the building fund of the church , "it prevents unnecessary begging. " Yet crowding unon the Sunday reflec tions of TIIK BKK scribe comes the echo virtue and honor continue to freeze and starve. Stopping from the sacred portals of ono church into another , and the puw rental service is foutui to bo inaugur ated for the first time. This fact is stated only to show the change in senti ment in religious circles. Lincoln chnrch people bollovo in progression. But in this change it is not sought to deny the communicant the right ' .o wor ship God according to the dictates of conscience. It is only a mattorof whore he docs it. The common people the poor may possibly be able to get near the altar by going down into their pock ets for the tithes they are not able to pay. It is only just , however , to state that the membership of this church is anything but united upon the new ro- gimo. The renters at St. Paul's may prove a winning scheme , but the oppo sition to the change is bitter and like Banquo's ghost it may not down. LINCOLN'S SI'NDAV GUKSTS. At the Capital F. E. Patterson. Bos ton ; F. O. Lowdon , Chicago ; J. H. Little , Omaha ; A. II. Chippenger , Chicago cage ; C. T. Boudenot , Omaha ; W. L. Marshall , Tcnn. ; E. B. Merrill. Now York ; W. L. Dawbon , Bennett ; W. M. Soeley , Bennett ; J. 1) . Negus , Salt Lake ; George Lawrence , Chicago ; A. J. OsldiJk , Pcoria ; G. II. White , Boston ; W. C. Kohle , Boston ; J. L. Forkncr , Omaha ; Frank Adams , Omaha ; Sam Saunders , Milwaukee ; Miss F. Mo- randoOmaha ; William Dillon , Chicago ; G. II. Fisher , Alma ; .1. W. Morgan , Monmouth , 111. ; G. Knight , Now York ; F. M. Kennedy , Council Bluffs ; John Modick , Council Bluffs ; G. J. Ilailoy , Chicago ; G. W. Smith , Kansas Oily ; Hugo Salton , New York ; F. Mer- gondaller , Chicago ; Mrs. II. White , Wymoro ; A. Ilirsohborg , Chicago cage ; M. .1. Bartholomew , Now York ; O. K. Clark , Minnesota ; S. D. Young , Philadelphia ; G. U. For. roll , Nebraska City ; F. II. Myors , Bo , atrico ; H. H. Koynolds , Hastings ; O. 15. Savage , Highland , O. ; K. A. Brown- Brooklyn ; ( J. E. Brown , Omaha ; D. M. Carr , Council Bluffs ; Hugo Lange , Dubuque - buque ; W. W. Finch , Chicago ; O. II. Phillips , Beatrice ; E. B. Caheon , Cus- tor ; F. J. Coyle , Omaha ; J. C , Sohnston , Crete ; F. Vin ; cent , Hastings ; A. Walter , Beatrice- Julius S. Cooley , Omaha ; F. J. Compton - ton , Utlca , Nob. ; W. W. Abbey , Fall City ; Frank Linden , Glen Chase , Fred Sawyer , Charles Courtney , W. F. Con rad , Lon Lender , George Ingram , Fred Collins , W. J. Thompson , Miss Ella Mason , Miss Carrie Anderson , Miss Edna Earlo , Miss Hattie Neville , J. M. Mitchell , Chicago ; A. Davidson , Wy moro. At the Windsor Charles Linstrum , Sutton , Nob. ; J. II. Cornier , .Jackson , Mioh. ; S. II. Volt , Now York ; S. E. Ballis , Now York ; Fred L. Kelly , Chicago cage ; C. E. Crane , Chicago ; C. G. Bry ant , Racine , Wis. ; M. Clifford , Stevens Point ; C. A. Lockwood , Atchibon.Kan. ; J. S. Gilham , Red Cloud ; T. E. Whit ney , Now York ; J. Markowitz , St.Louis ; A. Tutlatto , Cliarlos Mantz , Sam Des- poses , George D. Hoffman , J. M. Mur- dock , Chicago ; M. A. Davis , Cincin nati ; George A. Dascomb , Atchison - son ; John M. Hogo and wife , Boston ; A. Soldnor , Now York ; George Rogers , Council Bluffs ; W. H. Edwards , Chicago ; J. K. Weyer , St. Louis ; B. Emmit. Chicago ; F. L. Eschbach , Now York ; II. G. Luchhardt , Chicago ; C. Dowolff , Connecticut ; Abe Lamm , Chicago ; J. E. Groff , Louisville , Ky. ; David Barre , Chicago ; R. K. Cooper , St. Joseph : A. W. Greene , Chicago cage ; J. P. Marstm , New York ; W. A. Mobsnor , Chicago ; L. L. Lake , Now York ; V. D. Morris , Chicago , C. II. Miller , St. Louis ; C. H. May , Chicago ; Alex S. Greditzcr , St. Louis ; E. Straws- berger , Chicago ; A. W. Brown , Now York ; Alex R. Lewis , Chicago ; C. P. King , Cincinnati. At Opolts J. C. Barclay , Omaha ; II. E. Klein , Burlington , la. ; F. Piorson , Milwaukee ; George H. Brit ton and wife , Auburn ; G. S. Lonon , Auburn ; T. M. Kaor , Gresham ; II. Cloivo. Chicago cage ; J. W. Quinn , Omaha ; F. B. Hooker , Chicago ; H. Halm , Louisville , Ky. ; W. T. Lyford , Kansas City ; Tom Godfrey , Omaha ; J. S. Gardnor.Omaha ; E. W. hayes , Beatrice ; J. T. Webber , St. Louis ; E. W. McCullough , Chicago ; A. A. McCoy , Linton ; J. S. Shoemaker , Superior ; J. W. Rickart , Kansas City ; W. H. Kirk , Hastings ; George Doy- ctto , Atkinbon ; W. W. Gentry , Quincy ; W. P. WebsterChicago ; H. M. Griggs , Alton , 111. ; Mibs Addle Shopurd , Bea trice ; J. W. Shepard , Indianapolis ; P. W. McKibbon , Gulonn , 111. ; A. C. Weir and wife , Omaha ; M. Van Bubkirk , Frceport ; John T. Morgun , Now York City ; H. B. Field nnd wife , Wamcgo , Kail. ; W. A. Mitchell , Warren , O. ; C. M. Chown , Marshulltown ; B. C. Baker , Fremont ; C. H. Seymour , M. D. , Belvedere - doro , 111. ; W. G. Hawkins , Gencseo ; II. Shrodor , Berlin ; W. [ I. Rotter , Omaha ; T. E. Shaffer. Chicago ; D. Fuller , Chicago ; John Davis , Omaha ; Ike N. Hahn.St , Louis ; W.E. Dietrich , Mason City , 111 ; E. A. Locke , Omaha ; R. Elliott , Nemuha City ; C. A. Diamond mend , St. Joseph ; G. D. Toaster , Leav- enworth. rOMTICAI. rOINTKHH. "Tho situation in the Sixty-seventh representative district , " said Attorney General Leeso to TJIK BKK scribe to day , "is everything but assuring. The action of the evocutlvo committee may have been just from this point of view , but it don't take worth a cent out there. I shall not bo surprised to soothe demo cratic candidate for the house elected from that district. Mr. Meeker does not have the confidence of the peoplo. " "So fur as Otoe county Is concerned , " remarked Judge Mason , who came from thnro recently , "tho republican ticket will bo elected. But thp democratic party will nmko some gain * . The Gor man republicans in some localities hnvo got frightened on the Submission question , but the political standing of the piMitlmncti who nmko up the ticket is such that the disaffection will not bo very great in my judgment. But , occa sionally , that county cuts some queer caporn. You can't always toll which way the cat w 111 jump. " "I have traveled over the state con siderably , " says Judge Lansing , "and I tell you the republican party will got to the front with a bigger majority than ever on the Oth of Novembor. The legislative ticket of some counties , as usual , will bo elected by the do moo ruts , but the gain will not amount to much if anything. The emigration into No- bra.ska during the past year has bison great , and my observation goes to show that it has been largely republican. Besides1 , there are a great many boya who are just coming on the political stage , and they will cast their vote for republican success , others to the con trary , but you will find that my judg ment is good when the vote has buun counted. The boys of to-day ilou't camp in a political graveyard. " VXIVKICSALIST CONTKIIKNVK. The state conference of the Univer- salists of Nebraska mot in this city yes terday afternoon at U o'clock. The churches of the state are all repre sented , vi/ . , York , Tecumseh , Marble Crock precinct , Suumlors county , and Lincoln. These churches all have good houses of worship and are reported in a very flourishing condition. The bubines.s of the afternoon was the appointment of committees , reports of olllcers and the election of Rev. K. H. Chapin , of this city , to attend the national convention of the church , which meets at Chicago this week. Last night the church was crowded. Mrs. Barnes delivered the address of the " evening on "Spirit ual Lifo. " She was followed by Mr . DeLong , who delivered a thoughtful discourse on the same subject. At 0 o'clock thi.s morning the church was fairly well filled to listen to the "Conference Talks. " Rev. Q. II. Shlnn , of Deering , Me. , preached tlio sermon. Ho is an orutor of eminence and ability. ' Communion services wore hold at 8 : { ( ) p. in. To-night , notwithstanding the stormy weather , the attendance at the mass meeting was largo. The ex orcises commenced at 7:80 : o'clock. Rev. Shiiui discussed "The Attitude of Univer.salism Towards Reform ; " Rev. Mary Girard Andrews , "Tlio Attitude of Unlvorssillsm Towards Phil anthropy ; " Rov. Mary J. Do Long , "Tho Attitude of Univorsulism Towards the Progressive Religious Thoughts of the Times. " These subjects were very thoughtfully considered and hold the closest attention of the audience. The following ministersaro hero from abroad : Rev. Q. H. Shinn. Deoring , Me. ; Rov. Mary J. Do Long , Oshkosh , Wis. ; Rov. Mrs. Barnes , Junction t'lty , Kan. The convention closed its session to night. CITY NK\VS AND NOTKS. An old line life insurance company wants an energetic , reliable man , ac quainted in Lincoln , as special auent in Lincoln. Liberal contract with good man. Address , with references , F 49 , BKK olllco. R. R. Lovoll , formerly of St. Paul , Minn. , Will Luschor , formerly of Chicago cage , and Harry Welch , of Crete , have boon engaged by the Hart wholesale hardware company , and will start on their initiatory trips next Wednesday , the dale on wliich the company formally commence business. The republican state central commit tee will open a document room at the Capital hotel to-morrow. The idea is to treat the rest of the campaign from nn intellectual standpoint. Facts and figures will bo produced showing why the republican party is right and the democratic party wrong. Although very severely burned , it is now thought that Constable Al Beach's child yill recover. But the attending physicians bay that great care will huvo to bo used. The left bide of the child's face was burned to a crisp and both her arms were almost stripped of flash from the elbow to the bhouldpr. Sheriff Mclick received notice from Seward , hist night , that two prisoners had broken jail at that place , llarlo Cobb , ono of the parties , is twenty-two years old , five feet ten inches high and weighs 170 pounds. Harry Blckford is eighteen years old , five feet four inches high aim weighs 1'iO pounds , and is of light complexion. Sheriff Smiley offers a reward of $50 for his recapture. The decamping Tccumsoh physician , Dr. Reese , left his mark behind him in the shape of a ruined girl and a blighted home. The oily-tongued villain did his villainous work well and skipped for other fields. Ho should bo followed to t/ho ends of the earth and punished for his crime. Dr. Reese not only betrayed his friends but left a stain upon his name that will cling to him at'i'ecumboh to the end of time. The Great Northwest. California stockmen predict a hard winter , as feed is short in the lulls. Tommy Wallace , a notorious San Francisco thiuf , has beou urrested for burglary at Port land , Oro. The Walker Lalto Bulletin says a three inch veiri Of almost solid gold w.is uncovered at the Pamlico mine , Esineralda county , Ne vada , last Monday. The sum of $7,000 In gold bullion was the result of a recent crushing of 40 tons of ere from the Orpheus mine , Silver Clauco dis trict , Douglas county , Nevada. Peter Schcuimals , an old-tlmo saloonkeeper of Helena , Mont. , while crared with liquor , blew out his brains with a revolver. Ho came to the territory in IStH and was quitu wealthy. T. J. Sweeney , a veteran , who was em ployed us a letter carrier at Tacoma , W. T , has been dismissed for offensive partisanship for accoptpig u republican nomination for constable. An interesting archaeological discovery lias been made at Sun Clcmenta Island , Cat. It Is reported that an ancient temple or vnn- quech , dedicated to the god Cblnigchinich , has been discovered. n. L. Sykes has confessed that It was ho who killed ( icorge Henderson while ho was riding on n slago from Redding to Alturas , Cal. , at a point about forty-seven miles oust. of Kedding , in the month of October , ltt$7. A gentleman named Clark disco vorcd ulino silvor-lcad vein on Thompson creek , a branch of Warm Springs crook. Hoar IColchain , Idaho , u few days ago , nnd got an essay of over 300 ouncoB from the croppings. Tlin work of dUcovery still continues with about us much promise us ovor. Great excitement prevails at Meeker.Colo. , over tlio discovery of oil and pas nonr White Uivor City. There is at the presoiit time suf ficient gas to supply u town as lurge as Meeker , and thcro Is every indication that the Whto ! river country may yet bo destined to become ono of the great oil regions of the west. Developments will at once bo com menced. Mr. Plat Ilinman , of Snake Hlvcr , Wyo. , took a watron load of live game Into Itawlins Friday. Nine oik , four untelopo , fourteen deer and a small black bear completed thu menagerie. Mr. Joe Miller and Thomas Smith , of Throe Forks , captured them for a Mr. Chapin , of New York , and were paid IXi a head for the oik and $25 per head for tlio deer , antelope and bear. Mr. Chapip owns a line park near Sulidu , Colo. , and thono pets were bhl pped to him at that point. How can a watch so when tlio main spring is cloggad ? I few can you bo in oed health when your liver is in a similar condition ? Take Warner's Log Cabin Liver Pills and put all the ma chinery of Hfu In good order.