THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 19 , 18S9. THE DAILY BEE I'Um.lSIIKl ) I3VI3UV MOHNINO. TI5I1MS 01' SCIIPCIUPT10N . I&UrfMornlnKidItlowlnr-lmlltigStTM : . , IH.K. flnn Vrar . . . ? IO C I'orBlx Months . ' . l > r 1'orThrco Months . . . SB TUB OMAHA PruiiAY HKR , mnlleil to nny " tidilres . One Vcnr . " "WI.KKI.V llrr , Ono Vonr . " ' . OMAHA < m-irnXos. ! < H nnd tilft I-'AII * AM STIIKEI nurAnoori'irB , M : HOOKKUV lii'ii.niNri. Niw ; VOIIK Own r. , UOOMS II AND 1.1 Tiuiirx Itt'iuii.so. Wtsin.xuTo.v Orrici : , No , 51 it BTUKKT. . All romimmtrutiniw tciutlnu to now * nnd ca ! tnHi ) mutter should uoudilrc-tsi-dtothe II : > ITO , . - should Ii All linslnpss li'ttcrsnnd i bmlttum-M Ml Ire sedto Tim llii : : ri iu.i ntx i rmii'ASi OMAHA. Drafts. chocks mid jioitolllcourtiew t l.o innilo payable lo tlio order of the company. The Bcc PnblisliinfCompany , Proprietors H. IIOSEWATEK. Editor. Till- : DAILY HKH. Sworn Htnlonionl nf Circulation. Btnto of-N'ebrasVa. I . , I'ounty of DoiiRlns , t ' doornail. Tzdoliiicls , bccrotiryof thn lice I'll I llshliiu company , Joes solemnly SWCHC tlutt th ncIiiBl clrcnliitlim or TUB IMtr.v I IKK forth woi-k cmtlNK rVbriiiiry 15 , 18vjv.is us follows Hiimlny , I-cl > . 10 . 1H.7I Monday , Kob. 11 . 1 .M TilCMtny. IVIi. VI . . . IM"J ! " Wcilnpmlny. Fob. 13 . 1W" Tliitrndav , Fell. II . I1-1' ' ' Inday. Kob. IS . ; . IW * > fcntnrday. Keb. HI . .l . l ArvrnQO . \9fti \ oi'oimi' H. T/.srnruK. Sworn to before mu ntitl xtihirrlbKd to In inj tirescnco tills I'ith ' day of l-'oln-imry , A. 1) ) . 1H8 ! . Keiil. N. I' . l-'HMi , Notary Public. State of Neliraika. I _ County of DoiiRlas. f " ( Si'oruo 1) . T/.scbnck , bolni ? Muly sworn , do tie > os anil sixy.t that ho Is Hcurotnry ol the Hot j'ubllsliiiiK company , that thu actual avor.iui dully circulation of Till : Dui.v I IKK for tin month of 1'ubruary , HW. was 1B,0. 2 roplro for 91 arch. 1SSS , n , ( WU copies ; for April mu , 1H.7II ooplMi for May , 1S. y , is , IS roiili-s ; for .hum , ItWf , liSji ! : copies ; fo .Inly , IS , " " , 18.0.W copies ; for August , is 18,1s ! copies ; for Soptnmlior , I8SS IS , IS ) conies for Oclobor. IHm , IM.IHl copies ; for Novoin licr. | " < NM , ih.HMl copies ; for Dccmnbcr , 1H8 * . IV- copies ; for January , IM > 'J. IH.Ii" ! copies. omitm : n. 'ixsciiucic. Sworn to beCom nio und subscrlbi-d In in ; Itrnsencr this ISthdayof Kuhntiuy. A. I ) . lsH'j. ' _ N. 1' . ITir. , Notary I'libllc. "OMAHA makes a speciality of doiiif business. Harper's Weekly. IV the session of the legislature ruin into April 1 , the people of the stsito will not consider it at nil a joking matter a three thousand dollars a day. STANLKV is reported dead again The row of praveij , nil occupied by him self , that the explorer leaves along hi trail , is startling to contemplate. Tins collapse of the fourteen storj tower of IJabol in Chicago indicates thai there is a limit to sky scraping-'build ings oven in the modern Babylon. CHICAGO has boon promised a twontj million dollar university and is nov willing1 to allow its paeltine ; bouse in dubtrics to remove to Omaha without t murmur. LKT Billings turn his pig-poLsoninf implements against himself. If he shall survive , the result will at least provo the superior vitality of the human as compared with the Nebraska porker. Tim terrible disaster of the boiler explosion - plosion , accompanied by great loss o life in a prominent hotel at Hartford is a significant warning of the dangers from unsafe boilers and incompetent 01 careless engineers. A MOTION to change the name Lc Caron to Lo Carrion would bo carried almost unanimously in this country , Thin would in no measure destroy the force of the local .application of the name to a person , of Lo Caron instincts , Tun steel industry of the country has experienced a gratifying revival. The sales for the currentyear have exceeded those for the corresponding time of 1888 by one hundred thousand tons , und the mills have orders on hand to keep them busy for the next six months. Tun terrible crash of a falling build ing in Chicago , followed so soon by an other in Hartford , is proof that not ail the liuddonsoiks ol the country arc in the penitentiary. Yet there are n number of penitentiaries where the complement of convicts is not complete. WYOMING is anxious to create a rail road boom in that territory tnis season. I'lio construction of the Burlington ft Northwestern on its borders gives rise to hopes that feeders will bo built to those lines as well as to the Union Pa cific from the coal and oil fields and the mines. Tins legislature is grinding away at a snail's ' pace. Only two bills were dis posed of last week out of six hundred on the calendar. At this rate the legis lature would bo obliged to extend its present session six years in order to llnlsh its work , Obviously this is n very expensive way of killing time. TUB Iowa railroads are said to bo at * Work obtaining n mass of statistics to Bhow the loss thut would result on n year's business based on the commis sioners' rate schedule. It is safeto say , however , that the railroads are much more remunonitivo under the present system that they wore six months ngo under the domorall/.lng inlluenco of cut ting each othor's throats in rate wars. Tim Chicago , Burlington & Qulncy directors havo" unexpectedly advanced the dividend rate from four to six pur cent and huvo declared n quarterly divi dend of one and a half per cent. This would look iu if that railroad was not unduly nervous and sensitive over the reduction of rates ordered by the Iowa etato railroad commission , and not in the least frightened by the throats of the Nebraska board of transportation to adopt the Iowa freight schedule. SKNATOH COKK has bean talking four days in an attempt to prove that elec tions in the south are as fairly con ducted as in the north , Just now the .southern shotguns uro silent , because polls nro closed , but if an election were in progress the reports of those guns would completely drown the most fiery period of eloquence of which Senator Coke is capable. So long as the south ern negro wants to vote and is not ttl- lowcd to vote , Coke cun talk till blanker in the face than his oppressed brethren , nd he will convince no one. WASTED Thirty-six dnys of tTio legislative sea sion have passed , at nn expense to tb people of not far from one litimlroi thousand dollars , with not results count ing for the welfare of the state that nr < extremely small. Indeed , it is aques tion whether the Httlo vnlunblo sorvic rendered 1ms not been overbalanced b. < the mistakes made and the mlscliiovou propositions that have prevailed. Dut1 ing this six weeks of deliberation , tin legislature 1ms not put Into cfTcctom important moaaureof rotrenclunontani , the house , with its small army of em ploycs , is still dawdling with the ques tion of how many superntimavlcs It no tually needs to transact its business Meantime the outflow from the trcasur , to pay useless nsslstnnts goes on , urn from all indications is not likely to bo checked. The serious , trouble appears to be Urn the legislators generally nro giviiij more attention to the lobby than t their proper and legitimate duties. An other difficulty is that a great man ; members of both houses are more concerned corned to achieve personal notoriot\ , \ than to advance the substnntln interests of the state. This is ovl donccd in the fact of over six hundroi bills having been introduced. Doubtless loss no one lists boon so foolish as to ox pcct any high order of fitutosinnnslu ] from the present legislature , and thu far it has done nothing to warrant i hope that the more vital matters affect ing the future welfare of the peopli will bo legislated upon in n practical common sense way. There is unques tionably an element in the body tha earnestly desires to reduce the expense of the government in whatever direction tion this can be done without impairinj the olliciency of the public service , bit it begins to appear very qucstionnbli whether these friends of rotronchmonl will be able to accomplish a small pur ol what they desire. The remaining twenty-four days o the session will bo sufllcient time ii which to accomplish all needed legisla tion if the legislature will settle dowi to honest work , but the experience thu far does not afford any assurance that it will do this , or at least tlia it will do so until the cm of the session is so near thn more or less ill-considered and im mature legislation will bo inevitable Hotween the influence of the lobby , thi anxiety of most members to achieve personal notoriety , and the general lacli of a high order of legislative ability , the prospect of the present legislature making a particularly brilliant record is not at all Haltering. I'llOL'JlllTS OF KV1L. It would be a wholly exceptional experience porienco if on the eve of the ontranci into power of a now administration then were no prophecies of trouble awaiting it. These are making their appoaranci now , most plausibly framed and ascribec to the most trustworthy sources. W < are told that numerous individuals more or less potent in republican poll tics , have their knives out for Genera Harrison , and that n bitter quarrel i inevitable at the very outset of his ad ministration. A circumstantial narra tive is given of certain alleged com pacts and agreements made by Harrison which ho must fulfil or encounter tlu relentless hostility of the men with whom they wore made. Blaine is ol course the person whoso connection witli the next administration is to bo made the cause of the promised strife. It is expected , for example , that ho will en deavor to repeat the course piu-aiied under dor the Gat-field administration with re gard to the distribution of patronage in Now York , whereupon Mr. Platt and his following will proclaim win against the administration. The assump tion is that once in the cabinet Mr. Blainc will dominate the administra tion , and that right and left only his friends will receive recognition. On the other hand the idea is advanced that it is the design of General Harrison risen to treat bis cabinet advisers simply as head clerks , much as Mr. Cleveland is understood to have done , and this with a view to frecxing out Mr. Illume. This it is assumed would inev itably bring on u conflict in the cabi net , resulting in a dissolution and re organization early in the career of the administration , and of course throwing the party into n state of confusion ciuite as bad or worse than that of eight years ago. It is not to oo supposed that the next administration will escape the experi ence of nil proccdingudminislrutions in making some enemies in the ranks of its own liarty. There nro politicians who place a very hlgh'estimuto upon their claim to recognition who will bo disappointed. This is inevitable , be cause the administration will not have places enough in its gift to satisfy nil such. It can malco. for Instance , but eight cabi net appointments , and at a very moder ate estimate tnorc are fifty gentlemen who feel that tney have superior claims and qualifications for such a position. The ( our principal diplomatic missions , not less honorable or desirable than a place in the cabinet , must bo distrib ute a among perhaps a hundred who Joem themselves eligible on the score sf both party service and ability. And so it is that some of those who fully believe - liovo they should bo preferred for the choice places will suffer disappointment. A few of thorn must bo expected to feel iisplcascd with the administration , but It is not to be seriously apprehended that they will attempt anything like a warfare , or , if they should , that it would unount to anything. Politicians like Mr. Platt. for example , groutly over estimate themselves when they Imagine Uiat the republican party , or any con siderable portion of it , can bo brought into sympathy with tholr personal dlbup- r > olntmonts. If a distinguished leader .iko . Mr. Colliding was unttblo to so- : uro n vindication of his course it the hands of his party in his own state , when ho made an issue against , bo national administration , what could Mr. Platt hope for ? General Harrison ! us plainly indicated his purpose not to ogurd the wishes of factions , but to cn- leaver to keep the oarty united and : mrmonious , Faith In his intention to lo this will rornain so long as there islet lot the clearest possible evidence to overthrow it , regardless of the com plaints of disappointed politician * . Am it may easily bo believed that Genera Harrison will sbapo his policy accord ing to his convictions of what IP necessary sary to bo done , accepting counsel thn he thinks wise and judlclousnnd reject ing all that ho docs not so esteem , b , whomsoever given. The prophets o evil nro engaged in a most tmpromisinj labor. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ IT is contemplated to submit n constS tutional amendment providing for in increase of the number of supromi court judges in Nebraska from three ti five. It is said in behalf of such tu amendment that the business of the supreme promo court is greater than tbrei judges can take care of. If that is no\ \ the fact the importance of the proposoi amendment is apparent , and it shoult not be postponed to another legislature The business o ( the stipromo'court i certain to steadily increase , and If til ready it is beyond the ability of tin judges to dispose of1 it promptly the earliest practicable provislot should bo made for preventing an ac cumulation. The interests of the pee pie and the cause of justice require tha the highest judicial tribunal of thoslaU shall be enabled to give prompt atten tion to issues presented to it and kooj : up with its business. The unfortunnli situation of the federal supreme court in being fully four years behind will its business , is a suggestive example o how great an error it is lo allow sucl tribunals to run behind with their busi ness. Tim inevitable result is in man ; cases it denial of justice , and motv or loss hardship to a class o litigants is inevitable. The cost of twc more judges would bo Insignificant ii comparison with the value of their ser vices in expediting the decisions of ou ; highest tribunal of justice. TtiuitK is necessity for more stringon' ' regulations in our city respecting the inspection of boilers mid the examina tion of stationary engineers in busl ness blocks , hotels and residence fiats It is the duty of the city boiler inspec tor to pass upon and certify lo the con dition of every stationary boiler in the city. Ho should bo given the authoritj to condemn such boilers as do not sal isfy the conditions necessary for safety , Stationary engineers should bo pul through a thorough examination by r license -board , and no man should be allowed to be employed as a stalionurj engineer unless ho can show a certifi cate from such local examining board. The city boiler inspector com plains that his authority is limited and that the tests for qualifications as stationary engineer are too low. The fees for boiler inspection and examina tion arc more than sullio'.oiit to defray the expense of Ihe ofiico of boiler in spector. The additional authority t ( be conferred would add more revenue to Iho city's income , and would reduce the dangers from boiler explosions to r minimum. AcconniNG to General Brisbin's no tion , there is no use in our nnnuallj wasting thirty-eight million dollars ir importing tin from old England when wo can produce twice that much al homo and not only supply the home market , but export largely of this valu able commodity. The general has beer investigaling the tin resources of this country and says : "Tin of gooel qualitj exists in Arizona , Colorado and Dakota , The mines in the Black Hills of Dakota alone are capable when fully developed of supolying all the tin wo want for do mestic uses. All they need is develop ment , and mine owners are in Chicago now endeavoring lo inlerest capital in this branch of our mining industry. Lot us aid this struggling and rising industry ; let congress slap more tax on British tin and shut it out or aid our home production. " THE board of electrical control of Now York City reported to Mayor Grant recently that four thousand miles of wire were already under ground in that city , and that the success of the experiment is no longer queslioncd. The example set by Now York has boon followed up by Boston , Chicago , St. Louis and other cities. There can bo no question that the overhead wire has seen its day , and that every oily of im portance in the countrv will , within a year , compel telegraph , telephone and electric light companies to string their wires in underground conduits. Tim fact that Lincoln has tried brick for street pavement und has found it satisfactory should encourage the proper city authorities to in'vosti- gale ils merits. Not only has brick cheapness , durability and cleanliness tu recommend it , but it is said the vitri fied brick for the purpose can bo burned in Omaha. If such bo the facts , Omaha would not only solve the paving ques tion for our suburbs and boulevards but would create a manufacturing industry of great importance right at homo , TIIR people of KoyaPaha county should iillow llio law to take Us course in deal ing with the wrongs they huvo suffered : it the hands of the cutllo Ihloves. If Lho thieving take place on the Indian reservation whore the laws of this state Jo not apply , the authorllies of Iho igoncy will undoubtedly co-oporuto with the settlers in running tlio wrong- doora down. Violence and vigilantes will not stop the evil , but only implicate well-meaning , hot-headed men in n serious charge of law-breaking. Tim annual leas from the state farm af twenty-live hundred dollars may not ippear to bo iv very important mutter , but it should bo saved if it can bo , Fhero is u very general impression that .ho farm should bo golf-sustaining at .cast , nid ) wo have no doubt the impres sion is well-founded. That it is not BO is very likely duo mismanagement or incompetence , or both , und if such is the case the remedy is easy of applica tion , Revenue from the state farm will lot bo insisted upon , but it ought to bo made to pay its way. THE Panhandle of .Texas is putting [ orth energetic efforts to attract emi gration to that section of the state. A piimphlot has bean directed to thu peo- | ) lo of the north , and especially to 'northern republicans. " The induce ments to come south will strike the a orngo man as decidedly pocultai Northern republicans are told "that i is not an offense to bo known as a re publican in the Panhandle of Toxn ! nor will republicans hnvo to surrcmle nny of tholr petticoat notions , nor fen being called n.scnlawag. " Texas Is a empire with great possibilities , but v tlotibt whether its emigration buron will prove a paying investment In n It-noting northern republlcnns wit such literature. Tlin Oi-luiiinl Harrison. Chic'imaXviiqulw. . The "original Harrison man" continues i drop m on tlio general two or thrco times dny. Dnlmncoy Ii Cautions. rhtlmlcliilila Xorlh .Imerlean. The ox-nsslstaiit district attorney of No York register * as "DoLnncoy Nicoll an mnn servant. " A good-looking bachelor In to bo careful of his reputation. Aincllo's Astronomy. Krw Ynrk Tclturam. Mrs. Amelia Chanlcr , In n recent pee written In imitation Scotch , makes the w.i moon look "oot a scarf o1 rniulxnv llcht , Mrs. Clinnlor scorns to liavo enjoyed son remarkable incteoroloKlc.il experience. An Upright J lid no. St. 1'iwl I'tnnter 1'rtfs. ' Sensible Judge Hopper , of New York , r fuses to allow jurors to bo clmllongeu increl because they hnvo rend newspaper nrtlcli about the case on trial. Now If ho will r fuse to allow editors to bo challenged on n count of what they print In newspaper Judge Hooper will become a benefactor ( his race. No Active Mpiisurcs Now. JVVur.i -7 : m M. There are thlrloen open saloons in the Hit ! city of l-'ort Dodge In the prohibition state c lown , and "active measures nro to bo adoptc at onco" to suppress them. Afterwards thet will doubtless bo a suppression of the "activ measures" for a while. It has been t\v years since "active measures" were taken i that town. Killtnr Rlinpiirtl'.M Valentines. Clilcauo Trllntne. It wns February 11. The editor-in-chief t the New York Mall and Express bud Jus looked over his morning mail and tlmi nine-tenths of it into the onieo stove. "Mi Blank , " ho remarked to his war editor a t'ei minutes later , "I wish you would write strong editorial on the cowardly , contempt bio villainous , dastardly , nbominablo tico of sending comic valentines. STUICTIjV PKUSONALi. Njwjlnskj is given as the name of a nowl discovered piano virtuose now in Vienna. The veteran Hannibal Hiunlin broke thi record of a lifetime and were an overcoat o the occasion of his recent visit to Chicago. licnjaniiii F. Butler spends his leisurn ii studying astronomy. As he bus become i total abstainer Uo Is especially interested it the Millcy Way. Lord Salisbury's health is bad. His Tani ily is worried ami ho is going to take a res if ho can find time. . .The Sackvillo incident it is said , preyed on his mind. The only negro in the next , national hous of representatives will bo H. P. Cheathara from the Second North Carolina district Ho ia thirty-two years old , and is u promt ucnt man in his community. John Burroughs , the author , lias at hi homo at West Park , on the Hudson , a largi vineyard , where lit grows tons of grape every year , lie is now staying in Pough kccpsiOjgcttingsomo essays in sliapo forpub lication in the spring. QTho Emperor of Germany is cutting dowi his household expenses. Ho lias given orders dors that the daily breakfast shall cost but 02 cents for each person , and that dinnei shall not require more than ยง 1.23 a head The servants of the household are now obliged to purchase their own meals. Iiloncuro D. Conway , the magazine wrltot and historian , Is in Baltimore making re searches in the records of the Maryland His torical society. Mr. Conway' * present visll to Baltimore may recall to him one he made to Unit turbulent city in Ihe early years ol Ihe war. At that time ho haa n number ol bis father's slaves with him , and n streoi mob , thinking Uial ha hadstolon , the negroes , came near making short work of him. Ex-Gov. Hoadly , of Ohio , who Is now a New Yorker , has boeu in Washington for n few days. Says n correspondent : "Ho Is n man of brilliant parts and staunch democ racy , but ho was too brilliant to bo a suc cessful politician. Ho would let off whoic batteries of oratorical pyrotechnics which would send his political aspects skyward sky-liigh , so to speak , like u rocket , with the Inevitable fate of rockets. The only success ful campaign in which ho participated was won , to borrow a bull , by getting him out of the state. STATE AM ) TKKIUXQlir. Nebraska Jottings. Burglars are doing a good business at Falls City. The Palmyra oporu house will bo opened shortly by the band boys. The sign , "No moro high-five , " adorns the ofllco of the York police Judgo. The IBrownvlllo News is the latest acquisi tion In Ncmuha county Journalism. Bloomlngton has un orchestra composed of the best musical talent In the town , The citizens of Gothenburg report having felt a slight earthquake shock Friday night. The greatest revival in tlio history of He bron has been in progress there for the past three weeks. The Falls City board of tr.ido Is discussing plans for erecting a building for thu UBO of the organization. Tlio winter meeting of the State Swine Brooders' association will bo held at Grand Isand Wednesday. The Cnllaway Standard Is no moro , but tha plant baa been removed to Arnold , and the paper will appear there as the Noivs. The Ashland briok company Is laying In u largo supply of wood In prepara tion for a rush of business when the season opens , , . A number of gohl watches and rings , sup- nosed to have boon stolen by tramps , have been discovered in a1' lumber yard at Grand Island. A liny Springs broncho Jumped backward into u sixty-live foolWflll , the other day and was milled out by nieana of ropes In as good xmdltlon us when { tmado , the leap. Columbus Smith , nn. Auburn suloon-kcopor ivho Is under Indlqtinbut for selling liquor ivithout a llcenso , j aul to have skipped , oavlnghls bondsuiciuto settle to the amount af 81,000. ( t. The citizens of Ohamplon. Cha.io county , ivlll hold a grand jublleo March 2 over the jomplotion of the Champion roller process nlll , and the day will bo given to rejoicing , nlnglcd with oratory by well-known speakers. A wild-eyed Individual who wanted the llfo-blood of Postmaster Khollonbargor of { avenmi , struck that town the other day und 'ound his man. The Nowa , In reporting the lubscqucnt proceedings , romarkcd that Mr , itiollcnburgor In a thls-klnd-throo-for-a-quar- or umi.ner tapped tho. gyrating object before ilm In the bugle with u caressing tap , and hen with a movement like a mnn throwing i hair trunk over a high fuuco , picked up his ipponcnt and land oil him on the next lot vitli crushing force. ' Iowa. i The pie sociable Is now raging at Marble look. A new feature U to bo nddud to Doyen- buslnojg hhortly , It U au cloetrio supply store , About everything portnlnln to the ute of electricity will bo kept In sloe' ctnbrauliiH moro thiui MX ) Inventions , The shell game , in the hands of nn oxf > er hns fleeced n few enterprising citizens i Humboldt recently. The managers of the MeKoown parkin house at Fort Dodge have withdrawn the buyers from the market. Maggie lllttor , nged fourteen years , die at her homo in Hutlcrvllle , from blood polsoi ing mused by n slight scraten intllctod by rusty null some lima ngo. A portrait of Mayor William WHlinni ! who commanded the Spirit hike oxpedltio of I * . " ) " , is to bo placed In the gallery nt Hi capital In Dos Molne-i , where the pti-turcs ( cx-govornors and other notable clmractei are kept. The Hurlltigton canning factory Is cmlen' ' oring to contain for the next tomato crop t 21 cents per bushel. The growers have hel an indignation meeting and resolved not t enter any contract for less than 2o cents ) > c bushel. Ilryoiiil the Kookles , Hutto's bullion shipments last week wci fifty-three burs , valued at ft < ! ! , UO. A beef packing establishment is about I bo but up at Urnnd Falls by eastern capiti ists. ists.Thero There Is n great rush from the Ca'ur ( Alone to the new chloride camp In Kootcni county , Idaho. Clinton Harrison found a lot of cotmtcrfo ! silver coins while digging m his yard at Ne vada City last week. Snow was never known to be as light o Iho mountains In eastern Washington n this season of the year us it is now. Nevada City boasts of William Holbrooke who yearly chews 13i ! pounds of tobacco , o thirty-six pounds more than ho weighs. Portland , East Portland and Alblna , Ore will probably consolidate , pivlmr Portland population of about seventy thousand. J , H. Williams , n Montana rancher , ha been arrested upon the complaint of hi seventeen-year-old son , charged with main tabling unnatural relations with his twelve year-old daughter. A rich quartz discovery Is reported on th north side ot Toxada Island , H. C. . an minors are rushing to thnt quarter. All th companies are preparing to prosecute vlgoi ously the development of their claims. The Indies of Carson are jubilant over thi defeat of the measure to restrict tlio sUe o hats worn by ladies in theaters. The measure uro lacked two votes of continuation la tin senate , the ladies having employed three lol byists to down the bill. Two thieves walked into the assay odleo o F. Ulcchling , on Montgomery street , Sat Francisco , and while one engaged tlio nttcn tion of the clerk , the other got behind tin counter and took up n ? l,00 ( ) gold bar am walked away with it , and escaped arrest. A Genoa , Nevada , blacksmith proposes tin following scheme for securing water for irri gallon : "Lay n piuoover the mountains u Inko Taboo , roof the lake with an air-tigh covering , and then pump air until the pres sure is great enough to force tlio watc through the pipe. " Near Eugene City , Ore. , .T. E. Crnll and i man named Whfto renewed their neighbor ! : quarrel about land. Urall stooped to pick ill n stone to throw at White , but White tlidn1 wait ; ho shot Crnll in the lop of tlio heiu before lie could raise himself up , indicting i fatal wound. Seven vagrants wcro ordered out of What com , W. T. . by the citizens anil worts placet in charge of Marshal Davis. One ol the men without permission , stepped inside a saloon which nngered Davis , who followed am struck the vagrant n blow on the head will a club. Before reaching Seattle the mm died. and Divorce. The Rev. A. W. Lhmar in a recenl sermon said : If one has sncnt the greater portion of his life in the southern part of these United States and then taken up his abode for a fe\\ years in one of our great western states , 01 in one of the prcnt states of New England and the middle states , ho will have seen anil heard of moro ilivoreod people within twc years than ho had in all his former life pul together. Ho will be profoundly and sadlj impressed with the need there is of n grcn't reformation concerning the sacrcdness of tin marriage tie. In going to the southern states , to learn respect for the marriage institu tion , one would bo moro profoundly and sadly impressed with their laws and judicial decisions , ns to what constitutes marriage , what is necessary to promote "tlio peace , purity and felicity of family life" than with the liberal divorce laws in the western and Now England states. To say nothing of tlio promiscuous re lations enforced by law and cu&tom on 1,000,000 Africans' in Ihe old days of slavery in all the southern stales , 1" can prove by judicial evidence the disas trous effect that the want of liberal di vorce law has bad on the family life of South Carolina. "Tlio legislature of that state has 'ound it necessary to rcgulato by statute low largo u proportion of his property i married man may give to his concu- jtno. " [ See Denton vs English , : i 13rev. , p. 147 ; nlso Cnnady vs George , C Rich. Kq. , p. 10IJ.J This fact proves that where divorces arc not permitted iieretriciousconiicclionsi will bo formed. The above mentioned law would nol mvp been passed unless there had been subject-matter for it to operate upon. Jut listen to the words of wisdom from the judicial bench of Soulb Carolina : "In ibis country , where divorces are not illowed for any cause whatever , wo somoj lines sco men of excellent chin-actor un- 'ortunato in their murriugcti , nnd virtuous vomen abandoned or ilrivon away houseless ) .y their husbands , who would bo doomed to celibacy and solitude if they ilid not form connections which tha law does not allow , ind who i n alto excellent husbands , md virtu- ma wives still. Yet they arc considered as ivlngln adultry , because a rigorous und unyielding - yielding law , from motives of policy ulono , ins ordained It so. " ( Nott , .1 , , in Cusack vs White , li Mill , 279 , 20' ! . This is the system that n judge of the supreme court upholds and praises , and H sustained by the supreme court of fJeorgia , which says : "In .South C'nr- tliim , to her unfading honor , a divorce ins not boon granted since the revolu tion. " I must refer Iho learned judge of Georgia und Iho Jlev. A. AV. Tnmar , o Iho case In South Carolina of Joli- icuu vs .lohnoau , U Dorf. , p , 45 , where a nan took his negro slave woman to his ) Cd and board , and with brulal punitth- nenl compelled Iho unolTonding wife to eat with his colored concubine. To her 'unfading honor , " the powers of the stale of South Carolina compelled this amily to live on in "peace , purity , and olicity. " One of the nblcot writers on this subject , Joel P. Uishop , nays : "That the Judjios should thamselvcs pralso tin legislation of their own state is no more ban wo ought to u.vpect ; MIICU nil men esteem what Is their own moru highly than vhut Is another's. Thus it is remarked by VNeal J. : 'Tho moil distressing casns , Jus- if.vmg divorce uvon upon scriptural grounds , iava bean ag iln and u jaln presented to the cglslnturo , and they have uniformly rufusml o annul the marriage tlu , ' They have nobly idlierud to the Injunction , 'Those whom God las Joined together , lot not inuu put asun- lor.1 The working of tnls stern policy of nobly1 refusing redress oven In the 'most llstrussmg cases,1 where t > eriituro | Joined vith reason In crying for redress , has boone o tha good of tlio nenplo and the state In ivory respeot. ' And another of her Judges ixcliihiia i 'Tha policy of this state has uvor icon ngahiHt divor-iw. : It is ono ol bur Lioasta that no divorce has ever been granted n South Carolina. ' Could South Carolina ruly declare that no husband within horbor- lors bud uvor proved unfaithful to the mar. o\v , and no wife bad boon fatso to her bus- nine ! ; that thn observation Judicially made jy ono of bur Judges concerning marriugos n this state is in no part truu , namely , 'all narrlaijos almost are entered Into on onu or wu considerations , love or iniurust , nnd Urn , ourt la induced to believe Un ) latter is tDo emulation of most of thorn' ( Thompson , J. , n Dovall vs , Dovall , 4 1)J , , IU ) ; that-no udge of tium had from the judiuiul bench reclaimed It u virtue to commit tlio lural atony of polygamy , und to llvo In udultory ; hat no fliiss of men t-xlstod intho stuto call- ipfoflegiiilnlion ruKMlatingthbiri jiiuoutloni yitu their concubine- thenlailuei iulgltl the j people of the other states talk of unfadltif honor which had settled as a halo , or ns I crown of glory about her brow. The ovila wo deplore in n social Hfi to-day arc not the result of liberal di vorce laws , but an un reasonable mar rlago law , still ba od in a largo degree on the old common law of l-'ngland which permits n boy of fourteen nnd 11 girl of twelve to make a life contract fraught with such grave responsibilities at nn ago when they could not contract for n horse or a piece of land. Eu/.AiiKTii OADY STASTOX. WHAT 1'KOPMa TAIilC AHOL'T. Views ntul Interviews Caught In Hotel Cori-lilors anil Klsewlinri1. J. D. Kllpatrielt , the big railroad contrac tor , of rjealrtce , was soon nt the Paxton la < t evening and asked for his opinion on the prospecU for now roads being built In No brnska this .voar. Ho said : "There Is nol much doing now. As yet the companies have kept secret their intentions. 1 cunM say what may develop In Hie next month 01 six weeks. Much depends on the outlooli this spring for crops , and legislation. At present wo nro engaged on the Urn-ling- ton's now line to the northwest , nud 1 buvt given very little ntlvntlon to anything else. Yes , wo had a splendid winter for our busi ness , and have kept a large force of mou at work all the time. Great headway , as might bo supposed , has not been made. Out efforts have been concentrated on the I'ine Hidgo , where wo have nbout twenty miles of very heavy nnd dinicult work. The idea is to complete thntsn as lo have it on a level with the balance of the line by spring , and then be able to rush the Job to completion. Everyday H ci : reporters nre asked repeat ; cdly by all classes of people , to tell them when Mrs. Hecehlor will bo put on trial for the murder of Harry W. King , Jr. The question is u bard one to answer. Last even ing as he was leaving for Chicago , her attor ney , General Cowln , xvas solicited for Information mation , und lie said : "Tlio woman will nol bo arraigned , any way until I come back , nnd that may bo several days. The fact is 1 will not Iry the case until I got lo It nnd fully ready. " The probabilities are , however , that it will bo commenced about the llrst waek in March. Among a party of Omaha people who re turned yesterday from a sight seeing nlcns- uro trip through the east , wore Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Deitz. They bring back some lively stories of the good times had. Mr. Deltz said last evening : "Wo took in New York , Wash ington and Richmond , Va. 1 always enter tained to desire tu sou Hichmond , and while in Washington wo took a run over and spent ono day there. Our visit wns devoted to nn Inspection of the old colonial and confederate state house , which Is still standing , and Ijibb.v prison. Holli places proved great attractions to us. Many relicts of the Into war , us well as of the early days , are preserved and on exhibi tion in tlio state house. There we saw the oldest stove in Iho world. It is a great big iron affair , was made in England in 1735 and brought over to heat the building when it was used us tlio colonial capitol. " The party wns also at Washington on the day of the electoral count and got in on the lloor of the house. TI1I3 The Iron Keel * of ( lie Hospital Pro nounced Snt'c. Architect E. E. Meyers , of Detroil , who made the plan's nd specifications of thu county hospilal arrived in Omaha yesterday for the purpose of examining the iron roof of the structure which was erected by Home , Kutchum & Co. , of Indianapolis. Some lime ago , when Uiis firm completed Its work , It asked the county commissioners to allow its claim , which is about jS.OOO. Hyan & Walsh , contractors of the hospital , had told the commissioners that the roof was imperfectly put up , and would come down with a crash 5.01110 line day. The commis sioners notified the architect of this supposed defect and ha informed them not to allow the bill for the roof until ho had examined the work. This hu has done. Yesterday he and the commissioners visited tiio hospital and nmtlo Ihe examination. Upon returning to the county building Mr. Meyer's nnd Suuorin- tendent Shane , of the hospital , went over the plans and drawings. They linnlly came to the conclusion that there was no defect in the construction of the roof nnd'tho commis sioners will now allow the claim of Home , ICctchutn & Co. Fisher Printing Co. , 1011 Fnrnamst. , telephone 1201 , blank book makers , etc. AS STATE BUILDINGS OO. \Vlint Contractor Walls Snys About the Illiiul Institute. IJeplylng lo a letter from Attorney Gen- sral Lceso , Harry Walls , the Nebraska City lontractor , denies having bad the con versa- ion with a correspondent thora recently published In Tin ; Bii : about the condition of ho building for tl.e blind there. Ho says : 'I told bun Hint I could not deny that thorc night have been a good many brick laid dry , is J was not paid to stay there all the time , md that I did not know nbout tlio anchors. I old him there was no danger of it falling , um that it was as safe as any other state milding. Ho then asked mo if it wns not a poor job. 1 told him it was not the best I mil ever soon , but the board scorned lo bo atlslled with it , and it compared well with tbcrstato buildings. I told him state buildings wro let 15 or 'JO per cent lower than they lUght lo bo taken for and do nn honest job. " .1. ii. I'annaleo , principal of the Institute , ays the reported interview with him was 'untrue ' and false. " I'YTHIANISM COMMEMORATED. To-day It OoleAjrntos Its Twenty- Fifth Aunlvorsnry. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ORDER Hmv It llni t'lourlshcil In Nebraska null How It lins Hern 1'nrtlou- larly Successful lii the City of Omaha , Twenty-Five Yenrs Old. To-day the Knights of Pytltla * cele brate the Twonty-flftli or silver anniversary ot the founding of the order. The prelimi nary meeting , nt wliieh the ritual of Iho order was llrst rend and steps taken to establish the body , was held in Washington , D. C , 1'Vt ) . 15 , 1801. Among these present wcro : J. 11. Kathboiio. Robert A. Cliam plon , D. L. Hnrnctt , E , S , Klmball , W. H. Hurnett , Charles H , Roberts and William Drier. Tlio llrst ledge was formed In the city of Washington ou V b , ID , ISftl. At the meeting wimod tlio order was called the "Knights of Pythiaa. " .1 , 11. Uiithbmio was Instructed to propnro a ritual for opening and closing a lodge and of initiation. The ritual wlik-h ho reported wns adopted. The following oftlecrs were then elected : .1 , II. Kalhbono , worthy chancellor : .loci H. Woodruff , vice cliiinccl lor.lT. ; K. Plant , vonerublu patriarch ; 1) L. Hurnett , worthy scribe ; A. Van Dorvcor , banker ; It. A. Champion , iis.stxtaul bunker , Clcorgo K. Covert , assistant scribe. Wash ington Lodgn , No. 1 , while It 1ms gone out of existence , has passed Into history as the mother lodge of the order , anil It Is to bo re gretted that Its charter has not been revived. i'ho growth of this order from that tliuo on has been mil form and rapid and nl the present time it is ono of the most powerful of the ni.VHttc orders. It has in the United Slates and Canada grand lodgcsilr > 00 sub ordinate lodges , a mcmbi'rsliip of over HOU.OOO and an invested capital of jr > ,000t > 00. The great growth of the order In this stain of which the expansion In Omaha Is typical , Will bo discernible in a glance nt the Hiatus of the fifteen lodges in thin city. Nebraska lodge was instituted November , ISUS. and bud a membership , January 1 , issp , of 103. uinl its chancellor commander and Keeper oi records and seal nro U' , S. Sponrer nnd Charles J. Johnson ; Myrtle ledge , April ! l , 1SSI , 115 , H. .1. Kuoller and W. O. Wagner ; Planet ( German ) , August 2 : > , IWV.t , Jin , Julius Troitschku anil Clmrles L. Schmidt : Omaha ( Uarinnn ) , February 8.1SS1 , 8-1 , Otto Wagner und Adolnh Hnrtwig ; Triangle , April 8 , 1V < G , 107 , 11. K. Weber and Uavid Hrowu ; Pythagoras , Juno 1 , 18SO , 5' ' . ' , Wil liam K , Lavender and C. E. Slryker ; Park , March 9 , 1SS , TS. G. 11. Koblimon and E , J. Polloclcj Mount Shasta , March 10 , 18S7 , C. E. Currier and John Wnidenor ; Oriolo.April iiO , ibST. 1U > , S. H. Patten and S. P. Emiiiol : Viola , Junes , 1867 , fil , W. G. Shocltoy and J. C. Laing ; Marathon , Juno 0 , 1SS7 , 70 , Wal ter W. Taylor nnd R A. Johnson ; Forest , June 25 , 1837 , 71 , H. H. Perkins and A Viney ; VlrRiiiins , March 7 , 188812 , Frnnli Spore and A. Ivulp ; Good Samaritan , Feb ruary S3 , 1SS4 , , L. G. Erven und F. M. Sheoly ; Jan lluss ( Hohomlnn ) , November 17 , J'jSS ' , 30 , Frank Vodlckn and K. N. Mis- There arc 103 lodges in the stnlo with a total membership of over five thousand , gov erned by n grand ledge Instituted Ociobcr 13 , ISOil , whoso ofllcors for this year nro : H. O'Neill , past grand chancellor , Lincoln : Will II. Love , grand chancellor , Lincoln i W. F. Manning , grand vice chancellor , Omaha ; H. W. Woolvcrton , grand prelate , Pierce ; C. G. Alton , grand master of the exchequer , Ainsworth ; E. E. French , grand kciipcr of records and seal , Omaha ; O. L. Green , grand master at arms , ICorrnoy , George H. Green , grand inner guard , Ge neva ; E. W. Iloyt , grand outer Riiard , Long Pine ; W. E. Copelaiid and J. S. Shropshire. supreme representatives , Omaha. Mr. Copelaiid , however , has re moved from town. The uniform rank is wnll tilled and con sists of the First regiment , H. F. Downs , : olonoltho ; Sucond ( Omaha ) rcgimentThos. ; Bun-ell , colonel ; the Third battalion , S. I ) . Hunt , lieutenant colonel ; Fourth battalion , I ? . I. Ellick , lieutenant coloneL The rank ia > vcll drilled In Upton's Indies. The divisions of Ihe Omaha regiment with , hcir captains are : Myrtle , H. J. Fuller ; Douglas , Win. Wagner ; Lilly , J. C. Laing ; puiulia , Jolm Ilnywnrd ; Launcelot , J. T. Jnilcy ; Fulcon , A. A. Fclden ; IJlack Eagle , lVu.ro . ; Trojan , Pepoon ; Huobcnzal , Henry ! lornbergor. The twenty-fifth anniversary In. this city o-inoiTow night will bo observed by Mt. Shasta , Nebraska and Viola lodges at tha mil of Nebraska ledge and bv Jan HUH and 'ythagoras at Simanek and Kucoa's hull , on South Thirteenth strcol. Memorial Mnrlilc. At the last mooting of members of the G. \ . K. Soldiers' committee the question of a Ito upon which to erect tlio memorial staluo vas discussed. Several places were men- loncd , among them Farnain and Eighteenth , nd the liltle street parks which are to bo loaulillcd on Capitol avenue the present ear. A Rub-committee was appointed to so- : uro designs of monuments used In other ities ns also the cost of the same , and report I the call of the chairman. Po-doincc Thieves. An Information was llled with United tales Commissioner Anderson by United tales Attorney Pritchott charging Lawson nil llnttlo Cowles with appropriating tha ( intents of n registered letter. The partiea vo at a small place called Halsey and kocii 10 postolllco there. is no gain sc certain as saving what you have. " Why then destroy valuable garments by using common and impure soaps upon them t Prof. Gcnth , of the University of Pennsylvania , says : "I find the Ivory to be a very superior soap. It gives a fine Jathcr , and it can safely be used upon any fabric. " A WORD OF WARNING. There are many white soaps , each represented to be "just as Rood as the ' Ivory V1 they ARE NOT , but like all counterfeits , lack the peculiar and rsnmbblg qualitleM of the gtnulne. Ask for "Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting it. 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