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[ BEAU ] N. V. I.'KIU Notarv I'tibllc.
No\v tluit Riddlobor 'cr has bocoino a
democrat ho attracts much IOSH public
attention when ho yoes on a drunk.
TRUSTS arc inoroasinp raoro rapidly
In England than in the United States ,
hut they tire getting alonp fast enough
lioro.
Now that South Sixteenth has its
motor trains , a marked improvement
will soon ho noted on that end of this
great commercial artory.
Bio crops , big railroad business ami
bier jobbing orders are the leading and
pleasing trade features which interest
Omaha merchants just now.
Tin : consolidated cable and horse car
lines are limping along and being dis
tanced every day. The next thing thcj
Unow of the motor will bo running up
Farnain street.
THE allowance of that six hundred
and seventy-five dollar overdraft may
have boon the result of carelessness ,
but the county fathers are reminded
that there is such a thing as criminal
carclossncbs.
WITH a sot of commissioners who
permit thoin to charge what they please
for work and who cash all the chocks
they choose to draw , the contractors for
the county hospital job ought to make
Bomoluonoy those days.
A STKKKT car franchise was sold in
St. Louij not long ainco for three
hundred nnd fourteen thousand dollars
in cash , nnd now the company refuses tc
ta'KO a bonus for their rights. It might
bo well for Omaha councilmen to paste
this item hi their hats for reference.
Tni ! ChitiObo highbinders are again
at work , and dead Chinaman rocontlj
found in different purls of San Fran
cisco testify that their labors arc
fraught with results. If the Californui
metropolis desires this war stopped
every Chinaman in the city should be
disarmed.
DAVID DUDLEY FJULD regrets thai
the people have so little respect foi
their legislatures. If David will pay r
visit to Nebraska a year from next will'
tor when our legislature is in session
ho will bo inclined to excuse any action
however violent , which a long sufforinf
public may fool disposed to inlliot 01
that honorable body.
JCDOK MCCOKNULT.I , of Chicago , win
is trying the celebrated Cronln case
ecems to have despaired of over belli )
nblo to got u jury of imbeciles such a ;
the lawyers engaged in the case appea
to want. If the judge finally got
through with the case lie will at leas
have eurned the reputation of a btayoi
nnd receive thanks accordingly.
THE managers of the Union Pacific am
nnd B , & M. railroads should not bo to
finical about the width of the viaduct
They Boom to forget that the city ha
the right to direct what kind 6f vin
duct they shall build over tholr tracks
and If the olty is to contribute one hundred
drod and fifty thousand dollars tovvar
the cost of the proposed union dopoi
tlio railroad companies can well alTer
to build a broad nnd substantial viauui
that will bo used for their benefit muol
more than for that of the public
There is such a thing as being tt
greedy in driving a bargain.
IF , as Armour claimed before th
dressed beef committee , ho only reu
ized about thirty-throe cents prollt 01
uuoti steer ho slaughtered , and ho 1
worth twenty million dollars , as paopl
behove , ho has boon n terribly hard
worked man indued. Having inadu a
. his money during the past Ilftoon year
V ho must have slaughtered thirtoc
thousand thro a hundred and thirty-tv
head of cattle a day in order tonuuutm
late the fortune credited to him. Mi
Armour certainly deserves grout prali
tor adopting and using the shopman
motto : "Small profits and quick r
turim. "
Opinions of representative mon of the
Grand Army of the Ropublio regarding
the retirement of Tanner , while ex
pressing unabated confidence in the in
tegrity and good intentions of the ojc-
commisslonor , very generally have no
criticism to make upon the attitude of
Secretary Noble nnd the action of the
president. A few have insisted that it
was the duty ot the administration to
have sustained Tanner , and somes of
these are threatening in their expres
sions , but the largo majority of those
who have talked on the subject talto'tho
position that the retirement of Tanner
had under the circumstances become
a necessity , equally demanded by the
interests of the old soldiers nnd to pre
vent further embarrassment to the ad
ministration.
The mon who take this view nre , it is
to bo presumed , not less friendly to the
old eoldiors , or loss concerned for their
welfare , than are the mon who nro dis
pleased with the retirement of Tanner.
It might fairly bo claimed , indeed , that
they nro more friendly , or that their
friendship la tomtiorod with a bettor
discretion. They see that the
"course which was being pursued by the
ox-commis'jlonor ' , however worthy the
motive that prompted it , could not have
been sustained without bringing the pen
sion service under such adverse criti
cism as would inevitably have resulted
to the disadvantage of those who are its
boncllciaricR. It is unquestionable that
the growth of public sentiment unfavor
able to the methods of Tnnnor was be
ginning to alToct very many people who
hayo been the most friendly to a gener
ous policy in behalf of the old soldiers ,
and tt Is not to bo doubted
that had. Tanner boon permitted
to remain and continues in the
course ho was pursuing , thousands
of those would have boon arrayed in
opposition to him and to the adminis
tration. It will undoubtedly bo far
bettor in the end for the old soldiers
that this danger has been averted.
Those who are disposed to find fault
with the action ot the president appear
to forget that both ho and the secretary
of the interior are themselves old sol
diers and that their friendship for and
interest in the men who fought with
them to preserve the union is
us ardent and earnest as any
man can have. The record of Presi
dent Harrison ns a consistent and
sincere advocate of a liberal pension
policy should bo suftlcicnt to prevent
any question regarding his presentmti-
tudo'in this matter , and is a complete
answer to these who criticise his course
regarding Tanner. As in apuointing
Tanner ho believed ho was doing what
would prove to bo for the best interests
of the old boldior , so in asking the com-
misbionor to retire when ho was found
wanting inovory essential qualification ,
ho has acted with reference to the wel
fare of the old soldiors. Having lo
choose between an olHcidl who desired
to proceed within the requirements ol
the law and one who was disposed to bo
indifferent to legal conditions and re
straints , the president , as his duty and
obligations to the people demanded ,
preferred the former. Every old soldier ,
remembering that the president is tii
much a comrade ns the ej-coinmis-
sioner , and has always boon as earnest
a friend of tho-soldier , should refuse to
entertain a doubt that in this pension
olllco matter ho has acted from the sin-
cercst desire to shield the service frora
a danger which threatened to prove
soriou'bly inimical to these for whose
benefit it was instituted.
SJJAMTOK SHERMAN AT HOME.
The Ohio association of Washington
gave Senator Sherman a reception or
his return from Europe which is said tt
have boon the greatest in point of num
bers over tendered a public man in
Washington by the citix.ons of his state ,
It attested the high regard in whicl :
the senator is hold by his constituents
after more than thirty-iivo years giver
to their service in congress and the
cabinet. It showed , also , that the olTorti
made in the absence of the distin *
guished senator to injure him in the
confidence of the republicans of Ohic
have had no effect. There is no rcasoi
to doubt that ho stands as firmly ant
strongly to-day in the respect of hi :
constituents ab at any period of his lonj ;
and useful.public career.
In his speech Senator Sherman sail
that no American can travel any when
without having a stronger love ant
affection for his native land. It is rood
oed thing , ho said , to go abroad to ox
peritinco the sensation excited by tin
flag or by everything that roininds u
of our country. But while wo boast it
America of the rapid progress wo hnvi
made in growth , population , wealth am
strength , it is equally true that some
of the oldest nations in the world ar
now keeping pace with us in Indus
try , progress , and oven in liberal in
stitutions. Everywhere in these ol
countries tlio spirit of nationalism i
rowing stronger and stronger. II
had noticed that everywhere in Europ
Americans arc llkod and respected , th
chief reason being that they tire itn
partial. Senator Sherman referred t
some of the contrasting conditions be
I woo u European countries and thi
country , nil of which are in our favor.
The chief in to rust in the return horn
of Senator Sherman relates to th
part he will take in the Oh !
campaign , which ho is oxpouto
to enter at nn early day. Alrcad
a center of political interest , tho-can
paign in Ohio will doubtless gain ii
goneial attontiun when Senator Shoi
man outers the light , for ho is oxpoctj
to make one of the greatest battles t
his political career. lie has bou
charged with having always sought I
prevent the election to the Unite
Slates donate of a republican collougu <
and this year the contra ! motive an
chief purpose of the Ohio campaign
the choice of a legislature that will ole
a republican senator to succeed Hem
B. Payne. The attitude Sennti
Sherman will undoubtedly take r
garding this issue will ho
complete answer to the charge that h
boon made against htm , and , bosid
this , his work in the campaign wl
doubtless be such as to refute the in !
muttons that lift nurses poreonal grio
uncos. As Senator Sherman said at h
reception , ho is a republican bocuu
ho boliovoa the policy ol that party will
best promote the strength and pros
perity of the country , nnd , having al
ways in the past shown hlmsolt ready to
advocate nnd 'defend that policy ,
ho will not bo found loss will
ing to do so now , when his
party in his own slnto is en
gaged in n most important nnd vital
campaign upon which the political in
terest of the whole- country is centered.
The only Ohloans who will not welcome
the return of Senator Sherman nro the
democrats , nnd none will regret his ap
pearance in the campaign so keenly as
the veteran senator who is on trial be
fore the people on the charge of having
corruptly obtained his scat Henry B.
Pnyno.
LET OMATTA. JlKSl'OffD.
Our advices from Washington indi
cate that tlio proposed visit of the inter
national American congress to this city
depends on circumstances. Mr. Will
iam E. Curtis , who Is in charge of the
excursion , has intimated very broadly
to the representative of Tun UIJE at
Washington that unless something is
done by the Omaha board of trade and
our commercial club to organi/o n
proper reception of the party , this city
will bo dropped from the list of places
to bo visited. Now it soomg to us that
Omaha cannot afford to turn the cold
shoulder to the international con
gress. A visit from this party
nlono would bo an ndvortlsmont
worth thousands of dollars to this
city. The delegation is composed neb
only of representative mon from the
throe Americas , but of members of the
press whom Omaha ought to cultivate.
Every dollar expended for entertaining
this distinguished party would oa re
paid a thousand fold. It is of the ut
most importance that act'on ' bo taken at
oiico so that Mr. Curtis may bo able to
know do ( In Holy that the excursionists
will receive duo consideration nnd atten
tion and that their visit will bo made an
object lesson of the resources of this sec
tion and its industrial development.
AN marrr MILLION , mn.
There was a time when intelligent
people could bo made tobeliovo that the
Missouri river would become n powerful
competitor of the railroads in transport
ing products of this section to the At
lantic seaboard. That time has gone
iy. Everybody with a thimbleful of
irains knows that the railroads would
: arry the bulk of all our grain , cattle
, nd morcliandiso , oven if the Missouri
lad a channel fifty feet deep.
The decadence of river routes as com-
ictitora of railroads may bo soon by any
isitor to Cincinnati , Louisville or St.
jouis. Where hundreds of steamers
'ormorly wont up and down the Ohio
nd Mississippi rivers laden
vith travelers and merchandise
.here . are now scarcely half a dozen bouts
.n active service. All that can or should
o done to improve the Missouri river
s being done now in the way of riprap-
) ing banks in front of towns and
itios. Tlio money expended for roraov-
ng bars , deepening channels ana puli
ng out snags , would bo an absolute
vasto. It will bo encouraged by job-
> ing contractors and engineers , who
vant a soft place on Uncle Sam's pay
oil , but no congressman will bo justi-
led in voting an appropriation for such
: i reckless waste of the people's money.
Wo are told by a contemporary that
the project of makinjr and keeping
, lie Missouri river navigable is not an
nthusiust's dream , but that the govorn-
nent engineer who has been in charge
f Missouri river improvements for
ears has said in plain words that for
ight million dollars the Missouri river
can bo made navigable from Sioux City
o its mouth , and a twelve-foot channel
maintained at all times. "
Suppose that this engineer's estimate
s correct , which wo very much doubt ,
ivho would want to spend eight millions
of dollars for such a wild-cat sohomei
You can build a four-track railroad from
Sioux City to St. Louis for less
than eight millions. Such a road
, vould always bo ' 'navigable , " while the
Missouri river would be frozen solid six
months of the year. If Uncle Sam
wants to give us choup transportation to
the mouth of the Missouri wo should
) refer , by all moans , a donation of a
ailroad up and down the rivor.
Like the Texas deep water harbor
scheme , this making the Missouri river
lavigablo is only another name for
opening the sluice-gates of the national
treasury.
JUDGE OnOVF'S ' APPOUffMENT.
The appointment of lion. Lewis A
Groff as commissioner of the genera
land office reflects great credit upon tin
judgment of President Hnrrisoi
and Secretary Noblo. No man mon
turned for that responsible posltloi
would have brought to the tusk devolving
ing upon him abilities of such higl
order , coupled with unswerving integ
rity and keen appreciation of the trus
reposed in him.
In Nebraska and throughout tin
great and growing west whore Judg
Groir is Known , his selection at the heai
of the national land olllco will give un
bounded satisfaction. Nebraska , especially
cially , has reason to fool grateful for th
tangible proof given by the prosidon
that her claims are entitled to rocogni
tiou.
tiou.Whilo
While the citizens of Omaha , and th
people of this judicial district , will rogrc
to part with .Tudgo Crou" , who ha
proven himself one of the most cor
bCientlous and olllolent judges , the
will all rojoleo that the judge has bee
honored with a call that will give lui
a broader scope for his talents , an
place him in position to protect th
public domain from the rapacity (
speculators and land-grabbers.
Tim failure of the project for a gran
exhibit of American corn at the Par
exposition Is more to bo regretted tha
the failure in other respects of tli
American exhibit. It was the bust o ]
portunity ovar oirorod to show to tl
world what can bo done with corn as
human food , and bo good a chance is n >
likely to occur again in many years ,
is not doubted that had such a dlupli
of our muiza product been made i
Paris us it was proposed '
make , and Europeans visitin
the exposition been instructt
in making Urn various palatable foods
that can bo mtVdfe'from corn , the effect
would soon have boon made apparent in
the increased dxport of that cereal. It
wns certainly tjiosl desirable that nn effort -
fort bo made to Qtilargo the European
demand for out * corn , and n liberal ex
penditure fot'thls ' purpose would un
questionably have boon many times re
paid. When 'It 'is ' remembered that
millions of thb'pqror ' { classes ot Europe
nro compelled to use most of the time n
poor quality of rye and barley broad ,
when for the same cost , or loss ,
they might u3o American corn to make
corn bread , Indian mjal , hominy , and
the other nourishing nnd palntablo.pro-
ducts with which American tables nro
familiar , the question ot introducing
our corn raoro largely into Europe has
u sldo ot philanthropy as wotl As one
of business. Our largest export of
corn to Europe in nny ono year was
sixty-throe million bushels , in 1880.
Ltistyoar the amount exported was only
twenty-four million bushels. Had the
right effort been made it is not improb
able that ono hundred million bushels
of this year's crop could have boon sent
to Europe.
THK now Btool cruiser Baltimore ,
which made a trial trip beginning on
last Wednesday and terminating Sun
day , exhibited the best time for a vessel
of her tonnngo ovoraltainod. The data
taken recorded 20 2-10 knots per hour
for a three hours run. While there has
boon a great deal of disparagement of
the character of the American navy , it
seems to have boon made without regard
to the now ships built , 'and while the
old vessels are not first class , the more
recent ones now appear to bo tlio best , at
least in the matter of speed , that any
nation in the world possesses. The ar
rival of the Atlanta nt Newport last
wool : safe and sound , without having
suffered the slightest damage from the
heavy gale which devastated the
iilantic coast , showed her to bo
oaworthy to a high dagroo.
tfnvnl olllcors and others who have had
do with constructing naval vessels
nd much tooncourago their faith in
lie American navy and console them
or what appeared to bo at first a fail-
re. In contradistinction to this contlit-
on of affairs cotnos the report from Eng-
and based upon the recent manoeuvres
f the British naval fleet. The fail-
ro to realize the degree ot speed at
vliich the ships were rated waa a great
isappointmont to the English officers ,
utin every instance the ships made no-
vhoro near the time claimed for them.
Speed is now recognized as the most
mportunt element in the tnuko-iip of a
var ship , and in this wo appear to beat
England in every instance on record.
The new cruisars Chicago , Boston , At-
anta and Baltimore are now the best
xamples of fast war vessels. If Eng-
and , which claims to bo the loading
naritimo power in [ the world , will give
iced to the superiority of our navy , the
iharnctor of English vessels may at
east bo brought up to a bolter stand
ard.
SKVJSN million bales of cotton were
produced in the south last year. The
utcomo of the present season promises
o bo larger , as southern mills now
onsumo about one-quarter of the crop ,
while the balance goes to New England
ind Great Britain. As a few years ago
, ho south manufactured but little or no
cotton goods , the indications point to
ho conclusion that she will eventually
.ibsorb nearly all ot the product.
PniNCE BISMAIICIC intends to dovolo
.ho next session of the reichstag to the
3iiactmont of laws dealing with strikes
ind lockouts in Germany. Ho is tlc-
.ormined . to enact severe- penalties
which will bo visited upon all profos-
ional agitators who seek to interfere
between employers and their men. It
ivill bo interesting to note what the
ron chancellor will bo able to do in this
direction.
Niagara In ( tad iiuniiio.ss.
New Ynrlc Herald.
Niagara falls will soon lese its claim to
public respect if It ullows the fools to getaway
allvo.
away
_ _
Beauty \Vin < tlm Dny.
Itostun Herald.
Another English army oflicer has sur
rendered to an American hollo. Ueauty It
mightier than powder anil shot.
A ltnnl Curiosity.
A now UanRor besets the Cronln case. II
they should succeed in gottmi ; a Juror some
dime museum manager would allure hlir
nway.
Tlio Ohio ' IJoocllerH.
Glevtlanil Leader.
The McLcan-Pnyno cang of boodlers ant
ballot box stuffers rules the Ohio democracy
but they will not bo given a chnnco to ruli
Ohio. _
The Salvation Armv'H AVoric.
Denver News ,
The fact is worth noting thut the Salva
tion army of London has done more for the ro
hof of the ftufTorcrs by the great labor. striki
in that olty thtm nny of its oharltnblo organ
izutions.
Jinn Discarded thn Matk.
Cincinnati Cuiiiiarrctal-dazcttr.
The prohibition pretense having playoi
out , ox-Governor Bu John is now laborm
boldly nnd nbova board for democracy an
free trudo.
_ _
Till ! ? A VI > THAT.
An Arkansas jjlrl' eloped with her love
Saturday and was raarriod to him in n con
Hold in her nljjht gown. Thcro were n
cards , and It was' nod u full dress affair.
The St. LoulaiCepubllo thinks that next t
Mujali Jones , Jefferson D. via U ono of th
greatest mon the country over produced.
Electricity is .rtWlomployod in fndia t
prevent snaUos from'cntarlng dwellings. I
may bo obsorvud thut the xtylo nf oloctrl
onerpy Unown as "Jorso.v lightning" he
bud an opposite cffoct in the dwellings i
this country.
The statue of G 0:1 oral Grant which wn
imvcilud ut Von Lcuvonworth Isn't BO pn
Umtioua us the monument New York hn
been taliiint' nboi't fur so long , but is a ( ? ro i
Meal moro substnntml. If big , sting
Gotham could only stand off und look at hoi
aelflA
A Chicago paper buggesU that the No
York world's fair commlttoo try the w.ito
in ) , ' prouojs ou that tn thousand dollti
olicolr , In caio thin plan Is adopted M
Gould can probably ba uoutoi upon to do h
part.
part.The
The contractors charge what they picas
the commissioners ncqulosco nnd the people
they pay the bills.
Editor Dnnn has aallctl for Europe. When
ho returns ho will probably find Hint ten
thousand dollar chocK carefully wrappoil up
In n nnpkln and laid away in lonesome un-
frulttulnoss.
Tlio wnrnrtntof the London Graphic U
mnldng ? n tour of Canada with the governor
poncral. It in to bo hopotl that his visit hat
no connection with the fisheries controversy.
All the now styles of winter cloaks nro de
signed to bo worn without the bustle. The
bustle will undoubtedly bo loft out In the
cold.
cold.To
To the President ! What's tlio matter with
mo for pension commissioner ? Paul V - 1.
And now the American brewers buvo pro
jected n gigantic- trust to protect thomsolve1 *
against the encroachments of the Knidlah
bcor syndicate. Its cnplt.il stock will bo
$100,000,000 anil Its headquarters will bo at
Milwaukee. The bear llRht , will no doubt bo
n bitter one , in whlcli the longest hop polo
will knock the persimmons.
If the political campaigns Itccp ou getting
hotter the country might aavo considerable
money now spent for fuel by holding thorn
during the winter months.
If Now Yorkers were real shrewd they
might trade Chicago n ready made Jury for
a fair site.
The optimist's future Is golden with hope ,
Without any shadow of doubt ;
But the man with n boll ou the back of his
neck
Is a pessimist out and out.
CIi l5Vlfll
Mmo. Dojonno KltnnpUo , an American
wife of a Frenchman , bus won the degree of
"Doctorcsso" from the Paris faculty of mcil-
lelnc , with high honors.
The queen Is so tlroil of sitting for portraits
traits that she has refused to have her plc-
turo talton for the Victoria art gallery nt
Melbourne , but she is willing to allow a
replica of her jubilee portrait by Angellu to
bo uiatto for the colony which bears her
name ,
Miss Olive Schrclnor of the "South Afrl-
cnn Farm , " is n nlstor of the Miss Sohrolner
who has made herself so conspicuous as a
tompornnco advocate In South Africa.
Mrs. John A. Logan la nominated by tco
Philadelphia Telegraph for commissioner of
pensions.
The czarina of Kussla Is studying modern
Creole. She must find relief from Kusshin in
some way.
Mrs. Gill , of Mulberry street , is the only
woman shoemaker In Now York. She made
n pair of shoes before she was fourteen years
old , cud has worked at the cobbler's bench
for the last ten years.
Alice Liebmann. nsjed nine years , is aston
ishing London critics witli skill on the violin.
Mrs. Julia T > . Grant , the widow of the
general , who has been spending the summer
in Vienna with her son , the United States
minister , expects to return to this country
nnd pass the winter in Washington.
Maine girls are proverbially smart , nnd
ono of thorn , who is summerint : at Squirrel
island , has handsomely sustained the record.
An Augusta young lady , Miss Mando Stan-
wood. while out yatching , accidentally fell
overboard. The yacht passed completely
over her , but she came up to the surface nnd
coolly cried out : "Luff herjup , captalu , and
I'll ' climb aboard. "
Mrs. Lamaitrid's ono cent coffco stands
for the poor of New York nro n great suc
cess so far as the good they do goos. She
gives excellent fooil for the money , and is
enabled to do this by doing her own market
ing nnd making the best bargains with the
dealers. The stands , of which there : ire six ,
cost between S2.0JO and $3,000 a year. Mrs.
Lnmadrid says that so far her greatest
trouble has been with the men iu charge of
the stands , who , following the devices of
Wnll street , water the stock for the sake of
selling more coffee and soup.
Sembrich , next to Patti the most accom
plished singer in the Italian school , has
yielded to the nressuro of German music ,
nnd is studying the role of Elsa in "Lohen-
rrin , " in tlio expectation of soon singing it
at Berlin.
Sol Smith Russell's wife Is n small , intel
lectual looking woman with a Hostoneso
faco. She is tno daughter of Mr. Adams ,
known to fame as "Oliver Ontic. " Mr. Kus-
scll Is the owner of. several flno oulldings in
Minneapolis besides his handsome residence.
lie takes care of His money.
Mmo. Pntti will remain at Cralg-y-Nos ,
Wales , until October 21 , when she gees to
London. She will sing In eight concerts ,
two iu London nnd six in the provinces , for
which she is to receive $23,000 and nil ex
penses paid. She will leave Liverpool for
New York on November 33. She is to sing
in this country , C.m.ula and Mexico.
The recent appointment of Miss Joanna
Baknr to the chair of Greek , at Simpson
college. Indianola , In. , says Hurpor's Ba
zar , is a significant fact as showing
tno progress of uoinan since it was
Ilrst permitted to her to ncquiro the alpha
bet. Miss Baker succeeds to the position
Illled by her father , Prof. O. If. Baker , sev
enteen years ago , in the same Institution. A
beautiful , cloar-o.vcd woman , in the flower
of her youth , Miss Baker refutes the notion
tnal there is n quarrel between health and
early schuhu ship , since at four she bcgau
reck and Latin , nt eight road the Anaba
sis , at fourteen compiled a lexicon of Sopli-
oclcs1 CEdipus Tyruunus , and at sixteen was
tutor of Grock in the college which now
claims her as Its professor In that honeyed
tongue.
Population.
CONCOHDU , Kan. , Sept. 16. PIouso pub
lish the population of Lincoln , Nob. , to do-
uidu u bet made , und obligo.
A Sunsttuiiiisit.
The last Lincoln directory gives tuo popu
lation of the city as 4 .ooi ) .
nv ins
iV Family Quarrel Kudu In a Cold-
Itlixidod .M union
FitiiiitiCKSiiinto ; , Va. , Sopt. 10. [ Special
Telegram to TUB Biis. : | Colonel William B.
Goodwin , a highly respected and esteemed
citizen of this county , waa ahot Friday nlghl
uuring a dlnlculty with his son-in-law
Charles Poudlotou , and died last evmilni
from the wound. This dlfllculty grow out o :
Pundleton's treatment of his wife , hi :
language being overheard by Colonel Coot
win , they are living together In Goodwin"
house. Colonel Goodwin remonstrated witl
Poudloton , whan the latter buuumo vur.
abusive und was ordered from the liousi
Getting u Hliotgun ha attempted to flro , who
he way seized anil ujentod I rum the promise :
lloforo the door could bo locked hu forced u
entrance ) , und itQi/in nnothur gun again ai
tempted to tihnnt Colonel Goodwin , who BUI
cuodcd In forcing him out a second time , In :
failed to obtain the gun. Just us Colonc
Goodwin closed tlio door Pundletoii II ro
both barrels , the loals tearing away th
panels ami unturingtColonol Goodwin's lul
leg , near the thigh , terribly lacerating it an
breaking tlio hip bone.
Pundluton oicnpaa nnd bus not been cai
turud. Tills is his Houond murder , Im h n
lug killed a micro in HUB city , under uggr.
vmlni ; circumstances , in 1HT7. for wlilc
criiiio hu survud llvo years in the 8t.it
penitentiary. After his relnaso no i-Jturnu
to this comity , marrying Colonel Goodwin"
daughter , _
CliainlrlnlH'w lollc , Cliolnrii un
llnincdv.
Thin medicine can ulwayu be dopondc
upon , not only in the milder fornu t
humiiiur complaint , but also for intilij
mint dysentery ana uholuru in fun tun
The llvos o-f many pordons and cspooiu
ly children are buvcd by it each year.
WORKED WIRES IN THE WAR ,
The Reunion of Military Telegraph
Operators at Louisville- .
FAMILIAR FACES AT THE BOARD.
lulltor lloldcrtimii and Illn Mlgrn *
ti > rj' NcWHjmripr Ono nf Mnritnii' *
Mild Mannered Mi n How ICou-
lucky'a Metropolis Imuks ,
Vntcrnn Ivnlulitq of tlm Key.
Louisvn.i.n , Ky. , Sept. 14. fEilltorlul Cor-
rospundoneoj Wliut memories crowd upon
mo In ttio metropolis ot old Kentucky.
When I landed In Louisville for the ilrst
time In Juno , 1850 , I doposltnJ my satchoi In
the bageniu ; room and asked tlm depot
master where I could flnd the suporln-
tonilcnt. "Ho stands yomlor , near the passenger -
songor train. "
I accosted the superintendent and exhibit
ed to him 11 message from tlio superintend *
unt of telegraph directing mo to report for
duty nt Murfroosburo , Tonn. ' ! want
to getn pass to the end of your road , " said
I. "I'll pisi you , " ropliud the
superintendent , promptly. "Got right
on board of this train. " Just
then the conductor shouted , "nil
ubo.ud I" unit turning to the superintendent
Isuld , "I can't cot , on , I have my vnliso over
in the bngg.igo room. " " ( Jo and get It then , "
said the superintendent , mid turning to the
conductor he said : "Hold this train until
that young man gets hln v.illso. " And the
train was hold about live minutes for the
special accommodation of a telegraph opera
tor who was bound for Tennessee. At that
period the Louisville ft Nushvlllo road had
its terminus ut Mumfordsvlllo , and Nashville
could only bo reached by 83 miles of staging'
Times have changed.
Uallroad superintendents are no loncor In
the habit of holding passenger trains to nd-
commodnto traveling telegraph operators.
I entered Loulsvillo again on my way
uorth utter the cmituro of Nashville by the
Union urmy. Instead of going by rail and stage
1 traveled in a govern ment transport down
the Cumberland river p.ist Fort Donaldson.
Instead of n verbid pass frotn the railroad
BUUerintcndent , I carried a written pm from
Mujor-Gunornl IJuoll. 'What a change has
tiiuan place , even In slow-Jogging Louisville ,
since my last transit.twonty-soven years ago.
From n city of 75.000 or 80,000 in Ihli'J , Louisville -
villo now boasts a population of 200,000 , with
nil the incidentals that go to inalcu up a mod
ern metropolis.
The reunion of the old time tolosranhors
and members of the society of the United
States military telegraph corps , which began
in this city Wednesday and closed last
night at Mammoth cave , was n' memor
able event. The pioneers of the telegraph are
rapidly passing awav. All of those In ut-
tcud.ineo are past the militia uto. The most
prominent among them is the venerable 3. D.
Hoed , the intimate associate of Morse nnd
first telegraph superintendent in America.
Mr. Ueed Is now verging on four seore , but
ho is remarkably well preserved , ' nnd the
Journey from Now York to Louisville did
not scorn to have any visible effect. The
president of the Old Timers' society , Charles
E. Taylor , of Lexington , ICy. , is as jovial as
he is genial , notwithstanding the fact that
ho witnessed the planting of the Ilrst tele
graph poles on Kentucky soil. It was a most
remarkable gathering of men who had
handled the key In the infancy of
the telegraph thousands of miles
apart und yet bound to each
other by the mystic ties of a craft that has
linked together the peoples of the most dis
tant lands ana eirdled the earth. It is
not uiv purpose hero to recite the proceed
ings of the reunion or the commonplace inci
dents of the occasion. My own time was
talton ui > with renewing the friendships and
acquaintanceships that date back thirty
years and cover n period ol my boyhood and
early manhood. Among those persons was W.
N. Ilalderman. the principal pioprietorof the
Louisville Courier-Journal. Ilalderman
und myself had boarded in the
same private family ut Nashville for
three months in the winter of
I8G2 , when he was known as the editor oft no
Louisvillo-lJowling Green- Nashville - Mur-
frcesboro-Atlanta-CJouriur-on-Wlieols. At
that time he'had wheeled his movable paper
as fur as the Tennessee capital , and ho
never stopped moving until Sherman had
captured Atlanta and made further moving
ratucr uncomfortable. 1 had not mot Hal-
derman until last , summer on a lake steamer
near Detroit , in which the Associated press
held its annual meeting , The vigorous mid
dle-aged man had become a gray-haired nnd
rather feeble old man. Hut he
had meantime achieved marvelous
success as n newspaper manager
H.V consolidating his Courier with the Louls
villo Journal , founded by George 1) . Pron-
tii-c , ho has established the most influential
nnd widely circulated daily in llm south the
Courier-Journal.
At the Courier-Journal building , which is
the most spacious nnd best equipped news
paper building in the south , I found Mr.
Ilalderman anil waa entertained by him and
his stuff , of whom Henry Wnttorson Is the
editorial head.
The Louisville Commercial club , made up
ot the most progressive nnd substantial busi
ness clement * , tendered the societies the
hospitality of Loulsvillo , nnd members of the
club accompanied the telegraphers In over
forty carriages and two tallyhoes in n drlva
over the city , \Vhllo 1 had BOIUO Idea about
the wealth and solidity of Loulsvillo ,
1 must say 1 was very agreeably dis
appointed by the evidences of thrift , tasta
and enterprise that met us on nil hands ,
Loulsvillo It not only n great Jobbing nud
money center , but she I rapidly becoming a
great manufacturing point. According to ft
pamphlet Issued by the Commercial club last
June , Loulsvillo now Ims 1,350 manufactur
ing establishments , turning out annually
products valued nt $05,000,000. She has four
plow factories , including tuo largest In the
world'which ! ' nlono gives employment to
3,003 workmen , twenty-nino Iron foundries ,
largo cement , works , breweries , woolen
mills , tanneries , etc. After driving through
broad thorougtifaroi. lined with palatial res-
iUoucoft and beautiful lawns , wo were invited
to got out in front of VVcis.singor'a ' mammoth
tobacco factory. Our party was escorted
through all the departments nnd shown nil
the processes by whtuh the tobacco loaf is
converted into the Juicy navy plug utid the
fiacrant Havana. 1 must candidly confess
that if 1 had been ndUictud to the tobacco
habit 1 would certainly "swear oft" nftor
witnessing the peculiar way In which the
tobacco passes through the hands of
llttlo anil big darkles nf various
shades of color. Hut Mr. Weisslugor's
tobacco has achieved a celebrity
which can not beulToeiod by nny unauo sen
sitiveness on the part ot visitors. At any
rate the Impression made upon the tele
graphers uy Mr. ' .Veissiugor was decidedly
favorable und lusting , as might bo attested
by the fact that t\vo largo bowls of punch
mixed with sliced lemons were emptied be
fore tuo carriages were allowed to move on.
Aud now 1 am Bitting at the ban
quet tnblcyuost lavishly and tastefully deco
rated wltn llowers nnd ornamental towers
built by the confectioner. Along the center
of the festive board a telegraph line waa
planted , the miulatuto poles were entwined
with evergreens and the two wires on the
cross arm connected with keys nnd sounders
that drew their vitality from a local battery
which had been placed under the table. A.
rattling and entertaining conversation In the
Jarguu known only to the sound operator
was kept up nil along the line. It was a
distinguished company and cosmopolitan to
say the least. At the head of the table sat'
Major Plum , of Chicago , president , of the
United Stales army telegraphers , mid Charles
Taylor , president of the OlU-Timors.
Immediately on my loft sat a spare ,
middle aged man with full board
close cropped : auburn hair , bright dark oycs
and literary cust of countenance. This
quiet and non-combativo looking person , like
Hyron's hero , "as mihl a mannered man ns
over cut a throat or scuttled ship , " wnsnono
other than the famous confederate general ,
Bazil Duke , the most dashing and during
of Morgan's raiders. General Duke is an
eminent lawyer and occupies the relation
to the Loulsvillo & Nashville railroad which
John M. Thurslon holds to the Union I'u-
ciflc. Opposite mo sat a man of medium
height , compactly ouilt , with grey .beard
trimmed within half an inch of his rather
ilorid face and with grey eyes nnd a very
slight covering of grey hair on a round head.
This rather digniilcd and reserved person
was General Don Carlos IJuoll. On the
other side of him was n Kentucky Judge
with a clean shaven face and faultless dress
suit.
Interspersed hero nnd there between the
telegraph men were members of the Com
mercial club and their ladles. There \vas
music and singing und speech-making , until
long after the midnight hour , but by the
time the clock had turned half past eleven
I was in a sleeping car berth bound for
Nashville and Chattanooga.
13. RlHHWATKIl.
A TISItltlllljK Ijl3A.t * .
I'Yat ol' mi Acrobat Wfcll
Nearly Kami licmilM.
, Quo. , Sept. 10. Several thou
sand pel sons assembled at iSohmor parlc
Sunday afternoon , as it had been announced
that Huiitlsto Prinaml would dlvo from a
toxvcr 150 feet liign into a net suspended ton
feet from the ground. Shortly bolero 1:30 :
o'clock tlio acrobat ascended the tower , a
temporary wooden structure. A few seconds
after he had gained the top a shriek ot horror
ror arose from the spectators as ho was seen
to hurl himself beau foremost down toward
the not , under wlilch hulf a dozen men hud
been deputed to hold n sheet of tarpaulino.
In n very brief space of time Prlaauil was
seen to stnlto the net. There was a dull ,
breaking sound , anil the next that
wni seen of the acrobat ho was
lying motionless on the earth. The
net had given awav and the men who
should have held the tarpaulin had failed to
do so. As Prnwud lay mill it was feared ho
had made his last leap , but on being helped
to his feet , he with asslhtanco staggered Into
the hotel in a dazed kind of a way. Dr.
Mount and ether physicians examined him
and found no bones were broken. About
11 vo ininutos after the during act wan an-
nouncad he was recovering mid had sus
tained nothing buyoml n shock. Immediately
afterward I'rinuml appeared at a window in
tne hotel , looking very palo and was loudl " h
cheered uy tlio crowd. < *
THE JJARBER' S OPINION.
"Some people tliink 'tis only made I find it just the nicest tiling
For cleansing fjoods of heavy grade , For toilet use nnd harboring.
For washing down the walls or stairs , The slightest touches will bufltcc
The bureau , tables and the chairs ; To make a foamy lather rise ,
Hut folks do well to change their mind ; That holds the beard till smooihly laid ,
'Tis not to things like these confined , However dull may be the blade.
And not alone the kitchen maid In short , the tale is ever new
And laundress prize its friendly aid ; That tells what IvoilY ScMl1 will do. "
A WORD OF WARNING.
There arc many white soaps , each represented to bo " just as peed as the'Ivory11' !
thr/ ARE NOT , but like all counterfoils , lack the peculiar and remarhlile qtialiiiei
rr ' 'P ' anulne , Ask for "Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting It ,
Copyrlcbl lt& } , by Procter 4 OumMe.
