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Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

The postmaster 1t Corinne, in
obedience to official Instructions un-
der Departments regulations, with
held I'll registered Settlers addressed
to the lottery managers at that
place, and refused also 10 q mo-
ney orders to the same parties. That
functionary reports 70 his superior
here that the lottery has closed out,
and the personD lately hay.
ing 1t cherGe departed for
some other parts. Spectators
In tickets can now Congratulate
themselves ON The fact that thew
need suffer no further anxiety in re-
lation TO the uofIIeial drawing.n
People who desire to make perman-
emit inveftmenta can be accommo-
dated nearer home than Corinne,
by taking shares u that other bogus
enterpFiseA&he Order of Enoch.-
SAT- Lake Tribune, July "a. 95ATA
The shaph lottery man ger at
Corinne evidently did not know
how to appease the wrath Of pest
masters. If he had served an APP
p~rentieeship under Pattee in oma>
he would have invested in q set
Of silver-plate and his lottery would
still be In full blast.
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28
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III.
On nd sftef October twenty FIRST, 1872, the
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by MI. Edwin Davis, TO whose order all sub.
scriptions not paid at the Office win be payable.
and by whom all receipts for subscriptions win
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z. kosEwATER. Publishes
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28
ALTHOUGH James NJ. Pattee was

ALTHOUGH James M. Pattee was
never commissioned as deputyrpost-
master Of Omaha, the evidence pro
duced by the postal investigation
shows that the dispenser of noble
charities was practically acting
in that capacity during many
months. Not only did he exercise
the privilege Of stamping and can
ceiling his own mails, but be also
answered letters of inquiry directed
to the postmaster Of Omaha. His
replies to these communications
were commercially brief and to the
point. For instance: if any YER
dant farmer way down in Texas re-
quested the postmaster Of Omaha TO-
state whether Pattee's Orphan Asy-
lum Lottery was reliable, Mr.. Yost
turned over the letter to- Deputy.
Postmaster Pattee, and that func-
tionary replied o. K. dofdXzy
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28
Insurance Reform.

q $3.50 $50 $3.50 4-a
Reform In insurance Is now the
watchword of property owners in
Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune
presents a very plausible argument
continuing the present method of
insurance. The Tribune gays:
"Every insurance agency, so far
as we know, is paid by q percentage
on its business. Hence, the more
BUSINESS the more profit. In addi-
ton to that, q whole army of brokers
and solicitors are paid I'm the same
way by the offices for which they
solicit, or by those to whom they
sell whatever policies they are able
to control. The old and salutary
rule not to-take insurance property
above two-thirds of its value haslong
since been obsolete, and. under the
phrase sothei insurance pernnitted,s
and the system Of percentage above
described, a property-owner can get
about all the INSURANCE. he pleases.
By the persistent boring Of insur-
anc agents and brokers to which
owners + subjected, u considerable
portion of property In the city is
probably insured for more than its
value. Let Q property-dVpet opder
plans for q building, 0f staft hh
foundation. and until he drives the !
last nail he will be constantly pes
tered by insurance broker and
agents. ~ ~
The tendency of insuring to the
full amount Of the value of property
Is bad, even upon our most honost
and careful business men. An
owner or merchant knows tho his |
neighbors all around hin are fully |
insured, and hence does not exercise
ordinary ~vigilence in guarding his
property. Hence he infers that
ordinary care on his part can only,
mainly, protect him from fire on
his own premises. Hence he argues
to himself that, on the whole. such
will cost him more THAI to get
fully insured. Hence he gets his in
surance, and goes home and sleeps
soundly, looking to the insurance
companies to make good any loss he
may sustain.
But while the reckless phrase
Insurance. permittedn and
keeping fully insured have . perni-
cious influence ON the best Of men,
among the dishonest and the vicious
they furnish the direct promptings
to incendiarism. An agent, for in
calls on q rag-dealer, and,
q little palaver, induces him to
lake out a policy for $1,500, when
he 1.-THE agent) knows, aor should
have known, that the property is not
worth $500. Surely, he says to him.
self, l would rather have the COM
missions on the larger tuui, anduso l.
would my principals. The fagman
prefers the larger sum, for he knows
before the policy expires, If his
leighbors do not conveniently fur
iish Q fire to burn him up, he can
yet one himself Is not the present 4,
,lan OF fully ~insuring or over insur-
ng property, therefore, a direct pre-
pium for incendiarism? /,
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28


TIE address of the Congressional
Republican executive committee
contains among other facts some
very interesting statistics, which
demonstrate that the ordinary ex-
penditures of the Government-ex-
Guiding the interest on the national
debt and expenses incidental to the
rebellion-haye been reduced to q
less amount than during the last
year of Democratic cruleE under
Buchanan in 1860. This Of itself Is
a very striking evidence of the
economical management of our ma
tional affairs. H11 81
III l.. NIB 1874 q ~ ri -
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

THE extent of the grasshopper in
yasion may be best judged from the
grasshopper- extracts published in
another column. While the loss
and actual destitution entailed by
the unwelcome voracious visitors
will doubtless be quite severe in
some localities, we apprehend hat
the actual damage sustained will
fall below the first panic estimates.
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28
departnnen

s POSTMASTER YosT very disdain-
fully refuses to avail himself of the
opportunity to be present at the ex-
animation now in progress before
Judge Bartlett. His refusal to rec
ognize the proceeding As regular
will, however, in no way diminish
the force Of the dispositions that are
being taken there under oath. 1t is
49, the only way in which the charges
preferred against him can be proper
" substantiated.
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28
y rlys Of the most distinguished

s frye Of the most distinguished
Missionaries In the Coop cause have
just returned from Beatrice where
they instituted a couaoIl of this
0S sublime order.4C
1t would hardly be necessary in
2U0maha to state how Luther Poland
and d. n. Pratt have gained dis
tinction among us. For the infor-
nation of the citizens Of Beatrice
we may, however, mention the fact
that they hold high rank in the
Omaha hummer brigade
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

auMHITEwAsH HAwLEY declared
M. Furay was in no way implica-
ted in the Pattee corruption fund,
simply because Pattee and Strick-
land positively denied that they
had subsidized him. Now did any
body expect that either Pattee or
Strickland would confess that they
had committed a criminal offense-
bribing a United States officer.
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

1&EsEAsKA has applied for sos
-0O0! Traditional national currency un-
uderIthe new currency act. = OF this
amonnfE 500, 900 has already been
granted, and S135, 900 has been re-
: fused owing to informality in the
applications. 1t IS expected that
these informalities Will soon be rec
titled and then the currency will be
issued by the United States treasury
department.
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

The counties along the line of
the q. P. and the b. & NJ. Railroads
will need some important legisla-
ton this winter in order to- free
themselves of the tax charged
againgt the several counties by the
State, on account Of the thousands
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

ASorHER Sgreat calamity is re-
ported by telegraph. This tims it
happened in the rock-rooted can
ycns Of the Sierras. 1t came Tot
as the consequences of carelessness,
but as one Of those Providential
visitations, against which no amount
of human forsthought or wisdom
can guard AO1
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

,GrAccoBpINa to the Lincoln Jour
nal the meeting of the Nebraska
Independents on the 2lst proved q
izzle, because the BEE and other
papers had announced that the
3 meeting wonld take place on July
list when An fact 1t was called for
the 2sth. Inasmuch as the BEE
hadderived its information from the
the Nemaha county papers, where
the new departure originated, this
version of the fizzle appeared to us
somewhat isy. IT now transpires
that the unsopAisticated Lincoln re-
porters were completely hoodwinked
by Doctor johnson and other OPP
pressed toilers who were at the
State Capital last Tuesday. :
Had these political SONS Of toll
Nbecn disposed to tell the truth, they
would have acknowledged that the
meeting was q fizzle, because the
real farmers and Changers had
manifested no disposition to take
part Ia this scramble for Office.
According to The Nemaha Grang-
er the lincoln meeting adjourned
to August 18th, when it is hoped
a more respectable attendance
may be secured. Meantime the
movers in this glorious u are to
hold secret conference with the
chief of the Ko-op Khan and the
Bourbon Democrats, with a view Of
concentrating all these forces upon
n platform and one ticket. The
only serious obstacle in the way of
this brilliant scheme is the lament
abIe insuffieiencyl In the number of
having offices to be distributed
iSamong the patriots who are SO
anxious to sacrifice themselves upon
the altar of theft country in defense
of the industrial classes. J
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

sSSTRENew York Tribune of the ODD
contains an elaborate editorial in
favor of lightning rods. We are in
clined to suspect that the lightning
rod agent has taken possession of
the Tribune while the editor was at
tending q horse race at Long
Branch.
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

of acres of railroad lands, which,
under the decision of the United
States Court, are not liable 70 taxa
ton. Ass.the companies pay no
tax to the counties, on the unpafent-
ed lands, the counties should pay
none to the State on account of said
lands. There seems to be no way
to escape paying thistaSTexcept By,
legislative aid.
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

BEEcHER Is accused of another
high crime. He was among the
first publishers that bribed SUBJ
scribers with a chrome.
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28
THE leading organ Of Nebraska

THE leading organ Of Nebraska
Bourbonism is again doomed to
disappointment. The industry and
zeal which it has Of late displayed
in attempting to fire the Germanie
heart into revolt against the Re
publican party is likely to come to
naught. The chief staple of irrita-
ton that was to drive German-Re-
puplicans into the Democratic ranks
was furnished by the ut!erances Of
the Pawnee Republican. That pa
per was quoted as an oracle that
foreshadowed the temperance cru
SADIE that was to be waged by the
Republican party in the coming
campaign. =
The Herald very in~geniously as
sumed that the Pawnee county
peper was in favor of prohibitory
State Legislation, which, If enacted
would deprive the German Of his
indispensable beverage. And now
the Pawnee Republican explains its
position by pronouncing against
local and State legislation and in
favor of remanding the liquor traffic
questionto congress. The following
extracts fully explain how our Paw
nee contemporary proposes to deal
with this issue, "a
"We believe this matter belongs
10 Congress, and Congress most GER
tainly has the right and power to
| prohibit the manufacture of liquor,
if it is an evil in the land. 1t is a
national evil. Then why has Con-
gress not just the same right to leg
islate this evil out of the country as
it had to legislate slavery?
What are our present laws worth
sc far as the penalty goes for viola
ting them by the whisky drinker
and seller?-scarcely-a as much as
the paper upon whiehthey are priu-
| ted. 1872 @ L1
THE editor of the (Lineoln) Jour-
nal knows that where whiskey
shops are prohibited that in those
localities there is as much whisky
sold and drank on ssprescriptions,"
asif saloons we're in full blast. We
must get to the root ofthe evil no
absolute cure was ever effected With
out first striking at thsA root Its
SO with the whisky question.
We favor the enaotIaept of Q law,
by congress, to prohibit the msnu-s
facture of spirituous liquors save for
medicinal purposes, and for that
alone, and a heavy fine for its adul-
teratiOn, : il H19Ya 10 :
State laws, IS we said before, re-
main As a dead letter on our statute
bookS."
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

In the western Seward
county considerable damage was
done; but most fields were only at
tackled on the outskirts and the
damage is but slight. Some farm
ers in the southern portion Of the
county suffered also, but altogether
we may say that Seward county has
been remarkably lucky in escaping
with as little damage as has been
idone.ATSeward Reporter aea
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28
STATE Jorr1Hes.
is a promising own

Seward will soon have a brass
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

What are our present laws worth
so far as the penalty goes for viola
ting them by the whisky drinker
and seller?-scarcely as much as
the paper upon which they are priu-
ted. @@ Ll
Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

- The chief topic of conversation in
this county to-day, is fgrasshoppers.
1T is discussed on the street corners,
lin our parlors, atIthei mead ntime;
andwhen We are retired to bed at
nightpi it is the all absorbing etheme
eVerywhere;Ieat all times and on
every occasion. 1T is useless to at
tempt to disguise the fact that the
gfasshoppers are here and thatthey
are doing serious injury to Tcrops
through out the icountry.-ELone
Tree Courier. oil 10 giislst si1 ~
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-13
What He Owed His Wife.

The recent death of Mr.. Willston, of
East Hampton, moves the Springfield
Republic0n 10 tell how the foundation of
his vast estate was laid. The RepubItcan
says:
I'm more than the usual sense Mr..
Williston owes his success in life to his
wife, Miss Emily Graves, daughter of
Elnathan Graves, Williamsburg farmer,
TO whom he was married in the spring of
1922, when twenty-seven years old, and
who still survives him, "a sweet old lady
Of seventy-sevcn Mrs. Williston, at the
instigation Of her mother, sought
some labor which might prove remuneI-
alive and assist her husband in his ad-
verse fortune. She hit upon the cover
ing Of buttons, which were then made
entirely by hand. Her first attempts
proved partial failures because of the
poor material employed, but their broth
er-in-law, Mr.. Whitney, of Northampton,
suggested lasting as a substantial cover
ing. After much patience she produced
two gross which she took to Mr.. Whitney
as contribution to the cause of foreign
missions. Owing to the scarcity of mon
ey the people of the vicinity were accus-
toned to bring to Mr. Whitney, who act
ed as agent, whatever product they could
give, and the proceeds of the sales were
carefully husbanded for the American
Board President Humphrey, of Am
herst College, made the first purchase
from those buttons, which is voucher
for their orthodoxy. The second gross
was sent to Arthur Tappan, Mr.. Willis
tons old employer, who Immediately
contracted for twenty-five gross at So a
gross. Mr.. Williston soon discovered
that his wife was making more money
than he, so he sold his sheep for what
sheep and land together had cost and
began the manufacture of sewed but
tons The business soon grew beyond
their expectations. Other families were
drawn into the work. Mr.. Williston
erected store and warehouse, Mrs Will
liston was promoted to be book-keeper,
and before they abandoned the hand
made buttons they employed 1000 fami-
lies, scattered through the various towns
OF the Connecticut Valley"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-13
Wood Chopping in California.

THE choppers, especially, must be men
of intelligence and experience. A great
deal more than mere strength to swing
to make good chopper. After the tree
is selected the ground needs careful look
ing after, as stump or fallen tree, or
any inequality of the earth, would, as a
gentleman of the profession remarked,
Knock the biggest on 'em into smith.
Green's" 1t is peculiarly of redwood
to split into long and profitless thin
strips upon small provocation, and the
inexperienced eye, glancing over the
ground that bristles with all sorts of OBJ
stacles, sees little hope of any tree es-
Gaping destruction. And il is only the
extreme skill of the choppers that makes
the disaster uncommon. They can drive
stake with the biggest tree in the for
est when the ground is clear. When
there is not sufficient opening in direct
line, common expedient is to fell the
tree so that il will strike in It's descent
the trunk of another Calculating the
bounce well marks an accomplished
chopper.
FEELING a seven or eight foot tree is
half days work for three men. The
choppers stand some six or eight feet
from the ground, each on a narrow bit
of board, one end of which is thrust into
notch in the bark, and this unsteady
footing is all they have, while they hack
away with their long axes hour after
hour. When tea or fifteen footer is
encountered a platform of bark, with
standing boards for support, is built, and
an extra chopperput on. Two cuts are
made in the tree; that on the side on
which the monster Is to fall being much
larger and somewhat lower than the one
on the other side. Thus the weight of
overthrow. II is tremendously hard
work, and wears the strongest man out
| in from three to four years.
When the tree begins to complain, y
as the shriu, vibrating, cracking noise is
aptly called, the choppers give long,
| warning wall that sends all the workmen
in the neighborhood scampering to .
safe distance. A second cry tells that
the tree is wavering, and the choppers
themselves leap from their perches and
run for 1t. The giant yields slowly and
with mighty grumbling. Then, in spite
of himself, he leans over painfully, and
with frightsome booming and crack
ling sweeps to the trembling earth, the
foliage whistling and screaming like the
rigging Of a ship in hurricane. The
shock is terrific, and resembles nothing
SO much as an earthquake. Clouds OF
dust, mingled with flying fragments, are
thrown into the air. Every branch is
snapped off and broken to splinters. The
thud is heard and felt miles away-Oak.
land (Cal) Reporter.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-13

He was kept from the fire with some
difficulty until his hands, feet and face
were thawed out with water, but did
not recover his mind until six hours
after From frequent personal oDserva-
ton / am led to believe that every one
who freezes ~ death upon the prairies
or elsewhere becomes invariably insane
before death.
Having been thoroughly warmed and
recruited by steaming hot breakfast,
we followed the river 10 avoid losing our
way and in the afternoon reached a
Hudson Bay Company's post at George
town. Here We were informed that the
temperature had fallen during the pre-
vious night TO forty-nine degrees below
zerol We remained in that hospitable
shelter for two days, during which the
terrific storm ragged with undated fury.
Some dozen Indians and half-breeds per-
ished upon the route over which we had
just passed.
After this lapse of time I re-
call my thoughts and feelings
with much more distinctness and ac-
curacy than / could for some
time Immediately subsequent to the
events related No one who has passed
through great danger realizes fully the
extent Of it at once. 1t requires time to
impress the memory with all its circum-
stances. What Z y feelings were at this
unexpected preservation from the dread
full fate which threatened me it is inn
possible to express.-H. W. Robinson, in
4ppLet0n's J0uYnnI
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-13
Death to the Striped Bug.

WILL tell potato growers how / man
aged the potato bug last year with sue
cess. They came into my potatoes from
the West in great numbers; indeed, they
were SO thick that it seemed impossible
for all to get nip at the delicious plants.
! am naturally coward, but will fight
when necessity demands IL, and went to
work on the insolent invaders in the fol-
lowing manner: | procured some long
straw and match, and commenced in
front of them by setting fire to she straw
at one end and taking hold Of the other
and dragging it between the rows; the
wind being in the east, blew the blaze
among the vines, and not part of them
was untouched. / never saw an army
thrown into so much confasion-they
found they had assaulted the wrong
enemy, and retreated very disorderly.
Some arose into the air, others went on
foot but as / came back in the other
row they were ovcrtaken and received
another volley of fire and smoke Thus
continued until l had gone over the
whole pateh--and it was great satisfac.
ton, when l walked over the battle
ground an hour later, to find the dead
and wounded laying there thickly, de-
serted by their comrades, who, through
fear, did not wait to bid farewell nor
give decent burial. The objects of my
pride were left unhurt-the bugs ever az
ter considering that forbidden soil-and
good crop was the result. Let him who
doubts try the experiment, being careful
to pass quick enough to save the potatoes
from scorching, and slow enough to
scare the bugs, which is known by their
letting go their hold and skedaddling.-
w. H. H., in Rural World