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Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22
SOME of these days the ramshackle

SOME of these days the ramshaokle
old building which i, called by oour-
tesy the City Hall, will fall to pieces
Of old age and weakness In the Joints.
If half q dozen oouncilmen happen
to be holding a committee meeting In
1t at the time the public may be
aroused to the fact that we need o new
City Hall.
Since Mr. Snyder's tall tower mar.
ket house proposition foil through,
we have not heard much of the neoes'
silly of q new and fire proof building
for our city officials, but the need
grows more apparent every day. In
the first place, the city records are mol
safe In the finder box which now doeI
duty asa City Hall. In thesecondplaoe
there Is not half room enough tc
accommodate the city officials and the
city Is forced to pay out several hun
dreds Of dollars a year for renting off,
oes for the treasurer and city engln
eer. 1t was . great mistake that tn,
county court house and the city hal
were not Joined In . single building
on upper FArnham street. We shoult
then have had . structure Of whicl
Omaha might have been In every Wa,
proud, on . site which cannot be ex'
oelled, and which Is roomy enough TO
all city and county purposes. Per
hsps at this late date another stor,
might be added to the county oour
house and with the additional room
In the basement sufficient convenience
could be secured for housing the cit,
officials. There are some Of our oiti
zenn who think such q plan feasabl
and some architects who claim tina
twenty feet added to the height of tn
county court house would improve 1t
appearance.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22
RUNNING DOWN aRANT

/ There IL q tendency on the part OF
the democratic press TO make q seri-
Gus matter out Of General Grants de-
feat for the presidency Of the Army OF
the Potomac. The New York Star
says that 'the generals lame has
ceased to have magic In II even for
the army" and adds that Grant "had
his Waterloo at Chicago In 1880, and
since then that everything that no has
said and done Ia public has dropped
him to q lower and \ lower niche In
the country's regard" This Ia the
rankest kind Of partlsanship. Gem
eral Grant was not . oandi.
date before the Army Of the
Potomac meeting. His name was
offered without his knowledge or
consent and was placed In nomination
after General Newton's CANVASS had
practically decided the contest.
There was no issue as between Gen.
eral Grant and any other soldier, and
1t Is unfair to use the incident as the
test of his popularity In the army or
anywhere else.
General Grant Is more popular TO-
day than he was when he left the
presidency. No man has suffered
more from evil advisers and foolish
friends, but few great men could
have suffered less. Entirely aside
from unpleasant political recollectionn,
which will wear of with the ad-
vance Of time, the position Of
General Grant In the oountry's regard
Is as secure as 1t aver was. All the
volumlnous histories of the rebellion
that have been written since the war,
have failed to obscure his fame or
smiIch his record as the first steadily
successful general of the union
armies. As president he made many
mistakes, but they were the mistakes
natural to q soldier whose first ex.
perienoe In civil command was gained
as the chief executive Of o nation In q
very trying time Of her affairs. For
the defeat Of the Chicago convention
the general can blanc advisers who
ought to have known better, and
whom the country and their party
have held responsible for q
grave political blunder. But
it will take something more
than honest errors Of judgment tc
lower the estimation In which the
American people hold Ulysses s.
Grant as o man, as q soldier, rs q very
oreditable national representative
abroad and as . private citizen who
never talks except when he has some.
thing to say and whose views upon
topics of current interest, social OF
political, are always characterized by
sound horse sense.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22
A Business Mans Opinion,

PlAttsburg ono Lever.
E1.Msyor Bullene of Kansas City,
wal recently In st. Joseph, and was
interviewed by the Herald. MI.
Bullsne Is the head of the great dry
goods house OF Bullene, Moores &
Emery. whose advertisements appear
regularly In the Lever. He said, In
reply to q question, that he attributed
the success of his firm ''to good times
and extensive advertising. Adver.
tislug," he said, "was necessary to Sc.
pure trade" His firm expended $40,
coo last year for advertising, and
would expend between $12, 900 and
$15, 600 this year for the same pur.
pose. This, he said, was for news.
paper adverttsing alone. He also
added:
"The newspaper Il the only proper
medium for q live merchant to employ.
l wouldn't give Q cent q buhhel fol
circulars, dodgers and sign boards,
When you find a merchant trying to
do business without advertising In the
newspapers, you can make up your
mind he is not anxious for customers
The people read the newspapers now
a-days. Why, sir, to show you tn.
value of advertising, let me tell you
wa spent a round sum tor q full page
of the st. Louis Globe Democrat and
Republican, and we were astonishet
at the results. People thought W.
wara ora Wv In advertise In st, Louis
but we secured customers from I'LL
nois, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas tina
could be traced directly to these ad-
vertisements."
"You advertise regularly; this is
constantly" said the reporter.
"Yes, sir! Our contracts are for 81
months and q year. The dull season
is the very time we advertise. Peo
pie are always ready for q bargain
You know. Our policy IL to put q
much money Into newspaper advertis
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22
Don't Laugh 100 Soon.
Schuyler Sun.


Schuyler Sun.
THE OMAHA BEE says that General
Thayer has been offered a mail route
contingent upon his ability to procure
sufficient endorsement as to his
soundness as a republican. General
Thayer don't need a mall route;
neither does his republicanism re.
quire any endorsement, and the I'm
maculste politicians who are Inclined
to amuse themselves at his expense
should bear In mind that the doughty
old general is still In the ring. Had
General Thsyer listened to the impor.
tunities of friends during the prelimi.
nary campaign last fall, there is every
reason to believe he would have been
elected to congress from this district.
He was the man who could have
united the republican party of the
Third district; his candidacy would
have saved the local organizations,
given us a majority member of con.
gress and preserved the integrity of
the party. But the old gentleman
listened to the voice of the siren; he
was beguiled Into the belief that he
was the preferred candidate for SEN
ator Of every Valentine striker In
the district and he could almost feel
the sensation Of Saunders senatorial
shoes adjusting themselves to his poll.
tical bunions. But General Thayer
doubtless sees his mistake now and
so do most of the republicans of the
district. When a republican district
with a clear majority of 10000 re-
cords a majority of 5000 against
a party candidate most any one car
see q mistake.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22
Banqueting the Census Forger.

FOX county FARMERS AuVocate.
DR.. Schwenk, of additional con.
gresham and false census returns
notoriety, and who was branded by
the last congress al one of the princi-
pals In that Infamous scheme, has Just
been honored by his party friends and
admirers by q grand banquet. The
Norfolk Journal speaks of it and the
''toasts" to him, etc. If he had been
caught trying to steal chickens, he
would have been d~isgraced; but the
shrewdness with which he managed
this case, to help the rlnguters out, BY
shouldering the largest part of thu
r~ascality, has been of great value t.
him, and proves him worthy of tn,
confidence the party managers had re
posed In him, and clearly demonstrated
that he was the fright man In the
right place." and capable of filling an,
position of honor and trust.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22
TOWN TALK.

"Where Is Barnum nov with his
greatest show ON earth" laughed Bill
Cody, Sunday afternoon after asking
the crowd up to drink for the fftieth
time at a popular bar. "Ill come
back to Nebraska next fall with my
celebrated Deadwood stage coach
chuck full of dollars. tell you the
"Wild West" Is bound to take east.
1t Is q genuine Niagara Of novelties
all laristed from Nebraska and com.
pletO In every particular" ''Not quite
complete, "chipped In the Hon. Pat o.
Halves, who had been examining the
ceiling through the bottom Of q tumb'
Ter. Not quite complete. There are
several western curiositiss which YOU
might add with profit. DR.. George
l.. Miller In his great ground and
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22
accounts for It always being moving
day with him."

day with him."
"The roads were In o bad condition
on Thursday night" said a gentleman
who Is never TO happy as when dane
Ing, 'tbut that didn't prevent q large
attendance at the party given by Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Kountze at their
beautiful home In South Omaha.
There must have been fully n hun.
dred and fifty present to enjoy the
Inequalities Of what Is perhaps the
most elegantly and tastefully fur.
nisbed residence In this city. 1t
would pay some of you newspaper men
to write up the Kountze house, which
has just been completely r%efurnished
and redecorated. Among the art
treasures Is a beautiful piece Of tapes.
try by LIE Brun, made In the 18th cen.
tury for Louis Quatorze, repre-.
senting a battle scene in the
life of Alexander the Great,
This hangs In the front parlor accupy-
ing nearly one.half of the east wall
from floor to ceiling and was procured
by Mr.. Luther Kountzs of New York
during one Of bis trips to Europe. In q
lovely little room just eff from the
main entrance hangs a painting by Sir
Benjamin West, which In subject,
drawing and color is In every way
characteristic Of the earliest American
artist of distinction. The mirrows,
interior wood work and wall decors-
lions are elegant, tasteful and harmon.
ious and more than all the house wears
the appearance Of q home and not of q
mere picture gallery. Dancing on the
canvass enclosed porch to the music
of Hoffman's orchestra and q delicious
and ta~stsfully served supper closed q
most delightful evening""
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

Tue adjutant general telegraphs
from Washington, under date of May
18th, that General Crook had $50
Apache scouts and fifty c~avalrymen
with him when he started on his ex-
petition. A this information was
printed In the newspapers more than
two weeks ago, the matter ID Inn
portant only ~ showing the rapidity
with which "ofioial news" travels to
Washington from army departments.
The press beats red tape nine times
out OF ten.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22
Two days OF sunshine have ma

Two days Of sunshine have made
our farmers feel happy. We have
had q cold and damp spring, but fol
all that the crop prospects are excel.
lent throughout the state and plant.
Ing has been finished nearly as early
as usual. Our corn is pretty we'll In
and o week of warm weather will bring
1t well above the ground and save re-
planting. Two years ago corn was
planted as late as the 10th Of june
and last years foods and rain failed to
interfere with q magnificent crop In
the fall.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

HIGH license has become all the
rage. It will therefore be In order
for the city council to raise the circus
license to $500. Council Bluffs exacts
$500 from every circus, and still they
don't give her the go-by. But II they
should decide to slight Omaha II
would be capital punishment, as the
school boy said when the teacher Or
dered him to take q seat among the
Girls.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

A GENERAL invitation has been ex.
tended to public men to assist on
Thursday In the opening of the East
river bridge. David Davis Is said to
be the only one excluded, as Engln.
Q Roebling positively declines to
run the risk Of his weight being added
to the extraordinary strain on the
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

OMAHA merchants are beginning to
discover that advertising pays. That
discovery was made some years ago In
other cities and It has lost none of Its
force by time. Judicious advertising
In newspapers that reach the people Ia
q better Investment than plate glass
show windows or handsome counter
jumpers.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

Mr., DANA, In the Sun, denies en-
phaticslly the possibility of Mr.. TIL
den's candidacy In 1884. The party
will have to look for new timber, and
q plank to take the place of the one
which refused to ''condone" fraud.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

NEBRASKA has one newspaper to
every 2,4C0 persons, which Is moro
papers to the population than any
state east of tho Mississippi river.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

AND now 1t is charged that the pope
has been bought with British gold.
MI. Dynamite Rosa probably knows
better than Cardinal McCloskey.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

CORRESPONDENCE All Oommuni.
atfons relating to News and Editorial
matters should Be addressed to the EDITOR
or The BEE.
BUSINESS LETTERS-All Bushes
hetters and Rsmittances should be I'D
dressed TO The Blk PUBLISHING COMPANY
,JMARA. Drafts, Checks and Postof6ce
orders to be made payable to the order OF
che Company.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

THE circus Is now on Its annual
round, and men who find 1t hard to
pay their grooers' bills find no difficulty
In taking their families to see the
elephant.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

The Apaches call Gen. Crook the
"Grsy Fox" while after q campaign
the soldiers nickname him "The Black
Crook"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22
A Doubtful Compliment.

SchuyIor Sun.
Tho Omaha Republican says thai
Senator Henderson ID the only re-
Gently elected western senator who
has not more wives than the Law
allows. Mrs. Manders,n Is to bt
congratulated on her possession of or
entire senator.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22
The Omaha Bee.

Published every morning, except Sun-
~. The emily Monday morning daily.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

Ing as Into store expenses-that IL
rent and light. All the successful
merchants OF to-day owe their success
to legitimate newspaper advertising"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

"We are to have quite q European
exodus from Omaha this summer"
drawied out M of our swell dudes as
he carelessly adjusted his bang with
the top of q silver mounted game and
gszed liStlssuly at his alligator topped
shoes. s. s. Caldwell and family,
John Mccormick and family and Mr..
Fred Willard, have already made ar.
rangements to sail next month and l
hear Of several more who will follow
suit. BY the way old fsllah, isn't 1t
line for Charley Dewey to be making
another trip somewhere. He 10 In the
furniture business and perhaps that
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

CHE WEEKLY BEE, published every
We inesday.
TERMS POST PAID
One Year. $500 Three Months. 70
ViI Months. 80. LOO One Month";. 70
AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, Sole Agents
Newsdealers In the United States,
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

TERMS BYiMAIL-
une Year.. $40. 90 Three Months 800
gh Months. 500 One Month";. Loo
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

The BEE PUBLISHING CO., Props.
e. ROsEwATER Editor.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22

lofty tumbling act would take like
wtldfre. Nothing like 1t has ever
been seen In the eastern editorial
circles. Then for instance, u old
friend "Hanse" In his fsvorlte charac.
ter Of q western public spirited citizen
would be rather apt to create q sensa.
tion."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-28
FutaJ MiyE .Iccident.

Yesterday ex Police Officer John O'Con-
nor met with fatal accident. He was
employed in elevator c, near Washington
ard Ninth avenue south. Some of the
machinery became clogged up with wheat,
and he started to go to the pit and clean it
out. Nearly az hou- later his comrades
missed him and instituted search. They
found him lying insensible in the pit, and
at once extricated him. After being
brought up 10 the Office consciousness re-
turned and he explained TO his friends that
IL climbing in the shaft upon the cleats
rs was his wont, his grasp
slipped and he feii headlong to the bot
tom, a frightful distance. Although it was
at first hoped that he would rally from his
injuries, the poor sufferer died shortly
after. A surgeon was summoned, and up
on making an examination, found that his
right side was crushed and right arm brok-
en-. His fatal injuries, however, are sup
posed to be internal. Mr.. OConno1 leaves
a wife and children at his late residence
on Eighth street in needy circumstances.
Re was esteemed by his employers as faith
full and UNNECESSARILY efficient. and has a
host of warm personal friends who will
mourn his death.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-28
Tsc Democratic Committee.

A meeting of the Democratic city com
mittee was held in the mayors Office yes
terday, and was also Literally attended by
the leading Democrats of the city. The
question of the school board came up fol
consideration. The declarations of E. NJ
Wilson and p. J. E. Clementson, who had
been nominated by the regular city con-
vention, were accepted. After a general
discussion, participated ia by nearly every
man present, Mr.. Stevens, a member OF
the committee, presented the following,
which certainly bears every feature of be-
ing strictly non-p artist n. and which WI
unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, The Democrats of Minneapo-
lis have ever been in favor of non parti-
san board of education, and recent efforts
between the three other so-called parties
of the results at ending said efforts have
demonstrated the wisdom of our late con-
venticn in refusing to appoint commit
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-28
EX-GOy. SPRAGTTE,S RRTDE.
Some "Reminiscences ~ His First Mur-
4i01e.
New York Letter.


New York Letter.
The marriage Of ex-Gov. VIM. Sprague
was surprise to his friends. It has been
mentioned recently that this tempest
tossed gentleman had undergone a thor
ough change in his habits and appearance,
| which was astonishing in view of the bur-
! den of difficulties that he had to bear, and
1t was attributed to a sudden turning over
of new leaf. Now it crops out that
1t was all due to woman. There is On
| atmosphere of mystery about the new
marriage. 1t was a surprise to his imme-
date family. The romance of the court
| snip is still unknown. He has secured a
very pretty young woman for wife. The
| marriage occurred in Staunton, Va. The
/ bride. Mrs. Dora Inez Calvert, tall bru-
nette, has lived for sometime in Greenbrier
| county, West Virginia. She was divorced
but a short time ago from her husband,
who is a Cincinnati drummer.
There are few who do not wish the ex-
governor a happy life in his domestic
circle, which has been so afflicted. The
pathOs with which he described his expert
ences to me one sunny summer morning,
in sumptuous library in his famous villa
by the sea, can never be forgotten. Be-
tween the lines of his story there appeared
the eager, heated face of ambition that
sacrificed and blighted life. He was a
young senator, worth million, and
there was in Washington a presidential
aspirant with daughter whose fine figure,
flashing black eyes, and golden tresses,
had bewitched men by the score, since at
the age of sixteen she was called upon to
play woman's part in doing the hOnors
of the household for her father, then the
governor of Ohio. Strong hands began to
mold the two lives. She was fit to be the
wife of a grandee, and the Rhode Island
senator was the only conspicuous man,
who, in day when nillionaires were not
so thick as now, had the means to give her
the vantage ground upon which to operate
for the attainments of the ambition of
her life-viz.: The election Of her father to
the chief magistracy of the United States.
1t was 3 made match, Kate Chase had
her air-castles. She got her castle by
the sea. Her fathers disappoint-
ment crushed both. When he died Conk-
ling was her ideal for the presidency. She
should have lived in the days of Louis XIV.
Hes pattern Of woman's influence politically
was taken from that day-a splendid salon
where she could be queen of circle of in
fuential men charmed by the glitter of
ner wealth and the dazzle of her beauty.
She chose wisely from her point of calcula-
tion when she placed her villa across the
water in sight of Newport, the Mecca of
sristocracy and Influence. Her plans we've
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-28
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBELETs.


An overcoat was nipped from Dunning
tou's billiard hall yesterday by e sneal
| thief.
Mary A. Larkin, formerly of Detroit
Mich, took the white veil at the Sister,
hospital on Monday
The popular Opera train will be resumed
| on the Milwaukee short line between tbs
two cities this evening.
A largely attended, harmonious and en-.
thusiastic meeting of the Liquor Dealers
association was held yesterday.
Horace Fremont was attacked by pair
of footpads On Monday on the corner of
Sixth avenue south and Sixth street, but he
succeeded in frightening them of by cry
ing Justify for help.
John Stafford, brakeman employed
upon the Manitoba road, had his left foot
badly crushed out on the main line yestsr-
day, and was brought to Minneapolis for
medical treatment.
The new Ahern steam fire engine for the
Minneapolis fire department, arrived IN
Minneapolis yesterday morning, and as
soon as it can be tested will, if satisfao-
tory in its workings, be placed in active
service.
The contract for removing the standing
walls of the Hanline university, lately de-
stroyed by fire, has been let to W. j. Lark
ing, who will put a force of from thirty to
forty men to work at once. The job will
take at least seventy-ive days.
One branch of the district court was yes
terday engaged upon the case of the st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway
company against L. Brin, the action being
brought to recover $1,000 for damages on
account of the fraudulent issuance of rail
road tickets.
Schnuick, young German photographer
employed at Johnson, Smith & Harrison's
establishment, yesterday had little I'M
pleasantness with his employers. He
seized bottle of acid and poured it upon
a large Autograph stone, which was about
ready for press, and totally destroyed it.
The damage is estimated at from $500 to
$500. The police are On his track.
Yesterday morning the First Avenue
hotel, on the corner of Fourteenth street
and First av enue northeast, was a scene of
CONSERVATION. Indignant boarders put
their heads from their bedroom doors and
called for assistance. An investigation
showed that burglars had ransacked the
rooms and carried off The clothes of some
twenty-five boarders. The clothing was
found in pile in an outer hail. The
burglars only succeeded in getting about
$12, although many OF the boarders had
important sums beneath their pillows.