Omaha daily bee., 1883-09-01
ing the valise in the officers hands.
has been returned TO its owner.

The colored population here might as
we'll take a fresh hold for a new wrestle.
The circular issued by Frederick Doug
lass calling the convention to be held at
Louisville provides for only one delegate
for the whole state of Iowa, so that n
state convention will have to be held,
and all thispetty fussing is Of no account.
One of the letter carriers, J. Goss, has
been quietly dropped from the force.
He says no reasons are given him, but
he is simply told hat his services are no
longer needed. That looks like unoivil
service. The man is surely entitled to
some why OF wherefore. David Whittier,
who vas policeman at the Union Pacific
yards, has been given the place.
A carpenter named Oleson, hailing
from Fremont county, found his visit to
Council Bluffs a costly one. He pur-
chased some tools and some drinks, and
when he woke up in the morning he
found himself in the calaboose without
either. He put his watch up as security
again with a vague idea of how he could
get a ride home.
M. Chambers, chairman of the board
of supervisors of Crawford county, re-
ports that the poor farm there not only
proves a good farm but its management
a paying success. They have 160 acres
| of land and they have a man and wife to
manage it and utilize the pauper labor in
making it. The farm not only cares for
the poor but yields a revenue to the
county.
One of the reasons given why the
| Chicago d Northwestern refuses to raise
its tracks across Broadway is that last
spring it asked the city for the grade and
brought its grounds and tri cks up to
that, and now the city wants to have the
tracks raised still higher. The company
want to be dead sure, before it raises
again that it is fully up, and won't have
to change again.
Nothing has been heard of the where
abouts of Martin, the absconding plumb
er. An expressman says Martin bought
a new trunk the day before he disap-
peared, and hired him to take it to his
house. He says that when Mrs. Martin
paid the carriage he saw her have n large
roll of money and q quantity of silver
If this is true it does away with the
theory that he deserted her, leaving her
destitute of means to help herself.
Some who have had experience in
handling DRINKS, ~disorderlies and crimi.
nails already begin finding fault with
some of the features of the new city Jail
even before it is finished and occupied,
and some of the criticisms made seem
well founded. 1t is claimed that the
doors are too narrow, and that this will
add to the difficulty of getting a man in
if he ~resists. Then the cells are so near
the outside windows, and the bars are 80
wide that anyone on the outside can pass
things through to prisoners inside unless
further protection is made against it.
Marshal Jackson was yesterday on the
lookout for several pairs of undressed
kids. He found them swimming near
Pettibone's place, and was first inclined
to take them up to the calaboose and let
them get dry there, but finally set down
on the bank, the boys clustering about
him he held a sort of Sunday school. The
boys wont forget the lesson very soon,
and if they do, they will the next time
be kept after school and made to learn
the whole of it by heart, in the city lock-
up. The marshal is pretty good natured
to the boys but when he says ''its bust
ness, the boys know that he means it.
The man, Parrott, whose family is
tenting IN a vacant lot on Ninth street,
was visiting the justice courts in great
wrath yesterday because some drunken
man had insulted his wife. All that was
claimed by him was that the man kept
asking the woman if she didn't want to
earn some money, and that he refused to
leave as quickly as she ordered him to.
1t is to be regretted that there could be
found no law to punish the fellow, for,
while there was no offense technically.
yet, morally, it was evident the fellow
insulted the woman as far as he dared to.
She has the reputation of being q very
respectable woman, and the delicate con.
dition she is now in, and the destitute
circumstances with which she is sur
rounded, made the insult cowardly and
despcable. At the same time, a man
who is able to work at all, who will allow
his family to lay around the weeds of an
open lot, with a wife in such n condition,
exposed to the jeers of any drunken fell
low who may pass along the street, needs
to be stirred into a little activity by
something.
Those who have been so forward in
poking fun at the kindergarten, and the
board OF education which has 80 willingly
thrown it out of the public school system, |
should read an article which appears in |
Scribner's for September. 1t gives a re-
view of the work being done in primary
schools in Massachusetts, and the meth. |
DDS adopted, entering into all the details. |
In many respects the system which is
there described rs meeting with such
wonderful success is the same as that
which has been used here. Primary
scholars are given a wonderful knowledge
of fractions, by having clay moulded into
cakes, and then divided into halves,
quarters, etc. They are taught the tables
of measures, not by note and mere men,
orizing, but by having gills. pints, etc,
measuring bran for dry measures and
water for liquid measures. They are
taught by using tape-lines of their own
the table of lineal measure. In fact,
clear through the various studies the
system is used. But then Massachusetts
is a sort of rude half civilized country,
and is doubtless further behind in such
matters than those of the west.
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