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Omaha daily bee., 1889-12-08
The nrewers, Ncw Manaeer.

They are jubilant up in Milwaukee over the
fact that Cushmau of the Torontos has been
signed as manager for next season. They
had such an experience with old Papa Sutton
last year that the directors all came out of
the season gray-headed. and rather than
have him continue another year they would
have disbanded the club. In Cushman they
think they bave a splendid man. In 1854 he
organized the Muskegan club and plotted IL
Omaha daily bee., 1889-12-08
An Eastern and Western League.

~
1t seems to be the almost universal opin-
ion that an eastern and western base ball
league is eventually inevitable. This would
certainly be a great saving in the way of
travelling expenses to the teams of the W
sections, and maintain just as lively and
widespread interest in the game. If this
condition of things is ever brought about it
would be a magnificent idea to have the Sec
tional championship seasons close fully a
month earlier than the seasons of the older
bodies have closed heretofore, leaving ample
time for u series of games between the east
and the west for the championship of the
country. OF course, the rivalry would be
Intense and the local interest at each end of
the line of a livelier character than has ever
yet been known. Out of the present mud
die OF base ball affairs, the above mentioned
leagues are very liable to spring, and when
this is once accomplished the honesty and
stability OF the game can again be looked for.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-12-08
Miscellaneous Local sports.

The Chicago Sporting Journal OF last week
contains a fine full length cut of Jimmy
Lindsay, the local tstic champion.
The new hand ball club starts out with a
membership OF twenty-six, which is likely to
swell 10 double that number before the WIN
ter 10 over.
DR.. J. H. Peabody aud party, who have
Omaha daily bee., 1889-12-08
The Corn Huskers Not Idle.

Sioux City Is manifesting an uncommon in
terest in her baseball team for the coming
season, Notwithstanding she sunk about
$1,000 during the past season, Sioux City's
enterprising citizens do not consider this
money lost, but argue that they nave re-
ceived twO-fold that figures worth in adver.
tising. Next year, with an improved team
and better facilities all round, they expect
their club to be self-sustaining any way, ana
II they happen to come out in the end with a
few simoleons on the right side of the ledg-
err, all tho better. They have secured new
grounds, within seven minutes of the
center OF the city via the electric street rail-
way, and their prospects for profit are cor.
responuingly increased. The makeup of
the team for next season is, of course, yet
uncertain. However, Crossley and Crotty
have signed as catchers, and Burdick and
Seibel as pitchers, and, so far as batteries
are concerned, the Corn Huskers can be
said TO be pretty well fixed. In addition to
these players, they have Powell for first,
and he will also manage the team; Brosnan
for second, and probably the prehistoric
Bradley for third. Glenn, Genins and Cline
will, in all Likelihood, be found in their old
places IN the outheld, and with a good short
stop-and Powell is h~ustling for one-the
team will surely be well equipped to go on
the field again.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-12-08

simply because they were great players and
the patrons of the game clamOred for their
retention. These men, too, are the ducks,
who, If it hadn't been Tor the godsend in the
shape of the great national game, would be
working on the road or driving a team at
from Sl.25 to Sl.50 a, day, or, what is still
worse, followers of the prize ring, or com
mon %loafers, saloon louugers and dead beats.
Howe Fer, there are some upright and i~ntelli-
gent me. n in this move, men like Ward, Pfef-
fer, irwin & Co., who are looking out for self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and all the emoluments
there is in it, aud 1t is just sucn men as these
who are shrewd enough to pull the wool over
the eyes of the rank and file, and lead them a
merry chase after a phantom, for that Is
surely what the players league salary is.
Many of the players who have signed these
boomerang contracts have done so without
mature dcliberation, in the blindness of their
enthusiasm, ana, one by one. as soon as they
understand the exact nature of the revolt,
and take a good square look ahead, will
come plodding back to the old league ana
'slavery"-an hour and forty minutes play,
not work, three or four days in a week, life
at "a and s. hotels, jaunts over the country
IN palace cars, with ovations all along the
line, and a present of from 5000 to 81, 600 at
the end of each month. That's what their
connection with the National league meant.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The frontispiece Of the Magazine OF Art for
April is a fine engraving by Mr.. Msrse, one of the
most sympathetic wielders Of the graver In Paris,
Of Greuze's painting. The Dead Bird. The orig
inal is in the possession of the Baroness Nathan
lei de Rothschild, who acquired t in 1880 at a
cost Of e4,80o. The opening paper OF the num-
Der is from the gifted and--careful pen of Mrs.
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, who writes OF the ia
nous American painter, Washington Allston. In
the paper on The Romance of Art Mr.. Leander
Scott tells How Raphael Quareled with the Mar
sn ssd An m. n
Use and Meaning, by III. Seymour Trower Low.
ers of the grotesqne In art will be entertained and
70 an
Bramley, called A Hopeless Dawn, and there
are ar, two engrayings after Vatican in paper by
frederick Wedmore on the old Masters exhibit
Ion In London. The third OF L. Higgins series
IN nhe Isle OF Arran is given, as is also the bird
land. 'ouin"ii'ii III Eng
~ scribner's for April william Williams gives
o. aoooune OF the arduous and daring expedition
sno party OF English mountain climbers who In
1000 chmped Mt st. Elias in Alaska. and sur.
passed the feat even OF the Schwatka marty tba+
visited the mountain in 1885 under the natroro 90
Oh the New York Times. George Rice Carnanter
contributes study Of the person and worts :,
Herrick lbson, the Scandinavian dramatist. Tho
Prevention OF Railroad Strikes is an article nre.
pared by Charles Francis Adams two wears AGO
during the labor troubles Of that time. II ws,
not thought advisable to publish 1t then; but tbs
article is timely now. He proposes novel admin.
istrative methods, which he thinks will in a mea.
ure solve the great labor problem so far as t an
plies to railroads. By the side Of this railroad
article is description of the building of an Ocean
Greyhound. by VIM. II. Rideing. 1t Is an account
world and will repay both the general and the
special reader for their attention. Mrs. Fields
contributes A Second Shelf of Old Books, contin
cism and comment on men and women of letters
Thomas Dwight writes OF the anatomy OF the con
tortionist article that will interest every boy
and many men. Shakspeare's English Kings, by
Walter Pater, is an analysis Of an important and
interesting group Of the grand assembage oil
characters that Shakespeare marches across the
stage. The poetry and romance iof the number
are up to the usual standard In both quantity and
quality.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

the sale OF liquor. which was passed by the
lower branch of the Massachusetts legisla-
ture, but failed in the Senate. Mr.. Bishop
claims that this bill practically in its origin
al form was adopted by the legislature of
Maine in 1857 and became the famous Maine
law" This Massachusetts claim to the pa
ternity Of the "Maine law" will hardly stand
| in view Of the fact that the idea of prohibit
tion had been advocated in Maine before
this, especially by General James Appleton
OF Portland, and was net a new idea at all in
! lS47, and was not incorporated until after it
heen adopted in Maine. But the bill of
ba,. : to the history of the temperance
tsA7 ta,or. -husetts, and no doubt led
aoitat;or i, Mss.a. % which placed up
up to the legislation Of iseo pronlpl-
on the statue books of that Stateis -.
tory law that was in operation until le',.
The operations of that law had an imports
ant and lasting effect upon public sentiment
Massachusetts, 1t was not well enforced, and
the legislature in 1875 repealed 1t in response
to popular demand, and enacted license
law. Year by year this law was strength
ened in response to public demand; and in
1881 prohibitory feature twas again intro
duced by the passage of the well-known To-
cal option law of Massachusetts,, which pro-
vides that towns and cities at their annual
meetings shall vote Eyes" or "No" ON the
question: "Shall licences be granted for the
sale of intoxicating liquors for the year en-
susing?" Since 1881 the efforts of the leg
islatures have been directed to stiffening the
license system, until in 1888 the State stood
fully and fairly upon the high license plan,
with prohibition optional with the towns
and cities. Public sentiment on the subject
has unquestionably grown more healthy since
the repeal of the prohibitory law in 1875; but
whether sufficiently to justify the putting
Of the constitutional amendment to the pop
ular vote remains to be demonstrated on the
22d. The memories of the old prohibitory
law Of 1869 are too unpleasant to many sin
cere temperance people in Massachusetts, to
give the greatest hopes for the success of the
amendment.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

The Prohibition campaign in Massachu-
sets seems to be growing exceedingly bitter.
On Sunday Boston clergyman who was in
favor of the amendment. made the statement
In his sermon that protest against the
amendment was presented to him to sign,
that be scanned it closely and could not find
upon it the name of single Christian min
lister. "They were," he added, "either jew
fish or Unitarian"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10
Prohibition In Massachusetts

The vote on the prohibitory constitutional
amendment in M massachusetts, will be thrown
on the 22d Of this month. This contest. what
ever its result may be, adds another chapter
to the very interesting history Of liquor leg
islation in that State. Though now license
State. Massachusetts has once had a prohibit
tory law, and a Massachusetts, authority
claims that his State is the real home of the
pronibitory idea in its practical form. In
i04t Joel Prentiss Bishop, now the eminent
~rller OIL law tex books but then a young
lawyer, drafted, or at least performed the
principal work of drafting, bill prohibiting
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

The latest legislative elections in Rhode
Island make 1t practically certain that the
Republicans will have majority on joint
ballot and be able to choose State officers.
This ought to be welcome news to the reputa-
blepeople Of the State, for the last Democratic
administration was not such as to make that
class anxious for any more of its kind.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

Senator Morrill, has been in the Senate az
years. and will be 81 years old when his pres.
ent term expires; but the Republicans up in
Vermont say he must go back. When par
ty that has majority bigger than the whole
opposition says a thing of this sort, it is en-
titled to respect even from gray hairs.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

These are the days when reminders of the
times of Washington are in order. Hopkin-
ten, N. a., trots out three sons of Revolu-
tionary sires. The last Revolutionary pen
sioner should now come forward as repre-
sentative Of the heroic band of Revolution
airy widows who survived far into the latter
half of this century.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

The temperance contest in Massachusetts
is becoming intntemperate. One orator has
declared that no man who sells or drinks
liquor can be loyal citizen and numberless
people on the other side have called all Pro-
hibitionists fanatics and fools.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

The Illness in the Harrison family is at
tributed in the newspapers to bad drainage
of the White House, on what authority does
not appear. 1t is quite as likery to be due to
the changed conditions which surround the
family and the excitements of their new sit
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

Capt George d. Armes, who was ordered
to be court martialed for an assault on Gov.
Beaver, has abjectly apologized. The
scope of the indictment against him should
now be extended so as to include cowardice,
for he never thought of apologizing until he
was threatened with punishment.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

When it became evident that the Capitol
commissioner had barred out Maine archi-
tects, and given the job of making the plans
to favored Boston firm, the PRESS asked
these questions:
.Can better plans be obtained by turning the
work over TO one favored architect than by invit.
for it?" ~ VIZ sio"'u'
"What experience has the favored architect
had TO put him so far above his fellows In fhe
profession that he is above competition?"
After consideration for three DAYS the
Kennebec Journal reproves the PRESS for
asking such questions, and sarcastically in
sinuates that the PRESS is unmindful of the
prophecies Of journalism" The Kennebec
Journal should issue Don't Book" for
the benefit of its contemporaries. 1t is very
humiiating, after asking such simple ques-
tions as the above, to be publicly rebuked
and told that we are anathema. Perhaps
the Kennebec Journal might issue Bull
occa sionally, If the publication of the
Don't Book" is not feasible. Meanwhile
we will put the questions again; and we
trust that our contemporary will either
answer them or explain wherein they are
improper -
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

correspondent wants to know what re-
lation the boundaries of the customs dis
tricts In this State have to the Congressiona,
districts and what is their bearing on the am
pointment of collectors. Some of the smaiIs
er customs districts lie entirely within a sin.
gle congressional district, but the larger
ones as rule take In parts Of several com
gressional districts. Their boundaries. how
ever, are subject to Encouragement by the
collectors under the provision Of the Revised
Statutes applicable to the case. Thus. what
Is known as the Bath district includes not
only part of the Second congressional dis
trict, which is Mr.. Dingley's district bnt
quite as large part Of Mr.. Milliken,s die
uict-so large in fact as to cover the great
counties OF Kennebec and Somerset. AZ
however, Bath, where the custom honso 10
and where the force is employed ia in the
Second district, the advice of the congress.
man from the Second district is relied upon
in selecting the collector. Thus the Hon. j
w. Wakefield was recently appointed collect
or Of the Bath district on advice of Mr.. Ding
ley. Again. The Belfast district includes 9
part of Knox county in Mr.. Dingley's dis
trict. As, however, the custom house i:
located at Belfast, the collector of this dis
trict is practically appinted by the congress.
man from that district. Thus, Mr.. George B,
Ferguson has just been appointed collector
on the advice of Mr.. Milliken.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

Forest and Stream for April has an article
which shows that the crow is great dissem-
inator of the seeds of the poison ivy. The arti-
Gle will help quiet the conscience of Johnny
while blazing at him at ten cents a head.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

As Ecuador win send representative to
the Conference of American States this sum-
mer, the great problem Of the meeting will
be how that fellow from under the Equator
Ia TO be kent warm
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10
CURRENT COMMENT.
DECLINES AN APPOINTMENT.
TOxfnrd nanonaraf

The appointment of a Public Printer Is
said to give the President a good deal of
trouble. He says that it is serious matter
to appoint man to the head of the largest
printing establishment in the world. Sorry
can accept, Mr.. President
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

Attorney General Littlefeld's decision in
regard 10 the effect of the new railroad CON-
mission is announced elsewhere. His opinion
Is that the new law does not legislate the
present commissioners out of Office. The
Attorney General also decides that no men,
Der OF the present legislature is eligible to
appointment on the commission until two
years from the first Wednesday of January,
1889, that is until his term expires. Mr.
Parker Spofferd and Mr.. B. f. Chadbourne
both Of whom we're candidates and both Of
whom are members of the present legisla
turo, will have to wait until 1891 at least.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

1t really looks as if Chicago might have to
undergo another election. If it should re-
suit in turning the Democracy out the city
could well afford it,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10
Island

The neck-and-neck race In Rhode :.
is interesting in spite of the smallness of the
race course.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

Senator Frye is reported as saying that he
hopes the government will engage in no
more negotiations with England relative to
the fisheries, but will confine itself simply
ito dignifed insistence on our rights. {"
THE proper course for our people to take
he says, lis to insist upon our rights in Cana
dian ports, sand II our fishing vessels are seized
to demand damages from the British govern
ment; and If these are refused we can ac-
cord the same treatment to their vessels
that they accord to ours" The difficulty
with this programme is that what we claim
to be rights the Canadians do not admit to
be rights. Their view is that they are priv
ileges which Canada has the right to accord
or refuse as she deems proper. The Domin-
ion claims to be contendlng for rights just as
much as we do. Retaliation may induce the
Canadians to back down, and then again it
may not 1t is weapon, therefore, that
should be employed only after the most ma
ture and calm reflection. All other means of
settlement should be exhausted before re-
sorting to it, and il Canada has intimated
already, or does so in the near future, that
she would like to negotiate further, it would
not seem to be wise policy to repel her adj
vances The present administration is am
ply able to cope with Great Britain in diplo-
macy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-10

Oue 1oOo. interest payable FEB. ana Aug. /.
Washington Is the County Seat of Daviess Coun-
W and has population of 1000 people. The City
Lights, Ga Water Works, ETC., and the Ohio &
Mississippi railroad have recently located their
shops ther
The Introduction of water will add largely to the
comfort Of the citizens, as the well water Is not
good for drinking. laundry or boiler purposes the
formation of the land being on coal
The Works are completed and accepted by the
city. The mortgage Is for S160, 900 Of which only
S11 5000 has been issued. The balance Is held In
trust for future extensions when needed.
The Company has contract with the City for
hydrant rental at three thousand dollars per year.
and contract with the OHIO 4 Mississippi rail.
road TO supply them with water at the minimum
price Of four thousand dollars per year.
Company, OF New York city, sufficient yearly rev
enue TO pay the Interest on the bonds outstanding
and the money so assigned can be used for no 9TH
er purpose whatsoever.
The following are the list OF assignments:
Hydrant rental from Washington, $4,000
Contract with Ohio 4 Mississippi
hairOad Co....s................. 1000
$1,000
The franchise Is for twenty-five years and il the
city does not purchase the works the franchise
continues In force another Twenty-Five years.
The works are built In the most Satisfactory
manner. only the best cast iron pipe and standard
pumps and machinery having been used In con
After careful personal examination Of thu
property, we purchased the whole loan and rec.
forlTrust Funds. ''N
We have all the papers relating to the Companv
copy Of the assignments Of revenue on ille AK orr
information desired. '' 0'''''
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-11-11
Traia Discharged.

Boston, Nov. 10. The court yester-
day discharged George Francis Train,
who has been imprisoned several weeks
for debt Train persistently refused to
take the poor debtors oath. The issue
was question of sanity. Judge Meekin
gave decision that Train was not insane
enough to be confined in an asylum, but
evidently unbalanced in mind, therefore,
he could not be properly held for debt.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-11-11
RAuLRnAD COMBINATION.


CHICAGO, Nov l0.-Tbe text OF the
proposed agreement for big railroad
trust to take the place OF the Interstate
Railway Association is Published. The
management Of the Western roads is to
he placed in the hands of corporation
which has been incorporated 10 New
JERSEY under the name of The Peoples
Transportation Company, the roads TAX
ing it's stock. Its board Of Directors will
be made up Of one officer from each road
and three representatives of New York
banks. The Executive Committee will
be composed of three railroad men and
two bankers, who are to control the
passenger and freight traffic. Each road
will be allowed operating expenses. The
remainder of the receipts is to be turned
over to the trust which is to last ten
years.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-11-11

PARIS, Nov. l0.-The Boulangists an.
nounce, through their organs. that they
will meet Tuesday and march in body
to the Chamber OF Deputies to protest
against the seating of any one for Mont-
matre district. which district Boulanger
was elected to represent. The Boulangist
delegates will make similar protest to
President Carnot. The Government is
pre- eparing to suppress the demonstration.