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COUNTY COI,2T.

COUNTY COURT.
D. B: Hill, Presiding Judge. Up.
=. Austin and John Miller, Associates.
Rsular terms, End Monday in Feb.
suarv, Nay, August aud November.
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ThowHLL LcpaE. No. 40, A. F. e. A..
y. meets at their hall in Lutesville on
friday night on OF before each full
moon. T1anscient brethren cordially
invited. Robert Fisher, W. NJ.
A. R. Jsques, Secretary.
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CIRCUIT COURT.
J. D. Fox. Judge, regular terms, End
Monday in March and September.
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SEDGEwICkvMLE LODGE No. 426 A.
T. 4 A. N. meets Saturday night on or
before each full moon, ard two weeks
after. Visiting brethren cordially inv:t-
I'd. b, b. Hill, W. M.
W. ID Limbaugh, Sec'y.
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MARBLE Hill LoDsE No. 298, A. f.
, 4. n. meets Saturday night Oh or be.
fore each full moon at their hall in Mar.
Bio Hill. Chss. Snyder, W. M.
B. L. Bowman, Sec'y.
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PRESBYTERIAN CHuRCR.-Preaching OF
tAs leunday in each month.
Sunday School at $50 q. m.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Us. Senators, Geo. G. Vest and Francis
Cockrell.
., Repressltative IN Congress, IA District,
Hen. Marshall Arnold.
Stats Rsnator, Jasper N. Burks.
Representative, J. N. Zimmerman.
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HARsLE Hill LODGE No. 44O, i. O. O..
J. meets regularly at their hall in Mar
bic Hill on the End and 4th Friday
nights IN each month. A. Sander, N. G..
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
Who is Sweating Now?

The Union Paclfic, Jay Gould says, is
being operated with 1000 less men than were
on the pay rolls year ago, writes the finm-
cial man of the New York Epoch. 1t is also
sand that when Mr.. Gould made Mr.. S. II II.
Clark general manager of the Union Pacific,
the latter found the road crowded with equip
ment belonging to other roads, on which, of
course, the company was paying mileage,
His first act was TO send these cars back
to their owners as fast as practicable
and collect baclc Fhe cars belonging to
the Union Pacific Which were stationed all
over the country mhe saving from mileage
payments alone, IL is asserted, will form a
big item in the future results of the Union
Pacific. One OF the Oldest directors of the
company, a man thoroughly acquainted with
IS condition, history and possibilities, said to
me recently: The investor who buys any
of the stocks or bonds connected with our
system will make great deal of money in
1891. We have gone through several 'sweats,'
but hereafter the other fellow will do the
sweatng'n
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
BUFIYG PIGS IN A POKE.

There Is no use in minclng matters
about the close corporation which now
controls the relief business OF Nebraska
The legislature has voted 800, 600 out OF
the state treasury for the purchase of
supplies. What quantity OF these sup
plies had been bought before the ap-
preparation bill passed has not been
made known TO the public. A liberal
estimate fixes the amount at S25,
600. These purchases were made
without competition from Lincoln
jobbers who were smart enough
to take advantage OF the soft
snap within their reach and in all prob
ability had enough state money on de-
posit in one of theii own BANKS to cover
any contingency OF delay in the appro-
priaton. Now comes the question
whether the relief committee proposes
to control these purchases in the inter
est OF favored set of dealers instead of
throwing the doors open to competition.
THE BEE insists that the money con-
tmbuted by taxpayers shall be
expended only for such sup
plies as are actually needed
and these goods should be purchased
from dealers who sell tho cheapest de-
liverable in localities nearest to the
points of distribution.
We realize that some Of the merchants
who generously volunteered TO ship
lot OF dried grapes and canned fruit to
relieve the hungry and thirsty settlers
we're doing a smart thing in
relieving themselves of goods
which were liable to spoil
on their hands. But we doubt whether
the state should invest in lux uries for
people who are in want of bread, meat
and fuel. And we don't believe it to be
good policy to buy pig in a poke, in
stead of inviting bids and having stand
ard goods delivered according to sample.
The people of Nebraska are willing to
tax themselves for the relief Of the poor,
but they do not relish being taxed for
the benefit of any set of merchants or
any locality thr ough favoritism or dis
elimination.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13

countries Is still more glaring. These
include provisions canned meats, fruits
and vegetables, manufactures OF cotton
and OF iron and steel, and leather and
its manufactures, except iron and steel
The average annual value OF these arti-
cles imported into Brazil is over $685.
100000, Of which the United States sup.
plies only about S2,00O00O worth. The
greatest discrepancy between the trade
of this and other countries appears in
the manufactures of cotton, of which we
furnish annually less than Sl,OOO,0OO
worth, while other countries, chiefly
England, find n market there for these
goods to the value of over $26, 600, 900
Another noteworthy discrepancy is in
leather and its manufactures, of which
there is TO the account of the United
States the beggarly sum of a few thous-
and dollars against several millions to
that of other countries.
Where the United States may be ex-
pected to make the most important gain
under rhe reciprocity arrangement is in
increasing the trade in agricultural
produc is and the manufactures of cotton.
In these alone we ought to be able to
enlarge our trade with Brazil within
the next few years to the amount of from
$4,000, 200 TO S15, ,OO0, 900 annually. 1t is
impossible TO say how long we can look
for any considerable demand for farm
products, because the promotion of
agriculture in Brazil may enab le
1,
remote future to supply the home de-
mand for breadstuffs and other products
of agriculture, but in certain classes of
manufactures, and particularly in that
of cotton, a steady enlargement of trade
is reasonably to be expected if our man.
ufacturers will make goods desirable for
that market at prices that will compete
with the English goods. OF course it
must be understood that this commercial
arrangement will secure the beneficial
results sought only when all the condi-
tiOns essential to q successful competi-
tion with other countries for the trade
are provided, and this will require
time. 1t is not to be supposed,
therefore, that our merchants and
manufacturers are to at once
acquire control OF the Brazilian market
A commercial conflict more or less pro.
longed will have to be fought and the
result will depend upon the energy and
enterprise OF our people and their abil-
ity to supply the demand upon as favor
able conditions in all respects as Euro.
peans can make. Granting they can do
this, the figures of Brazilian trade are
certainly tempting enough to induce
vigorous and determined effort to SO.
cure it
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
AFTER THE PENSION SHARKS.

Public opinion will approve the efforts
OF the interior department to protect
pensioners from the rapacity of the PEN
sion sharks. Himself an old soldier,
Secretary n obe is properly desirous
that the veterans who are entitled to the
bounty OF the government shall not be
robbed OF it by a pack OF sordid and
greedy attorneys, many OF whom are
capable of almost any disreputable prac-
tice to obtain business His first COM
mendable move against the pension
sharks was for a reduction of the fee
allowed in pension cases, and he has now
taken further step that will have the
effect to save many thousands OF dollars
to pensioners.
This latest action of the depart
ment is the cutting off of a
source of information which the at
torneys have hitherto found very profit
able. The published pension lists have
been giving the addresses OF persons to
whom pensions were awarded Assoon as
these lists appeared the attorneys would
write to each pensioner, informing him
suggesting that the fee for services rem
dered be remitted. The department
has ordered that hereafter the addresses
of pensioners be omitted from the lists
furnished the press, nothing to be pub
lished but the name of the successful
applicant and the state in which he re-
sides. AS the co mmissioner of pensions
gives timely information to all persons
who have been granted u pension, this
new arrangement will not cause sue
cessful applicants to be held in
suspense very long, while it will be of
very material benefit to them pecuni-
arily.
In the official communication to the
commissioner of pensions, after referring
to the illegitimate and unprofessional
methods of the attorneys, it is said: sit
is the judgment OF the department that
these methods should not be permitted
among attorneys who are admitted to
practice before it. To tolerate them is
almost the equivalent to approving
them, and no room should be left for
misconstruing the department s attitude
by even the remotest application. 1t
is suggested not only that the addresses
of pensioners be omitted from the pub
lished lists, but that all per-
sons engaged in the service of
the pension bureau be prohibited
from disclosing to anyone outside
the address of such pensioners on pain
of dismissal from the service, and that
this rule be applied also to divulg ging
the names of claimants for pensions.
The pension bureau has been the most
troublesome branch of the governme Mt
service to the present administr alton,
but much needed reforms have been in
stituted, beneficial both to the govern
ment and tho pensioners, and tho latest
adopted is not the least comm endable of
them. The old soldiers have every rea-
son to feel that the administration is
most anxious to protect their interests
| and secure them the full bone 1t of the
nations bounty.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
Gould vs. Wannmaker.

Washington Sunday Gazette.
The public has been favored with brief re-
ports of what has been done, or rather of
the way in which time has been squaudered
in the committees on postofce and post
roads this session, the bone Of contention be-
ing Mr. Wanamaker's limited postal tele-
graph bill. Messrs. Bingham and Ketcham
have led the obstruction to its consideration.
1t now appears that w. w. Dudley, who
has been managing the campaign against the
BILL has been provided by the Western Union
company with an extra fund of $4,000 to
work up an opposition to it. Strange as it
may seem, Mr.. Dudley has had the aid of Mr..
Garrison. Another reinforcement to the
lobby is Mr.. Moore of Moore & Schley, who
directly represents Mr. Gould, and has a
separate fund besides the $4,000 placed in
Mr.. Dudley's hands.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
WHERE U,E SILL CAIN

Secretary Blaine has submitted to the
president tables showing the articles
which under the comm orcial arrange =
mont with Brazil will be entitled to free
admission fnto the ports of that country,
and also the articles upon which the
existing duty will be reduced. The first
of these tables includes all kinds of
agricultural products, coal, farm imple-
ments, mining and mechanical machiu-
cry, railroad material and equipment.
The average annual value of these
articles imported into Brazil is 500 900, =
900, Of which the United States supplies
onlya little over 100000 worth. This
country exports more wheat flour to the
Brazilian markets than all other coun-
tries combined, but of corn and the man
ufactures thereof, rye, barley, and other
agricultural products, the supplies are
drawn almost wholly from othe coun-
tries, In the item of coal this co untry
does not ship any to Brazil, while her
importations from other Countries
amount to over S6,0OO,00Oa a year. We
do almost no business with that country
in mining and mechanical machinery
although manufacturing the best in the
world, while other countries sell them
nearly S3,000,O00 worth annual ly.
Ofarticles upon which the Brazilian
duty will be reduced, the discrepancy
between our trade and that Of other
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
Pc EGRSOy4LITIEy

Since Oscar Wilde cut his hair and pa
tronizes au everyday tailor he has become a
decent looking and evidently cultured ap-
pearlng gentleman.
Judge PETER says that of the hundreds of
congratulatOry letters which he has received
since his election as senator not one has come
from the moneyed classes.
Senator Cockrell of Missouri has for a
stenogmpher his ighteen- year-o old son Ewing,
who, in addition to this service, attends the
public high school in Washington.
Bismarck has found one friend that he can
trust without hesitation. 1t is little wren
which comes at call and perches upon the
hand that has swayed the destinies of ma
tions.
In the will of Judge Keyser, who died at
Marysville, Cal, is a clause giving Mrs Ida
Lee of Yuba City $4,000 for her kindness
and attention during long and dangerous
illness.
DR.. Mcintosh of Harrisburg says he re-
Gently visited n Pennsylvania town where no
one could understand his English. He also
saw worlSingmen's notices posted in fou" diff
ferent languages.
Governor Northen of Georgia refused to
meet JAY Gould at the Atlanta banquet be-
cause he objected to him personally and dis
approved of his policy of monopoly and his
business methods.
Idaho's new senator, Mcconnell, is said to
owe great measure of his popularity at
home to the fact that he taught the Boise
City cons titutional convention the mysteries
and fascinations of stud poker.
Goodwin Smith says that Macaulay, whom
he frequently met at Oxford, didn't look at
all like man of genius, except for his eye
and that he used to think "a cobbler's apron
would have become him very well"
Sophia Marguerat, little Belgian girl by
birth, of New York is one Of the few women
diamond settlers in America, and Mrs. Cecilia
Kim gen berger Is as good a judge of da-
monds and precious stones as there is in that
city.
Andrew Carnegie, who cannot now tell Just
how many millions he is worth, was telegraph
messenger boy at Pittsburg in the fifties
and tried harder then to master the intrica-
cies OF the telegraph than he does now to in
crease his great fortune.
Colonel l.. g. Weir, superintendent of the
western division of the Adams express com
pany, was in early life a telegraph operator,
and used to work at the other end of the wire
that Tom Edison pounded. Weir was one of
the few men who could "takc" Edison
Henry Haynie, writing from Paris, says
that nearly every good singer on the lyric
stage there was born in the United States
Mile. Adiny, leading prima donna of the
Paris grand opera and an American, was re-
Gently decorated with the violet ribbon.
Carl Schurz and Senator-elect Calvin S.
Brice of Ohio are frequently mistaken for
one another in New York, where they spend
nearly all of their time. Both have the same
cOlored whiskers the same cut and trim of
hrs ute adomment, the same pose of the head,
chins high IN air, and might be taken for
brothers if they were sitting together. The
special adherence of Mr.. Schur2 is a bour-
bon democrat, which Mr.. Brice is. The
special abhorrence of Colonel Brice is mug
wump which MIR. SchurZ is.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
Seasonable Fable.

San Francisco EIdnl3lCr.
Two politicians Were exchanging ideas re-
garding the rewards for public service.
'The re ward which | most desire,n said
the first politician, sis the gratitude of ny
fellow-cit liens"
''That would be very gratifying, no dou bt."
soid the second politician, 'but, alas in
order to obtain it one has to retire from poll
tlcs.''
For one instant they ga2ed upon one an
other with inexpresSble tenderness: then
the first politician murmured; Goods will
be done since we cannot hope for reward
lot us be content with the offices and perqui-
siteSn
And raising their right hands from the
public treasury to heaven they swore to be
content. The spot is still pointed out to the
traveller. I5--
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13

TIE official report on the number and
value of farm animals on January does
not show any material change from the
report of the preceding year. The losses
on the Pacific slope and Rocky noun
tains during last winter were unusually
severe, but the gains in other sections
We're sufficient to balance the loss. The
aggregate of beef cattle is 36,S75, ,G4S;
sheep, 43,4Sl, 1856; and hogs, 5O,625, lO6.
A decrease of 2 per cent is noted in
the latter, the scarcity Of corn causing
rush to market.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13

Miles that theGmdians would make good
soldiers, and with their new RESPONSE
bilities progress faster toward civiliza-
ton. The idea Is to organizea few com
panies and attach them to some Of the
regiments serving in the west, and II the
experiment proves success to accept
several thousand recruits from the more
intelligent and nd vanced tribes.
The Indian troops would be
treated In all respects MS the
other soldiers, and would be commanded
by officers specially selected for their
knowledge of Indians and their habits.
In view of the good record made by the
Indian police during the late Sioux dis
turbance, both in courage and loyalty,
there is reason to believe that the opin-
ion of General Miles regarding Indian
soldiers would be justified by results. Az
any rate the proposed experiment is
worth trying, and it will not take long
to determine whether it will prove a
success.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
TAKES THE BLACK TEEL.


Miss Drexel Becomes Sister Catherine o
of the Blessed Sacrament.
PiTTsBURG, Pa, Feb. 12.-[Special Tele-
gram to THE BEE. Catherine Drexel the
Philadelphia heiress who two years ago en-
tered convent here, took her final vows and
adopted the black veil today. The ceremo-
nies were private and no one outside the
church, not even the members of Miss Drex-
els family, were present. Archbishop Ryan
conducted the services, assisted by Bishop
Phelan of Pittsburg, Rev. Father Stephen Of
the Catholic Indian bureau at Washington
ID. c., and Rev. Father Conway of Mercy
convent Miss Drexel, or Sister Catherine, as
she will now be known. brings with her
S1000,OO0 and will found the order OF the
Blessed Sacrament the object of the order
being to educate the Indian and negro.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
Nevada Up for Bids.
Virt tnfd Chronicle,

1t is reported that Tom Fitch has mine
for which he has been offered $2,0OO, 900 and
that withina few months he will make
cleanup and return TO Nevada. That means,
of course, that he will be a candidate to sue
ceed W. Nj, Stewart in the United States
senate. We'll, if Tom will chuck half a mil
lion or so into the pool he can get away with
the fight, and if the senatorship is to be con-
tinued in the market for sale, we would as
soon see him get away with it as any men,
ber of his party in the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13

THE ordinance licensing coal dealers
Is dead letter and should be repealed.
1t was not drawn for an honest purpose,
nor is its enforcement practicable.
Even il the council has right
10 license the business, tho power
should not be exercised. With
equal Justice all classes of business may
be licensed, The plea of short weights
is absurd. The city has its inspector of
weights and measures, and il scales are
tampered with for the purpose of de-
frauding purchasers, the dealer can be
promptly punished. The imposition of
license is not guarantee Of honesty.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
Rowdy Belt Moves Eastward.

San Francisco Chronicle.
1t seems to us that necessity exists for a
relocation of the reg on known as the ''yvild
and woolly west" Itis popularity supposed
by many eastern people to represent that sec
ton lying on. this side OF the Rocky noun
tains and tract on the eastern slope Of the
great chain But when we read of banks
raided in open daylight III Chicago and
bloody conflicts between small army of
tramps and trainmeu in central Ohio, we are
forced to conclude that the zone ought to be
furt her cast
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
SCINDALIzED BY A LETTER.
IL eliminates in the Expulsion Of a
prOminent Chnrch Mnmhnr

IL CulmtnatcS in the Expulsion Of a
Prominent Church Member.
BosToN, Feb, H. Special Telegram TO TIM
BEE. The elimination of a scandal that has
agitated West Roxbury for weeks and has
been given much publicity in local news
papers, was reached last night, when the
South Evangelical church of West Roxbury
formally suspended from fellowship w. IL.
French woll-known lecturer, who has been
a member number of years Tho charge
which has resulted in French's dismissal
was substantially that French wrote letter
in November last, stating that Miss Helen
f. Smith OF the same church was his wife,
and had sustain ed that relation for six months
when she was forced to leave him through
the animosity of her parents Miss Smith de-
MED F'rench's claim in toto. The church COM
mttee finds that such a statement as French
made if true implied conduct on his part
both illegal and scandalOus, and if not true IL
was adopted and seemed to be intended TO
ruin the ladys reputation and good name.
Both parties move i'll the highest society
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
PROC 8Ess OF LEGIsLATIOM
Conditions of the Various Bills Now
Before Congress.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-[Spccial Telegram
to The BEE. SO much has been SAID about
the work OF congress and the chances Of an
extra session that 1t may be well to state just
what the status of needed legislation is--
There are thirteen regular appropriation bills
which must be passed and signed by tho
president before noon Of March 4. The con-
dition of these bills is as follows:
The military academy, Notifications, army
and pension bills have passed both houses
and are in conference the District of Column
bia bill has passed the house and is almost
ready TO be reported to the senate the naval
bill has passed the house and is now before
the senate; the sundry civil bill, which
passed the house last Monday was yesterday
referred to the committee on appropriations;
the Indian agriculture and posto1ice bills
have been reported to the house, but are un-
acted upon while the deficiency bill has not
been reported to the house. Speaker Reed
SAID yesterday that he would have all the ap-
preparation bills except tho deficiency,
through the house by Saturday.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13

HON, JERRY SIMPSON continues to
dazzle the country, not only with his
physical extremities, but also with his
unique originality as a Gnancier Gold
and silver are TO his mind as so much
dross. Had he his way the mines would
be closed, the precious metals left in the
bowels OF the earth, and the printing
press proclaimed the money maker OF
the world. 1t is painful to observe that
the sockless meteor Of Wichita throws u
dark shadow over Nebraska's per
cent genius alternating in Hitchcock
county
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13
ENVIES .JOHNNY.
Washington Post.

Washington Post.
Johnny-he's my little brother
Often fingers after school.
For it seems somehow or other
That there's always some small rule
Which he has way OF breaking;
And he says it is SIN,
When he tells in accents shaking
How he got kept in.
But the school -maam-she's a sprightly
Modest winesome little miss,
Aud you'd give fortune lightly
In exchange for one small kiss.
And when Johnny comes a-pining,
have felt it would have been
Right TO shake him for his whining
When he gets kept in.
But in youth you must expect it;
When it sees a treasure rare,
Like as not il will reject IL
For some trifie light as air.
Wouldn't 1--we thought IL sadly
II the chance l could but win,
Do his penance for him gladly
When he gets kept ini
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-13

by every advocate OF the white metal, and
they would havo been fools II they had failed
to ba ok their belief with coin. IL is absurd
In the extreme to accuse men of corrupt acts
who openly declare their intention OF effect
ing n certain object, and who were prompted
to make the effort by the whole country,
which demands free coinage for the avowed
purpose of raising the price of silver and
with 1t that of other products