Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-09
PEOPLE AND THINGS.
The country is safe.

The country is safe.
Carry the news to Sioux Falls.
The restoration of confidence is now COM
plete.
There was a democratic party. Where is
that party nowl
IL is evident the New York machine
slipped several cogS.
1t is useless to search for q silver lining in
the democratic clouds.
The shakcup and slaughter at Santander
is thrown in the shade by the cataclysm of
November z.
The unabridged is painfully short of terms
to titIingly express the situation. "A land
slide" is no name for 1T. Call it a cyclonado.
Tho poignancy of democratic grief is in
tensitied by the reflection that Mr.. Roose-
velt-Roosvelt and MIR. Yan-Van Allen escaped
the consomme BY Hight.
The falling off in the democratic vote in
Massachusetts IS due to the large drafts
made upon the voting population to run the
federal government at Washington.
Josiah Quincy resigned n federal Office to
conduct the democratic campaign in Massa-
chusetts on ii high moral plane. The re-
turns Indicate that Josiah sadly mistook his
calling.
TIL following pathetic bulletin is ~self-ex-
planatory:
LOUISVILLE, Nov. S.-Henry Watterson,
the only democrat remaining on earth. ~
Kill it."
Mr.. Neal of Ohio will be remembered as
the author of the free trade plank of tho
Chicago platform and the leader of the
largest political funeral ever held in the
Buckeye state.
Halloween celeorators at Valentine killed
a lot of chickens belonging to a resident and
turned forty hogs out into the road be-
longing to another citizen. The vandals
may be forced to pay for their "fun."
Miss Mary Reed OF Cincinnati, a nurse
among the lepers in India, has contracted
the disease herself, but her last letter home,
instead of repining over the fact, asks that
$50 of her small salary be withheld and
given to the flood sufferers in the south.
Henry Thomas Butterworth, the uncle OF
ex-Congressman Butterworth. died in Gin.
cinnati a few days ago at the age of S5. A
popularity of his later years was his anx,
ieJy regarding his burial. He made his own
coffin years ago, had it properly inscribed
and trimmed and stored away. He also
marked the ground for his grave and bar
gained with a man to dig it. His wishes
were complied with.
or the $685. women postmasters in the
United States-Pennsylvania having 463
Alaska one and other states scattered be
~tween-the oldest Is Miss Martha E. Stone
of North Oxford, Mass. She received he
commission April ~, 1857, from HoratiC
King, who was then first assistant postmas
ter general. There were then only wv
mails d day at North Oxford, but since tina
time the business has nearly quadrupled
Miss Stone has always had the office in hel
sitting room.
The eilded 400 of Gotham hold frequen
receptions in the courts. A few months ag
a representative member was sent to tn
penitentiary for brHtaliy assaulting an oil,
man. Only a fewjdays ago that fierce ant
sanguinary yet fashionable person, Halle
All-Slop BorrowS, got drunk, and afte
being kicked out of a restaurant wound u
in a police station charged with beating
cabman out of his fare. Now comes Berr
Wail-Berry the, hpgnifcent-the glass o
fashion and the mold OF form, iikewis
drunk and d~isorderly, weeping before a pc
lice justice. All, this, too, while War
Macaliister IS publishing vapid homilies o
society.