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A KNOTTS BROS., Publishers & Proprietors. T- II. KNOTTS. Eclitox-. A. li. KNOTTS, Ilusincss Manager. T111J l'LATTSMOUTII 1IKKALD Is published every Thursday morning. Office t oritur 01 vino una inn streets. WKEKLY. by lnall. One oopy one yoar g r One copy one year (in advance) 1 Onn ctinv ill months " ltKl-Hteruil at the Tost Office, riattmoutu, a aecouu oiumh mailer. REPUBLICAN STATE CON VENT' N Call for the Meeting at Lincoln In October. The Rrbublican electors of the state of e traska arc requested to send delegates from the several counties, to meet In convention at the opera home, in the city of Lincoln, Wed Monday, October 5, 1H8", at 8 o'clock p. in., for the purpofe of p.acing in nomination candi dates for one associate justice of the supreme court, and for two members of the board o reKonts of the tttate university, and to trausac ouch oilier business as may be presented to the courention, THE IPl'OIKTMEXT. The several counties are entitled to repre sentation as follows, being based upon tii vote cant for lion. John M. Thayer, governs in 18t, giving one delegate to each new county, one delegate-at-large to each county and one for each 150 votes and the major frac tion thereof : eOUKTIEH. VOTES, Adams 13 Antelope 8 Arthur 1 Klaine 2 Moono 7 Jtrown liulfalo 11 Hutlcr 8 Hurt 8 Chase 3 Cass 16 Cedar 3 Cheyenne ft Cheiry 8 Clay 11 Coliax 6 Cuming 7 Custer ig lakota a Dawes 6 Dixon c lodgo 10 Douglas Dawson 5 Dundy 3 Fit more 10 Kurn ah 7 Franklin 0 Frontier r iae 20 Gosper 3 Grant 1 GreHey 3 Garfield 2 Jlail n Hamilton 9 Harlan 7 Jlayen 3 Hitchcock c Holt n Howard 0 countj ks vo: Jefferson , ,!ohnnou Kearney Keva Faha KeitU Knox Lancaster 2 Lincoln Logan Loup Madison M ; ('hereon Merrick Nance Nemaha 10 iSuckolJti Otoe u I'awnee 1'lieips Fierce Flatte Folk Kielianl-on lied Willow Sioux Saline 13 Sarpy Saun-ters 1 Seward 1 Sheridan Sherman Stanton Thayer Thomas Valley Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler York Unorganized ler'y Total 59.' It is recommended that 110 proxies be admit ted to the conventic n exaept such as are held by persons residing in the counties from which proxies are given. Walteii M. Sekly, Secretary GEOkue w. Lui:tx, Chairman. There is in our opinion no county in the state can show up as good an array of real live local news papers as can old Cass. The Farmer and Herald of Mead ville, Penn., is right earnestly advoca ting Robt. T. Lincoln for a place on the republican national ticket next year. The Hastings Gazette Journal has fine article showing the amount of build. ing done in that city since spring to be over three hundred thousand dollars. It is a magnificent show'ng. A bill taxing wine rooms $10,000 has passed the Georgia house of representa tives and it is thought it will pass the senate also. Nebraska's high license law seems to be low license after all. ins oaivauon .army nas nau some trouble in Lincoln. It's leaders were placed under arrest for disturbing the peace but were afterward released on their promise to be a little more orderly in their street parades. The St. Paul Xeb. Enterprise pub lishes a map showing that city's railroad connections and expenditures. It has great expectations and seems to think that they are entitled to a boom. We hope they will get it. The vote cast for and against the par ing and sewerage bonds, Monday, shows how largely the people of this city are in favor of and want the city improvements of the most modern limes. "We already have gas and water works well establish ed, and now with a system of sewerage opened up and the most important street in the city paved, we have all the neces sary nucleus for the growth and building up of a prosperous city of several times our present population. One of the good features of the favorable result of the ing and sewerage bond election is the practical demonstration it will be to all inquiring comers of the faith our people have in our city's growth. Now let us have the contracts let as soon as possible and the work begun. The Nebraska City papers give full accounts of the hanging of Hoffman on Friday last week. It seems there were large crowds came to town that day, drawn by some morbid impulse to be near the hanging, even if they could not witness it. About 230 persons were ad mitted to the enclosure, and we trust 250 of them went home sick at heart and ashamed of themselves for having allow ed a brutal desire to witness such a scene become strong enough to induce them to ciently adequate defense to make the size go. Such legal executions are doubtless of the British navy 11 matter of tliesmall necessary for th well being of society, est importance to us. Neb. State Jour- but the law should strictly forbid the making of the hanging a spectacular show. None should be allowed admis sion save those whose presence is abso lutely required. The sheriff, a proper number of assistants, the attending phy sician and ministers, and, perhaps, a press reporter or two. are all that are necessary'. Elskwheke in this issue we have ex pressed our condemnation of the custom of admitting a miscellaneous crowd to see a hanging. It U bad enough that the law of capital punishment has been thought necessary, without having its en forccnient made a spectacle or show to gratify the depraved, morbid tastes that are inherent in so many. But since that article was written comes news that Nebraska City's thirst for the taking of human life was not slacked by the execu- tion of Hoffman, legally, but they must form a mob and take a convicted and sentenced, murderer from his cell and hang him, to the everlasting disgrace of men uny, uoumy, nnu state, we cio not know what remedy to suggest for this state ot evil, but until one is found we can keep making our protest against the lawless arts and voicing our censure of the lawless perpetrators, which Ave do most earnestly. For the good of the credit of the law abiding citizens of Nebraska City we hope some punishment will be meted out to the leaders of the mob who committed this last crime. nr.. l..Aiijiii 11, I i j, are ocing tout mat me navy mat the queen of Great Britain reviewd the otueraay is me ve-y largest mine world, anct mat it contains several single ships that coultl sink the entire navy of the United States in an hour. That may be so. It is a matter of fact also that at one --. . .... .. time near the close of our civ'l war we I are preparing to come to St. Louis inSep had two or three turret eel monitors that j tember in uuprecedentedly la-"-e nuni- could have sunk the entire British navy in a short time if the British navy had stopped in front of them long enough to be sunk. But we had no call to sink the British navy. If wc had sunk it we would not have been a dollar the better off. The same state of facts exists today. If the British iron clad that can sink our navy should proceed to sink it, beyond the casualties that were incurred in the sinking no particular harm would be the fact that the democratic party has al done to this country and no particular ready tried that plan and found it a snare advantage could accrue to Great Britain, and a mockery, for the simple reason that It is a singular circumstance that since the entrance of these great iron clacts in- I to the arena, war is not. farrier! nn with . . , , I ""J uiiii;vm.u ui wa. uic luousier I vessels parade up and down, but they do not attack the seaport of a bellingerent J power because they are afraid of being blown up with torpedoes hidden in the I bottom ot the Harbor. I hey do not at- I tack merchantmen because in the open sea iney can t eaten mem very easily, i hey rarely attack each other, for the proba- j bilities would be that each would go to the bottom with no advantage to any- I body. They are only serviceable as cruisers outside harbors and the mouths of navigable rivers to enforce a blockade. The important question is not whether j Great Britain has the biggest navy, but whether she would venture to engage us in a war it she had all the navies on earth to back her and we hadn't a fishing smack. The probabilities are she would I not unless ' -e jumped on her and forced a fight. The United States has very little j use for any navy on the pattern of the J great sea going iron clads. What she j needs is a fleet of swift, light cruisers, I with a couple or so very heavy guns I aboard that could get around the water and make it interesting for the commerce of any power that undertook to make trouble with us, especially Great Britain, j We do need some coast defenses for j the protection of our seaports from hos tile iron clads. Something after the I pattern suggested by Gen. Sheridan! w would probably fill the bill. The "-ener- I al recommends the construction of under- j ground forts with a hoisting apparatus for big guns whereby they may be load- I ed in safety below the range of any ves-1 sel in harbor and then automatically ele- I vated and fired at the surface with only I a momentary exposure, after which they I are lowered instantly to the bottom of the stronghold and made ready for an- other shot. It is pretty well established that no sort of an erection can be made these days that shots from the bi- guns of the period will not demolish. Hence the only recourse is to put your defenses underground. The cannon ball aimed at the defenders of an underground fort would simply rebound and glance off in infinite space and the chance of hittin cannon that was only in range for a couple of seconds would be very small indeed. The iron clad would be demolished by guns equal to her own before she had got the range of an underground work well enough to drop shot and shell into it with a curve from a mortar. We need the application of a little yankec ingenuity on the lines suggested by Sheridan and there is no doubt that we can easily put the coast under sufii- nal. THOMAS E. POWELL, Democratic Nominee for Governor of Ohio. A dispatch from from Cincinnati dated July 21, says : Thomas Edward Powell, nominated to-day at Cleveland, is l:) years old. J h is of Welsh descent, and was born at Delaware, Delaware county, Ohio. While a student at the Ohio Wesleyan university, in 1&G4, he enlisted as a private in an Ohio regiment and served four months. Subseouentlv he graduated, and. having studied law with Colonel V. I eid. formed a partnershij with him. His political career began in when he was a speaker for Greeley In IM75 he was nominated for uttorney general and had the distinction of defeat by a smaller majority than that of Governor William Allen. Contrary to his wish, he was nominated for Congress in 1882, and was defeated by General James S. Kohinson. He reduced the Ke publican majority to 400. In 1884 lie headed the Democratic' electoral ticket ttnd in 1885 he scryed as chairman of the Democratic State committee. During the paHt four years he has had a law office in j Columbus, O. I Walt Mason, the poet of the Atchin- son Glole, will take the position on the J Lincoln Journal resigned by Will S. Jay i Globe Bern. Fou the first time in the historv of Chicago the saloons were all closed on Sunday last. Carter Harrison is not may or of that reat aml ,vicke,i ,itvnnw I jjewkt Times. . a .. j Repokts from all part3 of the country I indicate that the Grand Armv veterans I bers. Globa Bern Abraham Lixcols always said the "so called confederate states," when refenng to the states in rebellion. Mr. Cleveland dignifies them by saying "the confederate states." Indianola, la., Herald. Dr. McGlyxn declares that the Anti Poverty Society proposes to abolish pov- j erty by capturing all the offices in -the I country. He seems to have overlooked t - there are not enough offices to go around Globe Democrat Call for City Prohibition Conven- tion All who have lost confidence in the other parties and believe in the principles of the prohibition party as set forth in their platform, are asked to meet in con yen tion at the court house in this city on Saturday July 30th, at 8 p. m., for the purpose of selecting delegates to the County convention to be held at Weep- ing Water Aug. 3, 1887, to elect dele gates to the State convention, and tans act such other business as may come be fore the meeting. G. B. Ckippex, Ch-Co. Central Com The State Board of Transportation through its secretary, O. P. Maion, has addressed a long letter to Mr. G. W. Holdrege, general manager, and Mr.Thos Miller. General trafic ni.m.io-pr. nf tlm Ti & M. at Omaha, showing the higher tariff rate of freight charged in Nebraska than in Minnesota and Iowa. The board rc- quests that the rate-making authorities of the road give it their attention and con sideration, and reduce their rat3 till it in some measure corresponds with that charged in the other states referred to. It is to be hoped that the letter af ad- monition,' as we may term it, will have the desired effect Vorkinsmen's Wages. me advance sneets ot me annual re Port of Commissioner Hutclr'ns, of the labor bureau, present some very interest- !nS statisticts. One table of great value Wl11 uc given showing the average week """ages paid artisans and mechanics in European countries compared with those received in Iowa. Taking the table for England, a comparison of the wages for Iowa, shows an increase for the Iowa workman of a fourth to a half above the "wages received by the Englishmen. The lowa bricklayer makes an average of 20 Per week; the Englishman but $ Tbe Iowa carpenter gets an average for u3s week's work of 13.44; the English carpenter gets but fc7.G6. The Iowa har- ness maker makes an average of $9.68 Per week; the English harness maker gets but ?6.63, and so on through the d;ffer- ent trades. No better anrument could be given of the advantage to the work- ingman of a protective tariff than this comparison between free trade England and pi otected America. Ex. Prohibition in Texas. An election occurs in Texas the 4th of next month, the issue being prohibition. The Galveston iWrc.?,. which opposes the proposed amendment to the constitution, admits that a large niajotity of the native whites of the state favor it, but thinks it will be defeated, py a small majority, by the foreign white and colored vot. It estimates that over two thirds of the color ed vote of the statu will be cast for tiie Kuloous. It is likely to meet with disap pointment in this. The pastor of the col ored churches have great influence over their people, and they are doing every thing in their power for prohibition. The best the News can do it to figure sixteen thousand majority. It is likely to see th:s cut down very low if it is not wiped out altgoether. The democratic legislature which passed the bill submittingjthe ques tion to the people would never have con- sented to the measure had they supposed ther was the slightest danger of its adop- tion by the people; but they looked up on the 1(8,000 democratic majority as a Kllflu'Innf J fil I T ft fwrninef anvil.!... f i a. 7 . f, , " , m-.pcciemy, nowever, mat party is pretty evenly divided on the . t 1 r t , -. ... quesuon, a,1(l u proiumuon carries it will 11.11; lvj no- liii-uni 01 iieinocraiic votes, as there are few voters of any other poli tics in Texas. Omaha licjmbliran. CONDKA'SATIOSS. IHCl'.SUAY. The president and Mrs. Cleveland have returned to Washington. The Afghan bound -y question which l.nu cj T.i.w tlnv..if..i1i.l 1-1 .. r .- ou 1"" tuiLULgiii-u mu icueo 01 jjug- i " .- i.uvi 11 jioiu iue jau at re land and Russia lias been settled by the braska City, and hungfby a mob fiom his i.-i-i-i i-, - . . I.T .... taw joiui liiiusu antt nussian commission. In the Ohio democratic state conven- tion at Cleveland the contest for the nomination as candidate for governor it principally between Powell and Camp- IJCll. Matters in Bulgaria are in a very com plicated state. It seems Prince Ferdi nand will not be permitted to assume the Bulgarian throne and no one knows what to do or .vhat may happen. Robert Garrett, president of the Balti more & Ohio railroad, publishes a letter stating that the "B. & O. deal" is off, and that eve'-y thing remains as it did before the negotiations were opened. An exploring expedition, headed bv An exploring expedition, headed by Joseph Mauson, is about to leave England for Lake Chad, central Africa. Andrew Carnegie supplies the bulk of the funds to defray the expenses of the expedition, Parnell and a larire number of his fol- lowers wt"-e guests at a banquet given iu London by the national Liberal club. In response to a toast he eulogized Glad stone, who, he said, having put his shoul der to the wheel would, before many months, carry his policy to success. In Pittsburg the intense heat was fol lowed by a ten ! tic storm. The heaviest rain-fall known there since the territic Butcher's Hun disaster thirteen years atro when TOO peop'e lost their lives. No people are yet reported to have lost their lives in this one but the destrrction of property has been very great. At Clinton, Iowa, in the "wild west" icaiurooioeiisuros. circus the cow-boys WHO I'M C11111.-.C0.1 liO.m l.nr.n ,l.....l- I Cl1 11 T A .,,.f .: t.:..i. .-i x, ' I gvi, tu i-uuunu" in" i aim lurcc persons i , . . . iuili, .inuus were shot T wo lire i.in.r.i.,., I. .,.,,1 4.1. I . mint seriously wounded. Ko arrests were made as the circus left town before the extent of the affair was realized. FJUDAY. Paris dispatches indicate that Gen. Boulangei's popularity as a leader is de creasing. Ives and Stagnor have brought suit against Kobert Oarrettt for not carrying llf ll.a Y 11-if li 4ln VVll UlO V.UUUUV t W llil LIU III- I It is the general opinion that Fridav Prince Ferdinand will formally decline to occupy the Bulgarian throne. Tf ;a nimn,.n,i ti, fir -r c i .i It is rumoied that II. A. Stanly the A r 1 1 - n T1 Aw.liTr.t. .j . I ..... 1 'V 1 , -. ....... . I ..i.tiiiu LAinuiti J.i iicau. 1 111; IU IHOl J3 I utterly discredited in both England and Belgium. The Ohio demoerr.ti. Kfnf .nnrmt; on the second ballot nominated Thomas Ldward Powell as their candidate for governor. The platform endorses Clevc- i.uiu. luimiinsirauon. . .vii e;,ini-t.s irain on me .t,ne road ..el.il ,i T, ...... aiuuuu a. .-ii.il j i in if IILTclI IIOIIO- I kus, i . and into a gang of 42 station laborers working on the track, killing ten of them and wounding six others. TM. ll T a. 1 1.1 .1 i no uieu are menisci ves mougnc to be at fault. - u ,a.f: -p I sharrholdpr in Pria it n,.nr.,,i ; " uiKiiui; ui iue x uuitiiia eauai I less confidence that the canal will be od- cnect in issy, out the hope is expressed ...nl . mat me connection between the Atlantic nd Pacific will t!:en exist, and that the works will be completed soon after. De Lesseps presided and Don Pedro, emperor ot .brazil, was present. SATURDAY. There is nothing new from Stanley. The Aller" just arrived in Xew York bringing ."500,000 in gold. A company with a capical stock of $3, 000,000 has been formed to build under ground railways in Chicago. The Tagblatt of Vienna, ftates that King Milan of Scrvia and his queen. j alalia, nave become reconciled. Miss Jennie Lamar, daughter of Sec retary Lamar, was married atMacon, Ga , to W. A. Lamar, of Washinston. The president and Mrs. Cleveland will make their home at their country resi dence during the remainder of the sum mer. The treasury department has decided that animals of high grade and ya'ue imported lor breeding purposes are en titled to free entry, notwithstanding they may be for sale. " Charles T. Lynn testifying in the Chi cago boodle case gave ve'-y datnaDf evidence against the boodlers. He said he had received about $3,000 as his share from the contractors. A dispatch from Ottawa, Ontario, says that the chief of police of that city states that tln-re is a statu of affairs existing there similar to that whieli Urn Pall Mall Gazette exposed in London two years ago. It has created a great sensation. The examination of the books and ac counts of late United States Treasurer Jordan, show the only di.aerepency was a shortage of $2.50 in the way of gold coin of that denomination w hich had been counted by weight, many years ago, ami passed along from treasurer to treasurer as correct, and the mistake was only dis covered :y actual count. The tracer Cllllll! til.. tf.lllA .tf 1 ,. ...1. . ... 1. the mistake, and as he is still in service,- the matter was calh-d to l,iMt,.fm ..... at once made the shortage good, so that "Uncle Sam's cash account now balances." S UN DAY. J Oil was the lowest yesterday t has been since 1884 The boat race between Hanlan and c.uaduar at Pullman, 111., ...roved to be a I u.zie. The Brotherhood of Telegraphers con template lmying the Baltimore & Ohio telegraphic system. Miss Bosc Elizabeth Cleveland has ac- "i""' " iwn.ioii 111 a icw 1 oik 0111 av enue private school. The secretary of the navy signed nn advertisement inviting proposals for tlio construction ol a lirst class torpedo boat. Shellenberger, the murderer of his I rln 11 rrlit.il" .fin. 1.,... f it.. - -i . I iUMi' no me. Qneen Victoria's jubilee ltview of her navy in the channel was a success. Over 0110 . hundred torpedo boats and men of war were in line with thousands of small v. nuu mraiiius loaueu Willi jooKcrs on. Many eminent Americans present. were MONDAY. 1 he invention of a portable telephone is reported irom J missels. TT.m-vr :.. -r -.1... .-it .. .nun in -uii.incmi.seits cause the . s of u "uniber of lives and the destruc- tlon ot much property There were more de: There were more deaths in Chicago for th,u wtck ending Saturday than for any other week 111 the history of ihc city. Ex-county hospital warden MeGari- gle, of Chicago, the convicted bood'er " , e?ssll' 1" l slierilT and is prob- 1 1-"J . . ' immigration statistics show that the number of immigrants for the past twelve months has been 4s:l The Tt.-diana have the largest relative increase. TLKSDAY. Chicago oflicers are trying to prevent McGarigle reaching Canada. The yacht. Thistle, sailed yesterday ui.i!j;uiv lor iCW 1 OIK. fl-l. . Tl ' . -1 , . . ... me x aris papers declare that the new Panama loan has been already subscribed in iuii. President Cleveland accepted the in- vitation of St. Louis to visst that city -1 ' j 1 . . i. . . - . J " """" "-'t. t . , . , 1 WO American flslnnfr tr inmn.ro l.o-.r been so zed off thn ensr .,r.;f f r . . . - a "-o ... Ldward Island by a Dominion cutter. pviuv j M. X 1 lULU liritish and Scottish societies of Mass. are preparing to have their members naturalized. There are 27,000 in that state. A violent volcanic eruption has occur red on the island of Oalita off the coast of Yunis. The glare of tho flames are visible for fifty miles. Eight hundred pilgrims from Calcutta - . . . 1 . " niu KUUUU. LC1JJIJHJ I ' L jaquiiaLu at i un were drowned in the hflY of Bengal Thev wee on board the Sir Jolin Lawrence whieli encountered a cyclone lasting from the 21st to the 2Gth ot May, during which time the ship with ln on lJOartl perished. x Greatly Excited Xot a few of t!ie citizens of Platts- mouth recently become greatly excited over the astounding facts that seveva of their fi lends who lm.1 1 r..l l... !.: ..i ..uuu. u uj men piivsieiaus as lncuraoie - u i ...... .., J"" suuering will fi i. 1 1 . jhuilli, consumption- nave hceu completely cured by Dr. Kim Xew Discovery for Consumption the ' onlv remedr thnf ,1 ,;t;w.i n ..:." -u...ii inroac ana lung diseases, Coughs, Colds n ir u uroncuitis. 1 rial bottle free at F- G- Fricke & Co.'s Drug Store, li.il t large ootties 1. (l) Absolutely Pure. . This powder r.evcr varies. A marvel of pur ity, sTr-entrf li anri whole omeiws, .Mora -ci-iiorr.ioal than the ordinary Kinds. ar1 eacnot be iMiii couiie!iti.n with the mull Li urie of low teit. short w.iht alum or plusspliate i.owders. Sold onlv n c iiis. Hoval Baki.m; rowiitu Co.,iocWalI St. Jew York. 2i;UH BARGAINS ! FOR SALE ON- HMSOnahlfl iPriTK HCttOUimUIvy 1 CI HID, LOTS IN- Conveniently nibl ple.l.SMlltly sitll I ' J att'd, 111:1 v 1m; hud on ViootfilyPap'ts or on ONE, LTWO, or THREE YEARS' TIME. Persons want- ing- lot mid desiring to build thereon, nre requested to call tuid see us and we vill tell them some thin' to their advantage. "We have for sale a very lurtre variety of J'cal property, both improved and unimproved, and w e can liar lv lhil to Katifv vmi it v.m wi ? Y il ? I'nrc,m'so- . Jt .V"" J"VC pi trd- ish ro- I,. ,...!.,. l'L1 yi any j.mu wiiicn you wisn to exchaiiire. list it on our books. cj - Kemember that we have the best bargains in the eity in the way of realty. .ILL Lots in Palmer's Addition to Plattsmonth. Lots in Tovnsend's Addi tion to Plattsmonth. LotS in ThO-HPSOn'S Addi" tion to Plattsmouth. Lots in Haves' Addition to Plattsmonth. Lots in Euke's Addition to Plattsmonth. Lois in Saga's Addition' to Plattsmonth. Pick out the )rperty you want and then call and .see lor terms. FIVE ACRE TRACTS OX LINCOLN AVENUE. TEN A N D T W E N T Y ACRE TRACTS NEAR TIIE CITY. Some of the most convenient resi dences and the most valuable business property in the city for sale. If you wish to purchase let us know what you want. Apply to R. B. WINDHAM Or, 0 ci 13qqli o f Gqss Go. X. 13. Improved and x;nim- pro-ed farms for sale. ISHP III i J