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I'LATTSAIOUTll WEEKLY HERALD, THURSDAY. AUGUST 1, lM KNOTTS BllOS., Publishers A Proprietors. rjp. II- ISTNOTTS. EJcli tor A. U. KNOTTS, llusincs Manager. TIIK lXATTSMOUTIl HKKAM) In published !Vt rv Thursday iimriiiiiK- Olllce, turner I Vine and Fifth stre'ts. WEEKLY, by mall. f)ni copy one year ii,. coiiv o:if vcurdii iidviincM ) $ . ro , 1 M Onecoiy MX lunula " llngtxlered at the Cost Office, ruttf mouth, hh Bt-COlld olilHK lll.tlKT. REPUDLICAN STATE CON VENT' N. Call fortho Meeting at Lincoln In October. The Kt buljlidin electors l tin- state of Ne braska are requested to scud delegates from the several counties, to meet In convention at Hit; opera house, In the city of Lincoln, Wed ncHday, October 5, 17. at h o'clock p. in., for the puruoee of piacing in nomination candi dates for one associate justice of tho supreme court, and for two members of the board of regents oft he state university, and to transact such other business as may be presented to the convention, TIIK Al'I'OKTlOMKNT. The several counties are entitled to rcpre Mentatlou as follows, belnf? based upon the vote caft for lion. John M. Thayer, govcrner, In UM, giving one delegate to eacli new county, one delegate-at-large to each county, and one for eacli 150 votes and tho major frac tion thereof : UOCNTIES. VOTH. COUNTIKS VOTKS Adams 13 Jefferson Antelope Johnson Arthur 1 Kearney. it Ula ne y:l 1'ilti:l i lSoone Keilu... ISrown lmttalo Jlutler Hurt Cuiiso Cans Cedar Cheyenne.. Clieiry Clay Colfax Cuming Custer Dakota Dawes ion Judge Jiouglas Dawson Diiudv J'ilmore Kurn as Franklin Frontier Cage Ilnsper Crant ( Ire -ley ;urficld Hall Hamilton Uniiaii Hayes Hitchcock Holt Howard . .. Knox 7 ... 11 Lancaster 2 ... k Lincoln ... liOgali - . .. 3 Loup I ... 15 Madison ... :; M il'liereon i . .. 5 Meriick ! . .. k Mancu I . .. 11 Nemaha, 1J ... t; KuckolU 7 ... 7 Otoe U ... JG l'awuee H . .. t rhelps 7 ... ; Pierce 3 ... 6 Platte i ... lo Polk .. 'Si Kichardfoii 12 ... 5 Ked Willow 7 ... 3 Sioux 1 ... 10 Saline 13 ... 7 Sarpy & ... ti Saunters 11 ... 5 Seward 12 2o Sheridan 5 3 Sherman 4 ... 1 Stanton :? .... :s Thayer ' .... 2 Thomas 1 11 Valley .... ! Washington 7 7 Wavne 6 . .. 3 Webster it C Wheeler 2 .... 11 York 11 ... 6 Unorganized l'er'y 1 Total K8 It is recommended that no proxies be admit ted to the conventitn except such as ara held by persons residing in the counties from which proxies are given. Waltei: M. Skei-v, Seiretary, Gr.OKGE W. Euktx, Chairman. The IVee7ity IIeuald till Jan. 1, for 50 cents. Tin: republicans with Foraker at the head of their state ticket will carry Ohio by an old time majority. Cleanlinkss is said to be next to God liness. McGariglc is our authority for saying it is next to Canada and a long ways from Juliet. Sheriff Eikenhary did a good job in running down and capturing Schroed er the horse thief, and recovering all the property stolen. Wc give a fall account of it on the local page. As McGariglc rests in his safe retreat and feels the trentle, coolinjr, Canadian zephyrs fan his once troubled brow, he looks off across the waters to the soutl and, as in his vision the grim walls of Joliet rise before him, he softly murmurs to himself, "Of all glad words of tongue or pen, the gladdest r.re these: It might have been." The proposition of the proprietors of South Park to give the citj' a block of live acres for park purposes appears to be a fair one for the city. A park as conve nient to the city as the one offered would be something the citizens generally woulr1. appreciate. It is an understanding it can be improved very cheaply. The Elmwood Echo in ,a half column article reasserting its opinion of the jus tice of Judge Chapman's sentence of Hell, the surviving train-wrecker, accords the judge a handsome, just and well merited tribute of praise. Judge Chapman is indeed "as fine a man as ever sat on the bench" and the Herald wants to see him continue to honor the bench for some time to come. Tell your neighbors, the Weekly Her klo tillJan. 1, only HO cents in ad vance. The Ohio republican state convention in so strongly endorsing John Sherman as their choice for the presidential nomi nation at the hands of the republican party, have fairly opened the presidential campaign. Sherman would make a strong candidate should he receive the nomination. While not our first choice wc could and would heartily support him. Jeff Davis has written a letter oppos ing the prohibition movement in Texas, lie says the people are "too much govern ed." Nothing like advocating liberty. In "61 he and his followers wanted liberty to whip the negroes and keep them in floi-ri'. haw ?f in nafitr'il fliw cKr,ill vocate liberty? to get drunk, whip their I wives and children uncf keep them in slavery, since tliey can't whip the negroes at will any more. Send us in your xubsrijtious for the Weekly Herald. Till Jan. 1. 'ti'J for $1.7.1 if jmid in ad canoe, We want three times the number of subscribers- of any other 'jajer in ('ass County. O.nk Jt'ixiK Ford, of Council Bluffs, thinks lie has found a loop hI: in the Iowa slate prohibition laws which will allow certain chartered citicd to license w ine and beer saloons, ac cordingly an or dinance granting licences to such places h'is been prepared and will be submitted to the council of that city. It is safe lo assume the "loop hole" is not there and that the stale courts will squelch it, orrif tin? state court fails to, the next legisla ture will enact a law that will make its meaning plain and not permit a lot of liquor guzzling local politicians to defeat the laws of the commonwealth. GUI subscribers w?m ivill ay nj all back dues will be yicen the same terms we offer for new subscriptions. Till Jan. ,'89 for $1.7." U 2 'aid inadcance. It is a cold day when .Nebraska City docs not furnish a sensation, and as there have been no cold days recently there has been no cessation of sensations. They did very well as long as they were able to let :i murderer out of jail each day; sometimes to freedom a la Bohaunon. and sometimes to a gentle resting place under neath the sod, a la Hoffman andSchellen barger, but after their own criminal stock had given out they hustled out for some thing new. First they sent twenty val ient men to help corral some Missour1 horse thieves out in the woods of south western Iowa, and then they rushed around in the woods of southern Cass County and found a fellow wandering around in a strange way to keep out of our Platts mouth jail. Yea, verily, the Nebraska sensational reporter is a hustler. Shall we Have a Daily Herald? The question rests with the people of Plattsmouth. The proprietors of the Herald have been strongly urged to es tablish a daily issue of their paper. The proposition to do so is being considered, and will be determined very shortly. "We are now soliciting subscriptions and ad vertising. If the people of the city want a new daily bad enough to afford it good living support, a Daily Herald will soon appear, if they do not, it will not, for we have no intention of starting a pauper sheet that shall either run us in debt to everybody in the community, and outside of it too, or that shall be consid ered a beggar and be supported out of charity. In asking subscriptions for our paper we don't ask for "charity subscrip tions." If you don't want a Daily Her ald established don't subscribe for it. "We want cordial support or we don't want to begin. We believe we will get it. We believe the city of Plattsmouth can and will support a Daily Herald, well and liberally. We- believed that when we came here, before we came here, or we should never have come. We be lieve in the present and future of this city, and that it nev.ds a Daily Herald, or we should not have invested eight thousand dollars in the Herald as we found it. Now we ask all who want to see a daily issue of Herald established to come right to the front with their sub scriptions and advertising that we may see how many there are of them. If suf ficient support is given we will not only establish a local evening daily, but we will furnish the afternoon press dis patches. We do not promise this for the extra expense will be heavy, but we will furnish them if the support given us is enough to in any degree warrant it. If established, the Daily Herald will be, first, wholly devoted to the local in terests of Plattsmouyi and vicinitj', and second, politically, it will be a steady ad vocate of the principles and interests of the republican party. IS IT A COURT OF DELAY? , Our Supreme Court. Certain criticisms arc being circulated by two or three news papers, in Nebraska, reflecting upon the Supreme Court of this state which the Herald deems both un merited and ill timed. The tragedy recently enacted in Otoe county has been seized upon as a text to denounce the Supreme court of the state of Nebraska. First, Bohannau the con demned murderer escaped, then Lee Shel lenbarger, the child murderer, was taken from his cell and hanged by an organ ized disciplined mob a few days since and those, who would apparently apol ogize for the spirit of lawlessness in Otoe county hasten to attribute such vio lence to the failure or refusal upon the part of our Supreme Court to permit the punishment of criminals. When examin ed, in the light of the facts a3 they exist, we think these charges not only fully unwarranted, but, very unfortunate for the gentlemen making them- .The Press should not make a charge'of this kind against the highest court oi our state- a charge which in its very nature must injure the reputation of t the state abroad unless clear proofs exst for its foundation. "The delays" in tjie Bohan- j uon and Shelh nbarger cases nre assigned as tho cause which prompted the people of Otoe county to take the law into their own hands; and that cause is charged up j to the Judges who compose the court of last resort in Nebraska What are the facts in these two cases, in fault, in Otoe county? IJohannon was convicted of mur der in the first degree, and sentenced to death Able counsel carried has case be fore our Supreme Judges, who listened to their their pleas and promptly affirmed the judgment and sentence of the court below, and ordered the death sentence to be immediately carried out; again the counsel of this condemned man asked for re-hearing, which was denied, then a petition was presented to these same Judges praying for an allowance of an appeal to the Federal courts, which was again denied Then a Supreme JudLce at Washington City heard this same petition and application, and grant ed an appeal, permitted the case to be docketed in the Supreme Court of the United States, and the process of that court was issued assuming jurisdiction of the case and and ordering stay of further proceedings upon the part of the officers of the state of Nebraska and thus took the case away from the state of Nebraska. Bohaunon escaped, was turned loose b3' the ministerial officers of Otoe county during the pendency of these proceed ings in the Supreme Court tt Washington and, yet, our Supreme Court is charged with all this delay. Leo Shellenberger was speedily tried and convicted, and but a few -weeks ago his counsel by petition in error, duly au thorized by the trial judge. Pound, filed their case in the office of the judge of the clerk of the supreme court of the state where it is now pending and where it could not be heard until court convenes in September next. There has been no delay in this case in any particular; the cause was speedily tried in the district court, and within the period of time fixed by our law makers, it was docketed in the supreme court, where it stands for hearing in September, 1887. If the peo ple of Otoe county furnish insecure jails and irresponsible or dishonest jailers, let the blame fall where it belongs. If Quin Bohaunan was turned loose by an officer of Otoe County, let that officer and the people of Otoe County assume the responsibility and settle the matter among themselves. If a federal judge or court interfered, tell the truth about it. If our laws are . at fault, do away with them. Mob violence is no new thing in Otoe County. Prisoners have been taken from the court down there and hanged in its very presenca and apologists have always been found to justify, in a fashionsuch acts of violence the fruits of which are evidenced by the unjustifiable murder of Leo Shellen berger on the night of July 23rd. The supreme court of this state has never been a court of delays, and the long faithful public services rendered to the state by the present bench are a sufficient answer to those who ignorantly charge such men as Samuel Maxwell, Atnasca Coff and M. B. Reese with official short comings. The business of our supreme court is well up to date, and the facts are there is not a supreme court in the north-west whose business is kept so thoroughly well in hand as that of Ne braska. Slavery has its days numbered now in Brazil, After so much contact with civilization. Dom Pedro has felt its influ ences, and the result has been the intro duction of an emancipation bill in the Parliament which is certain to carry. This bill grants freedom to about 1,200,000 slaves throughout the empire, uncondi tionally to slaves over 50 years of age, and after two years to the younrjer men. The latter can redeem themselves at any time, also, for about $200. A humane provision of the bill provides that if one of a married couple secures his or her freedom, fe pther alsp becone3 frep. Dom Pedro is doing much for tho ad vancement of his people. St. Louis Qlobe Dem. The mourniDg for the dead president of the Mormon hierarchy seems to be of conventional character. Jt is likely that the leading apostles are rather glad that lie is gone, as he was a little too exclusive in the management of the church and the absorption of the funds for his personal use, He h4d much cf the natural ability but not the magnetism of his predecessor, and consequent' his comparatively light hand was more oppressive than the mas sive fist with which Brother Brigham rul ed the roost and brought the rich breth ern in to be tithed- The funeral discourses were solid chunks of Mormon theology with little sentiment and when the son of the dead Taylor tried to make a speech, he was choked off. Jt is likely that a succes sor will not be appointed without much friction, and in the mean time the twelve apostles will hold the authority in com mission and watch each other for an even diyide, Polygamy wu3 the political weakness, but tho religions strength of the church and having been pretty generally re nounced now by tlie younger brethren the hierarchy will soon be crumbling. The (lays of Mornioiulom arc numb. -red and within ten years its glory will have departed, in the drath of tho friends iivi.l contemporaries of Jo Smith who are get ting very old and feeble. Their sueeos ors will not be able to fill their sinus in the peculiar task that is set before tln-m. Seb. State Journal. NEBRASKA NEWS. Wahoo and Ashland are both to have water works. The Chicago Ai North western has laid its rails into Seward. The Normal institute just closed at Pawnee had 100 members enrolled. Tl.e work of paving and sewering Be atrice will not be commenced until next season. Free mail del.1 very litis been ordered by the post olliee department for Hastings. It will begin S.-pt. 1. For the first time in five years, says the Nebraska City JVers, there is not a mur derer confined in thj Otoe county jail. While three men were at work in a cistern near De Witt a blind horse fell in to it, but neither ot the men nor the horse were hurt. Friday morning about t o'clock a man was run over and instantly killed by a freight train in the B. A; M. yards in Omaha. He was sleeping on the track, and had been drinking. Lee Merrill, aged 17. living with a brother near Columbus, committed sui side by shooting himself through the head Sunday night. The cause that led to it is not known. An old man named Wethcrold was hurt at Beati ice Monday of last week while adjusting the power of his planning mill. His injuries resulted in his death last Friday. O. 1'. Mason, secretary of the Board of Transportation has addressed a letter to S. H. II. Clark, vice president of the Mo. Pac. railway, in which he says that the road must reduce its freight tariff to a standard with those cf roads in Iowa and Minnesota, A special telegram from David City to the Omaha lee gives an account of the tornado at David City last Friday. The value of property destroyed in the city is put at upwards of $100,000, and as much more in the country. The special says: The most devastating and sweeping tor nado that has ever yisited this section struck our city last night about 0 o'clock, scattering death and destruction along its ragged, furious path, Lverylhing is in a shocking state of demoralization, lumber, fragments of buildings, buggies, implements and general debris being scat tered everywhere, blockading streets and thoroughfares. The day preceeding the storm was unusually hot and sultry the thermometer registering lf'00 with a clear sky until evening when a harmless looking cloud became visible in the southwest and another in the northeast. The wind came up . rapidly The two clouds met a short distance southwest of the city when the work of destruction and death began with a rapidity and furore that was sweepingly terrific. Houses were unvoofed and blown to atoms, large brick blocks demolished, barns, sheds, trees uprooted and blown into fragments. ITailand living timbers filled the air for about five minutes, when all'was over and p- onlc were frantically rushing to and fro in search of the injur ed. A horse belonging to Mike Dornulh V"s picked up, carried across the square, dashed against a building and instantly killed. A team of iiuih-s belonging to Hon. Matt Miller were blown from the square into Duties' basement but were uninjured. Loomis Dexter was killed by tailing brick and subsequently dug from the ruins of Paddock's block. He is a poor man and leaves a wife and three children. Those injured so far as can be learned are as follo ws: Demuth. a far mer, legs crushed badly, amputation Lee cssarr. W. I3; F-endeioOii, teamster, bad ly bruised; .fames Dy.-arc, Ladiy cut on the head; Frank Baer, cut on the head and limbs, not pencils; Doctor Cooks cut on head; B. Si M. Station Agcilt M'iiler badly cut on head by flying timbers Fred Warner, carpenter, cut and bruised badly. Mr. Warner was working on Paddock's block and went dnwji w the buildim.'. Boaivlliiy lloj, Northwestern JVjhii.iU, internal injuries, quite serious; N. B. Banning, laborer, badly bruised: George Sheldon, crushed and b'rused quite badly. A number more are slightly cut or bruised. When the storm came up the W. C. T. U. ladies were holding an ice crc.-mi so J able in the park. Their tables and dishes were blown to the four winds of heaven, while the ladies'sought shelter without waiting to count their gross re ceipts. A disordered condition of the stomach, or milaria in tli3 system, v.' ill peadi.ee srek heac ache, you en remove this trouble by taking" Dr. J. II. McLean's Little Liver and Kidney Fellcts. 25 cents per v'al. iO-m:i. E d,s ship railway i being revived, and a new company, with a large capital, was formed last week. They will begin work at ounce and build the railway as rapidly as possible. Unsuspected disorders of the kidneys are resjQniiiIe for many of the ordinary ailments of humanity which if neglected, develop into a serious and perhaps fatal malady. Experience would suggest the U9c of Dr. J. II. McLean's Liver and Kid ney Balm. sO-mG. Senator Daniels, of Virginia, com plains that President Cleveland is not ag gressive enough to suit the southern democrats. .He should bear in mind, however, that it is very difficult for a man to. aggress when the whole loyal sentiment of the country bars his way, as in the case of those captured confede rate flairs. Globe Democrat. For Sale 'iVn acres of land for sale one mile north-west of town, this land j lies close to the new park and is alua!le j for city lots. Apply to John Karvaneck ' 20-2 Tut: Junior Order of Tinted American .Mechanics memorialize congress in favor of a per capita tax on foreign immigrants landing in America, and ask that pauper iniinagraiits be prohibited from landing; also that foreigners be required to live twenty-one years in the I'uited States I eforc they shall be allowed to Vote. Ex. --We would be ph ased to know of a man or woman who has never had. head ache or been subject to constipation. As these seem to be universal troubles ti littli advice may be in order. "Why should persons cram their stomachs with nau seating purgative pills etc which sicken and debilitate when such a pleasant and sterling remedy as Prickly Ash Bitters will act mildly and effectively on the liv er, kidney, stomach and bowels, and at the same time torn? up ami strengthen the whole system, causing headache, consti pation and all such distressing evils to quickly disappear. 20 nil Tho Spirit of It. The Louisville ('onrier-Jonrnal insists upon its original proposition, that "the spirit which gave birth to the dependent pensions bill was communism, anjl it should bo met as wc would meet the de mands of Ilerr Most and his anarehi.-ts." The 7'ij)ublicau believes that the spirit which gives birth to such expressions against the men who defe nded the union is the essence of rank treason, and that treason should be made odious in this country. Omaha llejmbl 'iran. The Verdict Unanimous W. I). Suit, Druggist, Bippus Ind.. testifies: "I can recommend Electric Bit ters as the very best remedy. Every bot tle seld has given relief in every ease. One man took six bclth.s, and was cured of Ilheumatism of 10 years' standing". Abraham Hare, druggist, Beilville, Ohio, affirms: "The best selling medicine I have ever handled in my 2 years' experience, is Flecuic, Bitters". Th' u.-aiuLs of other have added their testimony, so that the verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters do cure all diseases of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood. One half dollar a bottle at F. G. Fricke & Co., drug store. (2; It havhig been suggested by a super royal journalist that the world should celebrate the British jubilee by naming the constellation now kown as the "South ern Cross," "Victoria Cross," London Truth jumps up and seizes tir.u by the foretop by insisting that the sun be call ed "Albert Ed'ard" and the moon "Alex andria," ami that place in the heavens be given to the Duke of Edinburg and the Duke of Counaught, Prince Henry of Battcuburgh and Lord Lome. The plan ets could be iiamtil after these great lum inaries, and a star assigned to each cf the lesser members of tho tribe of Guelph. In that case the Truth wants to know whose name shall be assigned to the great and the little bear? You should come to America for nam ing these two clusters. There aye Jay Gould and G rover ('leYt'a,i, cither of whom adorn hc 4rizo;i as a substitute, for ihe.-e beasts. On account of their iwc-ct influences tho pleiudea mb;it .M t...lk.a "KYankic." The Lrc-idciit and his wife would nat urally return the compliment by renam ing the far away blear eyed old planet "U ran-us." It would of course be known to posterity as "mugwump." Liue.olu Journal. The finest line of Birthday Cards in the city at Will J. Warrick's Drug Store. 17-4t For Sale. A farm containing 040 acres of land, well improved, timber and water. B:.st stack farm in Cass county. For terms apply to 14tf Beeson ic Sl'li.ivax. rii Absolutely. Pure. Tliis no'vder ver vari". A r ar vf-J f pur ity, trMi J'li and w holesomeiiess. More e -u inical tliaii tiip ordinary kiu(l.;!Til cannot lie fi- din co upetitu n with th n:u!iiuide cl low te-1. shore fic'.it alum or j!K;linte powders. So d 'il v in c o.s. liovxi. II.uimi rowuitu lY..ltfViIl St. j:cw York. at'H BARGAINS ! FOU SALK OX Reasonable Terms, LOTS IX conveniently- ami pleasantly nitn. atcil, mav lo lial on MonthlyPaym'ts or on ONE, IT WO, or Til I IKK YKAliS' TIME. Persons want ing; a lot and desiring to build thereon, are requested to call and see us and we will tell them hmiic-tlu'no- to their advantage. "W-! have lor sale a very iitrire variety of real property, both improved! and unimproved, ami we can hard ly tan to satisjy you it you wish to purchase. It you have pro perty of any kind which you wisfa to exchange, list it on our books Kemember that we have the best bargains in the city in the way of real ty. Lots in Palmer's Addition to Plattsmouth. Lots in Townsend'a Addi-' tion to Plattsnj;outh. ' Lota in Thompson's Addi tion to Plattsmouth. Lots in Hayes' Addition to Plattsmouth. Lots in Inke's Addition to Plattsmouth. Lots in Sage's Addition (o Plattsmouth. Pick- out the property you want and then call and see us for terms. FIVE ACRE TRACTS OX" LINCOLN AVENUE. T.EN A N 1) T W E N T Y A C it K TRACTS NEAR THE CITY. Some of the most convenient resi dences and the most valuable? business property in the city for sale. If you wbh to purchase let us know what vmi want. Apply to K B. WINDHfAM Or, OfciOktuT, of GqssCo. X. 1- Improved and unim proved farms for sale. II fill nmrn