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GENERAL MERCHANDISE-
THE DAYLIGHT STORE!
Full
JLihiu CpScMicral Merchandise.
Lowest Prices.
Call and Satisiy Yourself
Largest &feck and
JOSEPH V. WECKBAGHS.
Oh, Yes !
liave :'.n ifl, and I will continue to .sell
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Goods
ofions
1 ivss ( tooils, Trim minims Etc., at lowkk 'hicks
any other house in the country.
Also a full line of
than
Groceries,
at prices to defy com c-tion
Queensware
AND
Yours Jiespet fully,
W. HL. BAKER.
Joiix Fitzgerald and Mr Tim Itior-
len, of Lincoln, spent the past two
lays iii l'lattsmouth city looking over
Mr. Fitzgerald's large interests here.
Mr. Fitzgerald is piepanng to erect a
couple of substantial brick business
louses on his Main street property ad
joining "Wa'x-rniaii's opera bouse, aud
savs he visits no pomt in Xebraska
that evidences more substantial prospcr-
ty than does this city of his first love.
GROCERI
JUL e
c0o IIANSjEN,
Dlalkk ix
Cro
ckery
Also Clioice
raiuls 4f Flour.
A;cnt for tlie German Fire In.-urnce Co., Freeport, 111.; German
IVoria. 111.; Manhattan Lite Insurance Co.,
New York.
and Cattle Insurance Company,
OF OMAHA.
Fire Insurance Co.
Western Horse
Fire Insurance Policies Issued in the English and German Languages
Steamship Tickets sold from and to Europe over the Haiuburg-A-'ierlean
Packet Co.. and the North-German Lloyd. Agents for
100,000 acres of land on the Northern Pacific railroad in Dakota.
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No old stock to work off. The latest patterns of
GLASS JLZEsTID GXTJEElsrSWAIE
FLOUP. FEED AND PROVISIONS.
Very Highest Market Price paid for Country Pro due
DREW BUILDING, PLATTSMUOTH.
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At Wliolesal eand Retail. Cash
for all kinds of country
uce. Call and see me.
iosite First National H?ank.
prod
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PLATTSMOnTII HERALD.
IAII.V, dt-livt iv.l dy ran U i ( ;.ny i.u t of the
rity
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1'er Momli.,
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WEEKLY, l.y mail.
Out ;"iy A liriiilliS
Onrcopy cm yrar
K't'istrrc! at t':e I'oit office.
tvconU clitss iiiattrr.
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I'l.utf mouth, as
The Platlsniouth and Southwealern
route 'n commended by practical rail
road nun of all shades and iutcrc.ts.
A Cjiicauo jury is now wrestling
with the question as to-whether Jcro
Dunii, the slayer of Jim Elliott, shall
be whitewashed.
Col. Tom Stevkxson, Edwin F.
Murtin and lion. Geo W. Covell are in
attemluuce upon our district court, and
engaged in the trial of several impor
tant tax title- suits.
Hon. Phil U. Thompson', the slayer
of Mr. Davis, was acquited ly the jury
amid the plaudits of the audience. Ken
tucky wives, we suppose, are now vindicated.
Die Mill 1:11 has heeii lVe!iii? the
Sage I (Jratr.arcy's pulse. "Impared
leallli tli lov.to tay3 rctpiir iuiet
upon the part ot thu ubKjuiLous
.Sammy. Lie doctor prescribes uray-
stone and obscurity. This is eood,
very good.
When Piattsmouth city yets the
luttsmouth and Houthwestcru It. ll.
ler people want to remember that they
owe vary much to lion. K. a. intinm
and President Carruth of our Io;rd of
Trade.
Our esteemed contemporary of the
Omaha Herald ought not to let his Irish
get up about the new auti-Tilden editor
of the New York Xew World. He
should never forget to remember that
all Tilden men are oteusibly for McDon
ald and must be so mml about corn
husking time, when the sigual will be
given from Grammcrcy park to drop
nm and start a third serie3 of literary
bureau publications. The barl has not
lost its buur,nor the left hand of Sammy
forgot its cunning, and the Herald must
not slop over iu u premature manner.
Jncoln Journal.
Decoration day, June COth, will
be observed by McConnihie Post, and
the citizens of riattsmoath are ex
pebted to turn out and assist the "old
guard" iu properly decorating the
graves of the dead defenders of the
old fla It is a beautiful, and, lias
become already a general custom
throughout the length and breadth of
the land. Let our entire community
turn out and assist upon this occasion
Gen. R. It. Livingston will deliver the
oration at the cemetery. Public exer
cises will be held both at the ceme
tery and at the Post headquarters in
the evening of the same day.
The lion. Jas. Laird was the recipi
ent of a serenade the other evening, at
the Paxton, from the Omaha Glee
club. Mr. Laird, the Omaha papers
say, made these musical gentlemen
two speeches upon this occasion ; the
burden of which seemed to bo music
not a syllable about civil service,
muste, all music. A correspondent of
this paper, not long ago, tried to get
the private ear of James Fitz James
in order to learn the true inwardness
of the Neavels iniquity, but the stal
wart congressman from the Second
distnet failed to see us. He bad no
time. Now we know what the mat
ter was- music hath charms, etc.
The public meeting callea last even-
inc to take stf-is noon the part of
Plattsmoutli city n receive the cdilo
rial txeuroiou soon to be L're from
the east, was a failure, owing to the
difficult v of ue:lm into the court
house. At the luur named many
citizens dropped around, found the
court ho'iso locked and went home
It was the result of a misunderstand
i:g ns to who w.ia to liyiit the room
Our authorities should see tliaf tlfere
is no half-way work in this matter
These gentlemen come a lor.g ways to
see this prospeious country and tell
their homo people of its cababilities
and as little a3 we can do is to show
them prosperous Plattsmouth.
The Omaha Herald and Republican
have been discussing the proposed
convention, to be held by the colored
men at no distant day, at some point
in the south. The Republican seems to
concede that the object of the conven
tion is merelv to secure to the negro
to which they feel themselves en
titled," and to a certain extent depre
cates the movement. In this move
ment we can see nothing "sordid." It
mm-t be discussed, if it is to be treated
fairly, from the standpoint of the ne
gro's status in American politics and
civilization. Under the highest las
of the nation the colored man is en
titled to exactly the same civil rights
accorded the white man. The ques
tion is does he receive at the hands of
society these full rights? and if not,
if they are denied him, for what
cause? The answer is simple and no
torious. The prejudice of caste has, in
one section of the American Union,
denied to this race the commonest po
litical rights, 'his being conceded,
the question naturally arises, where is
the impropriety in these people, as a
race, sending their representative men
to this national colored convention to
discuss this very question, together
with the remedy, if any there be, to
be applied by them, as a race, to se
cure these rights which the highest
laws of he nation are supposed to
guarantee to them. We apprehend
when these people meet together, they
will make no mistake as to who their
friends have been and who they are
likely to be. If the colored m n from
Mississippi (-.iroline, i.i the
presence of the democratic cr
ganiz.tlion of tl:isu states think their
interests would be safer in the hands
of the deiuociatie party of the nation,
we say let them pitch their tents iu
that cainp. We have no fears that
they will do this. The visions of the
Ku Klux, the Night 'Raiders, and I5al
lot Rox Stuffers, will rise before them
in that convention as reminders that
the prejudice of caste is a part of the
very fiber of this democratic party.
The history of these parties republi
can and democratic upon this ques
tion, ' fills a large pago of American
history during the last half century,
and there is no single line upon thi3
page which can furnish an argument
lor the colored race to loon to tins par
ty for political lights or power.
The timely letter ot Senator Van-
Wyck to the Secretary of the Iaterior
protesting against the ratification of the
remarkable opinion of the Attorney
General of the United States is attract
ing widespread atteution.. The Attor
ney General holds that a long lapsed
and grant to the "New Orleans, Baton
toguc and Vicksburg railroad com-
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pany" is still vaitu ana in iuu iorce.
The letter of the Senator, which was
published lately in all the newspapers
ot the country, has been favorably com
mended upon and we give below the
comments of the Globe Democrat which
are right to the point.J
A. DOUBTFUL SECURITY.
It appears that the New Orleans Pa
cific Railroad Company are about to
issue bonds secured by mortgage on
property to which they have no clear
title, the opinion of the attorney general
not being a nual guarantee ot valid po-
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session, but name to oe overturned oy
the courts. Senator VanWyck has
written an open letter to the secretary
of the interior for the evident purpose
of advertising the uucertanity of the se
curity offered to the would-be purchas
ers of the bonds. If his view in the
case is correct we have here an instance
furnished ot either unparalleled cheek
on the part of the railroad company.and
perfect confidence in its ability to con
trol congress or the supreme court, or
else a deliberate intention to wrong in
nocent people.
The land grant upon wtnoti tnese
bonds are to be issued was given twelve
years ao to "The New Orleans, Rat-jn
Rouge & Vicksburg railroad company,"
by an act specilyiug that the road should
be completed iu live years. It was not
eomuletcd iu five years, or in ten. It
was not even locaten. But in 1880 the
New Orleaus,Baton Rouge & Vicksburg
railroad company transferred its rights,
if it had any, to tue INew Orleans .Pa
cific company, which built a road
through the region affected because its
other lines required such a connection,
and which, we understand, it would have
had to build whether it had any grant
or not. It is claimed that the title of
the New Orleans Pacific Company can
only be perfected through a decision of
the supreme court or an act of congress
re-granting the lands; and in the pres
ent attitude of the public mind it is
somewhat doubtful, to say the least, if
congress will vote such a grant, while
the action of the supreme court is no
less dubious certainly.
Since there was a failure for years
after the passage of the grant of 1871 to
locate any line of road, settlers had in
the meantime occupied a part of the
territory where they now have their
homes. If the railroad title is made
good these poor scttler3 will have to
lose what they long considered tl eir
own;if it is nit made good the innocent
bond purchasers will be bereft ot" their
security. This showing of Senator Van
Wyck is a strong one, and it surely iu
dicates that something ought to be done
to prevent the. p'.uehcr of he bond' hi
question upon
f!;e 111:11 ket. the
ACCEPTS.
A Burlington Boy Will Read on Ord
inal Poom.
General A. t'. Dodge, president of the
semi-centeunial celebration, yesterday
received a reply from Mr. Eugene F.
Ware, now of Fort Scott, Kansas, con
senting to prepare and read an appro
priate poem on the occasion of the
celebration June 1st. Mr. Ware is a
native of Burlington and is well
known in this part of Iowa. Ilia abil
ily and genius as a poet have long been
recognized. A better selection could
not have been made. The orator of
the day must look well to his laurels,
for a poem by Eucene Ware will spar
kle with gems of wit and expression
that will rank high in the opinions of
the public Hawk-Eye.
As will bo seen by the foregoing.
Hon. E. P. Ware, now representing the
12th senatorial district in the ftate
senate of Kansas, is remembered by
the old comrades and friends of his
boyhood in Iowa. The editor of this
journal spent his boyhood days in the
same locality with Senator Ware, en
listed in the same regiment, Iowa 1st,
served with him under the lamented
Lyon, marched in the same file many a
weary mile through Missouri, and with
him sang "of the old giey horse that
came tearing through the wilderness
down in Alul-a'n." drunk (water (?) )
from thf same aute :, and rejoiced
ever sine.-every time l.e heard of the
success of liis 11 cwniiiidj in the bat
tle of life, and now ex pre Is to listen to
the rec itation of that poem if business
will possibly permit. .
Fruit Prospects.
The prospect for a good yield of
fruit in and about Plattsmouth is very
promising. A pleasant drive the other
day was-indulged in, in the immediate
neighborhood of Plattsmouth, and the
large apple orchards of Perry Walker,
Stephen Wiles, Isaac Wiles and Elias
Sage, visited, 'together with a number
of smaller orchards immediately sur
rounding, and within the limits of our
city. We found these orchards full of
bloom and were informed that they
were literally loaded with fruit. The
cherry orchards and the blackberry
and raspberry plants promise bounte
ous crops; of grapes there will be an
abundance. Taking the surroundings
as we find them, our people have much
in store in the near future in the line
of native fruit to be thankful for.
BANKS.
John FitzgkkAlD, A. W. McLaughlin
President. Cashier.
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK !
OF PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA,
Offers tiie very best ffacilities for the prompt
transaction of legitimate
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government and Local
Securities Bought and Sola, Deposits receiv
ed aud interest allowed on time Certifi
cates, Draft drawn, available in any
nart of the United State and all
tlie principal towns of
Europe.
Collections made & promptly remitted.
Uighest market prices paid for County War
rants. State aud County Bonds.
DIRECTORS :
John Fitzgerald A. E. Touzalin,
John it. Clar. K. C. dishing,
Geo. E. Dovey, F. E. White,
A. W, McLauxhlln.
other hand, it i-J not to be forgotten tli it
the secretary of tlie interi. r has acted
under the advice of the law officer of the
government, who mu.-t have had some
"round for Ids opinion. The nutter of
the land grants which arc cluiuied to
have lapsed remains to be settled. The
last congress failed to consider the sub
jeet, but there is too much at stake to
permit of much more delay, and this ef
fort to place bonds is an illustration of
the necessity ot action. Mr. an Wyck
is reasonable in stating that after the
lapse of all these years "a few months'
further delay win wort no injustice
in the present instance, "as the corpora
tion endeavoring in this manner to util
ize a dormant grant are not jn an im
poverished condition." They-can wait
now until the title is eithej established
"nr-wjCEmrnoniT'wiiii.n-. I.
WEEPING WATER
WEEPING WATER. - NEB.
E. L. REED, President.
Ti. A. GII3SOX, Vice-President.i;
It. S. WILKINSON. Cashier.
A General MUn Business Transacted.
DEPOSITS
Received, and Interest allowed on Time Certi
ficates. IKAFTH
Drown available in any p:-j-t of the United
States and all the principal cities of Europe.
Agent for the celebrated
Mm Lino of Ste
Bank s Cass County
(.'otu-r Mala and Sixth Streets.
PLATTSMOUTH'
t JOHN BLACK. President, (.
J. M. ?ATTKKSOX, Caahier. J
Transacts a General BaniiBE Business.
HIGHEST CASH PRICE
Paid for County and City Warants.
COLLECTIONS MAIEi
and promptly remitted for.
. DIRECCTOnS :
John Black, J." M. Patterson, C. II. Parmele.
. F. R. Guthmann, J. Morriusey, A. B.
CLOTHING
Clothing
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Clothing,
Never Undersold,
Still undersell any 01 hiH competitors by percent. IJcaHons wjiy, ho has
been au old exiierseuced Clothlerever sinco lK.i1, knows how to
buy, pays no rents mid bnyt for cath.
Remember tlie Twenty-Five Per Cent. Saved
SAVED BY BUYING or mm. dAw.
anoc tr.iES.
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MACKKUIX, LAJJKAD01tKJIi:i:i:L;,Tn0UT,WIIJ) WAVIi
COD FISJT, Aso choice lot of
XiEMOITS AJETID CHANCES.
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OMQWB FAMmY QM O C'EttlESt1,
MINNESOTA, KANSAS AND MISSOURI FLOUR.
I hav-f in ftoe :i !i i-' Iiik: '.r
Queensware, Glassware, Lamps.
4.c. Alt our oil ;n-i.ew : i.l Lerli.
Will Exchange lor Country Proflncc. Liusccd Oil Meal Always on Hand
Next door to Court llou.-f, I'iat t.-inoiitli, Xi-1,
iid&23. M. B, MURPHY & CO.
LUMBER.
JELJL O DE3I ES ""ST , ..
Corner Pearl and Seventh Streets,
-DKAI..KIIS IN' AM- KINDii !'
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Lumber.Sash.Boors, Blinds
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2I22E:D paznts, lime,
Cement, Plaster, Hair,
IBTTILIDJIILSra- PAPEE;.
Ijowest I&aies. erms Cash.
HARDWARE.
THIS CELEBRATED AX FOR SALE BY
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DEALS 113 IN
Hardware, Stoves and Tinware. -
The best and most complete assortment in the city. In the ROCKWOOD f ;
BLOCK, two doors west of Carruths. Call and see vm. ,
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