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Beef, Pork,
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HarreMn t
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Sugar-Cured Hums, Bacon, Salt
9 A SL
and all other articles kept in a hret-class meat .market.
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
The Highest Market Price
Urease, Jfitc.
Fresh Lake Trout and
Morning.
GROCERIES.
THE DAYLIGHT SW!
Full Line General Merchandise.
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Largest Stock and ILowest Prices.
Call and Satisfy Yourself
JOSEPH V. WECKBACHS
Oh,
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have arrived, and I
Dry Goods
Dress Good
Trimmings
any
oilier nouse
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Also a full
Groceries.
AND
at prices to defy vm etion.
W. H.
IP. JJ. ffllANSlBKr,
Dealer
Groceries & Crockery"
Also Choice Brands of Flour.
Agent for the German Fire Insurnce Co., . Freeport, 111. German
l-'ire Insurance Co., Feoria, 111.; Manhattan Life Insurance Co.,
New York.
Western Hirso and Tattle, Insurance Company,
OF OMAHA.
Fire Insurance Policies Issued in the English and German Languages
Steamship Tickets sold fn m and to Europe over the Hamburg
American Packet Co., and the North-German Lloyd. Agents for
1UU,UUU acre of land ou the Northern Pacific railroad in Dakota.
(Grace (j&TSnieiroM
No old stock to work
ASS AOSTX)
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I AIIi 10K (OlMiiY i UOhVi K. , . ;
DREW BUII-PING, PI-ATTSMOUTH.
J. W..AIaktiiis
Mutton plea
MAW
A. U. HATT,
Olfc CHOICE
Meats of all -kinds, Lard Bologna,
Paid for Hides, Wool, Pelts,
-o-
White Fish Every Thursday
Yes 1
will continue to sell
& Notions
Etc., at lowkk peices
than
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n the country.
line of
Queensware
Yours "Respctfullj,
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off. The latent patterns cf
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PRICE
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j rUBUtfliKUpAILT AND WEEKLY
he "Flattsmontli Herald PnMiskhi Co.
DAILY, delivered by carrier to any part of the
city
Per Week ...a 15
Per Mouth no
Per Year T Ofl
WEEKLY, by mall.
One copy lx mouths $100
One?py ou. year t 00
Keicteiered ai t 0 Post Office. PlatUmoutb, a
eeuDtl elafta matter.
Wr have received and examim-d with
much curiosity and interest Mr. Jeffer
son Daris Rue and Fall of the Confed
erate Government. The book is cnar
acierialicaily and unreconalructedly
Jeff Davis from the first page to the
last; sua were 11 not ior me great age
and evidently childish whims of the au
thor it would in some respects be as
ridiculous as it is at times in this late
day whimsically comical. In treating
ot the origin of African slavery in this
country the writer premises his re
marks by saying "no subject has lcen
"more generally misunderstood or more
persistently misrepresented . This he
ays of an institution that has occupied
the minds and serious attention of not
onlythe American people of every grade
and rank in private life from the days
of Thjina Je Person down to the date
of its abolition by the outpouring of
the best blood of the nation ;bnt of our
wlseststatcsmen and; national legisla
tures during all tie years of the irre-prt-ssable
conflict, which called out ex
haustivc controversy from the best
niinds of the nation, upon either side
of the question, of every shade of opin
ion; involving the moral, sentimental.
egal and historical features of that in
stitution. Again speaking of the irre
pressible conflict Mr. Dav.s solemnly
usserts:
"No moral nor sentimental consider
ations were really involved in either
"the earlier or later controversies which
-so long agitated and finally ruptured
-the Union.
They were simply struggles between
Miterent sections with diverse institu
tions and interests."
This would be a very fair argument
for the slave driver of ante bellutn days
wiih which to beat down the abolition
isl, but for an biitorical work written.
in ibis late day by a man of acknowl
edged culture and ability, a man ot the
arxperieuee of Jefferson Davi in public
affairs connected with the political and
social history of his country it iudewd
sounds strangely ridiculous ;to say that
Gerrit Smith and Hale, and Lovejoy,
and the long lint of so called aboli
tionists who agitated the slavery ques
tion in this couutry upon purely moral
grounds wire actuated by local and
sectional iuterests,it is staling au argu
nient too fliiusey for cultivated iniuds
among the pro-slavery advocates of the
days of John C. Callioun. Yet these
are but samples of Mr. Davis' views at
the outset of his book and which con
stitute the bedrock upon which he rears
his historical argument iu "vindica
tion," as he terms it,c of those who
"staked all and lost all save life and
"honor iu the caue of the confeder
acy." That his book iu the main is an hon
est sketch of the Confederacy and its
history from Mr. Davis' stand point,
there cannot be a doubt; at the' same
time it is an evidence of the utter im
possibility for Jefferson Davis and men
of his stamp, educated ia the school of
States Rights in the south, to under
stand and acquiesce in the rightful so -lution
of the cause r which lead to the
attempted disruption of the American
union.
In that portion of his history which
treats of the management of the war
upon either side, and the parts taken
by the opposing captains and states
men, the childishness of the author
most strongly appears; his bitter
flings at Sherman, Sheridan, Grant,
Stanton, and the successful officers of
toe Uuion Army, are decidedly in bad
taste. His reflections upon Joseph E.
Johnson and other able and
fearless Confederate officers are inex
cusable; be censures Johnson for sur
rendering his army to Sherman, claim
ing that be should have retreated, and
accompanied the Ptesideut of the Con'
fsderacy and his cabinet to the west
b mks of the Mississippi, there to con
tinue the useless struggle. He bitterly
comments upon - this action of Joseph
E. Johnson in refusing to continue the
struggle, expressing the absurd belief
that had he done so he (Mr. Davis)
wouid : have bevu enabled to either
achivvttthe independence of the Con
federacy or could hare obtained for
the .southern . states their own terms
ujHn their assent to again return to the
Union.
Auother feature of the book is the
alacrby with which Mr. Davis seizes up
on every small poiit where he has been
criticised on account of his adinims-
tion of the affairs of the C ufeleracy.
aud . attempts personal " vindication
This is.- evidently, one of the cardinal
object of Uut great work, which UiU
wfflsm
remarkable man has undertaken and
acctiiiitdishcd at hfa advanced turf. and.
with this exception, we believe candid
critics, irrespective of their individual
beliefs and opinions, will pronounce it
an able history of the Confederacy,
written by a thorough disciple of th
school of John C. Calhoui. who has
no respect for, nor belief in, the Union
of the States In a national point of
view, who detests the thought of a
centralized government where restrain
and authotity is to be exercised over
the individual States by the general
GoTernment. It demonstrates the fact
that Jefferson Day's is au able repre
cntative of the "States Rights Doc
trine, horest aud fearless enough to
advocate, in this late day, eyeu though
it leads to the inevitable results which
nare left the author of that work
political outcast among th; people, and
in the land, which he risked bis all to
separate and divide.
k here is nothing like accuracy
amonip tbat class of statesmen vho
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constantly espouse every lame hobby
that springs up with the hope that
new issue may be found upon which
to lead the country in newly discovered
paths and the advocates of such issue
into the fat offices at the disposal of the
government. Col. William Springer, of
Illinois, who has been so pugnacious!
anxious to discuss ecouomic questions
with Senator Culiomis a specimen of
this class of statesman. William is a
free troder.a boundmz reformer not un
like our ami monopoly friend of Arbor
SDrinzs uotorietv and coucenves like
him of Arbor Springs fame that he
had mastered all the intricacies of the
great questions which are likely to dis
turb this country in the great hereafter.
Mr. springer recently rushed into print
ia hu article in the North American
Review entitled Incidental Taxation in
which he discusses out "unprofitable
industries." Mr. George B. Dikou an
economist of Boston and a gentleman
who has made these questions a study
from a uon-partizan 6taud point takes
up the bouudiug Springer in au ar
ticle in the Boston Commercial Bulletin
aud conclusively shows that Mr. Spring
er has only made au error of some sixty
thousand million dollars in hi estim
ate and conclusions which are demon
strated to be both silly and falacious.
In closing his article which is too loug
to reproduce here Mr. Dixon pictures
the Illinois statesman as follows:
The fact seems to be that iu the pre
eiil condition of the jvorld those indus
tries winch Mr. Spri.iger calls "un
provable" are by far the moat profit a
ble that men applf themselves to. Too
tuanv people utmost everywhere are en
gaged in agriculture, aud consequently
have to sell their prouuei at, a uisau
vantage compared with those which are
oratly produced by water power and
the ai earn engine. That the industries
in question can iu England turnout
products for somewhat less money sig-
uifiea nothing to us, ior we i.ave not,
,uti cannot obtain the means of pay
ing for them. The products do not cost
ua more labor than they cost Eutflaud.
They sell lor somewhat more money
here only because lauor sens ior a great,
deal more money.
It would seem, then, that there is an
er.or in -Mr. Springers calculations or
860.000.000.000, orin other words ot
ixf' billions for the twenty years irom
i860 10 1880. inasmuch as we have not
lost i557.OUO.000 a year. but have gained
$3,440,000,000 as compared with what
we could have done without protection.
and the result has been brought about
by employing on the protected mdus
tries lab..r whioh would otherwise have
been thrown awav. and worse than
thrown away .in diminishing the ex-
cliauirable value of other products.
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We have every vear naa an aauiuou
nl value of 12.440,900.000 to divide be
tween rent, profits, and. wages, and the
port'ons going in the first place to rent
and profits have almost the whole of
them been spent again upon wages.
We owe, then, to the Morrill iarin
our success in war; our oik11 'euw
profits, and wages; our rapid reduc
tion of the debt, and our ability to
Have f J j,ooo,uuu a year. ne cvcuia
are extraordinary, but they are no lon
ger incomprehensible. X.
HERALD CLIPPINC8.
Th battle flair of the 3d Iowa infan
try, which was captured before Atlanta
bv General Pat Cleburn and presented
bv him to Miss Laura . J. Ma9seugie,
then living near Columbus, da., nas
been returned to tho Anjutaut general
of Iowa, by that lady's brother. - Tlie
flaif was accidentally rouoa in a c jeaw
where it hail Iain unnisturiea ior twen
ty years, and is sent back just in time
to receive an ovation trom the survivors
of the regiment, vho are to hod a ; re
union at Cedar ails on sepieuioer me
12th.
Thn Internal revenue receipts for lhe
vear endiu Juue 30 were $144,553,000,
and the cost of collection was o,15!o.
000 r H oer cent- Th!s ,s reu.v a
very low cost ana -snow now. me
foundation tlere is for the democratic
and protectionist denunciation or the
internal revenue system, as maintain
ing a costly army of spies and inform
en, we oeiir-ve inese are iu uauai
lornu in which tney cnaramenze it.
Th i.t tttr liM!ins the British "In-
Uml revenue" is about 4 Der cent. The
t. neririta fell hut little Short of
$75,000000. being au increae, while
that ou titbaco was $17,391,000, a de
cline. Ti rwiuctiou of taxes which
tok effect Juv 1 is expected to throw
off about 4-2,6oaooo. mostly troxn to
bacco, baoka aad matcoea.
I Dr. Brown Sequard is said to have
UiHCoVereU a new anesthetic Which Je
strojs seusibilitv, but not consciousness
or physical activity, for an entire day
or more. When it is administered to a
man by the hypodermic injection pro
cess, he is not incapacitated for wort
or enj ytnent; yet he can submit to
iaviug his flesh cut wlthou: feeling any
pain. It is obviously a marvelous gain
for medical science. It is some form
of carbolic acid.
The friends of Mr. Jt'arucil announce
that it is that irt-uilemau's intention to
coutest Dublin City at the iteneral elec
iion. It ia now represented by a whig
and a nominal home ruler. The Par-
uellites are determined, if poi-sible, to
tret rid of both, and are takin? veri
eflective measures with that eud in
view. The population of Dublin ac
cording to the last census is nearly
800,000, but the number of voters Is but
13,580 An effort is beio made in the
iuterjst of Mr. Parnell to add about
5,000 to tl'ia nutubi-r principally of the
lodger or aingle young men class Over
7,000 applications have been made, aud
it is expected that net more than 2.000
will be rejected, even it so many, lhe
new voters will be mostly Parneilites.
and as they have already fl.OOO voters in
the city they will have no difficult v in
electing their candidate, who will be
Mr. Parnell and ex-Lord Mayor Dwyer
Gray.
Republican 8tate Convention.
The lleuubllcnti electors of the Slate of Ne
braska are liert-lty called to send delegates
from the several couutit-s to nevt In 8tate
Convention at Lincoln, Wed:.-edy, September
aj, A. It. 18KJ. atSo'cloek p. 111.. for the iur
lose of placing iu noum.auou caodidaten for
lun ioiiowiuK namea unices. 10-nii ;
One Justice 01 tueaupn-iue uoun.
Two Ketceuts of the fuivernity.
One University Kegeut to flil vacancy.
The several counties are entitled to repre
sen tat ion in the State Convention, as iollows,
ba ed upon the vote cat for K. f. Koggeu for
.seer ti v of state, giviuic one deleicate to each
oue hundred aud til ijr (Uo) votes nud ue del
egate for the fraction of seventy-five (75) voles
or over ; also one delegate for each organized
county
Counties Del. I Counties Oe!.
Adams 7 1 Johiixou 7
Auielope 5 I Kearney a
bouua St Keitii 1
bun'alo 6
Knox 5
Butier 6
Burt 8
Brown.... 3
irftneaeter 24
Lincoln -4
Loup 2
Madison 6
Merrick 4
lass 13
Cedar 2
Cheveunee 2
ance 2
Clay SIP.
riemena S
coiiax
UCKOllS 4
Cuminj; &
Otoe 11
cuase 1
I'awuee .. S
fhelps 3
Fierce 2
i'latie 6
J'oia 6
lied Willow :.4
KichardKon 12
inline i
Custer J
Cherry 1
Liakola
Oawsuu S
Oixun 4
Dodge 9
.JoUKias 10
Ouudv ..
1 baruy 4
t iimore
.6 I bauuders 9
.4 t ieward s
. 2 dheeiuan 3
.6! Stanton 2
Franklin
Frontier..
Furii as ..
Uage...
11 1 sioux 1
Uor-per 2
haver &
fitreeeiey z
Valley 4
VY'ishington ..8
au.. o
Hamilton 7
Wayne 3
W heeler 2
Webster 6
Uariau 4
Hi.cucock .1!
Holt 5 I xora
8
Httwaid 3 I
eiferson 1 Jotai Sil
It is recommended that no proxies be ad
mitted to the convention, except t.ucl as are
held by pertouv reMclin.i; iu the counties iroiu
which the proxies are give.i.
l,Ku. Y . .. i.uiir.i , v naiiiunn.
a. B. Cot-swM, ec ttry.
BANKS.
OHK KITZ'J Kit A LI), A. W. MCLACOHU
Fiesldnf. Cashier.
FIST NATIONAL.
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OF FLA1TSMOCTH. NkBRASKA,
Ofln the very best facilities for the prompt
transaction of legitimate
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds. Gold. Government, and Loca
fiecunt tea nou-;ni aua oiu, uejwaiis receiv
ed and interest allowed ou tune Certifi
cates, Oraft drawn, available iu any
part of the United States and all
the principal towns ot
Europe.
Collections made & promptly remitted.
Highest market prices paid for County War
rants. State ai.d County Bond.
DIRECTORS :
John Fitzgerald . A. E. Tpuzalln.
John K. ClarK. K. C. CwU,g.
Geo. B. Dovey. . ,.F- B- White.
A. W McLanghlln. ;
WEEPING WATER ;
WEEPING WATER. NEB.
E. L. REED, President.
TJ. A. GIBSON, Vice-President.
R. S. WILKINSON, Cashier.
A General Banilsg Business Transacted.
Received, and Interest allowed on Time Certi
ficates. DBAVTS
Drawn available ia any part of the United
Btate and all the principal cities of Europe.
Agents for the celebrated -
Hamto Lii6 of Stealers.
Cass County
- Cotner Mala and Bixtto 8treets. v ' :
platts it dxrors: isrics
JOHH BLACK. President', i
- J. M. t'AXT'tEiiON. Cashier. ( : j t
Transacts a General Banlriiz Business.
HIGHEST CASH iKICE ,
Paid lor County and City WaranU
coLL.Kcrioaf bade. . j
and promptly remitted for. . ! c
:dibvcctorsi : -:. !
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Johr. Black. J. M. Patt- rson. C IL Paruel
F. K. OuUuasui. J. siorrisscy. A B,
tstiX Fnd O order. 1
RICHEY
COR2sr3X OP PBABli .HTJD SlBVIDIT'rir
DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OP
Lumber.Sash.Doors, Blinds
I AIUTS,
BTJIXiIDXIsrC
ILaowest TRatcs.
A FINE
MACKEREL, LABKADOKE HEKUINOf TROUT, "WILD WA VB
; - COD FISti, - Aboh choice lot of
tEMOtlfi ATTC ORANGES. V
We have a fine tock of ,
mie 'family groceries,
Fancy raudsof
MINNESOTA, KANSAS AND MIS30URI FLOUR.
I have in atoc a tine line of
1 . w.
Queensware, Glassware, Larrtps,
&c. All our goods are new and freh.
Will lniw lor Conntry Prouuce. Linseed Oil Meal Always on Han.
IS'ext door to Court House, 1'lattemoutli, Neb, - '
udsuswta M. B. MURPHY & CO.
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JFESn'WIC!S3II0ir3!,
At Wholesale and Kef ail. Cash
paid for all kinds of country
produce. Call and see me.
Opposite First National itank.
JJ. IP. IB ATDMIEISIE ES
EASTWARD
- Dally Expres Trains for Omeha. Chicago.
Eanoa City, St. Ixiul. and all int East.
Ttinyndi Care via Peoria to Ind anapolli. Ele
gant Pullman Palace i'Mt and dtty coafhs on
all thi ttvb trains, ifSd Dining car a east of Mis
souri river
Through Tickets at the Lowest Rates are on vale at all lhe Important tat Inn, and batrgars
will be checked " destination. Anv Information a- to rates, routes or time tables Mil be
cheerfullv furnished upon application to any 11 rent or t
P. S- EUSTIS. General Ticket Agent, Omaha. Neb.
"BURLINGTON. l-.OUTE
. (Chicago Budinston
GOIHO EAST AND WEST
Elesant Day Coaches, Parlor Cars wltB Mecca
ag Chairs (saats
Irs (saats free). Bmokias Cars.
Chairs. Pullman PaJaea SJeerjUur Cars and
famous C.B.4Q. Dining t an run dauy to and
:Q.Dlnini
Jrn DUMcn r - CkLr. LJikSlffO & ouncu
IBluffsTchSjro it 9m MoUvea. Chicago, 6C Jo
seph. Atchison & Topeka. Only through line b
kieo Chjcaro. Unoola A Deodar. Through cars
.WwiralndUaapoUs A CbuscU Bluffs vU Peoria.
1AJ1 connections mad in Union Depots. It is
bomaattsfgnaSTBBCVaaCAS
v rirct Coulppod Railroad Iq the
POTT EH. MViee-Preat aad Oeal staaager
1I - - ,,m- i. 11 mir
HiTJIMIBIEjJbC
BROS,
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f Si AWSW kW f . OUWsAa)
PAPPUS
Terms Cacln
LOT OF ,
FBaSB.
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WESTWARD .
Pslly Express train for Denver connecting
In C11I011 IeiMt for all pui'ttn In O-lorndo. Ctnh,
California and tliceuilr ttcl. Tin advent of
tnl- lin- Kivfn th traveler a ew Kouie to the
et with S4nvr aud adratrtaaes um-qualed
elsewhere. .
r t
& Ooir.cy
road.)
GOING NORTH AND SOU TH
&-.ii Tr(n of FlA7iu-.t Dar Coaches and Pull
maa Palace 81eeping Cars are run daily to and)
t'rora bt via liannibai. OuJbct. KefAukj
Burbngtoa. Cedar fapidn and Albert Lea to rH I
PauTand MiunaapoUs: Parlor Cars with Keclintns!
Chairs to and nm Bt. Louia and Peoria and to
and from bf Louis and Otnunwa. Only one
changa cf cars between St. Louis an-1 Uej
toina. Iowa, Uacou, braaka, inaywn-r,
Colerado.
It is utuvers&Qy admiuad to be the
World for all Classes of Travel
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