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TJ1E DAILY IIEKALD, PLATTSMOUTII, KEHBASKA, THURSDAY, -SEPTEMBER 15, 1687.
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ftlje JJlattsmoutl) Dc'iln Cjcralfc,
KNOTT3 BBOS.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
Republican Primaries.
The repuhlkniicounty convention for
Cass county, will meet at Plattsmouth
Oct. 1st, 1H7, for the purpose of select
in; 15 delegates' to the state convention
to !e held in Lincoln (Jet. 5th, 1H87, and
15 delegates to the judicial convention,
to be held at the same place and date;
ulso, to place in nomination, candidates
for the following county oflices:
County Treasurer. County Clerk, KeKlnter of
Deeds, Sheriff, Comity Superintendent of In
struction, County Judge. Clerk of District
Court, Coroner, Surveyor and County Commis
sioner, 'Jud Dixtrict.
The primaries will he held at the re
spective pliices throughout the county
Saturday, September 21th, 18S7, for the
purpose of selecting delegates to the
county convention. The representation
of the various precincts will be as follows:
l'lattsiiiouth l-t Ward, votes.
2nd 0 "
:ird " "
J tli " 7
" l'recinct 1
Hock Muffs J
Liberty 8
Avoea "
Alt. l'leasant. S
Eight Mile drove 7
Louisville 10
Center C "
Weeping Water 20 "
Stove Creek 'J
Kim wood 8 '
South liend 5
Salt Creek 10
Greenwood 8 "
Upton 7
Tetal 158
II. C. IJitciiik, M. M. Buti.ku,
Sec'y,
Chairman.
Anauciiy in the United States has at
last received a telling blow in the decision
of the Illinois supreme court.
Turc democratic revolt in Maryland is
spreading, aud seriously threatens to
overwhelm the party. Omaha Republi
can. Tiik Charleston News and Courier
says that "the G. A. II. must be made to
understand that it must behave or dis
band." The dominion government has ordered
troops stationed at Winnipeg to quell
any disturbance that may arise from the
lied River Valley railroad trouble.
The Plattmouth Hkhald announces
the inaugration of a daily edition, to
which of course the entire fraternity will
wish the greatest degree of success Lin.
coin Democrat.
The decision of the Illinois supreme
court must have caused a peculiar sensa
tion about the gullet of Ilerr Most, as
he comes out with a very treasonable ar
tide in his paper.
The Thetis has developed a speed be
yond all expectations and has proved to
be one of the fastest sailers on the high
seas, and Secretary Fairchild has issued
orders for her to go to the Rehring sea to
take a hand in suppressing the British
sealers.
The Thetis can walk the water with a
speed that will, enable her to oyerhaul
the mauraders and bring them as lawful
prizes into the Alaskan ports. It is high
time that the action was taken. These
fisheries are extremely valuable, aud un
der the protection that has been given
to the females by the government and its
agents, the number of fur bearing ani
mals on the Aleutian islands has been
steadily increased. The pirates who
steal them, however, make no discrimi
nation but slaughter every animal that
they can overhaul, and would soon, if
left to themselves, exterminate them. It
is to be hoped that the Theris will cap
ture the entire fleet before it can escape
and put an d to the depredations.
Lincoln Journal.
"We clip the following from the Lin
coln Democrat.it shows ior itself how de
moralized the democratic party is.
"They say that a compromise on the
tariff question is about to be made be
tween Randall and the democratic man
agers at Washington. The internal
revenue on tobacco is to be remitted
entirely as a concession to him, and the
tariff is to be reduced on some articles
of import as a concession to him. This
is a spectacle to make the gods weep.
The principle of the protective tariff is
to be recognized and the democratic
party to be republicanized for no other
purpose than to placate a man who is no
more a democrat than Pigiron Kelly.
The democracy is now as it has been for
twenty-five years, a party of shifts and
dodges and expediences. Not the rank
and tile, not the honest masses, but the
leaders. It has not adopted a square,
open and honest platform in a national
convention since the war. It promises
to become ja, half organized band of
office-sneakers. Many of its leaders are
unscrupulous, self-seeking parasites, un
der the pay of the enemy. Randall, for
example, holds his seat in congress as a
gift from the worst enemies of the dem
ocracy. ..Senators from Washington,
nominaly democrats, hold their seats by
the grace of the corporations whom they
serve better than they serve the people.
The International Prison Congress
Year after year tho international prison
congress meets, and the result is the
bringing together of an unequalled col
lection of experimental facts, carefully
collated statistics and thoroughly studied
conclusions. The good already effected
through the various prison reform asso
ciations represented at these meetings is
enough to prove the value of the work,
and though it is found by experience
that custom and conservatism are the
most formidable burners in the way of
improvement, the changes for the better
are important enough to justify hope for
the future. At the meeting at the prison
congress at Toronto yesterday an inter
esting address was delivered by ex
I 'resident R B. Hayes, In it he gave a
succinct account of the various reforms
sought by the congress, and pointed out
some of the difficulties in the way. So
far as this and, indeed, most other coun
tries are concerned, the lack of system
in the county jails has proved most cm
harassing to the reformers. It may,
indeed, be said that the penal question
and the educational question are affected
by kindred obstacles. In all endeavors
to improve our higher education, and to
raise the standard of our colleges to the
university grade, we are hindered by the
prevailing inferiority of the primary
school courses. In like manner all at
tempts to make tho penitentiaries places
of reform and probation are interfered
with by the defective methods which
make the county jails training schools
for criminal".
In a well ordered penal system no
places of confinement would be left out
of the plan. Discipline and regulation
would begin at the county jail
and proceed through all inter
mediate stages to the state prison. So
only is it possible fairly to test the doc
trines of penologists. So only is it pos
sible to make penal confinement reform
atory. Under the existing loose and un
systematic arrangements most county
jails remain little better than the com
mon prisons of half a century ago.
Some of them, and these too often in
the largest cities, are simply boarding
houses for criminals, where all but those
charged with capital offences can associ
ate freely together, exchange confidences
and enlarge their criminal knowledge.
In many cases there is not eyen care tak
en to seperate the young law-breekcrs
from the mature, and in far too many so
called Houses of Correction an unintelli
gent severe disipline contrasts with a
freedom of associations productive of
the most depraving effects. One conse
quence of this want of system and har
mony is that by the time a criminal
reaches the penitentiary he is generally
so hardened and habituated to the crim
inal life as to be very difficult of treat
ment. In not a few cases he is, in fact,
irreclaimable, and thus the most puzzling
problem encountered by reformers.
But the state of the county jails is not
the only hindrance to reform. A more
serious one (because it cannot be cured
by legislation) is the position held by
society toward the discharged convict.
This position is one of inveterate distrust
and antipathy, and despite all argument
and appeal it docs not appear to undergo
any modification. Of course such an at
titude neutralizes the efforts of reform
ers, for it is of little use to fit crim
inals for honest living, to give
them a handicraft, to incline
them to uprightness, if the moment they
are free they are made to realize that so
ciety has not hardened and never will
pardon them; that wherever they go they
must drag their disgrace nnd forever be
liable to ruinous exposure; that men of
their own class will be the first to de
mand their discharge; and that those who
most condemn their past faults will so
act as to drive them back to criminal
ways. This is the most terrible hin
drauce to reform, and it is so formidable
and so intractible that sometimes it
compels a doubt us to the useful
ness of all the philanthropic labor
so nobly bestoyed upon prison reform.
Perhaps an active propaganda is needed
to stir up public thought, to make the
people as a whole realize and reflect upon
the cruelty of the prevailing attitude
toward discharged prisoners. But until
some change can be wrought in the situ
ation at this point, the work of penal
reform must continue to be exceedingly
laborious and disappointly slow, even if
or when a more comprehensive disciplin
ary method 13 applied to all prisons.
New York Tiibune.
The Condemned Anarchists.
At last the anxiously awaited decision
of the supreme court of Illinois, in the
case of the convicted Chicago anarchists,
has been rendered, affirming the judg
ment of the lower court.
The decision is just what we expected.
They are ordered to be executed on the
11th of November next and there is no
more hope for the condemned men, they
must hang.
The trial, conviction and execution of
these men will constitute one of the most
notable chapters in the criminal history
of this country and is a good " lesson to
the Anarchists that they must obey the
laws of the country.
The Treasury Surplus.
When the democratic party asked to be
taken into the confidence of the people
and given control of the government it
pledged itself to reduce tho surplus in
the treasury and to put the money in
circulation. How has it redeemed that
promise? It found a Email surplus above
the requirements of the legal reserve,
which has ever since steadily increased
until it has no at become a national
menace. To establish a reputation for
"economy," the small-bore statesmen of
the democratic party have put a stop t
natioral improvements all over the
country and piled up the money in the
treasury until, in sheer desperation tX the
situation, the secretary of the treasury
has adopted the questionable policy of
ptiying a premium upon the outstanding
obligations of the government. This is
not what the country wants. The im
matured bonds are not a burden upon
the nation. The people want tho money
that has been tied up by democratic ex
ecutive and legislative Btupidity put into
circulation. The democratic party is in
control of the government, and the
people will hold it responsible. The
enormous railroad and other extensive
and permanent improvements in the de
velopment of the west demands the U3e
of this money, which is unnecessarily
tied up. If the democrats in congress
have not the ability to solve the problem
they must turn the goyernment over to
the republican party and admit their in
competence. The situation will not jus
tify any further delay. The wef
fare of the whole country, but more
particularly of tho west, demands relief.
Republican.
Jeff Davis has agreed to attend the
fair at Macon and make a speech Oct. 20.
This is published throughout that part of
the country as his lost public demonstra
tion to the head of the last confederate
government. When the South ceases to
worship their idol and the past, there will
probably be some hope for her future,
not before.
Corners.
Corners have existed only since straight
lines were invented. They are very use
ful and may be found every where ex
cept where staright lines are not to be
found.
The uses of coi ners are innumerable and
still new ways for their employment are
being devised every day. The common
corner is where two flat surfaces meet at
an angle greathr or less than 180 , but
I once knew a doctor who was a corner
by trade and I once knew a man who
was cornered up a tree by a buffalo and
a cruel Indian killed the buffalo and
scalped the man. At anothertime a cow
boy cornered an editor and the next day
the coroner had a job and the editor had
a 2 column article. But they have new
and imporved corners. In Chicago and
California they have a very large corner
on wheat and in New York the corner on
coffee is of great magnitude. There is
also a corner on cotton, and at times they
have corners on corn and live stock.
The corners on grain are due to what
are known as "the crops." Crop corners
are always around when the crops are
scarce, and the smaller the crop the
larger the corner. An old custom was
when an improved corner took place for
some bis bank cashier to shoot himself
but this practice is rapidly becoming ex
tinct and has almost passed into oblivion,
and the custom is now to take the bank
surplus and go on an extended trip to
Canada.
Mr. Powdekly states that in his next
annual message to the Knights of Labor
he will advocate government ownership
of all the telegraph and railroad lines in
the country. That is to say, he will pro
pose to do away with a number of separ
ate monopolies by combining them all
into a single comprehensive and stupen
dous one, to be controlled and operated
by political instead of business agencies
and influences. It is greatly to be feared
that Mr. Powderly does not grow wiser
as he grows older. Globe Vein.
State Fair Notice.
To enjoy the sights at Lincoln, on
leaving Plattsmouth you will please sup
ply yourself with Pepperberg's fine Bud's
5c. cigars. By so doing you will avoid
paying high prices for common eastern
cigars such as are usually sold at state
fairs. Budd's cigars for sale only by
first class cigar dealers at Plattsmouth
and Cass oounty towns also throughout
this state. 1-5
Lead, Oil, Varnishes, Brushes &c. at
Warrick's good goods and low prices.
d6t-wf-t
For Sale.
A good substancial farm wagon with
strong double harness, a good covered
buggy with new double harness and one
fine young horse. Enquire of E. B.
Sampson or J. C. Eikenbary. lwl
Warrick asks you to compare his
prices and stock of school books with
others. Second hand school books at
very low prices. d6tw4L
Wheeling Stogies 3 for 5 c. the best
in the city at Warrick's, d6t-w4t
A BICYCLIST IN PERSIA.
An Official' Keen ll-Uh for Forbidden
Fruit Drinking "irraok."
Although Mohammedans, and partieulurlj
Shiuito Mohammedans, are forbidden by
their religion to indulgo lu alcoholic bever
age, the average high official in Penan is any
thing but a sanctimonious individual, and
partakes with keen rellih of th forbidden
fruit in an open secret manner. The thin,
transparent veil of abstemiousness that the
Persian noblo wears in duf ercnee to tho sancti
monious pretentions of tho niollahs and B?yuds
and tho public eyo at large, is cast aside al
together In tho presence of intimate friends,
and particularly if that intimuto f riond is a
Ferenghi.
The Bartiep, Boon after his arrirnl, inti
mates with a humorous twinkle of the eye
that he foeU the neod of a little medicine.
Mr. Gray, as becomes a good physician who
knovr well the constitutional requirements
of his patient, and who knows what to pre
scribe without oven going through the pre
liminary act of feeling the pulse, produces a
palo green bottle and a tumbler and pours
out a full dose of its contents for an adult.
The patient swallows it at a gulp, nibbles a
piece of sweetmeat, and strokes his stomach
In token of approval.
"What was tho medicine you prescribed,
Gray!"
"High wines," says tho physician, "83 clegs,
alcohol ; a bottle that the entomologist of tho
boundary commission hnxpened to leave here
a year ago; it was the only thing in the house
except wine. Tho patient pronounced It the
'best arrack' he ever ! listed ; the fierier these
fellows can get it tho better they like lt"
"Why, it didn't even make him gaspl"
"Gasp nonsense; you haven't been in Per
sia as long as I have yet, or you wouldn't say
'gasp' even at 05 degs. alcohol."
The sartiep strokes his beard and stomach,
casta a lingering glance nt the above men
tioned green glass bottlo, smiles and replies:
"Having accomplished so wonderful a jour
ney, you are now prettier with your rough,
unshaven face than you ever were before;
you can now survey yourself In the looking
glass of fame instead of in a common mirror
that reflects all the imperfections of ordinary
mortals." Having delivered himself of this
compliment the sartiop's eye wanders in the
direction of the 05 degi. alcohol again and the
next minute is again smacking his lips and
complacently stroking his stomach. Thomas
Stevens in Outing.
Sooth. American Railroads.
Railroads are gradually being extended
toward Bolivia from the eastern slope of tho
Andes, although for j'ears past the lino built
at such vast cost by Peru from the Pacific to
Puno has not passed that lake town toward
tho Bolivian frontier. The fault that it has
not been extended lies entirely with Bolivia.
Peru used every exertion and incurred an
enormous debt to build ono of the most diffi
cult roads yet constructed in the world, and
although the engines still climb tho steep
gradients and pass through tho wilds of
Cahuiantala on their way to Puno, no effort
is made by Bolivia to extend the road toward
the Desaguadero, and thence on to the re
gions where the Aymara Indians pass their
lives in that happy state which can only bo
understood by those -who, like them, believe
that where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to Le
wiso. Peru, through necessity it is true, and
not by any means from choice, not being able
to assist her neighbor wilh money to carry a
railroad into her territory, the Argentine
republic appears to be about to take an in
terest in the matter, and to make an effort to
join the Trnnsandine lines with the central
part of Bolivia, where grioultural and
mineral riche3 abound which would well re
pay transportation to the coast.
Referring to tho steps which have been
taken for this purpose, Buenos Ayrea papers
now report that after nineteen months of
severe labor the engineers have sent in the
preliminary plans for a road to Quiaca, on
the Bolivian frontier. Thesa plans have been
niade from tho junction ct Salta, through the
Toro ravine, and up to Quiaca. Thence the
Humanahuaca ravine i3 followed to JuijuL
The distance surveyed amounts to 700 kilo
meters, of which number 225 are situated in
the Juijui line. After careful study a selec
tion will be made between tho two roads
mentioned, and work will then be commenced
on the line which will carry Argentine pas
sengers to the Bolivian frontier. Chicago
Herald.
Shirtless ana Dc;raaeu l'oor.
Washington market is tho cause for the ex
istence of the most sing-alar of tho slums of
New York. There ha3 grown up near the
great food bazar a population of as shiftless
and degraded poor as we shelter people who
expect to procure most of what they eat by
picking it up out of waste barrels and bas
kets of tho butchers,fishmongers and fruiterers
of the market. They send their children to
collect this innutritious and often unwhole
some waste, and seldom buy anything except
bread, sugar, tea or coffee, which they re
gard as luxuries, to be dispensed with when
ever their idleness, drunkenness and shift
lessness prevent their buying them. They
live mora cheaply, but nothing like as well
as the thrifty Germans of. Cannon street on
the far east side, who cluster ia crowds oppo
site the shabby basement of a Teuton, who
contracts with the principal hotels to take
their table and kitchen leavings as well as
swill for next to nothing, and who, bringing
his load home in a wagon, sorts out the cake,
pudding, poultry, meat, cereals and fruit
often already separated in cracked dishes,
paper parcels and tins and doles them out
so generously that for five cents a family can
have a meal, and for twenty-five cents
enough of everything to keep a household a
day. New York Letter.
Fierce Greetings In the Soadan.
As we approach the town, and when least
expected, a party of horsemen in fierce Bed
ouin like array will spring from behind some
cliff or out of an unseen hollow and, with
marrow piercing war cries and unearthly
screams, spears leveled or swords uplifted,
bear down upon us like a whirlwind, amid
clouds of dust, apparently bent on annihilat
ing or sending to Gehenna such infidels as
ourselves. But even though you feel a de
ided want of backbone, a dozen spears, as it
were, already quivering in your bodies, and
your heads not worth tho purchase, pray do
not run away nor even blench for one mo
ment. Assume an indifferent expression, as
if being chopped up or spitted on spears was
a daily experience. If you can smile in the
emergency all the better, for jut as we seem
to feel the hot breath cf their horses on our
cheeks, and in a bewildered sort of way real
ize the disagreeable proximity of several
spears, another shout will fill the air, the gal
loping horses as if by magic will stand 6tock
till, enveloping us in a cloud of dust, and by
the cordial shouts of welcome and hearty
salams we shall find a most pleasant assur
ance that all this fiendish display is intended
as an honorable welcome to their town. Har
per's Magazine.
The "Nelgboring Darner."
A new trade for women in Albany is that
of "neighboring darner." Tho woman who
follows it has for her customers a dozen or
twenty households, each of which sho visits
weekly, and spends a few hours in doing up
the family darning and mending.
I
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In order to reduce our large stock,
we shall make
low
Prices
Our 4 Button
Embroidered Backs tit
JJ.jc., worth 75c.
Our 5 Button Plain Stitching
t r40c,
worth STe. ,
The above gloves alone only in 5J,
and u.
Our 5 Button Scolloped To ps at 05c a
pair, complete assortment of sizes and
colors.
Our 5 Hook " Duchess" at 75c a pair,
worth 1.00. all sizes in colors and black.
Our 5 Button S. & Co. Embroidered
Back at 75c, the best value ever olTered
for the prici.
Our 4 Button Genuine Kid, warranted,
at 1.00, will compare with any 1.50
glove sold in the city.
Our 5 Button "Nantm" Scolloped Top
at 1.00 a pair, Opera Ktadrs onlv
Our 5 Hook "Camille" at 1.'25 a
pair, every pair warranted, all the lead
ing shades.
Our 5 Button "Bon Marcho" Embroid
ered backs at 1.85. This low price on
this glove is only to introduce. Every
pair fitted and warranted. The colors
and stitching?, are something new.
Our 4 button "Our Own'' Fancy Em
broidered Backs at 1.50, never before
sold by us less than 2.00. All the most
fashionable shades and blacks.
Our 4 Button "Simpson's Best" at 2.
Same glove as above. Every pair fitted
and warranted. This is our regular
2.50 cent glove.
LADIES SUEDE GAUNTLET GLOVES,
EXCELLENT DRIVING GLOVE
AT $1.75 A l'AIK, WORTH 2.2r.
Ladies' 4 Button Pique Do Skin, especially good for
driving- purposes, at 1.50 a pair, worth 2.00.
Ladies' 6 JJutton, same as above, at 1.76, worth 2.25.
fiemernDBF tiiese Prices m for Tliis M Oily.
Fred
S150
$mm mm
For the next few weeks choice of lots in South Park
be had for 150. Purchaser may pay all in cash: or
half cash, the other half in one
ancc in one and two years; or 25 cash, remainder in month
ly installments of L0; or, any one agreeing to construct a
residence worth 2,500 and upwards will be given a lot with
out further consideration.
1TOW IS TSB TJME
to select your residence lots, even though you should not
contemplate building at once. One visit to South Park
will convince the most skeptical that it is the most desirable
residence locality in the city, and wc will add, that the most
substantial class of buildings of Avhich Plattsmouth can
boast for the year 18 i7, are now being constructed in
handsome addition.
eauliful
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around and through
OF MOST
use
Any one desiring to canstruct a cottage or a more preten
tious residence in South Park, can examine a large selection
of plans of the latest style of residences by calling at our
oflice. Any one desiring to examine property with a view
to purchasing, will be driven to the park at our expense.
CALL ON
W mdham
OV2S3. CASS
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the following
prices :
are for Mis Week Only.
Our 4 Bui ton Brunswick Su-des, Em
broidered Backs. Tans and Brown, dur
ing tins sale only 75c.
Our 1 Button Hon Marche Suedes, Em
broidered Backs, all the leading shades,
at 1.00 a pair. This price made to in
troduce, n gular juice 1.50.
Our ! Button Length Suede, Mosquo
taire, 1.50, embroidered backs, all tho
newest shades.
Our 8 Button Mosq. Suedes at 1.75,
regular ju ice 2.25.
Our 10 Button Mosq. Suedes at 2.25,
regular riee :.
Our 20 Button Mosq. Suedes at 2.75 a
pair, worth :J.75.
A TT KN TION (i ENTS.
Toil THIS WKKK ONLY.
Our 2 Button Cents' "White Jouvin nt
1.00 a j.tiir.
Our 2 Button Cents' Black BonMarche
at 1.00 a pair.
Our 2 Button Cents' IrvingEmbroider
ed Backs, Tans and Browns, at 1.25,
worth 1.75.
Our 2 Button Cents' Simpson Best, at
1.25 a jiuir. The very best glove made,
street shades onlv.
Our 2 Button Cents' Harival, at 1.7.'
a jiair, our regular 2.25 glove, evening
shades only.
Our 2 Button Castor Embroidered
Backs at 1.75, the finest driving glovo
jn the market.
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RIPTION
LOTS.
the entire tract.
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Hermann & Oo
p? t$m wM
Shade
John k. Da vies,.
CO. BSTST.