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TJ1K DAILY HERALD, PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1687.
JI)t piattamoutl) DoUg Qcral),
K?1T O T T 3 I3BO S.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
REPUBLICAN STATE CO N VENT' N.
Call fortho Meeting at Lincoln In
October.
T!u Kt-biibliCHii electors of tin' Htate Zot So
foriuik are rrqueHtrd to nentl dirlejjiite Irom
the aevoral comitlm, to meet In convention at
the oiwrn liousi-. In the fity of Lincoln, Wc-d-ninday.
October G, Ihht, at k o'clock p. in., for
the puruoHe of platriiiK I" nomination candi
date for one associate Justice of thu supreme
court, and lor two members of the board of
regents f the (state university, and to transact
such other business as may be presented to the
convention.
TIIK A PI'OHTIOM KNT.
The i-everal counties are entitled to repre
Hentation as follows, beinj? based upon tin)
vote cant for Ilon.-.lobn M. Thayer, governor,
In IKWi, K'vinK e delegate to eacli new
county, one dclcgate-at-large to each county,
and one for each 150 votes and the major frac
tion thereof
t:OHNTIKS.
Adams
Antelope ..
Arthur
itiain e
Itoone
ISrowu .. .
Uultalo
Jtutlrr
Hurt
Chas'j
Jans
Cellar
Cheyenne.. .
ciieiry
Clay
Colfax
Cumin;;....
Custer
Dakota
Dawes . ..
liixou.... ..
l"ilgc
Jioiiglan....
Dawson
Dundv
Fil more. ...
KuniJis ...
Franklin
Frontier
Cage
iosper
Crant...
Cre'-ley
iarnVul
Hall
Hamilton. ..
Harlan .. ..
J I ay ex. . ..
Hitchcock. .
Holt.
Howard
VOTES. roUNTIKH VOTEH
l: .letferson !
H .lollllfoll !
.... I Kearney !
Keya 1 aha 4
7 Keith r-
! Knox 7
II Laneanter lis
x Lincoln "
H l-omi '1
:i l.oup 2
. .. l.i Madison
W M :l'lierton 1
5 Meniek '
M N since 4
11 Nemaha I"
t; Nuckolls 7
V Otoe i
...... I'! l'awnee K
4 I'hclps 7
t; I'ierce 3
; 1'latre r,
in Tolk i;
.. X! Kichaidfon 12
.1 ird Willow 7
:t Sioux 1
lti S: liue li:
7 Sarpy 5
(i Sauiiiters 11
5 Seward 12
20 Sheridan :"
:i Sherman 4
1 Stanton X
.1 Thayer !
Thomas 1
II Valley 5
!i Washington 7
7 Wayne fi
A Webster .
i; Wheeler 2
II ork II
t; Unorganized Ter'y 1
Total r,'j2
It is recommended that no proxies be admit
ted to the convcutU n except, such as are held
by persons residing i'l the counties from which
proxies are given.
Waitku M. Skki.v, Secretary,
(iicoitiiK W. IUjkton. Cbairman.
Republican Primaries.
The republican county convention for
Cass county, will meet at I'lattsmoutli
Oct. 1st, 1887, for tlic purpose of select
ing 15 delegates to the state convention
to le held in Lincoln O. t. 5th, 1SS7, and
15 delegates to the judicial convention,
to be held at the same place and date;
also, to place in nomination, candidates
for the following county ollices:
County Treasurer, County Cleik, Kegiotor of
Deeds, Sheriff, County Superintendent of In
struction, ounty Judge, Clerk of Dislrict
Court, Coroner, Surveyor ami County Commis
loncr, 2nd District.
The primaries will he held at the re
spective places throughout the county
Saturday, September 21th, 1S87, for the
purpose of selecting delegates to the
county convention. The representation
of the various precincts will he as fol
lows: I'lattstnouth lt Ward. c votes.
2nd " C "
3rd - 11
Uli " 7 "
" l'rccinet 7 "
Rock ElufTs 9 "
Liberty 8 "
Avoea "J "
Mt. l'leasant 5
Eiht Mile ('.rove 7 "
Louisville 10
Center 0 "
Weeping Water '-'
Stove Creek 'J
F.lmwood "
South iteml 5
Salt Creek ' 10
Greenwood 8 "
Tipton 7
Tetal
II. C. KlTCUIE,
Scc'y,
158 ..
M. 51. TJcti-ek,
Chairman.
The new school law in Ohio has gone
into effect, it abolishes the separate pro
vision for white and colored children.
The republicans of New York hayc put
the winning ticket and platform in the
field, Col. Fred Grant is nominated for
secretary of state.
The New York Central railroad is the
first to dispose with the use of the car
stove, and it announces that it has com -pleted
arrangements for heating its
coaches by steam generated at the engine
and carried by steam pipes under the
cars, with improved couplings. We hope
that all roads will soon take up this idea
and do away with J the danger of the
stove.
It is said that a hot journal delayed
President Cleveland several hours on
his trip to Philadelphia the other day.
Superstitious people will find a sign of
warning in this. There will le a great
many "hot" journals to delay him on
the next presidential trip, that will de
tain him long enough for Jim Blaine to
get in ahead at the White House. Jltat
ress Express.
We are in receipt of the first issue of
the Plattsmoulh (Neb.) Daily Herald,
edited and published by Knotts Bros.,
who are well known in Indianola. The
.Daily Herald has been in contemplation
for some time, and we are glad to note
its debut. The paper is just the size of
the Hews and is a bright, newsy sheet.
Wo desire to congratulate these young
men in thfir new undertaking, and le
gpeak for them, fur they certainly de
serve it, the best possible success.-- War
ren Count!, Iowa, Nars.
Finance.
In the patt week there havo been sev
eral larirc financial transactions bringing
a great deal of foreign money into in
vestment in America. But still the com
plaints of a money htiingcncy in the
cast continue, notwithstanding this
great inflow of foreign gold and Ihe as
sistance given the money market by the
treasury. An explanation of the situa
tion is by no means easy. The circula
tion of the country is linger by millions
than at this time a year ago, and there is
a steady addition to the supply by the
coinage, of $2,000,000 a month. And a
syndicate in Holland, have bought
bonds and btock of the Oregon Trans
continental company, to the value of
$10,000,000. The transfer of the Balti
more & Ohio properties to new owner
ship, also involves the immediate pay
ment of at least $ 10,000,000, more than
one-half of which will emiieout of the
hoards of Knglish bankers to swell the
volume of American circulation. The
fjuestion is. Where is the money? and
what becomes of all tins' foreign gold
that is coming to the country? In re
ply, we (piote the opinion of the New
York Cummer' iul Ad ' Pert is r that "the
locking up of money in the national
treasury, and ttio utmaiural stimulation
of land boom spcculatiwu in tlA.' west by
the crtahlisfcxnvnt of reserve cities there,
are the most obvious v active causes of
the present stringency in the money mar
ket." If this be the true solution the
situation is not likely to be immediately
relieved.
Monarch Ism
The manifesto of the count of Paris
showinir the failure of republicanism in
France and urging the restoration of the
monarchical form of government has
been its:-lf a failure. The people of
France read the long document as I hey
read anything on politics with avidity.
The count and his friends had placed
copies of the manifesto in the h.inds of
the Lcgitimutists all over France and at
a concerted moment these manifestations
were given out. But the report from
Paris is that the count's bid for power
has been rejected by the very men, the
legitamatists, who assisted in its promul
gation. The Bonapartistists, on the
other hand, arc reported as being favor
ably impressed by the manifesto.
In another column is printed a digest
of the manifesto. He reviews at great
length the cause of French politics since
the execution of Louis XVI. Taking
for a text that nothing but monarchisin is
suited to the wants of the French. On
this basis it shows how weak, changea
ble and unsatisfactorily has been tlie leg
islation of the nation. He predicts an.
other crisis more dredful than those
that have already injured the develop
ment of France and declares that the one
preyentive to such a crisis is the quiet
and easy but speedy transition to the
ancient form of government.
He argues on the same basis, that the
mere delegation of powers to the head of
a government does not give firmness
He holds that the chief executive should
be held by a solemn compact in line
with the ancient traditions of the nation
lie shows that the kiHg must be enliyht
ened and guided by the assemblymen
and deputies, not enslaved. He proposes
a change in the voting of the budget,
making it in the form of a law and not
dependent on the whim of the deputies.
These three points are the chief points
of his argument because they are directly
opposite to those upon which the French
republic is founded. They are also dia
metrically opposed to those upon which
this republic is founded. They interest
us especially because the count of Paris
and the brilliant and courageous French
soldier who placed himself under the
command of General McClkllan are the
same person. It was also the count of
Paris who, after a study of our govern
ment prepared and published a work in
advocacy of a liberal constitutional mon
archy, a work, we believe still to be
found on the college shelves of this
country.
The lover of the young western repub
lic, the cnthaiastic friend of liberal gov
ernment, has now become a monarchist.
He wishes to see his country again under
the sway of a king. He hopes for the
coming of thu deputies of the Supreme
Being. The deputies anointed to rule
over the people, to array themselves in
fine linen and to live in splendor in crys
tal palaces. He waits for the restoration I
of the aristocracy with its privileges and
rights. What wrought this change in a
man so brilliant, so roniising? An
eastern paper cruel 'y states that twenty
years ago there was no thought in the
young soldier's breast of wearing a king
ly crown. But now he is the hope of the
Bourbon. If France choose a king the
Count of Paris will be the chosen one.
Truly this is cruel. But it may be none
the less true. The divine rights of kinirs.
The unification of executive and legisla
tive power. The supreme control of the
revenues. These are the ideas presented
in the manifesto,-and these are sugges
tions of a selfish .heart. The increase of
power; that is the first with of a Hellish
man.
Cut without going into an examination
of the statements presented by the count
in support of his argument and nearly
all of them are mere statements without
foundation in fact and without looking
at the basis upon which he stands, name
ly, that the present form of government
is unsatisfactory to the French people,
it may be well to say that this world is
moving onward. People of the count's
present disposition, with thoughts cen
tered upon themselves are apt to think
otherwise. But it is none the less true
that thu development in Europe as wel
as in America is in the direction of the
least government.
But the Bonopartists, whom the count
did not expect to please, have viewed
the manifesto with favor, no there are
people in this country whose professions
are in line with these ideas. The labor
parties, for instance, which desire that
the government nhould own and main
tain the railroad and telegraph systems
of the continent, which asks that the
government will say how many hours a
day a man shall work, which seeks the
mediation of the government in the dis
putes between the employer and the em
ployec; the socialist who believes in the
fatherhood of the government and that
he must be supplied with cmplopmcnt,
food and clothing by tthe government
The prohibitionists who attempt to main
tain that it is the duty of thegovernmen
to fix a standard of morality and compe
each man to conform thereto. These are
some of the monarchists of this country
It would be well for all these people to
learn that government is not an engine
to gratify vanity, for the maintainance
of paupers or for the regulation of con
duct. In short there are ninny peoph
who have yet to learn that the proeessioi
is moving forward not backward. JVe
bmska News.
ROYAL SA LA Hits in cunCP.
A Brief Sermon Agaiiiflt Monarchical fio
eminent Big Pay for Iolns Little.
A table recently prepared shows th
royal salaries paid in Europe, and it forms
interesting reading for ihose who havo
an idea that our own government j3 COn
ducted on a wasteful 'and extravagant
plan.
Tho emperor of Russia receives $8,250,
000 per annum; tho sultan of Turkey,
0.000,000; the emtieror of Austria, $4,-
000,000; tho king of Prussia, $ 3,000,000;
the king of Italy, $2,400,000; the queen
of England, $2,200,000; the queVn of
Spam, ?1, 800,000, and the king of Bel
gium, $300,000.
What a 6ermon against monarchical
government this brief table contains,
Eight persons, men and women for
kings and queens are nothing more re
ceive each year in the aggregate $28,150,
000 for doing what? For doing nothing
that hundreds maybe thousands of
their subjects could not do just as well
and possibly much better. Some of these
monarchs get their salaries for really
doing nothing. Queen Victoria, for ex
ample, has absolutely no function to per
form except to represent in her royal per
son the idea of dominion and sovereignty.
She has no part in the government of the
country. The most irrepressible Irish
member of parliament does more and has
more to say about ruling the empire than
Victoria has; and yet because she is what
she is, the mere eidolon of a bygone au
tocracy, her loving subjects pay her over
$2,000,000 every year for her own use
and benefit.
The king of Prussia receives $3,000,000
a year as compensation for his arduous
royal duties; and when t is considered
that he is tho emperor of Germany, that
he is a man over 00 years of age, and
that the reins of government have been
for years in the hands of Bismarck, it
must be admitted that, judged by repub
lican standards, he does not earn his
salary.
Probably tho czar of Russia performs
as much or more actual labor than any
reigning sovereign in Europe. The form
of government of Russia lcing a despot
ism, the czar must necessarily center all
authority in himself and be, in fact as
well as name, the fountain and source of
all authority. But even for his duties,
irksome, multifarious and difficult though
they may be, $8,250,000 is more than
they are worth, especially in view of the
financial condition of Russia and the im
mense drain ujon her resources.
The people of the United States thought
they were doing a wonderful thing when
they increased the president's salary from
$25,000 a year to $50,000; and yet tho
larger amount is only a trifle over two
days' salary of the emperor of Russia,
while at the same time the United States
is really better able to pay the president
the czar's salary than Russia in to pay tho
czar the president's salary.
Royalty is simply an enormously ex
pensive luxury, with nothing to recom
mend it except tradition and precedent,
and the only wonder is that it can keep
its hold so long on intelligent and pro
gressive nations in this ago of the world.
San Francisco Chronicle.
-- Fall overcoats in n.eltons, Merges
kerseys and worsteds in nil colors at
Mayer's.
For sale A good farm wagon
a strong set of double harness; a new cov
ered buggy with good double harness
and a good horse. Enquire of E. B.
Sampson or J. C. Eikenbary.
$10 Reward For any person giving
information that will lend to the convic
tion of parties putting obstructions on
the street car track.
Mercer Bros. & Co.
Leave orders for wood with John
Tutt at Bennett's grocery store. 8t f
WONDERS OF THE SEA.
It Great IrpthIeceptlve Wuv Tlio
I'ourr of Kvaporution.
The soa occupies three-fifths of the
surface of tho earth. At tho depth of
alxuit ,500 foot waves are not felt. Tho
temieraturo is the same, varying only a
trifle from tho ice of tho iole to tho sun
of tho equator. A mile down the water
has a pressure of over a ton to the square
inch. If a lox of six feet deep was tilled
with sea water and allowed to evajiorulo
under tho bun, there would bo two inches
of salt left on the lxttoiu. Taking the
average depth of the ocean to bo three
miles, there would lie a layer of pure salt
230 feet thick on the lod of tho Atlantic.
Tho water is colder at tho bottom than at
tho surface. In the many liays on tho
coast of Norway tho water often freezes
at tho bottom before it does aliove.
Waves are very deceptive. To look at
them in a storm ono would think tho
water traveled. Tho water stays in tho
sauio place, but the motion goes on.
Sometimes in storms these waves are
forty feet high, and travel fifty mi lex an
hour more than twice as fast as tho
swiftest steamer. Tho distance from
valley to valley is generally fifteen times
tho height, hence a wavo live feet high
will extend over seventy-five foot of
water. The force of tho d;ishing on Bell
Rock is said to Ijo seventeen tons for each
square yard. Evaj Miration is a wonder
ful iiower in drawing the water from the
sea. Every year a laj'or of tho entire
sea fourteen feet thick is taken up into
the clouds.
The winds liear their burden into the
land, and the water comes down in rain
upon the fields, to How back at last
through rivers. Tho depth of the sea
presents an interesting problem. If the
Atlantic was lowered 0,551 foot, the dis
tance from shore to shore would lie half
as great, or ,1,500 miles. If lowered a
little more than threo miles, say 19,GS!)
foot, there would lie a road of dry land
from Newfoundland to Ireland. This is
the plane on which the great Atlantic
cables were laid. The Mediterranean is
comparatively shallow. The drying up
of 000 foot would leave throe different
seas, and Africa would lie joined with
Italy. The British channel is more like a
jvnd, which accounts for its choppy
waves.
It has Leon found diflicult to got the
correct sounding of the Atlantic. A
midshipman of tho navy overcame the
difficulty, and shot weighing thirty
pounds carries down tho line. A hole is
bored through thu sinker, through which
a rod of iron is passed, moving o:isily
back and forth. Jn the end of tho Kir a
cup is dug, and tho inside coated with
lard. The bar is mado fast to tho lino,
and a sling holds the shot on. When the
bar, which extends below the ball,
touches the earth, the sling unhooks and
the shot slides of L This lard in Ihe end
of the bar holds some of the sand, or
whatever may be on the bottom, and a
drop shuts over the cup to keep the water
from washing the sand out. When tho
ground is reached a shock is felt as if an
electric current has passed through the
line. Ocean AVave.
"CuIm" Among tlie Marines.
Turks' heads and cats' faces were
probably once carved on the I)eam ends.
The purchase by which the anchor ring
is hoisted is tho ;'cat," or the cheat
(cajion). This word "cat" is a familiar
one on board ship, and further illustrates
the extensive lonst nomenclature therein
found. The "cat" is a broad beamed
pail boat with no jib, a Norwegian vessel,
and a well known instrument of punish
ment. The "cat harpings" are a part of
the topmast rigging; the "cat holes" are
apertures through which tlie "stern
fasts" are led; the "cat rack" (kattspurn)
another name for the "mast step," "cat
lap" is weak tea, a "cat nap," a short
one, a "cat's paw," a mere ruffle upon
the surface, leaving a "cat skin," and in
also a kink in a rope. The name "cat'a
hole" (trou do chat) is applied by French
sailors to the lubbers' hole (boco dc lobo,
or seal's mouth, say the Spanish), which
is aptly called "soldiers' jiassage" (sol
datengat) by German marines. When a
ship is "hogged" (i e., bowed or arque)
German sailors say she has a "cat'
back" (katzenrucken). Lieut. F.
Bassett in The American Magazine.
Umbrellas and Parasols.
A Philadelphia umbrella manufacturer
says there are about 2,500,000 umbrellas
and parasols sold in this country every
year. America has gone ahead of other
nations in manufacturing them, and not
more than 10 per cent, are imiiorted.
Tlie Sheffield umbrella, however, still
leads the world. Domestic makers have
to figure very closely, and were they to
raise prices 10 per cent, the country
would bo deluged with foreign material.
It is a remarkable circumstance than only
one person has ever made any money on
any atent on an umbrella. That man is
old "Sammy" Fox, of Sheffield, Eng.,
undoubtedly the best known umbrella
maker in the world. He made the first
paragon frame, and he got a royalty
from every one made for fourteen years.
An umbrella goes through many hands
before it is sold. No one firm makes an
entire umbrella. Tho ribs and braces are
made in ono factory, the 6ticks in an
other and tho little catches that slide
along the stick in still another, while th6
silk is imported. Fashion has a great
deal to do with the business. Boston
Transcript.
The Club System.
This club system is growing apace in
the cities of America, and is a consider
able factor in the decline in matrimony
among tho wealthier and more aristo
cratic young men. The latter are dis
posed to contend that tho girls are all to
blame in the matter. They say that the
American girl of a certain social tjosition
enters society with a sujierHcial educa
tion; with no domestic acquirements
(which she has learned to scorn), and
with a marked propensity to expensive
and extravagant dressing and entertain
ing. "We can t afford it, is the cry ol
many young men with salaries ranging
from $1,000 to $3,000 a year. Balti
more Herald.
Scarlet Fever Bacilli.
Dr. Edington, of Edinburgh, claims U
have discovered a bacillus in the blood
and desquamation of patients suffering
with scarlet fever. The Medico-Chirurgi-
cal Societv of Edinburgh has appointed a
committee to investigate the bacillus and
iti relation to scarlet fever. Science.
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In Onlur to Ke.luce Stock, Wo K-li:tIl Place on our Outer 0 muter
:i Coiuiilcte: Line of
Children and Infants Muslin Under
wear Dress Cloaks, etc., etc..
. TO BE
Sod
egardiess
This Wee
Chihln ns White and Colored Dresses
at ii'tc, worth 50e.
Child reus White and Colored I Presses
at r0o, worth from 7-"e to $1.
Childiens White and Colored Dresses
at. $1, worth from $1.50 to $2.
Childrens White and Colored Dresses
at $1.50, worth from $2 to $2.50.
Childrens White and Colored Dresses
at $2, worth from $:t.50to $4.
Infants liobes at $1.50 worth $2.
" " " $1.75 " $2.50,
" " $2.25 ' $:!.
Infants' jmg Cloaks, worth $o
CI i i Id roll's Sin ul Clonks, worth
This Week Only
Fred. Hermann & Co.
in 1 1 ii rnramrni ii 1 1 h nimni i i iiiiniiiiiw 11 mimni hiimih iiimim hi imj
150
For the next few weeks -choice of lots in South Park may
be had for $150. Purchaser may pay all in cash; or one
half cash, the other half in one year; or, one third cash, bal
ance in one and two years; or $25 cash, remainder in month
ly installments of 10; or, any one agreeing" to construct a
residence worth 2,500 and upwards will be given a lot with
out further consideration.
IOW IS THE TIME
to select your residence lots, even though you should not
contemplate building at once.
will convince tlie most skeptical tliab it is the most desirable
residence locality in the city and we will add, that the most
substantial class of buildings of which I'lattstnouth can
boast for the year 1S-V7, are now being constructed in . this
handsome addition.
Beautiful Shade Trees
OF MOST
EVERY DESCRIPTION
AHOEK TECS LOTS.
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around and through
Any one desiring to canst met 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
ofliec. tin-one desiring to examine property with a view
to purchasing, will be driven to the park at our expense.
CALL ON
R. B
. Windham or
John A. Davies,
CASS
n
l
" ' $2.75 " $:i.50
Infants Long Skirts at 00c worth 75c.
" 75c " $1.
" " ItOc " $1.25.
Infants Long Skirts at $1.10 worth
$1.50.
Infants Long Skirts at $1.25 worth
$1.75.
Infants Bob's at $: worth $1.
" " " $:1.25 " $4.50.
" " " $:.50 " $5.
" " $4 $(.
.r,0 to $I.r.00, now $LMJ lo 12.00
from 2 fo !, now $1..r. to $8.
Fa r wee
of
Cost
Only
$150 4
One visit to South Park
the entire tract
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