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About The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1887)
tit j: daily i in;; li, plattsmoutii, xeijiiakka, wkdnksdav, xovemuku o, isst. $l)e piattsmoutlj Dailn fjeralli KNOTTS BBO S., Publishers & Proprietors. IJoodi.k I5M)ii.i: Shoo-fly! IJooin.K .snowel unilcr. The battle is won! I). A. Camimikm.. five hundred majority The anarchist will hanjj next Friday. IIk;;ins Wiggins and Sigins ! Whcr are they - The question has been to-day, who U elected wmmmmmm Tuf: authorities ot (,'huuo arc making arrangements to guard against any riot that may occur next Friday when the anarchist are hung. The republican party of Cass county is to be congratulated over the manage ment of the splendid campaign in ('as'i county which closed yesterday evening, and to chairman Pofck great credit should be given; his management of the details of the conquest which were so complete ly seconded and carried out by the can didates upon our ticket and the com mitteemen of the different precincts, show what tact and good management will do. Xo bluster, n dress parade, but, simply a straight-forward, honest, earnest organization, with a determination to get the voter interested and out to the polls. Now then, let the republicans of Class county recolect that concert of ac tion and honest support of worthy men when fairly nominated, is a republican duty which should be always observed, and when lived up to will always in sure victory. Many reasons have been assigned for the fact that notwithstanding the almost universal reduction in the prices of food products in the past ten years, that of beef has remained substantially un changed. It has been attributed to an increase in exports of the product, to a growth in the domestic demand, and to the exactions of a combination controll ing the distribution. Undoubtedly some, if not all, of these influences have oper ated to keep prices up. Another ar.d important faetor in the problem has strangely been overlooked, This is the falling off of the supply. Hon. X. J. Colman, Commissioner of Agriculture, estimates that, in the number of beef cattle in the country aycraged 722 for every 1000 of population, as compar ed with 814 to 1000 people in The greater part of this falling off, compara tively speaking, probably occurred in the half dozen years immediately preceding 1SS5. The supply, relatively to number of inhabitants, is unquestionably still on the decrease. In the past three "or four years the business of cattle raising on a large scale has uot been so profitable- as at'an earlier period. As a money -making pursuit, however, it is reasonably safe to say that it is soon destined to come into prominence once more, unless some acceptable substitute for beef should be found. Globe Democrat. 34 A WEEK FOR WORKINOI'IEN. Senator Frye, of Maine, in a recent speech, referred to the effort King Hum bert is making to build up factories in that country, lie started in ou cotton mills. The senator was over there, and being a yankce, asked questions of the German manager of one of these new establishments. This was in Naples. The manager alleged that his operatives were first-class workmen; they did not understand machinery very well, but they were good people to work, both men and women. The average wages on his pay roll was $4.00 a week. And he accounted for this in the following way, to use his language, as quoted by sena tor Frye: I have to put about two skill ful men in each room, because these Ital ians don't know much about machinery, and those men are Englishmen. I am obliged to pay them a little better than English wages in order to get them, and I pay them about $7 or $S a week. I pay my women from fifteen and eighteen to twenty cents a day. I pay my men from thirty-rive to forty cents a Jay." And this is the way in which he got his average. And in the entire establish ment there was not a score of men that were getting $7 or $S a week. Senator Frye supplemented this with this state ment: "The same is true in England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany, and everywhere you undertake to find out wages they will say, "We pay from $3 a week up to $15 a week." and you go and hunt at the bottom and you will find that they have got two men at 15 a week and 2.000 at $3. So you see that the great bulk, the ninety out of a hun dred, that worked in this cotton null, were at work for twenty cents a day, for four out of five in the mill were women. "With the democratic doctrine of free trade enforced in this country, and American industries left to take care of themselves, American working people, men and women, would be brought into competition with the starved labor here referred to. On tho Yukon. from the Janean tAla.ika) 1'recl'rct It is remarkable, indeed, that ho much of t lie surface ground on the Yukon is frozen solid to a depth of severe! feet. It is all tho more so when wc come to realize the fact that during the summer it gets as hot there as in the South During the heat of the past season the miners found it a "rcat convenience to go in bathing in the streams at least twice day and to seek shady places in which to rock the gold out of the gravel. At the breaking up of winter the hours of sunshine are rapidly increasing, and con tinue so until midsummer, when tho sun beams forth twenty-two hours out of the twenty-four, while on the high mountain tops it is for a period of several days in June not entirely out of sight during the whulc twentv-four hours. Ihit during all this heat and long days of continual .sunshine the sun's rays do not penetrate the thick mosses that cover nearly the entire surface of the country, and coii.se mulitlv the frozen "-round underneath lies in thatstate as if packed in nn ice house. After it onco becomes iroz' i:, as any damp ground will do in the winter time it ouicklv becomes covered with this moss, which is of a remerkably rapid growth and attains a depth of some two feet or more. During the heat of summer this moss becomes dry to tho dentil of several inches, and the min is think that by a continuous burning of it as f.it as it dries they will have the gravel bars along the creeks, at least, cleared olT, being of the impression that when the gravel deposits are cxposod to tho scorching rays of the sun, and rains and atmosphere, they will readily thaw out. When winter sets in the hours of sunshine gradually decrease until tluriflg tho shortest days the sun shines only four hours out of the twentv-four, But at this period the aarora is most iuter.se and helps very materially in driving darkness from that dreary land. The thermometer szoesdovva to 70 in the winter, but the atmosphere is very dry and consequently tho cold is not so precept iljle as one would imagine. Commission Men as Judges or J'rulr. A few of the agricultural societies near New York anil other largo cities have tried the plan this year of having .some trust worthy commission man act jus a judge of tho fruits exhibited at their fair.;. This appear; to bo in some respects, at least, a good idea, for naturally these commission men, with their commercial instincts, in cline to award prisces to the fruit.; that sell best, whereas other judges incline to be guided by tbeir time honored scale of points of excellence. Most farm produce is grown to be sold and many farmers will bo glad to learn what sorts t,e!l best. , In tlic Poultry lard. yo.i desire eggs and eggs onlv, savs If f'niiTtlrv I lent leyv.joi liimlu'i-: not, size, select llambnrgs or Ieghorns. If you want non-sitters that will raise good sized oge s. choose Iluudans, Black Span ish 'r I.e Fiee-he. If you want winter lay ers or fowls to sell dressed, fur the fall or winter market, take Urahnuis, Cochins, I.angshans or Plymouth Rocks. If you waia chicks for curly s:;ring market, se lect Plymouth Rocks, Eumiuiques or Wy andot tes. I'se none but pure bred cocks; get the be'-t hers you c.".n get for market prices. Keep epeli year the best of tho highest bred i uj'ets, selling rdl others, ar.d you will soon have a llock as good as pure breds and at little cost. The runs must be dry. , Wot feet make Biddy sick. A southern slope is desirable. The houses should havo a southern ex posure, be sheltered from winds, roomy, wr.rm, lighted, ventilated. Don't make the porches near the floor, whether the fowls be largo or small. Have ;i board upon which cleats are nailed every few inches to reach from the floor to tho perches. Have the board long enough to make tho incline easy. There should bo a passageway through the cen ter of the building no roosts above it; a wide platform at each side to catch the droppings; under the platform the nests opening into the passagoway. A dusting box is indispensable?. Fill with two parts road dust to one of perfect ly dry wood or coal ashes and a very little sulpnur and carbolic powder. 1 asten six inches from the floor a small box having two compartments, one crushed oyster shell or grounel bone and the other char coal. Don't feed ou the floor. Feed in shallow boxes cr troughs. For drinking vessels common glazed milk crocks are the best. Here and There. There is a scarcity of honey. The yield of oats for the country aver ages this year about 25 bushels per acre. The barley j ield is nearly 20 per cent, less than a medium crop. The yield of rye is 11.5 bushels per acre, and the total pro duct about 2-1,000,000 bushels. The governor of Wyoming officially states that the territory is adapted for farming purposes as well as for stock raising. California is sending canned f raits to Italy. Tho next meeting of the National Swine Breeders' asseciation will be held in Chi cago, Ills., Nov. 1G. Volume thirty-two of the American Short Horn Herd Hook, containing 1,039 papes, is now out. It is requested that pedigrees for volume thirty-three be sent soon to the secretary, Mr. J. H. Pickrell, Moutauk block, 115 Monroe street, Chi cago. Ills Fifteen thousand is the num ber of entries to a volume. Why Horses Hub Their Manes ami Tails. The question. "Why horses rub their manes and tails," has been answered by a New York veterinary surgeon as follows: "Kubbing the mane and tail usually re sults from nn tiuheallhy condition of the skin, which in most cases is produced by neglect of grxming or by bad fowl, or by any sudden change of diet from that to good. Occasionally, however, it appears In stables where grooming and food are un questionably good. Damaged cats or hay are very ready causes for this annoying af fection. In every case, therefore, where the hair of the man and tall fall out the food should be carefully examined. Young horses on coming into the stables Kom times sufTer from an irritation of the skin probably from change of diet. Horses re covering from fever frequently lose a por t ion of t lie hair from the mane and tail In t he latter case it seems to arise from an impoverished state of blood." In regard to treatment the surgeon nl bided to says: "If any posit he cause, such as damaged food or neglected grMming, has existed, measures must bo taken to remove such cause. Without this tire- caution local treatment will bo of little tiMtil. One method of heal treatment that has produced good results consists in drcs- ing the skin with equal parts of mer curial ointment and soft soap made into alataerwith hot water and applied by means of a still hair brush. The new hair will grow rapidly after this applica tion. In addition to the local treatment it will be necessary to act upon the sys tem generally by a change of diet; green food should be given, as this by means of its laxative qualities lessens tho irrita bility of tho skin. A bran mash with five grains of arsenic added daily, in addition to the usual food, will exert a beneficial influence upon the skin. Cottonsceil Mc.-tl. Tin. demand for cottonseed meal for feeding purposes has grown wonderfully w ithin the past few years, indeed in many places it has almost become a staple article, like corumeal. After the oil is extracted and the cake has been ground into meal, it becomes a very nutritions food and is highly esteemed by dairymen and others for causing nn increased flow cf milk. It has great strength and should not be fed alone; one ;uart mixed with bran is about the right proportion to begin with, which may bo gradually in creased to about two quarts as the animal becomes accustomed to its use. It is claimed to excel flaxseed meal in milk producing properties, and is now sold at about the same price per ton. Of all the vegetable substances used for food the cottonseed cako is richest in nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, and conse quently makes the most valuable manure. It is said that three-fourths of the seed raised here is exported in tho form of cako or meal to Kurope, where it is even more highly appreciated than in this country. llcoord of Hairy liroeds. The butter tests at tho various fairs throughout the country this season, as in deed in past years, refute the idea that in any Vme of tho dairy breeds lies all the superiority in milk and butter production. Taking the tests for the present year to gether, the honors appear to bo very fairly distributed. For instance, at the Now York dairy show, as everybody ought to know by this time, a pure bred Ilo'stein gained tho prize; at tho New England farr the prize was awarded to a grade cow having Guernsey, Jersey and Hereford blood; at the Provincial fair at Toronto a full blood Ayrshire came out ahead; at the Iowa state fair a Jersey gained the record. (iCi-mau scientists who have tested the relalAO profitableness of keeping largo and small cows conclude that for the dairy small cows giving largest quantities of rich milk are tho best. They do not Lelkve largely in beef and milk from the samo -tuimal. Foot Hot in .SIieej. Foo rot in sheep is an exceedingly troublesome disease, as it robs the animal affected of its llesh and decreases its value, though not always, by any means, fatal. Tho general impression is that foot rot is Contagious. The editor of The Massachu setts Ploughman says on tho subject: "Perhaps the ordinary foot rot is not contagion.- but the epizootic foot rot,' or 'murrain,' is eminently so. The 'foot rot' : found only on low or moist grou mis, and probably arises from tho hoof nct wearing down, as it dots on stony ground, but growing to an unusual length because of the warmth and moist ure of the soil. in Massachusetts tho sheep are kept upon dry, rocky pastures, whic h are best for the sheep;so that cases of tho -foot rot' are very rare, if any ex ists.1' iivo Prescriptions for Kg up. For chickens attacked with a disease resembling roup, but without tho sicken ing 1iseharge from the nostrils, the fol lowing prescriptions, says American Poultry Yard, Lave been tried with suc cess. 1. Vinegar and salt mixed to form a. trong brine. Dip the head of the patient in this mixture two or three times daily. i.'. iulp. zinc, gr. ; snip, morph., 1-3 gr. ; aqua rosae, 1 oz. A few drops ap plied to the head and about the eyes of a chicken thrice dailv. This preparation will relieve very nuieklv the severest cases of inflammation, and is perfectly harmless to the eyes, says the authority in question. The Switzer Apple. The .switzer apple, one of the "Govern ment Russians" importeel by the United States department cf agriculture in 1601)- i!. has, according to as high authority as Vick, shown itself a thorough ironclad and a remarkably line grower both in tho nursery and orchard. It is a large and handsome reel apple, and the tree is a heavy bearer. With Vick, on a light soil, it drops a good deal of its fruit in the course of the season, but carriers a fair crop to maturity. Grown in northern Vermont and Quebec, it keeps until the holidays or later. Ashes and lien Manure. Ashes and hen manure, if mixed to gether hefore being applied to the soil, re sult in a loss of ammonia from the drop ping that greatly lessens the value of the mixture. Kut if the ashes are spreatl on, or harrowed in after the manure has been mixed up with the soil, the ammonia will be absorbed by it and remain in it for the use of the crop. Wood ashes are a valu able application to soils deficient in pot ash, and hasten the decomposition in coarse manures. Carbolic Whitewash for Toultry Houses. Carbolic acid is death to poultry lice, and if mixed with ordinary lime white wash in the proportion of an ounce of acid to a gallon cf wash it will not only destroy all the lice that it touches, but because of the pore us character of the wash the acid will continue to be effective for several months. Things Farmers Tell One Another. Sweet cream butter, though better fla vored, does not keep as well as that from slightly acid cream. Prominent apiarians ad-vise extracting the honey from partly filled sections at the end of the season and keeping the sec tions for use the next season. Potatoes which grow nearest the sur face are most subject to rot. Feed poultry liberally at this sea:-:.n, especially with bone making material. fun. Of' r cago : : ! O nvcr, only two hours by rail from Lincoln the capital, and forty minutes from Omaha, the metroj'.'ili.s .J the State. I'ni illation nbout 11,000 and rapidly increasing. Ji t- one d the Jinest systems of Water Works in the State. S'. :vet.s are well lighted bv ia. A street railway in operation. (i::n!e- td the streets established, and honds voted for the purpose of constructing eowcingo and paving ol Main Street, work to commence thereon in the spring of 188S. Jfas a liu; four story high school building and six ward school houses. Aside from busities houses over lOii reide!iees have bien constructed during the year 1SS7. An Opera House cosling 3o0,0()0. Ke'-ra-dv-a Preserve and Canning factory, capital $13,000, capacity 300,000 cans per year 'and em ploys -! hands. Prick and Terra Works, capital -50,000, capacity 10,000 bricks per day, employs thirty hands. PLatsmouth Canning Factory, capital $30,000, capacity 1,500,000 cans per year and employs lands, turns over in one year's business about 100,000. Two dailv papers; one Republican and one Democratic. .Ml' i Seheelbacher buggy and wagon factory. Pepjr rberg'.s cigar manufactory, employs fifteen hands, and largely supplies the trade of southwest ern Nebraska. Dufuor oc Co's. new Packing House. The great C. V. c (). Pail road machine shops, round houses, storehouses, tfcc, are maintained at this point for the use of its system west of the Missouri 1 liver, employing many hundreds of hands, and dibbimlng to employes monthly about 330.000. One of the finest railroad bridges in the United States spans the Missouri -J liver at the Southern limit ot the city. Over L',000 miles ot railroad conveys its freight traffic into and Ten passenger trains leave Plattsniouth dailv for north, mouth, K. C, Sr. Joe & C. J?, and the P M. P. P. in Nebraska. The cheapness of the land around Plattsniouth and its nearness iood railroad facilities, make it not only a pleasant place to reside, ment of manufactories. T.. healthy, legitimate manufactoring enterprises, the citizens ot reasonable inducements to secure While real est ite values are ibout and goo l residence fiiaseel at Uom .s-JUU to NUII) per Missourri Pacific and the Omaha The above facts are given without exaggeration and the prospects city, more than above are eame.dly re!icrtel to come and make personal investigation. While here Ton will be given a free ride to South Park, the most beautiful and desirable residence locality in the-city, where lots may bo purcii:i -. ' i at from si.0 to S-'OU, coln Avenues or !v Niut l :tn htreet anil may lie reached in a ten minutes walk- In.m tho hnnoca rou ter. South Park is more rapidly x v Hon. H. W. Grady. The Statesman, Scholar . and True American, set :m example woithy of re flection for all True Americans. Healing wounds that r.o im thuds except those used by I i. ;;;-' C'.-imphorated Arnica Salve which is s-.dil on its merits for any use that a salve eun be used. Xo cure, no pay. Fe.rr-.ih by the following drug gist. Price 'J!."ic per box. W. J. Warkick Heal dtf -tale r.r.d a' suacts. W. S. Wise. Dr. iV Marshal!. Tffc TC. Wn W T 1 Preservation f i.atur:il teeth a sjif ci.tlty. Teeth ijt tnu tt'l u iihoii! ji'iui hijwc f lxiwjhing (lti. All work warranted. Prices reasonable. FlTZCKR W.! Hl.OCK, PX.ATTSMOUTII.XKlt. YOU WANT flM iS-Ui P- M L -OF- - CALL OX- Cor. 12th and Granite Streets. Contractor mid Builder Sept. 12-Cm. TULIUS PEPPERBERG. MANUFACTUIIKK OF AND WHOLESALE &. RETAIL DKALEK IK THE Choicest Brands of Cigars, including our Flor de Pepperbergo' end 'Buds FULI, LIKE OF TOBACCO AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES always in Fiock. Nov. 20'. 1885. 3 iT""i T3a:i3 GENU! NE :-: SINGER with high arm and vibrating shuttle, sold on tr.iic. Eusy payments or cash F. J. BKKNELL, Jlauasrcr Plattsniouth Bran WHEN WOP Information to POINTERS of the Platte, at a their location, and correspondence is 7? ZD growing firmer each day, yet there lots can be bought at from -SloO to acre. lthm the next fwe ve. months imr eifv tu-ot to udr.rmic tli and Southern Railways into its corporate limits. pects indicated. Parties eaeii. iJus picturesque addition is buildinir up than anv either nart of k ' 1 ' - I IB i 0 a STAPXjID and fancy G3ROOBH.IBS, Cee&epy Wo o den Wli- low Wo WK 3IAKK AMMTIAIn OF HXK CltOCKEEY M. E3 HAS A FULL AND f ra AND OTHER BEAUTIFUL TIIIXGS TO BE SEEX. CLOCKS Of all sizes, makes and rico. "Warranted. Yv'ATCIIES : Rockford, Fredonia, Co1iii.i1ju.-j, Aurora etc. All these movements are so well known that they need no commendation. All are warranted. CHAINS :- In this line ofVoods quite. Ladies and Gents' short or lon chains; polid, rolled plate, or anv other kind. Also emblem pin.s of all the secret orders ; charms lockets, rings, cull' buttons, gold pens etc. SILVERWARE ot every description at easy price.. m U Jonathan Hatt vra li O u . Ti!ETIi!AlrllrI PORK PACKERS akd dealers in BUTTER AND EGGS. , PORK, MUTTON AND YEA J,. THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS ALWAYS ON IIAND. Sugar Cured Meats, Hams. Bacon, Lard, &c, Ic oi our own make. The best brands WHOLESALE G-IVE 'ESnHTJ. 3 it -it . Capital Seeking Investment. ABOUT PL ATTSMOUTH. It is the gateway to the great South Plattecountry It is situated on the Alitstouri liirer at the mouth joint about half way bstwecn Chi 125 through our city. east and west over the C. P. A Q.; to Omaha markets together with but a desirable place for tho establish Plattsniouth would doubtless mako solicited. is nothing speculative or fictitious 3o0; land near the city can be pur- for tl lor the future prosperity of our seekniL' investments in Ileal tv accessible by either Chicago or Lin the. citv. frreKr..iwloiwr. cni;nltl J -.- v... Co., B. MURPHY & CO. COMPLETE STOCK OF I have evervthinir almost, if not ifil 2,Z.Z2T STREET. J. F. AIabtiih. of OYSTERS, in cans and bulk, at AND RETAIL. Carni IT.