GIVEN TEN YEARS.
Cummings, the Omaha Bartender
Gets the Limit.
FOR BITING HIS YOUNG WIFE.
Barber Sluimung' Peculiar A flection For
Ills Bride of Less Than Two
Months Cither Local Hap
penings of Interest.
Cuiuinlngs tiets Ten Years.
Yesterday morning's World-IIera!d
says:
"Judge Scott overruled Charles Cum
inings' application for a new trial yes
terday and sentenced Cummings to
ten years at hard labor in the peniten
tiary, that being the limit for man
slaughter, of which cummings was con
victed. Cummings had been convicted
of murder in the second degree in
killing Judd Vance of Plattsmouth,
SpLemder 19, by striking him over the
head with a billiard cue, Vance dying
three days later from the effects of the
Dlow. The trouble occurred over a
discussion of the payment for,-?r.i me
of pool. Cummings had pleaded self
defence, claiming that he and another
man, also from Plattsmouth, weie
quarreling about the price, of .the game
when Vance stepped up with a cue in
his hand and appeared about'lTtriUe
Cummings when the latter picked up a
cue and struck Vance over the head.
"Cummings will at once qjal the
case to the supreme court."
He Bit His Wife.
Alfred Simmons, the barber, accu
mulated a good-sized jaeon Christmas
eve and went home. Here, instead of
making his wife a Chri3tmas"present,
as all good husbands shoald, be pro
ceeded to maltreat in a most brutal
manner. One of her shoulders was
severely bitten by the drunken hus
band. She filed a complaint in Justice
Archer's court and the frisky barber
was lodged it; jail over night to sober
up.Yesterday he was fined S10 and costs
for his conduct of the eyening before,
and he will board out his fine with
Jailor Denson. The couple have been
married less than two months.
OUR CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL.
see Luke 2d. 1st to 20th.
And it came to pass in those days,
that there went out a decree from
Ceasar Augustus, that 'all the world
should be taxed. And this taxing was
first made when Cyrenius was gov
ernor of Syria. And all went to be
taxed, everyone into his own city. And
Joseph also went up from Galilee, out
of the city of Nazareth, into Judea,
unto the city of David, which is called
Bethlehem (because he was of the
house and linage of David,) to be taxed
with Mary, his espoused wife, being
great with child. And so it was, that,
while they were there, the days were
accomplished when she should be de
livared. And she brought forth her
firstborn son, and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes, and laid him in a
manger; because there was no room
for him in the inn. And there were in
the same country shepherds abidiDg in
theiield, keeping watch over their
Hock by night. And lo, the angel of
the Lord came upon them, and the
glory of the Lord shone round
about thena; and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them: Fear
not; for, behold, I bring you good tid
ings of great joy, which shall be to all
people. For unto you is born this day
in the city of David a Saviour, which
is Christ, the Lord. And this shall be
a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe
wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in
a manger. And suddenly there was
. with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host praising God, and say-
1g, Glory to God in the highest, and
earth peace, good will toward men.
l it came to pass as the angels were
away from them into heaven, the
3 berds said one to another, Let us
nooupunto Bethlehem, and see
'jing which is come to pass, which
xd has made known unto us
VL ,y came with haste, and tound
i Iary josepD? an(j the babe lying
"ier. And the shep
herds rrnedj gioryfying and prais
ing uoa all the thiDg3 that they had
heard an
Veen,
as it was told unto
them.
inE drrtnt, insolent, egotistic
upstart, Vo!iT0igt5 who came over
from German tn whihit tn tho tn.
dents of the ijCago University how
iuucu Kaowjeog can be contained in
one great headlight have greatly
added to his repmtion U the exhibi
tion of a trifle of gntility toward the
president and Mr. Olney inhis treat
ment of the VenWnpinn' nioctinn
Leastwise his egotist does not count
when it comes to compare his unseemly
muster with tie close logic and reason
of Secretary Ojiey's note to Salisbury.
Von Hoist had better go back to Ger
many and wrib another book on the
American constitution, from tho stand
point of a monarchist.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. !
Dr. Marshall, Graduate DENT
IST, Fitzgerald block.
John Hart of Elmwood was in ihe
city Monday.
Postage stamps at cost at Gering
& Co's.
Attorney Ed. Wooley of Lincoln is
is in the city.
R. W. Hyers was a visitor at the me
tropolis this afternoon.
-Melrose Cream has no equal for the
hands and face, at Gering & Co's.
A full line of . Gunther's celebrated
confectionery at Fricke & Co's.
Attorney M. A. Ilartigan arrived in
town this morning from Hastings.
German Vegetabe Liver pills have
no equal at Gering & Co's. Only 25
cents.
Until January 1st, Joe & Frank will
sell overcoats for one fourth less than
former prices.
Natt. Brown, the Omaha hotel
keeper and horseman, was a Platts
mouth visior Monday.
Those nice long genuine Irish Frieze
overcoats at $9.00, former price $12.00,
at Joe &. Frank's.
Syrup of Tar and Wild Cherry will
cure your cough and cold. Cost, 25
cents, at Gering & Co's.
II. W. Corey, editor of the Sac
County News, published at Earley,Ia.,
was in the city last Saturday.
Messrs Ed. Kroehler and Simon
Lynch of Ilavelock ate Christmas
turkey in this city yesterday.
Stop and think a moment ! Twen-
ty-hve per cent discount on every
overcoat, at Joe & Frank's.
The Annual Nebraska Teachers'
association will bo held at Lincoln
December 31, and continue three days.
Gus Hyers of Ilavelock returned
home this morning from Spring Lake,
Ills., where he attended the funeral of
his aunt, Mrs. Van Doosen.
Messrs. and Mesdames E. J. Sey-
berts, George Kroehler, Fred Dudley
and Tom Egan, of Ilavelock, spent
Christmas with relatives in this city.
Judge Julius S. Cooley and brother,
Thos. M., of Omaha, the latter geDtle
man being advertising solicitor on the
Xews-Kepublic, were in the city Mon
day.
Mrs. J. M. Patterson is reported
quite seriously ill with pneumonia.
but is a little better today.
Iler many
friends will hope for her speedy re
covery.
Julius Pepperberg, the cigar manu
facturer, Saturday distributed ome
of the handsomest calendars ever pub
lished, advertising his famous brand
of "Buds" cigars.
Bert Sage of Alliance, about the
best boy that Plattsmouth ever raised
and sent out into the world, is in town
visiting among his old friends, whose
name is legion.
The great Damroch opera company
opens its engagement in Omaha to
night, and the Missouri Pacific will
hold its train until after the perform
ance to accommodate Plattsmouth peo
ple who attend.
Mrs. D. D. Andrus, widow of the
late Mr. Andrus, and children. Miss
Olive, Fred, Clint, Daniel and Charles
and W. II. Yates and J. E. Douglas,
all from Weeping water, were attend
ing county court Saturday.
Jas. "Robertson, the new county
clerk, has removed from Louisville to
Plattsmouth and occupies the house
lately occupied by Frank Dickson,
who has removed his family to Louis
ville, where he will look after his lum
ber trade.
John and Alfred Tromble of Avoca
precinct were in town last Satur
day. John says a lodge of the Pat
riots of America is soon to be organ
ized in Avoca. This order is the new
one now being organized by W. II.
Harvey for the promotion of bimetal
lism.
John Pearsley of Liberty precinct
was in town Monday and a welcome
caller on The Journal. He thinks
President Cleveland took exactly the
right stand against England, and that
the logic of the situation is that we
should divorce ourselves from Eng
land in financial matters as well as on
the Monroe doctrine.
Word was received in this city Fri
day announcing the death at Spring
Lake, Ills., of Mrs. Van Doosen, a
sister of the late Mrs. It. W. Hyers
and an aunt of Geo. Staatsof this city.
The Misses Hyers of this city were vis
iting with Mrs. Van Doosen at the
time of her death and Gus. Hyers of
Uavelock has departed for Spring
Lake to attend the funeral. The de
ceased lady was quite well known in
this city, where she has many friends,
who will regret her demise.
All subscribers to the Weekly
Journal who desire it can have that
splendid magazine, the Cosmopolitan,
by paying $1.90 for the two that is by
paying for Tiie Journal in advance
they will get the Casmopolitan for a
year for 90 cents. The Cosmopolitan
is not excellent by any illustrated
magazine in the world.
New Year's goods at Gering & Co's.
The best and cheapest overcoat ever
(shown in Plattsmouih at $4.50, former
price so.uu, at joe ac rank's.
This from the New York World is
true as Gospel, and worthy of repro-
duction in every newspaper in the
land: "It is the duty of a free press in
a free country to tell the truth and to
speak its convictions. When Jeffer
son said that he would rather have
newspapers without government than
government without newspapers he
had not in mind either a muzzled press,
a subsidized press, a weathercock press
or a press that followed a party leader
or the shout of the multitude like a
Hock of sheep. He meant a free, en
lightened and independent press, de
voted to liberty, to justice, to equal
rights, and having the courage of its
convictions. Such a press will neither
fawn upon power nor stoop to dem
agogism. It will not lie. It will not
remain silent when there is a duty
upon it to speak. A free press that is
true to its high functions is indeed a
bulwark of popular government.''
Observers of the trend of popular
opinion in this country have doubtless
noticed the singular fact that among
the democrats the men who are sup
porting the president's Venezuela
policy are the silver men those who
have been the most bitterly opposed to
his financial policy; while the gold
bugs those who have been standing
by Mr. Cleveland's financial policy
are uniformly opposed to and ridiculing
his Venezuela policy. The reason for
this is plain: The men who are bi
metallists are in favor of popular
rights and popular government, while
the goldbugs at heart are aristocrats
and want the moneyed interests, as
the Plattsmouth Tribune expresses it,
to "rule the world." If Mr. Cleveland
is the real patriot his message on the
Monroe doctrine portends, he will not
bo long in alligning himself along with
his real friends, and desert the com
pauy his gold bug policy led him to as
sociate with.
What are we coming to, anyway?
There is evidence of the fact that a
republican ways and means committee
has had the courage and unselfishness
to resist the appeals of the protection
lobby and has framed a bill for secur
ing reveuue without these leeches get-
( ting a chance to lay their demands be
fore the committee, and even Law-
rence, the great wool tariff grabber,
was not allowed to make a statement.
Surely that is a wonder of wonders,
just wait until that party gets into
power again, however, and that lobby
will take possession of the capitol with
out let or hindrance.
Perfumes of all the latest odors, and
Gunther's candies in sealed packages,
only Fricke & Co. have a fully supply
Just the cake for a nice holiday pres
ent. Jndge Archer received a very sub
stantial Christmas present yesterday.
Al. Harkins who has been "laying
out" a $50 fine and costs, surprised
the court by paying the balance of
$43.20, and he was accordingly given
his liberty.
Farmer, Attention.
The annual meeting of the Farmers
Mutual Ins. company of Cass county,
Nebr., will be held at the Heil school
house in Eight Mile Grove precinct on
Saturday, Jan. 11th. 1896, at 1 o'clock
p. m., for the purpose of electing of
ficers for the coming year and the
transaction of such other business as
may law fully come before the meet
ting. J. P. Falter, Sec'y.
Joe & Frank, the originators of low
prices, are knocking the bottom out of
overcoats. Twenty-five percent dis
count on every one.
Mortgagee's Sale
The Entire Stock of
IU1
n
ruifft
n
Whips, . Robes and Harness Goods
Belonging to the undersigned must be Sold
to satisfy a mortgage held by the First
Nat'l Bank within 30 Days, at
A GREAT SACRIFICE !
Everything will be sold for Cash.
Special Low Prices on
Horse Blankets and Lap-Robes.
Call Early for the Best of Bargains.
W
UNION BLOCK,
PLATTSMOUTH.
List of Letter
Remaining unclaimed in the postoffice
at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Dec. 26, '95:
Anderson, A C Carlson, O P
Hula, Joe Cannon, Wallace
Miller, A J Mills. Joseph
Newcomb, E W Olson, Q N
RaBteus Watter & Co C F
Persons calling for any of the above
letters or parcels will please say "ad
vertised." W. K. Fox, P. M.
During the Holiday
Bennett & Tutt will sell first-class
mixed nuts and very fine and nice
mixed candies at 10 cents a pound.
To see is to buy.
Dennett & Tutt
Have the largest and best display of
beautiful China ware, hanging and
stand lamps of any firm in the city or
county, and can suit any taste at as
tonishing low prices. Every customer
who looks through their stock is de
lighted. They also have a large assortment of
candies, nuts, fruits, etc., which ad
vertise themselves.
For a nice holiday present go to
Joe & Frank and look at their magnif
icent line of neckwear, mufflers, hand
kerchiefs and umbrellas.
It would only cost you $1.00 to send
the Weekly Journal to a friend in
the east for a whole year.
Read This.
The Damrosch opera company will
be in Omaha December 2G, 27, with
about 140 people. The holiday rates
will apply for the occasion on the 13. &
M. Don't miss it.
W. L. Pickett, Agent.
Notice or Probate of Will.
State op Nebraska,
Cass County. s
In county court for Cass county. In the mat
ter of the last will and testament of John
Black, deceased.
Notice is hereby Riven that on the 23d day of
January, A. D., 1S90, at the oflice of the county
Judge In Plattsmouth, Cars County, Nebraska,
at trie hourof 10 o'clock in the forenoon, the fol
lowing matter will be heard and considered :
The petition of Anna La J ah D. black and S.
Waugh to admit to probate the last will and tes
tament of Joun Black, deceased, late of
Plattsmouth, in said county, and for letters
testamentary to Sarah I). Black. Samuel Waugh
and Alexander Black.
Dated this 20th day of December, A. D. 18U5.
By order of the Court.
50 3t B. S. Ramsey, County Judge.
For Sale...
48 ACRES
Splendid Iowa Bottom LAND,
Just north of the farm of Joe Bacus, about 7
miles west of Gleuwood, Iowa, south of the
farm of Ell and Albert BIrdsall, about iy, miles
eastof Plattsmouth. S!i SE!i SY section 21,
and the north 23 acres of the NEU NWi sec.
25, town 72, range 44, Mills county. Iowa.
$300.00 CASH,
Balance on long time, in small payments. Also
Other Good Farms.
Apply to
WM. HINTON,
Near the land, or to
LEONARD EVERETT,
1-8 Council Bluffs, la.
Zuckweiler& Lutz
RELIABLE
GROCERS,
Cor. Sixth and Pearl Sts.,
KEEP EVERYTHING IN THEIR LINK.
SELL CHEAP,
GIVE GOOD WEIGHT,
DELIVER PROMPTLY.
TOUR CUSTOM 18 SOLICITKO
as
will
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A seii t for Mortgagees.
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New Year's Day....
Is but a day of pleasure
soon come, soon gone. Let us help you to
make it a pleasure to be remembered by your
friends.
Nothing makes a better Present, nor longer
remembered, than an article of Wearing Apparel.
We are offering great bargains in every line.
Competitors are offering Special Sales and, AP
PARENTLY, GREAT DISCOUNTS.
We began our Special Sale and
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until not a vestige
left.
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NEVILLE BLOCK.
I. PEARLMAN,
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Carries the Largest Stock of HOUSE
FURNISHINGS in Cass Countr. , . .
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
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F. G. FRICKE & CO.,
Will keep constantly on hand a full and
complete stock of pure
m mm.
PAINTS, OILS, Etc.
Also a full line of DrojCRUt's SundrUn.
Pure liquors for medicinal purposes.
Special attention given to
COMPOUNDING PRESCRIPTIONS,
Messrs. F. G. FRICKE & CO., are the
only parties selling our Alaska Crystal.
Brilliant
COMBINATION
Spectacles and ye-Glasses
In Plattsmouth. These Lenses are far
superior to any other sold in this city,
possessing a natural transparency and
strengthing qualities which will pre
serving the failing eye-sight.
PROF. STRASSMAN.
H. Q. LIVINGSTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
INSURANCE
Plattsmouth, ' Nebraska
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