PLAT1SM0UTH NEBRAXW.,
THURSDAY, AUG. 31. 1871.
Kx-Gov. Butler was announced ac
Seward lat evening (Monday).
O'Connor's circna Icnst ita clown at
Crete, bo eays the Lincoln Statesman.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee hold a meeting at Omaha to
morrow at 10 a m.
Braitsch denies the "soft impeach
ment." lie says it is not a foreigner,
Lut native born !
Prairie chickens arc quite numerous in
this market, and find a ready sale at re
munerative prices.
Dr. Livingston has in his possession
the skull of a white man found by the
railroad men an Thirty-two mile creek,
If you wish to fee a practical illuEtra
tion of the operations of a "sooner" dog
call on Ma, at the Platte Valley IIou.e.
Tho Bakers kept the Oratorio of Es
ther going for three nights in Lincoln.
Tlie IIou.se of C. II. Cowles, near
Wyoruinir. in Otoe county, was de-
htroyed by fire recently.
I lesser has a fine lot of those delicious
rpg plants which render the raising of
liens perfectly useless. Get a few and
then say how it is yourself.
A late correspondent of the Tecuraseh
Chieftain pronounces the Millford coa
mine a Fell. Yes, but it didn't sell the
land.
P. C. Patterson, of Rock Bluff-, has
taken a homestead near Ulysses, in But
ler county, and will remove his family
there in the course of a few days.
John F. Bell, one of the official report
ers of the late inipcachmont trial; also of
the Constitutional Convention, has gone
to Chicago to pursue his profession as-a
law reporter.
The Omaha Tammany apologist de
nounces Rolcrt Toombs for saying he
would prefer Grant rather than Chase
for President, a thing that journal never
did for his effort to destroy the Union.
The B. Si M. tracklayers were 120
miles west from Plattsmouth. last Fri
day, and are progressing at the rate of
about a mile a day.
Another "Bccr-bloatcd foreigner
ma le his appearance in our city last
iiight. The new commer weighed 13
pounds on arrival!! "how high isli
dot?" Braitsch wears his plug hat to
day, and has good cigars, 'tis said.
iiaj. n neeicr nas lorwaraed some
fair specimens of Cass county fruits, to
be exhibited at the National Pomologi
ral Convention at Richmond. Among
the specimens are grapes from Wolcott's
vineyard, and apples from Walker's or
chard.
The Omaha lire of recent date says
'Lighteen car loads of tea passed
through yesterday, twenty to-day, and
nineteen will be here to-morrow." The
B. & M. R. R. will connect with ihe
China tea trade within the next sixty
days.
The Democracy of Council Bluffs had
a Convention recently, at which a blood
loss battle was funght between the Mont
gomery wing and the Babbitt wins of
the party. The Montgomery outfit suc
ceeded, in completely "scooping" the
Babbittite?3and came out glorious victors;
we learn from the Xonparicl.
rm w --
xue Lincoln statesman, wnntmuos
to howl about what Gov. Butler is said
to have done, but it cannot find time or
sj.ace to say a single word in regard to
the Salt Land Steal of Morton, Hopkins
& Co. Mr. Donnovan, who knows all
about that steal, is paid to be principal
owner of the Statesman. Perhaps that
journal could give us some light on the
t arly history of this Steal. "
Gov. James and Afy Gen'l Roberts
fall to put in an appearance o i Morton's
Sa't Land Steal, and loss to the State
will probably be prevented through onr
Congressional delegation. These two
gentlemen will henceforth be found
buried under a mountain of gait Free
ruont Trilivne.
The validity of a marriage contract
entered into on the Sabbath day is now
being tried in the courts of New York.
The children of a lately deceased mil
lionaire are about to contest the dispo
sition of tho. property on the ground
that the marriage contract was entered
into on the Sabbath day. Perhaps the
question of time as to the complete con
summation of the marriage contract may
become subject for proof in Ids case.
Our f riend McCammant seems to
think that our criticisms on his "beer
bloated" letter" to the Omaha Herald
were intended to do him some personal
injury. You never made a greater mis
take, Me. Wc would scorn to do any
one a personal injury, and especially one
whom we personally respect as much as
we do McCammant, notwithstanding we
think he has made a very great mug
gins of himself on the foreigner ques
tion. J. Stick ncy ITaka!l and lady, well
known in Nebraska City as former re
sidents or the State, are with the At
lsSc and Pacific Circus, which exhib
its n tnw city to day. Haskell is gen
eral business manager, which is Fuffi
cient evidence to any Nebraskian that
the concern is a first-class establishment.
Haskell would have nothing to 6 with
a slow going arrangement
The lecture of Chancellor Benton at
the 51. E. Church last evening was not
BO well attended .as it should have been,
.yet a .fair .-number of persous who take
:un iiniorest in educational matters were
present, and all seemed well r Jeased with
the positions taken by tho Chancellor.
3Iis argumennts in favor of a unity of
iuterest.between our public schools and
our system of State and National Gov
rtriienr, also between our public schools
aad the University, were unanswerable,
and should have been heard by every
man and woman in the city.
rKIttllTFCL . K. At"CIIE T.
A frightful railroad accident occured
on the night of the 2G.h near Boston,
causing the death, of over twenty per
sons, and wounding over fifty others.
The terrible slaughter was caused by an
Express train runn ng into an accouinio
dation train. A full investigation is de
manded, and is likely to be had.
1I.NE STOCK.
II. N Orr, Esq., returned from Hi
noise a few days since with fifty head of
fine stock heifers between one and two
years old, to be placed on his stock farm
close to this city. Wc are pleased to see
such men as Orr men of capital and
business capacity putting their means
into fine Stork, it locks healthy for the
future of Nebraska.
ROH.CK i;xri.sio.v.
Sixty l'oroui XiillrU Anil YVotindril,
A Mobile, Alabama, dispatch say3 the
Steamer Ocean Wave exploded her
boiler at Point Clear at .1:30 p. m. last
Sunday, killing and wounding sixty
passengers. Two hundred excursionist
were aboard.
3Iue no its e srr.ii.i.J.
Sheriff Whitelock of Saunders county
brought down a prisoner to sheriff Johu
bon, of this county, last Saturday, for
safe kecpine (they never get away from
Joe.) lie is held for trial at the next
term of the District Court for stealing a
pair of horses in the western part of
Saunders county.
He came from Aberdeen, Kansas, (a
good place to leave, but a bad thing to
have it known), whjrc he claims to have
been in the photograph business. We
did not learn the particulars relative to
the Stealing;
A ou virK$.
The more we question him the more
thoroughly we become satisfied that Mr.
Donovan, of Lincoln is the witness that
the State of Nebraska wants in the Salt
Land ease. He seems to understand all
about if, and probably does not forget
that he endeavoured to persuade a citi
zen of this place to take a hand in the
'little game" when it was first inaugurat
ed, and just about the time that Morton
Hopkins Calhoun & Co. perpetrated the
fraud upon the general government and
stole these lands. Let Capt. Donovan
be sworn.
AK ITEM WOKTHY OF SOTt.
It is an important feature of the trade
of this place that coal dealers west from
here can do better to buy their coal here
than they can to go to the banks or to any
Iowa dealers. A gentleman named
Wintersteen was in the city recently on
his way to Oltuiuwa to make arrange
ments for coal to open a yard at Lincoln
after he had purchased his ticket to Ot
tumwa, and was about starting, hetouud
that he could do better to purchase here
than to go further, and consequently he
has made arrangements to be supplied by
Mickclwait & Sharp of this city.
ISlVEUSirV Ol'EXI.XO.
The Nebraska State Universiy will be
formally opened on the Cth of Septem
ber, by appropriate exercises. Wc are
informed by Chaneelor Benton that the
cabinets an 1 machinery for the use of
the University will arrive in a short time
and that they will probably surpass any
thing of the kind in the west certainly
anything west of the Mississippi river.
The University endowment, when fully
developed, will exceed a million dollars
-equal to any of the older colleges of
the cast, and far more munificent than
that of any except ihe leading ones.
How many pupils will Plattsmouth fur
nish for the first class organized in our
State University?
TJir. SEI'EKATE AKTIf I.E.
Wc arc unable to sec any special merit
in any of the five proposed articles to
the Constitution, submmitted separately,
and we believe the people generally will
oppose them ; but it should not be for
getten that the Constitution itself can be
adopted, and these five articles voted
down.
PROPERTY IXCREASEI IX VAI.VE.
A prominent citizen of Lincoln was
heard to remark, at the close of Chan
cellor Benton's address before the
Teacher's Institute at Lincoln, that
property in that city was worth ten per
cent, more in eon.-eqnence of the
address.
PJTlFCfc.
Our Nebraska. City neighbor, the
iVeiw, ackowledges that Plattsmouth
and her railroads are too much for them,
in the following pitiful strain :
"Do oar readers remember the hor
rible ttory of the prisoner who cvorv
morning saw one loon-hole loss in his
dungeon, till the noiseless walls crushed
him in, forever? Such is the fate now
impending Nebraska City, if we d not
cut the iron birs that are hemmiBg as
on every side."
We are always glad to note the pros
perity of our own city, but it pains us to
see our neighbor consigned to such a
horrible fate in conscqueucc of it.
Fitzgerald arrived from the cast Sat-1
urday morning. He has Railroad con
tracts in every direction, and his time is
a mostly taken up in looking after the
work in the various localities.
The Atchison Cliampion says, among
its railroad news: The Atchison & Ne-
bra-k Road is pushing rapidly on to-ward
Table Rock, and soon work on its three
great branches, one going north towards
Omaha, one northwest, to Lincoln, and
one west to Beatrice, will be progressing
rapidly.
The Jhcnic'e says the law authoriz
ing imprisonment for debt was repealed
years ago. Wdll, -suppose it was ; what
difference does it make so long as it
makes a would be cwindlcr pay his hon
est debts, when nothing cLe would.
D'ye see ?
BeMinzynr's Fcat is likely to bo a fine
affair. The class is progressing finely,
and we .predict a general jubilee at the
public' Teait."
THE CO.Wril l TIO-V.
The Omaha Herald has finally taken
position against the new State Constitu
tion, and bases its opposition on the fol
lowing grounds: That five Judicial Dis
tricts are formed, when the Herald thinks
three would answer the purpose, with
less expense, that the macihnery of
County Courts will be too exiensivc, that
the Legislature has power to increase
the number of'its members after another
census ; and that church property is tax
ed. These are the objections brought
against the New Constitution by the
Omaha Herald ufier full consideration,
and these are the reasons why it opposes
its adoption. Perhaps these may be ob
jections, but it seems to U3 they arc tri
vial ones upon which to oppose the adop
tion of the New Constitution, and then
leave us with the old document, which,
it is universally admitted, is faults
and even graver ones than those cited
by the Herald above. We are not yet
prepared to say to what extent we may
endorse the new document, yet if no gra
ver objections arc found than those cited
by the Herald we thill certainly favor
its adoption. We believe that this rule
will hold good, and we would advise
those who act without personal motives
in the matter to adopt it as nearly at
possible, viz: Vote for the New Con
stitution, even with what may justly bo
termed its faults, unless these faults are
greater than those embodied in the pre
sent Constitution. We cannot expect
perfection in any document, or any ac
tion of imperfect man ; but wc gain no
thing by rejecting the Constitution unless
it is more objectionable than the present
one.
Our Public Ncliool.
In our city wc have- two public school
rootiij, one in the Und and one in the 3 1
ward. A third is now being built in the
1st. ward. Let us see how these rooms
meet the want of the children. In the
3d ward by crowding three pupils into a
seat, designed for two, about eighty can
be accommodated. In that ward there
are two hundred and forty of the pre
scribed ages that are entitled to the pri
vileges of the cumuion school. Two out
of every three are thus shut off from
their most sacred and precious rights.
In the 1st ward it has been far worse
than this and will be but little belter
with tho provision now making. The
2d ward has nothing to boast of over the
other two.
Not only are these rooms insufficient
for the accommodation of our children;
they are likewise defective in construc
tion. The first great defect in this re
spect is, no suitable facilities for ventila
tion. In the summer this defect can be
partially remedied by open windows and
doors. But for a winter school, good
ventilation is indispcnsible. Sixty chil
dren in a fire warmed school room in
winter, in a few minutes exhausts the
air of its vitalizing elements to such a
degree as to produce physical and men
tal stupor unless that air is constantly
changed. Now. every teacher knows
how this stupor affects the pupil in his
study. The action of the mind is slug
gish. There is no clearness and sharp
ncss of the ment il operations. What is
assumed to be learned, is left in the
mind confused and indistinct. It soon
fades awa3' and is entirely lost. Thus
the main object of attendance at chool
mental discipline is lost. I need
not step to speak of the results upon the
health of breathing over and over the
vitiated air of the unventilated school
room. The seeds of scrofula and con
sumption and epilepsy besides a dozen
other diseases are thus sown.
It is high time the friends of educa
tion were awake to the importance of a
reform on this point. I doubt if two
well ventilated school rooms aro to be
found in this county; if We are to have
a high school building, let ns have it con
structed on right principles. Brownville
with only two-thirds the population of
this city, has a high school room with a
dozen good ventilators in it.
These rooms, in our city, arc likewise
defective in general arrangement. We
have, for an example, a room 21 by 42
feet, such a room is too small for two
teachers and two departments as indeed
is any room. It is quite too large for
one teacher and one school. No teacher
ought to have 6ver forty pupils ; for
that a room 21 by 3S is sufficient for a
primary, and 21 by. 32 for a grammer or
high school. I understand the design
is, in the 1st ward, to divide the room
into two by a partition. This makes
both rooms too small, but is probably
1 . . . l .1 v .
better man uie past arrangement. Jt is
a pitty a little more money had not been
expended in cac-h ward giving us a two
story building 24 by 58 feet with four
rooms Now we need a high school
building with three rooms 21 by 32 each
and two more 24 by 28 each for the
high and Grammar and intermediate
departments. Then these ward buildings
will be crowded with primary pupils.
As matters now stand there is no chance
to grade our schools, Every thing is
helter skelter ; high school, grammar
school, and intermediate and primary pu
pils all crowded into one room with two
t 'achers, making confusion worse con
founded, for each other and all tkesehool
We ought to have 11 school rooms and
a teacher for each room. It is very posr
economy to take out of the brains of our
children for the sake of taking off a lit
tle from the burden of our taxe. I au
sure we shall all see it to be so and act
accordingly. More anon.
R. F.
Eugene B. Lewis Las been commis
sioned as Mail Agent oa tfca B. & M. 11.
in Nebraska, aud commenced operations
last Tuesday. liewis will make an
efficient agetrt, and wc are glad to note
his appointment to this responsible posi
tion. Judge Sprague, of Saunders county,
is in the city for a day or two, looking
physically better than we ever saw him
before. Tlie Judge wa looked upon a3
one of the solid men in the Constitution
al Convention one who never "hot off
his ruou'b," without had something
to say.
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT
P. T. ABELL.
TIIE TKt SK KAILROAD.
It is generally known in this commu
nity that Mayor White of this city
visited Atchison recently to see what
could be accomplished in regard to the.
early construction of the Trunk Rail
Road, and that President Abell was ab
sent, and that it was understood that
some proposition would be made as soon
as Mr. Abell arrived at home. The fol
lowing letter was received by Mayor
White to-day, which we are permitted
to lay before the public :
Atchison, Kansas.
Aug. 2Gih. Is71. J
2tf Hon. M. L. White, Mayor, ratis
viouth XtLraska.
Mj Dear Sir I regret 1y absence
while you Were here.
I am satisfied that our Company would
like to build the Trunk Road if reason
able aid can be bad from the. counties
along the line. BiTt iUvill be an expens
ive road to build and operate, and with
out liberal local aid it will not be built for
some time.
I have written
instructions.
P.
fully td Mr. Joy for
Truly Yours,
T. ABELL, Prest.
A. & N. R. R. Co.
In reply to the above, Mayor White
has written to President Abell, request
ing that some definite and authoritive
proposition be made by the company
immediate by, in order that if Cass coun
ty county contemplates rendering any
aid, it can be submitted to a vote of the.
people at oace, before the adoption o
the new Constitution, which will virtu
ally prohibit the rendering of aid. W
will keep our readers fully po:ted cn the
subject.
The North Platte Advertiser of the
2fjth says :
uoi. l ark s surveying party came
into town on Wednesday to replenish
their comissary department. The party
have been at work on the Loup river.
They report the absence of any indica
of Indisns in that region, and as a con
sequence, a great abundance of deer, an
telope, elk, and smaller game. In fact
according to their statements, in thi
country the hnnter would reap a rich
harvest. One afternoon, four of their
party killed five or six fine elk, one of
them (the elk, not the boys, ) was a very
monarth of the liills, whose ao Jupo
is estimated at half a ton. His huge ant
lers, which weigh nearly fifty pounds.
the Colonel brings home as a trophy.'
riallsiiioulh Aciwlemy.
We are permitted to make the follow
ing extracts from the "visitors book" of
Plattsmouth Academy Prof. A. d'Alle
mond, principal:
Plattsmouth, Aug. 11. 1871.
In company with Rev. James E. Jack
son ol .Mexico, lo., I tins day visited
the Academy of Professor Adolphe
d'Allemand, and confess that his purely
rational method ot imparting instruction
to his pupils pleased and surprised me.
Aside from the promptness and evident
pride of the children in answering every
question correctly, I found a truly
happy raport between the m-tructors
and the instructed. Not the mere com
mittal to memory, and ordinary rout:ne
of our eommnn schools was found here;
but the reasoning faculties were aptly
illustrated. Prof. d'Allemand's method
deserves tho higlies commendatiou, and
those parents who entrust the dcvelopo
ment of their children to his care will al
ways have cause to rejoice that they did
so. II R. Livingston.
Plattsmouth, Aug. 20th. 1871
Three hours in Prof d'Allemand's school
to-day, in which I have been allowed the
largest liberty in questioning his classes,
has enabled me to judjre somewhat more
carefully as to the methods here adopted
and the thoroughness of the work hero
done. The result of my obervation is a
full conviction that the school is worthy
of the public confidence. The teachers
are pleasant in their intercourse with
their pupils, making the school wear the
the aspect of a well regulated family
They are thorough in instruction, secur
ing the main end of such a school men
tai cuscipim. iney are not aiming, so
much, at an outside show of smartness,
as an inside reality of capability. Those
parents who send their children here
may feel that those children arc receiv
ing right moral and intellectual training.
R. Foster.
Chancellor Benton, of the State uni
versity, visited the Academy this morn
ing, and has promised a written opinion
as soon as he arrives home. He express
ed himself well pleased with the school
Prof d'Allemond is doing much to ad
vance the interests of education in this
city, and we are g'ad to know that his
efforts to establish a first class Academy
are meeting with a reasonable measure
of success. He has now three excellent
assistants in the English branches, Mrs.
Edward. Wilson. Miss. Gertie Johnson,
and Mr. Chas. d'Allemond (son of the
Pofessor) besides Miss. Klla Crocker,
as teacher of Instrumental music, and
Prof. L. F. Johnson as teacher of vocal
music. With this corps of teachers, the
Plattsmouth Academy is second to no
institution of learning in the west.
Mr. Gray, of this city, has leased the
Barnum House at Nebraska city, and
will take charge of it in a short time.
The Barnum is a first-class hotel, and
Grey will make a first-class landlord.
We will guarantee that Plattsmouth
people will alwa3s stop at the Barnum
while Mr. Grey keeps it.
Will a few more business men mani
fest the same energy that Mickelwait &
Sharp have in supplying western dealers
from this city instead of allowing them
to go farther east. They can do it if
they only have the "git up" about them
Who will make it a point to do a job
bing business in the'groocry line ? Let
the public hoar from you through the
Herald.
I'Ol'MIL PROCEEDINGS.
Council Chamber Aug. 23, '71.
Council met in regular session.
Present The Mayor Aldermen J.
II. Buttery, II. C. Cashing, John Fitz
gerald, E. T. Duke, John Erhai t, Clerk
and Marshal.
Journal of last meeting read and ap
proved. The matter of Mr. Palmer in regard
to putiiug up frame buildings on Main
street, presented, and
On motion, an ordinance, entitled an
ordinance for fire limits was put on its
first reading; the rules were suspended,
and said ordinance read a second and
third time by its title and
On motion, put on its final passage.
Question called for and motion lost.
The petition and bond of Henry Rob
ertson to keep saloon six months, read
and
Oa motion, petition granted, bond ap
proved and license given, upon his pay
ing $100.00 to the City Treasurer.
The following accounts presented and
On motion, allowed to McElwain &
Leach, for painting sign, $5.00
II. A. Waterman & Son, for lumber,
$108.00.
L. V. Johnson, for band playing for
editorial excursion, $2.1.00.
Account of W. J. White for $00.74,
referred to finance committee to report
at next meeting.
It was then moved that a pile biidge
be put on Main street at Fifth, and that
the same be built by contract, on which
a vote was taken, as follows : Messrs.
Cushing, Fitzgerald, noes ; Messrs. But
tery, Duke and Erhart yes. Motion
carried,
It was moved that the Committee on
Highways and Bridges cin ploy Mr. F. W.
D. Ilol'urook, Assistant Superintendent
of the B. & M. R. 11., to draft a plan
and specifications for the construction of
a pile bridge across Main street at Fifth ;
that said committee advertise that they
will receive sealed proposals for con
structing said bridge, in accordance with
said plans and specifications. Said com
mittee reserve the right to reject any
and all bids ; that one week's notice of
said plans and specifications be"priuted
in the Daily Plattsmouth Herald.
The matter of P. D- Bates, in regard
to changing channel of creek referred to
Committee on Highways and Bridges to
report at next meeting.
On motion, Council adjourned to meet
Monday, Aug. 28th, at 7 a. at.
Attest, M. L. WHITE,
Mayor.
11. II. Vaxatta, City Clerk.
(n .v(ii, rocEEuixtis.
Council Chamber, Aug. 28, '71.-
Council met pursuant to call.
Present the Mayor Aldermen R. C.
Cushing, J. II. Buttery, John Erhart,
E. T. Duke, Clerk and Marshal.
On motion, the reading of the Jour
nal was dispensed with.
The rules and regulations governing
Council was by majority, put on its first,
second and third reading and final pas
sage, and
On motion, passed and approved.
Ordinance No. I, entitled An ordi
nance to provide for the regular meet
ings of the Council, put on its first,
reading, the rules suspended, and said
ordinance put on its second and third
reading by its title, and final passage,
and
):i motion, passed and approved.
Ordinance No, 2, in regard to dividing
wards, read first, second and third time,
on which there was no action taken.
Ordinance No. 3, entitled Fire Limits,
put on its first, second and third reading
and final passage, and
On motion, passed and approved.
Ordinance No. 4, entitled Public
Peace and Morals, put on its first read
ing ;
Oti motion, read a second and third
time and put on its final passage ; and
On motion, passed and approved.
Ordinance No. 5, to Prevent Dogs
from running at Large, put on first, scc-
r.d and third reading and finul passage.
and
On motion, passed and approved.
Ordinance No. 0, entitled Providing
Revenue, put on its first reading ;
On motion, put on its second and third
reading and final passage, on which a
vote was taken as lull J ws : Messrs Duke
and Buttery, no ; Messrs. Erhart. and
Cushing, Yes ; there being a tie vote
Mayor M. L- White voted yes, and mo
tion carried, and said ordinance passed
and approved.
Ordinance No. 7, entitled An Ordin
ance to provide a standard for Weights
and Measure, put on its first reading ;
On motion, put on its second and
third reading and final passage and was
passed and approved.
Ordinance No. ?, entitled An Ordin
ance concerning the In-pectiou of Fire
Wood, put on its first, second and third
reading and final passage, and
On motion, laid on the table.
On motion, Council Adjourned to
meet Tuesday at 8 o'clock A. M. , to com
plete work on Ordinances.
Tuesday. Aug. 20, 1S7I.
Couec 1 met pursuant to calk
Present the Mayor Alderman Cnsh-
ing, Shannon, Luttery, jinart, Cieik
and Marshal. Rules were by m.ijority
suspended, and
Ordinance No. 9, entitled An Ordin
ance for the Prevention of fire, put on
its first reading ;
On motion, put on its second and
third reading and final passage, and
On motion, passed and approved.
Ordinance No. 10, concerning Nuis
ance, read first time ;
On motion, read second and third time,
put on its final passage, and
On motion, passed and approved.
Ordinance No- 11, prescribing the Du
ties and Compensation of city officers,
put on its first reading ;
On motion, put its second and third
reading and final passage, and
On motion, passed and approved.
Ordinance No. 12, to Restrain Swine
from Running at Large, put on its: fir-t
reading . j
On motion, read second and third
time and put on its final passage, acd
approved.
Ordinance No. 13, repealing certain
ordinances of the city of Plattsmouth j
put on its first rending ;
On motion, put on its second and
third reading and final passage, and
On motion, passed and approved.
0:i motion, the Committee on High
ways and Bridges was instructed touiake
the contract of tho Pile Bridge on Main
street, in accordance with plans aid
specifications of the contractors.
On motion, Council adjourned.
Attest. M. L. WHITE,
It. II. VanAtta, Mayor.
City Clerk.
The Omaha Herald claims a vast
amount of credit for having aided in the
imreachment of Gov. Butler. How
much credit docs it claim for having en
dorsed Morton, Hopkins & Co.'s Salt
Land Sua!, and for being just now en
deavoring to secure a portion of the
Hood money.
lion. A. S. Taddeck has returned from
his Michigan trip.
If the new Constitution is adopted, it
will knock our County Seat question
endways. Shall we vote for it? Sc
ard Atfas.
It looks rather small to see a newspa
per, which professes to be published for
the public benefit, indicate a desire for
the defeat of the Constitution because
it will interfere with a question in which
perhaps a hundred men are interested
CIIVlit'11 TAXAIlO-V.
The Omaha papers lay much stress
Ui.on the fact that the proposed const!-
tution taxes clmrcli proporiv".
Tins i
clause was inserted at the request of the
leading churchmen of the State. The
last Methodist Conference passed a reso
lution, asking that just such a clau c be
inserted in the proposed constitution,
and j et such very religious papers as the
Omaha Herald and Republican oppose
the adoption of the con-titution because
it works a hardship to the Church. It
only taxes the surplus of 5,000 assess
ment. W. II. Anderson and family,
GleuwooJ, were in the city yesterday
of
A government inspector was in the
city to-day and tested the boilers of the
Mury Mary Magee. A pressure of 1G0
pounds to the square inch showed the
boilers to be all "O. K."
Married, on the 2('th of August, 1ST1 ,
at the Probate office in Plattsmouth, by
Judge Child, A. Rudcbcck, Esq , to
Mrs. Ulrica Gustava Lothman.
If individual liability is a good thing
in bank stockholders, whj' is it not ap
plied to stockholders in all chartered or
ganizations? We think tho laws of
Nebraska, as now organized, are calcu
lated to drive capital far enough from
our State, without having any such
clause in our fundamental law.
Mr. Charles Wolcott, of the Platts
mouth Yineyard, presented the Herald
with a basket of grapes to-day that are
hard to beat. Some bunches of the
Dianna are a3 large as small hickory
nutts. The Concord. are also exceeding
ly large and line. Notwithstanding the
storm destroyed several thousand pounds
and almost ruined the vines, Mr. Wol
cott says that if the fro.it keeps oQ'a few
weeks longer he will have a second crop
which have set since the storm
Last week
published tlu? re
port of a man at lied Oak, Iowa, who
shot iii.s divorced wife and then iot
himse lf. The Jjj-prc-st snys :
"The wounded woman is improving
and the prospect is that she will recover.
Tlie doctors say tlie ball passed through
the kit lobe of the liver just missing the
stomach. Shoot one hundred persons
through in that same way and ninety
nine of them would die.
Cowdry will be awful mad when he
wakes up in tlie spirit world and find
chat he didn't kill her after all, and yet j
blowed his own brains out.
Thirteen newspapers have died in
Iowa within the last six weeks, Ex.
We'll bet our old hat that every one
of them died of Chicago "innards" or
"outards." That's what the matter.
A place that cannot sustain a paper i:i
such a way that all the labor, both edi
torial ar:d mechanical, can Le done at
home, cannot sustain a pap:
Ol tu mica Courier.
r at a!
The Steamer Pontenclle, running be
tween Omaha and Atchison, was snagg
ed and sunk fifteen miles above St.
Joseph, recently.
The Brownville Democrat finds it
somewhat difficulty to maintain its posi
tion on the railroad bond question.
A newspaper is to be started at Schuy
ler, in Colfax County.
The Times says "Ashland ships ice to
Plattsmouth." We only wish you would
ship more of it, as it is a scarce article
down here.
Tlie editor of the Ashland Time has
examined the peat found in that county,
and has no doubt it is a genuine article.
The Omaha Herald has a lengthy ar
ticle on the manufacture of beet Suaar,
but it has nary word about stealing S-lt
Lands.
There is a ruuior of a railroad acci
dent near Rome, in Iowa, a few days
since, caused by running over a cow,
which resulted in the death of four or
five persons. We have no particulars.
EXPRESS.
The express has been changed to suit
the running of trails west from Lincoln
and now arrives Lere at ZAo p. in. and
eaves at 4 j). m.
A typo made us last night use the ex
pression, 'buttered thunder.' That is a
sort of thunder of which up to last
night we bad not heard. The vrord
should have been 'mwUered.' London
Adierli.'er.
The explanation was haidly necessary.
Duubtbs-, the printer had an idea that
'buttered thunder' had some affinity to
'greased lir" tniug.' Torwto Leader.
' HE TRlMi KAIEKO M.
Heeling of Citizens of Plnltwinntilh.
Posters appeared upon the streets of
our city last Monday calling a railroad
meeting at the Court House Tuesday
evening, and at the appointed time a
large number of people wre in attend
ance. Dr. Geo. H. Black was called to
the chair, and J. J. Russell was chosen
secretary.
Mr. Fox stated the object of the me et
ing to be to decide whether wc would
ask for the submission of the
question of voting aid to the
Trunk Railroad, and if so whether we
would ask for a rronosition to vote
county bonds or precinct bonds. Mr.
Fox al.-o related some points in a con
versation he had or heard with Colonel
Abell and others relative to the building
this road, at which time Mr. Abell
seemed inclined not to make any propo
sition, but to have one come from the
people. E-quirc Duke suggested that
petitions be circulated asking the Com
missioners to call an election for bonds.
On motion of Mr. Fox it was
Hesohed, That it is the scn-e of the
meeting bat Cass county will give $100,
000, in precinct Lords lor the construc
tion of a railroad from the north line of
Otoe county to Plattsmouth.
On motion of Judge Gass, a commit
tee was appointed to circulate petitions
in the different precincts asking the
Commissioners to call elections in the
precincts for the purpose of voting on
the question of issuing bonds. P. P.
Gass, S. Duke, M. I.. White, J. G.
Hays, James Patterson, Mo F. Ilaood,
an l J-'UCS O'Neill, were appointed said
committee.
On motion, meeting adjourned.
the I'ltou iki rio.ir.
For tho 1If.!:ai.d.
The cause of Temperance is about to
reach an interesting crises in our State.
In watching the progress thus far we are
convinced that it can gain no higher
ground by the present system of regula
tion; the poh.y hitherto has been of regulation-
Under tho license system,
drunkeness has become the crime "f the
land, the parent of crimes and miseries
manifold. We should no longer aim at
regulation but the prohibition ot intox
icating liquors as a beverage. But is
this result to be obtained without work
and self sacrifice on our part? Let all
issues be brought insubordination to
success. Morality, sound policy and the
interests of the people demand that
this murderous traffic should cease. The
liquor interest constitutes an element of
power which will not be given up with
out a struggle ; already are measures
being concerted to defeat the triumph of
the prohibition.
Law founded upon and in unison wi h
moral principle constitutes a moral force.
The people are educated into right deeds,
thoughts, rijdit convictior.s and right
principles. Our oppesers deny (lie right
to curtail their liberty to drink what one
pleases ; we do not foi bid your di inking
we only desire to forbid another to sell,
but 3 0U array yourself against the strong
arm of the law, set up your will as a
standard of action. If the security and
interests of society demands it have
they not the "light to bind you not to
touch another drop ? But, snys one, you
are taking away a man's privilege to
drink what he pleases, this is a f:dsc
view of the drunkards situation, lie
dees not drink from choice, but frcui a
morbid craving, ai.d gladly would he
welcome that instrument which would
enable him to overcome ' a desire for
strong drinK ; ins nocrty is cuiargeu so
he can exerci-e his deliberate choice.
Could we but witne.-s th'. remorse, the
deep down sighs and tears, his frailty
wrings from him as Le resolves and re re
solves, and is overcome when be burning
liquid is in his sight or smell, we would
appreciate the liberty the law gives him.
He would ble.s tho hand that assisted
him to burst assunder the fetters of his
apfdite. E.
Pl.ATTSMfHTir, Aug. 2".!h, '71.
El. IIekald : It seems from the
tone of your article in Tuesday's Herald,
headed "An Tnsult." that it is your aim
to do me a personal injury, and cause
the foreigners of this city to become in
censed against me and incite them to do
me wrong by misrepresenting and mis
construing my letter in rej !y to Mr.
Yifqunin. I do not think thst you have
compared my letter with Mr. Yifi juain's
or you could not construe it as you did.
It was intended as a political drive, and
was not intended to hit any individual in
thi s or any other city. It is true I may
hare been a little too severe, yet not
more so than Mr. Yifijain was on the
class of people I represent, and I do not
think that any of our foreign citizens
who iil compare the two will say other
wise. There is no better friend to the
foreigner than I am, yet I desire to see
the majority rule in all case?. I cannot
compromise with wrong, under any cir
cumstance3.
ihe gentleman ?) c'yling himself
"An American Citizen" 1 consider be
neath my notice, and would not but to cor
rcct the erroneous impression which his
letter is intended to convey. lie says
that X assail ''all Foreign eitizens
such is not a fact. I only speak against
those who do wrong, and I will denounce
an American as quick as a foreigner, if
he dose wrong. He further stoops to
low personal slang, a thing which no
gentleman will do, and then is too
cowardly to sign his proper name. I
am willing to compare either my pastor
present record with him or any other
man in Plattsmouth.
If any of our foreign citizens feel
agricved at my letter, I will be pleased
to hear from them through the columns
of either of our city papers, which I
presume are open to them.
All I ask is that those writing about
my letter tell the truth in regard to its
tone. T. F. McCauant.
I" : i i a. .
a uiaii nu-j reueiiii.v uiaue a cos'.iy :
present to a church and the next dry!
went into bankruptcy. I
FROM WEBSTcR UOUMTY.
WY.isstkk,
Kit, ( Y.UNTV, NkIJ. 1
August yi.h. 1871. J
A i
I'piTOit Heuai.d. After a short but
pleasant stay among friends and relatives
in old Cass, I again pulled out for the
Republican Yall.-y, in company with a
party of friends from Mills County, Iowa.
We arrived here safe ard tound, after a
pleasant journey of six days, nothing
having occurred cn route to' mar the
the peaceful tranquility of our journey.
I was much pleased on our arrival here
to find that the precious topnots (vul
garly termed hair,) belonging to the
different individuals who had remain. -d
here, had not been "torn" I y any ruth
less hands; on the contrary tii: boys ha-!
int been ni'dested anl were tnj yiiii
themselves hugely.
Refreshing showers in thi- part of the
desert, have been, for tho l.i.-t few vcks
like "Angels visits" few and far between,
and the sod corn appears to be h; -'uied
to be "khidor ycller", in c.n-Tq'ionv
but a.- it is I think we will have a fai.
crop.
A .'hooting affray occured M"me
ago in this county, on the south side t
tho Republican river, resulting in tb
death of one Mr. Hicks, a citizen :
that part of the county. I have been
unable to learn anything definite in r
gard to the affair.
A few words in regard to the cour' .
and 1 am done. This county is boun-i
ed on the west by Franklin county, m
th-j east by Nuckols, and on the souti
by the Kan-as State line. It is wi !
watered by the llcpiblican river whir!
filns directly through the county, fro;.
cu-it to west, tu; i by numero-.M ttrcan ;
, ' - .w into the Ilep-.:b!i-;:ui cn cat ..
w hit ii -
sid nii Oi nl''1'''1 streams arc v.vi! tin.
len d. The soil of lb!-; uV!'"!T , ts Wei.
a? the adjoining (.unties. i a sandj
Lam, and is thought !o l.e nr.-urpa.-.s
e l for prodalivcne-is1. 1 w
write you a longer letter on
and fcitility of the southwe
v.'.d liko to
ti. beauty
. ; n poi tioit
st" Vc!ir:i An Lot Kin". wi!!
.it. a ! 1 1 1 1 c
and as I have already taken up Uiou jU
your valu.io!.1 time, I
wi!; f rl-ear lur-
thi r lo'Iici ion. lie.-j c !
Yours.
L. T.
m".
STccal llolicc.
l!lMM! AT LAKtiE
maic, old enctwh to vot"
eve, long scar on hip. li
-On' !'': el
blind ol'
!jt r i -i ii--" !i?id
tail, is now running at
larr-: i -1 r i.i .
premises, fourtoi! s northwest o!'l'!a ! -mouth,
where tho owner -an tin i !.' r.
augolwJ E. K. P.uimh.k.
Notice is hereby given that I h ive
placed my accounts in thc.haruK .f .1 una
than Adam lor collection. AM per.-oii- in
(JeljtCiI to me Will (Jo Weil to tettn
h:m and save cost.
W.M. Stamilf
Aug 2'sd.;.rcvl.
I .V.
For Sale I will sell at it:-- !i
Gcures for cash, 12. :er ot' ..;;,
pair of farm hrse., two c.i!i! ' ; ,
two stirring plows Tho pro;..-.-:.;-be
seen at the fnrm of John ('. 1 i.i
miles south ol' I'!. it turnout o. A; pi.
oraddre-s Role.t;' C. IIm;:;i ,"
auglo'Uwlm Union I'o-t-otii.-
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to
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proI.-.--s:'.i'i;.l r.-rvi :.-s ;o tie? r;!j,:-n l'i ,-
ty. U-.-iJ-iit i ri.ur li- i i.n.i r ( ( '.i I; :i n
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vn-in-Ch:;f if ihe Armv of ;;. (..
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tfr fulls, ti-ti 1. rn his irntirij!ii .-. -r;
Citizciif of I'jMti county. Ne-o.-.i.-l--
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K.I5. I). J.-iMatvr. M J. o (,i..;,;. hlH .". !1
hi full stoc k of ll..'....i,;,(iii,. r'ijirlii' M Dr.
SM-hil-lkiicrht. v.iio ivill kci-j. a full s 1 1 i 1 c!i
t'.iiiiily on Inoi l.
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I. II. Will t
KB.
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ptvi-n f roh:itc Vii-iiii iin l I it. I Mtii- .-i-i-
Mli.-n
ll till
re.lUh. N.
1'hit
S. M.li'.l'KI.I,,
ltl.tiVtvr:r,B,
attorney; at LA!V
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ko.!. fStv.-H. I " " u: -ii i,;:
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Attorney-.-it Law. ami f.Vtier:.! Co!!.-
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Koril Estfife ud.1 Tax V.iy:,if Air-nt--. N t. rio
I'utilif, 1-ircunil LiloIu.-ur.iuco A-. c-n:.- I '; tt--inouih.
Mohnu-ka. i. ttf
ui vrox smosT,
CAKPEN-TKRS A- .101 VKKS.-Aic i ri-p i- r
i-iuowoiK iii K"'i't ffylo, on fhoi-t. n .ii,; ; n
n.s cheap as tho eh.-a;.p-l. sjhoi). i-orn-- o;
Alien in . I honiii. Ktrc!-!!!. u,:i.i;;
CAPPKNTl-U AND JOIXKK. , 8
r :k in hi.Hme on fliort notii-c an.; in thi- h.-
. e. OiutrnrU for buUi!iu iii.-i.Jc on ri-.i-. iti
i Jtcrrr. Shut. t.n l.!....l u ..t i t . . . i
ai iftuusa.
. r v..v v.wvi. flUUltl Ol i l.l' IU I ill'
ill
crry iiothl.
- Holland. Prt-i rietor, coiner of Main nnJ
ltlirj r'TerU Pliut.-iuoulh. Ni.hr.iska, Muvin
been refitt!(i and newly furnished ofi'i-rn lir-t
Clasu accommodation... JJo.-ird by the week '
ay laiiij''.liiwti
3, Ti. WISH,
'Jcnc-rai Life. A" idenr. Tire. Ii.I in 1 ;:nd Tr:ir'
Insuiarice At-ent. Will take, ri-k- at n-a oi
iilile rates in the rnoct n-lial.le Com .a ri i if in i f
I lilted ft a ten Olhee GM.otito the Court JL.te".
t lut.sk;outn. N ehru-ka. I may ; I :,
Pf.ATTti.nULTII Mil!..
C. II Iils-HL, I'roi. i-ic-tor. Havinir refentlyheia
rer.aireil and rliu-ed in thorough running order.
l l.u.-hrl.! or Wheat wauled iinmerliatflv
lor which tho biKhent market i.rice will bo i.ui.l
taux-'SwU. '
BROOKS HOUSE.
JOHN YirAlV.ZALh IV,.rk!or
Main Street, Dctwecn 5ih and oth.
riCIIKNOR HOUSE!
KATES RKLTCLD TO S-J. 1 III DAY
roAP.Dixt.;.
? .; 'm
7t..'l:
Hoarding and Lvisrin-s. t-r week 7
ht B-m f.-r t- u-:7.ftho pa-yt..f the I
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