Nebraska Newspapers

    THE HERALD.
PIATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
THURSDAY, MAT 22 1873.
J. A. MACMURPHY, Editor.
COEEESPONDEN CE
from an ports of the State and conn try respect
fully tollctted for the IIesalt.
Agricultural notes and short articles detailing
farmer's experience particularly requested.
We do not read anonymous letters and com
munications. The- name and address of the
Writer ar In all eases Indispensable as a guar
antee Of good faith.
A Splendid Chance.
V win send the Hkbald and Demorest's
Monthly, which is 83.00 for one year, to any per
son who pays us $3.50.
Xa addition to both Periodicals at the price
named, a choice front a list of extraordinary
Premiums Is gfren to each subscriber to Demo
rest's Monthly. Among these are a fine pair of
Chromo Pictures (Tails of Niagara and Yoscm
tt Falls), worth 10 ; or a good Stereoscope
with a series of views ; besides numerous other
valuable premiums worth from two to ten dol
lars each.
The best boys' and girls' magizlne, and he
Kibraska Herald at greatly reduced rates,
win send the Nebraska Herald and
DrMOBEST'S YOC2TO AMERICA, Which is 81.00
for one year, to any person who pays us S2.00.
Demorest's Young America Is always sparkling
with entertaining Stories, Poems, Music, Puz
tles. Games, Travels, and other pleasant features
Is profusely Illustrated, and cannot fall to amuse
Instruct, klevate. and assist to make the lives
of ydctMuI Americans useful, truthful and
happy.
The types, last week, made us say
that tho Merchant's Bank at Lincoln
organized with 830,000, -when it should
have been 3130,000.
Vfe have received the Harlan county
Advertiser, a new paper, just started
at Melrose, Mr. Geo. S. Fox being pro
prietor. It is a neatly printed six col
tmra weekly, and we wish it success.
Old Probabilities has been away for
teveral days, and this accounts for the
abominable irregularities of this inter
minable spell of weather. So says our
"Washington correspondent.
The Kansas Press Association and
the Nebraska Press Association met in
Lincoln yesterday, and banquetted and
enjoyed themselves right regally Lin
coln making the most generous prepa
rations for their reception.
The ladies pyrotechnic, terpsicho
rean, double-back-action, FhiloIIar
monic Jubilee, yclept Old Folk3 Con
cert, is progressing with great eclat,
rapidity, and strong probabilities of
triumphant success.
It is said the stockholders of the
Tribune, when they put up their new
building, will leave Horace Greeley's
sanctum exactly as it was when he
died, so that it may be in future a sort
of journalistic shrine.
An Associated Press telegram from
2sew York is headed "Billy Tweed and
his new playthings," and announces
that on the next Wednesday he can
step up to the captain's office and settle
for fifteen new indictments against
himself..-
The daily Journal, at Lincoln, is
running more matter than ever, and
looms up very like a metropolitan
journal. The new local, whoever he
Is, is doing first rate, and in short we
feel consoled for the loss of our Omaha
exchanges entirely.
Wm. Pitt Kellogg, now Governor of
Louisiany, sold a lot in Omaha the
other day. Perhaps it i3 not known to
all our readers that the man all the
newspapers are talking of now, in con
nection with Xcw Orleans affairs, was
formerly Territorial Judge of Nebras
ka. The members of the Nebraska Press
Association met in Omaha on Tuesday
last, and after the discussion of several j
important questions relating to jour
nalism, adjourned until July.
An invitation to meet the Kansas
Press Association in Lhmoln, on Wed
ncsda, was accepted.
The Milwaukee Monthly for May.
With its cboice literature and beatif ul
lllutratfons. prove that even what we
regarded as perfect in every respect
can, be made still more perfect, and
also demonstrates the fact that our pe
riodical literature is rapidly progress
ing, and that the .west lias now one of
the bwt crigirraJ Magazines published.
Send Stamp for sample copy to T. J.
Gilniore, Milwaukee, Wi3.
Tnr.EE Guoves, Neb May 19.
Eds. Xebeaska IIekald. As it is
raining and too wet to plow or plant
corn, I will give you an inkling of
crop prospects at Buck's Grove and vi
cinity. Fall wheat looks fair, spring
Wheat as good as well can be, oats fine,
corn not all planted yet. Some are
done planting.
PATRONS OF nrSBAXDUY.
County Deputy, Joseph McClure, or
ganized Three Grove Grange, P. of II.,
with 28" memliers, at Buck's School
Ilouse in- Mt. Ireasant Precinct, on
Monday 'evening' April 28, 18T3, the
officers for the current year are r
P. Z. Linnville, Master,
PvichardTelL Overseer.
G-rF.Sliryder, Lecturer.-
Wm. Eikenbary, Steward.
. G. S. Upton, Assistant Stewards
J. S. Upton, Treasurer.
Henry Wolfe, Secretary.
. . David Brinsen, Chaplain.
.". Robert Clark, Gate Keeper
Mis3 P. E. Brinson, Lady Assistant
Stew-ari-
Mrs. Jane Wolf, Ceres,
Mrs. C. Hunt, Pomona.
Mrs. F. Buck, Flora.
Begutstr meetings first and thjrd Sat
urdays in eacli month, at 3 o clock p.
TO.- Yours truly,
- Hexey Wolfe.
Thank you sir, you're a gentleman,
teep-tending- us short, conciso letters
like this and we shall always be happy
to publish. We should like a ehort
pair 0 tatement of crop prospects front
3 $3Tt of th cotmty-CEr.-
The editor's eye is sore this week,
but thank heaven it's the blind one.
The Herald still keeps coming. "
6
Wheri Professor Tyndall got back to
London he met the uniform question,
"Huw did you like the Americans?"
with the answer that he was not in a
position to form an opinion of the
American people. From first to last,
he says, he was among cultivated gen
tlemen and ladies, among thinkers and
men of science ; he was addressing the
most pleasant and, apparently, intelli
gent audiences ; and. though there may
have been numbers of people he might
have disliked, he did not see them.
To base an estimate of the whole coun
try upon what he saw of it would be
unfair; it would make America a re
alized Utopia. There was," as he ex
pressed it, "no break in the continuity
of my existence. I parted from friends
here, and found . myself among just
such friends there." .
This is altogether the pleasantest
and prettiest thing that Professor Tyn
dall or any other traveler has had the
good sense and exceeding modesty to
say, lately. He has the beautiful and
almost unique courage to frankly state
that he cannot base an estimate of the
whole country or its people on a six
weeks' view of the one and so short an
acquaintance with but a very small
portion of the other. How different
from the usual process. A fellow with
not half the discernment of Prof. Tyn
dall comes over to this country on a
short tour across the continent; in
New York he is shown the tiger, makes
the acquaintance of a first clas3 bum
mer or two, and leaves for Chicago.
There they "sew him up" in a horse
race, or blow him up m a steamboat
excursion ; at Omaha Canada Bill
shows him round, and in California his
principal curiosity i3 the Chinese, or
the personal acquaintance of an old,
dilapidated '49-er. On his return to
England he immediately publishes a
book evidencing his profound knowl
edge of the whole American character,
and shows us up in a mirror that re
flects our worst absurdities, or the
wrinkles in our system, that we have
the most reason to regret ourselves.
Equally as foolish is the American
snob who goes to Paris, finds his ac
quaintance in Bohemian quarters, or
the same class in London, and then
comes back to tell us what he knows
about Europe and England.
We do not even seem to be sufficient-
ly intimate with the real habits and
character of our own people from dif- J
ferent States, to form such an estimate
of their character and motives as is j
both just and correct. j
Thus, before the war, the Southron, j
seeing generally but the trading or j
school-keeping class of the northern j
States, set the whole people down as i
mud-sill3, and pedagogues, while we of j
the north, viewing too often only the I
wild, young chivalry of the south, who i
flung their money away at Newport or ;
Long Island, and seemed to care little !
for good morals or correct business i
principles, looked upon the whole south j
as reckless fire-eaters, insane political j
desperadoes, or extravagant and use- !
less members of society. After the j
war, we have all learned some lessons j
in this matter, yet to-day we know too j
little of the real habits and character j
of our Southern neighbors as affairs in !
Louisiana clearly prove, yet there is no j
lack of writers in either section who i
on short acquaintance inform (?) us I
all about the facts. 13 it too much, j
then, to say in this day that Prof. Tyn
drll is simply subliii? when he refuses
to give an estimate of the whole
American people from the few whom
he met during his short visit, though
we are very happy to know they were
such very xleasant people.
TOR OUR TARIFF FRIENDS.
In the course of argument regard- j
ing this tariff question which has sud- j
denly sprung up amongst us, after so
many years of quietude, the most com- j
mon example, and in fact the only sta- 1
tistics that are based on a real trial of ;
tho matter come from England. Eng- 1
lish Free Trade is thrown in our teeth J
and the present English notions of j
trade are continually brought forward i
as examples, and arguments for us to
follow. It is over and over asserted
that England is a country of free trade
" i
and that she is prosperous. The un
reading and unthinning do not know :
or do not care, it would seem, to listen
o,,t r,- ,...!!
theories are the outgrowth of many y'rs i COHntpnance from the scheme, would
of the bitterest and most unjust pro- j threaten an interruption to the frien 1
tettion of her own peonle as against ! ship which his Majesty desired to cul-outsiders-that
any country ever pro- "vate with the gool city of Hamburgh.
... . . . i The Senate returned to this application
mulgated or attempted to enforce; and' a snirite(I answer: "The city of Ham
it was not until after years of this rig- burgh." thev said, "considered it tus
orously protective system, and when
she had become rich and iowerful,
... . . , ... j
with possesions in all quarters of the
land, with large reserves of capital and
labor, lying idle on her shores that she
ventured upon Free Trade measures.
"Without wishing to recall any bitter
feelings against the English nation, or
to point out their blunders, except as
they may prove a warning to our peo- :
pie and serve as an offset to the con
tinual oalcry of English Free Trade,
we desire to give a chapter from Eng
lish history. j
About 1700, one Patterson intro- j
duced tle Darien scheme, which with- j
out entering into particulars was to
colonize and settle the Isthmus of Da- i
rien, which then was the key-stone of
the world. Suffice it to say, that had it
been carried out at that time, in the
manner prbjiosed, it would have been
probably the greatest success in the
pages of history. It would have revo
lutionized the commerce of the world.
It was overthrown ainl squelched by
the greed of England, solely because
Scotland, it was supptwsed, would have
obtained the greatest advantage from
it.
Hero is what history says of the
matter:
"The Scottish minister obtained per
mission, accordrsgW, to grant such
privileges of trade to tho Scotch as
might not bo prejudicial to that of Eng
land. In June 1093, these influential
Iersort3 obtained a statute from Par
liament, and afterwards a charter from
the Crown, m for creating a corporate
body, - er stock company, by name of
the Company of Scotland trudirg to ,
sal
j Africa and the Indies, with power to
plant colonies and build forts in places
t ?.ot Pess?d her European Mr
t tions, the consent always of the inhabi
tants of the places where they settled
being obtained.
"The hopes entertained of the profits
to arise from this speculation, in the
last degree sanguine; not even the
Solemn League and Covenant was
signed with more eager enthusiasm.
Almost every one who had. or could
command, any sum of ready money,
embarked it in the Indian and African
Company; many subscribed their all;
maidens threw in their portions, and
widows whatever sums they could
raise upon their dower, to be repaid a
hundred fold by the golden shower
which was to descend upon the sub
scribers. Some sold estates to vest the
money in the Company's funds, and so
eager was the spirit of speculation,
that, when eight hundred thousand
pounds formed the whole circulating
capital of Scotland, half of that sum
was invested in the Darien Stock.
"But it was not the Scotch alone
whose hopes were excited by the rich
prospects held out to them. An offer
being made by the managers of the
scheme with English anil foreign mer
chants, it was so eagerly grasped at,
that three hundred thousand pounds of
stock was subscribed for in London
within nine days after opening the
books. The merchants of Hamburgh
and of Holland subscribed two hun
dred thousand pounds.
"Such was the hopeful state of the
new Company's affairs, trheii the Eng
lish jealousy of trade interfered to
crush an adventnre which seemed so
promising, lne idea wnicn men anu
: iong afterwards prevailed in England
was, that all profit was lost to the
! British empire which did not arise out
! of commerce exchisictly English.
"Thft incrwiw oP tr:ulf in Scotland or
' Ireland thev considered, not as an ad-
dition to the general prosperity of the
united nations, but as a positive loss to i
England. Ihe commerce of Ireland
they had long laid under severe shack
les, to secure their own predominance;
but it was not so easy to deal with
Scotland, who had not only a separate
legislature, but acknowledged no sub
ordination or fealty to England, being
to all effects a foreign country, though
governed by the same.
"This new species of rivalry on the
part of an old enemy, was both irritat
ing and alarming. The English had
hitherto thought of the Scotch as a
poor and a fierce nation, who, in spite
of fewer numbers and far inferior re-
war with her powerful neighbor; and
it was alwavs embarrssing and provok
ing to find the same- nation display, in
spite of its proverbial caution, a hardy
and ambitious spirit of emulating them
in the paths of commerce.
"These narrow-minded, unjust, and
ungenerous apprehensions, prevailed
so widely throughout the
English na-
tion, that both Houses of Parliament
joined in an addrees to the King, stat
ing that the advantages given to the
newlj -erected Scottish Indian and Af
rican Company, would ensure that
kingdom so great a superiority over j
the English East India Company, that j
a great part of the stock and shipping
of England would be transported to
the. north, and Scotland would become
a free port for all East Indian com
modities, which they would be able to
fnrnieh nt n. htiinor r.ltp than thft En-
By thi3 ,ncan3, it was said,
England would lose all the advantages
of an exclusive trade in the Eastern
commotiities, wmcn nau always oeen a
great article m her loreign commerce,
and sustain infinite detriment in the
sale of her domestic manufactures.
The King, in his gracious answer to j
this address, acknowledged the justice ;
of its statements, though as void of j
just policy as of grounds in public' law. j
It bore, that "tho King had been ill
served in Scotland, but hoped some j
remedies might still be found to pre- j
vent the evils apprehended." To show !
that his resentment was serious against
his Scottish ministers, King William
deprived Stair of his office as Secretary
of State. Thus a statesman, who had
retained his place in spite of the bloody
deed of Glencoe, was deprived of it for
attempting to serve his country, by
extending her trade and national im
portance. So eager did the English Par
liament show themselves in this mat
ter, that they even extended their men
ace of impeachment to some native
born Scotchmen, who had offended the
House by subscribing their own money
to a Company formed in their own
country, and according to their own
laws.
'That this mode of destroying the
funds of tue concern mig.it ue yet more 1
effectual, the weight of the King's in- j
t'Uiiice with foreign States uiu em
ployed to. diminish the credit of tho
undertakiiur. and to intercept the sub
scriptions which h;id been thence ob
tained. For this purpose, the English
envoy at Hamburgh was directed to
transmit to the Senate of that commer
cial city a remonstrance on the part of
King William, accusing them of hav
ing encouraged the commissioners of
the Darien Company; requesting them I
10 uusist uom oomg so; liiiiinuiuig
that the plan, said to be fraught with
many evils, had not the support of his
Majesty; and protesting that the re-
fini:l af tlio St.li;if tn v it lid r:i w iliA-ie
should dictate to them, a free ieoplo,
with whom they were to engage in
commercial arnil,2e1Uents: and were
yet more astonished to rind themselves
blamed for having entered into such
enagagements with a body of his own
Scottish subjects, incorporated under a
t special act of Parliament." liut as the
menace of
the envov showed that the
f Darien Company uinst be thwarted in
I 1 1 . . 1 t it ; .
II" I'roceeunigs . y in superior yo-
i l 1 ui j.itubuvi, bill- J7it4tt:iib XKlall-
j burghers, ceasing to consider it as a
' IiojM'ful speculation, finally withdrew
' their subscriptions."
I Observe English jealousy of trade
interfered to crush the adventure. Tho
opinion of England then was that all
profit was lost to the British Empire
which did not arise out of British com
merce. They even considered an ad
dition to the trade of Scotland and
Ireland countries governed by the
same ruler a positive loss to England.
j Again, observe the comments in re
j gard to Scotland's becoming a free iort
I for East India commotiities.
After reading the above carefully
we don't think it very advisable to im
port many arguments in favor of Free
Tratle, from either the present or past
history of England.
Mr. Spinner's autographs, resulting
from the sale of the Charabersbnrg
iron works, will found an asylum for
orphans, according to the provisions of
the will of the late Thaddeus Stevens.
A young lady in Greenville, Tenn
recently presented her lover with an
olaboralely-constructed penwiper, and
was astonished, the following Sunday,
tsssc him wearing it as a cravats
Centaur Liniment.
There Is no pain which tho Centaur Liniment
will not relieve, no swelling It will not subdue,
and no lameness which it will not cure. This Is
strong language, but it Is true. Where the parts
are not gone, its effects are marvellous. It has
produced more cures of rheumatism, neuralgia,
lock-jaw, palsy, sprains, swellings, ear-ache,
caked-breasts, scalds, bums, salt-rheum, &&,
upon the human frame, and of strains, spavin,
galls, &c, upon animals In one year than have
all other pretended remedies since the world
began. It hi a counter-irritant, an all-healing
p;iin-relievcr. Cripples throw away their
cratches, the lame walk, poisonous bites aro ren
dered harmless, and the wounded are healed
without a scar. It is no humbug.1 The recipe is
selling as no article ever before sold, and it sells
because It does just what it pretends to do.
Those who now suffer from rheumatism, pain or
swelling deserve to suffer if they will not use
Centaur .Liniment, more than 1000 certificates
of remarkable cures. Including frozen limbs,
chronic-rheumatism, gout, running tumours, &c.
have been received. We will send a circular
containing certificates, the recipe. &c, gratis to
to any one requesting it. One bottle of the yel
low wrapper Centaur Liniment is worth one
hundred dollars for foundered or swecnied hor
ses and mules, or for screw-worm in' sheep.
Stock -owners this liniment is worth your at
tention. Xo family should be without Centaur
Liniment. J. II. Hose & Co., New York. 40-ly
Castokia is mere than a substitute for Cas
tor Oil. It is the only sate article in existence
which Is certain to assimilate the food, n pulate
the bowels, cure wind colic and produce natural
sleep It contains neither minerals, morphine
or alcohol, and Is pleasant to take.
Children
need not cry and mothers may rest.
STATE ITEMS.
45-1 y
A Pluckt Boy. Master Clayton
Hollingsworth, a lad of sixteen, passed
through this place a few days since, on
his way from Connecticut, to Sydney,
Nebraska. We cannot tell how true his
reports are, but he says he has walked
all the distance from Connecticut, save
about 200 miles, which he rode upon
the cars as a dead beat," and all since
February last. He further reports
that his mother died when he was
three years of age, his father four years
later; that he had no friends back
there, and had been working in a Con
necticut Factory at 84 per week; he
says this amount would only about
board him, but that by strategy and !
economy he managed to lay up 825.00,
I with wWch Le started and bought food
on his way. At Sydney. Nebraska, he
has friends and intends to reach them.
He arrived here on Saturday last and
remained until Sunday, Some of our
people aided him somewhat, and he
started on his journey. After arriving
at his destination, he should receive
a homestead, as a recompense for his
grit. Kearney Junction Times.
Alex. vonSehwaner.berg, of Platts
mouth. was in the city yesterday. He
is an old friend of "Little Mac," and a
live fellow. "Little Mac" is about to
start out lecturing on temperance.
Neb. City Chronicle.
At the meeting of citizens, at Lin
coln, on Friday, last, to debate upon
appropriating money for repairing the
Capitol, it was concluded not to do so.
The publishers of the Hesperian Stu
dent are temporarily doing their own
printing.
The Saline County Post has an arti
cle on "A "Wonderful Photographic
Feat, and one on a Komantic Mar
riage," mixed up the first half of the
marriage item being tacked on the last
quarter of the photographic feat, and
the other sections in another column
being mixed in the same manner.
Verily, typ3 or typos do cut funny
capers sometimes.
A box containing the body of a dead
infant was found inOrnahaonavacant
lot at the corner of 13th street and
Capitol Avenue.
IVs he Murdered.
The Nebraska City Press has the fol
lowing :
George G. Randall, a prominent and
well-to-do farmer, living six inilcs from
Sterling, some thirty miles from Ne
birska City, has been missing since
some time in Marclu He left his home
ou foot at J o clocK in
and has not since been
the afternoon,
heard from.
The story of his disappearance, as told
by hi3 wife, is that he took a gun and
revolver, and started olT without de
claring any intention of leaving his
home and family. Mr. flandall had
had some trouble with his wife, who is
very pretty and a goou ueai younger
than himself and as such sought
younger company such as a couple of j
voung men in the neighborhood who
were intimate with her. Suspicion is
strong' against, uie panics umi uicie
was foul plav, but nothing delinite has
been developed in the case that would
warrant the arrest of the suspected
parties. Xo person saw him leaving,
and it lias been ascertained that he did
not take the cars at any ioint near
home. What makes the story told in
regard to his leaving seem improbable, j
aim rainer evasi e, is uie laci uiai ne
left all his money at home, and two
good horses standing in the stable, al
though it is said he was quite lame tit
that time. The country in that vicini-
i tv has been diligently searched for
traces of him, dead or alive, and letters
of inquiry have been sent to all his re
lations and friends and old acquaint
ances, but to no avail there are no ti
dings of him. There is an opinion
amounting to nearly a general convic
tion in the minds of the ieople of that
section of country that a foul and well
concealed murder has been committed.
I Corrcsnondenoe of the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Pkaitie pit Ciukx, WisM May 12
A shocking instance of cruelty or
or ignorance, or both, was related to me
while waiting at De Sota yesterday for
a boat down the river. I give it in
brief as I he.tr it from a citizen of Lan
sing, Iowa:
lii Winnesheik county, Iowa, there
resides a fanner by the name of War
che. He is generally prosperous in his
occupation, but has many oddities
about him, though nothing of a partic
ularly cruel or inhuman nature has
heretofore leen apparent. It was
known that many years ago he had a
child born to him, and that for years
ptist it had not been seen by any of
the neighbors. Its absence caused much
discussion and tqeculition for a long
time, but at last this passed out of
mind almost as completely as the chikl
passed out of sight. Latterly, how
ever, a neighbor suspected something
wrong in .regard to its disappearance,
and ventured to make affidavit that the
mystery required investigation. The
sheriff was sent out, and a confession
elicited from Warche that the child
was alive and in the house. Being re-
j quested to produce it, he led the way to
i an up-stair room, some eight or ten feet
! square, and there, on a platform bed
about three and a half feet long by two
feet wide, sat, or crouched, in the most
abject wretchedness, an object neither
child or woman a pitiful pictura on
which tho sheriff could scarcely bear to
look. It was the daughter of the man
who stood beside him. She is now
nearly eighteen years old, but physic
ally a mere infant, and mentally a drul
ing idiot, not weighing over fifty
pounds.
: Here, on this miserable bed, in this
terrible little room, had she lain or sat
for ten years. The atmosphere was
such that the sheriff could not endure
it. Base filth covered the whole room,
and the scanty clothing of the little
cot consisted of only a few and debas
ed rags. A pig-sty could scarce rival
it for nastiness. This fearful abode
had been her home in tiie cold of win
ter and the heat of summer, and what
the sheriff there saw was doubtless a
fair siecimen of the treatment she had
received throughout all thesa misera
able years.
It was impossible to remove her, and
the matter was immediately reported
to the Commissioners for the Insane,
who paid a visit to Warche's house, as
soon as possible, to examine into the
case, and devise means for necessary
relief. They found that their visit had
been expected ; that the room had been
scrubbed and aired,, and that a few
pieces of clean clothing had been put
upon the bed. The unnatural parent
told that the child was his by a former
wife, and that she had been taken with
fits when eight or nine years old, and
had never recovered; and that he had
attemnteil tn kppn her in this wav
j rather than to put her in any ()f the
j ytatfi Instituticms. They fouml l,er
unable to stand, walk or speak. When
raised upon her feet she immediately
j sinks down upon her haunches, or seeks
a position on her hands and knees.
She is altogether unacquainted with
men, and eved the Commissioners like
some harmless animal. Her existence
is a mere slight hold upon animal life,
her intellect being hopelessly beyond
recovery. I could not learn what dis
posal the Commissioners made of the
case, and would be particularly glad to
be able to say just what degree of cul-
pabilitv the parent was adjudged to
have' in it. My informant could tell
nothing in regard to these points, and
1 have therefore given you all I know
about it. I shall watch with anxiety
j to learn more, and, if successful, will
surely lay it before the
readers of the
bentintf.
The Petrified Skeleton of an Animal
One Hundred Eeet Long.
Mr. J. Brewer of this town, Ponca,
on Saturday last discovered, partly em
bedded in a ledge of rock on the bank
of the river, about 3 miles northwest
from this village, the petrified bones of
a monstrous animal, which existed per
haps a hundred thousand years ago.
What kind of animal it was, cannot
yet be definitely determined, although
it was probably of the Crocodile or
der. The skeleton was found lying in
the form of a half circle. The
bone of the head and part of the
body, have not yet been brought
to light, as they extend under a high
ledge of rocks. It is safe to say, that
the animal was one of the first inhabi
tants of the earth, and existed prior to
the building up of the tremendous
range of rocks, in the bottom of which
the head and shoulders are buried.
The bones of the tail measure in
length a little over twenty-two feet ;
the extreme end of the tail is about
two inches thick, becoming gradually j
larger as it approaches the hips, where j
the bones are throe feet in circumfcr- ;
dice. The back bone, ai its largest !
part, is eighteen inches through. If j
the animal was a crocodile, its whole i
length must have teen not much short ,
of one hundred feet. All of which in-
dicates a monster in comparison with j
which, an elephant is a pigmy. North- j
em Xtbraska Journal.
The Warm Spring Indians.
Are aline looking body of men, many
of them being six feet tall, and even
taller. They are very decent and or
derly, much better behaved than an
equal number of ordinary soldiers,
for your soldier off the restraints of
duty is not always the most quiet and
orderly man in the world. They obey ;
implicitly their leader, Donald McKay, !
and the sub-chiefs who are with them, j
The sul j-chiefs' names are Miller, "Warm j
Spring George, Fi-Peckanah and Horn- j
asheig. They are fine men.and many of j
them speak, and, I think, some of them ;
read and write English. Their head j
chief is Daumeta, and he is tit Umatilla I
with a few of his people, who number
in all about -100. Their reservation is j
seventy miles south of the Dalles, on
the Des Chutes, in a very good location.
Their leader here, Donald McKay, is
thirty-seven years old, six feet tall, and
weighs 211 pounds his "lazy weight"
being 223. He is a quiet, reserved
man, a perfect specimen of a half
breed and fullv up to every Indian
trick and device.
The Modocs would !
give as much
get his scalp as they !
o
j would for that of (leneral (Jilleni. He
i is one of eleven children by Thos. Mv
! Kay, an old Hudson Day Company
i trader and the
MOST 'KLEBKATKD INDIAN FHJIITFK
Ever known on the northern part of
this co;tst. There are several other
sons George, an express rider in the
service of the Government, and Dr.
-"William, an accomplished physician
now residing in Ernatilla. Their fath
er came here Donald knows not when,
but he remembers of hearing him tell
of bringing the first drove of sheep and
cattle from California ever brought in
to Oregon, and that his companions on
that trip were Colepian and Hall. He
had at one time a saw mill and ranch
on Champoontz on the Willamette, a
saw and grist mill at Waullalula. a
ranch and seven hundred head of cat
tle on Butte creek (not tho one of that
name near here), and a ranch on Willa
mette slough where he died in the
winter of 1849-50. So much for the
leader; and now I will give you a lit
tle sketch of the manner in which they
fight.
"When their line was formed, the ex
treme right and left end, or flank men,
carried a little flag on a pole, that their
true position could be determined at
all times. They right under cover
generally, "fighting in twos," one cover
ing the other. One creeps ahead, try
ing to entice a shot by ever' possible
device If one raises to take aim at
the head one, the concealed friend
blazes away at once and the foremost
one is then ready to fire at any one
who rises to return that shot. Cor.
Sacramento BscordL.
TELEBAMS BOILED DOWN.
Friday, May 10.
The U. S. Steamer Frolic has been
ordered to St. Johns, with directions
for the relief of tho crew of the Po
laris. Michael Nixon, the murderer of
Chas. Plefer, was hung in New York,
at 9 :15 a. M.
Arrangements for the editors and
publishers of Kansas, to meet in Atchi
son the 20th hist., are complete.
The shall of Persia has begun his
grand European tour, his whole cabinet
and three wives, aeeopmanying him.
Five million pounds sterling will pay
their expenses.
Chas. Mortimer was hung yesterday,
at Sacramento. He was a notorious
desperado.
The billiard match
championship of the
played by Daly and
game for the
United States,
Dion, in New
York, was won by Daly.
A lire at .Joliet. 111., destroyed about
i?r0,')00 worth of property.
A fire f:t Grand Bapids, Michigan,
destroyed a brush factory. Value,
81 "50,000 worth of property destroyed
by fire in Ottawa, Canada.
Jackson S. Schultz, the newly nt
pointed Commisioner to Vienna, has
arrived there and had a conference
with Mr. Joy, tho American Minister.
An explosion took place on Tuesday,
the 13th inst., in Drummond Colliery
Picton Co.. Novia Scotia, Mr. Dunn,
i llie manager, the assistant manager and j
i ... , ; n, ,.;t
sixty or seventy men, wing in uie iit
1 . j . i .
i at the time. 1
1 1
! The miners had been on a strike for
t three or four days and had just rr
i sinned work. The explosion was
! caused by the gas w hich had accumu
lated while they were idle. Four men
were rescued, and men with ropes were
j being lowered for more w hen a second
J explosion took place blowing them to
j pieces. After that explosions took
I place, constantly, for about twenty-four
1 hours, and the llames rose from the air j
! shaft to the height of one hundred feet, j
I Water was let in, and the shaft was
covered with timber and earth to ex- j
elude the air. Latest aceo.unts report j
the fire abating. No bodies have been J
recovered exeent the live or six men
resenstd immediately ;ifter the
explosion.
first
The distress a in on g
the miners is extreme.
the families of j
OP.u i.d inquiry I
is he in it made, which lias
obtained no i
evidence of carelessness :is yet.
Sunday, May IS.
Latest from the Modors, states they
are encamped at .Snow Mountain and
llasbrouek is after them.
The Iiussians have taken Khiva, the
Khan is a prisoner.
The advisory Board of the Civil
Service will meet in "Washington -on
Wednesday next and remain in ses
sion several days.
The car shops of the C. V,. & Q. U. Ti.
Co., ;it Aurora 111. were destroyed by
lire to day. The number 01 buildings
burned were eight, containing much
valuable machinery. The loss will
amount to t?2."0,000. Covered by
insurance. They will be
rebuilt.
immediately
Southwestern Indian Affairs.
j Indian Commissioner Smith has ad-
; dressed letters to the Indian Agent
: of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, aj- j
j proving his action relative to his in- i
; vest tgat ion into the murder of four I
i surveyors, and directing him to inform j
tiie Cheyennes that they will he re
quired to surrender to the militia the j
i three men who murder the surveyors, j
viz: the son of 1 1 iirli Wolf, the son of j
: Sleeping Wolf, and the son of Crooked i
! .Neck. The Commissioner further di- i
; rects Cen. Miles to inform the Chey-
ennes "that the claim of tin marauders ,
i of settling accounts for some of their j
i own numhers lieing killed by soldiers, j
is not tulmissaoic. as tiie soldiers men j
upon them while they were engaged in i
acts of hostility, being upon the war!
path, and also having plundered cattle j
in their possession, and 1 eiug ofi" their j
reservation. !
A conductor on the Penns 1 vanit j
Hailroad telegraphed from Deny sta- J
tion recently : ' Train dclajed lift ecu .
minutes ou account of u.hidy. Don't
know whether it is a boy or a girl." !
i The Liberia Ad rot-ate, published
; monthly, at Monrovia. Liberia, Africa,
i offers its patrons the unique subscrip
i tion terms of "one bushel of unbailed
l,!'r ininum, m advance.
THE MARKETS.
NE Y
YORK, Jf-y 21.
a (4 pr. el.
Monev .
Gold.. .
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t Governments Dull and Steady
CHICAGO May 21.
Flour Quiet
Wheat Kegular
Corn Weak. ...
Oats Active
live Dull
bin-lev Dull
Cattle Dull
Hogs Live
3 OOtf.fl 7-
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HAGAIT'S
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.agnona
K A. FEW APPLICATIONS MAKE A ;
Pure Blooming Complexion
It la Purely Vegetable, and lta operation la
6on and f;ll at once. It doea away with tba
flushed Appearance) caused by Heat. Fatirna
and Excitement. HeaJsaiidrenJoveaaU Blotched
and Pimples, dijrpellinff dark and unsightly
Ppota. Drirea away Tan, Freckle aod Son
burn, and byite gentle but -powerful inflnenoa
ynania tha I&Jca ciiecX with
YOUTHFUL BLOOM ATfD BEAUTf.
'SoM t rXl rmrwH'a -d TjC7 Stores. Da
ct. - va? i. -?
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PHILADELPHIA STORE.
SOLOMON & NATHAN
DEJLLEES IN
Fancy Dry Goods, Notions,
Ladies Furnishing Goods,
Largest,
Cheapest,
finest.
and Best Assorted
Stock Inthe City.
I Which vrc are prepared to sell cheaper than
i thev can be purchased elsewhere Give us a cull
! aud" examine our goods.
tore on Main street, between 4th ann cm
,trcers, I'lattsinouth Nebraska. Id t.
e, tTduke &. CO.
At the foot of Main Street.
Wholesale and Eetail Dealers In
Hardware and Cutlery,
STOVES, T1X WARE,
IliOX, NAILS.
HOES, KAKE3,
SnoVELS, AXES.
KMVESAXD
TOKKS, &e &c
All kinds of
Tinware Manufactured.
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ti 1 r m -r i r a.
KOfir. UTTiPA rififWr rsmrfl.
II. J. STRKIOHT. Proprietor,
for Your
Books, Stationery,
Pictures. Mii
Toys, Coufectloncry,
Violin Ptrings.
Newspaper.
Novel,
Song Books, &c, &c.
1
POST OFFICE BUILDING,
Plattsmouth.
8-tf.
Tebraka,
! 1.000.000 tweet Potato Plants
For Sale.
loo 1,000
SOcU 4.
TScts SO.
10,000.
3 Jo -
Rf.d and Yellow Nannemond
Brazilian White
25,003 CABBAGE PLANTS
Of the K.irly .Terv. WakeUeM, :ul Tottler'
Brunswick vnrictlf. :it l.i erins per dozen, 75
rents per 100. llrySy May 1st.
Also. Trophy m 1 ':-ti. rtrrmt Tnniato Plants,
at cents per doen. per 100.
Cehry Plants,
Ega Plants,
j Cauliflower Plant.
i " ?' (t-r., it-c.
j In their season.
Order: from a Ht-"Tic i.rompllv flllrd. nnd
deliwred at tho r:pross OJllc In riattsnimitb.
I'nrtajre fre.
These Pl:ints wer "!l mlsn.l at mv Owr-Ins In
Rork Bluffs. A.UO SMITH. Proprietor.
Tr.u-ilc White
Platisio-ith.
Is my authorized
Arnt In
The Best
THE CHEAPEST!
IS
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F.
J. METTEJEIt
Has a larpc and good assortment of r.irm Ma
chinery. ,
The Mar;'! Harvester, h I.Vap?r that two mu
e;m cut ;unl l'inrl ten aere oereiav, wiili one
man to drive, and the hin.lcrs mn "work in the
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F. J. 3IETTFEE,
Main Street, Conief cih.
Plattsmouth, - - - j- Nebraska.
U. V. 31 AT UK WS,
Fourth street, north of Plntte Vallev House.
I LATTSMOCTTr, NEBRASKA.
Dealrr in
Hardware and
Cutlery,
Stoves, Tinware,
Iron. Nails
Glass, Locks, ;
Garden City Plows, '
Hay Hakes,
i Farming Tools,
j Fanning ilaelnuery,
j JlcCormi'-k's lleapcr and ZIoiocr,
Buck Eye Reaper and 3Iouxr,
j d-c, tfco, dc &c
SEEDS
Fof the Garden,
For the Grcrmrd,
For the Tkll
j 8 hardZ
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SPRING TRADE, 1CTD.
Furnas INursorico,
BEOWNVILLB, 2TES,
FU SONS & F3 IMAITD.
Furnaa and Sons, BrownViile, Nebria
ka, and E. Ferrand, Detroit, Mich
igan, have consolidated their
stocks and will hereafter
conduct business at
Drown ville. Neb
where they
offer the largest and most Belect gen
eral Nursery Stock ever offered
in the West, consisting In
part as follows:
20,000 Choice s year old Apple Tree -ino.ooo
" 2 " "
500,000 !
60,000 " 1,2, s and 4 year old PeAf
Trees.
40.000 " 2. s, and 4 year old Cherry
Tree.
BO.ooo 1 nn,i 3 yPar 0jd pefu-ta Tree
20.000 - n u m , Apricot and i ectralno
Treos.
4,000,000 No. l Honry Locust Hedge Flanto.
2.000,000 No. 1 Owane Hedire Plant.
6,000.000 Forest Tree Se-llln(rs.
200,000 Evergreen!, In variety.
100,000 eacli lilar-kberries, IUupberrlea afil
Strawberries,
.10,000 each (ioosooerrles and Currants.
20,000 Perpetual and Climbing lkt.
10.000 Flowering Shruba,
10,000,000 Willow Cuttings.
COOLEY'3 EARLY WHITE, AND ADAMI
EXTRA EARLY CORN.
ITALIAN BEES.
Berkshire and Poland
Hogs.
T. R. Dilley. of Cass County, will aot M Arret
of ilwao nurseries In thin section. P. O. fcddrw
Plattsiuoutli, Cass Co., Nebraska.
Zif Correspondence solicited. Send for
a Catalotjue. 41-tf
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
OK FLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA,
8UOCKBOR TO
Tootle, Hanna & Clark.
JOHJT FITZQKRAI.D,
President.
JOH.f R. Clark,
. Caihler.
C. n. Pakwvlk,
VIc prtwldat.
T. Vf. Evaj.
Ami Caahler.
This Bank h now open for buslnewi at thetr
new room, corni-r M.iln and Sixth firecta, aod
are prepared to transact a general
Ranking Business.
Stocks, I'ondt,
Cold, Government
and Local
Seraittai
Boosiit and
. Sold, JVpoalta
' Raoclved and
Iutereit allowed
On time
CerUfloato.
Ir.ifts (Irawu, available In any part of the
. United Si.-iif-i and in all tlie principal torn
! and Cities of Europe.
FOR TIIE CELEBRATED
IjXMAN lijse
ALLEN LINE
OF STEAMERS
rcrsons wishing to bring out their friend
from J'u rope can purchase tlckaU from M
through to llattsmoutu
THE
OLD RELIABLE
A Heavy Stock of Goods oa
Band.
! No Hi nts and Interest on Borrowed
Capital to be made off. Customers.
OLDEST ESTABLISHED U0U3B
IN TUB CITY.
North tido of Main bet ween Second and TMr4
streets, takes pleasure lu announcing to
FA II 31 ERS ANU MECHANICS
That lie has a larga and well selected itoek ol
Iry tiooUs, Gro-erTot, lYovislons, a were ever
brought to the City of Plattsmouth.
lT" It wiu cost you nothing to look At them
whether lyou huv or not. Ily eismiofnK tho
ii. es atj the "OLD lit.UAULK" you will bo
Mis to tell when other parties try to swindle
ou. S-tf
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band una witm, parents and rklkjnit. It tug
kmi the Importance of arrurlim anion of
heart and purpnma tn lll'i. brfora lhara ahall
be a onion of hand, it UIwvm that, wnila It
Is woman privilege tn purify and com fort an4
tdorn, I' should ha man's plasur to provlda
Ic.r, clierluli, and prot:t. It would haa chU.
drvn treatad as fvallnK. thlnktuf aiA rmwlnf
creators pwfwcUT errausl,but not fall anrwn.
Vrt in advoratln ihaan dor mows, tfca Mac-
line does not eDiploy ooctrtnsJ annoosw icma;
and dreary duuiuiaitlutM wblcfe do not Intarast
and therefor (to not profit tha readar. Oa tb
contrary, It would rather preach sat tboush U
reached not an intrrestlns; story .for tnaiasra).
belits: mad to sorv tli purpoae of a leoa dja
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The wont as wail as tba best faarnra of tfea
Mautaxin iff It prtca. Tba Maa of (atttnt a
really flrst-cUias MaKar.ljM at on dollar a yaar.
mm) i lis absurd to uiot i snpl. 1st it ampioyt
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bundred If
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Each number contains Dearly tht
senber about eiciu cents.
Hope and Joywo heantlfully ttnl4 ryl
portraits worth Four lollars win sw tnatled
free loeeery subscriber to tlx Ms
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Journal, Phlla . fa. At lis title prom la, It liZ
IsdrToted to the InatrorUoii and entartal anient J
of the family etrcle.arwl la order to piao Mwith
In tb mean t-f readers In nodarata etraajn.
stances.it ts furnsJied at a remarkably low rasa fl
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and k just the. tliine UiM on would most 4 eel r an
to place in th liandsr hm wtf and lliUs ones, s-
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WilminKton, N. C. ....Were w aal of oof
chair editorial, aa a rreata ctoseit," Cot enf
from our exchange list and all that, on of tN
first magazine to which e should anbarriba
would h Wood HHisebld. Mftimm. Barv
ford, Ot It la an Intellectual anj morat
educator, ritrhly prtd by all who baoocaa ar
qcalnted with It. W dsnfc ... If
populsr writers are. therefor, food wrhen.
ana ii own nricwrn,. ui. pieni cm Ulr-T
wares.
men Mr. wa
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