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The " Herald, jlNO. fi. yUACyURPHY, - JCdiTOR. PLATTSMOUTH. JULY 17, 1879. We call attention to the health rc lort requested by Maj-or Johnson. Remember, our Teachers Institute bomniences Monday. Frof. Martin dale, Prof. Lovo and others will be here. Dr. J. T. Hat of Falls City has re ceived the appointment of assistant physician of the Hospital for the In sane. Wk hop,p Chairman R.iwes will call the Hep. Convention at Omaha this time. For many reasons it is better it should meet there. The Republican (Omaha) had better fcnga;;e Dr. Miller to edit thai paper too. They seom to have a better opin ion of his talents than of their own force. Gen. Grant has changed his mind and will not bo home for a year yet. It is said that tho officious meddling of those who want to make him Pres ident has caused his delay. Gere, of the Journal ha gone to Colorado for his health; and the Jour nal is almost crazy over the railroads running in and out of Lincoln, calls her a "hub" and so on. Better have the new physician to tho insane pre scribe something for "them fellers." Tim yellow fever excitement seems to have abated entirely. Only two cases were authenticated in Memphis and no others have succeeded them so, it is to be hoped our southern breth ren will be spared even a slight repe tition of last summer's fell calamity The law complications over the Noel ease at Greenwood are amusing however unsatisfactory or prickly they may be to the parties interest ed. I he last heard of the jjooils, Morrison had moved thorn to Platts- mouth or somewhere, and the rest were hunting for them. To get even with the move of theU. P. on the state of Ueatrice, the B. & M. people propose to run from York to Grand Island, and thus invade U. I Territory. Big game of chess these locomotive fellows are playing on our broad green boards just now. "Check who takes the king don't pawn your credit too strong, boys, and the game is ours. From the Omaha Reporters. Bishop Gilbert Haven (M. E. Church) says Sherman shoved his arm down Hayes back to "stillin" him that there is no such thing as a "Hayes Republi can. A man can be a Hayes man but never a Hayes Hepublkan, and that Grant is to be thanked that we have any nation at all and ought to be sent back to the "White House." Isn't it about time this University row is , closed, "Trial by newspa per" has done its perfect work and no further good can or will be accom plished, while much harm abroad is being done. It is plain that the pres ent Regents propose to let things re main in statu quo for their successors and as tho people have the oppDrtunity next frt.ll. they can and should decide through the election of Ragants what changes, if any, are needed. Xte of the News thinks Gere and Brook3 should fight a duel ou the 23d of July at 12 m.-dark of the moon. Why, oh Avhy! shoold they come nih. If this battle of word3 keeps oh, the rest of the country will have cause t think that it is not the "bucolic press" alone that has a limber tongue when it gets on its ear; but that the Urb.tn editors' ears get out of tune now and then and unlimber his tongue likewise. MacDoVaoh an d his Watchman are at Omaha, you know. In his saluta tory there he says, fever'n'ague drove him out of the "Bluffs" and their slow ness praises Omaha immensely and winds up with tho following charac teristic MacD'-ism. We propose to give you a live, racy, red-hot paper, once a week, all the year round. We will be as independent as a hog on ice rendering to Caesar what belongs to him, and giving evea hisSa tanic Majesty Ids due. We will try and be courteous to all, but we don't propose to tondy to any sq ueezicks that ever wielded a tooth-pick. THE NEGRO EXODUS HERE AT LAST. 10.1 COLORED PEOPLE ACROSS THE KITER Froni Lddisiana and Mississippi. Ex-Governor Win. Allen, of Ohio, died very suddenly at Chilicothe, last Saturday morning:, and was bur ied on Monday, an immense con course of people attending the funer cral. Mr. Allen was known as "Fog Horn'' Allen, on account of his pow erful voice which in his best daj-s could be heard by thousands of peo ple in the open air, speaking, and -Rise up" Willir.ni Allen, because af ter man' years of political retire ment he was again brought out as a candidate for Governor and elected. He was an energetic, useful, hon est man and citizen. A strong dem ocrat through life, -his personal character was unimpeachable, and he goes to his long rest with the proud consciousness of having per formed his whole duty as he saw it, and with the respect of his fellow men of whatever turn of mind politi cal! v. What Shall be Done With Them. Democratic Consistency. Rico the' dem. candidate for State Governor of Ohio is a banker, .a hard money man, and running on a soft money platform with Ewing, almost a pronounced greenbacker; one of the planks of their pi itform is far the abo lition of National Banks. Yesterday morning, early, the newi spread n the street that ,250 negroes were across the river awaiting trans portation and billed for Plattsiuouth: At once excitement arose, all sorts of rumors were rife, all sorts f sug gestions and many vague threats were heard. We are sorry to recount that a great many of our people did not rise to the magnitude of the occasion and realize that a great crisis in solving one of the mightiest politic.il problems of the d-iy was before them. That the long talked of negro problem w.is at the door, and talked a good deal of baby talk about what ought ti be done with them, what tho authorities ought to do and especially what they would do if they had the power. Luckily not many of these very durinu kind of people are in pjwer and if these poor people are sent over here to-day as they may be, we feel that the good sense of our Mayor, Council, and leading men will open tho way to dispose of them quiet ly, honorably and satisfactorily. BUT TO FACTS. As soon as we ascertained that a lot f Colored people were at East Platts mouth, the Herald in company with Mr. Mainland of the B. & M. and C. Is. &, Q., and Mr. Bushnell of the Enter prise proceeded over the river to ascer tain just what were the facts and how many there were. WK FOVKD 115 grow n people, that is, those who paid railroad fare and 1G3 persons in all. Under tho charge of the Rev. B. F. Watson, of the 1st Colored M. E. Church at Kansas City. They came from New Orleans, Ten sas and Feliciana Parishes and a few from Miss., to St. Louis and by Steam er Durfee to Kansas City and from thence by rail, 238 came to Kansas City in the Durfee and 49 in the Joe Kinney Saturday, of these 103 have been forwarded hera it seems. Considering their circumstance they are clean, healthy looking people not old, sickly or cripples; but mainly in' the prime of life and ab'e to work. Richmond Lewis a tall colored man about forty-five, says he was a sheriff of Feliciana served six years, and left because now his life wa3 in danger. A number said they believed that if they had stayed any longer they would have been shot, said it was only a question of time when a colored man who had any opinions of his own was killed. (These were evidently men who had taken some part in public affairs) there were others who sesmed to care nothing and know nothing of politics or public affairs, but who said they could not make a living there that their employers would not keen their promises and over charged them for provisions and necessities so that work as they might they never had anything and they wanted to come to some country where they could live in peace, and earn a- home. As high as thirty cents, per lb had been charged for pickled pork and thirty-five cents per peck for corn meal. They say they ean't go twenty miles from Xew Orleans or as one expressed it, he could go if he acted foolish and pretended lie did not know anything about affairs or had no opinion about anything, of his own. j;aton lioHge an old man came aboard with his tilings. They put him ashore. As the boat left he jumped aboard and left his things behind, as serting as a reason, that if he stayed he would be dead before morning. All declared that they were ready and wil ling 10 woik, ana an they askeu was a living and peace. One said he sold 8303 of personal goods for $50 to get money to come to St. Louis with his family. They paid their way to St. Louis; from there, the "Committee" have paid their way and furnished rations. We give these items as thejr told them to us, not vouching for the truth or falsity thereof. We asked a great many searching questions, as follows: Did any one induce or coax you to come north by representing that you could live here easier and without work? A. number answered, "Xo, we came to get peace." Did any one promise you land bore? Xo; we want to earn a home, and are willing to work." Is it true that only the lazy and shiftless, those who won't work come north? Xo, no, we expect to work, all we want is to get what we earn and be able to keep it. This is the substance of all the an swers. e counted 41 women and according to the number that paid fares there aught to be 47 children in this ot. Whatever other squads may be this one seem to be ready, willing and able to work, and are no more paupers than thousands of whites and foreigners. who come west with only their brawn and muscle and mother-wit to make a iving. We have very fortunately not been called upon this time to take care of these poor people, they having been sent on to Omaha and elsewhere. Plattsmouth is not a good place to send such a host, hemmed in as we are on two tides by rivers. Tho Committee h-ivo this in charge should use greater discretion, in throwing a large and at first helpless, population on an unwarnedcomm unity. What we could have done with them had they come over here no one could answer, 1G3 is altogether out of pro portion to our population. It is probably the onlv solution of the vexed and hitherto inexplicable problem of the status oftheXogro in this country. When they are 'dis tributed more or less throughout the country we shall have no more of the Negro as a factor in public life, and not before. Massed in one section they area source of danger to them selves, the community, and the gov: crnment nt large. Their coming north is part of the political problem we arc called, upon to help solve. We cannot shirk it nor avoid it, and wc must meet it like men. From Dr. Livingston, one of our Fish Commissioners, who has just re turned from a trip out west we hear glowing descriptions of the crops. He describes the entire "American Desert" from Dorchester to Hastings as one vast wheat farm n matter in which direction one looks, it is a continuous sea or goiuen waving wueac. ine happy owner3 of these prolific acre3 are in the fields with headers and har vesters, and tho numerous stacks at test the abundance of the harvest. He describes the corn crop fully as good as any in old Cass, which has from the earliest settlement been pro verbial for her excellent corn crops. From Hastings. to Red Cloud the sod houses of early settlers are giving way to handsome farm houses, and the crops are just as good and as abundant as at any other part of Nebraska. The Re publican Valley lands are largely held bv the old Nebraska Railway owners. but numerous fine farms gladden the eye where only a few years ago the buffalo and antelope held undisputed swav. He speaks of Red Cloud as a fine growing town of about 1,000 ia habitants full of push and vigor. The old sod house that ex-Governor Gar ber resided in is still there, in the heart of the town, within a stone's throw of his present elegant villa. These two buildings in contrast are the best advertisement an emigrant could look bn, showing, as they do what hon est industry caa accomplish. Of course, they talked over tho fish prospects of Nebraska, looked up good hatching places, and so on, all of which is matter for future consideration. Our Temperance Column. KrUTKI) MY THK WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TKM l'ERANCK VSIOS. 'For God, and I ome, and Native Land. 1M.ATTSMOVTH I.OIKJK Xo. 1 Irn1:ir lnit!Ti;r? :it (.(mil . i. o ;. t. Templars' Hall every Wednesday evening. E. II. Wooi.F.v, W. C. T. Viola V. Harxf.s, Sec'y. vrrsMor-rii TKMI'KHANCK, TKMI'I.K OK IlOJiOU AND No. 15. Ueirular meeting. .Saturday evening in Hall in Fitzgerald's block. S. S. IUxklk, W. C. T. J. F. Johnson, Sec'y. 11 lattsmoitji Iei Kiruon Ci.UH. Keirular meeting on Monday evening of f ach week. E. (;. Dovev, 1'resiuent. II. M. KusHNF.ix, Sec'y. TVuv. KF.AniNfs Koom. Open 0:1 Wednesday and Saturday afternoon and evening of each week. Front room over F. S. White's store. will llLATLSJIOfTH W. C. T. ulicriiMtf Thursday at M oVIoflc. ineet every in the Keadiiif; Kooni, unless other notice is givn in this column. Mrs. H. M. Wick, Provident. Mrs. K. J. Dl'KE, Secretary. 1M.ATTSMOUTH LotMJE OF JfVKNlLK TKMI' i.Aits will meet every alternate Friday evun ing at o'clock in tiood Templars' Hall. Mus. A. Sciii.kcki., Superintendent. Notwithstanding the intense heat, a good audience was in attendance at the memorial service on last Mondav night, thus giving expression to the general sympathy. The absence of Chaplain "Wright in consequence of indisposition was much regretted, as he was expected to take a leading part in the exercises. Rev. Mr. liaird and Prof. Wise however, aptly voiced the universal sentiment as to the virtues of our deceased friend, the estimation in which he was held, and particularly the great loss the tem perance cause has sustained in his death, while appropriate music well rendered by the choir, added much to the impressiveness of the occasion. But the most eloquent tribute to his memory was the emotion of President Dovey, as in broken utterances he tried to give expression to his and our loss. May we all as temperance workers strive to emulate Mr. Hinklo's consist ency as well a3 earnestness; thus may he being dead still speak to us. Resolutions of respect to the mem ory of 8. S. Xlinkle, and of sympathy witli his afilicted family, by the W. C. T. U. of Plattsmouth, mar, at this hour, seem tardy and superlluous. His death has been noticed and his mem ory honored largely and feelingly. Resolutions have been adopted by the orders to which he belonged ex pressive of their loss, and of sympathy with that domestic circle where the "vacant chair" at the board and at the hearthstone is a constant reminder of their immeasurable loss. Yet as tern perance workers, we feel constrained, as a body, to give some expression in dicative of our high regard for our de ceased friend, and of our heartfelt sym pathy with his bereaved family Therefore: HcmArtd: That while we bow In submission fo the JHvine will and feel that the Judgeof all the earth w ill and does "do ritit." yet we must acknowledge tliat III dispensations are otten dark and mysterious, and seldom more so than in t lim instance. lUlree: That in Mr. Hinkle's death the temperance cause in Plattsiuouth lias suffered a irreat loss, and we can but inoimi that one so ellicieut. active, enthusiastic, one to w iioui we all looked for counsel and aid, and from whom we expected so much should hare beeu thus suddenly cut down in tlie midst ol so much tfefulueps. ltmitlred: That we expend to his family our fineeient condolence and sympathy, inavinii that He who Il ls taken their loved one to the "lsright Heyond" may draw them closer to Himself and irive them lareely "tlie oil of ior for nioiiruiair and the garment of praiee for me spirit of heaviness." II. M. WISH. It. b. IK'KE. Scc'v. Pres. W, C. T. U. ilege of pleasing an appetite, of con forming to a social usage, filling sixty thousand homes with shame and sor row, of loading the public with the burden of pauperism, of crowding our prison houses with felons, of detract ing from the productive industries of the country, of ruining "fortunes and breaking "hopes, of breeding disease and wretchedness, of destroying both soul and body in hell before their time. "The prosperity of the liquor inter est, covering every department of it, depends entirely on the maintenance of this army. It cannot live without it. It never did live without it. So long as the liquor interest maintains its present prosperous condition, it will cost America the sacrifice of sixty thousand men every year. The effect is inseparable from the cause. The cost to the country of the liquor traffic is a sum so stupendous that any fig ures which we would dare to give would cenvict us of trifling. The amouBt ot life absolutely destroyed, the amount of industry sacrificed, the amount of bread transformed into poi son, the shame, the unavailing sorrow, the crime, the poverty, the pauperism. the brutalitv, the wild waste of vital and financial resources, make an ag gregate so vast so incalculably vast that the only wonder is that the Amer ican people do not rise as one man and declare that this great curse shall ex ist no longer. Dilettante conventions are held on the subject of peace, by men and women who una it neces sary to fiddle to keep themselves awake. A hue-and-cry is raised about woman suffrage, as if any wrong which may be involved in woman's lack of the suffrage could be compared to the wrongs attached to the liquor interest ? " Does any sane woman doubt that women are suffering a thousand times more from rum than from any politi cal disability? "The truth is that there is no ques tion before the American people to day that begins to match in import ance the temperance question. The question of American slavery was never anything but a baby by the side of this; and we prophesy that within ten vears, if uot within five, the whole country will be awake to it and divid ed upon it. The organization of the liquor interest, the vast funds at its command, the universal feeling among these whose business is pitted against the national prosperity and the public morals these are enough to show that upon one side of this matter, at least, the present condition of thing3 and the social and political questions that lie in the immediate future are appre hended. The liquor interest knows thtre is to be a great struggle and is preparing to meet it. People both in this country and in Great Britain are beginning to see the enoimity of this business are beginning to realize that Christian civilization is actually pois oned at its fountain, and that there can be no purification of it until the source of t he poison is dried up. "There can be no concession and no compromise on the part of temperance men, and no quarter to the foe. The great curse of our country and our race must be destroyed. " Meantime, the tramp, tramp, tramp sounds on the tramp of sixty thous and yearly victims. Some are besotted and stupid, some are wild with hilar ity and dance along the dusty way. some reel along in pitiful weaknes", some wreak their mud and muidetots impulses or, one aimt her, or on help less women and children, whose desti nies are united to thfirs, soma stop in wayside debaucheries and infamies for a moment, some go bound in chains from which they seek in vain to wrench their bleeding wrists, and and all are poisoneil in Uoav ami soul, ami all are doomed to death. Wherever thoy move, crime, poverty, shame, wretch edness and despair hover in awful shadows. There is no bright side to the picture. We forget: ther is just one. The men who make this army get rich. Their children are robed in purple and fine linen, and live upon dainties. Some of them are regarded as respectable members of societv, and they hold conventions to protect their interests. Still the tramp, tramp tramp goes on. and before this article can see the light, five thousand more of our poisoned army will have hidden their shamo and disgrace in the grave Dr. J. G. Holland; Scribner's for Au gust, 1873. has a good workman with him and does all kinds of repairing. He also sells the Wood organs. Mr. Frank Steadson has gone east on a visit. Father Rouse who has been very ill fer some time past is improving. Nubbins. Louisville 'ote?. Ed. Herald: Weather is so warm and everybody so busy harvesting, that news are scarce. People in town move from one side of the street to the other, as the shade changes." Echols' ice cream is in demand even if he is a little "absent-minded" some times. The demand for something cool was bo great the other evening that he had to give the cream a triple freeze before his fastidious customers would partake of it. Mr. Schluntz has taken Sol. Dewey te raise until he is 21 years of age. Milton 1'olk has bad his hair cut a la "Raby Mine," and he is now hunt ing up a mouern itonerc uurns to ex press an opinion on toothache. Ed. Ileitzhausen, and Frank Feetzer have returned from their Wisconsin visit, and have gone to work as of yore. Nelson Dewey made a Hying. visit to Michigan, returning last Saturday. Tht memory of the Fourth is kept alive by evening fights with Roman candles. The Squire hit the Reverend and bore off tho prize; the small boys have shown their patriotism by noiuing nre-cracKers in tneir ungers while "they go off." Said fingers often get burnt; but no matter, so long as it is the Fourth and larger boys dare another trial. Mr. and Mrs. Savage have gone t DeWitt, to attend the funeral of Mrs Savage's father. orop prospects are goou, ail tilings considered. Chinch bugs have dam aged the small grain in some fields, but in many instances, the scare was . . I . , 1 1. 11.. 1 . T r . 1 uiiiLii ijic.uci Liidii nit; uauiuge. 11 ir, Hopper, Hail & Co. do not interfere, we will have the best crop of corn ever known in the history ef our young state. The pottery works are succeeding so well that the company have decided to double the capacity in the fall. uur "ury-uones Miater was so noisy Sunday afternoon as to stop children in their play nd bring old men from their chimney corners, and yet only about a baker's dozen were present and really appreciated the per formance. Too hot for excitement. you know. .A. Li. louzalin, 1J. A:. M. manager, was here Monday, looking up our stone quarries, pottery, and other shipping prospects. ISlix. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. IlrHKon's SEABCKY N. Y. Cane ine JOHNSON" I'orous PlaMter. Prop's, 21 Piatt St., 13t4. fcl fl tfl 41 finnl Invested in Wall Street Stock MU lu dUUUUl makes fortunes every month. Hook sent free explaining everything. Address 17 wall BAXTKIt & CO., Bankers. St.. N. V. TXr'Jir Cm. 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Receive Advertisement for this Fapeit FCTIMATFQ at Lowest Cauli ltaten Co I I IVIrt I L.O free for Newspaper AdTPrtislnr. Send 25c.for AYER &SON S MANUAL Chicago Medical College. Twenty-first Annual Session begins Sept. 30th Graded Course of Instruction. Physiological Laboratory established. Anatomical Material actually abundant. Seais numbered and se cured in order of application. Professors' fees, 75. Practitioners course through April : fees. S30. Por announcement or particulars, address I'rof.J.H.Hoi.LlsrKJt, 71 Kandolpli St., Chicago. 16U S3-, E Ilolibs, House, Sign UDdDirn9!!; .lFoiiogBtl; Htt ; lire flSeaaly For Plenty of New Goods, -AND- wmmmm mw mm is Jlie iBBcreaiiBgdcinsiBBdi of BBr trade, we have Bought an, Unmnally Larg-Q Stock AND CORRESPONDENCE. The Liqnor Interest. -We bes leave to cull the attCBtion of every reader of the IIkkald to tho following article published six years ago, trusting its length will deter no one from giving it a careful perusal We cannet feel justified in abbreviating it. Dr. Holland has not been known is a "fanatical temperance reformer' or "lecturer, ins worus snouia tneie fore have weight with all classes, par ticularly as the fulfilment of his prophecy within the allotted time proves that he speaks that which he knows: Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are- marching; how many of them? oixty thousand! Sixty full regiments, every man of which will, before twelve months shall have completed their course, lie down in the grave of a drunk ard! Lvery year during the past de cade has witnessed the same sacrifice; and sixty regiments stand behind this trniy ready to take its place. . It is to be recruited from our children and our children's children. Tramp, tramp, tramp the sounds come to us in the echoes of the footsteps of the army ust expired ; tramp, tramp, tramp the earth shakes with the tread of the host now passing; tramp, tramp, tramp, comes to us from the camp of the re cruits. A great tide of life flows re sistlessly to its death. What in God's name are we lighting for ? The priv- Crop Report. Eagle, Xeb., July 14th, 1879. I5arlev 10 to 20 per acre, most of it bleached. Oats good nuality 23 to 00 bushels per acre. Wheat spotted some, that hurt by chinch bug, they are not working much now. co from 10 to 20 per acre, some not hurt. Corn booming, promises well, an in creassd acreage this year, corn, 50 per cent; wheat 2.1; oats, 10; Barley, 10. Yours, See, T. X. From Three Groves. July 15th, 1879. Harvest is in full blast, although there has been a large amount of small grain harvested, there remains a good portion to harvest yet. The chinch bug has almost entirely ruined a few fields of grain; notwith standing there will be a fair crop in this locality. "Doty" wheat is all cut and out of the way pretty much. The grass wheat is so late ripening that it is likely to be injured to a considerable extent by the bugs. They are begii ing work on the edges unless dry weath er sets in in a short tima. Corn looks excellent and is silking, if nothing happens to it the crop will be very large, about one more good rain will be all earlv corn needs. Some think that we are going to have dry weather soon, as it hasn't rained for a week, or more. Although the clonds indicate that we will have more rain soon. Eleanok. Greenwood Is'otes. Talk about your thermometers, they are beat on this kind f weather; the farmers are busy gathering their grain and business is quiet in town except some building. Mr. Keithley is erecting a dwelling and the carpenters have under con tract several others. Our merchants are complaining that they are doing well. G. W. MayfieKl has a largo and well selected stock of groceries, which he is selling cheap, he is determined to do business and sell goods, he says It won't do to let people go to Lincoln for eatables," so he acts ou the principle of small profits and quick sales. Mr. Shanklin has sold out his gro ceries to Foster & Co. and put in a nice stock of clocks and jewelry, he Rook muffs Notes. Jult 12th, 1879 .Neb. Hekald: For t ie benefit of 'Reporter" of Three Groves, and, per haps other readers of The Herald. we'll faber a fow notes of the town and vicinity. "Philander" committed a grave error when he reported our luxun uit crops here one of "Jimson," or else its an exception to the text, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap," for it rip ens up into a heavy crop of mustard, Independence dav passed oft hero without demonstrations, most all go ing to Plattsmouth and Louisville There are a couple of government bar ges lying at tho Iowa bank opposite this place, seemingly in wait for some thing, we know not what unless some body has mistaken our city for Platts mouth ana hauled in to commence pounding on the railroad bridge; If that be the case just "letum pouud.' The Mo. River has done a great deal 01 cutting hero this season, the main channel having change I from the Iowa side to this. A few davs ago the bank plunged one of W. II. Ellington's work horses in with it; and from the course said horse took to get out he must have been ef the same stock as that Thompson colt we hear to much aoout swimming ins river to get a drink; for this horse swam the river, but the fatigue of the feat killed him before he got any drink. We would call attention of shippers of grain and stock by water, that Rock Bluffs now has one of the best steamboat landings between Omaha and Atchison; also several vacant buildings which might be used for storing grain,, and plenty of vacant lots with living water whre stock might be kept preparato ry to shipping. His. ur. need 01 I'eru with her son Major is visiting friends here. Dr. Young is laboring under a severe indisposition. Mr. Pro user's folks of Plattsmouth were visiting at Mr. Ilendrickson's this place, Sabbath last. Hon. S. M. Kirkpatrick was in town yesterday. Walt. Saundeis is our fisherman. Charley Farthing has turned ama teur blacksmith. Since "Philander" reported irregu larities in mail matters here, the Hek ald has been on time Thursdays. Our latest sensation is a melee which tturred oh the street last evening as to the a la-mode of ''holding up the train." Wa withhold the names of the participants, but if we were to "gram mar" them, would say, "Feminine Gender," "Bad Parsons," "Plural Num ber" and "Hard Cases," both subjects of the verb "strike." Explosion of a flue in the steam mill lere last week. Xo one hurt, but boil er somewhat damaged. Sam Slick, Jr. ORNAMENTAL PAINTER Grainer, Glazier, EZALSOMINEE AM) PAPER-HANGER. MIOP NORTH SIXTH STREET. ict4 Plattsmouth, Neii. MIKE SCHNELLBACHER, BLA C KS 31 1 Til HORSE SHOEING, AND wagon repairing All kinds of FARM IMPLEMENTS mended Neatly fc Promjttlu :0: Horse, 3Iule& Ox Shoeing, In short, we'll shoe anvthing that ha? four feet, from a Zebra to a Giraffe. Come and see us. JN-EW SIKOIfP. on Fifth St between Main asd Vine Strepfs. OF An 1 nYi ! A BJCHTIOBIS cS HOSIER'S", r S HH SHI! 9 I1IL just iU-ICl.Sf e corner fioiu the xtiv HEUAI ioy PLATTSMOUTH Clothing House C. G. HER0LD, - - Proprietor. f FIRST n.STAI'.I.'D IX 1-h;. Keeps a general large stuck of Heirs, Youth's &JSoy's CLOTHING! aiuLhns just received the liuer-t lot f French and English Silk WORSTED SUITS, THAT EVER CROSSKD THE MO. IlIVER. His different styles of efoft'c yon speBsca yowa E&ioaiey give ia an portiuiity to sEtow yosa our GOODS AiTD FEICES. MAtl)AEft & HEmiMAM, Plaltsmoiilh. Nebraska. Kit has once more " come back" to Mats Gap are surprising, and hi stock of Furnishing Goods ! FANCY GOODS, AND Showcase Goods Isjlarge enough to supply any demand. Call and Examine the ZsTEW STYLES, BEFORE rUJtCJTASiyu EI.SEirjIEflE. , 0. G. 11KH0L1). I Guthman & Weckbach who arc, on and after this date sole proprietors. NEW GOODS, E L EGA K T S T Y L E S . V,'v are In almo.st dally receipt of THE CMcap Barlimtoii & Quincy R. E. DRY AND FANCY GOODS IS THE DIRECT ROUTE and BMJKDEE&fliEgr. BETWEEN THE which we offer our friends and the public at FROM -TO East and West, Running Through Cars CHICAGO- Council Bluffs, CONNECTING WITH THE Union Pacific Railroad -FOR ALL TOIXTS IX- XEBRASKA. COL.OHAV11. irroMixo. MOXTAXA. A t V A DA , ARIZOXA. IDAHO, AND TIIUOIUJ II CARS TO KANSAS CITX TCPEKA.ATCHISON k St. Jcsejl And tli SHOUT LINK to all point on the Jllsot Kl. ka . 1 i-. A. ana HOUSTON & TEXAS CENTKAL KAILKOAUS, Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars. WlioIeale auci Megail, at prices t suit the times. tmsss Cashmeres, Alpacas, Delaines, &c. Calicos, from 12 to 16 Yards for $1.00. Muslins, from 6 cts. a yard upward BBDSPEBABS ! The finest stock of White Bedircad ever brought to the C'itv. 'This can't be beat," as tho man said when he bought the porcelain egg. A Foul Once MOrc. "For ten -ears my wife was confined to her bed with such a complication of ailments that no doctor could toll what w.is the matter or cure her, and I used up a small lorcuue in nnmniig sum. Six months ao I saw a U. b. nag with lop JJitUrs on it, and I thought I would be a fool once more. I tried it, but my folly proved to be wisdom. Two bottles cured her, she i3 now as well and strong as any man's wife, and t cost me only two dollars. .Sum fol ly pays. H. V Detroit, Mich. AND THE CEEEISATED C, 1. & Q. DIXttG CAKS. IJY THIS ItOUTE All information ahout rates of f.ire will be cheerfully given by applying to C.1V. SMITH. TraHl Manager. James IS. Wood, 4g't, Chicago Call and examine our new .Style w C Tf .. 1.'.. k lod, six stops, .Mason iV nammi jd. Jasie I'et'-'-'ee, .A gent. Buell's Cassimeres, Tweeds, Jeans, and Cottonades in full Slock. JBof and lae. Mats aiad (Daps. BfttfH E?rJBT39BSHC SaBCRn M-?! 11P rTH? D receives mul Pirovisiosas OF ALL KINDS. Country Produce taken in exchange for Goods. We desire to sec all our old patrons back and want t' hold as .nany of tho present ones as we can dL 1 UMAX & AVKCKliACii. HEjIEUBUR THE 2' LACE. ONE DOOR WEST OF P. (., my PLATTtilluUTll, NELHAXZ.V