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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1885)
THEY - : - ALWAYS - : - LEAD ! With a View of Making some Slight Changes in our Business , we Offer our LADIES'.CLOAKS AND NEW MARKETS ! AT r ACTUAL COST FIGURES ! This is no Catch ! We Mean Jus LI ay ! We carry the Stock for the people ! We make Prices to please the people ! And we want the people's trade ! I 14 POUNDS GRANULATED SUGAR $1 00 Everythingin the Grocery Line at 8 POUNDS DIMVORTII COFFEE § ] 00 15 POUNDS WHITE EXTRA "C" 'SUGAR 1 00 16 POUNDS DRIED APPLES -1 00 20.POUNDS . NEW YORK BUCKWHEAT FLOUR 1 00 LOWER - PRICES ! 15 POUNDS NEW PRUNES 1 00 ' COFFEE 1 00' 14 POUNDS NE\V 8 POUNDS ARBUCKLE'S \ DRIED PEACHES 1 00 i/ - , , # 8 POUNDS MCLAUGHLIN'S COFFEE 1 00 THAN ANY HOUSE IN THE REPUBLICAN VALLEY. 14 POUNDS NEW CURRENTS 1 00 W. H. HAYDEN are Agents for Butterick's Patems , and carry a Full and Complete. Assortment. Be sure and see ITS before buying elsevdiere. Corner Main and Dennison Sts. C. K. LAWSON , EDEALER IN5 11 CQ CQO i - 1 rv E- td. o td.3 -3 < td CQ ,5 , { = > ' SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE , Stoves and Tinware , \ BARB WIRE , STUDEBAKER WAGONS , PLOWS , Etc. . MoCOOK , NEBRASKA. I \ iJ e4f - THE bill which passed the Senate last week providing for the exercise of I'hu ' Presidential functions in the event of the death of both the President and the Vice-President is substantially the same bill that failed in the last Congress only for lack ot time. It changes the exist ing statute in one very important par ticular. Under the law of 1792 the President of the Senate , or , if there were none , the Speaker of the House ot Representatives , would act as President until the disability were removed or a President elected. By the Hoar bill this introduction of legislative officers into the Presidential succession is avoid ed and with it the possibility of a polit ical change not authorized by public opinion. The succession is to the Sec retary ot State , then the Secretary of War and other cabinet officers in order , who have been duly appointed with the adviee and consent ot the Semite and are eligible to the Presidency by the Constitution. The officer so succeeding shall act as President for the remainder of the term , if that be not mure than twelve months ; otherwise he shall notify the States of an election to fill the va cancy , as provided in the present law. This provision has the merit nf simplic ity and directness in carrying out the purpose of the Constitution thatthe Congress may , by law , provide for the case of removal , death , resignation or inability both.of the President' or Vice- President , declaring what officer shall then act as President. " THE venerable John Thompson , pres ident of the Chase National Bank , the first national bank organized in New York cityis the only national bank pres ident in the city now who is an advocate of our silver dollar. When Mr. Thomp son started his bank he couldn't get any body outside of his own family to take stock in it and had to set up a straw stockholder with ten shares to eke out his and sons-in-law make sons - - so as to the necessary five directors. After he had perfected the organization the New York clearing house held a big meeting and resolved to have nothing to do with the new money. Mr. Thompson has lately been interviewed , and he calml } ' expresses his belief that his brethren will have to take the back track in the matter of our silver coinage , just as they did in the matter of national currency. He says the gold output is unquestion ably diminishing , and that to throw out silver as a part of our coinage will re sult in stagnation , depression arid finally a monetary revolution , doubling the purchasing power of the monetized met al , causing a corresponding cheapening of all property , including silver , and bringing debtors as a general thing to bankruptcy. He favors the free coin age of silver and says that ultimately the other New York bankers will be for it. . "It is manifest destiny , " he says. State Journal. ONE of the most significant items ot foreign news that has reached these shores for several weeks is that the Sul- tan of Turkey has appointed Prince Alexander Governor for life over East- crn-Iloumelia , with due rights of suc cession. It is seen in a moment that this cuts the tangled knot as to the Bul- gjirio.Koumelian union and what is to come of it , and actually lifts that ques tion out of the need of an } ' , further con sideration by the European powers. It is virtually a recognition of the accom plished fact about which all the trouble has arisen , only it is such recognition that no outside European power has any lawful right to object to. The arrange ment has probably been brought about by English influencewhich , , from the ft.irt has favored the union of the two provinces undor Alexander , and of course this action of the Sultan makes 1 * Prince Alexander a firm friend of the Turkish cause and puts a pretty solid chunk of opposition in the way of llus- sia. What the Czar will think of this movement it is easy to guess , but what he will do about it nobody knows. But with Turkey and England to back him , and Austria and Germany unfavorable to llussia , Prince Alexander may yet be able to smile at his great cousin's snubbing. HEPUESENTATIVE PRICE of the Eighth Wisconsin District , was the only one among the 325members of the House who voted "no" on the bill to al low the usual pension to. the widow of Gen. Grant. Mr. Price has made a ri diculous mistake which his friends sin cerely regret. He has won a distinction towhich precious little honor attaches. "I S03IET.I.MES think , " says Ella Wheeler Wilcox in her new novel , "that God must be a woman. He is expected to forgive so much. * I- WONDERFUL DISPLAY ! - . - AT THE . - Ifi Never Follow ! " PARLOR SUITES , STUDENTS' CHAIRS , TURKISHCHAIRS : , LADIES5 COMFOETS , Walnut , Cherry and Ash V BUREAUS , CHIFFONIERS , 5 ETC. . CHAMBER SUITES. i ! Bright , New and Desirable Selections for Fall Trade. CotA- plete Assortment of Holiday Goods. New Lot of Wall Decora * tion. Elegant Lot of Picture Moulding in all the Modern Desians" II Just Received. $ SOO Worth of Rattan Goods , all Late Designs for 1886 , which Must and Will be Sold before the Holidays are Over Come and Inspect our Stock in all its Branches. It will be Well Worth Your Time. We also Sell three Different Kinds of Sewino i . Machines , which will be Sold Low for Cash. Only the Standard Machines Handled , with 5-Year Warranty. BEWARE OF IMI TATIONS. American Sewing Machines a Specialty. Machines to Rent. Machines to Sell on Installments , and Big Inducements for Cash Purchasers. LUDfICK 8 TROWBRIDGE ,