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2 PLATTSMOOTH WEEKLY HERALD, TIUJItSDAY, MAY 19, I8S7 GRAND CELEBRATION AT PLATTSMOUTII OVER THE COMPLLTION OF HER WATER WORKS SYSTEM BTJT THE CHEATEST CELEBEATIOK OF ALL IS AT cd MAYERS' h OPERA s HOUSE CLOTHING STORE OVER THE GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES OF CLOTHING AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. THESE PRICES TELL THE TALE Working sin Us, 5 Oieviot suits, - 4D Eiiipt9! worsted suits, 1 Cr.i.HS. suits eomulele, Hu&iiicss suits, - G 5 (Corkscrew worsteds, 8 T i &ht ghttsuwuth SSfetUs Sald. KNOTTS BROS., Publishers & Proprietors. rr. II. IIxrorPTS, Editor. A. B. KNOTTS, Business Manager. T1IE rLATTSMOUTII HERALD Is published everv Thursday morning. Office, orncr of Vine and Filth streets. WEEKLY, by mall. 8ne copy one year $2 00 iie copy o:ie year (in advance) 1 fio One codviIi months Registered at the Post Office, Plattemoutn, second olasB matter. Ism't it about time for the Street Rail road Co. to be getting a self ? 'move" on it- A man was killed in Omaha last Sun day night. The foul deed was commit ted in the presence of a number of peo ple. The police made one capture viz. the man who was shot. The city ouncilmen are evidently of the opinion that there are enough oppor tunities in town for making expenditures of the Dublic monev without coins out side the eorporation limits. A motion that a proposition "be not accepted" may bo a left-handed way of getting at the question but it is none the less effective, and has knocked out sever al schemes in the first round. Thkotjoh the efforts of John Fitzger aid and Patrick Egan the author of the "Parnell letter" has been discovered to be a man 'named Pigott, whose letters -to Egan in 1880 and 1881 bear a striking resemblence to the London Times letter charged to Parnell. """" Tni Editor of the Omaha Republican was a candidate for a place on the Onia ha Police force or some other position Gov. Thayer did not appoint the afore said editor and now the Republican does'nt like the Governor, but it thought that the latter will recover. is In spite of all that has been said about . the partisan press in the country it noticed that the leading Repulican pa pers sueak in terms of praise of the re marks of Groyer Cleveland at the unveil ing of the Garfield statue. The Presi dent is entitled to credit for whatever of good he does without regard to politica differences or sectional animosities. Stanlby is greeted like an old ac auaintance in Central Africa, and meets with no obstacles in the march to the re lief of the missing Belgian explorers, The natives appear to have forgotten the rigorous methods employed by Stanley in his march across the Dark Continent, and to respect his power to punish those who interfere with him. Omaha Rep. "If the Union i3 ever to be broken," said Jeff Davis at a recent banquet, let the other side break it." With Jeff Davis' experience in attempting to break the Union it is not surprising that he should be willing to let the other side do the "breaking" next time, but we might add that it was no fault of the old traitor that the Union was not broken in 18G0. Wm. E. Gladstone is today a man of such acknowledged ability and force in English politics that few people stop to think whether he is Prime minister or not, and in fact it makes no difference, for Lis place in the history of the times is inseparably connected with a greatness of mind and heart which is in no way related to the chansinir fortunes of politics. . The death of Associate Justice Woods of the U- S Supreme court gives rise to considerable speculation as to who his successor will be. It is probable that the vacancy will be filled by some represent ative of the South, though Tucker of Virginia and the talented ex-Gov. Hoad ley, formerly of Ohio but now practicing law in New York city, are prominently mentioned in connection with the. place. The Mayor's Nominations. The apporntment of the board of pub lic works was made by mayor Simpson at - 1. . V, aUv onnnxil an1 comprises th well known gentlemen: " J. W. Johnson, for the three year term; Fred Gorder. for the two year term; and F. M. Richey, for the one year term. . Upon the board of public works devol ves the duty of superintending the con ' iction of such, public works as the ,r ancl city council may direct, a du- ;ring the best of business tact and Vd requirements Tthich the may consideration in making the The proposition of the water company that the city pay for the construction of mains for the purpose of supplying pri vate consumers was ruthlessly sat down upon by the august assembly, pop ularly known as the city council. These gentlemen as much as told the water company that if they wanted additional mains constructed, simply for the pur pose of supplying private parties, they had better put in the mains themselves. That Decision. The recent decision of the Supreme Court of this state affirming the legality of the law relating to the redisricting of the judicial districts and the appoint ments therefore only confirms the belief that scarcely the weather is so uncertain as judicial decision. Opprobrium is of times heaped upon juries for the unccr tainty of their yerdicts, but juries wil have to look to their laurels now that Supreme courts are in the field as contes tants for the honor of giving to the law so much of uncertainty. As 'we understand it, the case was sim ilar to the one tried two years ago before the same body when it was held that the law relating to recorders was illeg But new it happens that defects which two years ago were held vital are of no particular consequence, and hence the new judges will drink to the health of the Supreme court and congratulate themselves that what is good law one year, may be poor law the next. The decision may not prove of any particular detriment, in fact, it may have been convenient solution of a perplexing ques tion but it put such decision generally that create lack of confidence in courts. juries ana the macninery oi law every where. One Supreme court will lay down the law in accordance with princi pies ot justice and equity, ' and perhaps within two years the same court will go back on its former record and start out on a new track. It not unfrequently happens, in fact it is the general rule that between adjoining states the laws are oftimes quite the reverse of each other -v 1 Ml i - - 1 une lawyer wm quote -Nebraska as authority while another will show from the books that Kansas or Iowa Supreme courts hold opposite views. But if the Nebraska Supreme court enjoys good health, they will succeed in rendering enough comflicting opinions to suit the most astute lover of techenical points But then conflict of laws and repeated reversals of former decisions breeds only contempt for a profession which should devote its learning to the exposition of sound principles of justice instead of twisting them around to suit personal friends or their political allies. In Memory of Garfield. At the second annual reunion of the army of the Cumberland recently held at Washington D. C, a statute of the "mar tyr president" was tendered the American people on behalf of his comrades. The monument is a fitting testimonial of the respect in which Garfield was held by his army associates, but the thankfulness wmcn cnaractenzca tue occasion was shared not only by soldiers of the Cum berland division but by the patriotic cit lzens throughout the country. The esti mate which the impartial pen of the his torian will place upon the life and char acter of James A. Garfield wrill make of him so illurtrious a soldier as many whose names live not only in history but in the hearts of their countrymen. Grant, Sher idan, Sherman, Meade and others will long be remembered in intimate connec tion with the rebellion which they so gal lantly and heroically suppressed and whose greatness was born mid the strug gles of "grim visaged war" but Garfield was better equipped by nature and edu cation to defend the nation's honor in lejrislature halls and it is as a scholar and patriotic citizen that he is best known to the American people. We rejoice however to see his comrades so appreciative of his worth and valor and especially so at a time when reb els are Btill permitted to eulogise their leaders and lament the fall of the south ern confederacy . We are glad to see union men come to the front with plau dits for those whose lives, fortunes and sacred honors were consecrated to the preservation of of the Federal constitu tion. This "let us forget the past," business is played out and we sincerely trust the day may never come when the American people will fail to mark the proper dis tinction which should always be made be tween patriotism and treason. There has been so much gush, of late from Jeff Da vis and others of like ilk that the tribute of honor to Garfield comes with much gratification. Not that we apprehend any serious consequences from ihe rebel ious and unforgiving barnaea who clung to the ship of state till they thought they had successfully handicapped the grand old vessel, but wc do not think they should be permitted to enjoy free dom of epech nor any other kind of free dom known outside of prison walls; sim ply as a matter of punishment. We are quite radical on that point but we go largely upon Oliyer P. Morton's observa tion that if you are right you cannot be too radical. It is certainly with pleasure then that we observe the boys in blue paying their honest devotion to Garfield for his services to the country not only on the battle field but on the floor of con gress. The Crading Question. There i considerable unanimity of public opinion as to the advisability of expending twelve or fifteen thousand dollars in grading West Main street; we might add however that the unaminity of opinion is mostly upon the inadvisa bility of such a scheme. It is not con tended by those who oppose such expen diture of money that the work would not be in line of public improvements but they urge the point, which appears to be well taken, that the city could better in vest its spare capital in improving the east end of Main street. Some advan tage and benefit would accrue no doubt from grading Main street out to the farm lands adjacent to the city on the west, but the belief is quite generally held that it would be more to the advantage of the greatest number to commence the work of public improvements inside the corporation limit. A few months ago the questions wThich pressed themselves upon the public mind were paving and sewerage, but for some reason or other these matters appear to have given way to the consideration of grading west Main street and the extension of the water mains two or three miles out into the country. The principal reason urged so far in grading Main street out to the corpora tion limit is that the Street Railway Co, want it done, all of which is no reason at all. When the Street car company asked for a franchise we remember that they supplemented their petition with the suggestion that all they asked was the right to expend their money in building up the town, but it begins to look as if they meant that all they wanted was the town to build up their interests. The original course or route from town out to the lately acquired territory, adopted by the street car company was along Washington Avenue, a routo that would require little expense of grading and one that would accommodate more peo ple than a line running out Main street, and just why the former route has been abandoned is not clear to the public mind. Public improvement is one thing while the expenditure of public money and depletion of the public purse in the in terest of private concerns may, and o'ftimes is, quite a different thing. It occurs to U3 that the east end of Main street is the proper place to com mence with your improvements, and that those improvements should consist of paving and sewerage, and then if there is more money left than the city council knows what to do with they might take up the matter of grading west Main street. It appears from the report of the Unit ed States Commissioner of Education. just issued, that the facts as to educa tional, progress in the South have been considerably magnified. Eor instance, in twelve of the States of that section the average length of the public school year it only ninety-eight and one-half days, and in several of them there are from 1000 to 1500 districts which are destitute of school-houses of any kind. And yet the Democratic party leaders are as a rule bitterly opposed to the granting of Fed eral aid to supply additional facilities and give the South an efficient system of popular education. Qlobe Democrat. The allusion in a recent issue of the Des Moines Register to the completion of twenty one years of seryice in connection with that paper by its editor, J. S, Clark- son, moves John Mahan to indict the fol lowing reminiscent paragraph in t". i Muscatine Journal of the 12th insL: The Journal will be pardoned for men tioning in this connection that its editor acks but a few weeks of completing his thirty-fifth year of service as editor on this paper, and if he lives till ' the first Monday in November next will see the completion of his fortieth year of service in the office, as that will be the anniver sary of his entering it as an apprentice, his first act of service being that of sweeping out the office, which was done before aayiignt . . Mn. Clkvelane's friends have it all figureI out that he is to succeed hinisvlf. Now that this great question is settled, let the Fourth of July consume the atten tion of the public mind. lite. Tup: new rendering of the Fourth Com mandment should be: Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work unless a news paper man, in which case you will please come to the scratch three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, except on leap year, when an additional day for work is provided. Omaha Rep. The Charleston correspondent of the New York World makes the singular an nouncement that "the stars and stripes were kindly given a conspicuous place" in the procession held at the time of un veiling the Calhoun monument. We pre sume the stars and bars headed the pro cession, and the bands played "Dixie" and "The Bonnie Blue Flag." Exchange. One of President Cleveland's new Postmasters has distinguished himself by an act of offensive partnership which for petty meanness could be scarcely ex celled. A boy, employed a portion of his time in the Post Office at Oceda, Mich., had worked up a small newspaper round, supplying his patrons with what ever publications they desired. lie was given the option by the new Postmaster of selling Democratic periodicals only or resigning, and very wisely did the latter. It is easy to understand the Postmaster's motives, but very difficult to find words strong enough to apply to his littleness Globe Democrat. Rosser, the man whose coat tails were so often described by Little Phi Sheridan, as he paraded up and down the Shenandoah valley during the late unpleasantness, is perhaps aware by this time of the preciousness of silence. The boys whom his troops robbed after cap ture, of money, trinkets and clothes, and sent them into rebel prisons stripped and hungry are turning up here- and there in several states to testify of his gentleman ly method of making war, when he hap pened to catch a small outpost without adequate defense. Rosser's guerilla style of warfare will not commend him to the civilized world as a humanitarian lectur er against Phil Sheridan. "Gentlemen" soldiers do not rob prisoners of war like a set of brigands. Lincoln Journal. The position of husband to an average Kansas woman does not appear to be a very pleasant one since the passage of the law allowing women to vote and hold office in that state, if we were to judge by the following from the Topeka Lance: "One poor, forlorn man in To peka, who is unfortunate enough to have a would-be politican for a wife, tells on the streets that he has not had a dozen dinners and suppers at home since the women commenced to rnu things, his spouse being off all the time attending meetings, caucuses, etc, and laying plans for something or another. He says that, personally, he would like to take the members of the late legislature out in a dark shady place, where the report of a gun would not arouse the country, and tell them what he thinks of them. Ex. A Strike Among The Knights. An unfortunate phase of the labor troubles in the mining regions of Penn sylvania has just developed, which in volves the Knights of Labor, and will prove a source of great difficulty before a settlement can be made and harmony in the ranks of the order can be restored. The coke workers have been out on a strike for several months, the Knights of Labor supporting and countenancing the strikers. Through the wise councils of the leaders of the order, it was agreed to leave the issue between the Knights, the strikers and the employers, to arbitration. Both parties to the strike, employer and employe, agreed to thus submit .the issue, and abide by the results, for naturally that is the supposition when arbitration is invoked. The decision went against the strikers, and they now refuse to abide by the result of arbitration and still hold out for their original demands. Some of the highest in the great labor organiza tion deplore this action, and ordered the coke workers to submit. Contention and zzion, therefore, are the order of the . t ionir the Knierbts in Pennsylvania. c 1 tLs strikers have placed a boycott on s:yera.I labor papers which maintain that, having submitted to arbitration, they are commanded by consistency, and for the sake of the order tojfbide by the re sult. If the lights orl"act3 of the case have b: a reportedYcorrectlv, it would seem t' t f ' e strkrs have injured their cause --d the usefulness of la bor c refusing to abide bJl - which they T '""raid It is still mighty hard, in Kentucky, to punish a white man for killing a "nig ger." Five years ago one of the young Crittendens of that State killed a colored man named Colby, under circumstances narrated in the following: In December of that year Crittenden, then about 25, assulted one Young, a negro. Upon trial before a magistrate, Rose Colby, a negro youth who waited upon the Crittendens' table, refused to testify to suit Crittenden, and the latter said: "I'll see you later." Colby, alarm ed, did not return to work. Crittenden saw him at the depot and asked him if he was not going to the house and wash the dinner dishes. Colby answered he was not going back any more. Critten den then got his shotgun and returned to the depot, where he emptied a load of shot into Colby's breast. Colby reeled away, and as he fell Crittenden fired the other barrel into his back. Crittenden was arrested, and after a good deal of delay was convicted of manslaughter. He took an appeal, got a new trial and a change of venue, and has just been acquitted. Upon what ground any jury could have failed to find him guilty is not apparent unless it be the ground that Colby was a "nigger" and Crittenden was a white man. The death of Justice Woods creates the first vacancy which there has been in the Supreme Court since 1882, when Jus tice Blatchford was appointed to succeed Ward Hunt. The members of this trib unal seem gifted with more than ordina ry longevity. Harlan, the youngest member, is 54; Gray is 59; Matthews (who is the same age as Woods was), Co; Blatchford, G7; Waite, Field and Miller 71, and Bradley 74. Of the present members, Miller has been longest on the bench in that body, having been aj)point- ed in 1862, a year before Field. Bradley went on in 1870, Waite in 1874, Harlan in 1877, Matthews and Gray in 1881, and Blatchford in 1882. Woods was appoint ed in 1880. The best illustration, how ever, of the longevity of the members of the Court is the fact that although most of them have been appointed when in the latter portion of the middle period of life, the Court at all times numbering from five to nine Associate Justices, yet the number of these officials from the date of the creation of the tribunal, nine ty-eight years ago, until to-day has reach ed but forty-three. In that period the country has had twenty-two Presidents, thirty Secretaries of State, thirty-seven Secretaries of the Treasury, thirty-eight Secretaries of War, thirty-one Secretaries of the Navy, thirty-two Postmasters Gen eral and thirty-nine Attorneys General, although but one of each of these classes of officials were or are in service at the same time. Qlobe Bern. The New Treasurer. President CI eveland has net disting uished himself by the selection of Mr. Hyatt as Treasure, at the personal impor tunity of Mr. Barnum. It is his misfor tune that he owes too much to notorious corruptiomsts like Barnum and Gorman, and cannot refuse their demands, eyen when he feels that he exposes himself to censure by granting them. Mr. Haytt is a citizen who has been quite successful as a Democrat in Connecticut politics. But it is not known that he has any of the qualifications especially needed in the pe culiar and difficult position for which he is selected. Indeed, consciousness of this fact appears to have prompted some of his friends to explain that the new Treasurer would not be expected to take the responsible part intrusted to Mr. Jor dan. But even for the ordinary routine duties of the office qualifications are re quired which Mr. Hyatt has not shown hithsrto. By this selection Secretary Fairchild comes to be peculiarly responsible for the conduct of the Treasury Department in all its branches. To him the country must look for the shaping ot a financial policy to meet serious dangers not far distant. His want of agreement with Mr. Jordan and Secretary Manning, his wide departure from the policy pursued by them in regard to inflation of the cur rency, and especially in the issue of silver certificat3, have not impressed the busi ness public favorably. Their is certainly more anxiety respecting- the financial future than their was a year ago, and that anxiety is not lessened by the substi tution of Mr. nyatt for Mr. Jordan. N. Y. Tribune A fine line of white goods just re ceived at Joseph V. Weckbach It ttI: froj juu to tan anu see mem. Any one sending " r the To tea State r ' ald for one v- ftfl!r Absolutely Pure. Tills powder never varies. A marvel of pur ity, Htreimt h and wliolesomeness. More eo uomieal than the ordinary kinds. and cannot he sold in competition w ith the multitude of low tent, short weight a)i:m or phosphate powder. Sold only In c iiis. Koyai. IJAkinu l'owrtku Co.,locvall St. New York. 3!U8 i P 111 H L in It w Sheriffs Sale- Bv virtue of an order of sale Issued bv Willitt Patteiiger, a Justice of the Feace within and for Cans count. Nebraska, and to me directed. I will on the 23rd day of May A. I. 187, at 1 o'ciock p. in., oi said aay at trie south door oi the Court Iiouxe in said county, sell at public auction. the following personal property to-wlt : One cartienter's tool chest and contents con sisting: of carpenter s tools &c. The came being leviea upon ana taKcn an tne proierty oi u. t. Tayler, whooe given name is unknown, Df aaai; to satisty a iiide-nient of saw i 'ov covered by James al. Woodson, plain " saia aeienuat. 4 Plattsmouth. Neb., May Tth A. D , 8-2 - - j , SheriS Cass Co Notice to Tax Payg. The county commissi' - county, Nebraska, wiT'-'' equalization comrrr f and be in scsfi? days, acdj??v6 plaints r so ' m m m o wi 3 s ffi 2 m '3
