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PLATTSMOtrm VrEEKLY HERALD, TIlUIiSDAY, MAY 19, 1887. ghc yUtttzmoiith QhcUfo nild. KNOTTS BROS., Publishers & Proprietors. The Campaign Against Sheridan. General Itosser, the hero who i build ing a barbcd--viro fence around the val ley of the Shenandoah to keep General Phil Bheridan out, has received reinforce ments. The Charleston News and Cour ier has placed itself upon a war footing and will help at the fenco Fresh from assisting with all its reconstructed heart at the effusively eulogistic unveil ing of a monument to Calhoun, the arch enemy of the Union, the News and Cour ier, now unveils its candid opinion of Sheridan, a staunch defender of the Un ion, in this stile: "There is no lingering trace of enmity in their hearts toward men who fought honorably and bravely on the opposite side in the groat war. But the line should be drawn behind the soldiers. There is no occasion for honoring any bummer or incendiary who followed the Federal armies, or who led them. Brutal and savage in his conduct of the war, Sheri dan has shown himself to be no less bru tal since it ended, and the people of the valley of Virginia should not fail to ern phisise in every proper way the utter de testation in which his character and shameful deeds are held, and will ever be held, by the whole people of the south." Naturally enough, regarding the great cayalry leader of the north simply as a "bummer" and an "incendiary," the fine Bourborn organ resents the idea that he should presume to desecrate the Shenan doah by setting his foot in it. Hence it is found reporting for duty to Rosscr. And now by St. Jeff the work tjoes brave ly on. With Ilosser armed to the teeth at one end of the Shenandoah, with the Neivs and Courier brandishing quart cans of dynimite at the other end, and "with a barbed wire fence protecting the entir frontier, the campaign against Lit tle Phil wears a portentous front. We do not recall at this -writing a hostile movement of uglier aspect since the Pope's bull that gave the comet to un derstand it ought to be ashamed of it self. And it is all Sheridan's fault, too. He began the unpleasantness by not prompt ly denying the report that he had engag ed summer board in the Shenandoah. Had he hastened tQjtelegraph Rosscr and the Southern press that he was not com ing down, "prepaying tho dispatch and ex pressing hia regret that the Shenandoah should have been made the subject of so much unpleasant gossip why, then, the present campaign against him might have been avoided. It remains to be seen whether Rosser will order a draft for more troops. It is certainly to be hoped that the rumor crediting him with tak ing out an injunction against Sheridan is unfounded. We are sure that on second thought it will occur to Rosser that an injunction would detract from the digni ty of the campaign. A word to the News and Courier: Keep your eyes on Rosser. True, Sheri dan states that he never thought of such a thing as a trip to Shenandoah this year; but he might change his mind. And if he should change his mind, just take out your stop-watch and time Rosser as he lights out of the valley "and Sheridan twenty miles away." N. Y. Tribune. Lincoln and Emerson. The Cmtury for May says that while Emerson did not write in verse of Lin coln, yet in prose he divides with Lowell the honor of early appreciation and for tune characterization. In "Miscellanies" will be found an essay entitled "Ameri can Civilization," which, according to a note by Mr. Cabot, is "part of a lecture delivered at Washington, January 31st, 1863, it is said, in the presence of Presi dent Lincoln "and some of his Cabinet, some months before the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation." Mr. Lin coln may have been present, but his sec retaries have no memorandum showing the fact, and the Washington papers of the next day throw no light on the sub iprtr in fact. Mr. Emerson's son now be- j , , lieves that Lincoln was probably not ttresent The licturer praised the angel ic virtue" of the Administration, but urged emancipation; and at the close . of this essay, as printed, is a supplement commending the President for his pro posal "to Coneress that the Government shall cooperate with any State that shall enact a gradual abolishment or. slavery. Next comes his address on the Emanci pation Proclamation, in which the Presi dent is greatly praised for his modera tion, fairness of mind, reticence, ana firmness. "All these," Emerson says, "have bespoWi such favor to the act, that BTeat W popularity of the 1'resi dent has l re beginning to think that we. . v Estimated the capac V the Divine Provi rumest of benefit Permitted to do other Ameri- n the same '-f but mem- which ho says: "lie is tho true history of the American people in his time. Step by step ho walked before them; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; father of his country, the pulse of twenty mil lions throbbing in his heart, tho thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." Again, in the essay on "Eloquence" ("Ea says and Social Aims"), Emerson praises the Gettysburg speech, and in the essay on "Greatness" in the same volume he gives Lincoln as an example of the "great style of hero" who "draws equal ly all classes." "His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong." Land Crabbing. A few days ago the Supreme Court of the United States confirmed the celebra ted Maxwell Land Grant of 1,700,000 acres lying in New Mexico and Colorado. It is probably the finest tract of grazing lands in all of the mountain regions. There are on this tract several important cities and towns, including Trinidad with 4,000 inhabitants, and the entire population on the grant cannot be less than 20,000 to 25,000, all of whom lose their lands and homes, or will have to redeem them from a rapacious foreign land syndicate. A brief history of this grant will show how our public domain is being stolen from the people. In 1832 two French men by the names of Beaubien and Ma randi, who were traders among- the In dians at Taos, New Mexico, procured from the Spanish Government, through the influence of the Viceroy of Mexico, an immense grant of land, but which originally called for only 92,000 acres. But by official corruption and fraund- ulant surveys, has been enlarged to 1,700,000 acres. Fifteen hundred thous and acres of this land grab lies in North east New Mexico, and the balance across the line in Colorado. It includes that grand Moreno Valley, PJacer Mines, and several other gold quartz mines, includ ing the Aztec. Beaubien and Marandi obtained their grant on condition that they would liberally colonize it with French Canadians, but they paid no at tention to this condition, and imported no settlers. At the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo the Government of the United States, on that territory being ceded, agreed to respect and sustain all lgal grants made previously by the Spanish authorities. Mirandi sold his interest in the grant to Beaubien, the latter haying one heir, a daughter, who married a man by the name of Maxwell, and he inherit ed this grant through his wife. He be came insolvent, and this grant was seized by his creditors, and was sold under an arrangement to a party of Amsterdam Dutchmen. They had a plenty of money and were great schemers, and by corrup tion and bribery have swelled their orig inal grant of 92,000 to about 1,700,000 acres. Knowing the main part of this grant was fraudulent, Commissioner Sparks in 1885, forfeited a large part of it, and declared it a part of the public domain, and opened it for public entry, at least fifteen hundred thousand acres of it. But this Supreme Court decision restores it to the foreign holders, and it is presumed they will take some such course as they do in evicting renters in Ireland, or homesteaders on the Crow reservation in Dakota, to evict the resi dents on this Mexican land steal. And this success of the Amsterdam Company will embolden other claimants for Span ish grants for a few acres, which by fraudulent surveys and bribed officers, have been swollen to millions of acres. It is not expected the U. S. Court can de cide otherwise than as the facts are pre sented. But by the aid of large means, the records, surveys and officials' reports have been cooked to suit the corrupt syndicates. Iowa Register. And now the saloon has given an other eyidence of its desperate spirit by a fresh murder, that of Roderick D. Gambril, editor of the Sword and Shield, a paper published at Jackson, Miss., which is the prohibition organ in the state of Mississippi. Meager special re ports show that Gambril's life had been repeatedly menaced by the rumsellers, simply because he was exercising his right of free speech against the rum busi ness, nis right to do so was just as clear, just as absolute, as was that of George C. Haddock in Sioux City and Dr. North- rup in Haverhill, O., or of Elijah P. Lovejoy at Alton, 111., in reference to slavery, and he is just as much a martyr to the cause of free speech as were they. By shedding his blood the rum traffic adds another to the list of the victims which it has slain in the desperate effort to suppress free speech and free action within the law. The bloody list of these yictims is getting to be a long one. It is too long already. It is about complete in this: it is due and unmistakable notice that the liquor traffic is convinced that it must suppress free speech in order to save itself. When slavery reached that point the people had to strangle it, and they did it with mailed hand. Whiskyism seems to have reached the tame' stage of intolerable offensiveness. Sioux City TheTall and Musclesof the Whale. The power of thin tromendous propul sory apparatus is almost beyond concep tion. The weight of a full-grown whale may be appreciated when the reader re flects that the famous elephant, "Jumbo," would have to be multiplied many times before his weight would equal that of a largo whale. Yet the lata Capt. Scott, royal navy, told me that when on the quarter-deck of his own ship he repeated ly saw the whales leaping in mere play so high out of the water that the horizon was clearly visible under them. Now, Capt. Scott lived to be nearly 100 years old, and when he was in active service the quarter-deck of a man-of-war was at least thirty feet above the water, and to this measurment his own height (he be ing rather a tall man), and the reader can then appreciate the terrible power of the animal's tail. I may here mention that its habit of springing out of the water is called "breaching" by whalers. Besides the great muscular apparatus which has just been mentioned, the whale possesses another muscle which surrounds the body; it is scientiffically and happily called "panniculus carnosis" or "fleshy rag" and is developed in varions ways,accord ing to the animal. It is with this mus cle that the dog shakes his skin when he comes out of the water.. The hedge hog has it very powerfully developed in order to enable it to coil itself into the snikv ball with which we are so famil iar. The mania, Armandillo and echidna also possess it and use it for a very simi lar purpose. Man has but verry little of it, the chief vestiges of it being the mus cles of the face, which give to the human countenance its changing expressions. The whale wants it for two purposes, lie wants it to enable him to bend his body a function easily observed in the dol phins as they curve their graceful course througli the sea; but chiefly ho heeds it because by contracting it he can make his body heavier than a corresponding bulk of wator. This he has no drliculty in doing, and when he wishes to seek the smfice he has only to relax the pressure, when the body regains its original size and becomes lighter than the same bulk of water. By means of this same muscle hippopotamus, the elephant and the seal can sink themselves below the surface and rise again without moving a limb. For want of it man cannot perform this feat, and the best swimmers in the world are not able to sink and rise again to the surface without moving hand or foot Longman's Magazine. The "Self Annolnted" Contingent - Henry Watterson in his speech before the Kentucky Democratic Sate convention very happily referred to the mugwumps as the "self annointed" members of his party. The title fits them well. They are the Pharisees of modern politics, boasting of their goodness and thanking Heaven that they are not as other men. They are the "self annointed" priests of po litical virtue and morality, claming de scent apostolic succession from the origi nal essence of truth and right. But their annointing is not from on high, but from below. The ointment of an assumed superiority they have applied themselves. They deserve to be known as the "self annointed" contingent who have set them selves up as belonging to a higher caste than their fellows, and too good and pure to associate with common mortals. Although traveling with the Democratic party and professing to be governed by its principles, they are nevertheless, mas querading so much that the other element of the party, the "great unwashed," can hardly locate them when needed. But despite the anomaly of the association, the "self annointed" and the "unwashed" are to-day the chief hope of the Democrat ic party. Without either contingent, the Democratic party would have little expectation of winningjan election, or ex erting any marked influence upon public affairs. The third element of the. party to whom Mr. Watterson alluded in gener al, but not specific terms, are the protec tionists, whomhe.characterized as enemies "flying the flag of a spurious Democracy." "I had rather meet fifty enemies on an open plain in an honest fight," said he, "than one single enemy disguised as a friend." With true Bourbon fervor he delcared himself unwilling to yield "one inch of the people's ground to the en croachments of innovation." All that a Kentucky Democrat needs to know about a political issue, to make him drop it in hot haste, is that it is something new. That settles it, to far as he is concerned. It becomes at once in his mind "an inno vation," and he has no patience with inno vations. Reform of the civil service, federal aid to education, protection to American industries, arr all "innovations' in the opinion of the true Bourbon, and treason to old fashioned Democracy. This sort of doctrine is accepted by the "unwashed" without difficulty, and by most of the "self annointed" as weiL So the Bourbonism of Kentucky having relieved itself againstjthe parody on states manship that dwells in the White House, looks upon the situation with great com placency and confidence in the f uture. liegister. Two hundred and sixty-two pairs of twins were born in Chicaso during 1886. An Unloeked-for Contingency. When Mr. Jeukins went to his bed room at half-past one, it was with the determination of going to sleep, and with another determination that he would not be interviewed by Mrs. Jenkins. So as soon as lie had entered tho door and de posited his lamp upon the dressing table, he began his speech: "I locked the front door. I put tho chain on. I pulled the key out a little bit. The dog is inside. I put the kitten out. I emptied the drip pan in the re frigerator. The cook took the silver to bed with her. I put the cane under the knob of the back hall door. I shut the fastenings over the back row in windows. The parlor fire has coal on. I put the cake box back in the closet. I did not drink all the milk. It is not going to rain. Nobody gave me any message for you. I mailed your letters as soon as I got down town. Your mother did not call at the oilice. Nobody died that we were interested in. Did not hear of a marriage or engagement. I was very busy at the office making out bills. I have hung my clothes over the chair backs. I want a new egg for breakfast. I think that is all and I will now put out the light." Mr. Jenkins felt that he had hedged from all inquiry, and a triumphant smile was upon his face as he took hold of the gas check, and sighted a line for the bed, when lie was greeted by a ringing laugh, and the query from Mrs. Jenkins: "Why didn't you take off your hat?" TJi9 American. Keen as a Razor. Countryman That feller in the tele graph office up there thought he was mighty smart, but I fooled him. Policeman You did! How? Countryman Oh, easy enough. You see I went in here yesterday to send a message to St. Louis, and told him what I wanted. "All right," sez he, "75 cents," So I paid him the 75 cents, and I'll be darned if he did a thing but rap that old brass clicker of his fifteen or twenty times, and then hang the message on a hook. Policeman Well, do you call that fooling him? Countryman You just hold on, and I'll tell you. To-day I wanted to send another message to St. Louis, but I'll be gosh-darned if I wanted to pay another 75 cents. So I went up to the office, kinder polite like, an' sez I "Mister," sez I, "there's a young lady outside as sez she wants to speak to you. I'll tend office for you while you're gone." Well, sir, he bit right away. Off he went in a hurry, and before he got back I had plen ty of time to clink his old brass machine all I wanted and hang my message on the hook just as he did the day before. I know they got it, too, at the other end, for the minute I got through the old machine went to clinking like blue-bla zes, 's much 's to say: "All right, old man, w hear you." Oh. I fooled him good, I did. Your Uncle Peter lives in Wayback, but he ain't no fool, he ain't, not by a long chalk, no-sir ee! Somer- ville Journal. It may not be generally known that both the war and navy departments have bureaus of information whose business it is to obtain knowledge of military pro gress and preparation in this and foreign countries. It happened that during the time when the fisheries dispute had as sumed a somewhat threatening aspect these bureaus were uncommonly active in the search for information, addressing inquir ies to Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, among others, as to how quickly the state militia could be concentrated at a certain point, equipped and ready for service. A reply that must have been entirely re assuring to the bureau officers was sent, duly filed and pigeon-holed. The gov ernor nursed this ciacumstance for weeks as a profound state secret, but feeling that all danger had passed, he a few days ago disclosed it as evidence that the country was for a time on the veay verge of hostilities with England. It was a nat ural inferrence, perhaps, for the gover nor to make under the then existing cir cumstances, as he doubtless knew noth ing of the existing bureau, but he would have shown discretion in making in quiries that might have prevented his be ing led into a confession of amusing sim plicity. Omaha Bee. The Argentine Republic, too, is about to increase its tariff on some com modities. The principal article to be af fected is sugar. No such change will iniure the United States, however. This country does not figure very largely as an exporter of that product. Louisiana, notwithstanding the aid given, that State by the tariff, furnishes only about one tenth the cane sugar which the country cc-sunies, and this proportion is steadily rrowicc smaller. Qlobe Democrat. 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