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PLATTSMODTII WEEKLY HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1887. COUNTY LOCALS. ATKEriKO VT4TKK. From tl Republican. Knmuel JlaWestadt liai placed a new niio walk, in front of his dwelling. Jeso Ditri had liii fine rsilctic ou the huaih side nicely painted last week. Mr. Frank Chadey, of Crete, visited his mother nnd sisters in thin place seytr al days last week. Miss Anna Ku.iscll, of I'lattsniouth, aine out Friday last and is enjoying a viit with old iicquuiutmiot. MUh Hndia Lanhain went to.outh JJend Ruturday, called thero by the serious ill ne.s of her uncle, Win EyanR. Krom the K.iglc. Doctor W. I). Gibbon and family of Vfeeuier iirrived here lust evening, to upend a few day among friends and as sociates. They ure uucsU of D. C. Flem ing. Work m progressing finely on the new Congregational church. Tke work is nearly completed on the basement, it is expected that the entire structure will be enclosed before snow lies. It -will be one of the most substantial buildings in the statu when completed. The Strawberry .Social given by the ladies of the M. K. church last Friday evening, was a surprise to themselves the uuusual huge turnout and the Bplendid quality of the fruit, creams and a cake, places it on record us a success. The net i'rofit to the ladies amounted to more than 20, and nothing left to spoil. WABASH. From tho Item. A two-year old daughter of JohnBaird is very sick. Yesterday thirteen men with teams turn ed out and plowed corn for Mr. Klemme. Geo. Curyea and family have returned much pleased with their visit to Illinois. Steyo llulfish stepped through a hole in the sidewalk one day last week and sprained his ankle severely. Casper Bornman, a prominent German farmer is lying seriously ill at his resi dence six miles north of this place. Ilsnry Murfin was taken suddenly -with an attack of bilious colic Tuesday night and for a time his condition was quite critical. There -was a sheep-shearing match at the residence of Ferd Kruger last week. Ucv. Stevenson came out ahead, having eheared his sheep in 7J minutes. Last Thursday Henry Klemme under took to clean some part of a corn-sheller while it was in motion and hiu hand be came entangled some way tearing off threo fingers. Dr. Neely, assisted by Dr. Hall, of "Weeping Water, amputated the first three fingers, and he is now doing as well as could .be expected. Mr. Klemme, Wth heroic fortitude, submitted to the operation without the use of chloroform or drugs of any kind. LOUISVILLE. Froui tho Observer. Lots of work is bein done on the steets this week. A new funce is being built around tho cemetery grounds. Fritz Wagner is having his new house painted on his farm south of town. llr. N. S. Clark returned Monday from his trip west, whero he has been selling ware for the Western Pottery Co. Mr. aud Mrs. W. B. Shryock, Mr. Jas. Stander and Mis3 Mary Nelson were all at Omaha Tuesday to hear Lily Langtry. Miss Adda Livingston and Miss Norma McDonald, two of our fair damsels, were at Greenwood over Sunday. They re turned Wednesday evening, on No. 2. BLM.WOOD. From the Echo. The strawberry crop isn't as good this year as it was last. Elmwood will celebrate the Fourth of July in grand style. Born To Mr. and Mrs. F. Shofer, June 1st, a daughter, west of Easde. The Plattsmouth Herald is greatly improving under its new management. Joe Phelps is a bachelor His wife and children are visiting relatives in Iowa, where they will remain a month. The married men of this community think of getting up a nine to buck the sinjrlo men on the Fourth. So mote it be. Charley Leonard, Jack Tanner and Charley Allen have been heard from. Thev are ui near Yankton, slowly wend ing their way towards the "Sundance" country. The Louisville Observer has changed hands. J. W. Gullionand L. J. Mayfield are the purchasers. If the boys are as f?ood newsnaner workers as the late pro prietor, Col. Geo. W. Mayfield, they are sure to succeed. AVOCA. Ex-Senator O. Tefft was in Omaha la9t week doing up real estate business. Miss Sarah McKhv has been visitinjr at R. Malcolm's and other friends in town during the past week. Mrs. J. C. LaGrange and two children are here from Lincoln on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. LaGrange, and will return Wednesday next. Mrs. A. L. Marshall and children are visiting her cousin and husband, Mr." and Mrs. Alonzo Garrison at Union, .Nebr, this week. 3Irs. M, went down, on re quest by committee to manufacture ice cream for a Sunday school ice cream and strawberry festival held there last Friday evening. The ice cream was made after A- L. Marshalls famous formula, and will challenge anything in that line in Cass Co. In my letter of May 23, I said "Mrs. F. Bcatty had woven over 200 yards of carpet," plese correct mo by saying this week, she has sent out ov-r 400 yards rag cirpet this spring and Mack Burger, so Wfcll known for nearly 20 years near Union, this Co., has done all the weav ing. Mrs. I), will soon-put in entire new steel reeds uud fittings to her loom, and will then be able to accomodate all who want solid carpet weaving done. June Cth, 1S87. Gleaner. mcuuat. I am so bnisy with my crops that T iav not got much tine? to look utter tene as I would like to do, still we will do the best we can under the eirciim utancca. The corn crop is needing rain very udly oats, I think will be a failure in this section; wheat will be so short that t will be hard to save without a header; he apple trees are drying up very bad ly for -want of rain, and unless we got it soon the pastures will not keep the tttock n grass which is very nhort, and hay will bring a high price this full and winter, is my opinion. Another fishing party went from here down to the mouth of the Weeping Water a few days ago. lhe names of the gentleman I will not give this time but there was four in number; one of them lives about three miles south-east of Murray, ome three miles north-east, the third a mile and a half due west, and the fourth, on the corner or Main and 43rd streets this city. Great trouble in the fishing camp the bovs all got thcra ear ly in the afternoon and riged up every thing in order, so about 7 o'clock one was dttaled to get supper, s it seems that A. was the lucky one for sim per. After supper they had a good old chat, then went to bed to dream about the big fish they expected to get, so one of the boys got up in his sleep and supposed that he had a fish ff tho hook and was putinj it in a bucket but it happened to be a frog and he put it in the coffee pot which was setting by the hre, so next morning another boy was detained to get breakfast. When he looked in the coffee pot and saw the cooked frog ha said, "What kind of coffee is this?" "It is the same kind we had last night," replied another boy. They all took a good look at the animal then every man stepped back and all called "New York" in con cert. Rovisg Boy. Two Cents A Mito. One branch of the Michigan legislature has passed a bill reducing the rates of railroad fare in that state to two cents per mile. Whether the other branch will concur is not know but there is a proba bility that Michigan will have the two cent rate. It is pretty generally believed among the people that two cents a mile for pass enger travel is enough. It is doubtful whether the railroad companies could demonstrate logically that it is too little. With rates so reduced there is no question but that travel would be largely increas ed, at least to an extent which would place the railroads upon as good a basis as they now are. Suburban roads with heavy travel carry passengers for a cent a mile. The cost of hauling a car full of people is so little greater than hauling one half full as to be almost incalcula ble. A parallel case is found in letter pos tage. Every time the rate has been re duced the amount of correspondence has increased sufficiently to counterbalance it. So it would be with the railways. The volume of travel would We increased with profit to the companies and with better facilities and accomodations for the public. Fremont Tribune. A government document gives these figures of the per capita consumption ol whisky, wine and beer forty-seven years ago and the last year: uaiions. In 1840 Spirits 2.52 Wines 29 Beer, etc 1.30 Total 4.17 In 1886 Spirits 1.24 Wines ."io Beer, etc 11.01 Tolal 12.03 Prohibitionists will probably reason from these figures that drukenness and the vice and misery which it entails are on the increase. This deduction, howev er, would not be altogether a safe one to make. Tho police court records of cities which we have seen published appear to show that, so far as there is any marked change in the ratio per person of arrests for intoxication, the change is a decrease. The use of whisky has fallen off one-half since 1840. This shows a more favorable state of things than the mere quotation of the figures - would indicate, for the reason that the employment of spirits in the arts has largely increased sine 1840. It is reasonable, indeed, to assum that the quantity of whisky drank per captia of the population is not one quarter as great as it was forty or fifty years ago, and this amount is slowly but very surely grow ing less. Making allowance for the com paratively non-intoxicating character of beer, it appears safe to assume that the 4.17 gallons of stimulents consumed per unit of the population in 1840 represent ed much more drunkenness, poverty and crinfe than the 12.C3 gallons consumed in 1S88. Mb. Blaise has heea talking again. Dts Moines Leader, Dem. WelL so has Cleveland. The difference is that more attention is paid to Blaine when ha talks. Sioux City Journal. Tho Author of Tho Greenbacks. It has come to light, through the pub lication of an autograph letter from the late President Lincoln, that an old citizen of this city, Col. E. I). Taylor, is credited by Mr. Lincoln with the authoiship of the greenback currency, as the following letter will show. Mr. Lincoln writes: My Dear Col. Dink: I have long deter mined to make public the origin of the greenback, and tell the world that it is one of Dick Taylor's creations. You have always been frindly to ine, and w)in troiihloti tiiin. fell on n. mm) my shoulder:", thMi"h broiid and willing. were weak, and myself surrounded by such circumstances and such people that I knew not whom to trust, then I said in my extremity, "I will send for Col. Tay lor; ho will know what to do." I think it was in January, lb02, on or about the 1 Cth, that I did so. You came, and I said to you: "What can we dor" Said you: "Why, issue Treasury notes bearing no interest, printed on the best banking paper. Issue enough to pay off the army expenses, and declare it legal-tender." Chase thought it a hazardous thing, but we finally accomplished it, and gave to the people of this Republic the greatest blessing they ever had, their own paper to pay their ow n debts. It is due to you, the father of the present greenback, that the people should know it, and I take great pleasure in making it known. How many times have I laughed at you telling me plaiLly that I was to lazy to be any thing but a lawyer. Yours truly, A. Lincoln, President. Mr. Taylor came to Chicago in 1S35, when it had only 350 population, and for many years was a leading man in the politics of the city and State. - -Bankers Monthly. The Fortuna's Transatlantic Voy age. From The Boston Globe. Commodore Ilovey's only guest is Charles A. Longfellow, who is as good a sailor as himself. Mr. Lonfellow has probably had as much deep-sea exper ience as any gentleman in America. He was one of the party of four who sailed the 10-foot sloop Alice across to England in 18C0, and since that time his yatching trips have been continuous. The Fortuna will take a southern course, so as to avoid ice and other disagreeable features of the northern passage. She will touch at Queenstown first for fresh provisions and will then go direct to Greenock, Scotland, where she will ship her racing spars. After this she will ac company the British racing fleet till re gatta week at Cowes, which comes about the middle of August, when she will re turn to this country in time to be present at the trial and international races. Commodore Hovey says he does not go to race, but his friends think that he can not resist the temptation if there is any chance It is hardly likely that the Eng lish yachtsmen will offer any very valu able prizes for schooner races and throw them open to the Fortuna, but if they do Americans will look with confidence for a general replenishment of the Fortuna's ample stock of silverware. Fred Douglass In Paris. When Frederick Douglass left the of fice of recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia he was asked what he iu tended to do next for a living. The re ply was: "I am going abroad to enjoy myself." He left Washington nearly a year ago, went to Boston, where he was banqueted by a club of prominent gentlemen of Af rican decent, then visited New York, was entertained by Mr. J. Arneaux, editor of the New York Enterprise and then sail ed for Paris, where he has been spending much of his time, Mr. Douglass is ac companied by his wife, who is a lovable i.. , - i i i companion. since ne nas ueeu awuau he has traveled over the continent, visit ing Egypt and other places of historic renown. Of all the places he has visited there seems to be no place like Paris to Mr. Douglass. The great negro orator is especially interested in Theodore Tilton and M. Victor Schoelcher, the great re former and advocate of human liberty, Both are residents of Paris. "These men," writes Mr. Douglass to a friend in this city, "and the the statute of Larmartine are of great interest to me, because they have a record each of their labors in behalf of my downtrodden race that time can never obliterate." Omaha Rep. "My mother gets me up, builds the fire, gets my breakfast and sends me off," said a bright youth in the hearing of an American Farmer reporter. "What then?" said the reporter. "Then she gets my father up and gets his breakfast and sends him off; then gets the other chil dren their frcakfast and sends them to school, and then she and the baby have their breakfast" "How old is the baby?" "O, she is 'most two, but she can walk and talk as well as any of us. " "Are you well paid?" "I get $2 a week; father gets $2 a day." "How much does your mother get!" With a bewildered look the boy said: "Mother! Why, she don't work for anybody." "I thought you said she worked for all of you." "O, yes, for all of us she does, but there ain't no money in it" Ex. . . ' Rewarding a Horo. i. Y. Sun. "what had we better do," said the Su- eriutendeut of the road to the President, "for the brake-man who saved No. 3 from being wrecked? Both of his leus were jroken." "W'e will give him a trip piss some where." "But the inter-state coinmerc law '." "True I forgot that," said the president, with vexation. "Perhaps the law will be repealed, anil th-n wYan 'c hini a paV I le' a hT. " It i" iTpuited lint the govuinmeni i.- j about to build a money vault in Washi ngton that will stor away 100,000,000 of silver dollars or more, and that tho )oliey of coining silver and issuing cer- ificates against it for circulation is to be icrpetuatcd. The government, in fact, can not do otherwise until ordered by congress With silver certificates in cir culation based on coin, and others on bullion, it looks as though the silver bat tle had been fought uud won, and that the white metal was indeed with us to stay. Hanker s Monthly. George Alfred Townsend, the noted newspaper correspondent, writes a de scription of Senator Allison, in which he says that the latter iu presidency would nobably choose much such a cabinet as incoln callled about him, and that lie would get "about him the wisest counsel ors, and among them would probably have practical men who are not afraid to say no." Townsend thinks that Allison stands with Senator Harrison next to Blaise in the confidence of his party. He properly comes up to the line of the statesman," says Townsend, "and in par ty affairs he is loyal and sound, not nour- shing jealousies, treating all persons ac cording to his obligations, and in social ifc he fills a much higher place than most of the senators." Sioux City Journal. Don't Experiment. You cannot afford to waste time in ex perimenting when your lungs are in dan ger. Consumption always seems, at first, only a cold. Do not permit any dealer to impose upon you with some cheap imi tation of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, but be sure you get the genuine. Because he can make more profit he may tell you he has something just as good, or just the same. Don't oe deceived, but insist upon getting Dr. King's New Discovery, which is guaranteed to give relief in all Throat ailing and Chest affections. Tri al bottles free at F. G. Frickc & Co.'s drug store. (6) Eveht now and then a member of the old Tweed ring emerges from his retire ment and re-asserts himself as a faithful and perservering Democrat. The latest instance is that of E. A. Woodward, who was made to disgorge $200,000 of his plunder, and who now comes forward as the principal bondsman of Mr. Hyatt, the new Uited States Treasure. Si. Louis Qlobe Democrat. Bucklen's Arnica Salvo lhe Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi tively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac tion, or money refunded. Price, 25 cents per box. For sale by 301y F. G. Fricke & Co. Ii is very much to Dakota's credit that she is able to report the e.xistance of 1000 Sunday-schools within her borders; but unfortunately, facts of this kind tend to essen her chances of admission to the Union by a Democratic Congress. Qlobe Democrat. Fires destroy annually in this country property of the value of about $150,000, 000. In the last twelve years the United States has received 4,600,000 emigrants from the old world. The use of the telephone is becoming very common in Germany. Berlin alone has 5,507 stations. Sara Bernhardt devoted a recent Sun day evening to an exploration of China town, San Francisco. Gen. S. W. Crawford, U. S. A., is a warm personal friend of the Count of Paris. Ex-Mayor Cooper of New York gives away a large portion of his income in charity. Sheriffs Sale. T5v Tirtue of an execution Issued by W. C. Shawalter, Cleric ol the IJintrlct Court wlthlu and for Cas county, reorasKa, aua to me di rected. 1 will on the 27th day of June. A. I, ias7. at 10 o'clock a. m . of aid day at the south door of the Court House in said connty. sell at public auction, the following real estate to-wit : The east half (Vt) of the northeast quarter of section eleven (11 in townsiiip ten (W) range eleven (U) east of the Cth P. M. in Cass county, Nebraska., with the privileges and appenen mrfji thereunto belonsine. The same being levied upon and taken as the property of John U. Carter, defendant ;to sat is fv h iudsrenient of said Court recovered by Charles Uenntngs administrator of the estate of Mary Splicers, deceased plaintiff, against said defendant. riattsniouth, Neb., this May 19th A. D..1S87 J. U. tlKKMNBAltV. 10-5 Sheriff Cass County, Neb E. G. DOVEY & SON. "We want to call your attention to the Tact that we can show you in our new stock for A biipcrl) line of everything' carried in a first eliiss liiw of Dry (Soefli, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Queensware and Groceries. "Vre have the handsomest Line of Kinhroideries, bjth in Narrow and wide, ever brought to the City. Our Stock of Dress Goods, both in Wool and AVash Goods; also in White Goods is UNSURPASSED BY ANY OTHER LINE IN THE CO. Our line of Table Linens, Napkins, Crashes, Towels, Frinte, Ginghams and Muslin it well worth looking over. Especial attention is called to our -:- CARPET STOCK-:- "Which is fuller and more compY'to than usual, at prices that will satisfy vn. In our Beot S lioe We have Good Valuesto oiT-r and want to keep up our rep utation by selling none but lood Goods. We take consider able pride in our -:-QUEENSWARE -:- DEPARTMENT -:- And can show the finest lim .f this Class of Goods handled by any firm in the city. : invite inspection of our differ ent Departments, assuring all that we offer our Gooda AT LOWKST Pit ICES. E. G. DOVEY & SON. :3E3 IMESW lJr SHERWOOD BLOCK Just opened with Books, Fancy Goods, Ladies' Stationery, PERIODICALS, ScO. FIFTH STREET, ONE DOOR FROM MAIN. UJ lUiUB "E GU All AN TEE our Mixed Paints to do better work and give better satisfaction than the best Lead and Oil, and will forfeit the value of the paint and cost of applying if not found as represented. Can you ask any better Guar antee? We have sold these paints for two years, and every one who has used tliem pronounce them TO -:- BE -:- TtJE -:- BEST. Tbey will cover one-third more surface than Lead and Oil and will wear longer and look better. Don't buy painta until you see our samples. Will J. Wqi'idcl. N. B.: "We make bottom prices on Lead, Oil, "Wall Paper, Varnish, Kalsomine, Brushes, &c. J. F. BAUMEISTER, COMMISSION HEADQUARTERS FOR FEED, FLOUR AND PROVISIONS Highest Cash Price Paid For An unexcelbed line o f FLOUR always in stock. Neville Block; North Cth St PIjA-TTSMOUTH - NEBRASIT A . Department BOOK STORE a complete line of STATIONERY, MERCMT,
