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FLATTSMO TTI1 WEEKLY HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 18S7. iOKIjiKTRRATS TUB FOUPiTS: iJUL.'Y In a lccojniii maimer by calling at Our Store ami selecting un outfit ot Clothing for Yourselves and Doys. It is CONCEDED Uy EVEItYJiODY that OUU CLOTHING i the Our PricoG aro BELOW any of Our Competitors and th.o amount of Goods sold ovor our Counters is PXIOOP' tliat "W3U ARB LIEZDEIES! EVERYTHING SOLID IS QUARA-NTEED REPRESENTED, OR THE MOISTEY REFUNPEP. r ' 7f Qhttsnwuth HJcchhj gfe raM. KNOTTS BROS., Publishers & Proprietors. T. IT. KNOTTS. Editor. A. I!. KNOTTS, Business Manager. THE PLATTSMOUTII HliKALD Is nublished cverv Thursday morning. Oillce, turner of Vino unci Filth streets. WEEKLY, by mall. nna annv nriA vnar 52 00 One copy one year (in advance) 1 M One couy nix months " ,J KeKlstered at the l'ost Office, Vlattsmoutn, as second oiass matter. Senatok Mandkiison's letter of protest against the return of the rebel lings is manly and dignified and voiced the sen timents of his constituency. Thr Journal savs: "It seems to he "settled that he (Adjutant-General Drum) "had made this identical recommenda tion to secretary Lincoln." Referring to the recommendation to return the cap tured rebel Hags. Well, Secretary Lin coln did not approve the recommendation if such a one was made, hut our present Secretary of War did, and President Cleveland did. Therein lies the differ ence. Missouri is losing prestige. The fre quoit train robherics in Texas during the past few month entitle that state to the "championship and belt" of this very peculiar and most interesting, if not alto gether nooular. amusement. Missouri evidently gives way very unwillingly. The Sunday morning papers gave account of the last train robbery in Texas: the Sunday afternoon sun had not set when the Missourians were able to report a starrn robbery. But it is of no use, a 0 - w stage robbery as against a train robbery is only as one to ten. Texas holds the lead. Now the City Council have passed the paving and sewerage ordinances wchope the election to be held will show a large majority in favor of the bonds for both. A city of the size of Platts mouth and with as important business interests can hardly get along at certain seasons with out navincr on the principal streets, and i i & if the business interests demand the pav ing, no less so do the sanitary interests of the city demand the sewarage. Let the proposition be carried; let the bonds be voted, and then the money thus pro vided be judiciously and economically expended, and our city will be beautified and improved in appearance, made even more healthful, and some substantial im provements will be made that will be a big stride forward. It takes work more than faith to build the city up. Talk for the bonds and when the time comes vote for them. Those Flags. President Cleveland has counter-m;m cled his order to the effect that the rebel flags captured by Union soldiers, and now in the archives of the government at Washington, should be returned to the respective states from whose disloyal cit lzens the nags were taken during tue re bellion. It is well that the President has backed water on this rebel flag business for otherwise the year 1S3S would be re rnembercd in history as the year when the last democratic president wiggled around in the executive chair, and we are not certain, but what it will be so remember ed any how. The vigorous protests entered against "the surrender of the captured trophies of war were not called forth because of any intrinsic value attaching to the flags, but because of the effort of a democratic ad ministration to surrender property which is purely contraband of war, and right fully belongs to the national government. Those battle scarred banners represent the triumph of right over wrong, of blood shed and hardships endured that the hon or of our country might be preserved and a race of bondmen freed, they represent the triumph of patriotism over treason, and when the "confederate states of America" want those flags they had bet ter come after them, but whilo the spirit of union lives in the breasts of the Amer ican people those flags will remain just where they are and we trust their . at tempted surrender will forever meet the disapproval which has so emphatically expressed itself in the present instance. President Cleveland had nothing to do with the capture of those flags in the first place, and in the second place, he appears insensible of the lesson they suggest They should remain in the care of the federal government as testimonials of 1 , ......tA .nil ft n..rCT1 t 11 II mAn thev should remain there as eyiclence of the treachery and treason of rebels who once sought to drag the stars and stripes in the dust of their common country for if the democratic party con tinues in power much longer coming gen erations will need some evidence that treason was ever condemned by this gov ernment. In fact when the future student of his tory will refer to the present administra tion and observe that the appointive of fices were filled for the most part by rebels, copperheads and converts, with a few republican thrown in by way of giv ing a semblance of respcctibility, lie will be excused for observing that the mission of the democratic party appears to be an effort to wipe out the distinc tions ;between patriotism and treason. We pretend to say that so far as the dem ocratic party of this country is concerned the President's order restoring the rebel Hags to their ex-confederate owners meets with general approval, and we suggest that the president next order that all ref erence to union victories now made in the school histories be stricken from the text. And then it might be well to order the stars and stripes taken down upon the celebration of national holidays aa their appearance is suggestive of unpleas ant recollections in the heart of the aver age democrat. All this you know in the interest of healing the wounds and patch ing up the sore places. We don't take much stock in this peace mission of the democratic party. While we welcome to citizenship the ex-rebels who will behave themselves and permit others to enjoy the rights of a free country, and while we would not wish to keep alive the ani mosities of a once devided people we do believe in the constant denunciation of treason and the continuous eulogy of patriotism, as the highest of civic virtues. "The Robber State " Another train robbery is reported as having occurred in Texas. The frequen cy with which these robberies occur in the Lone Star state warrants the assump tion that it is becoming entitled to the designation of the "robber state," a title long worn by Missouri. It seems strange that these robberies should have contin ued so long with perfect immunity on the part of the robbers. There are never more than five or six of them, though their numbers have been exagejated by the excitement of the event to a dozen or a score, and it seems strange that a train load of people should be made to dis gorge by the few desperadoes and that the train's crew outnumbering the rob bers, should be made to hold up their hands along with the passengcis, to whom their satety is committed in more senses than speedily and safely transport ing them to their respective destinations The train robbers have the advantage of taking the train by surprise, and haye the additional advantage of being organ ized for a determined and desperate pur pose, while neither the train's crew nor the passengers are organized. But then should not the crews of all trains running through a country where such desperate deeds are common, be organized so that surpriso could not overtake them? It would seem to be to the interest of the railroad managements in such a state as Texas is proving to be and as Missout once proved to be, to have all crews armed, and that guards be placed on ev ery train drilled and disciplined to con front any emergency of the kind that train robbers may precipitate upon them Let one gang of robbers be met thus by armed men ready to give as good as the robbers may send, and the industry of train-robbing, now so profitably plied in Texas will lose its popularity. The railroads owe it to the passengers whose patronage they invite to use every pre caution to insure their personal safety and protection of their property. Omaha Herald. Dynamite plots threaten to disturb the iovousness of an occasion which might otherwise have been pleasant for the Brit ish monarch and her subjects It is un fortunate for both sovereign and people that the jubilee season should come at time when the question of coercion for Ireland is the burning issue before Par liament, and at the moment when the mosb rigid and cruel system of eviction undertaken in Ireland in many years is being carried out. The figures of Mulhall the British statistician, showing the hun dreds of thousands of persons who died from starvation in Ireland, the millions of Irish who were driven from their homes, and the other Irish millions who were compelled to emigrate, all within the half century during which Victoria has ruled, have proven the most impres siye indictment ever presented against English misgovernment. The Queen, of course, can not rightly be held accounta ble for these occurrences. The fact that they occurred within her reign, however, and that they were the logical result of English oppression, have not put Irish men in a frame of mind to rejoice at the ubilee, especially as another elaborate scheme of oppression is being contcni- dated, the preliminaries of which are even now under way. Globe Dem. Pkesidknt Clkvkland gives a new version of Grant's old motto, "Uncondi tional surrender." Sioux City Journal. The solid south seems to have been mistaken about the "surrender." Sioux City Journal. "I fint those old rebel flags are loaded. I guess I'll let them alone." G. C.J Globe Dem. Alt. men are liable to make mistakes, but Mr. Cleveland never made anything else. Globe Dem. The watchword of the old veteran is "If any man dare return the rebel flags shoot him on the spot." Bee. The big train robbery which has just taken place in Texas indicates that the hot' weather and the prohibition move ment have not prevented all the Demo cratic politicians from taking part in their customary vocations. Globe Dem. The Missouri legislature is certainly not regarded as a thing ot beauty or a joy forever. The Bald Knobbers, who escaped conviction by the Christian coun ty grand jury have served notice upon the lingering statesmen, at JefferBon City, that unless they adjourn by June 25, the entire army of Bald Knobbers will de clare war and disband them in the night time. Dee. There were but two conspicuous men in England thoroughly friendly to the United States at the time rebellion began. These men were Prince Albert, the Queen's husband, and John Bright. Unfortun ately for the United States, and also for England, Albort died before the war half ended. If he had lived until it was over, it is thought England's attitude to ward this country would have been less offensive to Americans than it became from the close of 18G1 to the surrender of Lee. Since Albert's death it has been learned that he was influenced in his feel iugs toward this country by the Queen Victoria was always friendly toward the United States, and she showed this friend liness on many occasions during andsub- sequent to the rebellion. The close ap proach of the jubilee to the Queen ren ders this a good time for Americans to recall those facts. Globe Dem. The "New and Cheap Telephone. "- Some facts in regard to a telephone that is being tried in Europe are given in the London Times. The description shows the telephone to have some advantages over those generally used. It is of very small size, and in apperanco resembles as nearly as can be described a shield cover ing the button of an electric cell. Merely touching it summons one on the other end of the wire. In order to converse the shield, which forms the receiver and is attached to the instrument by a wire of any length desired, and is removed from the wall and applied to the ear. The part exposed is a disc of carbon and any sound uttered at or near it is plainly con veyed to tue reciver. 1 he persons con versing .nay each be one yard away from the instrument and yet make their voices plainly heard, while the battery power needed is no greater than that used in electric bells. The cost is'small, and ap plication universal. The telephone was used in transmitting messages from Paris to Brussels last March. It is said that the forts about Paris are connected with each other by this telephone. Ex. There was great excitement in the navy department during the short can vass in New Hampshire that ended in the election of Wm. E. Chandler to the' sen ate. They did not want the ex-secretary in the senate. Of all things they could not think of anything more likely to dis turb the serenity of the department. They do not want a man there who knows so much about matters into which the department is at present in a hopeless sort of tangle. There were the matters of the completion of the Dolphin and other vessels after they had been taken out of the hands of the late John Roach. They were covering up these accounts until some sort of a settlement could be quietly made and all exposures avoided. But the democratic politicians were pow erless to protect the old salts of the navy from the impending investigations that Chandler will be sure to set on foot and look after himself. The republican kick ers who staid out of the csucus were in terviewed by their constituents, and the kick did materialize when the balloting commenced. Chandler was elected, and Mr. Whitney had better ask for a long vacation and spend the rest of his term in Europe. Lincoln Journal. Indians Amenable To The Law. A test case is going to be made in the United States courts, which will involve, or demonstrate the status of the Indian in the law. The case is as follows: A party of white men invaded the Navajo Reser vation, N. M., and "captured" a lot of horses. Pursuing the whites to retake the stock, a Navajo killed one of the white marauders. It is proposed to bring the Navajo to trial under the Indian crimes act, which provides that Indians shall be amenable to the same laws as white men for similar offenses. The trial will be the first of its kind and will be watched with intense interest. There is no reason why the Indian should not be subject to the same law as the white man allotting land to them in severalty is the accepted policy of the day to civilize them, and along with it the Indians should be made to understand that they must be held amenable to the law the same as the white man. But in this case, where it is pro posed tb try the Navajo for murder, the emery is pertinent, have any steps been taken to bring the white men with whom the Indians had a conflict, to trial for horse-stealing, if the Indian is to be civ ilized by the due process of the law, the white man should not be allowed to re lapse into barbarism on the border by es caping the penalties ot transgressing the law that the Indian is to be taught to obey. Omaha Herald. The experience of the New York courts in endeavoring to secure fit juries in some recent public trials shows the urgent need of reform in the administration of the jury system. It would almost seem as if the jury panels had become receptacles for the intellectually lame, halt and blind of the city. They show a great prepon derance of illiterate and disqualified jur ors. Foreigners who do not understand the English language, deaf persons, oth ers over age, exempt persons, and persons painfully deficient in intelligence and otherwise disqualified, have crowded the lists. At the same time the burden of jury service is made heavier upon others, The fault seems to lie with the local ad ministration of the jury system. A sug gestion looking to a remedy, which has been made by Judge Barrett, one of the ablest and most experienced of the judg es of the Supreme Court, is deserving of attention. He recommends the taking of a complete jury census, in which all the properly qualified jurors in the city should be enrolled. Materials to form the basis of such a census are at hand. They can be found, as Judge Barrett suggests, in the tax books, the lists of electors, the registers of the commercial exchanges and other organizations, and the books of the mercantile agences. Such a census would supply a sufficient number of qual ified jurors to make the burden of service on the individual juror slight. Some thing of this sort must be done. It is a disgrace that in a great commercial me tropolis like New York, where compli cated mercantile questions are so often before the courts, the quality of the jury service should be so low as it is. Brad street's. A New Mannoth Cave. Louisville Courier-Journal: Some two weeks since, a little son of W. E Price, near this place, ran a young fox into what had long seemed a sink-hole, just unaer a small elm tree. lie had a colored boy with him, who refused to go with him in search of the fox, but young Price entered, and discovered a room of considerable proportions. Sunday morn ing last, the matter having been discuss ed about the streets, a party of young men determined to explore the cavern. ihey iound there considerable room within GOO feet going directly westward, but a point about 400 feet in they discov ered that they denominate the "Well," whence flows a stream of water. This they followed nearly three-feurths of a mile, in the course of which they discov ered three crevices, one about ten inches wide, the other two each about fifteen inches. The decent from the entrance to the point explored was estimated to be about 1G0 feet. There are several aven ues leading off in different directions that were not exporcd. The crevices referred to seemed to indicate the apex of an up heavel in past ages. The rock tipped to the right and leit of them, and Dr. N. Kelly, of lew Castle, who was in the cave Monday afternoon, declared that he could smell gas distinctly when he put nis nose 10 me crevice. The First Henry Ceorge Experiment In America. From ruck. In 14U4, when Christopher Columbus landed on Cut Island, the -whole region which we now know as the United States was inhabited by savages who did a little in the way of agriculture and a great deal in the way of hunting. They hunt ed wild game and they hunted each oth er. They were the original Henry Gcor- geitcs at least they had been putting the George theories into practice for sev earl thousand years. They held their land in common. They did not trouble themselves about "unearned increments," because there was no increment of value, earned or unearned, to be considered. The laud was worth nothing, and it earn ed nothing. All the other George theor ies were held by these simple children of nature. They had even the boycott, al though they did not know it by that name. When two savages of different tribes or district assemblies quarreled over a dead deer, they struck work and fought it out to see which was the "scab." It was generally, then as now, the dead one. Then each tribe declared a boycott against the other, and the struggle ended in the annihilation or the enforced mi gration of the weaker district assembly. In fact, the George idea was most thor oughly carried out in every particular, and the parallel between the two civili zations the Indian red civilization and the anarchical red civilization may be called almost perfect. The affairs of each tribe were managed by walking delegates, called chiefs, and then, as now, the women did most of the work. Electricty in a bottle will cure the worst cases of catanh. Ask your drug gist for it. 11-4 A French Ironclad From the London Times. A first-class ironclad, the Masccau, has just been launched at La Seync-sur-Mcr, near Toulon. She is built upon lines very similar to those of the Spanish ves sel, the Pelayo, which was launched at Toulon a short time ago. The total length of the Masceau is 338 feet, with a maximum width of GG feet, and a depth of 43 feet. She draws 2G feet of water, and has a total displacement of 10,82 tons. The spur placed in her bow is of bronze and is 10 feet long. The hull is made of steel except the keel, which is iron. She has three full decks, and is divided into fifteen transversal water tight compartments. The weight of the hull is 3875 tons, and the plates on the ironclad deck are 4 inches thick, and they extend the full length of the vessel. The engines, boilers, powder magazines and the apparatus to be used for ma neuvering the heavy artillery will be well protected, the weight of the plates on the sides of the vessel, the deck and the tur rets exceeding 3,000 tons. The weight of the engines is about G2G tons, and that of the boilers about 341 tons. The trial speed of the Masceau is fixed at eighteen knots an hour. She is to be armed with four 14-inch guns, placed in four barbette turrets, which are placed in the longitud inal axis of the vessel, one forward and another astern, with two others in the lateral axis, larboard and starboard, so that the range of firing may be quite free. The small artillery will include seventeen G-inch guns in the battery, while revolv ing and rapid firing guns will be placed in various parts of the yessel. There will also be four torpedo tubes. Excitement in Texas. Great excitement has been caused in the vicinity of Paris, Texas, by the re markable recovery of Er. J. E. Corley, who was so helpless he could not turn in bed. or raise his head; everybody said he was dying of Consumption. A trial bot tle of Dr. King's New Discovery was sent him. Finding relief, he bought a large bottle and a box of Da. King's New Life Pills; by the time he had taken two boxes of Pills and two bottles of the Discovery he was well and had gained in flesh thirty-six pounds. Trial Bottles of this Great Discovery for Consumption free at F. G. Frieke & Co. (2) The Omaha Herald began Sunday June 19th the publication of a serial by Julian Hawthorne and Inspector Byrne3 of New York city, entitled "A Great Bank Robbery." It is the story of the Manhattan Bankrobbery of Oct- 27, 1878, the chief burglar "Jimmy" Hope having just been captured. The story is copy righted, will be printed in daily instal ments, and will run twelve weeks. The Herald has the exclusive right in the West to publish this serial. SnBscRiDE for Tue Herald for your relatives and induce your friends to sub scribe for .themselves. mm iyi Absolutely Pure. Tliis powder never varies. A maivel of pur ity, Htrentrtii and w iiole.someiiess. More eeo noinieal lliaii the ordinary kinds, :i n I cannot lie eold in competition with tin' multitude of low tet. sliort weight alum or phosphate Powders, Sold only in c ins. Koyai. Hakims I'owUkit Co.,10UWall St. New York. :i!'t IS H 14 H c H m c 4 i-3 X in FOR SALE, or exchange for Cass county Land, desirable City Property or Live' Stock. We have selected these Lands in person. They are located in Nebraska, along the line of the B. fc M. R. R., from four to 6ix miles from railroad stations and in well settled communities. They are level or undulating Lands, with fino rich soil. Depth of wells on adjoining Lands, from 20 to 100 feet. CLARK & HOWARD, 13-4 Weeping Water, Neb. ' Probate Notice In the matter of the estate of ) M. B. Cutler, J Deceased. In the County Court of Cass C. Ne!ra?ka. Nftice is hereby inven that . H. Cutler and Oertrude Cutler, administrators of the estsito of said M. B. Cutler, deceased, hare made ap plication for final settlement, and that, laid cause Is net for hearing at mv cliice at Ham mouth, on the 27th day of .lune A. !.. is7. t 10 o clock a. in., on said day . at which time and place, all perso- s interested may be pres ent and examine said accounts. w it , C. KussF.Lt, County Judife. nattsraoutU, June ith 1887- ' u-is . m HI WESTERN LAND -4