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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
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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
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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.
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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
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and place, all perso- s interested may be pres
ent and examine said accounts.
w it , C. KussF.Lt, County Judife.
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