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PLATTSMOUTH WEEKLY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 187
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REPUBLICAN STATE CON VENT' N.
Call for the Meeting at Lincoln In
October.
The Kcbubli can electors of the state of Ne
braska are requested to send delegates from
the gttvoral counties, to meet in conveution at
the opera house, In the city of Lincoln, Wed
nesday, October 8, 1887, sit 8 o'clock p. in., for
the purpone of placing In nomination candi
dates for one associate Justice of the supreme
ourt, and for two members of the board ol
regents of the utate university, and to transact
such other business as may be presented to the
.convention,
MB AI'FOHTIOMKlfT.
The several counties are. entitled to repre
sentation as follows, being based upon the
vote cant for Hon. John M. Thayer, Roverner,
in 188C, giving one delegate to each new
county, one delegate-at-large to each county,
and one for each 1B0 votes and the major frac
tion thereof :
COUNTIES. VOTES.
Adams 13
Antelope 8
Arthur 1
Blaine 2
Boone 1
Krown... 9
Buffalo 11
Butler
Burt
Chase 3
Cans 16
Cedar 3
Cheyenne 5
Cbeiry 8
Clay 11
Colfax 6
Cuming 7
Custer 16
lhikota
Dawes 6
Dixon 6
Dodge 10
Douglas 32
Dawson 5
Dundv 3
fllmore 10
urn 7
ranklin 6
I'mntier 5
(iaga 20
Gosper 3
Uraut.. 1
tireoley 3
Warlield 2
Mall 11
Hamilton 9
Harlan 7
HayK 3
Hitchcock 6
Holt 11
Howard C
COUNTIES VOTES
Jefferson 9
Johnson 9
Kearney 9
Keya 1'aba 4
Keith 5
Knox 7
Lancanter 28
Lincoln
Logan 2
Loup 2
Madison 8
MsPherson 1
Merrick
Nance
Nemaha 1"
Nuckolls 7
Otoe U
Pawnee 8
Phelps 7
Pierce 3
Platte 6
Polk 6
Kichardson 12
Bed Willow ... "
Sioux 1
Saline .'. 13
Sarov &
Saunters 11
Seward 12
Sheridan 5
Sherman 4
Stanton 3
Thayer 9
'l nomas i
Valley 5
Washington
Wayne 5
Weoster 9
Wheeler 2
ork 11
Unorganized Xer'y 1
Total 6:
It is recommended that no proxies be admit
ted to the convention except such as are held
by porsons residing in the counties from which
proxies are given.
Walter M. Seely, Secretary,
Geobob W. BuuTex, Chairman.
Meeting of the Cass Co- Republican
Central Com.
The Cass Co. republican central com
mittee is hereby called to meet at Weep
in!? "Water. A112. 27th 1887, at 1 o'clock
p. m. The members are as follows:
Plattsmouth, 1st ward L. C. Stiles.
2nd
3d
L. E. Skinner,
" II. C. Richie.
4th "
" precinct,
Rock Bluffs,
L. A. Dorrington,
F. B. Shopp.
S. L. Furlong.
G. N. LaRue.
J. L. Hutchins.
II. G. Hawley.
John Adams.
Liberty,
Aveca,
Mt. Pleasant,
Eight Mile Grove,
Louisville,
Center,
Weeping Water,
Stove Creek,
Elmwood.
South Bend,
Salt Creek,
Greenw ood,
h3embers are
presto
Geo. W. Mayfield
I. N. Woodford.
P. S. Barns.
Wm. Dallas.
J. L. Barton.
W. II. Smith.
Geo. L. Findley.
' J. C. Stevenson.
A. S. Cooley.
all requested to be
M. M. Butler.
Chairman.
The Weekly Herald till Jan. 1, for
50 cents.
The Massachusetts democratic state
convention will be held at Worcester,
Sept 20.
Tre Osceola liecord and the Farmer's
Advocate, of that place, have been con
solidated, or rather the liecord has ab
sorbed the ther.
Under the new Hawaiian constitution
King Kalakaua seems to have as many
rights and privileges rem aining as Queen
Victoria enjoys, in her larger sphere.
Taere is talk of
indictment
being
brought against C. P. nuntington
and
other Central Pacific railroad magnates
for defrauding the trovernment. It is
claimed they collected too much subsidy
when they were building their road.
The Beatrice Express, one of the
brightest dailies of the state, has moved
in new quarters and is primping itself on
their being as neat as a pin, and from
"which it bows its compliments to its
friends and patrons and invites them to
come and see for themselves.
The candidates are at last beginning to
make themselves known. We had fear
ed the drouth had killed them off, but
the two or three showers recently have
deen sufficient to bring out the first of
them, and we are encouraged to believe
the early fall rains will show up a more
than average lot, both in number and
quality.
Tell your neighbors, the Weekly Her
ald till Jan. 1, only 50 cents in ad
Vance. The Blair Pilot is not much of an ad
mirer of the "Spartan like" race of moth
ers. It calls a mother who accompanied
her son buck to a jail from which he had
once escaped, and where lie was wanted
for horse stealing, an unnatural parent
and says she lacks in the loving instincts
natural to maternity.
Last Sunday, August 14, was the
wenticth anniversary of the location of
the state capital at Lincoln, and the Lin
coln Journal of that date contains an
excellent history of the growth of the
"magic city," from the straggling village
of Lancaster in '07 to its present great
ness. The site of Lincoln was first set
tled as the village of Lancaster m '03
and became Lincoln and the state capi
tal in 'G7, on Aug. 14.
Jno. A. MacMukphy, our old "Mac,"
of the Herald, lias sold his interest in
the Wahoo Was2 and severed his con
nection with that paper. We hope he
does not leave the field of Nebraska
ourualisn altogether, anyhow we wish
him well. Prof. J. A. Smith, who suc
ceeds MacMurphy on the Wasp writes a
happy salutatory which gives promise that
the Wasp will maintain its position
among the papers of the state, and con
tinue to grow in worth and usefulness to
the people of Wahoo and Saunders
county.
Send us in your subsriptions for the
Weekly IIekald. Till Jan. 1. '89 for
$1.73 if paid in advance. We want
three times the number of subscribers of
any other paper in Cass County.
The State Democrat, of Lincoln,
amuses itself by trying to show Missouri,
a democratic state, was more loyal than
Iowa, a republican state, during the war.
It gives figures to show how many Mis-
sourians were in the union army and how
many Iowans. Its figures show that Mis
souri had a large number of citizens who
were loyal and true, and they saved the
state for the union, but it would be in
teresting to know just how many rebels
and bushwhackers enlisted from the same
state. It is safe to assume not one of
them voted for Lincoln. Will the Dem
ocrat furnish the figures?
Cheyenne County Seat Division.
The county commissioners of Cheyenne
county have, on petition, ordered an
election upon the question of county di
vision, and if the vote should be favora
Pie to division, it will be iollowed by a
county seat election in the three proposed
new counties. The proposition is to di
vide the county north and south into
three counties which will, in all probabil
ity, make Chappel, Sidney, and Potter or
Bushnell, county fteats of the new coun
ties. When we reflect that Cheyenne
eounty embraces more square miles of
territory than the state of New Jersey we
do not wonder that that the people out
there demand county division.
Old subscribers who will pay up all
back dues will be given the same terms
we offer for new subscriptions. Till
Jan. 189 for $1.75 if paid in advance.
The threadbare croak that it was dem
ocrats who "fit" for the union isanamus
ing argument, especially when urged by
Bro. Calhoun, of the Democrat (Lincoln).
liepubiicans were mighty scarce, it ap
pears from this argument, when the war
broke out. We really haven't time to
scuffle with this democratic proposition,
but we would, confining it to Missouri,
like to know why Bro. Calhoun deserted
the democratic party of his state at that
critical period when nearly all of them
(in Missouri) were fighting for the old
flag. We have only words of praise for
the democrat who could forget his party
when the country needed him and well
we aint going to quarrel with the dem
ocrat who staid democrat all the while.
The petticoat that Jeff Davis wore one
spring morning in 1865 is being lugged
into the campaign of 18S8 already. It
will no doubt be one of the strongest
props of the republican party. State
Democrat.
Really, now, but the republican party
wouldn't do such a mean thing as to rob
the democracy of the petticoat which
protected the tottering steps of
their darling way back in '65. No, no,
they are welcome to the consolation it
affords. The republican party will go
without a prop rather than deprive
them of that. If it is hid away in the
closets of the war department the Herald
respectfully requests President Cleveland
to do it up with the compliments of the
G. A. R. and send it back to Jeff. But,
oh Grover, touch it carressingly, and fold
it reverently, for it once covered the
form of the other "only great."
Cass County Needs the Bridge.
Cass county is one of the best watered
counties in the state. Numerous streams
run across it in every direction. These
all haye to be bridged, requiring a large
amount of money. These bridges are not
built with a design in view for the bene
fit of any one place, but are placed there
for the benefit of the citizens of Cass
county. 1
We learn that our neighbors at Platts-
mouth are going to ask the county for
money to aid in building a bridge over
the Platte at Oreaplois. With an equal
claim and equal justice Cedar Creek,
Lo.uisville, South Bend, Rock Bluffs and
Wyoming will present similar claims.
The county commissioners must put an
emphatic no to all such appeals for aid.
The taxpayers caDnot. and will not al
low it to be done. JCagle.
Truo enough, Cass county is one of the
best watered counties in the state, and
certainly has taken good care to have
bridges put across all the btreams within
its borders, and by the testimony of the
Eagle those bridges are now in good con
dition. We are glad of it. Neither the
Herald nor the city of Plattsmouth be
grudges one dollar that lias been spent to
put the county bridges in such satisfac
tory condition, and the northeast corner
of Cass county has helped build every
bridge in the county, and helped cheer
fully wherever the bridge was needed
by even a few citizens. Now the Platte
river bridge would be of great benefit
and convenience to a large portion of the
people of Cass county, both in and out
of Plattsmouth, and though the Eayle
attempts to rule Plattsmouth city resi
dents out of county citizenship it can't
quite do it. The average American far
mer is just and honest; the farmers of
Cb8 county are above the average in in
telligence and are both honest and just.
We claim the bridge in question will,
when built, be of benefit to every portion
of the county, more especially to this
section it is true, but nevertheless of
benefit to the whole county. Now would
the Eagle have us understand that be
cause the building of the bridge would
bejof more direct benefit to Plattsmouth
than to some other section of the county
that it believes the farmers of the county
will so far forget their sense of justice and
honesty of dealing as to opposo it on
that ground t Well, if so, we beg leave
to say the Eagle may think so, but the
Herald don't, and no other paper in the
county has'expressed any Buch thought.
The Louisville Observer, which, by the
way, the Eagle tries to hush up by sug
gesting if a bridge across the Platte is to
be built it better be at that point, says:
Our opinion is, such a structure would
be a decided benefactor to the county in
general." But even if this were not true,
then the rest of the county should feel
that honest fair dealing required of them
that tuey give their approval to a ' meas
ure that would be of such great benefit
to so many of it3 citizens, to those who
have ever done their part in bridge
building in all parts of the county, even
when the bridge was to be built across
the Weeping Water, and was of no prac
tical benefit to the citizens elsewhere. Let
us have the bridge.
Voorhees of Indiana comes to the res
cue of Mr. Cleveland just at the moment
George AVilliam Curtis abandons him.
To a considerable extent the senator veri
fies the indictment made by Curt's. He
says: If you tmnk nothing has been
done to eliminate the ropublican par
tisan posion from our political system,
suppose you cast your minds eye around
over Indiana and see how many republi
can office holders you can find in this
irreat common wealth. 1 here is but one
presidental postoffice at this moment held
by a republican and if there is a fourth
class postoffice in the Btate not filled by
a democrat it is because no democrat has
been found who is willing to take it."
In view of this emphatic testimony from
the tall sycamore ot the Wabash, we
should think that the bourbon who has
been criticising the civil seryice reform
of the president would feel heartily
ashamed of himself.
The Omaha Herald comes bravely to
the front and says that what is true of
Indiana is? equally true of every other
state in the union, and lectures the grumb
lers with an exceedingly loud voice. They
wanted the earth and they have the earth,
but they go on whinning all the same.
Of course Mr. Curtis will say that that
isn't what the president promised him be
fore the election. But what a democrat
promised before election doesn't go. It
is what he does after election that counts
among his true friends. Lincoln Jour
nal.
Ex-governor, C. C. Carpenter, of Iowa,
who twice honored the position of chief
executive of that state, and twice sat in
congress at Washington, and who won the
rank of lietenant colonel in battling for
his country, may now be seen any day on
his farm near Fort Dodge, Iowa, with
his coat off, working in the fields with
his men gathering in the harvest, a very
"Cincinnatus of the West" He came
out of public life poor in money sense,
but is one of the most genuinely honor
ed men in the Hawk-Eye state to day.
It is noblemen like thi3 who have made
Iowa a great state and are the nucleus of
progressive republican principles. Lin
coln News.
Judge O. P. Mason's letters to the
railway managers of the state, which have
been published on the inside pages of
this paper, show deep study and hard
work, for which he should receiye a great
deal of credit from the people, whose
interests he is serving. Judge Mason's
Dosition will be sustained. The rates
must come down. Falls City Journal.
Just So-
Utah should never be admitted as a
state unless polygamy is absolutely driven
from existence. Lincoln News.
Over the hcud of tho home secretary
tho queen has grunted a respite of one
week to Israel Lipski, convicted of mur
der in London on purely circumstantial
evidence. As frequently happens in
English courts, the judge's charge, rather
than the evidence introduced, convicted
the prisoner. London papers with reports
of the trial have just come to hand, and
they show conclusively that the judge in
his "summing up" made an argument
which took the whole case out of the
hands of the jurors and left them no al
ternative but a verdict of guilty. The
case is, however, remarkable, as contrast
ed with American murder cases, for the
short lapse of time between the crime
and its expiation. The murder was com
mitted on the 28th of June; the trial be
gan on the 2(Jth of July, and on the 30th
of July the prisoner wan sentenced to be
hanged, the 15th day of August being
fixed as the day of execution. Had the
sentence been carried out there would
have been only forty-eiyht days between
the death of the victim in her bed and
the death of the criminal on the scaffold.
St. Louis Qlobe Democrat.
NEBRASKA NEWS.
The Dawes county crops are reported
better than last year.
The Fremont campmectiug is said to be
one of grand success.
President Cleveland will be invited to
visit Lincoln on his western trip.
The Nebraska City band has been
made that of the Second regiment.
By Sept. 1, the city of Hastings will
have the incandescent electric light.
Engineers are busy locating the new
wagon bridge across the Missouri at
Omaha.
A couple of burglars at Schuyler were
each sentenced to five years in the peni
tentiary. A number of persons in different parts
of the state have been struck and killed
by lightning.
Buyers from Illinois are buying all the
corn and hay they can get, in the vicinity
of Aurora, Neb.
At Chadron track laying has begun on
the Douglas extention of the Fremont,
Elkhorn fc Missouri Valley railroad.
The Saunders county prohibitionists
held their convention at Wahoo Aug. 9.
They nominated a full county ticket.
Pawnee will vote, September 12, on
the proposition to issue bonds to the
amount of $28,000 to build a svsteni of
waterworks.
Thomas Morton, proprietor of the Ne
braska City News, and the pioneer pub
lisher of tne state died at Nebraska City
on the evening of the 10th.
Last week during an electrical shower
a farmer named Wesley Ilible who was
working obout a threshing machine near
Gordon was struck by lightning and kill
ed.
Lizzie Young, a girl ten years ot age
living in Hastings, who was born blind
has been civen her siirht by a successful
surgical operation.
The pitcher of the Seward nine broke
his arm Tuesday of last week while pitch
ing a game at David City, lie snapped
the bone between the elbow and shoulder.
Ex-Governor Furnas and his assistants
are preparing for the state fair. The ex
hibition this year will be the biggest
thing of the kind ever seen in the 6tate,
Callaway, Neb. gave James, a hard
character who had killed a man named
Hayes and then got clear on trial, till ten
o'clock to leave town, which he finally
did.
A young man named Hulit, who has
heretofore borne a eood reputation, has
been arrested at Beatrice for stealing
goods from his former employer. He con
fesses his gui.t.
Charles Owen, the youngest of two
horse thieves who escaped from jail at
Blair some time ago, returned a few days
ago accompanied by his mother and step
father and gave himself up.
A dispatch from Benkleman says
cloud burst on the upper Rickaree and
Republican rivers did great damage
Two new bridges were washed out and
six emigrants are reported drowned.
A company has been formed to utilize
the water power of the Blue at Beatrice
They will, after getting the dam built, at
once put up a paper mill, other manufac
tunng enterprises will follow.
A committee of Lincoln cit'zens have
recommended to the council the advisa
ability of issuing not less than $40,000
of bonds to purchase grounds and build
a hospital, if it can be lawfully done.
A U. P. freight running into Omaha
one night last week run over an unknown
man and cut him so all to pieces that the
remains were wholly unrecognizable It
is thought he was a tramp stealing a ride
and that he fell off the brakes.
C. B. Seldon, formerly a well-known
citizen of Omaha, was shot and killed
while writing in his office in Manville,
Wvo.. on Sunday evening. The shot was
fired throush the window: one was also
fired at his wife but missed her.
A loan of $12o,000 was recorded in
Beatrice a few days age. it was given
on 4,000 acres of land in Gage county.
together with large tracts in Thayer.
Pawnee and Washinton counites. by
John W. Bookwatter the Ohio manufact
nrer and politician.
Pick out the piece of Real Estate you
want and then call for price and terms
unoa Windham & Davies. Over Bank
of Cass Co. 18tf.
(,'ontimud from st page.
Papers arc being prepared asking for
the extradition of boodlor MctJarit'Ie.
Senator Riddlcbarger who was impris
oned at Woodstock Va., for contempt of
court was released by a nub.
Not less than twenty people were taken
11 at Pittsburg from eating cake bought
at a bakers' which contained chronic ycl-
ow or some other poisonous compound.
The internal revenue department have
ssued a circular requiring all collectors
o make a report of the amount of spirits
on hands he-Id by persons and firms on
October 1.
The White River Utes headed by the
old chief Colorow seem to be remaining
quiet. The settlers are making prepara
tions to make "good Indians" out of
them if the government remains inactive.
One day last week a gang of roughs
and pickpockets terrorized and robbed
the pa jengers on the steamer Alaska on
its way from Put-'u-Bay to Detroit. Six
of them have been u'rested and identih
eed in Detroit and the authorities hope
to make it a case of capital punishment
for robbery on the high seas.
MONDAY.
The queen has grunted the Jew, Lipski,
a rcspito of one week.
Prince Ferdinand has taken oath at
Tiinova as ruler of Bulgaria.
A cyclone is reported near Paris, France,
which caused loss of life and property.
Frank llatton says Robert Lincoln
does not want the presidential nomina
tion.
One more person injured in the Chats-
worth wreck has died. It is claimed the
tram was ruuumtr 00 miles an hour at
the time of the uccident.
The unionist or government party in
the British house or commons is steadily
losing strength. Gladstone is preparing
a speech to be delivered when the Irish
national league is proclaimed.
Sheriff Kendall and party are reported
to be surrounded by Chief Colorow and
his Utes. Some fighting is said to have
gone on in which several Indians were
shot. Colorow is thought to be sending
runners out for additional reeuforceiiients.
His present force is estimated at 125
bucks.
TUESDAY.
Cleveland will visit Omaha on his wes
tern trip.
A steamer just arrived at Queenstown
spoke to the yacht luistle on August 0.
Sunday at Leon, Iowa, a man named
James Reynolds was lynched for haviug
committed an assault on a Miss Noble
two weeks ago.
Tho United States Custom house offi
cers at Charlotte (N. Y.) seized two Can
adian schooners on the ground they had
not been inspected by U. S, inspectors.
Another election in England tor a
member of the house of commons has re
sulted in return of the Gladstonian can
didate. It is regarded as a great yictory
by the liberals.
United States Senator Stanford of Cal
lforma has been summoned to court to
show cause why he should not answer
certain questions asked him by the Pacific
railway commission.
Prince Victor Bonaparte has issued a
manifesto saving he intends in the future
to be sole chief of all imperialist commit
tees in France. Ihe policy is intended
to restore the empire.
A. G. Arco a prominent democratic
local politician and a wealthy man of St.
Joseph Mo. has been arrested for stealing
mules. He claims he can prove an alibi
The arrest has created a great sensation
Secretary Lamar has revoked the order
that withdrew from settlement a large
amount of lands lying along the Atlantic
tfc tPacific, and it leaves them now open
to setlement. There are about 20,000,
000 acres of these lands, partly claimed
by the Atlantic fc Pacific and partly by
other roads.
The White River Ute outbreak contin
ues much the same. It is reported Sher
iff Kendall had a skirmish with Chief
Colorow's band in which the latter were
worsted, several being wounded. Chief
Colorow is reported as asking fifteen days
in which to return to the reservation
This is said to be a ruse to gain time to
gather more followers. Washington City
omciais consider the reports ot the out
break greatly exaggerated.
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never varies. A marvel of pur
ity, trenB'h and who'.esorneress. Mon co
notnical than the ordinary kind. xnd iMunot be
eold in competition with "the multitude r-f low
tet, short weight alum or nli'pio-.tf iowIi-rs.
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conveniently and pleasantly situ
atel, may be had on
Uonthly Paymls
or on ONE, TWO, or THREE
YEAHS' TIME. Persons want
inir a lot and desiring" to build
thereon, are requested to call and
see lis and we will tell them some
thing; to their advantage Wo
have for sale a very hire variety
of real property, both improved
and unimproved, and we can hard
ly fail to satisfy you it you wish
to purchase. If you have pro
perty of any kind which you wish
to exchange, list it on our books.
Remember that we have the best
bargains in the city in the way of
realty.
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Lots in Palmer's Addition
to Plattsmouth.
Lots in Townsend's Addi
tion to Plattsmouth.
Lots in Thompson's Addi
tion to Plattsmouth.
Lots in Haves' Addition to
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Lots in luke's Addition to
Plattsmouth.
Lots in Sage's Addition to
Plattsmouth.
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business property in the city for
sale. If you wish to purchase let
us know what you want.
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