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REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
The Republican electors of the State of
Nebraska nre requested to send delegates
from the several counties, to meet in con
vention, at the city of Omaha, Tuesday,
May 15, 188, at 8 o'clock p. in., for the
purpose of electing tour delegates to the
National Republican Convention, which
meets in Chicago June 10, 1888.
TIIE API'OHTIONMENT.
The several counties are entitled to re
presentation as follows, being bused upon
the vote cast for Hon. Samuel Maxwell,
supremo Judge, in 1887, giving one dcl-egnte-at-largc
to each county, and one
for each 150 votes and major fraction
thereof! :
jf'OUNTIKS.
YOTKS.IOOUNTIKH.
VOTKS
tuxua
.nfelope .
Arthur....
lilaine ....
J'.ooue ,
liox Butte
lliowil . ..
litlttvo ...
Sutler ....
Kurt
CU4S
:edar
Uiae
Cherry ...
Uheenue .
CI iv
Colfax
C'limini; ...
Cunte'
Dakota
Jl.iwes ....
Dawson ...
Dixon
DoiitrH ....
Douglas ...
Dundy
Fillmore . ,
Franklin ..
Frontier ..
Furnas.....
lat"
Cailleld ...
iiosper. ...
(irant
reeley ...
Hall
Hamilton
Harlan
Haye.
Hitchcock .
Hon
Howard...
...H'JelTtsrsoii ...
.. . yl.Iolinson ....
... l! Kearney
... 2!Keyal'aha..
. . K Keuli
... 4 KliOX
... !' Lancaster...
... 1-1 Lincoln . .
. . . 9' Louau
. .. J Loup
. .IB Madison
.. . 5 Mc ' lierson .
. . . S Merrick
...5 Nance
...11 Nemaha ...
. . . II Nuckolls
...7 (Hon
... 7 Pawnee
...17 Perkins ... .
... 6 Pierce
...7 Polk
.. s Platte
.. . r. Phelps
..' icliardsoii..
...37 lied Willow.
... 4 Saline
. . 10 Sarpy
. .. 7 Sa.iuders ...
...10 Seward
.. 6 dicridau
... l! Mierinan...
. . . 3 Sioux ,
. .. 5 Stanton
. . . 1 Hiayer
.. 4 riiouias
...11 Valley
. . .io .VHSliington
. .. S; Wayne . . . .
... 4i Webster
. . 6 Wheeler
. 8
. f.
.10
. 7
. li:
1;.
12
10
.. 'J
. c
. . y
.. s
. . !
. . 3
. .1 or
..1!
jl'iiorar. territory..
It is recommended that no proxies b;
admitted to the convention, except such
as ara held by persons residing i:i the
counties from the proxies are given.
Geokoe D. Meiklejohx.
Walt. M. Skelky, Chairman.
Secretary.
The 23rd day of April has been dtsig
nated as Arbor day by Governor Thayer.
After May 1st Michigan will have
prohibition, as that is the day set by law
of that state.
The democrats of Indiana are going to
give, a ball in honor of Sim Coy, the con
victed tally-sheet forger. They will next
run him for vice president.
The Kentucky rascal was not turnetl
out by the democrats, he walked out of
his own free will and took the content
of the State treasury with him.
Txie convention yesterday at Des
Moines. Iowa, was very enthusiastic.
The republicans believe William B. Alli
son is on his way to the White House.
. Tub prohibitionists, in Tennessee, will
support a ticket of their own this year.
and there is a strong tendency toward n
similar action in Georgia and Missippi.
All roads are now exchanging freight
with the "Q" and the railroad men art
all in good spirits and startling devel
op enieuts are promised for next Monday.
Tub Herald invites correspondence
from every section of the county. It is
i
the aim of thi3 paper to get as much I
county news as possible and we want our
readeJs to help us out.
The Arizona Sentinel published at
Unia, Arizona, conies to us and makes
our mouth water. It says ripe strawber
ries have been picked in the gardens
there since the 1st dav of March.
Sxow and sleet in the Eastern states
whilst here in lovely Yuma the senss
are feasted with fragrant Llossons and
the eye delighted with bight colored
flowers Arizona Sentinel.
A Southern editor says frankly that
he "does not understand the tariff prob
lem." If all the editors of the country
should take a notion to be equally can
did about the matter, the reading public
would probably be treated to a first-class
surprise in the way of acknowledged be
wilderment. Globe-De m ocra t.
As both th strikers and the Burlington
officials express themselves well satisfied
with the situation. There appears no
longer any occason for worry by out
siders, as general business is not serious
ly disturbed, and the question naturally
arises, What has the strike accomplished?
This is a fair question, and should be re-
jneinbcreu 10: iuiurw iwwb"
i
r - l AivniTrnnriPQ
system was not ,.
for the simple reason that InUia.i t
were opposed to education and unwill
ing to take advantage of the facilities
offered them for that purpose. But con
gress has gone on voting money to sup
port Indian schools, nevertheless, under
pressure from certain religious and be
nevolent organizations which have never
had any proper conception of the Indian
character, or any definite idea of the In
dian situation. If education had been
made compulsory to begin with, good
results would undoubtedly have been
reached by this time; but in leaving the
parents practically free to do as they
pleased in the case, the opportunity of
success was forfeited, and the schools
have proved to be a mere mockery.
It is useless to talk about inducing the
Indians to accept any of ttie processes of
civilization in a voluntary way. They
never have done so, as their history plain
ly testifies. Their methods of reasoning
are entirely different from thoso of the
white race. They have no respect for
anything but force. The considerations
which serve to convince the judgment
and enlist the favor of the ordinary
American citizen have no effect what
ever upon their peculiar form cf intelli
gence. They are governed wholly by
their traditions, their prejudices, and
their fears. It is not suficient to show
them that a certain line of action will
promote their progress and develop their
ability to support themselves in an inde
pendent fashion. They do not wish to
make progress, and have no desire to ex
change their present dependent position
for one of self-sustaining and self-respect
ing sort, it suits tnem best to preserve
their tribal relations, to live in idleness,
and to keep their children ignorant like
themselves. The only process by which
they can ever be really civilized is that
i of compelling them to discard their old
savage customs and doctrines; and the
proper place to begin is with the schools,
which may be made to train the rising
generation to improved uses, in spite of
the objections of the parents. This
theoray will be resisted, of course, by
that large body of good people whose
misfortune it is to have more sentiment
than information upon the subject; but
it is the correct theory, and congress can
not do a better thing, for the Indians as
well as for the country, than to adopt it
is the basis of all future legislation m
that connection. Globe Democrat.
Perhaps the most singular curiosity iw
he book world is a volume that belongs
to the family of the Prince deLigne, and
is now in Fiance. It is entitled. "The
Passion of Christ," and is neither written
r.or printed. Every letter of the text is
cut out of a leaf, and, being interleaved
with blue paper, Is as readily read as the
best print.
The labor and patience be
stowed upon its composition must have
been excessive, especially when the pre
cision and minuteness of letters are con
idered. The general execution in every
respect is indeed admirable, aud the vel
lum is of the most delicate and costlv
kind. Kudolph II. of Germany offeree
for it, in 1(510, 11,000 ducats, which was
probably equal to 00,000 at this day
The most remarkable circumstance con
nected with this literary tieasure is that
it bears the royal anus of England: but
when it was in that country, and by
whom owned, has never been ascertained
A remarkable engineering feat has
just been carried out in China In the face
of unusual physical obstacles. This was
the stretching of a steel cable of seven
strands across the Luna River by Mr. A.
de Liede, a Danish civil engineer, aided
only by unskilled Chinese labor. The
cable is strung from two joints 4G48 feet
apart. The height of one support is 447
feet above the present level of the river
and the second support ia 737 feet above
it. The vertexover over the water is 78
feet. The Chinese cable is the longest but
one in tue world, lue telegraph air
cable across the Kistna has a span of 5,
070 feet; two similar cables cross the
Gange3, one 2,900 and the other 2,830
feet. A third line of 1,130 feet crosses
the Iloohly, und in the United States
there is one over the Missouri cf 2.00o
feet. Incl'an Engineer.
The Iowa legislature has just passed a
bill, without debate, which is not only
useful but important and worthy of gen
eral adoption. It provides that drug
gists selling poisons shall label them as
poison and shall also place upon such
I ibels at least two antidotes for such
poison.
WnEX the fractional curreiicy bill is
presented to the Senate it will be killed.
Shinplasters were tolerated for a dozen
years or more as a "war measure," but
they were a nuisance, and the country
was ylad to get rid of them.
utters its plea on i.
ersof the Pacific slope, who u. .
ed with ruin by the bill. What its eiievi
would be on tho men who havo invested
their all in California and Floridian fruit
farms can be seen from these figures:
Duty linler
ilie I'i'l.
Five
Free
Free
Fiee
1! ic per Ih
Present duty.
Va per li
l.en ons ;.(! per box
'ranj; - per box
Plum and p. une. .In per 11
Ka sins L'c per It)
And at about the same time
the Can-
adian tanners and traders hold a jubilee
over the bright prospect of their being
able to possess the United States market
by the kindness of Mills. Farmers, es
pecially in the Northwestern states, can
not do better than study these figures of
tariff on products which are all directly
the products of the farm or of the soil:
Canadian
rate.
.10c till
.I'.c lui
...loc lm
V.
ia e.
15c. bu
l!i p c
in, 20 pc
lo p c
Mill.-.'
late.
Free
Free
Fre
Free
Potatoes.
Reans....
Peas
Tomatoes.
3uc bu
Allother vegetable
including sweet
potatoes 20 p c
Hums lc lb
currants lc lt
Peppermint and ot h
er esseutrial oils. 20 pc
Blacking 25 p c
Uncus .2' pc
Kr-.oms 2". p c
fttusbea -J.' p c
Flax (raw) 20 ton
Flax (hackled) $40 ton
T'W 10 toll
Cement (raw or i-
tone) $1 ton
Cement (burnt) 7'ic Wefts
Cement hydraulic 4oc bil
Ceinen hyiirolie. in
bulk ,re bu
Cement. Portland, etc. .20 P e
Soap, common 1' iC ft
Scan, white, etc. (not
10 po
1c lb
lc lb
Z p c
2j p e
J p c
to p C
i.'5 p e
ton
540 ton
10 lou
If) p c
JO p c
20 p C
20 p C
liO p e
20 p e
Five
Free
j ree
free
20 p c
s I'e
20 p c
20 p e
Free
Five
Five
Fiec
Free
Krer
Free
F e
Free
toilet 2c lb 20 p c Fixe
Mr Mills' bill contemplates abolition of
that direct protection which the present
tariff law give to niueteen farm products,
and reduction of the mcausure of protec
tion given to three others. The farmeis
of the Pacific slope, of the Southwest,
and of the Northwest and Northeast are
deprived of protection to their grain,
hemp, and fruits, while those of the
Middle states are to be bankrupt by free
wool. And yet the Cobden Club nicn
have the insolence to present themselves
as "friends of th" fanner." Inter Ocean.
DEMOCRATIC PLEDGES.
A few weeks more and the democratic
party will again appeal to the people to
support it at the polls. No one can tell
upon what grounds they will ask this
support, till after their convention meets
and its platform is framed. Four year
ago it declared that no party should be
permitted to remain long in power lest it
grow corrupt. This was the principal
argument it used to induce the people to
place it in control of the government.
This argument will not be used any
more.
Four years ago it also pledged itself to
"restore economy, to revive respect for
law, and to reduce taxation to the lowest
limit." It has not done, nor is it trying
to do, any one of these things. The par
ty abo declared itself in favor of "honest
civil service reform," and avowed that it
is a duty of the government "to mete
out equal and exact justice to all citizens,
of whatever .nativity, race, color or per
suasion religious or political." It :
hordly reccssary to tell newspaper read
ers, democratic or republican, that the
record of the past three years demon
strates that, in each of these particulars,
democratic professions have been flag
rantly and picturesquely belied by dem
ocratic practices.
It has been discovered that while Mr.
Lamar was Secretary of the Interior he
directed a subordinate to sign a number
of patents instead of signing them him
self, as required by law; and now a spe
cial act of Congress has to be passed to
give said patents validity, The moral
of this story lies in the fact that Mr. La
mar is at present a member of the high
est judicial tribunal of the country, hav
ing been promoted to that position on
account of his alleged superior knowl
edge. Globe Democrat.
Some, of the papers are advancing the
idea that the United States Senators
should be elected by a direct vote of the
people. This is not a new idea by any
means, bucu a scheme as tins has olten
been put forward, both by practical
statesmen and by dctrinaries. Much
pan be eaid in favor of such a proposi- j
tion, but there is little chance of its being
adopted just yet.
It begins to look as though Dick Tate
was not the only guilty one, as the Judges i
of the Kentucky Supreme Court have
been in the habit of drawing their sala-
ries in atlvance from Treasurer Tate,
This goes to show how dillieult it will be
to convict Mr. Tate, eyen if he should bo
ariestcd and put o:i t.ial. i
bilia i. .
probably o'u ..... -
That he could thus h lya lia;irantly ami
repeatedly violated the law without de
tection had lie Ijccii.su jeeted to ordinary
surveil'anee, no intelligent man can be
induced to bo ieve. Tlic inference is un
avoidable that these loans were m ole for
tho purpose of postponing and defcat ug
the enforcement of tlusc: provi.v.ous of
the statute ivquiiing regular investiga
tions to b: made and suitable tehts to be
applied in the inteiests of public saft iy.
In other words, the Cvncluion must be
that these Democratic patriots who bor
rowed money from "Honest D'.ck Tate"
did so with u tacit, if nut positive prom
ise to shield and !i-ist liim in his policy
of conducting h'.s oliico, regardless of the
law. Tlic-v Knew, at imv rat", that h
was div fling fc?t;ito funds to illegal ami
dishonest uses, and they kent silent about
it in consideration, it is impossible to
doubt, of the fact that they wer person
ally proli;inj by his conduct in that di
rection. I uis does not excuse; lum l ;
any dcgiee. of course; but it doe
help to explain why ills rascality was not
sooner disclosed, and it does h : a bhav
of the responsibility in the case upon oili-
ers than himself. Governor Bucl.ner lc
serves credit tor having caused the but
to be found out and proclaimed: bui
what shall be s:i'd of Govet nor I5uc!..'.er
predeccssoi s and ll;o other State; oflh
and legisla'o's ol Kentucky who liav
failed for so many vea s to ascertain or
to t'-il, at least that there was any
thing wrong in t lie affairs of the S!at
Treasury '. And what shall be said of a
D.irtv winch. Willi amt)! and continual
power to uncover tind correct offiViV
abuse, has become 'so shanief ill 1 v cho. I
of justifying its professions agd f iiitiil'p
Us obligations ?
IOWA'S FA V QUITE SOy.
ins republicans ot Jowa, in a conven
tion composed of a thousand leading
representatives of the party, vestda;
eb cted delegates to lie republican in'
tional convention, and endorsed Willian
B. Allison as thii'" choice for presidential
candidate. There was an cnthu.-iasui in
the proceedings of the convention which
demonstrated me camesuv ss and Hope
fulness of the delegates. The rcpubli
cans of Iowa believe Mr. Allison to be
the man for the emergency, and they ex
pect to convince the party's representa
tives at the national convention that tin y
are right.
Mr. Allison is absolutely above and be
yond criticism; he has wm the respect
and admiration of tiiose who eyen d
not agree with him. His claims will be
well presented, and if he receives the
nomination he will be elected bv a hand
some majority.
"The distance of the star, Alph.i Cen
tauri, may be stated in round numbers to
Ik3 twenty billions of miles. Now,
pillion means a million or millions, so
that the distance of Alpha Alpha Cen
tauti mav be stated to be twenty millions
of millions of miles. Let us suppose a
railroad train to leave the earth, traveling
day and night at the rate of fifty mihs
an hour without stoppages. In iix
months it would reach the moon. In 200
years it would reach the sun, ami in 6,000
years it would reach the planet Neptune,
the orbit of which forms tho extreme
known limit of the planetary system.
The same train, however, would not reach
the star Alpha Ccutauri in less than. 42,
000 oears. Oue more illustration may be
useful. Comets, in general, revolve in
very ccc ntric orbits, tt hen a comet is
in the perihelion of its orbrt it is compar
atively near to the earth; on the other
hand, when it i3 of tip- aphelion it is re
mote. Far instance, the celebrated com
et of 1858, known as Donati's comet, one
of the greatest comets of modern times,
at the time of its passage of the peiih?-
liau was distant from the sun 5O.OC0.O00
miles, but when it has attained the aphe
lion of its orbit (which will occur iu
about 1,000 years hereafter) its dis
tance from the earth will not be less
man ay,uuu,uuo,uoo nines, ow our
typical railway train starting from
the earth would not reach the aphe
lion of the orbit of Donati's comet
in less than 60,000 years, anel yti
the aphelion distance cf Donati's comet
is oiily uue seven-hundredth part of the
distance fr om the earth to Alpha Cen-
tauri, the nearest of the fixed stars.
When we consider the revolutions in the
realms of space, anel how far back it
must bo when orbits were established, we
catch some idea of the eternity, practical
ly, of matter in motion, an I it must
necessarily alw.iys have been in motion.
How trifling men's life and very existence
in time, and the propriety of a niode&t
spirit."
..jA-iiorts. The
iuiu.i..,,. .. in cue's own gas-
den is a more luaitl'elt pleasure than tho
pleasure derived from the flower in the
button-hole. Of course there is a deal
of sentiment about button-hole flower
love, and it may nt be f.-.ir or useful to
compare it with practical jluwcr love,
but it may be a en: ions observatr n u
h ive made for years that those who put
most flowers in their coats as a rub; put
least seeds and cuttings in the ground.
I am not saying that to use and never
produce flowets is wrong in any deg-ce
whateyc it is, pcrlia'p.1-, as well in one
sense that it is so but the doci ' ie
sought to be shown is that the gieaU-st
plcasu es are reaped l.om, anel the evi
deuce of the truest flower love are showt.
by, tlie-i-1 uliivation. Iet(.f Mff':'j.
TSA't BOOKS.
Tne matter of school books has become
a great problem on account of changing ran sll()W so rnml a rt.corti of rure8i aa
from one book to some wv one tlia has Dr. King's New Discovery for Cousump
just been published. Nearly every year, . ' Guaranteed to do juit what is claim-
those who have children to send
, , , , , , ,
sc-iooi nave to ouy a new set
of books.
and on the gri ater part of them it faUs
heavily jis they ha ve not the money to
spare, it lias rjccome so mat whenever
a new teacher is ducted, he has some par- j
tieular book which lie things is better i
than the one he :sjjsingand lie persuades j
the school directo:s loa lopt his hobby,
when in rea ity it is no better than the
one they were already using, and t'tiy
have changed the botsks so oben th it
here nie not more than two school di.j
t '( is in the county that use the same
!"eks. We have a lare class of renteis
that move from one part of tiie county to
mother, they arj financially unable to
bit" a new set of boohs each vear.
Now if t!u; whole countrv should
adopt a uniform system, say for five
y nrs, it would be a great saying to this
c'ass. Of course o:i the other sitle it
COMBINATION SALE
o
AT AJXJQ'
At Fremont, Nebraska,
CONSIS I'TZbTO OF
SPORTED ArJtXQRADS
CLYDESDALE AND THE CLEVELAND BAYS,
AND THE STANDARD BRED STALLION C. C.
ALSO
Am-nn wisliins Information in rejrar.l io the
Oregon Horse i l.iid t o . Fren.ont, ai fi fr lrifoi
Utvs thev wilt pleas'" hu dress .1 . I . va i-ii. r
lI V'-h on I'ereherons. C. C. inu Oregon llor'cs
e-asll. O.i tUvues and Cleveland Bays, one i;nu t w years iimewiii oeg ven. ai per ceni inter
est, r 5 per cent d'.scount for cash. "SALE To COMMENCE AT 2 O'CLOCK p. M.
F. M. WOODS, Auctioneer.
IS
In Cass
He also lias the latest styles of machinery, such as: Xew De
parture Cultivators;, J.nckeye and Minneapolis Binders and Mowers
Plows, Harrows and the celebrated Lister and Drill; Shuttler and
Moline YXons. He ulio has c ultivators from 10.00 up to $'20.00;
Harrows and Flows iu s:iuie proportion. lie has a branch house at
"Weeping "Water. Ee sure and call on Fred before you buy, either at
Plattsmonth or Weeping "Water.
IMutismouili and Vcvuuq Vntcrf ZZchvunLv: '"
1 iiirtv-five young irttTTes in tho Iowa
Wcsleyan university are being diilled iu
tho manual of arms. Their military cos
tume consist! of a shoit skirt of navy blue
cloth with blouse waist trimmed with
gold braid and brass buttons, and zouave
cap to match. Bustles and corsets are.
forbidden. In addition to their bido
arms they carry four-pound rifles and are
kiilingly sweet in their movements.
Worth Knowing.
Mr. W. II. Morgan, men haut, Lake
City, Fla., was taken with a severe Cold,
attended with a distrcsn'ng Cough and
running into consumption in its first
, stages. He tried many socalled popular
cough remedies and steadily grew worse.
Was reduced in fleili, had difliculty in
breathing and was unable to sleep. Fiu-
j ally tried Dr. King's New Discovery for
I Consumption and found immediate relief,
j and after using about a half dozen bot
tles found himself well and has had no
return of th disease. No ntlier rcmmlv
f en Tor it. iriai oottie ireo alt!. U.
I r 1 1 e k e wo orug store.
In another column you will find an
ad. of the sale of soma fine horses, by
the Oregon Horse and Land Co., of Free
mont, Nebraska.
English Spavin Liniment removes all
Hard, Soft or Calloused lumps aud
Blemishes from horses. Blood Spavin,
Curbs. Splints, Sweeney, Stifles. Sprain,
Pink Eye, Coughs and, etc. Save $ 50
by use of one bottle. Every bottle war
ranted by F. G. Fkickk & Co.
Druggists, Plattsmouth, Neb.
The Home Fire Insurance Company-,
of Omaha, employs only reliable agents,
who are permanent resielents in jour vi
cinity, and whom you will often meet in
the future, and as their future fcticccss
and business will depend on the manner
in which th-y transact that business, you.
may expect honest, honorable and cour-
teousdealing by the agents of this com-,
pany.
HP
t-rr
2
!orss-100
Pereherons or C. C. will nlcioe address ttie
iiiation repardintf me i iue anu eieeiacu
reinoiu. rurii-. w-i vc nun us nine iu u
at 8 per cent interest, or & per cent aiacc.uni ior
0 N S-5 0
OREGON HORSE & LAND CO.
J4MES P. MALL0N.
THE
County.
Dealer,