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REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
The Republican electors of the State of
Nebraska are requested to send delegates
from the several counties, to meet in con
vention, at the city of Omaha, Tuesday,
May 15, 1S8S, at 8 o'clock p. in., fur the
purpose of electing lour delegates to the
National Uepublican Convention, which
meets in Chicago Juno 10, 18SS.
THE APPORTIONMENT.
The several counties are entitled to re
presentation as follows, being based upon
the vote cast for Hon. Samuel Maxwell,
supreme Judge, in 1887, giving one del-egate-at-large
to each county, and ouc
for each 15 3 votes and major fraction
thereoff :
1
COUST1K3. VOTES. jfOUXTIJS. VOTIS.
Adams
Antelope .
Arthur
J-tlaine
oue
Jtos Kutte
Hi own . ..
Bufl.o ...
Hutier ....
Kurt
Cass
Cedar
Chase
Cherry ...
Cheyenne .
Cliv.
Colfax
Cuming
Cuftc
Dakota
laves .
flaivson ...
fMxou
JVjdsie ....
lou alas ...
Dundy
Fillmore .
Kranfclia. ..
Frontier ..
t'urnas
diaifp
tlai field ...
tiosper. ..
Grant
Greeley ...
Hall
Hamilton
Jl.irian
l.iyes
ilijchc:ek .
Jlolt
Howard
.14'Jeffeison
. y, Johnson f
. i' Kearney 8
. 2 Key a Talis b
. s Keuli --
. 4 hr.cx 7
. p. Lancaster 'J.
.14 Lincoln s
. t' Logan 1"
. 'J Loup :'
. It; Mauison 8
. r.' Met Wrson 3
. S Merrieii 7
. r: Xane- .'
..ll'Nfiiiaha
.11! Nuckolls , 0
. 7'Otoe 1 2
. 7; Pawnee s
.17 Perkins
. 5 Pierce 4
. 7 Polk ;
8 Platte in
. r. Phelps 7
.VI iehardson 1.
.37 Fled Willow 7
. 4 Saline Is
lo srpy 5
. 7 SiiUers 12
. 10 Seward 1C
. t iherldan 7
. : -dierman 7
. 3 Sioux 2
. 5 stantou 4
. 1 Thayer 7
. 4 Thomas 2
.lLYalley 0
.lo' Vasuingtuii t
. S; Wayne . 5
. 4 Webster !)
. C Wheeler 3
.14 Yor.t 11
. 7 I'norir. territory 1
It is recommended that no proxies be
admitted to the convention, except such
as aro held by persons residing in the
counties from the proxies are given.
Geokge D. Meiklkjoiin.
Walt. M. Seeley, Chairman.
Secretary.
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SUSPSNDEHS,
VALISES.
SSB MS.
fjlifilBi,
The beer-brewers of the United States
have agreed to employ no Knights of
Labor. It is hoped now that they will
boycott beer and take to cold water for
their beverage in the future.
Sherman of the Journal shows pretty
clearly what he believes and about how
much patriotism he is posessed of when
lie clips and endorses the state rights edi
torial from the Louisville Courier Jour
nal. A man in this enlightened com
monwealth should be ashamed to print
such stuff, let alone endorse it.
The Reading railroad conductors and
brakemen are all coming west and taking
places on the C. B., & Q. road. They
are Knights of Labor and say they pro
pose to work for the "Q" regardless of
any possible prohibitory order.
Captain II. E. Palmer is receiving
hosts of favorable commendations, from
the press all over the state on account of
his candidacy for delegate to the Chica
go convention. The captain is one of
our most stalwart republicans and it
would be greatly to the credit of our
pcop'c if he should be-selected as one of
the delegates.
If the gentlemen who defend the wes
tern mail service would visit Nebraska
some time when the roads are good they
would hear of something to their disad
vantage. Parties who are receiving let
ters today which should have been an
swered a week ago will consider it a
pleasure to say si good many clever things
to these etaunch defenders of a note
worthy nuisance. Lincoln Journal.
c wish come one of authority would
visit Pla'.tsmouth.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph declares
that "every man must show his hand in
politics this year." Jt would do very
-veil, also, to let every hand entitled to
let the right cast an honest ballot and to
let the votes be counted r.s cast, "this
year." The result might not please the
democratic bulldozers, but it would be
relished by the people of the country as
a new and desirable departure. Blue
Valley Blade.
The Chicago Journal states the case
very aptly in the following : "The free
traders say that free wool is needed to
give the manufacturers cheap raw mater
ial so that they can furnish cheaper cloth.
They then attempt to prove to the sheep
growers that the price of Avool under n
high tariff has been less than under a
low tariff. Now, if the free traders want
cheap wool for the manufacturer, so as
to make cloth, why do they not keep up
the high wool tariff ?
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the Northern states that Biai.
1884, giving theui 182 electors
Beyond this is the region of doubt
conjecture upon which the linal result
depedus. Th stxty-tix electoral votes
of New York, New Jersey. Connecticut
and Indiana will decide the matter, with
the probability that New York alone
will name the president again, as it did
four years ago. It is impossible, to lie
sure, for the republicans, but not for the
democrats, to win without New York.
This possibility is so indefinite, however,
that it is as well to say frankly that New
York is the pivotal state.
It can hardly be claimed that Mr.
Cleveland is as strong in New York tit
the present time as lie was when the last
election was held. He had a plurality
then of 1047 volts only and it is safe to
say that the accidents to which ho was
chiefly indebted fur this advantage will
not be repented next November. It is
well known, furthermore, that a consid
erable number of vobs were cast for him
in that State upon the theory that he
would do certain things which he has
utterly failed to do; and such votes cer
tainly will not be given to him again.
He has done nothing whatever to justify
the confidence of those who supported
him in the belief that he would prove to
be better than his parly. His general
course goes to show that his professions
as a reformer were mere dcmagogirery
and hypocrisy, lie has not in any par
ticular acted that of a wise and command
ing statesman; but he has in repeated in
stances manifested the spirit of a petty
and foolish partisan. These facts will
all tell against him in this year's contest;
and they were all absent from the con
test of 1884, by reason of his limited pre
viotis participation in national politics.
In short, he was an untried man four
years ago, of whom great things could
be prophesied at pleasure; but since then
he has bi-en tested, and the country is
now thoroughly familiar with him. II'
he had been as well known in 1884 as ln
is known in 1888, it is not reasonable to
believe that he would have carried New
York; even by a stingy plurality of 1047:
and that is a substantial reason for be
lieving that he cannot possibly carry it
this year against a capable and populor
Republican candidate. Globe Democrat.
POLITICAL HONESTY.
In conversation the other day with a
prominent Democrat, among other criti
cisims indulged in was the one that "the
Republicans do not give their opponents
credit for political honesty," which to
hi3 way of thinking was very wrong.
Come to think of it The Herald must
to a certain extent plead guilty to the
charge, and assigns as some of its reasons
therefor that the history of the Den.ocat
ic party is not only one of treason and
disunion, but a long line of broken
pledges as well. The past being so very
distasteful to the Democratic purty, with
its history of broken pledges, that men
mention of it by an opponent is called
waving the bloody shirt, and is frowned
down upon by the entire Democratic fra
ternity. Then again every Democrat in Nebras
ka will roll his eyes in feigned surprised
at your doubts, and will ussure you that
the ballot is as free and fair in the South
as here in the Ncrth, while the law and
order party recently organized by a wing
of Democracy in Louisiana rn
placing fifty policemen at every polling
place to preserve order and prevent
fraudulent voting, nothing of that kind
was ever required at a state election iu
this part of the United States. The
perusal of democratic national platform?
for the past twenty-five years furnishes
additional unanswerable reasons for
doubting ths political honesty of our ad
versaries. The straddling of every im
portant question is further evidence of
the uncertain political conscience of the
democratic party.
A case just reported in London.
England, papers, shows the possibility of
spontaneous combustion of the body "f
a drunkard, or at least that such a body
may be set on fiio by the m.in's breath
coming in too close contact witli a light
ed candle or match. The case just re
ported is that of the body of a vbunkard
being brought into City's hospitable.
London. His body was very much bloat
ed, and vh n punctured and a lighted
match applied the gas v.hhh escaped
burned with the ordinary flame of car
bureted hydrogen. As many as a dozen
of these fiaaies were burning at tha same
time.
N c w
by politician.. . . krebabio rH-ijnunu
of the honor, without any definite idea
as to th names of the lawyers upon
whom the silken robe is to bo conferred.
The chief interest of the people of the
country, quite irrespective of party, is
that the high character of the supreme
bench shall be maintained and that no
man of small mental calibre or we;ik
moral fiber shall be called to the chair
once occupied by Join Marxhall.
Peculiar in its constitution and iu th
latitude of its far reaching powers, the
United States supremo court hns sus
tained the highest rank among the trib
unals of the world by reason of the care
ex'rcisi-d in the selection of its judges.
The opposition to the appointment of
Justice Lamar nrov from th? feeling
that he was not in either learning or abil
ity the peer of his fellow justices.
Mr. Cleveland will make a serious mis
take if he overlooks unquestioned leual
learning, juridical experience and judic
ial temper of minds in selecting a suc
cessor to Chi. f Justice AVaite.
His professions of non-partisanship
where the interests of the entire country
are at stake will now be put to a severe
test.
(. William Cuktis has at last con
fessed the reason why he and his associ
ate mugwumps refused to support the re
publican presidential tickft in 1884.
According to his statement the mug
wumps are free traders, for one thing,
and aslo disprove federal interference in
national elections in the south. Mr. Cur
tis says that he does not believe in "high
protection." That means simply that he
docs not believe in protection at all.
which is the free trader's belief Any
measure which is not high enough to
prot?ct is not protection at all but simp
ly taxation without any return exceptin-j
the revenue to the government. What
republicans believe in is protection a
rate of duties which will not admit
foreign goods to competition in our mar
ket at such prices as to lower th i stand
ard of wages below that which is a fare
rcnunieration for the labor performed.
Mr. Curtis and his fri nds do not believe
in this protection and hence ojiposs tin
republican party in it endeavor to pre
serve to American labor immunity from
cheap competition and consequently low
ering of wages. Lincoln Journal.
Greenback Credentials. The well
known fact that the Greenback party was
composed almost entirely of men of
broken party fortunes gave Luke Wal
polc, the blind justice of Indianapolis,
the prince of wags, an opportunity to
to show his native wit. Under the lat
of Indiana a debtor might escape the
payment of judgment by filing a sched
ule of his property, and thus showing
that he had nothing ver and above the
amount exempted from execution. Af
ter the organization of a Greenback con
vention that met at Indianapolis, a dele,
gate moved that a committee on creden
tials be appointed. "Mr. Chairman,"
said Luke, "it seems to me that the busi
ness of this convention could be expedi
ated considerably if each delegate wen
allowed to filj his schedule." IIarer'.
jfogazine.
The Peorirx Transi-.rijjt is expeetin.
Mr. William Springer to introduce a bill
for the admission of Canada as a stab
in the union. William understands hi
mission to be to get in democratic states
and keep out republican states, and he
has be;n watching the emigrants from
the United States to Canada for some
time and is of the opinion that they are
about strong enough in number now to
earn.- the Dominion for the democratic
party. All that will be necessary will In
to attach to the bill a provision granting
amnesty t the Canadian democrats after
the new state has been admitted for all
past ffenscs against bank and state treas
uries. Lincoln Journal.
The governor of Texas has called a
special session of the legislature to cut
down taxes. There is $2,000,000 more
in the trea-ury than he knows what to
do with. If they will just give the cow
boys a chance they will dispose of the
surplus, without any trouble.
We have been asked, to publish h
receipt of the ShaUuck fund, by quite a
number of he contributors as they claim
to hare paid in their money several
weeks ago and h:vc never seen a receipt
published or a notice of any kind about
it. We will say that we know nothing
of the fund as we understood it was paid
to the Journal we ask wiiat h is become
of the fund. Please publish the receipt
Brother Sherman.
, LUt I kliwV,
i au obtu thu
, ,ti 3 commissioner
- lao time during the
Vr states, and 1 was one
victims. Now I
! it our government
I to exchange pri
. : prevented th most
those pens, and my rc
cnll me nil xoits of
wur been u partisan.
. - You know, or at
iu a position to know, jmt
hane stopped ami why it
wai t :-i resumed. 'Will jou please in
foini"iue upon those two points, thut I
may be the more bold or more careful, as
the case may be ? I cannot find a word
about the matter iu Greeley's American
Conflic t," nor in any other work to which
I have access, and once wrote to The Ctn
tury asking thut to complete iu war pa
pers the prison business might be discuss
ed while Gc.11. Hutier was on deck, but
that magazine did not want matter of
that sort.
An early reply will confer a favor up
on, yours truly, A. W. Ci minm.
Boston, March lit. A. W. Cuminx,
Woodstoc k, 111. lU(ir Nir:-- think I
1:11 amply paid by the new phrase which
I lind in your letter describing the war ot
1 he rebellion as a "dispute In tween the
states," for any pains that I 'might take
in answering your question.
The cause of the stoppage of exchange
of prisoners was twofold: Pirst, because
the confederates refused to exc hange the
colored soldiers, claiming that they would
keep them as property to be returned to
their masters, and at first putting them
in trenches to work under lire. I ttopped
that by putting a lot of Richmond con
federate prisoners! to work under tire in
Dutch gap until Lee had the colored
men released from such work, but they
would not. exchange them.
The second, a strategic reason why
Gen. Grant desired to put an end to the
exchange was this: We had a larger
army in our hands as prisoners of war
than any one army of the confederates.
We felt it our duty to keep then, in a
proper manner, well clothed, well fed,
well cared for, well treated, well warmed,
and with all proper hospital service that
we gave our own men, so that every man
substantially that we had was fit to step
rb'ht int the ranks the moment he was
exchanged. On the contrary, as vu, if
vou were in Andersonville, as you say
know as well as anybody else, in their
view of policy, as one of the methods of
anmins their side of the dispute, tiiev
did not clothe, did not feed, nay, di
not eyen give w;.ter a d wood to tl.e
prisoners of An-lersouvil e when theie
was plenty of both ot tiiose that miLt
be had. 1 do not take so much stock in
the food question us some peopl , be
cause loud was pretty scaice in the con
federacy, and then our souheis won
otarve on about what a confederate co'ild
live on. The consequence was, aj you
know, that our men, m the hands ot the
con leclc -rates were none of them fat to
into service or exchange uutil three
o (
mouth's recruitment, and a great many
of them a much longer time than that,
and manv ot them wen1 never fit to r
turn to duty. There-fore, if we exchanged
man for man, we put into the fiyjd anoth
er larger armv than the confederates
could then recruit even by conscription,
and in the very best condition to fight
us, and we got nobody that we could use-
in return to meet them.
The wisdom of that policy you must
discuss with those who enacted it. With
it I could have nothing to do in my po
sition. But while it was very hard on
the poor fellows who were in Anderson
ville, Libliy, Salisbury, and elsewhere as
prisoners, yet they even, in their suffer
ings, were aiding their country more, in
the war of the rebellion than they could
have done if lighting in the ranks in the
condition they were put in by the other
side in the "dispute."
I perceiye you have fully overcome all
feeling in regard to the conduct of the
men toward you in Andersonville by the
use of that term. But if you use it in
discussion ith your republican friends,
unless they are different from the class
of men we have here who call themselves
ledublicans, you will be likely to hear
some pretty hard language, and perhaps
some not justifi- d by all oi the ten com
mandments. ery respectfully
your
obedient servant,
Benjamin F. Butler,
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fter Gm. Gordon's death, in Egypt,
the Queen of England wrote Miss Gordon
an autograph letter of sympathy. Miss
Gordon in re ly. interpreting a wish im
plied, aske.- the Qtvcn's acceptance of a
rocket Bib!- which had born her broth
er's companion for year?, and v.-nn copi
ously by him. Th" Bible is in a palace
in the private apartment at Windsor.
A Dr.sd n clock on a tall pedestal is
made to s;rve as a ttand. on which the
Bible open, a glass shade covering
the who!. The page wtiioh th" Queen
herself laid open ha a pointer directing
the eye to the text, "I have fought a
good fight."
At All Souls' church, the l'u:i. ..
a high easto Hindoo Christian wo ,
an interesting adilres concerning Lit u
in behalf of the cliiM willows of India, 'i 1
I'undfUi is u slender littlo woman with a I -
in:isi(!ul voice. She lias a remarkable com
maud tf English. Him was attired in tie
shsiplo w hito vestments of her xopIo. Hi e
in endeavoring to raise suflieient money t-,
cnaUx her to maintain a school in soul hern
India for the instruction of Hindoo women.
The pietul'H that the 1'undita drew of the
condition of the Hindoo woman seemed to
have a strangn interest for the hundreds of
well dressed American women accustomed to
liberty tf thought and action! Tho Hindoo
theory of creation, tho stieaker explained,
pineal tho women as a procrentive energy,
tho results of which hnvo len sorrow and
misery. The man therefore is tho master
and is without blame. It is tho duty of a
good mother to get her daughter under the
influence of a male at once, for thereby in
the female's only salvation and a hojio for a
place in heaven. It is the custom, when
children nro mere infants, to promise them
to youth: for wives. When tho girl is not
yet in her teens she is scut to the house of her
rosfclivo mother-iii-law, who educates her
with hnrsh measures and a stick, impressing
li Hin her her inferiority to tho male. Only
men nro allowed to ntudy tho philosophy of
sal vation, and a giod wife on dying centers
her thoughts on her husband, so that 011 her
ret urn t earth "-he may take the form of a
man and study the philosophy that brings
salvation.
WHEN THE Ht'SllAXn DIEM.
When tho husband dies he does not let his
thoughts revert to his wifo other than in a
feeling of pity for her loss, lest he, 011 re
turning, tako a step backward and assumo
the shape of a woman. A woman who doe.
not find salvation through, her husband will
be compelled, should she continue in tho
form of her sex, to bo reincarnated 8,400,(M)0
times. The domestic life of tho Hindoo
woman is confined in four walls, and the
only opportunity she has of going outside is
to draw water. She rises and remains
standing when her husband enters tho house
and seats himself. The husband can avail
himself of tho privilege of bathing himself
in tho Hacred river, but she, lwcauso of her
domestic imprisonment, being debarred from
making the journey, can enjoy only the ex
quisite pleasure of bathing Lis feet after Lo
has been swimming and then drink tho
water. The power of tho husband is abso
lute. He can doom his wife to hell if ho lo
in tho mood, as ho is endowed with tho
power of a god. A faithful widow worships
her dead husband as if ho were present in
the flesh. Study makes the women skepti
cal, bcuco they are jealously debarred from
it as a violation of orthodoxy.
"Missionary work cannot accomplish tho
disenthrallment of these women," said tho
Pundita; "it must bo done through educa
tion. So far as try experience goes I think
that it is next to impossible for missionaries
to reach tho orthodox peoplo, as they aro
called. There are some men who are at first
educated in western ideas, er--eeially tho
Brahmns, who will allow a Christian mission
ary to visit tho women of their household,
but most of them do it because they want the
women to bo a little educated, and since they
have no female teachers of their own they
are obliged to invite Christian women; but
I have known tho men, while they allow a
Christian missionary to visit their wives, to
strictly command their wives not to accept
any religious ideas, and thus placed the poor
woman in the plight of being compelled to
obey her husband, and at tho same time read .
her Uible. If she is sometimes convinced,
sho ha 110 power to accept the Christian faith
publicly. This renders her situation doubly
miserable." Now York World.
Kflect of Glare I'pon KyeMglit.
It appears that Professor Plateau, of the
University of Ghent, while trying to observe
tiie effects of the . irritation of tho retina
gazed steadily at tho sun for twenty seconds,
tho result being that chronic irido-choroiditis
developed, ending eventually in total blind
ness. A .number of cases are known in which
choroiditis and retinitis occurred in persons
who had observed an eclipse of the sun. Thi
single flash of a sun reflector has been known
to cause retinitis, and other temporary visual
disturbances of a functional character have
been frequently noted.
M. Keich has described a curious epidemic
of snow blindness, which occurred among a
body of lalwrers engaged in cleaning a way
through the masses of snow which obstructed
the road between Passanaur and Mteti, in the
Caucasus; tho rays of the tun reflected from
the vast stretches of snow on every side, pro
duced an intense glare of light, which the
unaccustomed eye could not support without
t?ie protection of dark glasses. A few of the
sturdiest among the laborers were able to
work with impunity, but the majority suf.
fered so much that among severity strongly
marked cases, thirty were so severe that the
men were absolute-Ij' unable to continue
work or to find their way home, and lay
prone on their faces, striving to Lido their
faces from the light and crying out fron
pain Recovery was gradual but complete.
New Ycrk Tribune,
Natural Gas and Fat Chicken.
Somewhere in the book of Job the Har
monites found authority to drill into the
earth for fuel, andf acting upon sucb author
ity, discovered a reservoir of natural gas
l.VOO feet undemeatL their bc-artb stones. It
has been piped through tho village, and
serves for both fuel and light in every Lome.
Coal, wood and oil are no longer used At
every street corner are elevated pipes where
flames burn night and day, w inter and sum
mer. They are never extinguished. Econ
omy is certainly the best lighted village in
America, one can read fine print in almost
any of the streets at midnight.
"Dj you like natural gas, Augustf we ask.
"Goot: goot! It makes my l.j kens fatl"
''.Make your chickens tut'." We can only
look our surprise.
"Ya. so fat like peegs Bugscome at night,
big bugs, little Lugs tauser.d.l Dey fly in
de gas blazes, end drop down. Hens ketch
'em, like di3. '
August opens Lis mouth and elcis-3s it. with
a mighty smack of the hps. We are thu let
into the mystery of how tiatural gas can
fatten chickens. II. D. Mason in American
Maa2ine.
Col. Itorkwell'4 Slory.
Col. A. F Rockwell, of St. Paul, will make
an interesting patriarch if bis life U sparedt
for Le will Lave a story to tell. Le Lein he
only man who saw beta Lincoln ani UarflUd
die New York World. - . .
A woman's college, with teach.; from
England, Los been established at TSlio, u
Japan.