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REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
The Republican electors of the State of
Nebraska ars requested to send delegates
from the several counties, to meet in con
vention, at the city of Omaha, Tuesday,
May 15, 1688, at 8 o'clock p. in., for the
purpose of electing lour delegates to the
National Republican Convention, which
meets in Chicago June 19, 1888.
TOE 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 one
for each 100 votes and major fraction
thereoff :
COUNTIES.
VOTES. COUJiTIKS.
VOTES.
Adams 14 Jefferson
.. 9
Antelope Uj.loluisou
. 8
Arthur.
I! Kearney ....
. 8
.. 6
Maine ....
Itoone
Box fcutte
Ki own . ..
Butla'o ...
Sutler ....
Burt
Cans
Cedar
Cliace
U'Keyal'aha..
sjKenh
4 Kliux
lj Lancaster...
14 Lincoln
t, l.omiu
" 7
..25
.. 8
.. 'J
.. 3
9 Loup
1U .Madison H
6 Merherson 1
f: Merrick
Cheriy ...
Bi Nance 6
t'hejenne liiNeinaha 0
Clav u '."Nuckolls o
Coliax 7: Otoe 12
CuiniuK 7: Pawnee 8
Cunter 17, Perkins
Dakota ft Pierce 4
Dawes 7 i'olk
Dawson 8! Platte
.10
Dixon..
iil'lieliis
7
Dodjjis ...
Douglas ..
DtiudT ...
Fillmore .
Frank liu.
frontier .
Kurnas...
'ago
Garfield .,
4ogper.. .
(irant .
flreele ..
12' "ichardson.
...37 Red Willow.
. .. 4. Saline
. . loisarpy
. .. 7:Saauders ...
..12
13
5
...12
. ..lo'Seward lo
.. r! -Sheridan.
...litiShei'iiiail.
. .. 3!Sioux 2
. .. ft i fttanton
... 1 Thayer 7
4 Thomas 2
Hall lliValley
6
Hamilton . . 10 uVashington
Harlan Wayne ft
Mayes 4" Webster 9
Hitchcock 6i Wheeler 3
Holt 14! York . U
Howard TjlUiorg. territory l
It is recommended that no proxies be
admitted to the convention, except such
as are held by persons residing in the
counties from tnc proxies are given.
George D. Meiklejohn,
Walt. M. Seeley, Chairman.
Secretary.
The tide will undoubtedly turn in fa
vor of Gresham. Ilis indorsement by
Illinois gives him a standing and pres
tire which will aid him in the stutes
which are yet to name delegates.
The president seems mere disposed to
grant favors to soliciting democrats than
lie was a year ago as the question of his
re-election is more pressing than it waB
then. He has pardoned a good many
convicts lately.
Wb have made arrangements with our
jewelry men in this city for some fine
silver watches which we propose to give
away as premiums. These watches are
warranted by the jewelry houses ef
Plattsmouth. Send us 80 subscribers to
the Weekly Herald and get a watch.
Tna launch of the gunboat Ybrktown
and the dynamite gun cruiser marks an
interesting stage in Secretary Whitney's
administration of the Navy Department.
These are the first vessels built by him
which have advanced so far toward
completion as to be put into the water.
Their value remains to be shown, and
they will be watched with special inter
est. The dynamite cruiser, being the
first experiment of the kind, will be an
object of peculiar concern.
Fon the purpose of quieting the nerves
of Brother Sherman, who appears to be
annoyed about the opposition to Capt.
FT. E. Palmer in the- delegation f his
own ward and the city, Ave can positive
ly assure the gentleman that the delega
tion from his own ward and the whole
city, are a unit in the support of Capt.
Palmer as a delegate to the National
Convention. Comaion sense would sug
gest to Bro. Sherman that Capt. Palmer's
neighbors would not oppose him for this
position of honor, in view of his fitness
and availability.
The Congregational Sunday School
and Publishing society will please accept
thanks for "Summer Assembly Days1' or
"What was seen, heard and felt at the
Nebraska Chautauqua," by Anna E.
Hann. It is a Beat volume, of 245 pages
and describes very neatly and plainly
the great things enjoyed by the author
at the assembly last summer. The au
thor portrays very finely the advantages
of the assembly both to teachers and
young pefiple encqvirning them to seek
he'? for taewselvta and qfchere in the
Sunday cel work at such places.
The Chautauqua Asi?mb1y at Crete is
meeting with excellent success 12 it8
work and w hops to see ths work con
tinue until our entire state becomes in
terested in the grand work of help for
Sunday' School Teachers.
77 NEQR0E8 DID IT.
The New Orkans Democratic journals
declare that it was the negro v te which
gave Louisiana to the Bourbons in the re
cent election. The negroes were not bull
dozed this year, nor were they bo indif
ferent as to stay away from the polls.
The colored brothers, indeed, impressed
with the importance of the contest, turned
out in full force and voted the demo
cratic ticket. This tale may be true.but.
all the same, the average Caucasian out
side the state will be skeptical on that
point.
We have not seen the official figures of
the vote in the state, mer do we know
whether or not they have yet been made
public. The first estimate of the majority
was from 20,000 to 40,000. This was in
creased to 65,000 a few days later, and
subsequently placed at 8,000. Whether
it will be left at taie figure or raised to
100.000 or 128,000 we have mo means of
knowing. It will striko most persons,
however, that a majority of 15,000 is
somewhat capacious when it Li remember
ed thatjthe entire democratie vote in the
state for Cleveland in 1884 was but 62,
529. The republicans must have polled
a few votes in the 6tate this year. War
naoth, the gubernatorial nominee of that
party, imagined that he was making a
moderately lively cauvnss, and there are
evidences that several republicans ap
peared at the polls in Orleans and a few
other parishes and deposited their ballots.
The ouestion now is. what became of
the ballots?
The vote in the Parish of Rapides is
placed at about 7,000, nearly all demo
cratic. The democratic yote in Rapides
in 18S4 was just 1,784, aud the aggregate
yote of the parish 2,027. This year,
however, Rapides appears to have polled
considerably more than twice as many
votes, and almost all of them are Bour
bon. Was the election of Geu. Nicholls
of so much niore consequence than the
election of Grovcr Cleveland that Rapi
des should feel impelled to nearly triple
its vote to bring it about?
In increase in population Dakota has
been assigened pre-eminence among the
states and territories in recent year. Bu
if the increase of votes in Rapides has
nil come from an expansion in population
' then the ratio of growth of that parish
is at least twice as great as that of the
average county in Dakota. So far as we
can learn, there have been no great gold
or silver mines discoyered in Rapides
since November,! 884, nor has Cleveland's
election had any exhilarating effects upon
its industries beyond those felt in the
other parishes. The conclusion, there
for?, is irresistible that the growth of
Rapides ha3 been shared by the remainder
of the state. If these assumptions arc
legitimate the census report of 1190 will
show that the Empire State of the Union
is not New York, but Louisiana.
Of course the republican party, as a
party, U not particularly anxious to re
tain the solid negro vote, whether in
Louisiana or elsewhere. The republi
cans would be pleased to see the colored
men of the south divide in their party al
legiance, knowing that this would divide
the white vote, break the color line and
eliminate the sectional element in our
politics. The republicans, indeed, would
be glad to believe the stories of the New
Orleans papers that many negroes voted
for Nicholls this year, providing they did
this freely and from conviction. But a
real or pretended democratic majority
this year larger than the aggregate demo
! cratic vote for presidtnt three and a half
years ago can hardly be explained on
any such assumption as this. Globe
Democrat.
SOUTH AMERICAN MOSQUITOES
Some ludicrous stories are told about
adventures with the mosquitoes. I have
been solemnly assured that very often
when tkey have attacked a boat and
driven its captain and crew below, they
hsve broken the windows of the cabin
by plunging in swarms against them, and
have attempted to burst in the doors.
Although this may be something of an
exaggeration, it is nevertheless true that
frequently horses and cattle, after the
most frightful sufferings have died from
mosquito-bites on board the vessels,
Not long ago a herd of valuable cattle
were being taken from the United States
to a ranch upon the Magdalena River,
and became so desperate under the at
tacks of the mosquitoes that they broke
from their stalls, jumped into the water,
and all were drowned. Passengers in
tending to make the voyage usually pro
vide themselves with protection in the
shape of mo&quito-bars, head-nets and
thick gloves, and when on deck are com
pelled to tie their sleeves around their
wrists and their pantaloons around their
ankles. Wo, Eleroy Curtis, in The
American Magazine for Slay.
If the free traders will just look over
the imports and exports for the past doz
en years, they will see that the country
has imported more merchandise in the
first quarter of 16S3 than it did in the
corresponding period ip any of the past
dozen years, wfaile its exports in the Mae
were smaller than in the like period
in"any recent Tear. And yet the free
traders tell us'that the tariff ia a Chinese
wall, preventing the people of this coun
try from buying iu the foreign toark-ets.
PROPOSE TKRRITO I
The favorable reuort which h. ..t
been made in Congress on the b av
rant a Territorial Government tox'i
t . ,,;n ,.n n,f.,t l,r in.tif-P V
ve ii 114 iuii v j - 1v
not been done the inhabitants of that re
mote portion of Uncle Sam'e domain.
Two-thirds of a generation has passed
since the United Statei acquired jurisdic
tion over that region. When this coun
try, in 1867, paid $7,200,000 to Ruia
for Alaska, the government virtually
pledged itself to extend to the residents
f that locality all the rights and privil
eges enjoyed by a citizen of the United
Statee. In 187S, five years after its ac
quisition, it was annexed to Washington
Territory as a county. Other changes
were subsequently made in its political
status, notably in 1384. But now, for
the first time, a serious attempt is being
made by the United States to redeem the
pledge made to the people of Alaska
twenty-one years ago. The law of 1884
gave it a governor, a district court, a
a United States marshal, a district attor
ney, and a few other civil officials, and
exteaded oyer it the laws of Oregon.
The bill now before congress will give it
a local legislature and a delegate to rep
resent its interests in the popular branch
of congress.
The area of Alaska is about 575,000
square miles, and its present population
about 40,000. It is nearly three and a
half times as large as Texas, thirteen
times as large as Missouri, und eighteen
and a half times as large as New York.
Its population is about one-half that of
each of the territories of Idaho, Arizona
and Wyoming, and two-thirds that the
state of Nevada. In natural resources it
is far richer than the general reader sup
poses. Iti gold mines yield about $2,
500,000 a year, its fisheries are still more
productive, and its wealth of timber is
practically inexhaustible. Coal deposits
of great richness and extent have been
found in several parts of Alaska, and it
ia believed thr.t iron and other minerals
will also be discovered. . Its soil is capa
ble of producing nearly every vegetable,
fruit and grain of the temperate zone,
and, contrary to general opinion, its cli
mate is no more rigorous in winter than
that of the states and territories along
our northern border. There are many
avenues for the profitable employment of
capital in Alaska. One of the drawbacks
heretofore to immigration and invest
ments in business enterprises in that
region baa been the absence of the pohti
cal and legal rights and priyileges en
joyed by citizens in the other newly set
tled portions of the national domain.
This particular drawback will be re
moved on the passage of the measure
now before congress to give Alaska a
Territorial government. Globe Dem.
110 W TO F1G1IT A if OR.
It was now almost noon. The mem
bers of the National Guard had re
sponded with promptness to the sum
mons, and every armory was a scence of
excitement and activity. The Seventh's
was half filled with gray uniforms, and
with friends and citizens. Every mo
ment fresh arrivals were coming; ammu
nition boxes were open; cartride cases
were being filled with nervous haste; of
ficsrs were exciteldy discussing the omin
ous news as it came in from time to time
over the telephone, or cautioning their
men how to bear themselves when thej
stood .face to face with the mob, and
under fire. "Do not shout or talk when
the work begins; leave that to you offi
cers; only listen for orders; obey them
promptlyi keep well closed up; leave the
wounded, if any there are, to the ambu
lance corps; sea nothing but the mob;
hear nothing but your own officers; and,
no matter what comes; never turn your
backs upon a mob; remember that noise
does uot hurt; keep cool; and, when you
fire, aim low; one disciplined regiment
can break the heaviest mob that ever
yelled." Such were the sentiments in
culatd by the officers. Ah, yes; but a
mob with dynamite is a totally different
affair from a mob with pistols, clubs and
paving-stones! From "My Dream of
Anarchy and Dynamite," in The Ameri
can Magazine for May.
THE URED RAG" OR'IAN.
The Journal which has damaged this
city by its attitude, and publication of
vile falsehoods against the B. & M. rail
road here a hundred fold more than it
will ever atone for, comes out in an edi
torial last Thursday attempting to justify
its course, making a spectacle of itself
that is truly humiliating if not disgust
ing. If this modern disciple of anarchy,
would devote as much of its time toward
building up this city ss it does misrepre
senting our good intelligence, by the
publication of atuff that would put to
shame even the Omaha Bee it would re
ceive a better patronage and its paper
would not have to come C. O. D. and lay
at the express office until the last minute.
The Journal was at one time a good
newspaper but since it went into other
business than gathering news it has been
a failing institution. The journal has
been unfair and has misrepresented the
people of this city ever since the 6trike
began and will no doubt reap its just re-w'afcL
1f I
,j i;,inj; mora oi
lo Cuu-e who hayo
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0 - Hintu.nu.uuu !'"";
vtrW a to 1,8teu to Uie ,rol"n
..cOVkV ..Wnc of the greatest and D.-st
tVJgs is painful in the highest degree
to those who have dece nt re;rnrl for
purity and goodness, and it is not liht
that they should bo compelled do no.
If men and women of relinment could
remain within thtir homes they might bo
free from contact with this unholy. thing,
but under the present conditions of so i
uty it is out of the question for them to
do this. They are compelled by bus
iness engagements and tho dcni.nnls of
society to go upon the streets and into
public places, and in doing so to subject
themselves to this painful experitner.
Crowds of idle ineii and boys stand about
the corners, iu front of saloons, and atlln!
entrances to public places and render thu
air foul with their profanity and back
nuardisn: even the doors of the churches
ar not exempt on the Holy Sabbath.
Besides the painful effect upon others
already alluded to, no man can indulge
in such language cither in pulic or pri
vate and lay claim to the title of a "trim
gentlemen," yet many of those who make
up these vulgar crowds wear good clothes,
und would feci themselves highly insult
ed if it wire intimated to them that tin y
are not gentlemen of the first class. For
shame that any man who aspires to tho
place of a gentlemen should be found
under such circumstances. AVhen a man
has fallen so low as to stand in public
plnces and pawn his tilth upon society,
and offend the ears of public decency
with his iniquity, he has became a public
nuisance, and has forfeited all claim to
the charitable regard of decent men and
women, and ought to be put. under tho
bans of the law. The law jiver of the
universe has enacted a statute against
profanity, and has published it to tho
sons of men: "Thou shalt not take tho
name of the Lold thy God in vain, for
the Lord will not hold him guiltless that
taketh his namo in vain." And the
moral sense of humanity approves tho
divine enactment, even the profano
swearer himself admits the evil character
ot his conduct. Why then will men
pursue such a course! It may be well to
call the attention of the police to tho
subject and let them sec if a stop cannot
be put to this miserable business.
WIIA T THSLABdniNOCL A SSES
NEED.
Many of those who interest themselves
in the laboring classes soem to think
that their chief want is higher wages;
that with more money at their dispaspal
the evils from which wage earnerns suf
fer would largely disappear. In many
of our large factories, I am satisfied, the
laborer suffers from poverty of mitidand
soul more than from poverty of purse.
The wages of the avorago factory hand
are more than the equivalent of those of
the average farmer and country machaiiic.
Ia our own factory at Bridgeport the
average wages of the women employed
is seven dollars per week, while many
earn as high as ten and twelve dollars.
This is probably a little above tho aver
age of other factories but it is by no
means exceptional. These wagrs enable
the factory hand to enjoy more of llio
eomfwrts and luxuries of life than arj
enjoyed by the family of the average far
mer or conntry mechanic, but in epite of
this, I belitye the latter have much the
best opportunity for real happiness and
improvement. There is a varitt in the
life of the farmer and the country me
chanic, which the piece-worker in tho
factory does not enjoy. He manages his
own business, buys and ec-IIh, lie meets
his neighbors in hat ara to him impor
tant business transactions, and thus he
not unfreqneutly acquires a high degree
of mental development and breadth of
thsught.
From "A Club House for TToikin"
women," in "Woman," May, 1888.
The treasurer's statement for April .30
shows a cah balance en hand of $110,
244. 9G9, an increase of about 5.o( 0.000
during the month, notwithstanding the
purchases of bonds made since the pas
sage of the house resolution upon the
authority of which the secretary resumed
his purchases. Included in the cath bal
ance is the sum of $-J1,921,3'j4 deposited
in national banks. The money market
remains comparatively easy, but there is,
and must continue to a feeling oi
apprehension lest the u.ual autumn de
mand for currency shall bring on a sud
den stricture which bond purchases can
not relieve. The purchases which the
secretary is making fr.;m day to day arc,
as the London Economist said in a .:
cent article, the "skimmings of the mar
ket.' They reach only the floating and
semi-speculative securities, and thes-e ara
a small part of the total. The bond3
held for investment are not reached.
How many it is possible to gather in
this way it is impossible to conjecture,
but it is Jhardly to be expected that a
sufficient amount can be secured to re
duce the treasury balance, if indeed it U
possible to prevent its increase. Th
need of positive legislation to stop tha
inflow of money becomes more pressing
every day. N. Y. Post.