1'LA'iTdMOUTii Wj&L rtftHA;;,x;AUK3DAV 11, 1S5.
vm n
THE HECOCITIZED
In Cass County for
Superior Makes and Styles,
Lowest Possible Prices
1 2sr
YOUTHS,
BOYS in-xd
G - Tc - o - jj' - if -1 - x - Q-
Tl-(Fc - LliTKST
o
HATS, CAPS, SHIRTS SUSPENDERS,
Ties, Collars, Etc.,
TRUNKS &
CALL
elson. t
Plattsmouthj IMeb,
-II AS A FVLIi
Spring and Summer Goods
We have received our Spring and Summer Goods and take
pleasure in showing our handsome line ol
Dress Goods, White Goods,
Dress Trimmings, Jerseys,
2
Aro Complete.
We also carry a full line
JOSEPH V.
II Ml HOT
Mouse
- jSTOVKlt'TIFcS
isx
VALISES.
SEE MS
CI
np
JU
LU1UX J
LINE Or-
Oiie-Pi
OF
II. i
Hosiery, Ribbons, Laces. Etc.
DRY GOOD!
of CARPETS and RUG S.
WECKBACH
J7i? Qhttsnwuih eth1n jQpald
KNOTTS BROS
Publishers & Proprietors.
THE PLATTSMOUTH MKRALD
I nuhlWIied evorv eveniir' except Sunday
aud Weekly every Thursday morning. IteKis
lared at the po8tof)lce, I'lattcinuuth. Nehr..is
"wcoiirt-ciasB matter. Olllce corner of Vine and
Klltti streets.
TKKMS FK DA1LV.
One copy one year In advance, by mail.. - SO 00
One copy per month, Py carrier, P"
One copy per week, by carrier 13
. TKRHS rOR WHKKLV.
Ona oopy one year, in advance $1 Si
yne copy six ruonms. in auvance a
Judge Oiiesiiam is steadily growing in
favor as a presidential candidate. If the
Chicago convention will give us Grcshani
and llawley, the serried phalanx of He
publicans will over-whelm the cohorts
of Dictator Cleveland and change his
name to Dennis.
Mrs. Ci.evei.ai.d has been presented
with an elegant microscope by her tem
perance admirers, and the (7 lobe-Democrat
cruelly remarks that she is busily
engaged with it in searching for the anti-saloon
sentiment in her husband's pa
pers aud speeches.
Tiik Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have
sold $7,500,000 of a loan mortgage in
London, and it has changed the interna
tional exchange market in favor of the
United States. For the next few days
at least there will be no gold exports
from this country.
The utilization of what is apparently
waste material is very interesting in many
of its details. The well known article
"Featherbone" used for dress stays, tor-
sets, whips and other articles needing an
elastic, tough and unbreakable material
is the result of a shrewd Yankee's
thoughts after seeing an immense quau-
tity of goose and turkey feathers wasted
in a feather duster factory. The compli
cated and ingenious machinery by which
it is worked up into yarious articles will
be shown in constant operation by a corps
of skilled workmen from the factory, at
the Minneapolis Exposition which opens
August 22nd
Iiie Mills nee trade gang are figuring
on a scheme to down Randall and de
prive him of his influence- in the house to
command votes for his bill. As chair
man of the committee on appropriations
Mr. Rauda1! has a iull in many diree-,
tions until the appropriation bills are all
out of the way, and hence Mills and his
friends are anxious to get the appropria
tion bills throu-jh before anthing further
is dono on the tariff bill. If this is done
Mr. Randall will be shorn of one element
of strength, and the free traders will
breath just that much easier. But from
all information obtainable the Randall
faction is likelv to cause trouble iu the
democratic cavrp, no difference when the
final vote on the Mills bill is taken.
Lincoln Journal,
There seems to be no lack of harmony
among the democratic press of the state
in regard to the course to pursue on the
tariff question. The general verdict is
to keep still; you don't want to say any
thing but that the tariff is a robery and
stick to it. You don't need to give your
reasons, and have g republican come
along and knock them all over. The
tariff robs the laboring classes. It does
becauseyou know it docs, aud any one
that wont accept this reason don't know
what he is talking about. This will be
the argument of the democratic speakers
and what fine argument it is. It semis
to us that our friends forget that we live
in a progressive age an age of reason
and a statement without principles to
suppoit it has very little effect at the
prevent time. But our democratic friends
remembering that they have a very weak
plank to stand on haro come to this de
cision, that the only thing necessary is to
make the statement and not to try to
brace it np with principle for if you do
some republican will come along with a
few words and down comes your meat
house. "O consistency thou art a jewel."
Ix three Northern States in which bal
lots were cast for Prohibition candidates
in ISSt, the vote increased as compared
with previous elections, and in four
Northern States the vote decreased. The
States in which thin vote was larger last
year than before are New York, Massach
usetts and Ohio, and those in which it
was smaller are New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Nebraska and Iowa. Ths decrease of
the Prohibition vote in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania was due to the fact that
the JJeoublicans of those States, from
which party iost of the Prohibition
strength in the North conies, enacted ef
fective high license laws, which pleased
all re.3nable temperance men. The Re
publicans of ijeiV York passed a high li
cense bill about three weelis ago, which
Gov. Hill vetoed. The Republican? cf
New York naturally expect that their en
deavors to throw all practicable restraint
over the liquor traffic will lesson the Pro
hibition vote in that State this year.
Globe Democrat
THE SUPPRESSION OF VOLOIiEl)
VOTE.
The Republu an of this city is engag-;
cd in revamping Mr. Bluing's post
mortem Augusta speech relative to the
suppression of the colored yote in the
south. The chief interest in this speech
lies in the fact that Mr. Blaine was
afraid to make it until alter he was de
feated. So long as he thought he might
carry a southern state or two, he permit
ted the negro to take care of himself
after all the southern states had gone
democratic and it vva not possible to as
sist the negro in his struggle for suffrage,
Mr. Blaine expressed indignation over
the negro's wrongs.
It must be admitted that in several
southern states the negro has not receiv
ed the rights promised him by the great
amendments. But what does the ht pub
lican propose to do about it '. It party
was iu power twenty years after the dose
of the war and if the lhpnblktin's tig
ures show that the suppression of the
colored vote in South Carolina was ful
ly as extensive iu 1881 as it had been at
any previous time.
Will the Republican explain its meth
od of seeming to the negro his electoral
rights ? Omaha World.
We hope the R publican will not do
what the mugwump editor of the World
does, approve of such crime and charge
it to the amendments and the republican
party. v e have an insullerable con
tempt for mugwump appologists for
crime committed in behalf of the solid
south. The same class of dirt eaters
used to do all the whining and lying for
the domineering slave drivers and when
they lost a runaway nigger they would
make more fuss about it than the owner
down south did. The republican party
failed to do several things for whicn it
is not to be condemned; one was to hang
a few purjured traitors, some of whom
are today administering upon the affairs
of this nation. Another was to make
the present managers of the democrat-tic
party in the south have any, whatever,
respect for the principles which underlie
the very coiner stone of one republican
lorm of government; the whitest and
mott precious stone of which is the right
of every citizen to cast a free, untrani
peled ballot. We can understand why
the average doughface democratic or
gan will flare up and defend any politi
cal ciime committed by his party, he was
educated that way. But there is no
earthly reason why1 a so-called independ
ent professor of political morality should
always be the very first to take offense
when such outrageous crimes as the
World admits arc the adopted practices
of the democratic party of this nation
and by which alone that party can re
main hi power a single day are com
mitted, j
democrts in Arizona.
An amusing incident is told of the
Phtnix convention which does not ap
pear in any of the published reports of
the proceedings of that body. A very
violent storm, bordering closely on a po
litical cyclone, was racing in the con
vention, when Sam Purdy, of Yuma a
distinguished member of the party, who
was kicked out at the back door of it
about three years ago only to walk
around to the front to take a leading po
sition in the rs,r,ks rose to speak. He
had proceeded but a little way in his
speech-making, when with a very pro
nounced dramatic gesture of his arms.
he inquired, with an oratorical flourish:
"Are we a mob?" A voice in the audi
ence responded, "We arc," when Mr.
Purdy wilted int: his seat. Journal
Miner Organized labor in politics has not
become the power that it promised. It
is true that it has just held a convention
in Cincinnati, and nominated president
ial candidates and adopted a platform.
The order of the Knights of Labor has
been shipwrecked and is reported to have
lost morj than half the membership by
factional wrangling, unwise manage
ment and unwarranted extravagance and
waste of funds. Mr. Pov.derly has lost
his grip and his influence is waning.
United Labor, his official organ, has
proved a financial failure. His latest
utterances promise nothing for the labor
ing masses but what is to come through
educational methods, an excellent idea
but mainly applicable to the second or
third generation from this. In the face
of the fact that most of the benefits ad
vocated in the interest of labor cau only
come through legislation, and be brought
about by active political influence. Mr.
Powderly distinctively ignores political
action and recommends a similiar policy
to his followers, lie surrenders his
strongest aggressive weapon and extends
to his adherents only remote possibilities
in the dim future Even Mr. Arthur has
lost his prestige by the discouraging
blow organized labor has received in the
Burlington strike. When it was demon
strated that the strongest union in the
country was powerless to sustain a con
test upon which it entered with a confi
dence that fell a little short of arrogance.
A review of other labor organizations
would not be cheering to these who
would like to see Jaboripg people united
for just protection. With rare excepT
tjons they have been shattered by unwise
direction aud Lad leaders. They have
lost ii.fluence. Iu some cases they havu
been unable to commend even decent re
spect from employers with whom they
have taken issue.
IS IT THE ULOOlt V SHIRT f
A makim.k bhaft is erected to the mem
ory of the confederate dead in Mississippi;
men high in power in the affairs of this
nation aro present to officiate; Jefferson
D.ivis,the first representative of secession,
too old and infirm to attend, sends a let
ter to be read on that occasion, and his
daughter, the typical representative of tho
lost cause, is made to preside and a silver
crown is presented to her for her father,
the unrepentcnt rebel who has ever dis
dained to ak or accept of amnesty from
the government. What does all this
m?an ? Are the men who fought in tho
cause of the southern confederacy to pass
down to succeeding generations as
heroes who fell in a righteous
cause '. Are the succeeding gen
erations to be taught that these men
were martyrs to a just though lost cause '.
Are the youth of the south to be trained
to visit these monuments erected over
traitors' graves and there in the times to
come study and emulate their illusti ious(?)
examples as heroes who did battle for
southern homes and southern liberties 'i
Unquestionably this is the only lesson the
southern youth will ever learn from these
monuments. Then when can this nation
expect sectionalism to die out ?
It was treason to attempt to overthrow
this nation for the sake of a southern aris
tocricy founded on human slavery. It is
still treason to teach that the men who
engaged in that conspiracy were heroes
whose names and memories should be
perpetuated by marble shafts and monu
ments aud whose praises should be sung
by succeeding generations.
How would it look and sound for the
decendants of lienedid Arnold to rect
a monument to his name at West Point
on the Hudson, and crown it with flow
ers, and teach the coining generations
exactly as our neighbors at the houtli an
doing, to emu'ate the dariDg yet un for
tunato career of the sleeping hero ( What
sort of a lesson would that be for the
youth of America I
If treason means anything in this gov
ernment there should be a universal con
demnation of this process of vindicating
traitors and handing their names down
to history as martyrs.
ISA ILR0A1) OPERA TIONS
IN
ME A' I CO.
The annual report of the Mexican CYn
trul Railroad, which has just been pub
lished. taken in connection with info,-
tnation concerning the other roads which
lias been made public from time to tinn-,
shows that railway operations have hem
active and profitable in Mexico in th
past year or two. The Central's report
covers the year j by, anu gives ngures
for the three years immediately preced
ing. In 1887 the road's earnings from
passengers were $l,2o,284 and from
freight !f;3,458,00i. There has been
steady increase in the past four years in
each item. The percentage of gain in
18S7 was over 12.5 over 1885 and 5.'
over 1S8G. The gain in freight receipt
last year was 95.4 per cent over 184,
53.7 over 1885 and 37.7 over 1880.
The Mexican Central was incorporated
about eight years ago, and four years
later it began operations along its entire
length. As the distance from LI Paso,
Tex., which 19 its northern terminus, to
the City of Mexico, its southern end, i
about 1200 miles, the construction
was pushed forward actively. A large
amount of United States capital is in
rested in the enterprise, as well as in the
other Mexican roads running from the
boundary line of this country. Much
intertst is taken here in these lines.
When the Central was opened to through
business in 1884, thus bringing the City
of Mexico for the first time into railroad
communication with the United States,
the event was made the occasion of con
gratulation on both sides of the interna
tional boundary line. The interests of
both countries are to a large extent iden
tical, and the business ties uniting one to
the other are yearly growing closer and
closer. The flattering exhibit of railroad
earnings, therefore, in the sister republic,
which shows that that country is enjoy
ing a fair share of industrial and com
mercial prosperity, will be pleasing intel
ligence to the people of the United
States. Globe Democrat.
In another column may be seen a
wonderful description of a large arebd
hand with drops of blood dripping from
the ends of the fingers. Many predict
ions haye been made in regard to the
significance of this wonderful spectacle,
but our opinion b that the hand repre
sents Cleveland and the democratic
party and the blood is the fol
lowers of Cleveland dropping out of the
ranks, and that ere the November election
rolls around they will hav all dropped
out and Cleveland sunken into oblivian
just as the wonderfnl hand seemed to be
The Democratic Club is going to at
tend the Democratic convention at St.
Louis next week. They will wear a gray
plug hat and carry f. dude cane.
We acknowledge the receipt of the
program of the Chautauqua Assembly,
which is to be held at Crete, Nebraska,
from June 28th to July 10th, sni we can
sy it will pay you to attend the Assem
bly. " :
OUR ORKUON LETTER.
Special i'oMciioiidenre of Tiik Huai l.
PollTI.ANP, OliMioN, May 12, IS?;.
My residence of a few month in Port
land has been one of constant ib liht
and surprise. Coining, as I ;did,
from the ligurs of midwinter into the
balmy air of spring, utmost at a hound,
as it were, I was so forcibly reminded of
the contrast between the Pacific coast and
the, cnMre region from the Rocky moun
tains to the Atlantic, that I am not likely
ever to forget it. For weeks, even
month, I reveled in delightful spring
weather, and with the telegraph daily
informing nic of cold waves and bliz
zards, of snow and ice, in my former
home, I watched the opening of bud and
flower, mw the fruit trees burst into their
bloom of white and red, and heard the
cheerful voices of earl' summer bird, as
they hopped from branch to branch of
the profusion of shade frets which line
the streets of this beautiful city. Alrindy
(tho second week in May; spring is past
and summer is upon us. The lilacs haye
long since disappeared, and the beautiful
snowballs, whose inassf h of white have
appealed to in' eye for admiration from
hundreds of well-kept lawns, haye given
way to roses. And sin h roses! The
yards of the rich and poor alike are a
mass of bloom; carnation, yellow, pink,
cardinal, flesh, saffron, and all the glori
ous hues assumed by that qiuen of flow
ers, grett me at every turn. The love of
flowers, evidenced by their profusion and
the attention giyen them, sp"aks of cul
ture and refinement, and in my most
pleasant intercourse with the people of
Portland I have found them all that their
beautiful yards had led me to btli'-yo.
I assure you, it was a novel experience
for me to see lawn mowers inactive oper
ation in .March, arid to behold the Port
lander in April nightly handle his garden
hose witli all the care and apparent en
joyment the resident of Chicago ( r Cin
cinnati would display in June or July.
This matter of lawn is the Portlander's
pride and one of the chief glories of this
most delight ful climate. The sight of
green grass is not absent from tho eyo
from one year's end to another, save,
perph:ip, duriug a few days in January
or February, w hen the ground is covered
by a ljght fall of snow. It is only a foy
weeks in t lie entire year that (he seiyL-ca
of thy lawn mower are not required to
keep in trim the constantly grow ing grass.
This perennial green sward, with almost
constantly blooming flowers, off. is an
oppoitunity for beautiful lawns and
pleasure grounds, of which the people of
Oregon's metropolis have not been slow
to avail themsel ves.
One of the pleasures of the cool, call'
summer in Portland is that of driving on
thewcll-puved streets, or upon the excel
lent roads leading along the river, or up
on tl.e hills lying west of the city. To
the pleasure incident to riding behind a
fast horse on a hard, even road, is added
the constant presence of beautiful land--eapos,
glimpses, at times, of mountains,
shading off in the distance from green to
blue and purple, and culminating in tho
snowy masses of the Cascade summits.
Along the river bank to the southward,
and pf.s-ing Riyerview conn-try, pue )f
the most beati fully located and carefully
tended homes of the dead in America, in
1 most charming driv, several miles in
length. It is maintained in excellent
condition by the Multn 'jmah Driving As
sociation, composed of gentlemen ownin"
fine roadsters, and in the now rapidly
lengthening evenings i.s crowded with
buggies, carriages, horsemen and bicycles.
fhe word "Multnomah" is a favorite one
here. It is tne name of the county in
which Portland is situated, and was the
iborginal title of the liver jjowinfe
through the city, but which now hears
the same name as the great valley Will
amette throgh which it flows. Other
drives lead back between and upon the
hills, and in the particular that they open
up to view grander scenes and more ex
tensive landscapes, arc of greater attrac
tion. One in particular, lending to an el
evation known as "Portland Heights,'' a
ieati ful residence place soon to be brought
nto easy access by cabb- cars, should nut
be neglected. From the brow of this
verdant hill is presented a landscape the
equal of which, I am confident, can not
id found near any city on the continent
With the winding Willamette and the
tree-embowered city for the fore-ground,
the rolling hills and valleys, clad in the
green raiment of forest and field in the
nubile distance, while the c-itreme di-
tnce is filled up with th5 varying tinU
of the nearer and more remote mountains,
tbove w hich rise the white crowns of fiv-n
great 2eaks covered with the snows of
eternal winter, the picture is one of grand
and impressiye beauty. Especially at
sunset does it evok the deepest admira
tion, as the rich tints of gold and crim
son and purple move gradually upward
finally resting for a few moments solely
upon the snowy peaks before fading in
to the gray of twilight. If you were here
to see and feel what I find it impossible
adequately to describe. yo;a would aicQ
with me that Portland is one of the most
charming places of residence in the
Union.
L. S.
Bring in your job work and keep ug
busy.
;1
. 1
X
1 ,
4 r
t
'i,
r
i . !
4 -
