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i.'6 k rr s WEEKLY HERALD : PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 11 1890 in I I J 3 'A I a f si; r I? 1,1 1 I v t! 3 3 ri C i BIQ SWAMP ADVENTURES. "fUf -on the Great Hanh with Deer, 10 Bears, Alligators and Desolation. The prairie land which covers a con pdderable portion of the Okefenokee a" nramp is a very remarkable formation, Siafl la, I am told, peculiar to this swamp. ;ult is open land, entirely free from tim latx, and etretching away as far as the I, ye can reach in every direction. It has taost of the characteristics og a huge in JUnd eea except the waves. Intertijersed ,,:fcere and there in this huire prairie are ! small patches of high, dry ground of l variable 6ize and heavily timbered, called n; cow houses. I am unable to ascertain Iltha jiropriety of this name, unless it be . A that the cattle, deer and other animals seek these places for shelter and to get crat of the water. The surface of these prairies is cov ered with a deposit of decayed vege tation that has been accumulating for centuries, and is called muck. This varies in thickness from four to ten feet, with water beneath, and below the water sand. This singular formation .gives to the swarcp its name of Trem bling Earth. It will support the weight of the average man if he keeps moving onward, but if he pauses an instant he eminences to sink, and may go through to his waist or over his head. At every tep the water oozes up around the feet, while the muck will trtmble and quiver for yards around. . There is something grand and even sublime to the visitor in the .cil?nt vast ness of this prairie formation. It etretches r.v:iy before the eye in every direction until only limited by the hori zon, its perfect stillnes3 only broken by the occasional bellow f some huge alli gator or the far distant scream of some unknown bird. . Here and t!;crj can be seen the track lett behind by some hunt er, where p(iblj years ago he had laboriously poled his canoe along in pur suit of game, the path as distinct and fresh now as if only made yesterday. All around fish of endless Fpecies and sizes can be Been swimming and darting about, while not infrequently the eye may fall upon some immeuse alligator or snake sunning himself upon the sur face of tho muck and water, or slowly sinking out of sight as soon as he is dis covered. This, description conveys a slight, but at best a very imperfect, idea of the prairie land of this swamp. Upon the island where we are at pres ent encamped are living two families, with the aged father, named Cheshire. The old gentleman is1 nearly 80 years of age, and has spent thirt3-odd years of his life here in this spot. He is a wonderful fisherman and indeed calls himself the king of the swamps, to which position he says he was duly ap pointed and commissioned by Dr. Little, the state geologist. The two sons of Mr. Cheshire have their families here. Thn men attempt to cultivate small crojjs, but spend most of their time hunting. Their revenue i3 almost wholly derived from the sale of hides, alligators, deer and bear. The quantities of these that they destroy and many of their stories of hunting adventures are almost in credible. Think of a hunter shooting down four deer with a rifle, one after another, and without moving from one spot. In sev eral of the lake3 that are thickly inter spersed throughout this prairie the alli gators are so numerous . and fierce that they will attack a man in a boat as soon as he appears among them, and shooting them by night, which is the way they are commonly killed, is sometimes at tended with no little danger. The entire armament of the Cheshire family consists of one ten-gauge, ten pound, double barreled Remington shot gun and two Winchester rifles, one 3S caliber and one 32. Also a small yellow pine bow and a few cane arrows. The latter are used in shooting fish, and I feel safe in affirming that the dexterity with which these men use their rude bow and arrows would put to shame the average Atlanta marksman with his rifle. In passing over the prairie one of the Cheshires will suddenly stop, poise his little bow and send his little arrow fly ing into the water ordinarily into a spot where yon or I would see nothing, but the way in which that arrow will dance about for the next minute or two will convince you not only that there is ain object on the other end of it, but that there is an object of some size, too. When your hunter pulls up his arrow, behold! A four or six pound trout or black bass, centrally transfixed, a shot that very few of our marksmen could make with a gun. Cor. Atlanta Journal. The Divine Sa'ata and Her Trunks. Lady readers may be interested in knowing something of the trunks of Sarah Bernhardt, which the other day, to the number of forty-eight. Interfered with 4tie traffic at Angers 6tation and paralyzed nearly the whole of the rail way staff there. Madame admits that she had forty-eight trunks with her, ex clusive of packages great and small. Twenty of her trunks are made of wood, about four feet high, each divided into three compartments and filled with her -most valuable dresses. Fourteen were -saade ol wicker work, also in three com partments, some of the heavier being subdivided into two, three, or four spaces, filled with petticoats, linen, boots and robes of small value. Three special trunks are set apart for hats, arranged on pegs in such a way as to prevent them from being shaken or crushed. The tragedienne's "kit" in all weighed between two and three tons Pall Mall Gazette. Tb VolnbU A The silver polish man is an artist. He is numerous and always theorizes. One of the latest of the kind was in a Lewis ton drug store the other day and he was as usual theorizing, and bis theory was fearfully and wonderfully made. Said he: "Silver is porous. You can tell that it is because it sweats fai hot weather. Fill a silver pitcher with water and the crater comss through on the outside. " So on ad libitum, while the druggist smiled and said, "If your knowledge of other fubjects is as accurate as that upon the pores of silver it is valuable." Xrwiston Journal. ln II I tVJ mm0 Ite superior xcellence proved In millions ! Iiumes for more than a quarter fin century. It is uetti bv i lie Lnltei! Mate government, Endorsed by the heads of th Ureal Universi ties i the tronest. purest and mut healthful Dr. Price' cr am baking powder doeo not con tain Ammonia, Lime or Allum. hold only In caus. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., New York, Chicago. St. Louis. CALHOUN ON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. "An Iowa refugee named Vaughn, who is by an unk'nd p.ud hostile fate permit ted to issuw in Onialia a collection of plates in the disgui e of a newspaper, devotes a column of Mouda's issue to the editor of this paper. While it's not the intention to reply to his falsehoods and inueudoer, their utterance will be taken as a cause for so.newhut dufinirrg and explaiuiug what this paper believs to be sound and honest and proper dem ocratic policy on the liquor question. To bttgin tv"tf it will not for one mo ment admit that the pe n'sionof drunk enness, with all ii direful accompar" meuts and result is a democratic prin ciple at a)1. It 19 true that such 's con tended by orators who profess a contempt for cowards. It :s half true tha: the. late state convention declared it. to lc such But that declaration was NOT THE nOXKST CONVICTION of the honest mass of. the democratic nartv. Tht cnventiori. like all conven- tions of all parties, was made up of men who have more -iterest in votes man any thing else. They had been promised many thousands of votes if they would only pronounce definitley and positively against prohibition. They yielded to the temp ition seduced under pron'V of marriage. The usual result. w"'l fol low.' The votes will not be delivered and with the st'og of this fresh betrayal in their souls the democratic politicians will do in their .ath what they should have done from pr' iciple. But n" mat ter, so it is done. It is impossible that the maintenance of the whisky traffic can ever b :nme cardinal principle, a party test, of de mocracy or any other great party . Even he appearance of it for policy's sake is a serious and lamentable blunder. Let us look at history a little. The democracy in an early day looked askant upon the public school system and thus drove from it many of the lest and purest men. It opposed the homestead law and whs knocked dawn and trampled in the dust by the procession of sturdy pioneers that peopled the public domain. The hun dreds of thousands of foreign born citi zens who came to the great west attached themselves to the party that claimed the credit of supplying L'i homes for them and free schools for the:- children . THEY WEBB GOOD THINGS and the foreigner was properly grateful for them. Democratic opposition to them was not very pronounctd just sufficient to incur ie natr al penn'ty ol shortsightedness. Jrt as the pr sent attitude of the party on whisky has been b'otight about by conservatism e id luck of thoughtful consideration, so it wa th n. Th : democratic party chain d itse'.f to slavery. That institution d:ed, and democracy clung to the corpse and held it to its bosom till it rotted e id dropped away, shred by shred, bone by bone. The whisky traffic, far more brutalizing, inhuman and inexcusable than slavery, 13 doomed to the same extinction. Shad it, when millions are begt'ng it- brave assistbnc j in striking off the shackles of tariff tyrany and class rul, by them WAIT A WHILE because we are too busy defending the rights of men to sell whiskey to attend te them just now? As soon a we have secured to some men the assured right to spread brutality and poverty, to sow tbe seeds of strife and murder, to starve women and children we will come to the aid of victims of the class misrule, corporate conspiracy and tarifli robbery. It is a sublime spectacle. Six millions of men on a crusade for a good government pursuing an errand of liberation, pause in their march until the saloon keeper has been placed beyond all danger of re sponsibility. Such an incident is with out a parallel in human history. It is the colossal blunder of the age if it be seriously undertaken. Should the democratic party all over the nation adopt as a settled policy what has been undertaken in Nebraska as a vote msking expedient.it seals tbe doom of the party. The human race advances as steadily as time moves. What is civ ilization today is barbarism tomorrow. Men are pushed and drawn forward and upward by forces as irresistable and un ceasing and undeviating as gravity. Within two score years it will be as im possible to make liquor as it is today te own an African slave. A MTTIK KOBE HISTORY. When the war ended the democratic party, weighted with a bad odor of sym pathy with the rebellion, fought steadily o-sinfit the alreadv accomplished results It denied and - protested against negro suffrage. It protested against the con stitutional amendments. It ended by accepting them all. In spite of it blun ders in spite of being cheated, defrauded and overawed in spite of its own blun ders, it held together with the tenacity that commanded the admiration of its enemies. Its bases rested upon one or two fundamental principles that will never change so long as men herd to gether. Upon these it rallied and re cruited its forced after each freeh defeat, But now, while it proposes to burden itself with a predestined corpse, a mon ster in whose vitals the javelin of Jehova is already thrust, its enemies are robbing it of' its principles taking from it its soul. In Iowa and in Kansas the party man agers pursued the same course upon which their fellows are now treading in Nebraska. They had at first a trainsient success, such as may be achieved in Ne braska this fall. In Iowa they parleyed with the saloon and made it their tool in stead of their master, renewed the strug gle on the old lines of free trade and corporate regulation, and won a partial victory at the last election. In Kansas they have succeded in exchanging thous ands of the best and purest men in the party for half the number of vagabonds, bootleggers and rumsuckera. IT IS CTTE1H.Y IMPOSSIBLE in this age ot human progress to build and maintain a great party founded upon he 6aloon. To assert it can be done is to deny all the evidence of history. Ard if it could be dou", if it were possible, the men who should accomplish it are criminals too deep for any conceivable damnation. A people that wiuld con sent to it would be unfit to exist, and would cease to exist as rapidly as Nature could wield her deadly engines of des truction. Their downward course would be as rapid and as sure as that of other peoples who have forfeited their right to bo. . . The forces that sustmn a people are virtue, intelligence, sobriety, energy judgmen;, perseverance, fidelity, truth fulness and industry. Alcohol is the destroyer of all these. There is not a good quantity it does not subvert. There is nut n weakness or a vice that it does net develop and foster. But the race will grow upward. It will put alcohol and nil other great curses under its feet, and any party that links it ?1 f to any obstacle to progress will be crushed to powder. This is a feeble, tame and imperfect representation of the case, but it is enough to justify every democrat in dis avowing any responsibility for t ie dis graceful blunder perpetrated by his party at its late state convention. And should a wicked and reckless subserviency to the rum power become tha permanent policy of th p. rty it will justify every self-respecting citizen in shaking if s dust from his ft-et. " The Foregoing from the Lincoln Her aid speaks a language foreign to democ racy and must convince any one tht the man who penned the endictment is neith er of nor indigneoas to the climate and atmosphere which surrounds him in the democratic pastures of Nebraska. What a history? Hear him? Opposed to the public school system! Opposed to the homestead law which opened the great west up to the poor man and gave him a cheap home! Opposed to the abolition of human slavery and in favor of its maintenance and exteution over the free territory. Opposed to all reconstruction measures after the war of the rebellion which insured the permanency of free in stitutions of this continent. Opposed to the constitutional amendments. Oppos ed to the advancement of the human race in everything which tended to ele vate and humanize and christianize. Op posed to the principles of sobriety and swift to write its condemnation of such prii ciplrs in the platforms of its party as an oath of allegence which its adher ents must take and subscribe at this day and age before they will be permitted to fra'ernize its elect. What do demo crats, we mean fair minded intelligent democrats, think of this indictment of ..1 - 0 that party ot puma remimssanecss If a republican journalist had writtm it it would have been hailed as a p' em of partisan hate and republican malig nanty, but coming from the leading and polished journalists of the democratic party, one who gave evidence of tbe courage of his convictions both during the war of the rebellion and ever since, ;t cannot be passed over as the 'die word of partisan feel:ng. These words of the editor of the Lincoln Herald are as true as the fateful -denunciations which the great teacher uttered as he scourged tbe theives and fakirs from the Holy Temple And, Bro. Calhoun has no more business in the democratic camp a9 a loyal mem ber of that party than the ice man has in that warmer region designated in these effe.ninate days as Hades. John Inhelder. Jacob inhelder, Mary Shirk ey, Ulricn I.nelder. Baibara Gauor, Catherine Bue che. Clave Sherman Inhelder, Burkhard Inhelder. Christian Inhelder.l Maggl" Lfueht weis. Mathew inhelder and Henry Inhelder, children and only heirs at law of John In helder. deceased and all other persons interest ed will take uotioe that on the 13th day of Au gust. 18W Louis C. Eickcff an administrator of the estate of John Inhelder, deceased, filed h's petition in the district, court of Cms county. .Nebraska against paid heirs, the object and prayer of said petition heing to procure from aid district court a judgement and order authorizing said administration to convey to Harry Meisinger lot seven (7) in b'ock three (3) in Cedar Creek in Cas county, Nebraska, nnd further to authorize said adminis-rator to convey to Bertha Frey lot three (I) in b'ock four (4) oaid Cedar Creek; said conveyances to be made by virtue of contracts entered luto be tween !aid John Inhelder, deceseed, and said M'singer and Frey. hearing w ill be g-ven on said petition on the 13th day of Oct ber.1890. t ten o'clock in the forenoon f t-aid day, In open court at the regular October, 190 term of the district court of Cass county. Nebraska. 23-6t Louis C Eicroff As administrator of the estate of Johu Ia helder, deceased. Road Notice. To all Whom it may concern : The commissioner appoiLted to vacate a road now runninir across block ! north, and e west and 11 north and 6 west in the town of Rock Bluffs has reported in favor ol the vac- tioa thereof, and all biection thereto or i claim it damage, wind be filed in tte Coue-' ' tv t lerk'n ofh r (in or bef 'te nmi'i on the 8th day ofNevember A V. 1890. or such rot,d will I"? vrj ated without reference thereto. t 4t PiHDCaiTCHjaLO, County Clerk. Skins on Fire. With ltning, Burning Bleeding Ecxemas Instantly Relieved by Cut' cura Remedies. Ourflittle on will be four year old on the 30th inet. In May. 1885. he wad attacked with a very painful breaking out of the tkln. We tailed In a phynician, who treated him for about four weeks. The child received ilitle or do good from the treatment, as the breaking mat. supponed by tbe physician to b hives la an Hggregated form, became larger in blotches and more and more distressing. We were fre quently ob'teed to get up in the night and rub hin with soda In water, strong liniments, etc. Finally we called other physicians, until no lees man fix had attempted to cure him. all alike failing, and the child steaiily getting worse and w. rse, until about the 30th of last July, when we began to give him Cuticuka Hkholvknt internally, and the C ticuka and CuticuraSoai" externally, and by the last of August be was so neatly well that we gavt him only one dose of the Kksoltf.nt about every second day lor about ten days Irneer, and he has never been troubled ince with t'e horrid malady. In all we used less than one half of a bottle of Citicura Kmdl vent, a little less than one box of Cuticuka and only one cake of c uticuka noap. H. E. RVAN. Cayuga. Livingston 111. Subscribed and rworn to before me, this 4th day of January, lf87. C. N. COE. J. P. CUTICUKA 11E31KDIKS. Parents do you realize how you- little ones suffer, wlien their tender skins are literally (in fire with itching, burning, scaiy, and blotched skin and scalp i!i-eaies? To know that a sin gle application Of the Cl'TICUKA Kj-MKIIUS will often afford imdaiit relief, permit ret and sleep, and point to a permanent nd oeonowii cal because so speedy) cure, anit not .to ue them, without aiiiomei ts delay, is to b? guilty of D 'Sitive inhumanity. o greater legacy can be bestowed upon a child than acinar t-kin and pure blood. Cuticuka Ukmkuiks are abeo lu ely pu'e. ami may be used from infancy to age, from pimple to scof ula. old everywhere. Price. Cuticcka, 50c Soap 2.1c, Kksolvf.ni', al 1'rej ired by the Pott k a I)KU(i AND CliKMlCAL C OR J'OKAllON, Bjfton Mass., tSf-end for "flow to Cure hkin iseases." P 1 D YKskil1 ' nriSca'p purified ;ind beniitifled DliOl Cby ur xitA o.xi-. At sole ely pure. NO EHEUHATM ABOUT LIE. In one minute tho Cviticu ra Antl. Pain P laster relieves a -rt i " mane, t cia ie mp.K .inev.imis Uml:tr ami cliesi pain. The flrtand only lnii'iiuta. eou- pain killing strengthening plaster. Notice. Andrew .1. Hansen ill take tm-!ee that Mary J. ltmseii fild li'-r , etir n ataint him on the. 19th Oay of August 1 :(!. iu lhu district c.-urt ol Cass un y, ill3 object and player of which are to ota'ii a divorce fr-nn said An drew J. lL.nsen lobe ha e restore to lu-r. her maiden name and to havti fie. reed t iier the care and cueto :y their lrinor children. s a ground for s. eli'ielief said pcti-.i n alleges that you have wilfully d sorted olaintiu for more tllHIi two veil s i;;St pest. You e.re requited to an- wer s:ii1 fi. t'Tion by MoudfcV the 21tli ay of September. 1KK. M AltV ' . Hanskv Ay her Attorneys, Beeson & Root. Legal Notice. Anne Rchrumr. defendant, will take notice that on the 2nd dav of Henteniber, lsjto. Chris tian Hchrmiip. plaintiff, herein filed his peti tion in the d strict com t of Cass county. Ne braska. against said defendant, the object and praver of which are to obtain a decree of di vorce severing the bonds of matrimony here tofore uniting plaintiff and delendaut. You are required to anuwer said pelition on or before the 13th day of October lO. Christian Schrump By Wooley & Gibson his Attorneys. L'4-4t Legal Notice. To Lol-v I.Todd, non-resident defendant, you are h- reby notified that on the 1Mb day oJ Au gust. 190, Harry G. Todd filed his petition in the district court of Cass county. Nebraska, against you, the object and prayer ot which are to procure a di orce from you on the ground that you have wilfully de-erted him for more than two years last past. You are required to answer said petition on or before the -2itl day o September, 190, or your deiault will be entered and the allega tions contained in said petition taken astru-. Hakky G. 'I oir. Plaintiff, By his attorneys Beeson & Koot. 22-4. Estimates of the expenses of the city Plattsmouth for the year of 1890. Mayor and Ccunc l $ 950 00 City clerk 3"0 00 lty treifurer 3(H) 00 Board of public works 3no to City attorney 3?0 00 Boarding city prisoners ssoj0 Printing 2no 00 Incidentals 1.500 00 Gas lighting 4 ooo oo Omaha Southern R K bond . 3 000 00 BSMEK bonds l.00 00 street, grading and bridging 2,ooo oo Fire hydrant rental 5,000 00 Kearton refunding bonds 1 0 00 High school bonds . 3.5'0 Storm water sewer bonds 2.508 00 Inte section pv ng bonds coo 00 Fire and water 6f0 00 Total, 27.900 00 Total receipts for the year ending July 1st 1800 as reported by the city treasurer $26,155.21. ( A. Salisbry Finance Com. P. McCallek ( C. IIkmplk IN THE DISTRICT COURT, CASS COUNTY Nebraska. American exchange Bank, Plft 1 I J. A. Phelps, first name unknown. and S. P. Phelps, first name un- y known, and os, M. Beardsley. I Tom K.Clark, Geo. Wone and A. J B. Dick-ion. company firm of Beard I sley Clark & Co, Defendants. J Jo J, A. Phelps,(first name undnown) non resident defendant, you will take notice that on the 2th day of .Inly 1890, tbe American Ex change Batik, plaintiff, h reio filed it petition in the district court of Cass county, Nebraska, against said defendants, the object and prayer of which a- to foreclose a certain mortgage exeeu'ed by defe- dants J. A. Phelp and .S. P. Phelps to Plaintiff upon lot number eleven (11). in block number four (4) in the village of Elm wood, Ca s county, Nebraska, to eecure the paym ntofacertnia promissory note dated March 10 1890 for the sum ef f G5 and due and payable ninety days after date, Th it there is now due upon said note and mortgage the sum of with interest from maturity at the rate ff 10 per cent per annum- Plaintiff prays for a decree that defendants f. A. Phelps aud S. P. I'helps be required to pay the sum or that the property described 1 said mortgage may be sold to satisfy the amount found due and that judgment rendered againet said desendant J. A. Pheips and S. P. Phelps for anv deficiency found due. You are required o answer said pel it lou on or before the 2ith day of Septem ber 1890. 22-4t WINDHAM & DAVII8, Attorneys foi Plaintiff. Sheriff sale By v rtne of an order of tale Issued by W. C. Phowalter, elerk of the district court within and for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me directed I will on th 13tn day of October A. V. 190 at 10 o'clock a-m. of said day at the south door of the court houe in the cltvof Plattmouth In said county, sail at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate towit : Lots two (2) three (3) and forty elgbt (44) in section thirteen 13 township twelve U2) north of range thltteen 13 east of th6th rincipal Me rid an in Cass county. Ne braska, together with the privileges and ap pur ancea thereunto belonging r in anywise appertaining. The am belne levied upon and taken as the propertTof Caroline M. Dodge, Moses Dodge and C. J. rarmele. defendants : to satlffy a judgment of aid court receverea by Anselmo B. Kmith plaintiff aalnat tald defendant. PI tt mouth. Net-.. September 10. A. D 190. VVT' MAM Tiov, Beeson Root. Fhenff Ca Co., Jeb Attorneys lor riaintiff. SPECIAL SALE THIS WEEK. In Childrens Shoes. Do not miss this . Ppportunity but take advantage of the low prices we are offering. FOR ONE WEEK ONLY Bargains Bargains Bargains w. a. boeck & co. F, G FRICKE & CO Will keep constantly on hands a full and complete line ol pure DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS. & OILS DRUGGISTS SUMUtlKS. PURE LIQUORS. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded at nil Honrs. RESTORERS -H AND Thee Lenses are tor superior to any others sold in the city. Possessing a natural transparency and strength ening qualities which will preserve the failing eyesight. Plattsmouth Nursery Buy your irees of Ja ffionae Mnrsery wlaere you can select your own trees tlarat will fee u great privilege aud benefit to you. I Ssswe all tlae leading1 va rieties assd know better wlaat varieties will ilo laere than agent and you can buy as ebeap again. Apple trees, 3 years old -Apple trees, 2 years old - Cherry, early Richmond, late Plum, Pottawattamie, Wild Raspberries, Gregg byler - - -Strawberries, Sharpless Cresent -Concord vines,, H years old - -Moors Early grapes, "1 years old -. Currants, Cherry Currants -Snyder blackberries - -Industry Gooseberry Downing Gooseberries, 2 years old Houghton Gooseberries, 2 years old -Asparagus - - - - Rosses, red moss and white moss Shrubs, Hydrangias Honey Suckle -Snow Balls -Lilacs - - Evei greens, Norway spruce 5, Fir Mursery one-balf mile nortb of town, end of tb Street. Address all Orders to PTjITTSMOUTH, - - NEB. i Bm Ctottffn Medicine. KeeommMl K tk I Jlessrs F. G- Fricke & Co., are the Only Parties Selling our Alaska Crystal Brilliant Combination 1 5 AS- -0-L AS WES. is O a o 252 001800 20 I 75 1500 403 GO 2500 4 00 25 150 150 10 GO 500 Richmond, wragg Goose 30 3 00 101 00 25 3 00 250 10 1 50 101 00 125 40 30 25 20 40 f i i M 1 ! ' if - i; i I H i it 7 .4 Pi l! 1! J. ! '! W