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K NOTTS BROS. Publisho rs
THURSDAY, FKItKUAItY A i-bl
COURTHOUSE LOCATION
Is it wise to ugiiate it iuillu-i? Tlx
IIkkald think iuit. Tlx iv are pri lnt h
two t the thotiHand people in ihi.j ciiy
who would on purely pcrs'iiil gr.nimi
from 6-l f in cnsi prefer to have the
court house 1 catt d in marly nfinniy lo
calities. Yet, tht f-e people haye wisdom
enough to know tliat it would In; lool
iahnrHS to attmipt to locale t In; gr-at
building in accordance with tlieir own
persoual whims or preference-". Thice
site have been prominently di-ru-aed l-y
oar citizens; viz: what is known u.s the
old court house bhek or s-qunre, on
Sjuth Hill, the present locution on Main
and Fourth fctreetr, and the corner o
Main and Seventh streets. Without ex
pneuin a prcti mice, tin; IJeuai.u
Would prcAr liny of ilc-e si toi to Weep
ing Water, Wabash or Louisville; hut
we wish to cndoise the prompt action of
the commissioner!1. Thcue gntltnuu are
not, as eomo of our people fiin to think,
acting in the employ of or solely for the
interest f thi3 city, hut on the contrary
hey are toltly tin ngn's d Cars coi:r.tv
as a quasi corporation. The first duty
of these gentlemen is tofelectun iligiblc
locution, with as little xju nM! to the
emiuty as possible; which includes grad
ing and preparing Mte, seh ctmg same
and building the structure. Certainly in
thin respeet all iiiut admit tl.nt the
choice of Main and Fourt h is wii-e and
economical. C.iss county owned a por
tion of this fiite, holding the fee to th:
ysmo for over a quarter of a :i ntury, fo
court nous? ami county purposes. im
site is nt grade, about the cc titer of the
business portion of the city, en its Mail
and principal streets, and accessible to
the whole county; so that upon economic
rrounis everybody must admit that the
tax payers of the ci untyiMi find ik
fault with the commissioners in respect
to the location The corner of Main and
Seventh would h-iye cost approximately
$7,000 or $8,000 for the ground, with
$2,000 or $3,000 additional cost fi r the
.grading of it nsd m..king it ready for
the structure. The so-called court house
square is in even a worse condition thau
the corner of Main and Seventh, for
Iwre the title is in the city as a public
square for public buildings. The com
missioners would not dure place if SO.OuO
of the peoples' money in a county build
ing on city pro,'..-tj, 1: i xtr:;rnc-iy
doubtful if a legal title to this ground
could be placed in the hinds of the
county, especially without a vote of the
people of the city to donate the same; all
this would surround the erection of a
"court bouse, with delays and questions
regularity besides, this building would
have to be placed at grade, which would
damage much of the adjacent property
to this block of ground, subjecting both
city and county to liabilities for damage
suits. The commissioners have taken all
these matters into consideration and as
agents of the people of Cass county pre
fer to make the location of the new
court house at a point where it will cost
the tax payers of the county the least.
Our people should be reasonable in re
gard to this matter, and be thankful
that they get the court house on any J
"terras.
The county commiss;oners deserve the
-thanks of our people for their prompt
action in locating the new courthouse
-tad in the prompt steps they are taking
o build it during the year 1891, and the
TIkrald hopes none of our people will
contribute amunition to the removalists
by quarreling with the commissioners
over the location.
i IT KILLS AT FIVE MILES.
, New Y"lk I lun'H.
j In.-ide the walls of the Colt factory at
II nt ford, Conn., his recently been com
, pietfd und f.-stcd the first of the Diigg
. Kchioeder rapid firing gun, which the
: gowtritiKnt has purchased for use in the
; iiunv. liy "rapid tire'' it is not meant
! tli .t ihe iicw iif will send bullet- with
tin; rapidity of the fniuoii.-t Gitling gun,
bi:t it will s n i th in of much Inrger
; si.-; and with u rapidity heretofore tin
! equitled in such projectile s. The Wrings
beuroedi-r guri Iirs pioj -etilcs weighing
fiom ono to eiht pounds.
The firftgun ol tlii.s type to bo com
pleted and to enjoy prot:;i tion and own
ership by the United Stat s government
is a 0 poundei; that is, it sends a 0 pound
projectile at a distance of at least five
miles. The projectile is cone-shaped,
and is made of hardened sttel, and so
grc t is the velocity when tired from the
gu.i that it will peifciatea 0 inch steel
plate at one mile wiiho .t flattening or
otherwise damaging itself. Although the
n.-w gttti wtilis His poun-'s, so skillful
ly is it mounted and balanced that tin
merest touch of a finger s-ts it revolving
about its axis. In this way the hoiiznn
tal aim is eecu e J. High or low rnnge
is only a matter of the gentlest touch on
Tub Eirle of this week contained
several ill-natured threats at this locality,
which are clothed in florid rhetoric, but
there is an air of "we have to say some
thing about the court house business''
w hich destroys the force of the uttr
anc. The Ivnle should not beunmind
'ul, howeyer. that the sentiment of this
county, as firly expnssed at the polls,
is in fvor of redlining the county seat
at 1'latt-om uth. Even our inveterate
em my, Isaac Pollard, admitted, the day
l:e county commissioners refused t-;-rnt
the prayer of the rein vli-.ts for
another election, that Pluttmiouth tairly
and honorably won the county seat priz ;
at the last county s;at election, on the
dny IJei j irnin Harrison unhorsed Oroytr
Ch vebmd for the presidency of these
United Stats, and Gov. Todd, who
holds the stopper tor Hurry Race's bo: tie
f Ktk- Vitiiol, publicly admitted the
auie day that the commissioners were
right in ruling as they did, and that he,
Todd, would have done the same thin..'
S what is the use in trying to incite and
liifl ime the minds of the people against
the board of county commissioner,
when every fair minded man who knows
the facts must admit that they have
acted within the strict letter of the law
We have bacn without a court house in
generous creditor Kt-nerally comes out
ahead of the Gradgrind who is bent en
squeezing out the last cent. Time seems
to be a powerful factor in the shrinkage
of assets in insolvency.
The Prettyman Lank affairs arc being
adjusted more quietly. One of the trust
companies has them in charge, and it is
thought the assets will realize rather
more thau was anticipated. It surely
looked upon their face that bo'h bankH
had been run dishonestly, but the im
pression is gaining ground that in bo h
c.i-ies the n al trouble was that the head
of the concern vmtund too f ir on sm ill
capital, rather than deliberately planned
to defraud his customers. This opinion
may or mty not bu cot rt, but it is un
doubtedly tiue that the public hfls more
to fear from errors of judgment in bank
inir than from deliberate purpose to
swindle.
TARI FF PICT RES.
New York l'resf :
"While we may do pretty well in tho
food line and raw material, you know
we are nowhere in the reports of manu
factured goods.'' And yet agricultural
H.2D JLlR.
J W. HJiNDEE &
(Successor to U. V. Mathews.)
CARRY A CimVLKVK LINK 0L1
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Hardware,
Stoves,
Tinware
Etc.
Having- completely reelean 3tl and renovated. Wc now
have as neat a hardware stock as can he found in Cass
County. We respectfully invite the public to call and
learn our method of doing business.
Hard ware can be sold cheaper for cash than
implement are manufactured t-ood, hnd Qn time and we are the people that propose
protected iran and steel and lumber and
thcUirecch of a vertical plane. All this LVg county ror yt.arg nnd everyone ad
is so simple tint a gunner can tire tlic mit3 i he necessity for county buildings,
p'ece in all four points of the compass TJie county scat httS been, at election al-
just as quickly and perhaps more accu- tcr t.i(.ciiODi twenty odd years, voted
ra-ely- than lie could tire u self cocking !y the V0lt!b to remain at Plaltsmouth
ru!ver:i) tn finme direction. A 0 Then why make such a fuss over the or 100 per c-nt
pound projectile can bj sent whirling ( OUrt 10Use? The bonds .r legal and
paint and varnish enter iuto them.
The txpoits of agricultural implements
of domestic manufacture increased from
$2,119,772 in value in 18sG
to S4,24G.07!i in value i;i 1,J
to do it
J. W. HENDEE & CO.
AMERICAN MACHINERY FOR BRA
ZIL.
court of tha state. They were voted for I London Industries says that "the
'a court hi use at Plattsmouth." They Union of Industry, a largn company, bus
could not be used at any other place for I lUeU loaned in Brazil for manufacturing
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towards the nortli, ana immediately 1);lvu ljL.t.n aj adjuJicited by the highest
auother can be sent toward the scuth,
long before the first has reached its destination.
i ne meetianism orine gun proijor is a court house. It is idle twaddle to purposes," and that a -representative of
as simple as that or the mounting nppa- (.IUS(1 th(J court i)ecaU30 tluit tribunal has the concern is ia the United States buy-
ratus. ine tiring is iliectecl iy means dccitled adversely to the plaintiffs in the i machinery, which includes a paper
i ""s' hond case. Courts are autnoi izl-u to de- ,nikiu' nlant. a saw-mill and steam
ordiu iry revolver. There are two ex- ckle 8ch qu(.8tionSi aDd evory time they laundry appliances. He has visited Ger
uanoi.,, eacn v.oruing muepeimcuiiy o ,lo SOj BOmc one of thlJ part.ie3 litigant is manv, France, Belgium and England,
tho o:lu-r, so that if one becomes dis- ,iefented and thinks he has been n,l 'u rnnrto., tn lmv deeh.rfid that
wronged; but it don't help his case, nor American machinery is superior to iny
changes tho judgment of the court, nor thing made in Europe. The price of
alter the st it. 19 of tho parties, for tho
defeated party to accuse the court of
dishonesty. Three judges, with all the tmlCii more labor saving."
records before them, free from the local
influences which surrounded Judge
Broady, were certainly as apt to decid
Everything to Furnish Your House.
AT
I. PEARLMAN'S
GttKAT MODFUX
HOUSE -FURKnviNG EMPORIUM.
abled the empty case will bo safely and
surely ejected by the other. The me
chanical parts of the gun arc completely
covered by a steel band, so that it is im
possible for dirt to get into the breech
op.-n ng. The gun was invented by
Lieut. W. II. Driggs, of the United
States navy, who, wi'h L'cut. Seaton
High School Notes.
Mies Carrie Vass one of the graduates
"lirDpdcr unf f n ! pA Vila lnvpntion nnd I .t. . ii iL. ! 1 it
. , , i mo cuse correctly as ine one juuge who ui i.ist jear imnmuiiiuu ucr muuics hi n....,,. n Ti1r V
resigned from the service iu order to de- Isf trind if and it will hn nrettv haid tha Plattsmouth schools taking a re- Pei a noust liOCK:
vote himself to its manufacture.
A LABOR PAPER SETS THE FREE
TRDE PRESS ARIGHT ON
WAGES.
The Labor Tribune, the official organ
jt the iron n.n.i sicei wojks, ihuii pay,
its respects to the free-traders who dis
honestly try to twist the recent wage re
ductions in Mr. Audrew Carnegie's mills
at Homestead into an argument against
protection:
work to make the people think other- view and preparing herself for teaching.
wise. Acain. the newspapers in this Roll of Honor in central building for
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county, which have abused the court the J the last term comprising pupils who
hardest, have probably never read the J were neither absent nor tirdy:
II attic Bailey
Cassie Rupp
Under Waterman's Opera House
European machinery was. he says, a little You can buy of him cheap fnr ppot cash or can vprrre, what ymi need to furnish a cottage or'a
, , 14, . u- luaunion oa the INSIALLA1EM i LAN.
lower, but the American machines were ..m.mx.
STOVES, RANGES AND ALL FURNISHINGS.
Agent lor the Celebrated White Sewing Machine.
The largest and most complete stock to select from in Cass County. Call aid see mo
PEAKLMAN.
opinion nf the supreme court and dare I i-an Smith
not publish it that the people may read Joseph Knotts
it and judse for themselves whether thr- Ocor-? xrtscli
reasoning aud decisi- n of the cftirt io lt-it J'rk-ke
Ui.ii.ln 11.,,..
sound or not. Let fairness prevail and I J3mnia p0i3ai
look at both sides of this controversy, I Cappie Black
and the IIebald has no fears of tho ul- Ida Sideimtrlker
. . , . , , , Hrnest Fletcher
timate judgment of the people of Cas Eddie EeMlbnrMr
1 he court house is a public I oija Hajeck
county.
The press announcement of the re- I necessityand will be built, and there is I olm Mart -ns
cent adjustment of Homastead wags
was about right, but tho comment was
way out from straight. The comment
was uniformly to the effect that, not
withstanding the McKinley bill, Mr.
Carnegie, who is designated in the afore
said as "the Prince of Protection," has
reduced wages ten per cent in his chief
plant. Of course the commentators did
not knew that the adjustment was made
on a scale agred to in tho summer of
1839, that tariff had the least to do with
it, and that in
no sensein indulging in covert threats to
be carried out "behind the bush"
in the future.
Xell'e umlth
Clara Batten
Philip Laugstoa
Italph Palmer
Blanch Polaell
Merle Hinds
Myrtle Booth
Clans Boetel
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
Judge Scales, of the Cook county court Sidney Tyler
of Chicago, has just rendered a decision I Willie Taskey
in Hip rust, nf S A "K"pn Sr. C.n xrhch i Jana Hunt
.... .... , , Evereit Miller
highly important to all banks ana ae- I niie wrga
positors. The point raised was that de- I Josie Yelenek
positors whose deposits had been made I K(bert Tronk
directly. Also that the I w'llljB thirty days of the ailure were I jf umj,cr Q pUpjij, enrolled at close
Carl Frleke
Kinory Buckner
lie s K'pou
Alice Murray
Henry Martens
Myrtle Levings
Lula Smith
AVillie f. armack
Elmer Farth n
Willie Archer
Eugene Williams
Kobert Mauzy
Jxniiaa TrUler
Harry Poisell
Lilla Martin
Jamea Archer
Willie Hinds
Willie Yabrig
Joe Hadrobba
Charlie White
Ruvola Staneiflrth
Hayden Hunt
Myrtle Jordan
Tony Yelenek
Katie Hesse
Minnie Heroid
Charlie Kurtz
Insure your property against fire, lightning and
Tornado in the
AMAZON INSURANCE COMPANY,
Of Cincinnatti, Ohio.
Comoienccfi Business QgIqUcv S7
CASH CAPITAL - - tt nn nnn nn
Stockholders individnally liable , under the constitution of the State
wxv TYinu wgemer wnii me present net surplus is a net
ouarantee of about $700,000.00 to nolicv lmldc
Losses paid in nineteen years, (since organization) nearly four million
UU11UT8
Tub popular branch of congress has
"been growing pretty steadily from the
begianng of thn govprnment. In every
decennial reapportionment except one
that ba3:d on the census of 1840 the
ninibf-r of members in that body was
made larger than in the preccedicg de
cd. Tho house immediately after the
Jrrt census was given 105 members, while
tho eleventh census wiil furnish it with
According to American notions this
is large body, yet the correpponding
branch of thi German parliament has 397
atomic rs, the French 584 and the British
570. There is no livelihood, however,
tli at the Un'I'd States chamber will fer
He as large as either the British or French.
Tcblic sentiment her?, ao far as it has
beu manifested at all oa the subject,
rem to be averse to legislative bodim of
the Karopeaii dimensions.
production of the Cariicgie plants ri--
ceived very much lea consideration from
the McKinley bill than did other metal
items. Tho fact is that the press com
mentators referred to. while fancying
they were hitting the protectionist policy
a hard blow, were doing pretty much the
other thing. The duty on rails wad re
duced by the McKinley act from $17 to
$13.44, a trifla over 20 per cent. The
demand for rails fell off, and as a con
sequence in tho rail plants more steel
was worked up into billets and slabs.
Hence a fall in tho market price of slabs
and billets, and hence the reduction in
the wages which the commentators gloat
ver. Arguing from their own defec
tive logic, it was a reduction of duties
that led to the reduced wages, and this
leaves their comment "high and dry" as
a hit at tho protection policy."
entitled to a preference in the settle
ment.
This singular claim was based ma:nly
upon the law which makes the receiving
of deposits by banks any time during
the thirty days immediately prior to the
failure of tho bank presumptive evidence
of fraud. The law itself is a self evi
dent absurdity. The moment a bank
ceases to take deposits it ceases to do
business as a bank, and in effect serves
notice on the public that it has gone
from banking to bankruptcy. No other
interpretation could be put on the mat
ter. To make use of the statue to create
a preference among creaitors would be
a palpable perversion. The only excuse
ior me act at ait is mat it may De a
good idea to deprive an insolvent bank-
er of the presumption of innocence, and
throw upon him the responsibility of
of term n9
Number of pupils enrolled at close
of corresponding term last year. . 893
Increase . . 216
Room 4 earned the banner seven times
during last term. Miss May Berry, the
teacher feels proud of it and well she
may with 24 schools at work to accomp
lish the same end.
Promotions will be made today for
the purpose of relieying the wards,
which are overcrowded. Rooms 8, 10
and 11 will be filled to their fullest
capacity. One of the greatest hindrances
to a successful school is the want of room
Our rooms are all too full to accomplish
good work and for the health of the
pupils this is a question that must soon
be met and in a more substantial manner
than in ono and two room buildings.
J. IL BEATTIE, GAZZAM GANO,
Secretary. President.
Wm. L. BROWNE, Resident Agent, Plattsmoutli Nebraska
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Thr anpreme court of Indian haa
ju-. luadu ii decision that will have a
bad effect on worldly mirj'Jed men who
want to poc as public upiriffd eit4ia
w:thoat any coat to thenwrlTe. An In
dianapolis church niibcr subv:ribcd
tm the building fund of a church, and
tried to wriggle out by cialraiag the
contract could not be enforced because
entered into on Sanday. The ; lawcr
rwtrt decided with biro, but the supreme
art reversed the decision, and' hereaf
lr church-putwription made in Indiana
mu Sunday are t he considered legal oh-
jifrtiiD.
Thk resumption of payments by B r
ker Bros., the Philadelphia banker
whosa suspension took place about three
months ago, reminds the country net only
that the recent financial diitorbance baa
pawed, but that the wreck which it caused
is being rapidly repaired. This Philadel
phi banking Htm was one of the largest
institutions which got into difficulties on
Ihi side of the Atlantic daring the con
volsion, It is now on its feet again, how
ever, and appareetly as strong and enter
prising as ever.
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. M We predict one of the improvements for
uiuiiey uuuer taiau preiOMHea. aucu a
reyrrsal of the common rule is justified j
by the peculiar fiduciary uature of tho
businrs-, and the fixing of an arbitrary
date simply puts the matter in shape.
ad appeal naa oeen tsaen. Due It is !
du: eiptcie j 10 ue pnanea. l ne pros
the city next year will be a four room
school building, must n we it.
ML3 Edith White und Miss Mamie
Carmack were welcome visitors to high
achoel today.
Mrs. Atwood. Mrs. F. E. White. Mrs.
Now it tarns out that all the blajse
fer the recent mine horror in Pennsjl .,
vsnia rests upon the shoulders ofj a
drunken fira boas whit was too maudlin
to look af er bis duties. Men in Whoso
hands are intrusted the lives of other
can not be allowed to eel ' drunk, and
pect i that tho thirty-day depositors PPP-burg and Mrs. Newlan were vis-
will joiu with the rest in accepting the ilora &t Cfcntral building todiy, also the
compromise offered by Mr. Keaa'a city editer of the Journal
friends, 83 cents on the dollar. Ilia Tne exercise this morning waa famish-
wife turns fo real estate not legally e,i bT Clark's and Miss Sampson's
liable for the bank's debts, but inerally room. To say that it was a success ii
liable, as she believes, making, it is placing it mild. A song by Miss Clara
thenght, 15 per cent more, or 50 per Drnmmond w well rendered. Shew
cent in all- If the creditors get that ono of Miss Clark's bright st pupila.
much they may well feel much aa St. Tbe representation of wax works was a
Pan I said he did when he saw thn ijn
of the three taverna.
It Is the common experience of credi
tors that prompt eettlencntt on what
seems a liberal basis of discount ia pre
fix bosses will have to be added to rU- feeble to a delayed settlement The
wa engineers on tbete.UUl list Irst offer Is frewrallv the best, aid tJia
snccciH ia every faatnre and the entire
program waa good and highly appreci
ated. Claha Wilsok.
Will yen suffer with dyspepsia and
liver oonylsJntl rShiloh's vitaliser is
guaranteed to care you. For sale by F
O Fricke and O. H. Soydex.
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