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WEEKLY HERALD: PLATS MOUTH, NEBRASKA. FEBRUARY 26 1891
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County Seat Reflections.
From Moiitlay's Daily
Gentle reader don't forget that the
fellows like Ike l'olbird, who have in
stigated the people of LouUvid to take
up the worn out county scat fight, do
cot have half as much intcri-nt in remov
ing the county seat an they have in de
feating the erection of a ccurt li.-u.--u.
Plnttsniouth is much more otivenient
for Pollard, Todd & Co., than Louis
Ville. it it not th comity seat those
fellows are after half so much n the de
leat of the $M0,000 bon !s voted to (mild
the court house. Pollard. Todd & Co.
know full well that the bonds cannot be j
Used io build county buildings at L-uis
Villa and it is the defeat of the b uds '
they debire. Iu other words, those fel
lowis would vote against anything that
would add a cents taxes upon their
broad acres. They are all rich, and rich
men. do not like to pay taxes.
With more than one-third of the pop
(nation of the county within the cor
pornte limits of Plattsmouth City; with
more than one-half of the legal voters in
couaty within a radius of eight
lUes of Plattsmouth; common sense
Would eoggest to the electors of the
county that the Weeping Water and
Louisville papers know full well that the
present county seat agitation is a hum
bug, a sham, and a delusion,
The press of Plattsmouth, and our
people, have no ill feeling aga'nst the
good people of Louisville. Those peo
ple know Plattsmouth is a fit and proper
place for the couuty seat and alw ays
voted heavily for Plattsmouth as against
Weeping Water. Now, if they have
been humbugged by Ike Pollard & Co,,
into believing that Weeping Water wants
Louisville to have the county seat, we
have no objections.
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We have a distinct reccollection of
the Rev. (?) Mayfield visiting Platts
mouth bi-ennially when a county seat
contest was brewing, oa his mission for
money to keep the Louisville fellows
from voting for Louisville. Xnw that
elegant apostle of morals is shouting
fraud at Plattsmouth in his elegant and
choice Hindoo. We violate no confi
dence when we say the people of Louis
ville know him.
Not striking a name from the late la
mented petition asking for a special
election for the put pose of voting on the
question of the re-location of the county
scat of Cass county, and adding thereto
the rimes of seventy-five additional
signers, sent in to the county clerk nearly
orfy days after the petition had been
"MdVand submitted to the county board,
the petition did not contain the requisite
. . three-fifths of the votes cast at the last
general election; and to have granted the
request of the petitioners would haye
been a flagrant violation of law; yet, the
county commissioners are called knaves
and rascals for not calling the election
Nelson Jean and wife came in this
' morning from a pleasant with Mr. Jean's
brother at Silver City, Iowa.
Senator Thomas spent Hunday with
i rela ives at Hillsdale Iowa ami re--turned
to his legislature duties this morn
ing.
Dr. Schildknceht is on the street today
for the fir-d time in two weeks. His le
gion of friends are glad to see him able
to be out a train.
The county Treasurer and Recorder
are moving into the 15 ink of Cuss county
basement this week.
Conrad Sehlater is in the city and pays
the Louisville people are up at Lincoln
in force today after the girls reform
echo-1. which it is thouuht wiil be
located at Louisville or Geneva.
Judge Ramsey has issued 217 mar
riage licenses to date, and of this number
only one lias been issued to a colored
couple, that being issued on Saturday
lat to Mr. Pearle Praiunton and Miss
Helen Smith, both of Plattsmouth.
The telephone company has been
putting in new instruments all over their
lines, which is a great improvement
The new phone w rks to well that some
say they can hear the men working on
the new court house at Plattsmouth, can
hear Judge Sullivan clap his hands as
he stands on the foundation, and can
hear Ed Wooley emit a volume of blue
profanity, all of which makes a strange
combination when it reaches Union ex
change. - Union Ledger.
HUMAN NATURE.
If life were not no nail a thin.
Who then couM think of lin; merryl
If Owl's will wuiil'I Iwar altTiii,
His plans wo shouM not try to vary!
Were we once freo from pain and cure
We straight would seek tunie cross to Ln.-ar!
If iijxhi love a wal w-re set.
How many twals would then he broken 1
If jct-titla six-wli were hard to Rft,
How ninny Kind words would be spoken!
If heaven uviv once denied us all.
How we should then to heaven c.-ill!
Mary A. Jlason in Voutli's Companion.
THE JUICER'S MANIA.
A Flossy tramp
From Saturday's Daily.
A fair looking specimen ot the genus
tramp hired it guu of A. L. Coleman at
Carruth's several days ago and nothing
more was heard of him or the gun either
until Friday when marshall Archer was
notified by telephone from South Omaha
that a man had given himself up there
to the officers and claimed he had pawn
ed a guu at Pacific Junction belonging
to Mr. Carruth of Plattsmouth. While
the matter was being investigated Sat
urday his Uampsbip gave the South
On. aha oificei s the slip and appeard in
Plattsmouth, hunted up the marshall
and crave the whereabouts of the lost
un. Mr. Carruth went over to the
Junction and found that the eun had
been pawned tor $2 and had- been sold
so lie concluded not to bother with an
eff rt to ecover his property; and when
tbey found the tramp wanted 30 days
by the fire at the county's expense, he
was fired out of town at a lively rate.
lie was too anxious to be arrested
and convicted. The marshall says he
went awav disgusted.
When the county board denied the
prayer of the petitioners for an election
to re-locate tht county seat, Mr. Woo'ty,
their attorney, took voluminous excep
tions, and gave notice before the board,
and in the highways and byways, ot an
appeal from their decision to the courts.
Everybody, almost, then knew that the
appeal notice was mere bluff; even Gov.
Todd saw through that and admitted
that the county commissioners were
right, in their action. Yet, the Gov's
alliance paper at Weeping Water is en
gaged in the elegant business of abus
ing good men and officials, who have
simply done tueir duty as honest men
should do.
Greenwood Trains.
Since the new time carl went into
effect a few weeks ago it has been im
possible to buy a ticket on the evening
train the 5:45 or the 6:15, for Green
wooslas the train did not stop at that
poiht. This was a great inconvenience
to Greenwood people who came down in
the morning and could not return the
same day. The editor of the Herald
called Mr, Latham's attention to the
matter and asked him to lay the facts
before General Manager Holdrege, which
he did; aud as a result we are confronted
this morning with a bulletin requiring
Mr. Latham to sell Greenwood tickets
for these trams tmd ordering them to
stop. No further complaint from that
quarter can now be made.
County Court.
Allen Stultz vs Robert Phillips. Suit
for conversion. Settled and dismissed.
John B. Hayes vs McKaska M'fg Co.
Continued by consent until parties agree i
upon time for trial. Gering for plaintiff,
Windhani & Davies for defendant.
Meyer Bros. Drug Co. vs Plattsmouth
L imp M'fg Co, Suit on account. Judg
ment for plaintiff for $130.50.
District Court
One new case filed todsy, that of Geo.
Vnsburgh vs. Barbara Vasburgh, petition
for divorce, alleging desertion. Wooley
& Gibson for plaintiff.
It will be remembered that M. F.
Lambeit of Kock Bluffs was killed last
Mimmer by accident at Cattlesburgb,
Kentucky. His son Charley, aged ten,
was with him. The sister, it seem8,
wanted to get hold of the pension mouey
which the boy would draw, so she had a
guardian appointed for him and fixed
the lad out as a permanent resident. In
the mean time the boy's mother, who re
sides at Rock Bluffs, was using every ef
loit at her command to get the guardi
anship annulled and have ber boy re
turned to his Cass county home. J. S.
Mathews was retained and after about
three month - he has succeeded in making
the mother's heart glad by the return of
her boy. He made the trip alone with
out any trouble, arriving home a few
days ago.
Mrs. Spin lock and Mrs. M. M. Rich
ardson are gett iug up a box of clothing
etc. which thev will send to the ministers !
in the drouth district. It turns out. that
the ministers, who by the nature of
things are compelled to live upon the
charitv of tiieir congregation-, are the
most d-siitute of any class to be found j J-ung chickens.
A B. Taylor is transacting business in
Glen wood today.
Walter White is today moving the
safe from tip; old treasurer's office to the
new quarters under the Bank of Ciss
County.
On account of the warm weather the
river has been steadily rising, but the
cold wave this morning has ckecked its
progress.
Last, night a monster revolving snow
plow, weighing fifty-two tons, passed
through the city from Puttersou, . J.,
enroute to the Denyer Rio Grande
road. It is probably the first of these
plows ever brought west.
D. R. Churclfitl says a hen stole her
n-st out in a straw-duck near the barn at
his plac south of town, in January, and
came in a few days ago with a flock of
For mild wiuters Ne-
John Rhett, tho handsomest young
t Mil in the count-, be of the raven locks
Mid with the- b w.i ;;"'.! 1 black mustache
t i.it the women adored John Rhelt
walked into the barber shop in York-
vnJe for a shave.
It was a cold day and there were three
or four of his friends, besides several
tonsonal artists, standing around the
stove at tho time, but the man who al
ways did his work beii;g idle he walked
directly over and threw himself into the
on of or table chair.
The barber was a tall, well V viilt young
t. Iiow by the name of Henry Casey,
v. iiom Khett had known for a long time,
Tho usual preparatory process was gone
through with and then he sharpened his
razor and went to work, but he started
off in a manner that made Rhett uncoin
lorable from the first. This was due to
t he unusual and seemingly reckless way
in which he handled the razor. There
was entirely too much flourish about it
to make one feel easy. He would whirl
it round in one or two cirles before it
torched the face, and then take it off
g,.i:i in the same artistic style. This
may have looked very pretty to a spec
tator, but to the person who formed tho
center of these concentric circles, Rhett
thi-aght it was anything but pleasant.
At lirst ho was inclined to think the fel
low was drinking. But he soon dismissed
this idea, for tho work was being done
wcil and skillfully and as no drunken
man could do it. Finallv he told Casey
that he didn't like any such flourishes
around his head, and to stop it.
But the oul- reply he received was the
press of the barber's finger against his
; at, and a short hissing "keep still."
: rA.i made Rhett mad, and he started
to express himself very forcibly, but
i'tu he looked up at the man who
o..d drawing the sharp razor over his
.co his anger gave way to a far more
fearful feeling. The words died on his
lips and a sudden chill crept over his
i ..
uuuv.
Ho had looked into the wild, excited
eyes of a maniac.
'Don't you move or nay a word; if you
do I'll cut your thrift, V.-.:ne ug.dn in a
vuppretv-ed whisper, as that bhurp, cun
ning face bent near to Ids.
"Do you know," said the barber as he
cept on with the work; "do you know
that this will be ycur last shave that I
intend to kill you with this game razor
the moment I have finished?
I hav e long wanted to make the ex
periment," he continued as he went rap
idly on, "just to see how quickly it could
i e done. Perhaps you think I am crazv.
but you are wrong. I only want to do
this work in the interest of science. I
believe it will prove to be the most pain
less and quickest of all deaths. If I suc
ceed today, as I expect to do, my method
may become the public mode of execu
tion in this country, supplanting the gal-
ovvs. ion see what ;m honor it will be
o h;:ve started tsucli a reform, in capital
ninshmcnt. My name will become im-
oii.rt;d. There will he none of tho sus-j:;':i:-o
a! tending executions now; none of
'.!;o terrible scenes at the gallows. You
. iu-,i'ly take the condemned man in for
a shave and before he knows it he is in
remit y."
lie kept on talking in this rapid, ex
u way, and kvpt on j-havmg.
i.ii. it heard his friends conversing on
:l:e other side cf the room, and ho turned
!:is head to see if ho could tell them of
'tis danger. But it was quickly jerked
oack in position, and ihe barber told
;iii;i if he did that again ,t tried to get
cut of tho chair it woni.l L- the signal
f or his death. And tho wicked gleam of
his eve more than his words showed that
lie was in terrible earnest. Under the
circumstances the intended victim
i.h-ught it best not to move a;jain, and
-o ho laid there as stiil as d;at:i.
But his brain was not idle. It was
working with the rapidity of lightning.
method will not only be quicker, but
more painless.
"Just u stroke like this, and it's all
over," aud Rhett's heart gave a wild
luan, for oe thought his end had come.
Ca.sey, however, had only drawn the
back of the razor across his throat, but
with such force and rapidity that it
burned like fire.
The situation was growing desperate.
In a minute the barber would be through
with his work. With one. hand he had
lihettbytho hair and with the other
w;u finishing up tin job, while his lips
!:;-it muttering and his body swayed
with excit .; out. Rh- tt knew with the
t;o.t sweep of that infuriated arm ho
woid l meet his h;o;n. Whatever ho did
must lie do:n i.-i.-;t-;ntly.
'A', 11. ho s.iid, as lightly as
.ic coiuci, "sirirpen up your razor well
be foro you start, for I don't want any
bungling job." For ho thought when
the barber turned to do this he could
leap from tho chair and get away.
"It's sharp enough for j'ou, Mr.
Rhett." and the madman grew madder
is i . !;p-,ki-: -it's sharp enough for you,
dr."
He had already finished shaving.
'.': V i;o:;rt ahno ;t stood Mill.
w . .-'ll t.f o if it needs to be sharp
er," f.aid Casey with a demoniac laugh,
i.i-d I?i?-tt felt a skui p t-.ting as tho keen
l.l.ule cut tin? skin .n his throat.
"But, Henry," ho r.q.idly ejaculated.
"I want yon to i.mko ;i success . this,
f(.r it wi.l r. Llesing
but f you go on now I
be :i iire."
A
STRUCK BY A TORPi ADO.
JIEfcTliNG OF TWO GREAT STORMS.
The Storm ofKuthiction-
AND
Tho Storm of Patronage,.,
& C. Mayer Continue to Wear the
BUSINESS COW
1 1ST THE
CLOTHING trade;:
Tho r;;zor -top;:ed.
to the wori.i- 1Q ARGAINS in Mens, Boys and Childrens'
tell you it will - ' ....
ciotning, are melting away like ice Before
the Summe rs sun. Or great Reduction pric
es are catching ih-? eye ot the careful buyer.
.e." ho cn
told me all
ady suffered
C L O T h I Jt (
fore in the history of Plattsmouth,
'DON'T SPEND
2MB
r.-r t a t i ci cr.
Before looking us over,
your pocket.
It means money in
Vi :i.-ked Cai-ey.
The m.iidac v. its interested. I'hett
saw that ho had ied ;i pt.iut and lit
Knew h::; lie ;:. i.-l tsou how he
.tit TV" 1 . . . .
KM. I I;. IxO I'i'.i V -! I sit- ?.'! l .?
p;-:'ii.;:rta. It ;o . . ; h;:u
ion th. r he had i.-or tin.-o. .
"Yoi! wiii i:.ah a i...l;
ti'.-i'ed, becaui.o you have
aoout it, and J have an;
much smp( n.-e ::a tho criminal on the
whig me tho fat-ai wound i wiii shriek Atsueh. prices as have never been offered be-
out m agoi.y. atiU tne people will say
til at I suli'cred a terrible death. Thev
will not believe you then that it would
bo the most painless mode of execution.
L' you see, Henry, you would defeat the
veajy object you are trying to accoru
plhsh." -
I no barber withdrew the razor and
held it motionless iu his hand. Rhett
breathed easier and became eloquent on
j subject of the experiment
"iiow, the next man you shave,
Henry, don't say a word to him .on the
subject, but all at once, iu the twinkling
of an eye. put him out. And I believe
you will become a greater man than the
inventor of the guillotine."
w tii, :.ir. ruifci;:, i ueneve you are
n':;ht about it," and he began to close
tno razor.
Tho mania was wearing off, and in its
stead there came n playful and mischiev
ous humor.
Patting his customer under the chin,
Ah, Khotr," !.. raid, -yea would
look to much better without your mus
tache. Now, do-'t you want me to take
it o-x for you?"
Afraid to cross him in his humor,
Ehrett replied, thor.jh it almost broke
his heart to nay it:
"Vy'liy, certainly, Henry, if you think
it will look better."
On went tho lather, and ia r.nothei
oiiiiute the beautiful t-ilken strands were
u'.oro than tho withered loaves of the
io. .-t.
-Now, Mr. r.hott, if you hr. 1 your hair
i-ll.-.ic-d you would lock splendid. Don't
yc a want mo to u.-'io it oiiV
"Of course, Henry, clip it," came from
I - so anguished iipc. Ho was willing to
:: y or do anything to got that razor back
...o its cr.fc.
oo the ci Jp( rs wi :o I rony! t out and
i.j hs loan i i::ini:i(-H ho was dicker
a nev.' born rat.
Dut if his head v.-;.b light Lis heart waa
v", when he r.:o3 from Iho chair, and
vor in all his II fo uld lie foci so vrilling
s. &
Till: 1
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C. MAYER
0KLY50 & YEAR
rir-
.lir.poy
cour.-
o p.:y H :?: : . :.hr.vo and hair ctft.
everybody laughed at him
in the west. The supplies heretofore braska bends the list this year, with
sent have not reached these people, ' Florida only a close second.
should be
th'-refore n :)'csil effort
made to make them comfortable.
What-
The New Court House.
The bids for the contract for the
ever you have to send, if vuu will leave ' erection of the court hon?e were opened
it at the residence of Mrs. Spurlock on today. O. J. Kini.', of Umaha, was the
Peail street no trouble will be spared to j lowest bidder, and if he furnishes there
see that only ncdy ministers are the ' quired bond will probably get the con
beneficiaries. 1 tract.
'.:i ho vent out on the street, and the
v.--id blow coi.l a.,out las bead. Io his
ih-ud.s. when they gmhcivd around him,
io lo-ld Iris h ; -:To'.ving c-morience. and he
w.-.:i still a-5 p.'do iv.i a ghost.
A con;!:..;L:; forthwith waited on the
I i.r .,r, but they did not find anything
ia l;i.s words or actions to denote insan
ity. S s ". '0 l.1-.-.'vod the siory and
.-; Iidn"i --'jv i lie Li.rber kept on
rhuving.
Dot never again did he imt his razor
upon the f;ice of John Rhett. W. 2L
UAby ia Atlanta Constitution.
j -f4 yA -j--y gZJf
if d-Bj AtdoTml. Logarj.
9just Full and Runnimo Over with good Things.
0N(i em
.J.n4 Btortt for all i rtair-tUft " In Uh
family, from th " tm. Vn&rott4-Foau.,m-
THERE ARE TALKS
A riea for ImlifTerence.
little indifference to one's self, to
one's personal appearance.
d moral
l;Ti:' S IOOU
clo';hes, and even one's mental.
CO.-jv.U
When
mor.d
oa, is :i
1 refer
condili
wonderful aid in life,
to iadlil'v-rrence to one's
)?i I do not. of course.
wi-h t )ie ;:u a lvoco.to of license; but I
doprre: t that it is well, having done
one's duty to the best of one's ability, to
await the issue with tranquility. All
the Year Round.
tiyl wen it nng'it.
Rhett had always been regarded as a
cool and brave young man; he lkad proved
it on more than one trying occasion.
And he determined in this last extremity
to be himself and to meet the sharp cun
ning of the maniac with an equal cun
ning. Then commenced a fierce and hidden
-une between those two a g:iuie in
,. ; ioh or: ? kuew the prize for him was
.:ifc. and. if lwlost, the profit death.
Henry," nnid the young man, and he
lied, though his heart was beating
;'o i, -you shouldn't try to frighten a
cod customer in that way. You know
to it v:jului'i't kill fin old friend like me."
"I'll show you, Mr. Rhett," half
shrieked the barber, and the gloaming
eye grow fiercer and the voice, trembled
with passion.
Rhett s:iv.r that ibis hud only added
fuel to tho flame, and he begun to despair
of concillalia;; t!: ma J:aaa.
"Yes." said Casey, aud his wild hand
gi-ow wilder and the razor pressed harder
upon his victim's face: "yes, 3ou must
V.i' this very hour for the sake of science.
Why. it will be a noble death. You
uu-dit to feel honored to perish in such a
caue."
Tho young man was now thoroughly
frighrcned, and he watched for an op
portunity to spring from the chair and
tsi:ie. But ho looked in vain. Though
tho barber occasionally rela?: -d tln-steni
grip upon his throat, yet ho -till held
hiin with his glittering eye.
You see, tho criminal will not know
that Irs in air is at h-ind. The barber
will bo taken into tho ;ju:l to give him a
suave, and without a loar or tremor, . After Cftv-niue vears of labor Barthel-
without a single thought of death, he emy Saint Hilare has finished his trana
will Ixs hurled into another world. Talk j lation of "Aristotle," a work in thirty
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surface as bright as when it left the
maker's hands. By the side of it are
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