China has concluded not to break off all commercial relations with us, eren though the new exclusion law is distasteful to her. She would lose a good deal more than we would by such a step. The announcement that Kngland will accept the invitation of the United States to take part in an in ternational monetary conference goes to Khowtliat President I larri- Bon has taken hold of the silver question in the right way. The democratic river and harbr bill is the biggest fraud and steal v that has been passed by congress and it will surely elect any man president on the republican tuket, no matter who the republicans should put up. Hut they will put up Harrison and he will be te electeJ by an increased majority. HOW IT WORKS. The NcKinley law is doing more to build up industries and give em jdoyment to labor than any other system that could be adopted; it is depopulating manufacturing dis tricts in L'urope, but populating our own; it is transferring capital, manufactures and snilled laborers from other lands to ours; it is devel oping the talent of our inventors, and multiplying labor-saving machinery; it is adding to our pop illation, enterprises, wealth and de mand for capital and labor; it is enlarging the product of our mines of coal and iron and copper and cinnabar and zinc and our quarries of stone, and is opening up our mines of tin. It is supplying needed revenue, and compelling foreign manufacturers to pay a good part of it. The "tin plate liar" is in full retreat. It has compelled the "robber" free trader to pause in his career of plundering American cititens for the benefit of foreign ' its. Free traders are being repudi ated by the people. Hill is rebuked in the great Btate of New York, where republicans kave been robbed of power by fraud and cor ruption. Judge William Lawrence of Ohio. MR, BLAND ALARMED. It appears that Mr. Dlaud takes a gloomy view of the situation. The blindness and treachery of the dem ocrats who voted against the silver bill, he thiaks, have done the busi ness for the party this year. It can make no gains in the west, while it is in danger of losing some of its old prestige and potency in the south. In that section, he believes, tens of thousands of democrats will remain away from the polls, thus giving two or three states over te the republicans. He has no faith in the international monetary con ference idea. No solution of the problem can be gained in that di rection, and he is confident that the democrats who favor this project are insincere.. This conference no tion he firmly believes is a trick got up by the eastern democrats to shelve the free coinage bills by merely pretending to postpone them until Kurope has a chance to ta 1 on the question. Undoubtedly the Missouri states man has good cause to be angry with his party for its shabby treat ment of his measure.' An over whelming majority of the demo cratic members of the house are pledged to do all they can to bring about free coinage, yet when the test comes they disregard the in structions of their constituents and prove false to their promises. Kven the speaker, who had frequently spoken and voted in favor of allow ing the largest liberties to the white metal, proved faithless when the crisis came. On every hand free silver champions surrendered to the threats and blandishments of the Now York and Massachusetts section of their party. Of course Mr. Kland has one recourse left by which he may "get even" with the traitors, lie can bring the matter up in the national convention, and if this body declares in favor of throwing the mints open to the white metal the party will become formally and definitely committed to this policy. Hut the distinguished Missotirian is unnecessarily alarmed at the out look. The democrats will be beaten in the canvass, but they will lose none of the southern states. That region will be faithful to the party even if its representatives in con gress be faithless to their peldgcs and protestations. The democrats are accustomed to losing the presi dency, and one defeat of this sort more or less will make little differ- once to them. They will survivt Much a loss, and still be in grand lighting siiape whenthe next elec tion comes around. Hut their su premacy in the southern states is not seriously menaced. Perhaps Mime of the old vim and vigor may be missed in the canvass in the outh, and the majority may lose a .little of the imposing dimensions 4f former years, but the majority will be their just the same, and it will be ample enough far all practi cal purposes. Globe Democrat. OUR PROTECTED SHIPPING Among other things developed by the lake traffic is a laud; locked ma rine, valued for insurance purposes at over $iO,0X,000. In this marine are one hundred and twenty-six ves sels registering one thousand five hundred net tons or more, eighty nine of which are built of steel, and thirty-two additional steel vessels of large tonnage are now being built. These vessels have no super iors for strength in the world, and some of them, freight carriers, in their regular business between Chi cago and ItiilTalo maintain a higher speed than the steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Line are required to maintain which carry the mails between England, India, Hong.Kong and Australia, receiving OaO.Omthcrefor from the Hritish government and DV)f) from colon ial governments.--K. P. North in May Forum. FREE TRADE PEHIODS. Fiee trade has had five periods of relative prevalence in the history of the I'nited States - that is, there have been live distinctly marked period when foreign competing im ports have been freer than at any others to enter our ports, to the subversion and overthrow of do mestic competing industries. These were: 1. The colonial period, ending with throwing over of the tea in Boston Ihirbor and the battle of Lexington in 177.1. The Hritish parliament forbade us by law to manufacture in order that they might monopolize our market. This chiefly impelled us toward the war for independence. 2. The "peace under confedera tion" peiiod from 1783 to 1781), when no national duties on imports ex is ted. This chiefly impelled us to adopt the federal constitution. 3. The period of the so-called re ciprocity treaty with England in 1810 to 1824, culminating in the financial crisis of 1817-10. 4. The compromise tariff period of 1833 to 1842, including the tin paralelled crisis of 1830-30. "The Walker tariff period of 1840 to '57, intensified by the further re duction in '57 and thus prolonged to March 3, 1801. This period was marked by a general poverty or "hard times" crisis, setting in in the summer of 1854, continuing into a bankruptcy and non-payment crisis in 1855, which caused a mercantile bankruptcy crisis in England in 1850, and this reacting produced the bank crisis in America in 1857, after which the country struggled on in a pauperized condition until 1801. Without a single exception, our every approach to free trade brought disaster, particularly to farmers and working people. Do we want any more of it? American Economist. Nebraska Weather Service. Following is the weather report as received from ninety-three ob servers in sixty counties for the week ending Friday, May 13: The week has been unseasonably cold, with excessive rainfall in all parts of the state, and little or no progress has been made in farm work. The temperature has been more than twelve degrees below the nor mal in all parts of the state, and in the northern part nearly eighteen degnes below. The sunshine has also been decidedly below the nor mr.l, there being generally but a part of one day in which the sun shone. Kain has fallen nearly every day in all parts of the state, with snow in the northwest on the 7th and 8th. The amount of precipitation has varied from an inch and a half in the western portion to three and a half in the southeastern. This is more than three times the normal amount and as the. ground was al ready thoroughly saturated it has quite generally injured crops and flooded low lands. In the southern tier of counties from a fifth to a half of the corn crop has been planted, but else where very little of the crop is in; complaint is general that what is already planted is rotting in the ground. NOKTHliAST SKCTIOX. Antelope Weather injurious to all crops; snow on Monday. Hurt -No farm work can be done and corn planting much delayed. Cedar Almost continuous rain fall; grass backward; much injury to stock from hunger and exposure; small grain geneially doing well. Colfax Small grain and fruit all right so far; cold and wet weather delaying farm work and causing the death of young pigs. Cuming Plowing for corn de layed considerably; river high. Dixon-Whent becoming slightly yellow; no planting done, but ground mostly plowed. Dodge-Corn ground half plowed; little corn planted, and that rotting. Holt Snow all day on the Oth; rye, wheat and oats all right: rivers ' overllowing their banks. Madison Frost on the 7th; little corn planted. Platte Not twelve hours of sun shine the past week; corn eround about half plowed and very little planted. Sheridan Much snow; a large acreage of wheat sown and doing well. Stanton Most grain up and look ing well; planting at a standstill. Washington Oats turning yel low; wheat good color and pastur age improving; corn ground two thirds plowed. SOUTH K AST SUCTION. Hutler Farm work three weeks behind; much ground underwater., Cass Work totally suspended; apple blossoms coming out well; corn already planted will have to be replanted; pastures sufficient for stock. Clay Some corn planted, but rotting in the ground; will all have to be replanted; small grain and grass growing but little. Fillmore Wheat, oats and grass far behind what they were last year at this time. (iage Work ten days behind last year, too cold for grass and still necessary to feed cattle. Hamilton Dull, cold and rainy, delaying corn planting. Jellerson Plan ting not one quart er done; some up but looks yellow. Johnson Wheat and oats on bot tom lauds injured; no farming this week and work weeks behind. Nemaha Wheat, oata, grass and potatoes gr jwing; farm work at a standstill. Nuckolls Wheat looks well ex cept in Ijw places; grass growing finely; not half the corn land plowed. Otoe Very little corn planted; cherry trees in full blossom. Pawnee Heavy raiua washed out listed corn on rolling ground. Polk Very little corn planted. Richardson All small grain in. jured and corn planting delayed by excessive rainfall. Saline Only about seveti hours of sunshine and no farm work done this week. Saunders Planting prevented by wet weather; small grain making but small growth. Seward No progress made in farming; plowing for corn not half done. York No planting dene. Thayer Winter wheat and oats damaged by rain; potatoes rotting in the ground. CENTRAL SECTION. Boone All crops more or less in jured by excessive rains; farm work entirely at a etandsitll,wild plums not yet in blossom. Buffalo Wheat slightly injured, on bottom lands. Custer Some corn planted on rolling lands, wheat looking well except on low ground where injured by Handing water. Dawson -Excessive rains have damaged small grain and hindered corn planting. v Hall Sugar beet plantingalready KOl'TIIWEST SECTION Adams Cool and wet weather has prevented plowing and plant ing and much retarded the growth of vegetation. Chase Only one day of sunshine and six inches of snow on the Hth. Franklin- Some of thesmall grain a little yellow but most looks ex ceedingly well. Furnas About one-fifth of the corn planted; work two weeks be hind, Harlan -Very cold, cloudy and damp, corn planting is fairly well begun; Fall grain doing well but backward. Hitchcock Wheat iooks well, most of the corn planted and some up; rather cold for all crops, later than last year; little corn planted. Loup Small grain on high ground in good condition; plowing for corn greatly retarded; little grass started. Merrick Com less than half planted; fruit trees not yet in blos som. Nance Fruit blossoming out backward; bees unable to secure necessary pollen. Sherman Cool and cloudy, favor able for small grain; corn planting has advanced some in spite of the wet condition of the soil. Valley Small grain grows slowly but looks well; wile grass backward but tame grass looks well; some corn planted. Wheeler Low ground too wet to go on with a team and much of it under water; wheat growing out in many places. Kearney- Some complaint of com rotting in the ground. Lincoln-Wheat looks wry well; light snow on the 7th nnd Sth. Red Willow Small grain doing well. WESTERN SECTION". Logan Potatoes rotting in ground. Scotts HlutT-Oats not all some com planted. the in; NOKTHWKSTEkW SECTION. Brown -No corn planted. Cherry- Everything covered with water. Rock Kain every day; lowlands flooded. Sheridan Snow on 7th and 8th; a large acreage of wheat sown. Co to Gering & Co. for wall paper LEGAL XOT1CES. Pherirrs Pm1 Hv virtue of mi exeitn inn Issiit-i) ty W. II. Ili'iirinu, tli-rk of tin- district court ill anil forC'.i" count v. Nclirut-ku, and to int? ilirrctcil, I will on tin- ilnv of June, A. I. lv. at '.: o'clock p. in. of aiil lay, at the wiutli door of tin- court limine in tlieiitv of I'liitt-.timutli in -aid count v, m-II at 1 1 1 1 1 c auction the follow inj; ri-af eMate. to wit: The north-wer-t uarter ol the northeast miarter iiim1, of lie1.) of sect inn thirty six (.iiii, town eleven till , raiiKcclcven tlllieiiwt nf the-sixth principal meridian. In Cass county, Nebraska, totct her with the privi leges ami appurtenances thereunto be lunyiiiK or in anywise appertaining. The same I -in lt levied upon ami taken os the property of Millmrn I.. Itarratt.de. femlaut, to satisfy a judgment of said court recovered liy Samuel McCotikey, phiintilJ, aitainst said defendants. J'lult-inoiilli. .Net)., Mav I. IV.'. W.M. TltillK. Sheriff Cuss font v, .Nehrasku. HYKO.N C'i.AKK, Att'y for IMaintill. Legal Notice. IN THE DISTRICT (JOI NT, OF CASS County. Nebraska. In the mutter of the estate of Ajjnes Cole' deceased. OKMvK TO SHOW CACSE. This cuuse cuine on for hearing upon the petition of Silas Liitiu, administrator, w it h will annexed, of the esiate of Atfness Cole deceased, praying lor a licence to sell real esiate as follows, to wit. Fractional lot .No. two (', in the north west ipiarter of the northeast iiarter; ami fractional lot number nine C'l , in the Houthwestjipiarter ol the northeast coun ter ull in section twenty-live i'), township twelve, ll'-ii, north of rutiue thirteen, (111), in Cass county, Nebraska, containing three (Hi acres more or less; for .the purpose of the payments of the debts against said estate and the costs of said administration according to the provisions of the will of the said deceased, there not beiiiK suliici ent personal property to pay the debts of said estate. It is hereby ordered that ull persons In terested in said estate appear before me at the nfliceof the clerk of the district court in Cuss county, Nebrusku, on the 10th day of June A. 1), IV.!, ut 10 o'clock a. ni to show cuuse whv license should not lie granted to said administrator to sell the above described real estute of suid de ceased for the purposen herein named. It is further ordered that thin notice be published in the l'LATTSMOL'TH IIKKALD, a newspaper in general circulation in said Cuss county, Nebraska. Dated this 30th lav of April A. D. 18M2. SAfll'Kl. ClIAl'M ANN, Judge of the District court. Legal Notice. Hy virtue of an order of sale issued by the district court in and for Cuss count v, Nebraska, on theXith day of April, A. D. 1V2, upon a decree ordering sale of real es tate involved in a partition suit now pend ing in said district court, wherein Maria L. Hutler and Mary K. Hutler are pluintiffs and John Grimes and wife. Maria L; Junies V. Grimes and wife, Sarah A.j Nancy J. Iltirbank and husband, David H.; Klviru K. Grimes, Clara A. Grimes, Sarah F. Johnson and husband, Alfred; Helen D. Whitmore and husband, George; Lizzie A. Grimes, Frank C. Grimes and wife, Abbie D.; John H. Grimes, Lucinda K. Grimes, David W. Grimes, Betsy J. Brown, John G. Hutler and wife, Friincena; James S. Hutler and wife, F.llen M.; Fruncis A. Walker and wife, Martha ; John G. Walker nnd wife, Kebecca C; William H, Allison, Frances Higbee, George True Neullev, Henrietta Gregson, Susan Neulley, Ed ward H. Neulley, Adilie K. Coolhuugh, Mary K. Fuller nnd husband, Melville W.j Jane E. Marsh and husband, Benjamin F.; Addie K. Coolhuugh, the younger; Willi menu F. Coolhuugh, Illinois Coolbaugh, Grace W. Hrnwn and husband, Archibald I,.; Maud Fuller, Marv C. Fuller, Mildred Wallace and husband, Hugh C: Paulina C. Aubery and husband, James M. : Cath erine M. W. Fuller, June Hrown Fuller, minor; Melvin W. Fuller, guarpian of June Hrown Fuller, minor Helen Gallagher, Lvmail Cook, George C. 1. Human and Melville W. Fuller are defendants, and which real estate is hereinafter described and which order of sale was directeil to us, the undersigned referees ill said suit directing us to sell the following described real estute, viz: . The west half of the south-west quarter (Kji and south-enst quarter (U) of the south west quarter (HI and north eust quarter (H'l of the south-east quarter () of section number thirty-two CD, township number eleven (111, range number twelve tl'Jl; and west half of north-west quarter (Ul nnil north-west quarter l!) of south west quarter ('.) of section numberthirty three il, township number eleven III), range number twelve ll'.'l ; and north-west quarter ('4I of north-east quarter ()') of section number thirty-three CCIl, township number twelve ll'.'l, runge number eleven (II); and north east quarter ) of section number twenty ('.111, township number eleven Ull, runge number eleven (11), east sixth I'. M., Cass county, Nebrusku. We will on Wednesday, the Mil dav of June, IV.', at 2 o'clock p. 111. of suid day, at the front door of the court house in I'lutts tiioiith, Cass county, Nebraska, sell said real estate at public auction to the high est bidder for cash, as directeil bv said court. h'Kl MKN W. IIVKKS, Wtt. II. NKWKI.I., Ami h. Toon, Keferecs in I'nrtitinn. JollN A. D.WIES, Att'y for Petitioners. Sheriff's Sale. Hv virtue of an execution issued bv W. II. Hearing, clerk ol I lie district court with in and for Cass county, .Nebraska, and to me directed. I w ill on the 13th ilay of June A. D. 1MU, at la o'clock a. m.,of sa id day at soiit h door of t he court house, in t hecit v of l'lnttsinoiitli, in said county, sell at pulilic auction, tlie following real estate, towit: Blocks three :i ami lour 4 in the village of Wabash. Cass count v, J.N'ebraska ; also block live in Morton's addition to the village1 of a bush. Cuss county, .Nebrusku, together wit lit lie privileges and appur tenances there unto belonging or in any wise appertaining. The same being levied upon nnd taken lis the property of Oliver Jacobs et al, de fendants, to satisfy a judgment of said court recovered by Julius I'epperberg, pluintil, against said defendants. I'lattsmouth, Neb., Mav 12, isy.'. W'M. TlOllK. Sheriff Cass Count v, Neb. W. L. Ukownk, Atty. for I'laintilT. THOS POLLOCK K V HTERS Jiidary 1'nliHe 1 Abstracter Solicit Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Aeent If you have real estate to sell or exchange send us description, price and terms. Abstracts of title furnished at reas onable rates. ?I(X),(I00 to loan at 7U percent and no commissions, on good farm security. POLLOCK & 1 1 VERS I'LATTSMOUTH - Nr.B. Oftlee utiiler Ciun County Dank. JOHN A DA VIES, ATTORNEY AT LAW Correspondence Solicited. lice in c uioii Hlook PLATTSMOCTII. - - NEIIKASKA THE - BOSTON - " E CALL your attention to the fact that our millinery depart- ment is complete ami that we can show you more pattern hats , more (lowers and more ornaments in all kinds of novel ties in the line of millinery goods than all ot ths millinery stores put ogether. We buy all of our millinery goods in large quantities and we can them at about half prices. Hefore you buy a hat call on 113 and ex amine our prices. This is a new department with 119 and everything ts new style. DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. 100 pieces good heavey sheeting worth 8c for 1 5c per yard Yard-wide bleached muslin, worth 8c for 5c per yard Ixinsdale muslin, the best, worth 10c for Cc per yard "Fruit of the Loom" muslin, worth 10 fcor (iCc per yard Indigo blue prints, the best made, worth 8c for 5c per yard 8- 4 sheeting, worth 25c for lilc per yard 9- 4 sheeting, worth 27c for 20c per yard 1-2 sheeting, worth HOc for 22loC per yard 42-inch pillow case muslin, worth 15c for 10c per yard Our Stock of Spring and Summer Dress goods and all the latest things in wash dress goodd, and all tho latest thing in ladies and gentleinans furnishing g od is complets in every respeet. TI1IS season has b en so dull on account of rains that we take lhe liberty and mark our goodsaway down that youean not duplicate them any where in tee state. Our stock is so heavy thofc we must UNLOKB Watch this 'ad' for prices during the month of May. Tle - Boston - Sfoie, PLATTSMOUTH OFT YOU THM Tlxat Old. Carpet of yours has been turned for the last time, it will hardly stand another 6uch beating as you gave it last spring besides we know you are too tei.dcr hearted to give it 6uch another lashing. It will be a useless task as you cannot lash back its respectability. Better discard it altogether and let us sell you one of these elegant new patterns that we have just received. Will 6oon be upon us and you will want new carpets, cur tains, linens, etc. We are head quarters tor anything in this line, we can sell you hemp carpets as low as ten cents a yard, Ingrains as low as twenty-five cent and Bnissells tr Din filty cents upward. This is a NEW : DEPARTMENT with us. We have handled them with samples but finding that we could sell them much cheaper by having them in 6tock we have discarded the former method and are now able to sell them at a very low price, will duplicate Omaha prices every time, kin.l and quality taken into consideration Being all new goods we have no old designs in the line, We have just received an excellent assortment of CURTAINS We can sell lace curtains for 50 cents a pair upward, Irish Point curtains, Tambour muslin curtains, Swiss curtains, curtain screen in plain and fancy, table silks tor draperies, Chenille Portieres. Also a line line of window shades at the lowest prices. We h ave the finest line ot linens ever brought to this city Table cloths with napkins to match, Table scarfs. Burlan drapes, blenched table damask with drawn work and hem stitched by the yard, plain damask lor drawn work, linen scrim, stamped linens, an elegant assortment of towels with lancy and drawn work borders, plain and fancy Huck and Turkish Towels, linen sheeting and piliow casing etc. WM. HEROLD & SOI. E NEBRASKA.