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PLATTSMOUTII, NEBKASKA, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1884.
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THE: "DAYLIGHT" STOUE,
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Registered at tne Post Office, Plattsmouth, as
second elass matter.
National Kepublican Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES G. BLAINE,
of Maine.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN A. LOGAN,
of Illinois.
Call for Republican Judicial Conveii
tion.
The republican electors of the second Judic
al District of Mebnwka are requested to send
delegates from the several couuties to lueet in
convention at Plattsmouth. Tuesday. August
19, 1884. at '0 o'clock a. m lor tne purpose or
placing in nomiuation a caudidatelfor District
Attorney, selecting a central cuiuniiuee anu
such other business as may property come be
fore the convention. Tae several counties are
entitled to representation as follows, being
based upon the vote cast for J. M. Uiatt. re
pent of the university, giving one delegate at
lai'ue. and one for evrv one hundred and lilty
votes and major traction thereof :
Cass county 13
Lancaster county 21
Otoe county 11
Total .' 45
It is recommended that no proxies be ad
mitted o the convention unless held by (per
sons residing in the couuties from which the
proxies are iriven.
riattsmuuth. Neb., July 1.1884.
D. 11. WliKELFR,
J. B, Strodk, Chairman,
Secretary.
Republican District Convention.
The Republican Electors of the First Con
gressional District of Nebraska are invited to
send delegates from the several counties there
in, to meet in convention at Beatrice on Wed
nesday, August 20, at 2 o'clock p. m lor the
purpose oi placing in nomination a cauamaie
for Coneress. and fr the transaction of such
other business as may come before the conven
tion.
The several counties are entitled to repre
sentation as follows, being based upon the vote
cast for J. M. Hiatt, Regent of the University,
giving one delegate at large, and one for every
one hundred and fifty votes and the major frac
tion thereon :
Counties Del.'
Dnunties Del.
Pawnee 8
Itichardson 13
Sarpy 5
Saunders 12
Total 139
Douirlas 19
Gage li
Johnson it
Lancaster. ...21
Nemaha H
Otoe 11
Cass 13
It is recommended that no proxies he admit
ted to the convention, except Midi as are held
bv persons resiamt; in tne counties iroin wnicn
proxies are given.
u. a. holmes, inairman.
Jous Steex, Secretary.
Lincoln. June 20. 18S4.
THE MEXICAN TREATY.
The responsibility for many of the
failures of the late session of Congress
may be divided between the two bouses.
But about one of them, and that one of
the most disgraceful, there is no doubt.
The failure of the Mexican treaty is the
sole result of the stupidity and deliber
ate neglect of the House of Represent
atives. This bodden in its indolent and
thickheaded contempt of its duties and
the interests of tbe public that it did
not even do the things about the advis
ability of which there was no dispute.
It was so afraid to do anything that it
did not dare to do the thiDgs which
everybody would hare applauded it
for doing. It lay sulking on the bot
tom of the etream of the public busi
ness like a sucker in midsummer.
The Mexican treaty had been ap
proved by the- President and the Com
missioners of both countries. It had
been ratified by our Senate and accept
ed by thelMexican government. Noth
ing remained to be done but to pass a
Simple law providing for the woraing
of the custom houses along the border.
Bat even so simple a work as that was
eutirely beyond the capacity of the
Bourbon Ilouse uf Representatives.
After all the other branches of the gov
ernment bad perltctid all tbe essen
tials of the reciprocity, and had left for
it the me:v enactment of the subsidi
ary detai jf tbe execution of the treaty,
the Iiou-i could not muster the intelli
gence o; i ' e energy Deeded to set the
treaty gui ii.
The on- explanation that will ac
count fo ' his nothing can excuse it
is, thatt '?"use v ta undi-r. the con
trol of t':xo i.-.mocrats, and that the
gentler:.' net that party have a thor
ough 'jtifl-ble Self-consciousness
that thy cu do nothing without mak
ing a inuuilar. Theyhad the lack of
intrepid' '7 that goes with -utter self
distrust ikutuse they wanted to trade
with tl' .vmcmana, the Mexiean had
given c ..r railioad capitalists liberal
franchise and generous gifts of lands
and money; because we wanted to
trade witn the Mexicans, oar railroad i
planted $30,000,600 of cash In railroads
ou Mexican soil. Tbe people had come
together, and the Governments had
united on all the terms of the com
merce for which so many preparations
had been made and so much money
had been invented. But all this pos
sibility of commerce is thwartf d by the
eheer, iLexcusable, uuaccoun table neg
lect of the House of Representatives.
It would have taken but a few min
utes of the iim of the Rump Tarlia
inent. They did nothing else, with
their time. As we have shown already,
their rtcord contain absolutely not
first-class enactment, for the last ses
sion. Evidently they were determined
not to spoil the symmetry of their do
notbingHtivcucss. If they could do
nothing- else they could be consistent
in their good-i'or-nothingness, and they
were. There has not been in this couu
try since its foundation a House of
Representatives more utterly worthless
than this which lias just adjourned.
Jot a dollar of the 6alary they have
received from the Sergeant-at-arms has
been earned.
The significance of the fiasco is, that
the House was entirely under the con
trol of the party which has now en
tered on a contest for the Presidency
on the express issue of its power to re
form the administration of the Gov
ernment. The branch of the Govern
ment of which it had full control for
the last seven mouths had not the wit
or the vim to carry out this little piece
of Mexican wor which the other de
partments placed all ready to its hands.
The execution of the Mexican treaty
was the one chore which the Ilouse of
ItHprcsentativee bad all to itself.
There was no honor to be divided with
the Senate or the President for doing
this job. All the glory would have
been the House's. But the effort was
too much. If the Democrats who con
trolled the Ilouse had not force enough
to effectuate a treaty that was all ne
gotiated to their hands they could not
do anything. It is preposterous' for
such a party to tsk voters to intrust it
with the Government.
CLEVEDAND'S OBNOYIOUS
VE-
TOES.
-The measures which have been the
cause of tbe greatest amount of dissat
isfaction with Governor Cleveland
among tbe members of his own party
in New York State," said a prominent
member of the Tammany organization
are:
"1. His veto of the Five Cent Fare
bill.
"2.
law.
"3.
His veto of the Twelve Hour
His veto of the Public "Worship
bill.
"4. LTi3 veto of the Catholic Protec
tory Appropriation bill.
,Tbe first provided that the fare on
the Elevated railroads in -New York
City should be five cents instead of ten,
and that the present commission hours
during which that rats prevails should
be abolished. This bill was assed by
the legislature and vetoed by the Gov
ernor. "The twelve hour law bill provided
that the working time of employes on
the elevated roads in the city and tbe
street cars throughout the state should
be limited to that period. Conductors
and drivers are at present compelled
work from fifteen to seventeen hours a
day, and the justness of the bill was
sufficiently recognized to insure its pas
sage through both branches of the As
sembly. Governor Cleveland saw fit,
however to veto the bill. It was said
that his hostility to the five cent fare
bill was to be accounted for by the fact
that he was a stock bolder in a num
ber of the surface railroads, the value
of which stock would naturally be de
creased by the passage of the measure.
However that may be, I do not under
take to say."
"What about the public worship
bill?"
"That was a bill granting permission
to the clergy of tbe Roman Catholic
church to hold services at the House of
Refuge, on Randall's Island. The bill
permitting this to be done parsed the
Assembly and would have become a
law but for Grover Cleveland.,'
Attention Everybody.
I will offer for sale on terms to suit
Durchaser the property described be
low : Eighty acres of land, situated in
township 12, range 12, sec. 82, Cass Co.,
Neb. Also one desirable residence and
one store building with a full line ' of
hardware, stoves and tinware situated
in Louisville, Neb. Also one set of tin
ner's tools. Nowisyoar time to se-
eyre a bargain. lOtf W. Cuttobth.
Hurrah for Blaine and Aiogan cigars
stealers. ssatf
PETROLEUM V. NASBV, P. M.
A. Portion of His Latest.
From the Toledo Blade.
Confederit X Roads, (wich is in the
Slate uv Kentucky), Jooly 7, 1884. I
am gettin to be a second St. John in the
matter uv dreams. I am not eggsackly
certin whether it is inapiraahen or cold
pork wich perdooses the vishuns, but
they seem to hev some meening, and,
hencely, I give em to the world.
I hed a vishun last cite, wich left an
impress onto my memory so strong
that when I awoke it was with great
diffikilty that I restrained myself from
goin immcjitly to Bascom's and a wak
en in him and demandin a sustaincr.
But I wuz compelled to remane and
toss onto my weary piller, for I knowd
that Baacom wood not arise and open
his bar at that hoar ef St. John hi6self,
with his revelashens in his hand, shood
appear uud ask for suthiu. Bascom is
horribly sot in his ways.
Iu my dreem I wuz on a rock-bound
coast afar from the haunts of men. It
wuz a island in the mids uv a osben, a
bare rock 'z it were, with nary a vege
tasben, a rock without shade and onto
wich the pitilis sun wuz a beetiu on
mercifully. ' ,
Onto the island was a badly worn
out female, holler-eyed and gaunt, and
kivered not at all presentable. Ef I
hed a son I wood not that be shood se
lect sich a one for bis wife, for a more
battered old hag I never seed. She bed
blotches all over her, and she wore sich
a huugry and ravenus look ez I never
seed on a female afore. And hoverin
about her wuz three more jest like her.
" Who are you?" sed I, "anyhow."
Then up spoke the female.
"My name," sed she, drawiu' a long
sigh, "is Dimocrisy."
"And who are the three wich mite be
sisters uv yourn, wich is clinging to
your skirts?''
"This one is Slavery, this tother one
is Seceshion, and this third is Repoodi
ashen. We are a quartet, alius togeth
er and never separated. We are four
in one and one in four.'
It okkuried to me that they consti-
tooted a (our flush which I shood not
desire to draw to, but I held my peece.
No matter how ugly a female may be,
she will resent being called ugly. I hev
bed to do with fema'es. 1 hev made
henist tho injoodishus remarks, and I
am bald-headid. I hev paid for my
wisdom.
I iiotiHt a number uv men dodgin
among tbe roz, pickln up wat they cood,
all uv them in the last stages of dis
tress, and I asked who they wuz.
"These gentlemen yoo see about
among the rox, pickin up a livin ez best
they may, are my vassals. That strap-
in young feller ia my only son and
chief support, the Solid South. That
big injun over there is Taminaoy, and
the rowdy lookin feller in the red nack
tie is Irving Hall. I bey are rather a
diversified lot. Ther's Free Trade and
Perteck6hun, and there's Honest Mon
ey and Fiat Money. It's a rutner large
family and no two of them alike. They
quarrel like cats and dogs, and I find it
dificult to manage 'em."
I looked em over, and noticin that no
two ov em seemed to hev anything in
common, except an intolerable hunger, !
I concloodid the lady had ben exten
sively married, wich she asserted to so
blushingly, that it likewise occurred to
me that she hain't alluz tarried till the
ceremony was pernonnBt. This iedg-
ment wus partly based onto her per
sonal appearance and partly on the
dissimilarity of her offspring.
I shodent hev picked her out to be
the sooperintenaent uv a ladies' semi
nary, anyhow.
"Wat place is this?"
"This is the Island uv Defeat We
hev bin here 24 years. The feend Lin-
kin exiled us end we hey Lin here
subsistin on wot we brot with us. We
wuz pretty well fixed, for we bed con
trol of things for many years before,
but oh! it is awful stayin here now.
However, we shall soon be delivered
from this hell. We hev advices uv an
expedition to our relief. The good
ship Independent, commanded by Capt
Gawge Willyum Curtitf. and armed
with Harper's Weekly, is on its way I
miner, anu it win taice us on, and we ,
shell, with her help go conkerin to
conker.
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PLATTSMOUTII. - NEBRASKA.
CAPITAL, - $75,000.
(IFFICEHH .
JOHN BLACK. if It AN K CAUUUTH.
President. Vice-President.
W. II. CCSHLNG. Cashier.
IDIKKCTOHS
John Black, W. II, Cushlnj.', Frank Carrot u,
J. A. Connor, Fred Herrmann, J. W. Jobu
on, F. It. Cu.Uiuia.uu, Peter Milium,
Wu. Wcteucamp, Henry Buuck.
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are invited to call. No matter hovv
large or small the transaction, it
will receive our careful attention,
and we promise always cour
teous treatment.
Issues Certificates of Deposits bearing Interest
Buys and sells Foreign Exchange, County
and Citv securities.
John fjtzoebalu.
President.
t.. W. McLAuam.ii
Cannier.
NATIONAL
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transaction of legitimate
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government and Loea
Hecurities Bought and Sola, Deposits receiv
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the principal towns of
Europe.
Collections made & promptly remitted
Highest rket prices paid for County War
Btate and County Bonds.
DIRECTORS
Jcbn Fitzgerald
John It. Clark,
A. W McLaughlin.
D. Hawkswerts
F. E. White.
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WEEPING WATER, - NEB.
E. L.. REED, President.
B. A. GIBSON, Vice-President.
R. S. WILKINSON. Cashier.
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PLA.TTSMOTJTH
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i.i jii. rAiifiuau.t, lasnier.
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