THE DAILY HERALD, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1887.
ZTt)e plattsmontl) Doile fjcralti,
KNOTTS BEO S.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
REPUBLICAN STATE CO NVENT'N.
Call for the Meeting at Lincoln In
October.
The lfrbubliran electors of tli- Htate '.ol Ne
braska ure rciueHt:d to send delegates from
the luveral couutiet. to meet lu couveutlon at
thopeia house, lu the eltyTor Lincoln, Wed
nesday, Octobers. 1H7, sit 8 o'clock p. in., for
the iiui-doho of placliiK In nomination candi
dates for one associate Justice of tlio supreme
court, and for two members f the board of
regents of the state university, and to transact
bucIi other business as may bo presented to the
convention,
THE Al'l'OKTIOMKNT.
The several counties are entitled to repre
sentation as follows, beintf based upon the
vote eat for Hon. .lohn XI. Thayer, Koverner,
In Ikw;, KivinK oe delegate to each new
county, one UHi'jjiUc-sit-hirjjc to each county,
and one for each 150 votes and the major frac
tion thereof :
COUNTIM. VOTKH.
Adams 13
Anu lopo a
Arthur
Klame H
Itooue 7
Itrown 9
l;ulT;ilo 11
jiutler 14
COlNTIKS VOTES
.lelTersoil .... ...... i)
Johlixoil !'
Ke:irnev. .
Keya l'aha
Keitu
Knox
I,;inc;i-ter
Lincoln
lo(;an
Loup
Madison
M ; Thereon
Merrick
fcanco.. ...... ......
Nemaha
Nuckolls
Otoe
Pawnee
IMielps
I'ii-ice
l'latre
Toll;
Kiclianlfoii
Ued Willow
Sioux
Saline
Sarpy
Sa-in lers
Seward
Sheridan
Sherman
Stanton
Thayer
Thomas
Valley ....
Washington
Wayne
Webster
Wheeler
"York
Uiiorgaui.ed 1'er'y
Hurt
Chase...
3
t:as
l;ir
Cheyenne...-
'heiry
Clay
Colfax
Cuming
Custer
i'akota
Dawes
lixon
1)ihh
Honshu
Iiawson
lundv
Filmore
fr'liril
F'anklin
Frontier
SaKs ........
Closper
,rlit.
;re-l'y
;arnell
Hall
Hamilton
Harlan
Hayttt). . ....
Hitchcock....
Holt
Howard
l!i
3
5
8
11
G
7
lti
4
C
U
10
31
a
3
10
7
i;
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2(1
3
1
. 3
, l"l
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7
3
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(5
II
Total 692
It is recommended that no proxies be admit
ted to the conveutit n except such as are held
by persons residing in the counties from which
pror.ies are ejiveu.
Walter M. Seelv, Secretary
(iHOJiitE W. Burton. Chairman.
Republican Primaries.
The republican county convention for
Cass county, will meet at rinttsnioutl
Oct. 1st. 1887, for the purpose of select
ing 15 delegates to the state convention
to be held in Lincoln Oct. 5th, 1887, and
15 delegates to the judicial convention
to be held at the same place and date
also, to place in nomination, candidate
for the following county offices:
County Treasurer. County Clerk, Register of
Deeds, Shei iff, County Superintendent of in
struction, County Judge, Clerk of District
Court, Coroner, Surveyor and County Commis
elonor, 2nd District,
Th3 primaries will be held at the re
encctive places throughout the county
Saturday,;September 24th, 1887, for the
purpose of selecting delegates to the
county convention. The representation
of the various precincts will be as fol
lows:
riattsmouth lt Ward, voter.
2nd " 6 "
3rd 11
4th 1 u
" lVecinet 7 "
Kock Bluffs
Liberty
Avoea
Jit. ricasant
Eiht Mile Grove
Louisville
Center
Weeping Water
Etoe Creek
Elm wood
South -Bend
Bait Creek
Greenwood
Tipton
Twtal
II. C. Ritchie, .
Sec'y,
8 "
9 "
5
7
10 "
6 "
20 "
9 "
8 "
5 "
10 "
8 "
7 "
158
31. 31. BCTLEK,
Chairman.
Tomorrow is the day the county re
publican primaries meet. Let every pre
cinct send their best man to the county
conyention.
The democrats of Massachusetts have
made their nominations for state officers
and warmly indorsed the administration
of President Cleveland.
TnEonran of the present administra
tion are trying hard to persuade the
country that between President Cleve
land and Gov. Hill there is none but the
very best of feeling.
Natural gas has been found in and
near Dei Moines, Iowa. This is a fertu
nate find for the capital of Iowa and will
doubtless create some excitement and
cause real estate to boom.
Scarcity of Brick.
President.Cleveland need not have any
fear that the people of Sioux City treasure
up against him Lis veto of the Sioux
City public building bill. The people
of the northwest are a generous people.
They recognize that te is president of
the United States, and that he meets
the responsibilities of his high place ac
cording to' hi3 best light and within all
the puzzling exterior limitations which
encompass a president.
And. perhaps, it is just as well, any
how, that the Sioux City government
bill was vetoed. The needs of Sioux
City in constructing the great packing
houses and in other building operations
this year have been such as to make
great scarcity of "brick."
IJy all means let the president come,
and welcome to him. Sioux City
Journal.
One of the most pleasant candidates
for nomination for a county office at the
hands of the coming republican conven
tion is that of J. C. Eikenbary forshcriff;
Mr. Eikenbary lias held this cilice for
two terms and having been thoroughly
tried, has been proven a most satisfactory
official. The precedent of a third term
for sheriff having already been establish
ed in this county, the Herald thinks no
reasonable unprejudiced man could urge
any valid objection to Mr. Eikenbary be
aoming his own successor. Living at
the county seat and being familiar with
every department of his work, which in
some instances is difficult to perform
properly, and a failure to perform prop
erly entails a great deal of delay and ex
pense to anxious litigants, makes it
more essential that the sheriff's office
should be filled by parties qualified for
the position.
Calvin Russell one of the best county
judges ever elected in Cass county is a
candidate for reelection and will doubt
less be renominated by the republican
county convention and thus again become
his own successor. Judge Russell is pe
culiarly well fitted for the position lie oc
cupics, having for ycar9 been the justice
of the peace at Weeping "Water iimnedi
ately previous to his election as county
judge. The Judge can not only boast of
a most successful four years of work on
the probate bench, but it can be truthful
ly said of him that in all of his decisions
which haye generally been correct no sus
picion of bias or undue influence has been
charged against him, a record indeed a
man might well feel proud of in this day
of the careless wearing of the judicial er
mine.
The judge having arrived at that age
(being a little past sixty) when a mature
judgement ripened by experience that no
younger man could have, fits him espeel
ally for the office of county judge.
No Kickinkg.
Two years ago a good many democrats
scattered over these broad prairies an
hills, were going to revolutionize in i
jifTy the tariff over to a "revenue only"
basis, and as a preliminary to that trifling
feat they proposed "to kick Sam Randall
out of the democratic party."
The goose was hanging high for the
"reformers," as it were and Henry Wat
terson, of the Louisville, Ky., Courier
Journal used language to that effect
from day to day. Carlisle had just been
re-elected speaker of the house, and Bill
Morrison appointed chairman of the
ways and means committee.
liut bamuel J. uantlali has the rev
enue reformers" in his pocket, for by the
most minute inspection of the rankes of
the democratic party fails to reveal any
vacancy in the place occupied by Sam
Randall two years ago.
The inspection reveals certain
suggestive transformations on the side of
the free trade reformers. Frank nurd,
the reformer who was specially anxious
to have Sam Randall kicked out, has
fallen over the precipiece of defeat at the
polls. Bill Morrison himself, who had
actually ordered a job lot of boots to be
used by the reformers on Sam Randall's
posterior, was hurled over the same prec
ipice which was so fatal to Frank Hurd
And Carlisle is hanging by the finger
nails over the sharp verge of the cleffs,
and whether he shall be rescued or al
lowed to fall on the rocks below is actu
ally a question for the house of represen
tatives to decide.
Talk of kicking Sam Randall out of
the party! Why, if Mr. Carlisle should
be obstreperous Sam Randall could with
a straw push him out of congress. Why,
if the free trade reformers should at
tempt to bind Randall by caucus rule to
a free trade bill, he could by crooking
his little finger wrench the organization
of the house of representatives itself
away from them.
All this goes to show that Sam Randall
knew what he was talking about when
he said a few days ago he "had no com
promise to make with Mr. Carlisle."
Cleveland as a Trimmer.
The intimation of the Philadelphia
American that the president secretly
assisted Randall at the ' Pennsylvania
state convention is not altogether un
worthy of consideration. In the con
test which has been waged between the
Randallites and the Scott free-trade
faction of the democracy, the general
opinion, both in and out of Pennsylvania
and among republicans and democrats,
has been that the sympathy and support
of Mr. Cleveland has been with the free
traders. There has been much in the
recent political devclopements in that
state to give plausibility to that view.
In the most important federal appoint
ments in the state it was Scott rather
than Randall who was fayored by the
resident. And in the contest against
Randall previous to the convention, in
newspapers and caucuses, it jvas gener
ally understood that Scott represented
the administration. When Randall
ganied his great victory in the platform
which the convention adopted, it was
heralcd throughout the country by per
sons of all shades of political belief as a
decided set-back for the president.
When it is borno in mind that many,
if not most, of the federal officials who
took part in the convention were sup
porters of Randall, it is easy enough to
believe that Sir. Cleveland was not so
bitterly hostile to the protectionist chief
as ho has been popularlyJsupposed to
be. At least it is reasonable to suppose
that these officials would hardly have
the temerity, while violating the spirit
of the civil-service law and trampling
the president's circular to office-holders
under foot, to supplement these delin
quencies by making open war upon the
president's revenue policy in the mostlim-
portant political conyention of the year.
The episode in which Republican Dis
trict Attorney Stone, of Pennsylvania,
and Demociatic District Attorney Benton,
of Missouri, figured last year, and the les
son which that episode contains, is fresh
in the mind of every federal office
holder. No one of these gentlemen
will be likely to forget during the pres
ent administration that the injunction
against pernicious political activity ap
plies only to the political opponents of
the president.
The utterances of the democracy in the
states in which conventions have been
held this year were even more than usu
ally varigated when touching on the
leading national issues. Broadly stated,
Kentucky, Ohio and Iowa favored mak
ing a general assault on the tariff, 'leaving
internal taxes virtually unchanged. Vir
ginia and some other states took the op
posite ground; Maryland makes war upon
civil-service reform, while New York and
Massachusetts will undoubtedly declare
in favor of the rigid enforcement of the
law on thnt matter. To all this pictur
esque political diversity Mr. Cleveland
has given his assent. The intimation that
lie secretly favored Randall and thus gave
his indorcement to a modified species of
protection in Pennsylvania, therefore, can
hardly be said in itself, to do violence to
the probabilities.
The political instability reyeals one of
the cardinal defects of the democracy as
a party. Taking the whole country to
gether, it stands on every side of every
question which has more than one side,
The partisan shiftiness and shuffling
which Mr. Cleveland displays he shares
with the majority of the leaders of the
political organization to which he belongs
What his real convictions are on the tariff
question nobody has, so far as learned,
ever been able to discover. It is reason
ably certain, however, that at heart his
sympathies are with Carlisle, Morrison
and the larger section of the party in de
votion to free trade. To make himself
acceptable to the party and secure re-elec
tion, he is compelled to advocate in one
state the policy which he condemns in
another. The ability to indorse Watter
soii and Randall at the same time calls
for a high order of political acrobacy.
But there are good reasons for believing
that the president has been equal to the
emergency. Globe Democrat.
Weeping Water Notes.
From Republican.
Reports come to the effect that our
friend Link Reynolds will soon associ
ate with himself a partner of the female
persuasion.
The Piattsmouth Daily Herald, a
bright, newsy, six-column folio, pays us
a daily visit now. Success to the en
terprise and wealth to its founders, are
the wishes of the Republican
CORN.
To Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Shirley, Satur
day morning, a boy. Weight ten
pounds.
To Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Flower, an
eight pound daughter, Monday morning.
Charlie sets out the best cigars in the
shop.
A thief entered Dave Woodard's
office Monday afternoon while he was
upstairs unloading a load of oats, and
took from his vest his open-faced silver
watch valued at 20. They also took a
tobacco pouch from his coat. Dave said
he did not care so much for the watch
but he had to bu." more tobacco.
It looks as if the public are ready to
consider the proposition of "restricting
emigration," when nine conventions
have been held during the summer com
posed of both parties and have tackled
the question, and agreed that the United
States should not be a dumping ground
for the old world to unload her crimi
nals and paupers on.
Mr. Thomas Bull was unfortunate
enough on last Wednesday while at the
state fair to be relieved of his pocket
book carried in his vest pocket. The
book contained a $5 bill and seven or
eight hundred dollars in notes. This is
the second time father Bull has been
lobbed at the state fair.
Burglars attempted to enter Dr. J. W.
Thomas' residence again Sunday night.
The family heard them working at the
window and were prepared to entertain
them after they came in, but fortumately
for the burglars, a small dog in the room
made a desperate effort to protect its
masters' property and made so much
noise about it that the intruders were
frightened away.
Last Wednesday at 5 p. m. Mr. Wm.
Carlyle, an old and respected citizen
and O. A. R. man, residing on the South
side was attacked with apoplexy while
sitting In his chair reading. These spasms
continued at intervals of about 30 minutes
until he had had four. Dr. Butler was
called and the case was considered very
critical, so much so that the doctor called
Dr. Hall to assist. At about midnight
the patient became conscious and has
since been improving and is now in a
fair way to recover.
From the Eaule.
Rev. W. II. Vance closed his labors as
pastor of the M. E. church of this city
last Sunday. He will be transferred to
other fields of labor, for he has stayed
here his allotted time. Many warm
friendships will be broken by this move.
If gas can be reached at a depth of
1500 feet, Piattsmouth will indulge in a
little, they have engaged a man at a
cost of $3,500, to furnish his own ma
chinery asd get there. The Kayle hopes
to be able to record a good find.
Attorney Travis must have got very
lonesome at Piattsmouth during last
week, for he telegraphed his family to
prepare to move down there, next week,
Monday morning came, and found them
all en-rout for a week's courting. II. D.
will probably wish that court will last
forever.
AMONG THE SIBERIAN NOMADS.
A Nation of Shepherds and Cattle Ilreed-erg-Klrgbese
on the March.
Tho Kara-Kirgheso are essentially a
nation of shepherds and breed-s of
cattle, and think it is a "como down" in
life when compelled to resort to settled
occupations. They are not so rich as
their brethren in the plains. Very few
own as many as 2,000 horses or 3,000
sheep. Also they have fewer camels;
but, on tho other hand, possess an excel
lent breed of oxen for traversing tho
mountains. Their cows are large, but do
not yield much milk. Yaks are kept by
them instead. Their cattle breeding
claims far less labor than agriculture, but
t is exiosed to great risks. For the sup
port of a nomad family for a year are
required eleven head of large and ten of
small cattle, and to provide hay for the
winter consumption even of this number
exceeds the working power of one house
hold. I was much interested to see some of
the Kirgheso on the march. Their wan
derings are thus conducted. When tho
pasture in a neighborhood is eaten, ono
or two of the young men are sent to
6elect a spot for another encampment,
and to clean out the wells. This done,
the women pack tho tents and the men
form the cattle In droves. The camp is
ready and starts before dawn, the good
women of the family riding in front. I
met one old lady in this honorable posi
tion, mounted astride a bullock and look
ing anything but graceful. After her
came the other women, variously
mounted on the top of carpets, teakettles,
tents, etc., the whole being made to
wear, as far as possible, a festive aspect.
Tho length of a stage is from thirteen to
seventeen miles, and t!; aul traverses
about twenty-five miles in twenty-four
hours.
On arriving at the Jace of encamp
ment it is the office of tho wife to put up
the tent. I chanced to see a woman le
gin to do so, and would not stir from the
spot till I had witnessed the whole opera
tion. The principal parts of a kibitka or
tent are large pieces of felt to cover a
framework that consists of lintel and side
posts for a door, and pieces of trellis
work surmounted by poles that meet in
the center. On this trelliswork are sus
pended arms, clothes, bags, basins, har
ness and cooking utensils. Not that there
is a large variety, however, of the last,
for most of the cooking is done in a largo
jpen saucepan that stands on a tripod
over the fire in the middle of the tent.
Crockeryware is not abundant, being of
hazardous carriage, and metal goods are
not cheap, so that leather has to do duty
not only for making bottles (specially
those for carrying koumiss), but also
pails, some of which are furnished with
a spout. I met with no email saucepans
or teakettles of English shape, their place
being supplied by kurgans or water
ewers, somewhat resembling a coffeepot.
Bound the walls of tho lent are piled
boxes, saddles, rugs and bales of carpet,
against which the occupants lean, the
head of the household sitting opjx)site the
door, and in front of liim the wife in at
tendance. I was honored with an invitation tt
dine in one of theso tents, the dishes
being put before us according to our
rank. I heard nothing of grace before
meat, but I never saw anything to exceed
the alacrity with which the dishes were
cleared. Hands were knives and fingers
were forks, the meat being torn from the
bones as by the teeth of hungry dogs. It
is considered polite for a Kirghcse gu
perior to take a handful of pieces of meat
and stuff them into the mouth of an in
ferior guest, an elegancy I saw practiced
on another, but from which, mercifully,
I myself was excused. Dr. Henry Lans
dell in Harper's Magazine.
The Thrasher and the Whale.
The passengers and crew of the steam
er Takasago-maru, when on her last voy
age from this port to Kolje. witnessed a
sight often talked about but very rarely
seen. It was the crreat sea fieht between
a thrasher (fox shark) and a whale. An
eye witness states that the thrasher first
leaped out o the water close under the
bow of the steamer, and, rising fully
thirty feet in the air, came down on the
back of the whale with a sound that con
vinced one of the terrible force of the
blow. Every time the -whale appeared
near the surface this scene was repeated,
and it continued until the combatants
were lost sight of fully two mile? dis
tant. Our informant states tha the
scene was most exciting. Yokohama
Gazette.
The popularity of lawn tennis is mak
ing tho Egyptian women lopsided.
Spec
for
In Order to Keducc Stock, We shall Place on our Center Counter
a Complete Line of
Children and Infants Muslin Under
wear Dress Cloaks, etc., etc.,
t
TO BE -
Sod
egardsess
Thic WppL flnlv I
a i no vvuui viii y
Childrcns White and Colored Dresses
at 35c, worth 50e.
Childrens White and Colored Dresses
at 50c, worth from 75c to $1.
Childrens AVhite and Colored Dresses
at 1, worth from $1.50 to $2.
Childrens White and Colored Dresses
at $1.50, worth from $2 to $2.50.
Childrens White and Colored Dresses
at $2, worth from $3.50 to $4.
Infants Robes at $1.'50 worth $2.
" " " $1.75 " $2.50,
" " " $2.25 $3.
Infants' Long Cloaks, worth 3
Children's Short Cloaks, worth
THIS!
ifTOiR,
This Week jnily,
Fred
Hoi
$150
For the next few weeks 'choice of lots in South Park may
be had for $150. Purchaser may pay all in cash; or one
half cash, the other half in one year; or, one third cash, bal
ance in one and two years; or $25 cash, remainder in month
ly installments of $10; or, any one agreeing' to construct a
residence worth 500 and upwards will be given a lot with
out further consideration.
HOW IS THE TZME
to select your residence lots, even though you should not
contemplate building at once. One visit to South Park
will convince the most skeptical that it is the most desirable
residence locality in the city, and we will add, that the most
substantial class of buildings of which Piattsmouth can
boast for the year 18 37, are now being constructed in this
handsome addition.
eautiful Shade Trees
OF
EVERY DESCRIPTION
ADOKH THE LOTS.
around and through the entire tract.
Any one desiring to canstruct a cottage or a more preten
tious residence in South Park, can examine a large solection
of plans of the latest style of residences by calling at our
office. .Anyone desiring to examine property with a view
to purchasing, will be driven to the park at our expense.
CALL ON
Windham or
John A. Davies,
OVEH CASS co. baxtss:.
i
$3.50
Infants Long Skirts at 0c worth 75c.
' " " 75c " $1-
" 00c " $1.25.
Infants Long Skirts at $1.10 worth
$1.50.
Infants Long Skirts at $1.25 worth
$1.75.
Infants Robes at $3 worth $4.
" " ' $3.25 ' $4.50.
" " " $3.50 " $5.
" " " $4 " $n.
50 to 815.00, now 2.50 to 12.00
from 2 to 10, now $1.50 to $8.
rmann&fSo.
HOST
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