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THE DAILY HERALD, PLATTSMOUTII, 'NEBISASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 1887. - ftljc IJlattsmontl) Doilji Cjtrato, KNOTTS DBOS., Publishers & Proprietors. REPUBLICAN ST ATE CON VENT' N. Call for the Meeting at Lincoln In October. The Ketmblirii" doctors of th state ".ol Ne braska are requested to solid delegates from the gevoral counties, to meet in convention at the opera house. In the citylof Lincoln, Wed nesday, October 6. l7. at H o'clock p. in., lor the purDOHe.of p!ai:liiK In nomination candi date lor one associate justice ol the supreme court, and lor two members ol the board ol regents ol the state university, and to transact Buch other baslncHS as may be presented to the convention. TUB AI'POltTIOMKNT. The Bcveral counties are. entitled to repre sentation as lollows. being based unon the vote cat lor Hon. John M. Thayer, Kovenier, In 1hC. Klvins one delegate to each new county, one delegate-at-large to each county, and one lor each 150 votes and the major trac tion thereol : COUNTIES. VOTF.S. IIOIJNTIKH VOTES ..,, 13 Jeltvrsou 9 am I ffi"er.::v.::." kI'&v:..: 4 Vis 7.7. u tt;;ter7.7. :::::: w Sr:::::r::::: 2 !Si"V;;:::::.:::: 5 iS Xoi:.v.:::::: 2 iwir 3 MJlTierson 1 fcheycmVe.::. 5 Merrick 6 rv ...... 8 tanee ."v .. 11 Nemaha 10 roifax"..:."....". r0111' ,5 Cumins J r$?-: VX::::'::.":".' 7 Jffi.8- : K::::.::::::::: i I S:::: & Kiwmow 7 l,ndv 3 Sioux 1 ramVJe::::- 10 S.line 1C Frontier h'w;,r'1 1( ;at;e 20 S herulan 5 ;osper Sherman 4 ;rAi.t .VU,vV,n " ii ;r! ley 3 'Ihayer ') Uartieid 2 l.'10"15.1 1 11 alley 5 Hamilton '' JV:wliiiBtou 7 Harlan 7 mVl llayH 3 Webster J Hitchcock Wheeler i lt . .... 11 ork 11 Howard."... "."-.'. Unorganized i'cr'yl Total lt Is recommended that no proxies be admitted- to the conventii n except such a3 are held by persons residing in the counties Irom which proxies are given. Waltkb M. Si-.ki.y, Secretary, GEOEfiE W. r.L'HToy. Chairman. MicirAEiTDAvrrFliasiailed for Amer ica, ami is expected to arrive next week, lie says his visit is of a private nature and will be short. TT- The Cincinnati Price Current estimates the total corn crop of Nebraska this year at 111,000,000 bushels against 106,000, 000 last year, and the total crop of the country at 8C9,000,000 bushels against 1,000,000,000 bushels last year. Only two other states, Iowa and Missouri, have an increased estimate over last year. A state that shows an increase in a staple when the whole country shows a decrease, is fortunate indeed. Omaha Republican. TnE remotest record we have of "boodle" having been used for political purposes is durin? the first century, A. D., when the Roman emperor Nero, by his wanton cruelty, luxurious debauchery and heartless assissinations, had incurred the hatred cf many of his subjects, and having poisoned his half brother, Brittan nicus, was compelled to divide his vast estates among his part izans the senators and soldiery for political suport. The custom here established has followed down the line of eighteen centuries, until to-day, in a free and independent repub lic no man can be elected to the most trifling county office, without first dis pensing "boodle" upon the modern Judases, who havnt even the decency to go off and hang themselves.- -Johnson County Journal. They Must be Exterminated. There is no more occasion for public sensation over the hanging of the seven murderers. The American people should net allow the little gang of anarchists to create any excitement over the hang ing of the seven Chicago murderers. They are murderers: they have been tried for their crime; they have been tried fairly and convicted, and it is only right that they should be executed. They demand justice and spurn mercy, they cry for blood. "Why, then, should they object to fur nish some of it themselves? That is justice to them. This justice, too, is forced upon them by the obstre perous and insulting rebellion of anarch ists criminals in the various large cities who are abusing the liberty of this country. The work of extermination must be gin with the seven Chicago anarchists and murderers. Democratic Cheek. The democrats are still talking about "reforming" the tariff. Hj "reforming" the tariff, we suppose they mean the bringing of it to the basis of revenue onlyrfeliminating all considerations of favoring or helping American interests, of constructing a tariff upon the model of the British revenue system. A demo crat by the name of Samuel J. Randall will not consent to any such programme, for he is a protectionist. That settles the matter. They stand in quaking terror before RandalL They will eoon be kiss ing Randall's hands and begging him to kick them all he pleases. if the're venue reformers are reformers, what should they care for the mercinary incident of office or for politics con ditioned upon the subversion of their reform! The whole truth of the matter is that they are not Jreformors at all. They care more for office than for an idea more for temporary party success than they do for pretended principle. They have systematically and continuously stultified their alleged convictions of high political duty by cowardly bar gainings with Randall, or by abject cajjituhitioiis to him, and they are doing the same thing at the present moment. The blustering of Johnny Bull about the freedom of Behring's Sea to all flags engaged in seal fishing, so long as they do not get inside of three miles of the land belonging to Uncle Sam, is not of course to be understood as militating against any similar claims of his own. The pearl fisheries of the gulf of Manar and off Australia are instances in which Mr. Bull will not be governed by this theory. Off Manar none of the pearl shoals are within eight miles of the shore and some are as distaant ns sixty miles, but Johnny allows no other nation poach upon them. A similar state of affairs exists in the Australian pearl fisheries. Uncle Sam may therefore keep a stiff upper lip and beat Johnny by citing his own precedents. The main basis of the clain of of the United States to regulate and control the seal fisheries in Behring's sea is, that when Russia owned Alaska and the Aleutian islands, the right to these fisheries was conceded her by trea ties. "When she transferred title to the United States there was no reservation of of fishery rights and they of course went with the rest, and the United States has at no time conceded the right of fishing there to the subjects of any foreign pow er. She cannot do so without conceding the right of foreign fishermen to ruin the seal industry in those islands. Lincoln Jovrnal. Proposals For the construction ol storm water sewers in the city of riattsmouth. Neb. Sealed bids will be received by the city clerk ol said city up to noon, Thursday, Oct, C, 1887, or the construction ol etorm water Hewers as lollows to wit : AMOUNT. KNCSINKFItV B3TJMATJC. About 1 00 ft. ol 7!4 It. bricK sewer. Stl.oo perlin.lt. 1903 It. ol 5i ft. brick sewer. 7.50 500 ft. ol 4'4 It. b rick, sewer. 5.00 " 14;o ft, of 15 inch pipe l.oo " 700 " " 12 inlet pipe .so " " " 4 manholes 4.00 " vert ft. 24 catch basins or inlets 3.50 10,040 lbs. frames, covers and grates .04 per lb. Together with the necessary concreet work, gravel work, oak piling, pine lumber lor sheet ng and pine lumber lor sheet pileing. extra grading, rubble stone work, brick masonry &c. In accordance with ihe lilane, profile" and specifications on file in t!:e ofllce ol the city clerk. IJids must be made on bidd ing blanks fur nished by the city clerk ; :vcd all bids must be accompanied with a certified check on a loca! bank in the sum of $1,000, as an evidence of good laitu. No bids will be entertained which exceed the estimate. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to wave defects. J. W. Jonxsox, Chairman Board ol Public Worke. Ilsncrmen Uoing to Alaska. Some GOO or 700 fishermen of New foundland have decided to emigrate, ow ing to tho distress caused by the failure of Labrador and Newfoundland fisheries and the ill feeling engendered by inter national complications, and will proba bly locate fisheries on the Choumaign and Aleutian Islands of Alaska. These islands are in the immediate vicinity of the codfish banks of Alaska, and there is no reason why Newfoundland men can not make their new homes upon them. The climate is no worse than that of then present homes, while the supply of fish is reported to be immense. On. Queen Charlotte and other islands in British Co lumbian waters there will be room for many families. The waters of the sound and in the vicinity of the United States boundary line teem with black cod and halibut. Frank Leslie's. Tha Thrasher nd the Whle. The passengers and crew of the steam er Takasago-ma.ru, when on her last voy age from this port to Kobe, witnessed a sight often talked about but very rarely seen. It was the great sea fight between a thrasher (fox shark) and a whale. An eye witness etates that tha thrasher first leaped out of 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 th blow. Every time the whale appeared near the surface this scene was repeated, and it continued until the combatant were lost sight of fully two mile dis tant. Our informant states that the scene was most exciting. Yokohama Gazette. Tho popularity of lawn tennis is mak ing the Egyptian women lopsided. Tli at Bad Umpire Omaha Man You fellows have lost an other game, I see. Omaha Basebalhst Yes, but it was all on account of unfavorable decisions by tbe am yire. "Well, that's not so discouraging. What was tlis scorer "Seventeen to nothing." Omaha World. Victoria' Earliast Lettvr. Lady Seton has and takes great pride in showing to all her visitors at Durham house probably the earliest autograph letter ol Queen Victoria in existence. It is is childish print characters and runs thus: "How do you do, my dear Sir Henry? Your little friend, Victoria." It was addressed to Bit Henry Seton. Chicago Herald. THE RAILROAD MIND. GROWING DEMAND FOR A NEW KIND OF MENTAL APTITUDE. Quickness to Act and s Patience to Mas ter Detail Origin of Hallway Slaugh tersA Farmer Hoy's Fatal Mistake Good Management. The railway when It came into the human world brought a demand for a new kind of mental force or aptitude. Tho railway man from the president to tho brakeinan must possess a quickness to perceive, a quickness to act and a patience to master detail; an omission of a task may cost great sums or may de stroy Jife. "When a superintendent passes over his road in a private car and ex amines tho track and bridges while he is moving at the rate of thirty miles an hour, he is not necessarily a criminal, ho may be only an intellectual imbecile. lie should be removed from railway service and be commended to the task of super vision of an ox or pack horse service. One day some men were mowing weeds, nail ing up loose bourds and whitewashing at a railway station, and confessed the mo tive of such industry was to be found in the fact that the superintendent was to pass along next day. These men all knew the kind of lightning inspection that would be made by their cheif . In the history of national banks one can read the shallow Import of the word "inspection," but there tho mental weak ness of an Inspector costs the country money and not life. For a bank to fail in a few days after having been pronounced unusually sound is an event not wholly unknown; but tho depositors are not killed nor mangled. It is in railroad work mental weakness assumes its most dangerous shape. A facile, lax, easy going mind may in the railway profession become as fatal as a can of dynamite or an earthquake. A NEW FORM OP MIKD. Many railway slaughters have resulted from tho slowness of educational pro cesses. Tho now iron road has created n demand for a new form of mind, but it cannot at once supply the demand. Mr. Callaway, one of tho most conscientious and ideal railway men on the continent, said onc8 that each passenger train which runs from Chicago to New York must pass through the hands of 500 men who are wido awake to each duty. When one ponders upon this statement, and remembers how difficult it is to find COO capable men in a einglo row, tho wonder comes that a train ever passes over a 1,000 mile path without being wrecked or injured. Why should tho public, which cannot Inspect a bank or a milk can, rail at tho men who come only tolerably near in specting a railway? The railway is help ing to make a better kind of brain, but brain Is of slow growth. A colored man was recently asked at what time the cars passed his cabin, and hi3 reply was that they went north in the morning and south in the afternoon. To lead such a man up to a conception of such divisions of time as 2:09 or 3:10 or 5:15, would be an educa tional task of no little weight. To give such a mortal a place upon a railway would be criminal, for if .he did not kill others ha would soon kill himself. Only last week one of these boys of tho farm, allured by false vanity to seek rail way work, met hi3 death because of men tal laxness. He was made switchman at a village station. The solo of one shoe became nnsewed. Thus was he made li able to bo thrown down. He took the risk from day to day. At last, as ho set a switch and stepped quickly, his shoo sole caught on a spike head and death came quickly. His method with hi3 shoes on the farm failed as a method for the new surroundings. QUACK RAILROAD MEN. Tho educational power of the railway Is kept back by tho pitiable truth that many of its officials are not students of a great art, but aro only speculators in land or stocks, when not absolute thieves. Quack railroad men are more numerous than quack doctors. Good men are dis charged to make room for favorites, and thus fortunes and life are placed at the mercy of untrained minds. In the army a colonel was displaced that some cousin of the general's might have the position. When the new colonel rode out to exercise the boys at arms he told them "to do as they had dono yesterday." The railway service is no doubt suffer ing much from tho presence of officials who know more about money and luxury than they know about bridges and road bods. Under tho rule of these captains tho receipts from all traffic flow toward New York, and soon the bank account is large and the road worn out and danger ous. The income is the main thing, the art nothing. Some roads arc managed by railway art. The president himself could run a locomo tive or construct a bridge or keep awake at a switch. These roads are under tho control of the railway intellect, and not of the champagne and private car genius. May the time soon come when so tremen dous a thing as the railway shall be man aged by tho new kind of intellectual force called railway brain. David Swing in Chicago Journal. Passes on English Hallways. I have found upon investigation that the English railways have to bear the oner ous task in tho way of furnishing free transportation to prominent individuals and officials, as did the railroads in tho United States before tho passage of tho interstate commerce bilL I was told by a railroad official the other day that all of the royalties travel free, and that they expect in addition special coaches. The visiting royalties have also been furnished free transportation, and In many instances special trains. This pass system must bo very expensive. Coming up from Ports mouth the other day, I got a seat on the special train assigned to tho members of the house of peers. These peers had with them innumerable relatives, and I noticed at one of the stations where the guard came along to take up the tickets, that ho looked very much surprised when I gave him one. It was apparently the only ticket taken up by him on the train. Every peer and peeress and every peer and peeress in prospect, and every peer's and peeress' relative had a pass. London Cor. New York World. Mormonism's Complete System. 2,423 priests, 2,947 teachers and 6,854 deacons. Salt Lake City is divided into ' wards of eight or nine blocks each, and a ' bishop is put in charge of each ward, j Under him there are two teachers, whose business it is to learn tne employment and income of every resident of the ward and report the same to the bishop. Then the bishop collects the tenth of each man's income and turns it in to the church au thorities. The same complete system ex ists all over the territory. New York Tribune. i - i . H. H.'S" GRAVE. Ood, for tbe man who knew him face to face Prepared a grave apart, a tomb unknown. Where dews drop tears, and only winds in&ke moan, And white archangels guard the narrow spact Ood gives to his beloved sleep: the place Where his seer slept wan sot remote, for rest. After the lorty years of desert quest. The Sinai terrors, and thu Plsgah grace. So, clear eyed priestess, sleep! remenilering not The fiery ' ath of life, nor trackh-ss years; Not even Canaan's sun kissed, flowery meads. God shields, within his hollowed hand, tlio spot Where brooding peace rebukes unquiet tears. Bhe sleepeth well who hath wrought such no ble deeds. M. Virginia Donaghe in The Century. LINCOLN'S SPEECH AT GETTYSBURG Private Notes and Memoranda The Speech Not Kecolved with Favor. A day or two before tho dedication of the National cemetery at Gettysburg, Mr. Lincoln told me that he would be ex pected to make a speech on the occasion; that ho was extremely busy, with no time for preparation, and that he greatly feared he would not be able to acquit himself with credit, much less to fill the measure of public expectation. From his hat (the usual receptaelo of his private notes and memoranda) he drew a pa go of foolscap, closely written, which he read me, first remarking that it was a memorandum of what he had intended to Fay. It proved to be in substance, and I think hiec verba, what was printed as his Gettysburg peech. After its delivery he expressed deep re gret that he had not prepared it with greater care. Ho said to mo on the stand, immediately after concluding tho speech, "Lamon, that speech wou't scour! It is a flat failure, and the people are disap pointed." Ho seemed more than ordi narily concerned about what the people would think of it. I was deeply impressed by his frank and regretful condemnation of tho effort, and especially by his manner of expressing that regret; and ray own impression was deepened by the fact that the orator of the day, Mr. Everett, and Mr. Seward both coincided with Mr. Lin coln in his unfavorable view of its merits. On the platform from which Mr. Lin coln had made his address, and only a mo ment after its conclusion, Mr. Seward turned to Mr. Everett and asked him what he thought of the president's speech. Mr. Everett replied: "It was not what I expected from him. I am disappointed." In his turn Mr. Everett asked: "What do you think of it, Mr. Seward?" Tho response was: "He has made a failure, and I am sorry for it. His speech is not equal to him." Mr. Seward then turned to mo and asked: "Mr. Marshal, what do you think of it?" I answered: "I am sorry to say that it does not impress me as one of his great speeches." In the face of these facts it has been repeatedly published that this ppeech was received with great eclat by the audience; that "amid the tears, sobs and cheers it produced in the excited throng, the orator of the day, Mr. Everett, turned impul sively to Mr. Lincoln, grasped his hand and exclaimed: 'I congratulate you on your success!' adding in a transport of heated enthusiasm: Ah! Mr. President, how gladly would I give my hundred pages to be the author of your twenty lines.' " All this unworthy gush, it is needless to say, i3 purely apocryphal. Nothing of the kind occurred. Asa matter of fact, Mr. Lincoln's great Gettysburg speech fell on the vast audience like a wet blanket. At that time his reputation was confessedly on the wane. Tho politicians of the country those of his own party, together with a large part of the press were casting about for nn available candi date to bo his successor, while a great majority of the people were for him. I state it as a fact, and without fear of con tradiction, that this famous Gettysburg speech was not received or commented upon with anything liko hearty favor by tho people, tho politicians or the press of tho United States until after the death of its author. Its marvelous per fection, its intrinsic excellence as a master piece of English composition, seem to have escaped the scrutiny of tho most scholarly critics and tho wisest heads of the day, on this side of the Atlantic. That discovery was made, we must regretfully own, by distinguished writers on the other side. The London Spectator, The Saturday Re view, The Edinburgh Review and other European journals were the first to dis cover, or at least to proclaim, the classical merits of the Gettysburg speech. It was then that we began to realize that it was indeed a masterpiece, and it then dawned upon many minds that we had entertained an angel unawares who had left us unap preciated. Ward n. Lamon's Letter. A Miserly Man's JOnck. Proverbially considered, the statement that it never rains but it pours and that water runs to tho sea express diiTerent phases of tho same truth, and thi3 par ticularly irrational, inexplicable truth fate spends her time in demonstrating. For instance, take two things that have happened to one rich, solitary old man in this town within two weeks. His name is well known, though his enormous for tune is not generally estimated at its trua proportions; he does not live like a rich man is a bit of a miser, in fact but as numbers of people know, i3 tho pos sessor of numerous millions. He works hard, as his work is the only thing he takes an interest in, and his only recrea tion, taken at tho doctor's orders, is horse back riding in the park. To strangers he likes to put up a poor mouth, for one thing, for the simple pleas ure of seeing them fooled, and he recently told a business acquaintance that he was too poor to have a good horse; the busi ness acquaintance was a rich Kentuckian, not rich as compared to the other, but rich for Kentucky. Touched by the old man's bad mount, a thing that seemed more tragic to him than it would to any but a Kentuckian, he presented him with a superb saddle horse, a son of Golddust, perfectly trained and worth a 6mall for tune. A week later an old Calif or nian, whom the old sinner had not thought of In twenty years, but whom he had known in his youth, and who had grown misan thropical with old age and hated every body around him, dies and leaves said O. S. another enormous fortune. What is to be said for a world where such things be? New York Graphic. Primitive and Independent. Perhaps one of the most primitive of in dependent kingdoms is the little island of Johanna, in the Comoro group. The sul tan boards any ship that may call there, and endeavors to secure the washing for his wives, while the prime minister ped dles cocoanuts and bananas. Chicago Herald. American Purses Did It. It used to be considered beneath the dignity of a London gentleman to let his town or country house. Now the practice has become quite common. Rich Ameri cans' purses have done it. Spec for- In.Or.lcr to Itcduco Stock, bIuiII Pl.icc on our Center Counter a Complete Line of Children and Infants Muslin Under wear Dress Cloaks, etc., etc.. -TO Childrcns Wliitc and Colored Dresses at '.lc, worth 50e. Childrcns White and Colored Dresses at 50c, worth from 75c to .1. Childrcns White and Colored Dresses at !?1, worth from $1.50 to $2. Childrcns White and Colored Dresses at $1.50, worth from $2 to $2.50. Childrcns White and Colored Dresses at $2, worth from $3.50 to $i. Infants Robes at $1.50 worth $2. " " $1.75 " $2.50, " $2.25 S3. Sold Regardless Week Infants' Long Cloaks, worth 3.50 to 15.00, now $2.50 to 12.00. Children's Short Cloaks, worth from 2 to $10, now $1.50 to $8. THISI This Week Only, i-red S150 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 2,500 and upwards will be given a lot with out further consideration. to select your residence lots, even though 3rou 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 Plattsmouth can boast for the year 1837, are now being constructed in this handsome addition. Beautiful Shade Trees OF MOST EVERY H JL&QZLIV THS 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. GALL ON Windham or John A OVSP, CASS Fair vm BE- ! " " " $2.75 " $3.50 Infants Long Skirts at COc worth 75c. " " " " 75c " $1. " " 00c 44 $1.25. Infants Long Skirts at $1.10 worth $1.50. Infants Long Skirts at $1.25 worth $1.75. Infants Rohes at $3 worth $4. " " " fc..25 4 $4.50. " " $3.50 44 $5. ' " " $4 $C. ermannMo. surras era an ntxr I I Tkta Davies, CO. Gost Only i P !) 4