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THE bAlLV ilMftALD, 1'LATTBMOUTII, NEliiiASKA, TUESDAY, OOTOnEU 4, GTlje Jjlattsmout!) Dotty eralb, IC2T o T T BEOS., Publishers & Proprietors. REPUBLICAN STATE CON VENT'N. Call fortho Mooting at Lincoln In October. Tlio Kfbubliean electors tins utate '.ot Ve - bniska are requested to sond delegates from Hie several countltM, to meet In couveutlou at the 0tji liousf, lu tlio, elry'of Lincoln, Wed nesday. October 5, 1h7, at 8 o'clock . in., for tlio piirtiOfo of 1 acini; ii.imii:fn:ition candi dates for one associate Justice of tlie supreme court, and for two ineiiici.i of the board of regents of the Ktatu university, and to transact such other busmen as may be presented to the couveutlou, TIIK AM'OKTIOMKNT. J no several counties are entitled to repre sentation as fol'owa, being based upon the vote caxt for IIou. John M. Thayer, governor, In lHwi, ji vin one delegate to each new county, one deleKat!-at-I:iiK! to eac'i county. and one for eacli 160 votes and the major frac tion thereof :J COUKTIES. VOTES. Adams 13 Atltelop-. 8 Arthur .... 1 Blamo 2 lioone 7 Urowu u Jlutfalo 11 isutler s Hurt H Cbaso 3 VifH 15 Cedar.... 3 Cheyenne 5 'lu-iry s Clay 11 Colfax B Cuming 7 Custer 15 Iakota 4 Dawes C lit.XOII o I'd 10 Douglas Dawson n Dundy 3 Filmore lo Kunirtw 7 Franklin r, Frontier ft Caee 2n Cosper 3 Grant l Ore-ley 3 Garfield 2 Jlall ii Hamilton j Harlan : Hayes 3 Hitchcock Holt 11 Howard Total COUSTIKS VOTES JelTrson .... ...... 9 .1 oil llr-OIl Kearney Keya 1'aba Keith Knox Lancaster Lincoln lK:m I.oiiii Mailison 1W sl'liereoii Merrick Nance Nemaha Nuckolli Otoe l'awnce l'hclps 1'lercc I'latro folk Kit'liard"on l:cd Willow Sioux .Saline Sarpy .Hitiii:r.s Seward Sheridan Sherman Stanton Thayer Thomas lllfy,, a Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler .. York ... Unorganized I'e r'y a 4 6 7 2 0 'i 2 8 1 6 4 7 1J 8 7 3 ; 1 11 4 it 1 7 5 a 1 11 It Is recommended that no proxies be admit ted to Uie conventit 11 except such as are held by persons rexidlng in the counties from which proxies are given. Walt nit M. Si.ki.v, Secretary. UROU4JR W. IsiritTOX. Chairman. REPUBLICAN COUNTY j TICKET. For Treasurer D. A. CAMPBELL. For Clerk BEIiT CKITCIIFIELD For Kecorder WM. II. POOL. For Superintendent of l'ublic Instruction MAYNAKD SPINK. Kr Sheriff J. C. EIKEXBAKY. For Judge CALVIN RUSSELL. Eor Clerk of District Court II. J. STHEIGIIT, For County Commissioner GEORGE YOUNG. For Surveyor A- JlAJjpLE. "T-vF6r Coroner I IENRY BCECK. Next month prohibition. Oregon will vote on Hie judicial convention meets in Lin coin Oct., 5th at 4 o'clock in the after noon. Judge Chapman has no opponent for a renomination, and A, W. Field who is a candidate for Judge Rounds' place on the bench, will doubtless be nomi nated without much opposition. rom the reports of the new high li cense law in Minnesota, it is workinjr ad- mirably. There has been a falling off of at least one-third in the number of saloons, and the revenue from the liquor traffic is larger than it was under the old system, and the business of the police- is less, and public sentiment is strongly in fay or of the strict enforcement of the law. Jeff Davis has written a letter in which he criticised Senator Reagan for having introduced a Georgia negro "to the ladies and gentlemen of Texas," and Mr. Rea gan replies by admitting that the charge 13 true, and excusing himself on the ground that the negro in question "de livered an address which for learntHsr. T ' T a j . , eloquence anu patriotism wouio. nave done, credit to an v white people." The Texas Senator would be much more for tunate than he is if he could always jus tify his actions in this easy and conclusive manner. Globe Democrat. The republican state convention will meet in Lincoln on the evening of Oct., 5th to nominate a candidate for judge of the supreme court and also to nomi nate two reerents of the university. It is generally conceeded that Judge Maxwell will be his own sucessor, though ex-atty. creneral Dilworth is making a ficht for the nomination. There are several can didates in the field for rcrrcnt, the most prominent of which is W. A. McAllister, of Colnmbus , a graduate of the univer sitv. and a man that has at heart the best interests of the institution. It is understood that the comptroller of currency will in his next report to con gress suggest an important amendment to the national bank act with a view of pre venting, under severe penalties, the com promising by any bank of any case of t misappropriation, embezzlement, misap- plication of funds or any other offense winch renders officers or employees of national hanks liable to criminal prose cution under the net now in force. Such an amendment would ho an entirely proper one. It would only he in tlio direction of a further recognization of the public nature of such offenses against the community. Crimes of this nature are public wronip which affect the a holo community, and it ought not to be in the power of offenders guilty of them to secure immunity from public prosecution, whether by the favor of bunk officials or otherwise. Hankers are particularly inter ested in the maintenance of a high stand ard of commercial morality, which acts such as those against which legislation is sought cannot but affect unfavorably, and they will doubtless be glad to see the suggestion of the comptroller embod ied in legislation.- J) rail street. The republican ticket nominated hist Saturday is one that in the opinion of all fair minded republicans should win. The ticket is personally strong and ge ographically nothing can be urged against it. I). A. Campbell, the nominee for treasurer, is interested in Plattsmauth city and can justly be charged against us. Calvin Russell the nominee for county judge does no own a dollars worth of property in this city but owns a nice home near Weeping W ater to which point he will remove when ho ceases to fill his present ollice. 11. J. Streight, no minee for clerk of the district court, is interested both in Wabash and South Bend, he having resided at the latter place for several years. Mr. Ciitchfield nominee for county clerk, has for years deen a resident of Mr. Pleasant precinct. W. II. Pool, nominee for register of deeds, resides at Elmwood. Co. Supt. Spink has never lived in Plattsmouth and we believe comes from South Bend precinct. A. Ma'lole, county surveyor, is from Weeping Water. For tlio ollice of cor oner Henry Bteck is a resident of this city. For county commissioner, Geo. Young of Center Valley receved the nomination, thus showing conclusively that a man who w ishes to scratch his ticket must find 11 belter reason than the assertion that the ticket is made up from one locality. Tho Quaker Medicine Company Respectfully ak some very plain ques tions: Can Consumption be cured or even be benefitted? Can a Cold be cured or even stopped? Can you expect to be even relieved by any medicine or physic ian? No you cannot, if you simply change the temperature of your body three or four times a day for every chang you add to your cold Mothers, your children's health and your future happiness demands of you consistent love. Shall vanity make your lite mis erable, ending only in death. Dr. Wat son's New Specific Cough Cure is the re sult of science. Price 50c and $1. It is warranted by the following druggist. W. J. Wakmck. Proposals For the const r net ion cf stoini walti ewer in the city of Plati.-mouth, Neb. Sealed bids will be received by the city clerk of said city up to noon, Thursday. Oct. 6. 187, or the consti u-.'tiou of storm water fewer. as follows to wit, : AM"U'T. KNC.INEEIIS ESTIMATE. Ab mt, 1 00 ft. of 7!i t. brick sewer. $11.00 per liu. ft. f003 It. f HVt It. brick sewer. T.EO 6.00 1. .so 4.00 3.ro 00 ft. of 4! J ft. brick. sewer. 140 ft, of 15 inch p ii e roo " " 12 ' inlet pipe 4 manholes vert ft. 21 catch ba-dus or inlets lO.nl'J lbs. frames, covers and urates .01 per lb. Together with the necesarv eruicreet work. cravel wt.rk.oak pilintr, pine lumber for sUeet insr and pine lumber lor sheet uileinir. extra grading, rubble stone work, brick majority &c. in accordance witn tlie uiaii", pronie ana specifications on file iu the ollic of the city clerk. mas must be made on naiaicc maims tur- ni-hed by the city clerk ; ar.l all bio's must be accompanied witii a cerrmea cnecK on a local bank in the sum of $1,000. as an evidence of j:ood faith. No bid will be entertained which exceed the entimate. The board reserves the ntrht to reject any and all bids and to wave defects. J. W. JO FIN SOX. Chairman Hoard of Public Worka. Shakespeare's Old Home. The Shakespeare house was purchased in the same way ns was Alonnt v ernon, the home of Washington. It is nomi nally the property of the people. With ns Mount Vernon is controlled by an as sociation of ladies, who find much amuse ment, comfort and importance in direct ing the affairs of that place, but there has never been any charge of admission made to Mount Vernon. The public cannot view the Shakespeare house without pay ing sixpence to see the living rooms and sixpence more to view the second part of the house, which is filled up with a lot of rubbish, supposed, to have some relation to the Shakespearean period. This repre sents about 25 cents of our money, and as there is an average of 250 visitors a day to the Shakespeare house, this would foot up an income of $G0 per day. Certainly this great amount of money is not all re quired for keeping up a very plain house. Two or three hundred dollars a year would surely cover that expenditure. What becomes of this large sum would afford an interesting subject of Inquiry, I should say, with the people of England, who are supposed to own the place. is early all of ths show places of Eng land have entrance fees charged for ad mission. Cor. Xe-.v York World. Secret of Aerial Navigation. If a Russian engineer named Coslowiche is to be believed he has conquered the secret of aerial navigation. His machine is said to be 200 feet long, and to obviate a betrayal of his secret he had the appara tus constructed in different parts c f Eu rope. Chicago Herald. A CREOLE MAIDEN. 6HE IS BORN INTO AN ATMOSPHERE OF CONSERVATISM. Girlhood la tho Sacred I'reclnrts of the Family Circle Strict ltul of Eti quette Lovo of BIuslo a nil Dancing. OUT to School. A favored few, during the vr Or leans exposition, caught a glimpse of tho Creole girl, and were surprised to find hei not the indolent, selush creature of undis ciplined mind ,".ii(l temper that she has been so often pictured. They saw enough to convince tlx m that she had been un justly represented, yet not enough of her domestic life, which the Creole guards jealousy against intrusion, to be able to correctly decide what special Influences had made her so unlike her Americau sisters. If, however, one is Intimately enough acquainted with the Creoles to ain admission into their family circle, he will not be Ion-? iu fixing upon these de termining forces. Tho creolo irl is born Into an atmosphere of conservatism. From the beginning it is her very breath of life. Not only custom, but the accumulated force of heredity, combine to make her live up to her ancestors. From the crad'e idio is accustomed not only to ttifection, but to its demonstrations. All her family ana all tueir menus arc not content to ! love one another in a careless, never-tell- you-about-it fashion, but with protesta tions, with enthusiastic disclosures 01 heart, with kisses frequent and warm. Tlie little maid could luirdly bo of cold demeanor in this air of demonstrative affection, which, according to tho Hin doos, should never be wanting in the mansions of the good. When she is old enough to come into the parlor she greets her mamma's guests with ease, and it is with angelic confidence- that she puts up her cheek to b kissed. The tact which is hers by inherit ance is already apparent, and not from Creole children come the accessions to tho ranks of les enf.-itits terribles. The mother encourages what mothers of northern races deem frivolities. Understanding the value of ease of manner, gracefulness of motion and the numberless prcttlnesses which come only by long practice, she very soon allows her youthful daughter to take part in Kay little dances, harmless receptions, w here little folk must act with the propriety of the greater. These gatherings entail no fine dressing, no costly refreshments or lato hours, which ure the characteristics of tho modern child's party. AVOIDING IMrnOPRIETIES. The little girl is early taught to avoid improprieties of speech and manner. Tho effect of mamma's oft iterated "Va douce nient, fillet te," shows itself even in her play, for she indulges in none of that wild romping which is so often a distinguish ing feature in the sports of others of her age and condition. The Creole cirl is merry and vivacious, but she will never defy the rules of etiquette or her mother's frowns. She is her mother's constant companion, and her father, too, courts the society and confidence of his little daugh ter, and the bond between them is more intimate, more sacred, than is usual be tween American fathers and daughters. Even after marriage she keeps up this sweet intimacy, and her father is sure to be as interested and sympathetic a listener to her recounted trials and joys of house keeping and niolherhood as is her mother. There never was a creole girl who could not dance. Her feet beat time naturally to the unison of waltz music as soon as she can walk. When about 8 years old she is seat to school, usually one kept by Borne reduced gentlewoman, where, though the text books have not been changed for years, and the demands for higher education are unknown, the youth ful pupil is carefully grounded in elemen tary rules. She studies French and learns facile use of English, and she Is likely to learn Spanish or perhaps German. It is no uncommon tiling for our little Creole to ppeak well three or four languages. In her going and coming from school she must be accompanied by a servant or some grown person. This is an inexorable rule of all creolo eehools, the mistress feeling a personal responsibility forlier pupils from the time they leave home until they again set foot within it. Amer ican children must also conform to this rule, else they will not be received. CRAULED IN SONG. The little creole take naturally to music, for she has been cradled in song; It is mother's milk to her; her earliest lul labies have been operatic airs. She daily hears discussions as to the relative merits and beauty of lids opera and that, of the excellencies and deficiencies of the singers. Her parents attend the opera at least once a week, and oftener when possible, even if the entailed expense must mean very plain living. No musical heresies ever meet her ears. Wagnerian music is tabooed, but French and Italian opera, "Oh, ciel! com me elle est ravitsante!" She imbibes the good natured contempt of her people for the American stage, but she frequently accompanies her parents to their own be loved French theatre. By easy steps the little maid has reached the age when she must make her first communion. Never until her marriagi morn will she be the center of as mucr interest and loving attention as upon thi day. It is a fete which after the solemt religious ceremonial is celebrated with feasting, while gifts are bestowed upon the young girl by all of her family con nections. It is now time for her to go to the convent to finish her education. She may attend as a weekly boarder any one of the numerous convents within the city; she may, notwit:. standing tears and re monstrances, be forced to submit to the rigorous diselplije of the Ursuline monas tery. Within those walls she can hold no communication with th3 world, save on special days, when friends may visit her. Small consolation, for when they see her a grim iron prating interposes itself be tween her and her beloved ones. All pres ents of fruit and other dainties must be Impartially divided between classmates. Within this cloister have been educated in all probability her mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Harper's Bazar. A Popular Error. There .s a popular prejudice that if th stones of cherries are swallowed it will obviate the danger of intestinal disturb ance which this fruit is liable to cause. Nothing could be more absurd than this theory, and the practice is a most per nicious one, as it invites serious inflam mation, if not fatal consequences. Herald of Health. The Correct Pronunciation. Mrs. Bingham I s'pose, Miss Amelia, you saw some gran' specimens of arkatec ter when you's down in New York city? Miss Amelia (who has been studying French without a master) Oh, yes, in- j deed, Mrs. Bingham; 'specially some of them French flahsl (flats.) STEALING REGISTERED LETTERS. ITow th Dlahotieit Fontofflce Km ploy ft Are Sometimes Caught. "There is ono place in the postofflee ser vlco where stealing can bo carried on with little fear of detection," said one of the division superintendents" recently, "and that is in the registered letter defnrtment. Tho opinion of almost every one Is that tho safest way to send a letter or package is to register it. But there is a loopholo through which the mail can slip with great ease. The weak part of the system Is in the receiving department. Say that a registered package is received at the postoflico from some place out of the city. It passes to the clerks in the regular way for distribution. If one of them is dis honest he collars the package and, of course, does not send the notice to the person to whom it was directed. Not re ceiving any notice tlie owner does not call at the office for the package, and the per son sending it, having perfect confidence in the delivery system, believes it to have been safely delivered. No complaints are made to tlie office and there is no trouble. All tho thief has to do is to satisfy the department which has a cheek upon him. and this is done by forcing the name of the owner of the package to a receipt and sending it to the proper authorities." "Is it easy fur a clerk to pick out a let ter containing money?" "Yes. They will do it as certainly ns a cat will scent a fish head in an tish bar rel. It's all done by the sense of touch. A clerk must not seen weighing up letters, but must go through a pile with all possible speed. As his fingers glide quickly over the letters, if he has been long at the business, he will know intui tively a letter which contains anything that makes an uneven fold within, as i:i usually the case with money. It may not be money, but if it feels like it; that is enough, and the letter is dexterously dropped on the floor or slipped into a con venient place, where it can bo picked up without exciting suspicion." "How are the thieves usually detected?" "By means of decoy letters. Those let ters are fixed up in the inspector's oflice. Marked money is put into them. A bag that comes to the oflice is opened and tlio decoys are put in before the bag is sent to the distributing department. The bag comes to tho suspected clerk in the regu lar way. Search is made for the decoy in tho place where it should bo if it had been properly distributed. If not found the clerk is searched, and if the right per son was suspected the money will bo found on him. It ia hard to work a decoy on an expert thief. I know of one man who passed thirty-five decoys before he was caught. In fact he let them t-lip by so regularly that he disarmed suspicion and the decoys were tried on every other clerk. Complaints were coming in all the time and the case was puzzling. "None of the clerks would touch a de coy. Finally the first man suspected took ono and was arrested. He confessed, and said that he could tell a decoy every time, because it did not have the marks of travel on it, and the stamping was smoot h and sharp, showing that a stamp rarely used had been applied to the letter and not the one regularly used in the course of business. "There is more or les3 stealing all the time in the postoffice, but such a closo watclris kept on the men that the amount stolen is now comparatively small. Thieves crop out in the most unexpected places, and men in good positions are sometimes caught sacrificing their good name, home and future for petty sums of money." New York Evening Sun. Theory of Spontaneous Combustion. The lame Kiln club's committee on sci ence and philosophy being called upon for their quarterly report promptly responded with n document of great interest. Several months since the committee was instructed to enter upon a series of experiments to test the theory of spontaneous combustion, and they now reported tho result of their labors as follows: 1. An old red flannel shirt was carelessly wrapped up In a copy of The Police Ga zette and thrown under the bed. At tho end of ten weeks it was hauled out and inspected. No signs of combustion. 2. Several, cotton rag were stuffed into an old plug hat and placed on the top shelf in a pantry, between an old teapot with the nose broken off and a two quart jug containing coutdi mixture. Eight weeks brought no change, except that a rat ate part of the brim olf the hat. S. Cotton and woolen rags were sprinkled with whisky and packed away In a trunk with summer clothing and tho trunk marked on either end with white chalk. At the end of seven weeks it was discovered that the whisky had been wasted. 4. A pine bedstead, stained to resemble walnut, was exposed to ilia sun forty-two days. No combustion. o. A white hat, left over from the Gree ley campaign, was filled with certificates Of honesty belonging to ward politicians and placed on the roof of a campaign wig wam, but was stolen before fermentation set in. The committee could not report a single satisfactory result in the experiments and were discharged from the further consid eration of the subject. Detroit Free t'ress. No News of Importance. Probably ono of the most remarkable men of one idea was Eord Palmerstors, who could think of little else but forcigu politics. An amusing story is told of him in tho "Greville Memoirs." "The queen," sa33 Greville, "told Clarendon an anec dote of Palmerston, showing how exclu sively absorbed he is with foreign polities. Her majesty had been much interested in and alarmed at the strikes and troubles in the north, and asked Palmerston for de tails about them, when she found that ho knew nothing at all. One morning, after previous inquiries, she said to him: 'Pray, Lord Palmerston, have you any news?' To which he replied: 'No, madam, I have heard nothing, but it seems certain the Turks have crossed tho Danube.' The fact that Palmerston at this time was not foreign minister, but home secretary, adds point to the anec dote." Chambers' Journal, The Increase of Whales. Not very many months ago a trade jo-:r-nal made the statement that the whaie were fast being exterminated and that it is only a question of time when a substi tute must be found for whalebone. Then, when I was in your city last February, a young man who was selling one of these substitutes repeated this chestnut to me. I have shown tliis artcl around in tho fleet and repeated the statement, much to the amusement of whalemen. The men who have these substitutes to sell are do ing their best through the public prints to exterminate the whales, but the whale men find it impossible even to keep up with the increase of the whales, to uiy nothing about exterminating them. I wish the former success in their under taking. Cor. Chicago Time3. For the next lew be had for A 1 50 weeks i'ureliascr half cash, the other half in one year; or, one thinl cash, bal ance in one and two years; or s'J;" cash, remainder in month ly installments of $10; or, any one aieein to construct a residence worth ii,f00 and upwards will be given a lot with out further consideration. w ib to select your residence lots, contemplate buildinr at once will convince the most a skeptic residence locality substantial class boast for the year in the cii v. a of buildings of wl 18S7 are ban dsomc CI -OF HHTERY BESOBIPTION DCmiT T'I-US LOTS. xsska oeoM mdmrnrxi mtsm aval rarsu mu around and through Any one desiring to canstruct a cottage or tious residence in JSouth Park, can examine of plans of the latest style of residences by oiuce. inv one (icsirinir to to purchasing, will be driven CALf. ON B. Windham or" Jo ovse cass Have anything you want Aviii a -rnger CARRIAGES FOR SHORT are always kept ready. Cabs or and everything tor funerals lurni. RICHEY Corner Pearl and PEALEKS IX iimnor qth LUiliUUl j LUli $150 PJIMS 'choice of lots South Park in niaj one- may iav all in cash: or Trmm tim :vcn though you should not One visit to South I'ark al that it is t he most desirable and we will add, that the most lich IMattsmouth can now beinir constructed in this :nllitioli. J y rav. a aj m rees MOST- the entire tract. a, more preten a large selection calling at our examine properly with a view park at our expense to the 'avies, co. s&zr: S i two wliccled go cart to a twenty-four wafoii. o PLEASURE AND DRIVES, tilit - Iicd ("i ! r';igo. pall -bearer wagons n s!:ort notice. Terms caili. JL VJ9IS3ER! BROS., Seventh Streets. ALL KINDS OF ) UUOH Hinds, 7 Piaster- T 5 ra