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.Tl,..'.! FIKST YEAR MiATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, FKID EVENING, NO VE3IBEK 25, 1887. NUMBER 01, re v CI'i'Y OKJ7IGJ5IJS. Mayor, :itH. TrciiNiirer, Attorney, Kniiifi-r. Marh:ill, Couti'iilineii. l r w.irJ, J l S MI'KON (; (1 SMITH I 11 W AT K KM AX llVKott Cl.AKK A iMAlxil.lt .1 S M.VITIHWM W II MAI.1..K Vk:kkach ) J Y I A W W II I K ) l M .lONKS W'M W Kit Ml ) M It Muki iiT i S W IHJTTOX i K S (SltM'HKI. y . . . . . . n.. . a:-.i j; ii I J V .1.. kkk.ii (; i) ii 11 J W .John -,t 'haiumax Boaid Pul.W.ik (iUKI)KI' AWKHWOHTH Treasurer. liuty Trcnarcr, - Clerk. Ucpit'.y Clvrk, iAfiK ttt li-:iii:t 'o lit, Slu-riir. - Deputy Sheriff. Hiirveyor. - - Attorney. Hunt, of I'ub School, County J n ie. i:dahi fv our Louis Koi.tz, Ch'in., A. II. Town, A. 1J. JJIOKSON, I A. I'AMI'IIKI.L TlIiM. I'ol.l.'irK J. M KM I N.HON (',, MCf'HKKSoN W. ,'. Snow i.tkic J. !. Kl K KXIIAIU 11 V. Vmimans A . M x loi.K Al.l.l'.N I'-l K-t "N MAV.VAl;!" hl'IXK Ku. S KUVISOKri. Weej'iHi? Water riiitiMiioutli K: hi wood GIVIG SOGIKTIKS. C1ASS l.OLKJit Tin. 146. I ti. O. K. -Meets 't very Tue.lay evening of eueh week. All transient brothels aic resnectlully iuvitvd to atteud. TKIO LODC!" ?". 81. A. ). U. W. Meets every alteruat I'rhlay evening at K. ! 1 hall. Transient brother are respeetfully In vited to attend. 1'. i: White, Master W orkman ; K. A, atte. Foreriuiu ; K. J. Morgan, Overweer ; J. E. Morris. IteeorJer. I ASS CAMP XO.SM. MODERN WOODMEN of America Meets second stud fourth Mon day evening at K. of l hall. All transient brothers are requested to meet wittt im. I.. A. Nweoier. Ve.iier.thle Consul : .. T. Nile, Worthy Adviser; D, If. Smith, Ex Hanker ; W. C. Willctts, Clerk. IlI.ATr.iMOUTH (.DIXIE NO. 8. A. O. U. W. Meet every :il frnato Friday evening at ltoek wood hall at koYIopk. All transient broth ers are respeetfully invite.l to attend. -I. A. ;utsche. M. W. ; rt. ". Green, Eoremau : S. C. Wilde, liecorder ; S. A. Newcomer. Overseer. McCOMIMJS POST 45 G. A. R. ;:oHTKH. J. W. Jl)!S3.V.. ..('O'lllll.lIHllT. C. S. I wns F. . I'.AfKt Jko. Nic-ks AlTISUST TARTS- II... M A I. ON IHX 'IN CHAKLKH to!f It K N.I. ilKMri.' . . J.VC.OIl trOHHl KM . ..Senior Vice .Junior " AtljMtant. 1. M. Ofliceror th D;ty. iii;ird Serpt Major. ..tfuarter Mas'er Seivt. l ost lliaplaiu Meeti:u oaturiU evening. cElwain, i-i la i I -I i:LEK IN- Walsles, duds, Jowelry VND- SicialAt cut n iyenfatcli Repairing WE WILL HAVE A -OF- HOLIDAY GOODS, ALSO- Liteaay - Lamps -OF- lips Cfsios aMPatte AT THE USUAL Cheap Prices AT- SMITH & BL ACK'S. H.E.Paimer&Son INSUR&KC Represent the following time tried and tire-tested companies: American Central-S. Lon.s. Assets Sl.258,ool Cemmerclal Unlon-Ensland, " 2.536.314 Fire Assocla io'.-Ph delphia, " 4.4J5.575 yranklin-Plil.-'e'lii.. " 3.U7.!S Home-N"'W York. " T.855.t9 Ins. i'o. of N irr' rao ie-. Phil. " Urerpool&London 5; f;iobe-Eng " e.Cia.Tt-l Krth rlt"-h x Merc;intlle-Eng " 3.378.754 jrorwic-i Unlon-Euirl md, " 1 tprlngfleld F. & M.-Sringfield, " 3.0H.8J5 Total Assets, f 42.115,774 Fine:-: Line 038, Aljti a 4PaidatilIsAvefflj Latest by Telegraph. UOKUOWKD AND STOLEN. Rain Chocks the Forest Urea. Memimdh, Nov. 27. Report frotu tlio Kiirroun(lin; country indicat'.! a general heavy rainfall and the quencliinj; of the forest fires, which for the prist week have leen so destructive. Riotous Woe; roes. Nkw Oklf.ans, La., Nov. 2o. The fctrikino; siijar hands at Tliiliodeatix, Ln., uhout oVlock Wednei-duy motninir t:r i! upon white pickets who were j.ruard ir. the place. Tin; white men returned the Hie and a hrisk !:ittle ensued in which twenty live negroes are paid to have hfen killed and two white men wounded. Fioldon and Schwab Visited. Jolikt, 111., Nov. 25. Fiehlen and Sell wah, the anarchists, were for the first time visited by their wives at the prison yesterday. The visitor were received in the waiting room. Both prisoners were donned in citizens' clothes, as is the cus tom when convicts receive relat i vcs. The meeting was affecting but not demon strative. Yesterday was a beautiful Thanks giving day and was a grand holiday for the boys, who spent the time skating and eating. Most of the business house closed their doors and most of the shop men spent the day at home, having the;r choice to work or rest. The union services at the Presbyterian church were fairlv attended and Rev. Xi. U. Alexander's discourse was listened to with interest. A Now Cas Enterprise. St. Louis, Mo., Nov, 25. Parties from Pennsylvania arrived in this city to-day for the purpose of organizing a big company to operate a fuel g;ts plant. The plan is to manufacture the gas nt a central point in th'i coal district of 1111 nois just cast of this city and bring it here in pipes. It is expected that $1, 000,000 or more will be expended' in th enterprise. An Opportunity For Earnum. Knoxville, la., Nov. 25. Considerable interest has been aroused in the discovery near Percy, in this county, of what secms to be the petrified body of some huge monster. I', is between 50 and CO feet in length, with a head about 4 feet long bv 24 wide with four eyes. The ball of one eye is gone, leaving a socket about 3 inches in diameter. The other three eyes are closed and look like the clos.d eyes of a frog. The remains an; will preserved, but the family of the extinct monster seems to be unknown. Killed by Mexicans Tkotle. Tex., November 23 Mr. E. I. Baggctt received a telegram from Du rango, Mexico, to-day, announcing the death of his brother, Monroe Daggett, which occurred Tuesday night. He was murdered by Mexicans. It is the theory of Mr. Raggett that his brother was killed for the purpose of robbery, as he has large iuterests there, consisting of a ranch, lumber business, oil mill and tin mine, and he often traveled between these in stitutions with large quantities of money used in paying off his employes. lie was once before fired upon from ambush, but was not seriously hurt, while traveling with money on his person. Mr. Monroe Baggctt lived in this county a number of years, and has many friends aud relatives here. Grover Will Learn to Ride. . Washigton, Nov. 25. President Cleveland, who recently subscribed to an annual membership in the riding school in the northwest section of the city has decided to take an active part in the school. Ha will take private lessons in order to reduce his weight and to insure as much privacy as possible, he proposes to receive his instructions very early in the morning. As soon as he secures a good scat the president will purchase a handsome saddle horse and will join Sec retary Fairchild in his d lilv rides. Pres ident Cleveland has not walked a dis tance of five blocks within the limits of the city of Washingttn. Among others who have taken membership in the rid ing school are Secretaries Whitney, La mar, Endicott, Bayard and Fairchild; Commissioners Wheutly, Webb and Lud low; Senator's Edmunds and Cullom; Charles C. Glover, John W. Thompson, E. Francis Riggs, Mrs. R. C. Ilitt, Mrs. Mildred E. Carlisle, Dr's. Florence Dona hue. Hon. John M. Glover, Justice W, T. Cox and Judge John D.ivi?, A SlgMartgagc Fl.'cd. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 24. A mort gage was filed yesterday nt Ashlimd in favor of the Central Trust comj any of New York for $330,000. Mt. Barton schedules his interest in the Anvil, Tin tine, Iron King and three other minqig properties and forty-six parcels of piCp-ert-, valued at $700,000, in LakcGmeia; lots and blocks at Hurley and Chicago, leaseholds valued at $2:,000, not8, mortgages and collaterals. Besides tie giye.s thirty-six promisory notes, all but two being for $10,000 each at 0 per ctnt, due Jan. lit 1883. The money raised will be u.-ed to extricate the Burton mines from their present financial straits. Admission of Territories- Washington. Nov. 25. Letters just received from Utah, Dakota, Washington aud Montana territories state that the people there do not take any discourage ment from the announcement that no territories are to be admitted to statehood till after the next presidential election.' 1 ln y sav they will send delegations hero the first of the year with arguments and propositions which can not be re fused and that there enn be little ttoubt that they will get admi-sion acts through at this session. They do not ask for the exercise of any state functions, such as participation in elections uutil after the election iuxt November. It is stated that the president is more favorably in clined to consider their propositions than formerly and that the democrats in the house are very much divided. The pros pects are blight just now for at least three new states. DR. GAT LING'S NEW GUN. A Weapon for Police Ue That Would Decimate a Mob in Two Minutes. Dr. R. J. Gatling, the inventor of tho famous gun which bears his name, has invented another instrument of destruc tion which lie calls the "olice gun." It was on exhibition the other day, and on interested group of army ofiicer3 and newspaper men studied its mechanism and listened to the inventor's explana tion of its virtues. It is a brass gun, weighing sov fcnty-eight jounds, and is mounted on a iirittod, tho whole arrange ment weighing only 149 TKamds. It is capable of firing 1,000 shots a minute. The general working principle of the gun is the same as that of the gun which bears Dr. Catling's name and ia so widely known. The improvement is in the method of feeding. In the police gun a magazine, holding sixty-two cartridges and looking like the hopper of a corn sheller, is 6et up on end at a right angle on the top of the brass barrel. Tho turning of the handle by tho cannoneer drops the cartridges into six revolving barrels within the cannon. As the barrels revolve a lock with 'a spiral spring catches each cartridge and a small needle in the lock strikes the per cussion cap, exploding it. The next in stant an extractor catches the empty shell, and following a spiral groove, it is dislodged from the gun. When one magazine is empty another stands ready to take its place. As tho empty shells fall in a stream from the orifice, it looks for all the world like a country corn sheller with the denuded cobs dropping to the floor as the farm hand turns the crank. By a long lever the cannoneer can with his left hand change the range of the gun, shoot up or down or sideways, while with the right hand he turns the crank that puts the stream of cartringes in motion. "We can clear the streets of a mob add housetops as well," said Dr. Gatling, a peaceful looking old gentleman, with spectacles and a snowy beard. "The gun will kill a man a mile off, though 1,000 yards is the best range. We don't want to see our cities overrun by a mob as was Pittsburg, Why, no man would stand in range of that gun. If he did he would be foolish, to say the least." New York Tribune. The Latest Doston Craze. Boston ha3 brought forth a new- craze. Ilussomania succeeds Anglomania. There is not a whisper remaining of the "Shelley prattle," which was led entertaingly by the fair sculptor who is now passing his honeymoon in an Italian villa. Browning clubs have lost their novelty, and foi those who desire something new and strange no better opportunity is offered than the pursit of Russian subjects. Un deterred by the fact tlmt Russian-English dictionaries are very incomplete and that the Russian includes 40,000 words taken from other languages, many students have already undertaken to master the curious tongue. It ia more easy to study the liter ature through translations, especially when struct Gegol several lecturers are ready to iu clubs and point the way from through Turgenief, Pisemski, De- stoyeoski to Tolstoi. A club on the back bay is already formed for the study of Russian literature, especially the novels, and other clubs are receiving instruction through papers which all Bostomans who have traveled in Russia either have pre pared or are preparing. Buffalo News. The Pie Season at Hand. The pie season is now at hand and we are experiencing not a little difficulty in meeting the demands of our customers. Just as soon as the weather gets a little cool the country pumpkins come in and everybody wants pumpkin pie. And it's the same way with the mince pie, that indigestible, death deal ing coiniound. You ought to see the pies we sell in a day. Five hundred? Well, 1,000 would be more nearly like tho number we cook daily. Winter is our best season. Just as soon as the theaters open we begin to have a thriv ing pie trade. The midnight rush is something that keeps us hustling about on our feet until they get sore. It's a curious thing, but the pie trade comes ia nearly always during the night. Peopl orne in and want something hot. They want it quickly, . too. The pie is just suited to their demands. Restaurant Clerk in GIobDomoctat, A QUESTION. TTe loved for a Rummer from Juno to ferrteinber, 'Twas only a Jest, tho', I bejf you'll remember, Hut tho tears in our eyes, were they only mock Borrow, Aud the acho in our hearts, will it vanish to morrow? 'Twos only a jest, and we're parting forever, Tiie words on our lils, pale a trill", are never. And the look in our eyes; ah, can eyes so dis semble? Do they lie, liko the lips, as they whiten and tremblo? Coodhy, yea, forever to make believe passion, lUck from nature and joyance to heartache and fashion, 'Twos love mid the flV.vers and it died like a flower. V.'as it worth all the paiu for the jest of an hour? Uoberta Whito in Home Journal. ANECDOTES OF THE WAft. Two Confederates Who Had No Interest la the Struggle A Frightened Skulker. Maj. J. II. Rk'jlton related in our hearing the following: diverting incidents of tho san guinary battlo of Sharpshurg or Antietam: Gen. Darksdalo drew his brigade up in lino and uddressed them ia substance as follows: "ile-'n, upon this battle hangs in all proba bility tho destiny of the Confederacy, the destiny of our beloved homes, tho destiny of our property, tho destiny of our fathers, of our mothers, of our wives, of our sweet hearts, Then, lot every man ofis be a hero in tho strife, and ucquit ourselves like men. If there be a man among you t hat iossesses none of theso precious things that I have just enume rated and feols that ho has nothing to battle for, if ho will step to the front I will give him permission to retire to ignominious safety." At this juncture two lean, lank, dirt eat ing looking shadows of men stcpjHyl to tho front, and one of tlieia iu nasal toues drawled out: "Gen'ru!, mc'n him," pointing to Lis corn redo, "hain't got no homo, no pappy, no mammy, no wife, no sweetheart, an' nary nigger; kin we go?'' The general looked at them with withering scorn for a few seeonds, and then, pointing to tho woods in tho rear, thundered: "Gitl" aild they got. While- tho battlo was at its height, and the cannons' thunder fairly made the ground n,uakc, and tho shells and grapeshot shrieked through the murky air liko veritable de mons, G-en. "Rjuiso'' Wright saw a fellow running out of the light like a scared rabbit. Tiio general drew his pistol, and, putting spurs to his horse, intercepted the recreant soldier mid shouted to hii.i: liGo back to your pluco, sir: go back or I'll shoot you." Tho frightened skulker yelled back : "Shoot and be hanged to you ; them fellers hev got a thundcrin' sight bigger guns than you hev !" cu'l, darting under tho general's horse's be'.ly, incontinently took to his heels. Tho above yarns of Maj. Skelton recall to cur mind tho witty pun of an old "Johnny Rcb1' on the march to Hagerstown, Md., just Leiore the battlo of Sharpsburg. Many of iirj soldiers were barefoot, and tho soles or their feet were worn and bleeding. Our exrpany, which had been detailed as rear guard, had halted in the road for a moment's i i:t. One old fellow, Joo MeCraeken, sitting on tho roadside, held up his feet for tho cap tain's inspection, and pointing to huge stone bruises on cither foot, said in lugubrious tones: "Cap'n, these aro the days that try men's soles !' Tho company groaned, while some of them cried: "Kill him on tho spot!" MeCraeken had his arm disabled by a sharpshooter's bullet in the trenches around Petei-sburg, but, refusing a discharge, was among tho few ragged rebs that grounded their arms when tho sun of the Confederacy went down behind tho hills of Appomattox. Hartwell Snu. The Husband's Position. Tho husband who chooses to make the ef fort will find that when ho accords to his wife full acknowledgment of her individu ality, and accustoms her through all the routine of married life to the same gracious courtesy he used to pract'-ee at an earlier day, he will have a fearless companion by his side; a woman of reflection and judgment, who, having a sense of responsibility and ac countability to herself, always the sternest of judges, is an actual helpmeet, a possible champion, a charming friend, a reasonable assistant, a woman with some other enter tainment in her than the reflection of his own accustomed thoughts, with some novelty and interest; and so he will find his marriage a far finer thing than if he had always a sweet and tiresome little slave at command, lie will find his own position, too, a some thing loftier one, for he will be the protector and shield and support of one of a nobler order than weaklings, and he gains evea in his own esteem by the assumption of that loftier character. Harper's Dazar. A Dog That Became Famous. Coh Emerson, of Auburn, Me., has been giving an account of a dog that became fa mous during the war. Ho belonged to a Portsmouth man who enlisted at the begin ning of the war and took the dog with him. Both returned safely at the end of threo months; but as the Tenth Maine passed through Portsmouth on its way to tho front, some of the boys stole tho dog and took him with them. His owner sent telegrams to Boston, New York and Baltimore demanding his release, but the boys laughed and kept the dog, who served two years with them, and then went back to Maine. Then the owner tried to get him, but two of the Tenth boys hid him and carried him to Auburn, whero ho re-enlisted with the Twenty-ninth Maine and again went to the front, and was killed at Sabine Crosa Roads. He loved a battle and beoame terribly excited in action, barking and gnawing at the earth vrhere the bullets struck. New York Sun. , Very Thin Veneering. A St. Louis cigar dealer says: "I had a good laugh to myself one day when I saw a teeond hand dealer strike an old bedstead Arith his knuckles and say to the lady who was bargaining for it: 'Madam, that bed stead is solid poplar. But the laugh is now on me. I bought a lot of cigar boxes, all solid cedar, I thought. By accident I broke one c them the ofchcr day, and I found thej wc.-o made of ash, with a cedar veneering ai thin as paper on the surface, jasldo and out "Tuis is getting business, down pretty fine,' aiil I mysdt,n Tl-JE D11YLIQ1T STQK A full line ot STHEET - JiGKETH FROM $2. TO $10. JO.Y. WECKB C 'S DAYLIGHT STORE. Joiliil p T1-E DlIYLIQl-JT STOlE Grand Of our 20 CrEEAT SPECIAL SALES- 20 Opening Monday Silk Velvets and Velveteens Filty pieces Silk A'elvet., all shades, at 81.00 per yard, lonncr price 1.50 per yard. Twenty-live pieces Silk Flu.-li at 81.25 per yd. former prices $1.75 to $2.50 your choice at 81 25. Twenty-five pieces Velveteens at 35c, 50c and 75c, formerly 50c, S5c and 81.25. DM SILK, GROSS GE1I1D SILK, SLE MM, Ten pieces such silks at 75 cents and 85 cents, worth si. CO ai.l 81.25. Twenty-five pieces gross-grained silks at 75 cents and S2J cents, worth $1 and 1.35- Moira silks at 1.32. worth 1.75. As the Prices indicated above are Remarkably Low, the goods having been purchased at a sacrifice sale, we are willing to share the benefits with you, do not delay. SOLOMON White Fron- PLATTSMQUTH, jj gj 0gP hi uii k til 11 Li FROM !?:' TO $50. -o FROM $2. TO $12. IN ALL STYLES. Rica Astraclian and Fnr Trimmings. FROM $. TO $:J5. IK 1 5J 7! lirst series -' Morning Nov. 7. & NATHAN, Dry Goods House, NEBRASKA. Sill - WllS 1 LIS8 7 u lion