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PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1888.
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reasurer.
J). A. CAMPIiKI.I.
TlllH, I'ULUHIK
.1. M. KollINSON
V, !. McPHKKSON
V. C. SlIOWAI.TKll
J. O. KlKKNltAltY
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May.naku Spink
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Clerk. -Uepuey
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t'.lerk of Dlsliict Court,
Sheriff,
Surv-ytr.
Attorney.
Supt. of Tub School.
County Jii.Il;:.
no iti ok ui-iuvisoits.
I.ouis Koirz, Cli'ni., - WccpiuK Water
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A. II. 1I -kso.v, - Kenwood
CIVIC SOGUVDIISS.
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(4)1a:k fw. iti;.
1 O. O. K. -Meets
of each week. All
every t .wwiay cvciuiin
truiiiieiit btojiitis aie
ntU-ul.
respectfully invited to
fTiKM) UOlH'.li N. M. A. O. V. W. Meets
A- every u'.ti-rmit Friday evuuluK at K. of r.
lia'l. Traiish-iit brothers are respectfully in
vited ?u attend. F. K. White, Master Workman ;
i;. A, ' aite. Foreman ; F. J. Morgau; Overccer ;
J. K. Morris. Ketrorder.
ASS CAM i X. KM. MODKKN WOODMEN
j .f VmiMivL :ii-ets second and fourth Mt:i-
i at .-vi ni!: ' at W. of 1. hall. All transient
l.r .ili.r oi-. ri'ii iif;teil to meet, with It. A.
Nooi iicr. Ve:iei tlI CoiihiiI ; i. K, Nile.
Wiifihv Ailvisi-r: . 1J. Smith, lix Hanker ; W.
C. WllR-lts. Clerk.
TrM.lT I ff I.ODI1K N'O.8. A.O. IT. W.
I -vi i y alternate Friday evening at
.. .. - Ku'eloek. All transient broth
jliiCKWimii iiiiu... ,1,.1 i ..tt.M.fl I A
Wilde. Kecmler ; S. A. Newcomer. er.it er.
f.lcCONIHlZ POST 45 C. A
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Mai.on Dixon
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Junior '
Adjutant.
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Ullicerof the Day.
(iuard
".' Seri;t Major.
.Quarter Uaster Kergt.
I'ost Ciiflplaiu
li.i-h a W i:h;iit
'.Jtfedtiux s.iturday evening
V iroual
!o my care
ituMition to all iiuslne? s Entrust-
XOTAKY IX OFFICE-
Titles i: iinined. Abstains Complied, In-s-ariiuca
Written, Heal Estate Sold.
Better raciUttos for making Farm Loan than
Any Otlicr Ageacy.
A'i-bratika.
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GEKTERAIi
AGENTS
Kepresont the following timc
Jjrietl ami lire-tested companies:
.Vio.evlcan Central-S:. Louis, Assets 31.23S.0fll
!oiatn.'rciiI I'nion-Eng'.and. " 2.MW.3U
J'ire Asoclr.lion-PliiladelpUia, 4,413.576
J-Var.kliii-l'hiUrtf.ljbJa. " 3.117.106
Ilomc-XeW Yoik. " 7.835.M9
j;s. C . of North America, Phil. " 8,471.362
i.iverpiol4L-j!idon& Olobe-Eng " o,ia.7St
Kurth r.ritlsh & Merauntilc-En 3.373,754
;,-orwie'.i U:'ion-Eazlaiul. " 1.245.4C6
Springfield F. & M.-SprliisfielJ, " 3.044.9'5
Total A-setS.542.11..T74
mi kt tnl sua PaiaattMsAgen
WE WILL HAVE A
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HOLIDAY GOODS,
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Library - Lamps
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Cheap
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SMITH & BLACK'S.
Latest by Telegraph.
BORROWED AND STOLKM.
A Newspaper Change.
Norfolk, Keb., Jan. 1. The Daily
News this uiorninij announced that P.
F. SprecLcr has sold his interest in the
paper but will continue as editor. The
old firm of Norton, Sprecher & Bell is
succeeded by the News Publishing Com
pany, of which Messrs. Norton & Bell
are members.
Bloody Affray at a Negro Danco.
Fultok, Ky., Jan. 1. Last night two
white boys, Hays and Bruce Eddings,
misbehaved at a dance of black people
and were put out of the house. Thoy re
turned and while Hays held open the
door Bruce Bred both barrels of a shot
gun loaded with buckshot into a round
of 9even negroes wounding two seriously.
Pawnee Gets Light.
Pawnee City, Neb. Pawnee City is
illuminated tonight, for its first time in
its history, by electric lights. F. E.
Hempstead, president of the Nebraska
State bank, is owner of the plant. It
costs $10,000, with a capacity of twenty
five arc lights. There is general rejoic
ing over the event. The lights are a
success from the start.
The Weather To-day.
For Nebraska: Fair weather, followed
by snow or rain, light to southerly
winds.
For Iowa: Warmer, fair weather, light
to fresh southerly winds.
- For Dakota: Suow, warmer, followed
in western portion by colder weather,
light to fresh, variable winds.
Norfolk's Street Railway in Trouble
Norfolk, Neb.," Jan. 1. The Norfolk
street railway company, which deferred
building its line until cold weather made
the Vf'prk of construction very difficult,
so that the VtAing is in an incomplete
condition, is now confronted by another
trouble. Mayor Koenigatein has notified
the company to haye the streets placed in
as good condition as they were before
the track was laid, ytuc jsc it will be
declared a nuisance and ordered removed.
Fatal New Year Observance.
FynoETOWN, Ala., Jan. 1. A terrible
catastrophe ceyrred, last night, in which
three persons were kiiicd oiitright and
between twenty and thirty injured. The
colored Baptists had assembled in their
church to watch the old year out and the
now year in. 5 js fheir custom, and dur
ing the festivities, bo great iheprowd
that the floor gave way, and the building
collapsed. A scene of terror ensued.
Mary Allison and Mrs. Jones and her
child were take frsjpT the wreck dead.
The Growth of Dos Moines.
DgS Moines. la., Jan. 2. Yesterday's
Register CGin-a.it.e4 HJl official record of
the public and private impi-oireniets and
the yolume of business carried on in Des
Mofoe during 1887, It shows an expen
diture for improvement of $l,093,6o3
during the yea-. 6f)J roaidenccs and 31
business houses and factories svei.e c.eted.
Real estate transactions amounted to $4,
985,000; manufacturing products amount
ed to $14,455,200; the wholesale trade
amounted to $26,551,SC0. The popula
tion, as showtt hy the last censts.is 51,350.
Dodge County Court Houso Burrjed
Fremont' Neb.. Jan. 2. The Dodge
county court house was completely de
stroyed by .)ie Saturday night. When
discovcrtd the offices and coi hL,crr, on
the second floor wro a mass of flameg,
and although fireman and citizens work
ed hard it was imppsjjble to save the
building. But the fire was kept from
spreading to other buildings adjoning.
The valuable county records are beleived
to be safe iu the yaulta and safes, but the
district court records are thoj;gh; to be
destroyed.
A blizzard was raging here and work
at the fire was attended with considerable
suffering and danger. This was the se
cond firs in Fremont within a few hours.
To Enlarge the Supreme Court.
Washington, Jan.- 2 A proposition
will likely be made in congress this win
ter for the increase of the bench of the
suDreme court af the United States. At
tiiTspnt there are nine members
of tha supreme court, includ
ing the ichjef justice. The
proposed increase is pn accou of the
largely increased business and "the great
delay in trying cases. The docket is two
or three years behind, in some instances.
.. if. ia heleiveii that if four or sis more
members were added tc, iUs sjipreme
Kpnch that business would be greatly far
cilitated, especially on the circuits. In
discussing the increase of the supreme
bench reference is never made to fewer
than four more associate justices. This
would increase the number to thirteen.
but as thirteen is an unlucky number the
increase will be, when It comes, to httetn,
in all probabilities.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
'Boy Preacher" Harrison id growing
gray iu a Boston pulpit.
A German has invented and manufact
ured a paper which resists both fire and
water.
Huxley's successor in tho highest chair
of the Royal Society of London is Profes
sor Stokes, a Christian.
The agents of tho Bible society in
Tokio, Japan, can scarcely meet the de
mand for the Bible in that city.
A Memphis clergyman says that he
would be opposed to the theatre even if
all actors and actresses were true Chris
tians and all plays were pure and uplift
ing, because a play rouses the emotion of
pity, which is followed by no corresiond
ing action.
It is proposed to construct a canal from
Duluth to a point on the Red river of the
North, and to extend steamboat naviga
tion 1,600 miles westward from Lake
Winnipeg, where it is possible to develop
wheat lands of 500,000 square miles.
Several years ago three Russian "lady
doctors" started at Tashkend a consult
ing hospital for Mussulman women.
From the beginning tho experiment
proved a success, and the popularity of
the hospital has been increasing ever
since. During the last twelve months no
fewer than 15,000 consultations havo
been given.
The recent tearing down of a New
Hampshire manufactory by means of
dynamite demonstrates a new use for the
explosive. The concussion completely
separated the bricks and did not seem to
injure them in the least. The charges
were put in holes dug in tho foundation
under the brick wall, and tho number of
cartridges were graded according to tho
number of bricks in tho wall to bo de
molished. Of the thirty -eight widows of Revolu
tionary soldiers now on the pension list
Nancy A. Green, of Versailles, Ind., is
the youngest). She was lmm in 1818.
Tho "Revolutionary war ended iu 1783.
Assuming that her husband was 2 1 when
ho was mustered out he would have been
56 when his bride was born. If ho had
married her when she was 1 8 he would
have been a venerable bridegroom of 74.
George Alfred Townsend gives tho fol
lowing sketch of Sir Georgo M. Pullman:
"lie is a rather portly man, square shoul
dered, with something of the appearance
ftf a French military officer, but of a
moire suitable, ciil expression j ho wears
a goateo winch is now a little gray, like
his hair. It was twenty-eight years ago
when he first lay down in a sleeping car
and, being badly rattled about and un
ablo to sle6i. began tQ wonder jf this
continent would hot soino day sustain a
comfortable system of night cars."
The Swiss Mountaineer.
TTnder his heavy, almost coarse, ex
terior, the &wi& mountaineer has a
dreamy, half poetical instinct, engen
dered by his constant enforced commu
nion with a nature at once austere and
elevating. Like the Germans ho i3 mu
fjjcal; he knows by heart simple songs
and 'touching ballads, and thrown thejr
melancholy rhythm to tho rocky echoes
across the fissures of ico and the ledges
of snow. At Steeg, near Brienz, is an
innkeeper of giant stature and equal
strength, with broad shoulders, massive
hands and fbet, famous for his. way Pf
blowing the Alpine horn, his potent
breath sending the sound far up the
mountain. When he speaks his voice is
low and musical. He sings tho lays of
tho country sidtj with apathetic grace, in
terrupting himself occasionally to utter a
stupid jeBt or to give a token of his ath
letic powers. That same giant rose one
night at 12 to ascend the Faulhorn, 9,000
feet high, in order to see his little lxy,
who had been ill in the yalJey and had
been ordered to spend some time lrt a
chalet on tho heights. When ho arrived
in the morning he found the child still
asleep, and the rough man, kneeling be
fore the cot, began to sing the ballad with
which it was his wont to awaken him ir.
his infancy. The pathos of this little act.,
with its poeticai promptings, did not pre
vent tho i nnkeeper from being unscru
pulously extortionate when selling Alpine
horns at Sley to a too confiding stranger.
M. de S. in New York Sun.
Sugar for Ministers.
It is an accepted tradition that minis
ters and" theological folk generally are
very fond of sweet things to eat. Deep
philosophers might trace some connection
between this tendency and their bonig.
nity and sweetness and light. 'Perhaps
it is in some sort an expression of tho re
lation between knowledge and the love of
sugar. However that may be, the Athe
nian distinctly remembers that in child
hood days, whenever there were ministers
for "company at dinner," the mother al
ways put three lumps in the cup without
asking, and then slipped two extra ones
on the saucer. There was nevpr a lump
Jeft over when the cup was drained. Ex
periences ot this eori, are never forgotten.
for they help to remove tho painful awe
and unconifortable esteem in which
most children hold these mighty cor
rectors of bad habits. A liking for sugar
makes ministers a Utile less of gods and
brings them nearer to earth where chil
dren dwell. Chicago Times.
An Old SVar lloir
Probably the only survivor of tho horses
that took part in the reliellion is old Chub,
the horse ridden by Col. Galligan, of Illinois,
(luring the war and still in tho possession of
Mrs. tialligan at fjopo.seo, Jlla. Cbqb is 3Q
years old "and in daily qs u parri.tjji
horse. New York Even ins World.
Two bright .New Jersey young women,
dissatisfied with the money they made
teaching, invested $30 in poultry. -Ulie
first year their profits were $1,000, the
PRESIDENTIAL POVERTY.
THE WHITE HOUSE NOT THE PLACE
FOR MONEY MAKING.
Jeflertion Died in llcbt Uno of the Wash
ington Family IVridllng Trinkets l'n
Adamites as Money SaTcrs Andri-wJai k
boii lttK'lianan Filliuore Gar field.
Most of tho presidents have dh-d poor, and
few of them have inaile much out of ollk-e
holding. Just liefore Jefferson died lie was
Komuch in debt that a lottery scheme was
gotten up to sell bis proierty and relieve his
necessities. Ho left practically nothing to
his children, and they received soino two
sums of $10,000 each from tho legislatures of
two of the southern states.
John Tyler left some property, hut it nil
went to his second wife. One of his sons,
Gen. John Tyler, who drove a four-in-hand
while his father was in the "White House, and
who was then called tho handsomest man in
Washington, lives olT a position in the treas
urj department, and ono of Tyler's most ac
complished daughters, a lady who presided
over the executive mansion after her mother's
ileuth and until Lli' 1 "
Gardner, is a guest of Corcoran's Old Indies'
Home here. A man who claims to be. one of
tho Washington family, and who, by the
way, has a face strikingly like that of tho
president, iieddles trinkets in a little lmoth in
tho pension building. Dolly Madison, the
president's wife, was, during a part of her
last days, furnished food by a colored man
who had boen in President Madison's service.
Sho got, however, a large sum of money from
congress for Madison's pa;ers,and it was thi:i
that eased her declining years.
PRESIDENT IIOXROE'S POVEHTY.
Mouroo was so poor that his latter days
were sjeiit with his son-in-law, .Samuel L.
Gouverueur, in New York, and there ho
died. Harrison left nothing to sieak of.
Polk loft about 1.j0,00O, including Polk
place at Nashville, where hia widow now
lives. It is a valuable block pf ground iu
the center of the town, which has risen
largely in value since tho president's death.
Martin Van Durcn made money out c.f
ixdities. Ho started life oor and died Weil
tq sto., Ono L6tliuatu imts his estate at f 800,-
000, and ho mado money in real estate as
well as in tho law. Both of tho Adamses
were money stivers, if not money makers.
The letters of John Adams, tho second presi
dent, to bis wife, Abigail, repeatedly urgo
her to cut down the household expenses and
to practice economy. He lunched himself
on oat cake and lemonade, and he walked
far of tencr than ho rode.
John Quincy Adams received nearly -?jOO,-000
from tho government in salaries during
his lifetime, an 1 he possessed tho Yankee
thrift. The Adams family at present is ono
of tho richest in New England', and I was
told at Kansas City that Charles Franci3
Adams has more than ? 1,000,000 invested in
real estate there. He has railroad stocks
and bonds in addition and ho makes his
Uioutiy breitd like Australian rabbits.
ANDREW JACKSON'S EXPENSES.
Andrew Jackson spent more than his sal
ary while he was ia th White House, and ho
had to borrow money to keep up with his ex
penses. Thomas Jefferson tnii-rowed th
iijoney that carried hhn out of Washington
when he left the presidency, and Andy John
son, though ho entertained considerably, is
supioscd to have saved at least f 50,000 dur
ing his White House career. He died, I am
told, worth about 100,000, and the- most of
this euma from economy. It was i pretty
g.'xxl estate fctf a tailor to leave. James Bu
chanan was making about $7,000 a year at
the law when he entered congress, and he
spent during his presidency what was left
from his living expenses in charity. Ho
was not, however, a rich man when he died,
und his estate of Wheatlands was sold a year
or two ago.
'President Fillmoi:e began his lifo as a wool
carder. During tho three years he was en
gaged to his sweetheart he had not enough
money to pay (he excuses of the l-'iO miles
which lay between her home in Saratoga,
comity," N. Y., and where ho had legun to
practice law. During tho first years of their
marriage his wife did tho housework a:id
taught school, and still he died one of th.?
richest of the presidents. The greater pari
pf his fortune, however, came, from his "sec
ond marriage to a rich woman of Buffalo,
whom he courted after his first wife died.
President Cleveland is supposed to he worth
about $100,000, and ho owns, I am told, real
estate iu Buffalo which is rapidly advancing
hi value. President Arthur left much lcaj
than he was supposed to l.c- worth. Garlso!' j
siicrtly before his death owed t-jO,0'X to Gen.
Swahn, and Grant did not add to his fortune
by his White House career. Hayes made
money out of the presidency, mid is rich
through inheritance and economy. Tho pres
ident.;, as a rule, havo not saved money dur
ing their prcsk'er.ry, hnt tho same abilities
which made them presidents would, if they
had been used in the field of money making
and money saving, havo given them fort
unes. Frank G. Carpenter in New York
World.
Dlhpensints of li-eTi.tlons.
One of tho British medical journals gives
the results of an inquiry undertaken in a cer
tain district to ascertain the degree of accur
acy which was observed in the dispensing of
prescriptions. Jii all, .Vi pi'esci-iijtioun v.-or
tent out namely, to chemists and drug
gists, 11 to co-operative stores, 2 to "doctors'
shops,'' and 4 to certain drug companies.
They decided to give a liberal margin for er
ror.;, and accordingly did not schedulo any
prescription as incorrectly mado if tho chief
constituents were within 10 jht cent, ot th
amount ordered. Aecot-ding to this classifica
tion no fewer than 17 out of tho 50 prescrip
tions were incorrectly dispensed; tho limits
of error were also very wido indeed, for in
ono case the quantity of the drug supplied
was less by f?5 per cent, than that ordered,
and in another 57 per cent, more than had
been ordered. The chemists and druggist)
uurts and simij eaino out of this oideal witu
great credit, as in 'only two cases did the
errors mount up so largely as to be scheduled,
while To-operative stores figure on the black
list three times, the "doctors' shop" once, and
tho "drug company" three times. Briefly,
of the latter class 75 per cent, were untrust
worthy; also, 50 per cent, of those from
"doctors' shops," while 20 per cent, of those
from stores and G ier cent, of those from
regular druggists exceeded tho margin oi
error, Chicago News.
Many of the best dressed w-omeh
Kpw VorU l aro discarded the bustle.
If
ATTENTION,
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a
ly the Dry (Jood.s
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JOSEPH
For the next Twenty I):iys we have tVteniiiiiel to ofiVr our Immense
Stoelc oi choice
Cloaks at 20 ner Ct Discount
From Standard prices, which were 25 per cent, ol'i' i'n in lai-t yours
prices. These floods consist of all the latc.-t j-lylc;- in
Cloaks, Imported New Markets,
Astraehan and Plush Wraps.
Are al.-o oiler speci.d juicc.i in all
WOOL DRESS FLANNELS
Arorr
SILK MW WOOL ASTB AGEA2TS
Also 45 inch Tricots at 75c, worth Sl.oo, :t t: 1 .;l' inch all wool Tri
cots at 45c, Worth 75. These arc tin; he-''- prices il'ciil to
3?la"fctsinout:Ti - IaxLies
this year. Ladies are invited to call he-Ion- the nit-h takes
the hebt haro-ains.
S3 I
Great Sales combined in one, Opening
IvlOlTlDJ MOS-STIJiTa, 21.
Tor Ladies', Mines' and Children.
We are determined to cio.-e out our F.ntire Stock of Cloak, w ith
in 30 days our anrtment will he found the most complete in the
city and as this milt-, is especially introd uced lor rivalry we i-uarnntce
to discount any Simple Lot Sale on record 1m per cent.
Slaughter sale on Ihese ('roods to Close. The- .-en.-on has Leon mild,,
"and to close out oijiekly, tjre.it reductions have heen made.
TWO HUNDRED COMFORTS
Ladies, ? Gents' and Children's
UNDERWEAR SALE,
Fifty Dozen Pieces.
Astonishing valuers will he offered in this Department foi
the next Two AVeek?.
EacosLasas." a goods
For Holiday ifts3 Headquarters long since Establish
ed for useful presents, embracing bilk Mulllers, lace and
Silk Handkerchiefs, Toilet Sets, Albums, Tidies, table
Scarfs, Hammered 15rass "Whisk Broom Cases, Piano and
Stand Covers, and fancy Goods. An Inspection is Re
spectfully Solicited.
SOLOMON
White From
PLATTSMOUTH,
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oaks,
Emporium of
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