THE DAILY HERALD, Pl.Arisai.ou ixt, xnStflCASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 3. 1SS8. Tfee Plattsmouth Daily Herald. IC N O T T S BROS., Publishers & Proprietors. THE FLATTHMOUTH HERALD T published eerjr erenlni? excjit Sunday U Wprkly r-rjr TIiur'lHy ujoriito. Hegis tared st tbe MNtoUlce, Plait mouth. N hr.. aroal-cU matter. Ofllcc corner of Vine and Filth .tr-els. thui run OAILV. One eopy on jear In ndrniiat, by mail $0 00 Oaoco;y per month, by ar. ler 60 One copy per week, Wy carrier 14 TUMI FOB WeFKLV. One copy one year, in advance $1 O Cue copy ill rnoutns, in advance 75 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. The Republican electors of the State of Nebraska are r quested to send delegates from the several counties, to meet in con vention, at the city of Omaha, Tuesday, May 13, It 88, at 8 o'clock i. in., for the purpose of electing four delegates to the National Republican Convention, which liietU in Chicago Juno 10, 188. THE AITOIITIONMENT. The several counties arc entitled to rc presentation as follows, being based upon the vote cast for Hon. Samuel Maxwell, pupreme Judge, in lb87, giving one del-egate-atdnrge to inch county, and one for eaclr 1-j0 votes and major fractiou' thereofT : OIINTIKS. VOTFH.ICOOTIFS. VOTKS. yiUn:n Antelope .. Arthur 1 " 1 J. : 1 1 o .... Ittxiuc I'.ox t.utte . i;iiwn . ... r.uit 10 Hut.er Hurt t'ais Cedar Chae . . .. . Cherry... . 'hoj eime 1 My Colfax Cumin;; .... Cunle' Dakota.... ll.iwes Dawson ... Dixoii 1h1i.' .... Douglas ... Dundy J'tllin.re . . Krankliii .. Frontier ... Kuril a ia'e CrariieUI .... lioxjier I : rant ireeley .... Hall Hamilton Harlan Hayed llitclic ck . Holt Howard ..14 . . s .. 1 l.-tTersuii .I0I1 11011 Kearney Key a 1'ulia Keitli tvuox Lancaster .iiK'uin I.uaii I.oup .MauiKou Met lienou .2.", . X 3 . 8 . 1 . 7 . fi . 9 . r, .12 . 8 .' 4 . 6 .10 . 7 .12 . 7 13 5 .VI 10 Merrick : Naner Nelilalia ' NllekolU 'OtllH Pawnee Perkins fierce I'olk.... Platte Phelps , icii;irdiou.... Red Willow Saline srpy SajnUers scwurd iberiilan Sherman Sioux Stanton Thayer Thomas Valley .Vashtngton Wayne Webster Wheeler York Uiiorjr. territory. 8 . r. .12 3T . 4 10 .10 . 6 .lit . 3 . b . 1 . 4 .11 .10 . . 4 . tt .14 . 7 . 7 . 4 . 7 . 2 . 6 . 0 . 5 . 9 . 3 .11 . 1 It is recommended that no proxies be admitted to the convention, except such as are held by persons residing in the counties from the proxies are given. Gkokge D. Meiklejoiin. "Walt. 31. Seeley, Chairman. Secretary. 1 N TEll EST I NO WAR HISTORY. We clip the following bit of heretofore unwritten war history and publish it with a great deal of pleasure, as it sets right some matters that have not been general ly understood : "Woodstock, IlL, March 17. Gen. B. F. Butler, Boston, Mass. Dear Sir: Par don my seeming impertinence in address ing you a letter of inquiry, but I know of no other source where 1 can obtain the information I seek. You were United States commissioner of exchange part of the time during the dispute between the states, and I was one of the Andersouville victims. Now I have contended that our government might have continued to exchange pris oners, and thus have prevented tin most of the horrors of those pens, and my re publican friends call me all sorts of names. You have never been a partisan. You are no coward. You know, or at least you were in a position to know, just why the exchange stopped and why it was not resumed. Will you please in fotin me upon those two points, that I may be the more bold or more careful, us the cae may be ? I cannot find a word about the matter in Greeley's "American Conflict," nor in any other work to which I have access, and once wrote to The Cen tury asking that to complete its war pa pers tha prison business might be discuss ed while Gen. Butler was on deck, but that magazine did not want matter of that sort. Au early reply will confer a favor up on, yours truly, A. W. Cumins. Boston, March ID. A. W. Cumins, Woodstock, 111. Dear Sir: I think 1 am amply paid by the new phrase which I tind in your letter describing the war of the rebellion as a "dispute between the ptates," for any pains that I might take in auswering your question. The cause of the stoppage of exchange f prisoners was twofold: First, because tha confederates refused to exchange the colored soldisrs, claiming that they would keep them as property to be returned to their masters, and at first putting them in trenches to work untler fire. I stopped that by putting a lot of Richmond con federate prisoners to work under fire in Dutch gap until Lee hail the colored men released from such work, but thoy would not exchange them. The second, a strategic reason why Gen. Grant elesired to put an end to the exchange' was this: We had a larger army in our hands as prisoners of war th in any one army of the confederates. "We felt it our duty to keep then, in a proper manner, well clothed, well fed, well cared for, well treated, well warmed, nnd with all proper hospital service that we gave our own men. so that every man substantially that we had wa fit to step right int the ranks the moment he was exchanged. On the contrary, as you, if you were in Andersonvillc, as you say; know as well as anybody else, in their view of policy, as one of the methods of arguing their side of the "dispute," they did not clothe, did not feed, nay, did jot eyen give water and wood to the prisoners of Andrsonvil!e when there was plenty of both of those that might be had. 1 do not take so much stock in the fooel quebtion us some people, be cause fod was pretty scarce in the cn feeUracy, and then our soldiers would starve on about what a confederate co'-ld live on. The consequence was, aj you know, that our men, in the hands of the confederates were none of them fit to I'd into service or excuasse uutil three month's rccruitmeut, and a great many of thm a much longer time than that, and many of them were never lit to re turn to duty. Therefore, if we exchanged man for man, we put into the field anoth er larger army than the confederates could then recruit even by conscription, and in the very bcst condition to fight us, and we got nobody that we could use in return to meet them. The wisdom el that pelicy you must discuss with those who enacted it. With it I could have nothing to elo in my po sition. But while it was very hard on the poor fellows who were in Anderson- vine, Jjiui.y, balisbury, ana elsewhere as prisoners, yet they even, in their suffer ing?, were aiding their country more, in the war of the rebellion than they could have done if fighting in the ranks in the condition they were put in by the other side in the "dispute." I perceive you have fully overcome all feeling in regard to the conduct of the men toward you in Andersonville by the use of that term. Bat if 3011 use it in discussion with your republican friends, unless they are different from the class of men wc have here who call themselves republicans, you will be likely to hear some pretty hard language, and perhaps some not justified by all of the ten com mandments. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Benjamin F. Butler. Greenhack Credentials. The well known fact that the Greenback party was composed almost entirely of men of broken party fortunes gaye Luke Wal p!le, the blind justice of Inelianapolis, the prince of wags, an opportunity to to show his native wit. Under the law of Indiana a debtor might escape the payment of judgment by filing a sched ule of his property, and thus showing that he had nothing ever and above the amount exempted from execution. Af ter the organization of a Greenback con vention that met at Indianapolis, a dele, gate inovcel that a committee on creden tials be appointeel. "Mr. Chairman," said Luke, "it seems to me that the busi ness of this convention could be expedi ated considerably if each elelcgate .were allowed to file his schedule." Harper's Magazine. " " Captain II. E. Palmeii is receiving hosts of favorable commendations, from the press all over the state on hecouut of his canelidacy for delegate to the Chica go convention. The captain is one of our most stalwart republicans and it wouiei De greatly to tuo creem 01 our people if he sheuld be sclecteel .13 one of the elelcgatcs. TnE war is on, and from present intli cations, the republican city ticket will be elected in its entirety. How India Absotos Coin. In the latest governmental report on the precious metals the curious fact is brought out that the gold and silver of the world have a steady tendency to linally find their way to India, where there exists a "gold passion" in all classes. No other wealth is considered elistin guished, and no other satisfies. The ex port of silver to India throughout the eighteenth century is estimated at 23, C00.C00 marks, and double that for the first half of this century. Gold and silver thus absorbed are simply hoarded as coin or converted into ornaments. A native judge says: "You can leave everything else unprotected ; even the most valuable things are never stolen. The only thing that the Hindoos (especially the women) valuo is gold, Gold coins are not in cir culation, being used chiefly at weddings and other festivals as presents." In civil izeel countries the secreting of coin has nearly ceased, wliile the use of the pre cious metals in the arts has greatly in creased. Globe Democrat. Trout Caught in Asia. A trout caugnt with a ny rod in. a stream in the Nuwara Eliya plain, in Ceylon, Jan. 1, is said to be the first angled, not only in Ceylon, but in all A?ia. Some time ago a public subscrip tion was raiseel in the colony for the pur pose of obtaining ova from England; r.nd, with a view to ascertaining whether the fish were still alive, the Nurwara EHya plain was fished, with the result lure etateel. The fly used was a Loch Levcn one, red body with teal whig. The trout was nine inches long. It is pro poseel now to pass a bylaw forbidtling tishing for another year, by which time, it is hoped, the fish will Iiave become ac climatized in the new waters. Boston Herald. . Fiuck of Itallroail Kmployrt, At the recent fire at the transfer house of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad com pany in South Chicago all attempts to re move the cars from the transfer house had teen abandoned, when suddenly the cry was raised that several cars in the burning building contained gunpowder. The crew s of three transfer engines vol unteereel to attempt to remove the car? from the blazing building, and three lo comotives at once started toward it. The engines couplexl on, and in a few seconds ell the cars had been removed. One car contained gunpowder, but was success fully drawn out, it being itself in a blaze nt the time. New York Sun. Never Usui a Speaker. Illinois has never had a speaker of the house or a president of the senate, and no speaker has ever lived west of the Missis sippi. Rhode Island and Delaware, among the eastern 6tates, have never been honored with the speakership, and neither Louisiana nor Alabama has ever bad a speaker. Boston Budget. LUCIv OR PLUCK? TEMPERAMENT DECIDING GOES FAR TOWARD ONE'S FATE. Who la the Luelijr Fellow? Value of renercrance The Knviromueuta of Itlith A Man of Many Accidents The Reason Why. Without plunging very deeply into the metaphysics of this mibjtx't, we will have a few moments' talk about fa to and luck. Wu speak of a lucky fellow, meaning by that a man who is fortunate, and yet luck may be good or ill, the one quite us frequently as tho other. If we mean by luck, however, an ot't recurrence, along Iho lino of help or hin drance, without 6ec'ial effort, work, thought, exertion on the part of him to whom tho luck, goenl or evil, comes, why not believe in it? Some j.x?oplo go through lifo Lathed in sunshine jKjrix-'tuulJy, others walk forever iu a valo of tearn, mid the sluulow ef tho high mountain, impassable, ungetoverable. Some men, sunny nalured, easy tempered, lazy, good for nothing fellows, to whom a thought would Lo a novelty, and an exercise a curiosity, find every door open at their nj proach, and banquets spread with every imaginable and coneeivahlo delicacy, with nothing to interfere with tho ongoing of their pleasure from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof, while other men, ear ful, brooding, ever plodding earnestly, cor scientiously along first this road, then the other, meet a continuity of disappointment and disaster, which alwolutely enshrouds them in a gloom tlint is never icnetrnted by a roy of hoiie; confronted e,ver by disappoint ment until the closing scene wijK's them from the face of the earth into the blackness of darkness impenetrably It will not bo gravely argued that birth has nothing to do with man's chances in life, I remember, when I began to work in LStX), thinking that of all tho men in tho world whose chances I envied, there were but two whoso opportunities were seriously any better than mine. They wero Albert Edward, Trinco of Wales, whose progress through the provinces and tho states I was then chron icling for The New York Times, and young Jim Bennett, whoso father waa then editor and proprietor of tho great journal with which his namo was synonymous. Do you mean to tell mo that j'oung Bennett didn't havo a better opportunity for professional renown than any other young man about to embraco that noblest profession, journalism? Did the lYinco of vales havo 110 ampier- scope than the other young men born in tho British dominion? Of course, birth and social post: ion and pecuniary status have much to do with man's opportunities, but when wo discuss broad questions wo must look with wide vision; we must not confine our illus trations to extremes, but must take the aver age. The averago man is poor, tho great major ity very poor. If it bo a fact, and it unques tionably is, that of every 100 young men who go into mercantile hfe ninety-five fail before they are U0 years of age, and of tho other five, three get on fairly well, one makes a profound impression in his sphere and one alone becomes phenomenal, standing head and shoulders above his fellows in all tho world, where comes in the matter of luck? Where is the exception? Isn't it a f act that the great multitude toil and suffer through the blasts of winter and in the torridities of summer for barely enough to keep themselves from starving and to cover their nakedneM from tho jibes and sneerings of the world? I tell you temperament decides almost everything. What would seem to one luck, of tho most grewsomo nature, appears to another on a similar plane of life simply an unhappy incident, tenqjorary in its nature, not lasting in its effect. Some men, worth $100,000, groan over the luck of their neighbor who is worth 51,000,000, while an- otner man wno can nonestiy say "L am worth today $100,000," is so overwhelmed with recognition of hi3 independence, of the power in hi3 hand to do good among tho suffering and tho sick and the tired and the weary of earth, that .ho can find no words BuIUciently roluud with which to express his satisfaction, his content, his delight. -Some people say, "Whatever is to lie will be. If I am fated to bo rich I will have money, and if I am fated lo bo poor I won't have any. A man who was born to be ranged will never be drowned, so whatever pjmes I take it because I havo got to. I didn't ask to come here." Now that's silly. In the first place I don't know whether you asked to como here or not. J either do you. That two and two added together are fated to make four, yes, but are you fated? Is there any compulsion that forces you to put one two under another two? If j-ou stub your toe you fall. But why stub your toe? If you 'hack your finger with a knife, blood will flow, but why hack your finger? You may assume that yoa are fated to be rich. What difference does your assumption makei In order to be rich you must be industrious, saving, self-sacrificing, methodical, indus trious. Those factors enter largely into the problem of success in life, and if those f actoia are properly grouped in your case you will bo rich. It is a very rare combination, this honesty of purpose, this continuity of in dustry, this intelligent direction, but if you havo them tho result is certain, and if yoa have them and do not use them tho result then is equally certain. You cannot raise figs on a thistlo tree or thistles on a fig tree, and you cannot bring disgrace upon honor, nor can you crown dishonesty with integrity. I know a man who has lost an eye, who has broken an arm twice, who was shot through his right lung, and whenever anj'thing hap pens to him, he says: "It is just my luck." My friend of tho many accidents is a pecul iarly constituted individual. Had ho looked ho wouldn't havo fallen down the hatchway. That he was shot through tho right lung was due to his pre-?ence upon tho field of battle. That he lost his eye is attributabio to the fact that when he flashed his little piio of powder ho didn't shield his face, and yet ho says, as accident after accident occurs, "It is just my luck," It i3 just his stupidity. And when you say that it is Jay Gould's luck, or it is Vauderbilt's luck, or it is the luck of this, that and the other, you at tribute to some unseen potentiality results which might much better be attributed to the natural forcings of perfectly well under derstood, but rarely possessed, elements in human nature. Joe Howard in Boston Globe, A Desperate Case. Physician Want treatment for yourself f You look hearty enough I'm sure. Caller This fatness which you notice is not natural, doctor. It came very ffApidly. 'Your flesh looks all right. Don't worry over a little plumpness. Avoid rich food and highly seasoned dishes of oil kings and" 'I board." Great Galena! Dropsy." Omaha World. Newspapers with a shibboleth, a cast iron mission, are like sailing ships which would cress the ocean without tacking. "Gath." There are certain things that virtue wont mix with; ingratitude Is one of them. Uncle iA- Begg's Chorry Cough Syrup. Is the only medicine that acts directly on the Lungs, Blood and Bowels, it re lieves a cough instantly and in time effects a permanent cure. Sold by O. V. Smith &, Co., tlruggists. j2.,3mo,d- w. An observant metropolitan barber says that he can tell one's physical condition by the state of the hair! Begg's Cherry Cough Syrup. Is warranted for ail that the label calls for, so if it does not relieve your cough you can csdl at our store and the money will be refuneled to you. It acts simul taneously on all parts of the system, thereby leaving no bad rt suits. ). 1. Smith & Co., Prur"ists. hfcw Di. Schlicmann has gone to Alexand ria with" l'rofefsor Virchew, and will spend several months in Egypt making explorations. Begg's Blood Purifier and Blood Maker. No remedy in the woilil has gainetl the popularity that this medicine has, as 11 holel on family medicine. No one should be without it. It has 110 calomel 1 quinine in its composition, consequent 1 no biiel effects can arise from it. Wo keep a full supply at all times. O. P. Smith Co. Druggist. jCS-oinod&w If Diogenes lived today he would be out with a lantern looking for a Demo cratic lawyer who hasn't been mentioned for the office of chief justice of the su preme court. Who is Your Best Friend? Your stomach of course. Why? Be cause if it is out of order you are me of the most miserable creature's living. Give it a fair chance and see if it is not the best friend you have in the end. Don't smoke in iue morning. i;on t unnw in 1 tie morning. If you must smoke ami drink wait until your stomach is through with brcekfast. You can tlrink more and smoke more in the evening and it will tell on you less. If your food ferments and eloes not elige&t riirht- if vou arc troubl ed with Heartbnni, Di.zniess of the head, coming up of the food after eating, bil iousness, indigestion, or any other trouble of the stomach, you had best use Green's August Flower, as no person can use it without immediate relief. IEALTH iS WEALTH ! BrtALl'4. Dr. E. C. West's Nprve and Braia Treatment a guarantee specific lor Hysteria Dizziness. Convulsions. Kits. Nervous Neuralula, Head ache. Nervenus Prostration raused by thence of alcohol or tobacco. Wakefiilnw.-. Mental De pression. Sof teniuir of t he Hrain resulting in in sanity and leading t misery, decay and 'ieath. -reniature old Age. itarrenness. Loss 01 row er in either sex. Involuntary Lowes ami Sper-niat'-rrlwa caused by over-exertion of the brain, selfabuse or over-indulgence Each Ix-x contains one month's treatment, .?1 00 a box orsix boxes for 5.00, sent by mail prepaid or receipt of price WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES To cure any cas With each order received byi'sf tr six boxPS, accompan ed with $5 CO. we will send the purchaser our written guaran tee to return the n'oney if the triitrr.ent does not effect a cure. flu;irantees issued only by Will J. Warrick sole agent. Plattsmmth. Neb. A NEXTR AORDIN ARY OFFER TO ALL WANTING . MPLOVMENT. We want live, energetic, agents in every county in the United States and Canada to sell a patent article of great merit, its mkkits. An aitic e h-'.ving a large 'sale paying over 100 percent, profit, lnving no competition, and on which the agent is roiected In the exclusive sale by a deed given for each itnd e- pry coun ty he may secure from us Witli all t 1h .sc ad vantages t our a.e..ts, and tin ict that it i an article tha' cau he sold to every hottsi-hol w e , it inijilit not be uec-ssary to make "An ICxf raordiiihiy Offe'" to secure good at ents at nee, but v.e t avc - cm eluded to make it to show, n;t on'y cur confidence in the merits of ur inven ion, b it in its Pliability by any age t hat will handle it v. irh energy. Our agents iiiw tt work ) making from $150 to KOa north cle;r. and lii:s fact makes it e.-fe lor tis make ourotfer to p. 1 1 who an out of "inploy ucnt.. Any agent th'. t will give our uu-ines . thirty d ys' inal and fail to clear at least -hhi in tins rune, aoovc an expenses, can re- uri. ah good unsedd to us a"d we will refund lie money pa d for Them. No such employer 1 gent- ever dared to mane sucn oners, nor vould we if we did not know that w have ge:ts new funking more than double this 111011 ut . Our liige descriptive circulars ex am our oner fully. aii' these we wish to sen" everyone ou' oi employment who wih send !s three one cent staines for postage. Send at nee and secure the agency in tl-ne for the 100111. and go to work :i the ti rms named in ur extraordinary offer. Adires", at once, NATIONAL NOVKI TV CO.. :13 3w-riw 514 Sniithfield St., Pittsburg, Pa. It may be that there is a lanfl that is fairer than this, but it would take an art ist to find it. l or sale or exchange. A number of tine pieces of residence property. Apply t i Windham and Paries. d-w3w. $5CO Reward. We will jay he above reward for any case of liver complaint, dyspepsia, sick headache, indigestion, constipation or costiveness we cannot cure with West's Vegetable Liver Pills, when tha directions are ftiictly complied with. 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