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THE DAILY UERaLD, I'LAiBAiou axi, xtjfiiSKASKA, TUESDAY APItIL 10. 1888. The Plattsmouth Daily Herald. KNOUTS DEOB., Publishers & Proprietors. THE PLATTSMOUTn 1IEKALD la published .very averting .xrapt Sunday aad Weekli every Thurtday iuouiIuk- Kegis t.red t the poftlofUce, 1'Uif .moutli. N-lr.. i Mi'ind-.Uti matter. Offlc. corner of Vlu. and fifth streets. TUMI FOB DAILY. aopy en ear In advance, by maiI....$S 00 a.c.py per month, byranler 60 Oil copy per week, hy carrier 15 tiimi ro wtiiLv. pae oopy one year. In advance II 5 a copy tlx lonths, in advauce 79 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. TLo Republican electors of the State of Nebraska are requested to send delegates from the several counties, to meet in con Teation, at the city of Omaha, Tuesday, May 15, 1688, at 8 o'clock p. in., for the purpose of electing tour delegates to the National Republican Convention, which iiieuU in Chicago June 19, 1888. THE APPORTIONMENT. The several counties arc entitled to re presentation as follows, being bii3ed upon the vote?ast for lion. Samuel Maxwell, supreme Judge, in 1897, giving one del-cgate-at-large to tach county, and one for each 150 votes and major fraction thereof! : countik. VoTC.8. ll'OUNTIRH. VOTK8. Adams 14 Jefferson 9 Johnson K Kearney 8 Keyal'aha 6 Keun K dox . 7 I.uucaster 2-' i.lucoln H Loitau 'l lxup 3 MadUon 8 Met lierson 1 Merrick 7 Antelope v Arthur 1 Blaine 'I Booue Box Butte 4; Brown . if: JlulTi'o U Butler y Bart ; 9, Cas 16; Cedar b! ('liaoc fi Cherry 6; NaucH 6 Nemaha 9 Nuckoll 6 Ihejenne ill Clay I Colfax .... .. 7! I Otoe VZ Cumir.i; T Cutsr 17; Dakota .' 6. Diwfs 7! Dawson K Dixon ft; IXxlK 121 Douglas 37 Dundy 4! Fillmore 10 Pawnee 8 Perk Ids Pierce 4 Polk Platte 10 Phelps 7 ichardsou 12 Ked Willow 7 Saline 13 Sarpy 5 Saunders .12 Seward lc Krauklin Frontier 10' Furnas ..6 ;at; li Garfield 3 .Sheridan 7 Sherman.. 7 Sioux 2 Stanton 4 ;otper 6' Grant l Thayer 7 Thomas 2 Valley 6 Vushiiigtnn 9 Wayne . 6 Webster .. 9 Wheeler 3 York ....II Inorg. territory 1 treeier Hall 11 Hamilton 10 Harlan s Haye 41 Hitchcock 6! Holt H, Howard 7; 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. Geokge I). Meiklejoiin. Walt. M. Seelet, Chairman. Secretary. REFUNDING THE DIRECT TAX. The prolonged filibustering in the House of Representatives against the bill to refund the direct tax of 18G1 attracts far more attention than the measure it self, which seems to be of little popular interest. Yet a bill proposing to dis tribute $17,000,000 among twenty-nine states and territories cannot be deemed an unimportant measure. This sum was collected under the act of Congress of August 5th, 1861, which authorized a direct tax of $20,000,000 to be levied annually upon the real estate of the coun try. This was one of the early exped ients to raise money for the war, and was discarded after one year. Under the constitution,' the tax was, of course, ap portioned according to population, and seceding states had their quota marked againstthem as well.as loyal states. The loyal states generally assumed their share and paid it directly to the government, being allowed a deduction of 15 percent for doing so. "Where this was not done, as in the case Jof Southern States, the United States government proceeded against individuals, when it was able to do so, sold property, and applied the proceeds towards the state's quota. This was notably the case in South Carolina. Where states that did not pay their share of the tax have since preferred claims against tho United States, the federal government has claimed the amount due from the state under this tax as an offset. The matter has rested in this shape ever since the war, to the perplexity of a generation of treasury officials. Here was a tax which only a portion of the people had paid. No one proposed to enforce the collection of the balance still due, and yet it must remain on the treas urybooks as a debt. What was more to the point was that the states and territor ies which paid the tax were in the posi tion of having cheerfully assumed their share of a public burden which other states had shirked. These latter statf.-s were Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Caro lina, South Carolina. Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Colorado, then a terrritor ity, the justice of whose assessment is stoutly disputed, is put down a few hun dred dollars in the government's debt, with Utah and Washington for larger amounts. The total sum still due the government, without interest, is $2,040, 314. The sum collected, and which it is proposed shall be returned to the states, also without interest, is $17,359,683, of which New York State was credited, in cluding the 15 per cent allowed for col lection, with $2,603,018. The bill pro- 1 posts to cancel the debt of states which have not paid up, and to refund to states which have done so, endeavoring as near as possible to restore the condition of af fairs as it was beforo the tar. This seems a most equitable arrange ment. Such opposition as there was in the Senate came from three classes : a few Southern Senators, who did not want to bco so large an appropriation from which the Southern Stats were to derive little lenefit; Western Senators, represent ing states that were territories at the time the tax was collected, and whose share as recipients is smaller than their proportion as lax-payers; and others who thought that where the tax was collected from in dividuals, the federal government should undertake to find the proper claimants instead of turning that duty over to the state governments, who might not per form it properly. Still there were only six negative votes in the Senate. In the House it is understood to be supported by a majority of both parties. But the number of filibusters is sufficiently large, led by Mr. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, to prolong the struggle to disgraceful length. Mr. Breckinridge's excuse is that it is a Republican scheme to reduce the surplus so that it will not be safe to pass the Mills bill. Many, of his followers are willing to pass it, however, if the cot ton tax shall be refunded at the same time. This amounted to $68,000,000. Consistency is not a Democratic jewel. New York Tribune. LOVE SONG OF THE PRAIRIE LARK. As the full spring-time comes on, the number of these short chants is greatly increased, whilst their prolongations and variations are without number; and soon it becomes evident to the most casual observer that the love-fires are kindling. and that each musician is striving to the utmost of powers to surpass all rivals and win the lady-lark of his choice. On one occasion, as I lay in hiding near a fence, threo larks came skimming over the plain; they alighted within a few yards of me, and two of them burst into song, sometimes singing together and sometimes alternately, out the third was silent When at last they flew up, I noticed that the silent one, and one of the singers, kept together. I had been witness to a musical tournament, and the victor had won his bride. Ernest E. Thompson, in The American Magazine for April. The Sugar Trust has just declared a a dividend of 2i per cent, although it has been but rive months in existence. The dividend is based on a certificate capital of $15,000,000, which represents an actual investment of $15,000,000. Of course, this big profit of 18 per cent a year on the amount of money paid in comes out of the pockets of the people. The country owes no favors to the Sugar Trust. Nevertheless the sugar schedule of the Ways and Means bill has been changed in the Trust's interest. St. Louis Democrat. According to reports, the surplus in the treasury, grows at the rata of $500, 000 a day. And yet the administration refuses to spend this surplus to buy up the government bonds, and thus relieve the country of the financial crises which is now pending, and is sure to come if the hoarding up of the money in vaults at Washington is not stopped. How Men Die. If we know all the methods of approach adopted by an enemy we are the better enabled to ward off the danger and post pone the moment when surrender becomes inevitable. In many instances the inher ent strength of the body suffices to enable it to oppose the tendency toward death. Many however have lost these forces . to suh an extent that there is little or no help. In other cases a little aid to the weakened lungs will make all the differ ence between sudden death and many j-ears of useful life. Upon the first symp toms of a cough, cold or any trouble of the throat or lungs, give that old and well known remedy Boschee's German Syrup, a careful trial. It will prove what thousands say ot it to be, the "bene factor of any home." An observant metropolitan barber say that he can tell one's physical condition by the state of the hair! Di. Schliemanu has gone to Alexand ria with Professor Virchew, and will spend several months in Egypt making explorations, Begc's Blood Purifier and Blood Maker. No remedy in the world has gained the popularity that this medicine has, as a hold on family medicine. No one should be without it It has no calomel 1 1 quinine in its composition, consequent ly no bad effects can arise from it We keep a full supply at all times. O. P. Smith Co. Druggist. j25-3modfcw 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. Begg's Cherry Cough Syrup. Is warranted for all that the label calls for, so if it does not relieve your cough you can call at our store and the money will be refunded to you. It acts simul taneously on all parts of the system, thprphv lavinr no bad results. O. P. Smith & Co., Druggists. j25-3md&w I BATTLE OP GRAVELOTTE. Momentous Straggle While the Iasao W In Suspense -Germany's Victory. "The first action ot the Franco-German war which Emperor William witnessed was the colossal struggle of Gravelotte. While Prince Frederick with the Third army corps was striking hard at the French right f rom Venieville to St. Marie-au-Chene, King William remained all day with the first army, which Stein met z was hurling against the French left, holding the- woods and bare, sloping plateau of Stubcrt. Late in the afternoon the fierce ness of the fighting and uncertainty of the issue drew William right up to the edge of the ravine between Gravelotte and the plateau of Stubert. There he sat among the soldiers, mounted on his black horse, watching the fierce and all but futile ef forts made by the stout infantrymen of Von Gobcn and Glumper to make head against the hurricane of fire with which the French swept the smooth, sloping glacis which the expanse of the plateau afforded. "All of a sudden there ran through the German combatants out in the pandemo nium of slaughter over against us a spasm of panic, that impulse to which, in the strain of excitement, the best troops are liable. Panic, like the-flre on a prairie, ran back across the ravine and caused a momentary sauve qui petit amoftg the un engaged troops about the king. Shells came crushing into the dislocated ranks and for a moment an outburst of disorder had sway. William was borne back in the pressure, remonstrating vehemently with uplifted voice and flat of sword. Bismarck was said to have got out astride a gun, and the royal stall was temporarily broken up. The panic was over in a few minutes and order restored, but the French had strengthened their grip on the plateau. "The issue of the battle was still in suspense when, under the last rays of the setting sun, the last reserve of Germans, the Second corps, came up at a double to the brink of the ravine. In the lurid glare of the blazing village. King William stood by the wayside and greeted his stalwart Pomeranians. High over the bicker of drums, the blare of bugles and the crash of cannon, rose an eager burst of cheering as the soldiers greeted their soldier soverign, and then followed their chiefs down Into the full depths of the terrible chasm. "The crisis was dreadful. "As we watched the issue in a sort of spasm of somber silence, the king sat with his back against a wall on a plank, one end of which rested on a shattered gun carriage, tho other on a dead horse. "Bismarck, with an elaborate assump tion of indifference, made a pretense to be reading letters. "The roar of close batUe swelled and deepened till the very ground trembled beneath us. "Night fell like a pall, but the blaze of the adjacent conflagration lit up the anxious group there by the churchyard wall. From out of a medley of broken troons on the glittering 6lope in front came suddenly a great shout which grew in volume as it rolled nearer. Hoofs of galloping horses rattled on the causeway, "A moment later Field Marshal Von Moltke, his face for once quivering with excitement, sprang from the saddle and, rushing toward the king, cried out: " It is good for us! We have won the plateau and victory is with your ma jesty.' "The king sprang to his feet, saying God be thanked 1' "Bismarck, with a deep sigh of relief, crushed his letters in the hollow of his hand, and with a simultaneous hurrah greeted the glad tidings. A sutler who chanced to hear improved the occa sion in a practical, quiet way. He brought up a wine barrel and dispensed its con tents. King William took a hearty drink of the red wine out of a cracked tumbler, giving the 'German Army' for his toast.' From Archibald Forbes' Reminiscences A patent for driving vehicles by elec tricity is said to have been sold in Lcndon for 50,000. The thrones of earth are few, and there is room lor but one man upon each. Begg's Cherry 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. P. Smith & Co., druggists. j25,3mo,d-w, Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Rene wer is becoming a universal favorite for re storing gray hair to its original color, and making hair grow thick and strong. One might as well try to stem the rapids of Niagara, as to expect perfect health while a Scrofulous taint exists in the blood. Through its alterative and purifying properties, Ayer's Sarsaparilla removes every vestiare of Scrofulous poison from the blood. High -Pressure Living characterizes these modern days. The result is a fearful increase of Brain and Heart Diseases General De bility, Insomnia, Paralysis, and In sanity. Chloral and Morphia augment the evil. The medicine best adapted to do permanent good is Ayer's Sar saparilla. It purities, enriches, and vitalizes the blood, and thus strengthens every function and faculty of the body. " I have used Ayer's Sarsaparilla, in my family, for years. I have found it invaluable as A Cure - for Nervous Debility caused by an In active liver and a low state of the blood." Henry Bacon, Xenia, Ohio. "For some time I have been troubled with heart disease. I never found any thing to help me until I began using Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I have only used this medicine six months, but it has re lieved me from my trouble, and enabled me to resume work." J. P. Carzanett, Perry, 111. "I have been a practicing physician for over half a century, and during that time I have never found so powerful and reliable an alterative and blood purifier a3 Ayer's Sarsaparilla." Dr. M. Maxstart, Louisville, Ky. Ayer's Sarsaparilla, PREPARED BT Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Price $ 1 ; six bottle, $5. Worth $5 a bottle. Real Estate Bargains EXAMINE OUR LIST. CONSISTING OF CHOICK LOTS I TO" South - Park 21 lots in Thompson's addition. 40 lots in Townsend's addition. Lot 10 block 138, lot 5 block 164. Lot 1 block 6, lot 6 block 95. Lot 11, block 111, lot 8, block 61. LOTS IN TOUNG AND HATS,' ADDITION. Lots in Palmer's addition. Lots in Duke's addition. Improved property of all descriptions and in all parts of the city on easy terms. A new and desirable residence in South Park, can be bought on monthly payments. Before purchasing elsewhere, call and see if we cannot suit you better. 5 acres of improved the city limits. 5 acres of ground ground north of adjoining S ;uth Park. 2 acres of ground adjoining South Park. 1 acres of grouad adjoining South Park. 20 acres near South Park: 14, T. 10, R. 12, Cass county, ) Se i sec. price $1,- 800, if sold soon. nw i sec. 8, T. 12, R. 10, Cass Co., price $2,000. A valuable improyed stock fram in Merrick Co.. Neb., 160 acres and reosonuble terms. on Windham & Davies. IHS1AHCB. Consult your best interests by insuring in the Phcenix, Hartford or Etna com panies, about which there is ao question as to their high standing and fair dealing. TORNADO POLICIES. The present year bids fair to be a dis astrous one from tornadoes and wind storms. This is fore-shadowed by the number of storms we haye already had the most destructive one so -far this year having occurred at Mt. Vernon, III., where a large number of buildings were destroyed or damaged. . The exemption from tornadoes last year renders their oc currence more probable in 1888. Call at our office and secure a Tor nado Policy. Unimproved lands for sale or ex- change. WINDHAM & DAVIES, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. Eureka Meat Market, T. J. THOJVT.A.B, WHOLESALE AM) JJccf, Pork, Mutton, Veal and Poultry. Z invito . all to givo mo a trial. Sugar Cured Meats, Hams, Bacon, LnrJ, at lowest Hying prices. Do not FINE -AND ALL HOUSEHOLD GOODS. KITCHEN, BED BOOM, ' FURNITURE FOR PARLOR FURNITURE. rgLg HALLWAYS, OFFICES. Lowest SPricos in tb.o City, bo Convinood. SIXTH STREET, BET. MAIN AND FURNITURE -FOR ALL FINE -YOU SHOULD CALL ON- ZE3Z tJ HxT -bw ZT Where a magnificent magnificent J 'rices UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING A SPECIALTY riLiNT R Y BOECK, CORNER MAIN AND SIXTH h. 3. BEjNjNEl JUST. RECEIVED. I have just received Neufehated Chese, Edam Cheese. Bosuia Prunes, Macedonia Prunes , Cal if or nia and Turkish Prunes. Celery Relish; Clam Chowder; Beef Tea--very fine. Fresh Dates and Figs; Oranges, Bananaa, cheap . J Jo D. BENNETT. Jonathan Hatt. J. W. Makthis. MATIHIAM MAW cS: CO., WHOLESALE -A.XTI5 RETAIL QTYIiwuEAT ImJARCCGT. PORK PACKERS and dealers in BUTTER AND EGGS. BEEF, PORK, MUTT0JV AJVD VEAL. THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS ALWAYS ON HAND. Sugar Cured Meats, Hams, Bacon, Lard, &c, of our own make. The best brands WHOLESALE HEALTH (S WEALTH ! Dr. E.O. West's Xerve and Brain Treatment a guarantee specific for Hysteria Dizziness. Convulsions. FiU. Nervous .Neuralgia, Head ache. Nerveous Prostration caused by the ua. of alcohol or tobacco. Wakefulness. Mental De pression, Softening of the Brain resulting in in sanity and leading t misery, decay and death, rreniature old Age. Barrenness, Los of Pow er in either sex. Involuntary Losses aua Sper matorrhoea caused by over-exertion of th. brain, eellabuse or over-indnlgence Each box contains one month's treatment, $100 a box orsix boxes for 15.00, sent by mail prepaid od receipt of price WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES To cure any case. With each order received by us for six boxes, accompanied with $5.00, we will send the purchaser our written guaran tee to return the money if the treatment does not effect a cure. Guarantees Issued only by Will J. Warrick sole agent. Plattsmoutu. Neb. It may be that there is a land that is fairer than this, but it would take an art ist to find it KKTAIf, DKAI.EK IN etc., etc. Fresh Oynters in Can and Balk fail to uive me your patronage. KINDS OF- Call and VINE. PLATTSMOUTH, Nil. EMPORIUM. CLASSES OF- FURNITURE ZE3 O O ZESZ stock of abound. stock of Goods and Fair PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. i rn jl . 6o of OYSTERS, in cans and bulk, at AND RETAIL. For sale or exchange. A number of fine pieces of residence property. Apply to Windham and Daries. d-w3w. The standard remedy for li?.r com plaint is West's Lirer Pills; th.y n.T.r disappoint you. SO pills 25c. At War rick's drujr store. One, two, five and ten-acre tracts for sale on reasonable terms. Apply- to Windham and Davies. d-w-lm. : JULIUS PEPPERBERG, MANUFACTURER OT AND WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALER IK THE Choicest Brands of Cigars, including our Flor d Ppperbrgo and 'Bud full iakk or TOBACCO AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES always in stock. Nor. 36, lltf. .1 1