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iltaifeiii0tij) STnj- if 1'IjATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY EVENING, DECKAIISElt 11, 1888. NUM15EU 7J. A-' . New Postmasters. Washington, Dec. 11.- Willard IX Morgaierge has been appointed post master at Simon, Cherry county, Neb., vice Elias S'.illwill, resigned. Tlie following Iowa postmasters have leen appointed: Emily Brian. IJlairstown Ik-nton county, yice Jane Applyatc, re maned; Chaa. II. Iiuech, Goos Lnke, Clinton county, vice P. A. Gohlmann, resigned; Andrew T. liarncs, Leighton, Mahaska county, vice D. A. Gray, re joined; Lorenza D. Ew'tn, Levey, Polk county, vice L. B. Laub, resigned. The "Q" Strike. Chicago, Dec. 11. A final attempt will be. made in a few days by a com mittee of the engineers who went on a strike on the Burlington road last Febru ary to get the men back to work upon the old terms, or better. The result of the conference in bound to be important, for if the men cannot get buck the com mittee ha power to renew the efforts made last spting and declare a general boycott on "Q" freight. If this boycott is declared, it is said the switchmen will 6cek to defeat the engineers for the reason that the fenner vow vengeance against the engineers and charge them with treachery in having induced them to strike last spring and then leaving them in the lurch. Trio Birmingham Massacre. BiitMiNiiiM, Ala., Dec. 11. The cor onor id endeavoring to get at the bottom of the facts in Saturday night's massacre. The excitement still runs very high, and the people arc divided in opinion over the action of the officers. One very re markable feature is that nearly every man killed had been shot in the back, show ing that the crowd had turned away in the alley when the firing began. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers, of which Hawes id a member, have telegraphed that they have engaged a detective to look up the case. They believe that Hawes U inuocent of the crime, and that the colored woman, Fan nie Bryant, and Albert Patterson mur dered and rubled Mrs. Hawes, and then killed the children. It is reported that Hawes has made a " full confession of his crime. In addition to the injured whose names were given last night, there are n large number of poople who received slight Imt not disabling wounds, ami are there- fore not reported at the hospital. Certain prominent officials in the city have telegraphed Governor Scay that they consider it necessary for him to be here, and have asked him to come at once. Miny telegrams passed yesterday between th governor and city officials. The funerals of Postmaster Throckmor ton and other victims took place yester day afternoon with impressiveceremonies. Sheriff Smith still claims the crowd fired first. Nashville, Tenn,, Dec. 11. A special from Birmingham, Ala., says: Governor Seay arrived here at 11::15 last night and is in conference with Col. Jones. He says that from the reports he has received bethinks Sheriff Smith did his duty. A nice line of silk and linen handker chiefs and uiuillers just received at J. II. Donnelly's. tf IlurrUlo on the Texas Plains. The re-opened discussion of the buffalo Question calL for a few statements con cerning these ar.iuiala in Texas. Two hundred head cr more of these animals may be found in the Panhandle of Texas, on the IJano L&tacado, nnd in No Man's Land. Sonic are on the Palo Duro Canyon ranch, owned by Capt. Charles Good night; others in the Texas Capital syndi cate, or X1T pasture, especially on the North plair-s. i. e., north of the Canadian river; still others are at large. Probably twenty or more buffalo calves were cap tured" this spring in that region and driven to Kansas for mercenary and breeding urose3. The cowboy's ideal, likethatof the more "refined" Bportsman, . . Is to shoot these cattle at sight, but the f proprietors cf the ranches are doing much for their protection. There rrc aho many buffalo on the South p'r. The antelope, black tailed deer ar.d many rare but smaller mam mals ere found in the same region all of wbicli I saw r beard of during a re cent vi.it to P!r.za Larga, Tucumcarri Mesa and the Texas Panhandle. Na turalists desiring tlese forms should go to Tascosa. Tex., near tho new Mexican line, a place easily accessible from Kan sas, Denver and Texas, via the Fort Worth end Denver railway. The cap ture of wild horses is a profitable pursuit in this region. Robert T. Hill in Science. A Sngswtlon from Crtru. The late Baron Rothschild, dining once at Ids club in Paris, beard some one say: "Horrible bore lout X 10.000 francs have not even got an acknowledgment, and he's gone to Constantinople." Write to him," said the baron. "Have done so, and it don't answer." "Then, mon cher, write to him thus: 'Dear Monsieur X , when the Turks and Turkesses leave you a Utile leisure timo, send me the 20,000 francs I lent you. "But he only owes xne 10,000." "Precisely! he will write and say so, and then there's your ac- L..llnnin Son Vrrw i .- ArrTW naut. - ONE PUZZLE SOLVED Why Puiuted Clock Tolnt to Eight Minutes After Eight. A reader of The Sun, who was also, as all Sun readers are, an observing man, recently sent a letter to this office asking why it was that every clock and watch maker who 6lung an imitation clock or watch outside his shop as a Eign had th hands painted on the face at ex actly eighteen minutes after 8 o clock This was a poser to every clock 6eller a reporter asked. The signs came to them that way, they said. The ma jority of them had never noticed the curious coincidence. If asked where they cot their si ens painted the reply was that they left the order with their wholesale dealer and tho sign came along, lhat was all they knew about it. Inouiries anion e: the wholesalers in Murray street and Maiden lane developed the curious fact that there is no compe tition in tho trade or painting clock siens. A man named Groot has a prac tical monopoly of tho Chicago market and the territory for hundreds of miles around. In Cincinnati W. II. Smith docs the business without competition, and in this city, and for as many miles arotmd as New York commands the clock trade, W. L. Washburn enjoys a lalorious but enviable monopoly. This state of affairs is brought about by the wholesale clock and watch deal ers themselves, who got used to patron izing these thrco dealers many years ago, and never got enough out of the Ixabit of it to give any other painter the ghost of a show to 6uccced with an op position shop. "But Father Washburn," said one wholesale dealer, "is father of them all, and of emblematic signs as well. He was tho first painter to make a sign em blematic of any business, and he started in way back in '53. Why, the big con cerns that make metal signs don't bother him at all. He gave his ideas to the wholo world to copy, and the world got rich. The friends ho made back in the '50s have stuck to him ever since, and one branch of the business has stuck so close that no competitor in other branches of sign work ever thinks of getting a clock or watch sign to make, and if by chance he did, he'd probably be so scared he'd send the customer to Father Wash burn." Mr. Washburn was painting a clock on a big star when the reporter called. He was an old man with a happy face and a white beard. There were clock signs mapped out, half done and finijhed. hanging all around, and every blessed one of them had the hands ficinted at eighteen minutes after B o'clock "The reason all tho dummy clock hands point to that hour," said Mr. Washburn, ia because I paint them all. and I always paint that hour. When I painted the first emblematic sign ever painted as a mat ter of business, back in 33, it was a clock. I don't know how 1 put the hands. All I remember about it is tliat it was for P. T. Barnum's old concern on Cortlandt street, the Jerome Clock company, since gone up tho sjxnit. I Painted tho hands any way I chose, up, down, crosswise, or together, as my niood dictated, from that time up to April 14, ltSG5. That night the news was Hashed into the city that Lincoln had been shot in Ford's theatre. I was working on a sign for Jeweler Adams, who used to keep on Broadway, ppposite Stewart's, at the time. I was making a great clock to hang outside. Adams came running in while I was at work. He was a strong Lincoln man. Ho said: " 'Point those hands at the hour Lin coln was shot, that the deed may never be forgotten, "1 painted the liamls, therefore, at eighteen minutes after 8. The idea struck mo forcibly, and when I came to look at the c ffect I found it was the most conve nient arrangement, since it displayed both the hands well, and left the top half of the clock free to paint in the name of the i lock Beller if desired. So I threw all my t t encils away and made new ones for that hour. I have never varied from th system since, and that's the reason all tho clock signs point as they do. The Chicago and Cincinnati people, I find, are doing the same thing. They don't know the 6tory, but they probably were won to my plan by the capability of that particular arrangement for artistic dis play in painting." New York Sun. Something New In Fishing. FL hing by artificial light is pot a pew thing, but the way some fishermen along the coast of Maine are using- the electric light is new. Tho old way was to plunge an incandescent lamp into the water, the connection being made with some source of electricity on board the fishing vessel, and the mains to the lamp often got foul of the fishing tackle or the cable of the vesbel, destroying its usefulness. Now a Frenchman has adopted a better way by adopting a lamp worked by a primary battery , the whole of which can be thrown overboard and regained when the trip is emloj. The battery consists of six Bun sen c ells, in which, however, chromic acid is placed instead of nitric acid, formerly used. The cells are connected in tension with a twelve-volt Edison lamp. The success of the experiments lately had presages the general adoption by our coast fishermen of this new dis covery. Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Clues for Many Purposes. Soak half a pound of glue over night in a quart of good milk and boil it the ncrt day; it will dissolve moisture much better than glue dissolved in water. ' Au adhesive mucilage for labels, suit able for bottles or glass, may be prepared by flaking glue in strong vinegar; then heat to boiling and add flour. This is very adhesive, and doe? not decompose wlii:i kept in wide mouthed bottles. The following preparation is very use ful for gumming large sheets of paper, which may be kept on hand ready for Starch, two drachms; white sugar, cue ounce; giuncrabic, two drachms; to to I oiled with a sufficient quantity of water. Jewelers' Record. The Prussian bine dye was discovered by r-iesbach, at Berlin, in 1710. THE OLD ROCKING CHAIR. My pnuicluiolhiT at in HioM iK-l:ln2 hcJr (Hut ! wan not my f;riuiiliiio:lier thru . A I lit-r i-i t lit! lo fa:i waa bow iiclniily fair As lie I.iiikIiixI a ilflluni-e l tm-a: Hr sunlxiiiiii't IlistterM like bird on Its string, tier hair wundi-reil fret) on tho liret-zc; And Knyly I wwn did my frrandinothor sing Unilcrneiuli llioae oi l gnurl'U oIe trees. My grandfather rode through the white orchard Kata. And tethered I' Is roan to a tree; He'd a well ponder'd wis ou hla billy yotinjj pate. Alid high tussclM l;iota to his kneel From the pink apple blossoms that over him uuiik. He brush 'd off the dew with his hut. Till ho came to the place where the rocking chair wrung. And iny merry young grandmother sut The kingcup and daisy bloomed round in theiir pride. And beca of their sweetness did 6lp; But my grandfather blush 'd and my Krarnlfathei BlgU'd. As he llick'd off their heads with his whip; My granny she hummed her a cunning old song "Faint heart never won ladyo fair!" So he wooed and he prayed, and befoi-e very long There sat two In that old rocking chuir! John Gerald Brentian Where London Policemen Come From. The majority of tho metropolitan po lice have come straight into the force from the country. It is found that coun trymen make the best policemen. Tho born Londoner is of very little use. His nervous teiiiDcramcnt would disoualifv him, even if bis physique wcro satisfac tory, and it is a well established fact that in physique the Londoner is sadly deficient. Ho is not to be compared in height, breadth of chest or muscular tone with tho average "young man from the country. As for his nerves, they are simply worthless. They are already strung up to their full limit of endur ance. e have beard the same thing said of bus drivers that London men cannot stand the work, and that the best drivers are those who have been "broujrht up to horses" in some coun try stable. It is the opinion of officials well able to judge, that in the whole of Whitochapcl there could hardly bo found a single man fit to rx a ouce man. The strong arm, the ptout heart, tho cool head, the steady nerve, are all wanting in the Londoner; and the proof of it is to be found in the comparatively small proportion of Londoners who are admitted or, being admitted, can remain in the police force. Naturally enough, the recruits are chiefly men drawn from tho country round London. Kent fur nishes a goodly number; so do Essex, Ilcrtfordsliire, Sussex and Hampshire. There is an authentic instance of a con stable who hailed from Orkney, but probably he came by sea. With tlus ex ception there is scarcely a man in the force who comes from the country north of OlaHgow. That city absorbs all the tall men who want to be policemen, and so in their respective districts do Liver pool, Leeds, Manchester and the other large towns of tho north cf England. It is not till we get south of Birmingham that the attractive force of the metropo lis takes effect. St. James liudgct. lionmiiig a New I'lay. At Ilavcrly's theatre, now the Colum bia, a few years ago, there was a certain attraction which was boomed in many curious ways. A 3-oung newspaper man received one day a note written in a lady's hand, telling him that she would occupy tho right band stage box at Ilav erly's that night, carrying a large fan and liouquct, and that she would like to sec him there with a red carnation in his buttonhole. He thought at first that it was a trick, but he dropped in at Ilav crly's that ni'ilit, and, standing along the east wall, with eyes riveted upon the right stage box, were twenty or thirty club men and rounders, who had evi dently received duplicates of tho news paper man's note. A lady with a big tan and bouquet sat in the box, but she appeared completely occupied with the play, and cave the crazers no return glances. Only one among them, an elderly lawyer, wore the red carnation. Chicago Herald. Royal "Tips," The custom of giving tips is of royal origim. It was soon adopted by the no bility, and then by persons who wislicq to travel in regal splendor. Tips were presumed to represent the kind of con sideration duo to persons in the lowest walks of life from those of noble birth or occupying exalted stations. The prac tice of giving them is entirely out of place in tliis country. Here every person, is presumed to be equal in rank. We have no privileged class and no servile one. Nearly every one work3 for pay and receives wages for his labor. De manding gratuities or showing resent ment if thev are not voluntarily iriven is an imposition or an insult. Chicago Times. One of The Chronicle fcovs who wa out 'possum hunting the other night stumbled over the dead body of a cow In the Little river swamp. The cow had crumpled horns, from one of which was dangUng a huge rattlesnake. The indi cations were that the cow had seen the snake coiled and in the act of springing upon her. and had accordingly hooked the reptile, tho horn penetrating the snake's body so that the rattler was una ble to free hlmsell. lne cows horn killed the rattler, but the rattler's fangs killed the cow. And yet tradition says a rattlesnake's bite doesn't harm a cow. Washington Chronicle. Mr. Charles XJ. Baker, of Oil City, is the name of a pleasant gentleman who To see him walk you would be led to think that one of his knees had been slightly injured, but the truth of the matter is that both of Mr. Uaker s lower limbs are artificial. His one limb was amputated a short distance below the knee and the other about four inches below the hip joint. He can easily ascend or descend a pair of stairs. This is the urst case ever known in which a man could walk with artificial limbs when one lex was amputated above the kneo joint. His appearance is cnangeu out nuie ana ins misior turie" would never be noticed. Pitt Notice Tho minimi nutting of stockholders in the lMnttMiiouth Lou n fc liuilding Asso cintion will be held on Mi mlav .! hh. 7th 15SJI, in (3. A. It. hall, city of 1'lalts tmiuth, for the purpose of Jcting a board of directors for the ensuing year and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before Hu mecting. J. II. Ym xii. Dec. 4, '8. tf Sec'y. Why go to grocery and dry goods stores for arctics when you can get them for 85c at Sherwood's i Why go to grocery and dry goods stores for ai diets when you ran get thein for t'v nt Sherwood'? II. "oock's furniture stock is acknowl edged to ! the tim-st and most complete in the city. Everything necessary for furnishing a house can be purchased at II. ISoeck's. The City Meat Market is the best place to buy fresh meats, pork chops, poultry and game of all kit.ls. tf Tin light running Howe at Sherwood's only $';. t0. 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Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and ail derangements of (ie stomach and bowels. 23 eta. by druggists. Dr. C A. Marshal Xlosidsnt Dentist. Preservation of tho Natural Teeth a Specialty. Aue-Pthelics given for Pain less Filling on Extraction of Teeth. Artificial teeth nnule on Ghl, Silver, Rubber or Celluloid Platis, nntl inserted as soon as teeth are extracted when "de sired. All work warranted. Prices reasonable. FITZGERALH V BlCK I'lTTSMOUT!!. NKB WM. Z, B R Q W IV E , l..-w orncE. Personal attention to all business Kntrust o my care. xotacsv xr Or l'M K. Title Examined. lstaictn Compiled, In surance Wiii ten. Fe::l fcj-tate Soll. Better Facilities for inakinc Farm Loan than Any Other Agency Pla(i'U :iil, - V f in Kit Brencli Health Seamless F001 WARMERS I AT Sherwood's. JOE, The Oi Price Clothier And Destroyer of Ilili Prices, wants to fret into the jrn.ct.. uf tiu. ln J ,J ;e, ami he is lioiiml to k'et there. READ JOE S jOOl) (ioods, always. Jn DEVIATING P..1 italic 1 A j O (! as Represented fjEASOXAUM'! Prices. Jo Underhand Methods. KS. IiUTII at any Cost, j VERY Customer a I'riend. p YEUV Article a l!aro;.iiii. mtitt The "Who says he can heat this (! lMrantee. On this hasis JOE expects to lmild his record, and he is last doinr it. Don't Show yon one tiling ond sell you another. He will always show you floods at etich low prices his competitors can't meet. Ask t Joe's Gi ls torn ers And Joe will stand hy their testimony. Don't Forget to Guess on Joe's Beans. AMUSEMENTS. Waterman Opera House C.lth!3HT AR3 SATURDAY MATIXIE, SATURDAY, I)Kt). 15, Grand Lyric ;u 1 Hjieetiiejilaj- !'ioci :it of Nowton Boers LOST in LOlf All New Scenery l.y Lafayette W. fieavy. The Heart 'o Blea k moor, Home of the Swart King. Fete of Comus Illuminated Snow Sensation . JOB S VISOION, A Wonder- land of Dissolving Beauty, A Great Company 2sr x -A. GREAT FJL,J-r. . A!l Hi New Scpuery v.ill Poiiitive'iy be i-liowo in your City. Ani;ng Many Features IIASET &ILFAIL The Man with One Hundred Voices, and HIE XOKTII liUITIAN PAN PIPE SIN(;ELS a Great Peifcrmance Cf.mj'lete la Every' tie tail is New toil Beers' LOST IN LONDON. Iteinendter tile Grand Ladies' and Cliil-Irei.'s Matinee Saturday Afternoon F'iCES - ad roc : at night 75. so aul ri'x-. Waterman Opera House, TWO 2STIGECTS, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY DECEMBER llth and 12th, 013FasMQieDslrictfclool Given ly Schooi-niaster Humphrey DeLanney, assisted by thirty pupils, the big Hawthorne family and the Twins; also "Squire Kicker, Deacon Wayback, 'Squire Pennywinkle, Deacon Greenleaf, and "Squire Slow CtMch. Mange cf Program Secoafl HigM. ADMISSION": 23 cents; Reserved Seata 33. Given for the Benefit of the Y. L. R. R. A. . and the Presbyterian church. 8eata on Sale at J. P. Young's. t t UABMT EE Muraers i ruin ft' IKE SCHNELLBACHER Waon and I!.teksnii:li Shop. Wagon, Buggy, .Mnchhic ami Plow A Specialty. He usts the ITo:se.slioe, the Best Ilorcc-hlioe for tin; Farmer, or for Fast Driving nnrl City I urpose-s, ever invented. It is made 8 anyone run can put on sharp or flat f.-orks as need.'d for wet and slippery runds, or smoolli dry roads. Call and Examine these Shoes and you will have n other. iJ- M Schnellbacher, th St., Plattsmcuth, Neb. C. F.SMITH, The Boss Tailor Miin St., Over Merges Khee .Store. Una the beet and most complete ptoek of ftamples, both foreign and domehtifr woolens that ever came west of Missouri river. Note these prices: IJusinees mitx from l(i to $33, d.-eFS suits, $25 to $43. pants $4, $3, $0, $6.50 and upwards. tsf-Will guaranteed a fit. Prices IDefy CortiDetilion. JULIUS PEPPERBERG. MASUKACTCREB OF AND WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALER IN THIS Choicest Brands of Cigars, including our Flor de Pepperbergo' and 'Buds FULL LINE OF TOBACCO AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES alwava in stock. Nov. 20. ISSfi. Tbe standard remedy for liver com plaint is West's Liver Pilla; they never disappoint you. 30 pills 23c. At War rick's drug store. iHorseslioessig