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About The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1891)
-.. , ...... , ..;i i ( , hii.i'Ikads i ' V 11 C yc 1 h ; 1 j 15 V. rsn:i::;M ' IK ll.AK-i 1 ' IEBEST ADVERTISING HtiDIUJI j'rf fasilities- for doing good andjsatisfactory work arejcompletelinjalljdepartmentsj ing added considerable new type office is a guaraitee for good'clean j ob wcrk the prints all the county hews and is the papgr to subscribe for. JSendV us yourQname and let us -place you on our already large list of subscribers. prompt attention given to a ii orders ADDRKSS AIX3ORDKRS TO PLATTSMODTH, NEBRASKA "i rr"SS KF0. CCV. Mr. Mlllr' Form Str:uig-ly lln)rriiil. The farm of John II. MilU-r, vfho liv eighteen mih'H outh'.tst f Kwlalia, Mo., is fclowly being vh11ovh1 up in what Kevins to le a huge river flowing Ixwath the surface of I he ivirth. Tiim ilioiioiiie non was obsc-rvM lirfct Saturday, when Mr. Miller' family h-aril a rumbling noise in the orchard. I n vest.ig -tiou re vealed a hole in the grouii-1 about six feet in diameter and several f-et deep, with water at the bottom. The rum blings continued, and the has been constantly enlarging Mnee that time. F. I. Clayton visited the s;ot and made u thoiouh investigation of what he terms t lie most wonderful tiling he lias ever seen. He reports that the cav ity is nearly cireujur in form, i-ixteeu feet in diameter at the top and tapering to ten feet at the water line, which is twenty-six feet from the surface. The water is twenty-five feet deep and .seemi to be a flowing river, as sticks thrown ir.to it are carried rapidly away by th-i current. The oieniiig is in prairie land, not near any spring or body of water. Several years ago a farmer in that im mediate neighborhood was driving a well, when the tools became detached iind lost, but it was thought to be mere ly a pocket, and no attention was paid to it. The cavity is gradually enlarging, and ha Mr. Miller's residence is only sixty feet distant he is greatly alarmed for th-h.ifetj- of his home and family. Cor. Chicago Herald. HrotlK-rs' l-;tt1i SlrmiK,,ly 'nin-ltl.iit. (Jfie of the most remark-ible coinci dences that it has ever been the province of a newspaper to record conies from the lower end of the county. Henry Trum bauer of Ioss township, a few miles west of Shickshinny, a farmer, forty-rive years old, retired at an early hour on .Sunday niyht in his usual good health, and to all outward apix-arances never ft It better in his life. The next morn ini; his wife was horrified by the dis covery of his deal lody in bed. lie had passed quietly away in tho night with out a struggle. On the .same night his brother Wil liam, living in Ilunlock township, about ten miles away, retired hale and hearty. He, too, showed no symptoms of illness. Nothing in his demeanor gave the slight est warning of imiending dissolution. His daughter, not seeing her father comeJ down as usual, called, but received 110 answer. She went up stairs, when she was horror stricken to find him dead on the bed. The occurrence has created not a lit tle excitement in the neighborhood, as the men were well known in the com munity. No marks of violence could bo found on their bodies, and the general belief is that death was due to natural causes. Both men were married and each leaves a wife and family. Wilkes baxre Record. Vicariouit 3Iartyrdona. The grip is depopulating the Indian wigwams of Alaska and Vancouver's Island. The malignity of the disease seems, indeed, proportioned to the inno cence of its victims a phenomenon which might be explained on the theory that epidemics prove specially fatal to individuals of an unprepared race. A native of the Allegheny highlands may be almost killed by a catarrh contracted by a night's lodging in a ledroom filled with an atmosphere which the habitues of the city slums could breathe with comparative impunity, and the chron icler of Captain Cook's voyages relates that a community of South Sea Islanders was affected with an alarming influenza, in consequence of a few minutes' con versation with sailors who had passed the nights of a long voyage in a stuffy cockpit. Felix L. Oswald in Philadel phia Times. Whistling in Germany. One has to be careful how and "what he whistles in Germany. The other day a peasant at Diedenhofen, Lorraine, was arrested and brought before the magis trate on the charge of showing disrespect to the German authorities by whistling the "Marseillaise." The man contended that the march he had whistled was one he had learned when he was serving in the Brunswick Hussars. The court made the policeman who had arrested the prisoner whistle the "Marseillaise" to see if he knew the famous hymn. Then the prisoner was ordered to whistle the march he claimed to have heard in the Hussars. It proved to be suspiciously similar to the "Marseillaise," andthe unlucky whistler was fined fifteen marks for his indiscretion. The policeman was not fined for whistling the air. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Well Full of Snakpx. Connecticut evidently is bent on giv ing Georgia a tussle for the position of chief center for the distribution of snake stories. This one comes from Norwich: A man here the other day took the stone cover off an old dry well in his pasture and saw at the bottom of it a ball of braided black snakes bigger than a lager beer keg. He ran to the honse and got his revolver and a box of cart ridges. He blew in all his cartridges, and the well was boiling over with es caping snakes when he got through with them. He got eighteen dead snakes in the well, and more than three times that number got away. The biggest snake bagged was over seven feet long and the smallest one more than four feet. Orange culture in southern California is making wonderful progress. Fifteen years ago the first shipment of oranges was made from Riverside, San Bernar dino county, 't- fhij season the ship ments f5 3rside district will - i-loads, or 400,000 pments from south robably reach 3,400 sons will become Ty, who is very 1 leave Oxford ho has been rtrorg, A Copper f'lata Found. It was a piece of shining, bright metal, and the fisherman's eyes were bhurp. And thereby bangs a tale. it will be rememiered that when th barkentine Thomas J. Stewart stuck on the ways and refused to take to the water one day last Novemler, the tug boat Ralph Ross went to her assistance. After one or two sharp pulls that were ineffectual, all further proceedings were stopped by t he sudden breaking of the post on the Ross, to which was attached the tow line of the T. J. Stewart. Now, to this post was secured a large copper plate weighing about twelve Iouiids, bearing t lie inscrii tioii of the builder's name, date of buil ling and so on. This plate dropped overboard with the wreckage and was lost. Wednesday a fisherman attending his weirs at Sandy point saw a glistening object in the water, and after much dif ficulty succeeded in obtaining posses-ion of it. It was a copper plate bearing the inscription which proved to be the one lost from the tug Ralph Ross last No vember. The j.late was returned to Mr. Ross on Thursday at his office. The query is. How did that plate reach Sandy point, twenty-five miles away? It is hardly reasonable to bay that the current ctuld have carri"d so heavy a body so far down the river, and it n readily explained by stating that the ice in some underhand fashion obtained pos session of the Ralph Ross passport, and in its hurried journey to the south this spring forgot to leave it behind. It did not travel far under false pretenses, however, but has dropped its booty, which is now returned to iis proper owners. Mr. Ross is to have tho plate polished, handsomely framed and hung on the wall of his office on Exchange, street as a reminder of the queer things that Dante Nature will sometimes do. Bangor News. Ifuw Old Hunters Arc M;tl. Apropos de ltottes, I find two curious business advertisements in my foreign papers. One is that of an ingenious per son whose address is at the Batiguolb's, and who announces himself as a "sig naturist" and a "mouogramist," and guarantees signatures of any artist at any period of his art at a franc apiece. Only think of it! For the price of a pony of brandy at Delmonico's one may convert any unidentified find of the jnnkshop into a Rembrandt, a Velas quez, a Millet, or whatever else one chooses. Moreover, this expert announces that he "identifies" pictures for his clients. A wizard capable of transforming pic tures could naturally identify them by the same process. There are some "col lectors" in America whom it would pay to make a trip to Paris and a visit to the Batignolles. The demand for old mas ters has stimulated the ingenuitv of some German genius in another direc tion. A standing advertisement in the leading aft magazine of Germany is that of a "competent artist," as he signs him self, who offers to furnish copies that cannot be identified from the originals of any pictures in any of the public col lections. Collector. Annihilated in Midair. About 3 o'clock, just before the heavy shower, several gentlemen were sitting in front of a store in West Nashville when one of the party observed a large turkey buzzard that was sailing majes tically across the sky, and remarked that if the buzzard did not look out he would get wet. Their attention was thus called to the bird, and all were lazily watching its flight, when suddenly, just as it was op posite to and above them, they were blinded by a flash of lightning, which seemingly exploded on the back of the buzzard. They were astonished some what, but recovered themselves and looked for the buzzard, but, alas, the majestic bird was out of sight. All that was left of him was a few black tail feathers, which fluttered pathetically to the ground. Those who witnessed the phenomenon succeeded in catching several of the scorched feathers, which they exhibit in corroboration of the story. Nashville American. Mr. Sears' Imported Razorbacks. The Tarn worth hogs, which J. Mont gomery Sears has imported for breeding purposes, are an old English breed char acterized by the large proportion of lean meat to the fat in its make up. It has of late been overlooked in the effort to breed for fat, hence has seldom been mentioned or heard of. Mr. Sears has called public attention to the breed by his importa tions, and still others now have them under triaL They are medium in size, light in the shoulder, deep sided, and rather fat as compared with the modern models, and "red" in color. Their recom mendation is that they are unlike the rounded balls of fat that have been fur nishing us our models. Bangor Com mercial. A Rot Treed by a Wild Cat. Charlie Heath, of Brooks, a boy six teen years old, was attacked in that town the other day by a strange animal, probably a wildcat. The boy saw the animal in a tree and threw a stone at it. Thereupon the animal sprang down upon the boy and they had quite a fight, in whiclf the clothes of young Heath were torn, his head and face and parts of his body badly scratched. The boy then managed to climb a tree and with his heavy boots would kick the animal down as it tried to get to him. After some time the beast became tired of this and .slunk away. Lewis ton Journal. Millions in Sawdaat. A well known mechanic of Portland, Me., is about taking out a patent on an invention for converting the sawdust and other wy "yom mills into a wood pulp of peculiar strength and quality that he says can be utilized for nearly every purpose in which wood is used. If half his claims prove true his invention is a ' most valuable one. One of - the largest business houses in Portland have offered the inventor the free use of one f their factories for a vear for aknerl. 'A well satisfied lrM Soap q Isie BEST LAUNDRYSoAPirjtrje WorfdL &nd I use it in aJI rriy whin &nd cleaning".! HXFAIRBAMK&CO. ChicfcSb Ct KEEP IT. NEW LUMBER YAAR .5. It. an :AYVX tV CO. DKAI.KKS IN PINK LUMIIKIt. SHINGLES, LATH, HASH. BOOKS, l!MNIS,Hix all huihling mtiierin! (CsiII and see us aU the corner of 11th unci EShii street, one hloch north of Eleisel's mill. Flattsmouth., Nebraska F Q UWQW G2 WILL KEEP CONSTANT! Y ON HAND A Full and Complete lino of Drugs Medicines, Paints, and Oils. DSUGGISTS SUNDRIES AND PURE LIQUORS Prescriptions Carefully Compounded at all Hours The Best is the Cheapest That is Why Fred Gorder atter 15 years of experience a th most succeHnful Agricultural implement dealer in the county has selected ihc following iinlc ments which he carries and heartily recommonds to hia f rieiuls and patrons. ZSetdruLm. Z&olins and Sch.ia.tlor WAGONS, Bradley, Peru, and Door LISTERS and PLOWS NEW DEPARTURE TONGUELES CUL tivators and. Badger Cultivator. WEIRS AND BRADLEY STALKCUTTER. DEERE, FARMERS FRIEND AND HA worth Cheekrowers and Planters. 1 Handles the tinestoi Buggies, Phaetons, Carts, Spring Wagons, and Carriages and other vehicles that are manufactured. The largest line in Cass County, ot double and single harness at prices so low that it will pay you to come 20 miles and inspect stock before purchasing elsewhere. DAVID MILLElt an experienced workman has charge ot our harness shop. Fr edGorder, F'lattsmoutli and Weeping Water Everything to Furnish Your House. AT I. PEARLMAN'S GREAT MODERN HOUSE FURNISHING EMPORIUM. Having mirchaeed the J. V. "Weckbach store room on south Main street where I am now located I can sell goods cheap er than the cheapest having just put in the largest stock of new goods ever brought to the city. Gasoline stove and furniture of all kinds sold on the installment plan. I. PEARL3IAN. ' PCD7IVE CURE I 3. V3 f'" .! i i! si in i WW 1 ' . i ' 4 1 I t tacatirTr-" Sow YarkTalT a