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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14.1891.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
The republican elector of the
Lte of Nebraska are requested t
end delegates from their neveral
counties, to meet in convention in
the city of Lincoln, Thursday, Sep
tember 24, 1891, at 10 o'clock a. m.
for the purpose of placing in nomi
nation candidates for one associate
justice of the supreme court, and
two members of tne ooaru ot re-
jrents of the state university, and to
transact such other business as
maybe presented to the convention
THE APPORTIONMENT
The several counties are entitled
to representation as follows, being
lased upon the vote cast for Hon
Oeo. II. Hastings, for attorney-general
in 1890, giving one delegate-at-
large to each count3-, and one for
each 1H0 votes and the major frac
tion thereof:
couNTir.a. iei
COUNT I K8.
DKL,
Adams II
.Inlitifou -- 7
Arthur 1
Kearney a
keya Pah
Keith 2
Kimball -1
Knox. 5
Antelope t
lianner 3
-Boyd 1
Hlaine 2
Boone f
Jtox Butte
Lancaster ...a;
l.i eolii
Logan '-'
Imiii. U
Urown 4
Buffalo 10,
Butler
Madison i
Burt h
Mel'i-erson 2
Merrick 5
Nance -1
Cass 14
Oidar 4
4Jhu.se 3
Cheyenne s
Cherry o
Clay 10
Colfax 4l
Nemaha !
Nuckolls C
Otoe !'
Pawnee
Perkln
Pierce 3
CtiiuiuK
i-ter
Dakota
.12 Phelps 4
Platte 4
Dawen.
Polk P
iwwra 7Ked Willow C
Ieuel 3Kicli:trdson 11
lHxon H;Kock 3
lde IllSaline 14
3oulas 63'Sarpy.. 4
ltiuily 3Sauiuler!
Fillmore o'Scott'n Bluff.... 2
Franklin 5 Seward 10
Froutier... slslieridan
Ktirnas rSleriiian 3
:ane. l!'Sioux 2
;arnell 'Jlstanton 3
Oosner 2 Thaver
(taint 2
Thomas 2
Thurston 4
flreely
Hall !
I Valley 4
Hamilton 8
Harlan 4
iHayes 3
Washington . . .. .
Wayne 4
-vebwter 7
Wheeler 2
York 12
Total air,
llitencocK 4
Iolt x
Howard 4
Hooker
-iHtferson :
Xo vote returned.
It is recomended that no proxies
te addmitted to the conventioi
and that the delegates present be
authorized to cast the full vote of
the delegation.
It is further recomended that the
Jtote central committee select the
temporary organization of the con
treution. John C. Watson,
WALT.M. Seely, Chairman.
Secretary.
The Ohio democrats demad for
ejilver and gold "the equal right of
?.ach to free and unlimited coinage."
They are precisely the words in
which they put their demand, and
in this, the Ledger thinks, they have
made another grave mistake, if
their platform, in this regard, is to
.-set the pattern for the presidential
election next year. They are de
manding equality for things sil
ver and gold which in their very
t;ture are unequal, and which no
iteration or reiteration of mere
words in the resolves of a political
convention, or an act of congress
can make equal. Nothing but an
international agreement among
llie commercial nations of the
Wrld can maintain them upon an
"equal" footing for the purposes of
international commerce. All ex
perience has shown this, and the
inequality must continue to exist
o long as the production of gold
.shall be a- limited as it actually is
--iijd so long as the power of pro
duction of silver is practically "un
limited." as it actually is. In th's
-ti?dition of the production of the
"prwciou metals" there will be and
jjin-st be fluctuations in value that
cannot be overcome by resolves of
1art- conventions, or by the acts of
j ny one congress or parliament, or
ii-ny other power except redemption
io gold or by international agree
ment. Philadelphia Ledger.
MR. BLAINE'S NEUTRALITY.
TlieTe is nothing to show that Mr.
Ulnine expect.- to use his remark
able popularity in the interest of
.uie other man; but it is well
enough, nevertheless, to let the fact
Ive understood that he can not do so
under any circumstances. It will
not do for him to decline the iiomi-
1
, thatnot' Jiiraed off t
x. ABT Jessed but' -tion in
tb' V" I the plv' -t that he
T rf" tof the liHt
his wupporters are free to do wha
they please in the way of forming
alliances and negotiating bargains
TIh'v :ir under no obligation to
him that rt-qitires them to carry out
lii.s ilcsirt'M in :i coiitinirencv of that
sort. It is not for him to determine
wliat is best for them to do if they
can not have him for a candidate.
That is a question to be decided
without any reference to him or his
associations. He is wise enough, it
must be believed, to see that it
would be an ungenerous and im
proper thing for him to manifest
any partiality for one over another
of the aspirants who will be in the
field if he is not a candidate. He
can not afford to espouse the cause
of any one of them, whatever lie
may think about the fitness or ex
pediency of a particular uomina
1 i 1 1 It is for him to preserve an
entirely neutral attitude, provided
he does not want the nomination
himself; and the people will ex
prct him to adopt that course as a
matter of simple justice and pro
priety. (1 lobe-Democrat.
NEW SOUTH WALES ABANDONS
FREE TRADE.
Free trade has received another
stunnimr blow. The colony ot
New South Wales, Australia, which
has been under free trade for many-
years, has abandonee! it, ana
idopted the protective policj'. Its
next neighbor is the colony of Vic
toria, which has always been pro
tectionist. The two have similar
soil, the same climate, and the
same class of people, engaged in
similar occupations. Victoria has
grown in population ami in weann
and her people are individually
prosperous. New South Wales has
fallen far behind in the race, is bur
dened with debt, ami her people
have been for years chronic coin
plainers fchout hard times to make
a livinr. The object lesson which
Victoria n Horded was too strong a
one not to be heeded; and so the
people of New South Wales very
sensibly determined to adopt the
same economic policy under which
Victoria had prospered. This leaves
Great Britain an the only civilized
free trade country in the world. The
fact is one which should not be lost
on tne American people. loieuo
Blade.
TEN MONTHS OF McKINLEY
PRICES.
The McKinley tariff law went into
effect ten months ago August 0, says
the New York Press.
There were predictions at the time
by free trade and mugwump papers
that stagnation of business and
trade would follow.
The conspiracy against prosperity-
was begun to keep improvement in
business.
In large lines of goods prices were
raised without reason, the excuse be
ing given that the increase was due
to the Mckinley bill.
It was declared that no new indus
tries would spring up in this country
and that old industries would not
be stimulated.
The ten months that have elapsed
since these predictions were made
have utterly disproved each and
every one of them. Trade and com
merce have followed the even tenor
of their courses. The country is
generally properous.
The acommodities on which
prices were raised for political
effect can nearly all be purchased
at lower prices than before the Ic
Kinley bill went into force. New
industries are being established.
Old industries are flourishing.
" The only place where stagnation
is to be found is in the speculative
circles of Wall street.
Actual prices. not "McKinley
prices" gotton up for the moment,
demonstrating to the people that
the McKinley bill is a good piece of
national legislation.
Prices of commodities on the
whole have declined, and the people
know the reason. It is due to pro
tection, and the gratifying feature
of it all is that the democratic press,
having asserted that the forced
high prices of last fall were McKin
ley prices, cannot now with con
sistency deny that the present low
prices are also McKinley prices.
I'K ESI PENT liALMACEDA, it is said,
has offered the United States Gov
ernment $4.000.C00 for the cruiser
Charleston. It is not easy to see,
however, how this boat, serviceable
as it is, could do any good to the
Chilian Government without the
American sailors who man it. The
insurgents have readily beaten
nearly all the vessels, good and bad
sent against them by Ilalmaceda
thus far.
A large lot of sewing machine oil
also needles and supplies for all
kinds of machiticies just received
at Muir's on Sixth street. 3t
A SPRAY OF HONEYSUCKLE.
I broke, one day, a slender stem
Thick net with little golden horns
Half bud, half blonHom: aixl a Kern
Such an ono lliids lu autumn uiornH.
Vflivn all the tenths with dew Is strung.
On every fairy bunlo hunif.
i droojwd it, careless, in a phice
Where no lii;lit hliouu, arid t-lrai'lit forgot
Its delicate, dewy, flowery uriwe.
Yet from the dark, neglected iot
Stole. uiire-i-iit inif. through thu gloom
bwect breitlha that gladdi-Iied tho wlioit
room. Whereat 1 thought, O heart of ruiuel
A lebKou for thee, plain to read:
Thou needi-ht not that light should shine.
Or any man thy beuuty heed;
Enough if Imply this be so
That thou hast sweetuens to bestow!
Mary Brail ley in Harper's Bazar.
How the Greek Combed Their Hair.
In Greece, during the heroic aeis
men wore their hair and beards long
which so disgusted the cleanly and clean
faced Egyptians that, if we are to credit
Herodotus, uo one of either sex of the
latter nationality would on any account
kiss the lipa of a Greek, make use of hiw
knife, his spit and cauldron, or taste th
meat of an animal which had bet-
Biaugnterea oy nis nana, it must nor
be inferred from this that the Greeks, in
the early days of their being, were alto
gether barbarians; but they were cri
tainly not so civilized not so well ac
quainted with the arts of peace and wa
as tne Egyptians until long alter tliev
had made their mark in history.
The love of the beautiful was there, n
doubt; but it had not yet manifested it
self and raised the social character of tin
people. It required the softening and
humanizing influence and intercourse
with more liberal races, such as t!i
Egyptians and Phoenicians, to one or tli
other of whom they were indebted for
much that they rosses.sed. It would
6eem that, in the matter of personal
adornment, they derived the beginning'
from the Egyptians, and that they im
proved upon these beginnings as their
own sense of the fitness of things devH
oped into a passion for the beautiful.
Their arrangement of the hair they ami
their women carried eventually to th-
highest point of artistic excellence.
Gentleman's Magazine.
Cured by a Doctor's Bill.
A westerner at one of the prominent
up town hotels was feeling restless ai:l
ill one hot evening and rang for a dor
tor. The latter was in the same house
He called at his patient's room and diag
nosed the case as simple insomnia, and
gave a couple of powders and retired.
The doctor called the next morning to
see how the patient (whom he correctlv
judged to be a man of means) was get
ting on. During the day he saw him in
cidentally three or four times. The bill
was twenty-live dollars. Five dollars a
visit from a doctor living on the same
floor with him in the same house was
something that nearly caused the west
erner to faint. But the bill had one ef
fect it made him a well man, he says,
fie wouldn't risk getting another such
New York Herald.
How Indians Use Ants.
The grip of an ant's jaw is retained
even after the body has been bitten off
and nothing but the head remains. This
knowledge is possessed by a certain tribe
of Indians in Brazil, who put the ants to
a very peculiar use. When an Indian
gets a gash cut in his hand, instead of
having his hand sewed together, as phy
sicians do in this country, he procures
five or six large black ants, and, holding
their heads near the gash, they bring
their jaws together in biting the flesh
and thus pull the two sides of the gash
together. Then the Indian pinches off
the bodies of the ants and leaves the
heads clinging to the flesh, which is held
together until the gash is perfectly
healed. Boston Courier.
The Economy of tbe Egyptians.
A curious illustration of the domestic
economy of the Egyptians has been met
with in the unwinding of the bandages
of the mummies. Although whole webs
of fine cloth have been most frequently
used, in other cases the bandages are
fragmentary, and have seams, darns
and patches. Old napkins are used, old
skirts, pieces of something that may
have been a shirt; and once a piece of
cloth was found with an armhole in it,
with seam and gusset and band finely
stitched by fingers themselves long since
crumbled and their dust blown to the
four winds. Harper's Bazar.
A Railroad on the Tops of Trees.
California enjoj-s the distinction of
having the only railroad that runs on
the tops of trees. This peculiar piece of
engineering is in Sonoma county, be
tween Clipper Mills and Stuart Point,
where the railroad crosses a deep ravine,
in the center of which are two huge red
wood trees, side by side. These giants
have been sawed off seventy-five feet
above the bed of the creek, and the tim
bers and ties are laid on these tall
stumps. This natural tree bridge is con
sidered to be equal in safety to a bridge
built on the most scientific principles.
Chicago Tribune.
A Mushroom Over a Foot Thick.
Investigation shows that nearly all the
varieties of Europe are found in the
United States. The "puff ball" reaches
a circumference of several feet and a
weight of thirty pounds, and the cook
may go out into the garden and slice off
what she wants from day to day. In
dianapolis Journal.
Above C,000 feet the population of
America, which is confined of course to
the Cordilleran region, is almost entirely
engaged in the pursuit of mining, and
the greater part of it is located in Colo
rado. New Mexico, Nevada and Cali
fornia. If you get tired doing nothing it is a
good thing to" fcit under the barn and
pass the time in waiting for the weather
cock to erow. A great many daj s may
be employed in this manner.
Some land in Paris has been sold at the
rate of $2,000,000 per acre; some in Lon
don for-what would net $5,000,000 per
acre, and some in New York for a stun
equal to $8,000,000 per acre.
SOUffl PARK
Goniinnas to Offer the qpr
tnnity for InvBstmenr
No Excuse for not having a
Home ot Your Own.
Put What you are paying out
for Rent into a home.
7 per cent money for persons
wishing to build in South
Park.
Look to the Future
and invest now in
South Park.
THE OPPORTUNITY OF A
LIFE TIME.
Among other reasons why it is
better to invest in South I'ark than
elsewhere in the city, are these:
Property is more saleable if you
wish to sell, more rentable if you
wish to rent; if looking for an in
crease in value, no other part of the
city will compare with it in prospect
Tdie 5th ward composed largely of
South I'ark, less than three years
igo could hardly muster up a vote
at the last general election the vote
was 139 and all were not polled. It
has been less than two years since
the city invited us into the corpor
ate limits, yet we have over one hun
dred newly built house ond others
in process of construction, owned.
with few exceptions, by the parties
now living in them.
This part of the city has a store
water mains, electric arc lights,
church and school priveledges and
l new church edifice just erected-
of which the whole city is proud.
Plattsmouth's steady growth for
live years past almost doubling its
population; the advance stand it
has taken regarding public im
provements, the certainty of a new
$30,000 court house; the completion
of the great Missouri Pacific rail
way into this city, giving us anoth
er great trunk line and competing
market; the constant increasing
pay roll of the C. B. & Q. shops, to
gether with many other well known
reasons, assure a steady and perma
nent advance in realty, which will
doubtless effect South Park more
favorablj' than any other portion of
Plattsmouth.
With a view to the encouragement
of a still greater growth of this part
of the city, we will continue to sell
lots on moiithljr payments, furnish
m oney with which to erect houses
will exchange lots for other im
proved city property or for desir
able improved or unimproved lands
It is not so much the speculator
as the permanent resident that we
wish to purchase this disirable
property. Out of over eighty pres
ent owners of South Park
property none are speculators
hence there are no fictitous values
and lots are selling at about the
price they were itnmediatly after
it was platted a strong argument
why the present is a most desirable
time for investments. Much addi
tional information regarding South
I'ark may be had by calling at my
office on Main street over Bank of
Cass County.
JL B. WINDHAM.
C. MAYKS
c o u n r y - k ir it v k y o it
AND
CIVIL KN GIN KICK
All onlrr lfft wltli the oouuty rlerk will be
iproiiiphy attended to.
OFUCK IN tOUKT UOlISK,
Plattsmouth, - - Nebraska
WW
( I:lS:SYlK:j
THE FIFTH 8TKKET MERCHANT TAILOR.
-o-
Krri'K a kuu.i.insok
FOREIGN AND - U0K1E5TIC - GOODS
Consult Your Inter.- by OIvidk Him a Vab
SHERWOOC BLOCK
!-. 1 - ."' a. tli
J
ULIUS PKPPKKBKRG.
MANUKACTCHK OK AMI
imiOLEsniE mm retail
DKAI.F.11 INTHK
CIIOICKST BRANDS OF CIGARS
ruM. LINK OK
TOBACCO AND SMOKE.-v's ARTICLES
always in stock
Plattsmouth,
Nebrassa
PAW?
IRST : NAT IONAL ; BANK
OK PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA
Paid up capital V?,-2"S2
3urphi8 lo,ooo.09
jaers the very be"t facilities for the promp
traafacuou 01 ukiuuibto
iiaiiking Business
Stocks, bonds, cold, government and local Bo
unties bomrnt and sold. Deposits receiver.
nd interest allowed on tlie cern 11 caret.
Drafts drawn, available in any pari 01 ine
Unite States and ll the principal towns 01
Europe.
COLLECTIONS MADE AND PKOMPTLY REMIT
TED.
Highest marker price pid for County War-
ranis, Olttie BUM tunnij uuuus.
DIRECTORS
John Firzgrald 1. Hawkwortb
Sam Waugh. F. K. White
(ieorge E. Hovey
ohn Fitzgerald. S. Waugh.
prewiaenr vgncei
JHK CITIZKNS BANK.
PLATTSMOUTH - NEBRASKA
Oayttal stock paid In .... 50 0 t
Authorized Capital, flOO.OOO.
OFFICKBS
KANK CARRUTU. JOS. A. CONNOR,
President. Vice-President
W. H. CUBHENQ. Cashier.
DIBKCTOB8
.'rank Carruth J. A. Connor, K. K. Guthnianr
f. W.Johnson, Henry Boeck, John O'Keefe
W. D. Merriam, Wra. WeUncamp, W.
H. Cashing.
TRANSACTS!! GENERAL BANKING BUSiNES
ssues certificates of deposits bearing interest
Buys and sells exchange, county and
city ohmh
B
ANK OF CASS COUNTY
Cor Main and Fifth street.
Paid up capital
Surplus
8150 000
26000
0. H. Parnele President
Fred liorder Vice President
J. M. Patterson Cashelr
T. M. Patterson, Aest Cashier
DIRECTORS
0. H. Parmele, J. M. Patterson, Fred Gorder,
A, K. Smith, R. B. Windham, B. S.Ranwey and
T.M.Patterson
a GENEEAL BANZ1NC BUSLBESS
TRAHSATED
Accounts solicited. Interest allowed on time
deposits and prompt attentiongiven to all bus
iness entrusted to its care.
MEAT MARKET
SIXTH STREET
F. II. ELLEXHAUM, Prop.
The best of fresh meat always found
in this market. Also fresh
Kggfa and Butter.
Wild ffanie of all kinds kept in their
season. j
Meat marketT
m
19HILIP THEIROLF
H Openwrt up Tim
Ficebt.
t'lcaneBt, - Oortieut
SALOOIT
in tin: city
Where, may be found choice
w 1 ties
liquors and cigars.
ANIIKl'SKK BlISCJI HICKK.
AND
BASS' AI.K WlNTi: I.ABIX,
always on linuil.
COKNEK OK MAIN AN!,KH!KTII HT.
DMONDS & ROFT.
THK riOKK.KK M KKCH AN T OK
MUBBAY
Carry a full slock of general mer
chandise whibh the well
very close. Highest
price paid for
all kinds of farm pro
duce. Generous treatment t
fair dealing is the sncret of success
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CHAS. I.. ROOT,
NOTARY
Ml'KKAY
NKiiitAHKA
l'ckwkii.kr & i.r rz,
(SuoeeHHors to)
SOKNNICIISKN & SCIIIRK.
The VVhhIiIiikUoii Avenue
O H O C E Tl S
AND
Provision Merchants.
Headquarter for
FLOUR AND FKKD
We pay no rent and sell for CASH.
You don'tjpay any billu for dead beats
when you buy of tins firm.
The best SOFT COAL always
on
Hand.
IDOIXTT FORGET
AT THE T .
5 GOB1TBBS
THE LEADING
GROC-ER
HAS THE MOST
COMPLETE
STOCK IN THE CITY.
EVERYTHING - FRESH - AND - IN - SEASON
ATTENTION FARMERS
I want your Poultry, F;r8, But
ter aud your farm produce of all
kinds, I will pay you the highest
cash price as lam buying- for a
firn in Lincoln.
R. PETERSEN,
THK LEADING GROCER
Plattsmouth - - Nebraska
p J. II:A:X:S:E:N
DEALER IN
STAPLE AND FANCY
GROCERIES,
GLASS AJNTD
QUEERS SWA RE
Flour mil Feefl a Suecialty
1 Htronage ,1 the Puble Solicited.
johnson boildingn sum st
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