Plattsmouth herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1892-1894, March 16, 1893, Page 4, Image 4
THE WKEKLY HERALD: PLATTSMOUTH, N EB11ASKA, MaRCH 16, 1893. r1 THE HEIRILiD. Pl'MMMlKIl KVKKV THI KCKAY. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. j One Yar In advance, il 50 , If not paid in advance. s mi Sis month. - ' . Tbrr tnciiitho, wl Telephone Number 8. - I ! GOOD-BYE. Having sold Tut: H kkalo to Mr F. A. Hbinchnrd of Omaha, with this issue I lay down the pen ami i Mr. lilaneh.ird takes it up. He will improve the paper, put new life into it and will continue to publish staunch republican doctrines and principles. Hoping the friends of THE HKKAIJi will continue the sup port in the future u in the past, I hid you good hye. A. H. K NOTTS. IK kKDI'l'Kli railroad rates in Iowa bring about increased business, will such a reduction do the same in Nebraska '.' Till-: Omaha I Iff and World Herald are trying to blulf each other to see which one has the largest circulation in Nebraska. It is hoped that tin' law limiting indebtedness of private corpora tions will stiind and that the legis lature will let well eiicuyh alone. Hknih k'ATS as well as republi cans are full nt praise tor Hun. John A. I. ivies and all admit that he is the best representative ("ass county has ever bad. This is a democratic niininistra tion, but a good mail) members ot (he party think it would be more orthodox it some oilier man was subntitutrd for Cleveland. Ji sr think of it. This is really a republican year. We've pretty nearly got the president whom we did not elect, and things are coming our way in good shape ail over. When Hoke Smjth begin his ex pected onslaught on "pauper pensioner.-." be would do well to get on the cither side of the cabinet table from (iresham. (iresham's lame leg with lead in it, might take a no tion to fly out, as it were. Inter Ocea n. The Chicago switchmen have at last come to their senses and have concluded nm to strike. They found that they would not have the sympathy of ihe people and it is thought now tli.it the world's fair will come and j;o without any dis turbances from laboring classes. Hon. John A. 1.vii:s in making the report of last Friday of the leg islature cominttee of the investi gation of the penitentiary made a splendid speech vhich showed that old Cass bad a real live representa tive iiud u.ie that is looking after the interest of the people. The London Telegraph says it would have more faith in Cleve land s uiaiigur.il pro. line "if he had not been alreadv in nower anil ininu unur lUHt M IN I I ml 1111! I If V l,1;gi'es oi American life." Hut tlnuihehas given notice that he ' J0"' "ol intend to reappoint any ohe ineliicieiit and ilisapoiutiug Mi whom he chose to belli him previous term. ?or rsons l.athiiip sas Kami, mi has no royal veins, and that he is ring her talk of "my Vwiv licnnlc." Mr. I .nth. Honolulu, mid is tfu'.l'olitical history .cu ftMlrtilVkig piner there Viirly been con fM$fe$) i neage, bu t v. nli irV;Vr,nl (im S?"4K VVtWlHuipn lar r jjnrwumeH iy wvnrrsonn rfinistriij?isa? ieiiry &&y7 kvlf,ikf'il'ie faJsui ison'siijttthii! ...S!.cLy W'TOf IP' Wk'ofl to" the McKinley law." Mr. Clfvelanl replied promptly and decisively: ' I am not. I am in favor of revision and modification, hut not of re peal." The Times claims to he ahle to produce the citir.en and to de monstrate without question that ' 'he interview actually took place. WELSHMEN'S OPPOSITION. The Harney Teak Tin Company have closed their mines in South It .L..1.. I. .. w..r u,.l,l ll,,.m l. U'..1-il I """ ", " I tin syndicate. Their mines in Da kota were imt closed because they were unprofitable to their owners, hut because the owners were probably offered such a handsome sum for their mined that the temp tation to sell was overpowering. This shows very plainly that the tin manufacturers of foreign coun tries are much opposed to the manufacture of American tin plate, because they cannot complete with American iiianiifuctures with the present tariff on tin. Saliile (Col.) Mail. TARIFF ROBBERY TO CO ON. After consolation with the mem bers of his cabinet, President Cleve land Wednesday reached the con clusion that it would be unwise to call an extra session of cmigtess at the present time to deal with the financial question. Hut how about the tariff.- Is the county to under stand that the democrat party, now, it is in possession of complete pow er, will deliberately continue the "roberies" and the "plunderings" of the McKinley law another twelve months'.- If protecti ii was stealing last year, is it not stealing now? Is it possible that the demo cratic party has changed its mind, and it used the argument that pro tection inent robbery of the people merely to regain power and with out any serious intention of repeal rig the biwtbey denounced so vig orously a year ago. Hut the demo cratic party cannot avoid doing those things which it expressly promised that it would do, nor can it postpone doing them, without losing the confidence of the people of the country. THE POPULIST PLAN. It is manifest that the populists in the legislature do not wish to ac complish any legigislation in the direclionof the reforms they have so vehemently advocated on the stump. he reason they do not wish to do so is plain. It would re move the grievances which they have been blatantly parading be fore the people, and the occupation of these self-assumed reformers would be gone. The methods they are employing to prevent needed legislation is detestable in the ex treme. They refuse to support any measure, no matter how meriioroiis, unless it originated from populist sources, and they have, made their bills so rank that honest and con servative republicans and demo crats cannot support them. As an instauceof this, the bill prohibiting I'inkertonism in this state, contains a section providing that if any sheriff in summoning a posse to assist him in quelling a riot should summon an alien, or person who is not a citi.en of the state, the sheriff so doing is declared guilty of a fel ony, and liable to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of three years. Of course no reasona ble man can support such a meas ure, and the populists refuse to permit the removal of these obnox ious features from their bills, by amendment. Thus they propose to mal-e a record for themselves on which they think they can go be fore llieir constituents in the next campaign, while at the same time they make their measures so rank that they defeat themselves. Two years hence they will tro before Un people saying, yes, we labored long and hard to get through an nnti I'inkerton bill, we endeavored to secure the reform nieasuies we have been advocating, but the re publican defeated them. The facts are that the populists are endeavor ing by stratagem to defeat any re form legislation. They wish to re serve the reforms they have been advocating for campaign thunder in the future. Heatriee Times. . Gkovek has is evident v rot his t in it. The democratic editors' are swarming around Washington as v&ick as yellow jackets in n hay ckrving to find out if he tcally ' l&hSm the remark about demo- ! being lit person- : a postotlice. Mr, ! there is auv such W-as' not heard of it," but h. frcordAfor savim. ,!, .. ,' democratic press will suffer if these claims are recogniied. He has de clared himself to several callers as in favor of, "a free and untratti ineled press." While they are told that no rule has been formed barr ing editors, there is little doubt that editorial appointments will be few nnd far between. The president is emphatic in saying that the editorship will not be used as a stepping stone to office. The Public and the Local Paper. The local paper is compelled to submit in silence to much un deserved abuse from a though less, public. Many people seem to think thai eveythinjr that concerns them their incoming and their outgo ing, their good fortune and their ill, their prosperity and their ad versity, their sickness and their health all should promptly find its way into the columns of the local paper. In their estimation the editor of the local paper should be omnipresent, and omniscient. It should not be necessary to call his attention to an event' no matter of how little consequence, in order that he may give it a lengthy no tice. Should the fact that Smith's cow died, Brown's mother-in law has paid him a visit, or Dr. Jones has made a professional visit to a neighboring town escape no tice, the long-suffering editor must be called to account and threatened with the loss of a subscriber. The amount of work performed by the ed itors of some of these lo cal sheets is prodigous. The meag erness of his support freipiently makes it necessary for the editor to be reporter, compositor, proof reader, pressman, and mail clem as well. That he should not find time to attend all the churches weddings, balls, school entertain ments, dog lights and whatnots in the vicinity is not to be wondered at. When items are furnished him for publication they are more fre quently longobituary notices ac companied by bad poetry, lengthy lists of wedding presents or badly written and villianotisly punctuat ed dissertations on subjects gwhich iuterest no one but the writer, than they are well written correctly punctuated and brief items of news. It is mainly through the agency of these local papers that the ex istence of some towns is revealed to the outside world. Without them, many of these sains towns would forever remain in hopeless obs curity. The development of the lo cal press in our own state is mar velous. There are over six hun dred newspapers in Nebraska, many of them in towns of less than one hundred inhabitants. In the older states of the east there are many towns of upwards of ;i,iKHI in habitants without a single local newspaper. Copies of these papers are circulated throughout the east and are among the most potential factors in directing emigrants to ward our fertile praries. They should be encouraged, patronized, supported, for upon them depends to no inconsiderable extent the growth of the state. The local press in Nebraska will always be found ready and willing to publish anything that is of in terest to any considerable number of its readers. The Kxecutive Com mittee of the Nebraska State Hp. worth League held a meeting in Lincoln, February 21. At this meet ing the arrangements were made for holding the next state conven tion in Omaha, June 1-4. On the -.'Ird a circular letter was sent to the papers of the state, announcing the convention. This announcement appeared in the next week's issus of nine-tenths of the papers of the state. In the language of Abe Lincoln, "You can reach all of the peopleof the time, and some of the people all the time, but if you want to reach all the people all the time, you must advise in the local papers." Young Men's journal. BACK FROM TOWN. I Mil frieiuls alius is 1 lie liest, H alest like llllcl heurtiest ; knnwcd us llrst, ami don't nlluu We're so hliiine much better now '. They were staiiiliu' it t the burs lieu we ur:ililif. the "lowered kyurs" Ami lit nut lor tnu u, to niiike Moiiey-nnil Hint oh) inhtiiUc! We tlniiiKlit then tin? wurlil we went Into I ient " The Sett lenient." Ami the frieiuls 'at we'll niiike there V 1 1 1 1 I I it'll I uny anywhere! Ami they ilo, for that's there hi.: They bent nil Hie friends they is -Vept the real old friends like y.ni 'At staid at Ilium', like I'd ort to. W'y, of all the uood things yit I ain't shet of, is to quit business, and et hack to sheer These old comfort aitin' here -These old friends an' these old hands 'At a feller understands; Thee cold winter nights, and old Yoiiiik folks chased in out the cold! Sinn " Hard Times 'II l ome .Win No More!" and neighbors all jiue in ! Here's n fellow come from town Wants that itir old fiddle down Fri.m thechiml.ly! Clt tlielloor Cleared for one eowtilllun inure: It's Hike the kitchen lire, says he. Ami shake u friendly lev with me! - James Whitcomh Kilev JINGLE -JANCLE. When (irorKCEd. Hitchrosc Wutercock Subside on " circulation." They both will take the time to talk On railroad rate and watered stock And other things that seem to block The growth of state uiid nation. Neb. State Journal, If (il was Kd and Kose was pied, And Wutercock and Hitch w as dyed The same rich, red carnation. Then would this world sail on serene And all thiriKselse tie as they seem Without this "circulation." NOTES FROM EXCHANGES. From the Ksle. Mr. and Mrs. John Widmeir start- ed on a trip to the mountains this wtek for the benefit of Mr. Widmeir health which has been very poor for some time. His many friend9 hope he will return to us gteatlv improved. Mrs. F. M. Wolcott received a visit last week from Miss Mary Carter of Tallmadge, Ohio, one of her girlhood friends. On Thurs day evening the Tallmadge colony were invited to assist her in t'titer taming her friends and inittiate her into the customs in vogue in the wild west. It was a very inter esting and enjoyable gathering. Last Friday morning the barn of Frank Fowler, two miles west of town, was destroyed by lire, three of his best horses which he was un able to get out were burned to death with it. The fire was discover ed betweena and ti a. in. Mr. Fowder had been at the home of his son, Link during the night, on return ing in the morning he stopped at the barn to feed the horses their nioring allowance and passed on to the house () send His boy out to give them hay. When he arrived at the barn he discovered it on tire in the loft and at on ;e gave the alarm. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler, by al most superhuman exertion, suceed ed in saving the cows and three out of the six heao of horses. The for mer got badly burned in his efforts to save the lives of the doomed animals. His entire outtit of farm ing tools and a large lot ot hay went up in smoke with other prop erly. Insurance to the amount of about is all that he has to show for property worth nearly three times that amount. The origin of the fire remains a mystery. From the Keui-ter. Miss Minnie Koelofsg of the vicinity of Kagle, was visiting last week with Miss Lottie Pollard. Kd. I'ittman who came down from Union Monday morning with his cousin John, and purchased a harhe outfit and will Mart a s hop in that thriving village. Some time ago AsaColman inad-. a deal which he became the owner of the I). C. West property. One week ago last Wednesday Mr. Co!, man took possession of their new home. Republican Primaries and City Con vention. The republican primaries are called to be held on Saturday eve ning March 1Mb. at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of placing in nomina tion one councilman from each ward, and selecting deb-gates to at tend the city convention to be held on Saturday evening, March ISth, at S o'clock at K'ockwood hall. The primaries will be held at the fol lowing named places with repre sentation as follows: First ward, lleesou & Knot's office, "del. Second ward, school house X " Th'rd ward, k'ii hey's lumber of tice l:i Foiirlh ward, C, S. Polk's otlice. .. " Fifth ward, school house 5 Uvwix Clark, Chairman Committee. (i. W. Marshall, a ranchman liv ing in the I'pper M.ldison Hasin, Montana, is in the city making at rangeinents for the exhibition at the World's Fair of an interesting collection of anamals The collec tion consists of a hunch of seven teen elk, two Kocky Mountain sheep several white and black tail deer and antelope. Mr. Marshal's ranch is located withih ten miles of the edge of Yellowstone l'ark, in the greatest game region in the coun try, and for the last rive years he has been engaged in raising and domesticating elk, deer and other animals. The collection intended for the fair is at present quartered in Arcade Hall, h'nglewood, and will probably form a part of the Montana exhibit. One of the mountain sheep was captured by Mr. Marshall last winter. It is about twelve years old and it is claimed to be the only full grown moiiiititi sheep ever caught. The other sheep, which is live years old was caught when a lamb and raised by Mr. Marshall. The elk; deer and antelope are magnilicient specimens of their kind, and the whole collection will form a most attractive exhibit. Jones There seems lo be a slight difference of o inion between you and your mother-in-law. Smith -No; her opinion of me is just my opinion of her.- New York Herald. FUNERAL OF A DRUID STRANGE DEVTH RITES ON A LOFTY HILLTOP IN WALES. Iniireulvr Orrmnniei Att-nllngthe final lIUiKinltiun of the Ho.ljr of the I.hU Leader or the Urulda of Walm Knthci MUr.l Si rvlri H. Far away seem the times and the rite of the Druids; even nnder the mistletoe nt ynletide the time of Yowling. Tlu irt was one nf the most ancient and primi tive of religions, and its cult is great!) tmronded in mystery. Yet it is not alto gether dead. Among the hills of Wnlo many strange relics of the jiast reinnin. There may lie no "fragments of forgot ten iieoples." but there are legends ai1 cr.stoms nnd wn;;s and nocmi and reii gioiis rites preserved unchanged from tin ' days of Arthur and Merlin and Talii ssin. There are probably not a few seers who like Gleiidower, "can summon spirit from the vasty (liM'p." though whether oi not they will come is yet a mooted ques tion. And as f. .r the Druids, their line it yet unbroken, and their weird rites art .till celebrated us of old. The death occurred at Llantrissant oi Dr. William Price, who held the distin guished office of archdruid of Wales. Ho was soniethina: more than KJ yean old and might have passed fur one of tlif old time bards who perished in King Ed ward's reign, so rugged and antique win his npiicarance. Six or seven years ago. it may be reineniliored. an infant tli;:t had been bom to him in his old age died, ami its boily was publicly cremated b him with Druidical rites. For this h. was arrested and brought to trial. Hut after a hot contest in court he was ac quitted, and a decree was pronounced from the bench establishing theentiw legality of this f.mn of funeral. Ac cordingly win n Dr. Price himself died a similar ceremony was enacted without thought of interference. The ceremony took place on the sum nut of a high hill at Caeilan, the very spot where the body of the infant hail been burned. Several hundred ticket were issued to tho friends and fnrniei patients of Dr. Price, entitling them tc enter tho inelosure and witness the burn ing. The hour first set was noon. Dut public enriosity rose to so high a pitch that, to avoid being overwhelmed bv a mob of sightseers, it was at the last mo ment decided to change it to 7 o'clock in the morning. So in the gray light of that early hour the strange "procession made its way to the hilltop. No mourn ing garb was to be seen. The closest friends of tho deceased Druid were id tired in the ancient costumes of tin Welsh people. The body of Dr. Price was clothed in the Druidical rolx s he hud worn in life and was then placed in a coffin of jx-r-forated sheet iron. On the hilltop two stone walls had been built, four feet apart, each being about 10 feet long and 4 feet high. A number of iron bars ex tending from ore to the other formed a ni.le crating between them, some dis tauct.bove the ground, nnd upon these hars the coflin was placed, the he id be ing toward the east and the feet toward the west. A clergyman of the Established church was present and read the ordinary si rv lce for the. dead in Welsh. The v.st uients of the church contrasted as strangely with the Druidical garb worn by some of the attendants as did the words of the prayer book with the strange rites. Some slight changes v.- re made in the service, su. h i s the body be ing "romipied to the (lames. " Then under and over i,id id! amnnd the collin was piled a great lot of v. oo,!. perhaps a whole cord of it, ami to t;.-i were added several tons of cul. gallons of parafiin oil we-re thr. i-,.-;i . it, thoroughly satur.itii.g thei . V. Then, at about N o'clock. Ivn ( . ; Closest friends of the lat.1 Dr.i forward fmiii the tin-!.;? and id ci:. llie.ilu torcues to tiie wood, one m i n.'ii e;,il oi the mass. In a moment it was cli a rac ing furnace, and the hill liti i-.uiv Cansi like a volcano. A brisk breeze was blowing, which fanned the lire and carried ; ho Maine and smoke far into the heavens. Fi r many miles the strange spectacle was clearly seen, and thousands of people came Hock ing thither from all parts of (ilauior gaushire. Seven or eight thousand o! them gathered in a ring about the pyre, us close to it as possible, and watched it with eager interest all day long. Some hours after dark that evening the flames had died down, and there was only a dull glow from the coals. Then with long hooks they drnirged the collin from the furnace, when it was discov ered that it had been literally burned through in many places, and when the lid was uncovered the receptacle was ab solutely empty without the faintest trace within of the remains. The coffin was subsequently conveyed on a bier, fol lowed by an immense crowd, and de posited on the couch in the deceased's residence, where a few days previously he had breathed his last'. New York Tribune. Two Wenllhy OlrN Willi No Taxle. Two girls sat awhile ago in opposite stage boxes at the theater to whose united wealth the word inconceivable would almost literally apply. Both were faintly pretty, of the'style that is abso lutely null without proper dressing. One. the most decided type of blond, wi re pale blue. The result was simply flat. Tho other gii'l is a brunette and was dressed in a brown silk (which is the ugliest and most characterless wear the mind of man can devise, except in com bination), and had a wisp of illusion tied tightly around her neck. New York Let ter. A Stum h Krli-ii.l. Old (ient (promising health of the hap py pair at the wedding breakfast)-And as for the bridegroom, lean speak with still more confidence of hiin, for I was present at his christening, I was present at the banpiet given in honor of his coining of aae, I am present here today, and. (iod wiling, I'll be present at hi funeral. (Sensation.) Pick Me Up. If Your Cistern Is Oat of Order or Soft Water it scarce, don't worry yourself for a moment go right ahead and use hard water with WHITE RUSSIAN and you'll never know the difference. The clothes will be just as white, clean and sweet-smelling, because the "White Russian" is specially adapted for use in hard water. JAS. S. KIRK & CO., Chicago. Dusky Diamond Tar Soap. B & for (bo Mult. Form For Sh. or Tlndt. Ilnivea line farm of u m re-. i.'.. mil.-s n.irtla act of I'miidririue. Furnas county, el. in!ie from school house, clinrcli anil Sunday school, in oee of the lict neiL'hhorh'i..(ls in the -lute. Improve ments, a !.ir;e frame house of six moms and pantry. stable, well mid windmill, I'M acres under cultivation and n"od crops, ill trade for t'a-s county. land without hiiiltlincs. Title kmh', pi ice K!.."i(0 address S. 10. II ai.L, IMatlsmouth. Nebraska. OLIVER & RaMGE, I'UOI'KIK ToKf. ill- Tin; TheBostonMeatMarket This Firm do their own Killing and use nothing bt;t Cass County Cattle and Swine. FRESH and SALT MEATS ' AIwhvs on hand. l(il NIWV I'Kome E is ITU As POULTRY, BUTTER & EGGS bill l.liT AND SOl.U. Cnrrylnu the ( ulum In Hut lie. At Claim s Mill, wliero Cirejrir'a Fhr-t South Carolina regiment bore the brunt of an assault upon a certain strong posi tion while moving forward at a run, yonnp JamcM Taylor, a hid of 1(1, was carrying the flag and was killed after beiii! shot down three times, twice ris ing and struKKliiii,' onward with the col ors. The third time lie fell the fl.nj w.d seized by (ii-orgc Cotchett. nnd when lie in tur fell I y Shubrick Ilayne. Huyno also was struck down almost immedi ately, and a fourth l.nl for noneof these men was over CO years old e;rasied the colors and fell mortally wounded acrom the body of bis friend. i ne nun. (lansnen tloimes, was pierced with no less than seven balls. The sixth man. Dominie! Spellinan, more fortu nate, but imt less brave, bore tho flag thromrhout the rest of the battle. Cos mopolitan. H here U:ts Are I'rl.eil as Seiivenirem. A iiirii jr.st from New Orleans says there is one peculiarity about that city which is iievi r talked i.bout. "It is." he said, "a city of r.ils. New Orleans is be low the river bed. and it is at all timed low and damp. The city is not clean, and la rye wl.crf n.ts multiply in tho business portion oi the city in (,'reat num bers, and tin Msts swarm about in droves. Ti.e peopleof New Orleans con tend that the rats are jfood scavengers and help to rid the city of refuse mutter. I don't think there is a city in the world, not even New York or Paris, that has an many rats to the square mile as New Or leans." Atlanta Journal. ( I'lirMcleiintlc to I lie I.utt. Sipiibbs -- Cnesiis. the miser, was drowned last evening. Hibbs How did it happen? Siuil.bs He fell from a steamboat. I reached down and asked him to pvo ine his hand. He said he had nothinj,' to pve and sank. National Tribune. A Ciirliinn Term. Tlie magician threw a teacup into the air. and it came down in fragments. Then he threw the fragments in the air. and the cup came down whole. Now, why should every one ca 1 him a saucerei': Harper's llasar. The Keystone Watch Case Co. of Philadelphia, the largest watch case manufactur ibg concern in the world, is now putting upon the Tas. Boss Filled and other cases made by it, a bow (ring) which cannot be twisted pulled off the watch. ' It is a sure protection acrainstth o pickpocket and the manv accident? that befall watches fitted with the old-style bow. which is sininl v held in by friction and can be twisted off with the fingers. It is called the and CAN ONLY BE HAD with cstibring their trade mark yjy Sold only through watch dealers, without extra charge. Ask any jeweler for pamphlet, or send to the manufacturers. FT ;-: