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THE WEEKLY HERALD: PLATTSMOU Til. NEBRASKA, APRIL 13, 1893. 3 V THE HEBALD: fl'HLlSHED EVEStY THl'KSDAY. r. A. BLANCHARD. Editor. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year-ln advance, $1 50 If not paid in advance, Si 00 Six month'. ... - 75 Three months, ' Telephone .Nuinl'rr 3f. We are sorry to say that we can not be furnished with n letter from "Mill Ouoiti," thin week. He says he's "got ter plant hi punkitis." It in fun for us It llmvn allovir the state to berate ami belittle Kosewater, hut "he gets there just the name." When he goes afler :i tiling he most alwas ets it in spite of all odds. We iiltenlel. In-fore ti:e Uv'ishi ture adjourned, to have them ap propriate money for organizing n canning factory to preserve the current of the Missouri river. It clipped our memory. The many triniphs gained hy the repuhlieaiiH in the spt ; fleet iotif show that the party Mill preserves :tH courage and resolution, and is quick to improve every opportunity of promoting i tn fortunes. "How can we iret a whack at the loaves and fishes?" was the leading question before the democrats who assembled in this city Thursday evening. The latest advices from Washington indicate that the key to the larder is in possession of Mes srs. lloyd and Morton. Hee. The maximum rate bill has pass ed both houses and is about to be come a law; impeachment proceed ings have been commenced and if being vigorously pushed; Hitch cock's bill, praying that the shIooii men may lawfully publish their application notices in his pamph let, has been killed and the legisla ture has adjourned with the felt confident fceliiignf a duty well done. It strikes uw as rather queer that Hon. W. J Hryan, a man equal in popularity and statesmanship to either Kern or McKeighan, would come here to help convict an iuo cent man of, what turned out to be, a farce shooting affair. Mr. Travis was well able to condut the case and there was surely no object in Mr. Hryan getting into it unless, m we suspect, there is a strong po litical pull somewhere around the little village of Kagle. This is the modest manner which the Madison Independent oi South Dakota describes the coming con dition of Chicago and nearly every body seen to be of about the same opinion: Carter Harrison was elec ted mayor of Chicago by a very large majority. It won't make very much difference now whether the World's fair is opened or closed on Sunday. The city and all its sub urbs will be one broad expance f hell for the next two years anyway. St. Louis has elected the entire re publican ticket, except one officer; t'tat of city treasurer, and enough democratic fraud has been disco. ered since, to insure his election. This was almost more than could le expected. The ide,i of the Icac ingcity of the south coming out for the republican ticket in the face of such odds a was displayed by some unpriucipalcd democrats, of that city, is more than we can un derstand. Other surprises are sure to follow. The Missouri I'acitic railroad de serves credit for the celerity with which they removed the dead cat tle from the I'latt river.spoken of in last week's II KK'.L1. It seems that the employees threw them m the river without the authority or know ledge of the railroad officials and as soon as it came to their notice they removed them at once and the era of good feeling is again estab lished between the railroad and the citizens of lMattsmniith. In the proposed investigation of K'oach, the occidental senator from North Dakota, it is tirged by some members of that eminently respec table body that they ought not to go into the business of washing their dirty linen in public. That is something that they will have to settle for themselves. If they car. stand the presence of an embezzling bank cashier in their "millinmiirs club" we suppose they have a right to indulge their taste for curiosities. Nobody can purify the senate, but the senate itself. State Journal. Daniel Webster in speaking of protection to small industries, March 1.), 1SH7 at New York, says: "I am in favor of protecting Ameri can industry and labor, not only ns employed in large manufacture!', but also, and more especially, ns employed in the various mechanic arts carried on by pe reons of imall capital, and living by the earnings of their own personal industry. Every city in the Union, and nnc more than this, would feel the con sequences of departing frjm the ancient and continued policy of the government respecting this last branch of protection. If duties were to be abolished on hats, boots shoes ami other articles of leather and on the articles fabricated i f I r tss, tin and iron, and on ready made cloths, cirriages, ftirirtiue ami many other similar articles, thousands of persons would be immediately thrown out of em ployment in the city (i ltd in other parts of the Union. Protection in this respect, of our labot against the cheaper, ill-paid, half-fed and pauper labor of Kurope, is, in my opinion, a duty which the country owes to its own citizens." In a small way VYcbrtcr had won some reputation as "The expounder of the constitution," but never even dreamed that protection was uncon stitutional. It is too bad that he was not under the tutorship of Wat terson and our democratic plat form carpenters. Hon. John A. Davies, our bright, energetic and whole-souled repre sentative, gave us a pleasant call j last Monday evening. He is as eloquent in conversation as he is on the rostrum and he lelt us feel ing several degrees better toward ourself and the world in general. The following is a clipping from the Sunday Lincoln Call: "No man ever came to the Nebraska legisla ture and in a single term made' such an excellent record as K'eprr sentative Davies of Cass comity. Clean, bright and able, he has com manded the confidence of bis fel low members and their respectful attention at all times. As an elo quent and forcible speaker he has earmdall the applause that came so readily whenever he spoke upon a measure and he has gone home with a record of strict integrity that none can question. The state ought to have more use for men like John A. Davies. It is announced thut the authori ities of North Corolina have suc ceeded in "stamping out" that terri ble secret society known among men and angels as' Ciideon's Hand." They now say that this organiza tion was formed for the purpose of defeating drover Cleveland for president. There was a Gideon's band in Nebraska, but it wasn't or ganized to beat Grover exactly. Its providence was to secure the officer lor the members of the band through the farmers' alliance ma chinery, but it was so unsuccess ful the we might as well consider it stamped our in Nebraska also. State Journal. Since the inter-island trad ing fleet of Hawaii has developed from a few scl o mers and one small steamer to twenty-two steamers, b-. side a number of sailing vessels. This increase is due solely to the increase of trade caused by tue treaty. During the period mem ioned there have been built in the United States and sold to Hawaii, nineteen steamers and twenty sailing vessels for the iuter-ishmd trade, costing Ifl.UM,."!. During the same period there have been built in the United States, and are now regularly engaged in the Hawaiian foreign trade, under the American flag, three steamers and twenty three sailing . vessels, costing f J,lNi,(.K). In addition to th is there are about twelve other American vessels built before the treaty, representing an invested cap ital in round numbers of flat). 000, besides a number of tra isient charters made each vear during the sugar season. Ameri can ship builders have therefore built thirty-nine vessels for the inter-island and twenty-six for Hawaiian foreign trade, a total of sixty-live, which would not have been built but for the treaty, and tor which they have received the sum of fcUyLaOU. A minimum profit on these transactions would be 10 per cent, amounting to WIS. (CV). North American Review. There must be an immense anion) of money made by lite insurance companies if it be a fact that, iis a correspondent of ,,e Mutual 1'nderwriter says, a general agent of the New York Life, Mr. William L. Meeker, has suit out a circular otferiti.r brokerage of 70 per cent for surplus business. If the remain ing:j.O per cent is suflicicnt to pay ailaries. ranging; from .fiO.lKlO. 2."i.(M) and If 12.001) down, to an army of employes, with u. rik im,.mlini, the insurance besides, the public eye will be wid.-r open in the future even than it was in tu past. New York Recorder. Sheri lan-My dear, do throw out that rosewater, some other will smell as sweet. "Why so hubby." S. (Looking absent mindedly out of the window) O' its too suggestive. A PAIR SPECIMEN. Brigham Young, jr. says that politics is as important to the Mor mons as religion, which is equiva lent, of course, to telling them that they ought to go on voting the democrat ticket. Globe-Democrat. It is a significant fact that, as a rule, every Mormon votes the dem ocratic ticket, and yet every man with any amount of thinking ma terial whatever, knows that Polyg amous Mormonism has always been a penitentiary offence and was only allowed and tolerated on account of their overpowering strength and masterful, high hand e I manner in which they ruled the weaker but lawabiding, honest citi zens. Who can forgive or forget the wanton murderers of the "Mountain Meadow Massacre,'' w hich put savage Indians to shame, or the countless thousands that have been murdered in the moun tain fastnesses by the to-called Avenging Angels, or in more for cible language, "the hired butch ers" of the chief revelator, Hrigham Young. At the time that Lee, the leader of the Mountain meadow massacre, was hung by the United States authorities, Hrigham Young would have taken the same route to the throne of his omnipotent judge and maker, whose name he lu d de famed and pointed during his vil lainous career, had he not already been dead. Although by the late "revelations" (':) to one of their leading lights, polygamy has been discontinued, the same sentiments and feelings and the same hatred for the Gentiles is siill cherished in the hearts of Mormons and the Mormon church. The names of the most villainous and reprehensible leaders are perpetuated in their temple at Salt Lake City by marble statutes, and are worshiped and held up as examples to the younger generation as models of manhood and priestly grace. Can one sit quietly by and praise their valor ami the iuagtiificieu.ee of their god less temples when you stop and think of past depredations, or the sufferings of the many wives and the hellish designs practiced by Mormon elders upon young and in nocent girls who were transported to that vortex of Mormon misery: If so, you should read and study the sermons preached on Mormon ism by that most estimable woman, Ann Kliza Young, one of Hrigham Young's wives. Sometime in the near future, perhaps di.ring Cleve land's administration, Utah will be admitted as a state, but it is the great desire of liberty-loving peo ple in that country to keep it as it is, a territory. As the Mormons are greatly in the majority, should it be admitted as a state, all the offi ces would fall into their hands and people who love liberty and prog ress do not want to be govered by that class, who have held the terri tory back for fifty years. As soon m Utah is admitted it will go down in political history as a democratic state. We do not desire such votes in the republican party. Arbor Day Proclamation. Governor Crounse has given out his Arbor day proclamation. It reads: State ok Nkiikaska, Kxkcitivk Ik- I'AKTMKNT, LINCOLN, X Kit. Tilt L'.M (lily of April Is Arbor lny. I trust the spirit which inspired the institution of the day and luid it set opart us one of the lentil hollidays of the state will lie kepi alive hy u ItecoiuiiiK observance of it upon its re curranee this year. To that end I would ask that the day I e Kiven generally to the planting of trees, shrubs and vines, to the adornment of homes und highway and the beaut ifyiut: of parks aud public grounds. Kspecially would I recommend the observation of the day by the public schools of .Nebraska by such exercises and ceremonies as shall be in liarmoney with the occasion. in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand anil caused to be affixed the greut seal of the state. Done at Lincoln this 2 th day of March, of the state the Twenty seventh and of the Independence of the tinted States the one hundred and seventeenth year. LoKKN.O C'KolNsK, Cnvei nor. Attest -John C. Al.l.KN, State Secretary. Secretary Hoke Smith has re ceived the following telegram from Agent Dennett, at Muskogee, I. T.: I am reliably advised that both factions of the Choctaws are being strongly reinforced. The presence of military alone will prevent a conflict. Troops should be sent to Antlers as quickly as possibly. I will go there when advised that troops have started." A telegram just received from Atoka says: "A hundred men are going to the loca tion of the troubles if the gov ernment does not interfere " A a j requests have already been made I to the war department to send troops no further action can be taken. The request of Agent Hen net was telegraphed to General Miles, who replied that Cap tain Guthrie left Fort Reno for Antlers on Saturday, with a com pany of infantry, and expected to reach his destination today. The officers at the war department ; are inclined to think that the trouble is not as serious as the dispatches of Agent Dennett indicate. Th Melancholy Office Setker. Jim Jonea. wan a candidate (or office so he was; He'd been wnrkin' clean from daylight on the democratic cause; He'd beard about the salary an office holder draw So he went in for an oftice in the niornin' 1 He brushed his old black braver an' he polished up his boots; He got him twenty packages of Georgia made cheroots. An' they missed him from the village an' p'lliticle diputes- Kor he went in for an office in the tnornin'; Hut the office wasn't coinin' an' they told him for to wait ; The road was kinder crooked when he thought it kinder straight; Hut Junes-he kept a swingin' on the dem ocratic gate, "For," said he ' 1 11 ketch the otlice in the niornin' !" Soon the congressman had smoked up every one u' his cheroots, An' the mud hail worn the polish front the L-ggius of his boots. An' the otlice jes' got mixed up in po litical disputes. An' Jone--he kinder, weakened in the niornin' ! Su he boarded of u freight train that was runuiti' by the mil, l-'or he didn't have a dollar, an' was feel in' like a fool; An' then he went to ph. win' with a mort gage on his inuU An' be cussed out every otlice in the niornin' ! Atlanta Constitution, FACING A GRIZZLY. On their return journey, they heard that a bear had been seen in the country to the southwest of the Spillamacheeu Valley, and at Snooks's request thej walked into the wood where he was supposed to be, "keeping touch" with each other; for, as S. remarked, he couldn't be expected to tackle a bear for the first time all by himself. Tom sai l he was quiet ready to support him, and all three kept on, giving low whistles to assure each other in the thick brush that help was at hand. "You don't think he would go for me at sight Y' Snooks had nervously asked. "No; he'll go for us first, and keep you for dessert," Scott had en couragingly repliei. The little man became confident as time went on and nothing ap peared. They had come to a great piece of fallen timber. The side branches stretched upward and all about at right angles to the huge trunk. Snooks mounted one to get on to the main stem as it lay prostrate. lie was going to swing himself down on the other side, when, lo! in front of him arose a vast brown pillar, as it seemed to him, with two big arms, atid, with a faint cry, Snooks dropped back among the branches on the side of the tree remote from the bear for bear it was, and a huge one and crouched, breathless, his heart thumping in his throat and his limbs perfectly nerveless. The bear had had only a brief vision of the intruder, anil apparently concluded Snooks must be a bad dream, for he grunted' lowered himself, and took no further notice as far ns Snooks could learn, for he heard nothing, saw nothing, and felt only an in- Ltense desire to shout, but could not. Hut the bear thought it might be worth while to sie what had become of his bad dream, which had left a suspicious odor behind it. So he slowly raised himself again, and got up upon the fallen tree trunk. This made him visible to Tom, who rised his rifle and fired. With a noise something between a hiss and a grunt and a groan, the bear jumped down almost on the top of poor Snooks, but did not touch him. and went for" Tom "Ht tight." Tom tried to shin up a small tree, leaving his rifle below; for he had no time, as he thought, to sling it round him. Hut the bear was loo quick for him, anil clawed his legging, TVs foot escaping claws and teeth. At this instant the hero of the day, in the shape of Scott, came up, fired, and the bear fell, tearing down Tom. Another moment and he had given him a nasty munch in the side, but again his jacket saved Tom; Scott tired once tnort, and followed the hot up by driving a long knife into the grizzly's heart. It was most gal'antly and cleverly done, ami the thanks of both the young men were very earnestly expressed. Hut it was a narrow shave, and, as Snooks observed, "might have been much worse had not he Snooks insisted on their keeping together." The news of a most diabolical and revolting crime at Alexander, Mo. has reached here. George and John Kvanswent to the house of Jerry Shelton, and at the p . i tit of the pistol forced him to leave home. Hot!) men then assaulted his 17, years old wife. Shelton gave the alarm and the entire community was soon on the hunt. The woman in in such a plight she cannot give an account of the horrible affair. Her reason is dethroned and she t ilks wildly and hysterical). This has added lo the already inflamed condition of the community and made it certain that the Kvans brothers, if captured alive, will be given a swift and sure death. The Operator. I stepped upon the platform at Baisenmoyen-Cert station, where my friend Lenfileur t watted with his carriage. While on the train I suddenly recolected something that required immediate attention at Paris. Upon my arrival at Baisenmoyen-Cert I went to the telegraph office to send back a message. This station differed from others of its class because of the total lack of writing materials. After a prolonged exploration I finally succeeded in capturing a rusty pen, dipping it in some col orless, slimy fluid. With heroic ef forts I succeeded in daubing down the few words of my telegram. A decidely . unprepossessing women grudgingly v look the dispatch, counted it and named the rate, which I immediately paid. With the relieved conscience of having fulfilled a duty, I was about to walk out when my atten tion was attracted by a young lady at one of the tables manipulating a Morse key. With a slight hauteur she turned her back toward me. Was she young: Probably. She certainly was red haired. Was she pretty? Why not? Her simple black dress advantageously dis played a round, agreeable form, her abundant hair was arranged so as to reveal a few ringlets and a splendid white neck, and suddenly a mad, inexplicable desire to plant a kiss upon those golden ringlets siezed me. In the expectation that the young lady would turn around I stopped and asked the elderly women a few questions anent tele graph affairs. Her answers were not at all friendly. The other women, however, did not stir. Whoever supposes that I did not go to the telegraph office the next morning does not know me. The pretty, red haired one was alone this time. Now she was compelled to ehow her face, and saprisi! I could not complain. I purchased some tflegraph stamps, wrote several messages, asked a number of nonsencial ques tions and played the part of a chump with amazing fidelity. She responded calmy, prudently, in the manner of a clever, self pos sessed and polite little women. And I came daily, sometimes twice a day, for I knew when she would be alone. To give my calls a reasonable ap pearance I wrote innumerable let ters to my friends and telegraphed to an army of bear acquaintances a lot of impossible stuff. So it was rumored in Paris that Iliad become deranged. Kvery day I said to myself, "To day, my boy, you must take a dec laration." Hut her cold manner suppressed upon my lips the words "Mademoiselle, I love you." I invariably confined myself to stammering: "He kind enough to give me a 3 sou stamp." The situation gradually became unbearable. As the day for my return ap proached I resolved to bum my ships behind me and to venture all to win everything. I walked into the office and wrote the following message: "Coqtielin, 17 Hotilevard Ilauss man, Paris: "I am madly in lovewitb the lit tle red haired telegraph operator at Haiseninoyen Cert." I tremblingly handed her the telegram. I expected at least that her beau tiful complexion would etfulge. Hut no! Not a muscle relaxed! In the cal mest manner in the world she said: "Fifty-nine centimes, please." Thoroughly nonplussed by this serenity, I fumbled about in my pockets for the coin. Hut I could not find a sou From my pocketbook I took a thousand franc note and gave it to her. She took the bank note ami scru tini.ed it carefully. The examination terminated fa vorable, for her face was very suddenly wreathed in smiles, and she burst into charming ripple of infectious laughter, display ing her inarvelously handsome teeth. And then the pretty young ma demoiselle asked in Parisian cad ence, "Do you want the change':" -From the French of Alphonse Al lats in New York Journal. The steamship Hovic that arrived at N. Y. recently had on board the following animals consigned to i V. Sheldon Co., destined for Chicago. Kleven elephants, seven teen lions, live tigers, five leopards, two bears, three dogs, four pigs, three goats, four sheep, one hyena, three horses, four ponies, two ze bras, sixteen cases of monkeys, twenty-nine cases of parrots, and five cases of storks. It also had eighty-one cases of shells ami two bales of curios. riy jf: Sweetheart's Folqj that's my wife's you know wean U a cheerful, life-is-worth-living expres. m sion, ever since 1 presented her a box ot i f saBuoLA WHITE RUSSIAN O l- .t !i j r r . . one ij aiwap icLommenamg a-x'i soaps to her friends says she i through with experiments has knit wnat sne needed to make labor e , and ensure perfectly clean clotlj She knows what she's talking about-; don't forget it. JAS. S. KIRK & CO., Chicago. Dasky Diamond TarSoap iKiSriftS SIM? OLIVER & RaMGE,- I'KOI'WIKTOKS (IK THfT J J fl nil Ti L THTJ.-!tT-.- .1 'ri i his Firm do their own Killing and 1 use nothing but Cass County Cattle and Swine. FRESH and SALT MEATS I Alw-ivs on hand. (Ol'NTKY rk'OPl'CE srai AS POULTRY, BUTTER & EGGS i:u;ht ami soi.p. CLOCKS. WATCHES t' . . AM) . . JEWELRY, f WALL PAPER, DRUGS AND MEDICINES. For sale by O. H. SNYDER, PI.ATT.SMOITH, - NK UK A SKA -J FOK FlKSr C'LASS D hoxoeraohs Call on . . . 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