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About Semi-weekly news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1895-1909 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1898)
The Semi Weekly News-Herald PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS ... BY THE . . . NEWS rUULISHINtt COMPANY, M. D. POLK, EDITOR. DAILY EDITION. One Year, in advance, 15 00 Six Months 2 50 me Week, 10 Single Copies 8EMI-WKEKLT EDITION. One Year, in advance, .... $1 00 Sir Months, 50 r.?-E LARGEST CIRCULATION Of any Cass County Paper. W. J. BitYAN has secured 4anothor opportunity to talk. Ilis next ap pearance will bo at Washington, D. C, where he will spoiik at a celebration of JofTerHOu's birthday. Ilis Jackson speech wi.l have to bo ro-edited and brushed up a little before it will p iss mustor. Misa Francis E. Willahd died at a New York hotel yesiorday morning of nervous prostration. She was fifty nine years of age and her homo was at Evanston, 1.1. Her prominence in temperance work made her name familiar in every household. fche was a woman of unusual mental endow ments and would have been prominent in any calling. What about selling those bonds to replenish the treasury which the popo crats assured us would be dore as soon as McKinley went into the white house? '1 he gold reserve is over $ ltio,000,(0u now, and continues to grow. If pupocrats are no better Statesmen thau they are prophets, the country would, po to the dogs very quickly in their hands. The matter of telling bonds to run the govern ment is no longer thought of even in democratic circ.es. As AN illustration of our unreadi ness for war it is stated that an order for 27,000 steel projectiles for naval use, which has been given lo a Head ing steel concern, will keep the entire plant running day and night un til July, says the Philndelphia Times. It is evident that all the energies of Speaker Reed will be required to keej the mouths of our congressional jin goes from going off until our guns are ready to go off if their Eervices are needed. Our congressional jingoes might verv properly read and ponder history of the late war in Gr eece. THE news from Cuba with reference to the cause of the explosion which 6ent the Maine to the bottom of Ha vanna harbor, is as vague and indefi nite today as could well be imagined. The Cuban Junta is certain that Spanish treachery was at the bottom of it, while Uavanna is in mourning over the unfortunate occurrence and showers words of sympathy and con dolence on the government which lost eo many brave seamen. There has been no investigation, and with the giant warship lying at the bottom of the harbor it is not likely that there will be anything definite known for several days. The report that Russia has ordered American armor plate for two of her new vessels at the rate of $500 a ton should do something toward settling the controversy over the cost of that article, says the Philadelphia Ledger. As the American company had to compete with the European makers at some disadvantage as to distance, it is fair to conclude that the Russian gov ernment is not overcharged and that $500 a ton represents only a moderate profit over the cost of production. The fact that Harvtyized steel plate was chosen in preference to that made by the Krupp process is another ele ment of satisfaction, since that is the material with which our own vessels are defended. For shame 1 for shame I will be the universal exclamation in thi3 state when the opinion of the supreme court is read which makes Eugene Moore, the embezzler of $2S,000 of state money, a free man. Moore plead guilty to taking the money, but denied the embezzlement on the ground that he had no right to re ceive the money which had been voluntarily paid over to him. Th supreme court takes the same view oi the case, which, to the untrained legal mind, seems little short of fool ish. The opinion is written by Com missioner Irvine, a democrat, and is acquiesced in by Ragan, the populist, and the republican members of the court Judge Sullivan alone dissent ing. The present state auditor is re ceiving the same funds every day that Moore did, and if a change is not made at the state house pretty soon, he will walk out with his pockets bulging from a surfeit of public money. The new theory that appro priating public money to a man's pri vate use is not a crime, is not likely to become very popular, and will not likely be followed outside of this state. Bartley must feel sicK to think he did not interpose some technicality so that he could steal with impunity. THE PEOPLE WANT HIM. If the republican state convention were to meet this week in all probability it would nominate Judge Hayward, of Nebraska City, as its candi date for governor. Fremont Tribune. Well, neighbor, how would it be next week ? Probably the corpora tions would say no. Nebraska City News. The people of Nebraska, we believe, are in earnest in their desire to make M. L. Hayward governor. His fitness for- the position la pre-eminent and no corporation influence is strong enough to defeat him. PROSPERITY AT WORK. Are we prospering ? There was a mass of snow on the streets yesterday morning; we know that in some resi dence districts not an idle man could bo found willing to take a job of side walk cleaning, says the Chicago Chronicle (dem,) A year or .two ago the drowsy householder was awakened from his sleep or was disturbed at his breakfart by penis at his bell made by men in Bearch of a job. Last month the relieving oflicer for Cook county gave coal and provisions to 0,116 families; in January, 1897, he gave help to 12,40'J. The outlay on county charities for January. 18'J8, was $14,076; in January, 1S97, it was $32, 2'Zl. Evidently prosperity is begin uing to work, us it ought to, from the bottom up. INFORMATION AND Ol'INIONH. A man lay on a hospital bed. In a fight his nose was broken, The idea slowly entered his head That the wisest words he ever said Were the ones he hadn't spoken. Chicago News. The glucose trust has put on the market a by-product called "flourine," which.it is expected, has been adopted by a lrge number cf millers who feel a philanthropic desire to k.3ep the price of flour from soaring up into the clouds with Mr. Leiter's wheat. It is made from corn, it looks even whiter than flcur, and it is guaranteed to contain nothing of an injurious char acter. Whether it bears any relation to the new corn flour is net fully ex plained. The millers are making a big disturbance over all of these sub stitutes for flour and are demanding that they re driven out of the market m om manner. The public does not f.-el much afraid cf any kind of Hour made from corn and will be content with legislation requiring an accurate branding of the goods. That is all the flour miller s have a right to ask. State Journal. Isaac Pollard & Son left at our sane turn a bushel of apples Saturday from their cold storage, which were as firm and sound as the day they were picked f ; om the trees. They have their crop of winter apples on hand yet. Ne bawka Register. James Parton was a biographer of the old school and the publication of an extract of his book giving informa tion about General Jackson, published in the last volume of "The World's Best Literature," reminds one of the fact, says an exchange. The para graph that holds up the old hei o to the world as the man who by his vic tory at New Orleans "secured an hon orable peace between Great Britain and the United States," putting an end to the war of 1812, is an instance of loose historical statement that is very characteristic. The treaty of peace was signed at Ghent more than a week before the battle, but neither Jackson or Packenham had beard of it. The battle was thoroughly legiti mate and a good thing for the glory of the republic, but notwithstanding, it was a cruel mistake, for which per haps Morse was to blame for not in venting the electric telegrapn sooner. Lovely woman in Italy now leads a calf about by a ribbon. In this coun try she usually has him on a string. There were filed with the county clerk last evening articles of incor poration of the church of Christ (Scientists) which has been organ ized in thi3 city. The officers elected for the ensuing year by these Christian Scientists are: E. D. Mc Callum, president; Mrs. N. Mc Callum, clerk; first reader, Mrj. F. P. Ireland; second reader, Mrs. N. McCallum; treasurer, Mrs. S. L. Co?; directors, Mrs. M. E. Billings, Mrs. V. Henderson, J. A. Colins. There has been such a rapid inc-ease in the number of Christian Scientists that it was de cided to organize into a separate organization and eventually purchase or erect a church of their own in this city. Nebraska City News. Elder J. It. Strong went to Elmwood Monday with Mesdames Carper, S. Humphrey, E. M. Pollard and Misses Mary Hall and Tennie Frank, who were baptized by the elder in the bap tistry in the Christian church at that place. E. M. Pollard and Mesdames J. M. Stone, D. C. West and J. C. Frank, the latter of Union, accom panied the party and they all returned on the afternoon train. Nehawka Register. The official illustrated souvenir of the Transmississippi and International exposition, containing engravingj of the Nebraska commission, head offi cials of the exposition and public offi cials of the state, also beautiful illus trations consisting of every building on the exposition grounds and prin cipal buildings throughout the state, will be published by Campbell's Illus trated Journal, which received from the officials and also from the United States government, the highest and only medal and diploma for illustrat ing and authentically describing the construction, buildings, exhibits and attractions of the World's Columbian exposition. Mr. Campbell will devote a few pages of the coming issue of the Journal to the history and interests of Plattsmouth, as her greeting to the great Transmississippi and Interna tional exposition. A mile of wire netting purchased by the farmers of the Klamath Fall, Oregon, neighborhood is to be used for rabbit drives. The wire will be placed in a V-shape, with a slaughter pen at the head. By the aid of a few whippers-in. the bunnies will be ex pected to flock into the trap like bheep into the slaughter pen. KKI'LIKN TO li. U. TODD'S LETTER, Nehawka, Feb. 16, 1808. Editor News: I think that characteristic letter of L. G. Todd's published in The News of February 20th, merits an answer. Having as yet saw noth ing thiit couid bo called such, and. not wishing to sou so prominent a fellow citizen as Goo Todd thus blighted, I enter upon the somewhat tedious task myself. The Goo says: "If we borrowed gold and agreed to pay in the same kiud of money, your joint is a strong one." Well, that is ju-?t what we did do to a very great extent, until gold went to a premium. The first bonds that were sold in 1861 over $1,000,000,000 wei e exchanged for gold, dollar for dollar; American gold, too, furnished by the banks of Philadelphia, New YorK and Boston. Again ho says: "English gold was sold in the United Statei for green backs; one dollar in "gold for two and a half in greenbacks." That is true. These greenbacks were exchanged for United States bonds drawing good interest. That is true. "About $-300,000,000 known as 'five twenties' were is ued." That is true. "And payable in the same kind of money paid for them." That is not true. Now what is ,trueV The 500, 000,000 five-twenties, better known as the "old five twenties," did not specify that they were to be paid in gold or in any other kind of money. But they did specify that the interest was payable in gold semi-annu illy. Also that they were i edeemable iu five and payable in twenty years. Redemption and payment are terms that meant gold or its equivalent. We cou.d either have bean effected in any thing else. No state bank note or United States note at this time had the woid gold on its face, but simply "will pay bearer ten dollars on de mand." That meant gold or coin dol lars, and were always paid in sueh when presented for redemption. It was just so with the bonds. But the credit strengthing act, af terwards passed, he says, made them payable in coin. That is true, hut they were just as certainly payable in coin without tbat act as with it. Tne act did not change the character, but only reaffirmed what had before been plainly implied not in all cases plainly expressed that coin, siiver coin and gold coin, should bo the money of final redemption. Inas much as gold was the standard and silver comparatively scarce it pointed to gold. In this connectiun it is only proper to state that it w;:s at this period that the greeubacker in poli tics was evolved, and commenced a howl that has not died out yet. He went roaring up and down the laud, exclaiming, "Pay the bonds otf in greenbacks and let tbe greenbacks look out for themselves." As a result of this wild cry, the question of pay ing the bonds in greenbacks became a mooted one, hence the credit strengthening act. While not deeming it appropriate to the subject to drag into it questions of scriptural faith as the fall of man, etc., which my friend, avers, was not so well established as this 16 to 1 bimetalic; theory. I may say that one fact that might be offered in sup port of that particular tenet is the persistency with which some of the species cling to the monstrous and long 6ince exploded doctrine of fiat money coupled with and depending upon a vain, vile and scheme the creation of wealth and value by legis lative enactment. L. J. Griffith. Supreme Court Decisions. The following cases appealed from Cass county have been passed upon by the supreme court: Karnes vs. Dovey. Error from Cass county. Affirmed. Opinion by Chief Justice Harrison. It is the purpose of the statuary law to absolutely exempt from forced ap plication to payment of indebtedness the sixty days' wages of parties de signated in the statute. 2. If an account, claim or evidence of indebtedness has been sold and as signed by the party to whom it be longed, and in an action in the courts of this or another state or territory the exempt wages of the debtor have been taken under process and applied to the payment of such indebtedness in an action by the debtor against the original owner thereof to recover tbe amounts as provided by statute, he may, if there are facts shown in evi dence from which an inference or conclusion might be drawn that the assignment had been made without any intent or purpose on the part of the assignor to avoid or evade the effect of the exemption laws, the question of the existence or non-existence of such inteution or purpose is one of fact to be determined by the jury under appropriate instructions, and an instruction requested to be given wbicb igno es said p-oposition is erroneous and its refusal proper. 3. Errors in giving instructions and in refusals to give requested instruc tions must be separately assigned in the motion for a new trial ai d petition in error. Where this rule is violated and the trial court's action is tie er mined to have been pi oper as to one of either of instructions given or re fused in relation to which errors have been assigned in gross,-the assign ment need be no further considered. State ex rel. Thomas Clock Co. vs. Cass county. Error from Cass countj-. Reversed. Opinion by Judge Sullivan. One in whose favor a claim has been dully allowed by a county board may, by mandamus, compel the issuance of a warrant for the payment of such claim. 2. The validity of an order of a county board allowing a claim connot be raised for the first time in thiscourt in a case brought here by appeal or petition in error. 3. A denial that the relator "is a corporation duly organized under the lews of the btate of New York" does not put in issue the relator's corporate existence. 4. Evidence examined and held in sufficient to sustain , respondents' plea of payment. A DEAD CARNATION. Leonard Contrmplatm the Content f m Dealt Drawer. The desk drawer, opened, exhaled an odor of faded flowers. "Let us plunge into the atmosphere cf sweet memories," said Leonard. Wifo absent, Leonard, addressing Bayard, his most intimate friend, indi cated withered blossoms. Faded and grown musty in the lapse of years, they reposed at the bottom of the desk drawer. "This lily," said Leonard, sighing, "was the flower given me by Blanche, my first love, when I took from her lips a timid kiss. She was as white as its impeccable petals, fragrant as its pure corolla, graceful as its drooping stem, and who knows what might have happened had she not died in the bloom of youth?" "And the rose?" asked Bayard. "Ah, that was later 1" said Leonard, with a burst of laughter. "Rosette gave me that when she first brushed my lips with her own. The petals were once rosy as her warm being, and the flower's beauty was radiant and amorous as her young womanhood. If she had not been fickle, she might now be my wife." "And the orchid?" queried Bayard. "Hippolyta presented me with that," said Leonard, thoughtfully, "when Bhe saw me trembling in adoration at her feet. Time was when it had the mystio charm of her own perverse personality, and if a Russian nobleman had not eloped with her I should still be her de voted slave. " Bayard discovered a bunch of faded violets. "And these?" he interrogated. "They were the flowers," murmured Leonard sadly, "which Etienette sent me when I had treated her brutally, be lieving that she had deceived me. She was demure and tender as the blooms, and, after the storm of my passions, she came like a peaceful sprite to pour beauty and love into my life. Had she forgiven me, it might have been" At this point Leonard interrupted himself, seizing angrily a dead carna tion. "Why is this flower here?" he cried. "It has no place among the precioua memories. Away with it at once!" In a moment the unresisting carna tion was reduced to dust under his piti less foot. "Why do you destroy it?" questioned Bayard. "Because it is the carnation Emilia gave me when she said she would be my wife," said Leonard, cynically, "and I married her." Philadelphia Bulletin. Hard to Heat a Boy. A cigar dealer in the west end said to a reporter for the Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune : "It takes a mighty 6harp man to get ahead of a boy! for a fact. One of them came in here not long ago, and he was old enough to buy cigarettes and wanted a package. I sold them and got the money. In a minute a neighbor came in and wanted to know what the boy bought. I told him. "'Well,' said he, 'that beats the devil 1 Do you know what that boy did? He was in my store about five minutes ago and asked me to buy a pamphlet that is issued by the Anticigarette league, whatever that is. He told me that the boys in the public schools were trying to sell them everywhere to do away with the bad habit of cigarette smoking among the schoolboys. I thought it was a good thing, and I bought one from him. He sold some others in the same neighborhood. Now that little rascal comes in here and spends my money for cigarettes, and I'll bet a dollar that you'll find him around here somewhere near smoking for all that's out. I'm going to look him up. "The next day I asked him if he had caught the kid, and he said: " 'I did. He and some chums were having a good time of it, and, more than that, all of them were in the same business. They thought it was a good joke, and I suppose it was on me but if they come around my store again they'll get booted out.' "But," said the cigar dealer, "they are too sharp to get caught. They only work one man at a time, and none of the gang ever goes back again. They keep a list, and I expect an examination will show that they have been to every store in that whole neighborhood. Where they get the pamphlets I do not know, but I imagine some of the good people of the league had them printed for gra tuitous circulation, and the boys con cluded to sell them. They're pretty slick." Felt Acquainted. A Boston lady of the most reserved and exclusive type was waiting for her change at the glove counter in one of the large stores when she was ap proached by a very large, gaudily dressed and loud looking woman, who held out a pudgy hand in a bright green kid glove and said: "Why, how do yoa do, Mrs. Blank?" Mrs. Blank ignored tbe proffered hand and, drawing herself up stiffly, said frigidly: "I do not think that I know you, madam." "No, I s'pose not," replied the wom an, in nowise embarrassed by the cold ness of her reception, "but I've knowed you by sight for a long time, and now I've got a hired girl who worked at your house once, a year or two ago, and she's told me so much about you that I feel real well acquainted with you. Pleas ant day, ain't it? Well, if she ain't po lite to sail off without so much as a word! Shows her raisin, anyhow!" Harper's Bazar. Modern Methods. Diggs I just finished reading an ac count of how they burned heretics at the stake in ancient times. Such bar barism would not be tolerated in this enlightened age. Biggs No, indeed ! The modern heretic is let off with a roast in the re ligious journals. Chicago News. Take Off the Horns. The undersigned is now ready with a good portable chute and tools, to re move the weapons of horned cattle at 10 cents per head for a herd of cattle, 25 cents for a single animal. It never gets lo cold to dehorn cattle. Any time after fly-time, until the first week in April is tha right time. Af ter that it is too late. If those who wish to have such work dono will ad dress me at Rock Bluffs, Neb., they ill be promptly answered. S. L. Furlong. The sun dial. On which was written, "I murk only the brlKht hours." ! I tnarlc the bright hours, and only the bright; ! I dwell not In dnrknusH, but ever in light ; I garner the sun sheaves and drttam nut of nltfht. ' Fast, fiu-t fades the bri&litnesrf.. the bloom o' tho years, And life- seuks tho light while iba durknuss it fears. 'Tia too swift for your sighing, too sweet for your tears! I mark the bright hours. Tho fhadow is oast Bo soon on life's morning the noonduy is post, j Treasure light for the night treauure light to the last! Atlanta Constitution. REMARKABLE TOWNS. One In England That Is Made of Railway Carriage. Scattered throughout tho area of Great Britain are numerous towns and villages of a curious character. One large village actually consists of old railway carriages, even tbe little mis sion chapel being built out of four largo horse trucks. Another village, with a population of 1, 100 and a ratable value of 8,000, has neither church, chapel nor school, the only public edifice being a pillar letter box. Villages with a single inhabitant are not unknown. At Skiddaw, in Cumber land, there is a solitary householder, who cannot vote because there is no overseer to prepare a voters' list and no church or other publio building on which to publish one, while the only ratepayer in a certain rural Northum berland parish has recently declined to bear the expense of repairing a road be cause he considers it quite good enough for himself. In the isle of Ely there is a little parish which has been somewhat con temptuously described as "a portion of land, with three or four houses and per haps 12 inhabitants." This place has no roads at all and is consequently put to no expense in keeping them in repair. As a matter of fact, there are no ex penses of any kind and no rates. One of the most remarkable villages in this country is Kemptou, near Bod ford, which is seven miles long and ex tremely straggling. To walk from one end of the village to the other occupies two hours. Sometimes whole villages will prac tically disappear. A little Shropshire village has gradually sunk, until now it is almost out of sight. It is built on a disused coal pit, and the sinking goes on steadily every year. Now and then a tottering house is propped up to keep it standing, but in spite of all precau tions buildings are constantly falling to the ground, and in course of time doubt less nothing will be left but a few bricks to mark the spot where a village once stood. There are plenty of deserted villages throughout the country. A diversion of trade into other channels is sometimes sufficient to produce this effect. Not many years ago the proprietors of an iron works at a town let near Sheffield, being unable to obtain certain conces sions from a railway company, removed their works. Shortly afterward half the place was to let, and the windows of many of the houses were boarded up. Loudon Tit Bits. Versatile. "I ran across a station agent up in the bills the other day who came as near being jack of all trades as any man I ever struck," said Henry Darby. "I refer to a little dried up looking fel low, with more energy than Carter had oats and more irons in the fire than any blacksmith of long experience could possibly keep his eye on. To start with, my little friend is express, freight and ticket agent, has a 10 cent store, sends a telegraph message when he has to, al though his is not a train order office; is postmaster, treasurer for the local Sun day school union and two lodges and acts as distributer for a Bible society. Then he is examiner for an insurance company, issues policies for fire, acci dent and tornado insurance, is switch tender at his place, buys fruit for one eastern house in summer and produce for another in fall and winter. He has long been a justice of the peace, was twice school trustee and councilman, is a deacon in his church and a leader of the hamlet choir. He was chairman of the city Republican committee, Las the agency for platform scales and riding cultivators, sells thrashers and light vehicles and finds time to fish a little every spring." Louisville Post. Informal Receipt. Uneducated people sometimes have a happy knack in coming to the point. Here, for example, is a story from the Boston Herald: Dan and Mose, neither of them noted for erudition, were partners in an enter prise which it is needless to specify. One morning a customer called to settle a small bill and after banding over the money asked for a receipt. Mose retired to the privacy of an inner room and after a long delay re turned with a slip of paper, on which were written these words: " We've got our pay. Ale and Dan." A Chestnut. Ralph Waldo Emerson once told a good story of a friend who always car ried in his pocket a horse chestnut as a protection against rheumatism, just the same as other people wear shields and other specifics. Emerson thus testifies to the results in his friend's case: "He has never had the rheumatism since he began to carry it, and indeed it appears to have had a retrospective operation for he never had it before." A plant grows in Assam which has the peculiar property, when chewed, of temporarily neutralizing the sense of taste as regards sweet and bitter things. The Hindoos claim that the plant ia an antidote to snake bita Out of the enormous number of wom en in Constantinople the population is nearly 1,000,000 not more than 5,000 can read or write. From everyweere come words of praise for Chamberlain's Cough Re medy. "Allow me to congratulate you on the merits of your Remedy! It cured me of chronic bronchitis when the doctor could do nothing for me." Chas. F. Hemel, Toledo, O For sale by all druggists. Itargain In Fine Hog's. Thoroughbred Poland China male hogs, eight months old, for sale. Call on or address J. G. Richey, Platts mouth, Neb. For fire insurance see Thrasher. BELDING BROS. & Co., Silk Manufacturers, Mesa. Jaa. S. Kirk A Co., Chicago, Ilia. Gentlemen: We have given your "WhlteCloud" soap a thorough test In washing pieces of linen embroidered with our "New Process" Wash Embroidery Silks and lind It entirely satisfactory. Wo take pleasure in recom mending it as a superior article for laundering lino embroidery. Yours truly, (S'gned) r.Ki.pixo Bkoh. & Co. Refering to the above, we deem it important to state solicited bv us. White Cloud I - . .- - . - j j Soap now has the highest authority as its endorser as being i superior for fine laundry work. For the bath and toilet it also ranks first as a pure white JAS. Established 1839. Lnrjrect soan mnnufrtr Permanently cum red bv using I)U. WHITEHALL'S KIIIXMATIC CUKE. Tl est. Sold by druggists on a positive guarantee. Prico f0 con surest and Ihe 1m npr Iioy Kiiinnln srit froo nn nipntinn THE Dlt. WHITEHALL C3 b:jj a Fine Violin a(. i ; i.?!i ie Outfit. " CO buys a Mandoline, j , Hirdseye Maple, Mahogany or Rose wood Finish. Fully guaranteed. CO bays An American guaranteed to stand. strings, in Mahogany or Rose wood finish. SEND FOU CATALOUUE OF SHEET MUSIC GO buys a $100 Organ. i ni ball Pianos 1 Oigans ON EASY PAYMENTS. nth, little used, for $50, $60, $80 to $100. Write for CaUloffnes und oar HOCPE, JR., They banish pain -and prolong life, 1 5D .531 m m A ml 4 kj No matter what the matter is, one will do you good, and you can get ten for five cents. 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PACTOltY PRICES. 1513 Douglas Street, OMAHA, NEB. OMIT H win fy UlVP-b RELIEF. ? .5 can ! hul ty until hy iiJniir forty '(jfht rents -FIRST- NATIONAL BANK Oi" PLATTSMOTTII, N KB.; PAID UP CAPITAL. $50,000 Offers the very beslraciiities for the prompt transaction of I Legitimate Banking Business. STOCKS, bonds, .fold, irovernrnent and loi a. securities iwuaht and sold. iJeposlts re ceived and Interest allowed on ttie cerlU cates. Drafts drawn, available In any part of the U. S. an-J all the principle towns of Europe. Collections made and promptly remitted. IJluhefit .market price paid for county warrants, state and county bonds. . DIRECTORS: ' H. N. Dovey. I). Haw ksv.orth, . Wnuifli I y. II. White. G. E. Dovey. ' co. E. Dovey. l'res., S. Waugh, Cashier, J . H. N. Dovey, Asst. Cashier. Plattsmouth Coal Yard is Tin: l'laci: to iiuv HARD COAL, CANON CITY, SOFT COAL ALL GRADES OF WOOD. Hay, Corn, Oats and all Kinds of Feed Constantly on lland. EGENBERGER S TROOP, THIRD AND MAIN'-STS. 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