PERSONAL, POLITICAL AND PERTINENT.
Here is the way Walt Mason puts it:
"This," said the Able Citizen, as be
looked over the columns of his home
paper, "is what I call a bright and
spicy sheet; it seems to be absolutely
fearless, and wherever it sees the
head of a wrongdoer, it gives that
head a crack. Such a paper illustrates
the true mission of journalism, it is
not only to educate the masses, but to
protect the masses from dishonest peo
ple, and to correct abuses; this can
only be done by an aggressive Hellol
The blamed paper says I am utterly
unlit for the office to which I aspire.
Now, of all the d d reeking, rotten
and reprehensible newspapers in the
universe, this is the worst; I never
want to see the scurrilous sheet in this
house again, and now I'm going down
to knock a shoulder blade out of that
grass-fed editor."
At the races at Lincoln Park, Lin
coln, Thursday W. W. P. the pacer
lowered the world's record for two
miles by about nine seconds.
A remarkable cure is reported in the
case of Ben Gallagher, of the firm of
Paxton & Gallagher, of Omaha, who
went to Denver to consult Schlatter,
the wonderful healer. He was com
pletely run down and unable to sleep
without the use of opiates. One touch
of the messiah cured him so that he is
now a well man. He was treated in a
carriage being unable to stand in line.
Schlatter is reported as appearing in
the face a great deal as Christ appears
in pictures. He is rather tall and is
given credit of being an ignorant man.
He accepts no money, whatever, as he
says he is working for God and that
lie will provide.
The earthquake Thursday morning
was felt as far south as Mississippi, a?
far north as Miles, Mich., and as far
east as eastern Indiana. It was se
vere enough in some localities to throw
people out of bed.
Complaint is made of the entirely
too practical methods of the Lincoln
high school, says the Call more par
ticularly of the inhuman treatment
accorded domestic animals in the
school laboratories by the scientific
teachers, who seem to be exceedingly
kiuptodate" in their methods of in
struction. The instructors are said
to frequently take animals into their
classes and dissect them alive before
the students. Not only the classes as
sembled must stand and witness this
torture, but the cries and whines of
the injured animals may be heard all
over the school. One mother said last
week that her daughter came home al
most sick after having heard the cries
coming from the laboratory, where
this cruel operation was going on.
The Bee says of one of the Omaha
discharged policemen. "He is accused
of having helped himself to everything
in sight on his beat except soap."
Five young men, scions of aristo
cratic families in England, arrived in
Wichita, Kansas, recently, with thirty
trunks and took quarters at the best
hotel in towu. Next day they applied
for work at three fast horse farms,
and offered to work for nothing in
order to learn the American way of
developing speed in horses. Two of
them secured work on the farms, and
the other three have secured work in
livery stables. After their day's work
is done they eo to their hotels, array
themselves in fine linen and live like
lords. One of them, said to be a nephew
of Sir Charles Palmer, is assisting
in taking care of Ashland Wilkes, the
sire of John R. Gentry. Ex.
It is said that John D. Rockefeller
will soon begin the erection of a
chateau which will rival that of Geo.
Vanderbilt in North Carolina. The
Rockefeller mansion will be of white
stone, which will stand near his pres
ent house, commanding a magnificent
view of the Hudson river. The archi
tecture will be of the renaissance
style, and the building will probably
contain several hundred rooms. The
house will be lavishly furnished and
will be lighted by electricity. In ar
chitecture, finish, furnishing and dec
orations it promises to be the finest
country establishment in America.
According to the Nebraska City
News, Paul Morton, who was ap
pointed counsul for the Argentine
Republicat Chicago,as was announced
with so much of a flourish of trumpets,
has most emphatically declined the
position. The salary was $30 per
month and judging from the number
of letters received and requiring ans
wers it would take his whole salary to
pay postage and get nothing for the
time used in dictating bis answers.
That was not the kind of an office
Paul was looking for.
it is said that Secretary Morton is
giving the subject of forest fires
needed attention in their relation to
the cutting off of important water
Applies of the country as well as to
the more direct reducing of lumber
supplies. As an illustration of the
importance of this matter the secre-
tarysays that unless the destruction
of the Adirondack forests is stopped
and that speedily, great cities like
New York, drawing their water sup
plies from the great natural reservoir,
will be without water for domestic
purposes Nebraska City Press.
A train robber in California claims
to have buried $51,000 in the earth,
but forgets the exact location. How
Captain Kidd, of ancient memory,
would like to meet this innocent and
absent-minded train robber. What
stories they could tell of buried treas
ure, and how loud they would laugh
in their sleeves at the fortune hunters
who are still digging for the redouta
ble captain's money.
Uurrant, the San Francisco mur
derer, was last Friday found guilty of
murder in the first degree, and will be
sentenced Thursday of next week.
Jack Dempsey, the prize fighter,
better known as the "Nonpareil,"
died at his home is Portland, Oregon,
Friday, of consumption.
Ex-Congressman Bryan addressed
an audience of 20,000 people on the
silver question at Austin, Texas, Fri
day last. This does not indicate that
he is no longer a drawing card, as the
News wants to make people believe.
Herman W. Mudgett. alias H. II.
Holmes, the notorious murderer and
insurance swindler, was found guilty
of the murder of B. F. Pietzel by a jury
in the courts of Philadelphia Satur
day night, after being out about three
hours. He made application for a re
hearing and the &ame will occur the
18th inst.
Another horrible murder occurred
in Omaha last Sunday, the victim this
time being a little eleven-year-old girl
named Ida Gaskin. The girl was first
criminally assaulted and then chocked
to death. Her body was found in an
out-house of an old vacant building,
and a man named George Morgan has
been arrested as the supposed perpetra
tor of the crime.
The swiftest bird known to the
naturalist is either the vulture, which
is said to make 150 miles an hour, or
the English kestril, which can probably
equal, if not exceed, this speed.
Bedroom slippers are often made of
felt so they will not be heard.
The first perfect robber-proof and
wreck-proof armor-coated mail train,
warranted to withstand almost any
kind of a collision, with no platform
for outlaws to stand on and no doors
of glass to shoot through, was put in
service by the postoffice department
last month. The initial run of a train
of nine of these cars was made over
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad from
Jersey City to St. Louis. Another
new train went into service over the
same road from New York City to Chi
cago. Other roads, noticeably the
Erie and the New York, New Haven
& Hartford, are now building similar
cars and will have them in service
in a few weeks.
The Nebraska university eleven did
up the Missouri university club last
Saturday at Omaha to the tune of
twelve to ten, and great is the rejoic
ing among foot ball enthusiasts in this
state.
The hottest place on the face of the
earth is said to be the desert near Mas
sowah, 133 degress in the shade; the
coldest is in the northwest territory of
Canada, 76 degrees below zero.
At St. Thomas church in New York
City, at noon yesterday. Miss Consuelo
Vanderbilt purchased a "real duke"
for a husband, and becomes the
Duchess of Marlborough. Miss Van
derbilt was more successful in her
purchase than most American girls,
however, as the duke is pretty well
"heeled" himself, and, with Miss
Vanderbilts $5,000,000 dowery, they
will be enabled to "keep house" very
comfortably.
The New York board of health is
reported as announcing that the use of
anti-toxin has cut down the death rate
from diptberia and croup in that city
forty-three per cent.
S. G. Hutchinson, who has been act
ing as the editor of the squash column
in the Press, is thinking of retiring
from the literary field now that the
campaign is over. Nebraska City
News.
It cost Nuckolls county $200 for the
destruction of Russian thistles in one
township and the non-resident tax
payers are suspicious that enough
were left standing to furnish seed for
next year's employment.
The Lincoln Journal has the follow
ing to say regarding a former Cass
county attorney: "S. E. Rockwell of
Havelock will be brought before the
commissioners of insanity Wednesday.
He is a man about fifty years old and
was formerly an attorney. He was in
the asylum, but was discharged as
cured on September 2. Lately he has
begun to show symptoms of bis men
tal malady again."
Eugene Field, the celebrated poet,
journalist and story writer, died at his
home in Chicago last Monday, of heart
failure. lie was born in St. Louis
forty-four years ago, of old colonial
stock, grew up in New York and the
west, and thus came to possess, as a
man, many of the characteristics of
the dwellers in both these sections.
Baby McKee has scarlet fever,
Grand-pa Ben Harrison has been
nursing the little fellow, and is under
quarantine with the rest of the fam
ily at Saratoga. Ben wants to go
away, but the Saratoga authorities
wont let him unless he submits to dis
infection and fumigation.
A Wonderful Invention.
A dispatch in last Sunday's World
Herald from Saratoga, Wyoming, says:
"A large crowd of people assembled
here today to see Fred Kindt give an
exhibition of the workings his life
saving apparatus. The invention con
sists of the inflating of powerful rub
ber bags by the igniting with electricity
of material contained in an iron pipe
which forms gas. The bags used were
seven by five feet, weighing 300 pounds.
One of these bags was attached to an
immense rock weighing 6,000 pounds
and sunk in twenty feet of water in
the North Platte river at this place. A
charge of electricity sent through the
wires made no report, but in two min
utes two-thirds of the bag was above
water and the immense rock was float
ing. The experiment was an entire
success.
"Mr. Kindt, the inventor, is a plain
looking ranchman. lie says his inven
tion is the result oj: the sinking of the
Elbe with its large number of lives,
which disaster weighed on his mind.
The rubber bags, each capable of lift
ing from fifteen to twenty tons, can be
rolled up and fastened to the outside
of a vessel and inflated by the captain
of a ship from the bridge by softly
touching a button. Others of conven
ient size can be placed in like positions
all over the interior of the ship, which
insures entire safety of the vessel and
passengers in case of accident to the
vessel.
"The invention can be used to raise
sunken veesels as well. Experts pro
nounce it the greatest life saving boon
of the age, and its application will
save thousands of lives and millions of
dollars yearly. Mr. Kindt has bean
offered a large sum for his patent and
it is expected that it will soon be in
practical use on the high seas."
The Farmer and the Fakir.
When a man looses $5 from his belief
that the little ball is under one thimble
when it proves to have been under
another, he was intending to scoop
tha operator out of $5 without re
turning any equivalent, and if he gets
left he has only himself to blame.
The thimble rigger comes out ahead,
and the other has no cause to com
plain. So when one buys goods at
less than he knows they can be sold
for he gets little sympathy when the
goods are found to be not as repre
sented. Fakirs flock about the confid
ing farmer like flies about a molasses
jug, and the farmer's dollars go as if
they burned holes in his pockets. Min
neapolis Journal.
Joe & Frank handle the best cloth
ing of the best make at prices that
much inferior goods are sold for.
The Wonderful Shoemaker.
Miss Fern West, who recently re
turned from Denver, has quite an in
teresting story to tell of the Denver
Messiah, Francis Schlater. "Dr"
Schlater appears on the streets at 9
o'clock in the morning and stays there
until 4 o'clock. There is always a
large crowd waiting for him and some
people have been known to stand out
all night, so as to have first place in
line.
Many excursions have been run from
neighboring towns and a great many
folks are going from other parts of the
United States. A colony of sick per
sons went from Grand Island and an
other from Plattsmouth. Fremont
Herald.
Mrs. R. B. Windham went over to
Glen wood last Saturday, called thither
by the death of the three-year-old
child of B.K. Windham, of that place.
Attention is called to the Poland
China hog sale advertised to come off
on Saturday of next week Nov. 9
at the home of Geo. L. Mulertz, 4
miles west of South Bend. Mr. Mul
ertz has a most excellent strain of these
best-of-all hogs, and deserves to have
his sale well patronized.
The conviction of Vic McCarty will
prove a blessing to the people of Sarpy
county, who have feared him and his
associates for the past fifteen years
and have been helpless in their desire
to rid the county of him. Bee.
It will pay you to look at Joe &
Frank's new line of overcoats just re
ceived. Farmers who expect soon to lay in
their winter's supply of coal will
find that Henry Hempel is prepared to
fill all orders for the best quality at
(lowest prices. Yard at the B. & M.
shop yards 33 tf
TWO EVILS.
Written for The Daily Jocbxal.
All day and every day, for years and years,
A shipwrecked mariner, all wan and white.
Sits on a rock and looks with misty sight
Far out to sea. The only sound he hears
Is the beat, beat, tbat echoes in his ears.
The throbs of earth's great heart. All day
the bright
Sun falls upon his bosom; then, the night.
And yet no sail, no welcome sail, appears.
lie had hfs dreams, but he was not content,
And then, at last, a vessel touched the shore,
And back across the crested waves he went
To find his loved ones dwelt on earth no more.
Which fate is worse to dream of home and
friends.
Or land a stranger when the journey ends?
Isabel Richet.
Library Association Excursion.
The National Library Association
of which Miss Olive Jones of this city
is a member, is considering the ad
visability of a trip to Europe next
year, instead of in 1900, as orginally
arranged at the last annual session of
the association, the reason being that
on account of the world's exposition
at Paris in 1900, there will not be
sufficient accommodation for so large
a crowd. A circular letter has been
sent to each member of the association
asking them if they will go next year,
and if so, what month they would pre
fer. The tonnage system is gradually ap
proaching perfection under continued
trials by the Burlington. New switch
lists, way bills and in fact all stationery
which will have to be changed to ac
commodate the new system are being
prepared. It will probably be several
weeks before tonnage is figured on all
Burlington trains.
A Prominent Wholesale Grocer of Omaha
b., Write:
To the afflicted:
Several years ago I discovered a
slight falling and bleedingof the lower
bowel which iucreased and became
very distressing. I made inquiry as
to the nature of the disease and learned
that I had a somewhat aggravated case
of Hemorrhoids or Piles. Was told of
several remedies and used them as di
rected, obtaining thereby some tem
porary relief. Not being satisfied with
such slight relief I cst about for a per
manent cure; when a friend directed
the use of the famous Magnet Pile
Killer. I used it. . Immediate relief
from pain followed, and- soon a com
plete cure was affected.
Very respectfully,
Oscar Allen. V
For sale by Gering & Co.
Money to Loan
On farming lands. Low rates, long
times. Xo delay in securing loans.
Inquire at First National bank. 7
WANTED A MAN: To sell Canadian grown
fruit trees, berry plants, roses, shrubbery,
seed potatoes, etc., for the largest growers of
high grade stock. Seven hundred acres, hardy,
profitable varieties tbat succeed in the coldest
climates. No experience required and fair
treatment guaranteed. Any one not earning
150 per month and expenses, should write us at
once for particulars. Liberal commissions paid
part time men. Apply now and get choice of
territory. LUKE BROTHERS COMPANY.
Jl Stock Exchange Building, Chicago, 111.
Sheriffs Sale.
By virtue of an order of sale, issued by W. II.
Dearing, clerk of the district court within and
for Cass county, Nebraska, and to me directed,
I will on the 7th day of December, A. D.f 1896, at
10o'clock;a. m. of said day at thesouth door of
the court house in the city of Plattsmouth. in
said county, sell at public auction, to the high
est bidder for cash, the following real estate,
to-wit:
Lot No. sixteen 16 In block seven 7, of
Carter's addition to the village of Avoca. Cass
county, Nebraska, together with the privileges
and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in
anywise appertaining; the same being levied
upon and taken as the property of Ellen Web
Ftcrand Owen J. Webster, defendants, to satis
fy a judgment of said court recovered by Peter
Peters, plaintiff, against said defendant.
Dated at Plattsmouth, Neb.. Oct. 30. 1895.
J. C. EiKEXBARY. Sheriff, Cass Co., Neb.
Matthew Gering, Plaintiff's Atty. 45-5
Chris. Wohlfarth,
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DEALER
The Best Bargains in Furniture
and House-Fitting goods ever
offered in Cass county.
Why pay high prices, when you
can get just what you want at
50 per cent less. We buy, sell
and exchang goods.
No. 316 Main Sreet, Plattsmouth.
Wm. Neville & Co.,
WHOLESALE and RETAIL
DEALERS IN
Pore Wines and Liquors
AND THE BEST CIGAES.
Sole Agents for the Celebrated
MILWAUKEE
Pabst Beer.
Deliveries made to any part at the
city or shipped to anyplace.
WM. NEVILLE,
. . . MANAGER, . . .
412 Main Street, - Plattsmouth,, Neb
The Plattsmouth Mills
With the best Machinery made, manufacture
THE BEST BRANDS OF
WHEAT, GRAHAM, jpi
RYE, BUCKWHEAT & IULM
EVERY SACK
Trade Especially Solicited. Runs
Night and Day to Supply Demand.
C. HEISEL, Prop.,
Washington Avenue, Plattsmouth, N8b.
What More Could You Ask ?
PEARLMAN,
The House Furnisher,
Offers to buyers the chance to secure the VERY
BEST in his line which the market affords, and
AT PRICES WHICH ABSOLUTELY DEFY
COMPETITION.
TH E fact that my stock is the Biggest and Best in all
Cass county, deserves the attention of people desiring
something in the FURNITURE line. The three floors of
my store building are full to overflowing with new goods,
and everything goes at "depression" prices. Call and see
for yourself.
I. PEARLMAN, The House Furnisher,
Opposite Court House, Plattsmouth.
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Union Block, Plattsmontn
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And sells at the closest mar
gin. He invites patronage
and guarantees satisfaction.
Call at F. McCourt's old stand.
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Fred Egenberger, Agt.
W. L. Douglas
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Over One Million People wear tho
L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes
All our shoes are equally satisfactory
They give the best vatae for the money.
They equal custom (hoes in style and fit.
Their wearing qualities are unsurpassed.
The prices are uniform stamped on sole.
From Si to $3 saved over other makes.
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DEALER IN
STAPJLE and FANCY
Groceries.
Crockery
FLOUR AND FEED
A Specialty.
One door North of Postoffice
Dr. Alfred Shipman,
Jfy, j Office in Riley Hotel,
( Main Street entrance.
Telephone No. 95. Residence on block south
of M. P, depot.
First National Bank
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
Capital, paid up $50,000
OFFICERS:
George E. Dovzt President
F. B. White Vice president
S. Wattgh Cashier
II. N. Dovbt Assistant Cashier
DIRECTORS:
Georgo E. Dorey, F. E. White. D. LTawksworth
S. Waugb. and H. N. DoTey.
careful attention gl7en to the Interests of
customers. Collections made and promptly
remitted for. Highest market price paid t of
county warrants and state and county bonds