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THE ADVERTISER
O&eial Taper of City and Ccriinty.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27. 1874.
REPUBLICAN STATK COSTESTIOX
A Republican State Convention
will"be held at Lincoln, on Wednes
day, September 2nd, 1874, at 3 o'clock
p. in., for the purpose of placing in
noin-ination one candidate for mem
ber of Congress, one candidate for
Member of Congress contingent, can
didates tor Governor, Secretary of
State. Treasurer. Superintendent of
Public Instruction. State Prioion In- jng G2 pounds to the measured bush-
KJJtiUlUI , ttllU .ILLUIIIC UCIIL'IUI, U1JU
for the transaction of such other bus
iness a may properly come before it.
The Delegats preseut for each Ju-
FOR FAR21BItS TO CONSIDEIi.
The Missouri Democratsaya it "has
frequently had occasion to call the at
tention of farmers to the great ad van
tage to be gained in drilling win
ter wheat into the soil rather than
sowing it broadcast. Maj. Stewart,
of Humboldt, Kansas, says that his
wheat crop has just been threshed
out, one piece of ten acres averaging
fmirfppn bushels to the acre, one of
seven acres twenty-four bushels, an
other of twenty acres twenty-seven
huohpls nil of the best duality of
white Tapuahannock wheat, weigh
dicinl District will nominate a suit
able person for District attorney for
their respective districts.
The organized counties aro entitled
to delegates upon the following basis:
Counties east of the Sixth P. M.
should be entitled to one delegate for
each 1.000 inhabitant-, according to
the census taken during the current
year, aud one for each fraction over
500. But each organized county shall
be entitled to at least one delegate.
Organized counties west of the fith P.
M. shall be entitled to one deligate
each, and one additional delegate for
each 1,000 inhabitants, according to
the census aforesaid, and one for each
fraction over 500, as follows :
Arlnmc ITeiTerson ........ .........f
AnteloDOt... .2 Johnson ,.... .....5'
Boone... ... 2,Kcarney .
Bntler..... ......4-Keith .....
Burl.. 4 Lancaster...
JSnffaio .........S.Llncoln
Cass....... .. 10 Madison
ChaiC- 1 Merri ck....
Ccilar. .... 2 Nemaha
Clay 5 Nuckolls..
Col fax ........ ..........3iOtoo
Cheyenne
Cuming ......,
Dakota-..
Dawson. .........
Dixon
Dodge ... ..
Douglas
Dandy
Frauklln......
FIlinore...
Faurnas......
Frontier
Gage ...-....
Goper
Harlan
Hall
Howard..
Hitchcock......
Hamilton......
Holt
.1
.1
...14
....3
...4
....4
....8
....2
".Vi'j
,.3!Pnwnec.. i
.4'PIerce - 2
..3 Platte 5
.2 Phelps ...- .1
Mo A Oil? .. "!
...7fRcd Willow 2
.23' Richardson 15
...1 iSallne . 8
,.3 Sarny 3
,5 Saunders.-
...2 Seward ..
...1 Stanton .......
5 Sherman
1 Thayer .
...3 Vnllcy ....... -
..5I Washington
wayne i
Webster. .. 3
tOriv D
Uaorganlzed Ter 1
...9
-.7
...1
,1
...3
...I
..-5
!
Total M 260
The counties are recommended to
elect alternate delegates, to act In case
the delegates elect fail to attend the
Convention ; and thecountiesare rec
ommended to exclude proxies for
delegates that do not reside in the
couutie3 they propose to represent.
By order of the Committee.
F. M. JOHNSOX, Ch'n.
C. H. GERE, Seo'y.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVEN
TION. Brownville, Aug. 12, 1874.
In accordahce witii an order of the
Republican County Central Commit
tee for Nemaha County, made at its
meeting on the 25th of July, 1874, and
pursuant to the foregoing call of the
Republican State Central Committee,
the Republicans in the various pre
cincts in Xemaha county are request
ed to meet on Saturday, the 22d inst.,
at their respective places of votiug,
for the purpose of electing delegates
to the County Republican Convention
to be held at McPherson Hall in
' Brownville, Nebraska, on Saturday,
August 29th, iS7l, for the purpose of
electing eight delegates and eight al
ternates to the Republican State Con
vention, which meets at Lincoln on
Wednesday, September 2nd, 1874, for
the purposes specified In the call of
the Stato Ceutral Committee. The
following is a list of the representa
tion to "which the several precincts
will be entitled :
Ialand... . . 1 Brownville- 10
Peru -.. 7 Nemaha City... . 4
Glen Rock 2 Asplnwall 4
Lafayette. 4 St. Deroln.. 2
Washington I Bedford 2
Douglas .... ...... 2 Benton . 2
London - 3
The County Convention will also
cousider the propriety, and, if deem
ed advisable, will nominate the Re
publican candidates for members of
the Legislature, and two County
Commissioners.
The annual election of a county
ceutral committee will also take place
at said county convention.
B. M. BAILY, Ch'n.
J. Stevenson, Sec'y.
The Democrats of Tennessee have
nominated a Judge Porter for Govcr
u or.
el. The ten acres yielding only iour-
teen bushels to the acre was sown in
corn, aud froze out badly. The other
pieces were drilled in. His entire
crop averaged 225 bushels to the acre.
The difference between 14 bushels to
the acre (broadcast sowing) and 27
bu-hels to the acre (drill sowing), is
13 bushels; almost 100 per cent, and
ought to determine every farmer at
once as to which method is the best.
Thirteen bushels of wheat per acre
saved by using a drill on the above
ten-acre patch would have more than
paid for a drill.
The Democratic Central Committee
of OtnejQpunty has issued a call for a
county' convention, at which action
the 2?eiu8 old Bourbon Democrat to
the back-bone, but thinks policy Is
better for success, sometimes, than a
square fight becomes very much in
censed, and calls such old Democratic
steamboats as Tuxbury, Hawke,
Moore, Croxton, &c, an "old Demo
cratic ring." This ring and the or
gan, wh'Ich is the News, didn't have
a perfect understanding as to the best
way for the Democracy up there to
succeed, is just what's the matter
and nothing more. The News wants
the Democracy to figure into office
through the farmers' movement, the
same ganae as is being played in this
county. The Hews says the Demo
cratic party is dead in Otoe County,
and the Granger down here saj's the
Democratic party is dead in Nemaha.
That is the way the thing Is worked
be the Democracy wherever they are
in the minority. Anybody with half
sense can see the transparency of the
scheme, and the Republican farmers
of this county will defeat it badly
mark that.
The Ashland Republican brings out
a gentleman by the name of Moses
Stocking, for gubernatorial honors.
Judge Samuel S. Marshall has been
nominated for Congress by the Demo
crats of the nineteenth Illinois dis-f
trlct.
Hon. Chas. J. Faulkner, of the sec
ond district of West Virgiuia, has
been-nominated for Congress by the
Democracy.
It looks oddly enough to see old Re
publican (now Independent) candi
dates pulling wires, and whispering
on the corners, and hobnobbing with
old Bourbon Democrats. But that is
the only hope for them now under
existing circumstances. Their "form
er companions have left them and
gone" their friends of the Republi
can party will not staud by them in
their deviations from true principles.
One of this kind of candidates a day
or two ago took great pains to explain
to a Democrat how he might be elect
ed. The plan sucrEested was. that If
the Democracy would vote the Inde
pendent ticket, solid, he thought
there would be a sufficient number of
Republicans who would go with the
uew party to make "our ticket" suc
cessful. This anxious gentlemen com
prehends the situation just as it is
that the Independent party la really
the Democratic party, with a few Re
publicans who are led away thro' the
bosh and lies about corruption as
harped on by Democratic politicians
and papers. But that this scheme
will not hold and control more than
a very small number of old Republi
cans, we are becoming daily more
convinced by the development of po
litical movements and the true senti
ments and intent of the party. When
Republicans become so hard pushed
as to whisper their hopes and fears in
to the ears of old Democrats, we think
they are going to a poor market with
their wares, however cheap they may
be.
Wm. Dudley, an old citizen of De
Kalb County, Mo., recentlj while
hunting squirrels, saw what he sup
posed to be a squirrel moving a bush
in a plum thicket, and instantly fired ;
but judge of his consternation when
at the crack of his gun the agonized
scream of a child went up from the
bushes. He had shot a little boy
about eight years old who was en
gaged in gathering plums. The boy
was a son of James Sloan.
Col, Wm. A. Phillips was nomina
ted for Congress by the Republicans
of the Leavenworth, Kansas, district,
by acclamation, one the 20th inst.
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The Brookly Argus says : "One of
the Marines" asks us what we think
of "Tilton's blackmailing operations."
Our belief Is that the tallest pole takes
the persimmon, but we do not dis
tinctly remember any instance of a
blackmailer challenging his victim to
meet him in a court of justice.
Au Inter-Ocean correspondent tells
about some curiosity hunters opening
some mcunds near Rockford, III., and
the finding of a "tablet of Niagara
epar, 2 inches wide, 3 long, and one
fourth of an inch thick," with rough.
ly engraved characters thereon. The
bones and implements of some of the
aborigines were also found.
Some of the North Platters make
matters appear rather discouraging
for Mr. Crounse. The West Point
Republican says :
The Lincoln Journal comes wide
from the mark when it states that
Judge Ctounce will carry Northern
Nebraska almost unanimously. Wo
can name at least a dozen counties
that haven't the most remote idea of
giving their representative votes in
in favor of Crounse for Congress, at
the approaching Republican Repub
lican State Convention.
Hon. A. H. Buckuey addressed the
people of Warren county at the Dem
ocratic meeting at Warrenton, Mo.,
recently. The Warrenton Banner
says :
"He handled the civil-rights bill,
the land grant bill, the currency, the
national debt, the revenue, and other
measures in a telling manner. He
held that the depression of the labor
ing classes of the West was brought
about by the money lords of the East.
He wanted the tar taken off of whis-
ty end tobacco, and wanted more
fgen backs. The West wants cheap
money, cheap tobacco, and cheap
aisKy."
The St. Joe. Herald says : Ex-Senator
Robert Toombs, of Georgia, is
kicking up lm heels in an intractable
way again. In denying the rutfior
that he intends to become a candidate
for Congress, he says: "If every
man, woman and child in this district
was to rise up and press this position
ou me, I would not take it. I hate
the government of the United States,
and would give my life to overthrow
it." As an incarnation of the evil
spirit of braggadocio and vnin-glori-ousness,
Toombs is quite a success.
Mr. Toombs is a leader in the Dem
ocratic party of the State of Georgia,
if we remember correctly.
The papers now are gathering up
and publishing Theodore Tilton's
poems. . Oueof the latest is a pretty-
piece, describing how his love, when
he first met her, was spinning. The
last Hue reads:
"And still I watch her spinning."
Possibly he may watch her. but she
usesBeecher's spindle. Kama Chief .
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Beecher, saysTthe telegraph, has re
cently made a short, explicit denial
under oath, of ever having auy illicit
familiarity with Mrs. THton. His is
certainly a strnnge icasei
The Republican State convention of
Alabama was held at Montgomery on
the 20th inst. Amongst other mat
ters promulgated, the resolutions de
clare an unshaken confidenceaud un
alterable devotion to the great princi
ples of human liberty ; shat the Re
publicans of Alabama have never
claimed or desired, and do not now,
the social equality of different races,
and regret the issue of race against
race, tendered by the Democratic
party, and which if persisted in by
that party, will plunge us ngain into
war with the government of the
United State's, that they neither de
sire nor Keek the invasion of the
white people by the colored, but only
nsk eoual advantages in matters of
public and common rights, and that
the Republican party does not desire
nor seek a mixed school or mixed ac
commodations of the colored people,
and wants no special equality enforc
ed by law, and that the fact is recog
nized that every house should be sac
red from intrusion, and that In a free
country ever one should dictate for
himself. We think this is not bad
Republicanism.
THE BLACK HILLS.
Lieutenant General Sheridan has
received the following dispatch from
Brigadier General Terry at St. Paul :
"A dispatch from Custar just re
ceived, dated Bear Butte, August 15th
says he began his return march on the
7th. He intended to rest a day at
Bear Butte, and then start for Fort
Lincoln by a different road from that
which he took going out. He reports
his men and animals in excellent con
dition, and no trouble from the In
dians." Another dispatch from Custar says
the expedition has completed the ex
ploration of the Black Hills, which
proves even richer than has before
been reported. Gold and silver is
found in numerous places and in
quantities so great that with a pick
aud pan a single man may make one
hundred dollars a day. The distance
from Bismarck to the gold region is
about 255 miles, over a practicable
route. The citizens of Bismarck are
greatly excited, "'and already expedi
tions are organizing.
ANOTHER. REV. RAKE.
Rev. John H. Glondenning was a
pastor in charge of a Presbylerian
church in Jersey City. Mary Pome
roy was a young, beautiful and virtu
ous member of his congregation and
an organist of his church. The Rev
Glendenning seduced Miss Pomeroy
who became the mother of his illegit
imate child. A short time after the
child was born the mother died, and
on her death bed declared that it was
her preacher who had blasted her fair
name and brought her to a premature
death. The minister who preached
the funeral, before he commenced
took the little babe the accidental
waif in his arms and gave it a name,
as It had no father thpt would own it,
but it was given the name of Its fath
er. It was christened Ellen S. Glen
denning. The people of Jersey City
held a meeting of indignation and
ordered the Rev. Glendenning to leave
che city, but this he refused to do,
and has asked his church for an inves
tigation, which he will get of course,
and be acquitted he will be Beecher
ized and have his salery raised, very
likely.
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THE KANSAS BORDER MENACED
BY AN INDIAN AVAR.
On the 22d inst. Gov. O-borne, of
Kansas, telegtapl.ed the War Depart
ment at Washington, as follows :
'I have information through Indian
Agent Stubb and other sources, that
the Osage tribe of. Indians have at a
general council, declared war against
this State. Depredations have already
been committed by them on our
southwestern border. The Stato has
but few arms, and there are but few
United States troops near to forbid it,
belug now in the Indian Territory at
a great distance from the Osage reser
vation, thus leaving the frontier set
tlements of this State exposed to gre.at
danger, but with arms can defend our
border. Can you furnish 2.000 car
bines and accoutrements and 100,000
cartridges on account of the State of
Kansas?"
A monster mass rneetihgf of Tem
perance people was recently held" qh
the Tippecanoe battle gronnd: Ind;
SUNDAY SCHOOL PIC NIC.
Highland, August 10, 1874.
The Sunday School Committee met
and organized by electing John Leach
Chairman, and George Clark, Secre
tary. On motion it was resolved that
Highland and Honey Creek Sabbath
Schools hold a joint pio nic celebra
tion on the 12th of September, 1874,
commencing at 9:30 o'clock a. 3r., at
Mr. Wm. Green's grove, 3$ miles
west of Peru, at the old camp ground..
Motion carried that all neighboring
schools be cordially invited to join
us. Eacli school having the privil
ege of performing according to its
own programme when called from
the stand.
On motion it was resolved that Mrs.
Ebright be earnestly requested to pre
pare and read an essay to the Sabbath
Schools at the above time and place,
on any subject she may choose ; and
that all the officers of the County
School Association be requested to be
present anrl participate in the exer
cises of the day.
It wa3 ordered that refreshment
stands and swings bo allowed free, by
comptying with the rules and pro
gramme of the committee which will
be made known on the ground.
The Secretarj was requested to
furnish a copy of the above proceed
ings to the Nebraska Advertiser
for publication.
JOHN LEACH, Ch'n.
Geo. Clark, Seo'y-
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The chairman on information and
statistics for the St. Louis Cotton Ex
change, has received information
from Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri,
Texas and other States, that the
drouth In those States has been so se
vere as to well nigh destroy the cot
ton crop, that scarcely one-third of a
crop will be raised.
GEiVERAIi NEWS.
A FATHER SHOOTS THE SEDUCER OF
HIS DAUGHTER.
George C. Harding, editor and pro
prietor of tho Indianapolis Herald,
shot Moritz, a prominent merchant of
Indlauapolis, on the 20th inst, under
the following circumstances :
Those gentlemen have been warm
friends, and very intimate in their
social relations. Moritz, who is a He
brew, of about forty years of age, and
married, took advantage of this inti
macy and succeeded in seducing the
daughter of Mr. Harding, young
lady of about eighteen. This seduc
tion was accomplished in March last,
and improper relations have been
maintained by the parties since that
time. The young lady was brought
to a confession of these facts by ber
father last evening, and, overwhelm
ed with remorse and shame, sought
to take her own life by taking opium,
and, it is thought, repeating the dose.
Mr. Harding went insearoh of a phy
sician, and, while passing down the
street, met Moritz, und immediately
commenced firing at him, shooting
five times, and then passed on down
street. Mr. Moritz was taken to his
residence, where a medical examin
ation proved that but two of the shots
had hit him, one shattering the loft
elbow and the other passing 'directly
through the lung and lodging in the
chest. It is thought that Moritz may
not be fatally wounded. He denies
the charge, but is not generally cred
ited. Miss Harding died on the same
day the shooting took place.
MURDER AT RED OAK.
Tom McCIellan at Red Oak, Iowa,
on the 19th, attempted to enter the
private rooms of Mrs. Fuller, to
whoso daughter lie had at one time
been engaged, tho engagement being
broken by Mrs. Fuller. McLelian
was refused admission and threatened
to shoot in case lie was not admitted.
Mrs. Fuller persisting in refusing ad
mission, McCIellan secured a revol
ver, fired at her through the door,
and then burst the door down, and
fired four shots at her; one shot took
effect In the neck above the collar
bone, passing through and coming
out below the shoulder blade, inflict
ing a probably fatal wound.
KILLED IN A WELL
At North Virden, Ind., on the 19th,
two men named May and Butler,
were killed by the explosion of pow
der in a well they were digging.
They had put powder in a well and
set a slow match to it, but thinking it
had gone out, descended again, when
it exploded aud killed them both.
A FALSE REPORT.
A Washington dispatch says that
Secretary Fish declares the story of
the proposed cession of Porto Rico to
Germany is without foundation, anil
that the alleged dispatches are forger
ies. BGECHER-TII.TON.
Frank D. Monl ton's statement as
originally prepared for presentation
to Plymouth Church Committee, is
complied for New York, but it is so
long that it cannot be transmitted
West. One of the principals of the
statement, is. Moultnn's version of his
interview with Beecher when he ob
tained from him Mrs. Tilton's retract
ion of her confession. During this
interview Moulton affirms positively
that Beecher admitted to him with
great grief and sorrow the fact of his
sexual relation with Mrs. Tiltou, and
also expressed much indignation that
Mrs. Tilton should have confessed
without telling him about it. At
other interviews, and especially the
ono when Moulton obtained from
Beecher the retraction written by Mrs
Tilton, Beecher expressed more grief
at the wrong done Tilton, and at
Beecher's dictution Moulton wrote
what is known as the
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany has commenced suit in the U.S.
courts to restrain the counties thro'
which the road passes, from collect
ing taxes for 1873.
LETTER OF APOLOGY.
which Moulton says was signed by
Beecher and eutrusted to him in con
fidence to be shown only to Tilton
Moulton assertsemphatically that this
letter had reference to no other fact or
act than the sexual intercourse be
tween Beecher and Mrs. Tiltou,
which he had at that interview con
fessed. At another interview he un
questionably admitted that he had
been guilty of adultry with Mrs. Til
ton, and always referred to the act in
a spirit of grief and sorrow at the
enormity of the crime. The self-condemnation
at the ruin he had wrought
was complete, and at times he was so
bowed down that ho threatened to
terminate his life.
LETTER FROM MARSHAL BAZAINE.
Marshal Bazaine has written a let
ter to the minister of the Interior, in
which he says that neither Col. Vil
lette nor any of tho other prisoners
now in custody are responsible for his
escape from prision. He declares that
he had no accomplices in the fort or
elsewhere except his wife and nephew
The Marshal describes how ho eluded
the surveillance of his jailer, and in
conclusion says: "Resenting the hu
mihating prison regulations I felt
justified in an attempt to recover my
liberty. As I was not tried by my
peers my sentence was illegal."
THE CLERICAL BOND SWINDLER.
The examination of the Rev. John
Cowan, chaplain of the late Sixth
regiment of New York artillery, and
John Kehoo, charged with conspir
ing to defraud the government by
presenting at the treasury for redemp
tion a fragment of aSouth American
bond, and claiming it was part of a
one thousand dollar United States 5
26 bond which had been destroyed,
has resulted in the holding of Cowan
for the action of the grand-jury. For
some time before his arrest Cowan
was in the employ of the Young
Men's Christiau Association.
KILLED BY A. BASE BALL.
Walter Brown, a boy ten years old,
stood watching a practice game of
base ball in the village of Ludlow,
Ky. A boy named Shannon struck a
ball with a bat and sent it whirling
against the left breast of Brown and
Kiuea him instantly. Brown was an
RELIEF TO HOMESTEADERS.
The commissioner of. the general
land office has directed that the reg
ulations respecting final proof of home
stead settlement in the grasshopper
region of Iowa and Minnesota be so
modified as to permitsettlers to go be
fore their county court to make their
depositions, instead of before local
land officers. This order is made on
representations of reliable parties that
many settlers can ill afford the expens
es of longjourneysespeciallj' in their
present impoverished condition.
HAD TO SnOOT HI3I.
Tho Enquirer's Lexington, Ky.,
special reports that David Boyd, of
the fire department, shot Dan Mor
row, a plasterer, three times with a
navy revolver, on the 20th, killing
him. Boyd gave himself up. He
said that Morrow called him a liar
and he had to shoot him.
LOUISVILLE MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Louisville, Ky., July 27, 1874.
To the Hon. G. R Shook, Senator from the
Second Senatorial DIs,t. of Neb. :
Dear Sir : The enclosed Certifi
cate is herewith sent you. You will
see that upon receipt of this certifi
cate duly made out, and signed by
yourself as Senator from the 2d Sen
atorial District of the State of Neb.,
that any poor and deserving young
man selected by you from your Dis
trict will be entitled to the Benefici
ary Scholarship awarded by the Trus
tees of the Louisville Medical College,
(Loulsviile, Ky.) the 2d Senatorial
District of the State of Neb.
The officers of this College do you
the justice to believe that you will, as
early as possible after the receipt of
thi3 notification, endeavor to find in
your district some young man who,
through yourself, can be thus materi
ally aided and benefitted. It is re
spectfully suggested that an inquiry,
over your official signature, publish
ed in the nearest newspaper, will en
able you to confer this benefaction
both promptly and appropriately.
Your earliest possible attention is re
spectfully asked.
The Faculty request that in giving
a certificate, you will use the enclosed
blauk form, which has been adopted
aud sent to you for reasons so neces
sary and prudently, as to render any
explanation superfluous.
It is particularly asked that the re
ceipt of this communication bo ac
knowledged, and that through the
undersigned, the Trustees and Facul
ly of the College be afforded the earli
est possible information as to the
name aud address of the young man
selected by yourself for the Bene
ficiary Scholarship awarded to your
Senatorial District.
E. S. Gaillard, M. D.,
Dean of the Faculty.
THE GRASSHOPPERS.
As this mischievous little traveler
audits habits are of great Interest to
the people of this part of the country,
we will aid our readers all- we can
through our columns in information
on the subject, hoping that some rem
edy may be iuveuted for the pests, by
somebody. To this end we copy the
following interesting extract from the
Atchison Champion x
It may be well to distingusih be
tween grasshoppers and locusts ; but,
if we would call them red-legged, or
Hying, or migratory grasshoppers, we
would bo better understood. This
class of grasshoppers have been
known at the first settlement of the
country, and some years do a vast
amount of damage. Dry seasons are
most favorable to them. The years
1743. 1749, 1754. 1797 and 179S, were
noted grasshopper 3'ears iu tho New
England States, in which they came
in swarms, and did an immense
amount of damage.
Tho grasshopper has been known
west since the year 1820, and in all
that time his forays have been lirated
to nearly the same district, and at in
tervals alwaj's coming from the
west or northwest, and flying to the
southeast and arriving in the month
of August aud Septemher, and some
times later. In 1867 they arrived at
DeSoto, in Nebraska, Aug. 20; at
Gondal and Richland, Nebraska,
Aug. 11 ; at Algoma. Iowa. Sept. 20;
at Holton, Kansas. Sept. 30; Noda
way City, Mo., in Nov., too late for
injury, but laid their eggs. The fol
lowing season the eggs hatched in
large numbers, and, as soon as the
wings of the insect were grown, they
left for parts unknown.
THE GRASSHOPPERS VISITS
have been as follows : Western Mo.
and Kan., 1820 being tho first re
corded visit; Minnesota, 1856; Utah,
1857 and lb67 ; Minnesota River Val
ley, Minn., 1864; Kan., South Neb.,
West Mo., and Northeast Texas, 1866;
Neb., North Kan., Northwest Mo.,
Western Iowa, Minn., and the north
east and central counties of Texas, in
1873. These appear to be the bounds of
these pests.
It would appear that the time of
leaving, the following year, is about
one month in advance of their arrival
Mn the year breceedinr. We thug
see that these raids of the hateful
grasshopper afflict the same locality
two seasons, the season in which
the full grown insects arrive, and eat
most voraciously, and lay their eggs;
and the following season, when the
eggs are hatched, and the insect is
fully matured for flight, and in which
they also do a vast amount of damage.
They cannot be prevented from com
ing, for come they will, and that
without notice; and the only thing
to be done is to destroy them after
they come in, in order to prevent the
aying of their eggs; or, failing in
this, to destroy their eggs, or the
young brood, before they are capable
of doing muoh damage.
A WEALTHY, HIGH-TONED LADY,
one of the principal members of the
church in the vicinity, put her
veto on any such proceedings for the
time being, and tho handsome priest
still officiates at the altar. Whether
any action against the unworthy
priest is contemplated by the church
dignitaries your correspondent has no
means of knowing ; he simply states
the facts as he gleaned them from a
responsible party who Interviewed
the unfortunate girl in relation to the
conduct of this man.
BEECHER SELF-CONVICTED.
Mr. Frank Moultou, the mutual
friend of Beecher, Tilton and Mrs.
Tilton has finally given to tho news
press of the country his complete
statement with regard to the great
scandal. The extreme length of this
document is such that it would more
than fill an issue of our paper, and
therefore we cannot publish it. This
statement, to us, is marked" from be
ginning to end with truth, candor,
and perfect fairness. Moulton says
both Beecher aud Mrs. Tilton have
frequently admitted to him their
criminal intimacy while he was act
ing as their chosen mediator to fix
matters up so tbat.it should not come
to the public ear. This straight un
qualified testimony from Moulton
settles the question against Beecher,
end eo it will stand in the judgment
of the yorld:W8iSlQUwinffiRrel
ence to thamatter,jfrom the St. Lou
is Democrat, we think is incontro
vertible :
Sad aud shameful as are the disclos
ures which Mr. Moulton's loug state
ment makes, it brings one satisfac
tion. We aro no longer compelled to
grope in the dark. Since it is neces
sary to consider this horrible scandal
at all, every candid and just man
must rejoice to have before him clear
and explicit testimony instead of the
interminable evasions which have so
largely occupied the attention for
some weeks.
Francis D. Moulton, the witness to
whom documents were confidentially
entrusted by all the parties, makes a
very plain and straightforward state
ment, which, since it is made with
the knowledge that legal proceedings
have been commenced, we must be
lieve that he stauds ready to repeat
under oath. No man who holds an
honorable position in the business
world and socially as Mr. Moulton
does, would put forth a written state
ment in such a matter unless prepar
ed to swear to the same facts when
called as a. witness. It is our first du
ty, therefore, to consider the credibil
ity of this witness.
That is vouched for in the strongest
way by all of the-partiea themselves.
No other evidence of complete trust
in tho honor and truthfulness of a
man can be more conclusive than the
bare fact that ho was charged with
keeping of such documents as Mr.
Moulton holds from Mr. Beeeher,
from Mrs. Tilton, and from Mr. Til
ton. It will not do to say that this
man, after he had secured the confi
dence of the parties, became known
to them as untrustworthy. For as
late as the 13th of July, 1874, after the
scandal had broken out, Mr. Beecher
addressed Moulton a3 "my dear
Frank," and signed himself "yours
truly and ever." Down to June 25,
1S74, Mrs. Tilton so fur retained ab
Holtito ounfidcuce in him that on that
date she asked his forgiveness for a
mere thought of injustice to him, iu
supposing that he had advised tho
publication of Tilton's letter to Ba
con. Thus it is perfectly clear that
during all the confidential and 'ex
tremely delicate relations between the
parties, from December, 1S70, until
July 13th, 1374. Mr. Moulton had so
borne himself that he was treated by
all with a most extraordinary trust
and confidence. This fact alone
makes it absolutely impossible to be
lieve what Mr. Beecher has asserted,
that, in 1S70. Moulton extorted from
him a paper, his only defense against
a charge known to be false, by show
ing a pistol and b' threats of vio
lence! This fact alone makes it ab
solutely impossible to believe that
Mr. Beecher paid money to Moulton
In May, 1873, as blackmail, or with
any idea that the knowledge of se
crets was being used by Moulton to
extort money ! No matter how re
luctant we may be to distrust the
word of Mr. Beecher, his own letters
and acts prove beyond possibility of
dispute that in these two statements
lie has deliberately tried to blacken
Moulton's character in order to break
the force of his expected testimony.
And this, we must confess, seems to
us altogether the most fatal feature in
the case against Beecher. It would
have been possible to believe, as we
have twice suggested, that Mr. Moul
ton himself had misunderstood agon
ized expressions of a sense of guilt for
definite confessions of criminality;
but it is not possible to believe that
Mr. Beecher lias falsely accused
Moulton of blackmailing hiru, in the
face of his own letters and acts of
subsequent date, unless because he
Wfm oontjoinna t inr AinnUnn'
other than in written papers prepar
ed for the purpose, which I have al
ready exhibited ; but on the contrary,
the fact of such criminal Intercourse
being well understood by Beecher,
Tilton and Mrs. Tilton as having ta
ken place, my whole opinion ia this
matter was based upon the existence
of that fact." .
IV. That all the behavior of Mrs.
Tilton, her published letters, her in
cessant self-contradictious, and her
final withdrawal from her husband to
the side of Mr. Beecher, are consist
ent with and explained by this con
fession, and can only be otherwise ex
plained by supposing that she has
been insane for years.
Here this great scandal reaches its
climax. It does not seem possible
that the credibility of Mr. Moulton
will be successfully overthrown, sup
ported as he is by documents which
can, by the utmost human ingenuity,
scarcely be explained on any other
theory than that which his statement
of the confession sustains. The world
will believe him, aud the papers from
Mr Beacher and Mrs. Tiltou, which
he 'produces. It will condemu Mr.
Beecher with infinitely greater sever
ity than if he had frankly confessed,
or had never tried to shield himself
by blackening the names of Monlton
and Tilton. It will condemn Mrs.
Tilton with far greater severity than
if, having wronged her husband and
having confessed, she had adhered to
him faithfully through life. Mr.
Beecher goes down, not because pas
sion once overpowered reason, but be
cause he had not the courage and
mnnhnnd when truth and justice re-
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The St. Joe Herald -unparalleled
failure in 5:4
uiup vi xveniucKy
is
the
K-.-w-
Louisville Courier-JbSEWIl
turns irom three-fourths ?
which indicate that th .lc 1
errhnnV.n.-aTl
Xl
will not be greater than thL-
production of tobacco In'ti
States in 1870, was 063 OfinS?'
of which Kentucky prodn
000,000. The cause of the rf3
the crop in Kentucky i3 nJ '1
out ii it iauson as reported .cI
will be worth something dm!
ucal yvur.
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IN Ancust3Ist. A. I). yr. "V--81!
smnha Tonntv Stntnf vl. ! TXl
fer for sale at the dKr of the f
the City or Brownville, Cuuatr"
and Stato of Nebraska, nil hL '
against wblch Jndgmen wasren!"
special term of the District Co--Court
House in Brownv.lle e'
davof August. A. T) li coVi-' -
having been advertised far dt in
in. accordance, with an act ct ',
of the State of Xebra nJtljl
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State oe Neb., Executive DEP-xa said sale will be
XJT5COI.S, Aug. zi, ia- j; .. .o'clock a. m
A Good-I.ookIng Shepherd Plays Xesf-
Hldlng -wttn one of the Lambi
of liia Flock.
A correspondent of the Missouri
Democrat says there is a first-class
scandal spoiling in the vicinity of St.
josepu, Mo., for want of ventilation,
and teils the story as follows:
A. TALI., FINE-LOOKING FltlEST,
in charge of one of the churches near
the city, has, it is said, so far forgot
ten his bijrh and holv callinc nnri
vows of chastity as to lead from vir
tue's path one of the fair lambs of his
flock. The victim of this wolf in
sheep's clothing is about twenty-one
years old, and the daughter of a small
farmer residing near the city. She. it
Is said, is soon to become a mother
and boldly alleges that the priest is
the father of her Droaneotivn nhiin
Some of the members of the congre
gation, iudiprnant at the hatraval nf
onjy son. Xo blame attaches to any t5e,confi,deDce of the poor girl, want
ons, y ed to make the noly father leave the
pastorate, but
conscious tliatr Moulton's testi
mony would prove his criminality.
Tho charge against himself Mr.
Moulton refutes, so far as we can see,
very conclusively, by showing that
the money was contributed to sup
port the Golden Age, without Til
ton's knowledge, and by Mr Beech
er's desire. That is not all; the
proof produced that Mr. Tilton abso
lutely refused to receive pecuniary aid
except as a loan from Moulton, places
him in a more honorable position.
The payment of money by Beecher
for the tuition and support of the
young girl who was sent West, be
cause she had overheard acknowledtr-
"iciiid ui uinuiiiui intercourse. Is in
itself strong proof that Mr. Beecher
was conscious of his guilt.
But by way of proof nothing more
conclusive could be imagined than
the explicit declaration of Mr. Moul
ton that both of the parties had re
peatedly confessed their crime.
When the scandal first broke out, we
said that if Mr. Moulton produced
the letters quoted, and testified that
the parlies had confessed guilt to him,
no defense could be set up, unless his
testimony could be successfully im
peached. Mr. Beecher has attempt
ed to impeach it by the charge of
blackmailing, and that charge is dis
proved ; first, by Mr. Beecher's acts
and letters long subsequent to the
payment of the money, and second
by Moulton's account of the object for
which the money wag contributed,
and the manner in which it was used!
His testimony must, therefore, be ac
cepted, unless his veracity shall be
hereafter successfully assailed, as con
clusive proof. -
I. That Mr. Beecher acknowledged
to him in Decerabor. 1870. r oriminoi
intercourse with Mrs. Tilton.
jli. mat many conversations and
negotiations and prolonged corres
pondence, much of which ib produc
ed, were based upon this confession,
and are at every point consistent with
It, though continued for three years
and a half.
III. That Mrs. Tilton, also, "more
than once admitted," says Moulton
"to me and to another person, to my
knowledge, whom I do not care to
bring into thi3 controversy, the fact
of her sexual relations with Beecher
and she never has once denied them,'
As greatly exaggerated reports'are
in circulation as to losses of crops and
consequent surfi-ring in Nebraska, by
reason of drought aud grasshopper
depredations the present season, I
deem it my duty to give the public
such information and facts as are in
my possession officially, in relation
thereto.
When satisfied that we in common
with almost all other portons of the
country, were to be afflicted with
short crops, I at once put this office
in communication with leading offi
cials of the several counties in the
State, with a view to ascertain as
near as nossible the actual true condi
tion of affairs. Information derived
from such source, together with quite
ap extensive personal obeservation,
warrants the assertion that while our
crop3 aro shorter than for several
years before, there is by no means
a failure, or even grounds ior serious
alarm. Small grain while not so
good as expected, is quite an average,
both as to 3ield and quality. Corn
will range from a good half crop, to
possibly an entire failure in places.
Root crops are very short.
Fruit, more in quantity than ever be
fore, will, as a rule, be inferior in
size. As a total, the State has never
before produced so great an aggregate
crop.
As yet, no cases of immediate need
have been reported. At quite a num
ber of points and on the extreme bor
ders, however, help will be required
soon, ana aui must oe extenueu
through the winter and in the next
year's operations. Principally, local
aid can and will be afforded.' In ca
ses where this cannot be done, the
State ought, and will render needed
relief.
While the results of the season can
not be otherwise than discouraging to
the agriculturists of our State, facts
show that we are not alone, and there
fore ehould be of good cheer. The
drought, which ha? effected us far
more seriously than the grasshoppers,
is almost universal this season, not
only in the United States but
throughout the world The grass
hoppers, too, have been more exten
sive in the territory devastated this
year than ever before, not conflnine
their depredations to Nebraska by
any means.
Our people show but little disposi
tion to abandon the country no
more than in all steasons heretofore
and in all new countries, but recog
nize that occasionel ills befall all
countries and all industries. They
need principally employment, and in
caso of homesteaders, extention of
time on lands taken. The more fort
unate of our own citizens will meet
the foraer emergency by affording em
ployment. Cougress alone possess
ing the power to render aid in the mat
ter of homesteads will, without doubt,
meet this emergency promptly.
R. W. Furnas. Governor.
J. J. Gosper, Seo'y of State.
.h.
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continued from day today en t ,"&
lands are offered f jr sale. " aT
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AAxv.'io iiiauuuieasiern eurajki
cent interest. For full part! c rntl
Ins. Iowa, or apply to v .T.Ri i,rpni
vllle, Neb., for Nemaha Coun'r
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KANSAS OSAGE CEDES LANDS.
Decision of Judge Dllllon
of the Settlers.
In Favor
Lawrence, Ks., August 21. A
letter received here to-day from Judge
Dillon announces the decision of the
United States Circuit Court upon the
celebrated Osage Ceded Land3 case
in fuvor of the settlers. The case cov
ers the titles to nearly a milliou acres
of laud claimed by the Leaveuworth,
Lawrence and Galveston Railroad
Company and the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railroad Company. The
decision will be heard with delight
by the settlers, though the case will
probably be carried to the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Topeka, August2L The decrees in
the Osage Ceded Lands caBe have
been received and are against the
railroads and in favor of the settlers.
These are the most important land
suits ever tried in the United States,
involving as they do 960,000 acres of
land, the tract includes all of the
counties of Labette and Neosho, and
parts of Allen, with Montgomery and
Crawford counties on which are loca
ted the homes of nearly 30,000 people
the title to which has been in issue!
The suits were brought by the United
States District Attorney in behalf of
the Goverment to cancel the pat
ents, issued to the M. K. & T. and
L. L. & G. R. R. Companies. These
important causes involve the gravest
points of law and equity aud have
been tried with great skill and abilli
ty by U. S. District? Attorney Geo. R.
Peck, representing the governmet, as
sisted by Gov. Wilson Shannon, and
McComas & McKeicrrmn runmoont;
the settlers, and Judge S. O. Thacker
and T. C. Sears for the railroads. It
will bring joy and relief to thousands
of people in this State, and will be re
ceived everywhere as a most right
eous and equitable termination of the
question. The greatest enthusiasm
prevails on the Osage Ceded Lands
over the result. The State of Kansas,
through it9 Governer, Thos A. Os
borne, over a year ago assumed the
championship of the settlers' cause
in a letter to tho President of the
United States. In which the theory
upon which the cause was tried was
first proposed. It may therefore be
called a victory for the State, and ev
ery citizen in theState will have cause
for rejoicing. The causes were tried
at the June term of the U. S. Circuit
Court at Leavenworth, before Judge
Miller, of the U. S. Supreme Court,
and Judge Dillon, of the Circuit
Court, sitting together
BROWNVIUjuj
Sl-tfPLEEE
TiaCE BEST IN THE q0y
LEGAL ADVZRTISEMDarJ
ver
Legal Koticc. arg
JOHN V. P.ICHARDSON. oi U irat
j ivansns, wm taKe iwtKe r a
McCormlck and Leander J. M
partners doing business nritr
name of C. 11. McCorimf k A L- t
tho 10th day of August A.IU-- ay
natitinn 9n lha Tiiattnt ,-tt... . tl
l'i- ...wA .4. wit, A's. w -v- WU.i, Willi..
the county of Ne.ithr., st it. of1"'
against the said John V Eahe
fendant. aettlnsr forth thaf " ij ' , i
Richardson gae to th si 1 i H Aspj
icii iv arouior njspramis.- nu.e.
Sth, A. I. 1S70. and therel r - r t
said C. II. McCormlcL A Br.' .
S210.00 with 10 percent. int. rst '. ,
tne 1st day of July A. D. rC), au u A
sum oi money naa not Deen pa. p-oj
nnrt. f horrif that tha t.i ? um tyii
due and payable; and prajL?rGral
if.i:. vo. Q..i.i r..v, It I . . I
snld S210.G0. with 10 Der cm: I- -It tl
the 1st day of July. A. D. lT , ..
of suit. 'il
And the said John W. H!c! it. ' (
fled that he is required to tiPi'
said petition on or before the ' -1
tober, A. DISTI.
c. ii. Mccormick ,t Br
Svrl By J.b.tfTH.L.fV-
m
lufcJ
TORN W. RICH-MCD.1-' S ar
rj JwuuuiuMju, oi lelar . ivj
take notice that William Lm, v
ty of Nemaha in the St if or "
on tho 19th day of August I
petition In the District t r .u.
the County of Nei.ial. i in ..' s
braskn,acainst the a'd ,h r-n V.
ana iiniina Ji. KlcharJM.',, L R(j j
UUK 'i l 1IIHI lilt S.)H1 ! ii IV 1 J
and iianna M. icLird i ,'- ? 3i)Vt
to the Union Mutual r.n. I .s j .
nanv on th- south ci.t iu. tlOD
thirty-one. in township stc. nc anrJ
fifteen east, containing lu- a.-s V
malm County. Nebraska, t s.. urc3arj
ment of 51,W.0v. av-rJh -' -;'
issory notes reHr.rea io i'i '. s j
to
Jcgul IVotirc.
RICHAKD.1-. S ar ttlftl
Obll-I
stoJ
all
and since the ItJrjr ' -.U ?'
the nufBi. m At. t tin a1 rK r. 1 i f
Mutual life Innr-ne ( j. rjedt
and conveyed said ra rfgii'' ei i :
said William Dnlh, acl tru.
John V. RK-fcar.; . t. riu '
Sl.SfiO.OOnow H.-.mt.l f. ft- ' ' r
premises may te m, 1 1 r . f
that the aid mrrw m.n tc f
The said John V. RIcvmr - i
M. RiehMdson are notilL d tl.at
quired to appnu and answfrsa.
on or before the Sth d.i of t.
1S74.
Toti.l i iikiu; Mil. , Ti 17'
' viiTirmot!
8wl ByJ.S.BT'T g j
.,
ass
iate
I
JB
Mrs
bur:
bee;
"Wm. P. Jewell, AdmlnNtrat
of the Estate of Joseph C
Wood, deceased,
VH.
Elizabeth Jewell. Orci I
Wood.SabraM.Uiiag'.Ii r
Hilago. George D. Wood, I cv k
A. Wood, Rt.zettR Woo. ltr j
en Hale, et al.
NOTICE is hereby lv- n t r
a license granted to ne u
trlct Court of Nebraska, "ng
the County of Nemaha, in U ' -
Ham P. Jewell, adminwtrato-f
Joseph C. Wood, deceits. ! azi. ,
Jewell, Oren M. Wood, .'" -Horace
Hllla?e. Geoi P-
A. Wood, Rozetta W-jkT. step '"
al, I will offer for sale t j ti- tlgi
bidder, at public auction V r
Courtroom entrance and W rrr
flco of the County CI. rk of n
In tlio olf.v nf RrOWnVU". '.
Tuesday, the 1st day of '-''
1874. at 1 o'clock. P M.. tbv t y and
lses. viz: inesoumm't ! yxra
tlon two (2), in township ny, ,,w
County,
run!
beei
the I
thai
fori
north of range twelve u e.m - proq
uouniy, jNeorusKM. hm " .
proved farm with one hi'iUr and
acres in cultivation, auu ' ;
the debts of said Joep(i I J'
WILLIAM P-Jj
Administrator of tne EtatP c
Wood, deceased.
JLcsral XoilzV'
John S. Stull. plaintiff, "J
VS.
retcrB.Borst", dependent.)
Before E. M. McComas. 1
Nemaha County, el "
THE said Peter B. Borst v-llt '
that on the 10th dayf J
said Probate court Issued ar. - -ment
In tne above action, for u
hundred and twenty dol'!' vr
cent. Interest thereon from n
February A. D. 1S7J. that sai !
tried on the 15th day of fe P
1874, at 10 o'clock a. m. -
Brownville, Nebraska, X?ST'
6w3 J .
fcegal Xotlce.
MARY J. SAYLE. you ?r ;
that on the first l 'J
James P. Sayle filed a pH' '
Court In and for enlahft ' n,'f.
wherein he prays to bed.y -,
tbecjiiiseor willful abandu-u
man iwoywtraiwi"- ff fnTV
You are required to plead a .- , lory
. i.i .l.I Ml nThafnTP 'III - .
September 1S71. JPl7
W. T. ROGERS. Att'y for P'
Mail
tow
hill:
had
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thit
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port
In Canada, this summer, a pony
was driven on a wager eiahtv-one
Eslray Sotice.
TAKEN up by the ur leTsSs !
day of June 1S74. 25 mu T .
Brownville Nebraska, onf T .
mare mule, supposed to tea
of a dark brown color, wlt l J
and about 13 hands high. p-
r.
6w5
miles In eleven
minutes in one
heat.
hours and twentv
continuous straight.
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part
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