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""W -? -Z ja; JgBE,a! Sk Sy,gtsfl''BteB6vrTre THE ADVERTISER. THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1S75. Sleeting of the Republican County Central Committee. At a meeting of tho central com mittee on the 17th in Brownville, it was unanimously agreed that the committee should meet again in Sher idan on Saturday the 31st inst. The following- gentlemen compose the committee: Brownville G. W. Fairbrother, A. H. Davison . ABpInwall J. S. Miniok, J.R.iar kin. St. Deroin Leander Cooley, A. J. Bitter. Nemaha City F. G. HolmeB, Levi Johnson. Peru Samuel Pettit. D. C. Cole. Lafayette C. F. Hyowood, John Bobbins. Loudon John Strain, S. H. Clay ton. Washington 0. J. Matthews, B. SI. Buckles. Island Isaao Shields, L. Ells worth. Bedford Nathan G. Randall, Mc Farland Campbell. Benton Wm. WInJsheffle, Henry Steinman. Glen Rock C. H. Thomas, Thomas Burress. Douglas Shel. Coohrarl, Giles R. Reader. As Important business will come before the committee at its meeting at Sheridan, It is expected that every member of tho committee will be In attendance. G. W. Fairbrother, Ch'n. A. R. Davison, Seo'y- On the 19th, at Bangor, Me. .George Medway killed his wife. A ffro at Grand Rapids, .Michigan on the 10th, destroyed the buslnesa house of Berkey & Gay. Loss $25,000. Indictments are still being found against prominent persons in St. Louis, connected with the whisky frauds. The Bostons and St. Louis Brown Stockings played another game at Boston on the 19th. Bostons 2 and the Browns 2. The Sidney Telegraph claims that Sidney is the "nearest railway point to the Black Hills," and is therefore "becoming widely and favorably known.'' A young man named Reeves wa3 drowned in the Little Blue river at Edward's Mill near Water ville Mo., on the 19th inst. He attempted to cross In a wagon when the stream was very high. There are reports that the Sioux are on the war path amongst the Black Hills, and that eight or ten miners have been killed. The Indians have the advantage, inasmuch as they are warring upon Invaders of their own territory. i Ml 111 The Nebraska State Sunday School Association will hold Its eighth an nual meeting at Lincoln, August 17th 18th and 19th. The circular notice says, "It is hoped every school in the State will be represented." Railroads will carry delegates as follows: Union Paoiflc, Burlington and Missouri Riv er, and Omaha and Northwestern for round trip one and one-fifth fares; Atchison and Nebraska and Midland Pnclfio for round trio one fare. Being the first to "bid down on the connty printing," why were we not awarded the contract for tho public printing? will somebody answer? Granger. Yes, somebody will answer, if the Granger has no more sense than to ask such a question : It is because it pays the county better to employ The Advertiser to do its printing. The Advertiser does work cheaper and better than the Granger does or can do it. The Granger "bids down" and then charges up full price, In some cases, as it has been detected in doing. The Granger Is always first to work for tho interests of the tax-payer. Granger. Is It to the Interest of tho tax-payer to charge more for work than The Advertiser charges ? Was it for the interest of the tax-payer that the Granger was working when it at tempted to collect a bill, whioh.ithad full knowledge was not a proper bill for the tax-payers to pay ? Was the Granger man working for the inter est of the tax-payer laBt winter at the Capital, when he received three dol lars a day as grasshopper olerk during the entire session for doing not even five dollars worth of work ? Truthful answers to these questions demon strate that the Granger is not the best friend in the world to the tax-payer, not by a long shot. Cardinal Manning of the Roman Catholic churoh recently declared that "The Common Sohool system of tho United States Is the worst one in the world," and proposes that tho publio schools shall bo placed in charge of that church. We fear that the Catholics will continue to agitate this question and insinuate its danger ous strength until the time shall come when tho people through dang ers imaginary or real, will rise in the majesty of their power to protect tho foundation etone of American liberty. And then in the sufficiency of the work In hand the church will bo swept from the country ; and Its mag nificent edifices shall suffer the fate of Jerusalem that "there shall not be left one stone upon another." And this would be right. Any churoh that seriously threatens to rule the States and the concienceB of men should be Btricken out of existence. "We be lieve in peace only so long as the principles of free conscience and free speech., can., Lwa maintained without wan 'iiii Can Republican Independents Support tlic Democratic Part.y We know, sa3s the Washington He public, that society is composed of many men of many minds, and as their wants and necessities are felt, certain utterances aro heard from the masses which aro based upon existing circumstances, or relate to circum stances they desire should exist, and which reBult in a declaration of polit ical principles : nnd those who accept them are drawn together for the com mon purpose of carrying them into effect. This is the history of the rise and progress of parties; and that par ty which appeals to the best interests of man, and proposes to labor to pro mote them, Ib the party which gains tho most strength, and becomes the most useful to the nation. In the ranks of such a party are found men who delight In the opportunity of do ing good, and they puttheirshoulders to the wheel for united notion. And such is the Republican party. But in the ranks of the same party are an other olass of men men who accept in the main the party's principles and approve Its course, but who believe that they are wiser than the party who profess to discover defeots who think they ought to strikeout in an other direction and who, unless re strained by common sense or some high motive, impulsively move In ad vance of the parjy only to find at last that they have left it. This Is preolsely what the Indepen dent Republicans did, In Bpite of the knowledge of experience In the time of Mr. Greeley. They broke away from the party and appeared to turn their backs upon their former associ ates and political opinions. But, aB In every case of the kind, they failed, a3 Mr. Greeley fulled. And there they stand outside of tho Republican party ashamed and dissatisfied, and anxious to form another party if they could upon their advanced platform. Is not tho bitter lesson learned by Independent Republicans enough In all conscience to bid them call a halt to consider their pesent and future prospects. Where they stand is be tween the two great parties Repub lican and Democratic They say that they are not in full accord with the Republican party, and theDemooratio party will not have them, if It has to yield to tbelr demands. They are, therefore, powerless for any of the purposes for which parties aro formed. Nor can they hide from themselves that they have been hasty, and were the victims of deception. Which ever way they look at it, tho candi dature of Mr. Greoly was brought about by gross and premeditated fraud of which the persons they trusted at Cincinnati had been guilty. Had they been wise when they discovered that the promises made wero Inten tionally fraudulent that the effort to confound right with wrong and to de stroy the political landmarks most sig nally failed that the Introduction of a political Babel in national affairs would have wrought, if Bucoessful, Inconceivable injury to tho country they would have retraced their steps, rejoined the Republican parry, and with redoubled ener gy set to work. How muoh sorrow, how much heartburning, how much bitterness and strife would have been avoided ? It is, however, not too late. NoBin cere Republican can support theDem ooratio party. That party has learned nothing useful to the nation from all that the nation has passed through. It Is still opposed to what Republi cans believe for tho welfare of the country. And.lt Is undoubtedly true, if tho Democratic party Bhould obtain power, that It will seek to destroy what tho wisdom of the Republican party deems essential to the progress of the nation and the unity of the Republic and to re-vitalize the opin ions which have oaused the people suck Buffering and the expenditure of so muoh treasure, In order to over shadow the present with tha dead is sues of the past. No former Repub lican, now said to be Independent, can lend himself to any programme of this kind. His drifting off from the Republican party was for no such end. If he was concious of right motives in his desertion, he must bo appalled at the danger which now threatens the nation, In the creation of whioh he has, to some extent, been instrument al. The path, therefore, Is before him to return and help to- accomplish some of the objects which must lie near his heart. He has a good excuse for so doing. Where he stands now, he Is likely to be overbornein the strug gle wnion is coming, xxeuiramy, as we understand It, forms no part of their design. The Republican party will welcome all who wandered away to the fold of their old friends, and bury the memory of errors ; for it is dear that it is the only homo for the honest, earnest citizen who desires to see the country kept on the road to universal freedom, prosperity and peace. The editor of the Granger taking the proposed $50,000 bond tax propos ed by the oity of Omaha, advises tho people of Nemaha county and the city of Brownville that if the county had never voted a bond, that If the city had been properly governed, in stead of having its affairs managed by a speoulatlng ring, and If the af fairs of both county and city had been managed as good business men man age their affairs, finanolal matters would be In a much bettor condition. The editor of the Granger being a flrst-olass husinesa manager is the very ohap to give advice. Having conducted business in Brownville for some years, he managed it so adroitly that his oreditors turned over his pro tested paper at a ruinous discount. To be in harmony with the Granger's gabble about conducting business, It will be next in order for some poor house pauper to advise tha county commissioners how to conduct the financial affairs of Nemaha county. Last Saturday near Holden, Mo., Mr. Jas. Guyan anda Mrs. Sloan were drowned while crossing. Brush. Cf eek la a buggy. OF aiANUJG'AOTOK- IKS. To show our readers, and especially the citizens of this place, the impor tance of manufacturing establish ments to a community in whicb they are located, we quote from a report of two departments only, of the Union Pacific railroad company at Omaha the car building and locomotive de partments. The pay rolls show 738 employes, to which is paid monthly, $44,027.16, or, $528,325.92 annually for Iobor alone. Nine-tenths of that sum IsBpent in Omaha, and distributed to the farmers In Douglas county. Those 738 employes, the greater portion with families, are all Consumers. Those two manufacturing establishments alone, will continue to make Omaha the first and most flourishing point in the State, to say nothing of her nu merous other similar developing agen cies. To our people we say, that to-day, could some autocratic power force ten per cent of tho total wealth of Brown ville into one or more manufacturing eatablishments, one year hence would find one hundred per cent, added to our possessions; our people would wake un: enterprise and life would take tho place of present sluggishness and dormancy, and our course would be "onward and upward" as of yore. 0 Resolutions had been passed by the several Granges of the county request ing the county commissioners to de sist from levying taxes this year, also that the treasurer suspend tho collec tion of taxes, but of courso Ruoh meas ures could not be entertained." We find th above in a letter from Brownville to the Omaha Republican. No suoh resolutions have been passed by any of the granges, or, if there were, they wero not presented before the Board of County Commissioners. There was passed at the County As sociation a resolution asking the com missioners to "delay expenses as far as possible." This was a meaningless and senseless proceeding, instigated, we have been Informed by grangers, by Churoh Howe, for the purpose of manufacturing a little cheap capital amongst the grangers. This resolu tion was laid before the board, but the only effect it bad was to offend them, for all the acts of our com missioners are marked by strict economy and obedience to law. Peo ple who have claims againBt the coun ty present them to the board, the board 13 obliged to allow all claims that are just ; when allowed, the olerk is required to make out the warrants, and the warrants aro presented for payment to the treasurer. How could that officer pay If no taxes wore col lected not even collectable? Then how could the commissioners "delay expenses" without gross injustice to claimants and violation of law. Mr. Churoh Howe, or any one who voted for the passage of that resolution would present a claim against the county and take the money on it with as little hesitancy as anybody else, and think it as great a hardship if payment was stopped or could not be made. Roads have to be made and repaired, bridges have to be built and repaired, the poor have to be cared for and those who do tho work or fur nish the material must have their pay and ought to have it just the same as business between individuals, And Howe's buncomb resolution is the carefully worded production of a dem agogue, worded on purpose to mean nothing at all' but which served the purpose of pretending a sympathy for the present straitened circumstances of the farmers. The vindlotive disposition of many disloyalists towards auy and every body who was true to thei country, was Illustrated the other day by the action of the Missouri constutional Convention when it refused to endorse friendly resolutions referring to the late Gen. Frank Blair. In referring to this disgraoeful refusal the St. Joe. Herald says : "Resolutions laudatory of the late Gen. Blair were introduced in the con stitutional convention in session at Jefferson City. Its president,-Waldo P. Johnsou, left his seat and lobbied against their passage, and in conse quence the resolutions were with drawn. Johnson was United States oeiiuior ac me ouioreaK ox tne war, and expelled for disloyalty, and could not forget that Blair was true to his oountry. And this is an 'Em of Peace.' " The following aro the resolutions referred to : Resolved, by this convention, 1, That the Adjutant General of the State be requested to announce the death of Maior General F. P. Blair. by a salute due to a soldier of this re public. 2. That the Sergeant-at-Arms be di rected to drape this chamber with em blems of sorrow, in commemoration of Missouri's departed statesman. 3. That the president appoint a com mittee of five to represent thiffbody at the obsequies of his remains in the oity of St. Louis'. Again, some Southern offioo seeker, thinking that he speaks to an assem blage whioh still hates the North, in dulges In a tirade against the Yan kees, throwing in extravagant eulog ies of, and wild lamentatious over the failure of tho lost cause. IAncoln Star. The Southern offioe seeker does not only think "that he speaks to an as semblage which still hates the North, but he knows it. Such speeches in the South never fail to tioklo the ears of a southern crowd and to warm up and renew their disunion and treason able natures and sentiments. And they love to be renewed and warmed up in that way. Jeff Davis talked disloyalty in Texas and was promoted to a position whioh should be filled only by an honorable and patriotio man. Late news from the Black Hills In dian commission is received that the Chiefs of the tribes are disposed to be contrary. They deolare they will not go to the- Mo. river to hold their grand interview with the commission era. They have designated Shadron creek between the regions of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail as the place and September lBt as the time far. the Grand pow-wow. IMPORTANCE HOWE AND THE GItANGEltS. A special dispatch to the Herald from the state capital announces that Church Howe und several leading graugeas from various parts of the State are now in conclave at Lincoln for the purpose of organizing the grange in opposition to the proposed new constitution. Now, whiio this movement may for aught we kuowf be prompted by the the best motives, we must say it ill-betjomes Howe to assume its leadership. Mr. Howe 13 father of tho bill that created the lute constitutional convention, and he, as much as any other man, is responsi ble for the mischief wrought by that cumbersome body. When Howe's pet bill was before the legislature the Bee pointed out the evils that would arise from the adoption of this ill-digested measure. We predicted that sixty-nine men would be liable to consume much time in wrangling ov er the various proposed reforms, and ultimately would make a poorer dn strument than would have been made by a convention of twenty-five. Church Howe playing the demogogue for the sake of ourrying favor with the grasshoppered, betrayed thelnter ests of his own constituency when he forced his bill through the legislature, and It is uo less remarkable that Ne maha county suffers more by the in equitable apportionment than any other county in the state. For this they can thank Church Howe, and the less he says abbut the bad features of the hew constitution the better it will be for his own reputation. Oma ha Bee. We have not heard of Mr. Howe as yet making much of a splurge about the constitution, either for or against. And he will not do so until he fityls out which way ethe popular tide in Nemaha county tends, and then that will be the way he will go. After the election, if ho happens to be on the winning side, of course he will olalm the honor of the vlotory. Howe may be able to organize the grangers of this county against tho constitution, but we do not now believe it, for they gen erally favor It at the present time, and not without reading and deliberation. He does not control the grangers as muoh as ho thinks and says he does, as a body some of them he owns, however, body, boots and breeobes and his grip upon them in this county has very perceptibly loosened within the last twelve months. Howe, we Imagine, will favor tho constitution in this county, whatever he may say at the capital or 'elsewhere, or may have done. Upon this subjeot the Seward -Reporter has the following pertinent re marks : It was announced with a great flour ish In last Saturday's Omaha Herald that Church Howe and some leading grangers were cogitating at Lincoln to Becure the opposition of the patrons of husbandry to the new constitution. No doubt His Royal Majesty, the Hon. Church Howe, prides himself as being the leader of the patrons in this state, and makeB pretensions to carrying the grange vote in his breeches pookets, but we seriously question his ability to mislead any of our honest farmers, as he is at best only a politioal fop, and far too shallow-minded to do tho thinking for any largo number of the tillers of the soil. If the grange or ganization in this state have arrived at suoh a low ebb as to accept the lead ship of this sly, wire-working, thimble-rigging, political demagogue, It is then high time that the order disband, as its usefulness is gone. The farmers, more than any other class, are directty interested in the new constitution, and should use their influence in every way to seouro Its success next fall. It is stated that under the direction of Church Howe, the state grange of Nebraska will soon issue its orders to the subordinate lodges of that organ ization to wheel Into line on tho side of monopolies; butan Interview with a few of tho grangers of this oounty convinces us that such orders or rec ommendations will be only a waste of time ; and we know whereof we speak when wo state that tho grangers of western Nebraska aro nearly a unit in favor of the adoption of tho new constitution, and corrupt wire-work ers Hke Churoh Howe, who receive their orders from moneyed corpora tions,, will have no power to Influence them against their own judgment Kearney Press. "Moneyed Corporations" wonder what the Press means' by that. Was the Press thinking, when It said that, of tho dandy granger of the legislature last winter, who dare not go on the reoord voting for the railroad bill which was calculated to add mil- lion and a hair' to the taxes of the people, but that ho would get seven votes for It? The Press was evident ly thinking of something and probab ly that was It. The following extract Is taken from an address delivered before the alum ni of the University of Virginia, July 1st, at Charlottsville, by that noted southern orator, Gen. Preston : "Our vocation Is to unveil the foul est crime that stains the annals of human history, by unfolding the cau ses and relating the facts and results of the recent war between tho New England and the Confederate States, that war having swept from national existence the majestio truthB of civil and religious liberty, and set upon their ruins the meroenary fictions of fanaticism, disobedience to the laws of nature and resistance to the will of God." Suoh sentiments are woll calculated to arouse, re-kindle and keep alive, within the breasts of Union soldiers and the friends of Un ion soldiers, feelings of resentment, hostility and hatred towards those who ntter them, and those who applaud them. A re port of this speech says it "aroused the Southern enthusiasm to its high est altitude." These things were done in a school house, too, and are there fore more remarkable than if they had occurred with a political rabble on the hustings. We are lnolined to be lieve, as we live and learn, that when we forgive treason before there are un mistakable signs of repentance on the part of the traitors, by placing them in positions of power in the govern ment, and scattering flowers on the graves of the rebel dead, we are fool ing our time away, giving advantages over us by our generosity and charity whioh cowards alone would take ad vantage, but whioh old rebels do not hesitate to take advantage of. Wo warm and resuscitate the enake, and the snake rewards us for our hu mane treatment by stinging you to death. If southern rebels Instead of inculcating, in their schools and else where, sentiments of peace, forgive ness and loyalty, they ao teaoiilng lessons of hatred and bitterness to ward their country, then we of the north should not only oppose their every advancement to places of trust and power in tho government, but we should also teaoh our children to do so as they arrh'd at the age of politi cal notion. Such speeches as that of Preston's leads direotly to this Instead of bridging over the "bloody chaBm.' CURRENCY tfo. 1. In these days of stagnation and In action in tho business and industry of the oountry, among other questions currenoy is being considerably dis cussed. It is a question whioh in all its bearings is but little understood by even the wisest of our statesmen; and if history be tfue, it has been as little understood in the past a3 any other question involved in the funotions of Government. It Is complex In its character; intimately connected with the other equally unsettled question of tariff, aud always involved, to a greater or less degress, with the cur rent political issues. Tho facts and data furnished by that ohapter of his tory relating to the currenoy are there fore to be construed and accepted as truths, in the light of, and In connec tion with, the contemporaneous facts of history. So far us we are aware, no political party has ever made ourrenoy a dis tinctive party issue. It is possible that currency, tariff, and other kin dred questions may become political issues; but 1 1 seems to us that it Is quite impossible to make them the distinctive political issues between existing parties. When they become ,of paramount importance parties will form around the issues. It seems to us that several reoent democratic conventions are endeavor ing to make ourrenoy a party issue, and we conceive the effort to be an il lustration of tho remark of a recent writer upon that subject, that "histo ry will show that when existing polit ical organizations take up scientific questions as party capital, they use them only to support ambition, and the questions reach no satisfactory or permanent solutions. It is a vital question for the republic whether par ties Bhall form and reform around is sues as they arise, or whether the Is sues shall arise under and inside of permanent party organizations." It is a fact of history that the dem ocratic party has been emphatically, so fur as the issue has ever been drawn into politics, a hard-money party. That tho Ohio democracy should now, as it has done, deolare in favor of paper currency, is astonishing, as it is an abandonment of its traditionary belief, and a departure from the views entertained by a majority of tho par ty. One of two things, however, is true: oither this Is a coup de etat for the purpose of catching votes in the west, or it is a tardy recognition and acquiescence in a measure of republi can policy. If the former is true, it carries its own condemnation; but if the latter bo the oase, it is another vin dication of the republican party, and shows it to bo in advauoe of the slow coaoh of democracy, whioh, In the case of universal suffrage and civil rights made a like advance to the for ward position of tho republican par ty. But the originators and not the opposition or the tardy supporters of a measure when opposition is no longer popular or possible, aro in the opinion of mankind tho peculiar and rightful champions of the measure. To the republican party is the credit diie for a sound paper currenoy whioh saved the nation many evil oonsequences incident to a civil war. But it Is more than likely that the Ohio departure is a mere ruse, a mere trick for catohing votes. The party fought the paper ourrenoy, ridiculed and impugned It as "Lincoln rags," frauds," and "printed lies," too long and too persistently, to assume the championship or the roftf of sponsor to the legal tender currency measure in good faith. COMING HOME AGAIN. Quite a number of the Independent papers are rallying under the repub lican banner. In Ohio the Ottawa county Reporter, hitherto aud Inde pendent paper, hoisted the Republi can ffag last week, and anuounced that, "When compelled to choose be tween Gov. Allen, the Bourbon poli cy of the Ohio Legislature, Catholic Church aggrandizement, as foreshad owed in the Geghan bill, and Repub lican reform of old-time principle, as embodied in General R. B. Hayes, we can hesitate no longer." The Akron, Ohio, Argus, hitherto an independent journal, with a decid ed leaning to the Democratfo party, "Repudiates the Roman Catholic Democratlo alliances, and comes out for Hayes and victory." The Columbus Grove Yidette, Ohio, also an independent journal, has placed the nafme of General Hayes at the head of the editorial column as its candidate for Governor. It gives the following logical reasons for its decision : "As to our position on politics, we shall have no occasion to change the 'motto' on our first page ; but we can not believe it right to give support to the party that has, for the sake of power, yielded itself so uncompromisingly to Catholicism in our Slate. We cannot bow at the feet of the Beast, and con sequently our columns will hereafter be devoted to the dissemination of Republican Sentdients In Putnam county." Thus are the ranks of the Republi can party filling up, not only In Ohlo but In other sections of the country. The feeling of praotlcal indifference, so generally man I fasted last fall, has changed to enthusiasm, and those Re publicans who then absented them selves from the polls or voted the Domooratio ticket, are now earnestly at work with their party. We state this with the assurance of gentlemen returned from Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maine, who speak from personal knowledge. In Ohio, the nominee for Governor is universally popular, and he is conceded by both parties to be the strongest candidate for Repub lican Governor that could have been nominated. A similar sentiment Is" expressed In reference to the other Republican nominees. This is a vital element In a campaign. It is hoped other States will be equally successful in tho choioe of their candidates. Republic. Flour by any other name would smell &s wheat. STATE NEWS AND NOTES. The Seward Reporter says a Mr. Garret, living five miles south of York, left home in tho morning and on re turning in the evening hi3 wife was nowhere to be seen, but upon looking at the chicken-house he observed that the roof bad fallen in and upon re moving it he found his wife and child smothered to death where they had been hurried alive. The Seward Reporter boasts that the cdunty of Seward has only one sa loon, and tbinkB, correctly in all prob ability, that no other county in the State can show a better record In that respect. The Blair Times Bays not les3 than a dozen horses have been stolen from Hall county during the present season, and the won der Is that the Grand Island fellows do not send this olass of theive3 to tho other Bide of Jordan, where the pastime of horsestealing Is for ever beyond their reach. The wheat harvest which la now going on in tho western part of the State Is reported as very excellent. The yield Is better than it probably ever was before. T. P. Thomson an old settler of Otoe county, now of Red Willdw, was kill ed by lightning recently. He was a farmer and left a wife and several chil dren. The JPress of Falls City ohanged hands last week. Frank Martin step ped down and out anil Davis & Mar vin will "whoop up" trash for a while for the Demoracy. The Red Cloud Chief says: The printing press on whioh the Bloom Ington Guard has been printed for two years, has been taken to Steele City, Jefferson Co. Nat. L. Baker is to Btart a paper there oalled the News. Also, that tho Rev. N.Gould, of Kear ney is dead. He was the oldest Pres byterian minister In Nebraska. He was one of the Trustees of the Hast infls College. He was 7C years of age. Also that 1000 gopher solaps have been presented to the Commissioners of Ad ams county, since June 11th, for whioh 5 cents, a pleoe were paid. Samuel Carrell, of Spring Creek, Johnson County, Is now In jail at Te cumeoh for the crime of incest with his own daughter. Elder Barrow brought to our office on Thursday a stock of ordinaryjfield corn measuring twelve feet in lilghth and he has ten acres just like it. How is that for starving Nebraska, eh ? Tecumseh Chieftain. GENERAL NEWS. At North Hampton, Mass., recent ly a Mrs. Dimmiok attempted to shoot Dr. A. W. Thompson for refusing to marry her as ho had agreed to. H. C. Spencer on the 11th shot and killed Clinton Cook in a bawdy house in Chicago. The American Rifle Team now in Europe, has come off victorious at ev ery match. They shoot for the Eng lish cup. John D. Lee, who has for a long time been under arrest for being en gaged in tho Mountain Meadow mas sacre, Utah, is making a statement I ana coniession. it is tuougnc mat ub will clear Brigham Young from ony complicity at all in that massacre, chargeable upon the Mormana. Loederand Prloeoharged with hav ing sworn falsely against Beeoher and Mrs. Tiltou have been indicted for perjury. The St. Joseph Industrial Exposi tion will be held from the 6th to the 11th of Sept. A portion of the elty hotel at LynohburgVa., recently fell In kill ing Mr. A. L. Brown, a negro child and Injuring others. At a recent game of Be Ball be tween the Brown Stockings of St. Lcuis and Atlantlcs of New York, the Brown's scored 2 and tho Atlan tlcs 1. Another game was played at Boston on the 14th between a Boston olub and a Chicago club. The Bos tons made 8 and tho Chicagoes 7. Last Wednesday a lot of boys went swimming In the Missouri at St. Jo-2 seph, and Henry McLaln was drown ed. The Herald says this is the fourth person drowned there this sea son. The St. Joe Herald says, Jaok Smith has a dog that has attained its growth and weighs just twenty-eight ounces. He wouldn't fill one of Leo nards beer glasses more than half full. The Cincinnati Commercial hoists the name of E. B. Washburn for President of the United Statos. The skeleton of Filklna, tho express robber, who last year escaped from Clinton State Prison, was found in themain sewer of the institution. On tho 4th Inst., near Forest City, Ark., Miss Ellen Hamilton, a young lady living with Capt. James Hunter, was brutally outraged, cut with a knifo and left for dead by a negro named Davis, who then stole from the house and left. He will be sum marily dealt with if those in pursuit And him. Mr. Hamilton, of the Irish team writes to tho London Standard endorsing Parson's letter, and ho says: "I have shot against the Americans both in the United States and Ireland, I can say with confi dence, there never has been any team in thi3 country able to beat them. I don't mean we have not as good indi vidual shots, but their organization Is simply a perfect discipline, and will always beat superior individual strength in such contests. Kansas City is building a oastor oil mill. Castor oil Is what that oity mostly needs, so thinks the St. Joe Herald. The peaoh crop of Delaware, Mary land and New Jersey Ib now estima ed at 10,000,000 of baskets. Columbua Fulkerson of Nelson county Ky., recently wen home drunk and commenced cruelly beat ing his wife and ohildren. After whipping the woman and smallex children ho commenced on a son about seventeen years old who was ohopping wood, when with one blow from the axe the father, was stretched dead upon the ground, and tho boy half scared to death at the awful act he had done, ran wildly into the woods and escaped. STATE CAMP MEETING. Table Rock, Neb., June 25, 1875. Editor State Journal: Please glvo notice through your paper that the "Nebraska State Camp Meetiug for the progress of holiness" will be held nt Table Rock, Beginning Au gust 10th, and continuing ten days. The place of holding the meeting is located in a beautiful grove in close proximity to the depot, with good watering privileges, connected with many other advantages. Lots for tenting free. All tenters are earnest ly requested to have their tents erect ed and oconpied by twelve o'olook, Tuesday AugustlOth. No parties need apply for the privilege of huckstering, as no such thing will be allowed with in one mile of tho ground. Passen gers to the meeting will be carried over the A. & N. Railroad at reduced rates. Baggage free. Board and lodging can be secured on the ground at reasonable rates; there will also be a good feed Btand near the grounds where horses will be cared for at low figures. Everything In the power of the committee win oe uone to make it a time of great pleasure and spiritual profit to all who may attend. The meeting will be held under the ausploea of the "Nebraska Holiness Association," who will bo present witn tne state TaDernacie. The Revs. Gorshan, of N. Y., W B. M. Colt of Ills., and C. A. King, of Kansas, are also expeoted to be present and aid in the exercises of the meeting. Papers of Nebraska and Northern Kansas please copy. By order of Committee. J. W. Martin. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. LLIARD HALL BY PHILLIP PRATER, Who having recently taken charge of this popular resort, has fitted up tho bar In most SPLENDID STYLE, and otherwise beautified and Improved the appearance of tho hall, flatters himself that he has THE COSIEST and most comfortable gentlemen's resort In tho city. His Tables are Superb, and acknowledged to be the best by all who find pleasure In sporting with the IVORY BALLS and cue. And tho now proprietor opened out Willi The Very Best Liquors ever brought to Brownville ho keeps that kind on hand, and never sets out any other kind. Ho deals on the square with every man, and never Imposesan Inferior article on his customers. Jim Bus, "tho child like and bland," Is always on hand to setoutthe glass ware, to mix a cock tall or lemonade, or twist you out a "pop," or hand you tho best cigar In town. Call in and seo PHIL AND JIM. Report of the Condition OF TOE 1st NATIONAL BANE, AT BKOWXVILLE, In trie State of XcbrnsUa. at closo of business, June 30tli, 1875. ItESOUBCES. Loans and THgrnnnf.g Overdrafts . U. S. Bonds to secure Circulation.... Other Stocks, Bonds nnd Mortgages Due from approved reservo agents.-, Duo from other National Banks Due from State Banks and Bankers Real Estate, Furniture aud Fbctares Current expenses and taxes paid. Premiums pald. .., ,, ...,...,.,.... Checks and other cash Items $ 91.667 13 tSIU M 100,000 00 9JSC2 39 13,923 89 7.22131 12.C74 23 42 17 3,-tK) 14 11,000 00 1,947 60 1.9SS 00 477 03 143 33 4.900 00 4,500 CO 4.300 00 Bills ofother National Banks . Fractional currency (including nickels-. Specie (including gold Treasury notes) Legal-tender notes , ... ,.,,,,. ,,. Redemption fund with U.S. Treasurer (5 per cent, of circulation) Due from U. S. Treasurer. other than5 per cent reuumption mnu Total. -$273,662 75 LIABILITIES Capital Stock paid In.. 4100.000 00 surplus iinn , ,,,,, 9.200 00 11.81S 70 83,500 00 CI.1G4 05 utner unaiviaeu proiits. .-. National Bank notes outstanding.. Individual deposltsr , fSS.791 63 Demand cextliicates of deposit 21,372 42 Total 273,632 75 STATE OF ITEBBASKA, CotrsTTorKratAnA. I, Andrew K. Davison. Cashier of tho above named bank, do solemnly sw'ear that tho above statement Is true, to the best of my knowledge and beller. AsfUREW B. Davisok, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn tobeforemo thLs 15th day of July, 1873. J. C. McNauohtOx, Notary Public Correct Attest : JNO. L. CARSON, Y F. E. JOHNSON. -Directors if. A. HANDLE V. J PliOTTS'STAK, ORGANS Aro celebrated for tbelr purity ot tone, ele gant design and thorough construction. Send for catalogue. Address, EDWARD VIiOTTS, Washington, JT. J. PROPOSALS FOR BRIDGE BUILBIM! B1 IDS will bo received by tho Board of i County Commissioners of Nemaha Conn- ty, Nebraska, on or before Saturday, July 31st, 1875, for tfi'o building of ono forty-foot spaffstrnln beam wood bridge across tho Big Iuddy Creek, about one mllo directly east of tho Stono Church, In" Benton precinct, on abut ments now constructed. Bridge to bo of White Oak or Burr Oak Wood. Said Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Bi" order of tho Board of Conntv Commls- i sioners. wilsujn IS. 3IAJOKS, 3w3 County Clerk. Plotis' Star Organs, Now and beautiful designs. AGENTS WANTED. Addres8.JSDWAKD PX.OTTS. Wa.JUngton, N. J. PROPOSALS FOR mU ATTENDANCE ON PAUPERS. TID3 will bo received by tho Board of j txuntycomralsslonersofNemahaConn ty, Nebraska, on or before Saturday, July Slst, 1S75, lor medical attendance to tho poor of said oounty, with or without medicine, for the pe riod of one year. Bids will bo received only from graduates of medical schools of good repute. The said Commissioners reserving tho right to reject any or all bids. By order of tho Board of Connty Commis sioners. WILSON E. MAJORS. 3w3 County Clerk. Plotts Star Origans Combine beauty find durability with worth. Send for illustrated catalogue before buyinsr. Address the manufacturer, SDWAKD PIiOTTS, Washington, N. J. IEGAIi Tisiacs Notice to Stockkon L NOTICE Is hereby given tht ,k a meeting of EeStcfrhtilaSw-i Brownville. Fort Keafned S'eS road company, nt the offlce0r.S in the city of Brownvli e 1, .mS1 State of hr!,ci, !. .." "nab ' aSl tober..d:r8V3:,o7VhVPTSft07T on an agreement fortho S,0 yW,; frci'ritc ti Railway Company, into one , iS ?" company, and to consider iuV-Si uess as may bo brought before , S? By order of the Board oi 5fJB.St 3wu w t v-vri"1 Attachment Soiirn BcforoJ. Gilbert J. P. in anrt -ton Precinct, Nemaha OonnifH R. A. Hawley vs. P. v. Warne- "" THE SAID P. W. WARNER ii tilled that on the 9th Tday 0fjler,K;$1 You are hereby required to antt said action on the 31st day or ir t 1 o'clock, p. m. 7 of jQ'7 lwl R. A. HAWLEY FUlnm fciegal SToticc. TOSEPH S. NANSOX xnrf tv-. . O tholow will take notice tw0?0 ta, has been tiled against them nnn tiioi nn .. . - i action wherein the First VaM1 la uuurt ui ncmaon hnntr -v fatloaaTl Brownville Is plaintiff, and Joseni,Hk ? d E?5B? A"hoiow7C the object and prayer of which ft judgment in favor of plaintiff L Pc defendants for tho rom if SViPiSe ana twenty -nve dollars and cr. M subject the lundsherelnafterderitkf payment thereof by fue provlsl lands in said county, which Is now Ti?0 den in said action for the pavniPnt7 tiff 's sold claim, to-wit" eni.fj quarter of section thirty-foar 31 t -ship live (5). north of wnV9 east, except tho following dL tracts, to-wit: commencln"nt V?4 fifteen nnd soventy-eight one-hnn" rods cast of tho north-west north-west quarter df 4 S ,?U running east fifteen and sevemy'8 hundredth rods, thence south ferlte thenco west fifteen and scVentyltTt hundredth rods, thence north Stfjfcl c to tho Placo of beginning, ronte1 acres; also, commencing at the norti corner of tho north-west .quarter &!S tlon, thenco running south wlthu1 flf ty-one rods thence east fifteen "SSfe ty-elght one-hundredth rods, them TlC fifty-one rods thenco watnffwnSffi? ty-elght one-htihdredth rods, to tteVJUt beginning, containing llveacres . 'l Said defendants are required to anvrtr . SSSS5BK1 10 au peUUoa onT& i ... J-H.BR0ADY lw Attorney for Pk!nL Plotis' Star Organs. Send for price list and list of testlmsnlali Address. EDWARD PLOTTS, TaSte? -A.. ZROZBiSOK, nJtH DEALER IN S 00TS AND SHOE CUSTOJI WORK ML4lIE TO ORDER. Repairing neatly done. ro.S9Mamstret,2ra ville.Neb. SIIS' $1 Any person wishing to purchase a rw' t organ where thero is nougentfor thoM' would do well to wrlto for specl.il rrte j Introdnco this instrument. Address XD WAIID PtOTTS, "Washington, S.. GHA1N, SEED AND FEEJ3 STQBE First Street, bet. Slain & Atlantic CORN, .OATS, WHEAT, RYE, BRAW, SHORTS, AND Chopped and Mised Teed. ALWAYS ON HAND. 500 Buskels Iowa SEED COEN. Good Grain & Stock Scales Connected with tho store. COEN BY THE WAGON LOAD HUDDART & McCOY. JPIotts1 Star Organs. Agents supplied atflRurea that defy compe tition for tho same qloss of lnftrutnenB. Try one. Address, EDWAIID PLOTT3, Washington, N. J. SmPERSXTErtfllEXT'S jVOTICE I WILL- hold Public Examination on J last Saturday of each mouth, at mi in Brownville. Those wishing certiflca will please take notice. .,,,... D.W.PXERSO, 42tf Co. SuperlntenJen- J. IIUDDART So CO., PEICE & MET ami No. 51 Main Street, BROWiW MiE, WE' BEST WINES & LIQUORS KEPT OK HAND. SSUaaabW BILLIARDS. We have fitted up In flnostyle a .EUmard ! Paj and put up therein two tables trfcsb fJ?,v" - ufactory. to play upon which we '?Jt,!,I ."ocas fond of the axeruke. The BllliardParWr i In the story over the saloon. 3f8 -au v M9y IE OB nS5 fill 181 s4