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About Nebraska advertiser. (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1877)
"M imT ZZ $--- 1'jjflat? jxn ?wsw uee.vM.'.v'iaff.iai A SHE ADVERTISER. THURSDAY, FEB. 22, 1S77. Senator Kelley of Oregon 'explains' that be endorsed that dispatch for Patrlok without knowing what It was or how It read. That's pretty thin. It Is estimated by the Illinois State Board of Agriculture that the loss to farmers of that State during the past year from bog cholera, will amount to nearly $S,000,000. And at this preseut writing eo Xar axs we are able to judge the man who knows the faots If there are nny has not been found. Dakotah City MaiL The man was found but refused to auswer the questions. The present session of the Ipcicla ture will cost the state about $60,000, One-fourtb of It will be spent trying to famish Church Howe a reputation for honesty and political respectabili ty. Blair Pilot. That Is a big sum togive for a white washing job. W. H. Tlmblin, a lawyer from the western part of this state was recently hot and killed in a fight, in the Black Hills country, with a despera do named Jack Burnett. From ac counts the killing was justifyable, and Timblin fired the MrstBho'c. The Demoorat9 offered Judge ev Isae, one of the Louisiana Hayes elec tors, $100,000 if he would cast his electoral vote for Tilden, yet before the high joint commission they tried to show that Levisse was Ineligible. That was a pretty big price to offer for a vote they believed to bo Illegal. The Democrats are howling because the Republicans of the high joint commission all vote together, and are voting Hayes In. Haven't they as much right to stiok together and vote for their man and principles as has the Democratic side of the commis elon? If they don't want every point decided by a partisan vote why don't some of them set the example and vote for the Hayes side occasionly it -wouldn't look so awfully partisan then. On the 16th inst. the high joint com mission at Washington, which State by State, and point by point. Is Hear ing a decision on the Presidential question, ordered Louisiana to be counted for Hayes and Weeler. This leaves no doubt of the final result be ing In favor of Hayes. A large num ber of the Democrats in Congress favor revolution, but a majority of them are not so inclined, and the in dications are that Hayes will be peace ably Inaugurated. The Oregon case is now being tried, and short work will be made of it. The remaining State from which there are two sets of certificates ia South Carolina, but the Democrats will hardly make an effort In that direction, for it Is a much better case for the Republicans than cither Florida or Louisiana. The Church Howe investigation is a magnlflceni fizzle. Whatever may have been the faots, the participators so covered their tracks, that nothing definite can be gotten at. Everybody 1s acquitted, and all parties are happy In own opinions. York Republican. "Cover their tracks" Is what sharp Togues always do, or always try to do. The transactions between bribe-giver and bribe taker are oarried on with out witnesses ; hence it i9 nearly an impossibility to prove the offense by suoh testimony as Is required in a court of justice to fasten orlme upon the guilty. But when the parties are so nearly cornered that they refuse to answer pertinent questions on the 'ground that it would criminate them selves, and when one of the princi pals in the case makes such pointed revelations, and gives such pertinent hints regarding the infidelity of the other principal, it uncovers the tracks co that the animal, while he escapes belng caught, is very easily traoked to Lis hole. Hot a scintilla of legal evidence has been presented. Every allegation was propped up simply by hearsay. Each wltuess testified to what some body else had told him about Howe; and in every instance it was second hand information that those some bodies had imparted to the witnesses. Omaha Republican. Was Mr. Barker's testimony hear say? "Mr. Barker, do you know Rhything-of his placing money at the disposal of Mr. Howe, to aid in secur ing his election in any manner?" Answer "I decline to answer." Was this "legal evidence" or hear say? Mr. Lett heard Mr. Patrick, the man who placed the money in Mr. Howe's hands, say that "JTotoe got our mon ey1' never returned it "Howe is a guerrilla." True, Mr. Lett "testified to what somebody else had told him," but when we consider who that "somebody" was, what relation be bore to the matter in investigation, while it may not be "legal evidence" as the Republican styles it, it war rants, aB does Mr. Barker's answers, a logical conclusion convioting Mr Howe and overwhelming the argu ments of the shyster and pettifogger for a notorious demagogue. The following Is & specimen dis patch that has been placed In the bands of the investigating committee during the Oregon Investigation. Portland, November 28. W. T. Pelton, 15 Grameroy Park, New York : Certificate will be Issued to one Democrat; must purohase Repub lican Elector to recognize and act with Democrat, and seeure vote and prevent trouble. Deposite $10,000 to my credit with Kountze Bros., Wall street. Answer. (Signed.) J. N. H. Patrick. I fully indoree this. Jos. K. Kelley. This Mr. Kelley who indorses for Mr. Patrick is a Democratio U. S. Sanator, and he appears at present In a very bed plight before his peers in the Senate. Kelley Is disgraced, but Bet In the eyea of his party however seme of them may "go baok on him" for feeing caagbt. But justiook for a moment at the very bead of tile party that shrieked so much about reform, and what do we see ? We see Pelton, Til den 'a private secretary arranging und depositiug money for the purpose of bribing an elector. Is not the spec tacle of a candidate for the chief mag istracy of this great Republic trying to satiate his ambition by the lowest political fraudH by crime itself the most humiliating that canjbe imagin ed ? Every honest man and woman In the United States will be exceed ingly glad that the old rascal is not to be the President, whether he was elected or not. All will rejoice that those who now have the power to Ig nore him and his claims will do so, and prevent the terrible disgrace of having such a man as Tilden prpslde for four years over the affairs of the nation. Mr. Howe bore his trials, and wears his laurel crown b becomes a Grang er and Senator. Beatrice Express. A very small case of todyistn. Mr. Howe's excusers, it will be ob served, never undertake to justify, defend, and exonorate him from logi cal conclusions deduced from the tes timony. This they ingeniously evade and ignore, and direct especial atten tion to the report of the comtnitteo as if that were all there was of the mat ter and should preclude the people from the right of even reasoning up on the testimony of Barker, Lett, Porter, Cole ahd Bristol, and of put ting their own estimate upon laurels worn upon 6uch testimony and a ver dict from a jury of Mr. Howe's own selecting. If the republican party or this stata does not take Bimdry effective meas ures to Fquelch some of its leading malcontents, it may as well prepare to die. No party, no matter how just and good its general policy or princi ples, can long survive constant attneks upon Its leaders from within its own ran ks. Omaha- Republican. This may all be true. But what shall we think of a paper who con stantly falsifies facts regarding notor ious demagogues, rascals, brlhe-takers etc., and labors, by an outrageously and disgusting course of pettifogging, garbled reports and absolute falsehood to make those appear pure who are known to be deserving of thecondem natlon of every honestman and news paper? Any Republican in this lo cality would answer our question in terms not at all favorable or flattering to the Omaha Republican. The Re publican has been and is now, pub lishing daily "puffs," simply because it hates the Omaha Bee, of the worst enemy the Republican part3 ever had In this county. This truth is not overlooked by our Republicans, eith er, and they will demonstrate their displeasure of the course of the Re publican, and their appreciation of the Bee In a most praotlcal manneras opportunity shall offer. They have been deceived in thinking the Repub lican &goo and reliable paper, and now regard it as no friend to the Re publicans of this part of the state, be lieving its present editor to be a party easily corrupted or influenced. We believe this to be the correct estimate to place upon the Omaha Republican, and we advise our Republican friends to drop it as a totally unworthy and unreliable sheet. We, in this connection, cannot for bear quoting the following clipped from the same iesue as was the ex tract at the head of this article : Church Howe acted with the re publicans, as did the other independ ents, and the people of the state as suredly owe them a debt of gratitude. It waB iiis support, in the extra ses sion to count the electoral vote, which enabled the work to go on, and gave the state to Hayes and Wheeler, and the republican party will not forget his timely and priceless services at these critical junctures. The probability is that Howe wrote this "puff" himself and paid ten cents a line for It, but whether he did or not, the Republicans of Nemaha hold Ihe Omaha Republican responsible for such notices, knowing that the spirit and sentiment it promulgates to be false. They know that Howe has aoted with both parties, they know he was pledged to Hitchcock and Saunders at the same time, they know he was also pledged to the Democrats of this county to support a Democrat for U. S. Senator, they know he was the Democratic candi date for President of the Senate, they know he voted with the Democrats on everjT question regarding the pro priety of the extra session which counted the electoral vote, they know that when the opinion of the Senate was called for as to whether Tilden or Hayes should be declared eleoted President, Mr. Howe asked to be ex cused from voting, they know that during the campaign he declined to say publicly whether he waa for Hay es or Tilden, they know that ho tried to make bargains with both political parties, they know that he eutered a protest against counting the electoral vote by the extra session and they know that had it not been so oounted the state would have probably been Jost to Hayes and Wheeler, and they know that the last quoted puff of Howe and the claims therln set up for him to be a glaring aud barefaced lie. Regarding appropiations for carry- Ineon aud paying expenses of the Nebraska Hospital for the insane, the State Journal calls attention to the wide differance between the amount recommended by the committee and the amount allowed by the House : The committees recommended for instance $16,000 for grooeries and pro visions for the Hospital for the insane during the year 1877, and $19,500 for 1878. The House by motion, and without debate, cut the appropriation for each year down to $8,000. A sim ilar reduction was made in the ap propriations for clothing for the poor insane, and for fuel and medicines. This is certainly a curious way of doing business amongst legislators who ought to know what they are do ing. The oommittee recommended double as muoh money as was neceEr sary or else the House did not make sufficent appropriation by ope half. Evidently the Committee or the House dki notlfuow what they were doing, and "went it blind." It will prove to be an inhuman and cruel mistake, if, as we suspect, the House was at fault. Far as the Journal truly says, while economy is always de manded whether times are hard or not, "economy never demands any less fuel, any lees amount of provisions and clothing for the sick and the af flicted cared for by the State charities at one time than at another, for the reason there never should be waste or improvidence, and there never should be scantiness and deprivation in the matter of all that is necessary to the health and comfort of the wards of the State. The Attempted Murder of Gov. Pack ard of Louisiana by a Democratic Assassin. The following statement is from a gentleman present in the Governor's room, and witnessed the attempted assassination : Two men, one ofthem the wounded man, who gave his name as Joseph Huttle, but whose renl name, from papers found in his possession, is ascer tained to be William H. Weldon.and a slim, one-armed man who gave no name, called at the door of the State Capitol and asked to see Mr. Packard. There was some demurring ubont ad mitting them, when one proclaimed himself to be an ex-Federal officer and the other a discharged soldier. They were brought to the head of the stairs, where Weldon represented that he was a correspondent of the Philadel phia Preis, and desired to see Govenor Packard. The name of Joseph Huttle was sent iu, but the one-armed man declined to enter. Weldon reached the executive ofllce, where be found Mr. Packard seated at his desk, talk ing with Judge Boarman, of Caddo, who occupied a chair on his right. Weldon sat down in a vacant chair immediately on Mr. Packard's left, and, after an instant, Bharply asked, "When can Iseoyou?" Mr. Packard turned and found a pistol aimed at his head. He immediately struck it down, and the weapon was discharged the ball striking him in the right knee-capand inflicting a slight wound Governor Packard immedlatly dealt the man a blow with his fist striking him between the eyes and knocking him down. Several parties in the room drew their pistols and fired, wounding the would-be assassin seriously but not fatally. Of course a scene of intense excitement immedi ately followed. The one-armed man arrested, and conveyed, to the ofllce of the Superintendent of Police, and Weldon was kept a close prisoner in tho executive office. Mr. Packard was conveyed to his private apartment on the second floor of tho building, where his wound was examined by Dr. A. W. rimythe. It is not of a serious character, but might prove so If not carefully tended, and will lame him for several days. The man who tried to kill Packard says that his name is William Henry Weldon, and that his home is in Philadelphia. He says, further, that he has a. mother and sisters living there. With regard to his attempt to kill Packard, he says that there were four others with him who were to have assisted him in the undertaking but that, when reaching the door of the State House, they re fused to go In and left him to carry out the Intended plan of assassination alone. Weldon, ifsuch be his name, is not, as it turns out, very seriously hurt. The ball which struck him hit him in the left arm, just below the shoulder, and seems to have come out at the elbow. It was thought at first that he was killed, but it seems that he was only stunned and faint from the loss of blood. At half-past 12 he was so much revived as to converse with those about him. HISCELLAXEOUS X.EWS. Texas has only two woolen mills to work up the wool from her 2,500,000 sheep. The New York Legislature has pass ed a law to protect its population against the wiles of pattent-right ven ders who perambulate the country, selling rights and taking promissory notes for bogus patents. The words 'given for a patent right," must be written or printed across the face of the note, and any person who takes or sells a note without this indorsement Is to be guilty of a misdemeanor. A man in Massachusetts has been fined for not providing comfortable shelter for his stock. A wounderfui case of matrimonial bargain and sale has just been devel oped at Liberty, Ind., In which Wm. Smith, a deaf idiotic, and, horrible old man, shunned, by everybody, bought a young girl for $5,009 to be come bis wife. He has been a widower for about two years, during which time he has lived in seclusion. Two weeks ago be offered $5,000 to any one who would get him a wife. No at-, tention was paid to it till this morn lug, when it was announced that he had just been married to a young girl of the neighborhood, Miss phosbe Johns. She lived with a man named Slade, who negotiated the sale of the girl. Blade got $3,000, and the girl's father $2,000 of the purohase money while she got a deed to the old man's fine farm of 200 acres. The wedding oocurred last night in grand style, there being a supper, gusets, dance, etc., nil of which the bride had stipul ated for in tho bargain. A distressing condition of things prevails in the coal mine districts of Westphalia and Bhineland. A great number of workman have been dis missed, and there are over 40,000 un employed persons among whom the dirtress is fearful. No Bigns of im provement in trade or commerce are perceptible. Two Greek Journals, published at Trieste accused of being in the pay of Russia were publicly burned recently. The American Colonization Sooiety has sent 48 emigrants to Liberia the past year, at a cost of $17,G7l. The Paris polioe have j ust been arm ed with a small powerful little lamp, which they conceal under the overcoat but by whose aid they can Instantly throw a blinding light on objects and Identify offenders. The largest establishment in the world for hatching salmon eggs is that of the United States Government on the MacCIoud river, Shasta county Cal. It is under the superinledence of Livingston Stone who distributes an average of several million young salmon each year to the Fish Commis sioners of the various States having rivers suitable for their Increas.o Captain Geneeal Campos telegraphs that the Cuban insurrection. vwill be suppressed by May, when he will re turn to Spain. A bill has been introduced in Con gress authorizing the establishment of a commission for scientific exploration of the northern States of Mexico and the territory of the United States ad joining the Rame. The next Illiuois State Fair will be held at Freeport. "Sew Laws. From the Stale Journal. The following acts have been sign ed by tho Governor; and have become laws. Fifty-eight additional bills are are on his' table for consideration, and will be disposed of within the five days given by the constitution after the adjournment, to approve or veto such as are left over. 1. To provided for the payment of members of the fourteenth session of tho legislature. 2. To provide for the payment of incidental expenses of the fourteenth session. 3. To repeal section 25 of act con cerning the organization, powers and jurisdiction of county courts. Ap proved March 3, 1873. 4. To amend section 430, criminal code. 5. To legalize the incorporation of the city of Columbus aud tho acts of its officers. 6. Concerning the competency of jurors in certain cases. 7. To repeal the act creating a State Board of Immigration. 8. To repeal the act creating the office of delinquent tax collector. 9. To regulate means of egresB from public buildings. 10. To amend section one of the homestead exemption net. 11. Appropriations for expenses of the 12th and 13th sessions of the leg islature. 12. To ammend sections 11, 41, 76 and 91 of an act incorporating cities of the first class. 13. For the publication of the Fu preme Court reports. 14. To provide tho manner of pro posing amendments to the constitu tion, and submitting the same to the electors. 15. To prevent the fraudulent trans fer of personal property. IG. Establishing n Bt ard or Pub- lie Lands und Buildings and defining their duties. 17'. To make taxes a perpetual lien upon certain personal property March 1st of each current year and declaring the same personal for purposes of tax ation. 18. To declare the true Intent and' meaning of the expression "School District" in aot amending act to pro vide for registration of precinct, or township, and school district bonds', approved Feb. 25, 1S75. 19. To provide for the funding of all outstanding warrants aud other indebtedness of the State. 20. To provide in what courts the State may fitie and be sued. 21. For the relief of Thos. B. Stevenson, Mary Hays and others. 22. Deolaring Niobrara the county seat of Knox county. 23. To amend section 1 of an act authorizing the raising of troops on extraordinary occasions, etc. 24. To provide for bounties for de struction of wild animals. 25. To exempt property of the.'hus band for liability of debts contracted by the wife before marriage. 20. To provide forjincorporation of street railroad companies in cities. 27. To amend sections 5 and G, chapter 19, revised statutes, entitled "fees." 28. To regulate purchase, of sup plies for pubiio institutions and exe cutive departments of the state. 29. Appropriations for expenses of the state at the Centennial exhibition 30. To reimburse temporary school fund for amounts appropriated for ex pense of Normal School in JS75, and 187G. 41. Joint resolution expunging from the journals of the eighth ses sion of the Legislature of Nebraska the records of impeachment of David Butler. 32. Relating to service of process in certain' action concerning real es tate, 33. To provide for transfer of terri tory from one county to another. 34. To define duties of secretary of state. 33. To amend section 1 of act amending section 592 of civil code ap proved February 24, 1875. 36. To enable associations of per sons of the learned professions to be come bodies corporate. 37. To repeal section 5S3, chapter 57, of code of civil procedure. 3S. Joint resolution relating to an extra congressman. 39. To transfer surplus county Binking and other funds to the gener al fund. 40. To amend sections 308 and 311 of code of civil procedure, and provide for settling bills of exceptions. 41. To provide for foreclosure and collection of securities held by per manent school fund. 42. To amend sections 49 and 50 of an act to provide a system of revenue. 43. To regulate fees of county judg es, clerks, sheriffs and treasurers. 44. To prohibit county officers from entering Into or receiving bene fit of any contract exeouted by county for supplies or other purposes. 45. To enable the state to realize upon judgments and mortgages held and owned by the State against any person or body corporate. 46. To amend sections 73, 74 and 75, chapter 43, Revised Statutes, en titled "Real Estate." " " " 47. To repeal sections 20, 27 and 28, chapter 22 of General Statutes, im posing a tax upon the entry of suits in District and Supreme Courts. 48. To provide for the appointment of clerks of District Courts. 49. To amend seotion 221 of the civil code. 30. Appropriations for salaries of the officers of the government, State penitentiary, &o. 51. Appropriations for the current expenses of the government for 1877 and 1S78. 52. To provide for township organ izations. 53. Creating a Commission to re vise the General laws of the State, defining their duties and forming their corporation. 54. To amend section 35 of an act establishing a system of pubiio in struction. 55. To amend sections 2 and 4 of an act to provide for funding the war rants of Madison county. 56. To govern stock growers and drovers. 57. To amend section 1 of an act to extend provisions of herd law to Knox county. 58. To provide forexamination aud adjustment of olairas upon the state treasury in accordance with section 9, article 9 of the Constitution. 59. Joint resolution relative to the transfer of the Indian Department to War Department. GO. to amend an act entitled Roads approved Feb. 25, 1875. Refused to Insure. Our Legislature refused to make any appropriation for insuring the State buildings. We think it did not do its duty in this' respect it did not act for the people upon the safest bus iness rules. If thecapltol, or Univer sity, or Penitentiary should burn down within the next two years, aud a direct tax be levied to rebuild, the people would see very clearly the foolishness of a legislature "going it blind" and trusting to luck. The people will generally endorse the fol lowing, in reference to the matter, from the State Journal: We do not think the House did wisely in (striking the appropriation for insuiauce of public buildings from the general appropriation bill. It is urged that the State is able to insure its own property. Now, the ability of an individual to economically in sure his own property is not measur ed so mucli by his assets us by his in come. The State has large aggregate wealth, it is true, but we are tuld that the taxation is very burdensome, and we know that this is true. The in come of the State that can be paid without material injury to its proper ty interests, is not sufficient, we think, to justify the assumption that it cuu with propriety become its own insurer. Its pubiio buildings were not for the most part erected by taxa tion, but from the proceeds of success ful disposition of itscapital in lots and lands, which, once sold, cannot be re placed. An individual in the place of our young State, if possessed of business capacity, would insure. The appropiration for insurance was placed at $17,406 50, of which $5,482,75 was for the taking up of certificates of indebtedness issued by the Governor 'for insurance for the past year, not covered by former appropriations, leaving $11,924,25 as the amount nec essary for renewing- the various pol icies for three years, or less that$4,000 per annum. There are fifty Insuance companies in the States, who have paid fifty dollars each for admission fees, or a sum total of $2,500 and $20 annual fee, or $1,000 per year into the State Treasury, also $2,000 annually for certificates to agents and $5,000 ad ditional fees, amounttng In all to $3, 500. Add to these the taxes paid in 1870 by the insurance companies in the State a sum of $0,313.29 and we have an annual Income $9,813 27. Otherwise received of insurance com panies by the State are the $2,500 ad mision fees and $72,000 for insurance of the lunatic asylum which was burned and the sum in addition to the annual income $74,000. Hence the State is largely ahead of the Insurance com panies in Its ledger account. The total capital represented by the insurance companies doing husiness in Nebraske is over $200,000,000. a cap ital far in excess of the assessed value of the State, and hence they are better .able to insure our buildings than is the State. Poor as we comparatively are we have valuable buildings erected as wo before said, for the most part out of bur landed capital and not from our ordinary income, that it would be n hardship to replace. If we do not insure all of our build ings we should at least insure those most exposed to accident. The Pen itentiary is not very likely to be destroyed, but the Insane Hospital, the University and the Capital build ing are far from fire proof and being constantly occupied and not uuder the strictest supervision, so far as the last two are concerned, are more or Iprb liable to injury or destruction by fire. Hence these buildings and the asylums for the deaf and dumb and the blind ought to be insured. We congratulate ex-Gov. Butler, upon the final expunginpr from the journal of the elshth legislature of the records of his impeachment as Gov ernor. The vote by which this dis creditable act was consigned to oblivion waB decisive In both houses, beinpr a two-thirds vote in the Senate and about a three-fourths vote in the House. A very largo majority of the people ofthe State will heartily con cur with this ricrhteons action, and tho occupation ofthe poverty-stricken politicians who have theretofore thrown mud at David Butler, because of his unmerited misfortunes, will be gone. He has survived the jealousy nnd hate that thrust him down, and few men in Nebraska have a stronger hold upon the hearts of the people than he. Stale Journal. PROBATEKOTICE. Estate of Philip Starr, deceased. 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Consumption WE 's a disease ofthe Air Kid- passages, and over two DYSPEPSIA CURE. Liver and ney complaints are eirec- ln,rt, ' V'.T3 -S" tuallv reached bv Oiv- caused by Catarrh. We tually reached by Oxy- genated Air. guarantee a cure 11 you will comoln season. BLOOD -SEASj !I)r.Towascnd's Oxvgen 'atedAIr will purify the blood In one-third the time that anv other ftfnw A ffTUP known remedy con. JJlo Hiil O Hih Why? Because to Inhale mm mr i9 kjub r i Oxycenated Air it roes direct to the Lungs and passes through the tis sues and comes In direct contact with the blood as it Is forced Into the CANCERS AND TUMORS! and Lungs by the action of me ii can. .n me Diooa In onr veins returns to the heart every four minutes if the blood Is irood. nnd forced frnm CUBEO without cutting, lle heart to the lungs, or drawing blood, with and the more Oxygen veryllttleornopaln. Any you Inhale Jnto the lungs person troubled with Can- J-be more,?;ou DU"fv tlie cerandTumorswIllplease Wood. When Oxygen write for testimonials, c.,cm;s !" Jf0,"!.1 w" f-nm naftonta n.rort wthe Impurities in the warra-nt a perfect cure. .Wood H carbonizes and mmx.m.. t0 De heated so j,at it TTT HT Ti 1 TiT T warms every part of the VV iiIL. railii L,U, ouy. as i. goes on is t . .if i revolutions through the Late ofthe .system. If your blood McCLELLAN U. S. A. 'Is pure you cannot be Hospital, Philadelphia, sick. We drive Mercn Pa., who nas been so sue- ry and all otherl mpurl cessful throughout Tfew ties out of the blood. England In the cure of We guarantee to purify Cancers and Tumors, the blood In one-third takes charge of this de- the time of any other partment. known remedy. Address all letters as heretofore, 33. IT. TOWNSEND, X.I. 122 High-st., Providence, R. I. Physicians wishing to locate In some town or city in this business, can be furnished with territory and our illustrated papers for advertising the some, by addressing as above. OATJTIOlsr There are uuprlnclpled persons in Boston and elsewhere that are putting up a BOGUS LIQUID and trying to palm It oft as MY TREATMENT, or Oxygenated Air, and claiming It to belike mine. None genuine unless the words "DR. TOWJfB KND'S OXYflKNATISD AIR" ake Blows in BOTrjE AKD PORTRAIT OK LABEL. 34yl Artkur V. Walsh, Bro-ivnYillc, Nebraska. a..d.m:a.iish:3 TAELOKj BROWNViLJiP, NEBRASKA. Cutting, or Cattinjr and Making, done to order on short notice and at reasonable Drlces. Has bad lone experience and can I warrant satisfaction. Call q( us sb,op at .residence on Atlantic street. Divorce Notice, WATSON EMPSOX: Yon are hereby no tified that on the 27tk day of January. ivtt TTonnio Rmnsoii filled her petition in the, 'District Court of Nemaha Connty, Ne; brnska, wherein she prays to db aivorceu from yon, nnd to have the crwtody of her children decreed to her, for the reason that yon fail to provide her a suitable mainten ance. . , . Yon are required to answer wild petition on or before the 12th dny of March. IS77. FANNIE EMPSON, W- T. Rogers, A try. 32w4 Proposals for Forage. HEAQ'its Department of toe Px.atte, 'I CH1EK QUARTERMASTER'S UFFICE, Omaha, Neb., Jan. 1877. SEALED PROPOSALS. In triplicate, -will be received at this otBce. until II o'clock A. jr., Wednesday, Feb. 23. 1877, at which place and time they will bo opened In presence of bidders, for the delivery in quantities as re quired, up to June 30, 1S77. at Omaha De pot, Nebraska, or at Stations on the Union Pacific Railroad, east of Kearney Junction, of 3,4:00,000 lbs. Corn, and 1,000,000 lbs. Oats. Proposals for less qjcantlties than the whole will b received. Bidders. Mill state the- rate per hundred pounds not per bushs. Proposals are invited, both for tho delive ry of the Cora ond Oats In new gnnny or burlap sacks. to be provided by contractor, and for the delivery In sacks, to be furnished by the Department to the contractor at Ona ha Depot. Eacli bid to be-considered should bo guar anteed by two responsible parties, not bid ders, that they will become boudsmen on award, of contract. The proposals should be made separately for Corn and for Oats. Preference will be given, to articles of do mestic production. The contracts will be let with the proviso that the qnantltles contracted for may be in creased or reduced one-third by tho Chief Quartermaster of the Department, at any time within sixty days afterdate of co ntract. The right to reject any or all bids Is re served Bids'shonTd be endorsed on envelope, "Bids for Forage." Blank bids furnished nnd fall conditions made known on application at this" ofllce. M. I. LUDINGTON. 32wl Chief Quartermaster. MAEE THESE PACTS. Trie Testimony of the "Wliole "World. liOLLOWAY'S FIILS. "I had no appetite; Ilolloway's Pills gavemea nearly one." "Your Pills are marvellous." "I send for another box. and keep them In the house." "Br.Hollowayhascuredmy headacho that was chronic." "I gave one-of your Pills to m y babe for cholera morbus. The dear little thing got well In a day." "My nausea of a morning Is nowenred." "Your box of Ilolloway's Ointment cured me of nobes In the head, I rubbed some of your Oint ment behind the ears, and the noise has left." ' "Sed me two boxes : I want one for a poor family "I enclose a dollar:, y cur price Is 25 eeats, but the medicine to me is worth a dollar." "Send me five boxes of your pills." 'Let me have three boxe3 of your Pills by return mall, for Chills and Fever. I bnve- orer '200 such testimonials as these, but want of Jjpnetr compels me to conclude. For Cntanoons. Disorders, And all eruptions of 9he skin, this Ointment Is most Invaluable. It does not heal externally alone, but penetrates with the most searching ef fects to the very root of the evil. 3:o,,o--ja.t:'S DPIZjIK Invariably cure the following diseases! DISORDER OP THE KIDNEYS. In all diseases affecting these organs, whether they secrete too much or too little- water: or whether they be ailllcted with stone or gravel, or with aches and pains settled in the loins over the regions of the kidneys, these Pills shonld be taken according to the printed directions, and the Oint ment should be well rubbed into the small of the baca: at bed time. This treatment will give almost Immediate relief when all other meass bavefalled. For Stomachs Ont of Order. No medicine will so effectually Improve the tone or the stomach as thesePIIIs : they remove all acid ity occaIoned either by Intumpernnce or Improper diet. They reach the liver and reduce It to a heal thy action : they are wonderiully efficacious In cases of spasm In fact they never fall In curing all disorders of the liver nnd stomach. HOLLO WAYS PILLS are the fcest known in the world for the following diseases: Ague. Asth ma. Bullous Complaints. B otches on the Skin, Bowels. Consumption. Debllity.Uropsy. Dysentery. Erysipelas, Female Irregularities. Fevers of all kinds. Fits. Cost Headache. Indigestion, Inflam mation. Jaundice, Liver complaints. Lumbago, Piles. Rheumatism. Retention of urlne.Scrofula or King's Evil, Sore Throats, Stone nnd Gravel. TIc Doulonreux. Tumors, Ulcers. Worms of all kinds. Weakness from any cause, etc. IMPORTANT CAUTION. None are genuine unless the signature of J. Hay dock, as agent for the United States, surrounds each box of Pills, and ointment. A handsome re ward will be given to any one rendering such in formation as may lead to Ihcdelectlon ot any par ty or parties counterfeiting the medicinesor vend ing the same.knowlngthem to be spurious. Sold at the manufactory of Professor Hoixo wat A Co., New York, and by all respectable drogxistsatid dealers In medicine throughout the civilized world, In boxes at 25 cents: G2 cents, and ?l fi3f-There Is considerable savlnir bv tnklnir the lnrgerslzes. N. B. Directions for the guidance or patients in every disorder are affixed to each box. Office, 113 Liberty Street, New York. 23-l 23. HUDDART'S Peace and Quiet Saloon ! A" KVSKMA- AND BILLIARD HALL. THE ENEMY OF DISEASE I THE FOE OF PAIN TO MAN AND BEAST Is the Grand Old XiZisriwdiEKra? i AVHICir HAS STOOD THE TEST OP 40 YEARS. THERE IS NO SORE IT AVH.L NOT HEAL, NO LAMENESS IT "WILL NOT CURE, NO ACHE, NO PAIN. TH A T AFFLICTS THE HUHAN BODY, OR THE BODY OF A HORSE OR OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMAL, THAT DOES NOT YIELD TO ITS MAGIC TOUCH. A BOTTLE COSTING 25c, 50c, OR $100, HAS OFTEN SAVED THE LIFE OF A HUMAN BEING, AND RE STORED TO LIFE AND USEFUL. .-ao i.x,vii a VALUABLE HORSE. mayllyl TITUS BRO'S DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE SUCH AS DeyGtOods CLOTHING, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caj)s and Motions. TSLJT3LA, CITY, NES Hlgest Market Price allowed for COUNTRY PRODUCE J. W. G AVITT, trr-s y-j-gyTyigjy,.- j -t?S! -uC-U r rS- mm. mwm. Postofflce address, mjSflBoi,PTa nuec All business entrusted tobIscarf..ui eelve prompt attention. iU ma ?" wUl rc THOS. HUTCHINSOF, BIDIlTAm FERtT, NEB. Will kepp constantly an band a fall line or 5TFRTJLJ CASES. The Nebraska Railway. This Is positively the best route from JBrownvllle to all points :s.A.sa? -a.ij south:. Avoid a long and tedious buss ride through 'Mis souri mml by tiiferlrg the Nebraska RaUwny. De pot within a few steps of your doors. Trains hy this route land yon at .Nebraska City In time for di rect connection with C. B. fc. Q,. Trains for Chicago anil tho East, and Iv. C. St. Joe. tfc. C. II. trnln for St. IiOBls aud the Kortb. Also via LI2;CO LN for 0MAKA, KEAMEY JUNCTION and the PACIFIC COAST. No long omnibus transferbvthisrnntp. Thrnni.w Tickets and reliable information resrardln;? fhri ite-.ean e had on application to theunderslcnedat It. B. Depot in Brownvllle. D. F. L ANGE, Aj;ent. 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Jttagnltlcenx Sleeping ftntare.ran oa nignt trains, spicnaiajjay coaches on day trains. to Chicago, and elegant Reclining Chair Cars on evening trains to INDIANAPOLIS and CIN CINNATI without ouanse. By this route passengers will avoid delays and disagreeable Omnibus transfers through large cit ies, which makes it especially desirable for old people and those not accustom d to traveling, and' for ladles travellngalone. Gentlemanly and cour teous contractors of this route are always ready to anticipate the waatsof passencers. Through Tickets can be obtained at the offices of -allconnectlng Roads. Baggage checked through. Be sure and ask for tickets reading, via "T. P. W." Route, from Burlington. Keokuk or Peoria. A. L. HOPKINS. Recclrer, i .... ii. c. TovrssBSD. a. v. &t. Xst. rcona' In- For farther information In regard to 1'rolghtor Passenger Business, address, W.R. CRTJMPTON, General Western Agent, leiMnin Street.BURLIXGTOX, IOWA fob tojaa Manhood : How Lost,Ew Restored. Just puhllshed.a new edition Of Dr. Cnlverwcll'H Celebrated Fin cine) of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Impotency.Ientala'ndPhyslca IlneUi'JJ1,1' pedlmentsto Marriage. etc.;also consent on" ilepsy and Fits. Induced by selMndnini 2 uai extravagance, tc -.... ou. filTPrlce.ln a sealed envelope, only six mnn The celebrated author. In this admirable ISsaV clearly demonstrates, from a thirty yeara'aueSti: ful practice, that the alarming conseqnecA o?m abuse mar be radically cured without thn rt.0,.! ?ZZ "se,?rntnl medicine Tr the anSital Uou ot the knife: pointing out a mode of cure at onri simnle.cprt.itn nmi oiTVw.fr,... w cure ai once oees; cailv. ""'""'"J'' privately, and rudl y- 11 ,J3hLeclareshon,dbInthehandsoreverv youth and every man In tbelan'd. .ery ocuiuHurseai.in a plain envelonn n nni- ., dress, postpaid, on receipt of six cents' mt.woJt. stamps Address thepublishers ""opost THE CULTERWELL MEDIC IL CO 41 Ann St.. New York; PostOfflceBoxMC . 3lyl A. D. Marsh. 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