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THE ADVERTISER.
THURSDAY, APRIJ, 19, 1S77.
Hon. J. J. Qooper, ex-Seoretary of
KebraBka, has been appointed Secre
tary of Arizona.
The Crete Tosts says, "The B. & M.
have receded from th.ejr Pro rata
measure and the people will continue
to pay exhorbitant rates."
The first thought that engages the
infant mind is that It is a long time
between drinks. J2xchange.
And many of mature years are re
markably childish, as to that peculi
arity, yet.
More About Tro Jlata.
The grading on the first ten miles?
of the extension of the Omaha & Re-,
publican Valley railroad, haa been let
and work commenced. The work has
to be completed to David City, Butler
county, by July flr&t.
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Ex-Senator Hitchcock., publishes a
card In. the Omaha Rejmblican, in
w.hiph he denies the ohargo that he
intends to removo to Lincoln in or
der to become a candidate for U. S.
Senator at the expiration of Senator
Paddock's term.
The. Valley County Herald, speak
ing of the different routes to Black
Hills, says, "The Sidney and Black
Hill9 Stage Company sell tickets for
310 mile travel. From this it is obvi
ous that travelers can save 260 miles
of travel by starting at Grand Island ,
and going yia North Loup.'1
Pinohback, of New Orleans, whom
the Republicans fortunately would
Dot admit as aSenator from Louisiana
has been appointed to a responsible
office by the usurper, Nichols. Pinch
back will make a bully Democrat
that's what he was got up for in the
.first place. All such fellows as Pinch,
sndjljlpold fiend Tip. finally "fetch
up in tba Democratic party.
On the morning of tbjUlth Inst.,
nt 2 o'clock, the Southern Hotel, of
St. Louis was found to be on fire and
the alarm given. It was the largest
hotel iu the city, well crowded with
guests many of whom perished In the
burning buihj.ing;. The destruction
of life was terrible, indeed, but not so
great as at first reported. The hotel
and its furnishing, destroyed, is esti
mated at about $1,000,000.
A Washington Democratic paper
thinks It "smells a mice" that the
.Republicans will have the next
Speaker of the House," and that Gar
field wil be the man. It fears there
Ib treason lurking in the Democratio
camp, and Lamar is suspected of con
niving for Garfield. Well, an admin
istration party which will begin to be
defined about the time Congress meets,
will be pretty certain to do something.
The Boston Traveller, in an artiole
on the Louisiana question, says :
"Governor Packard represents the
integrity and the right to exist of the
national administration; be represents
the majority of the Louisiana voters,
and more than all, be represents what
to many parooqs appears to be the
last remnant of justice and equality
that dares to assert itself against the
late assailants of the nation."
Governor Garber has appointed
Gen. A. H. Connor, of Kearney City,
S. H.Calhoun of Nebraska City, and
John H. Ames, of Lincoln all law-
yers of course Commissioners to re
vise and oodlfy the statutes of Nebras
ka, in accordance with a law of the
. legislature last winter. The com
. mission is constituted of gentlemen
of ability and high character in their
profession and will no doubt do a
good job.
It is amusing to witness how exact
ly editorial comments in the Omaha
Herald, Republican, and Lincoln
Journal, in relation to the TJ. P. rail
road, agree and tall'! The Ideas are
the same, and in many-iustances, the
language, also. We know of nothing
more harmonious, exceptjt be the en
dorsement of "the Senator from Ne
maha," by those same journals. One
holding him up as a Saint in Democ
racy, and the other two, as Republi
canism in perfection !
Last week we published in full the
Senate Judiciary committee report on
the controversy between the U. P.
and B. & M. railroads, iu the matter
of pro rata, together with editorial re
marks upon the same subject. Since
then, or about the date of our issue
the managers of the two railroad
companies, Mr. Gould, of the former,
and Perkins of the latter, met In New
York, and mutually adjusted difficul
ties. From the manner in which the
joint U. P. organs, Omaha Herald
and Republican, felioitates themselves
since the conference between Gould
andf Perkins, an uninformed reader
would conclude that tiie principle inT
volvod pro rata had been everlast
ingly swallowed up B. & M., Perk
Ins, Forbes, South Platte country,
and all, at one gulp! But the facts
are, that substantially, the ends de
sired by the friends of pro rata, have
been accomplished by theadjustment.
Just to what extent we are unable to
say. But one of the stipulations of
agreement Is that business west of
the Missouri river is to be pro rated.
What are the stipulations, or what
will be the effects of the new railroad
pool from Omaha east, is a different
thing. And while Jay Gould may
have forced. conditions for his interea
ending at Omaha from the east, or
commencing at that joint going east,
ho has yielded what was claimed for
our interests in railroad matters going
West from the Missouri River. So
that those North of the Platte and
along the line of the U. P. road who
were dispnsod to do us, south of the
Platte, great injnstice, without bene
fitting themselves, can have all the
glory and buncombe they can extract
from the "Gould-Perkins compro
mise," which they claim "disposes of
pro rata." True, the matter is to an
extent, and for the present, disposed
of, and that, quite to our liking. Of
such "disposition" we can stand
more.
There is considerable opposition to
the President's southern policy being
developed throughout the country.
The President, however, having faith
in the success of what he- is doing,
will strictly adhere to his policy until
he becomes satisfied it is either a suo
cess or a failure; and he says If it
shall be the latter, no one will discov
er his error quicker than himself. He
very reasonably asks suspension of
unfavorable criticism by his Republi
can friends until his policy has had a
fair trial. He claims he is not doing
anything inconsistent with the prin
ciples of the Republican platform, or
his letter of acceptance, whioh cordi
ally harmonized with principle enun
ciated by him long ago, and particu
larly bo in Ills opening speech-in the
canvass for Governor of Ohio against
Bill Alien. In that speech, after con
gratulating his fellow citizens on the
complete triumph over those- who
sought to destroy the Union and the
errand results of the war, ho alluded
to the coming together again of North
ern and Southern men in a spirit of
harmony, and friendship, including
those who had fought against one an
other, and as a prominent feature in
this evidence of good feeling he on
that occasion spoke of the kindly
manner jn whioh vice-President Wil
son was received on his visit to the
South. In this era of good feeling
and reconciliation he further said
there were still persons who talked
of bayonets, and who Bought to. .revive
the prejudices of the past. This was
much to be regretted, but there was
enough to fill every heart with grati
tude, the house being no longer di
vided, all Its inhabitants having a fair
start in the race for life. In this, and
in all other speeches, he earnestly
condemned the reopening ofold issues
between the North and the South,
feeling assured that the time had come
for complete reconciliation
nal pointsdesignated being Bismarck,
Fort Pierre, and Niobrara. Proposals
for service from Bismarck to Dead
wnod have already been invited, and
will continue to be received until the
20lh,
It was recently reported that a col
ored Minister of South Carolina by
the name of Scott, had been cruelly
murdered. The Charleston News and
Courier contradicts the story and says
it has trustworthy information that
the Rev. W. H. Scott, a colored preach
er, reported to the New England
Methodist Conference on Friday as
having been murdered, is alive and
well, and performing pastoral duties
without molestation in Marlbro coun
ty, that state.
A telegram from Windom, Minn.,
says n brakeman named Haser, on a
freight train of the Sioux City and St.
Paul Railroad, when the train was be
tween Windom and St. James sta
tions, entered a box-car in which was
a German woman and a little girl and
outraged the woman. The girl
jumped from the car, broke a leg, and
sustained other serious injuries. Ha
ser is now under arreBt, and will be
taken to Windom for trial.
A horrible murder and suicide oc
cured at Mexico, Mo., recently. A
man by the name, of James Dyer, a
resident of that place, while laboring
under a fit of iusauitj, took an ax
and split his little boy's head open,
killing him Instantly. He then seiz
ed a razor and cut his own throat
from ear to ear, fromjthe effects of
which he died iu a few minutes.
ed of poisoning the cistern of a neigh
bor named Cok which caused the
death of Mrs. Cook,
The following from theSidney Tele
graph, copied from the criminal rec
ords of a late term of the district
court, indicate that Sidney is a rather
fast town :
State of Nebraska vs Thomas Mc
Lean ; iutent to commit murder.
Verdict, guilty of murder in'the first
degree as charged in the first count of
the indictment.
April oth. State of-Nebraska vs
Oliver W. Pollock; residting officer.
Case continued.
State of Nebraska vs Thas. Fields
and Henry Clayton ; steallug. Plead
guilty and sentenced to three years
eacii in the penitentiary.
Stateof Nebraska vs Charles Vance ;
burglary. Plead guilty, .and sentenc
ed to sixty days in county iail at hard
labor.
April Gth. State of Nebraska vs
Carr; murder 1st degree. Nol proai
que entered by District Attorney as to
murder in 1st degree. Again arraign
ed, iudiotmene read aud plea of guilty
tf murder in 2d degree. Sentenced
to penitentiary for life.
State of Nebraska vs Hall Lar
ceny. Plea of guilty as charged, and
sentenced to penitentiary for one
year.
State of Nebraska va Timothy Mo
Donald ; Assault with intent to mur
der. Trial by jury. Verdiot guilty
and sentenced to two years in the peu-
Itentiary.
State of Nebraska vs Brainsted ;
stealing money. Plea guilty and
sentenced to penitentiary for one
year.
Little Jlixeil.
Tb'e war cloud in Europe has again
loomed up and assumes a very dark
and ominous appearance. Russia and
Turkey, it seems, cannot eettle their
questions amicably, and they have
aoout agreea to ngnt. Armies.are on
tiie move, and momentarily news is
expscted that the ball has been open
ed. This news is having an enliven
ing eflectupon American affairs, and
especially In the grain trade. If Tur
key and Russia do become involved
In a war4 other of the great nations,
jealous of each other, will almost cer
tainly, before the struggle is ended,
also become involved. This will be a
good year to raise big orops of corn.
While the European farmer goes Into
the army, the American farmer must,
furnish -provisions for them.
At a meeting of the anti-Mormons,
held at Salt Lake a few days ago, c
resolution was passed unanimously,
that the organip act of the territory
be amended to read as follows :
"That all male inhabitants twenty
one years of age, citizens of the Unit
ed States, shall be entitled to vote and
eligible for office j provided, however,
that no person living In the praotice
of bigamy or polygamy shall be per
mitted to hold any ofilce or to vote at
any election, or to act as jnror, and
that, all votes shall be by secret ballot;
that all law in oonfliot be repealed."
Resolutions memorializing Congress
s?ere paseed, etating that polygamy is
on the increase, and praying that
Mormons be excluded from juries and
ail puoiio oniceB, giving the wife a
rJght to dower in her husband's es
tate, from which under present law
sbelsexcluded ; and protesting agalnat
the admisBiou of Utah as a State so
Senator J. G. Blaine, reoently in
dicated pretty plainly what he thinks
of the South Carolina und Louisiana
questions. He said :
"I am sure that Governor Chamber
lain knows that he had my profound
est sympathy in his heroic, though un
euccesslul struggle in South Carolina
for civil liberty aud constitutional
government. 1 am equally sure that
Gov. Packard feels that my heart and
judgment are both with him iu the
contest. He is still waging against
the great odds for the governorship,
that he holds by a title as valid as
tjat w.niph. justly seated R. B. Hayes
In the presidential chair. I trust, al
so, mat botn governors Know tuat tue
Boston Press does no. more represent
the stalwart republican feeling of
New England on pending issues thau
the same press did when it demanded
the enforcement of the fugitive slave
law in 1851."
Mr. Blaine feels In those cbbds just
as good Republicans feel. everywhere.
Hayes could not well do otherwise
than recognize Hampton as Governor
of South Carolina, because the courts
had decided agaiust Chamberlain, but
he cannot be consistent and decide
against Packard.
There is a bit of history.-that shows
that Packard received more votes
some six hundred more votes than
did several of the Louisiana Hayea
electors. This piece of history will
stare the Republican party and the.
Republican President out of counte
nance if Hayes desidea that xXicholls
is the legal Governor of Louisiana.
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It turns out after allthat the new rev
enue law, passed at the late seslon of
the legislature, does not go into effect
until May 15, so that It cannot apply
to this year's assessment. The fol
lowing letter from the Seoretary of
State sufficiently explains the matter.
Secretary's Defaiujent, Aprils,
1377. Dear Sir: Iu my opinion,
the act passed at the reoent session,
entitled an act to amend Sections 30,
31,35, 5d, 55and 5S of the Revenue
Law approved Feb. 15, 1S69 will not
go into effect until May 15, 1877, The
act, as it now appears, contains the
"Emercency Claude," while the Jour
nal of both Houses show that the
Emergency Clause was stricken out.
Respectfully,
Bruno Tzjsghuctc,
Secretary of State.
There is, we presume, no question
but that the record of the journals of
both houses will override tiie letter of
tue law as the carelessness of the clerks
nave left it to stand ; bo that this law
can have no application to the present
assessment, and if there is no other
thing to interfere the first n.?aessmeut
made by our assessors will have to
stand, instead of the second.
But it is a question whether the con
stitution itself does not preclude the
exemptions forbidden by thelaw inas
much as, on this point, the law is an
almost exact transcript of the constitu
tion. Wo are not lawyer enough to
decide this point. But we call the at
tention of our commissioners to it,
and suggest the importance of having
the point as definithly and decisively
settled as possible before they proceed
to rarJt-h-s lo-wy. Xi!a .-too-Important
a matter to have any blunder made
over it, to impair the validity of our
taxes.
We note also another point. There
Is, we telieve n clause in the new con
stitution, to the effect that no law is to
be repealed by implicatson-tbst is
without it Is repealed by the express
terms of some later law. But the tree-
exemption law is not thus expressly
repealed by the new revenue law of
the last legislature as any one will see
who examines it. It repeals certain
seotions of the revenue law. But it
does not repeal the tree exemption law
nor any part of it. Hence that law
remains unrepealed, and in full force,
unless it Is construed-as indirectly re
pealed by the constitution itself.
This, therefore, constitutes another
point that needs careful considpration
before the levy is made. Kenesaw
Times,
Bulldozer Hampton Imagines. Him
self a King.
Columbia, S. C, April 14. Gov
ernor Hampton to-day addressed a
note to the Chamberlain officials re
questing them to turn over their of
fices to their successors, subject to n
decision of the Supreme Court, when
the court should he filled by the elec
tion of a Chief Justice, which will
take place immediately after the-convening
of the legislature on the 25th
inst.
Columbia, S. C, April 15. It is re
ported from reliable authority that
tiie substance of the reply of the State
officers to-Hampton's demand will be
an assertion that they hold their of
fices by declaration of the State can
vassers from the face of all" the elec
tion returns ; that they were commis
sioned by Governor Chamberlain
while his title was undisputed ; that
their contestants have taken the cas
es to the Supreme Court, and' that
Hampton has no right to anticipate
the judgment of that court, or in any
way to pas upon their title, and that
his action is a violation of his pledges
to leave disputed questions to legal
settlement, lor these reasons they
will decline to give up their offices.
was worked into staves and heading,
and was about fifty feet to the branch
es. It made 2,800 pork barrel staves
and 400 pieces of heading, besides
about ten feet which was spoiled in
falling.
Experiment and experience have
proved that heavy orops do not de
pend so much upon abudauce of seed
as upon the quality and condition of
the soil. A small proportion of the
seed usualty sown would suffice to pro
duced a good crop, if the pulverization
of the soil was sufficiently complete to
allow the germination of each indi
vidual seed.
A manwith a short purse can now
go among breeders of the best trotting
studs In America and lead away al
most any of the "oracks" of the turf,
and a half dozen of the- untried, yet of
good promise. Trottingstock isdown
flat, and there will be a great breaking
up of horse establishments and horse-
trotting associations. The turf men
are under a cloud just now.
A cattle disease is raging In UlBter
county, N. Y., which is fatal in almost
every case. The animals are first at
tacked iu the legs which become weak
and soou altogether powerless. They
have also evident pains in the- head
and symptoms like epizootic among
army horses.
It should be adopted as a rule to
never breed from a mare which has
been ailing or sick. Indeed this rule
might be well carried to all classes of
animals. We shall have sickly and
imperfect animals just as long as we
breed from them. Every animal that
does not thrive well, develop well, or
keep well in store, should be got rid of.
Remember that "like produces like."
A down East agricultural editor, is
bothered by subscribers, who want to
know why he don't send on "those
spoons" advertised to be given away
iu his columns. It isa pretty hard case
but the editor is equal to the emergen
cy and says when the journal has any
thing to offer to Its patrons, it will say
so over its own name, and then alone
be responsible.
Charters to take corn to Cork were
made at 2s Od per quarter, an advance
of 9d in the past few days.
Pdrk Packing Statistics for the
'ort!nvest.
The Uneducated Whites of Louisiana
Agriculture News Items.
CRIME.
A bold robbery. occurred near Maj's
ville, Ky., on the 13th inst. While the
family of W. C. Pelham were eating
suppera robber came in with a drawn
pistol aud demanded money . After
securing a small' amount he disap
peared. A duel was recently fought
at Little Rock between S. L. Jones,
A telegram of the 12th inst. says a
S17.500 contract has been awarded to
a Mr. M. F. Patrick for temporary
mail service six times a week, from
April 20 to Sept. 30 next, over the
route between Sidney, Neb., aud
Deadwood, In the Black Hills coun
try, a distance of 270 miles. Provis
ion haB thus been made for mail com
munications with the Black Hills by
three routes, the other two being from
Kearney, Neb., and Cheyenne, Wy.
T. In addition tothese the department
will shortly place the mail service on
two or perhaps three routes leading
directly to the Black Hills from the
Missouri River through the Sioux res
ervation, which has been Beleoted by
the President under the provisions of
long as it is under tbe.oou.troJ of tjie an agreement entered into with the
oolvgamlsta. - ma I bloux; last autum.n, tue eastern terml-
of Memphis and Geo. N. Makely, of
the former city. The seconds having
loaded their pistols with blank car
tridges, the result was without blood.
The parties were arrested and fined.
On the evening of the 13th the Jop
llu and Baxter Spring mail go
ing toward Kansas City, was robbed
about half way between the two
tplaces by highwaymen who present
ed pistols at the head of the6tage dri
ver, aud compelled him to throw off
the mail bag, which they took and es
caped in the woods. There were no
passengers aboard the stage. As yet,
there is no clue to the robbers.
At' Florence, Neb., on the 11th, a
constable in trying to quiet a drunk
en row, shot and fatally wounded a
man named Davis.
A sewing machine agent named
C. H. Gllman was recently murdered
at Rockport, Mass.- Wm. Williams
an assistant was arrested on suspicion.
A Maysville, Ky., dispatch of the
14th lust., eayB, "Chas. Ramsey,
Thos. Harris and one Biankley have
been arrested at Ripley, Ohio, for
murdering Chas. Howard, of Ken
tucky, a farmer, sometime ago. Proof
of their guilt is said to be very strong.
Howard was clubbed to death.
At St. Loula on the 14th, Edgar M.
Moore a young man who shot and
killed Mabel Hall, a ballet girl, at the
xueaire uomique aoout a year ago,
and who '.v,as convicted of muder in
the first degree, was sentenced to-day
by Judge Jones of the criminal court
to be hanged on Friday, June 1st.
At Geneva, Ohio, last week a man
named Potter shotand killed his wife
while she was packing her trunk pre
paratory tojeavjng him on aocount of
some family trouble. He then, went
into an adjoiniug room and shot him
self. When discovered both were
ded.
A German farmer by the name of
Ed. Leyer, near Evausville, Ind.,
committedhsuiclde a few days ago by
Mr. Harbison of California has C.00D
hives of bees.
The prospects for a fine fruit crop
In Michigan are flattering.
France sent nearly $17,000,000 worth
of butter to England last year.
- Jjesstmrri terrper-ctrni'orrne sreaori
the United States is under cultivation.
Four hundred tons of Canada
pressed ha' have just been shipped
from Boston by steamer for England.
It only costs twelve cent", per bushel
to ship wheat from San Francisco to
Liverpool, ten thousand miles.
British Columbia farmers talk of
turnips weighing fifty tosixty pounds
each, raised on their rich virgin soil.
Minnesota farmers are increasing
their oulture of flax. The average
productions of seed per aero is about
seven and a half bushels.
Raspberries, gooseberries, and black
berries start to grow1 early in the
Spring, so that either roots or cuttings
should be set early as possible.
The average yield of wheat per acre
in Iowa is twelve bushels, and intelli
gent farmers admit that such crops
admit of no profit. They aQvise
mixed husbandry and more meat pro
duction. To save gooseberryplants from des
truction from the gooseberry caterpill
ar pick off the leaves on whiohdepo3
its of its eggs have been made, then
dust the bush with powder of white
hellebore.
The fruits of the Centennial are
ripening. A Pittsburg manufacturer
has received a large order for picks,
fire shovels, and garden rakes from
Tiflis, located" petween the Caspian
end Black seas, not far from the origi
nal Garden of Edan.
There are various com positions used
for a grafting wax, but we have-never
found one better than the following:
One pound of tallow, two pounds of
beeswax and four pounds of resin
melted together, and then poured into
water to cool.
The State of Maine offers for-sale, to
actual settlers, 25,000 acres of land in
Aroostook county, divided iuto farms
of 100 to 160 acres, at the low price of
thirty-five cents per acre, payable in
onennd two years in labor on the high
ways in the township where the land
is situated.
The trustees of the Iowa Agricultur
al college have placed a kitchen to
that institution under the charge of
the teacher of domestic economy, aud
this year, each young lady in the jun
ior olass will have to spend one morn
ingeachweek inthekitohen for prac
tical instruction.
William M, Everts' Winsor Vt.,
farm of seven hundred or eight hun-
The white population of Louisiana
who are of English origiu (the French
element being mostly in llie vicinity
of N.ew Orleans) consists of three dis
tinct classes. With two of these class
es most readers are familiar the old
slaveholding, wealthy, aristocratic
class and the poor whites, theri para
sites and hangers-on. But besides
these, of whom much has been writ
ten, there is a third class of white peo
ple, as numerous as both the others,
yet almost unknown. These are the
white farmers, not planters, but men
of small means who ocoupy and culti
vate small farms in the pine hills or
upland region, where the soil is poor
and thin. These people never owned
slaves, except here and there one, al
though their greatest ambition in the
good old times was to own 'a nigger.
Tiie best soldiers in the rebel armies
were furnished by this cia?". Their
ignorance makes them the dupes and
tools ot the aristocratic leaders. They
vote just as those leaders tell them.
Not more than one in fifty ever reads
any paper of any kind.
The following facts bearing on this
question are furnished by a gentle,-J
mair lotrg-x icalliliUl. 'UT JOUISiautl T
At one postoffice iu a settlement con
taining more than forty white families
the only paper taken is by the post
master, who is a Northern man. At
a voting place ten miles from thatof
tice eighty-five white men ca?t their
ballots last November for 'Tllden,
NJoholls, and Reform,' and only six
of them took any paper, political, re
ligious, or agricultural. On the Dem
ocratio tickets, furnished them by the
leaders in Use town, was printed
'Against amendment .No. 2,' 'For
amendment No. 1, No. 2, No. 4, and
No. 5.' Only one voter of the eighty,
five could tell what those amend
ments were, but eichty-four of them
voted unscratched tickets as ordered
As a genera! rule these men feel lit
tle interested in polities, and would
take no part unless excited by the
falsehoods told them by speakers, just
before elections, ahout Republicans.
It is often a difficult task for the
Democratio leaders to induce the ma
jority to vote. Thoge poor hill farm
ers have no interest in common with
the aristocratic planters, lawyers, and
merchants, who compose the active
element of the Democratio party.
Yet they furnish full half the votes
of that party and get no share of the
offices. Politically they are slave.
In the fcnnuiedjre of the duties and
rights of citizenship in their compre
hensions of political matters and ques
tions, they are far behind the negro.
They know nothing except what the
leaders tell them : they read nothing:
thev never hear a Republican speech.
Unless common schools are punnnrt-
,ed or protected the next generation
will be even more ignorant than the
nreeenfandit will be more numer
ous Inter Ocean.
Chicago, April 14. According to
returns leceived by the secretary of
the pork packers' association the num
ber of hogs paoked in the west during
the past winter seasou was 5,051,030,
against 4,874,125 last seasou. The de
crease in average weight is reported at
2 G4 pounds and the decrease in aver
age yield of lard at 1 23 pounds. The
amount of mess pork produced is 473,
085 barrels and of other kinds of pork
154.326 barrels. The number of tierces
of lard made was 541,210, against 541,
115 last season. The packing during
the summer season oflS76is reported
at 2.291,328 hoga, an increase of 1,053,
389 as compared with the previous
summer. The increase in the average
weight was 9.G0 per cent., and the in
crease in the yield of lard 04.100
pounds.
We glean from the Sidney Tele
graph Black Hills news as follows :
A telegram from Custer City of re
cent date states that the excitement
there for the last few days has been
intense over developments in placer
miues iu Last Chance district on Bat
tle Creek. Brown and Phillips, own
ing Discovery and claims one, two
and three below, on their first clean
up, oneday'ssluciug, took out a pound
of gold, and prospects are getting bet
ter as they proceed. Harlow & Co.,
of Custer, have just purchased from
C. W. Anderson a half-interest in
claims No. five and six, below Discov
ery, for $1,000 cash. On Forter's
Gulch, Nason & Co. ore taking out
$10 per day to tiie man with a rocker.
A correspondent says reports of
rich discoveries are coming in every
day, many of which are unfounded,
and some of which are true. From
conversations with old "honest"
miners, from all sections, and as the
result of my own prospecting, I will
repeat what I said In my laat letter,
that the field U good, probably has
never been surpassed.
Now, when I say the prospect for
prospectors Is good, do not under
stand me to mean that a "pilgrim"
can sally out, make a big discovery,
and return in a day. This may be
done, but he should go prepared for
roughing it, and must not be sur
prised if the result of his summer's
labor aud peril is nothing, or what is
worse, a half-dozen worthless claims.
In the Hills are men of experience
in other mining countries, and in this
having that plain advantage over new
comers. Now, I would not discour
age any industrious, steady mau from
coming nere, for l believe that, how
ever large the imigratiou may be, all
may earn enough to carry them back
in the fall, while a few will make for
tunes. Laborer's wages are at present from
$4 to $5 per day, but will lie perhaps
$1 lower iu the summer. Without
aiming at accuracy, the following may
be considered ruling prices: Wood
$4 to $5 per cord, corn 10e per Ib, hay
5c per lb., flour $12 per 100. pugar 24 to
25 per lb., coffee 40c, salt 22c, beans
20e, horns 2oc.
Those coming to the Hills by teara3
should bring provisions for 90 days,
including feed for teams; should also
bring full sets of miners' tools, as.
these things ore very dear here, but
are to be had in plenty.
H .A. IR, 33 W .At IR, IE
A.IX
DEALER IN ALL THE LEADING
Which Is fully warranted to give eutire satisfaction, such as the
GAHDEJET CITY PLOWS,
SKINNER PLOWS & SULKIES,
ROCK ISLAND FLOWS,
NEBRASKA CITY PLOWS.
I would also call your attention particularly to the
PEAEL GrJNGr PLOW,
made by the Chicago Plow Company, which Is the LIGHTEST DRAFT,
and neatest Gang Plow that has ever been put upon the market. The Pearl
Gaug has been run successfully for the past two years with three horses.
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I would state that I am putting a full line of Hardware, Stoves
and-Tinware, and a large stock of Earia Implements, at Sher
idac, to accommodate my many customers in the western and southwestern
part of the county. I would further say, that everything can be purchased,
in my line, at Sheridan as CHEAP as the same goods can be purchased
in Brownville, or any other town in the State. I solicit your patronage, and
BY FAIR AND SQUARE DEALING,
I hope to merit the same. The business at Sneridan is in charge of WM,
ElAR,BQ2?, who will always bo on hand to see that your wants are sup-
pneu.
L'.mjt,y,.JiJilu .ynjuiw
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An old harness-maker named Chas.
P. Haskins. tried to rape tiie little
eight year old daughter of Mr. C.J.
jNeidlxacdt on last Saturday evening
about dusk. He 'had ehtfL-dcr tiie In
nocent giri into the stable, but as
eoon as had madeafewdemonstrations
to indicate his hellish defogn the boot
on the irate father's right foot (who
was concealed in the stable) forced
him through the door and landed
him prostrate outside. Neihardt
went home and got his revolver to
give the fiend a dose of cold lead, but
the "bird" had flowu and has not
been heard from since. A wife and
three children do not mourn his loss
Seioard Rcporta:
1 he following implements are undoubtedly the best machines in America.
I have sold them for yoars, and they have proved to be what the farmers
want and appreciate, and which I am receiving daily :
Princeton Stalk Cutters,
Cliampion and Wier Cultivators,
Quiney Com Planters,
Eriedznan Patent Uarrow,
Vibrating: & Seoteli Harrows,
Ssterly l Buckeye Seeders,
Dayton Grain Irill, x-
H. P. Dickey Eon Mill,
Old Reliable Sandwicli Com Slieller,
Halladay Wind Pump, &e.
For any of the above implements please call on tho
C C -, & ,
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Tlionias Hc3iardsi
DEALER IN
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Ex-Governor Furnas is mentioned
in connection with the Commlsslon
ership of Agricultre, ot Washington.
We can think of no man who would
make a better one. The position for
years lias been filled by men who da
not seem to possess any sieeial fitness
for it, and the selection of Gov. Fur
naB would be a very agreeable and
hopeful change. Kenesaw Times.
Rich Mining Leads.
The New Orleans Democrat (Whito
League organ) Is disappointed in the
Louslaua Commission. The utter
ance of the Commissioners have not
susta ined the high opinion the Dem
ocratfhad formed of their difcinteres
tedness. Good. If the Dcinocratxs
disapdointed Republicans need not
despair. Inter Ocean.
IJ l am
The champion news-stealer of the
sjate is the city editor of the Lincoln
jvurnal. Kuowing that writings and
condensed state news of country ed
itors are far superior to his own, he
clip3 them, and always fails to give
any credit whatever. Sutton Times.
DM
GOODS,
CLOTHING,
; gocskies;
-Eli'B AND CAPS, T?OGTS AJXS SIIOJSS,,
qu:ejEjn-swa.:r:el
tiK
G-L A.S SWAJECm
and all.other articles kept in a general stock.
SZSSSESEa
dred aore3, produced last year two
hundred tons of hay, twenty-two hun
dred bushelsof corn besides oats, roots,
etc., and supported twohundrsd sheep
sixteen blood horses and colts, and
seventy head of cattle, including
twenty cows.
As Is well known, the present Sec
retary of the Navy received his nau
tical education on an Indiana farm.
Somebody wrote him the other day.
Inquiring what was the regulation
size of a hatchway. His answer was
that that would depend altogether up
on thodimensions-of the heu and the
number of eggs they put under her.
Mr. H. F. Booley, of Baltimore,
Mich., cut a white-oak tree in Wheat
land,. Hillsdale county, that measured
Pueblo, Col, April 14. The latest
advices from the San Juan mines re
port another rich strike : this time in
the Susquehannah tunnel, being run
by Messrs. Ingersol& Higgins, in the
Hazieton mountain, three miles from
Silvertou, InLapIata county. Sixteen
hundred feet below the surface, at the
breast of the tunnel, a glittering mass
of mineral has been discovered. The
vein, which has been tapped, is called
a blind lead, nothing having been dis
covered on tho surface which corres
ponds with it. The point where the
tunnel strikes it is 600 feet below the
surface and 515 feet from the entrance
of the tunnel. The vein is six feet in
width, with eighteen inches more of
loose freable matter. The ore is heavy
galena, Insterspersed with gray copper
and resembles that found in the Sus
quehannah, Aspen and other mines
on tne same mountain, having the
oharacleristio yellow and green car
bonate stains oftho3eoreB. The na
ture of the vein is such that it can be
worked out very easily without much
blasting. The ore will average 150
ounces of silver to the ton. Through
out the entire width of the immense
crevice there are thousands of tons of
the ore in sight. This is one of the
richest discoveries ever made in any
silver mining region.
B. STROBLE,
.Dealer in
FAMILY GROCERIES, TEAS,
Queensware, Olassivare,
WOODEmVARE, BRUSHES, CANDIES
CA3IXED PKUITS AND NUTS,
T0I1ACC0, CIGARS, XEKKSCWAU3I 1'IPES.AXH
MUSICAL ISSTIIUIF.STS.
AT CZT1T BAKSR1T.
OLD RELIABLE MEATMARKET
COTJOTBY PKODXJC
T.A.IEE1N" IN EXCHANGE FOR GOODS.
T7:
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72 Main Street
fc. BgownvillSghv,
ORGANIZED, I8m
vTITt Oiay nf yrBDICifH
BODY & BBJ
BUTCHERS,
BROWATILLE, XEBRASKA.
Good, Sweet, Tresli- Meat
Always on hand, and satisfaction guar
antied to nil customers.
AT JBEHW.YYULXjE.
CAJPIXAX., .100sOOO.
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THE Mil MTIOML Ml
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Peace and Quiet Saloon !
Transacts n general b
Drafts on all the prluc
fcinc!nisliust8clK
lcitichof the
UNITED STATES AND-EUR0BE
Paid-irp Capital,
Antltorttctl e
JH3- Special
depositors.
accommodations granted te
. uJO aB UJ iuuu,n.nisaaie county, jrjat measured
taking poison. He had beea.convJct-j fifteen feet around at the stump. It
A dispatch from Baltimore says :
Speculative operations in corn for
several days were increased yesterday
by war news from London ; and or
ders from Chicago to charter vessels
to load, with grain and dispatches from
-cw jufh mat ireiguis were excited.
(javoauuiuuuui animation to opera
tions. Sales of corn yesterday.it is
said, amounted to 300,000 bushels, the
largest by two hundred thousand sold
iu this market In one day. At the
regular board of corn and flour ex
change operations reaohed 450,000
bushels, and In the afternoon street
sales reached the same figures ; 70.000
busheld spot were sold at 60 cents.
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WAGON &HLA0K$MI7HHG
one noon west or couirr house.
wTnr AfATrTTCfJ. Repairing,
W Plows and all work done in thebesH
' ' low?la,n". '", satisfaction ciaran-
STATS, COTJKT1T &. CITT
SEC'CJKITIES,
BOUGHT A.TSJO SOJLD.
OFFICERS.
W.H.McCREEP.Y, : : President.
W.W. HACKNEY, : Vice President.
$0,00&
500,000'
IS PIlKr-ARHDTO TRANSACT A
General Backing Business
BUY AND SELL
OOUSf & CURRENCY DRAFTS
United States and Brope'
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DIRECTORS.
Cashier.
manner and on short notice,
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W.W.HACKXEV. H.C. LETT,
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PL0WER & VEGETABEESEEDS
Ara planted br jKtton'lrnuf0
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nlfiaW od in EnglKb aud
German. AddrjjxKS 'ICK. Rochester, X. .
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ILLUSTRATED PRICED CATALOGUE
Fiftv pages ."sno Illustration", with neaenpttons
of thousands of the best irowprs and Vegetables In
the world, and the way to Krow them all fori.
TWO CENT postage stamr. Irlntcd In German
and English.
Vlck'n Eloral Giifde. QuartPrI j 25 cents a rear
Vtek'nElowprnnrt Wzetablp Garden 5ecentK in
paper: lo elegant cloth eover. JJ on.
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MONEY LOANED
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