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THE ADVERTISER
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 18S0.
EEPTJBHCAN TICKET.
NATION AL TICKET.
For President of the United States,,
JAMES A. GARFIELD,
of Ohio.
For Vice President of the United States.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
of New York.
PBESX2SEKTIAZ. ELECTORS.
Q. W. COLLINS, of Pawnpe.
J. M. THURSTON, of Douglas.
JAMJ2S LAIRD, of Adams-.?
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS, AL-
TERNATE.
SILAS GARHER, of Webster.
W. L. WILSON, of Otoe,
C. F. FISLE Y, of Dodge.
STATE TICKET.
For Congress ,
E.K.
. VALENTINE, of Cuming County.
For Contingent Congressman,
T,J. MAJORS, of Nemaha County.
For Governor,
ALBINUS NANCE, of PolkJCounty.
For Secretary 'of Stahe
8. J. ALEXANDER, of Jefferson County.
For Auditor of Public Accounts,
JOHN WALLICHS, of Hall County.
Zor Treasurer,.
G. M. B ARTLETT, of Lancaster County.
For Attorney General,
C. J. DILWORTH, of PhelpsIConnty.
For Commissioner of Public Lands, and
Buildings,
A. G. KENDALL, of Howard County.
For Superintendent of Public-Instruction,
W. W. W. JONES, of Lancaster County.
JUDICIAL TICKET.
For Prosecuting Attorney,
JOHN C. WATSON,
of Otoe County.
COTJHTY TICKET.
For Stato Senator,
WILLIAM DAILY,
For Representatives In the Legislature,
CHURCH HOWE.
MOSES B. REYMAN,
THEO. L. SCHICK.
For CountyCommlssloner lst"Di3t.
JOHN H. SHOOK,
Be Draska's Platform.
The recent Republican State conven
tion adopted the following r
1. The republicans; of Nebraska most
heartily endors- the profession of principles
formulated by the National Republican con
vention at Chicago, and pledge thelrunwr.v
erlng support to the candidates there nomi
nated. 2. Wo affirm that;the"doctr!ne'of nat! onal
eoverelgnty Is the fundamental principle
upon which the perpetuity of the nation
rests, and that the principle of home rule as
enunciated by the democratic party Is but
theeautlous expression of the Calhoun doc
trines of state rights; Is revolutionaryln Its
character and destructive to the unity of the
nation.
3. Ye reardthc recent seizure or the polls
end wholesale robbery of the franchises of
the republican citizens of Alabama, by the
democratic party officials, surpassing in
magnitude and effect any of the crimes In
former efforts or that party under the Tweed
plans In New York and the Mississippi plan
In the south, asa fair speclmen.of democrat
ic method and a forecast of democratic dom
inance In national affairs, that should Incite
every honest man and tar-payer In the
country to the mostjearnest endeavor to7de
fe3t tho pirty oCprey and fraud.fat the polls
In November.
4. We have considered "what Lee and
Jackson would havo dono If they were
alive," and have determined to employ our
best energies In preventing the seizure of the
national government by their living com
rades through the fraud of v"solId south."
5. Wo congratulate the peoplejor the stato
upon Its sapid Increase- of population and
wealth, and upon the good measure of pros
perity that ha3 rewarded their labor, and
upon the rapid rebuilding of our maleri.il
Interests since thesuccess of resumption and
the revival of trade.
6. We sledge our support to such legisla
tion Injcongresi, and such measures by-state
legislatures, as may bo necessary to effect a
correction of tho abuses and prevent cxtora
tlon and discrimination In charges- by rail
road corporations.
7. Wo most cordially Invite tho aid and
co-operatlon In this defenso of the national
Integrlty.'nud tho nation's purse, of all repub
licans and warnlemocrats who havo differed
with us on temporary Issues, or havo clung
to a party nam a
Mr. J. F. Coultcrof Fillmore county, of
fered the following;
Jletolved, That we heartily join In tho rec
ommendation made by Gen. Garfield In his
letter of acceptance, urging upon Congress
the speedy Improvement of the Missouri
River for barge navigation.
Democrats, when discussing politics
with Republicans, never fail to declare,
by way of a cJ;ncher, that the present
Democratic Congress passed" the bill (jjl
payment of back pension pay. in
here is the vote on the bill in the
Dlouse, which is instructive, as it shows
who passed the bill, aud vhe interest
the DeraocTits of the South took in its
passage: For the bill, Republicans
10S, Democrats 32. Against the bUl
Demoerats.7S, Republicans 3. Three
Democrats from the South voted for
the bill. The bill, requiring a two
thirds vote then, was lost. Afterward
it came up in a modified form and was
passed, ayes, Republicans US, Demo
crats 62, only three of them from ihe
South; noes, Republican 1, Democrats
CO.
The bill, it will'be seen, was passed
by Northern Congressman ihe Repub
licans in a body, assisted by enough
Democrats of the Xorth to save it.
The "solid South" voted against it;
and this shows what pensioners of
the Union army may expect if the
South ever gets control of the pension
business. In the Senate the bill was
concurred in, after a wrangle over an
effort of the Southerners to add to the
Shields amendment for the pensioning
of Mexican veterans, confederate sol
diers of the Mexican war, and amongst
them Jeff. Davis. There is an inter
esting and instructive lesson to pen
sion soldiers in all this which they
would da well to heed.
The Democrats of Vermont printed
400,000 counterfeits of the Republican
State ticket with the name of the can
didate printed Rose-sell instead of
Roswell Parnham. They distributed
these fraudulent tickets through the
State but did not succeed in
getting them into the hands of the
voters, as the trick was discovered and
warning given.
A Short Account of a Part of What Occur
red Before, at, and After the Presidential
Election, in Dyersburg, Dyer County,
Tennessee, in 1876.
Editor Advertiser;
On the afternoon of Xov. 6, 1876, 1
was in llibbit & Smitluer's drug store.
John Xiccolls, the sheriff of Dyer
county, informed me that there was to
be a public meeting in the court house
in the evening. lie expiessed a desire
that members of both political parties
should attend the meeting, to co.isult
about the election that was to come off
the next day. Xiccolls said, "He want
ed a quiet, orderly election," and finish
ed his little talk to me by inviting me
to attend the meeting. There was no
excitement or disorder among- the ne
groes, and I failed to comprehend the
use or propriety of a public meeting;
but I believed then as was afterward
prdven to me, that the sole object of the
meeting was to insult Joicc, an Eng
lish shoe-maker, and myself, and to
frighten the negroes so that they would
vote the Democratic ticket or not vote
at all. I told Xiccolls that I did not
consider that I had any business at the
meeting and would not be present; but
after I had considered the matter a lit
tle, I concluded that I would go, lest
the "nincompoops" of the town might
think that I was afraid of them.
I put in an appearance soon after the
meeting had opened. The meeting was
held in the lower east room of the court
house. The room was pretty well filled
with whites, and about twenty or thir
ty negroes in the west end of it. At
the side of the east window of the
room, near the lamp, and just above the
speaker's stand, a muslin canvass was
hung. On the canvass two caricatures,
one pretending to represent Joice and
the other myself. Underneath and be
tween the caricatures the following was
written in large letters:
"Wallace and Joice!"
"Midnight PitowLKKsr
"Tardleu Electoks!"
The Democrats had brought out a ne
gro by the name of Tardier as a candi
date for governor, hence the words,
"Tardier Electors." They hoped that
the negroes would support a man of
their own race, and thus throw away
their votes ; but in this they were sad
ly disappointed.
The audience was addressed first by
Lawyer Turner, a one-armed ex-confederate
soldier, who had served under
Porest. Maj. James, another ex-confederate,
next addressed the meeting.
Sam. Latta, a native of Pennsylvania
and another ex-confederate soldier was
the next speaker. Tom. Xeal, editor of
the Dyersburg State Gazette ami anoth
er ex-confederate soldier was the next
to charm the audience with his elo
quence. Scott, then one of the editors
of the Dyersburg Progress spoke next.
Scott was so drunk that no sense could
be made of anything he said. The last
speaker was Peter Cooper (colored.)
It is impossible for me, after the lapse
of nearly four years to give even a syn
opsis of these speeches. They all played
on the same string and sang the same
tune. Cooper did not express the senti
ments of his heart, but was hired by
the Democrats to make his little speech.
If some of the negroes that night could
have got hold of him, his speecli would
have been cut verv short. I was reli
ably informed thai! this same man
Cooper had been paid to go to me on
Saturday and get tickets in order that
tne .Democrats niignt oe able to prove
that I was guilty of the awful crime (?)
of circulating Republican tickets.
In Tennessee the election opens at 9
a. m. and closes at 4 p. m.
In 1S76 the Republicans had no State
ticket in the field. That year Dorsey
B. Thomas, an independent Democrat,
ran for governor, and Republicans who
voted for State officers at all, I think
generally supported him.
About 11 a. m. I voted the Republi
can ticket as near "straight" as I could ;
but it required mo to have more cour
age than I had the 25th of August, 1S02,
at the battle of Groveton, Va., when I
faced shells, cannon balls, and bullets.
Emphatically I was compelled to "go it
alone." On that election day "Wallace
did not scare any worth speaking of.
I should have cast my vote as I did, if
1 had known that I was to have been
shot the next minute after I had voted.
Joice had intended to vote for the
Tilden and Hendricks' electors, but he
was so indignant at the treatment he
had received,, that he refused to vote at
all.
Persons who tell the voters of Xema
ha county that there is no intimidation,
no bulldozing, and no fraud in the
South do not know what they are talk
ing about, and they discount the truth
fearfully.
I taught common district school in
Dyer county, Tennessee, for twenty
five months, and so far as I know no
fault was found with my teaching; but
after that "publick meeting" I became
aJTnotorious character, and was known
in every nook and comer ot the count'
as a "vile Radical." Of course the peo
ple of Dyer county had no farther use
for my services as a teacher, and I came
to the conclusion that as I could not
I've on faith, that I would be compell
ed to leave Tennessee; but I determin
ed to go of my own free will, and to
take my own time as to when I should
go. On Saturdays I could not walk the
streets of Dyersburg without meeting
some drunken scoundrel who wanted
to quarrel with me. I would not have
minded giving a few of them a sound
thrashing, but there was entirely too
many of them for me to undertake the
job. I had no society. Every one ap
peared to avoid me except my sister
and by brother-in law. My brother-in-law.
Cant. F. G. Sampson, served four
years in the confederate army, and if
the men of the South were all like him,
every man would be permitted to enjoy
liberty and all the rights he is entitled
to under the constitution. I became
weary and heart-sick, and only the con
sciousness that I had done no wrong
sustained me. In the early part of Jan-'
uary, 1S77, 1 went to Pennsylvania, my
native State.
"O, liberty! can man resign thee?
Once Saving; felt thy generous flaraefc
Can bolts or bars confine thee,
Or whip thy noble spirit tame?"
I am afraid that I have made this ar
ticle too long already, but it would re
quire a small volume to tell all that I
psissed through during the three years
that I was in "West Tennessee.
The following paragraph from one
of Charles Sumne.s speeches is so much
in accord with my own sentiments that
I cannot fail to close this article with
out quoting it:
"In countries where royalty is up
held, it is a special offense to steal the
crown jewels, the emblems of that sov
ereignty before which the loyal subject
bows. And it is tieason to be found in
adultery with the Queen, for in this way
may a false heir be imposed upon tho
State. But in our Republic, the ballot
box is the single priceless jewel of that
sovereignty which we respect; :nd the
electoral franchise, out of wh'ch pre
born the rulers of a free people,, is the
Queen whom we ore to scrupu'oasly
guard against pollution."
Riciiakd "Wallace.
State Journal: The Omaha Hera u
man is mad at the suggestion that the
bar'l was tapped by the Democratic
mule buyers to purchase two or three
thousand lloating voters in their fruit
less attempt to help the Greenbackers
carry Maine. "Money," he exclaims,
"what do those hell-hounds of freedom
mean V" The hell-hounds of f freedom
respectfully inform the innocent lambs
of bulldozing, ballot-box stuffing and
bribery, that they propose to eat up
the entire flock of 'em about the sec
ond day of November. The "scabby
scavengers," as tho Jfe.'aul gently ca'ls
'em, are after the entire outfit of cipher
dispatchers, Cronin vote manufac
turers, and false counters, with a muck
rake, and will soon clear tho political
field of the race. The Herald man has
outlived his generation and should be
take himself to serious reflection upon
his latter eud.
The day a'ter the Maine election the
Omaha IlercM had out seven full
fledged cocks crowing over a brood
that wasn't yet hatched. Miller, perch
ed his roosters, not on genuine news,
which ic was impossible for any one to
have yet, but upon the ridiculous
claims emanating from Naiional Dem
ocratic headquarters, and the supposi
tion that Barnum's plans for stealing
the State would not miscany. But
Mice's fo-mer expevinces in bribing
aM State Stealing, enables hfm to take
his humiliation with considerable-fortitude.
me n m
"W. IT. English has his sleeping room
ribbed and riveted with bars of iron,
like a prison cage. He made this to
protect himself from the dreaded vio
lence, and possible assassination, of
some of those whom he has oppressed,
ruined, bankrupted and sent into pov
erty any distress. "What a miserable
wretch he must be what a conscience
he must have through his relentless
greed for money, at war with his
neighbors and the poor he has robbed,
he shuts himself up in an iron cage to
save his miserable carcass fram the
retribution he knows he deserves.
Tho Republicans of Maine in over
coming the fusion, or combined
strength of all opposition pa:t:es which
or yea is it has not been able to do,
has achieved a grand and most re
markable victory; and selves as a very
large straw to show that the drift of
popular sentiment and feeling in the
Xoith is with the Repub!;can party
and for Gai field and Arthur.
Beltzhoover, the Pennsylvania Dem
ocratic Congressman, who wrote to a
soldier that the rebel brigadiers were
not well disposed toward granting pen
sions to Union soldiers, and then de
nied having written such a letter, is
proved a liar by the man he wrote to
and by his own handwriting.
Xnietv-five thousand are the figures
the Democrats conclude to letti'n as
their majority in Albania, and the
True Issue, a Democratic paper oc thai
State things that was too much, and
and that twenty thousand would have
served just as well and given less pre
text for charge of fraud.
Maud S., the wonder'ul trotting
mare, at Chicago on the iGlh made her
mile in 2:ll beating her former best
achievement one-fouith of a second,
and lacking only that fraction of time
of equal5 eg St. Julian's best record.
V5-g;n5a Democrats have been trying
to harmonize the'r matters so as to in-su-e
Hancock the electoral vote of the
State, but every effort so far has failed;
and it really looks as if Garfield will
get the vote of ihat State.
There was a good many Democratic
patriots 'n the army, we admit, after
1 -incolu's 500,000 draft. Lots of them
then.
'Finally puckered up courage and went.
When they were grafted Into the army."
The Democrats may as well fly the5r
roosters for Alabama. They may do a
little crowing in the "Northern States
over what they claim, but not any over
what they get.
'Beltzhoover told the truth and was
caught at it, and the Democrats are
thumping him for his innocent viola
tion of the party creed.
mt--&.
A Berlin dispatch says the German
Government has ordered the expulsion
of the French Jesuites who migrated
to Alsace-Lorraine.
Gen. Kilpatrickhas been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of his
district in Xew Jersev.
Arkansas, like all the Damocratic
States has repudiated its State debt.
LONDON.
Summer is gone.
"Have you heard from Maine?"
Mrs. McClellen, of California, is
visiting her sister Mrs. M.Travis.
Married! On the lCth.bytheRev.
Reed, at the residence oftho bride,
Mary McKinney and B. Perry.
.Look at the pictu e of Hancock,
and see one -of the selfish, haughty, ty
rauical, ignor.it, Crcsar's.. Do the
American people want to see a "de.
cline and fall" of the American j-epub-lic
after the manner of Rome? then
let them elect for president "W. S. Han
cock and the curtain will raise on the
fb-st scene.
"Wonder if Garfield "consulted
the north star?" looks something that
way notwithstanding the premature
triumphing of the enemy.
Sam "Wiuteis has gone into Iowa
to teach school.
il iss Locke teaches at the Camp
bell school-house.
Mr. Taggart teaches tho London
school.
Some people seem to think, by
their talk, that the two great opposing
poetical pai ties were a benefit to this
government; that some believe there
was a balancing power in 'it, keeping
evil from getting the ascendency, and
that it was not much matter which
party won the victory. Tips is a fatal
delusion, and is calculated to neutral
ize all the good one might do, who be
lieves this very ujistatesmanlike folly.
The ti nth is, th'S strife of party is the
old battle still raging between light and
darkness, good and evil, liberty and op
pression. The foundations of this gov
ernment are lepublican equal rights
to every cit;ren; and if some of those
who stand o.i this foundation have not
the moral character, which would be
much desired, as individuals, it is no
reason for striking at the foundation,
and every ind'vidual or party who op
pose these foundation, principles are en
emies of the government, and will, if
they get the power, overthrow it, how
ever much they mayutter the sham
cry of corruption, reform, "men not
principle.' True statesmanship say
the foundation ofthegovemmentmust
be p inciple, not men, while the super
structure is principles and men.
Secretaey Thompson recently went
to his Indiana home to engage in. cam
paign wck. An interviewer says:
"He knew of no cases of desertion to
the democracy, and thee were certain
ly many democrats who had come over
to the republican party. The young
men. even those who had been raised
under democratic influences, were
very hugely coming into the republi
can party, aud wou'd vote for Porter.
At Tene Haute there "was a young
men's club of 700, of whom it is said
300 would this year cast their first vote
for Porte ."
A telegraph dispatch says":
The internal revenue bureau re
ceived a report that Deputy Collector
Latham, of southern Virginia, with a
posse of n'ne men. had been attacked
while in the discharge of duty, by fifty
armed moonshiners, fired upon repeat
edly, and compelled to retreat.
Is it not a fact, worthv of the so'ic5
tude of every voter, that those moon
shiners law breakers and law defiers
were aU Democrats and ardent sup
porters of Hancock and State rights.
Piaisted was elected governor of
Elaine last Monday and every white
man in A merica knows it. There is
evidently a concerted effort to count
him out, and this will be done if per
jury and fraud can accomplish it. Are-
braitka City News.
"Wen supposing- that is all so, how
about Alabama? How about the
-'counting out" down there? You
should not make such a wrv face over
r
a dish Of your own filthy soup.
The temperance- people of Maine did
not vote well for Gov. Dav's. J. B.
Finch received a letter from a promi
nent temperance man of that State, in
forming him that'Davis lost 1S00 votes
in one locality which he would have
received had he not rendered himself
especially unpopular with tho temper
ance party. They will vole for Gar
field, however.
Wade Hampton evidently deifies
Stonewall Jackson. He said in a
speech in 1SGS: "T'le cause for which
Stonewall Jackson fell cannot be in
vain, but in some form will yet tri
umph." Bullets, blood and treasure
hav'ng failed they are now trying the
'form" of larceny.
non. E. F. L. Gauss, a German Re
publican speaker in Indiana, who
resides at Galena, 111., was recently
waited upon by a Democ -atic commit
tee with a proposition for him to es
pouse iheir cause, ffering him anv
price he would ask. He said "Get
thee behind me, Satan."
Dr. Peny HBalbott, of Maryville,
Mo., an excellent physician and editor
of the Standard, a greenback paper of
that city, was killed hist Saturday
night, while at home, sitting by the
side of his wife, by a shot fired through
a window. "Who the assassin was is
not yet known.
De La Matyr very truly says that if
Piaisted had been elected it would
have been as much a Republican as a
Democratic victory. The greenbackers
whenever the two parties have run sep
arate tickets, have always outvoted the
Democrats more than two to one.
The Democrats must do their crow
ing in the Xorth this year before they
hear the news, otherwise the miserable
outfit will have no use for their roos"
ters.
For the test flour in tlie
market get the gilt edge at
Cheap Sam's. He warrants
every saclc.
STATE MAITEES.
A woman named Lina Chapman,
claiming to be a widow 26 years old,
suicided at Fremont, by strychnine,
last week.
IZaponee JBanner : It was a just
tribute to the earnest and constant ef
fort of Hon. Thos. J. Majors, that he
was re-nominated as contingent con
tingent congressman, and we hope he
may this time succeed in getting his
seat. His devotion to the party and
untiling en"ovt for a fa'r representation
0-! Nebraska entitles him to the honor
o! the position.
J. B. Finch has gone to Kansas to
tale a part in the campaign for the
prohibition clause in the new constitu
tion to be voted on.
The gieeubackers of Gage county
held a convention ISth inst.
State Journal: There are just
fifty-four University cadets, old and
new. The new students will com
mence drilling with guns Monday.
State Journal: It is said that
Auditor Leidtke w'll engage in the
German newspaper business in Lin
coln, aCter lrs term of ofiice as auditor
erpj'-es.
The Daily Chief iain pubi5shed at
Tecumseh du-ing fair week was hand
somely gotten up and full of local
news; and was, doubtless, h'hly ap
preciated by the enterprising people of
Johnson county.
Seward Heporter: Dr. Miller, of
the Omaha Herald, is designated as
Hampion Xo. 2, by ihe Omaha Repub
lican, because he trys to dodge what he
said in Sewa -d on the negro suffrage
business.
Gtand Island Times: Hon. Church
Howe, of Xemaha county, will address
the Republicans of Hall county, in this
c;ty, on the 2'Jth inst. Xow look out
for a big rally. Church is a.j'good
one."
The Pawnee Enterprise omits the
name of Mr. Cams from the ticket, and
joins the Omaha Bee in its bolt of that
gentleman. This is a small matter,
however, and Mr. Carns' majority in
the State will not be perceptibly af
fected. A young man near "Waverly,
namei' Richard Hornby was suffocated
in a well one day last week. "When
taken out he was dead.
Henry Erunn, a fanner near Ger
mantown, a few days ago drove his
team to Lincoln, accompanied by his
wife. In Lincoln he got drunk, and
going home let his horses run, was
thrown out of the wagon the lines
dragging him by the neck for some dis
tance. That night Brunn died from
injuries received. He was 00 years
old and left a wife and four children
at home.
Mis. August Ileuman of Seward
coupty, suicided last Aveek by raking
Paris green. Aged 25 years.
The Omaha Herald speaking o"
Johneye Redick, said: "This gentle
man is figuring conspicuously for the
seiate, and is trying to palm himself
off as a conservative. He is what all
renegade democrats speedily become
a radical among radicals -so radical
indeed that he would eat the tails oc
.African rats and thrive on the diet."
Arapahoe Pioneer: "We have on
exhibition at this office a few ears of
corn from the field of Mr. Freed, near
this city, who litis twenty acres tiiat he
claims will yield seventy bushels per
acre, which is a first rate yield for the
Great American Desei t Cattle
men in western Kans;is and e;iste.-n
Colorado sire petitioning congress to
make the hundredth meridian a limit
for settlement.
Beaver Citv Times: Bees ae a
success,iu Xebraska. At least that is
the case with a couple of stands owned
by our townsman, .1 esse Iladley. Last
Monday he concluded to harvest a lit
tle honey and accordingly proceeded to
business. The result was a yield of
thirty-five pounds of superfine honey
from a single stand.
Humboldt Sentinel : The faction
of the Republican party that promised
to "set down" on Hon. Church Howe
failed to come to time.
Xaponee Banner: "However
much Hon. Church Howe may have
been abused, slandered, and lashed by
the press of the State, he keeps on top
in his own county. Ho has been nom
inated for representative, and we shall
not be surprised if he turns out to be
speaker of the house, and we venture
the opinion that no man in Nebraska
could crowd through more business
during the forty days than Hon.
Church Howe."
The address of Judge Mason, de
livered at the Opera House, Lincoln,
before the Garfield and Arthur club, a
few weeks since, and published in full
in the State Journal, has been pub
lished in pamphlet form by the Xew
York central committee and circulated
as a campaign document.
The State Journal has informa
tion that on Saturday morning last,
thelhouse of a Mr. Lackey, near Vic
toria, Cass county, was struck by
lightning, the bolt passing down the
chimney between two bed rooms, and
killed instantly four children of the
family while in their beds. One daugh
ter about IS years of age; another
daughter about 14, a son about S, and
and another son about 5 years old.
Another daughter was badly in
jured, the flesh being torn off parts of
the body. Her recovery is considered
impossible.
Another child was badly injured but
some hopes of its recovery are enter
tained. The Democrats made their estimate
for Maine at from 3,000 to 5,000 major
ity. This they supposed would be a
reasonable thing to claim upon the
amount of money they were using and
what they could otlierwise steal.
Hence as soon as the votes were polled
they began their preparations for ju
bilating. Banners were made and ev
ery copperhead editor brought out his
rooster. Xow th&thieves beingthwart
ed, are howling "stop thief."
MEEE MENTION".
A Ifeios special from Dallas says:
"Rob Harper attacked James Thomp
son with a knife and was shot and in
stantly killed by the latter, near Bois
darc Island.
At UTew Albany, Incl., Iflth inst.,
James Coffee killed Robert Dudley.
They quarreled about a prostitute.
Two cranberry warehouses were
buroed at Milwaukee, 15th inst. They
contained 1500 battels of ber-ies.
Ail the business ponion of Colum
bia. Texas, was destroyed by fire 15th
inst.
Hugh L. Petty, a printer at Topeka,
Kansas, suicided by shooting, 17th
inst. He was a drunkard, and left a
note to the youg lady to whom he was
engaged to be married, saying he could
not stop drinki ig. and being unworthy
of he.-, resolved to die.
A Hiawatha, Kas., paper says native
cattle are dying in that vicinity by the
huadred, from disease
brought there
bv a drove of Texas cattle.
Weaver to P'ai'sted.
Gen. "Weaver, presidential gr2enback
candidate sends the following to Gen.
Piaisted. but its constrncclon is espec
ially intended as a snub to the pom
pous hero of order Xo. 40:
I congratulate you on the grand
fight you have made in Maine for the
Xational Greenback Laoor party. It
will inspire our friends with confidence,
and strengthen them for the 3 eat bat
tles which remain to be fought. I hope
you are elected. It is most amusing to
see the Democratic leaders masquerad
ing behind the Greenback party, and
calling our v:ctory a Democratic boom.
They fail to tell the public that you
weie nominated as a straight Green
backer, and that the Democrats could
not have cairied the State by 40,000.
They fail also to state that they re
quested you to make pledges to them
when they gave you their indorsement,
and that you peempto'iiy declined;
that their Stato Cet til Committee
subsequently demanded pledges of you.
and upon your second refusal said
committee requested you to withdraw
as a candidate, and that you declined to
do that also. Tne Democrats in Maine
showed their good sense by voting the
Greenback ticket. Let us all lejoice.
J A . us B. "We VKIt
Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana 5s
on the recoid withThtirman andBlack
as an indorsee of the purity and ability
of JArcs A. Garfield. A few days
before the meetiug of the Ch;cago con
vention, Mr. Hendricks, in a conversa
tion with "Win. H. Morrison and M. L
Brown, both respectable men of India
napolis, said:
Your convention will nominate Gen
Grant, but I will tell you who I think
the Republicans should nominate and
who I consider the strongest man. He
is a true and pure man, a man of prin
ciple, and a statesman and honest man.
and would make a good President for
us all. Personally I consider him the
best man you could nominate. I refer
to James A. Garfield, of Ohio.
uen. uen. Harrison, a lew days ago
in a speech at Indianapolis in answer
to some of Hendricks' slanders of Gen
Garfield "placed Air. II. in the unenvi
able position of a falsifier, by proving
by Messis. Morrison and Brown the
above as his utterance. Such testimo
ny is of little wonh to Gen. Ga-eld
and we onlv mention it to show tiat
a great Democratic reformer has J'ed.
and is a small politcalmountebank at
best.
The election news is never received
from the track timbercountie; of Maine
under a week ft om election day, yet the
Democrats had their roosters out the
next day following the election crowing
over the result. They did notknowany
thmg about the vote, but based their
calculations on tho inetheds of fraud,
bribery etc., they had set afoot in the
Stale to cary it. The scheme worked
p-ecty Avell in the cities, but failed ut-terl'-
to pan out in the country districts,
and the rascals, consequently, were
fooled and humiliated. Tho cry oC
fraud by that party is as tliin as Han
cock's telegram, and as transparent as
the Alabama election.
In 1S78 the combined opposition to
the republicans in Maine had a majority
of over 32,000. In 1S79 that majority
was reduced to" 492. This year it is
further reduced so that the Republican
candidate i3 probablv elected ; but
whether ho is or not, the opposition is
so small as to give Republicans cause
for rejoicing at the great gains secured
and the assurance of the State for Gar
field and Arthur by 15,000 majority.
All local and temperance issues being
out of the way it cannot be less than
the figures we make.
The Democratic candidate sentPhvs
ted, the defeated Greenback Republi
can of Maine the following dispatch:
Xew Yoiik, Sept. 14. Accept my
congratulations on the glorious result
of your campaign. It will inspire our
friends with confidence, and strengthen
them in the preliminary battles which
remain to be fought elsewhere
Signed "W. S. Haxcock.
And so the Democratic candidate ex
hibits himself as a premature Demo
cratic ass.
Hancock's congratulation! are not
reciprocated to any great extent by the
greenbackers, andthedotedGeneral oc
cupies the ridiculous position before
the country at the present time of a
man who piesumptuously thrusts his
nose where it is not wanted and gets
it punched.
State Journal: For sale at a bar
gain a fine lot of poultry, principally
rooste-s, by Dr. Miller, Omaha; also
one ancient bird of the same species, by
the Lincoln Democrat. They are war
ranted not to shed their feathers or fly
away.
m m
"As Maine goes so goes the Union.'
Nebraska City News.
That is an acknowledgment we were
not looking for from our copperhead
cotemporary.
Indiana will go Republican in
ber by 15,000 majority.
Octo-
De la Matyr.
Congress man De La Matyr, being
flushed with supposed victory in Maine,
was interviewed by a Chicago News re
porter, when he delivered himself as
follows:
I consider it a straight out financial
victory. "We carried the state on that
issue, and no other The idea that the
result came from a coalition with the
democracy is an absurd and malicious
fallacv. The gicenbackers "of Maine
were opposed to such a thing from the
first, and never thought of allowing the
democratic party any recognition in
their canvass. "We made a square fight
and made it alone. The republicans
did as much for us as the democrat did,
and they have as much right to try and
rob us of the honor and glory of the
victory as the democrats have. As I
said before, it is a pure financial victory,
and not a party one. Gen. Weaver and
myself opposed a fusion with all our
might There was no need of it. We
had oi'r ticket in tho field, and were
confident we hrd the ballots to elect it
unless opio'jiiion reported to fraud.
Under such ci renin t ices we were
prepared to act independently. It was
to our interests to do so, and that the
democracy is claiming it as a victory
for them only shows the character and
moral make "up of the party. They
have not the least ground for such
claims. "Whv, as far as that is concern
ed, our ticket was made np in the main
of men who had never voted tho dem
ocratic ticket in their lives, and men
who now have much mo e regard for
the principles of the republican party
than they have for the democratic par
ty. "Doctor, did you e.rpect so favorable
a result?''
"Xo, sir, I did not, especially since
some of our best men reverted to the
republicans. Theie wee sone who
went back whom I considered as firm as
I am, and their action hint the party
very much. But it is all right how. I
don't th;nk the finsd count will mater
ially affect the lesult. "What influence
this election will have in other states I
I can't tell. There, is ?. doubt of ou
bein'; ableto hold the republican bolters
in the presidential ejection. They
have made known their finaac'a1 de
s'res by their ballots in this elect5on.
I "ner-T'jy that, thevwiU be aY.;5d to
vote for anything but the coni.5nuance
o" the republican pa ty in the contest
fo- the naiioiui' government. They
have tisse -ted thei.' financial desires by
their ba"ois ths tine, and they may
assert t.ieir pa ly preference on other
questions the next one. Maay o" out
votes arc tim;d, and would con
sider it too g-eat a risk to put their
voters any vhee fian in direct opposi
tion to the democracy in any election
of national consequences."
HA1IC00S BUMMERS Iff MISSISSIPPI.
Free Spsech SnppresseJr
Hock Tort Jou snaS.
Col. "Wimberly, an ox-confedemte
sold'er of Coffeev'Ue, Mississippi. :uul
a Greenback polVeion m that State,
ftr.-nishes an interesting chapter on
Southern Democratic cli'valry. A
joint meeting between Greenback aod
Democratic speake'shadbeena ranged
to come off at Coffee ille. The Demo
crats, however, withdrew from the
contest, and an independent ineeti g
of the GreenbacUers was called. TUe
Democrats dete mined that no meet
ingshouldbehe'd. and when the Green
backers were about to organize, a band
of armed ruffiaus appealed on the
scene, dispersed the gathering, and
shot Mr. 'earson, the Gieenback can
didate for She iff. They left him as
dead. Col. "WWubeny took him to hs
house, where, under the Ki ul treat
ment of his wife, M". Pea -son 'ecove
ed. The human fiends who had shot
him. on find'ng that he was alive, sur
lonnded Col. "Wimberlv's house a jd de
manded that Pearson should be deliv
eieu to them. The demand was of
course refused. Col. "Wunberly has
since been told that he had not vev
long to live. This CoffeeviUe band of
jissasMtis are fair specimens of thei -class,
and of the Southern mobs who
desire the e'ection of Hancock. They
do not i'dend Unit the e snail be a
chance to collect votes even without
bavouets. Their idea is to count oct
some voles by the aid of the
shotgun.
Tie ex-C "oKfedecaces a-e doing their
besL to put a sugar coat: ig on a bitter
pil', and are reasoning awsiv the objec
I'oos that arise in the Sout'ieru mind
to supporting a Union soldier for o
"ce. They aie even claiming that
Hancock got on the wong sine during
the war from necessy, and not fiont
cnoice. Listen to this, from an Ala
bama paper:
On, yes, General Hancock was a Fed
eral soldie', and fought in the Union
a.niy. He belonged to the military
service of the country, and it was his
professional duly to follow the Stars
and Stripes in obedience to the com
mand of his superiors. He did his duty.
Geieral Ga.'iield qu:t the vocations of
teacner and preacher, voiunteeied his
sefv:ces fas did General "Weaver, the
Greenback ;dol), to fighu in the Federal
rrmy, and aid in conque ng the South
and escablisniig tne perpetuity of the
Un5oo. So far the candidates for the
Presidency ae on equal footing, except
that Hancock was without choice,
while Ga -field and "Weaver volunteered
their services.
And that is all true". Take Han.
cock's record clear through and the
log'cal conclusion must be that he was
a Union soldier more from the pie: of
circumstances than patriotism.
About one hundred business men
representing six millions of capital,
met at Columbus, Ohio, lGth inst., at
the board of trade rooms and adopted
the following resolutions:
Resolved, That having emerged from
such a panic as this country had never
seen before now, into our present pros
perity, we declare ourselves satisfied
in the possess-on of a sound currency,
ample for the needs of business, and
we therefore view with alarm the pos
sibility of any change.
Resolced, That the business men of
every town and city in Ohio be re
quested to meet, consult and adopt
sucli means as to them seems most
likely to preserve the present equality
between the paper and coin dollar; to
insure a diminution of the public debt
instead of on increase; tomaintainthe
present high standard of public credit
and low iute est, thus continuing the
present pro3peous condition of the
country, and to see that their influence
is felt at the polls in October aod Xo
vember. If you want a bargain
call and see me, for I will
not he undersold by anyone.
CHEAP SAM.
Tndiana, Ohio, and "West Virginia
vote on Tuesday October 12th. Color
ado votes Mondav nth.
At South Bend Indiana the Republi
cans have a Garfield and Arthur pole
211 feet high. That's the pole that
knocks the persimmons at South Bend.
LIVERY !
Opposit Lumber Yard, Main St.
C3-003D BIGS
AT-
REASONABLE RATES.
Special Accommodations for
Commercial Men,
AXD
Driver Furnished
when desired.
Horses boarded by the day or week,
and Farmers' teams fed and cared for
at fair rates.
Attention Everybody !
When in PERU yon. need
not pay more tliant
$1,00 for any $1.50 Medicine
70cts." " $1.00
35cts." " 50 ct.
a
f(
15 cts. for any Box Pills, &c,
The Cheapest House for other
Drugs.
BOOKS & STATIONARY,
ORGANS
and other MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
J. PATTERSON.
PERU, NEB.
NEMAHA CITY.
'axn.
'OS.
Nemaha Gity,
Havo a new and full stocfe of BOOTS.
SHOES, HAUNESSjHATS,
NAILS & QUEENSWAKE.
They also keep
A full and complete lino
or FAMILY GROCERIES. SU
GARS, TEAS aud COFFEES of Tar
Ions grades. Canned sroods,
Best Brands of FLOUR,
and everything
else In ;the GROCERY LINE.
CUTIT-
JJL.S-JL
OSS.
sell for
CASH DOWN, or for sneb
Conntry Trade as they want,
and ss to prices, they 23efy Com
petition. Call and see.
TSTOSi WILLIAMS.
DEALERS iy
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES.
RE A D YMA DE CLOTHING,
NOTIONS, Etc., Etc., Etc.
Kemaha Uij, Nebraska,
Will sell goods as cheap as any house In
Rontheastern N ora-Oca.
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M'OTJOLf;.!?
BOOTS. SHOES.
AND HARNESS
Mads anil repaired as well as can be doca
anywhere, and at short notice
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J. 13. IRJHIES,
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Good Jpogsrfe and horse??, charges reas
onable. Best of care taken of transient a toe 1c.
Hemana City, Mob.,
pENERAL MERCHANDISE
3 JJ.niT,Y GROCERIES Mm
CANNED GOODS. CONFECTION'S, Ete.
Keeps a varied stock of everything the peo
ple want. Call and see him.
mi y Hotels
LEVI JOHNSON, PROPRIETOR,
NEMAHAzcrry neb.,
Centrally located; Good fare, and notrng.
b!e spared to make guests comfortable
Good barn for horses and
Cliarges Reasonable.
New RESTAURANT
AT
BY
CITY,
Louis StroMe.
First door fsoath of the lumber yard. Call
and get a square meal for 25 cents. A good
stock or confections also kept on hand. Mr.
and Mrs. iStroble having had much experi
ence as restaurateurs, are well qualified to
please their patrons.
DAVID A. MORTON,
Blacksmith,
2Tema7i a City, 2feb raslta.
Machine repairing ami horseshoeing a sp
clalty.
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