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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, MAY 6, 186'J. CORnESPOJfDESCE. We are destrou of receiving correspondence from all parte of the State, relative to the material inter eaU of the country, together with such other mat eras contributor! may deem of interest. We give below the total assessed value of property in each precinct of Cass county, Nebraska, for tbe year A. D., 1869, consolidated by our effi cient and obliging County Clerk Bur- w ell Spurlock, Esq. Plattsmouth Precinct, $743,722 93.045 226.697 Oreopolia Rock Bluff- 90.043 134 763 Liberty Aroca Ml Pleasant " Weeping Water Precinct, Store Creek " Elmwood " Eight Mile Grove " Salt Creek South Bend " Louijrille " 172.105 128.394 . 17,680 31,437 225,793 40.366 41,140 1S6.500 Total, 82,136,835 Hnnk and Ladder Company. Will not some of our young n.eu or ganixe a Hook and Ladder Company ? It is true that we nave been Hissed wiih a lack of fires here, lut tha "Good Lord deliver us" if one ever does start, with no belter arrangements to arrest it than a gaping crowd and a few patent pails. If our good people would only reflect how fearful would be a fire m any of the, high winds which prevail in these parts, and what suffering and loss would be entailed on the community, we have no doubt they would move in. the matter. The in aurance companies represented here we doubt not would contribute liberally toward any effective and permanent organization such as we have indi cated. Let 6ome of our young men a meeting and set the ball in motion. OUR NETT FERRY, We find the following complimen tary notice of our new ferryboat" and her energetic captain in a recent aura ber of the St. Joseph Union : "G. W McGee is building a staunch little craft at our landing, to be used as a ferry Kr. at Plattsmouth. Nebraska. The hull was built up on the Nodaway, and was towed down to this city on Tues ri.tr m tin finished and receive the necessary machinery. When com pleted, which will be In about four weeks, she will be one of the most sub stantial ferryboats on the Upper Mis aouri. Her length is 112 feet, beam 33 feet, depth of hold 3 12 feet, with a capacity for over 200 tons. The Uncle Ned, another St. Joseph built eteamer, is now plying as ferryboat at Plattsmouth, having been chartered fnr the mirnnae bv Mr. Mcliee. while I I J he is building his new boat" TRANSFER. Why do not some of our enterprising nliirpm start a transfer between the depot at Pacific City and this p!ace We daily hear accounts of grumbling and disappointed parties on the other side bound- westward, who reach Pa- eifirc City and cannot find conveyances to transfer them to this side, These parties, accustomed to ibe close con nections of Eastern States, cannot and do not wait twenty four hours to please tha Western Sta?;e GomDanv. but at once seek some live town like Omaha cr Nebraska City, where they are taken care of at once. It is a shame for this state of things to continue longer. The Western Stage Company only run one hack per day, and that is totally insufficint for our accommoda tion. The-e should be an omrabus and baggage wagon ready on the arrival of every train to carry passengers promptly from Pacific to this place. In view of the approaching sale of lots at Lincoln, we advise parties interested to take hold of the matter in time, or exnect to see the shortest and bes; route abandoned prompter ones. for longer but Advertisements appear in the Lon- don papers for governesess competent to taach the modern languages, tne mathematics, natural and moral phi losoDhv. music. Stc. for which i2a month is magnanimimously offered. Agriculturally Texas is all right. Corn is generallyplanted and much of it is up. A larger breadth ot land will be put in cotton-than any year since the war, and tbe freedmen nave gone to work .everywhere. Arkansas intends to raise a revenue from crime. Hiving a half dozen murders a day, the State Senate has passed a law making a county liable for SI. 000 damages whenever a mur der is committed within its borders. People who want to establish a ve locipede rink can call it by any of tbe following- names r Amphicycloibea. trionipesture, gyrnnacycodiuin, voloci pedrome, or bicyclocarriculum. No wonder some people are afraid of 'the znachinti Dear and Dumb Inalltuie. We publish below a letter from the Superintendent of ihe Nebraska Insti tjte for the Deaf and Dumb, to which. ogethr with ihe circular accompany ing. we desire to can attention. e were present at Lincoln when Mr. rench lectured to a large audience by means of signs and written senten ces, on a black-board, and can say to all our readers that, althrugb he was deaf and dumb, be, by means of the education he had received at a smaller ostitute, made his ideas as plain and intelligible to all present as though he could speak. We heartily commend the Institute and its originator to all who have in their families any mem bers afflicted in this direction, and hope that every Christtan in the State, who in able, will contribute pecuniarily to the support of an establishment which tends so much to ameliorate the condi tion of these unfortunates for whose benefit it was designed. Nebraska Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. Omaha, Neb , April 30. 1869. Editor Herald, Plattsmouth, Ne braska. Dear oir: No doubt you have heard of the organization of this .school ; and we wish the knowledge of its existence extended, and it may be the means of bringing other mutes to this school. Will you please give it a noiice in your paper, and copy theCir cular. SB. P J ihe Legislature made anappropri ation to carry it on last winter. We are doing well now, a'nti have several pupils.' We learn of about twenty-six in the State, and have tried to inform their friends of this school. One is over in the Iowa Institution, from this State, who the Governor has ordered to this Institute. Gen. John S. Bowen is our Presi dent, Joseph II. Millard, Esq., is our Treasurer, and Rev. H. W. Kuhns is our Secretary. Should you know or learn cf any mutes in your connty, please let me know. We are receiving several contribu tions, will you please add your Herald to the list ? Whenever you visit Omaha please call and see our embryo Institute. Yours respectfully, W. M. Fhemcii Deaf and Dumb Institute, Omaha. Nebraska. Circular of ihe Nebraska Institute for ihe Deaf and Dumb. Omaha, Neb., March 5th, 1867. The above named Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, was organized by the act of the Territorial Legislature, incorporating the same, approved Feb ruary 7. 1867. This Institution com mences operations the first day of April 1869. It is purely educational. Tbe course of study pursued embraces all the English branches: Spelling, Read ing, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, and the Sciences. , All the pupi's living in this State, between the ages of ten and twenty one years, are admitted to all the privileges of the Institution Free of charge. Those from other States are charged a small compensation' for board and tuition. Each pupil should come with sufficient clothing to last six months; or wiih the money to procure them. He or she should also have a trunk, large enough to contain all bis or her clothes, each article of which should be distinctly marked with bis or her name. All rpplications from a distance, let ters or inquiry, etc., snouia be aa dressed to W. M. French, Principal, "Institute for the Deaf and Dumb," Omaha, Nebraska. ' . - All letters to pupils should contain tha words, "Institute for the Deaf and Dumb,' as part of their direction. By order of the Board of Directors H. VY. Kousi, bee y. More People for Ihe West. Quite a large delegation of people from Lurope passed through our city, yesterday, for the far est. They all seem to be well fixed. The men were stout, robust, healthy looking fel lows, and judging from their appear ance, are just the stock with which to build up and develope tne country to which they were going. Their bag gage consisted mosMy of large wooden chests all of which appeared to be well filled. This delegation was tick eted Middlebourgh Ricardson county, Nebraska. The baggage was direc ted via. Havre, New York, and St, Joseph. Our friends over toward sun set are rapidly filling up the country with good material, and we expect in but a few yei-rs to near tbe very best reports from them. Ihe country is rich and ferule, and only needs indus trious hands end courageous hearts to make it the highest and the best in the world. Success to the west, and the men or me west, say we. putney . 1 . 4 ' Whig; A good story is told by a Richmond a m rr t paper: A colored soiaier amxeu nis mark to an applioation for back pay and bounty. While the claim was passing thiough the department he earned to write, and signed m name to the additional papers- subsequently required. The 'bureau declared the latter signature to be a forgery. AUItllULTVItE iS NEDRA8K..SV. Nebraska ij emphatically an agri cultural State. It is this, or ii is noth ing. It has no mineral wealth in ei ther coal or iron. If it has, it is as yet undiscovered. We da not claim it. Our great resources lie in Agriculture. They belong to an extended area ot rich soils wh.ch experience has dem onstrated to be capable of producing all the staples of the latitude, in abun dance. In wheat growing we rank every State in the Union. So of all the finer grains. As a grazing and stock-growing State, we are equal even to Illinois, and this is the Slate to which Judge Trumbull compared us. when, in a speech, not intended to flat ter, but simply to impress us with a proper estimate of ojr own advantages at the Senatorial Banquet in this city. that gentleman assured us that the ex penencu of Illinois, in all itsremarka ble development, would be repeated in Nebraska. . It is surprising how people will hua band a popular error. That which has led tbe world to believe that Nebraska was destitute of agricultural resources is cherished by many with great per sistence and tenacity. Scarcely a day passes that we do not bear its echoes from persons otherwise intelligent and observing. They have beard that Ne braska was a barren a. id unproductive country through the traditions of the ignorant and tbe falsehoods of the de signing, and, without taking the trouble to investigate, accepting the slander a fact, and cherish it against both asser- tions ana proor to me con'rary as though they had direct interest in up homing it. It is thus that Nebraska still suffers in the estimation of tbous ands as an agricultural State. But Nebraska is rich io agricultura resources. The great fact asserts itself in the county which enables our far raers to reap golden harvest each year. These are the so'id proofs which are lowly disabusing the public mind of the groundless impression that this is a barren country, and which are rap idly giving Nebraska that position to which it is so justly entitled. Omaha Her eld. Important to Letter Writers According to a recent change in tbe regulations of the Post Office Depart ment, no letter addressed t initials will be delivered at any residence nor any Post Othce box. The man who addresses his communication to A. D B., box 10,001, may rest assured that his epistle will never be deposited in the box in question, but that on the other hand will be immediately and effectually destroyed- It has been said that a "word to the wise is sufficient," but in this case either the people are not wise as they mihi be, or else one word is not quite sufficient to convince them, for we are continually bearing complaint that let ters addressed to initials or obvious noms de plume, have failed to reach their destination. ine lntormauon we desire to im press upon the popular mind especially concerns advertisers in tne public press rive or six miscellaneous advertise ments, such as "Wants ' or "Losf'Snd "Found" notices, simply bear the ini uais oi ine aovertiser, ara in very many of these instances the address is not to the newspaper office, but to some box to the Pot Office. Such adver tisers may be certain that not a single reply to ihem will ever reach ihem The letter, if not addressed to the office of the paper, must be directed to the came and not to the initials or nom de plume ot the party recipient New York makes tweuty-one States that have ratified the if ifteenth Amend ment. They are as follows: Maine. Massachusetts. New York, Pennsyl vania. West Virginia, Nor.h Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Michi gan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Arkansas. Louisiana and Kansas. Tbe following Siates are morally certain to ratify before the year cloes: Ver mont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Georgia. Rbode Island, Virginia Mississippi and Texas, wil! give us the residue that we need and more too and we hope for help from Ohio. Indiana, California and Oregon. Sue cess is almost beyond contingency. A Sneak. Under this euphonious caption the Knoxville Hnig describes nine tenths of tbe Democratic editors in he country, in portraying a contempti- tie class or menwbo infest tbe South We mean the . men reared, ia the North, educated amid the surroundings cf free speech, free schools, free thought and a free press, and in the very cradle of loyalty and anti caste, who will come south and join himself with the rebel conservative pa ty, do its dirty work, write for and publish us disloyal sheets, sneer at loyalty and write it "truly loil, denounce its advo cates and supporters, and admit that the rebel conservative parly contains the respectability, the culture and the refinement of Southern society. In a Mission Sunday School in Brooklyn, at the Christmas festival, one of our popular speakers was talk ing to the children in familiar collo quial style, and at the close of his re marks, alter describing tne good time a. -fa coming, and describing tne miiienium. he asked the question, "Will not that be glorious ?" Pausing for a moment j as if for a reply, one of the ragged boys responded with tbe phrase, "Hunkydory. The Chicago Post is "huffed" be cause Council Bluffs received the first cargo of tea ever shipped on the Union Pacific Railroad direct from China. The only way for Chicago to outdo all the rest of the world, without passing by ether points of a moderate respecta bility and importance, is to dig a bole through to China and get their tea hot. If done it wjuld doubtless be claimed nt a Pet hole. .Yonpnrril. TA.L.Ett.t.a.lMIll'. Chicago, May 3. Tbe directors of the Washington " Home, of this city. have decided to open a department fur female inebriates.- The building have been secured, and the home will be open June 1st. Mr. Charles L. ood, agent of the St Paul and Sioux City Railway, while crossing the bridge at St. Paul on Sat urday, dropped a package containing $6,000 into the river, which instantly sunk. . . On Friday night an old man named Woodside started home from Indian apolis in a wagon drawn by a blind horse. It is supposed the old man fell asleep, and the horse, following the street leaning to the river, pitched over the bank. The man and horse were drowned. Tbe . Tribune's special says Gen. Grant notified Judge Breckinridge, Surveyor of the port of St. Louis, that his resignation would be accented. The generous Republicans of that city claiming the office. Senator Schurz is earnestly pressing Felix Cosie. Tbe appointment of Henry T Blow an Minister to lirnzil bas teen for warded to thai gentleman by mail. Tbe Times' special says Secretary Bnutwell will soon inaugurate the en forcement of the act of 1S62. authoriz ing tbe Secretaiy to set apart a por tion of the public revenue as a sinking fund to pay off the debt. Although this law bas been in force seven years, being discriminatory it has never been complied with, owing to the large gov ernment expenditures. The contem plated reduction of expenses gives rea sonable assurance that a sinking fund can be created from July lt. The general impression among well informed persons is that the admin istraiion will not countenance Gen Rosecrans proposition to loan money to Mexico, taking a mortgage on Mexican territory. A list of forty female Treasury clerks has been made out for dismissal The Board of Registration in Wash ington finally refused the demand of certain women to vote at the coming election, by quoting a recent act of Congress, which conferred the fran chise on the males of the District. The Tribune's New York special says tne National Executive Commit tee of the Union League met at the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday. The business is understood to refer to the greater perfection of the organization It is understood thtt Mr. Grennell has notified Secretary Eoutwell of his intention to vacate the New York Col lectorship finding its duties too hard A Washington special thinks the re ported outrages by -Spanish vessels upon neutral vessels will ultimately compel governments like ours and I Great Bi itain to call the Spanish Gov ernment to on account. The velocipede hns triumphed in Hartford the authorities have at tempted to drive the machine off the sidewalks, in accordance with an or amance pronioamg "vniciea pro pelted by hand" la be used where there are foot passengers. The velociped ists, however, retort triumphantly that their machines are "propelled by foot.' GOODUIL'. A squad of men passed down on Tuesday, taking down the old tele- i ti'i grapn line, nu ivuue tioua is now left out in the cold, and will remain s until she gets a railroad, which will be when ir inose old wires could nave re tamed alf that passed over them, and could talk over the pas', when stored away in seme dark warehouse, what tales they could tell! They were put up in tbe summer of I860, and carried news of the Lincoln campaign and triumph ; the rise and progress of s cession; ail tbe great battles, skir mishes, and movements of the war the murder of Lincoln ; the treason of JohDson; tbe election and inaugura tton of Grant ; the doings of polni cians; private matters relating to every phase of business and familv affairs: and the social chat of operators who are scattered throughout tbe length and breadtn of the land Those old. rusty wires, and rotten, tottering poles, have borne through spice many pan derous volumes of the history of war, politics, business rascality, misery sorrow, fun and compliment. We re gret the departure as that of a friend to whose familiar voice we have lis tened for many and many a day and long night. Even the humming of wires, as ibey vibrated in the wind. was music. May the day speedily come when we snail bave anotber like it, for a town without a telegraph is behind the times Kansas Chief. Cowhidimc. About dusk on Mon- Gay eqening. (.01.12. r. ftiouigomery. lately one of tbe editors of tbe Council Bluff Democrat, proceeded to the real estate office of J. M. 1 aimer, t,sq.. where Mr. Mark Kellogg, lately of the same paper, was engaged, and in dicted a castigation upon Mr. Kellogg with a raw hide. Col. Montgomery stepped into the open door, caught Mr. Kellogg, who was sitting at the desk. drew him out on the pavement, and s'ruck him quite a number of blows whilst drawing him out. We under stand that Mr. Kellogg has com menced a prosecution for the assault and battery. Nonpareil. The Canadian Chancellor of the Exchequer makes a merit of their fur nishing us forty thousand men A fair exchange is no robbery, W e traded off to them more than fifty thou sand bounty jumpers and draft sneaks for good scldiers. The penalty in New York for sell ing adulterated food, which is danger ous to lire, is a nne or o.uuu to $10,000. and imprisonment. If the same law extended to liquors, most of i 1 the saloons would-be tloserL old I'otiiKf ft ear savannah, Missouri. A rorrespondeni of the St. Jo. Her ald of yesterday gives tbe particulars of the uiscovery of gold near Savan- uah, Mo He says Savannah has been in a fever of excitement since yester day morning over what promises ie prove a remarkably rich deposit of auriferous sand in that town. Yester day morning a farmer who had been in the California gold mines came into town, bringing with him a quantity of peculiarly looking black sand. through which were apparent numer ous particles of what was pronounced by old miners to be gold. Several old Califoroians examined the sand, and all concurred in the opin ion that it was rich in the precious metal. Mr. Buskirk: in company with Dr. Dobbins and others familiar with the process of extracting gold from sand by the use of quicksilver, sub mitted this to the test and obtained about four pennyweights of fine scale gold from less than three ounces of the sand. Their crucible was improvised from a piece of-scrap tin, and their facilities such that they are confident that they were not able to extract but a smill portion of the gold it contained. The news of the discovery si-read during yesterday, and before night several experienced miners hnd left for the locality where the discovery was made At a late hour last night pome of these returned bringing ample specimens of ibe sand for further tests. They believe that it will yield about two dollars in value of fine scale gold to tbe pan. The locality where it is found is in the bed of a shallow brook which ernp ties into the One Hundred and Two nter, and is about seven miles north east of Savannah. THOUUIIT AND LABOR. Thought and labor carry forward civilization from age to age, and alike honorable are thinkers and workers m w a . tiara necessities are quite likely to bring forth great achievements. Every benefit and convenience of mankind are the result of- thought and labor Every invention has cost hard thinking and severe working. The history of tbe human race has been one of steady intellectual ad vaucement, and thought aud labor have oeen me instrumentality. inere is real grandeur in tbe march of the hu man mind Each generation in more knowing than its immediate predeces sor, and this growth in knowledge has come tnrougn tnougnt and labor. We often admire the beautiful mechani-m and perfect workings of a watch, not thinking that thought and careful labor are required in its manufacture: Every 3 . proouction ot art tne plain and use ful the beautiful and useful have required thought and labor 19 bring them fonh. Take for example an ocean steamer, as it bears proudly on its course in ihe very teeth of a gale. ucces.-fully riding oui the ctorm. 1 it not a su-blime ' spectacle ? Well thought and labor have produced it Tbe telegraph that conveys language to us on the bright wings of lightnin" from the very antipodes, swifter than a hurricane, is that is detmed to liar monize conflicting opinions and make all mankind our common brotherhood through interchange of ideas, required years .r patient tn-jugtit and lubor to iiinke it a fixed fact. The mind con ceives. contrives, invents, and labor itsban Jm nd, executes and makes those thoughts available Every -labor- saving machine, as the sewing ma chine, the header used by the farmer in harvesiing h;s grain, ihe gang plow and a host of others, are the I run of thought and labor. The steam en gine that great civilizer of the age .1 , , mat mociei ox sirengtn ana utility, i.- one of the proud productions of genius and is the result of cevere and pro tracted thought and patient labor' I not the immortal mind grand in its op erations to produce such magnificent results and is not labor deserving o equal honor because of the blessing conferred upon the human family ? Is there not real dignity in labor, ; and 1 noi that person lacking in common sense mat despises labor and tbe la borer? Then all honor to the vigor ous thinker and industrious worker. Geo. W. Coflet. Sheldon. Cal., April 10. 1S69. FROM &LASK4, Washihctoh, May 3. Dispatches from Rear Admiral Cravan have been received at the Navy Department, dated Moro Island, March 31, giving an account of operations in Alaska and the destruction of certain Indian vil lages, particulars of which have al ready been published. Commander Meade, of the United Siates steamer Saganaw, reports thai while on their expedition he entered a bay on the Northwest end cf Cow Island, which, from its advantages as a harbor, be named Safety Bay. Tbe bay is about fix and a half miles in extent, with an average depth : of ten fathoms at anchorage, and from ihree to nine fathoms elsewhere. Com mander Meade thinks it the best ren dezvous possible for the whaling fleet; superior to Sr.ka, and a better tne for a military post than Kootz Naboo It has never been entered by f tar ves sel. The Hudson Bay Company's steamers have long resorted to it. and were well aware of its advttL.tages. He also discovered fresh fields of coal at Kootz Naboo, one seam being Ave feet wide. It can be worked only at low water It is believed at Kootz Naboo that vast fields of coal exist. A Neighborly Example. It is stated that every three years the State of Iowa plants five millions of forest trees. Ibis Is a neighborly Biimple for Nebraska to imitate. True, she is doing a good deal, but' she has more need to plant trees at this rate than Iowa has. Let us see her add at least a million to the above aggregate of our neighbor in the next three ye rs. Frpif'riC'rn. '. FlloM 1 UUA. New York, May 3. The Herald's Havana special via Key West, of ihe 3d inst., says the following news comes from Nuevitas The revolutionary party , held a grand congress at Si- baueon on the 13ih of April. Ces pedes presided, and over thirty thou sand representatives were present from all parts of tbe island. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the revo lutio.iary party were fighting for their independence from Spain and annexa tion to the United S ates. Guesada is again elected generalissimo of the revolutionary armies The delegates are enthusiastic, sauguine and deter mined. It is reported from Puerto Principe that the Spanish troops have captured several members of thi revo lutionary committee. m m m . The story is told that when Camilla Urso was concerting, in Milwaukee, nqt long since, and immersed in a fan tansie of Ariot's, and indignant Mil waukeean arose in tbe audience, and, with blood in his eyes and thunder in tone, shouted: "Here, you fellow that's pounding that music box, darn ye, stop, Don't you see the little gal wants to play something, and you keep putting her out. Now, little one, just give u's Fisher's Hornpipe, and if that thun dering fool don't keep his music box still. I'll throw him out the back door." The effect may be imagined. Children should never be allowed to remain in a room where people are smoking. I have known many child rer ruined by breathing day after day the vile smoke if the fathers dear, and sometimes the mothers pipe. If a pa rent is so very ignorant of the laws of life as to smoke where young children live, he is a barbarian indeed. Her aid of Health. When Jones was at Oxford he wss a most excellent fellow, and only had one enemy soap. He was called Dirty Jones. One day the wag, Brown, went into his rooms, and re monstrating with him on the untidy, slovenly and dirty state of everything, said: "Upon my word Dirty.it is tco bad. The only clean thing in your room is your towel " A writer in the Journal of Telegraph gives the following reason why tho cho'era need not be feared in a tele graph office. The electric current passing terough a telegraph office throws off the aimopheiic purifier for ozone is generated by electricity a certain amount is thrown offal every beat of the electric pulse, winch sup plies in its immediate vicinity the muc! needed element, rendering tht atmo phere pure and vigorous, and prevent ing the introduction of this disease. Henry Ward Beecher, in one nis discourses, said mat "some mei will not thave on Sunday, and ye they spend all the week in t-having their fellow men; and many fool think it very wicked to black their Woots on Sunday, yet ihey do not hesitate i 1 . black meir neighbors refutation 01 week days." Black-eyed ladies are said to b most aDt to be passionate nnd jealou Blue eyed poiilfut, truthful, affection at aud confiding uray-eyed. phi sephLal, literary, resolute, and cold hearted llzel-eyed, quick ey-d quick tempered and fickle. J W. RAWLINS til I PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, (Lata a SarreoD-lo-Cbier of lbs Armr of (bo P.tu inac i PL A TTSMOUTJf, - - NEB Offlc with ur. R. LiTlaKSioD. oti Main street cppo te i;ourt lion,. ry"Piivate resilience corner of Rock and 1 lib i treeia, two doors Miutb of P. I. GV. aisS. IjEGAIj NOTICE Is Dlntrl.t Court 2nd Judicial Dim r let. within oDd I lorCii) co u in r. Nebraska. Fhndrach Co'.evi T J- Joiie-, J Q A. Owen aud C L rorcy. Ta T.J. Jues and J. Q. l.Owea nea-resid. a defetd- aiits : You are berehy notified that en tbe tit day of Mht, IStSM, Shadracb Ojle filej bis peiitlot In the rfSc-efthe Clerk u tile District Court, within ' for Ca$ coaDtv . Sfh . aeuin.tT. J. Joni-n, J bn Q A. Owen and O. K r rsrv, Defei dinti, setting fo in that enin Plaintiff han tha Icnai title to tbe aimtti etst quarti r (V) 'f the ,outb eet quarter () O! -if n tuirty I jnr and ine miuiu west qi it- -f the south we t quarter f V) of Section tbirty- 6ve (85). in Town-bip No. iwel (l2',noiib I range No. thirteen (13), east of tbe 6ta 1. w. Ij Caoa cojntr. Nr-braika. and U in tbe quiet aul peacanle oxesioa of the same, and iliat you ti e sai I Defendants claim au imeiest and estut la said tract 4 of land adverse to the estate and in tcrest f th- Plaintiff In said tract of land and pray ing that yon he said Di-fendams may be compelled to vhutr your said tlt-e io said tracts of land, and that it mar be de'ermioed null and void, and tmt ltie title to aid tracts of land free from all liens and lie imbrncet wnatoerer may be quietei and cjd armed in Baid r-nadrah Cole. Yon t renired to answer said petition on or De oie tne nth oay or jane lsoy. IIAUKACII UUli. by Maxwell Chifmii att'ys for Plaintiff. may6w4. NOTICE Is hereby rtyen that an election will be ueld at tbe uoual place of hol'linf elections in R -ck Bluff. precinct Cass county ebra.lt a, on SA 7 VRDA Y th 29A day of May, A D. 1S69 fjr the rurnose of fnbmittiug to the lenal vo'ers of said nrecloct tbe proposition to Issue tbe bonds of said brecinct to tne amount or twui - wo tnoueano six hundred and fllty-nlne dollars ($22,6S) to tbe a . M. K. K. Com . any. rroymea saia company make Rock Bluff ibe suiting point west of the ex tension of the said B. M . R. H. within eighteea mouths from tbil date f aid Bonda to be issued aa follows: 50 percent, of said bo ads to be isaed as soon an said Company sball commence grading said road, and tha remaining SO per cent la be isaed when said eompany shall nave completed ten miles of road fn m Rock Bluffs west. Said bonds to run not less than 20 nor mare than SO years from tha data of inning, with lnteret,pay able annually, at tbe rate of ten per cent, per an num. Baid bonds Interest to be payable at the office of the Countr Tr asorer cf Cass county. Une-tenth oi aaid bonda to be payable in twenty-one yea a from the date of issuing, and one tentt cf said bond to be payable each year therealter until tbe whole amount of said bonds are paid in full. And proTidt-d further that tlx- said precinct may bare tbe privilege of payinir said bond any time prior to the time above crecintd; and provided further, that before said bonds tiiall t-e issni d tbe said B. At M. R. K. C mpany, through their prop erly authorized agenta, thail enter Into bonds with tbe legally authorized agent of stid precii c in tbe sum of one hundred fifty thousand ( ISO. 0011) dollars The proposition will also be snbm'twd toih vo t-rs of said piecinct at aaid election to aathorix and require the County Commisslonera or ia county w levy an annual tax on the real and p. rsonai prop erty of said precinct to pay the infrest on said bonds, and after tbe expiration of twenty years from tha time of iaauine Mid bonds to U-ry annually un til said bonds are paid an additional Cax on the real and personal.estate of aaid precinct sufficient to pay one-t- nth part of said boods and to apply tbe same to the payment therrof. The qae-stioa subuiitte.1 to saia voters atsaia e Ac tion will be For Uonds and Tax, Xe, 'or Bonds and Tax. 0." Which election will opened at S o'clock a. m. of said day and continue optn antil fl.o'clock in the al ternooo of aaid day. By order of the Board of Cou"ly Commisatonera. Ia witness whereof I hereunto et my bant seal and official aeal at Plattsmouth on this sin day of May, A. B. ISoi. U. KPCRLOOC. rmfwt.1 Clfil Can CuVy, NaatV. Proposals For Army Sup plies USADQUAKTEaa OkPBTMSHT OF TIE Pl.Tr ) CHisr QcaaTBaMas-raa's 'inn,' ( OstHi, MBRAtiA, May 2d. lttti ) Sealed btd.4, in duplicate Wit guarantee aiir .td l two repon.ib:e parties not bidders, will be rrc-iy d attr.isomc; until ten o'clock . in., on Mjudir. May 101b, 1409, for the dsliTe.'y of 674 Cords of Wood ; Dug Tons f Coal ; 109 Tons of Bay; At Fort Kearney, Nsbraska. Bids are invited io hay In ata;k or In lals. Drainage poles and salt will be required for atacked hay. The locality from which coul will be furoLti must be slated. Tbe de.irery cf snnnlies to cotutneiiee aooa Ilia perf'-cting of the contract, and the one fifth of the whole quantity to be delivered each uiuulb until the delivery is completed. Full conditions will be made known and blank bids furnished on application at this office. Bids from contractors and biddera who have here tofore failed to comply with ttieir agreements will not De conMd-'rea The richt to reject any or all b.rts It reserved. By.orderof Bvt. Maj. tiea. Aju'. AIM. MTCRS. Bvt. BrlK flen'l. tluiayS Chf. T. II. J. STKEIGHT, P BALES IN FRUIT, '.CONFECTION E R I K S, TOYS. NOTIONS, Books, Statloiiery. &c . Ac- soda. LEMONADE, AND ICE CREAM, 210 BUI STRIKf1, PLATTSMOUTH, . HUB. Al?0 We would Invite the attention of buyers to our full and complete atock of Airee4, tiidUUry and Oullar, which we are selling rbeup far eah. Work made to order, and repairing done on abort notice. lT Saia, room in SI story, over Store.' Th highest cash p ice paid ler HIDES ASO firs. i. a u. i. a. Plattsmouth, April 22 tf. NOTICE Is hereby given thai at the election brldcatta 2 4th nay of April, a. D. I8C , at Ihe Court House la tbe city of Plattsmouth, in Cass county, and its ta of Nebraska, for tbe purpose of submitting to the leg-Hi voters of said city the proposition to luo tha bonda of said city of Plattsmouth, to the BurliDRton & Mi- sou- i R.ver Railroad Company to tbe amount of Filly Thousand Dollars to be une used for tha purposes aud uHn such conditions ai" aii-l furth la the tlectlou Kotire. lusued by order cf the City Council of sain city of l'lattntoouth by F, M. Ijr rinitton, City Recorder, on the litUb dsy of MsrcU, a. D. ldba. which said Flection Notice was duly pub-linhe-1 in accordance with law in ltiMmiu Hkbald, a newaaperof general circulation, printed in eaia city, and ouu'y of Css. Nebraska, and was in form and word aa follows, to wit: NoTlca. Is hereby (riven th a an Klin tlon will te held at the usual place ol holding elections iu the city of Plattsmouth. Cue county, Nobrttka, on Satur day, the 21th day of April, 169. for the pur po,e of ubn tiling to tbe leKl voters of -aid c ty the proposition to i-u-ue the Hncl of said city to tbe nurlincton A MUnourl River Railroad C mpany to the amount of Fifty I'bouaand Hollars, to be used in the cnsti uction ot a Railroad, io te built ty said Burlin(toU Av ali-aourl River Railroad' Company .troin Plattsmouth city through Cans coun ty westward, upon condition that tba jpota, Ware house, Tnrntables, aid Machine Shops of said Rail road shall be located and built within the corporate limits of tbe city of Platuwotiih Said bonds to be iasued, a, follows : 40 per rent. ! be issued on the completion of ten miles of raid Hall road from said city, aud an additional 0 per cenl. to b Issued on tbe cou pletioti of tbe reiond ten mil's of anid Railroad, and Ibe remaining Jf-J per rnl. of said b nds to be issue-l when tbe said Hallrnad la completed to tbe weit line of Cass rouoiy. aaid Bonds to run not les than 20 nor more tlaa 30 years from tbe date of their issuance, with inter est, payable annually, nt the rate of ten per rent, per annum aid Hond and into eat to Le payable at llisotrlre I the Treai-ur r of the ciy of Piaii.-tnouih One tenth of aaid bonds to be payable in iwenty-oae veurs f. oni the d te of tiiiiau-'e. aa J o le-teinb to I p;,.rali'e eai h veur thereof ler until ttie whole amount of -aid b- nl is paid iu full. Tho 'io.(itiii ,n will also be sabn,itid to the vo ter of said eity at eai'i election to authorise aud re H'liie the City Council of .aid oily to levy 11 annu al tax to pay the interest on said b nd. and aflnr lie tx,irution of tw uty yeais from tha time of is su'iig !ai.l buud. to levy annually , until said bonds are paid.au a liiiH iiiai l.x nfll i- ut in pay oue-ienih part ol raid bond.-, and to apply tbe asms Io the I'ly.neol ih, r or 'Ibe 'I'lertion subin'tted to i'l vot-rs si sai l e'ee t o i wi 1 be "for Bonds and Tsx.Ycs ;" ' I r Uuii.'s .ml Tax. So." v hi-'h Kleclioti will be open-d at 9 o'elork In li e nun in.; aul c ntibiieopea uutii C o'cl.ica In the af ternoon of aaid day. By oniar f tha City Council tM 8".h ilsy of datcli, IS 9 F. 11. POKUIXi I ON, apnilwl. City ReCMdsr ; ihe ieu.t was t f. 11 w to alt: 'II. total oitml.i T or votes po led at -a.d Klctlju wsre on-biir,drc I U'I n nety to, of which thte were polled gor ri'il.ds and Tax, Yes," one hunaret and e't.ry eiirbt voter; aud "F. r Honda and Tax No' two v. .fa. therefore it la hereby doclarcJ l' tbeCllyC aticii f said ci'.v of Plat mi ju'.b, tnat ihe above pfn-.o. itiou to i-sn.' bonoa andio.y lax wasa-lcp rdty .he lee I voters at aai I clei-tl u. By o. d-tr of City Council of fiatt'-mmih. W iihPat . ur hand and Ike lleroroer !' rr boal f tl;ecily of l'laitsmoulli, Kebraka, tl.is 26 h iliy of April, a. 1. Irf, 1, st.'l In- aan city. u. u. uv.ai.nii. Attest , Marer. WllXIAM L Witt HeorJ.-r. i2w. D 70 13 H M 0 Q 0 3 3 0 2 tw CD CI OS m f- H X 1BJ CO fs O W H Q fel CD o c D in s a o o l -i I o o cr B a a. 3 H O 03 V h fcr o 3-P 35 S 03 m 70 O cr 3 i co era - NOTICE. Notice Is berel.p irlvea te atl parties having bnsl- neis befoie the County Commissioners Court, the nat-re of whicb will require tbe Cling of payers. that the reaaiMts pape.a must be meawjiumsi C'lt iy Clerk before the first djy of each aessian ar aid Court, to ob ain a b arlng upjo any aucl: mat ters as they may delre to bring before Ihe Court. The rapidly Increasing bumet.s or tue uonn. mate thia order or iaiH?rhtive necessity ; ma a regular order of tiuMnens may be previously arrang. ed, wh-reby the B r J n.ay more ay rt' iosltcaily and with greater celerity aispaaru im iUiac brouuh before them. By order of the Board, martSlf Clerk Cass et,Bu:y, nee. If. 3i'Cni.oi,i, Improved F.arm anil Tim ber l or snie. TV. farm ia about 20 milts west from Ds tlrmontti. 2 mi.ea wet cf Hoover's, an ika btage Road. acres has been in cu lnvalii n aloe bouse upon it, an t pUnty of stock water; it is 8. w-qr see 27, , T 12, ft H 160 sere"; and cotinedrd with it Is l.nl I and H K or of S Q.r tec 20, ,arre T and R. (timber) Oand S0-1O0 acres, maktntf and ao-l-m aetes. Also tbe N wqro! . w qr etsecTs. i " Millacountv. lost, ! eal from Plaitsaionth. enC 1 rniie from tha river- (te-vy liw , r;t eru,.- wtv'. """" ' 3 o o