Nebraska herald. (Plattsmouth, N.T. [Neb.]) 1865-1882, August 01, 1872, Image 1
. j.i ... THE HERALD. THE HERALD. i ADTEritlsf KO BATS?. - 7 EMAIL Published every Thursday at PLATTSMOXTTH, NEBRASKA. I v Om a.aaf a. (10 line or leei) one Insertion 61.0 1 Each enbeeqavnt IntertloiS; ".. M Fro regional oirdi, not exoeediaf ix line 10 0C ViJ column pet annum.............. ..i........20.OC column, per annum. 40.00 lA column do .......................... 60.0C One column do .. 100. Of All adrertifinjc bill dne qtfrter'7iL. Transient adTertiseicenumast be paid (a a-J-f anei. 4fll-Crnr Halo udKfol Street Kfconil Story. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY. J. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. PERSEVERANCE CONQUERS." TERMS ; $2.00 a Year. 1 4 ' J. f I r r 1 Term, in Advance. 6oe copy, one year ........S200. One copy, six months . 1:00. One copy, three months ..... SO. ATTORNEYS. MAXWELL k CIIAPMAN-Attorreyi a Law and Solicitors in Chancery, 1'latU mouth, Nebraska. Office in Fitxgerald'sfilock MARQUETT. SMITTI & STARBIRD At torneys at Law. I'raotioe in all the courts of the State. Special attention given to collec tions and nattenef Proliate Office over the Post Office PlatUmouth, Neb IOXJk W HEELER Attorney at Law, Spe cial attention given to probate business nd land title cares. Office id the Masonic lilock. Main Street. I'lattamouth. Nebraska UEKSK Jk I)T PER Attorneys at Lam Office on Main ttreet. Opposite Brooks House- Special attention riven to collection of claims PHYSICIANS. "Tl R. LIVINGSTON. Physician and Sur IV. seon. tenders his professional services to the citisens of Cass county. Kesidnceeouthea8t cornerof Oak and Si.it b streets; office on Ma n treet, one door west of Lyman's Lumber Yard Platturoonth. Neb. J. W. RAWLINS, Surin-on and rhysieian I.&t a Kurcenn-in-Chief of the Arm? of the Potomac, Plattaraoutb. Nebraska. Office at O. F. Johnson'" Drug store Main street, opposite Clark h Plum men. INSURANCE. IVIIEELER ABENNKTT Real Estate and V Tax Paying; Arents, N'Uris PublicMre, and Life Insuranoe Agents, Plattsmouth, Net raska. '4tf 1)11 LLPS PAINE General losnrmice Agent Represents some of the most reliable Com pai ies in ihe United States. Office with Barnes A Pollock in Fitzreralds Block . Lian7dAwtt HOTELS. BROOKS HOUSE. . JOHN FITZGERALD Proprietor Main Street, Between 5th and Clh.St NATIONAL HOTEL- CORNER MAIN AND T1IIRD STS BREED & F ALLAN - - Proprietors. Just opened to the public, for both day and week boarders. Tables set with the beet the fnarket affords. Accomodations second to none in the city, decltidawtf TOWNLEY HOUSE. Lincoln, Neb. This IIouso has just been refitted and refur cished Haw throughout. Everything; is new and clean, and comfortable accnuiadaiion war ranted to guests. .Mr. ('. D. Roberts, former clerk ol tt is lloupe. is Ptiil witii it. tsgo of fice for all parts of the S':itc. Free Bui's. lOtf C. li. SOUTH WELL, Proprietor. MISCELLANEOUS. Jos. Schlater CSTARU8HKD lX 1861. DEALEll IN WATCnES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY SILVER AND PLATED WARE. GOLD PENS Sl'CTACLES. VIOLIN STRINGS AND Watche. Clocksand Jewelry repaired n fatly tUU WllU UlSfaWU -Removed to opposite Platte Valley Iloaf To 4dvbti3r8 All persons who contem p'ate making contracts with newspapers for the insertion of Advertisements shtald send to or a Circnlar. or inclose 25 cents for their One hundred Page Pamphlet, containing Lists of 3.W0 Newspapers and estimates, showing the cost of advertising, also many useful hints to ad vertisers, and some account of the experiences i of. wen who aro known s successful advertis ers, this nrra are proprietors ot tne American Newspaper Advertising Agency. $ark ow fl. y. and are possessed of une;ualel facilities for securing the insertion of advertisements in all ywspapers nd Periodicals at lewest rates. "TI. J.STKEIGIlTr BOOK-SELLER. Stationery, Jl'ctvs AND PAPER DEALER. Post OiHce ISuilfling. PLATTSTOUTH, neb. Septa't. d "lmband w tf. ftUCK! STONE! Twill famish parties with stone for building purposes at a reasonable price, at pay quarries or delivered on the cars at Louis ville station. The following kind of stone can be had on short notice; sills, caps, perch rock or rod sand stone Bitch a was used by the B. & 31". R, R. in the contraction of their stone work. All responsible order, promptly filled J. T. A. HOOVER. Louisville Station, Neb 8 ?tf Agents TTaTanied! For the liviest and most agreeable and in' (tractive book of the year. Buffalo Land, Bv Hon. W. E. vTebb. ef Toneka. Kana. The wealth and wildness, mysteries and marvels, of the boundless est fully and truthfully des cribed. Overflowing with wit and humor. A Complete Guide for Sportsmen and Emigrants. .rrotusely and splendidly illustrated, lmm cn My Popular, and selling beyond precedent. Send for IrHntrated circular, term, etc.. at once to the Publishers. E. HANNAFORD A Co.. 192 W est AladisoL St., Chicago, Ills. 3m Look to Your Children. The Great Soothing Remedy. 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StT'Store on Main, between 4th and 5th street.. Plattsmouth, Nebraska. dlG wlGd&wtf ltlattsmoutli, ACADEMY! Summer1 Term Commsnces July 1st. 1872. Chicago Avenue. Pl.ittbu outh Cass county Nebraska. 'rof. Adolphe'd'AUemand, Prnrietor and inacipal, mh25t THE BEST IS Tlie Cheapest. Look at the men wriding in the shade o lit r v The Harsh MarvcSter. Till be found at his old stand on Main St. whero he will be pleased to see his tor mor customers ana mends. H e has a lanre and good assortment of farm machinery sucn as tee l"he Marsh harvester, are&perthat two men 1 can cut and bind ten acres ncr dav with one man to drive, and the binders can work in the ehade. ' Milbnrnand Stud-nbaker TTairons, Tiara pion Reaper ic Mower Massillon Thrash er, ana luraio Pit thrasher, and Exrelsior Reaper aud Mower 4c, F. J. METTEER, Main Street, Plattsmouth. Xeb. L. S. Blair, TravelingxAcnt. Feb. 29 wtf. Plantation Bitters. S. T. 1860-X. This wonderful vegetable restorative is the sheet-anchor of the feeble and de bilitated. As a tonic and cordial for tlu aged and languid it has no equal among stomachic?. As a remedy for the ner vous weakness to which women are es pecially subject, it is superseding ever other stimulant. In all climates, tropi cal, temperate or frigid, it acts as a specific in every species of disorder which undermines the bodily strength and breaks down the animal spirits. Dec. 23. d&w lyr. Beautiful Women! Pagan s magnodia balm gives to the Com plexion the Frethnesaef Youth. Haoan's magnolia Balm orercomes the flushed appearance caused by heat, faticne and excitement. It makes the lady of forty appear but twenty, and so natural and perfect that no perron can detect its application. ISy its use the roughest skin is made to rival the pure radiant texture of youthful beauty. It removes redness, blotches, and pimples. It contains nothing that will injure the skin the least. Magnolia Balm is used by all fashionabl. ladies in New York, London and Paris. It costs only 75 cents per Bottle, and is sold by all Druggists and Perfumers. Dec, 6. dirw lyr Sd w. CEDAR CREEK MILLS Is in running order bow. Wanted 50000 r bushels cf Wheat. Satisfaction will be given to customers in grinding and sawing. Flour, Corn meal, and Lumber, will be told Cheap for Cash. . I T FBOM MEW TOBK, Greeley and Blair Cloaeteel. New York, July 253 p. m. Frank Blair was closeted with Mr. Greeley for a short time yesterday. Greeley closeted with Frank Blair ! 1 Humph ! That shows who'll run the next President, if it should be Greeley. Purity!! No corruption?! No nepo tism. V e rnicss not ! ! JJIair-ism. How much does Chas. Sumner en dorse II. G. ? If any man, however pure, ever walked into a comer with poor Dave Butler of this State, the daddy Herald at Omaha used to shout corruption, fraud, look out. Now give Greeley a lift, please, parent of virtue. He goeth in the closet with Frank Blair. We want a speech from Chas. Sumner in favor of H. G. How many relatives have the Blairs? What would be the difference between nepotism and Blair-ism? Idle newspaper letters will never prove that Chas. Sumner endorses Horace Greeley for President." Let's see his hand write or his mouth-mark or some thing tangible. "Twelve shares" of the Blair Tim's, passed through town on Wednesday. JJlair limes. His other name is Adams, of Tekama. How. Grant's slouched hat has both ered the rebels and his enemies all the time. How afeout wie men accommodating themselves to the calibre of the men they talk to, and Grant talking horse to men who" could talk nothing else them selves? That's good. How about Grant guarding rebel sold iers' lives, when Greeley wanted them hung? How about Grant's slouched hat not being replaced by a white one ? Good point, that. GREELEY KEPCBLICASS. You who think Greeley honest, to you calling yourselves by this time-honored title, we have a few words of warning. Have you any faith in the words of Samuel Bowles, once a good Republi can? Hear what he says: "Some cf the worst men in the country have donned white hats, and are hurrahing lustily for Greeley. The Cincinnatj Commercial (now supporting Greeley) says "it is true that some of the worst m.9n in this community, those who have lived and fattened upon public plunder, and are notorious schemers to empty the pockets of the many into the few, are Greeley" men." Boss Tweed is a Greeley man ; the j whole Tammany ring, are Greeley men. i What chance for reform have you with such men in power. A HE U.SOX A E Vi;ilSME.T. It. is talked about- the streets that Grant is a lover of power, that he wants to make "a personal Government, &c." In one of Greeley's letters, he says he will treat all who support him alike, not asking whether they have been Re publicans or Democrats, but only did they support him for the Presidency. Well," there is a step backward- Did ever any old king or tyrant make war on his enemies from any more personal mo tive. Of course that would be the only ' standard of loyalty to a government. Did you support the Red Rote of Lan canster or the White Rose of York ? was the question, and if you fell into the wrone hand?, and the answer was hostile, off went the head. "Under which king," oh, Americans! do you serve ? Mr. Greeley ! All right come up and get a blessing. Talk about personal government, after thaL Long service, adherence to principles taitntul performance of pledge', all count for naught." "Did you support Greeley ?" "Yes." That's enough. Walk into the parlor. THINK OF IT. "I stand where I have always stood," says the pirate Semnis. Yes, on the deck of a pirate craft yet, trying to rob honest, men of his State of the results of a hard won victory and sailing under false colors to do so as always. "Mr. Greeley hav ing swerved, for a time, from these sa lutary doctrines" (State Rights) "has come back to them." Look again there's the truth of what all this Gree-ley-ism means. State rights. Southern rule, or ruin; more bloodshed. This is what it means. Honest Democrats of the north are you willing to stand where Semms does? You mutton Greeley's plattform. Smoking cigars is a crime only when a President smokes, is it ? How long b nee a Democratic President smoked at tae White House ? Some years eh I Where is that man with the $1,000 to bet on Greeley carrying Nebraska. We have forty takers pestering us to hunt him up, and we await him. Send h'm in. Matilda Fletcher receives a high mead of praite from all the Omaha papers, for her speech, up there. Even the Herald Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Thursday, August 1. 1872. BOB DOOM AO A IN. We state, by particular request that Bob Doom has no surveying contract at all and never has had one. The Her ald, taking it for granted that Libera Republican and Democratic papers, and tbeir partisans on the street, could tell the truth once in their lifetime, very foolishly took it for granted that Doom had a contract as they all said he had, and remarked to that effect. Mr. Doom assures us that be has no contract aud never had this season, and requests this denial. Gen. Cunniugham also states that Bob Doom has not been doomed to sur vey any this year. We beg their pardon, but if any confounded, long-tongued. good-for-nothing Liberal or Demo crat gets this paper to make any more statements on their "say so" we shan't apologize again, that's all. General, do give one of 'em a con tract. It 11 make them feel so good, and save letter-writers' wages, yor. know. AXOTIIEU HEARSAY. Editor Herald : Dr. Miller is run ning this campaign principally upon ru mor and insinuation. The Doctor ha&heard that E. F. Gray and Newt Hays has a contract for sur veying. He has heard a silly story about Mr. Gray borrowing 7ioIf a chain to do his work with. The Doctor is facetious and skeptical about the ability of Newt. Hays as a surveyor. Now we Republicans propose to run this campaign fairly and to expose and denounce the disreputable course of the Omaha Ilerald in making this a cam paign cf calumny. Messrs. Gray and Hays have a con tract for surveying. It embraces impor tant work; Standard and Exterior lines, which Gen. Cunningham entrusted to these gentlemen on account of the expe rience of Mr. Gray, who is as well quali fied as any man in the State to undertake such work, having executed important Government Surveys, both in Minnesota and Washington territory. Mr. Hays is familiar with the system of Government Surveys, and was employed about two years in Surv. Gen.'s Office, and is in poor health from confinement to his office, and ha" taken active work to regain his strength. He is honest and worthy in every respect, and Dr. Miller is stooping very low iudeei in the course he has seen fit to adopt, by en deavoring to cat a stingma upon every man that idle gossip or vague rumor as sails. Editor Herald: Pear Sir: I see that ccr'ain parties from Plattsmouth are endeavoring by every device that subtle minds can man ufacture, to make Gen. Cunningham the innocent victim of their own disappoint ed expectations. Now, I believe fair play to be a jewel, and therefore cannot understand why an assault upon a manV reputation, accompanied with grave charges, unsupported by evidence, or even the shadow of fact, should be so vigorously prosecuted against him unless perchance, some one should have been hurt by his appointment to the position of Surveyor Gen. of Iowa and Nebraska' ince .lUr. uunningnam s resilience in our midst he has manifested a gentle manly and courteous bearing toward all, and I think charges and denunciations against his reputation, unsupported, will only affect him that utters them. To charge crimes, and prove them, are very different things; as, for instance. I might charge Gen. R. R. Livingston with taking bonuses for surveying-con tracts while he was Surveyor General, but does that prove that he did so? Now, fellow citizens, in the name of all that's honest, pure and good, let us carry on this campaign with fairness and charity for all, but "firmness, in the right," recollecting that each one of us is a part of this "glorious old union," and as such it is our duty to support it without descending to the discussion of onr own or any one's else petty griev ances. Nix. ASOLD-FASIIIOSIED LETTER FROM AX OI,I.FANIIIO!VE! MAX. Editor Herald: lam a queer old man, as you may well suppose, when I tell you I did not know my own name, until I heard it a few days since, from a respectable man at . Lincoln. He ap peared to have all his store c'othes on high-pressure bat included and I should say knows a thing or two ; at all events he knew my name. I heard him speak ing of me, as an old Clod Hopper. have an impression that when he met me last fall, and wanted office, that my name was I. W , and once I received a letter from this self same man, E;q.i up ; but then, what's in a name. I want you to call my brother clod hoppers' attention to some little matter that may be of some service to them Ask them to join the Farmers' Grange, and through it buy all their groceries and dry goods at a saving of from 10 to 20 per cent ; machinery at a saving of from 20 to 40 per cent., and sell all their grain at good prices, direct to consumers, and save all the profits of the middle men. We have now good crops, likely to get a good harvest. Let us, as sen sible men, try and get fair prices; and this we can do if we unite, join th Granges, formed in the different pre cincts, and where there is no Grange formed, form one at once, kuow all you can. Get and save all you can honestly. We have plenty who are well qualified to do so. (They are not all such queer old men as I am.) I think when we fret all in working order, save and get all we can, by honest hard woik, get our interest fairly and honestly represented, the horny-handed sons of toil will be able to show the world that their heart is not so hard as their hand, and their heads, fupposed by Borne of our kid- gloved, fine dressed, stove pipe hatted gentlemen, to be empty, I think, after a time, we shall show contains some brains. I intend sending you several etters on this subject, if you will publish them. And now I suppose you want my name. Well, it'a Sam well, never mind, let me say, Yours Truly, Clod Hopper. Weeping Water, No. 11 Grange. Wolfe's Nebraska Railway Guide is oa our table. It contains an interesting and sound fund of information about the towns in the State, and gives all the railroad information possible. This is what it says of PLATTSMOCTH : Thirty miles from Omaha, fifty-five from Lincoln, and 486 trom Chicago. Ihose who recollect this place three or four years ago, will hardly recognize in the .present bustling city the dead town oi mat periuu. aub vngm ui tue name will at onoe suggest itself. The first white men to locate at this spot were Messrs. O'Neill and Martin. They built the first house on the site of the present city in 1S53. The Herald ifhce has displaced the old erection. After the organization of the territory Messrs. Wheatley Mickelwaitand Sharp, and a few others, settled here and estab lished a trading post. The freight trains for Fort Kearney and other military posts in the far West, aid the Mormon? in their exodus, made their crossings at this point. In 1554 the city was laid out. one' mile square, but recent additions have made it much arger than was originally designed. Until 18G9 there is little of interest to record, although it was before that re garded as an excellent outfitting point for gold seekers and freighters It sim- v held its crounu as a town, the linds back of it were settling up rapidly, Kivm? it a steadily growing business, and some consideration as a shipping point to St. Louis. In that year, how ever, the tiurlington ana jlisouri in inc- braka was commenced, and the Bur lington and Missouri in Iowa completed to the river, opposite Plattsmouth. this at once gave an impetus to busi- Tl 1111 1 ness. ileal estate aouDieu ana even quadrupled in value, and the commer cial prosperity of the town was insured. A railroad bridge is confidently ex pected to connect the two branches of the liurlington and Missouri at this point. A survey undertal-en by the company has estaniisnea tne loaowing lavorable tacts : Ihe distance across i onlv 1.700 feet: there is rock bottom a little below the bed or the river, extend; ine entirely across. The channel at Plattsmouth has never changed within the memory of man ; a low bridge can be built, and thus not only save expense, but avoid accidents. The limited means of transportation are already the cause of much annoy ance A thousand cars are annually hipped East on the Burlington and Missouri, loaded with grain and other produce, and as much more is sent south by river and the K. C C. 1. & St. Jo. Railroad. This trade will be increased immensely after June of this year, when Plattsmouth "will be linked to Fort Kear nev, and the vast fertile country lying along the road will be opened up for settlement and cultivated. It is conn dently expected that the St. Louis and .Nebraska J runic lane Koad will soon be built, which will give Plattrmouth a more direct communication with thebouth. Ner the city a fine bed of ko'plin has been found on the property ot J. I. A Hoover, who has leased the same to par ti"s on condition oi their establishing the manufacture of ware early in 18i2. MATII.UA FLETCHER Spoke to an intelligent and appreciative audience last night, in Fitzgerald's Hall. The lady is of fine personal appearance, dresses in good taste (so the ladies said) and is very graceful on the platform. So much for herself, and now for PIER Sl'EECH. After beinj; introduced by Dr. Black, President of the Grant and Wilson Club, she at once announced that woman s heart was mada for love," and thinking that might bo considered a strange in croduction to a political speech, stated that hers was "imbued with a love of justice. csue pronounced trrant a hero, a patriot and a statesman, and proceeded to prove it in a singularly forcible, plain and straightforward man' ner ; without any flourishes of rhetoric, with many sly touch of humor, Mrs. F. told her story how she had person ally investigated all the charges made against the President, and found them false. Thought the people would be foolish to throw away the Republican for any thing less than a party that was, at least, two or three steps in advance of the Re publican partr, and no man oould claim the Democratic party as having ad vanced any. Grant's success in war was charged to luck, accident; if 80, no other man had invented the accident of victory like Gen. Grant. Men had charged the same to Washington he had been pushed into this measure, or crowded into that ; but History had set her sea on his fame, and 60 it would be with Gen. Grant. Thought the Dresent issue was as 0 ar much a life ani death issue for govern ment as any during the war. Ihe op position- had a glorious platform, "any thing to beat Grant." The speaker touched cn the foolish ness of expecting the President to be of the fitness of applicants for office, and if we would do away with this pat fonage power, as.Gcn. Grant wanted d's to do, we would have made a great fetep in the way of reform. The slanders on Grant were "fixed a. . - up to pave tne way tor amc:uous men to march into power. Thought Horace Greeley had not learned to love the Democrats any more, but wall gratified to see them crawling at his feet for favors ; and they hated Gree- ey as bad as ever, but would awallow any pill for the present that promised success and power in the future She again spoke of the evils of pat . . , i ... ii ronage, and earnestly nopea it wouia be speedily taken out of any President's hands and divided among the people ; under their control we might hope for a purer government, and not before. Her speech was a fine effort, whether viewed from a literary or political stand point, and her earnest, effective manner, must have convinced all that she be- ieved what she said, and had thorough ly investigated her subjeet. fche was repeatedly cheered, and altogether it washe most enthusiastic meeting we Lbave held, as well as the best and' strongest speech of this season. Some people in this place would like to throw dirt on Mrs. Fletcher; and on her speech. You ean always tell how lard the shoe pinches by the squeal of the wearer. She made a good speech, every one was pleased, except a few carpers who dislike anything good or pure or virtuoua, The speech told, and that is what hurts. The lady is a novice comparatively, in public speaking, and there were faults of Rhetoric, lack of connection between the different points she desired to make, but that has noth ing to do with her facts, nor the admi rable and telling Way she ha3 cf poiuting out the folly of the crusade against Gen. Grant. Her spjech will make votes and they know it, that grits you see. As we desire the lady to succeed, we make bold to offer a little fair honest criticism ; not abuse. Mrs. P. talks too fast sometimes ; makes her sentences no, paragraphs, too long, and above all, in her speech here, she tried to cover too much ground. That ailhject rnnot bo ecchauwteJ in one night. These thir.gs though, are simply matters of habit, and practice in speaking will obviate them. The mat ter and arguments of her address are sound, well presented and true. That clinches the matter. Now wade in with some more slang. Dr. John Black has returned to town safe and sound. He says he did not see M. M. any where. We begin to doubt Morticus' story. How's what, eh ? JOKES. Have the days of joking passed away entirely? It does seem to rae that when a boy, and growing up, people said bet ter things than they do now. We are not f the kind continually looking back ward and thinking the "old days" were always the best ; but we do think in this respect the world has grown backward. We are no jokier, wittier, and the funny men have all died off. Practical joking has almost died out ; good, original stories, of a humorous cast, are a thing of the past, almost. All the wit one- sees in print is re-hashed from our fathers' books. It is curious to observe the conditions under which jokes best flourish. Cities and towns do not as a general thing lurnish them. We are too busy and too much in dead earnest about things ; our house and our folks need too many "fixings" to allow of any joking while about our day's du ties. Not so in the days of '56 and '57, when we had no fine houses to look after, no grand furniture to spoil by every ac. cident, and no store clothes to worry our hearts. In camp, by the lazy fire, on the broad prairie, while the patient oxen toil and the owner smokes, across the plains, in the tall pine woods, away from glitter, and pomp, and unrest, there we get the jokes. From . thence comes the little few we do get out of the world in in latter days. Why, just look ! even Harper has given out ; the last number has only two pages "Editor's Drawer," and as tor Plattsmouth if one or two we could name should chance to die, the rest or us might as well play we was goin' to a funeral" for the rest of our days. rniExosniPi. Mike M. is a friend of ours, we have hoped so at any rate, and when we crack ed a joke about him, or said a good thing ourselves for fun and laid it onto, him we expected to be forgiven both in this world and the next. Now in our little remarks about M. mm a . m v 11, s comin? home the her day we meant no offense, and in order to set things right we now explain. Some days ago a rather pompous and important looking individual marched into our office and planting himself in chair fomenst us, put his thumbs in his vest and then delivered himself: 'Don't know me, I suppose?" "No sir, havn't that honor." "My name is Morticus, I dove-tat things for the N. Y. papers, and some thing iaup." "Better up thaa down, Mister." "But something serious is up." "Serious things always go up. Its -Onlyjokegi coroo.Ldcwp.MWJtsir owing to Number 18. "Do you know Mike M. 7" "You bet; what of him?" "Greeley's sent for him, and I've come all the way out here to inquire about Mike for fear the old man'll make a fool of hisself." 'Holy Moses 1 that's impossible, Gree ley'd never do that." "What, not make a fool of hisself? You don't know him." "No trot that, he'd never send fof Mike." "Well, he has, and what's more Gree ley's coming back with him and they're goin' to promenade Plattsmouth together and he's going to give Mike everything he's got in these parts." "Greeley don't own nothing her4, you fool." "Thinks be does and that's all the same, says he has lots cf Greeley men' here and he owns Land offices and other things in this state." "Well, what docs he want of Mike?" "Why you see the old fellow has gbt t into his head that he is bound to be elected and he is already looking around br suitable persons to fill them. He wants Mike for collector of the Port of New York." "Collector of the d rat it man, are you crazy?" "Not a bit of it, you'll see. Greeley thinks this government can't be run without the Murphies the peo ple wont stand it, now Tom has proved such an infernal rascal he dare not ap point him to anything. Somebody told him that one of the name was out here who was a simon pure, borresf. feliable, capable fellow, just the man, and lie had stacks of friends. Greeley telegraphed at once and Mike's gone on. I met him at C. B." "You're foolin, ourfolks'll never be lieve that yarn." "That's been fixed, if Greeley likes Mike's looks, he'll come back with him and they'll walk up Main street together and all the offices in this Stato will be in Mike's handi after that." "St. Patrick 1 1 1" "Fhat kind a fellow is Mike, any way. Do you think there is any chance for me?" "No, you thunderin, lop-eared New Yorker; get out, we want 'em all our selves. . uo home ana mind your own business Hurrah for Murphy 1" If we were not justified in publishing what we did the other night, after the above conversation, no man ever was and we hope to be forgiven if it isn't true. One thing sure, boys, we've all lost a good thing, and Greeley has lost Ne braska by not fullfil'ing the programme and by letting Mike come home alone. Hantwl Denoerali." Under this caption the "perhaps" pa per states that a Democrat of this town has been offered $100 a month to wotk for Grant in this county, by somebody in the Surveyor General's office. Oh! for the pen of Greeley. Oar kingdom for a pencil that writes, "You lie, you villain you lie." How quickly the fellow follows in the wake of his mas ter at Omaha, Bring your man. If you can find a democrat in this county that bears a good reputalian, and is con sidered an honest man, that will say that Gen. Cunningham, or any agent of his or any man around that office, made such an offer, with his authority, there is $150 here for you, and something more my man. Better bring your friend along, its more money than a "perhaps" paper can make in month. lou may have to divide, you know, hut we don't mind tho corruption in that. Where's the $1,000 betting man, fetch him too. We want them all. JOIIJC A. LOOA.1 AT LIXCOLV. Private advice9 say that Logan's speech was the grandest affair Nebraska ever saw, in the way of speech making. An immense concourse of people assem bled in a tent, and the enthusiasm was unbounded. Every one acknowledged that it was the biggest crowd and the biggest speech ever made here. Many men were converted and Greeley stock fell fifty per cent. It is now charged that the machine shops of the Erie Railroad Company, at Jersey City, which burned down and threw so many out of employment, and cost lives, was the work of trade union incendiaries. Such nonsense in this country as trades union ought to be put dowft. We hear of severe thunder storms from all quarters, accompanied by ha:; in many cases. Our locality has been singularly and very fortunately exempted thus far, from any serious visitation in this line. Spiked. They are about to 6tart an other Greeley paper in Omaha, because the Ilerald has so effectually spiked its own euns by its "bugle notes," that it is claimed it has no influence. The New York Tribune must have dentv of money and be well "heeled" when it can afford to pay its old long time ' and especial correspondent (?) to act as "sub." on a ono horse Greeley paper in Nebraska. A Greeley Circus went through town to day on the way to Nebraska City. That don't look well for his friends here, when even the circus men pass them by. Kit had been a Grant Circus now it could have had a fair audience ia Platts- Extra OupUtaf t Hintvotot aa by II. J. Straight, at the Pout t'ffloe. and O. ,F. John pon. North aide Main Street, between Seeoud .and Third. "telegraphic. Storm at X&braska City better from Dr. Livingston.' Erie Buildings turned.- Market Reports, &6: Beath of Ex-Post-Mast cr' General A. W. Randall.- Stanley arrives inNew York. Spotted-Tail and Band Con sent to Leave Nebraska.- Market R6'porits, &c. . Nebraska City, July 25. A violent storm of lightning, ac companied by a heavy fall of rain, pasM ed over here in a southerly direction early this morai rig. St. Petcrnburgh, July 25 This Jburntel de Sr.. Petftrsburg to-da publishes an imperial decree' dismissing Catacazy from the diplomatic service of the empire. Ine.. Journal states that the publication of the pamphlet concern"' ing Fish was entirely without the know- edge and against the will ot the imper ial government. Paris, J uly 25. Three communists convicted of parti cipating in the massacre of hostages in liue sax were shot at batory to-day. New York, Jtty 25: . . The Herald received by cable this' evening a long letter from Dr. Living ston, dated Uiiji, November, 1871 and" auuresseu 10 uamesvroraon xenuetc, ur. giving a detailed account of his wander ings and sufferings, and expressing his gratitude for the sending of Stanley to LMJU lilui. . . The Eri building fctTrjed-last even ing, l ney covered an entire acre. Via such fire has ever before been witnessed in Jersey City. New York, July 26.'" A. W. Randall, ex-Postmaster Gen eral, died this morning, aged 53. Spotted Tail and his band have in formed Commissioner Walker that they have selected a reservation on the White River and would leave Nebrcskb;- Gcv. McCook, of Colorada, told a Re publican here yesterday that the feeling in bis section is all for Grant. Ono rea son why the western people oppose Greeley is because they are freetraders.- h.x-Judge Ulark resume From the Tam many General Committee. His letter says he is dissatisfied at the conduct of reformed Tammany and the nomination' of Greeley. The World's Philadelphia letter says' the Pennsylvania State Central Commit tee have had in their possession for two weeks a letter from General Ilartranft, withdrawing from the gubernatorial can- dacy if in the judgement of the commit tee they think it wise. Stanley, correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, has arrived in this cityand dines to-morrow with Washbdhie, the Atueri4' can Minister. Salt Lake, July 25. The Republican anti-Mormon ; Con vention, at Corine, to-day nominated Geo. Geo. R, Maxwell delegate to Con gress. A son of the Mayoj of t?t city was killed yesterday by the' premature 'dis-4' charge of a pistol. THE MARKETS! NEW YORK July, 23: Money Easy at 2(2.3: Gold Pull at ; 14(oTl5 Governments btrong , CHICAGO, July 26. 1872. Cattle Choice, $6 406 70' Good, ,:.....$325(si4 25 Hoo3 Live, -........-.....$4" 2tKs4 60 Flour Very dull Wheat Weak $1 151 18 Corn Less active, 4X41Jo Bacon tmrrhaaged' Wool Quiet; If Matilda Fletcher did not show up' the folly of the charges against Grant' last night it was aever don The proprietor of a fashionable book published at Dresden and which has taken in hand the task of freeing the art of the toilette from Frnrh predomi nance, has just received the t'JV.3ing letter from the Prussian Minister iu Saxony: "You have had the kindness " to send to Prince de Bismarck three, numbers of your estimab'e journal, which1 has been created to establish national' fashions and to change them according" to the German character. His Excellen-' cy charges ine to inform you be attache a particular interest to your attempt to deliver dress and manners from the hith erto exclusive interest' -df foreigners Accept, &c." It taxes' money to run a newspaper as well as' any other business, and no' naner succeeds financial!? that carries on a dead-bead system. Any ;ntioa of the people's affairs they wish to see in' print, is worth paying- fc,- and when printed is generally as good as any other investment of the same amount, Eastf Boston Advocate. --'ar The" Philadelphia Press says :' "Dr. Livingston has been found, and in a few years the New York Ilerald wiil ttnj, out 8?p"nt!to find the Prnrvatr rnrrv.7