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The Herald. NO. ft. yUACiURPHT, - pDlTOR. PLATTSMOUTn. MAY 19. 1881. TnE Senate adjourned from Friday until Monday. Stanley Mathews was confirmed on the 12th by one majority. Assessors Fairfield & W'ooley tell us we have over 5000 people. The Bee has put on its new sum mer clothes and they are pretty one3, too. . Geo. W. Curtis (Civil Service He former) says the President has made a mistake. "Politics make strange bed-fellows" or rather unmake them. Just see the Bee and Senator Saunders now. We never yet accused Senator Tefft of being a gay Lothario, but some things we saw Monday excite our suspicions. The N. Y. Times not a Conkling paper does not think the President's course will harmonize the party in New York. It would be a singular thing if we shouid all live to see President Gar field more friendly to Conkling than to Blaine, and yet there might be stranger things. Fostmasteii James ruling that bogus newspapers and prize advertis ing sheets have no regular circulation, is timely and wise. It is high time newspapers proper had some protec tion through the mails. The Odd Fellows of this place have secured the services of Hon. Schuyler Colfax to -lecture here Jim 13th. His lecture, we understand, will be n partly on Odd-fellowship and partly reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln. We are among those who do not be lieve that President Garfield has in tentionally slighted Senator Conk ling. We are among those who do not believe that Senator Conkling is a hard man to get along with. Tecuni seh Chieftain. Wk call especial attention to the Temperance column this week. The article about the Temperance move ment in Georgia particularly. The Southern states contrary to all preced ent seem to be taking advance steps in the temperance movement. Curtis (in Harper's) is quite right in saying that the contest is purely personal and not one of principle, and "therefore does not appeal on either side to the sympathy of republicans who see in spoils and patronage the pest of politics and the danger qf the party." Not in a bitter factional spirit, not as an enemy to one man or the other do we wish to view this party differ euce, but in a square manly Republi can fashion,, recognizing that both wings may have made mistakes in the past that may yet be healed in the fu ture. But a short continuance of this party strife ruins us all. Judge Hashberger left at the Sun office Monday a collection of va rious stones eat'hered up along the slough the day before nearly all be ing petrified wood ana uor.es, wasueu out by the Second Flood. Among the number is a piece of a jaw bone, and from its excellent state of preserva tion and'the evident signs of long and constant use, it is supposed to be that of a woman. S. Sun. Samuel B. Jones has been ap pointed Gen'l Ticket and Passenger Agent of the U. P. We have known him for many years, have slept in the same cabin, on the same puncheons, and drank from the same calabash and cove oyster can in the years gone by, and most heartily rejoice in his good fortune, and hope it may be only a precursor of the good things in store for him. The Omaha Republican says: It is plain that the president pro voked a needless i3sue, with slight oc casion, be as absolute as it may his absolute right to "be the president." It is a grand thing "to have a giant's strength,"but it is not a necessary proof of greatness to "use it like a giant." Had President Garfield permitted Collector Merritt to remain in the office to which every principle of wholesome civil service reform accred ited and entitled him for the unexpired portion of his term, and had he found for Judge Robertson a place of high responsibility and honor elsewhere, his right and title to "be president" weald have still been recoguized and indisputable, and there would have been no one to question his greatness. Repualieax papers should be the very urst to shew up fraud and cor ruption in their own ranks and no pa per is true to it3 party which does not expose theft and corruption in the or ganization it pretends to serve, and the paper that is so wedded to its par ty as to be unable to see and expose trickery and jobbery does more harm than good. . When Gen. MacVeagh look his seat in President Garfield's cabinet he was the unpopular member of that body, but since the prosecu tion of the Star Route thieves, the people begin to recognize in him a re publican who can prosecute a public thief no matter whether he may be a republican or democrat. This plan of hushing up the thefts of republican officials is not what is desired by the rank and file of the party. Lincoln Globe. Ws wish some unpopular MacVeigh would take hold of the politics of this state, there is great room to earn a nams and fame. Women Never Think. If the crabbed old bachelor who ut tered this sentiment could but witness the intense thought, deep study and thorough investigation ot women in determining the best medicines to keep their families well, and would note their sagacity and wisdom in se lecting Hop Bitters as the best med icine, and demonstrating it by keeP ing their families in perpetual health, at a mere" nominal expense, he would be forced to acknowledge that" such sentiments are baseless and false. GREATEST NK.WS YET. Something .that Sever Hap pened 15 e fore. TWO V. S. Si: VtTORS RESIG.V. The Robertson-Conkling Entente re sults in the Resignation of Senators Conkling and Piatt of New Fork. Special Dispatch to the Bee. Washington, May 16, 4 p. m. The absence of Senator Conkling from the meeting of the committee on ju diciary, this morning was the first in timation that there was any trouble brewing, but there was no time for coniecture before the announcement of his resignation was made. This coup d'etat i3 said now to be what was presaged in the Senator's famous speech, reported in dispatches to the Bee, in the caucus a few days ago. It is also believed a "stalwart" method' of expressing disgust at the policy of the president in ignoring the senator from any state in filling the most im portant offices in his state. This ac tion leaves the democrats in the ma jority in the senate, but it is expected no advantage will be taken of that circumstance. The senate is now in executive session, hence no expression of official opinion can be obtained. A BOMB SHELL BURST in the senate soon after it was called to order in the shape of the resigna tion of Senators Roscoe Conkling and Thos. C Piatt, of New York. The communications were in the usual form and were addressed to Vice Pres ident Arthur and announced that the resignations had been forwarded the governor of the state of New York, find requested that the announcement of the fact be formally made to the senate. The announcement was re ceived by the senators present with genuine surprise, but the senate im mediately proceeded to the transac tion of routine business, and at 12:25 o'clock went into executive session. The following was the brief an nouncement of the senator: Washington, D. C. May 15. Sir: Will you announce to the senate that my resignation as senator of the United Stales from the state of New York, has been forwarded to the governor of that state. I have the honor to be with great respect yuur obedient servant. Roscoe Conkling. To Chester A. Arthur, Vice President. A HUM OK SURPRISE. At once there was a hum of surprise all about the chamber. The demo crats looked anxiously at each other and smiled. The republicans tried to be calm, but more than one showed intense anxiety as to what would follow. The vice-president then handed an other communication to the clerk who read a3 follows: Senate Chamber, May 10th. To the Hon. Chester A. Arthur, Vlee-Fres't. Sir: I have forwarded to the gov ernor of the state of New York my resignation as a senator of the United States from the state of New York. Will you please announce the fact to the senate. With great respect your obedient servant, Thomas C. Platt. To add to the sensation of the mo ment, it gained circulation that the vice-president had also resigned, but this was speedily squashed, that offi cial occupying the chair at the time. Neither Senators Conkling or Plat! have been seen at 'the Capitol to-day and are not now at their residences. Senator Mahone is also absent from the senate. The democrats are hailing the fiasco with delight, but not so much since it leaves them a tempor ary majority, as that it seems to pre sage an inevitable split in the opposi tion. What will be done in the senate now cannot be conjectured. " From Washington. ABUSE OK THE MAILS. Postmaster General James ha3 issued an order directing that sample copies of new publications cannot be mailed in quantities until submitted for a ruling by the department. It has come to the notice of the department that parties, not regula'ly engaged in the legitimate publication of news papers are from time to time scatter ing journals, apparently legitimate in character, and who are under contract with advertisers to circulate large quantities of the first issue of .the paper ; the advertisers having generally agreed to pay according to the circula tion which was to be proven by the postmaster at the office of mailing. These journals were frequently printed in large cities and then taken to some country postoffice, and through the in advertence of the postmaster, allowed to go through the mails at poand newspaper rates two cents per pound instead of paying third class rates, which, in the case of newspapers weighing not more than one ounce, is practically sixteen cents per pound. Ready printed outsides have been in some instances furnished gratuitously to country papers upon condition that large numbers of them in one case as many as 30,000 should be sent to giv en addresses as sample copies. CONFIRM ATIOM. Postmasters, Jerome II. Fee, Adrian Mich .; J. C. Dickey, Marshall, Kans; Malachi Kiebs receiver of public fnwn eys, lloise City, Idaho; Moses M. Bare, receiver of public moneys at Salt Lake City, Utah. The ' President sent -a message to the Senate withdrawing the nomination of Lewis Wallachs as charged 'affairs at Paraguay aud Uru guay, at his own request. NOMINATIONS. The President nominated Chas. E. Henry, of Ohio, United States marshal of the district of Columbia; Freder ick Douglas, recorder of deeds of the district of Columbia, vice Geo. T. Sheridan, resigned. THE PRESIDENT'S POLICY. Mrs. Garfield was worse Saturday, and the President's entire attention is given to her, so nothing direct can be learned from him about public mat ters. It is stated, however, that even aft er Robertson's confirmation, and re publican senators have virtually de cided to confirm him, that the Presi dent will probably not renominate the men for attorneys and marshals in New York whom he lately withdrew. If the stalwarts of New York follow Robertson's confirmation by a contin ued fight against the administration, the President will nominate men from the anti-stalwart wing, but if the stal warts as a body accept the results, the President will give them the nomina tions they waut, and if they ask for the renomination of the men recently withdrawn, the President will comply. In spirit the President will be euided by the course the stalwarts will pur sue. He is anxious as ever to do just ice to both wings of the party by div ision of patronage between them, but will not put in offices men represent ing a wing which means to fight the administration. Political. The great sensation of the week has been the turning point in the pol itical dead lock at Washington. The disagreement between the Pres ident and his friends aud the Senators from New York has taken a sudden and unlooked for turn by the prompt and unequivocal resignations of the Senators from that State, Messrs. Conkling and Platt. Opinions vary as to its results, many thinking it the beginning of the dissolution of the Republican party, others looking upon the matter as only temporary, and that when the breeze blows over, things will go on as before. The Legislature f New York is in session aud it seems to be generally conceded that they will return the two senators at once to their places, which they and their friends will take as an indorsement of their course and as sufficient grounds for their op position to the nomination of Robert son for Collector of the port of New York, which nomination by the Presi dent was the immediate cause of the rupture. The democrats are, of course, jubi lant and think they see plainly their way back to power and "prestige" through the unfortunate quarrels in the Republican ranks. At this writ ing it is impossible to conjecture what the next move may be. That it is a light matter or may soon be healed up the Herald does not be lieve. There have been mistakes on all sides. The present lengthened sitting of the senate at all was a mistake, and when it found itself with the tech nical majority of one, it should have stuck to its point, if there was any principle in it, andlefused to go into executive session until the fact that a majority, however slight, or even tem porary, should and must rule. They had something to stand on then. If the public service . demanded that nominations must be made and re jected or coufirnied, when the Presi dent made his nominations, they should have been promptly con firmed or rejected; that was a duty, especially in Robertson's case. Had he been promptly eonfirmid, Mr. Conkling would nave been obliged to accept the situation; tn the other hand, had he been rejected, it is no more than has happened to other presidents, and President Garfield should frave sent in another appoint ment. The party would have stood intact there. By dilly-dallying and leading Messrs. Conkling and Platt to believe they would support them in what is called the "courtesy of the senate" they brought the whole matter before the country, and forced the people to take sides, thus widening the breach and intensifying the feeling. The threat of loss of patronage made by the President seems to have brought tnein- all to their knees and they plainly intimated to the senators from New York that they dare not brave the executive displeasure. We think. under such circumstances, these senators were jus tilled in re signing and believe the country in the end will bear them out in their action. It was the only way left to settle the matter, for should the Legislature of New York return them it will make good their words that it was not a personal matter, but one demanded by the majority of their constituents, the Republicans of New Y'ork. If the action of the Legislature is adverse they are relieved of further lesponsibility, Robertson will be con firmed, and the quarrel if it contin ues uiust be fought out in New York state and not in the Senate. Below we give some of the numer ous press comments from papers of all classes, many anti Conkling papers, that our readers may see for them selves a reflex of public opiuou. If, however, as is only too possible, the situation should prove to be such as has been described, it only adds an other proof the many already existi.ig of the lamentable demoralization of the Senate by the spoils system. It would only show that the traffic in ap pointments which has so long been carried on by Senaiois has blunted their sense of constitutional duty, and blinded them to everything but the petty interests in which they have so long been 'absorbed. It would be a log ical consequence of the mischievous notion that appointments are to be made, not for the advantage of the public service, but for the promotion of partisan, or oftener of personal, ends. For the assumption that the service is to be managed primarily for the good of the party leads inevitably to the practice of. treating it m-tinly with reference to" the wishes and de mands of those who pretend often falsely to lie tlin leaders of the partv. Tinifcs. Robertson will undoubtedly be con firmed. Garfield is now known to have a Jacksonian backbone. The government of the United States is divided int tiiree departments ex ecutive, judicial aud legislative. Gar field is the executive, and is conse quently one-third of the govern ment. Coukling belongs to the leg islative branch of the government. There are two national legislative branches. Conkling is 1-T6th part of one of said branches. Who should have the most influence? Conkling's cause is so manifestly unjust that his failure in defeating Robertson will be the beginning of Ids downfall as a statesman and politician. The coun try is to be congratulated on having a president with a strong backbone. Com. What has Stewart L. Woodford done since to justify the withdrawal of his nomination? Was he nominated in interest of the public service, or in ac- coruance wun me provisions or a con templated political bargain? Are the truly good civil-service reformers, in cluding the president, prepared to ad mit that they knew Woodford to be a bad man when he was nominated? If not. are they prepared to admit that he is a good man, and that his nomina tion is withdrawn simply, because a friend of his will not agree to support the Administration? If not, are they prepared to admit that his nomination wa3 never made in good faith ? Wash. Cor. It is a great misfortune for the party that its President should so completely mistake the feeling of the party itself that he should apparently be iguorant of the fact that the mass of those who cast Republican votes do not care a fig whether Mr. Conkling or Mr. Conkling's rivals are suited with nominations or not, and do care very much tlrat the service shall be officer ed by men of character and capacity. To thoroughly unite the Republican Party the President, so far as nomina tions are concerned, has only to select able and honest men for the principal places vacant, and enforce an impar tial standard of fitness for minor posi tions. There should be the sagacity and firmness to ignore the traders in pat ronage, andjto apply to the service the rules of appointment and promotion which have been - so successfully en forced in the Post Office. New York Times. Washington, May 9. "Y"ou ask me," said a new republican senator from a new State, "what I think of matters, particularly Garfield's coun ter blow. Viewed in the light of a prize light, it was a blow well calcu lated to win applause; but in the light of one co-ordinate hand of the Govern ment acting toward another, it is ut terly indefensible. As the act of the president, it is wholly without excuse, and gives Conkling a positive advan tage. This is either a prize fight or aot. Garfield evidently thinks it is. Conkling takes a different view. I presume I am classed as a Garfield man. I certainly am to a certain ex tent. Nor am I an enemy to Conkling. I knew him in his own State. lie is almost, if not entirely, a great man in the most perfect meaning. But, like most men, he is not always right. In this controversy, however, I think him nearer right than Garfield. The Senate cannot endorse Garfield's as sumption to 'get even with it, to ques tion the motives of senators, in fact, to conduct this controversy as a prize fight, as he is doing. Cor. N. Y Sun. opinion ofthecabixkt. "Gen. Garfield has evidently been badly advised. He lacks good coun sel. Heie is where his Cabinet is specially weak. I'm not so certain that Blaiue himself is not a wrecker in his intention's. After him there is no one in the Cabinet who lies awake nights on account of breakers ahead. If he did, he would show Garfield how to steer clear of them. Lincoln has a sound mind; there is a good deal in him, in fact, but he is not a born pol itician. Hunt is no better than a bag of meal for anything. He is presumed, however, to be a respectable gentle man, and a good enough Secretary of the Navy, as the Navy happens to be. Windom is a presidential aspirant, and a nobody in managing national politics. MacVeagh is smart enough, a chronic bolter, too cold blooded to do anything generous or patriotic, and he hates Garfield; the latter fact being the mainspring to everything with him just now. Jam s has a feeling for Conkling and some sense about what ho does; but he doesn't see far, in fact, revolves in a small compass. So, you see. Garfield hasn't any one to go to for advice." You have forgotten Secretary Kirk wood, I said." "Well, I didn't mention him; didn't have him in my mind; and why should I ? Garfield might just as. well consult a haystack. He counts one on the list; the wonder being why he was placed there at all. So, you see, Gar field has no one to help him and no one ever needed help more. He's as much a novice, in national politics as he is in the higher matters requiring executive abilities." HOW "IT WAS TAKEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE is given authoritatively as follows: The President has given the New Y'ork Senators credit for ordinary sense and discretion, but this move somewhat shook his confidence in their ju Igtnent. If the Senators concocted this plan to jinnoy the President they failed in their purpose. It gives him no trouble only so far as it bears on the fall cam paign in New York. To have that great State go into Democratic hands the first year of his administration would be deeply regretted by the Pres ident. Frem the recent performance of the New York Senators he in led to believe that they will not exert them selves to prevent this catastrophe. Senator Conkling has several times intimated that the President's course, as he called it, would he. disastrous to the party in New York, and he seems to be willing to let the experiment be tried. THE FEELING AT ALBANY-MAY HiTII. As soon as it w:i made known that the Governor intended to send the let ter of reasons for the resignations to the Legislature GREAT INTEREST WAS MANIFESTED to learn what they were. Both houses were crowded with spectators, and when the Senate adjourned, those in the chamber found their way into the Assembly Chamber. During the reading of the letter, I he spectators occupied all the standing room, and at the conclusion of the reading, the Speaker was obliged to order the floor cleared so business could be proceeded with. Conkling men are very reticent an will not Intimate what is to be dne. The anti Conklingites are in high glee The time for going into election to fill the vacancies will be fixed tomorrow. NEW YORK TRIBUNE. New York, May 16 The Tribune says: There is certainly not a states man in America, who excels our own senator in getting into qn-irrels with out eause n.n'ii out of them withaut digniiy. lie lias kept the ootm.ry in a hubbub and t lie Xeiiaie in a eondil in of nervous agitation for nearly iwo months, because an excellent eetttle uian. who wi:s opposed to a third t rni for General Grant, was nominated for Collector f the Port f New York. Yesterday's dispatches looked un favorable to the return f the N. Y. Senators. It may be t at they dn not desire to return. b-Ah ca'i afford to re tire froln politics and live in peace. We look upon the resignations as the best thing happening for the party in either case, and was the strongest move could be made. President Gar field could not back down at this time, would not be asked to do so by any friend of the Administration. The Senators from N. Y. could not be ex pected to abandon a position they claim to have taken at the wishes and will of a majority of their constitu ents. Had they remained they would have been in the same position as Schurz and Summer with Grant which would have resulted in constant antigo nisms that wouldthave divided the par ty eventally far more effectually than did the Liberal move of '72. The only possible show for future united action was in this 'course Whether they in tended it so or not this will prove a fact. It also leaves the administra tion in better shape than an open Sen ate right over the appointment would have done. "nr tmptrauet Column." KDITF.II BV TIIK WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TKM IT.RAXCK CJJIOJT. " For God. and Home, aud Native I.a.nd." Something Worth Reading. The treat question involved in the Temper ance movement, i.s exulting at the present moment more interest among the people of Hie United States than any other. It has been, during the past wlntci , under discussion before the legislatures o( nearly every state of the Union and the proposition to tubniit a prohib itory constitutional amendment to the people has received the votes of a majority ol nearly every one of litem. Where it has failed it wa.s where a tv-tiirds vote was required. The followit g article, written for the Ciiited Pres byterian, by President Haygood, of Emory College, Georgia, in H valuable contribution to the Uifcussion ot the subject, and cannot fail to be read with general interest :J No county in Georgia had more still houses and bar-rooms to the num ber of inhabitants than Carroll twenty years ago. Drinking places ere not only to be fouud in the little towns, but also at the cross-roads and country places throughout the coun ty. No more . unfavorable place for the success of prohibition could have been selected than this county. It was settled by a class of citizens who regarded plenty of coin whisky and peach brandy essential to good living. Liquor was sold without scruple and drank without stint. Many of the people spent all their means, beyond a bare living, for strong drink. Educa tion and churches were neglected. Ignorance and vice prevailed to such an alarming extent that the very name of the county became a by-word and reproach in the state. It was called the "free state of Carroll". The better citizens going from the county were ashamed to acknowledge where they were from. The county of Car roll was synouymous with still-houses, chicken-fighting, horse-swapping, pony clubs, one-ox carts, poverty, piney woods and ignorance. The first move toward prohibition in this county was made at Bowdon. In the very act by which the town wag incorporated was a clause pro hibiting the sale of whisky within so many miles of the place, lu lb'titf. Dr. W. W. Fitts moved to Carrollton, the county seat, and began advocating the abolishing of the whisky traffic law. lie stood we.l-uigh alone t,r several years. With an euergy that never tired, and a determination that never faltered, he worked on. lie was tolled frequently by the liquor men. but he never gave up the struggle. Other men moved into the to - n and united their influence with his. They managed the prohibition movement with great prudei.ee and tact. They did not organize for one election or one year. After an election, at which they were defeated by the liquor men, they did not abandon their hopes, but began to work for another election. By keeping organized all the time, they conserved their forces, and, though they did not succeed for sev eral years, they were all the time ed ucating public opinion. Thus they prepared to hold the field when they won it. In Carrollton the temperance men worked twelve years without success. In 1875 a bill was passed by the Legislature prohibiting the sale of liquor in the town. In spite of all opposition and abuse, the temperance men succeeded, and with results that are marvelous. 1. The trade of the town has been more than doubled. Before the liquor traffic wai abolished the trade of the town was about 200,000 a year; now it is $500,000 a year. There are thirty stores in town, aud I do not know of a single merchant among them who would not vote against the liquor traffic on purely business grounds. Some of our leading merchants were opposed to prohibition at first, because they feared that it would lujure their trade. They are unanimously in favor of it now. The $30,000 that was expended here for whisky prior to 1875, is now spent in building houses, improving, stock, draining lands and paying taxes. The farmers are neaily all out of debt. Many of the men who were spending all their money for whisky have quit drinking and are m iking a support for their families. 2. The argument that nie.i would drink anyhow does not hold good with but very fv. Perhaps there are in every town some few men who have drunk so long that they are slaves to the habit. Mich men, would send off and get whisky and drink anyhow. But we have learned that, with nearly all the people, whisky is like water melons, the supply creates the de mand. Do away with the supply, and there will be no demand, as a general thing. By prohioiling the sale of whisky in the towns of Georgia we will soon have a generation of young men who will have no desire for it whatever. i$. We have two drug stores here, but nut a particle of liquor is sold at eitl er one of them. The leading druggist here told in that he kept al choiiol in the store, but he used it only for tinctures. An attempt was made by one of the druggists to sell bitters, -but the grand jury found so many true bills against him that he promised the people of the town if they would ttsk the judge to be as merciful in his lines as possible, he would never sell another bottle of billers or drop of whisky. In a moral point of view, the results of this movement in our town have been peifectly remarkable. The so licitor of tliis judicial circuit says there is less crime in this county than in any other in this circuit. Most of the people hiive joined the church Pivdanrty is almost unknown. O.ithe tiain that comes daily into Carrojllon. no. an olliier or taiu hand on il ever swears an oath. The soberness am! quiet which prevail here, even on elec tion days and court week, strike vis itors as being wonderful. At a barbe cue last year, though there were to gether about 4,000, Col. Thomas Hard eman, who spoke on the occasion, said that he never saw a dranken man He regarded it as something almost new under the sun. A committee of good men revised the jury-box, leaving the names of those out who habitually drank whisky. The county has been electing, for the past twelve years, J)r. B. B. Julian, ordinary, who will not grant license to sell liquor any where iu the county, for love or threats or money. He has done a grand work for the county, and so could every ordinary, if he would. Mr. Moody, in one of his "Talks" says: "I think also that it is best for a reformed man to give up tobacco. I would let that go with whisky. It is clearly taught that these bodies are the temples for the Holy Ghost, and we ought to be careful to keep them pure. I do not think it is be coming for a son of the Most High to be using that filthy weed, and I have an idea that many a man that uses tobacco is led thereby into drinking. I think it belongs to the old nature, and would I let it go? How is it with men who have no work using tobacco? I don't see how they can afford it; put it on that ground. I do not think it keeps the body in a healthy state. I think we ought to be very careful about the bwly, because jt is so indent itied with the soul." It don't pay to hang one cit:zen be cause another citizen sells him liquor. a SLICES MST OIT SOLOMON & NATHAN We are now prepared to show at our new quarters, next to Court House, the Largest, Finest and Cheapest Stock of Notions, Millinery, Carpets, Jewelry, etc., Ever brought to Plattsmouth. Read and Remember the following Price List I ?ess Embraces nome rare i-tyles la Staple and Fancy Fabrics. wis oinr3ijJEi Handsome Summer Dress Silks Fine Black and Colored Gros G Lovely shades in Taffetas Beige Adriatic Stripes, all shades Real Mohair Melanges Cazamo Foulards. Brocaded . . . 6-4 Bordures, Elegant All Wool Cashmeres Lawns ram Suit ELEGANT li AT REDUCED Staple Goods EHep't. WE WILL. ...from 5c pr yd up. ,.. ' 4 " " " 7!i " " " " Good Prints Fine MtisIiiiM Good Tickings... Good Giii'-liams Here the Ladies will find something elegant and nice in the line of Head irear REAL IMPORTED PATTERN HATS! Ladies' Hats, nicely trimmed, from 75 cts. up. Children's Sailor Hats, from 25 cts. up. 'NOTIONS AND FANCY GOODS DEPARTMENT. Kid Gloves, full line 25c pr pair up. Ladies' Neckties 5c up. Lisle Thread Gloves 5 " Fioe Handkerchief 5 ' I-adies' Hone 5 " Good Corsets 25 " Elegant line of Swiss and American Embroideries, from 3 cts. per yard up. SOME ELEGANT STYLES IN I'oint Kii!xte L.aeM, Ie ielle Lace. Brabant JLacei, L.aiijiiedoc Lares, Venice. LurrK, Flemish Laren, ISretoune Lace, Torchon LaroM. Valenciennes Laces. ASK TO SEE THESE GOODS. Carpets and. Oil Gloilis, FINE FATTEKNS CARPETS FROM 25 CENTS TER YARD UP. Lovely patterns in CRETONNES and LAMUKE jUINS. The atovc only comprises a few of the many which we offer. Call aud judge for yourselves. Orders by mail solicited, which will receive careful and prompt attention. rti3 President Garfield hixd the un doubted right to appoint. No one questions that sind appointing as lie did we most certainly should have stood by our appointment. The Senate or any Senator lias an equal right t op pose openly, squarely such appoint ment in the Senate. The question then was one of judgment alo;ie, and there would have been n cause for bitter personal disagreements, but for bad advisers ai.d foolish friem!s on both sides, and probably no one realizes this more keenly Uian the President, nor regrets it more sincerely. The Ileiarlit of I'olly. To wait until you are down oa your bed with disease you may not get over for months, is the height of folly, when you might be easily cured dur ing the early symptoms by using Par ker's (jii)ger Tonic. It costs but a trifle, can never do any Innm, and jo sesse3 curative properties in the high est degree. We have known the pal est, sickliest looking men, women and children become the rosiest and heal thiest, from the timely use of this pure family medicine. See advertise ment in other column. Observer. 7U w Jeweler At Solomon & Nathan's clothing store hunt him up. 1 Cood Prick, for Kale as soon as lmrned. t FRED. LEHNHOFF'S BHH'K Y A i"f , W ASI-II1TGT O 2T A-VE , IMatfxntoiiUi, '. 9.f B.&M.R.R .HOUSE, JHO. EONS & SON, Proj'rs, X. W.CORXEi: MA IX AX I) SECON D STK'S, Xear B. & M. Passenger Depot. PL. 1TTS 32 r T 1 1 , X K I J U 4 S K A . Newly refitted a:.d furnished throughout. Af fording an excellent view of the 11. K Bridge, it is conveniently located, especially for the traveling public. The tables always supplied with the be-t of the season. -r a vz. Fn"F?jy In connection with the hou.-e. J.unch baskets filled at all hour. Tenm rea-or.able. ?tf MAXUKAai'liKtt OK Elm Street, near Eighth, Plattsmoulh, - Neb. ilade to order. 7t!3 Brick Yard ! Frank Hi eman, i . s .from 50 cts. per yard, up. .. 1.00 . " " 9 ..Only 35 23 2 5 Silks. nigs . . .ft om 40 . " 5 " tip. STYLES FIGURES. SHOW YOU Fine Cheviot Sliirtbijji .. CottonaOK Table Damask, all li .cn. Toweling .from ' 8'j pr yd up. .. .. . " ft " " SOLOMON & NATHAN. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. BEATTY'S. ORGANS. 17 .Step S Set Gold- en lonque reed i7 onlu 465 AiMrtmi irl F lleally, Washington, N. J. MAKE H03E BEAOTIFOL. EnavK Choice riilHertv Lowest priee. Semi flr'at;i lo'ue ami Price List. AIJKVTH WAKTKIt Address J. C. M -CURDY & CO., Philadelphia. For Rnw-aiillM. Foundries, and .Machine hhopa. 'r circular, address THKTANITECO. Ktroiidfburv, Monroe Co., fs. EMERY WHPPLS.m CRIIOiNQ MACHINES SOLD MEDAL AWARDED THE AUTHOR. A new &grr&t Mlicl W ore, warranted t h best and cheap est, iodieperiBftbl to every man, entitled "the Science ot Ijife." bound in tinet Kronen muiiin,emboeed,fullfrilt,3UO paci,oontainbantifal ateel enirraTinjfS. Ili5 prescriptions, - . illustrated sample, 6 c. : snd cal Invtituteor Ir. W li Pah. KHOW THYSELF, "a No.4BuliinchBt.BoaU. Malt Bitters 5 A Grand Combination of Blood, Drain and Nerve Food. For delicate females, nun-inc mother and tick ly children Malt P.iTTKKtt are supreme. Sold everywhere. ft4) Malt ItiflerM Co.. Roxton. Minn, HAVE YOU Anv person to be seriously 111 without a weak stoinach or Inactive liver or kidney? And when these or-ian are iu irood condition do you not find their possessor enjovim: rood health? I'arkrr'N (aiuser Tonic ahvav regulates these imp.ul ant organs., and never fail to make the Homl rich and pine, mid to strengthen even- part of the system. It ha cured hundreds of"desi)iiiiiuK invalids. Ask your neighbor about it. xtl MADAME GMSWOLD'S PATENT SKJJtT-SUPPOKTINIJ CORSETS U . li 4hk fjAW. it of to oombirw inf ctrmjort and health vrirh .!u.r.r nf fnrai tn m remarkable daraa, and ar i0Ay maormca or i the IlicbMt Award at tn tJentenniai e.xToiuoa. Wii-j, dticJ ana nDwarda W .1 " U7...J ' vuijiwnero. l nam ooraeia arw dot iu w incuuia Exclusive territory given. Agent make thiaa Perma nent and Profitable bunneaa. Send for terms to Mm. ! RIB WOLD A Co.. 923 Broadway, N. T-, or to. General We!tm Agents. J. B. Wyrant Co.. Fredonia, W.Y., i.li. Pnt.nftin. IX State Street, Chicago, IU. J. G- CHAMBERS, Manufacture." of and Dealer in zf-Hstzej .2tid heavy Also, a full li ;e of SADDLES, COLLARS, BRIDLES, WHIPS HORSE CLOTHiya, ETC., ETC. REPAIRING Done neatly and promptly at nhort notice at his HEW PLACE, Direetly opposite Post Otlice. Platt.sirtouth.Neb. None but the best of stock used ! Palace Barber Shop. J. C. BOONE, Under Frank Car-ruth's new Jewelry Store. HCT &c COLD BATHS ALWAYS F.EADY. GLEAN NEW PLACE, and ttftveiU the time to get SHAVED SHAMPOOED IIAllt-CUT. or'anytliinjr.else in the tonsorial way, t Joliii Koonc's New Shop, Comer Main and Fifth Street. I'lattHiuouth. - n .rbr!k. KNOWN v NEW BRICKYARD I am going to MAKE BRICK, this spring and want to MAKE THEM CHEAP, that people can build lUiWK HOUSES INSTEAD OK' FRAME. I shall contract and Build BRICK Houses, the com m,,' year and wculd like thoe Intending to IJnild to give nie a call before looklug elsewhere JERRY IIARTMAN. At my place ou Washington Avenue or at V. S. White's Store on Main Street, Plat tsinouth, .Nebraska. NEW FIRM. GOO DS ! ! JNO. HONS & SOS, BAKERU AND CONFECTIONERS. At O. duthiuan's old store. A FCLL MM: OK Staple and Fancy Groceries, NEW AND I KKSH. BREAD STUFFS, of every lt;srrittion. Choico and Fancy Can (lies and all kinds of Canned Goods. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS, of the best brands. CHRISTMAS TOYS, dC, d-C, in endless quantities. Fresh Bread Daily. Don't fail to Call. J. RON'S & SON'. I'ropa. NEW in mi Livery 7 bnan A, (J la STABLE, Or an Old Stalle in new hand entirely. The New Firm of PATTF.USON A: 1UX0X, open the d ST R EIGHT BARN on the Corner of 6th and Pearl Streets ith a New Livery Outfit. GOOD IIOPvSES AND CAUllIAC.ES at nil timea houses Fon sale, HOUSES ISUUOHT AXD SOLD. HOUSES KEPT HY THE DA Y Oil WEEK. Call and see PATTE11SON A DIXON Retail Licpior Dealer, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. FJ.ATTSMOUTH. NKB. Billiard Hall and Saloon on Mam Street, four door from Sixth at Neville's old laee. BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS, . LES, WINES, dC. Heinember the Xante ami 1'lare, James Grace. My MIKE SCHNELLBACHER, BLACKSMITH horse iioi:in;. AND WAGON KKPAIIKW; All kinds of FA KM IMPLEMF.XTS mended Neatly d- Promplp :() Horse, MiiletS: Ox Shoeing, In short, we'll shoe anything that h-tf lour leet, from a Zebra to a Giraffe. Corne and see us. JSTZETW SHOP n Filth S between Main and Vine Streets. UKt uerosf e corner from the NKW HKItAI V OKKICK 10V STlt EIGHT & MILIEU, Harness Manufacturers, 3ADDI.KS nit IDLES COLLARS. and all kinds of harness stock. cotiRtantly od h&rtj. Repairing of all Kinds ! NEATL Y DONE c SHORT NOTICE HEW HARNESS ! TURNED OUT IN SHORT ORFER And Satisfaction Guaranteed. tr"Kemeniber the tdace. f )iiosite llei..J Poeck's Furniture Store, on Lower .Main htreet, Platlsuiouth. Neb. 21-ly STREIQHT rf: MILLER. JOHN SHANNON'S LIVERY SALE AND FEED . . Carriages always on Hand AND HEARSE FUNERALS. O? NOTICE I want all of icy account H "tiled to date, au1 I shali do no .nore credit liiin.s-. All old accounts must lie settled u;. and no iiev.- one will be made. Chics' such accounts are ett!ed lmrtly they will be sued. I wish to do astiictlyc.-v.sh busbies ,M future JOHN HI! ANNO... I'lattsniouth. Neb. U, V. Mathews, DEALEK IN Hardware,- Catlery, Nails, Iron, Wagon Stork, Ssarm. RacTjintH STOVES and TIN-WAKE, Iron, Wood Stock, Pumps, Ammunition, FIELD d- GARDEN SEEDS, ROPE, AND ALL KINDS OF SHEET IRON WORK, Kept in Stock. .llaKI ne aiid'Itepalriiip, DONE WITH NEATNESS & DISPATCH. All Work Warranted. 44tr Every wound or Injury, even tv accident or any disease, entitles a soldier of the late war to a pension. All pension t.y the Uw of January. IT. begin hack at date of dn--liari;e or death of the -oldier. All entitled shouid apply at once Thousands who are cow drawing pen sion are entitled to an Ineieio-e. Soldier tiiid widows of the war of IM2 and .Mexican wiir ir entitled to pension. Thousandth are yet enti tled to bounty, but do not know it Feet lu all caserilo. Pay for evety description of ur claims collected. Employ an Attorney eld Iiir in Washington, who can Kite personal nt-t-iition to your business. American and For eign patents obtained on short notice Send two stamp for pension and bounty laws. Al dres W. T. Fn zciUcAi.D. V. K Claim Atent. Lock l5ox t.'a, Wacliington, i. C.