:' SS&-9C1 . mm 4& ? "55 csy fsr -;. r - 3t - I v- -y "Z' 3L . " i ii ..L'Sf. I-..! . . fk 'TE -S- ,? 4t -"- K. - f?3 ;cr aH a. ssnanap .pw-u- snaa an yz i ml lfep!- . k" !, s I"- I. I- . I rv im K I-55 l?9. r i.t i. Dtv . .5- iftjj . fe 71 -J2iCVii The Red Cloud Chief A.C. HOCMER - - Proprietor FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1885. Katerprlslnc Gnuwlioppera. Grasshoppers!" exclaimed an old engineer: "did I ever ce any grasshop pers? Should say I did. in 1874 I was running a locomotive ou a passen ger train out in Nebraska. One day we was comin1 east, when we run into a Bwarm of 'toppers- There wasn't a breath of air stirrin', and o they were all on the ground. There wasn t noth in' left standin' around there but the telegraph poled an' wires, an' the poles were beglnuin' to wabble. The hop pers were so mad when they tackled the wires an' found they couldn't cat 'em that Uiey gnashed their teeth and the wires was a continual streak of lire. Of course the track was covered with hoppers a foot thick, an' there wasn't 90 use trying to go ahead. We shoved iiito 'em several times with the throttle wide open, but we couldn't get more than a train length. Pretty soon I run out of water, au' we had to pull thefiro from the box. There we was, htuck, liftcen miles' from tho nearest station, with a foot o' grasshoppers on the track an' a cold engine. Eucouragin', wasn't it? Why, wo were afeard of our lives. If the 'hoppers had had to stay there twenty-four hours there wouldn ta-been anything left o' that train but tho iron work. Woodwork, upbolsterin', pas-l-engcrs everything would hava disap peared. Hut in about an hour a gentle breeze struck up, and we saw a dark cloud comin' from the rear. It was tho 'hoppers sailin' with the wind. Then those round us began to rise, an' wo couldn't see the sun. Pretty soon it was so dark we couldn't sec nothin', and we lit the headlight. All of a sud rin I discovered somethinff. What - d'ye suppose it was? Well, sir, we wa a-movin Yes, wo was a-goin' rigL was ijoin' riinit alon&rwith the g Wlin me liopper. j.uvj wus ti . pushln' the tram. As far back as wo could see there was a solid mass of 'hoppers all pu9hin' as if they were paid for it. In ten minutes we was makin' thirty miles an hour, and as our timo card called for only twenty mile we liu ished our run on time without a bit of fire in the box or a drop o' water in the biler. This sounds kind o' strange, I know, but you must remember that them grasshoppers are mighty enter prisin"fellows when they git-a-goin'." Chicago herald Train Talk. M I S Gypsy Peculiarities. Few more fantastic scenes can be conceived than a gypsy wedding. Tho place usually chosen is a sand pit. In two long rows, fronting each other, tho Attendants take their stand, leaving a path in the middle, half way down which a broomstick is held up about eighteen inches above the ground. Tho bridegroom is called, walks down the path, steps over the broomstick and waits the maiden's arrival. She, too, is called, walks down between the two rows of gypsies, lightly trips over tho stick and is then received into the arms of her husband. A few days of feast ing follow and then the wild wandering life is resumed. Children grow up in tho tent or van, and as tho wants be come greater, the gypsy matron adds another to her resources for making a livelihood. The fortunes she predicts to the farmer's blooming daughter bring many a meal to her hungry fam ily, and the elegant lady who allows her stealthily to enter the rich home re wards her with money or castoff clothoi when from the lines of her hands she is foretold a future full of- splendor. Old age comes slowly to the gypsy race; weakness, pain and suffering are stran gers among them, and tiie physician's craft is despised, as aro all the other in stitutions of the Gorjos. But when death at length outers the gypsy's tent he is borne uncolliued to his last resting )lace, deep in the forest or on the lone y heath, ifud as often as their wander ings bring the gypsies to the place where one of "our people" is laid to rest they stop and pay a short tribute to tho memory of him who sleeps beneath tho moss or heather. A Korrobborro in Australia. After dinner, which was at C p. m., we went to seo a korrobborec, whero black fellows were encamped at a short distanco from tho house. There were two tribes of these, and about 200 of thorn in all. They were painted with white and black streaks across tho face and chest, and got up in correct stylo with skins and spears and boomerangs, and by tho light of tho tires which wero kindled in a circle around they looked sufficiently hideous. The tribes dauced alternately, and tho watchwords of their songs appeared to be half English, half native A great deal of the action of the dance consisted in striking tho ground at the same moment, so as to cause an echoing thud with their feet. One of the repeated actions was to cause the muscles of the leg and thigh to quiver simultaneously from toe to stomach in a most cxtruordiuary man ner. At the endof each ligure they brought themselves up sharp with a strange, deep-toned sound, half hurrah, half grunt, "Wir r r wuh!" They would then wheel right across the in closed space in line, chattering as fast as they could, upon tho women who were sitting on the ground, and also dinging a sort of chorus of a few notes; the line would then wheel back, break tip into twos and threes, brandishing their short sticks and clubs over their beads, each man vociferating quickly to bis mate, and then all of a sudden these incoherent sounds would all coniesco together into a chorus, and tho band, again united, would causo the ground once more to vibrate to the reiterated cadence of their stamp. Prince Ed ward and Jrinee Gtorgc of Wales, iu iU Mnglitk Illustrated Magazine Cosaee Pretty Near It. Mrs. David Davis had been put to the -. ben-house to empty a pan of swill, and with three new-laid eggs in the pan was wandering about the front garden looking to see whether the peach-buds ad started yet or not, when a stranger .drove mp to the gate. "Good morning, jaadame,' ' said he, bowing politely as Jte spoke. "Mrs. Davis, 1 presume? Is jMr. Davis 'round?" Mrs. Davis thought vdeeply for a moment before replying. 'The with some hesitancy she said: Ko, sir, I think not. That is, not ex- vsotly". -But I must say he's pretty near jL"ServUe Journal m m An odd WMwmt erase is reported Si PhiladelpWa, when it k said that Ueasea so out j-f tahto knives, .baikrti, and tm pails They dfcont taw weedsfro lawns." Zu aLelMi bartks. HOME OT. M. VISSCHER, House, Sign and DecorativePainter lias returned from Kansas'ana is ?rcared to do all klnns of Painting & Decorating, . DESIGNS FOB EOBATI5r. Hal!. Churches and Private Itesidetxt. made and executed la tlie3Iost ArtiMlc Manner In OU Dibleiiieror I"aper, AH materia! lurnwiied if deaired ana all work warranted to giu atifefacUou Work solicited from all parts ui tiie ctatc Call 0:1 address W. M. VISSCHER. Red Cloud. The Search for Gold. When the discoveries wore made on what is known as the t'orastock lodo gold qunrtz mining in California begun to be neglected. The wonderful silver bonanza of Nevada threw everything else in the vr.ay of mining into the shade. Silver mining st)cks were sold at so much a foot, and the price mint ed into the tl10u.snnd.-4. There has been a quarter of a century of mining on the Comstock lode. The operations there have leen of a gigantic character. A few men became millionaires. As for the great army of operators they finally became poor. There is not a dividend faying mine to-day on that lodo. Nor las there been one for a long time. When the silver-mining interests of Ne vada fall down below the dividend-paying point and assessments all round were the order of the day, attention was turned to other mining fields. But, fiincrulnrlv nnnnrrh. there was no real revival of gold quartz mining in Cali fornia. Tiie great mineral belts of Arizona and New Mexico began to at tract attention. There were rich silver lodes there, and the impression was deepened that in Arizona, in particular, a mineral belt would be found exceed ing in richness the famed Comstock lode; Many good mines have been fouud in Arizona, and no doubt there are many more yet to be developed. IJut no discovery has been made of any thing like tho importance of the silver discovery of Nevada a quarter of a cen tury ago. A great deal of prospecting has been done in the Republic of Mex icoand many important mines have been acquired by Americans. But, while there is a possibility of a vast mining interest to be developed in Mex ico iu the interest of American miners, on the whole the mineral development has gone slow in that country. There aro many drawbacks, tho duties on sup plies havo been heavy, and the discount on silver, added to "the various taxes, has gone a long way to keep down tho prolits. Yet it is probable that one of the greatest mining fields of tho world will be within the limits of the Mexican republic. What is most worthy of ob servation to-day is the revival of inter est in gold quartz miniug in California. This has 'resulted in part from the de cline of mining interests in Nevada, tho heavy discount ou silver, and the small number of dividend-paying silver mines in all tho country usually designated as the Pacific coast. A large number of abandoned gold mines have been re habilitated of late. Tho annual pro duction of gold has fallen below twenty millions in this State, and a large part of that product was represented by the gravel mines. Slowly tho gold quartz interest has been creeping up. There are just now no well defined gold-bearing lodes carrying from $16 to 20 a ton which are begging for purchasers. The processes for extracting gold have been greatly improved; machinery has been perfected, miniug ongiucers and experts know how to get the hist possible dol lar out of tho rock, and the yield of many of these low-grade miucs has be come very satisfactory. Wheu it is once extracted there is no discount on the buiHon. Han Francisco bulletin Plants Usel by Man. It is stated that the number of plants used by man :i the present time does not exceed throe thousand. Of these about 2,500 aro cultivated in America. The varieties used for food do not ex ceed 600. Of edible fruits and seeds there are 100 classed as vegetables, 100 as roots aud bulbs, 50 varieties of grain, about 20 of which produce sugar and syrup. In addition to this perhaps 30 kinds will yield oil, aud 6 kinds wine. The number of medicine-supply plants is nearly double that of the lruit-yield-ing, amounting to 1,140, about 3A0 of which are employed in the various branches of industry. Of the latter, 76 furnish dye-stuff, 8 wax, 16 salt, and more than 40' supply food for cattle. There are no fewer than 250 kinds of poisonous plants cultivated, among which are only 66 of a narcotic sort, the remainder being classed as deadly poisons. Die art of making paper from wood Was carried on loug before man ever dreamed of it. Ou a drowsy summer's day the wasp stows away in hit hind leg all the wood libre he can gather. This he mixes with saliva and forrof into a substantial paper covering for hi nest. Estray Notice. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that the undersigned took up, on Tuesday, May 19, 1885, one fray horse four years old", stiff in front feet, swainied in one shoulder, knot left hind lee, and shod in front. Said ani mal was taken up one mile south of Sed Cloud. If the horse is not re deemed in six months from date here of he will be disposed of as the law di rects. 44-5W JoHS BAEKLEY. Attention Tochers. Notice ts hereDy circa that I wDt exaiaBie an persons Mho may desire w oter thenselTes as camthtutes for teachers of the comma schools of Webster coantv at aiy office In Red Ooad m tho third Saturday of each mouth. Examinations to commence at 9 a. in. Do not assr for special examhiaUons. C. W. Sprixokh, Count superinteadeat of paMle iastractkn. PUBLIC XOTRK N JOTICEIS IIEKKBY GIVEN THAT AJtTJ- NaaieatnUM carMrattoaia tm. Its nrteeiral place of transactor basbaesKTlMI Cto4. K unsca. Orsaaixrt for the purpose of tnuNact lag aeeaeral lusabar business, aa4 te baytBcana! selling an kinds of fsods mad aterckaadise per Ulnlne thereto, lactadiajccoal. at the tmu of He Cfcmd. with branch yarttaaa ofltaes at wd other towas a the heard of direeiers awy 4es- Kiuue. WKR capital stoeK at oae aaswea thowsajid dollars, to be pai hi as directed by the heard .of directors, within thirty days frees tHwe s wmcniHng same, aaa power to said capital stock to two haadred thousand dol lars. The busted of aaM corporation to eeav meaee on the Isr dav of JFvhruxrv. iaat A mm. tiaweaatil tfceist day f Fehrsanr. UN. The todeHteaasai or lislBHj to wMrh aaMeor?eration is at awytawe to atihiser ilSMJfshiM be oe half the stock paid in. Thebnsiaess of said MOSfMtS shall he conducted dj a hoard K seven ira AGAIN Wells Directory, NEW STORE Morhart & Fulton, HAVE ESTABLISHED A Hardware Store, at WELLS. Forthe accommodation of th people of that vicinltv. Thev are lullv prvparvd to j:he the people of Wells and vicinity Just uliat they want in tee line of Hardware, Tinware, Stoves, Iron, Nails, And In fact evcrt!dne can be found aU ur store that is usually kept iu a first-clans uo.e. We would be pleased to have ieople eall o. us when in need of hardware. Our prices vi. always he reasonable and in keeping with the demand of the times. We very respectfully solicit your trade hoping that it-will prove beneficial to both. MOICUAKT & rULTOX. Real Estate 10CC0 Acres . B. & M. RailwayLands ! WebBtoi Counts at from $5 to $10 per acre. Improved and Unimproved Farms on easy tormt. Several Well "Watered Stock Ranches at bargains. O. W. KALEY, Agent, Bed Cloud Neb SODA Best in th eWorld A book of 100 pages. The best book for an aba. adTertiser to con-. IIIGsaJt, be be expcrl '" enoed or otherwise. It contains Usui of newiiDapers and estimates ofthecostoradvertisiiiar.lbeadTertiserwbo wants to spend one dollar, finds in it the In formation he requires, while forhim who will lnrest one hnnrtmi tnnusana aouars in au vertlsinff. a scheme is Indicated which will meet his every requirement, or cam sesaass to dtto bg tiightehmmaet ta$Uy arrived at bg am rufxmdenc. It9 eduiona haro been issued. Sent, post-paid, to any address for 10 cents. Write to GEO. P. ROWELL CO, NEWSPAPER ADVERTISINU BUBRAU. (10 Spraeo SUPriatiajrllooM Sq.), Ksw Toxfc. Silverware of all kinds, at W & W's Eft Sinford S Mysrs, Contractors In Stone and Brick - Work Estimates and mater ials all furnished. BED CLOUD, NEBRASKA NMSPAPJR CALL AND GET BARGAINS AT WRIGHT i WALLACE'S i PaiT Tnot3e) wno ro goinn; to paint or Before purchasing material. Ho G. L warrants them as ropresontcd. A full lino of Drugs and Medicines, And the most complete stock of Stationery in the city. Call and see. RED CLOUD BOOMS ! JEW BUILDINGS ! - JMEW ENTERPRISES But notwithstandin thoso important im provomouts JyJORHART & KULTOJJ T1EE POPULAR " Hardwa re OF RED Have tho LARG3ST and Hardware Wilms Tlmwa f!nMwH WaWina j nmm liana Nails, Eope, Window screens, &c. the Republican Valloy. W keep only tho BEST yood3 an d soil cheap as those firms that carry an inforior stock. Got our prices before you Duy and you will savo money! LAND AGCY ! J. S. Noll, Proprietor, Red Cloud, Office With A- L, Funk, opposito tho Piatt & Froos Lumbor Co. Lands Bought In Webator county, Nebraska, rind Smith and Jowcll countios, Kcn- sae, on roasonablo commissions. 10000 Acres Wild, Improved, and Unimproved Farms for sael on easv terms. w 7 iitt, BflMMBfl panwm WViWUiHfSbiA iiltlktii flrst-class mill in ovory respect It has a relief on pump hat no Bavos the great strain on pumps. Is also agent for tho Well-known Trahern Pumps rhisis the best pump en tho market. Also sell tho Entorpriso wind mill. Seo him before you buy a mill or pump as it will moro than pay you. -Remember a guarantee gtdos with ovory mill I sell. Call on or address W. H. Howe, Cowles, Neb, aJffimMr aaaaWBTlgWamaafewaamW aaaaaVnaVB'3B9PlPSVatjSBaK09a9aaH flaaHflaGsSaBaaZ55alaBaSvSaaaa! aMBB9BSsxBBaBIScSb3SaaSCIaaal awfaraiSyiAi'irrir TffrrmBBVwS ylasaaaaaas naaaaajasBaaaajflaava aQaBaraKBaolaaBaaaaas JHwBsnswBH ! Sterling,Packard & WesternC ottage Organs Pianos, Organs, and Sewing Machines. Steinway, Weber & Paris Pianos. I wish to inform the people ot Webster and adjoining- counties that I have opened a music store on Webster Avenue, opposito Piatt He Frees Lember yard where will bo found a supply of Organs, Pianos and Sewinff machines, which win bo sold as cheap as can be bout?kt west of the -T3lg Muddy," either for cash or for easy payment. Before ouyinjr elsewhere call and see me. J S. NOLL NEW LIVREY STABLE McAvoy & Farrell, Props., At now folly prepared to fin orders will reed and stable noises oy aay or wow an rewroauw Our feedinsT facilities are crst-ciass. iou p&cron are respectfully solicit ad. alaalasasasasasasasBsaV aLasaSBaP alasasKBBat SsalanaataSBalasSalasasaL saSBaSatasasasasasaSamsaaw and Oils papor should not fail to call on GOTTIIS li keeps only first-class Goods and Merchants CLOUD, Most Comploto stock of n? wuvvwivi tfttiyiiuv ? as Cr if mi Sod m-W m-mrw iBBBi rmi iowa ewai tvi wai s was jfe AJUJf' IT Cowles. "Webster Co., Nebraska. Is solo agont lor tho county, for Hi! .1.1 a 1 1 mi 1 1 , and guaranteed to givo satisfaction other mill has, and thoreforo r lor IIvery:rfss.&e-. on short notice MARSHALL Th BaastiAd Norman Stallion UnsquaUsd. for sracaral porposw ntay as zoana&c xsxsm oara W1311S Flutt 4 Frees DEALERS IJV CGAL LUMBER ETC. Red Cloud, A H. Ki:oV Im;rtotor. BROWN'S i ILE and GRANITE WORKS Good stock and fine work is our motto and prices to suit the times. If in need o anything in our ine do not fail to call and examine our specimens. OFFICE AND YARD Lock box : 22 , The S:jid8 Rock Flouring Mills COLUMBIA & CO., Proprietors Guide Rock, Webster County, Nebraska AB3 CONSTANTLY M A.UCTFAOT UINO THB FIKSET GRADES OP Family and Patent Flour, Meal, FEED, ETC., ,i From tho very boat rnntorlalt. which thoy aro whol nt hard pari pricos. Thoy truarantoo tholr Corrospondonco solicited from HEtWCR Whore will lo found ovcrylhinx in the j;rocrv line, guch as Sugars, Teas, Coffees, Sirups, Fruits. 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