GRAND OPENING
Chicao General Store.
OPERA BLOCK
THURSDAY 9. MAY 29th !
The Largest and Most Complete Stock West
of Lincoln , consisting of Staple and Fancy
Millinery , Feathers and Flowers ,
HATS , CAPS , GLOTHING ,
Carpet , Oil Cloth , Boots and Shoes. .
STAPLE AND FANCY
GROCERIES !
BEOgKEIiY ADD GLASSWARE ,
And Everything Usually Carried in a First-Class Store.
All are invited to inspect our goods and "be convinced
that they can be suited in quality and prices that have not
been heard of or seen west of any large city.
COME AND COME ALL.
Jos. MENAKD , Proprietor ,
MoGOOK NEBRASKA.
Saddles
[ OPPOSITE HOTEL OX THE HILL. ]
Manufacturer and Dealer In
SADDLES ,
HARNESS ,
BRIDLES ,
COLLARS ,
BRUSHES ,
COMBS ,
WHIPS.
Stock Saddles , Cow-Boy out
fits , and Spurs.
R. H.
NEW MEAT MARKET.
Chas. H. DUNGAN ,
DEALER IN
Fresh f Salt M
OF ALL KINDS. LTKEU OF
Ham and Breakfast Bacon.
Pure Lard of ojr own rendering. Highest cash
price paid for Hides , FIII > of all kinds , and Pelts.
One door west of t-.e City l.akery.
C. 11. DL'NC.AX. Proprietor.
A. PROBST &BRO.
PHOPrJETOHS.
WE KEEP OK HAND
BREAD. PIES & CAKES ,
GJIAIIAM BKEAD.
Cakes Made on Ordep.
Lunch lloom in connection , where
you can irct hot coffee , etc.
THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST
THE ENTERPRISE WIND HILL
Is what is known as a "solid wheel" mill and di
pcnses with all sliding shafts anil pitmans , and i\\\ \ \
segment gear , which are liable to become inuper.i
live from snow or sleet. H lias no superfluous joints ,
weights and levers , to wear and admit of lost motion
or make noise. Its multiplying Ball Governor is the
simplest , most direct and quickest in use. It is theme
mo t sensitive to Varying winds. It i.s manufacttiieil
by a company of _ long standing and experience in the
wind mill bisiue > .s with large capital invested in
special m.-.cl.inery , extensive works , and an efficient
corps ot skilled workmen. They are neat in appear
ance , nolsele.-s In operation , and an oinament to the
ground * . Parties desiring citiniatc.s and costs on mi
out tit , can ulitsin them by addressing us , giving plan
cf grounds depth of well , points of delivery , etc.
AVe manufacture lion Pumps , Iras > Cylindeis , T.-.nks
and everything connected with farm , city or railway
water supply.
SANDWICH EHTSBP2ISE CO. , Sandwich , 111.
1V.M. il. n\VIX , Agent , McCook , Xeb.
FACTS RECAEDirJQ
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It will purify and enrich the Bl OOD , rcpai < ! ' ;
the LIVER and KIDNEYS , ami HKSTOKI : TIIK
HEALTH and VIGOR of TOUTSTIn ! an ii-o-sn
isease : requiring a. certain anil ellleien T. \ ' %
specially DyspepsiaWant of Apjictitc-liHllccs.
Ion , Lack of Strength , etc. , its use Is ni < i.t' !
tvltli ininiedVaferVnir VoiTderliil results , lioiic. . .
muscles and nerves receive new force , i.nli'i ei3 !
tlie nilnd and supplies liraiu I'nwi r.
8 R FfeIEC * sullering Irom ah complaints
ILfA UM C.2 ? peculiar to their * r.wU ! < ! ml ! : i
DR. HARTER'S IRON TOKJC a stlc and - IK cdy
cure. It gives a clear and healthy complexion.
The strongest testimony to the value oi Hit.
[ AUTKit'S luox TONIC is that fre < ineiitatemMS ! |
at counterfelttnghavu only added to llii'i" 1 l:1"r
Jty of the original. If you earnestly desire ' ' .
do not experiment getlhc OlitniNAL ANIy
Send your address toTlio lr. Harter Mid C" . tv
( St-lfluls , Mo. , for our "DREAjI BOK " g
Fullof stransoand UEifallnfjrniatloa. . . f
OR. KAKTER'S IKOII TONIO is par. SALL- / : .
DRUGGISTS AND DEALEHS
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington , D. C. , June 7 , ' 84.
The failure of D. W. Micldlcton's
bank here brings to mind the fact tlmt
the earnings of three generations of
Middlcton's have collapsed with the
reckless management of this financial
and over-confiding scion. This family
has held the clerkship of the Supreme
Court of the United States from the
foundation of the Government , and held
it too when there was no restriction or
limitation upon the fee-bill , so that
every year the office was made to yield
just as much of an income as a service
able conscience might dictate. At least ,
however , the extortions became so pro
digious that Congress was obliged to
step in and regulate matters , after
which Middleton had nothing to live for ,
and died leaving the fortune that his son ,
with the aid of a Providential dispensa
tion , has suddenly gotten rid of.
The country will hail with unalloyed
satisfaction the adoption of the bill now
pending in Congress that abolishes the
fee system in the United States courts ,
and which has been a scandal upon the
administration of justice in these courts
throughout the country. Under this fee
system the marshal's office has been
turned into an engine of the most
outrageous oppression , tyranny and
injustice , because there was no limit to
the exactions that these officers might
demand uimer the present statutes. Wo
all remember what an infamous history
these officials made in the administra
tion of the general bankrupt act a few
years ago , and the same scamps who
then filched fortunes out of the insol
vent estates , by collusion with the equal
ly rapacious assignees , have been here
this winter lobbying for another bank
rupt act just like the last , and against
the abolition of the vicious fee system.
So far they have been defeated by
Congress , but no one knows here what
may yet transpire to enable them to
defeat Congress.
Another of Washington's society pets
has gone to jail ; the National Rifles , the
crack company of the Washington's
dude soldiery , is without a colonel , and
the Government exchequer is short ,
nobody knows how much , through the
speculations and peculations of Col. J.
0 : P. Burnside , Disbursing Officer of
the Post Office Department. This
Burnside was one of those self righteous
sort of chaps who avoided the ways of
the ungodly until petroleum with its
fascinating "puts" captured him and
the Government funds necessary to
keep up his out of pocket speculation.
To show how easy it is for these dis
bursing officials to get away with the
Government funds and not get caught ,
the amazing fact is brought to light that
Burnside's accounts with the Govern
ment have not been adjusted since
June 30 , 1881 , a period of three years !
How many more of these fellows may
turn up defaulters , nobody can guess
for nobody knows how their accounts
stand , and nobody seems to be invested
with thn duty of finding out.
DOM PEDKO.
FAST TIME.
" \VASHIXGTOX , June 8. The spec
ial newspaper train over the Balti
more and Ohio road , carrying the
"Washington correspondents from the
convention , left Chicago at 2:10 : p.
in. on Saturday (3:10 ( : eastern time )
and arrived here at 2 o'clock this
afternoon , while the actual running
time was but nineteen hours and
thirty minutes. The time of the spec-
5il : from Chicago to Chicago junction ,
273 miles , was six hours and thirty
minutes ; actual running time , five
hours and thirty minutes , an average
rate of upwards of fifty-two miles per
hour , an unprecedented run for the
distance. At one time fifty-seven
miles were accomplished in fifty-nine
minutes and frequently single miles
in from fifty-six to fifty-eight secomls.
The final twenty-seven miles from
13anic'sville to the Ohio river was
made in twenty-eight minutes and
six miles of the distance was run in
four minutes , or at the rate of ninety
' K
miles an hour. Four hundred and
sixty-three miles , from Chicago to
the Ohio liver , was run iu eleven
lours and twenty minutes , or the
unparalleled average for the distance j
> f fully fifty miles per hour.
IT was true to feminine nature , the
cason given by Miss Cotter , of Louis
ville , for accepting a man named Tony.
She said Terry-Cotter was so fashionable j
t would give tone to the wedding notice.
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Four prisoners have esoancu from (
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SingSingover the guardian wall. 1
THE Now York Tribune raises its
voice against the foolish and wicked
fashion of "banging" horses tails , so
prevalent among the aristocracy of a
certain order. The tail is cut short and
the horse left without any thing to switch
with except the stump. This is , in
deed , as the Tribune says , both idiotic
and cruel in fact. It spoils the appear
ance of the horse , and it deprives him
of the means of brushing flies from his
flanks. The stupid servility which
characterizes the followers of fashon
was never more clearly illustrated than
in the prevalence of this ugly and sense
less practice. Hundreds of fine horses
may now be seen in and around Central
Park every day , made to look invkward ,
ungraceful and ridiculous by this vile
docking cf their tails. In the case of
riding horses there is some consolatioji
in the fact that the absurd appearance
of the poor animal is communicated to
the rider , and that it is quite impossible
for any one to "witch the world with
noble horsemanship" while bestriding a
creature with a "banged" tail. But the
wretch who invented this detestable
fashion was no doubt equally capable of
"shingling" a woman's head ; and noth
ing worse than that can be imagined.
TIIK educational interests of Ne
braska have always received the closest
economic attention all the way through
their administration , from-thc state head
of the department to the most rural
board of directors. We believe there
is not an instance on record of the
misappropriation and loss of a dollar
of school money in the history of the
state. The permanent school fund is
large and growing , and the temporary
fund for annual distribution is sufficient
to pay almost the whole current expense
of the system. The duty of throwing
further safe-guards about the lands be
longing to the school system should not
be neglected. Xot an acre of those
lands should be sold for years to come ,
unless at a price far beyond the present
minimum , if ever at all. Land is a
safe investment , and lease money is
the safest and surest income for the
state. A sound policy in this respect
will eventually make the public schools
of the state self-supporting in almost
every district. The attention of the
people should be "drawn to this matter
before the selection of the next legisla
ture is made.
TIIK discovery of Dr. Koch and his
two assistants that the germ of the
cholera which spread through Egypt
and parts of Europe last year had its
origin in a cistern or something of the
sort , just out of Calcutta , has aroused
irrcat interest in Gcrmairy and the faith
ful investigators arc being besieged just
now to an extent which must at least
be fatiguing. Better still. Dr. Koch has
jeen given $25,000 by the government
and his assistants about $3,000 each.
There has been a good deal of heroism
in the work of these men : in fact they
took their lives in their hands , studying
under circumstances of the gravest dan
cer. The enthusiasm called forth by
O - J
their return now can well be pardoned
for this reason and for the importance
of the discovery itself. Tliis last can
hardly be magnified ; it seems to have
put in the hands of the medical world
the key to the suppression or at least the
modification of this dreadful scourge.
A KOUUTKKX-YEAK-OI.O "firl has
O
been exciting- the greatest wonder at
Frankfort. Ivy. , by lifting chairs by
the * tips of her fingers or her open
palm , notwithstanding three or four 1
i * i
able bodied men tried to hokl them
down. Putting one end of a walking
cane against the palm of her hand ,
without closing j her fuifjers over it ,
three strong men were unable to draw
it away. She dragged them all over
the stage. There is nothing' ' so very
strange about the matter , however ,
when the full truth is known. That
fourteen-year-old maiden is .Mr. Til-
ilen in
TIIK young Grants have met their
financial reverses with a splciuled spirit
Ilicy do not propose to reserve a dollar
Prom their creditors. They may never
igain rise a bewildering height in social
3r moneyed circles , but they will always
stand on the safe footing of the honest
ind industrious private citizen. There
s nothing better.
MONDAY was a bad day for Colorado
: ditors. Two had a mutual fisticuff ; one
ooked down the barrel of al t calibre
Jolt ; one assigned for the benefit of his
si-editors , and nine tclciranhcd from
* i
jlncago for hinds. Verily the apostle ?
if sweetness awl light have troublous
in the American Switzerland. ' ]
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GOOD GOODS
Tlio extension and new glass front being about completed ,
we have purchased and will next week have a full stock of
Which will with our supply of
Hats ,
Boots and Shoes Notions Etc
Caps , , , , ,
Give us as good a stock of
ereliandise
ANY IN
Our expenses are light and Ave will give
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BARGAINS. IN ALL DEPARTMENTS.
Let us quote you prices before you buy elsewhere. We
want your trade and will try hard to please , and if
honest dealing and low prices will accomplish
that end we know we will please you.
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Two Blocks West of Bank , West Dennison Street , McCoek.
FREES & HOCKNELL ,
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Lumber , Lime , Cement , Sash , Doors , Blinds ,
Hard and Soft Coal ,
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YAEDS AT STcCook , ludianola , Cambridge , Arapahoe , and Oxford.
[ 'BE
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t' > , i y > n thf maik I , b < mg H M\Ier , Stronger Built , f
ami the icfori , i morr Durable Mill. It i.s the only
aVs-oiUtj'ly safe Mill built ; and out of
housands Erected During 12
Year ? pa-t. not one has ever blown avriy : and left the Tower
standing. A record no other AIII1 ran siio-.v. Vc offer
to put up any of our POU'IXG MILLS
ON THIRTY DAYS TRIAL ,
And if they don't give sati-fcK : > n. will re. eve Mill at our
O-.TII expense. Abe Manufacturers of the Celebrated
Challenge Feed Mills Cow SU'-Her * . Iron rumps
rvitli brass Hndi.Ts , Iron Pipe , Tanks.
1'or cstini.ite- . catalogues .ind prices , apply to
G. U. XETTLETOX , 3IcC ok , Ncl ) . ,
Ag'Mit for SomUwe-ti'ni Nebraska and Northwestern Kansas.
ill ? fiFi i $ IT 1 U inSfs'in '
! & & . !
3 - . ! . " > TIIK I'LAci : rou _ z z-
! Coici Lemonade Beer Nuts
ce , Ginger , Pop , ,
CHOICE CIGARS , CANDY , ETC ,
JiLLIAlli ) am ! TOOL TABLE. CALL ami ENJOY YOURSELVES