I By F. M. KI MM ELL.
I REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Republican ul * cfoi.s ol thn coimlv i f
lied Willow aru rt inest Ml to k.muI ili'lt'olf *
from the several jirvcliiots to tiiut in coiivvn-
tlon in the town of lluitlfy. on
SATURDAY , JULY 19th , 1890 ,
at 11:00 o'clock , A. M . of sulil hiy , for Hie
purpose of placing in nun inalion candidates
for
County Attohnky ,
County Tkrasukkii ,
County Commissionkk , 1st Dis-nticr ,
County Commissionku , : > iu > Dis-nticr ,
ItEI'IlKSKNTATIVK , ( WiTII DlSTltlCT ,
and for the purpo.se of uluctini : nim * d.'li-
gates to the state convention , iiIim ltinnit |
to the congressional convention. • nttm ilfl *
gates to the senatorial convention , am ! : o
transact such other business as ni.iy jiropi-r-
ly come before the convention.
The precincts are entitled to tlm fellow ' . • .
representation , being basiil upon th vow
cast for lion. Geomo II. Hustings , itif-iileu
tial elector in 1888 , giving one IHi'gam
largeone for each 15 votesor fniction tlun ot :
Heaver , 5 lmlinnnln , 14
Jiondville , . ' 5 Lebanon , < * >
BoxElder , 5 Missouri Itid f : i
Coleman , North Valley •
Danbury , S Perry "
Driftwood , 4 Ked Willow , 8
East Valley , 8 Tyione , 8
Grant , 8 Valley Grainre n
Gerver , 4 Willow Grove ai
It is recommended that the primaries ol
the various precincts be held on Kitin.vv.
JuiY 11th , 1S90 , the polls being open from I
to fi o'clock , IM. . .J. IJyiion Jkn.vinos.
F. M. Kimmkm. , Sec. Chainn.m.
Republican Congressional Convention
Tho republican electors of the Socoml Cwi-
{ fi'esaional district ol Neliniuku are reqnesti-o
to send delegates from their tsuvurul counties
to meet in convention in tin * city of llHstiuir- .
Wednesday , July SOtli. 181)0 ) , lor the purimm * nf
placing'in nomination a ctiiidiilnte For Con
gress iroin the Second Oinjirepsionul lllstrlet
of Nebraska , and for the transaction or hiu-Ii
i other business as may come before ttie con
vention.
The several counties are entitled to repre
sentation as lollows. tieinjr based upon tin ;
vote cast for Hon. George H. Hastings presi-
I dentialelector in 1838. giving one delegate-at-
' largo to each county , and one Tor eacli 1.T0
votes and the niHjor fraction thereof :
\ Adams 14 Hitchcock 7
, ' Butler 11 .lelTersoii V.i
Clay , . .15 Kearney S
Chase Nuckolls ' >
I Dundy 5 Polk 7
Pillniore 14 Phelps !
> Franklin 7 Hert Willow II
J Frontier 8 Saline 15
I Furnas 1(1'Seward I"
I Gosper R Tlntvor V.I
1 ffinyes 4 Wedster. in
? Hamilton 13 York US
i Harlan 8 Total 2 *
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\ It is recotutnended that no proxies tie u-1
| -mittcd to the convention and that tho dele
gates present be authorized to eapt the full
wote of the delegation. H. Rostwick.
| JM. J. Abbott , Secretary. Chairman
I The anti-Laws musicians are
I gradually losing their wind.
David A. Campbell of Platts-
mouth is the supeme court repor
ter-elect.
The Democrat "is informed" '
that theregistership of the JVIcCook
land office will not be filled for the
present. Oh !
Great is the professional poli
tician's knife , but Congressman
I Laws will be renominated despite
the ensanguined blade , and the dis
gruntled place-seekers.
"It being a foregone conclu
sion , " says the disgruntled and un-
1 successful office-seeker of the In-
dianola Courier , "that Mr. Laws
• will be relegated to a back seat , this
| fall. " Oh , Ananias , Ananias.
! Congressman Laws , of the 2nd
district , has distinctly avowed that
Tie is not particularly anxious for a
re-nomination and now the papers
are conceding that he will have a
walk-over for another term. There
.are no bacilli on Laws. Tecumseh
• Chieftain.
They taxed a barber § 4.00 and
costs in Philadelphia for cutting a
man's hair on the Lord's day.
That was right. A barber who
cuts hair Sunday morning , with a
shop full of impatient customers ,
ought to be fined heavily. The old
t law-makers of Pennsj'lvania had
! some very clear ideas of right and ,
wrong.
Mr. Laws , the present incum-
"bent , announces that he will not
leave his post in congress to look !
after his renomination ; that while
Jie will serve again if the people
.so desire , he will not make a per- .
sonal canvass to secure the place. '
Senator Manderson received a ;
liandsome indorsement without
working it up himself. How '
-would it do to serve .Mr. Laws in '
the same manner ? Eairbury Gaz- '
ette.
The Tribune believes that if i
J • the Democrats of the 67th repre- ' .
i tentative district are alive to their i
party's -welfare they will nominate
John S. Hughes , the Hayes county i
I statesmen and stock-raiser , as there i
legislative candidate. John S. is ;
head and shoulders above any i
democrat in the district The rei i
publican candidate would find in :
Mr. Hughes a foe worthy of his i
5teel , indeed.
The programme of the summer
meeting of the Nebraska state
horticultural society to be held at
Crete , July 3 L and August 1 , has
been issued and the meeting will
prove more interesting than ever
to the horticulturists of the state.
Some twenty papers will be read
by tho most prominent horticul
turists of Nebraska. It is to be
hoped that the summer meeting
will be largely attended.
• It is hard to speak with patience
of the death of a woman in Oma
ha on Sunday afternoon who was
attended in child birth by a faith
curist. Not until the woman sank
with exhaustion did the family be
come enough alarmed to send for
a physician , and when he arrived
the patient was dead. This kind
of foolishness must be stopped.
What right has a faith curist to
practice medicine under the laws
of Nebraska. If these people are
not prevented from committing
murder by the statutes , the laws
cannot be amended too soon.
Journal.
The Mitchell Canal and Irri
gating company has filed articles
of incorporation with the secretary
of state , capital stock , § 100,000 ;
principal place of business at Mitch
ell , Scotts Bluff county ; incorpora
tors , John Stitts , Robert F. Neeley ,
Henry W. Haig , Perry Brazil ,
George W. Hale. The object for
which the company is organized
is to become the owner of the
Mitchell irrigating canal and to
enlarge the same. The canal com
mences in Wyoming and is sup
plied with water from the North
Platte river. Journal.
Many people are dying just now
of that newly discovered disease ,
heart-failure. Heart-failure is the
immediate cause of the death of all
who die , but what causes it to fail.
Breath-failure would be about as
intelligent an explanation of a
man's taking off as heart-failure.
When a man ceases to breathe , he
is dead , and the same result ac
companies the cessation of the
heart's action. The officials of the
Washington Board of Health re
cently refused to except a physi
cian's certificate giving "heart-fail
ure" as the cause of death on the
ground that it was not the cause ,
but the result , of the death.
The New York Evening Post
publishes a tabulated statement
concerning 109 leading American
colleges and universities. Of all
the institutions mentioned , but ten
are younger than the university of
Nebraska. In point of attendance
our university ranks twenty-eight ;
in 1890 graduates our rank is for
ty-fourth ; in volumes in librar-
the rank is fifty-eighth ; in endow
ment , thirteenth. This is on the
whole favorable to the university
of Nebraska. The attendance and
number of graduates would of
course be largely increased were
the professional schools in opera
tion. The weakest point is now
obviously the library.
"But the chief cause of the farm
er's lack of prosperity , " says an ex
change , "lies in another direction.
Low prices for his crops would not
be so bad provided he was able to
buy the goods he consumes corres
pondingly cheap. But when he
must pay out of his small income
war taxes on all or nearly all the
goods he buys he can never hope
to be prosperous. With the price
of his sugar increased 50 per cent
and that of the clothing for him
self and family and the tools and
machinery he uses in his daily oc
cupation increased in a still great-
Br ratio by a tariff maintained to <
Eoster trusts and monopolies and
pile up money to be squandered by
politicians and jobbers , he will be
sompelled to scratch a poor man's .
bead indefinitely. "
The erection of Wyoming and '
[ daho into states has provoked a '
shower of rage and abuse from the '
provincial press of the east. The
action of congress is denounced as ]
a. piece of republican partisanship ,
an outrage on populous states and
a political crime. These painful ex-
pressions furnish proof of the wide- (
spread fear in the east that its po
litical grip on the nation is a thingJ (
3f the past Too long has the west -
been the football of the eastern
states , but having reached man's -
estate , with force and ability to do
and dare , the west proposes to as
sert its power in the government ]
and grant home rule to every teri i
ritory possessing the enterprise i
and pluck which are the founda- :
fcions of states. v '
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MB. LAWS.
Representative Laws , of the
Second district , has sent word to
his constituents that he will stay
at his post of duty and will do noth
ing to secure a renomination , but
that if his people want him to serve
them longer he will do so ; and , on
the other hand , if they want some
other man in his place he will grace
fully and willingly step down and
out Laws is not particularly
charmed with a congressman's
work. He is a conscientious , hard
working , public servant , who-found
the duties of his office in a confu
sion owing to their neglect through
the long sickness of his predeces
sor. He went quietly to work and
has been doing drudgery for which
he gets little thanks , no glory and
small pay. He is not rich and can
not get any satisfaction out of in
dulging in the frivolities and fleet
ing pleasures of Washington so
ciety , even if he were built that way.
It maybe that Laws will not be re
nominated. It is pretty certain
that whoever is nominated , no bet
ter service can be expected , under
all the circumstances , than Mr.
Laws has given to his constituents.
Fremont Tribune.
The Hastings Independent says
of Congressman Lawsy'His recent
declaration of indifference as to
whether he was returned or not ,
has added to his universal respect
among the better elements of his
party , only a few of the more ma
lignant fellows making that declar-
ation an excuse for displacing him.
That his return to congress would
be a worthy and polite action on
the part of the republican party
is generally conceded , and that he
has earned a second term is equal
ly true. Hon. D. M. Nettleton ,
Hon. N. V. Harlan , Hon. George
Hastings and Colonel Webster are
all worthy to fill the place , but no
more competent and deserving
than Mr. Laws. As congressman
to fill a vacancy he has been handi
capped as few men ever were , and
yet he has done remarkably well
considering the circumstances. It
is nothing more than right or just
to return him and certainly it
would be highly prudent. "
The fact that the number of girl
graduates from high schools , nor
mal schools and academies the
country over far outnumbers the
boy graduates , is being quite free
ly commented upon by the news
papers. It is best for the coming
generations that the girls should
be graduated , if both the boys and
girls cannot be. An educated and
refined mother is almost equal to
a fortune to a family of growing
children whose father is weighted
down with professional cares , busi
ness interests or battling for his
family's bread. Boys will make
their way in the world to the ex
tent of their natural abilities , even
though they do not have the advan
tages of a high school or collegiate
education. And if they are for
tunate enough to secure an edu
cated wife , their children will reap
the benefits of all her early advan
tages. Graduate the girls by all
means. Mothers mould the men.
The temperance question agi
tates the national encampment of
the Knights of Pythias at Cleve
land and is creating much bad
blood. The California uniformed
knights brought along a carload of
the native wines of the" Pacific slope
without which a Californian rare
ly ventures from home on a long
trip. The commander of the camp
had issued a strict order against
bringing any beverage stronger
than "pop" on to the camping
grounds. The Californians had
not heard of the order until they
were rolling in the barrels of wine
to their headquarters. When the
wine was tumbled out of the camp
by the authorities the Californians
followed it and made their home
Dutside the grounds. Other de-
scendents of Damon and Pythias
are also protesting against the tee-
jotalism of the commander and a
revolt is threatened. Journal.
The agitation of a Federal elec-
aon law certainly comes at a very
nopportune time. The tendency
> f all the • states is to adopt the
Australian ballot system , and the
experiments which have already
Deen made with thes system show
; hat it assures an honest vote and .
lonest count.
Within a month two pugilists
liave died from injuries received
id the ring. Their deaths are not
a national calamity , but the cause
is an offense against the law and
against civilization. %
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