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James Abraham Garfield was born
Nov. 19, 1S3L, iu the Township of
Orange, Cuyahoga county, Ohio,
about fifteen miles from Cleveland.
His father, Abraham Garfield, came
from New York, but, like his moth
er, was of New England Btock.
James was the youngest of four
children. The father died in 1833,
leaving the family dependent upon
a email farm and the exertions of
the mother. There was nothing
about the elder Garfield to distin
guish him from the other plodding
farmers of the rather sterile Town
ship of Orange. No one could dis
cern any qualities in him, which,
transmitted to the next generation,
might help to make a statesman,
unices it was industry; but his wife,
who is still living at an advanced
age, was always fond of reading
when she could get leisure from her
hard household duties, and was a
thoroughly capable woman, of strong
will, stern principles, and more than
average force of character. Of the
children no one besides James has
made the slightest mark in the
world. The older brother is a far
mer in Michigan, and the two sis
ters arc, I believe, farmers' wives.
James had a tough time of it as a
boy. Ho toiled hard on the farm
early and late in summer, and work
ed at the carpenter's bench in win
ter. The best of it was that he liked
work. There was not a lazy hair
on his head. He had an absorbing
ambition to gel an education, and
the only road open to this end
seemed that of manual labor. Ready
money was hard to get in those
days. The Ohio canal ran not far
from where he lived, and, finding
that the boatmen got their pa' in
cash, and earned better wages than
he could make at farming or car
pentry, he hired out as a driver upon
the tow-path, and soon got up to the
dignity of holding the- helm of a
boat. Then he determined to ship
as a sailor on the lakes, but an at
tack of fever and ague interfered
with his plans. Ho was ill three
months, and when he recovered he
decided to go to a school called
Geauga academy, in an adjoining
county. His mother had saved a
small sum of money, which she gave
him, together with a few cooking
utensils and a stock of provisions.
He hired a small room and cooked
his own food to make his expenses
as light as possible He paid his
own way after that, never calling
on his mother for any more assist
ance. By working at the carpen
ter's beuch mornings and evenings
and vacation times, and teaching
country schools through the winter,
ho managed to attend the academy
duriug the spring and fall terms,
aud to 6avo a little money towards
going to college. He had excellent
health, a robust frame, and a capital
memory, and the attempt to com
bine mental and physical work,
which has broken down many far
mer boys ambitious to got an edu
cation, did not hurt him.
GARFIELD AT COLLEGE.
"When he was 23 years of age he
concluded he had got about all there
was to be had in the obscure cross
roads academy. He calculated that
he had saved about half enough
money to get through college, pro
vided he could begin, as he hoped,
with the Junior year. lie got a life
assurance policy and assigned it to
a gentleman as security for a loan
to make up the amount he lacked.
In the fall of 1854 he entered the
Junior class of Williams college,
Massachusetts, and graduated iu
185G with the metaphysical honors
of his class. I have seen a daguer
reotype of him taken about this
time. It represents a rather awk
ward youth, with a shock of light
hair standing straight up from a big
forehead, and a frank, thoughtful
faco, of a very marked German type.
There is not a drop of German blood
in the Garfield family, but this pic
ture would be taken for some Fritz
or Carl just over from the Father
land. Before ho went to college Garfield
had connected himself with the Dis
ciples, a sect having a numerous
membership in eastern and southern
Ohio, "West Virginia, and Kentucky,
where its founder, Alexander
Campbell, had traveled and preach
ed. The principal peculiarities of
the denomination are their refusal
to formulate their beliefs into a
creed, the independence of each con
gregation, the hospitality and fra
ternal feeling of the members, and
the lack of a regular ministry.
"When Garfield returned to Ohio it
was natural that he should soon
gravitate to the struggling little col
lege of the young sect at Hiram,
Portage county, near his boyhood's
home. He became professor of
Latin and Greek, and threw himself
with the energy and industry which
are leading traits of his character
into the work of building up the
institution. Before he had been two
years in bis professorship he was
appointed president of the college.
Hiram is a lonesome country village,
three miles from a railroad, built
upon a hill, overlooking twenty
miles of cheese-making country to
the southward. It contains fifty or
sixty houses clustered around the
green, in the center of which stands
the homely red-brick college struct
ure. Plain living and hjgh thinking
was the order of things at Hiram
College iu those days. The teachers
were poor, the pupils were poor,
and the institution was poor, but
there was a great deal of hard faith
ful study done, aud many ambitious
plans formed. The young president
taught, lectured and preached', aud
all the time studied as diligently as
any acolyte in the temple of knowl
edge. He frequently spoke on Sun
days in the churches of the towns in
the vicinity to create an interest in
the college. Among the Disciples
any one can preach who has a mind
to, no ordination being required.
From these Sunday discourses came
the story that Garfield at ono time
was a minister. He never consid
ered himself as such, and never had
any intention of finding a career in
the pulpit. His ambition, if he had
any outside of the school, lay iu the
direction of law and politics.
HIS MARRIAGE.
During his professorship Garfield
married Miss Lucretia Rudolph,
daughter of a farmer in the neigh
borhood, whose acquaintance he had
made while at the academy, where
she was also a pupil. She was a
quiet, thoughtful girl, of singularly
sweet and refined disposition, fond
of study and reading, possessing a
warm heart and n mind with the
capacity of steady growth. The
marriage was a love allair on both
sides and has been a thoroughly
happy one. Much of Gen. Garfield's
subsequent success iu life may be
attributed to the never-failing sym
pathy aud intellectual compauiou
shipof his wife and the stimulus of
a loving home circle. The young
couple bought a neat little cottage
fronting on the college campus and
began their wedded life poor and in
debt, but with brave hearts.
In 1859 the college president was
elected to the state senato from the
counties of Portage and Summit.
He did not resign his presidency,
because he looked upon a few
months in the legislature as an epi
sode not likely to chauge the course
of his life. But the war came to
alter his plans. Duriug the winter
of 1SC1 he was active in the passage
of measures for arming tho state
militia, and his eloquence aud ener
gy made him a conspicuous leader
of the Union part'. Early in the
summer of 18G1 he waB elected col
onel of an infantry regiment (the
Forty-second) raised in Northern
Ohio, many of the soldiers in which
had been students at Hiram. He
took the field in Eastern Kentucky,
was soon put in command of a
brigade, and by making one of the
hardest marches ever made by re
cruits, surprised and routed the
rebel forces, under Humphrey Mar
shal, at Piketown.
From Eastern Kentucky Gen.Gar
field was transferred to Louisville,
and from that place hastened to join
the army of Gen. Buell, which he
reached with his brigade in time to
participate in the second day's fight
ing at Pittsburg Landing. He took
part in the siege of Corinth and in
the operation along the Memphis
and Charleston railroad. In Janu
ary, 18G3, he was appointed chief of
staff of the array of the Cumberland,
and bore a prominent share in all
the campaigns of Middle Tennessee
in the spring and summer of that
year. His last conspicuous military
service was at the battle of Chica
mauga. For his conduct in that
battle he was appointed to a major
generalship. It is said that he wrote
all the orders given to the army that
day, aud submitted them to Gen.
Rosecrans for approval, save one.
The one he did not write was the
fatal order to Gen. "Wood, which
was bo worded as not to correctly
convey the meaning of the com
manding general, and which caused
tho destruction of the right wing of
the army.
ELECTED TO CONGRESS.
The congressional district iu which
Garfield lived .was tho ono long
made famous by Joshua It. Gid
diugs. The old anti-slavery cham
pion grew careless of tho arts of
politics towards the end of his ca
reer, and came to look upon a nom
ination and re-election as a mattor
of course. His overconfidenco was
taken advantage in 1858 by an ambi
tious lawyer named Hutchins to
carry a convention against him. Tho
friends of Giddings never forgave
Hutchins, and cast about for a means
of defeating him. The old man him
self was comfortably quartered in
his consulate at Montreal, and did
uot care to make a fight to get back
to congress. So his supporters made
use of tho popularity of Gen. Gar
field and nominated him while he
was in the field without asking his
consent. That was in 1SG2. "When
he heard of the nomination Garfield
reflected that it would be fifteen
months before the congress would
meet to which he would be elected,
and believing, as did every one else,
that the war could not possibly last
a year longer, concluded to accept.
I have often heard him express re
gret that he did not help fight the
war through, and say that he never
would have left the army to go to
congress had he foreseen that the
struggle would continue beyond the
year 1S63. He continued his mili
tary service up to the time congress
met.
On entering congress in Decem
ber, 18C3, Gen. Garfield was placed
upon the committee on military
affairs, with Scheuck and Farns
worth, who were also fresh from the
field. He took an active part in the
debates of the house, and won n.
recognition which few new members
succeed iu gaining. He was not
popular among his fel low-members
during his first term. They thought
him something of a pedant because
he sometimes showed his scholar
ship in his speeches, and they were
jealous of his prominence. His solid
attainments and able social qualities
enabled him to overcome this prej
udice during his second term, and
he became on terms of close friend
ship with the best men in both
houses. His committee service du
ring his second term was on the
ways and means, which was quite
to his liking, for it gave him an op
portunity to prosecute the studies
in finance and political economy
which he had always felt a fondness
for. He was a hard worker and a
great reader in those days, going
home with his arms full of books
from the congressional library and
sitting up late nights to read them.
It was then that he laid the founda
tions of the convictions on the sub
ject of national finance which he has
since held to firmly amid all the
storms of political agitation. He
was renominated in 18G4, without
opposition, but in I860 Mr. Hutch
ins, whom he had supplanted, made
an effort to defeat him. Hutchins
canvassed the district thoroughly,
but the convention nominated Gar
field by acclamation. Ho has had
no opposition since in his own par
ty. In 1872 tho liberals aud demo
crats united to beat him, but his
majority was larger than ever. In
1874 the greenbackers and demo
crats combined and put up a popular
soldier against him, but they made
no impression on the result. The
Ashtabula district, as it is generally
called, is the most faithful to its
representatives of any in the north.
It has had but four members in half
a century.
HIS WORK IX CONGRESS.
In the fortieth congress Gen. Gar
field was chairman of the committee
on military affairs. In the forty
first he was given the chairmanship
of banking aud currency, which he
liked much better, because it was
in tho line of his financial studies.
His next promotion was to the
chairmanship of the appropriations
committee, which ho held until the
democrats came into power in the
house in 1S75: His chief work on
that committee was a steady and
judicious reduction of the expenses
of the government. In all the po
litical struggles in congress he has
borne a leading part, his clear, vig
orous and moderate style of argu
ment making him one of the most
effective debaters in either house.
"When James G. Blaine went to
the senate in 1877 the mantle of re
publican leadership in the house
was by common consent placed on
Garfield, and he has worn it ever
since. In January last Gen. Garfield
was elected to the senate to the seat
which will be vacated by Allen G.
Thurman on the 4th of March, 1881.
He received the unanimous vote of
the republican caucus, an honor
never given to any man of any par
ty in the state of Ohio. Since his
"election he has been the recipient of
many complimentary manifestations
in Washington and in Ohio.
GARFIELD AS A LEADER.
As a leader in the house he is
more cautious and less dashing than
Blaine, and his judicial turn of mind
makes him too prone to look for
two sides of a question for him to
be an efficient partisan. When the
issue fairly touches his convictions,
however, he becomes thoroughly
aroused aud strikes tremendous
blows. Blaine's tactics were to con
tinually harass tho enemy by sharp
shooting surprises and picket firing.
Garfield waits for au opportunity to
deliver a pitched battle, and his
geueralship is shown to best advan
tage when the fight is a fair ono and
waged on grounds where each par
ty think itself strongest. Then his
solid shot of argument are exceed
ingly effective. On the stump Gar
field is one of the very best orators
in the republican party. Ho has a
good voice, an air of evident sincer
ity, great clearness and vigor of
statement, and a way of knitting his
arguments together so as to make a
speech deepen its impression on the
mind of the hearer until the climax
is reached.
Of his industry aud studious hab
its a great deal might bo said, but a
siugle illustration will have to
suffice here. Once during the
busiest part of a very busy session
at Washington I found him in his
library, behind a big barricade of
books. This was no unusual sight,
but when I glanced at the volumes
I saw that they were all different
editions of Horace, or books relating
to that poet. "I find I am over
worked, and need recreation," said
the General. "Now, my theory is
that the best way to rest the mind
is not to let it be Idle, but to put it
at something quite outside of the
ordinary line of its employment.
So I am resting by learning all the
congressional library can show
about Horace and the various edi
tions and translations of his poems."
GARFIELD AT HOME.
Gen. Garfield is the possessor of
two homes, and his family migrates
twice a year. Some ten years ago,
finding how unsatisfactory fife was
in hotels and boarding-houses, he
bought a lot of ground on the corner
of Thirteenth and I streets, in Wash
ington, and, with money borrowed
of a friend, built a plain, substantial
three-story house. A wing was ex
tended afterward to make room for
the fast-growing library. The mon
ey was repaid iu time, and was
probably saved in part from what
would otherwise have gone to land
lords. The children grow up in
pleasant home surroundiugs, and
the house became a center of much
simple and cordial hospitality. Five
or six years ago the little cottage in
Hiram was sold, and for a time the
only residence the Garfields had in
this district was a summer house he
built on Little Mountain, a bold
elevation in Lake county, which
commands a view of thirty miles of
rich farming country stretched along
the shore of Lake Erie. Three years
ago he bought a farm in Mentor, in
the same county, lying on both sides
of the Lake Shore aud Michigan
Southern railroad. Here his family
spend all the time whenhe is free from
his duties in Washington. Tho farm
house is a low, old-fashioned, story -and-a-half
building, but its limited
accommodations have been supple
mented by numerous outbuildings,
one of which General Garfield uses
for office and library purposes. Tho
farm contains about 120 acres of ex
cellent land, in a high state of culti
vation, and tho congressman finds a
recreation, of which he never tires,
in directing the field work and
making improvements iu the build
ings, fences and orchards. Cleve
land is only twenty-five miles away ;
there is a postoflice and railway
station within half a mile, and the
pretty country town of Painesvillo
is but fivo miles distant. Oue of
the pleasures of summer life on the
Garfield farm is a drive of two miles
through the woods to tho lake shore
and a bath in the breakers.
(Jen. Garfield has five children
living, and has lost two, who died
in infancy. The two older boys,
Harry and James, are now at school
iu New Hampshire. Mary, or Mol
ly, as everybody rails her, is a hand
some, rosy-cheeked girl of about
twelve. The two younger boys are
named Irwin and Abram. The
general's mother is still living and
has long been a member of his fam
ily. She is an intelligent, energetic
old lady, with a clear head and a
strong will, who keeps well posted
iu tho news of the day, and is very
proud of her son's career, though
more liberal of criticism than of
praise.
Gen. Garfield's district lies in the
extreme northeastern corner of
Ohio, and now embraces the coun
ties of Ashtabula, Trumbull, Geauga,
Lake and Mahoning. His old home
county of Portage was detached
from it a year ago. With the ex
ception of the coal and iron regions
in the extreme southern part, the
district is purely a rural one, and is
inhabited by a population of pure
New Eugland ancestry. It is claim
ed that there is less illiteracy in pro
portion to the population than in
any other district in tho United
States.
In person Gen. Garfield is six
feet high, broad-shouldered, and
strongly built. He has an unusually
large head, that seems to be three
fourths forehead, light-brown hair
and beard, large light-blue eyes, a
prominent nose, and full cheeks.
He dresses plainly, is fond of broad
brimmed slouch hats and stout
boots, cats heartily, cares nothing
for luxurious living, is thoroughly
temperate in all respects save in that
of brain-work, and is devoted to
his wife and children, and is very
fond of his country home. Among
men he is genial, approachable, com
panionable, and a remarkably enter
taining talker. E. V. Smalley.
ielrnska.
Two brief articles have been pre
pared and published, and left stand
ing in the Journal, relative to
Nebraska, its advantages and pro
ducts. One more short article must
close the series for this season.
To persons who never saw a prai
rie country, to look over it is rather
an interesting sight; as a general
thing the absence of timbor gives to
it the appearance of waste and bar
renness to those who are accustomed
to live in a timbered country. Tim
ber of every kind common to this
latitude can bo cultivated on the
prairies of Nebraska. Near the wa
ter courses and river bluffs a large
quantity of trees are generally found
growing in great luxuriance.
Among the varieties found in such
localities are cottonwood, box-elder,
buckeye, maple, locust, ash, hickory,
oak, willow, poplar, sycamore, wal
nut, pine and cedar. The shrubs
include common juniper, pawpaw,
prickly ash, sumacs, red root, spin
dle tree, plum, currants and goose
berries, dogwood, butter bush, buffa
lo berry, mulborry and hazlenut.
Cedars are found on the islands of
the Platte, and along the Loup, and
on the Niobrara there is a large
quantity of pine.
But the interesting point we want
to make is tho fact that all this
variety of trees will grow and flour
ish on tho prairie, and that as much
timber as may be needed by each
farmer can be raised on his farm.
It is not a little surprising to know
that the early travelers, and, among
others, Gen. Fremont, should have
formed the opinion that the prairies
of Nebraska were a sandy desert,
unsuited for farming purposes, when
in these times it has been examined
by competent judges and pronounc
ed without any hesitation to be a
region which is to be the great grain
and stock -producing area of the
continent. Men don't make bread
of sand, and they don't, as a general
thing, settle in such localities. The
United States cover 23 degrees of
latitude ; away to the frozen north,
and down to the semi-tropic south.
With all this choice, from the be
ginning of western settlement the
freat current of movement has been
within central belt live or six de
grees in width, and nearly corres
ponding with the latitudinal length
of Illinois, which lies between 3G
degrees, 56 minutes and 42i degrees.
This is the belt in the United States
in which industry obtains the most
certain and highest- rewards. It is
temperate in climate and a man
can work up to his best notch. The
land is fruitful, and bears in great
abundance those products which are
necessaries of life, and which there
fore have a steady commercial value.
The population of Nebraska in the
beginning of 1S5G was 10,71G, and at
the close of 1875, 259,912, which was
a twcnty-five-fold increase in twen
ty year6.
Corn in Nebraska is most bounti
ful in production; with fair cultiva
tion the yield is from 50 to GO bush
els per acre. Wheat from 15 to 25
bushels per acre. Barley from 30 to
40 bushels. Rye 25 to 30 bushels.
Oats 40 to 50 bushels. A country
which is adapted to the raising of
corn ; small grains ; good for grass
and hay, and has at all times a fa
vorable climate, must be a good
location for stock - raising. Live -stock
is in great demand the civilized
over, and it is iu live stock the far
mer finds a great deal of his wealth.
It has been demonstrated among
the Nebraska farmers that mixed
farming is the most profitable, there
fore every farmer should combine
grain and stock raising. In fact
every farmer that has carried cattle
upon his farm aud handled them
with judgment for any length of
time is now enjoying the rich profits
of his investment and labor. Look
around among your neighbors and
in ever' case where mouey has been
invested in stock and handled with
care it has brought tho largest in
crease in dollars aud cents to those
who have invested. And there is
room iu Nebraska for hundreds of
thousands more farmers.
llnppy Home.
Few homes I think are what,undcr
God's blessing, they should be. It
requires but little effort to make
homo cheerful and happy. There
should be a deep and abiding love
between husband and wife, parents
and children, and a tender forbear
ance toward each other's faults.
When these exist thoy can not but
be Edens of love ; but, alas ! how
often do we see it otherwise. The
husband who has taken a solemn
vow to love and cherish, aud the
wife to love and honor, are drifting
slowly but surely apart. They do
not understand each other, though
in name they have been one for
years. They have different concep
tions of each other's duties and can
not act in concert. Instead of hav
ing a quiet, loving talk, aud trying
to draw near together, there are,
perhaps, sharp or cruel words and
the breach widens. Unhappincss
follows and each lays the burdens of
faults on the other's shoulders. O,
erring judges! do ye not know that
"He who knoweth tho thoughts and
iutents of every heart" will not thus
judge? "First cast the beam out of
thine own eye and then shalt thou
see clearly to pull the mote out of
thy brother's eye."
The heart of woman is a fragile
thing aud few men understand it.
It lives and flourishes in tho sun
light of love, but withers like the
mimosa at tho touch of an angry
frown or a cruel word. It cannot
even thrive in the atmosphere of in
difference. How many hearts are
struggling for existence in this sti
fling atmosphere. Only a few kind
words would admit the sunshine.
Au approving look or smile, a sim
ple "Thank you" for any service
done would amply repay the toil.
Husband 1 be ever courteous and
respectful to your wife; grant her
little requests, sometimes though at
your own convenience, and your
self-sacrifice will be rewarded.
Remember it is your prerogative to
throw around her the bulwark of
your love, aud it should be so deep
and strong that no careless or cruel
missile should ever enter its hal
lowed precincts; but how often do
you trample upon this right, how
often a harsh or impatient word or
tono which is remembered by you
no longer than it takes you to utter
it, is a winged shaft and strikes and
quivers in a loving heart. Hus
bands, whose wives aro not what
you think they should be, who ap
pear to be fault-finding and capri
cious, try a different plan from that
which you are now pursuing. Give
them deeds of kindness and words
of love, and see if your "desert will
not soon rejoice and blossom as the
rose." A Woman, in Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Wm.Bask while endeavoring to
pen up some hogs, the other day, set
his hay stack on fire through sparks
from his pipe. Luckily the wind
blew the fire away from his stable
and corn bin or they too, would
have been destroyed. This is
another warning to farmers not to
smoke while working around their
premises. Madison Chronicle.
Charity giveth itself rich, but
covetousness hoards itself poor.
He that pelts every barking dog
must pick a great many stones.
A fellow stopped at a hotel iu
Lcadville, and the landlord charged
him $7 a day for fivo days. "Didn't
you mako a mistake?" "No," said
tho landlord. "Yes, you did; you
thought you got all the money I had,
but you aro mistaken. I have a
whole purse full in another pocket."
It is very difficult to live in this
world and keep the tenderness, the
purity, and the trust of a little child.
Happy arc those who do ; but, if the
petrifying waters of deceit, and hate,
and malice, and ingratitude harden
some hearts, who shall wonder?
Never read letters which you may
find addressed to others.
None are so old as thoy who have
outlived enthusiasm.
Never question a servant or child
about family matters.
Never fail to give a polite answer
to a civil question.
Never present a gift saying it is of
no use to yourself.
Never fail, if a gentleman, of being
polite to ladies.
END SPRINGS,
PLATFORM SPRINGS,
WHITNEY A BREWSTER
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Platte, Butler, Bonne, Madison,. Merrick,
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other wagon built of .same material,
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county.
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PHIL. CAIi,
4S4.tr Columbus, Neb.
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CASH CAPITAL,
$50,000
DIRECTORS:
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Geo. TV. Hui.st Vice Pres't. '
Julius" A Reed.
Edward A. Gerrard.
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Attend to contesting claims before U. S.
Land oflice.
Office one Door West of IUtamond Honw,
COLUMBUS, NEB.
n. Cordis, Clerk, Speaks German.
THE NEBRASKA FARMER.
MESSRS. McBRTDE .fc DRUSE, pub
lishers of the Nebraska Farmer,
Lincoln, Neb., are making that paper a
grand good thing for our country people,
and are ably seconded by Ex-Governor
Furnas, at the head of the Horticultural
department, and Geo. 31. Hawley at the
head of the Grange department. It
ranks with any agricultural publication
in the world. A copy of the Farmer
may be seen by calling at this otllce, or
by sending stamp to the publishers.
The subscription price of the Farmer has
been reduced to $l.f0, and can be had
by calling at this office, as we are club
bing it and our paper both for one
year at the very low price of $3.00.
pens
opportunity ever ottered for those will
ing to work. You should try nothing
else until you ee for yourself what you
can do at the business we otter. N room
to explain here. You can devote all
your time or only your Bpare time to the
business, and make great pay for every
hour that vou work. Women make as
much as men. Send for special private
terms and particulars, which we mail
free. $.1 Outfit free. Don't complain ot
hard times while vou have suh a
chance. Address H.'HALLETT & CO.,
Portland 3Iaine. 48I-y
farmers:
BE OF GOOD CHEER. Let not the
low prices of your products din
courage you, but rather limit your ex
penses to your resources. You can do
so bv stopping at the new home of your
fello'w farmer, where you can And good
accommodations cheap. For hay for
team for one night and day, 23cts. A
room furnished with a cook stove and
bunks, in connection with the stable
free. Those wishing can be accommo
dated at the house of the undersigned
at the following rates: 3IeaU 25 cents;
beds 10 cents. J. B. SENECAL,
i mile east of Gerrard's Corral
$300
A. MONTH guaranteed.
$12 a day at home made by
the industrious, capital
not reouired: we will start
you. 3ren, women, hoys and sirls make
money faster at work for us than at any
thing else. The work is light and pleas
ant, and such as anyone can go right
at. Those who are wise who see this
notice will send us their addresses at
once and see for .hemselves. Costly
Outfit and terms free. Now is the time.
Those already at work are layine up
large sums of money. Address TRUE
& CO., Augusta, Maine. 431-y
K)AA WEEK in your own town,
ST fill anl n0 capital risked. You
yjVV;!in Kive the business atrial
without exnenso. The best
JOHN WIGGINS,
Wholesale und'Rctuil Dealer in
HARDWARE,
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IRON, TINWARE,
NAILS. ROPE,
Wagon Material
GLASS, PAINT, ETC., ET0.
Corner 11th and Olive Sts.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
1870.
1880.
THE
fltalunihis $joimml
Is conducted as a
FAMILY NEWSPAPER,
Devoted to the best mutual inter
ests of its readers and its publish
ers. Published at Columbus, Platte
county, the centre of the agricul
tural portion of Nebraska, it is read
by hundreds of people east whoarv
looking towards Nebraska as their
future home. Its subscribers in
Nebraska are the staunch, olid
portion of the community, as is
evidenced by the fact that the
Joukxal has never contained a
"dun" against them, and by the
other fact that
ADVERTISING
In its columns always brings its
reward. Business is business, and
those who wish to reach the solid
people of Central Nebraska will
find the columns of the Journal a
splendid medium.
JOB WORK
Of all kinds neatly and quickly
done, at fair prices. This species
of printing is nearly always want
ed in a hurry, and, knowing this
fact, we have so provided for it
that we cmi furnish envelopes, let
ter beads, bill beads, circulars,
posters, etc., etc., on very short
notice, and promptly on time as
we promise.
SUBSCRIPTION.
1 ropy per annum 2 00
' Six months 1 00
44 Three months, ... .10
Single copy sent to any address
in the' United States for 5 cts.
X. X. TUENEE & CO.,
Columbus, Nebraska.
lun thj mm mmi
$1.30 THE NORSERY $.B0
Now is the time to subscribe
for this
BEST ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE
FOR THE YOUNO.
Its success has been continued and un
exampled. Examine it ! Sukcribs for it!
Wu ffHolmribnsiglourtm'l
And THE NURSERY, both post-paid,
one year, $3.10. If you wish THE
NURSERY", send J1.50 to John L.
Sborey, 8G Bromfleld street, Boston,
Mass. If you desire both, send by
money order, J3.10 to M. K. Turner fc
Co., Columbus, Neb.
N.EW STORE!
Heem Qauiia I BrOm
(Successors to HENRY & BRO.)
AU customors of the old firm are cor
dially invited to continue their pat
ronage, the same as heretofore; to
gether with as many new custo. .
iner.s as wish to purchase
Good G-oods
For the Least Money.
ThI Space Is Itcaerretl
FOR
GREISEN BROS.,
Boots and Shoes.
SPEICE & NORTH,
Geueral Agents for the Sale of
Real Estate.
Union Paeitlc, and Midland Paoitie
R. R. Lands for sale at rrom $:i.Wt($UUM
per acre Tor cash, or on live or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. W have aNo a larxe and
choice lot of other lands, improved ami
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable term-. Also hiwiues and
residence lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate iu I'latte Countv.
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roi.t :mtr.s. ;i:h.
EAGLE MILLS,
OlJ
ox
SHELL CREEK,
Near .Matting's Bridge.
JOSEPH BUCHER, - Proprietor
HTThe mill i complete in every par
ticular for making the hot of flour." "A
nI u a r, fiilr ltHNlHCH." is the
motto. AKt-x
Dr. A. HEINTZ, .
DKALKK IN
4'V
Fine Soaps, Brushes, -
PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept on hand by
Druggists.
Physicians Prescriptions Carefully
Compounded.
One door I'ltnt 1 JuIIyv, or
Kleveutli Street
COLUMBUS.
NEBRASKA
NEBRASKA HOUSE,
S.X MARMOY, Prop'r.
Nebraska Ave., South of Depot,
COI.inilllJN, I Kit.
A new hou-e, newly furnished. Good
accommodation-. Hoard by day or
week at reu-onuMe rates.
TSTSctH a I'lmt.ClnHH Table.
Meals, 'Jf. Cents. Ladginijs ...'ifiCti
3M-2tr
TTE.TfKY GASH,
Mnnujacturer ami dealer in
Wooden and Hetalic Burial Caskets
All kinds and sizes of lteljex, also
has the sole rieht to manufac
ture and sell the
Smith's Hammock Reclining Chair.
Cabinet Turninjr and Scroll work. I'ic
tiues, l'icture Frames aud Moulding',
Looking-glass Plates, Walnut Lumber,
etc., etc. COLUMBUS, NEB.
rh-1 CTAATO ,cm A YEAR, or
Zk I ill II I5 lrt-, dax in y1,r
W J. UJJ own locality. No risk.
Women do as well as
men. Many made more than theamouA.
stated above. No one can fail to make
money fast. Any one can do the work.
You can make from M ct. to $2 an hour
by devoting your evenings and spare
time to the business. It cost9 nothing
to try the busines. Nothing like it for
the money makinsr ever offered before.
Business pleasant and strictly honora
ble. Reader, if you want to know all
about the best paying business before
the public, send us your address and we
will send you full particulars and pri
vate terms free samples worth $' also
free; you can then make up four mind
for yourself. Address GEORGE STI"
SON & CO., Porland, Maine. 4J.1-J
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