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n t THE JOURNAL. Rates of Advertising. ,N;)ccc. lv - into ;t Um lr lcul'mu J12.W", s'M i fi f?3.. j fa) XUO If leM'Kl tVKHY WEIlaIAV, M. K. TURNER & CO., 0 Proprietors and Publisher!. i .(mi : i: j ; ! r..o0j o ; vi i.j ij j :!. b.rr' Y.toi i i j ii T." , ? if i linelit" I lwi ; .j:,j io , vi : i.ij 2t f 1.50 2.2.1 1 if lJuincfs anil profoioual enrd ten Hn. or lets suacr. oer annum, tpn rtol- j lar. Lcal advertisement at statnto rotes. 'Editorial local notices" fifteen cent a line each intertion. "Local noticee ' tivc cents a line each Inser tion. Artvertlmcnta claiflcd as "Spe cial notices" tiv cent. a line first inser tion, three tent a line each subsequent insertion. T? -.w tt.nfit imitalr tti Uiucc, vii iim !,-'ii -t.--.- Journal building. Term? Per year, $2. Six months, SI. Three months. K)c. Single copies, 5c. VOL. XI.--NO. 15. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1880. WHOLE NO. 635. (The ioupi (luUnHbtl) ip i CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. A. a. 1'aoikjck, U. S. Senator, Beatrice. ALViNSAH.VDKiM,U.S.5eiitor,OmBnH. T. J. M UORb, Uep.. IVru. . K. Valentine, Kcp.. West Tolnt. STATE Dlf.ECTOEY: ALMVUS Kance, Governor, Lincoln. S.J. Alexander, -secretary or State. F. W. LleJiLe. Auditor, Lincoln. O. M. Brtlctt, Tie usurer, Lincoln. C.J. Dllwottb. Attorney-General. S. K. Thompson, 5upt. l'uhllc Insruc. H. C. Dwson, Vrden of PenltentUrj. W AV. Abbey, i Prl,0Q inspectors. C.H.Gould, J lr. J. G. Davis, Trlaon Physician. H. P. Mithe weon, Supt. Insane Asylum. J I' D1C I ART: S. Maxwell, Chief Justice, George B. LaVc.t AsH0Cigte Judges. Auiasa Cobb. FOCKTH JCPICIAL DISTRICT. O. W. Post, Judpe, York. M. H. Reese, District Attorney, Wahoo. LAND OFFICERS: M. K. Hoxle. Keijlster, Grand Island. Win. Anyan, Receiver, Grand Island. COt'NTV DIRECTORY: J. . likKtii-.. County Judge. Jba Stauaer, County Clerk. J. W. Early, Treasurer. nj. Splfhnau, Sheriff. II. L. Rosfcitor, Surveyor. Jhn Walker, j Jehn WIpc. V CountyCoinmlsaloner. 31. Mah.T, ) Dr. A. Hcintz, Coroner. S. L. Harrott, Supt. of School. UvreSc, ! Ju,tl,e,ofthePeace. (TiHrl"i Wake, Constable. MTV DIRECTORY: J. V. RecfcT, MhVor. H. J. Hudson. Clerk. C. A. Newman, Treasurer. Ceo. (). Bowman. Police Judge J. it. Routkon, Eutrineer. colwcilmkn: lf n'urtf lohn ltiokly. (5. A. Srhroeder. Id Unrrf Win. Lamb. S.S, McAllister. . Wnrd-O. W. Clothcr. Phil. Cslu. CuImubBk 1'oNt OMcr. (pen on Sunday trr-m 11 a.m. to 12 M. and from :W to C v. m. Bu-ined-hour exceiJt Minday 0 a it. to K v. it. Eatrru mail- cloe at 11 a. i. Western mall- cIokc at 4:1TP.M. Mail li-ivo Columbus for M:idion and Norfolk, Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturday-., 7 a. m. Arrive :tt 6 i. m. Far MAiirnr. 0ma. Watcr-ille and Al bion, daily except Sundaj rt a. M. Ar- rite, "ainr.fi r.M. Kr Potnie. Farral, OaV.dnte aud NcwmauV Orove, Monda, Wednes days, and I rid:.) . 6 A.M. Arrives TuVisdayh, Thursdays and Saturday, at i. M. Fttr She'll Creek, Creston wnd Stanton, on Monday and Fridays at 0 a. m. Arrives Tuesday. and Saturday, at e r. N. . , .... For Alexia, Patron and David City, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday, IP. M 'Arrives at 12.M. For St. Aothony, Prairie Hill and Ft. Bernard. Friday", 9 A. N. Arrives Satuidayh, 3 P.M. II. P. Time Table. a$ticcrd Bound. Dicrant,No.6, leaven at .r 6:55 a.m. Pn-cns'r, " 4, " " 11:06 a.m. Freight, " 8, " "... 2:10 p.m. FrIPht, 10, " .- 4:30 a.m. Wtslrnrtl Bound. Freight, No. 5, leaves at . 2:00 p.m. Fai-cnt-'r, " 2. " i:Hp,in Freight. "9, "... C:00p.m. Emlt-rant. 7. " "... 1:W a. m. Everv dtv except Saturday the three lines leadiug to ChlcaRO connect with C P. trains at Omaha. Ou Saturdays tbero will be but one train a day, as shown by the following schedule: A. A TIME TABLE. Leaves Columbus, ... Platte,. David City, . Garrison, ... . Ulysses, . " Staplehurst, Seward, Rubv. .. . MUford. " Pleasant Dale, " Emerald, Arrives at Lincoln, Leaves Lincoln at 1 In Columbus 4:tf P. M. .. 8:30a.M. 9:00 " .. .. 9.25 " 9:0 " 10:02 " . .. . 10:19 " 10:27 ' . .10:53 " . . ll:0fi . 11:22 " ... .11:40 12:00 M. r. M. and arrives O.. '. A B. H. ROAD. Bund north. I Bound south. Jxck'on l:.4 P.M. Norfolk 8:S0 a. M. LstCreekD:.T0 " Munson C:57 " PL Centre, .'i:. " MadiRon .7:45 " lluraphrevfi;:.l " Humphrey 8:31 MadUon 7:40 " PL Centre 9:iS3 Munon e: " LotCreek 9:55 " Norfolk 8:..5 1.1ackon 10:S0 " The departure from Jackhon will be uravcrned by the arrival there of the IT. P. cxpreS" train. SOCIETY NOTICES. Card under tbi" heading will be lnerted tor ?3 year. G. A. R. Baker Po-t No. 9, Department f Nebraska, moets ever second and fourth Tue-ifctv evenings in each month in Knight" of Honor Hall, Co lumbus. John Hammond. P. C. D. D. WAnswoKni, AdJ't. H. P. B0WT.n, Searc. Maj. BUSINESS CARDS. PICTURES! PICTURES 1 NOW IS THE TIME to secure a life like picture ot yourself and chil dren at the New Art Rooms, east 11th street, south lde railroad track, Colum bu. Nebraska. 4T8-tf Mro. S. A. Joei.yx. .OTICE! IF YOU hsve any real estate for sale, if you wlch to buy either in or out in" the'eity, if yon wbb to trade citr property for land?, or lands for city property, give us a call. " 'WADSWOnTII & J0i.8EL.TN. NXLON MILLKTT. BYRON MIUXTT, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Columbus, Nebraska. N. B. They will give close attention to all business entrusted to them. 348. T OUIS SCHREIBER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Bugcies, Wacons, etc.. made to order, and all work guaranteed. ,j3?"Shop oppoilu the "TatmsalL," OUTt f U"t. Z9& SCHOOL, BLANK AND OTHER BrO Paper, Pens, mf! "m?9i va)j ,W?r9 Aff IMftfn i k: w.w m JM Itf J,TUJM.i1UMMiJt'lV Musical Instruments and Music, TOYS, NOTIONS, BASE BALLS AND BATS, ARCHERY AND CROQUET, ftc, at LUBKER & CRAMER'S, Corner 13th and Olive Sts.. - COLUMBUS, NEB. yir.n. f . coBKi JsU. 1 TTORXEY-A T-LA W, Fp-rtalrs In Cluck Buildinp, 11th street. Ir. K. t SIGI.!4, Physician and Surgeon. jgrOfficeopcn at all hours. Bank Builiisg. jom?( j..nAUGn.in, JUSTICE OP THE PEACE AND XOTAB1' PUBLIC, Platie Ckntkk, Nkb. H. j. ihino., yOTARY PUBLIC. leth Strft, i loori w".t uf llsmmnud Hon", Columbus, Xeb. 49l-y D K. 91. 1. THtR.STO., RESIDENT DENTIST. Oilice over corner of 11th and Nrth-wt. All operations liret-clahr and warranted. UlICAfiO ItAKHF.K NIIOI: HEN BY WOODS, Proi-'k. JSJTEvervthinp in first -class .tyle. Al-o Veep the bc-t of cigars. 51t- M CAU.1NTKK BKON., A TTOXXEYS A T LA ', OfGce up-tair iu McAllister's build ing. 11th .St. F .i. cnio,.M.i., PH TS1 CIA X A XD SUB G EOX, ColtimlMiH. TVoIj. Office Corner of North and Eleventh Sts. upstairs in Oluck'i brick bulldlnp. Consultation In German and Euglihb. ry.n. BURGESS, Dealer in PEAL ESTATE, CONVEYANCER. COLLECTOR, a r.ts;:i:;cs as 3?, GENOA, NASCK CO., NKB. OLATTERY &. PEARSALL ARE PRKTARED, WITH FIRST' CLASS APPARATUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give them a call. GEORGE N. DERRY, CARRIAGE, House iSigu Painting, QSAiHDra. ou:nrc. Paper Hanglngr KALBOMININO, Etc. V3f" All tr-nrV KTBrrtltd. HhOD OH Oliye street, one doer south of Elliott's new Pump-house. aprl6y JS. MURDOCH & SON, Carpenter and Contractors. HaYenad an extended experience, and -in .Tii.roTiipf antiMf-iotlon in work. All klnds'of repairing done on short notice. Our mono if, uoou wor. uu f rvr;. Ptil mil iMve us an onnor- tunity to estimate for you. jSTShop at the Big Windmill, v oiumDus, .cor. 4S3-y DOCTOR B0NESTEEL. fj. H. EXA.'WII.'VO Sl'RGEO.'s, cor.riiBua, : Nebraska. o FFICE HOURS. 10 to 12 a. ra., 2 to VJ 4 p.m., and 7 to 9 p.m. umce on Nebraska Avenue, three doors north of am n-t .. -I m M a .1 t , C f 1 1 ir Prf corner Wyoming and Walnut streets! UUCIU ViUIUIUUUI, ... -L A.W, REAL ESTATE AND GENERAL COLLECTION OFFICE BY W. S. GEEE. MONEY TO LOAN in small lots on farm property, time one to three years. Farms with some improvements bought andsold. Office for the present at the Clother House, Columbus, Neb. 4T5-r F. SCHECK, Manufacturer and Dealer In CIGARS AND TOBACCO. ALL KINDS OF SMOKING ARTICLES. Store on Olfre St., near the old Post-office Columbus Nebraska. 447-ly COLl'MBUS Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. 8HEEHAX, Proprietor. iy Wholesale nd Retail Dealer in For elcn Wines, Liquors and dears. Dub lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales. STiTentucJfcy Whiskies a Sptcialty. OTSTERfi it their season, by the caae can or dish. lltk ftret, ltk f Sapet JKFla OKS ! Pencils, Inks, ADVERTISEMENTS. WA6QIS1 MM ! WAGQIS END SPRINGS, PLATFOKM SPB1NOS, WHITNEY & BKEWSTEK SIDE SPP.INQS. Light Fleasnie and Bu3ineJ! Wag oils ol' all Descriptions. We are pleased to Invite the attention of the public to the fact that we have juct received a ear load of Wagon and Buggieh of nil descriptions and that we are the nole apento for the counties ot Flat le , Butler, Boone, Madison, Merrick, Polk and York, for the celebrated CORTLAND WAGON COMP'Y, of Cortland, New Y'ork, and that we are offering tbee wagons cheaper than any other wagon built of ianio material, style and tlnieh can be sold for in this county. I3T"ricnd for Catalogue and Price-list. iiiii.. :ai, 4$4-tf Columbus, Neb. A-MERICA.lSr MEDICAL I mm INSTITUTE. s S. 2!7:&ZU,' 0. , 5. t. IfASTTir, K. 8 3. s. i.X2:s. i:. c. ;. c. tcaisz, v. .. tf cwii. Consulting Fliysici&ns and Surgeons. For the treatment of all classes of Sur gery and deformities; aoute and chronic dibeajes, diseases of the eye and ear, etc., etc., Columbns, Neb. JEWELRY STORE OF G. HEITKEMPER, ON ELEVENTH STREET, Opposite Spelce & North's land-office. 11 a on hand a line selected stock of ,ci REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. S2TALL GOODS SOLD, ENGRAVED FF.EE OF CHARGE.Jgl Call and see. No trouble to show goods. &19-3m Wm. SCHILZ, Manufacturer and Dealer In BOOTS AND SHOES! A romplet aMortssf at of LsiUni' sad Call drtu't Skoc kft on hand. All Work Warranted!! Our .Motto Good stock, excellent work and fair prices. Especial Attention paid to Repairing rr. Olive nmd 12t1i Htt. HAZEN WIND MILL! HARRXGAN dfc CRAINE Have the agency for this celebrated wind mill, "and will also sell pumps, and make repairs on pumps and mills. The Ilasea is better governed than any other, more durable, will run longer, go in as little wind and in great er thau any other, and give j the best of satisfaction. See the one at the Grand Paclllc, and call on us opposite the post-office. - 627-x A GOOD FARM FOR SALE aWSrk" ib 15 acres of s0(1 land MJJBS9Ltcres UI,der cultivation, a Kw:good house one and a half etorv hi go, a good stock range, plenty ol water, and good hay land. Tjo miles east of Columbus. Inquire at the Pioser Bakery, 47W rftWWW?T,m& Jrf Ml 'II Pnysic Surgeons Wains ocks and JeweUr A CKEDI!I.Oi:sl WOMAIV. BY "WM. U. MAHEE. My wife is a woman of wonderful faith. If ttie standard of an average person is a grftin of mustard seed, then I could conncientiouBly say my wife's faith in equal to a Hubbard squa?b. She is certainly a woman of whom it can be said, she walks by faith and not by night. To at tempt to tell all that phe believes in wonld require more time than I have at my disposal, or ever hope to have. I might mention, off hand, that she believes in the daily papers, In the incorruptibility of politician, In Beecher, In Bob Ingersoll, In Bar nura, and in me! When circumstances compel me to leave her between the acta at the opera, and I return with a clove be tween ray teeth, remarking that I ,b&d the toothache, horses could not compel her to doubt that clove. When I am late getting home, and incidentally remark that I had a customer who was going away ou a late train, and that 1 kept him com pany, our minister could not shake her faith in that customer, not even though he was to swear that with his own eyes he saw me come out from the club. In this respect she is a model wife, and I would advise the marriageable youn men to search for a copy. But there are occasioua when she is provokingly taken in by her fol low creatures. There is nol a tramp between New York and Chicago who does not have our house very prominently displayed on his map. I fancied at one time that there must be marks on the streets pointiug to our back door, and at great expeuse for wine, cigars and oysters I hadau ordinance passed by our City Coun cil to have every tree uud piece of board within three pqunre? of me whitewashed or painted ; but It has done no good, the tramps come iu droves as they did before. Whilo painting my own fence I came across some hieroglyphics on a back gate that looked Huspicious, and I covered them with six coats of paiut, rejoicing all the while at thus getting one diary out of the way. But my ice man brought suit against me next morning for destroying bis acconnt with us, and before I cduld arrange to defend I found be had been to see my wife, who had set tied with him. When she showed me the receipt iu full, and began expatiatiug on the more Christian way of arbitrating than going to law, I endeavored to show her that it was morally impopslble that we could have used 138 pounds of ice every day for seven months, but she would not listen to me. That odd one-quarter is what binds her faith to the ice man ; it Is evidence to her mind that be in a conscientious man. While she -is a woman who has the very highest respect for the laws, so much so that she allows her cook to give her favorite policeman a warm supper every night, and the nurse to give her favorit a warm dinner every day, still no man can whisper smuggled goods but that she begins to finger her purse. We have as many linen towels and sheets laid away for the time that our girl shall be married as ever Mrs. Toodlea had for the future Mrs. Thompson 'with a p.' I have taken her to Witter's and had him show her that her Irish linen was bought from him at about the one-half what she had paid for it, but she smiled at me on our way home as if she really pitied me for letting myself be so easily gulled by such a story. We have thirteen patent lamp burners laid away on the library Bhelves. What earthly good they can ever be to us I do not know, as we have no lamps and have no thoughts of changing from gas to oil. But my wife has seen some good reason why she should buy them, and I am determined to let her go on so 1 can form a cabinet to show the steady improvement in lamp burners. I have had reason to rejoice that jewelry was cheap. Our religious papers have been full of advertise ments of 50-cent solid gold thimbles and 25-cent diamond studs. What she might have thought if those ad vertisements bsd been in any other class of papers I cannot tell, but being iu our church iournal there could be no doobt about them. She sent for a bracelet for the babe 'handsomely chased, solid gold, and only sent to the subscriber of this paper,' the advertisement read, and all for $1.05. It came aud was put on the baby at once with much feminine joy. Our baby is at the age when she delights to pat every thing in her month. She pat her wrist in her month and when next we saw the 'solid gold' it was stick ing te the baby's teeth, while the 'handsomely chased bracelet' was as black as my boots. I suggested suing the proprietors of the relig ious paper, but she promptly inform ed me that she did not blame them or any one else. I was getting reconciled to all these mishaps, for the money she wasted was her own, and she has a right to do with it as she likes; but every now and then I find her taken in by such unblushing frauds that I can only ease my feelings by attend ing a caucus or temperance meeting. When I went home this noon I knew by her interested face that she had a story to tell. 'I have been hearing of the yellow fever Bufferers,' said she at once, 'and I think we're to blame for not having cdntributed more to their relief.' Who's been hero?' I asked- 'A man who has just come from that country. And only think of it dear, he is the only one left out of a family of eleven. He lout fate wife and eight children, and a grand mother, and was reduced from com petency to beggary.' How much did yon give him?' I asked dryly. 'I didn't give him anything.' 'Then ho wasn't collecting,' said I surprised. 'No, he wasn't collecting, so you need not get off any cheap wit.' Well, what was he doing? He waan't telling his story from door to door just to pass away time was he?' 'He was earning hip living; I bought three nutmeg graferri from him, and I think you will say they are the nicest little machines you ever saw. I know I had no need of three,' said she, hastily, as if she saw a remark about them on my tongne, 'but I thought we would put one in the next missionary box for Kansas, as probably they do not have many of the comforts of life out there, and I think Mrs. Peters will like one. The other will save enough nutmeg in oue day to pay for itself; just hoe how it will work off the last bit of nutmeg. During all this I had been gettiug into a whito heat. 'My dear,' said I (I always say 'My dear' when I am particularly exasperated); 'My dear' and I al ways treat my wife with the great est politeness, for only in that way can husband and wife preserve mutual respect 'My dear, the hum bug does not exist that you do not believe in. It is only wastingwords to talk with yon about yoor foolish bargains, but I will bIiow yon how you have been gulled again for the thousandth time. What did you pay for nutmeg graters?' 'Twenty-five cents each, and you can run them down all you please, I don't care. I did not buy them because I wanted them, I did It to help the man. When the man told me that he had lost his family and that he was workiug to build a monument over his grandmother's grave, I'd bought the graters if they were not good for anything; but they are good for I have tried them, so there V 'Was the man a tall lean one?' I asked. 'Yes.' 'Had a white plug bat with crape around it ?' 'Yes.' 'And he had lost a grandmother, had he?' 'I will not stop to hear any of your wit,' said she with a fine scorn. 'You never have anything but poor jokes wheu I tell you about the misery and sorrow iu the world.' 'You ridiculous woman,' said I, 'I've nothing to say against the graters, they are good enough; what is more to the purpose, they came out of my store and were sold at 75 cents a dozen. I sold such a man as you describe a dozen this morning, and just as I came away he was in for another dozen. As he was paying for them I heard him tell the clerk that business was look ing up, for ho had sold three to one woman who had bought them be cause be had lost bis grandmother. JuBt think how ridiculous you are, when such creatures can laugh at you.' But she had gone away. She doesn't believe oue word of it; thinks it is one of my jokes, and, tcu to one, she will put one of those graters iu my stocking on Christ mas eve. But if she does I'll well I will tell you when the time comes. Preach View of Americans. A new French novel devotes con siderable space to American life, assuring its readers that in the slates west of the Mississippi the ladies of the highest fashion retire to the Rocky mountains to bunt grizzly bears, and that they proudly adorn themselves with necklaces of the claws of these animals as trophies of their prowess. It also informs its readers that Ohio girls ride wild horses, wear high boots and hunt rattlesnakes, while the heiress in Minnesota works in the harvest fleld.--irarv 2oti, Nome RcBiUilsceaces. In March of 1871, four days before the day fixed for the adjournmeut of congress by a joint resolution passed by botii houses, Allen P. Hugglns, then a revenue officer in Mississippi, reported in person to Secretary Boutwell, of the treasury department, having been driven from his district by the Ku-Elux. The stalwarts had tried iu every possible form to get through con gress some measure that would more perfectly protect the Interest of the government In the then Hn Klux raided south, but without avail. The republicans even wa vered and were divided among themselves, and congress was on the eve of adjournment. Col. Hugglna was not a stranger to all the mem bers of Congress. He was person ally known to all of the Mississippi delegation and to most of the Mich igan members, as he had served auring mo war witn creau in a Michigan regiment and was known to be a reliable, upright Christian man. Secretary Boutwell fully in dorsed bis officer as perfectly relia ble aud trustworthy. The outrago upon Mr. Huggins soon got sound ed abroad at the capita, and tho uowspaper reporters were soon with him, aud hi .story became the prop erty of the public, aud while some nine years have elapsed, it will fetill be fresh in the minds of many of our readers. It was briefly as fol lows : Ou the 9th of March, 1871, Mr. Huggins went from his office at Aberdeen, Miss., ten miles into the country upon official busiuesn. Not being able to return to Aberdeen that night, he went to tho house of a friend for entertainment. At 10 o'clock at night the house was sur rounded by some 15W armed and masked meu. The host was aroused and a demand made upon Lira to produce the officer, Huggiu. The noise and confusion suou aroused the whole household. Mr. Huggins, with the rest, hearing the demand from the Ku-Klux for hlra, in his room, he informed them that they would have to take him it they wanted him, as he would not vol untarily surrender himself to them. The marauders fiuding him decidod, sot fire to the house, and to save his fri'eud's house and family, he sur rendered. They demanded of him in the yard before they bad used any violence, that he should promise them to leave the county and state forever within three days. This Mr. Hugglns promptly refused to do. They then rushed upon him, and took him oyer one-fourth of a mile from the house, when they tripped bim to bis ahlrt and again made a demand that be comply with their orders aud leave the country. He again refused. They then proceeded to violence, giving him over one hundred lashes, which he remember. He became insensi ble under their torture, and was left by them for dead. He does not know all that they did, but no bones were broken, aud no permanent in jury sustained, and is to-day as strong and hearty and full of fight as any of his persecutors. Such was the story of this out raged United States officer. Many of tho wavoring members of con gress called upon him. President Grant sent for him and heard his story from his own lips aud in his own words, and the same evening sent a special message to congress stating that the disturbed condition of tho southern states needed atten tion ; that bis officers were driven from their posts, and with existing laws be feared he could not correct the evil, and advised that such moasures be taken to enable him to euforco law and order. Such wa3 the import ot the message. Both houses of congress voted to rescind the adjournment motion, and some two mouths were spent in perfect ing the enforcement act. As soon as the act passed, Col. Huggiup returned to hU district, and under its provisions most perfectly restored order throughout its bor ders. He arrested, himself, some 200 Ku-Klux. Iu 1S75 the Missis sippi plan was orgauized and opera ted by the white leagues or color liners in that State. The violence and outrages committed by the Ku Klux was under mask and in the uight. Mr. Huggins states that all the difference between the Ku-Klux and the color liners is that the Ku Klux was composed of a portion only of the white Democrats of the State, banded together, and masked that they might, by night, deprive the Republicans of the State of every, civil and political right dear to American citizens, while the color liners or White League, threw off all mask and was composed of the entiro white Democratic population, of the State and had precisely the same object and aims as the Ku Klux, and all handed together un der oath to puotect one another, even in the murder of Republicans. Col. Huggins who made so gallant a fight with tho Kn-Klux. fouud it impossible to contend,'not only in the night but daylight, not only with a fow bnt with every -white Democrat that ha met, and even he succumbed, gave up the struggle for his rights and left the country. L Topeka CoTrvrnonviealth. The above jnaraed gentleman I a resident of this city, and those who doubt the condition of the south as portrayed by republican can very easily be assured oi the truth by a convention with Mr. H. Why the Democratic Party Opposed the Homestead Law. A fanner, himself a domornu, surprised oue of hia democratic friends a few days since, by saying : "I am going to vote for Garfield, sir. I just found out the other da that the republican party gave me ray homestead. You needn't say a word. I have always voted tlu democratic ticket, but I am going to vote now with the party that gave me my homestead. The woods and the prairies are full of men who will vote in the same way." This local item taken from the Sutton Jtecisttr is wnrlhy of more than passing notice. It call up the history of the homestead law, aud suggests a train of thought full ot interest to the studeut of American progress. Why had uot the democratic party given to the couutry such a law long before the republican party came into power? The simple answer in, that the domiuant wing or that party would not permit such legia latiou. There were mon iu the democratic party who saw the bene ficence of tiucb a law, aud would gladly have worked did work for its realization; but the southern democrats would not listen for a moment to any legislation that wo'd open up the lands of the sunny south to the plebean mudsill or, that would open up the great north and west to the homesteader, who, by virtue of bis surroundings, would become haters of slavery, aud there fore opposed to the party whose policy aud measures southern demo crats wholly dictated. The aristo cratic land-holder and slave owner of the south would not dared not favor the idea of a homestead law. Consequently the measure was re peatedly voted down by a demo cratic congress. When the republicans came into power, the laboring man's friend came into power, and immediately set to work to ameliorate the con dition of MAN. Not the white man, not the rich man, bnt man as such. The organic idea of the party was that the United States Government was "of the people, by the people and for the people." Therefore, whatever legislation was for the public good received U prompt and unswerylng support. The same anlmns, the same mov ing principle that -impelled the republican party to approve the emancipation proclamation, to pass the civil rights bill, to originate the thirteenth and fourteenth amend ments, prompted the homestead law. All the great acts of the republican parly in the interest of man were the legitimate offspring of the came liberty-loving principle. Every democrat who I? able to think, care? to think, should study the history of his party. Ho should do this especially at this time, as it will not be long ere he will ha called upon for his suffrage to plase in power the party that uever dared to ntter a word nor do an act in the interest of true liberty or universal man. Sidney Pluindealer. Way American Iteasaad It Olrln awr i Itnly. la A young American prima donna, who had just arrived home from Italy, tells this pleasant story of her self, and laughs heartily over it. She aaya American girlabave all the titled lovers they want in Italy, and that she herself had seventeen offers, notwithstanding she regarded her self as an ordinary person. She bad a curiosity to test her last lover, so she allowed him to call several times ; the Count, imagining that be could have everything bis own way, finally said to her: "Signora, bow much money have you got?" "Well, she replied, "after all my dehta are paid, I may have 2& francs left." She has not seen bis Conntibip since. (Not oae American woman in twenty-five can walk five mile," says as English physician. See here, Doc., yon just show an American woman a street five miles lone, with bonnet stores every ten rods, aad see If she can't walk the -sbole distaqca, ( KlrctloB or I. S. NoHnlor by the. X'eoplo. According to the constitution and the laws of' Nebraska the people of this State will bo called upon to elect a United States senator by ballot at t he next November election. Until quite recently this idea has. been hooted at a) ridiculous in the extreme by many of the politicians, bec.Hine thoy say the United State law regulate that and no act of the State can change it. Let u-j look at it squnrely and ec If It might not be well for us to follow the StHte law as long an it does not conflict with the natloual Inw. The constitution of the State read : "The legislature may provide that at the general election immediately prt'c-iunj inooxpiiHiion ot mo term of the United States senator from thin state, the electors may by ballot, expresH their preference for some person for the office of United State senator. The votes cast for Mich candidates shall bo canvassed and returned in the aanio manner a for State offices." This clau-JO of our constitution wu voted upon separately aud it was the will of the people, independent of all othor questions, that th! should become a psrt of the organic law of the laud. Then again, the last legislature passed u inw, not simply permitting, but ordering that thin vole be taken Election Liucs, Lavs ofXcbruskn, 1S79, . 212, .iec. 0, raids: bre. 9. At the general election immediately preceding the expira tion of the term oi" :i Unilml SihIoj seuator from thii state the electors nhall by ballot, exprens their prefer ence for -onto person tor the offic of United States senator. The vote- to be CHiiVH--cd find returned in thn manner hercinniter provided. Sec. 51. Same net provides that this vote bhall be canvassed and scaled and -eat to the Speaker of tin? Hoihc. Thus it will be seen that the con stitution allows it and the law orders it, aud in the face of all thi? it i-uem like folly to attempt to ignore the question. And if the people are to vote, there t but one rational way to get at it and that is by each party placing a candidate iu tho field at their convention the samo a all other state office". In the event there. Phould bo no organization on the part of the republicans might not the democrat" secure the largest number of votes for their man and might nol a democratic senate admit him as tho legally elected senator from Nebraska. It may be said that such a thing would be Impossible, but we siy that anything Is possible with a, democratic senate. To nominate and elect a senator can possibly do no barm. The delegates can be elected with that understanding And if any man Is elected by the people at the ballot box next No vember, It will be safe to calculate that the election will bo ratified by the legislature next winter. This action on the part of the people would be a blessing to the State in more ways than one. It would divide questions of law-making and senator-electing, and one-third of the time allowed the legislature for the purpose of enacting laws would not bo consumed In electing a U S. senator, and votes on legislation 9od appropriation bills would not bo traded off in advance. By all means nominate a U. S. senator, and vote for him next No vember, as the law and the constitu tion contemplate. The people of th State know as well n the legislature what they want, and thin election u as safe in their hand-; as anywhere. Lincoln Globe. At a time when all the American colonies together contained a pop ulatiou of 3,000,000, Dr. Samuel Johnson said of Loudon, "The man who is tired of it is tired of exis tence." If this wa? a true saying then how much more true is it to day! According to the hint ccusuh of Loudon, wnen compared with the most recent returns of the inhabi ants of New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago. Boston and Cin cinnati, the united populations of these six American cities just about equal the population of tho British capital. The fountain ot content must spring up iu the mind, aud he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dis position will waste his life in fruit less efforts, and multiply the. grief that he purposes to remove. We shall not acouiplinti much without zeal and enterprise. But the mistake ia often made by sup posing that zeal is hurry, rush, reck lessness, and Indifference. It is not so; steady momentum ia often more effective thau unrestrained vigor. A man has no more right to say as nncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to a man than to knock him down.