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THE JOURNAL. IS ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY, M. K. TUENER & CO., Proprietors and Publiiheri. KATES OP AliYEKTIMIZVG. V Space. Iw 'Jto ltao Svi Gm lyr IcoPnin j jtlOii $:0 ?: V& $60 ' ?H0 4 " 1 S.C'J 12 1.1 '10 35 60 Yx ' j i;.T0 ! I 12 1 15 1M) J 35 tnehu; 5.25 7..M) 11 1-1 1.' 27 :r I 1.50 I K.Tf. j 10 12 15 20 " l.oO 2.25 4 5 8 J 10 Business and professional cards ten lilies or less sp.ice, per annum, ten dol lars. Leral advertisements at statute rates. "Editorial local notices" fifteen cents a line each insertion. "Local notices" five cents a line etch Inser tion. AdvcrtUments classified as "Spe cial notices" hve cents a line first inser tion, three cents a line each subsequent iusertion. -:o:- VOL. XII.-N0. 39. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1882. WHOLE NO. 611. fit I Oulumlius pl I ft i h r i' i fgyofflce, on lltb street., up stairs in Journal building. Terms Per year, $2. Six months, $1. Three months, 50c. Single copies, fie. ADVERTISEMENTS. HENRY LTJERS, BLACKSMITH AND "Wagon Maker, Shop aear Foundry, eoath of A. & X. Depot. All kinds of woodeand iruu work on "Wagons, Bugi;le, Farm Machinery, &c. Keep on hands the TIMPKEN SPRING BUQGY, and other eastern buggies. also, the ITurst &, ISradlev Plows. NEBRASKA HOUSE, 8. J. MARMOT, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COL.UMBIJ0, NER. A new house, newly furnished. Good accommodations. Board by day or week at reasonable rat'es. 3"Bta a FlrMt-ClaMi Table. Meals, 25 Cents. Lodgings 25 Cta SH-2tf MILLINERY! ILLIMY! Mrs. M. S. Drake & Co., HAS JUST HKCE1VEI) A LARGE STOCK OK FALL. ANI WINTER IIUIIEEY AM FAICY ROODS. :o: 1-A FULL ASSORTMENT OF EV ERYTIIIXG BELONGING TO FIRST-CLASS MILLIX- ERY STORE. Jgl Nebraska Avenue, two doors north of State Bank. 27-tf F. 6ERBER & CO.. DEALERS IN FURNITURE, AND UNDERTAKERS. Claire, Meads, Bras, TABLES, Etc., Etc GIVE HIM A CALL AT HIS PLACE ON SOUTH SIDE 11 tb ST., One door east of Reintz's drug store. CITY, Meat Market ! One door north of Post-oflico, NEBRASKA AVE., - ColatabaN. KEEP ALL KINDS OF Fresh and Salt Meats, ALSO SAISAGE. POELTBY. FflESH FISH. Etc., in their season. t3TCmuU paid for Hide. Lard aid BacoB. 642-x WILL. T. RICKLY. H. B. MORSE IS STILL SELLING WM. SCHILZ'S OLD STOCK At Cost! At Cost! AND HAS ADDED A Line of Spring Goods WHICH HE IS SELLING AT EASTERN PRICES. WM. SCHILZ Can still be found at the old stand, where he continues to do all kinds of Custom Work and Repairing. BECKER & WELCH, riOPIIETOES OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS WHOLE BALE DEALERS IK FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE, COL UMB US, NEB- DRUGS, MEDICINES, Etc, DOWTY, WEAVER & CO., OF THE Columbus Drug Storc, Have the pleasure of offering to their customers, in connection with their complete Hue of n.PmiT MEDICIIES. ETC-. A list of Proprietory articles not ex celled by any of the eastern manufacto ries. A few of the articles on our lint, are J2JA powerful alterative and blood purifier. D.W.& Go's Cough Synip Concentrated Essence of Ja maica Ginger. SA.SSA.FJIA.SSO, J2T"The most wonderful remedy ever discovered for chap ped hands, lips, Ac. OUR EQUINE POWDERS, USTFor stock, are without an equal iu the market, and many others not hern mentioned. All the above goods are warranted, and price will be refunded if satisfaction is not given. o7-Im WM. BECKER, DBALBK IN ALL KINDS OK FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND a well selected stock. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Sp cialty. Good Delivered Free to any purl ol' the; C'ily. 1 AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL EBRATED COQUILLARD Farm and Spring Wagons, of which I keep a constant supply on hand, but few their equal. In style and quality, second to none. CALL AND LEARN PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near A. &N. Depot. STATE BANK, Cseetnsnto Oirwrl i Setl iti Taraor & Eilit. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000 DIRECTORS Leander Gebkakd, Pres'l. Geo. W. Hulbt Vice Pres'l. Julius A Reed. Edwakd A, Gerhard. Abner Turnkr, Cashier. Baak ef Depolt, DiNcoaat aad Excaaaice. CellectleBH Promptly 3Inde oa all Polatft. Pay latere oa Time Depos it. 274 WA6BIS1 HES! WAGDiS! END SPRINGS, PLATFORM SPRINGS, WHITNEY & BREWSTER SIDE SPRINGS. Light Pleasure aad Business Wag ors of all Descriptions. We are pleased to invite the attention of the public to the fact that we have just received a car load of Wagons and Buggies of all descriptions, and that we are the sole agents for the counties oi Platte, Butler, Boone, Madison, Merrick, Polk and York, for the celebrated CORTLAJTD WAGON 0MP'Y, of Cortland, New York, and that we are offering these wagons cheaper than any other wagon built of same material, style and finiBh can be sold for in this county. iSTSend for Catalogue and Price-list. PHIL. CAIN, Columbus, Neb. 484-tf CoipiuMarapiM ANDERSON & ROEN, BANKEKS, v KI.EVKNTn ST., COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. tSTDcposits received, and interest paid on time deposits. tSTl'rompt attention given to collec tions and proceeds remitted on day of payment. 33T Passage tickets to or from European points by best lines at lowest rates. 1ST Drafts on principal points in Eu rope. REFERENCES AND CORRESPONDENTS: First National Hank, Decorah, Iowa. Allan & Co., Chicr.go. Omaha National Rank, Omaha. FirBt National Bank, Chicago. Kountze Bros., N. Y. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DEALER in IIS. MEDICIIES. CHEMICALS W1XE&. E.IO.IJOKN, Fine Soaps, Brushes, PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on band by Dru agists. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Eleventh street, near Foundry. COLUMBUS. : NEBRASKA SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of Real Estate. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacitit R. R. Lands for sale atfrom$3.00to$10.(K per acre for cash, or on five or ten year time, in annual payments to suit pur. chasers. Wc have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on rcasonableterms. Also business and reidenco lots in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real es tate in Platte County. 033 COLUMBIA, NEB. WHOLESALE & RETAIL GKROCERS! ALSO DEALERS IN (rockery, Glassware, Lamps, Etc., and Country Produce of all Kinds. ' Till-: RKtf'r OF FLOUR AL WAYS KKPT OX HAND. FOR THE LEAST MONEY! J2TGoods delivered free of charge to any part of the city. Terms cash. Corner Eleventh and Olive Streets. Columbus, Neb. TJEXRV GASS, Manufacturer and dealer in Wooden and Mefalic Hurial Caskets All kinds and sizes of Kebrx, also has the bole right to manufac ture and sell the Smith's Hammock Reclining Chair. Cabinet Turning and Scroll work, Pic tures, Picture Frames and Moulding, Looking-glass Plates, Walnut Lumber, etc., etc. COLUMBUS, NEB. TT7KHER A KKOREL, AT THE EAT HARKET1 GOODS Oa Eleventh. Street, Where meats are almost given away for cash. Beef per lb., from 3lucts. Best steak, per lb., 10 " Mutton, per lb., from 6 10 ' Sausage, per lb., from S 10 " JQTSpecial prices to hotels. 562-ly LAW, 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 and sold. Office for the present at the Clother House, Columbus, Neb. 473-x COLU1NB Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. BSTWholesale and Re All Dealer in For eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales. $3 Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. Utk Street, Se at of Depot BUSINESS CARDS. pORIi:i.I1JM St Si;iX,lVA2t, A TTORNETS-A T-LA W, Up-stairs iu Gluck Building, 11th street, Above the New bank. roil j.MAUGUArv, JUSTICE Of THE PEACE AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Platte Center, Neb. TJ J. HUDSON, NOTARY PUBLIC. 12th Street, 2 doors wwtt of Hammond Hoest, Columbus, Neb. 491-v pvK. It!. . THIJRSTOX, RESIDENT DENTIST. Office over corner of 11th and North-st. All operations first-class and warranted. C CHICAGO 11ARBEK SHOP! HENRY WOODS, Prop'r. J3TEvery thing in first-class style. Also keep the best of cigars. f10-y M cAMJNTER BROS., A TTOriNEYS A T LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. M. MACFARLAND, b. r. cowderv, J Attcrsty isd Hsiiry PctH:. Collector. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK JOHN M. MACFARLAND, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. Tj II. RIJMCHE, llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets. Curry Combs, Brushes, etc., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. Tl- J. THOMPSON, NOTARY PUBLIC And General Collection Agent, St. Edioards, Boone Co., Neb. BYRON MILLETT, Tusticeof the Peace and Notary Public. IIVKO MILLETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. N. 1L He will give clo?e attention to all business entrusted to him. 24S. J OUIS SCHREIBER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Ruggies, Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. 3TShop opposite the " Tattersall," Olive Street. '"'2.r Tj J. SC1HJG. 91. ., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Columbus, Nel. Office Nebraska Avenue, opposite the Clother House, three doors north of Bank, up-stairs. Consultation in Ger man and English. TAMES PEARSALL IS PREPARED, WITn FIRST-CLASS APPA RATUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give him a call. MOTICE TOTEACHERS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his office at the Court House on the first and last Saturdays of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates. and for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. fOT-y Drs. MITCHELL & MARTYH, coi.iJ.nitir uEDicii i ku warn. Suigeons O., N. & B. II. R. R., Asst. Surgeons U. P. R'y, COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA. TUTTS PILLS INDORSED BY PHYSICIANS, CLERGYMEN, AN THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE. AND THE GREATEST MEDICAL TRIUMPH OF THE AGE. SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Tjceaof appettteJi'eoeee.bowebi costive, PainintheHead.withadaUaanjaUon'In the bade pert, Fain tinder the ihoaldw plede. fallneei eftereettag. with e dlain cUnatiqn to exertion of body or mind. Irritability of tamper. IjO waplrita. 1j6m of memory, with efeeung of nering neg-. lected eome duty, weerineea, SUalnees, Mattering of the Heert,'Dote before the eyes. Yellow Skin, Headaohe, BeetleiP neea m night, highly colored urine. - i iram Ef THESE WAUTTJIM All UTHEESED, SERIOUS DISEASES WH1 SOON IE DEVELOPED. l'Ul'i'l FILL! are eneelelly edmpted to sbcK cae,one doee elTecta aaeha chaage ef teellag aa to aatonlah the eaCerer. Tbty iBcreeee the Avpettte, and caote the body to Take ea !, thoa the system is BMsrisfced.and by UirirTeale Actleaon the Btgeattve aeymlar SaseU arepro doced. Price a cents, aa Mairajr C It.T. TUTT'S HAIR DYE. GftATHAiaorWHiSKas chanced toaGLomr Black by a single appllcaUon of this Dtx. It imparts a natural color, acts Instantaneously, bold by Drngguta, or sent by xprea on receipt ol f l. Office, 39 Murray St., New York. Br. TITTB 1S11L af TllltMt IthfWBM MS THE UlAmoD KAK.RI.XGM. If there was one person in tho world more than another that Mrs. Templet on grazed at with eyes of carious regard, it was her husband's cousin, Urn. Morris; and if she had one ambition eclipsing auothcr, it was to eclipse Mrs. Morris in every direction. If Mrs. Morris set up a wall-basket, Mrs. Templcton com passed a hanging cabinet. If Mrs. Morris had a new ivy-pot, Mrs.Tcm pleton would have nothing less than a window garden. A single vase on Mrs. Morris' piazza caused Mrs. Teniplcton's premiHcs to break out with urns uutil they looked like a stone-cutter's yard. If Mrs. Morris gavo a high tea, Mrs. Teniploton had a dinner party out of hand ; if Mrs. Morris had a luncheon, Mrs. Teni ploton had a ball, or what answered for one iu tho limited round of pleasures of their place of abode; and if Mrs. Morris indulged herself with a new silk, Mrs. Templeton always counted her flounces, and made her own phylacteries broader. When one day, thou, Mrs. Morris appeared at church the usual place in the town of Carleon for ladies to exhibit their toilettes with a pretty little pair of diamonds sparkling in her oars, you can imagine the state of disgust and wrath in which Mrs. Templeton walked home, and the very disagreeable time that Mr. Templeton had of it as he walked beside her, endeavoring to look like the happiest domestic man in Car leon. The sermon was criticised, the minister made out a time-server, the parish denounced collectively and personally, his own peculiar friends among the rest, and finally his cousin Hetty waB reached, and her habits, her manners, and her dress were made the text on which to hang anathema maratmtba or worldliuess. direction, bad taste, low moral sense, irrcligion, and last of all,- extravagance his dear little harmless Cousin Hetty,- whose red curls lighted such a frank, child-like countenance, and whose two dia monds, he had been guilty of think ing, during the 'To Dcum,' just matched tho limpid sparkle of the clear dew-drops of her gray eyes. But Mr. Templeton had far too much experience to say anything of the sort. 'James Morris conld not pay his debts if he were sold out to-day,' said bis wife. 'And look at his wife's dress! Maria, how many times must I tell you to keep those children inside the curbstone? his wife's dress just one glitter of satjn and jet. And I declare it was im possible for me to fix my eyes on the lecturer for the way In which Bhe kept those diamonds twinkling be fore me, with her head on the per petual dance. A pretty place for diamonds church ! I know a wo man who wore them to her father's funeral ; I suppose she would. I should think, at any rate, she could have conti oiled her inclinations and waited till next Sabbath diamonds on Palm-Sunday! But it's high time of daj', I must say,' warming up with her husband's bilence, 'when I am without a single diamond to my name, and there is Janic Mor ris' wife James Morris who owes you $5,000 borrowed money ' It was very weak in Mr. Temple ton to interfere; but one can not be always on one's guard. 'I under stand, Juliet, my love,' said he, 'that Hetty'6 Uncle Roberts sent her thofe earrings.' 'Uncle Roberts, indeed ! I should like to see Uncle Roberts for once, if he is not a mythical personage altogether,' cried his wife, with the air of expecting Mr. Templeton to produce the alleged Uncle Roberts immediately. 'Uncle Roberts! Un cle Roberts! It is always Uncle Roberts. And you 'understand,' forsooth! Why didn't 7 under stand ? Why were the earrings con cealed from me? For all I know you gave them to her yourself. Per haps you are this Uncle Roberts who is always brought to the front at every pet piece ol extravagance. For my part, I wish I had even a hus band, not to speak of an Uncle Rob erts, who would not see me trodden under foot by any little minx who chooses to toss her head above me ' 'My dear! my dear! just remem ber where you are ; just remember the children,' murmured Mr. Tem pleton,floundcring in a little farther. Where I am ! I suppose you don't want all Carleon to hear how I am outraged. You'd like to keep it a secret. You'd like to have me en dure in silence. Of course you don't want the children to bear their mother tell the plain story of your neglect, your outrage ' Here Mr. Templeton took off his hat and made a low bow with a glit tering smile to a gentleman and lady passing in an opposite direction. 'What in the world is the matter with Mrs. Templeton?' asked the gentleman. 'She looks like a thunder-cloud full of lightnings.' 'Hetty Morris' earrings, I guess,' was the answer. 'Sho has probably seen them at church to-day. Poor Mr. Templeton! What a lire that vixen leads him !' 'I don't know about that. He is tremendously in love with her.' 'How can ho bo?' Force of habit, may be. And she is a beauty, you know. And whon she is good-natured there's nobody like her.' 'Well, by Easter you'll see hor with a pair of solitaires, I'll wager another pair. Take me up.' 'Not I. I shouldn't have any use for them if I won, except to givi them back to you ; and I couldn't afford to lose. Besides, I dou't bet on a ccrtaiuty,' said the careful Mr. Bowman. Aud just thou Hetty Morris coming up, they stopped to admire her precious acquisition" ; and Hetty heard of the wager, and shamed Mr. Bowman into taking it, before they parted and went their opposite ways, more merrily than was their Sunday wont. Not so Mr. Templcton. As soon as his wife had banged the door be hind her she tore off her bonnet and threw herself on a sofa, and called for Jaue to bring tho ammonia, and her husband to drop tho shades, and Maria to take the chHdreu where she could not hear thorn, for her head was splitting with paiu, as any one's would bo, treated as she was. And Bhe woidd not go up stairs to bud, and Mr. Teinpletou'8 Sunday romp with the children was abrogated, and his dinner was made an act of silent and solitary pcuanre; and if ho told his wifo he was going to afternoon service, and did go over to hi- cous in Hetty's, she, at least, had no right to blame him. But woe for Mr. Templeton when he came home that evening! Mrs. Templeton had been removed to her own room, which recked with steam of camphor and alcohol ; she la there in her white night-gown, with her black hair steaming over the pillow, with her great black eye rolled up and fixed on a remote point of the ceiling, and with the foam standing on her lips ghastly, stiff, and immovable. It made no odds to Mr. Simpleton I mean Tem plcton that he had seen her lift limes before; in fact, always when she wanted something she could not have. Cold terror struck to his soul lest ho should lose his torment; all her virtues swelled into the hosts of heaven, all her faults were wiped out as with a sponge. He was down on his knees beside her iii a moment. 'Oh my darling! my Juliet! my love! speak to me! Tell me you know me !' he cried. 'Run for the doctor, Jane. Where is Dr. Harvey? Why haven't you had him here already? Get him at once. Give me the brandy. Heat those soap-stones. Where arc the hot-water bags ?' And he was bath ing her lips and rubbing her hands, and kissing her forehead, and ad juring her to give any sign of life. But it was not till the doctor's step was heard that Mrs. Templeton vouchsafed the least indication, aud then her breast began to heave, her hands to tremble, her long supple body, that had been stiflly resting on its head and heels only, began to sway and subside, her feet to twitch, and presently those feet were beat ing a tattoo on the footboard, and the lips parted in shrieks and the shrieks turned to sobs, aud the doc tor wa pouring chloral between the teeth, aud the sobs sank away into sleep aud the hysterics were over. 'What could have excited you so, my dearest, and throw you into such a terrible convulsion?' Mr. Templc ton was saying next morning. (' Hys terica' was a forbidden word. Mrs. Templcton would have had another attack at the sound of it.) 'It must have been the heat of the church ; it was overpowering. Thurlow has never learned to regulate that fur nace.' 'The heat,' sighed Mrs. Templeton, faintly, 'and the gliotcn of those dia monds. They kept dancing so be fore my eyes with their bright spots that they dazzled the brain. O, I'm afraid I was very cross yesterday, Jairus. I didn't know what I was saying. O, I never want to sec any diamonds again.' 'You shall have a pair of your own before I am a week 'older,' ex claimed the feeble husband. 'O, no, no, no! I should be so ashamed. I don't deserve them. I I couldn't think of it. Indeed, in deed, I wouldn't have you, Jarius darling; I should feci just as if I had begged for them.' But when Mr. Templeton returned from the city that night, as pretty a pair of soli taire earrings as he could buy with the bond'he sold, glittered in a vel vet case marked with her name. A3 he opened the case and held it before her, Mrs. Templeton shud dered, and turned her glance away from the beautiful white sparkle, and said they looked at her with two great eyes of reproach, and she ought uot to have them, and they were as heavenly as twin stars. And presently they were glittering in her ears, and all the faintness and lan guor wore gone, and sho was ruu ning to the glass aud holding her head ou this sidu aud on that, and admiring herself and turuiug to her husband for admiration, looking, with her large liquid dark eyes, her pale face, her perfect features, her dazzling smile, all illumined by the shining drops, as beautiful as the most beautiful Juliet that was eycr loved. And her husband felt twice and a hundred times repaid for the sacrifice of his little savings in the only bond he had yet" been able tc buy and lay by for the futuro by the vision of hor and by the delighted kisses she showered upon his lip and tho warm embraces of the loni? white arms. It waf. not once hut twenty times that Mrs. Templeton looked at the flash of her new splendors in the mirror, took them out of her car.- and put them back again, tangled her hair in them so that her husband might loosen them and he struck afresh, as he did so, with the pale pink sea3hcll of the ear, the curve, o the throat, the exquisite oval of the check; and she went at last to the window aud shielded the pane witr bcr hands while looking out and up at the stars. 'I declare,' she said 'the glistening of Orion's belt is no more splendid than my diamonds. I never thought I should have dia monds, Jairus.' Nor did she have diamonds after that one evening of ecstasy. The little borough of Carleon was no better than other places, and white she stood at the window comparing her gems with Orion's, a pair of en terprising burglars, who at that mo ment were not 'burgling,' chanced to obtain a view of their opportunities and they went through the houe that night, and the diamonds wen' through their lingers the next dax Alas for Mrs. Templeton! I' would have been idle for her to havr another convulsion. Her husband had not another bond for another pair of stones. And so the mother of the Gracchi conld not have played a moro magnaiffhTOnffTrt than she did. 'O, what do I care for jewels!' she cried, when Hetty ran over to sur vey with her big pitying eyes eyes much more beautiful than the sparkle in her ears the scene of ruin, where the burglars had left their matches and eaten their cake, and cold coffee 'what do I care for jewels? They might have taken the children. O, Hetty, how thankful 1 am they didn't take the children ! 'As if,' said Hetty to her own bus band afterward, 'any burglar under heaven would want those horrid Templeton children, the worst imp" overborn of hysterics and temper! Now if it had been our children, Louis!' 'I think you had better tell her. though, that your diamonds are only Alaska crystal?,' said Louis. 'Pretty bits of glass but only genuine glass, that Uucle Roberts sent for mis chief.' Well, I don't know but I will. But I think I'll lend them to her to wear to church on Easter first, for I do want Clara Ilowman to win tier earrings they'll be the only genuine diamonds among us all. And she brought him money enough tor Mr. Bowman to afford her whatever she wants; and I heard her lay the wager with him myself that Mr".. Templeton would wear a pair of solitaires to church on Easter.' Hamper's ltazur. The VigilnateM. A correspondent of the Omaha lice, writing from Montana, under date of Jau. 2d, among other things, says : "But the roughs of the western border began depredatious on so ciety ; tho fortunate miner or mer chant who had accumulated the glittering metal desired to sec his loved ones left behind, or business called him to visit old haunts aud old scenes. His journey to the states through desert wastes and mountain defiles awakened the cupidity of the desperado, and he was waylaid and shot for his money. This created the necessity of good men of all classes uniting in form ing the vigilant committee, wIioko rule was omnipotent, aud alrnont ouu'IprCM-nt, there being no other law or clliccrs of the law at that time ; and to their credit, bf; it said, duriur the time of their reign no fatal mistakes were made. Many were executed and others banished for crime against the peace and order of society ; not one wa un justly dealt by. To all even-handed justice was meicd. No technical law quibbles or delays were known or regarded. The leading thought, which ran with great precision with out circumlocution, was to get at bottom facts aud .award justice. And I hazard the assertion without the fear of contradiction that no where on "God'a groen earth," dur ing the reign of the vigilantes could you find a placo or country where the rights of property or lifo wero more highly regarded, and their claims more duly respected than in Montana. Under this rule lifo and property wero absolutely secure,and lawlessness was on its good be havior. Would yon ask how was this brought about i:; so wild, so rude aud adventurous a region? The answer is simple. The detec tion, conviction and puuishtnunt of crime followed swiftly, surely aud unerringly. No technicalities, no quibbles or deliys defeated the de mands of justice. And when tho United States government sent judges to Montana in 1S(5 or '( the first to greet thoso judges and give them welcome and co-operation were the vigilanco com mittee. The old settlers of Mon tana to-day sigh for the peace, order aud justice which was so fully de veloped during the reign of tho vigilantes in their palmy days. Iu these later days the true inwardness of tho thief and scoundrel are be ginning to develop and the techni calities of law and the gabblo of lawyers defeat the ends of justice and rob the code of its penal force. A new order of civilization is be ginning to develop and crime goes unwhipped of justice. But which of the two civilizations is the greater promoter of good society? I leavo that to the who mcu who are con ducting the trial of Guitcau. Had Guiteau's crime been committed in Montana during the reign of tho vigilantes on the 2d of July, on the 4th of July, 1SSI, ho would have been hung higher than Hainan at a cost of geventy-tiyc cents for a ropp. Nor would the world have been disgusted or the government dis graced by the rant and ravings of a murderer and tho sickuing senti mentality of ome effeminate creat ures misnamed women, seeking for his autograph." Aneditor has to watch without ceasing, if ho does not pray, when he rubs around iu the company of great mcu. The principal occupa tion of great men these days is to catch an editor aud stuff him with a lot of nonsense and have him go off and put it into his paper. Here is our honest and genial contemporary, Dr. Miller of tho Omaha Herald, who likes great men, and goes down to New York a few times every year to see 'em, and pick up items. They have been telling him during his present visit to the national me tropolis that all but $:!0,000,000 of the $100,000,000 of silver that baa been coined under the remonetiza tion act is idie and that nobody wants and nobody uses the accum ulated surplus or ?7r.,000,000, and the honest editor thinks it a great shame and disgrace to go on making dollars that nobody wants. Our friend has been sold by tho New York financiers. Tho govern ment really owns but about $7,000, 000 of these $100,000000 of silver coin. All the rest of it is really held by private parties who have taken it and deposited it in the treasury for safe keeping, taking a government certificate of deposit for convenience and these certifi cates circulate as money in the place of silVer. So long a.s the people want the silver aud take it at 100 cents on the dollar, it is not likely that congress will order the coinage stopped. It is true that it may he a little inconvenient for the treasury olhcials to store and take care of tho silver left with them as a deposit. Our heart bleeds for them some times, but not for very long at a time, since it unually occurs to us that if the treasury officials are overworked and worried, so that they can't stand it any longer, it would be a good joke for 'em to resign, and let the patriotic gentle men who are always surging around Washington and overwhelming the poor devils iu executive offices and in congress for appointments, have an opportunity to do a little hard work in their turn and he cured of their hankering after an ofiico. Doubtlessly our government clerks aud department chiefs arc over worked. Give 'em frequent rests by rotation in office and they per haps will uot repine so much, while, they toil and sweat over the silver business. State Journal. It all depends on how you look at these ancestors. One little aristo ciatic girl was boasting that hor forefathers came over with the Pil grims, when another wee maiden, whose widowed mother had recently married, said : "Shaw, go 'long with your old duds. I've got a bran new lather.' "No," said Mr. Ragbag, "I did not hang up my stocking, hut 1 hung up the barber for a shave, aud that paid better."