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THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 24. 18.
The legislature of Maine elects
Frye U. S senator.
The Omaha elsctric light will start
-with twenty lamps.
Floods were last week prevailing
throughout Germany.
The legislature of North Carolina
elects Ransom U. S. senator.
If Virginia the thermometer this
winter has been 11 below zero.
The legislature of Tennessee re
elects J. G. Harris U. S. senator.
The Massachusetts legislature elect
ed. John D. Long U.S. Senator on the
fifth ballot.
Ik Chicago the mm of $3,982 has
been raised for the sufferers of the
Rhine floods.
Shelby M. Cullom was elected U.
S. senator on the 17th by the legisla
ture of Illinois.
Recently persons who have frozen
to death hare been found in the
Blreeta of Moscow.
DiVhthebia has disappeared from
Dakota City. It was last week still
epidemic at Fremont.
Tee remains of Gambetla were qui
etly removed the other day to Nice,
at the request of relatives.
Recently it is said the Omaha
market is flooded with counterfeit
liver halves and quarters.
Fifteen arrests were made the oth
er day in Dublin of persons who are
charged with conspiracy to murder.
Borden, the "snide detective," has
been arrested in Kansas City, and the
Platt8mouth sheriff has gone after him.
A ndmbek of thieveB and thugs are
at Lincoln, and two or three noto
rious sand - bag artists are among
them.
The. grand jury at Washington on
Jan. 17th indicted Frank H. Fall for
trying to corrupt star route juror
Brown..
There have been 2,400 divorces
decreed in Maine during five years,
making a ratio of one separation in
ten marriages.
The London Spectator admits, in
the matter of Christmas cards, that
England is fairly beaten out of the
field by America.
In England it costs $1,800 to obtain
a fourteen-year patent. In the Uni
ted States it costs but $35 for a seventeen-year
patent
Spencer, the much-wanted witness
in the star-route cases, left Kingston,
Out., the other night for Halifax,
bound tor England.
Denver is being gulled by the pub
lic exhibition of two alleged idiots,
who are said to have been taken from
a mountain cave in New Mexico.
Fifteen hundred miles up the
Yukon river, in Alaska, a band of
miners has discovered rich gravel de
posits which yield $1.50 to the pan,
At Chicago the other day the noto
rious "Dr." Buddington was soundly
horse-whipped by a gentleman whose
daughter he was trying to lead astray.
The Arkansas legislature re-elects
Garland U. S. senator. He receiyed
all the votes caBt but three, green
backers and republicans voting for
him.
A man drew a crowd the other day
at Westfield, Mass., by going home
with a fashionable bonnet on his head.
He was winning that article on a
wager.
The state board of agriculture which
held a meeting at Lincoln ou Wed
nesday of last week fixed the place
for holding the next State fair at
Omaha.
It is claimed that the knives used
in the Phoenix Park tragedy were
found on the premises of one of the
prisoners arrested the other day at
Dublin.
A rumor at Paris the other day
prevailed that the Emperor of Ger
many was dead ; it was caused by the
terions illness of his brother, Prince
Charles.
At Montreal the other day the po
lice found four bodies in a medical
student's apartment, which bad been
stolen from the vault in St. Martin's
cemetery.
The supreme court of Iowa has de
cided that the prohibition amendment
is invalid because its provisions does
not comply-with the requirements of
the constitution.
English hotel proprietors write to
the London Daily JVeuu that their
efforts to prevent guests thinking it
necessary to give fees to servants
prove utterly unavailing.
Montana is said to contain a large
coal-bearing territory, and it is pre
dicted by geologists that the territory
has the capacity for being the largest
coal producer in the Union.
The President will probably send a
message to congress suggesting cler
ical amendments to the civil oervice
reform bill in reference to the em
ployment of a chief examiner.
An old law in Holland condemned
criminals to be wholly deprived of
salt as the severest punishment in that
moist country. The effect was that
they were a prey to internal parasites.
The British Empire, a British ship,
from Shields for Bombay, burned at
sea last week. Ten persons were
saved, but two boats containing cap
tain, mate and fourteen hands are
missing.
Judge Rogers, of Chicago, has de
cided the law under which gaming
implements are seized, to be uncon
stitutional. The contraband furniture
has therefore been returned to the
gamblers.
The Osceola Record intimates that
Senator Reynolds has aspirations for
the U. S. senate. McOune evidently
don't like Reynolds, and Rosewater
and Van Wyck and W. T. Dodge and
fhe Farmers' Advocate.
"There has never been in Amer
ica, for any important period of
time, and there never can be such
A thing as a railroad monopoly."
Omaha Republican.
During the performance of a circus
the other day in Berdltcheff, Russian
Poland, fire broke ont, and before the
nnoo.tators could escape the whole
strncture was ablaze. Three hun-l
dred persons perished.
Reports from the northwestern
blizzard in Dakota, Minnesota, north
ern Wisconsin and Iowa, say that a
number of people have been frozen to
death and are lost in the snow storms.
Rail travel is much delayed.
"I now go to meet my Maker, or
gome one else," said Thomas Kerr, at
Pioneer, A. T., and in a moment more
the rope, "manned by as many bands
as could find a holding place, hoisted
him from earth into eternity."
The Rejmblican is delivering moral
lectures to the anti-monopolists. The
lectures which the anti-monopolists
have delivered to the Republican is
shown by the decrease of its subscrip
tion list among the farmers of Ne
braska. O. Bee.
The Omaha Republican calls Capt.
J. H. Stickel a blatherskite. As a
matter of course, although the Captain
is a scholar, a gentleman and a well
informed man on our political histo
ry. If Stickel is a blatherskite, how
shall we classify Freddie Nye?
The last charge brought against
Mrs. Melville in the litigation for the
custody of her children, is, that she is
given to intemperate habits and not a
suitable person to control children.
She claims that a large number of
witnesses can be produced to rebut
this charge.
Samuel Miller, a seven-year-old
boy, was found frozen fast in the ice
in the middle of the bay, at Trenton,
N. J., the other day. He left home to
skate, and it was thought he was
driven ont by a strong wind, and
being unable to return lay down and
was frozen to death.
At a recent meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year : President, Ed. Mclntire ; First
Vice President, J. B. Dinsmore ; Sec
ond Vice President, R. Daniels;
Treasurer, Christ Hartmau; Secre
tary, D. H. Wheeler.
The hairpin is used to button shoes
and gloves, fasten garments, and in
some neighborhoods supplies the
place of the 'missing toothpick. The
hairpin's latest use has been to obtain
a divorce, a New York wife having
made affidavit that she found a strange
hairpin upon her husband's pillow.
Last week another hotel horror oc
curred by a fire in the Planters' House
at St. Louis. The damage to the
building will not be over $25,000, but
it is claimed that thieves got into the
rooms, and the individual losses of
guests will count up a large sum.
Three persons are known to have lost
their lives.
Rev. John Dewitt Miller, in open
ing the proceedings in the New Jersey
house of representatives, prayed that
no member might be forced to ex
plain to his inqnisitive constituents
when he returned home how, having
come to Trenton poor, he went back
rich on a salary of $500 for the legis
lative session.
It is a fact not generally known
that steam is kept up in the balls and
corridors of the Grand Union Hotel,
Saratoga, all winter and the mam
moth hotel aired daily. This is done
for the -preservation of the furniture
and to prevent the formation of those
odors which are ineradicable when
once they find lodgment in a hotel.
The jury in the common pleas court
at Cincinnati on Jan. 17th awarded
Rev. P. B. Morgan $12,000 damages
in the snit against the College Hill
railroad. Dr. Morgan was thrown
from a passenger car by a loaded
stone car running wild down a steep
grade and striking the passenger car.
His loft arm was broken and bis ankle
so injured as to permanently disable
him.
Scheller the Milwaukee fire-bug
has been arrested charged with setting
fire to the hotel recently burned in
that city. The evidence against him
is very damaging, and the officer hav
ing him in charge is fearful of a mob,
and an effort has been made to get
him removed to Racine for safe keep
ing. It is said the Mayor assented,
and a special train provided to re
move him.
An organized mob appeared in a
hall at Oldham, England, Saturday
evening, in which Michael Davittwas
speaking, and attempted to drown his
voice by yells and groans. They at
tempted to reach the platform, but
were repulsed by the occupants, chair
legs and brass-knuckles being freely
used. Davitt denounced them as a
"cowardly crew of drunken black
guards," who were a disgrace to Irish
nationalism.
For a long time a certain minister
in Massachusetts could not under
stand why so many men of his con
gregation joined a fire company, but
since false alarms of fire have been
started right in the middle of his
sermon for five Sundays in succession
pausing a general stampede to the
street, he has got an inkling of the
thing and will hereafter put his ideas
into fewer words.
A Colorado man who expected a
gang of lynchers to come for him
about the middle of the night, took
himself to the cellar, leaving a pet
grizzly in his place in bed. The lynch
ers didn't bring any lights, but made
a very plucky attempt to get the bear
ont and lynch it, but gave it up after
three of them had Io6t an eye apiece,
two bad suffered the loss of thumbs
chewed off, and the other six were
more or less deprived of skin. That
man now has a tremendous reputa
tion as a fighter, and the bear didn't
mind the work one bit.
THE CIVIL. SERVICE.
The Journal does not doubt" the
desirability of putting the affairs of
the government upon a safe, business
basis, so far as concerns the functions
of those entrusted with power, bnt it
doubts very much the probability of
reaching any such conclusion "in this
day and generation." In a govern
ment like ours there most necessarily
be (and there onght to be) a difference
of opinion as to the pnblic policy to
be pursued. There are questions of
importance arising at all times, in
volving the expenditure of pnblic
monies, and likewise the construction
of constitutional provisions that may
have a decided bearing upon the very
existence of the government, and it
has seemed necessary that the domi
nant political party, should, in any
crisis, have the leverage which un
doubtedly there is, in the use of the
federal patronage, to more effectually
hold men as friends to the dominant
administration, and it would seem
that only when this patronage is used
in a high-handed, outrageous manner,
and for the most undoubted benefit of
personal favorites as against the pub
lic welfare, can the mass of voters be
brought to consider "the ways that
are dark and the tricks that are
vain."
Attempts have been made, time and
again, to tinker the service in some
weak places, while leaving it to "run
to waste," at others. These will
probably continue at stated times, to
amuse congress, and Interest a con
fiding public, but with scarcely a
perceptible effect for good.
About the shortest, easiest and most
effective way that we know of is to
get as near to the roots of the evil as
possible, and cut them off, and we
make a few suggestions, inviting dis
cussion. First, let all federal officials, so far
as practicable, be elected immediately
by the people. This might include
postmasters, U. S. district marshals
and judges, U. S. senators, presi
dents, etc.
Lop off the almost useless diplo
matic service, used, in good part, for
stowing away in warm nests, super
annuated partisans, at a cost to the
country of many thousands of dollars
unnecessarily raised from the people.
Let the president's cabinet be made
answerable to the most numerous
branch of congress for the policy of
the administration.
To more effectually provide for
changes already sadly felt In our
organic law, let a constitutional con
vention be insisted upon, in the near
future, in which these and other vital
subjects can be thoroughly discussed,
and the probable needs of our grow
ing government provided for, for the
next hundred years to come.
Mrs. Packard has been at Lincoln
several days endeavoring to have the
legislature pass a law concerning
women so that their individuality will
be recognized by the law. This lady
was placed in an asylum for the in
sane by her husband, a minister, (so
she says) because she came to disbe
lieve in infant damnation. She was
kept in the asylum three years, and
finally liberated at the instigation of
friends. Her touching story of the
wrongs she endured is sufficient to
arouse the indignation of any fair
minded man. One of the laws she
asks for is that the patients in asylums
have the liberty of writing to friends
once a week, without their letters
being examined by the asylum author
ities. The identity act is as follows :
"that every woman shall retain the
same legal existence after as before
marriage, and shall receive the same
protection of her rights, as a woman,
which her husband does, as a man ;,
audf or any unjust usurpation of her
property or her natural rights, she
shall have the same right to appeal, in
herown name alone, to the courts of
law or equity for redress, that the
husband has to appeal in his own
name alone." The maternal act that
she asks for is : "the rights of married
parents as regards their children shall
be equal ; and in case of the father's
death the mother shall come into pos
session of the children and the estate
just as the father does in case of the
mother's death."
Mrs. Packard is a very persistent
worker, and has secured the passage
of the laws by several legislatures,
and purposes to keep up her work,
until married women are regarded in
law as the equals of their husbands, so
far as their personal right of liberty
and property are concerned.
Thi boy-editor of the Omaha Re
publican seems to think that the only
significancy to the movement now
being made by the anti-monopolists
of the state is simply for the purpose
of securing the emoluments of office.
This is about as lofty a conception as
that of the anti-war politicians during
the rebellion, viz: that the brave sol
diers who left home to fight for the
preservation of their country, did so,
for the very patriotic reason that the
government was paying all the way to
$13 a month, and this was their con
ception of motive. Freddie may learn
after a little while that Nebraska
anti-monopolists (which includes, be
sides the party so-called, about nine
tenths of the voters of Nebraska) have
enlisted for the war, and the bosses
who are tryiug to run the old party
machines, will be compelled to run
them in the interests of the people
occasionally, at least. The war will
not be slackened.
Medicine was administered to a
sick clergyman on Long Island by
several of his kindly disposed parish
ioners. Instead of giving bim pills
and plasters, they gave him some
wood and coal, which they put in bis
cellar. To this tbey added some
money, which tbey pleasantly placed
in bis hand as they shook hands at his
bedside. It was agreed by all con
cerned that these remedies were the
best that could have been ministered
to the suffering pastor. He is now
convalescent.
Even Mr. Gere of the Lincoln
Journal, better known as the plat
form carpenter, is getting his eyes
open at last. In a very friendly and
frank editorial of advice to the "sev
enty republicans, elected as eoch with
oo fancy trimmings," among other
things, he says :
"Heretofore there has been an Imr
mense though somewhat chaotic pop
ular majority to fall back upon when
the republicans of the legislature have
Siven themselves away by the blun
ers of pore personal contests. This
is no longer the case."
As much as to say, heretofore, we
haye been able to carry the electiors
because of overwhelming numbers, no
matter what mistakes have beeu
made; last fall, the state convention
didn't take quite the right chute,
smothered two important resolutions,
and run behind considerably. Sure
enough, the party has no such '-chaotic
popular majority" as it used to have,
and you members of the legislature
ought to do something now to retrieve
those mistakes. Further
"Let the true republicans In the leg
islature, be tbey seventy or half that
number, gather themselves for an
effort to vindicate their party honor,
and to show that to be a republican
means something besides a mere
seeker for the loaves and fishes of
federal appointments, or state and
county offices. Because if that is all
that is left of republicanism, the time
for the party to hand in its checks
and attend its own funeral baa surely
come."
Where is that ancient, moss-covered
republican, Freddie Nye, cannot he
be induced to grab Mr. Gere by the
coat-tails?
The democracy, at least, among our
readers, will be interested in knowing
something of the situation in the leg
islature, as viewed' from the stand
point of a special correspondent to the
Omaha Republican. We happen to
know that there is more of truth than
fiction in the following paragraph.
We may add, too, that the -Miller-Morion
democrats, recognized as
railroad democrats, would probably
rather see a railroad republican elect
ed than an anti-monopolist democrat.
This sentiment is accredited to them,
at least But here is what the cor
respondent says :
"Morton, the half-proprietor of the
Nebraska democracy Das gone home
in a pet and a streak of sulphur fol
lows in his wake. The cause for this
withdrawal from the whirl of polit
ical excitement has- been the ingrati
tude of the democratic members,who,
with great unanimity, failed to con
centrate upon him as a candidate. A
concluding interview between Morton
and Boyd was said to be intensely
interesting. Morton stated for Boyd's
benefit that he was through with
Omaha; henceforth he would fight
Omaha men and Omaha measures
with all his might. The inciting
cause for this piece of passion was, of
course, the candidacy of Boyd and
Brown, and the refusal of the Doug
las county democrats to support him.
The Omaba democrats made a fight
against Miller and Morton domina
tion and succeeded in defeating it;
and now they are unwilling to give
up the results of their victory. Mor
ton's inability to secure" the.' demo
cratic support will no 4bi coitrlb
ute to that ascerblty of temper which
a long series of political disappoint
ments has generated." '
A vriohtvul accident to the over
land express on the Southern Pacific
which left San Francisco on the morn
ing of the 19th, at Tohacapi station,
and while making a change of engines
the train by some means got away and
started to run backward, down a
grade of one hundred and twenty feet
to the mile. It went down the grade
at a fearful speed for four miles, when
the hindermost sleeper jumped the
traek and went over an embankment
ifteen feet high, carrying with it the
other sleeper, mail, baggage, and ex
press cars, which were piled in shat
tered heaps. The coach and smoker
when on the down grade, were stop
ped without leaving the track, about
two miles further on. All on board
of these cars were uninjured. The
scene following the wreck was terri
ble, and a number of persons were
jammed amid the ruinB of the train
and roasted to death before the eyes
of those helpless to save them. It is
impossible to give the loss of life, but
it is believed from twelve to fifteen
persons were killed or burned to
death.
The railroad investigating com
mittee are developing some interest
ing things by their investigations, but
tbey have not yet got down into the
true Inwardness of the subject D. C.
Brooks,-late editor of the Omaha
Republican, on being asked whether,
while editor, he was on the pay-roll
or the U. P. B. R. Co., refused to state.
If he was not, there certainly-could
have been no objection on his part to
saying so, and if he was, it would dis
close a pretty state of affairs so far as
the conduct of that paper is concern
ed. Now, there is no objection to the
railroads having their organs, but let
them be recognized at such, published
and edited as such, but not sail under
false colors. That is where the poli
tics of our time is, in great measure,
wrong men are posing and masquer
ading. Let a man not try to hide his
true sentiments let him be all the
more careful to know that his senti
ments are correct .and sound.
A terrible. excitement and stam
pede was caused in the Grand Opera
House at Milwaukee on the 18th. In
the third act of a play the calcium
light machine on the stageexpleded
with fearful force, causing a stampede
in an audience of about 600. No fire
following, the cries of "keep your
seats" from all sides and the playing
of the orchestra partially restored
order, so that nobody in the audience
was hurt Five of the stage people
all of Milwaukee, were hurt. Two
cannot live. The scene on the stage
was one of devastation, and the play
had to be stopped, after which the
audience left the house in good order.
Great indignation prevailed after it
was learned that one of the principal
exits was locked.
TVeferaska Lesrtelatare.
The business transacted in both
bouses to-day, Jau. 15th, shows that
members are very active in preparing
and getting ready for legislation in.
the fature days of the session. This
day a large number of bills were in
troduced in the senate and house.
In the senate, a resolution was
adopted providing for a committee of
three to act with a committee of the
house in arranging for a joint con
vention for the election of a United
States senator.
In the house bills Nob. 91 and 61
the former the incidental expenses
appropriation bill, and the latter is
the appropriation bill for paying sal
aries of members and officers were
passed.
SENATE.
Tuesday, Jan. 16.
A number of bills were introduced
In the senate to-day.
A ballot was then taken in the sen
ate lor U. S. senator, which resulted
as follows : Victor VI fquain 1 ; C. F.
Msnderson 3 ; B. E. B. Kenuedy 1 ;
Alvin Saunders 3 ; J. M. Thayer 2 ;J.
R. Savage 2 ; J. H. Stickel 3 ; C. H.
Brown 1 ; J. S. Morton 6 ; Wm. Dye
1; L. Clark 1; H. M. Weller 1; J.
Laird 1 ; Wau Gaslin 1 ; J. C. Cowin
2 ; I. Reavis 1 ; W. H. Munger 1.
The ballot in the house for U. S.
senator resulted in the following vote :
J. S. Morton 12; A. H. Saunders 10;
J. H. Millard 8; J. M.Thayer 8; J.
C. Cowin 6; A. H. Connor 6; J. U.
Stickel 6 ; J. Hollman 5 ; C. F. Man
derson 5 ; V. Vi fquain 4 ; C. H. Brown
3 ; J. H. Laird 2 ; G. W. E. Dorsey 2 ;
D. Butler 2 ; J. E. Boyd 2 ; L. Crounse
2; W. Gaslin 2; I. Reavis 2; G. B.
Lake 2 ; A. Ewlng 2 ; A. J. Weavar 2 ;
J. R. Savage 1 ; R. O. Phillips 1 ; D.
M. Tomblin 1; W. H. Munger 1;
Loran Clark 1; W. H. Ashby 1; G.
M. Humphrey 1.
In the first ballot for U. S. senator
Platte county's representatives voted
as follows : North and Scbroeder for
J. Sterling Morton, and McAllister
for Judge Lake.
Wednesday, Jan. 17th the seuate
met pursuant to adjournment and a
number of bills were introduced.
After transacting some unimport
ant business the senate adjourned to
meet the bouse in joint convention to
ballot for U. S. Senator.
In the house several committees
made favorable reports, on bills.
At 12 o'clock the joint convention
met for'the first formal ballot for a
U. S. senator, which resulted as fol
lows: J. Sterling Morton 16; A.
Saundern 14; J. H. Millard 13; J. M.
Thayer 11; J. C. Cowin 10; J. H.
Stickel 9; C. H. Brown, 7; A. H.
Conner 6 ; C. F. Manderson 6 ; J. W.
Savage 5 ; J. E. Boyd 5 ; V. Vifqnain
5 ; W. Gaslin 3 ; L. Crounse 2 ; G. W.
E. Dorsey 2 ; Geo. B. Lake 2 ; J. Laird
2; Ed. J. Hall 2; Loran Clark 2; A.
J. Weaver, David Butler, W. C. Ellis,
Albert Ewlng, W. H. Munger, W. H.
Ashby, G. M. Humphrey, D. M.
Tomblin, C. O. Whedon, W. Dye and
B. E. B. Kennedy each received one
Vote.
The joint convention adjourned till
Thursday at 12 o'clock.
SENATE.
Thursday, Jan. 18.
Several reports were made from
committees recommending the pas
sage of certain bills, and the intro
duction of several new bills.
HOUSE.
A number of resolutions and a very
large number of new bills were in
troduced. At 12 m. the joint convention of
the two houses met and proceeded to
take a second ballot for U. S. senator
with the following result :
Morton 18, Thayer 15, Millard 13,
Saunders 13, Stickel 11, Cowin 10,
Manderson 8, Brown 7,Conner 6,Boyd
5, Savage 4, Vifqnain 4, Laird 2,
Clark 2, Dorsey 2, Crounse 2, Lake 2,
Kennedy, Dye, Hall, Weaver, Cbapin,
Ewing, Tomblin, Monger, Ashby, 1
each.
The third joint ballot was then
taken, the result of which was the
same as the second, with the follow
ing exceptions : Senator Dye changed
from Conner to Stickel ; Representa
tive Cbarlston changed from Conner
to Dorsey; Representative Freeburn
changed from Morton to Butler, and
Representative Ramsey changed from
Stickel to Conner.
Bierbower moved that the joint
convention adjourn till 12 ra. Friday.
Cook (Nuckolls) moved to amend
by taking a recess till 3 p. m. LoBt
Motion to adjourn carried.
Friday, Jan. 19.
Another ballot was taken to-day in
joint convention for U. S. senator,
which resulted as follows:
TOTALS.
Thayer 16, Millard 16, Saunders 12,
Cowin 11, Stickel 10, Morton 13, Con
ner 6, Manderson 8, Dorsey 2, Lake 2,
Laird 2, Crounse 2, Ewing 1, Munger
1, Butler 1, Weaver 1, Hall 2, Vifquain
6, Brown 8, Savage 5, Boyd 4, Dye 1,
Kennedy 1. .
changes.
Harris left Clark and went to Mil
lard; Westcott went from Saunders
to Thayer ; Thompson from Clark to
Millard ; Worl from Dorsey to Mil
lard ; Taylor from Tomblin to Cowin.
The joint convention then adjourn
ed until to-morrow noon.
Saturday's vote for senator was as
follows:
Millard 15, Saunders 13, Morton 5,
Thayer 14, Manderson 8, Cowin 13,
Brown 10, and all others lower.
Monday's joint convention ballot
ed as follows :
Seventh. Eighth.
Saunders 13 13
Morton 5 4
Millard 15 16
Thayer 15 16
Manderson 7 8
Cowan 13 12
Conner. .... 3 3
Stickel 22 19
Brown 9
The following is the result of Tues
day's balloting for U. S. senator :
Saunders 13, Morton 4, Millard 16,
Thayer 14, Manderson 8, Conner 22,
Stickel 1, Boyd 32.
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Phhim mad Wind Mills.
3t.tr-
Gere of the State Journal has be
come impatient at the action of mem
bers of the legislature for not doing
his bidding in the election of a U. S.
Senator, and rebukes them in the fol
lowing gentlemanly manner:
There is a perversity iu the modern
legislator that ought to be rebuked.
Several candidates for the United
States senate, who have made the
canvass iu good faith, did not get even
an honorable mention in the proceed
ings of the ballet, while a number of
gentlemen who are not candidates,
got votes. This is a discouraging cir
cumstance.- First one is told that if
he wants to go to the senate heshonld
come out and say so like a man, and
then when he .does he is liable to get
the g. b. without explanation or apol
ogy. This isn't right.
Pat.O. Hawks, ex-coutingent mem
ber of congress, is very indignant over
the report of the committee on judi
ciary of the house, which accuses him
along with Peter Schwenck, S. J.
Alexander and Geo. H. Roberts, with
aiding T. J. Majors in misleading the
committee to st cure a favorable report
in Majors'a case, while at the same
time exonerating Mr. Valentine in the
matter. The public may expect some
rich and racy disclosures from Pat.,
when he gets aronnd to it. He Is not
a man to lightly lie under unjust im
putations, though no one, perhaps,
would more quickly acknowledge a
fault.
A terrible explosion occurred last
week in the coal mine of Jones &
Nesbitt near ConHerville, III., inclos
ing ten men in the mine. The cause
of the explosion is unknown. Imme
diately after the explosion the men in
the mine could not be reached on
account of foul air rising in dense
volumes from the shaft. A later
account states that the cause of the
explosion was occasioned by the
ignition of fire damp by blasting coal,
as after the third blast the explosion
occurred, killing the ten men in
side the shaft.
A dispatch from Larned, Kansas,
says the worst storm known within
the memory of the oldest inhabitant,
struck there on the 18th. A heavy
fall of sleet, hail and snow from the
northwest. All the range is thickly
covered with ice and snow. The cold
is intense. Cattle, and especially
sheep, will suffer terribly. It is safe
to predict that the losses to sheep and
stock men in this region will be
greater than for any corresponding
length of time since the settlement of
the country..
There was discovered the other
day at Denver, within the city limits
in an out of the way slough on the
Platte river, by a fisherman, a gunny
sack containing the remains of a wo
man. The body was cot into twenty
four parts ; with the exception of one
foot, the bones were stripped of flesh
and sinew. Everything connected
with the remains is shrouded in mys
tery, and all theories as to who, and
what the crime committed are simply
conjecture.
It is said that some English divers
have discovered that the telephone
can be utilized by persons under
water for conversing with persons
above water. There will, in all prob
ability, be no disposition on the part
of the average reader to test the truth
of this statement. It may be accept
ed for truth. Still one may be par
doned for wondering as to the sensa
tion experienced by the man below
the waves when he first cries "Hello.''
The great storms are associated in
Europe with the deaths of heroes.
That about the time of Cromwell's
death was long remembered, and it
was a common remark among coun
try people when Wellington died:
Ob, the rain won't give in until the
Duke is buried." In France the deaths
of Chaney and Gambetta have occur
red at the Jime of'storm and devastat
ing floods, which will serve to
strengthen the superstition.
The steamer Cimbria came into
collision during the thick fog of the
Borkum, Friday last with the steamer
Sultan. The Cimbria, which left
Hamburg Thursday, had ou board 380
passengers sank iu a short time arter
the collision, burying the passengers
and crew who numbered in all about
five hundred persons into the sea. On
Saturday it was reported that only
fifty-nine persons were known to have
been saved.
The newspapers of Nebraska, with
a modesty as unusual as it is ill-becoming,
have concluded to allow the
legislature to elect the U. S. Senator
this year. Now if there was some
way to keep the lobby from Lincoln,
how lonesome the members would be.
But, perhaps, they would serve the
state quite as well, as when encum
bered with such a superabundance of
advice. Sutton Register.
W M.BECKE B,
STAPI.R AND FANCY
GROCERIES!
pvorrsroxs,
no, cmd'akd seued ranis,
-ALSO,-
Choicest Varieties in
China, Glass and Crockery
WARE.
:u-tr
J. . MUNGER,
Undertaker Furniture Dealer,
PICTURE FRAMES AND COFFINS.
South ide 11th street, two door
e.iit of Heir.tz'? drug tor.
ARE
TOWEIt'S
FISH KiniKD SLICKEB8
jlR III" V Rr BUT
WATEU FIIGOP CO ITS
TOITER'S
FISH ElUND SLICKERS.
'..'ILLNdT STICK or PEEL t
TOWEHS
FISH BRAND SLICKERS
AUK NOW vta ST kVLRY
7$r.,- "lASSS.
Av'rwracwn 3fcv
VA' 'O Vi.
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is 'ty-BI
A. cfirvroc rPJ
SLICKERS
Y Y 'V L.IlHEIlkJ r J Aj
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HORSEMAN & FARMER
wno m.:i give the a triil
Xonr genuine wlthont thi trade mik.
A. J. TOWER, Sole Mfr.
Boston, Illaw.
RX-iJV na S. S-U
v1BaA S&
VSNC-W-x yy
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All tJwse m ivtuu of any thin$ in that line, will consult
tieir own interests uy giving nun - can. neinein
oer, lie warrants every pair. Has also a.
First -Class "Boot and Shoe tore in Connection.
ISTTfcopairinc: PvTeatly Done.
Don't forget the Place, Thirteenth Street, one door west of Marshall Smith's.
THE REVOLUTION
Dry Goods and Clothing Store
Has on hand a splendid stock of
Ready-made Clothing,
Dry G-oods, Carpets,
Hats, Caps, Etc., Etc.,
At prices tM were mm M of before in Coin As.
o
I bay my goods strictly for cash and will give my customers the
benefit, of it.
Give Me a call and covince yourself of the facts.
I. GLUCK.
JOHN HEITKEMPER,
Klcventb St., one door West of
Oalley Bro.,
CKUWxmua, Nebraska,
Han on hand a full assortment of
GROCERIES!
PROVISIONS.
CROCKERY & GLASSWARE,
Pipes, Cigars and Tobacco.
Highest price paid for Country Produce.
Goods delivered in city.
GIVE ME A CALL!
JOU3I HEITKEY1PEK.
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oomingr!
j HARD AND S0FI
COAL?
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TAYLOR, SCHUTTE& CO.
:ti tf
JACOB SCHRAM,
)DELEK IN(
DRY GOODS !
Bouts & Shoes, Huts & ('ftps,
FUMBHIHS GOODS m NOTION!.
LOW IMUCKS FOR CASH.
34-tf
Columbus, Neb.
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TOWER'S
Fish Brand Slickers
It TUK niBDSST STOKX
l WILL KKEP TOD DRY.
TOWER'S
I pica oBitn snrci vd
I A rtauMle with Wire-Fast.
caed Metallic Bnttoaa.
EVERY COAT WARRANTED.
For sale everywhere.
At Wholesale by all flnt
rluaw Jobbers.
Cm
NEW STORE! NEW GOODS!
JUS T OPENED BY
A large and complete assortment of
Ueu's, Tom's andduldren'sSoota and Shoes,
WHICH HE PKOPOSKS TO SELL AT
BED-ROCK JUICES!
COLUMBUS
STATE BANK!
Ss:cm:tit3 a:rrl X 2ui isl Turstr X SiUt.i
COLUMBUS, NEB.
CASH CAPITAL,
$50.4
DIRECTORS:
Lka.vdku Gerhard, JVeVi.
Geo. W. FIulst, Vice Pres't.
Julius A. Rekd.
Edward A. Gerrard.
Ahxkk Turner, Cavi
Baik of DepoMlt, lIc
and Exchange.
ColIectioBM Promptly ITIac
all Point.
Pay latereMt on Tine I
It-.
HENRY G-ASS;
UDERTA-KITi;;
COFFINS AND METALLIC OAi
AND DEALER IV
Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads,
reaus. Tables. Safes. Lounge
c Picture Frames and
Mouldings.
tp3Itepairing of all kinds of Vphc
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COLUMBUS, NB.
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