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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST C, 1884.
Kational Bepublican Ticket.
for President,
JAMES G. BL1LVE,
Of Maine.
For Vice-President,
jtoii: A. 1.0GA
Of Illinois.
Bepublican State Convention
Has been called to meet at Omaha, "Wed
nesday, August 27th, 1834, at 10 o'clock
a. in., to nominate live candidates for
presidential electors. Also, for Govern
or, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
State, State Treasurer, Auditor of Public
Accounts. Commissioner of Public Lands
and Buildings, Superintendent of Public
Instruction and Attorney General.
Platte county is entitled to seven del
egates. G.W-E. Dorsky, Chairman.
S. B. Colsok, Secretary.
May 22, 18S4.
Theee aro 40,000 brewerieB in
Europe.
There are more seaside resorts in
New England than on any coast in
the world.
It is claimed that three thousand
divorce suits have been commenced
in France under a new law.
A recent census taken of Chicago,
by the board of education, shows the
population of that city to be 629,000.
Near Elkhart, Ind., the other
morning iu a freight train collision
one man was killed and three se
riously injured.
Mrs, Rugg, mother of the negro
murderer of the Maybee family, on
Long Island, died at New York the
other day of a broken heart.
"It is the first duty of a good gov
ernment to protect the rights and
proinole the interests of its own peo
2lc." Republican Platform.
C. "W. Fosderson, a homesteader,
on the Loupe river some distance
from North Platte, was struck dead
the other evening by lightning.
A mineral spring, which shows
wonderful results in the treatment of
paralysis and rheumatism, has been
discovered in Warren Co., Ind.
"The 2erj)ctuily of our institutions
rests upon the maintenance of a free
ballot, an honest count and correct
returns." Republican Platform.
Loss of life is reported at Lonaco
ning, Md., caused by floods from a
great deal of rain. Serious damage
has been done at Cumberland and
Frostburg.
"We believe that cveyioherc the
2irotcction to a citizen of American
birth must be secured to citizens of
American adoption." Republican
Platform.
There is $119,000,000 of gold coin
in the vaults of the treasury depart
ment at "Washington. In duo time it
will go to the people to meet cur
rent expenses.
L. S. Voorheese, a young man
formerly in the employ of the li. & M.
road, was arrested tho other day at
Burchard, for attempting to wreck
the "Cannon Ball" train.
A Cleveland party has gone to
work on a new mouth-piece for the
telephone by which a whisper can be
distinctly transmitted aud perfect
secrecy from bystanders thus secured.
John Shea, near Greeley, Col., a
miner, cut the throat of his wife
whilo she lay sleeping, then stabbed
her seven times and himself cteht
times, and fell dead. Jealousy the
cause.
A fire originating in Ilellman's
drug store, at Emporium, Pa., the
other afternoon, destroyed twenty
business places and the Shives house.
Fourteen families are homeless. Loss
$200,000.
A family named Bardwell were
etrnck by lightning near Nebraska
City the other day while seeking ehel
ter under a tree. Mrs. B irdwell was
killed instantly and several others
badly burned.
A little son of Geo. P. Smith,
who HveB on the Niobrara river, a
few miles below the Fort,, was bitten
the other day by a rattlesnake, from
the effects of which he narrowly
escaped death.
A female resident of Weston,
Mich., who went out berrying not
long ago, did not return and it is
believed that a big black bear which
has infested the district killed her
and carried off the body.
Miss Lizza Hart, of Madison, Neb.,
attempted to take her own life the
other day by a dose of lobelia. An
unfavorable result of a love affair waB
the cause. A physician was called
and soon relieved the sick girl.
Jesse Cross and Louis Briest, two
Winnebago Indians, were bronght
before the county judgo the other
day at Nebraska City, for stealing
Omaha Indian ponies, and hound
over to the district court to answer
the charge.
Maud S. the other day at Cleveland,
O.. driving park regaiued her lost
position as queen of the turf. Trot
ting a mile in one-quarter of a
second less time than Jay-Eye-See.
Her managers are confident that she
can trot a mile in two minutes and
eight seconds.
Baltimore, lid., was visited the
other afternoon by & wind storm ac
companied by rain, lightning and
thunder. The houses on the low
grounds of the city were flooded and
several buildings in conrso of erection
were blown down. Much other
damage was done.
This office is in receipt of circulars
from the Civil Service Reform Asso
ciation of New York wanting to know
whether we are in sympathy with
them. The Journal believes that
the purely business part of the gov
ernment should bo conducted on bus
iness principles. The great body or
the people are interested only -in hav
ing good government, but the Amer
ican people, we do nut think, will
ever give their consent to the contin
ued existence of an office-holding
clasB. It is all right to have efficient
service, but when any man or set of
men think they are the only oneB who
can do the work right, it is about
time for them to die or get out, if
for nothing else, to see what the peo
ple will do under the circumstances.
There is one other feature of all the
"reform" measures so far broached,
that is not fair, and that is to compel
a subordinate to submit to a severe
examination that his chief could not
pass. If laws are to be just, the gen
eral principle upon which they are
based should be universally applied,
and state representatives and sena
tors, governors, congressmen and
presidents allowed to be selected only
from the number of those who have
been tested as worthy by a compe-,
tent board of examiners. If "fitness"
is to be the test, why not apply it to
the "applicant" for the highest office
in the land, as well as the lowest?
The truth is the best men are not
made manifest by the work of a board
of examiners there are other quali
fications than tho ability to answer
hard questions asked from a school
book; many a man doing well on a
Nebraska farm men of good com
mon 6ense and Bound judgment
would make excellent officials, here
and there, but couldn't answer one
tenth the questions that these exam
iners are in the habit of "firing" at
applicants; there are hosts of bank
presidents throughout the country
who couldn't explain the rule for cube
root, the quadrature of the circle or
oven how to determine the amount
for which a man muBt give his note
at sixty days, eight per cent., to real
ize $100 cash down, who yet make the
very best kind of bank presidents,
because they hold hard to the chief
requisites,to have a depositor's money
ready for him on call, not to risk it in
speculation, and use every precaution
for Bafe-keeping. After all, though
the people do make mistakes, it seems
to us that they can best decide for
themselves, in each case where their
wish can be fully, freely and fairly
ascertained. The Journal says to
these and all other reformers, make
the government by tho people, more
and more, and you will secure the
greatest reform possible, and even
then the millonial period will still be
iu the distance.
The story of the Buffalo scandal
was to have been suddenly stopped
by a criminal proceeding on the part
of Mr. Cleveland for libel against the
author and publisher of the story, but
no action has been taken to have the
parties arrested, and now it appears
that tho Boston Journal has had a
representative in Buffalo who has in
terviewed responsible parties, and
finds that the charge against the dem
ocratic nomiuco for president is true.
Mr. Cleveland's personal character is
not only suffering in New York, but
throughout the country, and the story
shonld bo promptly met aud proven
untrue by unquestioned testimony if
it can be done. No innocent man
should permit such a story to be cir
culated against him for twenty-four
hours without taking some action to
reflu te it, or to confess it true, and
plead extenuating circumstances in
his own behalf. A Catholic priest in
Albany has gone so far as to publicly
demand the withdrawal of Cleveland's
name from the ticket and the substi
tution of Horatio Seymour or "some
other clean man." We bclievo the
time has fully arrived for Mr. Cleve
land and his friends to put a stop to
this matter by bringing forward the
evidence to contradict and disprove
it, or take the consequences. The
Journal has refrained, thus far, from
publishing the original statement and
has been waiting patiently to receive
the evidence that the story was false,
and we intended, with pleasure, to
publish the contradiction in the Jour
nal for what it was worth to the
friends of Mr. Cleveland.
The natioual democratic committee
met at the Delavan Honse, Albany,
on the 29th ult., and was called to
order by Secretary Prince, in. the
absence of Chairman Barnum. On
motion of Miller, of Nebraska, Hon.
John S. Barbour, of Virginia, was
chosen chairman pro tern. The roll
was called and all the states were
represented except Connecticut, Ken
tucky, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada,
Dakota, New Mexico, Utah and Wy
oming. Dawson, of South Carolina,
in behalf of the committee on organ
ization, made a report which was
adopted, but the committee decided
not to publish it at present. W. H..
Barnum heads the long list of names
composing the executive committee,
but Nebraska has no representative
on the committee. During the meet
ing an effort was made to have the
report of the committee on organiza
tion given to the newspaper, but it
was voted down.
The democratic committee designa
ted by their national convention met
at Albany, N. Y., on the 29th ult.,
and notified Gov. Cleveland officially
of his nomination for president. The
address of the committee as well as
the reply of Gov. Cleveland present
nothing new or startling either in
thought or principle, but we are
forced to acknowledge that both the
address and reply poseeg an excel
lence in the way of brevity, which
meets pur fnll approval and we cor
dially reeo&mend that quality of the
address and reply fa all political
parties.
The IVerthera Sean.
The story of Polar expeditions can
never be told. After giving a very
brief summary of .matters already
published in the Journal, we pre
sent additional particulars,a8 follows :
The Greely expedition relief ships
Thetis and Bear fonnd the survivors
of the GHely party five miles off
Cape Sabine in Smith's Sound June
22, '84. The survivors nnmbcr seven
men in all. Their names are Lieuten
ant Greely, Sergeant Brainard, Ser
geant Fredericks, Sergeant Ellison,
Sergeant Long, Hospital Steward
Belberback and private Connell. Ser
geant Ellison was very badly frost
bitten and died at Godhaven on July
6th while undergoing a surgical oper
ation. The relief ships with the sur
vivors, were at St. Johns, N. F., on
the 17th of July '84. The party claim
that they have penetrated the Arctic
country farther than has yet been
accomplished by any other party. In
latitude eight minuteB, thirty seconds ;
longitude seventy-eight minutes,
thirty seconds, Lieutenant Lockwood
saw the northern shore terminate
some 200 miles west and the southern
shore extending some fifty miles, with
Cape Lockwood some seventy miles
distant, apparently separate land from
Grinnell land. They named the new
land Arthur. Lockwood, in going
and returning, followed an ice cape
averaging about 150 feet perpendicu
lar face. Long in March '81 saw on
the northern coast three capes west
ward of the furtherest seen by Nores
in 1876. The sound extends some
twenty miles further west than shown
by the English chart. The survivors
of the Greely relief squadron have
arrived at Portsmouth, and will leave
in a short time (Aug. 5) for New
York. The "Bear" is ordered to Gov
ernor's Island, where the bodies of the
victims of the expedition will be turn
ed over to Gen. Hancock. Tho sur
vivors will be put under the care of
the war department, represented by
Gen. Hazen. On the morning of the
2d inst. Greely sat under the trees on
the lawn for an hour with his wife,
mother and children around him,
while he conversed with Gen. Hazen.
He was gazed on with great interest
by a vast crowd around the house.
An immense demonstration will be
given this week in honor of the return
of Greely in which several divisions
of naval cadets, naval apprentices,
marines and a brigade from the north
Atlantic fleet will take part. Military
and civil organizations, fire compan
ies, the municipal government of
Portsmouth and Newberryport and
the state authorities will participate.
The BHslaesa Outlook.
Three rather extra good years for
Nebraska have put the older commu
nities in very good shape financially,
and the rise of land all over this state
has added that amount of gratuitous
wealth to the owners of Nebraska
soil. Tho small grain having been
harvested, and generally secured in
good stacks, tho only other scriouB
question would now seem to bo the
outcome of the immense acreage of
corn. Tho tall stalks are fast growing
taller, the big ears are maturing rap
idly, and if no unforeseen drawback
happens between this and husking
time, Nebraska will again have scored
what farmers and business men call
"a good year," and real estate values
will again take a rise, the wave of set
tlement will go forward, new coun
ties will be named, new towns start
ed, and more attention will be given
to the now undeveloped portions of
the state, while the improvements
elsewhere will be pushed, and tho
good farms be mado better. Business
of every kind, it seems to the Jour
nal, will receive a new impetus, aud
the Nebraska world will wag along
with increased importance.
The officers ot the State Fair
Messrs. J. B. Dinsmore, Furnas and
S. M. Barker were in Lincoln the
other day on their way to Omaha to
superintend the erection of sheds and
the making of other arangements for
the State Fair. Gov. Furnas has
been a good deal among the people
and expressed the opinion that there
is a general interest among them
manifested in the coming State Fair,
and everybody is harmoniously co
operating in the organization of the
fair to have it the best the state has
ever held. He thinks the grain ex
hibit will be immense, and that they
will hardly be able to accommodate
the owners of stock who want to
exhibit. They have 143 cattle stalls
and 110 of them are already taken.
He says the outlook is 200 per cent
better than it has ever before been at
this time in the season for a great
exhibition and good fair. Tho state
fair will be held at Omaha from the
5th to the 12th of September.
Great excitement prevailed last
week at Chicago on account of the
arrival in that market of a large num
ber of sick and diseased cattle. The
doctors differ in opinion as to the
nature of the disease, whether it is
alkali, Texas fever, bloody murrain
or loco weeds. The better opinion
seems to prevail that the disorder is
Texas fever, superinduced by drink
ing alkali water. The cattle came
from southwestern Kansas. The
same disease to a limited extent has
made its appearance at Brady Island,
in this state, and has created a great
alarm among cattle men of that part
of the state for fear it will spread
among their herds. At this writing
an investigation, at the latter place,
is being made of the cattle affected.
Mrs. Tuoma8 Rowland, of Spring
ville, Ala., seeing a storm approach
ing, took refuge with her five little
children in a cyclone pit under the
house. The lightning struck a tree
in (be yard, the roots of which ran
into the pit, and the fluid followed
the roots with fatal results. The in
fant in the arms of the mother at the
time she was struck to death was not
iajBred.
ANOTHER DELEGATION FOR BLAINE.
Dan. CoHdoH Speak life Mind.
Ed. Journal, Dear Sir: As there
are a good many of my friends waut
to know the reason I support Blaine
and Logan, if I am not intruding too
much on your valuable space I will
give some of my reasons, as they are
too numerous for one time. My first
reason is, Cleveland cannot be my
friend, or of any laboring mau, me
chanic or farmer, with tho free-trade
plauk in his platform, which would
have American labor down to the old
standard wages of the good old dem
ocratic days, from fifty to sixty coins
per day, and our farmers selling
wheat from twenty to twenty-live
cents a bushel ; that is what Iroc trade
would bring, but that is what all tho
New York monopolists want cheap
labor.
O no I We will have an American
for President, J. G. Blaine, for a man
to be an American in tho full sense of
the word must love his country ; the
accident of birth don't fill the bill by
a long way ; he must be patriotic ; he
must not enter into any compact with
"other nations to cripple his own, aud
that Cleveland has done iu his free
trade dogma and that in my mind is
becoming a party to the biggest steal
ever perpetrated on any nation, and
what will be the outcome of free
trade? You will sell your wheat be
fore two years, if Cleveland is elected,
as I said, for twenty-five cents a buBh
el and everything else in proportion.
Another reason i3 Cleveland has
Identified himself with the worst
enemy of the Irish Americans in the
country, Abraham S. Ilewott of New
York, who introduced the O'Donuell
resolution to have a stay and investi
gation to show why ho was sentenced
to death ; this resolution went through
without a dissenting vote, but Hew
ctt, to undo what he had done, went
in the night to the British Minister,
and told him it was all buncomb and
only taffy for the Irish ; the minister
telegraphed these facts home to his
government aud O'Donnell was hung
at the time appointed did not get
one minute. Just picture to your
selves, fellow citizens, and how you
would be when if it would happen,
which I don't expect it ever will, for
there is enough of true Americans
left not to allow any such a pair ever
occur as the following. See how it
would sound, Grovcr Cleveland, pres
ident, Abraham S. Hewett, secretary
of Btatc. It would not be a very good
time then to be Irish and the only way
out is to vote for Blaine and Logan.
Now, Mr. Editi r, as some of un
democratic friends will say I have a
motivo in writing the foregoing, right
here I want all my friends to bear in
mind that I am not looking for any
thing, don't expect anything and don't
want anything, as I liave rustled for
myself since I was i i:ie years old and
am able to rustic yet, but there is one
thing I do want, and that is to be
commander in chief of myself, that is
to do my own thinking like any free
man. Hoping, Mr. Editor, you will
excuse me for intruding on your val
uable space, I am, dear sir,
Respectfully yours,
Dan. Condon.
Of Interest to Soldier.
Claimants under tho act of June
3d, to provide for the muster and pay
of certain officers and enlisted men,
and July 5th, to relieve certain sol
diers from the charge of desertions
should make application to the Adju
tant General for an amendment of
their records and having secured
this, the Second Auditor of the Treas
ury can take uogniz-mco of, and act
upon the claims for pay. It is slated
tho intermediation of a claim agent is
unnecessary.
Citizenship of tho republic must
bo the panoply and safeguard of him
who wears it. The American citizen,
rich or poor, native or naturalized,
white or colored, must everywhere
walk secure in his personal aud civil
rights. The republic should never
accept a lesser duty, it can never as
sume a nobler one, than the protection
of the humblest man who owes it loy
alty protection at home, and protec
tion which shall follow him abroad,
into whatever land he may go upon a
lawful errand. James G. Blaine.
Congressman Culbektson, of Ky.,
who represents the Ashland district,
attempted suicide the other day at
National hotel, Washington, D. C,
by shooting. He fired several shots,
one of which entered his right tem
ple, coming out near the ear on the
opposite side of the head. He was
still living on the 31st ult., but the
physicians have no hope of his re
covery. The use of strong drink the
only reason assigned for ta&ing his
own life.
"The principle of the public rcgxda
lion of railway corporations is a wise
andfalulary one for the protection of
all ctasses of people, and tee favor
legislation that shall prevent unjust
discrimination and excessive charges
for transportation, and that shall
secure to the people and to the rail
ways alike the fair and equal protec
tion of the la ws." Republican Plat
form. At Hastings they are now likewise
engaged in enforcing the laws against
houses of ill-fame, and do not find
that public opinion is so wonderfully
in their favor that the laws can not
be fully executed. A Mr. Wells, so
sayB the Journal, paid $210 into the
school fund between a Thursday aud
the next Tuesday, after languishing
in jail awhile thinking to break
through the legal net.
Recent report from Dakota City,
Neb., says tbat in a row at Jackson
tbe other night M. . Ryan sbot Dan
Foley, tbe ball lodging in tbo base of
tbe brain. lie also shot Tom Ken
nelly in tbe fleshy part of the leg.
Deputy Sheriff Basafield arrested
Ry&O near ffubbard as be was skip
ping ouL
i:putIic;iti County Convention.
The Hup'ihMiMii votoi- ot PlaUe
county aro r qio-.!ed to send del
egatus to a county couveuli-m to be
bcid at the Court House, Columbua,
Saturday, August, 16, 1S84,
at 11:30 h. in. sharp, .'or tho purpose
of nominating a complete county
ticket, including candidates ior rep
resentatives, delegates to the float
representative convention, to the sen
atorial convention, delegates to the
judicial convention, to the congres
sional and state conventions, and
transacting any other business
properly before the convention.
The township caucuses will be held
in the v.irious townships, at the last
voting place Saturday, August, 9th,
'84, at 2 p. in., and the committee
recommend that the selection of del
egates be made by ballot.
Townships are entitled to repre
sentation iu the county convention as
follows:
Columbus Towushtp 3
Columbus, 1st ward? 3
2d " 3
3d " '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 5
Butler 2
Bismark 2
Monroe 5
Shell Creek 2
Walker 5
Humphrey 3
Grand Prairio 2
Lost Creek 4
Grauville 2
Creston 3
Burrows 2
Woodvillo 4
St. Bernard 1
Sherman 3
Lonp 2
Joliet 3
M. K. Turner, Chairman.
L. Gerhard, Sec'y.
The Irish Nation, the Irish World,
Freeman's Journal and Boston Pilot,
with a number of other Irish papers
of less note, support Blaine, and yot,
once in a while, we come across a
democrat that would fain make him
self believe that it is all a "lie got up
to affect the election." The papers
know what they arc about, however.
Georges Creek Vallev in West
Virginia the other night was the
scene of a terrible flood, which did
damage to the amount of $100,000 and
drowned twelve persons. Several
houses in the village were swept
away, bridges and trestles ruined,
and miles of railroad track washed
out.
A contract has been concluded
with Van Liew, Moore and Sprecker,
of Blair, for erecting a new brick
high school building at Albion, Neb.,
for JfS.GOO. We congratulate the
citizens of Albion on their prospect
for a nice school building and neat
and inviting grounds surroundiug it.
Rhody Boyle, a wealthy farmer,
living near St. Joe, Pa., was con
fronted at his residence tho other
afternoon by three masked men with
revolvers cocked, compelled him to
open his Bafe and givo them $13,000
in cash, after which they took to the
woods and have not been captured.
Those who care to know the polit
ical bent of tho Norfolk Journal will
find it uncompromisingly and inces
santly in favor of railroad candidates.
Just why this is true docs not seem of
importance enough to any one to
inquire.
NOTICE.
Anions the records of the District
Court, held in and for Platte County, on
the :td day of July, 1884, it is, infer alia,
thus contained:
In the matter of the estate of David
O'llrien, deceased.
OX THE PETITION OF PATRICK
Murray, executor of the last will
and testament of David O'Brien, deceas
ed, praying for a license to sell certain
real estate for the payment of debts and
charges of said estate, it appearing by
said petition that there is not sutlicient
personal estate to pay the debts of said
estate.
It is thcrelore ordered by the Judge of
this court that the lGth dy of August,
1SSI, at one o'clock, afternoon, at the
Court House in Columbus, Platte County,
Nebraska, be fixed for the time and place
for a hearing upon said petition, at which
time and place all parties interested are
notified to appear and show cause, if any,
why a license may not be granted as
prayed for to sell said real estate, and
that a copy of this order be published in
Thk Columuus Journal lour succssive
weeks.
A. 31. TOST, Judge.
I certify that that the above is
a true and correct copy as ap
seal. pears of record in the proceed
ings of the District Court of the
date above named.
G. IlEITKKMI'KR,
Clerk District Court.
By G. I!. Speice, Deputy. 21-4
NOTICE.
VIRTUE of a chattel morttraire
BY,
dated on the 23rd day of March. 1884.
anu executed uyoonn LacKey, dr., to u.
TV. Messenger, to secure the payment of
the sum of three hundred and lifty dol
lars, ($350.00) and upon which there is
now due the sum of ($330.00) with in
terest at ten per cent, from the 23rd day
of March, 1884; default having been made
in the payment of said sum, therefore the
undersigned will sell at public sale, the
property described therein, viz: One
bay horse, 7 years old, one bay marc, 8
years old, one Brewster side-bar top
buggy.
bale to take place in front of the Ham
mond House" in the City of Columbus,
Platte County, on the 30th day of August,
18S4, at 11 o'clock a. m., of said day.
Bowman & "Walker.
Dated August 3th, 18S4. 1
FI3FAL. PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
juiy istn, 1V34. )
NOTICE is hereby given that the following-named
settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court of Platte County, at Colum
bus, Nebraska, on Saturday, August 30th,
18S4, viz:
Peter Anderson, Homestead No. 9075,
for the S. W. i Section 30, Township 20,
north, of Range 4 west. He names the
following witnesses to prove bis contin
uous residence upon, and cultivation
of, said land, viz: Hans Peterson, Sada
lia, Boone Co., Neb., Louis Petterson,
Andrew Anderson, Ben Hanson, of Look
ingglass Platte Co., Neb.
13-0 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FINAL PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
August 4th, 1SSL f
NOTICE is hereby given that the following-named
settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and tbat said proof
will be made before the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court, at Columbus, Nebraska, on
September 12th, 1881, viz:
George G. Glass, Homestead No. 11501,
for the W. , of S. W. Ji, Section 20,
Township 10, Range 3 west. He names
the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon, and culti
vation of, said land, viz: Samuel Ma
hood, Henry Hurly, James Free and
Anthony Cady, all of Postville, Nebr.
15-6 C. HOSTETTER. Register.
PROCLAMATION.
YaTHEKEAS, a joint resolution
was
TV adopted by the Legislature of the
State ofNclir.isk.i. at the Eighteenth S us.
sion thereof, and approved February 27th,
A. D. 1883. proposing an Amendment to
Section Four (4) of Article Three (S) of
the Constitution of said State, and that
said section as amended shull read as
follows, to-wit:
"Section 4. The term of office of mem
bers of the Legislature shall be two
years, and they shall each receive a
salary of three hundred dollars for their
services during said term, and ten cents
for every mile they shall travel in going
to and returning from the place of meet
ing of the Legislature, ou the most usual
route. Provided, hotctver, that neither
members of the Legislature nor em
ployees shall receive any pay or perqui
sites other than their salary and mileage.
Each session, except special sessions,
shall be uot less than sixty days. After
the expiration of forty da of the session
no bills nor joint resolutions of the na
ture of bills shall be introduced, unless
the Governor shall, by special mes.age,
call the attention of the Legislature to
the necessity of passing a law on the
subject matter embraced in the message,
and the introduction of bills shall be
restricted thereto."
The ballots at the election at which
said Amendment shall be submitted shall
be In the following form: "For proposed
Amendment to the Constitution relating
to Leg:slative Department." "Against
proposed Amendment to the Constitution
relating to Legislative Department."
Whereas, a joint resolution was adopted
by the Legislature of the State of Ne
braska at the Eighteenth Session thereof,
and approved February 28th. a. d. 1883,
proposing an Amendment to Section One
(1) of Article Five (5) ot the Constitution
ot said State, and tbat said section as
amended shall read as follows, to-wit:
"Section 1. The Executive Depart
ment shall consist of a Governor, Lieutenant-Governor,
Secretary of State,
Auditor of Public Accounts, Treasurer,
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Attorney General, Commissioner of Pub
lic Lauds aud Buildings, and Board of
Railway Commissioners. The officers
named in this section shall each hold his
office for the term of two years from the
tirst Thursday after the tirst Tuesday in
January next after hi election, ami until
his successor is elected aud qualified.
Provided, hotcever, that the tirst election
of said officers shall be held ou the tirst
Tuesday succeeding the tirst Monday in
November of 1880, and each succeeding
election shall be held at the same relative
time in each even year thereafter. All
other officers that may be provided for by
law, under the provisions of this section,
shall be chosen in such manner and at
such times, aud shall hold their offices
for such length of time as may be provi
ded by law, aud shall perform such du
ties and ri-ccive such compensation as
may be provided for by law. The Gov
ernor, Secretary of State, Auditor of
Public Accounts, Treasurer, Commis
sioner of Public i.auds and Buildings,
and Attorney General, shall reside at tbe
seat of government duriug their terms of
office, aud keep the public records, books
and papers there, aud the officers herein
named shall perform such duties as may
be required by law."
The ballots at the election at which
said Amendment shall be submitted shall
be in the following form: "For proposed
Amendment to Section One I of Article
Five a of the Constitution, entitled,
' Executive Department.' " " Against
proposed Amendment to Section One 1
of Article Five 5 of the Constitution,
entitled, 'Executive Department.' "
Therefore, I, James W. Dawes, Gov
ernor of the State ot Nebraska, do hereby
give notice, in accordance with Section
One 1 Article Fifteen l." of the Consti
tution, and the provisions of an act
entitled, "An Act to provide the manner
of proposing Amendments to the Consti
tution and submitting the same to the
Electors of this State," approved Febru
ary 13th, A. D. 1877, that said proposed
Amendments will be submitted to the
qualified voters of this State for ratifica
tion or rejection at the General Election
to be held ou the 4th day of November,
A. D. 1884.
In Witness Whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and caus
ed to be affixed the Great Seal of
of the State of Nebraska.
Seal. Done at Lincoln, this 18th day
of July, a. i. 1884, the Eighteenth
year of the State, aud of the In
dependence of the United States,
the One Hundred and Ninth.
By the Governor, JAMES W. DAWES,
Attest: Edward P. Roggkn,
Secretary of State. 14-3m
TAX-SALE NOTICE.
To the Credit Mobilier of America, or
the owner of the following described
lots and lands:
You are hereby notified that the
property described as follows to-wit:
All of the lots in blocks live (3) six (0)
seven (7) twenty -seven (27) twenty-eight
(28) and thirty-seven (37), and lo'ts one
(1) two (2) three (3) four (4) live (3) six
(6) seven (7) eight (8) nine (9) ten (10)
eleven (11) and twelve (12) iu block
eight 8, and lots one 1 two 21 three 31
four 4 five 'ii six 0 ten 10 eleven 11
and twelve 12 in block twenty-six 20,
and lots one 1 two 2 three 3 four 41
live ." ten flOJ eleven llj and twelve 12
in block thirty-eight 381, and lots one 1
two 2 three 3 four 4 in block sixty
CO, all of said lots being situated in
Capitol Addition to the City of Colum
bus, in the County of Platte, State of
Nebraska, was purchased at the front
door of tbe Court House, in said City of
Columbus, on the lKth day of November,
1882, at public sale by E. A. Gerrard, for
delinquent taxes assessed ou said lots
and lands for the year 1881, and by said
E. A. Gerrard duly assigned to me. the
undersigned; that said lots and lands
were not taxed in the name of any party,
and tbat the time of redemption will
expire on the 10th day of November, 181.
Alonzo V. Miller,
14-3 Assignee.
FIItAE. PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
June SOth, 181. j"
"TrOTICE is hereby given that the
i3l following-named settler has tiled
notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before Clerk of the
District Court at Columbus, Neb., on
August 7th, 1884. viz:
Julius Schmidt, Homestead No. !K)I(,
for the N . , of S. E.J, Section 22, Town
ship 17, Range 1 west. He names the
following witnesses to prove his con
tinuous residence upon, and cultivation
of, said land, viz: John BredchotT, Val
entine Losak, John Gerbcr, and John
Hosncr, all of Duncan Nebr.
10-G C HOSTETTER, Register.
TAX-SALE NOTICE.
To N. L. and C. Davenport and N. S. and
C. Davenport:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that
the property described as follows,
to-wit: Lot No. 3, in Block No. 149, in Co
lumbus, situated in Platte Co., and State
of Nebraska, was purchased on the 23th
day of Nov., 1882, at tax sale, by W. L.
Selby, and was taxed and delinquent for
the year 1881 that the same was taxed in
the name of N. S. and C. Davenport, and
that the time of redemption will expire
on the 2oth day oiNovember, 1884.
14-3 W. L. SELBY.
FINAL. PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
July 5th, 1881. f
NOTICE is hereby given that the following-named
settler has tiled notice
of his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and tbat said proof
will be made before Judge of tbe District
Court at Columbus, Neb., on the 23d
day of August,1881, viz:
Patrick Murrissev, Homestead Entry
No. 1212G, for the E.K, N. E. i, Section
32, Township 19, north of Range 2 west,
being additional to w. n. w. j same sec.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon,
and cultivation of, said land, viz:
Patrick Ducey, James Ducey, John
Shanahan, Jerry Sbanahan, all of Platte
Centre P. O., in Platte Couuty, Neb.
11-6 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FINAE. PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Islaxd Neb.,)
June 23d, 1881. f
TVTOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
JLi lowing-named settler has filed notice
of bis intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before Clerk of District
Court of Platte county at Columbus,
Neb., on Saturday, August 9th, 1881, viz:
Wendelien Branner, Homestead No.
7010, for the W. K S. E. i, Section 2.
Township 19 north, Range 1 east. He
names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cul
tivation of, said land, viz: Henry Wur
deman, Henry Hunteman, Carl Staab,
of Boheet, Platte Co.. Neb., and John
Uoessel, of Columbus, Platte Co., Neb.
10.6 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
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Give Me a call and convince yourself of the facts.
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FALL TERM (10 weeks) will begin
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THE
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AND THE
From n ow until after the Presidential
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To present subscribers of the Jour
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Columbus, Neb.
FIHAL. PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island
V..K 1
July 7th, 181. T
Nl
OTICE is hereby given that the
following-named settler has filed
notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of his claim, aud tbat
said proof will be made before the Clerk
of the District Court at Columbus, Ne
braska, on Friday August 22nd, 1881, viz:
August Peterson, Homestead No. 9092,
for the N. W. J, Section 20, Township
20, north of Range 4 west. He names
the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon, and cul
tivation of, said land, viz: Leroy
Francisco, of Newmans Grova, Madison
Couuty Neb., John Newman, Gustav
Hinman, and John Hotfman, of Look
ingglass, Platte County Nebr.
ll.U C. HOSTETTER. Register.
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