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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26, 1884.
TEASK8QIWSQ.
The President's Proclamation.
"Washington, Nov. 7. Tho presi
dent has issued the following procla
mation : Tho season is nigh when it
is the yearly wont of this people to
observe a day appointed for that
purpose by the president, as an espe
cial occasion for thanksgiving unto
God. Now, therefore, in recognition
of this hallowed custom, I, Chester A.
Arthur, president of the United
States, do hereby designate as such
day of general thanksgiving, Thurs
day, tho 27th of November, and I do
recommend that througnoui me ibuu
tho people, ceasing from their accus
tomed occupations, do then keep tho
holiday at their eeveral homes and
their several places of worship, and
with heart and voice pay reverent
acknowledgment to the giver of all
good for the countless blessings
wherewith he has blessed this nation.
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.
By The Goreraor of the
State
or IVebrasUa.
The year now drawing to a close has
been freighted with blessings in abun
dant measure to the people of Nebraska.
The conditions that move the human
heart to thankfulness surround us upon
every hand. The glad songs of peace and
plenty go up from the happy homes of a
prosperous and contented people. Thurs
day, the 27th day of November, has been
designated ly the President of the
United States as a day of National
Thanksgiving, and in harmony therewith,
I, James W. Dawes, Governor of the
State of Nebraska, do hereby recommend
to the people of this State that the day so
appointed be observed as a day of
Th:iiikH'ivim' and l'raver to AlmiirhtV
God in humble acknowledgement of Ills
continued mercies.
'Enter into
his
gates with thanksgiving, and into his
courts with praise ; be thankful unto
him and bless his name." Let the voice
of praise and thank-ottering be heard
from all at the hearthstone altar of
Home, and in the Sanctuary. If such
there be in your midst, then from your
abundance relieve the wants and gladden
the hearts of the needy, and the suffering.
"So shall thy barns be filled with plenty,
and thy presses shall burst out with
new wine."
In "Witness Whereof, I
have hereunto set my hand
and caused to be affixed the
Great Seal of the State of Ne
braska. Done at Lincoln, this Fif
teenth day of November, in
SEAL
me year oi our L.oru uno
Thousand Eight Hundred and
Eighty-Four; of this State the
Eighteenth, and of the Inde
pendence or the United States
the One Hundred and Ninth.
By the Governor,
James W. Dawfs,
Edward I'. Koguen, Scrctary of State.
Snow at Denver on the 17th.
Germans have thirteen whole holi
days every year.
The fastest animal on record (Maud
S.) is ten years old.
The Bee suggests that St. John
should be preserved in alcohol.
The Mayor of New York has pro
hibited any moro "glove contests."
Thirty cents a day only are paid
tho best skilled workmen in Naples.
SruucEON, the preacher, thinks the
world has grown better since ho came
into it.
A disease, supposed to bo "black
leg'' is killing off young cattlo in
Berks county, Pa.
In the village of Sloco, Canada,
twenty-seven cases of small-pox wero
recently reported.
The "Warcham Iron company's
works, at South Warcliam, has shut
down for au indefinite period.
"Crystal ice," a new skating sur
face, has been invented by Dr. Calan
tariento, of Scarborough, England.
James G. Blaine will go to Wash
ington City in about two week?, and
will reside there during the winter.
The Now York Central has reduced
first-class rales to Chicago to $10.50,
to meet the rates of the other roads.
President Arthur and Gen. U. S.
Grant arc talked of as probable candi
dates in New York for United States
senators.
The Democratic National Com
mittee, it is said, during the campaign
received a total of SttW.OOO for elec
tion purporcs.
Arthur Clark, a sailor, was found
dying the other day in a New York
boarding house of yellow fever. No
other persons in the building were ill.
No other book of the Bible is so
much in demand in India as that of
Proverbs. Its epigrammatic wisdom
is highly appreciated by the Hindoos.
A report comes trom Boston that
the New England manufacturers gen
erally havo been forced to reduce the
wages of their employes for an indefi
nite time.
Gen. McClellan has been recom
mended for secretary of state in the
incoming administration, by the dem
ocrats of Caldwell, tho birthplace of
the President-elect.
Miss Emma Larson and her young
sister, who rode on horseback from
their home in Wisconsin to San Fran
cisco, made the journey in safety
without being once molested.
From December 1, tho Chicago &
Alton road announces that the sale of
unlimited tickets will begin, making
tho rate $G.50 from Chicago to St.
Louis, and $10 to Kausas City.
Nearly all the ingrain carpet mills
closed tho other day at Philadelphia,
owing to the refusal of the power
loom weavers to accept the proposed
reduction in wages of 10 to 30 per
cent
Wm. Huffsmith, a brakeruan on
the Wymore branch of tho B. & M.,
vas caught at Liberty tho other day
between the cars and fatally smashed.
Ho was a now man and this was his
first trip.
A company in St. Louis has added
to the list of canned goods that of
eggs. It is claimed that one tea
spoonful after being dried and canned
is equal to one egg, and will keep for
tbrco years.
The planters of Louisiana claim that
the sugar cane this year contains
richer juice than has ever before been
known, owing to improved methods
of fertilizing, and perhaps some pecu-1
' liarity of the season. I
" to Kicamend."
The Butler Co. Press shows a com
mendable spirit of inquiry in desiring
to know how our legislative delega
tion will vote on anti-monopoly issues,
and makes the assertion : "Columbus
"has sent one or two pretty scaly
"citizens to the capital during the
"time of our acquaintance with them,"
but does not go into further particu
lars. The Journal does not claim
for Columbus or Platte county any
excess of political or other virtue, but
we think that the delegation elect
will compare very favorably with any
other in the state, on anti-monopoly
or other issues, and for general good
sense and judgment. Tho editor of
the Pre knows (as does every news
paper man in tho state) that almost
every man you meet entertains the
sentiments advocated for years by the
Press, a democratic paper, by the
Journal, a republican paper, that the
power of corporations over tbo busi
ness and tho politics of the state
should be curbed, and their functions
so prescribed by law and so firmly
held to their proper sphere of action
by tho force of organized public opin
ion that the public welfare will be
paramount to every other considera
tion, and private greed go unsatisfied,
at least until somo sort of poor jus
tice is done to weaker and lees clam
orous interests.
And this is not a matter of mere
partizan concern, it belongs to the
entire body of tho commonwealth, aud
should bo so regarded even by par
tizan journals.
War Claim.
Tho administrator of the estate of
Senator Lamar, has commenced
suit in the United States circuit
court against the government to
recover $100,000 for cotton taken
from his plantation in '65.
The hasty action beginning even
before the democratic president
has taken the oath of office, with
the first action to show the gov
ernment what may be expected in
I this line in the future, to annul and
destroy tho action of the government
in putting down a rebellion which
attempted the life of the nation by
dissolving the Union. Loyal and
Union loving citizens of tho nation
are thus early notified and warned
what will be the future action of a
Solid South who failed in their first
contest to destroy tho Union.
Such republican papers as the Lin
coln Journal and the Omaha Jiepub
lican are doing more to force Ne
braska into the democratic ranks, by
their personal, narrow-minded, and
senseless fight against Senator Van
Wyck, than all the democratic papers
in the state combined. Senator Van
Wyck has hosts of friends all over
the 6tate, and if republican editors
who have got more enthusiasm than
good sense attempt to force him to
the wall, bis friends will rise up and
meet them on that issue. Just at
this time the republican party has
more than it can attend to on outside
issues, and the man or paper that will
endeavor to stir up strife within the
party is an enemy to tho party, and
should seek the paradise of the mug
wump. Madison Chronicle.
The Sutton Register says that one
of their rampant democrats defends
the south in denying the negroes
their constitutional rights, either by
force or fraud. He says they never
ought to have been enfranchised, and
if they could bo legally disfranchised
so much the better. The Register
allows that the Democratic party
"would hardly conseut to that, so
long as it gains 48 electoral votes by
counting them as citizens, while it
refuses to let them exercise the rights
of citizenship." If negroes are good
enough as a basis for representation,
they ought to be good enough to vote
peaceably.
Later news from Joseph Cook, the
murderer of Leonard Rohl, at Blue
Hill, states that be still survives the
unsuccessful lynching, and has been
taken by Sheriff" Warren, to Red
Cloud, where he is now under guard
and the care of physicians. His ani
mation is entirely restored, and at
present there does not seem to beany
sign of internal hemorrhage, but the
danger is not passed by any means ;
and it is claimed now that he is com
pletely deranged, by tho treatment he
has received, and many citizens fam
iliar with the facts say that he never
was in his right mind.
The lice's correspondent at Lincoln
thinks he has uncovered a scheme
whereby Church Howe is to be made
chairman of the senate this winter
and is to set up tho committees in the
interests of the railway gang. The
question, however, of the appoint
ment of these committees by the lieu
tenant governor or whether they are
to be created by the senate caucus de
pends upon the votes of Howell, of
York, McAllister, of Platte, Cherry,
of Gage and Lewis, of Washington.
Fremont Tribune
We said last week that the South
would be heard from, and here it is,
in full blast. The following are
headlines from the Greenville (South
Carolina) 2fews :
"Now, Yell I A solid, honest, on
trammelled Rebel Yell ! Grover
Cleveland is our next President!
The Democracy is on top at last ! All
doubts dispelled! A Glorious cer
tainty! No more tronble for the
Solid South No more carpet-bag
scallawag Government You solid
white men and Honest Democrats,
tell ! We have a Democratic Presi
dent at last r
Brother Blakely has a very neat,
incisive way of saying a thing. Re
ferring to the blood and thunder
manifesto issued recently from dem
ocratic headquarters, he says : "Judg
ing from this, there are a few people
in this country who did not 'die in
the last ditch,' according to an agree
ment of twentv veirs kpo. and are
now anxious to complete the con-
tract."
A BK1TIHH CONSPIRACY.
The Way the EBgliah Talk at
Home of America Itlaaa-
lactares.
Ottawa, III., Oct. 20, 1884.
To the Editor of the Toledo Blade:
I 6end you a few items from a letter
received here last month, the perusal
of which may be of advantage to all
who will read it It was from a
brother in England to his brother re
Biding in this country, but as the fam
ily in England are under the control
of an Hon. Lord, the names are
left out, to avoid unpleasant conse
quences. J. Collins.
Dear Brother : Father desired
mo to write to you to let you know
that Euglaud was going to make
trouble with the United States, as soon
as tbo first favorablo opportunity
occurred, and he wants you to sell out
and come homo. He heard My Lord
tell an Irish Lord that is here how it
was some to be done. This Irish
Lord, by virtue of his father's death,
becomes a member of the Privy Coun
cil, and our Lord was informing him
of the policy of our Government in
its relation with other nations, and
more in particular to the United
States. It seems that under Republi
can party policy of Protection the
manufacturing interests have increas
ed so rapidly in the Northern States
that they are threatening our supre
macy in the South American nations,
and the Northern States are the only
rivals that England has iu the me
chanical and manufacturing world.
It becomes a matter of the greatest
interest to England, and the question
that must be settled is whether the
United States shall drive England out
of cur legitimate markets in South
America or England shall crush the
growing mechanical power of the
United States you will understand
what is meant by what was said bet
ter than we do. The young Lord waB
told that England had a good friend
in the Solid South and the Democratic
party, who are in favor of free trade
with England ; and, if they once get
the President, as a matter of course,
the Solid South, being really the
Democratic party, are to have in their
Cabinet the Secretaries of State,
Treasury and War, with the Minister
to London. The rest will follow.
The negroes in the South will be
pushed into rebellion. The white
population will call on the Secretary
of War for arms to put the negroes
down and to protect themselves
against the blacks, until the great
amount of munitions of war now in
the hands of the North are safely
stored away in the Southern States,
when the South can do as they please.
Through advices from London they
got a law passed by Congress prohib
iting the President from using the
army and navy as a posse comitates.
Then the Southern States will call a
Congress and declare for Free Trade.
With a President favorable to Eng
land, England will supply the South
with goods bolow the actual cost.
That will bring on complications be
tween the Northern States and Eng
land. The Northern States may chafe
and be angry, but they can do noth
ing. The vast munitions of war will
be in the South, the millions in the
Treasury transferred South, the
Northern States will be helpless. Al
ready England has pushed the Cana
dian railway through to the great
wheatfields of Manitoba to draw sup
plies from. England will make a
flush market for every bushel of grain,
every pound of pork, butter or cheese
that Canada can produce to the ex
clusion of anything from the States.
Thus England will have a loyal Can
ada in the North, the Southern States
as a positive ally in the South it
would be but a short timo before the
large manufacturing powers in the
Northern States would bo crushed,
aud England would bo without a rival
iu the mechanical world because
England, having the rest of the world
for a market, can sell to the States at
a small loss and as a consequence
tho Northern States would become a
second Ireland, depending upon Eng
land for their goods. But you may
think that the Northern States would
not submit, but rise in arms against
tho South. But if they did thoy
would havo to fight England also.
Eugl md would be fighting for a free
market on the American continent,
besides she would help to secure the
independence of the Confederate
States so as to make good the thous
ands of millions of the Confederate
bonds she now holds those bonds
are not yet due and England knows
the Northern States will never pay
them does not expect them to do so.
When England sent out the "Ala
bama" to prey upon your ocean com
merce and invested in those bonds
she hoped to divide the States at that
time, but your statesmen, and with
the dread that Russia would grasp
our East India Empire if wo declared
war against the United States, saved
the States at that time. But since
then times are changed. Englaud
could "send a few war vessels and
blockade your eastern ports, and that
would keep every Southern port free
and open to England ; two good ships
of war at the Golden Gate, and the
Northern States would be securely
bottled up. England would ack
nowledge the independence of the
Confederate States and her millions
in Confederate bonds would be due in
four years; thus England would se
cure, without any danger to her sta
bility, millions in money and an un
disputed market for her goods on the
North and South American conti
nents. My Lord explained that Eng
land had no hatred to the people of
the United States, but that it was the
duty of our statesmen to uphold the
supremacy of England if that necessi
tated the downfall of every otheri
nation, and that it was necessary to
the tranquility of England that the
Republican policy of Protection in
the States must be broken down ; a
system that gives the Irish in the
States so mnch money, over and above
keeping them, to give the Irish lead
ers to keep up their hostile organiza
tions to English rule, must be crushed
down, and the policy advocated by
what you call the Solid South to low
er the duty on English goods, is the
means whereby England expects to
rule the States, and bring down wages
to the level of English workmen, and
when the wages in the States are
brought down to the bare cost of liv
ing our Government will have no
further trouble with Irish organiza
tions for the independence of Ireland.
Father says you must sell out before
the Solid South gets control of your
government, and come home before
the trouble begins.
The New York Sun says that near
the end of the late campaign Wm. H.
Vanderbilt contributed $150,000 to
the fund for the election of Grover
Cleveland ; that there has never been
any doubt as to which side had the
sympathy of the great railroad mon
opolists and speculators; that not
only Vanderbilt but Gould desired
the election of Cleveland, and that,
knowing which candidate would be
most plastic and useful, they put their
money where they thought it would
do the most good.
Nebraska.
The official vote shows Dawes ma
jority over Morton 15,193; Shedd
over Pace, 21,994 ; Roggen over Bone
steel, 18,525; Willard over Clancy,
18,595; Babcock over Benccko, 16,
944 ; Leese over Montgomery, 18,234 ;
Scott over Alberts, 17,051 ; Jones over
Dean, 19,887. The congressional vote
was
FIRST DI8TRICT.
Weaver 22,644
Brown. 21,669
O'Neil. 1,024
Weaver's plurality 975
SECOND DISTRICT.
Laird 21,182
Stickel 17,650
Laird's plurality 3,532
THIRD DISTRICT.
Dorsey 25.9S5
Neville 20,671
Fitch 578
Dorsoy's plurality 5,314
For legislative amendment 54,959
Against " " .... 17,766
For executive amendment 22,223
Against " " .... 44,651
The hog cholera that mado its ap
pearance in the eastern part of the
state two months ago has abated but
little, and while our herds are yet
free from disease it is a matter of the
greatest importance to our farmers
and hog feeders that they use every
precaution against its ravages. There
is much difference of opinion among
hog growers as to the proper manner
of treating the disease. We clip tho
following from the Jiural Am erican
which gives a new idea of the discaso,
and a new remedy, which is said to
havo been administered with happy
results :
The cholera made its appearance
among his hogs, and they commenced
dying and in the course of six or
seven weeks be had lost ninety-six
head. He then had four killed in one
day and after making a careful post
mortem examination, he found these
animals were dying from the ravages
of other animals animals within.
He then made a strong infusion of
tobacco and fed it .to the hogs in but
termilk, and from that time forward
he has not lost a single hog. St. Paul
Free Press.
A little time past midnight the
star of Bethlehem can now be seen.
Two thousand years have nearly
elapsed since the first appearance of
this wonderful star Is recorded. Ac
cording to the Iowa Falls Sentinel, as
well as the conjectures by scientists
and theologians, we are on the bor
dor of a great chango of some kind.
Tho strange appearance at buu sets
and the singular currents of electric
ity, or whatever it may be that follow
the sun daily, earthquakes, rumors of
war, signs in the heavens, and great
social upheavals, are precursors of a
grand event of some kiud that is close
by. The Inter-Ocean publishes these
sentiments in substauce, and adds
that Firgal, a writer of celebrity, is of
this opinion, which bo has recently
written for publication.
The question often occurs: At
what height can men live? A recent
traveler in Asia, Mr. Webber, states
that in the mountains of Thibet he
has lived for mouths at the height of
more than 15,000 feet above the ocean,
with the following results: His
pulse, normally only sixty-three beats
per minute, seldom fell below 100
beats per minute during the time he
lived at that altitude, nis respira
tions were often twice as numerous
as under ordinary circumstances. A
run of 1,000 yards would quicken
both pulse and respiration more than
a ruu of 1,000 yards at the sea level,
and the higher the altitude at which
he resided tho greater he found the
difficulty of walking or running fast.
Chicago Herald.
Those who have fenced in tho
prairie and had it closely grazed will
appreciate the following item from
the Buffalo couuty Beacon:
"Mr. Ed. T. Judd inyited us last
week to take a walk in his pasture
field. Three years ago Mr. Judd
simply scattered over this pasture a
small amount of blue grass seed. Tho
ground was not harrowed, and has
been closely pastured ever since.
Now, there are numerous patches of
bluo grass, of various sizes, all ovor
the field, and wherever the blue grass
has got a start it is rapidly and en
tirely crowding out the native grass.
In a few years be will have a blue
grass pasture worth many times one
of native grass. At the time of our
visit the blue grass was almost as
green and fresh as in June."
A report comes from Blue Hill,
Neb., that Joseph Cook, the murderer
of Leonard Rahl, was lynched at that
place the other day by a party of citi
zens, who took him to a wind mill on
the outskirts of town, fastened a rope
to his neck and passed it over a beam
of the derrick, fastened below and
went away, left him hanging. Tho
sheriff got to him in abont ten min
utes and cut him down, and, strange
to relate, life was not extinct. The
last report from him was that he was
still living, but no hopes entertained
of his recovery.
The Normal and Business school,
which Columbus missed and Fre
mont secured, opened some two
weeks ago with 38 students and now
has upwards of 70, with- prospect of
100 before the first of January. In
conjunction with the art department
they are to have an oven for baking
porcelain ware decorated. The music
department has a fine enrollment.
The feeling throughout Fremont is
that the institution has started on its
work with every omen of complete
success.
It is reported that the suit of the
Lamar estate at New York against
the Secretary of the Treasury to re
cover $110,000 for cotton taken during
the war was dismissed in the United
States district court. The report
does not state whether the suit was
dismissed by the plaintiff or by the
court, if by the court, the case may be
subject to future legal action.
line 'Cholera.
Ii this hug diiicanH Htrikes ihi sec
tion of Nebru-ktt as it has the eastein
portion, it will be a very serious
blow to our iutere.-ts, affecting every
variety of business, because if far
mers shou'd lope a large percentage
of their hog?, they would Imvu all the
lesB mouey to invest in articles of
merchandise.
Of course, everything relating to
the subject is more or lo-- interesting
to most of our readers, but especially
eo to tho many who own farms and
raise stock.
From all the stricken districts wo
have not seen a lullcr account of how
the hs)gt arc affected than is con
tained in the following communica
tion from Ashland, which we clip
from the Nebraska Farmer:
"The cholera in the counties of Sar
py, Saunders, Cass aud othors has
proven very fatal. It attacks hogs of
all ages aud under all circumstauces,
but moro particularly sows and their
pigs, and if there is any difference the
hogs That were in pastures suffer tho
worst. With pigs the deaths amount
to 90 to 100 per cent., and in somo
herds the death rato is about the same
on old hogs. Ono extensive hog
raiser, Mr. nay ward, lost about 350;
he' only saved about half a dozen.
The only hoir that did not tako the
disease was a Berkshire boar that was
shnt up iu a dry pen. This herd of
hogs was in a good tame grass pas
ture, and wero in fine health. The
disease lasted about twenty days.
Several other tanners lost, as follows :
340, saved about 20; 250 out of 270;
325 out or 350. These large herds
were all iu good pastures ; some were
watered from wells, and others from
large creeks.
As to the diseaso being all a scare,
I would say that of all the hog in
this section hardly one escaped, and
these were hogs shut up in dry pens.
Ono breeder of fine hogs fed swill
aud green food entirely, and his pigs
aud hogs had lots of exercise and
were doing finely; out of 42, he
saved ono.
Hogs died in all shapes. Fine, fat
pigs would die in a few minutes,
others would live for weeks; but the
best plan is to kill them. I practiced
this and saved seventy-five per cent,
of old hogs. A friend did the same,
and he saved about the same per
cent. Others lost all.
Cures: Patent medicines were
sold by the $1.00 worth, all guaranteed
to cure, but none did any good. One
man saved nearly all his old hogs by
giving them strong salt brine to
drink, and forcing them to drink it.
I also tried this on three aud saved
two very valuable sows with it. I
am sure this did it, a- after giving it
to them for a few days they got to
eating. I then quit giving it, aud in
ono day both sows quit eating and
were burning up with a fever. I
again commenced giviug this, and iu
two dajs the fever left them and thoy
went to eating. I think this a good
treatment where the hog appears to
have fever, and I should also give a
little aconite. In cases where there
was no fever, I think this treatment
does no good, aud with pigs I believe
a hard knock on the bead is the best
cure. I would say that I noticed in
several herds that bows that were
with pig wero not attacked ; but
most ot these sows had dead pigs
when they littered.
In conclusion, let me say that this
disease is no respector of persons or
hogs; and while I am confident the
disease would never break out in a
herd where the bogs were treated
right, still, after it does start in some
other herd and prevails as an
epidemic, uo one's hogs are exempt.
As to scrub hogs standing it better
let mo say that the two herds that
saved the largest per cent., and of the
fewest that were attacked, one was a
herd of thoroughbred Poland-Chinas,
the other a herd of thoroughbred
Berkshires.
In regard to the salt brine, I tried
it on three and saved two ; tho other
only took a little and died soon. No
others took it. I gave it two weeks."
The courtmartial convened tho
other day at Washington, to try the
charges preferred against Judge Ad
vocate General Swaim who appeared
and filed his motion to dismiss the
charges and prosecution for want of
jurisdiction. The questions involved
were argued, and the court decided
that the plea of want of jurisdiction
had not been sustained but overruled.
It is reported from Cairo that dis
ease is making fearful havoc among
the Madia's forces, fully one hundred
dying daily. Sheikh Morgan, with a
largo force, has arrived at a point
midway between Kassala and Berber
to render assistance to Gen. Gordon.
Advices from Wady Haifa state the
British troops are arriving there and
departing for the front eery rapidly.
Nov. 9th, Mrs. Jennie Natley left
Beatrice for Wymore, to visit with
friends. She did not arrive there,
nor has she been since seen, and her
husband cannot account for her dis
appearance. She is 20 years old, has
light hair and blue eyes, and wore a
plaid dress and a Russian dolman.
Her husband believes there has been
"foul play," as the Express has it.
By errors discovered in the election
retnrns of Illinois, as claimed by the
democrats, they have probably cap
tured the senate and legislature on
joint ballot, thus insuring the election
of a United States senator. The dem
ocrats at Springfield indulged in great
rejoicing over the discovery of tho
error.
Chief Brooks, of the secret service
division of the treasury department
at Washington, in his report, ex
presses the opinion that there is in
the hands of counterfeiter? nearly
$300,000 worth of new spurious notes
in denominations of $10 and $20,
which have been produced since
January 1st, '84.
During the progress of the demo
cratic ratification the other night at
Wymore. Neb., McElhany, a butcher,
was stabbed and killed. The mur
dered man leaves a wife and five
children. Four men have been arrest
ed, one of whom is thought to be the
guilty person.
Recent news comes from London
that peace negotiations are suspend
ed. The French have made overtures
to Euglish and American pilots on
the Yang Tze river. The pilots
charge 156,000, and the Chinese com
plain that this is wrong on the part
of neutrals.
AiueadiueMt to Lnm Heeded.
Mr. Editor: As usual you have
becu ideawake to the public interest
by suggesting that our next legisla
ture should bo informed of the peo
ple's will regarding needed legisla
tion. Although your writer is neith
er a politician nor a lawyer, but as no
one moro competent is moving in this
matter, I would venture somo sug
gestions. 1. It would seem that tbo laws re
garding male animals ruuuing at
large need amending so as to make
owners of males of all kinds of do
mestic animals responsible for all
sorts of damages done by such stock.
All over the slate, aud especially in
Platte couuty, people begin to see tho
importance of having good stock. A
great deal of capital has been invested
in thoroughbreds of nil kinds, and
such men as have introduced good
stock are public benefactors aud
stingy neighbors who are too penuy
wise aud dollar-foolish to buy a good
animal ought not to be allowed to let
their scrubs run at large and do dam
ago without paying fur such damage.
2 Comes the so-called "Turner
law" introduced by yourself. Al
though this law has done much good,
it now needs to be changed or abol
ished, for the reason that it is im
practicable. While on level ground
it may be all right to plow lines an
nually, on the bluffs it rtiius the land
by making it ready for washiug out
deep gulches and thus ruining it.
Some other way of marking, such as
driving in a stake every forty rods,
would 6.eom to be much better.
My last suggestion but not the least
ono relates to omployers and employ
ed. Although the writer himself
never had any trouble in the way in
dicated, but scores of others have had
enough of it. The scarcity of labor
ers in the last few years has made
them almost masters of the situation.
In every lawful contract of any busi
ness nature the 'law holds both parties
responsible for the fulfillment of its
conditions. Not so in regard to the
employer aud the hired man or
woman. A man may for instance
hire out to a farmer say on the first
day of March, for nine months, and
then may leave him right in harvest
ing for any, or no cause at all, and,
no matter how much damage he may
tl"is inflict upon bis employer, he can
ro"iect his wages up to the moment
he quit work. The same with hired
nit!e help. I am well aware that
..i employer thus treated may bub
suc'i an hired man or woman for dam
ages, but when they have nothing he
of course cannot recover. Thus while
the laborer i fully protected, or if he
is not, then let the statute be so
amended that he is, and while ho or
she is thus fully protected let the
laws be also amended that the em
ployer is safe in bis interest. Let the
lawa be just and right for all concern
ed. Let the laborer, if abused or
starved or tyrannized, be at liberty to
quit and recover his wages, but let
him also, if bo has no such just cause
for leaving, stay bis time or loose
such part of his wages as would com
pensate the employer for the loss
caused by the hired band's leaving.
A. II.
Mrs. Jennie Notley left Beatrice
last Wednesday afternoon to visit
friends at Wymore. Her husband
was to go there and return with her.
Upon inquisy he learned she had not
been there and had not beeu seen, and
what has become of her he can in no
way tell or account for her leaving.
There is an effort beiug made by
the citizens of Ohio to change the
October election to November. Peti
tions to the legislature to submit the
question to the people in the way of
an amendment to the constitution aro
meeting with general support from
tho people.
A switch near Baltimore the other
night was changed by unknown per
sons causing a collision between the
Chicago express and freight train,
both locomotives being wrecked. The
fireman and engineer of the freight
train were badly scalded and bruised.
Roscoe Conkling is mentioned by
several democratic newspapers of
New York as a fit man to send to the
United States Senate iu place of Lap
ham. The democracy will doubtless
work every scheme to divide the re
publican forces in the senate.
The Bee, speaking of a reported
coal find near Fremont, says that a
grapevine telegram claims the al
leged shaft was simply a hole
scratched by Hammond's rooster for
a four year's snooze, and the Tribune
rejoins "You've struck it."
The skeleton and clothes of Will
KeBsler, who disappeared from Perry,
Iowa, last September, were found the
other day in a corn field seven miles
ea6t of Perry, with a bullet hole
through his head, a shot which he
certainly did himself.
Emma Dickens carved her husband
with a large knife the other day at
Joliet, inflicting fatal wounds. He
was living apart from the woman,
and his refusal to increase her mon
etary allowance led to the cutting.
The French Commander in Ton-
q'in teiegrapns tbat the Unmese
made a vigorous attack on the French
gun-boats as they were proceeding
along the River Claire, in which one
sailor ivas killed and eight wounded.
Martin F. Tupper is said to be
living in extreme poverty in London.
Old in years, declining in health, the
anther of "Proverbial Philosophy"
lives deprived of the luxuries and
not a few of the necessities of life.
At the cattlemen's convention the
other day at St Louis, a collection of
$1,200 was quickly raised and turned
over to Col. R. D. Hunter, to be
transmitted to the sufferers from
i drought in Virginia.
COLUMBUS
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Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
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GeodN Delivered Free to
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amy
Cor. Thirteenth and JC Streets, near
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THE REVOLUTION
Dry Goods and Clothing Store
Has on hand a
Ready-made Clothing,
Dry Goods, Carpets,.
Hats, Caps, Etc., Etc.,
At pta Out were iinr iwfl of Mm in Golnmlms.
I buy ay goods strictly for cash and will give my customers tho
benefit, of it.
Give Me a call and convince yourself of the facts.
I. GLUCK.
A UORD OF WARIMX.
FARMERS, stock raisers, ami all other
interested parties will do well to
remember that the "Western Horse and
Cattle Insurance Co." of Omaha is the
only company doing busine in thi- tate
that insures Horses, Mules and Cattle
against loss by theft, accidents, diseases,
or injury, (as also against loss bv tire and
lightning). All representations by agents
of other Companies to the contrary not
withstanding. P. W. HENRICII, Special Ag't.
15-y Columbus, Neb.
FIXAE. PROOF.
Land Olllce at Grand Island, Neb.,)
Nov. 12, 1SS4. J
NOTICE is hereby -riven that the fol
io wing-named settler has tiled notice
of bis intention to make tiual proof in
support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before Judge of District
Court, at Columbus. Neb., on the '27th
day of December, 1884, viz:
Johaun Muting, Homestead No. !."!;,
for the S. 14, N. W. , Section (J, Town
ship 19 north, of Range 2 west. He names
the following witnesses to prove his con
tinuous residence upon, and cultivation
of, said land, viz: W. Crosby, S. E.
Morgan, Peter Noonan, James Noonan,
all of Platte County, Nebraska.
304) C. IIOSTETTER. ttegistcr.
FirVAL. PItOOF.
U. S. Land Office, Grand Island, Neb.)
Nov. 13th. 1884. J
NOTICE is hereby given that the fol
lowing named settler has tiled notice
of his intention to make tinal proof in
support of bis claim, and that said proof
will be made before Judge of District
Court, at Columbus, Neb., on the 27th
day of December, 1884, viz:
Franz J. Nussen, Homestead No. t."10,
for the E. , of N. W. L, Section 14,
Township PJ north, of Range 1 east. He
names the following witnesses to prove
bis continuous residence upon, and cul
tivation of, said land, viz: II. Itacken
hus, ll.-WurUeman, H. Kersch, II. Aaeue,
all of Platte County, Neb.
30-0 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FINAL PKOOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
Oct. 18th, 1884. J
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 District
Court, at Columbus, Nebr., on November
2th, 1884, viz:
- Charles Kaminski, Homestead No.
13390. for the N. J, of N. W. i, Section
32, Township 1!), Range 3 west. He
names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upou, and cul
tivation of, said land, viz:
Christian Kessaw, Henry Hurley,
James Free and Thomas Bryant, all bf
West Hill Nebr.
2CG C. IIOSTETTER, Register.
FINAL PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
Nov. 6th, 1884.
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 Friday. December
26th, 1884, viz:
Wilhelm Streblow, Homestead No. 9233,
for the N. AV. X, Section 18, Township 19,
north of Range 1 west, lie names the
following witnesses to prove his continu
ous residence upon, and cultivation of,
said land, viz: John F. Shure, Jacob
Mansbacb, Anton Rein; Charles Brandt,
all of Humphrey, Platte Co., Neb.
29-6 C. IIOSTETTER. Register.
I
FI3TAL. PROOF.
'Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
Nov. 22d 1834. 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 that
said proof will be made before the Judge
of the District Court at Columbus, Ne
braska, on the 2d day of January, 1885,
viz:
David L. Conard, Homestead No. 11280.
for the N. K s- M- a"d lots 3 and 4, of
Section 14, Township lb north, of Range
4 west. Ht names the following wit
nesses to prove his continuous residence
upon, ana cultivation or, said land, viz:
ATm. J. Irwin, John J. Truman, John
Peterson, Joseph L.Truman, all of Platte
County, Nebraska.
31-6 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FWAL PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island Neb.,)
Nov. 19th, 1884.
NOTICE is hereby given that the following-named
settler has filed notice
or his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that said proof
win uc uu ueiore uierK or District
Court of Platte county at Columbus,
Neb., on Tuesday, January 13th.
1885, viz:
August Bentel Homestead No. 9600
for the S. J$, of N. W. , Section 26,
Township 20 north, of Range 1 west. He
names the following witnesses to prove hi
continuous residence upon, and cul
tivation of, said land, viz: Ignatz Zach,
Ignatz Veith. John Daly and Albert
Scbroeder, all of Humphrey, Platte
County Nebraska. v ' e
318 C. HOSTETTER, Begister.
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