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"WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1884.
The reputation of a newspaper ib
not made upon prevarication or
downright falsehood. On matters
which are plainly in the mind of the
people, the pettifogger's coloring of
facts is simply disgusting.
Fifteen indictments have been
found by the U. S. grand jury in ses
sion at Omaha against persons in
Gage county, charged with frauds in
reference to the sale of the Otoe In
dian lands. It was thought at the
time that there wa3 considerable
meanness going.
Congress met on the 1st, and the
president's message received and
read. No business of importance
transacted. In a few days members
will arrange business and go to work
in earnest, and it is to be hoped that
their work in the way of law making,
&c., will be of benefit to the nation.
The
Pierce
Elkhorn Valley Ntxcs, the
Times and other papers of
North Nebraska arc advocating the
appointment of Dr. Hear as TJ. S.
Marshal, in case a democrat ib to be
pnt in place. The Dr. is able, honor
able, gentlemanly, and his appoint
ment would doubtless satisfy the
great body of Nebraska democrats.
Our exchanges are calling for radi
cal changes in our revenue laws, more
especially those referring to the col
lection of taxes. The five per cent
penalty which is to be added after
Jan. 1st, seems to be the main object
ive point of attack. A little attention
could also be very judiciously given
to the twenty per cent portion of the
law.
Rev. T. B. Lemax, of this state,
left the other day for Baltimoro to at
tend the centennial conference to be
held in that city from the 9th to the
17th of December. This conference
is held to commemorate the organiza
tion of the M. E. chnrch, which took
place in Baltimore City, December,
1784. Rev. Leman was appointed by
the board of bishops to represent
Nebraska in that conference.
Concerning railroad legislation by
the next legislature the Central City
Nonpareil remarks, "Let the legisla
ture do its duty aud the republican
party will be covered with glory.
Let it do nothing aud it will be cov
ered with odium and be buried be
neath righteous indignation." In an
other place the samo paper remarks
that 'the coming legislature can look
for a lively kick if it fails to give the
state suitable railroad legislation."'
It is claimed at this late date that
Booth killed Lincoln because he did
not pardon Beall, the confederate spy,
and that lie did not assassinate the
president for any political reasons
whatever. This icniarkable informa
tion has been communicated by letter
to a prominent ex-union officer in
Baltimore. The facts and circum
stances surrounding: and connected
with the assa-sination of president
Lincoln all tend to contradict the
statements in this wonderful letter,
and prove it to be false in every par
ticular. General Lor an and wife were
heartily received at Washington the
other evening by several hundred
citizens, friends, who called at their
residence to welcome them back to
the capitoi. A section of the marine
band was in attendance and the house
was decorated from top to bottom,
outside and in, with bauuers, lanterns
and flowers. The parlors and library
of the mansion were crowded with
ladies and gentlemen, while those for
whom thrre was no standing room
filed through in procession, paying
their respects with hand shaking and
words ot welcome in passiug.
Tiik.kk is a universal demaud in
Nebraska for a law fixing the maxi
mum of railroad tare at three cents a
mile, aud also making a reduction on
freights. The Fremont Tribune re
marks :
There is no reason why passenger
rates in Nebraska should remain at
four cents per mile when they are
only three cents on the east and Kan
sas on the south. Neither is there
any reason or justice in paying one
half or two-thirds us much for haul
ing froight from Omaha to Fremont
an is charged for hauling it from
Chicago to Omaha. It is hardly a
fair proposition cither to ask a farm
er to give the railways one bushel of
wheat or two of corn to haul another
to market.
Tun Ashland Gazette gives a sad
account of Lew Cropscy, formerly of
Lincoln, Neb., who at oue time stood
well with his fellow men having en
joyed many positions of honor aud
trust in the state, among them secre
tary of the state senate, and at one
time TJ. S. consul to Chemnitz: he
was admitted to I he hospital the other
day at Washington, a brokcu-down,
destitute man, a total wreck. lie had
at one time a happy home one of the
stateliest houses in Lincoln, and he
waB happy with a wile and little ones.
His wife wae compelled to obtain a
divorce on account of his dissipation,
and be became a wanderer on the face
of the earth, and now occupies a char
ity hospital.
Wm. Tick of New York writes us:
"Hope you have become reconciled to
the election of Grover Cleveland. I
assure you we of tbo state of New
York are, and hope to have an honest
administration." Being a reader of
the Journal, Mr. Tice knows what
wo thought of the situation. We
confess, now, in the light of a few
circumstances, to a slight hope that
-Cleveland is not altogether in har
mony with the extreme southern
wing of his party, and may be able to
withstand their demands in a degree.
We muEt say, however, to friend
Tice, that "reconciliation" is hardly
the word to describe pur feelings; en
durance would be better. If the
democracy, with Cleveland, can give
us an honest, patriotic administra
tion, the Journal, will be pleased,
and partially reconciled to defeat
Electiea Frad.
It is generally admitted now by the
citizens of Chicago that a fraud was
committed upon the election returns
in the second precinct of the eigh
teenth ward in the Brand-Leman vote.
The precinct is republican. The
Blaine electors received 390 votes, the
Cleveland electors 288 votes. On the
night of election Leman the republi
can candidate for senator bad 420
votes, and Brand 274. This was the
report of the vote on the night of the
election, and supposed to bo correct,
and the evidence in the further inves
tigation seems to prove beyond doubt
that the ballots were tampered with
and changed in pursuance of a pre
meditated and carefully executed
fraud. Among the circumstances
adduced in proof of the fraud was the
fact that the republican ticket was
counterfeited with Brand's name
substituted for Leman's, and that
these spurious ballots were employed
to the number of two hundred or
thereabout, in order to establish the
falsehood that Brand had carried the
precinct, and, having thereby a ma
jority of the votes in the district, was
elected senator instead of Lemau.
Since noting the facts above, the
poll books, ballots, certificates, &c,
were submitted to Governor Hamil
ton who baB rendered a decision after
a thorough investigation of the facts
and evidence in the case he awards
the certificate to Lemau. The decis
ion of the Governor is very long iu
reviewing the evidence and the cir
cumstances surrounding the returns
and we content ourselves with ono
remark of the Governor in which he
said he could not, in judgment and
conscience, find that Brand was duly
elected in a just and lawful maimer,
or that he was elected at all, and that
by the genuine returns that Leman
received a majority of 304 votes, and
is therefore elected.
Mr. Vest offered a resolution in
the senate directing investigation
into leases of land in the Indian Ter
ritory, for grazing or other purposes,
by Indian tribes ; the number of acres
embraced in said leases, their terms
and persons or corporations becom
ing lessees; also the circumstances
under which the leases were made,
means used in obtaining them, and
whether authorized by law. Vest
claims that these leases were obtained
from the Indians by fraud and
bribery. This resolution elicited
some discussion and went over one
day. In the house Follet, as a ques
tion of privilege, presented a reso
lution in which be desired to impeach
Lot Wright, United States Marshal
for the southern district of Ohio, of
high crimes and misdemeanors for
unsurping authority in violation of
the law by appointing special and
general deputy marshale to serve at
the several voting precincts in Cin
cinnati during the Ohio election, en
couraging fraudulent voting and in
timidating legal voters. Keifer made
a point of order against the recep
tion of the resolution, but the speaker
overruled it, aod alter a long dis
cussion the resolution was passed.
Five men demanded hands up of
tho passengers on the Little Rock,
"Mississippi River & Texas road, last
Saturday night within three miles of
Little Rock, Ark. ; they stopped the
train, took completo possession,
switched the train, and the five mask
ed robbers went through it, relieving
the passengers of money and other
valuables worth $4,000. They also
broke open the express safe, obtaining
about $3,000 more. A dispatch da
ted the 7th says that bloodhounds
were, early in the morning, put on
tho trail of the robbers and followed
straight into Little Rock. Before
noon Joseph Cook, J. C. Jones, John
Clifford, Charles Campbell aud a boy
named Parker, had been arrested.
Three of them have been identified as
among the robbers.
A report comes from Hamilton,
Ohio, that George Snyder, a farmer,
living near Darrlown, was arrested
the other night charged with the mur
der of his mother. She was about 75
years old, and had been missing for
lour weeks. His 6tory about the
matter is that he had paid his mother
$125, interest on a mortgage she held
on his farm, aud when taking her to
tho railroad station ou her return
home, two robbers demanded her
money, when refuted, killed and
buried her and made him promise by
threats of death not to reveal it. The
body was disinterred and found iu
night clothes. The supposition is
that he killed her in his own house.
Recent news from private officials
in India states that there is a danger
ous condition of affairs in that coun
try. The feelings of the natives were
never so excited against England as
at the present time, and foreign emi
saries are at work among the natives
stirring them up to strife and pre
paring them to make an explosion.
Officers in high command have sent
to England urgent demands for au
thority to form camps of refuge for
women and children, in order to be
ready in case of mutiny. The gov
ernment baB been warned that it is
on the eve of a great trial.
The committee on organization of
the independent Irish-Americans has
decided to continue the assembly dis
trict organizations under the name of
the Irish-American Protective Union,
and has adopted an address urging
their fellow countrymen to organize
Irish-American Protective Union
clubs everywhere in the United
States to resist English free-trade.
The discovery has recently been
made that the evasion of the tariff law
is being practiced in New York and
Boston, where galvanized- iron and
steel sheets are being imported
through the custom house at the same
rates as tin plates. The duty on these
sheets is three-fourths of a cent per
pound more than tin plates.
President Artknr'M Message to
Congress.
As is our custom, we give a very
brief summary of the more important
recommendations of tho president's
message :
A more precise and definite method
for counting the electoral vote, is
recommended. It is of the gravest
importance that this question be
solved before conflicting claims to the
presidency shall again disturb the
country.
Onr relations with all foreign pow
ers continue to be amicable.
"Our relations with Germany, a
country which contributes to our own
some of the best elements of citizen
ship, continuo to be cordial. The
United States have extradition trea
ties with several of the German states,
but by reason of the confederation of
these states under the imperial rule,
the application of such treaties is not
as uniform aud comprehensive as the
interests of the two countries require,
aud I, therefore, recommend tho open
ing of negotiations for a siugle con
vention of extradition, to embrace all
the territory of tho empire."
During the past year the increasing
good will between our own govern
ment aud that of Mexico has been
variously manifested. The treaty of
commercial reciprocity, concluded
Jan. 20, 1SS3, haa been ratified and
awaits the necessary tariff legislation
of congress to become effective. This
legislation will, 1 doubt not, be
among the first measures to claim
your attention, as a full treaty of
commerce, navigation aud consular
rights is much to be desired, and such
a treaty, I have reason to believe, the
Mexican government stands ready to
conclude. Some embarrassment has
been occasioned bv the failure of
congress at its last session to provido
means for the due execution of the
treaty of July 29, 18S2, for the resur
vey of the Mexican boundary and the
relocation of boundary monuments
with tho republic of Nicaraugua. A
treaty has been concluded which au
thorize the construction by the Uni
ted States of a canal, railway aud
telegraph line across the Nicarauguan
territory. By the terms of this treaty
sixty miles of the river San Juan, as
well as Lake Nicaraugua, an inland
sea forty miles in width, arc to con
stitute a part of the projected enter
prise. This covers for actual canal
construction seventeen miles ou the
Pacific side and thirty-six miles ou
the Atlantic. To tho United States,
whose rich territory on the Pacific is
for the ordinary purpose of commerce
practically cut off from communica
tion by water with the Atlantic ports.
The political and commercial advan
tages of such a project can scarcely
be overestimated. It is believed that
when the treaty is laid bofore you
the justice aud liberality of its pro
visions will command universal ap
proval at home and abroad.
THE SOUTH AMERICAN COMMISSION.
The Central and South American
commission, appointed by authority
of the act of July 7, 1884, will soon
proceed to Mexico. It has been fur
nished with instructions which will
be laid before you. They contain a
statement of the general policy of the
government for enlarging its com
mercial intercourse with American
states. The commission have been
actively preparing for their responsi
ble task by holding conferences in
the principal cities with merchants
and with others interested in Central
and South American trade.
THE NEUTRALITY LAWS.
The president recommends that the
scope of the neutrality laws be so
enlarged as to cover all acts of hostil
ity committed iu our territory and
aimed against the peace ot a friendly
nation.
NATURALIZATION LAWS.
Special provisions applying to per
sons serving in the army or iu mer
chant vessels, should be made to
include those who serve in tho navy
or marine corps. The status of per
sons of foreign birth or parentage
should be more clearly defined, so as
to strengthen the hands of the gov
ernment iu protecting its citi.enB
abroad.
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The condition of our fiuauces and
the operation of various branches of
the public service which are con
nected with tho treasury department
arc very fully discussed in the report
of the secretin y. It appears that the
ordinary revenue for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1884, were : From
customs, $195,GG7.4S9.7G ; from in
ternal revenue, ."fl2l,5SG,072.51 ; from
all other sources, $3l,SGG,307.G5; total
ordinary revenues, $34S,519,5G9.52.
The public expenditures during the
same period were : For civil ex
penses, .1522.312,907.71 : for foreign in
tercourse, $l,2G0,7GG.fi9 ; for Indians,
G.475,999.29 ; for pensions, $55,429,
228.3G; for the military establish
ment, including river and harbor im
provements and arsenals, $39,429,003,
30; for the naval establishment,
including vessels, machinery and
improvements at navy yards, $17,292,
G01.44; for miscellaneous expendi
tures, iucluding public buildings,
light houses aud collecting the rev
enue, $43,939,710 ; for expenditures on
account of the District of Columbia,
$3,407,049.02; for interest on the
public debt, $54,578,378.40; for the
sinking fund, $40,790,229 50; total
ordinary expenditures, $290,91G,483.
83; leaving a surplus of $57,003,390.
09. As compared with preceding fiscal
year, there was a net decrease of over
$21,000,000 in the amount of expen
ditures. The aggregate receipts were
less than those of the year previous
by about $54,000,000. The falling off
of revenue from customs was nearly
$20,000,000 of this deficiency and
about $23,000,000 of the remainder
was due to the diminished receipts
for internal taxation. The secretary
estimates the total receipts for the
fiscal year, which will end June 30,
1885, at $330,000,000, and the total
expenditures at $290,120,201:10, in
which are included the interest on the
debt and the amount payable to the
sinking fund. This would leave a
surplus for the entire year of about
$39,000,000.
THE VALUE OF EXPORTS
from the United States to foreign
countries during the year ending
June 30, 1884, was aB follows : Do
mestic merchandise, $724,964,852 ; for
eign merchandise, $15,548,758; total
merchandise, $740,513,609 ; specie,
$67,133,383 ; total exports of merchan
dise and specie, $807,04U,yy2. The
cotton and cotton manufactures in
cluded in this statement were valued
at $208,900,415; the breadstuff's at
$162,554,715 ; the provisions at $114,
416,547, and the mineral oils at $47,
103,748. During the same period the
imports were aB follows: Merchan
dise, $667,697,693; gold and silver,
$37,426,262; total, $705,123,955. More
than 63 per cent, of the entire value
of imported merchandise consisted of
the following articles: Sugar and
molasses, $103,844,274; wool and
woolen manufactures, 157,542,292 ;
colice, $49,000,7110; iron and steel and
manufactures thereof, $41,643,599 ;
chemicals, $38,464,965; flax, hemp,
jute and like substances and man
ufactures thereof, $33,403,398; cotton
and manufactures of cotton, $30,454,
476; hides aud skins, other than fur
skins, $22,350,906.
I concur with the secretary of the
treasury In recommending the imme
diate SUSPENSION OF COINAGE
of silver dollars and the issue ot sil
ver certificates. This is a matter to
which in former communications I
have moro than once invoked the at
tention of the national legislature. It
appears that auuually for the past six
jears there havo been coined, in com
pliance with requirements oi the Act
of Feb. 2S, 1878, more than twenty
five million silver dollars. The num
ber outstaudiug is reported by the
secretary to be nearly one hundred
and eighty-five million, whereof but
little more than forty million, or less
than 22 per cent are iu actual circula
tion. The mere existence of this fact
6cems to me to furnish of itself a
cogent argument for the repeal of the
statute which has made such fact pos
sible, but there arc other and graver
considerations that tend in the samo
direction. The secretary avows his
convictions that unless this coinage
and the issuance of silver certificates
be suspended, silver is likely at no
distant day to become our sole me
tallic standard. The commercial dis
turbance and the impairment of
natioual credit that would be thus
occasioned can scarcely be over esti
mated. I hope that the secretary's
suggestions respecting the withdraw
al from circulation of the one-dollar
and two-dollar notes will receive
your approval. It is likely that a
considerable portion of the silver now
incumbering tho vaults of the treas
ury might thus find its way into the
currency.
As in his message of "S2, tho presi
dent recommends the abolition of all
excise taxes excopt those on distilled
spirits.
GOVERNMENT IIONDS.
More than $100,000,000 ot the three
per cent bonds have been redeemed
the past year. Those outstanding
amount to little over $200,000,000,
one-fourth of which will bo retired
through the operations of the sinking
fund during the coming year. How
to avert the contraction of the cur
rency caused by their retirement is a
question of constantly increasing im
portance. The President recom
mends a bill permitting the issue, by
National banks, of notes equal to the
face value of deposited bonds.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
The amouut drawn from the treas
ury duriug the fiscal year was $8,228,
703 54, leaving a balance of $3,112,
5S0.G3. DEFENSES.
The importance of protecting im
portant cities on the seaboard is set
forth. $00,000,000 is the estimated
cost of proposed defenses, with an
immediate appropriation ot one-tenth
the sum as a commencement.
MOHMONIgM AND POLYGAMY.
The report of the Utah Commission
will be read with interest. It dis
closes the results of recent legUIatiou
looking to the prevention aud pun
ishment of polygamy in that Terri
tory. I still believe that if that abom
inable practice, can be suppressed by
law, it can only be by the most radi
cal legislation consistent with the
restraints oi the Constitution. 1 again
recommend, therefore, that Congress
assume absolute political control of
the Territory of Utah, and provide
for the appointment ot a commission
with such governmental powers as in
its judgment may justly and wisely
be put into their hands.
MORE AP.OUT FOREIGN TRADE.
In the course of this communica
tion reference has more thau once
been made as to the policy of this
Government as regards the extension
of our foreign trade. It seems proper
to declare the general principle that
should, in my opinion, underlie our
national efibrts in this direction. The
main conditions ot the problem may
be thus stated : We are a people en
gaged iu mechanical pursuits, and
fertile in invention. We eover avast
extent of territory rich iu agricultural
products, and in nearly all the raw
materials necessary tor successful
manufacture. We have a system of
productive establishments more thau
sufficient to supply our own demands ;
the wages of labor arc nowhere else
so great ; the scale of living of our
artisans clashes is sucti as tends to
secure their personal comfort aud the
development of those higher morals
aud the intellectual qualities thai go
to the making of a good citizen ; our
system ot lax and tariff legislation is
yielding a revenue which is in excess
ot the present needs of the Govern
ment. These are elements from which it is
sought to devise a scheme by which,
without unfavorably changing the
condition of the workiugincu, our
merchant marine shall be raised from
its enfeebled condition aud new mark
ets provided for the sale beyond our
borders of the manifold fruits of our
industrial enterprises. The problem
is complex and can be solved by no
single measure of innovation or re
form. The countries of the American
continent and the adjacent islands are
for the United States the natural
market of supply and demand. It is
from that we should obtain what we
do not produce in sufficiency, and it is
to them that the surplus productions
of our fields, our mills and our work
shops should flow, under conditions
that will equalize or favor them in
comparison with foreign competition.
RECIPROCITY TREATIES.
Four paths of policy seem to point
to this end : Firr.t, a series of reci
procal commercial treaties with the
countries of America which shall fos
ter between us and them and unham
pered movement to trade. Tho con
ditions of these treaties should be the
free admission of such merchandise as
this country does not produce iu re
turn for admission free or under a
favored scheme of duties of our pro
ducts, the benefits of such exchange
to apply ou these goods carried under
the flags of the parties to the contract ;
the removal on both sides from ves
sels so privileged of all tonnage dues
and national imports, so that their
vessels may ply unhindered between
our ports, and those of other contract
ing parties, though without infringing
on the reserved home coasting trade ;
the removal or reduction of burdens
on the exported products of those
countries coining within the benefits
of the treaties and the avoidance of
the technical restrictions and penal
ties bv which our intercourse with
those countries is at present ham
pered. Secondly, the establishment of the
consular service of the United States
on a salaried footing permitting the
relinquishment of consular fees not
only as respects the vessels under the
silk and its manufactures, $49,919,128; J
national 11-ig, hut nUo a ropecte ves-
j-els i t lie inaty nation- carrying
goods entitled to the benefits of the
treaties.
Thirdly, the enactment of mea-urcs
to tavor the con-tructiou aud umiutc
uauce ot a steam-carrying marine
uuder the flag ot the United States.
Fourthly, the establishment of a
uniform currency basis for the coun
tries of America, so that the coined
products ot our mines may circulate
ou equal terms throughout the whole
system ot commouwcalshs This
would revive h monetary union ot
America whereby ihe output oi the
bullion-producing countries and the
circulation of those which yield nei
ther gold nor silver could be adjusted
iu conformity with the population,
wealth and commercial needs ot c-ich.
As many of the countries luruish no
bullion to the common tck, the sur
plus production of our rumen aud
mints might thus be utilized, and a
step taken ioward the general remoii
iti.'ition of silver. To Ihe accom
plishment of these cuds, so far as can
be attained by separate treaties, the
negotiations already concluded aud
now in progreM have been directed
and Ihe favor with which this en
larged policy has thus tar been re
ceived, warrants the belief that all its
operations will ere long embrace all,
or ncail) all the countries of this
hemisphere.
It is by no means desirable, howev
er, that the policy uuder confedera
tion should bo applied to thoso
countries alone. The healthful en
largement of our I rade with Kurope,
Asia and Africa should besought by
reducing t a rill burdens ou such ot
their wares as neither wo nor the
other American States are fitted to
produce, and thus euabliug ourselves
to obtain in return a belter market
for our .supplies of food, ot raw male
rials aud of the manufactures in which
we excel.
It seems to me that many of the
embarrassing element iu the great
national conflict between protection
and free trade may thus be turned to
good account, that the revenue may
bo reduced so as no longer to overtax
the people, that protective duties may
be retained without becoming bur
densome, that our shipping interests
may be judiciously weighed, the cur
rency fixed on linn basis, and above
all such annuity of interests estab
lished among the states of the Amer
ican system, as will be of great aud
of ever-increasing advantage to' them
all. All treaties iu the line of this
policy which have been negotiated, or
in process of negotiation, contain a
provision deemed to be requisite
under the clause of the Constitution
limiting to the House of Representa
tives tho authority o originate bills
for raising revenue.
A NATIONAL 1SANKRUPT LAW.
Iu view of the general and per
sistent demand throughout the com
mercial community ' for a national
baukrnpt law, 1 hope that the dif
ferences ot sentiment which have
hitherto prevented its enactment may
not outla.-t the present sesion.
A PENSION TO GEN. GRANT.
I recommend that iu recognition ot
the eminent services of Ulysses S.
Grant, late General of the armies of
the United States, and twice Presi
dent of the nation, Congress confer
upon him a suitable pension.
MISCELLANEOUS SUGGESTIONS.
Certain of the measures that seem
to me necessary and expedient I have
now, in obedience to the Constitu
tion, recommended for your adoption.
A respects others ot uo. Ies3 im
portance I shall content myself with
renewing the recommendations al
ready made to the Congress without
restating the grounds upon which
such recommendations were based.
Tho preservation of forests on the
public, domain, tl.e granting ot Gov
ernment aid for popular education,
the amendment of the Federal Con
stitution so as to make effective the
disapproval, by the President, of par
ticular ideas in appropriation bills;
the enactment of statutes in regard
to the filling of vacancies in Presi
dential office, and the determination
of vexed questions respecting Presi
dential inability, are measures which
may justly receive your serious con
sideration. CONCLUSION.
As the time draws nigh when I am
to retire from the public service, I can
not refraiu from expressing to the
members of the Natioual Legislature
with whom I have been brought into
personal and otlicial intercourse, my
sincere appreciation of their unfailing
courtesy, aud of their harmonious
co-operation with the Executive in so
many measures calculated to promote
the interests of the nation, aud to my
fellow citizens generally I acknowl
edge a deep sense of obligation tor
the support which (hey have accorded
me iu my administration of the
Government.
(Signed) Chester A. Arthur.
Washington, Dec. 1, 1884.
D. "V. Lozier, tho night clerk of
the Railroad hotel at North Platte,
Neb., tho other night was found tied
and gagged in the dining room and
the house robbed of about two hun
dred dollars. One Hart was arrested
and identified by Lozier as the man
who robbed him. Hart at the hear
ing proved an alabi and was discharg
ed. A warrant was then issued for
Lozier, and just before it was served
he weut into a room of the hotel an
shot himself in the left breast. II
died in two hours.
It is reported in recent news from
London that Mr. Foster passed
through London the other day, hav
ing signed the commercial treaty of
the United States with Spain. It i
stated that English diplomats avow
that this treaty, if ratified, prevents
the possibility of the desired Anglo
Spanish treaty, because it will be
impossible for Spain to grant similar
concessions to the two powers, and
open Cuban ports both to English and
American goods.
Therk has recently heen a fresh
outbreak been the Spanish and British
authorities. A Spauish cruiser cap
tured a vessel in British waters which
is supposed to be a smuggler. The
British sent an armed launch in pur
suit, which captured the vessel and
its captor and both were towed into
harbor. What the final result will
be is not clear.
The Orangemen and Ribbonmen of
Conception Bay, at St. Johns, N. F.,
arc in new trouble. The barricaded
house of a Catholic priest was assault
ed with stones. Arches bearing
Orauge banners and symbols have
been erected near the Catholic church
and a Catholic procession was com
pelled to pass under them.
A iiecent telegram from Dongola
reaeserta that Gordon has taken I
Shendy. i
Fifty per cent, ot the cholera cases
at Naples wcie l.ital.
It is said that the fiuauces ot Ger
many are iu bud shape.
New .Jersey has bears iu the wilds
of her southern counties.
A residence of sheet iron is being
erected iu Sherman, Texas.
A chapel tor religious services is
the latest convenience for rail travel.
, Miss Sarah Cowkll is giving a
course of readings aud recitations iu
Boston.
Italy has 29,000,000 iulmbitants aud
it is said only 1,000,000 subscribe- for
newspapers.
Queen Victoria lias granted
widow of ltelfe, the composer,
annuity of $400.
the
an
the
iu-
Prouauly within tun jears
Union will number foity-eight
stead of thirlv-eight states.
Jewktt's railioud salary as presi
dent has been $40,000 a car tor leu
years, lie can atlord to retire.
Hall county voted bonds at the
last election lo build a bridge across
tho Platte, south of Wood river.
The inanulaeiurerd at Fall ltiver,
Mass., are sending au agent to Mexico
to find a new market loi their print
cloths.
It is dialed that lucie i a loot ot
mjow up at Duiiith, aud il has drifted
baili), bo that travel is greatly im
paired. Sknatoi: Manderso.n is to be
placed at the Head ol the committee
ou pi iuting, vice Senator Authony,
deceased.
"Hello, there; whtilUu uii waut?"
asked a Brooklyn parrot ot a burglar
the other night, whereupon tho bur
glar lull quick.
Eggs packed iu weli-Urieit ashes,
aud so as not to touch each other,
have been kept perfectly sweet tor
twelve mouths.
J. T. Mallai.ieu, regent ut the uni
versity, has jut accepted a lucrative,
importaul aud responsible positiou iu
ihe reform school.
It has been discovered that vessels
at Loudon supposed to be loading
provisions were really loading muni
tions of war tor China.
The young men's republican club
of New York city voted the other
night to retain in membership uo one
who voted or worked against Blaine
and Logan.
Julia Holmes Smith has been ap
pointed by Mauager Burke, of the
New Orleans exhibit, manager of the
womanV department ot that exhibit
for the Northwest.
Vm. 11. Smith, ot Richmond, Va ,
chief clerk iu the ollice of the auditor
ot public accounts, was arrested the
other night, charged with the embez
zlement ot slate funds.
Miss Patrona Crump, of "West
Poiut, Miss., has prepared a collection
of the iusects ol that statu for the
Exposition that embraces several hun
dred classified varieties.
Word received from Paris states
that Feiry has officially informed the
powera of the complete cessation of
cholera iu France and requested to
abolish quarantine against France.
, The judges of the English court of
appeals have decided that Captain
Dudley and mate of the wrecked
yacht Miguonette, who killed a hoy
in order to keep themselves alive,
were guilty of murder.
News from Lincoln, III., states that
William II. Burns, the father of Zora
Burns, murdered a year ago, shot at
O. A. Carpeuter, her supposed mur
derer, the other day, but missed him.
No "arrests have beon made.
Miss Emily Harper, of Baltimore,
who laiely gave a reception to the
prelates in attendance at the Catholic
Council, is a daughter of Robert
Goodloe Harper and grand-daughter
of Charles Carroll of Carrolltou, Md.
James C. Patten was arrested the
other day at Omaha, on suspicion of
being Pusey, the defaulting chief
clerk of the Kansas penitentiary.
Patten answers the description of
Pusey in every particular, but claims
it is a case of mistaken identity.
Recent Shanghai dispatches say
the native press is certain that China
will succeed in reconquering Tou-
quin. The uninesc tactics seem to be
to retire and allow the French to fol
low them into the deadly passes of
Tonquin, thus weakening their
lengthened line.
James C. Pusey, chief clerk of the
Kansas state penitentiary at Leaven
worth, has disappeared, under charge
of defrauding the state out of about
three thousand dollars by means of
false vouchers. It is also stated that
the examination of the books may
show further defalcations.
Helot, the man charged with at
tempting to wreck a train on the U. P.
road near Schuyler some time ago,
had a hearing the other day before
County Judge J. A. Grimison, and
was held in $8,000 bond to answer to
tho charge before the district court,
which he failed to give, and waH com
mitted to jail.
Recent news from London states
that Gen. "Wolsley has applied to the
war office for more troops and officers.
Tho General has experienced great
trouble and expense in forcing boat
loads up the Nile. It is also stated
that Gen. "Wolsley intends to abandon
the river route and try a laud march
from Bebbah.
Spaulding, a boy at Neligh, Neb.,
was sent the other day by his father
down into a well to remove a spade
that had fallen down the well, and
while doing this work the wall of the
well suddenly caved in upon him,
covering h;m up under fourteen feet
of earth, taking his life before aid
could be rendered.
Oscar Turner, of Memphis, Mo.,
who was visiting hia brother B. Tur
ner, a farmer of Buffalo county, Neb.,
was the other day shot in the head
and killed by the accidental discharge
of a shot-gun, which caught the ham
mer in a wire fence and djscnargeu
the gun. He expected to start for his
home the next day.
COLUMBUS
WM. BECKER,
PKALKR IN ALL KINDs OK
STAI'LHAXl) FAMILY :
GROCERIES!
1 KEEl CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
WELL SELECTED S I'OCK.
Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
Dried and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Specialty.
(cod Delivered Free
part of the City.
lo ny
Cor. Thirteenth anil 7C Streets, near
A . fc iV. Depot.
THE REVOLUTION
Dry Goods and Clothing Store
Has on hand a
Ready-made Clothing,
Dry G-oods, Carpets,,
Hats, Caps, Etc., Etc.,
A! m it me unr horil of Before in Gdlnmbos.
I buy my goods strictly for cash and will give my customers the
benefit, of it.
Give Me a call and convince yourself of (lie fads.
I. GIUCK.
YOUR BEST TIME
FOR AWlCiRIXG X PR.UT1LML I-llL'tUTIIIX
IS NOW.
A DECIDED SUCCESS.
FREMQNTNORMAL
AND
BUSINESS COLLEGE,
AT FREMONT, NEIL,
Opened successfully October 21, with ten
teachers and a good attendance, w.iicb
doubled during the first live weeks, and
in still steadily increasing.
Fifty Students in the Business College
and Short-hand Classes: nearly fifty in
the Normal or Teachers' Department and
common branches, and a jrood attendance
in the Music and Art Departments.
The Faculty.
PRESIDENT JONES has had over
twenty years experience in Educational
work.
ritOFESSOIt HAMLIN, Principil or
the Business College, has bad over lifteeu
years' experience aud is a Superior IVn
111:111 aud Expert Accountant.
PROFESSOR MOHLER is an orixinal
and inspiring teacher 111 the Natural
Science and Business Departments.
PROFESSOR I.AU'TON, of Boston,
Mass.. is a superior instructor iu Mu.mc.
Miss Sarah Sherman, of Chicago, is au
artist oT rare talent ami skill, and a mot
successful Teacher. Mis l.ydia I..
Jones and Miss Jessie ole are grad
uates of the Northwestern I'liiveraity,
and able teachers. Mr. A. A. Cowles is
a practical shorthand reporter and au
adept at type-writing. The other teach
ers are thoroughly qualiticd.
F,PK.(K.S VERY LOW.
Tuition for fifteen weeks $1.". Board
costs from 2.WI to s:5.0O a week. In
clubs and by clf-boarding it eosts less.
Places can be found for several more
student: who wish to pay parlor whole
ot board by housework or chores.
1V0 Vacations.
The WINTER TERM of 1.1 weeks will
begin Dec. 30, but students can kntki;
atanvtimk, and are doin so contin
ually, paying eharges only from time of
entering to time of leaving.
For particulars address the under
signed, Y. P. JONES, A. M.,
Prest. of Normal College, Fremont, Neb.
oJ-lino.
LEGAL NOTICE.
II. Ac L. J. McCoHMiCh-, I'laintills,)
ajraiust r
!
Lko C. Wkigand, Defendant. J
r A 1
OAID DEFENDANT WILL TAKE Land Office at Graud Island Neb)
O notice that on the 27th day of Octo-1 ov -(i j 'f
her, 1S34, said plaintiff commenced an "VTOTICE is hereby" "iveii that the
action against said defendant in the Dia-mj following-named settler has hied
trict Court of Platte county, Nebraska, j notice of his intention to make tinal
and filed their petition against you iu proof iu support of his claim, and that
said case, and caused an order of attach- said proof will be made before the Jud"e
ment to be issued in said action, the of the District Court at Columbus e
object and prayer of which said petition braska, on the 2d day of January 'lSH.1
is to obtain a judgment against you for viz: J' 1W '
the amount due on two certain promis- David L. Conard, Homesteid No llSO
sory notes, dated July 1st. 18TK, for the for the N. K W. k, .and I lotsVand 4of
sum of eighty dollar. (80.m each, one Section 14, Township IS north, of Range
due on October 1st 18.,, and the other 4 west. He names the following wft
due on October 1st, 18T& both drawing nesses to prove his continuous resfdence
interest from date until due at teu per . udod. and miitKv.Hnn r u..;.i 1 1 .TV..
cent, per annum
m, and from due until paid
rrDZ Prir I
at twelve per
vidiug for a reasonable attorney fee,
given by said defendant to said plaintiffs,
and upon which there is uow due the full
amount mentioned in said notes, with
interest as aforesaid, and also attorney
fee equal to ten per cent, of the whole
amount now due.
Said plaintiffs also caused an order of
attachment to be issued in saiu case anu
attached the following described lands as j
the property of said defendant, to wit:
The southeast quarter of the southeast
quarter of Sectiou one, in lowuihip
nineteen, north, Range 3 west, in Platte
county, Nebraska, containing forty acres
more or less.
Said defendant Is required to answer
said petition on or before the 12th day of
January, 1885, or said petition will be
taken as true and judgment rendered
accordingly.
C. H. & L. J. McCORMICK.
y McAllister Bros.,
their Attorneys. 82-4
BOOMING!
CHEAP FUEL!
Whitebreast Lump Coal... 5.00
Nut " 4.50
I'anoutiity " 7.00
Colorado Hard ' 10.00
23TA GOOD SUPPLY.
TAYLOR, SCHITTE& CO.
-t.-.tr
JACOB SCHBAM,
)DKALKR IN
DRY GOODS !
Boots & Shoes, Hats & Caps,
FUEI1IS GOODS AND NOTIONS.
LOW PRICES FOR CASH.
::i-tt
splendid stock of
CONDON & McKENZIE,
Cor. Olive and 13th Sis.,
Have alwav'
011 hand
line of
a new and full
GROCERIES,
TVoll Selected.
Dried and Canned Fruits of all kinds
tjuiiravteed to be best o'uatiti.
DRY GOODS!
A well "elected new stock which will he
sold as cheap as the cheapest.
BOOTS AND SHOES,
-A
NEW AND WELL SELECTED
STOCK TO CHOOSE FROM.
Hour at Prices to suit all Pockets !
JSTBUITER, EOOS and POFLTRV,
aud all kinds of country produce taken
in trade or bought Tor cash at the highest
market prices. l-y
A WORD OF WAK.M.
ITARMERS, stock raisers, aud all other
X. interested parties will do well to
remember that the "Western Horse and
Cattle Insurance Co." of Omaha is the
only company doing business iu this .state
that insures Horses, Mules and Cattle
against loss by theft, accidents, diseases,
or injury, (as also against loss bv lire and
lightning). All representations iy agent
of other Companies to the contrarv not
withstanding. P. W. HENRICH, Special Ac't,
l"-y Columbus, Neb.
FIJiAI, PROOF.
Land Office at Orand Islaxd Neb.,?
Nov. ltli, 1SW4. f
M"ii is Hereby given that the fol
ll lowinK-naiued settler has tiled notice
of his intention to make tiual proof iu
support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before (. lerk of District
Court of Platte county at Columbus,
Neb., on Tuesday, . January Kith,
mi, viz: '
August Bentel Homestead No. m;in
for the S. K, of N. "W. , Section 2i,
Township 20 north, of Range 1 west. He
names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon, and cul
tivation of, said land, viz: Ignatz Zach,
Ignatz Veith, John Daly and Albert
Sehroeder, all of Humphrey, Platte
Countv Nebraska.
C. HOSTETTER. Register.
J g-y- - .
FIAI PROOF.
ym. j. irwin Jouu j.' Truman, '.John
K"e"on:.J - I L.Truman, all of Vlatte
County, Nebraska.
! C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FIXAL. PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
Nov. 6th, 1884. f
NOTICE is hereby given that the fol
Irwin".nmpl aotrlai ,a :i...i ...:....
of his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that. ! .-,.i
will be made before the Clerk of the Dia-
"" uurt 01 i-iaue county, at Colum
bus, Nebraska, on Friday, Decembei
T?ihat
2Gtb, 1884. viz:
AV ilhelm Streblow, Homestead No.SfcKW,
for the AW-.K, Section 18, Township VJ,
north of Range 1 west. He names the
following witnesses to prove his continu
ous residence upon, and cultivation or.
said land, viz: John F. Shure, Jacob
Mansbach, Anton Rein, Charles Brandt,
all of Humphrey, Platte Co., Neb.
29-6 CHOSTETTEB. Register.
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