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WEDNESDAY, APRIL15, 1885.
The mother of Hon. S. S. Cox,
died on tho 3d inst., at Zanesville,
Ohio, aged 84 years.
The Fremont Herald recommends
buckshot as a remedy for that tramp
infested community.
It is reported that a mad dog a few
dfrys ago bit several cattle belonging
to Senator Van "Wyck, near Nebraska
City.
Hekey M. Stanley hopes to visit
the United States by the last of this
month. He will be able to stay bat a
short .time.
The President sent to the Senate
173 nominations. Of these 159 were
confirmed, two rejected and twelve
sot acted upon.
The New York Tribune says thir
teen yonng ladies were admitted to
the practice of medicine in that city
Wednesday night.
Pabis government advices from
Pekin state that the Chinese govern
ment adheres to the peace prelim
inaries signed on the 4th instant.
A late dispatch received at Paris
from Berlin says Prince Bismarck
assures a banker that In spite of the
incident of Penydeh, the czar hopes
to preserve pgace.
Wahoo had a fire the other day at
the fair grounds, which got away
from boys burning trash in the field,
thence to the fence and into the sta
bles, destroying about $1,200 worth of
property.
.Mb. Lauchrey, an old man of Kear
ney, Neb., while out plowing the
other day died suddenly in the field.
He was found sitting up in the 6eatof
a sulky plow, leaning againstlhe han
dle, dead.
According to request of govern
ment at least 1,000 men were on the
road to Aspinwall last week, sent
especially to protect the lives and
property of American citizens in that
disturbed country.
Neligh, Neb., town election was
fought with great vigor on the license
question, and the board elected were
pledged to carry out the wishes of the
majority ; the result was "no license,"
by a large majority.
"Get as much force of mind as you
-can. Live within your income. Al
ways have something saved at the
. end of the year. Let jour imports
be more than your exports, and you'll
never go far wrong."
Charles E. Stevens, a prominent
citizen of Arrapahoe, Neb., died sud-
" denly recently of heart disease. He
was egaged in painting a house and
was found by his son lying partly on
the ground and against tho house,
dead.
The senate at Washington adjourn
ed wthout a president pro tern. In
case of the death of the President and
Vice President, the country would be
without an executive head, and
would remain so until provided for
by congress.
Miss Ida C Sweet, pension agent of
the Chicago district, declines to resign
her office at the request of commis
sioner Black ; placing her case on the
faithful discharge of her duties she
she will have to bo removed as she
will not resign.
There was the other day at London
a slight renewal of the war feeling
on the stock exchange, owing to re
ports from St. Petersburgh that the
chief of staff of the Russian army had
obtained tho czar's assent to the ac
celeration of the preparations for war.
Judge Van Brunt granted the
other day the motion in behalf of
Mrs. Dudley, who shot Rosea, for a
commission to be sent to England to
examine witnesses rcgardipg; Mrs.
Dudley's 6anity. Proceedings in
New York are stayed in the mean
time.
The primary Oratorical contest of
Hastings ( college came off the other
night at Hastings before a large au
dience, and resulted in favor of Mr.
J. H. H. Hewitt, and be will repre
sent Hastings college in the State
contest to be held at Hastings this
evening.
According to the new method of
book-keeping at Washington the con
dition of the treasury, based on the
latest returns, shows an excess of
available assets over demand lia
bilities of 116,418,092. By this state
ment the net cash is $206,368,664 ; net
liabilities, $1S9,945,572.
Charles Nutt, a miller employed
at the mill at Wilber, Neb., became
entangled the other day in the gear
ing of the mill, and had his arm so
badly crushed that amputation will
be necessary. It was not ascertained
at the time whether he had received
any internal injuries or not.
The comptroller of the currency at
Washington is informed by the exam
iner in charge of the suspended Ex
change National Bank of Norfolk,
Va., that the B.mk is insolvent and
will have to be placed in the hands of
a receiver. The amount due the de
positors alone is over $300,000.
The attorney general has rendered
an opinon to the secretary of the in
terior which holds that the order of
President Arthur, opening the lands
in the old Winnebago resrvation, in
Dakota, to settlement is inoperative,
because the Sioux Indians hold a title
to the lands under the treaty of 1868.
The close contest in the municipal
election in Chicago, has been compli
cated by the theft of the ballot-box of
the Third precinct of the Third ward.
A man by the name of Keefe has been
arrested by the police charged with
stealing the box. Warrants have also
been issued for the arrest of three
others implicated in the matter.
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Nebraska is not -favored with very
many democratic newspapers, and
tho chief of what we havo are not bo
unanimously harmonious as they
might be. The fact is that several of
them are more than inclined to pro
test against the autocracy of the Oma
ha Herald, chief among which is the
Fremont Herald, edited by Nat.
Smalls, Esq., a thorough-paced demo
crat of independent mould. Speaking
of-Dr. Miller's "abdication," he de
clares it "one of the most remarkable
edicts of the 10th century." It will
be remembered that the good Doctor
published "a necessary notice" to the
effect that he wouldn't sign any more
petitions for offite for anybody. Mr.
Smails proceeds to philosophize upon
the subject, and show the inner
springs of motive acting upon the
good doctor. Tho only excuse that
we can tender our readers for refering
to this subject is the interest that all
of us must now take in our democratic
brethren. If they wipe the floor with
each other, so to speak, we should
soon see in Nebraska not enough of
them left to make a political cam
paign half-way interesting. The
democracy must preserve their
autonomy, if our wish can prevail,
but in the meantime if they will
fight, we cannot shut our eyes to the
sight, and our readers should under
stand something of the casus belli, as
delivered from one of the head
quarters. The Fremont Herald
further :
"Miller and Boyd set themselves up
as the almoners of federal offices in
this state (see Boyd letter) ; transact
ing their business upon these false
pretenses they used the promises of
these offices to obstruct and prevent
the Democratic party, through its or
ganization, the State Committee, to
advise the appointing power in the
matter of the bestowal of these offices
for the benefit of the party. As usual
in such cases one office was promised
to a large number of official seekers,
while in truth and fact as far as in
them lay they bad pawned it, each
office, to a single representative of the
gilded political three-ball shop. The
offices are being pawned 'put in
soak;' the many promises for them
are still outstanding and to be met.
The mails bring to tho senior mem
ber, of tho Mrs. Mandlebaum firm,
reminders of these obligations. The
day of payment draws nigh, and to
escape writing twenty letters in favor
of twenty men for the same office, M.
Lt. George withdraws, throwing all
the responsibility upon the surviving
partner poor Boyd! The idea
sought to be conveyed in Miller's
open letter is that he is so pressed
with business that he had not time
to give answer to solicitations, under
former promises, for his aid in ob
taining offices, and through this plea
he thinks to get relieved from the
consequences of former promises. It
is easier to promise than to pay, and
refusals and neglects to pay are
evidence of bankruptcy. An as
sumption of power and greatness is
attended with difficulties and meanness."
Oar Prairie Post-Hele.
J. D. Calhoun, of the State Journal,
who is now sojourning at New Or
leans among other items sends the
following to his paper, which is a fair
illustration of how Nebraskans do
away with the laborious exercise of
turning a stubborn augur, boring
vaccums for fence-posts :
"By the way, Bonnell and I are
partners in a story that my vanity
suggests is worth repeating. At the
dinner table one day, surrounded by
people from other states, Bonnell said
the only trouble and labor involved
in making post-holes around a farm
in Nebraska was the planting of a
beet seed every eight feet along the
line where it was desired to build the
fence. In the fall when the vegeta
bles were extracted from the ground,
there were the holes all ready for bus
iness. The assertion wsb made with
that quiet, matter-of-fact air of sin
cere gravity that always characterizes
the Nebraska man when exploiting
the resources of the most fertile prai
ries in the world. A curious sort of
silence fell upon the company and
the land-lady turned to me, "Is that
really a true story, or is it a chip from
the Nebraska hatchet of which Mr.
Thurston told us?" i
And I replied, "Madame, it is in
every respect entirely true and mod
erately drawn. And the only reason
that portion of the beets which grows
above the ground is not utilized for
posts is that the vegetable as produc
ed in Nebraska is so sweet and nutri
tious that the stock would eat them
all to the ground and thus destroy
the fences." Ex.
A correspondent asks whether it
is true that Secretary Lamar caused
the flag over the Interior Department
to be placed at half-mast on account
of the death of Jacob Thompson.
Yes, it is true that Secretary Lamar
did this thing, and thero is no reason
able excuse for ench an affront to the
patriotism of the ever loyal people of
the United States and the feelings of
honest and honorable men. If, as
has been reported, it was done after a
cabinet consultation and with the
consent and approval of the Presi
dent and the reBt who Bit around his
conncil board, so much the worse.
The proceeding is shameful and out
rageous. Chicago Tribune.
an oraer tor six last iron cruisers
of the "Esmeralda" pattern has been
received at New York. These ves
sels nave been ordered by private
gentlemen, just as they might order
steam yacht?, but will be for sale
when completed and the offers of
only one European government will
be entertained, which, it is believed,
will be Russia. The cruisers are to
have three paramount features nine
teen knots speed, coal-carrying capac
ity for twenty-five days steaming and
buoyancy for threo steel cannon of
large caliber.
The other day additional troops for
Aspinwall left the navy yard at New
York in a quiet manner. There were
five companies of fifty men . each,
under command of Capt. Higbe. One
hundred and fifty sailors And six
guas left the Brooklyn navy yard the
same day with the marines, in com
jUAd of Capt. McCalla. i
The next meeting of the State
Teachers' Association for Nebraska
has been fixed for March 26-28, '86, at
Lincoln. Superintendent Moncrief,
of this city made an effort to havo the
meeting of the Association held at
Fremont, but the majority voted in
favor of Lincoln. For the ensuing
year the Association elected the fol
lowing officers: President, W. W.
W. Jones; Secretary, Hattie Snod
grass ; Corresponding Secretary, Miss
Anna Gray ; Treasurer, H. N. Blake.
The usual hoggishness of South Platte
people in public matters was shown
on this as it is on most occasions
where favors are designated. Time
and again the South Platte people
have taken to themselves the candi
dates on state tickets, the meetings of
state conventions, the placing of pub
lic institutions, &c, simply because
they had the numerical numbers suffi
cient to do so, and have had, literally,
no realization of the hoggishness of
their actions. This will probably
continue to be the policy of the South
Platte politicians until the north
country acquires numbers sufficient
to compel a just apportionment of
such favors.
Concerning the new debt statement
just issued by the new hands at the
treasury bellows, not to-go into de
tails, whicb just now might seem
annoying to democratic friends, it is
enough to remark that a few months
ago, during the presidential cam
paign, scores of democratic statesmen,
great and small, including conspicu
ously Mr. Randall, were going up and
down in the land declaring that the
treasury held a surplus of more than
$200,000,000, which it ought imme
diately to employ in paying debts.
And Tommy Hendricks talked about
$400,000,000. But now the first debt
statement issued by a democratic ad
ministration officially informs the
world that the treasury has on hand a
surplus of less than $12,000,000.--State
Journal.
Gen. T. B. Bunting, of New York,
recently received a letter from an
American residing in Guatemala,
which gives some light on the Cen
tral American troubles. With the
letter the American friend sent a
paper containing a proclamation and
decree of Gen. J. R. Barrios, whereby
he makes one republic of the five,
and floats to the breezo the flag of
the "Republic of Central America,"
pledging his talents, fortune and life
to defend it; declaring all traitors
who oppose the common cause and
threatening destruction to those gov
ernments who fail to join in the re
generating movements.
Ik the houso of commons the other
day Gladstone confirmed the in
telligence of a battle between the
Russians and Afghans and said :
"From information which the gov
ernment received of the fight, the
Russians have apparently been guilty
of an unjustifiable attack on tho
Afghans. England has demanded
from Russia full explanations in re
gard to the affair." He also stated
that the government bad received no
information corroborative of the re
port that the Russians had occupied
Peuydeh.
Arthur J. Keyes, living near
Wahoo, Neb., died suddenly the other
afternoon in Dr. Lamb's drug store
from an overdose of strychnine in
medicine improperly compounded.
The coroner's inquest decided that he
came to his death by a prescription
improperly compounded by Dr. Lamb,
who used two grains of strychnine,
when only one was prescribed, and
improperly mixed it. He leaves a
wife and several children.
The Tribune,&t Salt Lake, is author
ity for the assertion that a leading
Mormon Bishop haB declared that the
priesthood has concluded that it
would be cheaper to buy a statehood
for Utah than endure the annoyances
the polygamists are now being &ub-
Ijected to by the enforcement of the
laws. Among the laiety this is now
considered to be the plan of the Mor
mon campaign.
Peace negotiations between France
and China have been suspended, but
recent news from London reports
that the Chinese legation here has
forwarded to the agent at Paris re
newed peace proposals, the basis of
which are that the blockade of
Petehili and Formosa shall be raised ;
that Tonquin shall be ceded to China
and that no indemnity shall be exacted
by France.
W. H. Forth, of Blue Springs,
Neb-., while engaged in hauling hay
the other day, slipped and fell from
the load between the horses, which
became frightened, ran away and two
wheels of the wagon passed over his
body inflicting wounds from which
he soon died. He had only been in
the state a short time, and leaves a
wife and several children.
Gottlieb Cook the other evening
at Kearney, jumped from a Union
Pacific train and started north on the
run. He had a ticket for San Fran,
cisco. He was captured by farmers
fifteen miles away and brought back to
the city. The Sheriff placed him in jail,
and is very anxious that his friends find
him. The man is evidently insane.
The B. & M. freight depot at Oma
ha burned the other morning be
tween 4 and 5 o'clock believed to be
the wicked work of some incendiary.
The building was valued at $7,000
and the freight, in storage, at about
$2,000. It is the intention of the B.
& M. company to supply its place
with a new buildiig.
The body of" Win. O'Grady was
discovered the other day by some
boys while fishing in the Nemaha.
He left Falls City, Neb., last Novem
ber to go to Sabetha, Kan., and had
not been heard of until found by the
boys. He was in the habit of getting
drank and must have fallen into the
river and drowsed. '
A recent dispatch from Huron, D.
T., states that F. G. Small an attorney
of Harold, mysteriously disappeared
from that place last December. The
murderers have just been found and
are two prominent citizens, J. H. Bell
and F. Bennett, both attorneys. Ben
nett has confessed the murder, and
says Bell killed him With :a hatchet.
They then took him twenty miles
north of Harold and buried him
where he was found the other day.
Both arc in fail at Pierce and lynehing
is probable.
There is no longer any doubt that
gold quartz ha9 been discovered on
P. T. Convey's farm, in the range
hills about twelve miles west of
Papillion, Neb. Samples of the rock
have been assayed by Omaha, St.
Louis and Chicago experts, and in
every instance have been pronounced
worth working. Steps have been
taken by C. Behrendt and J. Zim
merman, of Papillion to put in
machinery and work the lead. Future
developements will disclose its rich
ness. The first cyclone of the -season
struck Waverly, Missouri, the other
night, tearing things up generally and
spreading destruction in its path, lift
ing up anddashing to pieces a large
number of buildings; among others
the Christian church was picked up
and dashed to the ground, reducing It
to kindling wood. In this storm no
lives were lost, all having sought safe
places a moment before. The damage
to property will amount to $100,000.
Mr. McMillan in a street car the
other morning in Newport, Ky., met
John L. Cummings, clerk in the Fir6t
National Bank of Cincinnati,, and
fired three balls from a revolver into
the victim's chest, causing instant
death. He killed Cummings in re
venge for the ruin of his daughter.
McMillan immediately gave himself
up to the police.
The Sioux City Journal states that
an emigrant on reaching Hoekins
rounded up his brood' to find one mis
sing. Hastily telegraphing ahead of
the train the conductor found the
innocent, tow-headed darling curled
up in a seat sweetly dreaming. He
was aroused and returned to the anx
ious parents by the next train.
The Paris bourse was demoralized
the other day. The heavy declines
in London and Berlin produced a
panic, and all international stocks
fell heavily. Sales were forced to
secure any price obtainable, owing
to fears that many engagements will
go unmet and that prices must re
cede much further still.
G. S. Mayo, who is known as the
editor of the Chicago Post ami Cou
rier, also the Illinois Agriculturist,
has been arrested by the postal author
ities. Cleveland's post master general
will do the country an excellent ser
vice if he would deprive all the .fraud
ulent or would-be fraudulent .papers J
of the use of the mails.
Recent news from Phoenix, Ari
zona, states that Mormon Bishop
Stewart and Elder C. J. Robinson,
indicted for polygamy, were permit
ted to plead guilty in a lesser court to
the indictment of unlawful cohabita
tion. The judgo sentenced them to
ninety days in the territorial pen
itentiary. Edward Lambert of Chicago the
other day called at the residence of
Mrs. Ann A. Mulligan, his mother-in-law,
to see his wife, from whom he
had been estranged, and while there
shot and killed Mrs. Mulligan and
also shot and dangerously wounded
bis wife and then killed himself.
It is stated at London that the
Queen will return to England im
mediately, in view of the crisis in the
relations between Russia and Eng
land. Sixty thousand men from the
army reserves and the whole militia
will be called out. The naval reserve
will be used for home defense.
One of the strikers at the McCor
mick reaper factory the other dav
attempted to stop one of the compa
ny's busses at Chicago on its way to
the works, and A. S. Pinkerton, a
detective inside the buss, shot the
man dead. Trouble is feared.
So far the prince and princess of
Wales and their eldest son Prince
Albert Victor have been everywhere
received by the people on their visit
to Ireland with demonstrations of
kindness and loyalty.
A meeting of cattlemen was held
on War Bonnet Creek, SiouxLco.itnty'.
a few days ago, to discuss the ques
tion of "What shall we do to be sav
ed?" from the incoming tide of im
migration.
The latest report from Madrid gives
forty new cases of supposed cholera
at Jativa last week and twenty deaths.
That subsequently on the 7th inst.,
thirty new casep occurred and seven
deaths.
The new singular common gender
pronoun "thon" already adopted by
several Eastern school boards, has
brought out no less than six others,
the last one being from the Spanish
"zyhe."
H. N. Carpenter, Minden, Neb.,
under sentence to the paaltoaiiary for
one year, made his escape from the
guard the other night. The officers
are in pursuit of him.
Wm. H. Cabboll, the originator of
miner's unions throughout Pennsyl
vania, fatally shot Henry Taylor, a
business rival, the other day at
Wilkesbarre.
It is charged that Joseph W. Car
son died the other day at Elkborn,
Neb., from the effects of iodine, which
be had used for a malignant sore
throat. .
A Nebraska man exhibited the
largest pumpkin at the New Orleans
Exposition. It weighed 216 lbs.
has
Keira IVotCM.
One cattle ranch in Wyoming em
braces a million acre?.
O'Neill has voted $4,200 in bonds
for a new school builuing.
The United States controls three
quarters of the cornfields of the whole
world.
Scientists hold seventeen distinct
theories aa to the cause of earth
quakes. The Grand Array-poot of Ctrightnn
is building one of the finest hulls in
the Sie :
Thirty-four female Arab soldiers
were killed in. a recent battle with
the B.-itj.-h.
The miking of orange wine is
proving a successful business on the
Pacific coast.
Robert Ingram was held up in the
streets of Omaha the other night and
robbed of 113.
Tours has adopted the electric
light, the first city in France outside
of Paris to do so.
The King of Siam, although not yet
thirty years of age, has 1,000 wives
and 263 children.
The greatest height of. an ocean
wave is said to be about thirty-five
feet above the level.
, A license feo of $1 a day is said
now to be charged skating riuka of
all kinds in Newark, N. J.
Ten-seventeenths of all the voters
in the United States are said to be
engaged in farming pursuits.
Ox a farm near East Aurora, N.
Y., was discovered recently a belt of
solid Bait sixty-five feet thick.
Most of the streets of Delaware and
eastern Maryland towns are graded
and ballasted with oyster shells.
The custom of decorating rooms by
strewing roses on furniture, bedding
and floors Is extending in Paris.
Nearly six bushels of wheat to
each inhabitant is the average con
sumption of the United States an
nually. After the death of a man at Bid
deford, Me., over $10,000 in cash and
bonds were found concealed in
bis bed.
Paris contains 10,000 children of
both sexes, waifs and strays, who are
in need of help from the benevolent
societies.
A public speaker recently made
the statement that no Connecticut
regiment ever lost a flag during the
civil war.
It is estimated that half the wheat
crop of Kansas will prove a total loss.
Farmers are plowing their wheat
fields and sowing other grain.
Among the 1,200 laws regulating
the French press is one, centuries old,
which threatens the proof-reader
with death for even one blunder.
The largest prune orchard in the
world contains 16,000 trees. It is
located one mile from Saratoga, Cal.,
and was recently sold for $75,000.
Speckled trout come up in the
water of some artesian wells in
Nevada. The supposition is that
they came from subterranean lakes.
Miss S. Weeks recently took the
oath as Deputy Register of Deeds for
Osborne county, Kansas. Her ap
pointment gives general satisfaction.
A REroRT come? from London
stating that forty thousand coal min
ers are now on a strike in Yorkshire
alone, against a 10 per cent reduction
in wages.
The mother of the first child born
in Eagle City, Arizona, received a
present of $5,000 in gold dust from
the enthusiastic miners of that region
the other day.
Mrs. L. B. Stevens, of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, owns and controls two
banks. It is believed that she was the
first woman president of a bank in the
United States.
While a heavy storm was passing
over Washington tho other day the
great monument was struck three
times by lightning without causing
the least damage.
A long courtship ended the other
day in marriage near Trenton, N. Y.,
that of a couple who had been
"keeping company continously for
twety-eight years."
A Troy, N. Y., undertaking estab
lishment waB set on fire the other day
by the ignition of a match carried by
a sparrow into their nest under the
cornice of the building.
The area of Lake Erie is said to be
6,000 square miles. Its greatest
length is 250 miles; greatest
breadth, 80 miles, mean depth, 84
feet ; elevation, 555 feet.
A water spaniel owned in Bridge
water, Mass., goes to the evening
train every day to get a Boston paper
for his master. He knows when Sun
day comes and remains at home.
A bed quilt on exhibition at New
Orleans cotains 100,584 pieces. It is
made of small bits of tape three-eighths
of an inch square, and at a short dis
tance very much resembles worsted
embroidery.
The power of Niagara Falls, exclu
sive of the velocity with which the
water reaches the brink, is calculated
to be 5,000,000 horse power, or nearly
one-fourth of the whole steam power
of the earth.
Miss Lillian Smith, a California
girl aged fourteen, broke the other
night at San Francisco, a hundred
glass balls with a Winchester riffle in
two minutes and thirty-five seconds.
This beats all records.
Lightning exploded the Hazard
Powder Company's magazine, con
taining eight and a half tons of
powder, at St. Joseph, Mo., the other
morning. The concussion wrecked
all the houses in the vicinity.
It is stated that the reports to be
published relative to the crop pros
pects in Illinois will not come to the
averager The acreage will be as large
as last year, but the severe winter
destroyed mach of the grain.
The Blae, Tke Grcjr, aaa Graat.
They sat tngetb.er'aidc by side.
In the hadeofai orange tree;
One had followed toe flag of Grant,
The other had fought with Lee.
The boy in bluehd an empty sleeve,
A crutch had the boy in j:rey;
They talked of the long and dreary march,
They talked of the blood) fray.
".My chief is dead," the Johnny paid.
'A leader brave was he;
And sheathed fnre'er, nl Lexington,
Doth hang the sword of Lee."
"Sty leader live" the boy in liluo
Spoke low. and 1th a sigh
"But all the country wait iu fear
That he to day may die."
"God bless our Grant!" the vet'ran said,
And dropped a tear, and theu
In heartfelt tone the answer came,
For the rebel" said "Amen!"
Commercial Gazette.
The War Clead AgalM Gatker
Berlin, April S. Tho belief hith
erto attained in official circles that
peace would be maintained between
England and Russia has uudergone a
distinct change. The dispatches from
St. Petersburg say the war party is
getting the upper hand aud that the
czar has agreed to appoint General
Gourks and General Kouropotkiue
to leading commands in the Afghan
campaign in tho event of war. Each
will head an army corps of 50,000
men. Prince Doudoukoff Korsakoff
governor of Caucasus, takes a staff of
military surveyors to Mery to report
upon the progress of tho massing of
troops and the condition of the com-mi-S'iriiit.
He wilt command the
third army corps; -
In some ol i German cities it is
stated that a br'i is placed above the
public receptacle for the dead, and
the hand of the corpse fasteued to
the rope, so that it may be rung by
tho chance victim ot burial before
death.
A young lawyer of Sylvania, Ga.,
went through that town the other day
driving a portion of his first law fee
a yearling steer. Tho fee consisted
ot So in money, a stack of fodder, a
silver watch, an old sow and the
yearling.
totttsfonUntt.
In this department the people talk, and
not the editor. Each writer must hold
himself ready to defend his principles
and his statements of facts. "In the mul
titude of counsel there is wisdom." Ed.
Journal.
The election in Genoa on the 7th
inst. resulted in a victory for the anti
license party of two to one; as a con
sequeucu the temperance men are
jubilant, and the liquor interest smart
under their defeat. Now if Colum
bus had only followed her younger
sister in the march of reform she
would not to-day be lamenting over
the low state of morality and the
plague spots in her midst, which owe
much of their strength to the free use
of intoxicating liquors. Now that the
State has seen fit to require that the
physiological laws governing this
matter shall be taught in our public
schools, let us see that the law is
complied with in spirit as well as in
letter. S.
Life.
Life is dearer to us than anything
else. If we were going to be depriv
ed of it we would not be happy be
cause we would want life. If
we had no life we would not know
anyining. it is ute mat mates us
happy and life alone. What would
this world be if there was no life? It
wonld be desolate and no man would
want to live here. Gniteau's life was
was so dear to him that he and bis
friends and relatives tried to make
believe that he was crazy to save it.
But he did not think that Mr. Gar
field's life was dear to him, at least
he did not act as if he did. Every
man prizes his life above every thing
else. If there was no other world and
we were going to be depriyed of life
in a way that it would not hurt us,
we could not be happy. Why ? Be
cause we would not want to die, we
would want life. But if we knew
that we had done good all our lives
and we were dying and we knew that
we were going to heaven I think we
could be happy. God crave us life to
work, be useful and obey bis com
mandments, but not to steal and take
the life of our fellowmen. If we had
sinned and we were going to die we
would want life because we would
want to live longer so that we would
not be punished for our sins 60 quick
ly. But there is another world and
when we sin we will get punished for
it after we die ; and some times before.
"Papa what is the name of that
book ?" asked a little boy of his father
who bad just returned from his office.
"That, my son) is a bible." "Yes. my
son," said the fond wife, "but remem
ber it was only by accident that he
found it out." Her husband stared at
her, but she said, "Yon needn't look
surprised, Sam, for I saw you take it
up mis morning ana open it, you
glanced at the top and saw what it
was, you were looking for the book
entitled how to play cards, billiards
and poker."
Charles D. Wilson.
LOUIS SCHREIBER,
All kiads of Repaii-iig doie ei
Short Notice. Baggies, Wag
ens, etc.. made to order,
and all work Guar
anteed. Also Mil the world-fkmouj Walter A.
Wood Xowen, Beapers, Combin
ed Machine, HarTtera,
and 8elMinden the
best nude.
"Shop opposite the " Tattersall," on
OUv St., COLUMBUS, aj-m
TOTICE TO TEACHERS.
J. 8. Moncrief, Co. Sapt.,
BlacKsmitb ana Wagon Maer
Will be in his office at the Court House
on the third Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transaction of aay other business
pertaining to schools. 667-y
COLUMBUS
WM. BECKER,
PKALXR IN ALL KINDS OF
STAPLE AND FAMILY
GROCERIES!
I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND
WELL SELECTED S fOCK.
Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
Dried and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Specialty.
Delivered Free to
part r the City.
usy
Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near
A. AN. Depot.
K
H0TICE.
"WaltkrS. "Wklls,
v.
A. D. Watjocr.
A. D. Walker, non-resident defendant:
Said A. D. Walker, defendant, will take
notice that on the 10th dav or February,
1885, Walter S. Wells, plaintiff, tiled his
petition in the District Court of Platte
county, Nebraska, against said defendant,
the object aud prayer of whicb is tore
cover possession of one hundred :iml two
volumes of certain law books of the value
of about $241.75, the property of said
plaintiff and wrongfully detained by said
defendant.
You are required to answer said peti
tion on or before Monday, the 1st dav of
June, 1685.
Dated Columbus. Neb., April 15th, 1335.
WALTER S. WELLS.
By Rkkdkr & Hknslky,
his Attorneys. 51-4
HOMESTEAD NOTICE.
U. S. Land Office, Grand Islnnd, Nebr.J i
Mircb IGth, lStf. f
COMPLAINT having been entered at
this office by Patrick Gillian a3int
William A. Demony for abandoning his
Homestead Entry No. 15232, dated Sept.
10th, 1884, upon the East K Southeast K.
Section 2, Township 19-nbrthr Ran:e 3
west, in Platte county, Nebraska, with a
view to the cancellation of said entr ;
the s aid parties are hereby summoned to
appearjit the office of J. Ml Macfarland, a
Notary Public, at Columbus, Nebraska,
on the 6th day of 3Iav, 1885, at 10 o'clock
a. m., to respond and furnish testimony
cone erning said alleged abandonment,
final hearing at this office May ltitn, 1885,
10 o'clock a. m.
48-G C. HOSTKTTER, Register.
FIX A I.. PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
April 1st, 1S85. f
NOTICE is hereby given that the following-named
settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof in
Bupport of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court of Platte county at Colum
bus, Neb., on Saturday 31 ay IGth, 1885, viz:
Frlederich Mackenstadt, Homestead
No. 8426, for the S. E. . of S. E. i, Sec
tion 12, Township 19 north, of Range 1 east.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon,
and cultivation of, said land, viz: Ger
hard Ascbe, Herman Pieper, Henry
Tabke and Herman Wurdeman, all of
Columbus, Platte County, Nebraska.
50-6 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
BOAD NOTICE.
To all whom it may concern ;
THE COMMISSIONER appointed to
view and report upon the practica
bility or vacating a public road com
mencing at S. E. corner of Section 20, in
Township 18, Range 1 west, and running
thence west to about S. E. corner of N.
E. i, ofN. E. Kor said Section; thence
in a northwesterly direction to the mid
dle of Section 17, Townsnip 18, Range 1
west, has reported in favor of the vaca
tion thereof. And the said commissioner
also reported in favor of the location of a
public road commencing at the middle of
Section 17? in Township 18, Range 1 west,
and running thence due south on the
half section line, and terminating at the
southwest corner of S. W. i, of S. E. i,
of Section 20, in Town 18, Range 1 west,
and all objections to either the vacation
or location of the above described roads,
or claims for damages, must be filed in
the office of the County Clerk on or be
fore noon of the 1st day of June, A. D.
1885, or the said roads will be vacated or
located as called for, without reference
thereto.
Dated, Columbus, Neb., March 26th,'85
John Stauffkr,
49 County Clerk.
BOAD NOTICE.
To all whom it may concern:
THE COMMISSIONER appointed to lo
cate a road commencing at the north
west corner of the southwest nuartcr of
the northeast quarter or section 24, town
ship 17, range 1, west, and running thence
west one-nair (J) mile, thence north
one-rourth (J) mile, thence west to in
tersect the public road as how traveled,
and thence on said road, and terminating
on the west line of section 14, at a point
where the Columbus and Genoa road in
tersects said line, has reported in favor
of the location thereof. And the said
Commissioner also reported that the old
survey of the county road from the west
line of section 14. townshiD 17. ran?e i.
west, to Columbus, in favor of the vaca
tion thereof, and all objections to either
the location or vacation of the above de
scribed roads, or claims for damages,
must be filed in the office of the County
Clerk on or before noon of the 18th day of
May, A. D. 1885, or said roads will be
located and vacated as callsd for, without
rererence thereto.
Dated, Columbus Neb., March 14, 185.
John Stauffkr,
4 County Clerk.
LEGAL 90TICE.
Statb of Nkbraska, Platte County, ss.
In the matter of the applica-1
tion for license to sell the I In District
real estate or Matthew f Court.
Lowry, an insane person, j
ON THE FILING of the petition of J.
J. Graves, guardian of Matthew
LP.ry' an insne person, and inhabitant
or Platte county, Nebraska, praying for a
license to sell the real estate or said
Matthew Lowrv. lor the mrmunt r j.i
debts and the costs of guardianship, it is
?un"i.ier,ed aJ ordered by the Court that
the 9th day of May, A. D. 1885, at 1 o'clock
p. dk, of said day at the Court House in
tfaeCtty of Columbus, Platte County
Nebraska, is hereby fixed for the time
??. S1!" 0f rh??r,ng 8aid Petition, and
that notice of the same be. publijhed in
?l,2..J?" newspaper
r 7n . . Kucri circulation in
said County of Platte for thr .iinMooS"
weeks prior to said hearing, notifvin"
the next or kin of said Matthew Low"
and all persons Interested in the estate
ot said ward to appear at said time and
place, and show cause, If any they have
why said license should not be Kranteci
as prayed for. 6
,n, , , A. M. Post,
00-3 Judge or District Court.
yi presents given away.
Send us 5 cents DostaiP
ivrviu and by mail vou will t
tft'wfitfss?.0' ;?d ?' !e .i"v
---- ----- .V"- u nun mat win at
once brinir von in mono-- r9.t.
$280
Mfl
JSnftSiwT i 1U Amec- All about the
liW,000 in preSent8 with each box
Agents wasted everywhere, of either
sex, of all ages, for all the time, or spare
time only, to work for us at their own
homes. Fortuaes for all workers ah
solutelr assured. nnf .ioi ?r
KJ-- .1. .--". ' -. fcuau jhjj.
liOT'Co.,PorUMV,UM. ""-
BOOMING!
CHEAP FUEL!
Whitebreasi Lump Coal 5.00
Nut " 4.50
Canon City " 7.00
Colorado Hard " 10.00
53TA GOOD" SUPPLY.
TAYLOR, SCHUTTE& CO.
is-tr
JACOB SCHKAM,
)OKALKK INi
DRY GOODS !
Boots & Shoes, Hats & Caps,
FMISKB GOOES AND NOTIONS.
LOW PRICES FOR CASH.
34-tt
FIJTAl. PROOF.
U. S. Land Office, Grand Maud, Neb.)
March 21st, 1885. f
NOTICE is hereby giveu that the fol
lowing: named settler has tiled notice
or bis intention to make tinal proor in
support of bis claim, and that said proof
will be made before Clerk of District
Court, at Coluabus, Neb., on Thursday
May Tth, 1835, viz:
John Hade Uomestead No. JWI57, for the
N. W. H, Section 2, Township H, north,
of Range 1 east. He names the follow,
ins witnesses to prove his continuous
resuleuce upon, and cultivation of, said
land, viz: Henry lluiitcinann. John
Hoisel, Wendelien Rrauner, and Theo
dor Wenk. all or Columbus, Platte Co.
. hr.
4S-U C. IIOSTF.TTER, Register.
FOAL PROOF.
Lund Office atGninrt Island, Nt b.,l
March 11, lSS. f
NOTICE i. hereby given that the fol-lowinir-named
settler hrn Him? nnii
of his intention to make final nroor in
support of his claim, and that said proof
win ijl- uKiucueiore tue .iiuige ortue Dis
trict Court at Columbus, Nehrs-ka, on
the itfd dav or April, l-5, iz:
James T. Maclean, Homestead Kntrv
No. 10765 for the S . of the N. E. i.
Section 20. Township 11). north ot" Range
3 wjst. He names the following wit
nesses to prove nis continuous resi
dence upon, and cultivation of, said
land, iz: Sol. Dickinson, or Monroe
P. O., PJatte County Neb., Sam'I Ma.
hood. J. W. Clark and J. M. Robinson, of
Postville P. O., Platte fountv. Neb.
47-6 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
F1AI. PROOF.
tentiou
in siipDO
proof will
tb
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locBfigeman
theN
north,
toi
t
of.
John
Strctter,
Co.,
4U-(W C
HOSTETTER, Register.
FIAI, PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
March 10th, 1885.
ATOTICE is hereby riven that thfoilnw-
1 ing named settler has filed notice or
his intention to make final proor iu sup
port orbis claim, and that said proof will
be made before Judge or District Court,
at Columbus, Neb., on the 25th day of
April, 1885, viz:
Samuel C. Terry, Homestead Entry No.
1)506, for the E. J4 S. E. , Section 4,
Township 18 north, of Range a west. II
names the following witnesses t prove
his continuous residence upon, aud culti
vation or, said land, viz: J. J. Judd. Sol.
Dickinson, R. E. Wiley and Jas. As Raker
all of O'Kay P. O., Platte Co., Neb.
47-6 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FIIVA.L. PROOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
March .'!1. IS.".. f
NOTICE is hereby given that the following-named
settler has Hied notice
or his intention to. make final proor iu
support or his claim, and that said proot
will be made before the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court of Platte county, at Colum
bus, Nebraska, on Saturday May 9th,
188o, viz:
Charles Gertsch Homestead No. 3251,
for the E. X, of S. E. yiy Section 12,
Township 13, north of Range 1 east. He
names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cul
tivation or, said land, viz: Herman
Wilke and Henry Rickert or Colnnihus,
Platte County Nebraska, Henry Welch
and Frederick Lutgeluschen, or hell
Creek, Colfax County Nebraska.
48-6 c. HOSTETTER, Register.
COAL 4? LIME!
J.E. WORTH & CO.,
DEALERS IN
Coal,
Lime,
Cement.
Rock Spin Coal, $7.00 per ton
Carbon (Wyoming) Coal S.00 "
Eldon (Iowa) Coal 5.00 "
Blackamith Coal of best quality al
ways on hand at low
est prices.
North Side Eleventh St.,
COLUMBUS, NEB.
H-3m
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
VLand Office at Grand Jslaxitf'b (
jfcirch b'th, lL f
'lV'E is hBL Kivjflthe
J.1 Tying nani-ti had
notice oB& intentiouHflTi'tinM) tTWk.
rftL III CiailAll flit tml
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nadc hmWuilxe of
saii'iiiti im.. aiuiuinDUnras.
HkLhe 17th IMLKtirlt i.-l.
figeman.Kieatcad No. ;V7for
& !2fc!, Township 1!.
of rMCFweIe names the
lowing wTRes tdAtve his cnn.
nBU reshHkuion. T?iii;vut;nn
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Pthiimlms 1. nkattt
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MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOOR AND MEAL.
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