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I- fetalfasfafttat WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14, 1885. The Pennsylvania railroads employ 70,000 men. The loss in Kansas this year from hog cholera will foot np a million dol lars. A Colorado paper says that game is rapidly disappearing from that state. Fifty-sine deaths from small-pox occurred at Montreal one day last week. Samuel J. Tildes has had 187 books read to him daring the past eighteen months. Nebraska City is to have street cars at once. All the stock but $2, 000 has been taken. The standpipe to the Grand Island waterworks will be 110 feet high and twelve feet in diameter. These are twenty-five Egyptian obelisks, seventeen in Italy, seven in England, and one in America. It is estimated that there has been a decrease of about $12,000,000 in the public debt during September. Recent statistics show that Eng land is increasing her population ten times as fast as France and Spain. William Stolid of Grand Is land exhibited at the Hall county fair twenty-five varieties of grapes of his own raising. Hibbs, tho defaulting postmaster, passed through Portland, Ore., the other day in charge of Postal Agent Murphy en route to Lewi6ton. The national woman's congress was held last week in Des Moines, la. There was a very large attendance from all parts of the United States. Chas. Gasteb of West Point has been arrested for beating his wife. The case is liable to be a serious one, for it is thought that the woman will die. A steel railway is to be built be tween Wymore and Blue Springs. The contract has been let, and the work of grading will commence right away. Schuyleb Purton, a deserter from Company D., ninth infantry, was captured at Lincoln the other day. The authorities at Fort Omaha were notified. Gov. Hoadly and Judge Foraker, opposing candidates for governor of Ohio, drew an immense crowd to hear thoir joint discussion at Toledo, on the evening of the 8th. The water-works contract at Grand Island, was awarded the other day to A. L. Strang for $33,500. The esti mate furnished to the council by A. A. Richardson, was $33,464. The flouring mill of G. G. Hicks, of Firth, near Lincoln was burned the other night, together with 12,000 bushels of grain. Loss $6,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. The sheep raisers of Tennessee have resolved to abandon the busi ness, owing to the want of a dog law, asserting that 300,000 sheep cannot be maintained against 500,000 dogs. Ogallala Sioux warriors and tho treacherous Arapahoes recent move ments at Wind River, Wyoming, is disturbing the minds of the settlers in the' vicinity of the reservation. The city council of Freeport, 111., have taken a new method to suppress their roller rinks by passing an or dinance fixing the licence on those establishments at $500 per annum. The old Abell hotel building, near the depot at Table Rock, Neb., was burned to the ground the other morn ing. It was built in 1871, and was unoccupied. Work of an incendiary. The Minnesota dog census 6uowa a canine population of 59,909 in the Btate, valued at $107,375. The cheap est value placed upon a Minneapolis dog in the list is 92 cents, and the highest $12. At Utica, the other day, Mrs. Druse was sentenced to be hanged Nov. 25. Last December, aided by her chil dren, she murdered her husband in Warren, New York, and cut up and burned his remains. It is stated that warrants have been issued for the arrest of a num ber of persons who have recently started prairie fires near Bismark, Dak., and that they will be prosecuted with the utmost vigor. Last week prairie fires were burning- in McPberson county, Dak., de stroying everything oyer an area of a hundred square miles. ' Hundreds of families are left destitute. The loss is estimated at $260,000. Aaron Benson, of Waterloo, has been "fired out" of the reorganized church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for the reason that he came into the church under false pretenses and is also guilty of adultery. A joint political debate has finally been arranged between Jndge For aker and Gov. Hoadly opposing can didates for governor of Ohio. The first discussion was to have been held at Toledo, one night last week. The cake ordered for an October wedding in New York is to be sur Mounted by a tower of candy, in which will be live birds. The bride ia to break the artificial cage with a tiny hammer and liberate the birds. -Tax body of Herman Podewils, of Went Point, Neb., was found on the railroad track near Hudson, N. Y., one morning last week, horribly mu tilated. He was a passenger on the Atlantic train on the Hudson river road. It is thought he fell from the Trla-ff Imr Okie. The political contest in Ohio has been watched from the other states with a good deal of interest, which will not decrease until the result of yesterday's .election shall have been definitely announced. -The disturb ing element in the problem has been the uncertain, unsteady, incalculable prohibition helpers of the democratic side of the contest. Any earnest pro hibitionist working for the "cause" onjy, who yot believes that the man agers in Ohio are anything but assistant democrats is to be com miserated for the obliqoity of hiB vision. It does seem too plain that Hoadly and Leonard have been hunt ing together, and that the prohibi tionists were used as cat's paws for the democracy. This was clearly proven, in many ways, during the campaign which closed yesterday ; it is a lamentable fact that there are too many whose zeal outruns their dis cretion, and who, turning away from the party of substantial progress, 'are willing to unite with life-long political enemies simply to wreak vengeance upon an organization that would not adopt their particular idea. The managers of tho prohibition machine will probably learn that the end will not justify the means used to attain it, and that unnatural al Nances breed nothing but coemption. We are free to confess that our faith in strong success, for the republicans of Ohio this year has been weak, and we will be very agreeably surprised if they shall bo found to be the vic tors by any good round figure. This campaign has been conducted in an honest, commendable way, and re publicans there and elsewhere, have seen the make-up of the third-party, which doubtless intends to play a like game elsewhere. A four story bnilding in the rear of 198 Clair street, Chicago, the other morning suddenly began cracking and creaking like a ship in heavy sea. The inmates from the basement to the top floor fled for their lives. Finally the floors sank down until the base ment was filled, then suddenly fol lowed the falling in of most of the walls with a terrible crash. The second floor was stored with flour and on the third floor there was a large machine shop, and the floor was also devoted to the manufacture of printing rollers. In the building was also stored $10,000 worth of desiccated eggs. A boy in the en gineer's room fir6t noticed the caving in of the building and called tho en gineer's attention to it, but tho fire man told him he was crazy, and re commended that he eee a' doctor in the morning. The building was sup ported entirely -by wooden girders and joints. The collapse was caused by timbers dry-rotting where the girders rested on the joints. The loss is estimated at $59,000. Grace Greenwood says that "among its other admirable manufac tures New England produces the best educated girls, the truest wires, the noblest mothers, and the most glor ious old maids in the world." The Inter-Ocean has great confidence in Grace Greenwood, but we suggest a change of adjectives and let the sen tence read, New England produces well-educated girls, true wives, noble mothers, aud the most old maids in the world. There was a time in the great West when our girls were not educated like our boys. But we have got away from that, and in no sec tion of the world are the girls wider awake to secure a good education than in the west. We wish to add that from the days of the pioneer mothers to the present the homos of New England have not been blessed and honored with truer wives than have the cabins and homes of the woods and prairies of what a great New York daily sneeringly calls "The rowdy West." Inter-Ocean. Lieut. John P. Finley, of the signal corps, has for the past eight years been studying the scientific phenomena of tornadoes, and he be lieves now that they are so well un derstood as to warrant the opinion that trustworthy warnings may soon be sent out to the inhabitants of lo calities which may be threatened with disastrous visitations. He has re cently been traveling in the west in pursuit of his studies, and wherever he goes the farmers and villagers press for information. To these he says that nothing raised by the hand of man above the,surface of the earth can withstand the shock of a tornado. He advises them to seek their dug outs upon the appearance of the por tentous signs of disaster and there await the passage of the storm. For their property, he advises insurance. We notice that New Jersey was not included in his list of states. As tho regular train from Holli daysburg, Pa., was nearing Alle gheny Furnace the other morning four men took possession of one of the crowded cars. Three of the rob bers intimidated the passengers with revolvers and the fourth went through the car and robbed such of the oc cupants a9 he choose to select. One of the passengers made a show of re sistance, bnt ho was attacked with a knife and cut through the hand. The conductor next grappled with one of robbers and was dragged ont to the platform of the car and beaten with a revolver handle. The robbers then pulled the bell rope aud jumped off, escaping to the woods. The Penn sylvania Railroad Company has sent out officers in pursuit in all direc tions. It is stated at Stockholm that sev enteen persons were crushed to death the other day by the jam of people in front of Mme. Nilsson's hotel, twenty-nine others were seriously in jured. Mme. Nilsson was so pros trated by the shock that the has tem porarily, postponed the fulfilment or her MgigMMBL One day last week a terrible acci dent happened on the Fergns Falls branch of the Northern Pacific road seven miles west of St. Paul, by which five men lost their lives and thirty or forty more were more or less injured. John Robison's show left Wahtpetoo, Dakota, for St. Panl in two sections. When within seven miles of Fergus Falls, near a small place named French, the head or bag f age section broke in two while go ing up a heavy grade, and ten or twelve cars went flying back at a ter rible rate, running perhaps a mile be fore they struck the other part of the train, and the flying cars struck the engine with tremendous force, throw ing three sleepers from the track and smashing them beyond recognition, with the result above stated. In the dark the other night groans were heard in Central Park, N. Y. ; the officer struck a light, and discov ered a man and a woman, both robed deeply in black as thongh prepared for a funeral, lying upon a horse blanket. The woman was dead, and a smile was upon her face, which in life had been pretty. The man was dying and soon too was still. - On the woman's breast, which she had bared for the bullet, lay a lock of her lover's hair, and upon his a dead leaf and rose. Papeis disclosed the namss of George Bassendorf and Maria. Bas senborf had boarded in her family. Her husband was an old man. The commissioner of the land office has been informed that the operations of R. C. Bloomfield, an Englishman, manager of the Arkansas Land & Cattle Company, recently convicted at Denver of procuring fraudulent entries upon public lands, were of the most audacious character. All the cowboys in the employ were forced to make entries in his behalf, and then he set np "paper men," or, in other words, made entries in the names of persons who had no exis tence. His conviction, it is hoped, will have a wholesome effect on others who have been guilty of like practices. The banker's association held a meeting last week in Chicago. Among other business transacted was the disposition of a resolution asking that the silver coinage law of 1877 be sus pended and the substitute offered by Mr. Flannigan, of New York, asking for the unconditional repeal of the Bland law. Mr. Hannor, of Iowa, offerred a substitute for the original resolution making the silver dollar equal with gold. This was lost, as was also the Flannigan amendment, aud the original resolution was car ried by a large majority. One of the questions tor future legislatures will be the taxing of cor porations for the purpose of raising a considerable share of tho revenue wherewith to run the state govern ments. Illinois has been wrestling with the question, but is tied because of the constitution being similar to Nebraska', requiring taxation to be according to valuation. It is said that New York raises nearly two millions of tax from a levy on gross receipts of corporations, and that both Pennsylvania and New Jersey have provision of a similar nature. The Nance Co. Telescope closes an article on township organization by saying that "high taxes, low credit aud but little done is the result of the commissioner system in that county ; further that thousands of dollars of the peoples money of that county have been absorbed by the county government under the management of a central political and official ring." L. C. Burr, attorney at law, was taken from Lincoln the other day un der arrest to Kearney, and immedi ately upon his arrival arraiged beforo Justice Leake on a charge of liberat ing Simmerman. Burr waived ex amination, promptly furnished bail and will return home immediately. Few people knew of his arrival, so no excitement was caused. The case made up in Nance county, stvled state ex rel. Huff vs. Mc Clelland, in mandanus to test the val idity of the law creating the office of register of deeds, was argued and submitted to the supreme court, but no decision was rendered, and will not be until the court meets again on the 20th inst. It is understood however that the writ will be denied. An ingenious man got away with the pickpockets at the Lincoln State Fair. He lined his pockets with fish hooks, points down, and then ex hibited a roll of money; simulated intoxication, and shoved down the wealth. The thief made a dive for it and was caught in elegant shape. A surgeon amputated- the hand from the pocket. The New York state democratic convention re-nominated Gov. Hill for governor, R. P. Flower, for lieu tenant governor, F. Cook, for sec retary of state, A. A. Chapin, for comptroller, D. O'Brian, for attorney genera, L. J. Fitzgerald, for state treasurer, and N. Sweet for state en gineer. A bio fire occurred in London, the other morning in the Charter house buildings, a row of thirteen eight story warehouses on Aldersgate street. The row was mostly occupied by fancy goods dealers, furriers, toy stores and printing offices. The damage is estimated at three million pounds. Killing frosts were reported in the early part of last week in Wisconsin, Nebraska, Colorado and extending southward as far as northern Mis souri. Reports from the three states first named enow the temperature to have bees 32 degree, the cold wave gradually creeping southward, and receding from the northwest news Nate. The orange crop of Florida is ex pected to be worth $2,000,000. Schuyler is erecting this year fif teen new brick business buildings. It is said the present English poli tical campaign abounds in black eyes. At Hartington, Neb., the other day 8,200 pounds of wool weBt into the market. An elevator is being built at Wis ner with a Btorage capicity of 35,000 bushels. It is stated that the owls in New Zealand kill sheep, slaying thousands every year. Judqe Thurxan, perhaps the most eminent democrat in Ohio, ia taking part in the political campaign of that state. N. W. Miles, of Schuyler, Neb., has been awarded a contract by the government to furnish 62,000 pounds of flour to the Ute agency in Col., at $3.45. A dispatch to the Omaha Bepubli- can from jseorasKa uuy says me republican primaries were exceed ingly warm and the Van Wyckers victorious. San FRANCiscofishermen say the seals and sea-lions in tho harbor must go, since they consume 44,000 tons of fish a year enough to supply the whole city. The furniture, hardware and stove store of B. F. & Wash Mohler, of TJnadilla, Neb., burned the other morning. Believed to be the worc of an incendiary. News from Sofia states that the national aesembly of Bulgaria has unanimously approved of Prince Alexander's action and proclaimed a union of two burglarias. The first election for Sheridan county was held the'otber day. For the county seat Rushville secured the largest number of votes. The total number of votes was 1,209. A dispatch from Rock Springs one day last week states that all those art rested for participating in the Chinese massacre were released, there being no evidence against them. The safe of the Dubuque Building and Loan Association at Dubuque, Iowa, was burglarized the other night of about $1,100. The burglars opened three combination doors with ease. Joseph Fisher, a farmer living not far from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was burned to death the other night with his three children, in his residence. His wife escaped by jumping out of a window. Snow fell on the 23d, inst., at Darby Line, Vt., to the depth of three inches and much damige was done to unbarvested crops. On the 24th ult., the thermometer was 30 degrees below zero. A tramp whose name could not be learned, fell under a stock train in the Union Pacific yards at Omaha one day last week, and was cut to pieces. There was nothing on his person to identify him. In the heart of a slab of lime stone, broken the other day at Lafay ette, Ind.j a petrified sea crawfish was found, measuring eighteen inches in length. The specimen has been sent to Purdue University. The question to test the constitu tionality of tho law creating tho office of register of deeds, has been brought before the supreme court of the state on proceeding in mandamus, and will soon be decided by the court. A dispatch the other day from Newport, Ark., says, the negro who knocked a young lady from her horse and criminally assaulted her near Tuckerman, has been found hanging to a tree dead, near that place. The body of a neatly dressed woman was taken from the Ohio river the other day at Patriot, Ind. There wa's a large hole above the left eyc.and a scarf bad been pushed into her mouth, indicating that ahe had been murdered. A riRE broke out one day last week in the lumber yards of Charles S. Gardner & Co., in Chicago', and quickly spread to the yards of J. B. Flynn & Co., and the John Spray lumber company adjoining, consum ing a large amount of lumber. United States commissioner Sa vill, at Kearney, Neb., who had been arrested for his connection with the release of Simmerman, waived pre liminary examination the other day and gave bail for bis appearance at the next term of the district court. Captain Hanson, of the bark Pauline, reported at Quebec the other day, that while out on Sept. 20, dur ing a rainstorm, a ball of fire landed on the vessel's deck, prostrating the captain and two sailors, and then disappeared suddenly without damag ing the bark. One morning last week at Pitts burg, Pa., a battery of boilers at the Solon iron works exploded with dis astrous effect. The room in which tho explosion occurred was im mediately filled with steam,, scalding fatally four men, and badly burning fourteen others. David Evans, an old man living at Akron, Ohio, hearing a noise in bis grape arbor the other evening, went out to eee what was going on, and was set upon by two men, who beat and robbed him. He died the next day from the effects of his injuries. There is no clue to bis assailant. omsffftlitKe. In this, department the people talk, and not himself ready to defend his principle and his statements of facts. "In the mul titude of counsel there is wisdom." En. Journal. Twki Orga-IsattaB. My friend Wise says I have Im pugned the honesty of the ex-commissioners. Now, if he will ibow bow I have done so ia any way I hold myself ready to make an ample apology ; the question of honesty is between them and their consciences. I have only roferred to the ex-commissioners because they and their friends have made the assertion that township organization was costing the county double what it did under the old organization. This I started out to combat and if I shall not sue cee'd in showing that township or ganization is the cheaper of the two- ("which I have not claimed), I shall at least show that there is not so much difference, considering all the difficul ties and disadvantages under which it has been inaugurated and carried on as might have boen supposed. My friend charges me with dishonesty in that if what I assert is correct I have been tampering with the assessor of Monroe township. Now as regards the latter gentleman let me say that I believe that he endeavored to perform bis duties impartially and in strict accordance with the law, and if there has been any reduction in my tax it has been made by the county board unasked by me. I have not asserted that the county tax was less in the ag gregate than formerly, for I distinct ly stated thai personal property was liable to var - iri rnr to year and that tho onl ii ;e-t was to compare taxes on the r tun; piece of land for several years. I tun perfectly willing that the troth of my statements should bo judged by the citizens of Monroe township for In common with their fellow citizens in other partn of the county they complain of the burdens of taxation, but they have so long borne the unequal share imposed up on them under the old system with out a corresponding share of benefit that they have too much good sense to believe that a change in that sys tem by which a more equal rate of values throughout the countv has been established is the cause of their burdens. My friend says the township ma chine can not be run on "7 drops of oil outside measure,' that is on a seven mill levy. We of Monroe know differently, for we have run and are ruuning our machine on a 6 mill levy and not only met all our obligations promptly but had a surplus in the treasury and among these obligations was the pay of our assessor injustly imposed upon us through the advice of the county attorney, (or the county board could do no other (after taking legal advice) than to follow the same ; and right hore, let mo say, my friend has not reail up his law as the assess ors arc paid by the comity under the law of 1884, and while on this ques tion of law I would remark that I am well aware that the supervisors have nothing to do with the petitions for resubmission, but they are placed in the hands of the county clerk who is a candidate for re-election and in case the people elect to return to the old system of county government then tho county clerk, treasurer and coun ty judge are to appoint the commis sioners, who, to a certain extent, are to rule over them. The enemies of township organization may invariab ly chuckle at how nicely they have smuggled this trap through for the curbing of popular government, but it is a "long lane which has no turn," and the end is not yet. Our friend has grown rather wise and predicts a great storm comiug from the west; my barometer records it as variable and doubtfull, but he has not read the papers if be does not know that this year the weather is reversed and the cyclones are in the east. But serious ly, if ho means to insinuate that the town board of Monroe will be taken at a disadvantage by any ehange in the government of the county, he reckons unwisely, for that board will not need a second call to render their accounts for every cent expended by them. There is another point in this law for resubmission to which I desire to call the especial attention of my fel low citizens and that is, that the coun ty commissioners are directed to set tle all unfinished business of the town ships aud to dispose of all the proper ty of the same for the benefit of the taxable inhabitants of the county and after paying indebtedness appropriate the balance to any fund which they shall deem for the best, interests of the county, but it shall also be their duty from time to time to levy a tax on townships in arrears to meet such deficiency. Thus It will be seen that any townships which have carefully administered their affairs and have a surplus on hand at the time of turn ing over their assets to the connty are to have that surplus diverted from the purpose for which it was raised and swallowed up in the capacious maw of a general fund for any purpose the commissioners may elect. Is this just, is this equitable ? As the opponents of township or ganization have asserted that it was much more expensive than the old system and that the present high taxes are due to it, I propose to show from the records that this is not cor rect: Assessed valuation of Platte eo. for 1878 $2,400,640 Do 1881 2,340,980 Do 1884 2,131,473 1878 levy for county general fund 10 miIls,'Btate levy 6 mills; 1881 levy for county general fund 8 mills, state levy 6 mills; 1884 levy for county general fnnd 9 mills, state levy 8 mills; 1885 levy for county general fund 9 mills, state levy 10 mills. Amount of county tax for 1878.. $r 20046.40 DO lool ....... .............. 1792784 Do 1884 19183.28 From the above statement it will be seen that the tendency on the part of the county officials has been to re duce the taxes as far as would be consistent with the county indebted ness, while on tho part of the 'state there has been a gradual increase in the levy until. this year it is two thirds more than it was In 1881. Ia former years the county levy for the care of insane waa 1-10 of a mill ; for 18854 ia order to meet demands) frsm the state for unsettled charges, on this account it was found necessary' to increase the rate to 2 1-40 mills. In 1884 the board of supervisors dir ected the payment of $45.000 fund ing bonds and over $5,000 under the order of court for the redemption of R. R. lands, Ac, illegally sold for taxes, and within the past year the U. P. R. R. Co. has paid into the treasury $5200.00 for delinquent taxes in accordance with the decision of thesame court. There has also been much said in regard to cost of running a county board consisting of so many mem bers, but I think the following state ment is rather favorable than other wise to township organisation. The average annual salary of three com missioners appears to be $1008.00, or $336.00 each ; some of them received more and some less than this amount. In the year 1883, owing a9 I am in formed to the rigid ecooomy of Com missioner Henry, the amount drawn by that body was $433.50, an average to each of $144.40. The' 18 supervisors drew as their salaries for 1884 the sum of $1316.80 or an average to each of $73.15, the limit fixed by law being $75, while in the case of the commissioners there appears to be no limit outside of themselves. Whether this is the reason that so many ex-officers are sighing after the "flesh pots, the onions and the garlic" which have been loft behind I must leave for each one to decide for himself, bnt there is another question which has divided tho county for years and which enters largely into the op position' to township organization and that is the bridge question. Under the present law each town ship is obliged to repair all bridges within its limits to the extent of its levy aud when this is exhausted it can so state to the county board and ask its assistance, Now, can any thing be more fair and reasonable than this, that local interests should be administered to by the local au thorities? Yet these have been so long fed at the public crib that when we ask them to put their own shonl-J ders to the wheel they feel grievously wronged ; it would be much better if they would take the $5,000 which I understand has been subscribed for the purpose of defeating township organization and repair or rebuild some of these controverted bridges than to corrupt the people by the offer of bribes for the purchase of their privileges and rights. Geo. S. Truman. . P. S. The outstanding warrants of the county will be noticed in my next as I have already exceeded my limits. Tw-afcln OramIsmtinu Town organization, under Ne braska laws, is inoperative, expensive and unjuBt, and I shall endeavor to show why in a few cases, as it will be impossible to do more in a news paper article. I will commence with the matter of roads. For the last six months there has been in the hands of the supervisors a petition for a certain road in Sber- J man twp., and tho matter is deferred from time to time through some technicality, disagreement or right of way damages, &c, that is truly exasperating to those closed In for want of said highway, and tho end ia not yet. Now I speak of this par ticular road as only one among many tbrooghout the county, as an illus tration. Why should the supervisors, as a county board, be permitted by law to wrangle over, and allowed to dictate where and how any town should have its roads ? Are not the citizens of each town capable of knowing where and how they shall lay public roads? Under commis sioner rule this cannot be avoided, but under "organization" it was sup posed that each town attended to and paid for its own business. Time and money are absorbed by the county board in such business that does not belong to them, and under organiza tion cannot give satisfaction. Sec ond. The town treasurer, under our laws, is an officer without power. The law is so arranged that he cannot perform the function of his office, by making him return his books from one to five months before taxes be come delinquent, and, as a rule, the people of Nebraska do not pay taxes from one to five months before they are delinquent ; besides, it is well if be does not collect, for Nebraska law gives him three per cent, for all the taxes he collects, and pays the county treasurer another fee for the collec tion of the same taxes, so that if the town collectors should collect all the taxes, it would cost us two fees for collection. Agaio,nwe had supposed that by adopting town organization and hav ing our town .collector, that the taxes would be closer collected and less delinquency, but as the law makes him a mere stick-in-the-mud, there is no improvement in this direction. He ceases to be a collector after the first of January of each year. Third. The towa board of equal ization is a myth, for the day set by our law to equalize the town assess ment occurs before the time at which the assessor is required to return his books to the county clerk, and is not required by law to hand in his books to town boards but can wlth-hold them, and does, if he sees fit to do so. Fourth. Under organisation there is no shrinkage of county taxes, bnt they remain about the same volume as under commissioner rule which was sufficiently burdensome for all concerned, and increased by the amount of the town levy. The three great and unavoidable calamities of life are death, trouble and taxes, and we claim' to try to circumvent and ease np each of them, yet in oar reck lessness we often multiply and in crease each and all of these because wa are blind and will not see. It is now a little ever few sontha OLTJMBTJS WM. BECKER, IALSK IN ALL KINDS OF STAPLE AND FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND WELL SELECTED STOCK. Ttas, Cofftta, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staplas a Specialty. Dellvereol Free r rtaie City. Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near A. AN. Depot. D R Y G O O D S THE REVOLUTION Dry CLOTHING "HOUSE ! I. GLUCK, IIA3 ON HAND A READY-MADE CLOTHING, DRY GOODS, CARPETS, HATS, CAPS, Etc., Etc., -AT mTimi'TiimmniniHiniiim tTI buy ray good strictly for cash, and will gire my cus tomer! the benefit of it. Give Me a eall mad Cenviaee Tewnelf ef tie Toots. since the last levy of taxes wero made by the county board and I am told thai the county and some of the towns have exhausted their levy. Now if these are facts, it shows a fearful state of things eight months more to run the machine, and no oil. What shape will it beia at the end of next May. I take no pleasure in c ontemplating this state of things, because I worked hard for town organization, and am a friend of the theory of self-govern ment, but if the laws of self-government are so destructive to our inter est, then it Is better to dissolve at once the sooner the better. When Platte county married organization it was supposed that we would govern and control our own family affairs, but it seems that town organization's mother and all her relations have the right to dictate, meddle and plan for us, while we are called on to foot the bills. This is provocation almost sufficient to make a boy strike his father. Johk Wise Am JE-l!saMaTert!aeaT. I feel it my duty to the thousands who suffer from blood poison, to give my experience with that horrible disease and the wonderful effect of Swift's Specific in its treatment. I am a native of England, and while there I contracted this terrible dis ease, and for two years was nnder treatment as an out-door patient at Nottingham Hospital, England, but was not cored. I suffered the most agonizing pains in my bones, and was covered with sores all over my body and limbs. I had vertigo and deaf ness, with partial loss of sight, severe pains in my head and eyes, etc., which nearly ran me crazy. I lost all hope in that country, and sailed for America, and was treated at Roosevelt in this city, as well as by a prominent physician in New Tork having no connection with the hos pitals. I saw the advertisement of Swift's Specific, and I determined to give it a trial as a last resort. I had given up all hope of being enrI, as I had gone through the bands of the best medical men in Nottingham and New York. I took six bottles of S. 8. 8. and I can say with great joy that they have cured ma entirely. I am as sound and well as I ever was in my life. I was so proud of the cure that I wrote to Gloucbester, England, to an old companion who is suffering with Iocamator ataxia, as the doctors call it, caused by blood poison. He has arrived here, and is taking S. S. S. with marked benefit. I confidently believe that in a short time be will be entirely well, and that after haviag passed through the best medical hands ia England with out any good effect. L. FnxD Halvobd. New York City, June 12tb, 1885. Treatise on blood and skin diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co., drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. N. Y., 157 W. 23d street wonci. To whom it man concern: Notice is hereby given that Mary J. 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This House, recently purchased by me. will bo thoroughly refitted. Board by the day, week or meal. A few rooms to let. A share ef the public patronage ia solicited. Feed stable in coaaectlen. 2-y albkxt Lots. TTjoivrei- meabe, m. m FMY8ICIAN AND SURGEON, . Platte Center, Nebraska. 9-J .-i ijiys -