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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1886.
"Inocnons desuetude." Cleveland.
The President has nominated Gen.
Howard, Major General to succeed
Pope.
The Senate has confirmed land
officers Tipton, at Bloomingtou, and
Higgins, at Grand Island.
The Grand Island land office took
in $16,452 during February, and
handled papers representing 35,000
acres of land.
The Bock Island road have offered
a reward of $10,000 for the capture of
the robbers of their express near
Iforris, Illinois.
The Fitzgerald hose team of Lin
coln won the championship 300 yard
race, open to the world, at New Or-
leans in 43. seconds.
West Lincoln is to have a $50,000
packing house in the near future.
4 This move is believed to be in con-
section with the stock yards company-
.
As order was issued the other day
at Little Bock restraining the Knights
- of Labor from trespassing on or in
terfering with the property of the
Iron Mountain Road.
A Peesidekt that will knowingly
and purposely violate the pledges and
promises of his party, cannot be re
lied upon to carry out his own little
civil service obligations.
Advices from Sonora, Mexico,
state that United States troops have
been forbidden to cross the Mexican
line until the complications resulting
from Crawford's death are sottled.
It is understood on all hands that
Gen. Howard, of Omaha, will be
promoted to the rank of major gen
eral and given the place made vacant
by Gen. Pope retiring from the
service.
A man at Cheyenne calling himself
a christian has turned over money to
the postoffice department, for the
rightful owners, that he stole many
years ago. A good conscience. It
did its work.
The Chicago Tribune now sells for
three cents a copy, except the Sun
day issue. This move is taken
probably to compete against the
News and Mail, which are lively
sheets for a cent.
Ex-Gov. Michael Hahn, represen
tative in congress from the Second
district of Louisiana, died on the
morning of the 15th, at Willard's
hotel, "Washington City, of hemor
rhage of the lungs.
It is reported at Washington that
the house Indian affairs committee
refuses to appropriate any money for
additional buildings at Genoa Indus
trial School beyond a nominal sum
for keeping up repairs.
The governor of Florida seems to
be seriously thinking of appointing
a successor to Senator Jones, who has
been in Detroit for some weeks trying
to gain the affections of a young lady
who will have nothing to do with
him.
Alderman Henky W. Jachne, of
New York, was arrested the other
day at the city hall charged with
bribery. It is statod that he has con
fessed to receiving twenty thousand
dollars for his vote on the Broadway
franchise.
Nothing new or very important
has transpired in connection with the
train robbery and murder near Mor
ris, 111., the other night. It is known
now that Newton H. Watt, the brake
man and baggageman-on the train on
which Kellogg Nichols was murder
ed, is still in the custody of the Pin
kerton agency. He states that he saw
one of the robbers, and it may be im
portant to keep him on hand for the
purpose of identification. Men skill
ed in railroading say that they do not
believe that Watt is in any way im
plicated in the robbery or murder,
but on his examination he made such
an improbable statement that a man
hanging on to the roof of the car
could cover him with a revolver
thruBt through one of the ventilators
of the car; it is not impossible for a
man to hang on the roof of a car when
in motion, but he does so at the risk
of his life, but in no case could a man
hanging on to the roof in this way
cover the whole interior of a car with
his revolver, because it would be im
possible to have the arm through the
aperture and look into the car at the
same time. Young McDonnell who
took short hand notes of his state
ment's was subsequently mysteriously
lost, but has since been found in a
very strange condition with his nerves
shattered, and he seemed to have no
idea of where he was or where he
ought to go. He was taken to his
parents home and at last accounts re
mained in the same condition, his
physician expressing the opinion that
his present condition must have been
brought abont by some great shock to
his nervous system. Another item of
news has been received from Peoria,
stating that a bundle of bloody
clothes wis found at Chillicothe,
about twenty miles east of Peoria, and
it is supposed, they belong to the
Rock Island train robbers. Detect
ives are on the scene hastening to run
down the mystery.
The Malloy-Graham trial was
before the court last week at Spring
field, Mo., and increases in interest,
the court being crowded throughout
the entire session. During the ses
sion the most important witness ex
amined was Mrs. Abbie Breeze, of
Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Bister of the
murdered woman, Sarah Graham.
Her testimony was exciting and full
of interest and when she referred to
a package of letters written by Mrs.
Malloy and Cora Lee to George Gra
ham while he was yet at Ft. Wayne
and which came into possession of
his wife Sarah Graham, Mrs. Malloy
and Cora Lee were all alert in an in
stant; the defeusc objected to the
introduction of the letters, and they
were withheld for the present.
Graham is becoming more nervous
every day. lie has stopped writing
which occupied the first few weeks
of his confinement, and passes his
time in nervously pacing his cell.
He is becoming exasperated lit the
conduct of the women toward him,
and it is believed that he will soon
tell all he knows about it.
'The fleshless skeleton of a young
woman; found the other day con
cealed under a heap of brash in the
woods at Wrentham, Mass., gives
ghastly evidence of a mysterious
murder. The bones were unearthed
by a dog with Thomas and John
Odie, who were hunting rabbits.
Clinging to the fleshless fingers were
several rings and about the wrists
were handsomely wrought bracelets.
There was a chain and locket around
the neck, and when the locket was
opened tho pictures of two handsome
young men were discovered inside.
That she was murdered is proved by
a bullet hole in her skull. She must
have been brought from a distance
and concealed in the brush pile.
At Scales Mound, 111., the wife ot
W. Gummow committed suicide by
setting fire to a' pile of bed-clothing
and throwing herself into the flames.
The United States has nearly three
times as many doctors as England,
and nearly four times as many as
France in proportion to the population.
General Howard, of Omaha,
having been quoted in a newspaper
as saying he would resign if Newton
was appointed to succeed Pope,
denies having made any such state
ment. Ho says the reporter mis
understood him.
Thz jury in the case of John W.
Lauer, on trial at Omaha for wife
murder, finally agreed upon a ver
dict of manslaughter, which means
that the killing was done through
carelessness. The case has attracted
more than ordinary attention.
Abbie Newcomb, of Maine, writes
Gov. Dawes asking for the facts con
nected with the drowning of Oliver
Newcomb in the Platte river in 1868.
Any person in possession of informa
tion on the subject, please send the
same to Gov. Dawes, as he will es
teem it as a great favor.
Dr. W. H. Rose, of'Washington,
the able assistant of Dr. Salmon in the
national bureau of animal industry,
was in Nebraska last week investigat
ing the subject of hog cholera ; he haB
visited for that purpose Indiana and
Kansas, and whon he completes his
labors here will go to Iowa and
Illinois.
A motion in the House committee
on public lands has been carried to
report favorably the bill to repeal the
pre-emption law. It was then moved
to report favorably the bill to repeal
the timber-culture law, but this ac
tion was delayed until after consul
tation with the commissioner of the
land office.
It is reported that at the north
edge of Council Bluffr, by the foot of
a beautiful ridge, standsan old brick
house that is truly haunted and reg
ularly visited by ghostly conversa
tions carried on in the upper rooms
of the building in the night time.
Several occupants have left the
premises recently, 6ome of whom
have been interviewed and they say
it was these ghostly conversations
that made them leave. It is claimed
that many years ago a man was mur
dered at that house, and that the
Bpirit of the murdered man is keeping
up these ghostly conversations in the
building in the night time. It is
Btrango that Council Bluffs can't turn
out a man with courage enough to
fix up telephones with the unoccupied
rooms and find out by conversing
with his ghostship what it wants to
communicate to the citizens of
Council Bluffs. A telephone or two
in connection with the rooms where
these ghostly conversations are car
ried on may disclose the mystery.
Michael Humphrey who was ar
rested as one of the supposed robbers
of the train at Morris, makes his
affidavit thai on the night of the
robbery and murder he was in Grape
Creek, 111., and that on the morning
of the 13th he went to work in a mine
shaft at that place. He claims that
J. Dougherty, A. M. Bushong, W.
Judd and others can establish these
facts.
The desperado who killed his em
ployer near Lyone, Burt county, at
last accounts was corralled in a barn
in which he took refuge, and from
which ho has been practically able to
hold the officers at bay. He has sev
eral holes in the barn from which he
shoots, which he does to kill. He
does not shoot while his pursuers are
retreating. One man had been killed
and another mortally wonnded.
Horses stalled in the barn were neigh
ing and roaring, plunging and tear
ing as though some of the shots had
penetrated the structure and taken
effect in their bodies. The horsos had
been shot from under the besiegers.
In the barn there is a well, besides
three cows, chickens, grain and eigh
teen head of mules and horses.
Later. The barn was set on fire
and every thing inBido iiurned. The
murderer was found in an oats bin, a
part of his head shot off and many
bullet holes in his body.
A serious accident occurred on
the Omaha & Republican Valley
road, four miles north of David City
the other afternoon. Freight train
No. 49 was gliding along as usual
when all of a sudden the caboose and
three cars made an extraordinary
lunge into the air and turned bottom
side up in the ditch." A brake beam
on one of the forward cars had
dropped to the ground caught against
the ties and caused the wreck. Mr.
Sbrophire, conductor, Mr. Harris and
four passengers were in the caboose.
The conductor bad his right leg
broken, Harris received several bad
injuries ana one oi me passengers
was considerably bruised.
News comes from St. Louis stating
that when Hugh M. Brooks was
brought back from New Zealand for
the murder of C. A. Preller, there was
found in his trunk a chamois money
belt cut from the body of Preller. It
was considered a strong item of evi
dence against Brooks as Preller was
known to carry large sums of money
on his person in this belt, but now no
ono about police headquarters or the
coroner's or attorney's office knows
when it disappeared, or where it
went, but all insist that it has been
stolen.
TnE steamer "Oregon" was run into
between three and four o'clock the
other morning while east of Fire
Island, having two holes stove in her.
She commenced sinking at once. The
passengers were all saved, being
transferred to tho "Folda," and being
more than eight hundred in number.
After the collision the hulk of the
sailing vessel was seen drifting slowly
on the port side of the steamer, graz
ing her sides as she passed astern.
She sank as soon as she cleared the
"Oregon" and her crew were all lost.
Eighty inmates of the almshouse
at Lebanon, Pa., were poisoned tho
other afternoon by putting Paris
green into a huge coffee pot, when
they were immediately seized with
vomiting and severe pains. The ves
sel that the coflee is prepared in holds
a barrel or more, and was found lined
with a thick sediment of Paris green.
The attending doctor is of the opinion
that the poison, being strong, caused
vomiting, or more than half the in
mates would have been dead.
James Beshears, of Sbelbyville,
III., was arrested by detectives the
other morning, charged with being
ono of the Joliet express robbers.
Beshears had just returned to town
after several days absence. He could
not explain satisfactorily how he re
ceived an ugly looking wound on
his head.
Newt IVetetf.
Dan Dalton, on being brought
before the legislature at Columbus,
Ohio, the other day declared at once
his willingness to comply with the
demands for the papers in tbe Fourth
Ward election case at Cincinnati. He
very meekly admitted that it was his
4aty to deliver the returns,' and
banded' them over to Col. Poorman.
A resolution was passed releasing
Dalton from custody, and he left for
C5.ci.aati the Int trail.1
This congress is expected to do
something for the disabled soldier
who needs and wants accommoda
tions in some one of the soldiers
homes. There are five such homes,
and they contain 9,104 inmates. There
are now on file applications for ad
mission to the number of 2,667. At
the Dayton, Ohio, home there are
998 such applications ; at tbe Milwau
kee home 1,141, and at the Leaven
worth home 461. Since 1SS1 the in
crease of inmates in the various homes
has been about 10 per cent ; thus it is
plain that some provision must be
made for veterans who are getting
old and have neither friends or chil
dren with whom they may have
homes.
The skeleton found under a brush
heap at Wrentham, Maes., has been
identified as that of Agnes Anastasia
Long. A former lover by the name
of George Storrs is mixed up with
tbe affair, and it is stated that she
accepted an invitation to accompany
him to a party, and went with him inj
the direction of Wrentham and has
1 saver returned. v
Patti has had an offer of $6,000 a
night for a series of concerts in
Brazil.
A Connecticut paper euriches the
language with "recentmost." It means
the latest.
Lincoln, Neb., is reported to bo
overrun just at this time by thieves,
pickpockets, etc. .
China haB 563 books on behavior,
361 of which refer directly to the
ceremonies of dining.
It is Baid that Oscar Wilde and his
wife are coming to America 60on,
but he will not lecture.
Fred. Miceleman, living six miles
west of Scribner, Neb., committed
suicide by hanging the other night.
TnE only Presidents who were
never in Congress are Washington,
Taylor, Grant, Arthur and Cleveland.
Rudolph Albrecht's university at
Vienna is the largest in Europe. It
has 285 professors and 5,221 students.
A test of 100 bayonets and swords
of the Welch regiment at Mullingar
resulted in the breaking of eighty of
them.
One hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in gold, coin was ordered one
day last week in New York city, for
export.
Gray Lock mountain, which is
3,500 feet above the level of the sea,
is the highest point in the state of
Massachusetts.
The Italian bee is said to be tbe
gentlest of the various kinds and to
work on a greater variety of plants
than any other.
W. F. Lee, a student in the Com
mercial College at Terre Haute, Ind.,
who stole three horses and fled, was
arrested at Areola, HI.
A recent report comes from Rome
that two fatal cases of cholera are re
ported from Candia, two from Polia
and seven from Padua.
Prof. Wagner has published
analyses supporting his opinion that
steamed potatoes are far more nu
tritious than boiled ones.
Mrs. Mary Wildman, of South
Valley, N. Y., was convicted the other
day of poisoning her husband, and
sentenced to be hanged April 30th.
In the United States every 200th
man takes a college course ; in Eng
land, every 500th ; in Scotland, every
615tb, and in Germany every 213th.
The examination of County Treas
urer Hollingsworth's books was com
It is stated that the visible supply
of wheat and corn in the United
States and Canada, March 15th. was
respectively, 50,860,421 and 14,616,867
bushels.
Mrs. Eva C. Folger, a widow aged
40, suicided the other afternoon at the
Transfer Hotel, Council Bluffs. Do
mestic trouble the cause of the tragi
cal act
A fire at Toledo, Ohio, burned to
tbe ground the Toledo House of
Refuge. Some twenty boys were
sick in tbe infirmary, but all were
carried safely out.
During the month of February 124
car loads of immigrant goods were
unloaded at Ogallala. It is expected
that during tho month of March the
number will reach 300.
Superintendent Dykinson offered
higher wages tho other day to tbe
men on the strike at St. Louis, but
they refused to return to work till
permitted by tbe Knights.
One plank 9 feet wide and 20 feet
long, without knot or blemish of any
kind, and another 12 feet wide are
among the contributions of.' British
Columbiato the Liverpool exhibition.
The resignation of Gov. Murray, of
Utah, has been requested by Secre
tary Lamar. Gov. Murray replied
that the same would be handed to the
President by delegate, R. N. Bask in.
Efforts are still being made to
discover the golden candlestick of
Solomon's Temple which Titus car
ried to Rome iu triumph, and which
is supposed to be in the bed of the
Tiber.
It is said that seeds kept too long
lose a portion of their vitality.
Melons, however, when grown from
fresh seed aro said to run to vine,
while old seed gives more pro
ductive plants.
A wind storm occurred tho other
night at Cheyenne. Tho moon and
stars were shining brightly at the
time. Chimneys, fences, spires, tents,
roofs and wires were scattered in
every direction.
The other evening at Central City
tho Opera House caught fire while
lighting up for a ball by the explosion
of an oil lamp, and iu a very short
time burned to the ground. The
property destroyed waB valued at
$3,000.
Joe Bodozek, a Bohemian, living
on the bottoms at Lincoln, committed
suicide tbe other evening by shooting
himself in the head. He leaves a wife
and three children, tho oldest of which
was in bed with bim at tho time of
the shooting.
Beavers on Fall Creek, near Wel
lington, Kansas, have cut down 100
trees this winter, some of them eigh
teen inches in diameter, floated some
of the logs nearly a mile down the
stream, and built a complete dam
across the creek.
John Meyers, the other evening
just east of Wahoo, was struck by
freight train No. 50 and knocked into
the ditch, but, strange to say, it did
not kill hjm. There wero no bones
broken, but his internal injuries aro
said to be serious.
George Hays' body was found two
miles northwest of Kearney, Neb.,
the other morning. Mr. Hays disap
peared from his home in Kearney
some time last November. The coro
ner's jury were unable to ascertain
the cause of his death.
Robert Bonner, living near Brad
ford, White county, Arkansas, the
other night was murdered at his
home; robbed of his money, and his
house burned. His charred remains
were found in tbe ruins, lying on tho
iron framework of his trunk.
Mr. Henry J. Hall, seventy-two
years old, committed suicide by
shooting himself in tbe right temple
on tbe 13th inst., at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York. He was engaged
in early gold mining in California
and is said to have been a millionaire.
pistol was discharged, tho ball strik
ing bis little (laughter in the head and
penetrating the brain. She whs un
conscious about two hour and'died.
The mills ol the Toledo, Ohio, Lin
seed Oil Company were destroyed by
fire the other rooming. Over one
hundred barrels of naptha stored in
the building exploded, shaking the
whole city and shattering window
pane? in tbe neighborhood. Two men
wero badly burned and others hurt.
Property destroyed $150,000.
WashlBBtoa letter.
(From our regular correspondent.)
Washington, March 15, 1886.
There is no abatement of interest
in the debate upon the controversy
between the President and Senate.
Tbe Senate galleries are crowded
every day and many members of tbe
lower House leave their end of the
Capitol for the unusual attractions
now offered in the north wing. Since
Mr. Edmunds' masterly attack upon
the Administration, Mr. Wilson, the
Senator from Iowa, has also thrown
his lance at the "royal" prerogatives,
and Seuators Pugb, of Alabama, and
Kenna, of West Virginia, have made
Democratic contribution to the dis
cussion. To- lay agaiu Senator Col
lom of Illinois, will speak from the
Republican stand poit.t.
Senator Wilson drew comparisons
between Darwin's urolonlasm and
tho Democratic doctrine of roforni.
and asserted that to deny information
was to accuse public character. He
quoted the President'? promise that
this Administration was to "act
behind glass doors," and was to nave
"no secrets." This, Mr. Wilson said,
was courageous and the country ap
plauded it ; but it had uot lasted long.
The Administration proved' to he
loaded riotvn with secrets and the
glass doors had been abandoned.
This debate will afford the country
a fair opportunity te judge of the in
tellectual strength of the two parties
in tbe Senate. The Republicans have
advantage In numbers and in
speakers. .
On Saturday the debate gave way
for an impressive funeral in the
Senate chamber. Tho Executive,
Legislative and Judicial branches of
the Government, and tho representa
tives of foreign nations, united in
paying a tribute of respect to the late
Senator Miller of California. It was
just twelve years ago on that day that
Congress and other public function
aries assembled in the Senate cham
ber to participate In the funeral rites
of the distinguished Senator, Charles
Sumner.
As on that day, the chamber was
draped in black, in honor of Mr. Mil
ler, and the ceremonies were strik
ingly and appropriately simple. No
eulogies were attempted, and tho
solemn servico for the dead of the
Episcopal church was finished in less
than half an hour. Then the Marine
baud, playing a funeral dirge, headed
a procession of Senators to the depot,
where a Pullman hotel car and palace
sleeping car awaited tbe family and
Congressional Committee. It is es
timated that the expense of trans
porting the late Senator's remains to
California on a special train and send
ing with it a committee which will
return iu the same way, will be
$20,000.
this quantity of 'wheat; and the wheat
is put in bags, say fifty to sixty
pounds, and immersed in tho solution
for six or seven minutes, just enough
to wet all the wheat. Thou it is taken
out and laid on sloping boards at the
end of a-trough to drain. The solu
tion is put into a trough built for this
purpose, something like a horse
trough. The bags are turned over
frequently in this solution to insure
tho wetting of all the wheat. You
can rely upon it that blue-stone is a
dead shot (or smut iu California. Br
blue-stone I mean sulphate of copper
or blue vitrol."
"If wheat is sown- in old stubble
where there was smut tbe previous
year it will make its appearance to
some extent, but the second year
there will be no sign of it. In new
ground, or in fields where wheat has
not oeen raisea tor two seasons or
more, there will be no smut where
the seed is prepared as above, unless
it may be communicated from neigh
boring fields where tho seod has not
been treated for the purpose of killing
smut germs. The cost of preparing
tbe seed for one acre of ground will
not exceed the loss on oue bushel of
smutty wheat."
COLUMBUS BOOMING!
WM. BECKER,
DKALtt IN ALL KINDS OF
: STAPLE AND FAMILY:
GROCERIES!
I" KEEP CONSTANTLY ON IIAND A
WELL SELECTED STOCK.
Teat, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
uned and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Specialty.
W. T. BICKLY & MO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers la
Fresh and Salt Meats,
GAME. POULTRY.
And Fresh Fish.
All Kiads f Saasage a Specialty.
USTCash paid for IUdu, Pelts, Tallow.
Highest market price paid for fat cattle.
Olive Street, second door north
First National Bank.
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part fthe City.
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Tuesday, March 16, '86.
Board "mot at 1 o'clock p. m. pursu
ant to adjournment. Full Board
present.
Geo. W. Wcscott appointed assessor
for Columbus twp.
Petition presented asking for divis
ion of Lot Creek township. Reler
red to county attorney.
Board took a recess and the asses
sors of the several townships conven
ed in annual session.
After assessors adjourned the Board
proceeded with regular business.
On petition from the residents
thereof, Walker township was divid
ed into four road districts, numbered
respectively 5. 22, 50 and 51.
The resignation of Otto Heur as
constable of 2d ward, city of Colum
bus, was accepted.
The resignation of L. C. Thompson
aB justice of tho peace for Woodville
township was presented and accepted
and 11. A. Saunders appointed to fill
vacancy.
Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near
A. ty. Depot.
DRY GOODS!
Beets & Siees, Hats & Caps,
From goods m mum,
LOW PRICES FOR CASH.
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David II. Savers, of St. Louis,
aged about twenty-three years, com
mitted suicide the other evening by
shooting himself. The left side of
his head was blown away and his
brains scattered upon the wall. An
unfortunate love affair was said to be
the cause.
A fikm at La Salle, IU., received
Monday morning an express package
which name on the train upon which
the tragedy of Saturday night was
enacted. Upon opening tbe package
a bullet was found, which, it is
presumed, was fired by one of tbe
murderers.
News comes from Wilcox, Arizona,
that a courier from the camp of Lieut.
Mans that the latter has four Apaches
who came in Baying all the hostiles
wish to surrender conditionally.
Gen. Crook will proceed to the
former's camp as soon as possible to
effect a surrender.
Joe McKain, a Hastings locomotive
engineer, has patented a lubricator
for car axles which will make bim
rich if it will do one-half what Jie
claims. It is a chemical compound
that will cool off a hot box in a min
ute and run a car 500 miles an hour
without heating the box.
John Nichols' store at Fort Cal
houn last February was burglarized
and a large quantity of goods taken.
Not until the other day were the
thieves discovered. They live near
Blair, Neb., and are Fred. Nichols,
John Nichols and Gultiff Texter, rel
atives of the store keeper.
Joseph Merchant, of Sooth od,
Windsor, Vt was examining a re-
pleted the other day at Vincennes, volver his son had brought home to
Ind., showing shortage of 7$27&33. 1 get him to boy for him ; suddenly the J
Samtty Wheat.
It appears that smut is getting to be
a serious matter in many parts of the
west, and is even now making its ap
pearance on the harder varieties. The
Phyfe has been remarkably free from
bad influences, but in places tho smut
is attacking it, and soon it will be
placed as "rejected," if something is
not done' to prevent it. This means
10 to 25 cts. a bushel to those who
raise wheat, and is something well
worth attention. A circular before
us, speaking of this subject, adds :
"This smut can be stamped out with,
a very little troublo and a small ex
pense to each individual farmer, if he
will carefully apply the prescription
below. There is no dispute on the
subject ; it has been tried.and proven
in thousands of cases and has never
failed. The remedy for killing the
smut is simply to wet thoroughly
each grain of seed wheat in a strong
solution of blue vitrol, or as some call
it, blue-stone. Tbe ways to do it are
various. Tho. following has proved
perfectly reliable, viz: Dissolve one
or two pounds (there is no danger of
getting the solution too strong) of
blue vitrol to each gallon of water.
You must judge as to how mauy gal
lons of this solution you will require
for the amount of seed you intend to
sow. Probably one gallon will wet
four bushels of seed. Put the seed
wheat into coarse bags, about fifty or
sixty pounds to the bag ; tie them at
tho top so that tho wheat will lie
loosely in them; immerse them in
this pickle andlet them lie from five
to ten minutes, turning the bags over
a few times to be sure that the wheat
has become thoroughly wet. Then
lift them out and let the pickle drain
back into the vessel that contains the
solution. The wheat will very soon
be in condition to sow. It does not
require to be spread out to dry, as the
wheat will absorb the moisture very
quickly."
Below is an extract from a letter
received from the Hon. Horace Davis,
member of Congress from San Fran
cisco and the largest miller on the
Pacific Slope, in answer to inquiries
on the subject of smut in wheat in
his State :
"In reply to yours of the 10th. In
early times wo were much troubled
with smutty wheat, but have none
now owing to the use of blue-stone
on the seed by the farmers. I have
seen fields where part of tho seed was
treated with blue-stone and part not,
and the difference was as plain as be
tween a field of barley and one of
oats ; it is hard to give any exact role
as to its application ; the most practi
cal farmers tell me they use six
pounds to each ton of seed wheat. It
is dissolved in water enough to wet
Wednesday, March 17.
Board convened at 9 o'clock a. m.
pursuant to adjournment, all present.
Application received from a Mrs.
Musgrovo asking aid from the county
Board. A motion to refer tho same
to tho town Board of Lost Creek was
lost.
On motion tho sum of $25 was ap
propriated, tho same to be expended
under tho direction of the chairman
of the Board.
The clerk was instructed to com
municate with members of the Grand
Army and ascertain if John O'Grady
a disabled soldier of the late war,
now in St. Mary's Hospital, can be
furnished accommodations at the Sol
dier's Home.
On motion a set of Nebraska re
ports was ordered for the office of the
clerk of the district court.
The contract with the county physi
cian was read, approved and ordered
spread upon tbe record.
Minutes of meetings from January
19th to 23d inclusive, were read and
approved.
On motion Board adjourned until
1 o'clock p. m.
Fall Board present at 1 o'clock p.
m., Wednesday, March 17tb.
On motion the county clerk was in
structed to furnish for publication ft
synopsis of the proceedings of the
Board, embracing the same general
latitude as prepared and published
from tbe January meetings.
Petition for division of Lost Creek
township, with written opinion of the
county attorney as to the legality of
said action, was again presented.
Motion by Supr. Hudson that prayer
of petitioners be granted. Amend
ment by Supr. Truman that whole
matter be laid over until next meet
ing. Amendment carried and motion
as amended carried.
On motion James Costello was
allowed the sum of $24.27 for person
al taxes paid under protest, the same
having been illegally assessed in
Grand Prairie township for year 1885.
On motion, Supr's Olson, of Creston
and Schure, were appointed a Com
mute to ascertain who is legally lia
ble for the taxes on assessed valuation
of the cattle illegally assessed to Jame
Costello.
On motion, the County CItrk was
instructed to notify the Overseer of
Road District No. 12, in Lost Creek
Township, to remove all obstacles, ob
structions and impediments from the
Columbus and Genoa Boad, and open
same for travel in his district.
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for the use of Public Flouring or Grist
Mills in this county, in accordance
with Sec. 29. Chap. 57. Com p. Statutes
of Nebraska, and report to the adjourn-
eu meeting oi mis xsoaru.
On motion, Board adjourned to
Wednesday, 1 o'clock, P. M., March,
31st, 1886.
Fnai imichicam.
Mr. John J. White, a. merchant in
Clinton, Michigan, writes from his
home under date of December 15,
1885: I have been Buffering with
eczema for more than a year, and
have tried four different physicians,
but to no permanent benefit. I then
tried several patent remedies for
such disease, but they signally failed
to bring the relief I sought. 1 was
in ft terrible condition, being covered
from head to foot with this terrible
disease, and notwithstanding all I
could do I continued to grow worse:
At last, seeing the statement of Mr.
Bradley, of Detroit, of what S. S. S.
bad done for his wife (but my faith
in patent medicines was almost
gone), I sent and got one bottle,
thinking however, it was another
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astonishment and delight the terrible
itching subsided. I am now on my
eighth bottle, and the disease has dis
appeared almost, there being only a
few rough places on tbe small of my
back and legs. I am confident that a
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early day. I write this that those
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A petition from Joseph Bucher and
others, for wagon bridge across Shell
Creek, was referred to supra Hwarta
ley and Burke.
On motion a warrant on the County
Bridge fund of 18&5 for sum of $45.68
was allowed in favor of Jacob Ernst,
the same to be charged to the account
of Columbus Township.
On motion, George Galley's house in
Block 131, was rented for a Sheriff's
residence for the ensuing year, at $11
per month.
On motion of Supr. Truman the
walk in Court House yard was ordered
repaired.
On motion. Board adjourned until
Thursday morning 0 o'clock,
Thursday, March, 18th, 1886.
Full Board present JGfc- matter of
Lawrence Byrnes rdwdT'the County
Surveyor was ordered to perpetuate
the Government Section corners ac
cording to law audi file his report
with Board on compliance with these
instructions.
In the matter of the Nick Adamy
road all previous action was rescind
ed. On motion, the Clerk was instructed
to notify Mrs. Costello of Grand Prai
rie Township, and David Anderson
of Columbus, to appear before the
Board, at the regular meeting in June
next, to give evidence as to the own
nersbip, on the 1st. day of April 1885,
of a certain 38 head of cattle that were
at that date, in the possession of J.
Costello, in Grand Prairie Township.
On motion of Sup'r Truman, the
Cleik was instructed to purchase six
copies of tbe compiled statutes of
Nebraska of 1885.
On motion, Supr's Truman, Maher,
andSchure, were appointed a com
mittee to prepare a schedule f tolto
Ed. Journal : In your issue of the
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out tbe inclination to abate it or im
prove the lot of the sufferer." Then
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cause or who is to blame?" He then
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hot potato and branches off by ask
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very easy to answer the last questioa,
bnt what we wish of the writor there
of is to explain by .what means that
grasping, greedy class gained the
power over the poorer class. By
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questions, "What is the cause and who
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