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m t el . 4 4 L 111 THE JOURNAL. 1 ISSUED XVKKT WEDNESDAY, MtJk. TtJItlSTEIi & CO., 1 ' Proprietors and. Publisher. OFFICE, Eleventh St., vftair n Journal Building. -. TERMS: Pcryenr Six mouths Three months Single copies . 1 5 COLUMBUS STATE BANK! , COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH. CAPITAL, - $75,000 - DIKECTOKS: LEAXDER GeRKAUD, Ptes'l. Gko. W. Hulst, Vice Pres't. Julius A. Reed. It. II. Henry. J. E. Taskek, Cashier. o , aak of' rilti OlwcaemS CllectleBN Promptly Mae . II leit. J i Favy latere! e Tim Oepan- U. COLUMBUS Savings Bank, LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. Capital Stock, - SI 00,000. OFFICERS: A. ANDKKbON, l'KES'T. O. Y. Sheldon, Vice Pkks't. O. T. Hof.n, Trkas. Kobkut ITlILIG, Sec. 3TWiH receive time deposits, from $1.00 and any amount upwards, and will pay the customary rate of interest. ISTWc particularly draw your atten tiou to our facilities for making loans on real estate, at the lowest rate of interest. 83JCity, School and County Bonds, and individual securities are bought. IRjune'SG-v FORTIIE WESTERNGOTTAGEOBQAN CAM. ON A.&M.TURNER Or i. W. K1BLKK, Travel iae Salesmaa. j3Thefie organs are first-class in everv( particular, auu so ;uarani.eeu. HENRY LUERS, DEALER IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMP, Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pups Repaired oi sfcert letice CT-One door west of Heintz's Drag Store, 11th Street, coiuniuus. " HENRY ASS; r J mSTIEHTAHlE R ! KZ2.JXT&Zl2xS&'p COFFINS AKD METALLIC CASES .AND DEALER IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedateade, Bu- rami, Tables, Safes. Xioaagaa, Jkc. Picture Framea and Mouldings. TRepairiuaof all kinds of Upholstery Goods. f-tf COLUMBUS. NEB. NO HUMBUG! But a Grand Success. R P. BRIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC WA ter Trough for stock. He refere to every man who has it in use. can on or leave orders at George Yale', opposite Oealricfc's grocery. s-6n LYON&HEALY Sate Boerse Ss..Cca. WUt ii fff tLari " j lu fejimvitefl .-" rr37.r -cir iii lMtnuoffw. iw. --. .i f- Inthaf MAJfttlte &tttl mw-"- z . . --. . ( OA BuJ Mle. . TmTT r7T7 Send Bis eents for AKK I .Hi potage,aud receive A lXA.LiXA freCj & costly box or roftdi which will help you to ore money riEht sway than anything else ia thi werld. All, of.either nex, succeed front Jrat hour. The broad road to fortune mm before the workers, absoUUly Sre? It enee sddreM, Tm Co, A.mcsU,lUlM. HHSS BBBM' he V0LXVII.-rN0.Jft SENATOR VAN WYCK'S LETTED. Te tke Famrn' aallassMn' Uaiam of 01iTe.BmtierCaatr. Helk, Ex- ylaimiacaie Actions te the IT. P.SialdHsFamd. The Journal, by request, publish es the following copy of s letter from Senator Van Wyck : Washington, June 21, 1886. Nich olas Miller, Esq., Corresponding Secretary Farmers' and Laborers' Union, Olive precinct, Butler Co., Neb.: My dear sir; Tours containing the following resolution received : "Resolved. That the members of this Uniou would request Senator Van Wyck to explain thepurpose for which he offers a bill to authorize the Union Pacific railwav to use its sink ing fund guarantee for the building of additional railroads, and in what way will it benefit the farmers who i ave bees looking to him u the do lender of their righto aiid interests." The former managers of the- Union Pacific railroad from its construction under the Credit.. Mobilier until its consolidation ' with the bankrupt Kansas Pacific were guilty of the most unblushing frauds against the government, the., smallest stockhol I- ers and gross injustice upon tne citi zens doing business. The issuer of additional stockajuirt bonds.guaranteed was in direct viola tion of statute that provided linos and imprisonment for such transgrepsiot:. When the stock was inflated to par and above, the pirates unloaded and escaped safely with the plunder. They should have been pursued and compelled to diegorge, as highway robbers and horse thieves are. Un fortunately they were not. Another management sneceeded to the con trol of the road, who, while lament ing its wrecked and ruined condition, failed in their duty by not pursuing the plunderers, but contented them selves by bewailing the inability to make extentions and branches, to re tain and to increase the 'business tiibutary to the road. It was first deemed advisable to allow them to u.ec the money deposited in the sink ing fund to pay their debt as it came, due, which, if prudently and honest ly invested in branch roads under the control and belonging to the gov ernment, would be as safe -as when in the treasury, but many of the citizens of Nebraska preferred to have congress give permission to the road to use its credit which waa pro hibited by the law of 1873. To this there could bo objection, if done honestly, and the branch roads should not represent in stocks and bonds a dollar more than actual cost in cash of its construction. This would be a new era in rail road building when it should be done without watering stocks and bonds if so the government could not be injured, for not a dollar is taken from the siuking fund nor a dollar less" to be paid yearly iuto the sinking fund. Certainly the farmer and the citi zen cannot bo injured if honest rail road building can be inaugurated. This brings us to the most import ant point the regulation of rail roads. You must remember that in 1879, while in the State Senate, I introduc ed a bill to make the rate of passen ger transportation on railroads threo cents per mile, and other regulations effecting freight rates were proposed, how the railroads howled, their high priced lawyers and cheap editors howled. They denounced you and me as enemies of the State ; that we would drive away capital; that no more railroads would be bnilt; that sec tions of the State then without rail roads must remain so ; that our lords and masters would spurn ns, give us no more the benefit of their society and money if we dare even propose to legislate for the benefit of the people the majority. The satellites and sopple tools -f corporations said, "wait until the railroads jure built, then regulate ;" but you and I said, "no ; let us be honest and regulate and agitate." As usual, the railroads controlled the men whom the farmers elected, but we kept oa agitating, and capital came and railroads were built. We knew thea there was no danger ; cap ital woald came where it could make more capital sb readily. You and I desired the building, of railroads, but we insisted they should be controlled and managed honestly to the benefit of the people, and aot to their injury. Is it not remarkable that the same gang of corporation henchmen, the same tools of the Union Pacific, as well m other railroads, denounce me for advocating the same principles now that I did in 1878 -the honest building and regulation of railroads? After 1878 the agitation continued. In 1880 the railroads, through the men of your election, again defeated you and the three cent milage and regulation. The agitation went on and railroad building went on. The railroad cappers who insisted that agitation wonld step railroad build ing were false prophets. Through repeated betrayals by their repre sentatives the people becoming more determined, and the same old gang let slip the dogs of war and abuse us becaase we are willing reads eeoald be built, provided they are built hoaestly. torefBlatstaaeiwhaaaailt For lam' years nine-tenths of the people of Nebraska desired railroad regulation, the reduction of passenger aud freight rates, yet after much labor and tribulations and disapointmeut.-, the nine-tenths of the people succeed ed last winter for the first time in obtaiuing from the legislature of their own election a small portion of of their demands in a three cent passenger rate for a portion of the State, leaving the west end of the State where the people need the benefit the most, to pay the old rate. The people voted against the com mission yet your own legislature dis regarded your vote and yielded to the demands of corporations, by im posing a commission which' practical ly benefits no one but the clerks drawing the salary. One result is that much corn remained ungather ed, and much sent to market netted only a small pittance per bushel or a small pittance per car load. The telegraph and railroad rates are about four fold west of the Missouri, com pared with the rates between the Missouii river and Chicago, and while the people are omnipotent, you seem to be powerless to stop the extortion. It is no answer to say that a few men who have been laboring have not accomplished all they sought. Had you stood by them shoulder to shoulder, and placed a solid legis lature at Lincoln, with ability to withstand the blandishments and r m other influences of corporations then you would have some reason to ask why the failure. You have been groaning under these burdens, lo these many year. Rest assured these perpetrators wil never remove the wrongs by moral suasion or genteel entreaty. Stiil you groan and suffer and vote as the railroad power through their shysters and schemers and cheap John editors allow you or else elect men whom they easily capture. Now, you wil) allow me to ask you a question, why you don't champion and defend your own interests aud resist the generally successful effort of the above class to use you to your own injury? Try it once; do your own thinking, your own voting, your own legis lating. Take charge at the bottom. You run the caucustes, the priniarieo, county aud State conventions and the iegifclature. Elect men to the legis lature who will dare t j enact a law that passenger and freight rates within the State shall not exceed the rates between the Missouri river aud Chicago, and you will relieve your selves of one of the heavy burdens and will place you on an equal footing with the rest of mankind aud save you from being punished be cause you livo west of the river. Corporation missionaries will warn you of the danger from your ig norance of railroad matters, but you cannot possibly do worso than the gang who robbed the people and wrecked the Union Pacific Make the effort to the extent of your power. Editors and lawyers subsidized by railroads will be bad confidential advisers at this juncture. I kuow you will pardoa me for making a personal allusion that during a pub lic life commencing thirty years ago, eight years in congress from New York, in the constitutional conven tion of Nebraska, six years in the State senate, and five year! in the United States senate, it has been my privilege to iatreduce and vote upon many measures, boldly to proclaim my opinions, necessarily at times to antagonize the opinions and policies of others and thus awaken opposition,' yet at this time the only act or vote for which I am arraigned is that 1 favor honest railroad building where watered stocks and bonds shall, for the first time, be placed under con demnation and be prevented by act of congress. I will have reason to feel the mission of life has not been in vain if this much can be obtained from tbo American congress. I was at one time criticised by the ultra high protectionists because I advocated free lumber. 1 could not see why the pine barons should tske from one to three dollars per thousand feet as a gift or bonus from the dwellers and toilers on the prairies. And the people of Nebras ka, without regard to politics,through tbo legislature of 1883, passed a res olution unanimously endorsing my course on that subject So, too, I was criticised for speech and vote in favor of the Reagan bill and the people of Nebraska, by their legisla ture of 1885, by large majority, adopted a resolution favoring the same bill and the "howlers were again left, with, the ground cut from under their feet. You also remember whea in the United States Senate I secured an amendment to a cable bill actually fixing the rates, and the howlers said, "what of i the people of Ne braska never use the ocean telegraph." Bat it was of Infinite value to enact a precedent recognizing the foil power of congress ia such matters. So it will be of still greater benefit, the recognition by congress of the iniqaitiesof the system of stock wateriag aad the .exercise of the power to prevent it ia the future on all roads it may coatrol. This same gang, ready Ufrid orgaaized wealth and corporate favor, howled them '!' ' COLPMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY..AUGUST .11, selves hoarse when, with others, on the last night of the session of the Nebraska Senate in 1S77, I aided in preventing the repeal of usury laws of "the State, and in 1S79, when we secured the reduction of the rate of interest to seven per cent., not to ex ceed ten by special contract. So the same unscrupulous crowd with brazen falsehood, charged that I opposed tho State ticket of 1884, when I was merely exposing and de nouncing a system introduced or in augurated by the State school board, whereby iu violation of law the school lands were to be leased in large bodies at nomiual rates to syn dicates, and wero actually being thus absorbed, and private offices in Lin coln were placarded with advertise ments to sell, and rent school lands at rates which the board, if honest or caring for the public interest, could have obtained. This spoliation of the school domain was checked by full exposure and a decision of the court that the State board had grossly violated the law, aud were warned to do so no more, and now instead of l lie State leasing at 40 cents per acre, tbey are leased for $3 and upwards, ai d in this way tho school fund was protected, but the same gang uttered ire snuie piercing howl, aud I was (alsely denounced as opposing tho S'ate ticket. ' When from the committee on pub lic lauds I reported an amendment to the house bill giving the president the power to use the military iu pro tecting the public doirain and re moving illegal fences, great sym pathy was expressed by the same gaug for the suffering syndicates and I was the only one worthy of censure, but the feuccs went, the syndicates went, the cattle wero moved west aud hundreds of thousands of acres made tree for occupation and became the h mes of happy toilers, aud following up the settlors ou the desert waste tie locomotive of the Chicago & Northwestern and the B. & M. .ire i hoing the song of the husbandman. And we are also willing the engine ol the Uniou Pacific should waken the echoes, particularly when they accept the condition, "no more watered atocks and bonds on the reads we consont they may build." I thauk you for your letter aud resolution. It is an indication ot greater interest in public affairs and gi eater watchfulness of representa tives by the farmers aud Jaborers of the State, which we trust may result in great good not only to the State but to tin) nation. Yours truly, C. II. Van Wyck. Your CoMBly Fair. Now is the time to mako up your miud to do something for your home fair. Every farmer -and citizen should uot only resolve but do some thing for his local fair. The county fair is supposed to represent tho pro ducts and resources, as well as tho in telligence and enterprise of you: county. This being a fact it is incum bent upon every citizen to do what ever is possible to do consistently, at least do something to encourage the institution. The gotting up ot fairs is at best a thankless business. Fair managers, as a rule, receive lit tle credit for their laudablo efforts, while on the other hand they are sure to be the recipients of much abuse, fault fiuding, and criticism. Mauy people go to their home fair and make themselves particularly obnox ious to the few public spirited citi zens who have made the fair by their contributions aud exhibits, by rudely ciiticising overybody and everything and loudly averring that they could beat this or that exhibit at home. Nothing is more disgusting to un prejudiced visitors and investment seeking strangers than this chronic style of declaiming and grumbling from the very persou who should be identified with the institution. The county fair should represent the resources, intelligence and enter prise ot your county. Products of the farm, orchard, field, shop, the home, in fact every induetry, busi ue6R, profession, and institution of the county should be represented by i's best products aud offering?. Amusement and daily attractions of a high order should be provided, eo that every class of people might come together, have a good social time, getting acquainted with each other, comparing notes with your neighbor, learning how this and that success was made in your line of business, and studying the relation of your business with that of some other. Every one could well afford two or three days recreation at a rep resentative fair and at the same time profit himself by observation and in quiry. Every farmer, merchant and manu facturer, has something that he or his home can exhibit that will be of in terest to hundreds of others as well as creditable to himself. Think what a showing your county would make if one in ten did something .in this way. Indicate to the managers of the fair association that yon propose to be identified with the fair this year. Don't let any prejudice or- personal matter stand in your way. Ike change. a -- - A fire alarm system is to be in troduced at Liacoln. I ? . -i The surrounding counties of Holt, Antelope, Pierce, Cedar Dixon, Da kota and Madison are largely in th" majority among the farmers for Van Wyck. Al of them can be defeated by remaining away from the prima ries thus leaving the selection of delegates to a few politicians. Go to the primaries. All of you take notice of the call of your precinct chairman; compare bis watch with yours, so as to besuro and bo there on time: select your own delegates; take none but true Van Wyclr men, do uot be in doubt as to any ; 6tand (irmly by each other, don't give way tor chattel .mortgages or grocery hills; be true tovyour interests and there will be no such word as fail. You will then return to the senate your defeuder; stay away from the primaries and you are lost. Niobra ra Aie. A Harrow Eitcape. I was suddenly taken very ill at Eagle Lake, this state, the other day with cholera morbus, and used morphine to uo avail, and I grew worse and despatched a messenger for a physician, who brought' with him a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera aud Diarrhoea Remedy, aud gave me a dose which relieved me instautly, aud 1 firmly buliuvo that to i' I owe my lite aud the physician v ho was unprejudiced enough tr. ti'uiiuister it when all others failed, and I repeat again, I owe my lite to v ur great preparation. I remain yours gratefully, G. D. Waite, Prescription Clerk, With Cbas. A. Gray, Waterville, Minn. Sold by Dowty & Heit kemper. 15-4 Frederick Ehdk, a laboring hand and discarded lover of Minnir Luitke, a young girl about seventeen yais old and daughter of John Luitke, where he was employed, had bten discharged by the father aud forbade to visit his daughter. One evening last week he met the girl out in the field uot far from Staplehurst, Neb., where she had goue for the 0 ws, placed a pistol at her head and li ed, killing her almost instantly. 1 ho father hearing the shot went to !icr relief aud was met by Elide aud l ot in the breast, severing the mai irtery leading to the heart, uud iu ti very brief time he died. Ehde then returned back to where lay the dcat tiody of tho girl, placed the muzzle ot tl.e pistol to his templo aud de- bcratcly blew out his brains. W. H. Bolton, chief of division hi cond class matter at tho Chicago postouicc, wri arrested the other day charged with the embezzlement ot public funds by means of false re turns. The inspector claims he has tiaced a shortage already of 10,000 and iufimates that the total will reach tr.0,000 or. $100,000. John I. Stowart, a weigher, was also arrested. A a Itaterprlftiac MoBfte. tellable Dowty & Heitkempcr can always be relied upou, not only to carry in tock the best of everything, but to st cure the agency for such articles a have well-known merit, and are pop ular with the peoplo, thereby sus taining tin: reputation of being al w a) s enterprising, aud ever reliabl . Having secured the agency for the oi lebrated Dr. King's New Discovery (or Consumption, will sell it ou a positive guarantee. It will surely euro auy and every affection ot Throat, Lungs, and Chesr, and to chow our confidence, we invite you to call and get a Trial Bottle Free. F. Steinmetz, his wife aud child, were crossing the bridge over the Nemaha the other evening, near Talmage, Neb., with a span of mules. The frightened mules shied and backed against the railiug; breaking down, all were precipitated iuto the water, thirty feet below, drowning all three persons. Aa Annwer Wanted. Can any ouo bring us a case of Kid ney or Liver Complaint that Electric Bitters will not speedily cure? We say 'they can not, as thousauds of cases already permanently cured and who are daily recommending Electric Bitters, will provo. Bright's Disease,' Diabetes, Weak Back, or any urinary complaint quickly cured. They pur ify tho blood, regulate the bowels, and act directly on the diseased parts. Every bottle guaranteed. For sale at 50c. a bottle by Dowty & Heitkcmpo. During a thunder storm the other day lightning struck an oil tank con taining 35,000 barrels of oil near Elba., A posse of men from tbo Camden works, of Parkersburg, and a cannon from Marietta, Ohio, went up to check the fire and keep it from spreading to the other tanks of the same capacity in- the immediate vicinity. tVaclcIen'M Aralca Salve. The Beat Salve iu the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup UonB, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar anteed to ;;ive perfect satisfaction, or money relauded. Price 25 cents per box. Foi sale by Dowty & Heit kemper. Mayl7-ly The first shipment of tea is now being made over -the Canadian Pacific Railroad. , i S LJt -S V sWiiBMBft iHH r wBsf "sBsSssnsw - 1886. THE STXRSX National Bank! OK COLUHBU8, 1 HAS AN Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $15,000, And the largest Paid ia Cawh Cap Hal of any banK in this part of the State. tSTDeposits received and interest paid on time deposits. ESTDraftsou the principal cities in this country aud Kurope bought and sold. larCoIlections and all other business given prompt and careful attontion. STOCKHOLDERS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Pres't. O. T. KOEN, Cashier. J. P. BECKElt, HERMAN OEHLRICU, G. SCHUTTE, W. A. MCALLISTER, JONAS WELCH, .IOHN W EARLY, 1. ANDERSON, G.ANDERSON. Anr28-SGlf BV8DTES8 CAEDS. D.T. Mautvn, 3L D. V. J. Scuug, 31. D. Drs. MARTYN 4 SCHUO, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeon. Union Pacific, O., N. &B. H.and B. & 31. It. It's. Consultations in German and Kn Telephones at office aud residences. ;lish. E?Oflice on Olive street, next to llrod feuhrer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, . NEBRASKA. 42-y T m. CORNELIUS, IT LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. OUIJilVAfli Sc KEEUEK, ATTORNEYS AT LA W, Oltiee over First National Hank, Colum bus, Nebraska. f0-tf C. 1. KVANS, M. !., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. JSTOHice and rooms, Gluck building, lltli street. Telephone communication. 4y H ASlllrON NEAUIn. IK, PHYSICIAN AND SUL'UEON, Platte Center, Nebraska. !-y TTKKMAI NATENSTEIVr, III.ACKSM1TH AND WAGON MAKER, loth street, east of Abt's barn. April 7, 'sC-tf DOWKLL IIOlIMi; PLATTE CENTER, N Ell. .lust opened. Special attention given lo lomniercial men. Has a good sample n' in. Sets the best table. Give it a ti bl and be convinced. f.O-oino I OH EUSDEi, COUNTY SURVEYOR. IParties desiring surveying done cm address me at Columbus, Neb., or call at my office in Court House. fmiaySG-y UOTIt'E TOTEACHEKM. W. H. Tedrow, Co. Supt. I will be at my office in the Court House be third Saturday of each mouth for the xi.mination of teachers. 39 tf f. f. uuarrvER, m. d., HOMCEOPATHIST. Clirenio Diseases aad Diseases ef Ckildrea a Specialty. iSTOffice on Olive street, three doors' km tti of First National Bank. t!-ly 1ITCAE.I.IMTER BROS., 1 TTORNEYS A T LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build. Ing. 11th St. W. A. 3IcAllister, Notary Public. J. SI. MACKARLAND, B. R. COWDERY, AttcKtr ud HsUry Pall e. Cclltetor. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFASiiAND & COWDBRT, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. JOHN G. IIIGGINS. C. J. GARLOW, Collection Attorxey. HIGGLH S & GARLOW, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections Garlow . by C.J. SS-m rp fJ.RUMCIIE, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, &c, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. TAMES MAL.MOIV, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 Gmo. pAMPBELL St CO. DEALERS IN Rao's and Iron ! The highest market price paid for rags and iron. Store in the Bubach building, Olive at., Columbus. Neb. 5-tf J- S. MURDOCH & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Haveaadan extended experience, and will gaaraatee satisfaction in work. All klads of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prieea. - Call aad give us as oppor tuaityteestimateforyou. yyshop on 13th Stoae door west of Krisdhof A Co's. stars, Celusibus, Ksbr. 483-y Iv' It WHOLE NO; 848.: A, new court houso is beiug built at Culbertson. President Cleveland ha signed the oleomargarine bill. The cost of cremating a corpse in Paris has been reduced to $3. President Cleveland last week votoed four more pension bills. It is said the room in which G rant died remains untouched iu every de tail. Snow fell on the 3d hist., ou Mouut Washington, to the depth of one and a halt inches. ,The Australian colonies of Great Britain have a population of 3,375, Utt), and a debt, of $000,000,000. The California legislature last week elected A. P. Williams U. S. Senator to fill out the unexpired term of the late Senator John P. Miller. A vike started the other day in an empty ice house in Dos Moines, la., causing its destruction with nine ther buildings. Loss, $20,000. Dudley Hubbard, a colored barber ot (J rand Island, Neb., sud denly became insane the other morn n g and cut his throat with a razor. Hubert O. Thompson, leader of the county democracy, was found dead in hi bed tho other moruiup, it the Worth House, Now York City. The names of tho men arrested and charged with robbing tho post office at Minueapolis are Thoma9 Finucand, N. S. Thompson and Wicks. A man in Pittsburg has just patented a machine with which to blow glass by compressed air, which, it is claimed, will revolutionize the business. The hop crop throughout New York state has been greatly damaged it not entirely destroyed by lice; a -Hidden advance in the price of hops is the result. Out of titty-sevcu well-known .Vtw York lawyers interviewed by the Jurist, fifty-two held that the constitution ot New York docs uot prohibit women from voting. Henry Dare, of Fairfield, Neb., a marble aud tombstone dealer, one v ening last week very suddenly aud .ir. steriously disappeared, and has not since been seen or heard of. !da Dickinson, of Udell, Neb., at- nipted to commit suicide by taking norphino. She was still alive at t report lroin the scene, but little po entertained for her recovery. Michael Welch, a young boy -. veuteen years old, living near A burn, Nob., angry becauso his brother relused to let him go to a 1 nee, went to the haymow and hanged himself. A laborer at the waterworks at Beatrice, Neb., was badly injured the thcr day by a heavy piece ot pipe rolling upon him iu a trench. Uit .'Hinc is not known, aud it is supposed e will uot recover. There arc titty large washing arges on the banks1 of the Seiue, in France, which are made use o y 38,000 washerwomen. The gov ernment wants to move these barge. o avoid the contamination of the tcr. Maud S. covered a quarter of a mile in 30 secoude, the other day on her 'weekly trial, at the Bonner farm, near Tarry town. Mr. Bonner bilioves she will be able to beat her own record of 2:08, the. best-in the world. The Rev. W. W. Downs, of Boston, has finally made such disclosures, as fully exonerate him from the charges brought against him; and his persecutor Deacon Joseph Storey was found guilty of adultery and ex pelled from the church. Nathan II. Diehl, a young farmer of New Windsor, Carroll county, Maryland, the other day deserted his yi uug and handsome wife and babe and eloped with their seventeen year id servant girl named Maggie i'ushing. They were traced to Bal more aud there lost. The corner stone of the M. E. church was laid Monday of last week at Fairbury, Neb. Large con gregation present and addresses made by Revs. Noble, Cramb and Elder Roberts. Tho building will bo of brick, (JOxCO feet and will cost between $G,C00 and $7,000 when com pleted. John Pearson, of Lawrence, Kas., shot bis wife and then deliberately placed the pistol in his mouth and blew out bis own brains. The bullet entered bis wife's bead just below the left ear and lodged back of the i ose. She cannot live. Tbey never i.ved happily together and he left a note saying it was bis wife's fault. Peter II. Pattigar, editor of the Berald and present postmaster at Millerstown.'Pa., was the victim of a very severe horse-whipping by women the other night. He bad pub lished in his paper some uncom plimentary and slanderous remarks about a party of temperance ladies who had attended a pic-uic in the country. .TK'tr AEKTlJUtS 3BusinessaMd profeasioaalcarda of ftTSliaesor lass, par aanmai, It dalUrs.- - - tTFor time advertiseateata; apply at thin office. a ETLegal advertlMatents atatatata rates. TFor transient adTertleiaf , aea rates on third page. HTAU advertiaeaseata payable monthly. THBEET YANKEE CATS. Oae HaaU aealml. Aeelaer gaitestgea, mbA Om to 18 years H, The Connecticut cat. says a Norwich correspondent of the New York Sun, ia attending mainly to - routine hnshmes this year, but here and there is one that shows a trace of genius. Mr. Amos E. Cobb of this town has a remarkable Joung- cat It ignores mice entirely, t will have1 nothing1 but red squirrels. It goes out into the moods each Beam ing and catches one red squirrel. One squirrel lasts for a whole day's meals. The hind quarters serve for breakfast, the' fore quarters for dinner, and the cat tapers off her appetite by picking the hide and head for supper. It is nard work to catch a red squirrel napoinir. rand the cat realizes that one squirrel must go a long way. tone brings all her catches to the house, and tho backyard is strewn with red-sqairrel skins turned wrong side out Mr. Cobb has in his veranda a lot of wire cages, all com municating with each other and each provided with play-wheels, and in the cages sixteen squirrels which a has caught in traps. The cat often aits for. an hour near the cages with her eyes closed and with a very benovokat ex- ' pression on her face, aad accidentally she lets her paw fall inside the wire for the squirrels to play with. Fooling with that sleepy paw has nearly cost three squirrels their lives. She has not got one of tho wired squirrels yet, but she has hope, and spends an hour each day before the cages. Arthur Keller of Treston has a cat that catches partridges. She gets about one a week. When she cannot catch a partridge, mice. birds, ground-moles, and rats are good enough for her. Now and then she takes big dying grasshop pers, and flies off a window-pane. It is worth the price of a ticket to a dime museum, Mr. Keller thinks, to see his cat chase a Hying grasshopper. The grasshopper starts off, flushed with hope. and with a satirical flutter and buzz that manifests its opinion of a thing on legs trying to run down a thing that has both legs and wings. The grasshopper sails away in a side-long direction about a dozen rods and plumps down in the grass with a wiry chip that is meant to sav to the cat that the grasshopper can take that little skip not less than twenty five or thirty times and not get tired, but rather enjoy it The cat nowever, means business, and, with tail erect and daws outspread, is at the first station almost as soon as the grasshopper has alighted. The grasshopper has to got up again and be off with an alacrity that takes its breath away, and before it has taken half a dozen flights it is a very surprised and serious-looking grass hopper that blindly dashes in a zigzag way before tho pursuing cat At the end of the sixth or seventh inning the cat generally nails her prey to- tho ground ia the stubble. A fat flying grasshopper makes a dainty lunch for a cat Rhode Island cats are noted for lon gevity. In other state cits that are uot chewed up by other eats die of old age before they are 10 years old. They stay out too late at night on feuccs and shed-roofs at the expense of their emo tional natures, anil their vitality is early exhausted. Rhode Island caU are less frivolous. They keep their heads cool and do not overwork themselves at night Henry Cliff, in that state, owns a eat that is 18 years old. and her facul ties are all perfect Age has etched her whiskers' ends and tne fringe of fur along her sides with peculiar designs in fink, hence Mr. Cliff ealls her "Finkey." u other resects she is in a normal feline condition. Mr. Cliff takes excel lent care of this cat and does not re quire that she shall earn her own living. . She lives on the fat of his larder aud takes only oue stroll around the house daily for exercise. Shu scorns mice and all other cheap, coarse food. A mouse might run between her feet aud she would not take the trouble to step ou him. All she has to do is to sit on the veranda, close her eyes, aud look wise. Mr. Cliff hopes to keep her alive until she is 20 years old. It is believed that Pinkey is the oldest cat iu Rhode Island. Salmon-Poarhiuvr In Canada. The unlawful act which the wardens most carefully guard against is "drift ing." One or two poachers will steal out at night carrying a jcculiarly made net in their canoes. They stretch this across the head of a Kol; and it is so weighted and buoyed that it stands up right, reaching nearly to the bottom. As the current causes the net to drift down stream, one canoe stays at each end to keep it straight There is usually a white rope at the bottom of the net Seeing this, the salmon raise themselves a little, only to be caught by the gills in the meshes. When the shaking of the net shows that one is caught the poacher quickly paddles to the spot raises the net kills the fish with a blow on its head, and throws it into the canoe. In this sneaking way, nearly all the sal mon in a pool may be netted out in a night If the wardens happen to come along in their dug-outs, they try to seize the net and identify the poachers. Then there may be a tight and perhaps a canoe will be sunk, and a poacher or a warden will get a sold batli. On one river, the poachers used to station a boy on an island below them, with a horn which he blew whenever the wardens approached. One of the latter was so active that the poachers resolved to punish him. They took an old worth less net and stretched it out into the river from a rock on the bank. A rope I was rove through the net and the shore end made fast over a pulley to the traces of a horse. A boy stood beside the horse, and two poachers in a canoe held the outer end of the net Down camo tbo warden, poling along in his dug out and pulled the end of the net away from the seemingly unwilling poachers. He began taking it into his dug-out congratulating himself on his prize, and had hauled it naif-way in, when the boy on shore struck the horse, which started on a full gallop up the bank, jerking the net after it In a flash the net was polled out of the dug-out the latter up set and the astonished warden pitched into the river. But I hope the poachers were punished in their turn. For if these lawless men had their way, there would be no salmon left in the rivers, and no such glorious sport as fly-fishing. Ripley Hitchcock, in SL Nicholas. m i A correspondent in Los Angeles, Cal, writes: There is a woman here who is selling small fruit and vegetables to educate herself in music. She has been, she says, "starved for music all her life." but now, at forty years of age, in spite of her poverty and discouragement, she is cultivating her voice, which is really, a fine one. An odd and pitiful sight was this woman, with her broad sun hat and linen duster, at the piano the other day, playing and singing for a wealthy lady m valid, while her vegeta ble wagoa. Hood waking at the doer. : . j
