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s s . sat Sf 4fitatafannt, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5. 1?7. txUielit tfci PesteSei, Calcmtst.Hifc., i::ti CUM aatUr. Words that never die ''Shut that door." Wild cats are reported- to be num erous in the vicinity of Wiener. It is very proper that the man who breaks the law should be compelled to keep the piece. The New York bank statement of last week 6hows that they now hold $7,232,090 in excess of legal require ments. Ex-Sexator Cosklixg attended the funeral of Senator Logan. It is 6aid to be the first time he has en tered the senate chamber since he re signed. A mad dog appeared the other day on the streets of Oxford, Neb., and bit two dogs and snapped at two men. After an exciting chase of over a mile the dog waB killed. The postoffice at Dunbar, Neb., waB entered the other night by thieves, but Mrs. Hurd, the poBl mis trees, had taken the money and stamps home and the burglar failed to make a raise. It is said a hungry dog raided the Hillside poultry yard at Norfolk and feested on nine guinea pigs, seven rabbits, some chickens and a game rooster. The owner of the dojj paid for the fare. Someone asks it the early man was a savage. We can't Bay much for the early man, but the inau who comes puffing into the station ten minutes after the train has left generally has the appearance of one. The workshop of the blind institute was burned the other morning at Ne braska City. The building is a two story brick which burned to the trrnund. The cause of the fire is unknown. The loss of property is $3,000. The family of Joseph Zeidiot, a carpenter, of Cincinnati, Ohio, con sisting of himself, wife and six-year old son, were poisoned the other day by eating canned green peas. Zeidiot died, but his wi.e and child may re cover. St. Louis Republican: (dem.) Pennsylvania protection and the democratic party cannot live in the same country and the democratic party is not goiug out ot existence just to accommodate Mr. Itdndfill. Two whales appeared ofl Long Island' south shore the other day. They presented a nice opportunity to the sturdy fishermen for a splendid chase, but no good reports of any captures, and the whales finally made their escape. Reserved seats $10 and general ad mission $5 were the prices for the Patti concert in Galveston last Thurs day night. The people there certain ly had a "high old time," and those who went to the concert had to strike a higher note than the diva could. Chicnqo 3 fail. A man at Santa Rosa purchased a can of honey not long ago from a merchant, and on opening it found such a state ot affairs that he penned the following: "Sir That cau of honey I got was not fit for anything. It had a snake in it aud the snake had swallowed some mice and the whole thing was mixed up." New York World: A Chicago journal ha6 taken considerable trou ble to prove that prohibition i6 not a failure in Kansas. It could have learned that from the World last sum mer. The law has more liars, cheats, Bneaks, spies and guzzlers than exist in any other state in the union. The old story of man's inhumanity to woman was revived in Fremont the other day in the chbc of Celia Johnson, the poor and lonely mother of a fatherless babe. Under prom lw of marriage she was betrayed by one JfaV.Q Miller in Ohio, and shipped west to sutler among etrangers. A generous family n. Fremont minis tered to the wants of the unfortunate. The Burlington road intend soon to put on a Chicago-Lincoln 6leeper. The recent snow storms in Ger many did terrific damage and led to a great loss of life. In Saxony alone, which with Silesia, suffered the most, over twenty cases are reported, in which meu and women went astray in the snow and were frozen. A curious commentary on the gen eral public opinion of the senate is found in the many eulogies upon John A. Logan which fill the press. In each and all, strong stress is laid upon the unflinching integrity of the dead soldier-statesman and on the strange fact that amid a body of mil lionaire representatives ot the people "he died a poor man." When the roll of the senate ih called the reason for the comparison will bo at once ap parent. Few of the members of that body count their wealth under the hundred thousand dollar figure. Many are from four to twenty times millionaires. It is doubtful if anoth er instance could be pointed out in senatorial circle where the pane of grief of a bereaved wife could be made keener and more bitter by the fear of impending want, as was the case at General Logan's death bed. In public life for nearly thirty years, honored with the highest civil and military commands, a man or influence in the councils of the na tion, it will ever stand a monument to the.tn-mory of John A. Logan that his unbet.diug honesty and spotless integrity were conceded by hi6 bit terest political ft e and used as a text from which moralists over his bier preached a eerznau of purity in offi ces of representative trust. Omaha JBtc Clr4. A recent visit, for the first time, to a state which has become famona the world over among intelligent people, will lead us, no doubt in tho hereaf ter, to view that land in a somewhat different light from heretofore, and to give it that measure of attention in the Journal which its great merits deserve. Our trip to and from Denver was made on the B. & M. road ; leaving Columbus at 8 :20, we arrived at Den ver the next morning at 7. Every thing belonging to the service of the railroad company is first-class, leav ing nothing to be .desired. At Ox ford, there is an eating house, where the fastidious gormand can satisfy his appetite at the usual rate of seventy five cents a meal, or the man of more moderate means and humble notions, or be wbo'thinks ho knows that he ought'nt to or couldn't eat 75 cents worth of grub, can stand up to a lunch counter, and satisfy his hunger at almost any cost he may wish, at ten cents each, for the different arti cles that may bsjiised for that pur pose. Riding at the rate of thirty miles an hour, (less or more,); across a country, you can only judge of it by the objects that strike the eye; aud thus many a false estimate has been made and published. A section ot country is to be judged, as meu are judged, as trees are judged "by their fruits, ye shall know them." I believe that eastern Colorado differs in no aesential respect from western Nebraska. There never was auy question of this region as an agri cultural laud, except that it might not have sufficient moisture. I re member well the remark of two old settlers to me that the table land north of Columbus would not pro duce crops. One farmer on the banks of the Loup told me it was too high to irrigate, and that there was no use thinking ot ruising crops without ir rigation. Another old settler said much the same thing. When I told them that one of my neighbors had raised, the year before, torty bushels to the acre, on Bod, they were dumb founded, and all their theories gone. This was in 1870. There is now no question about the magnificent and beautiful table lauds of Nebraska produciug abundant crops. The rain cloud naturally follows the plow; tho sod that is broken up and kept under cultivation retains more of the rains that fall, and the evaporation again charges the atmosphere, so that the line ot moisture has been traveling westward year by year, and crop9 are being rabed where but a few eai ago, such a thing was thought im possible. Thinking men have fore seen this, and the immense ranges ot country that were occupied by slock are being cucroaclied upou year by year until it is now conceded uni versally, I believe, that the home steader, with his camparatively small holding, will gradually super sede the cattle-king in the occupancy ot all or nearly all this entire coun try. Eastern Colorado was covered with snow three to five inches deep, Dec. 20. Ono man who was going to Denver with several grown up sons and daughters to enter homesteads for the crowd, said they had been over their tracts the day before with teams, aud the ground was all cov ered with snow. He had been there before and was satisfied as to the kind ot soil, and thought where there was so much suow, it would be a good "chance" for wheat. Anyhow he had sold out in Kansas tor a "good speck," and purposed to take bis chances on being able to raise crops. II is proposed location was 75 miles east of Denver, lie claimed that there was a belt of country just east of Denver that was compara tively dry, too dry now for success ful farming, and bis theory was that the moisture from the melting of snow in the mountains was blown over, dropping just beyond, in the country in which he was about to locate. DENVER. Denver is the largest city of its size that I know of. Probably no other of 75,000 people on the face of the globe can justly boast of so many points of progress as can this city of the plains. Scores upou scores ot residences have given place to busi ness blocks; and the same is to be re pealed again and again. The court bouse of Arapahoe county, is a better building than many of the state Capi tols of the Union; it was built with out the suspicion of a job or a Eteal, and paid for in cash upon its accept ance. The United States building, just begun, is to co6t probably $550,- 000. The main churches are built as costly as opera houses in other cities, and all aheir appointments are in un ison. Large organs, large choirs, no thing that can add to the force of the service in omitted. In one Method iBt church there is a piano, besides the organ, also a cornet and a violin, and the solemn hymns sung by the vast congregation lose none of their solemnity by beiug thus presented. I was told that the Methodists are about to build two churches, one of them to be a grander structure than any now in the city, which is saying considerable. (Their unday school has 500 pupils in regular attendance.) For this church one man purposes to give an organ jo cost $12,000, and to pay the tuition. ($5 each a wee) of one nundreci youins wno win regu larly attend services and take part in the singing, thus donating, besides the $12,000 organ, $500 a week. I was further told that this gentleman waB the son of a Methodist preacher. One lady has subscribed $6,000 to each of the new church buildings, and a gentleman, it is thought, will give $30,000, at the least. The school system is claimed to be the very best in the United States, and several reasons are alleged for this. The pupils are numerous, the districts are compact, the school buildings the best of their kind, with a nign-scnooi Duuumg pnmy com pleted and occupied, which when all bnilt and finished is to cost $300,000. The crowning feature of the system, however, (as It must be everywhere) is the fact that they provide the schools with the teit of teachers. Besides the general ordeal of a county examination, applicant! pass the close scrutiny of two separate and independent committee of the City School Board, oee examining the merits of the applicant as a scholar, the other, as to the teaching ability, preparation for teacher's work, etc. The climate has at tracted so many smart- people for their health that there are numerous applicants for teacher's positions, and no trouble is found to place a thoroughly competent instructor in every echool, and there is no one thing that will begin to compare with this in securing good school work. These are some of the things that anybody with half an eye can see in the public affairs of Denver. Private matter?, I judge, are much of a piece with the public. Why shouldn't they be? The mountains yonder are filled with gold and silver, and many hands have dog and delved to make the wealth of this place. When a man can grub-stake a poor miner at a cost of $32 and realize on the venture a clean $250, 000. is it any wonder that be can build a fine mansion with all the modern improvements, a veritable king's palace? Thee fine residences represent the successful miners, the shrewd busi ness men, and the flourishing pro fessional gentlemen. "Extremes meet," and within a circle of five miles radius here, there is, as in other cities, magnificent opulence and abject poverty; splen did idleness and toiling want, but I imagine that, when the mines are prosperous, these poor people are better cities. off than the average poor ot M. K. T. Jwutt am HBraIe. The Humphrey Independent is to be commended for the stand it takes on the bridge question to be passed upon by the voters of Platto on the 18th, and states briefly the entire argument in the follow ing paragraph. There is a spirit of common justice and fairness applicable in this matter that we believe Platte coun ty's citizens will act upon In voting for this bridge: On the 18th day of January next as will be seen by a notice in another column, the county is called upon to vote whether or not the $10,000 surplus now in the county treasury be used for the building of a permanent bridge across, the Loup river, the $7,000 already voted by the city of Columbus to be used in its construc tion. By the provisions of the proposi tion Columbus and Columbus township will pay to exceed half of the cost of the bridge, as the has an equal interest in the $10,000 with the balance of tho county, and whatever advances the interests and prosperity of any locality as an import ant part of the whole adds to the general prosperity of the county, and we think the proposition should carry and the county bear an equal portion of the ex pense with the city ? What benefit to the county that Columbus, simply because ot her location near a treacherous stream, be forced to burden herself with debt or suffer business failures and financial loss from beine; deprived of trade naturally tributary to the city. .In fact there is a grievous error in the law that ruts the burden of bridgiug such streams as the Loup and Platte rivers on a single city or township, especially when uch bridges are used as a general roadway between the north and south Platte counties, and are a state and county benefit aud necessity.SVote for the prop osition. Two Klver Beat Baraed. Cairo, 111., Dec. 28. At 6 this morning the Mississippi Valley Transportation steamer II S. Hayes and four barges and the Anchor Line steamer City of Natchez burned while lying at the bank. The fire is sup posed to have originated in the steamer Hayes, which soon burned her to the water's edgo. The fire then spread to the City of Natchez, lying just below Hayes, and waB soon enveloped in flames. The barges alongside of Hayes loaded with cotton and sundries also took fire and was completely destroyed. The City of Natchez was valued at $100,000 and the Hayes was valued at $50,000. The' loss of barges makes the Iobb amount to $1,000,000. The insurance is not known at present. .A strong northwest wind at the time of the fire prevented the togs from saving the fleet. The two barges lying on the outside of those burned were cut loose and saved by the tugs. The burning hulls were towed to the other side of the river. St. Louis, Dec. 28. The steamer Natchez, which burned at Cairo this morning, was valued at $120,000 and was insnred for $50,000 The R. S. Haves was valued at $50,000 and in sured for $20,000. The barges bnrned were the No. 28, No. 49, No. 94 and the Iron Dnke and were valued at $10,000 each and not insured. The total Iosb is estimated at $400,000. A Frlfflitfal AceMeat. Deb Moines, la., Dec. 28. Spec Telegram to the 2?e.J One of the large boilers nsed at the Arm strong coal mine in Angus, Boone eounty, exploded this afternoon, kill ing three men, injuring one man fa tally and another seriously. Sol. Pi per, the fireman, was scalded and mangled. John Biy, the pit boss, bad bis head blown off, and Charles Carson was blown to pieces, portions of his body being fonnd ono hundred yards away. O. B. Armstrong, the engineer, bad bold of the reverse lev er when the explosion occurred, and .was fonnd afterwards a hundred yards away. He was slightly injur ed. Ted Richards, another workman, was very badly injured and will die. The head of the boiler blew through a coal car on the track a short dis tance off and landed nearly a quarter of a mile away. Just before the ex plosion forty miners were lowered into the mine and thus escaped the fate of their oomrades on the surface. The loss to the property will amount to several thousand dollars. The mine is chiefly owned by' ex-Speaker Head, of Jefferson. Cat Mia Owb Tai Pocahontdb, la., Dee. 28. Special Telegram to the Bee.0. L. Wil liams, aged thirty years, committed suicide at his home in Sherman town ship, this connty, at 8 o'clock last sight, by cutting his throat with a razor. No reason is gives for the. deed. Williams was not married and lived with his father and mother. A FaMl Acdlcat. Swift, Neb., Dec. -Special to the 2fe A terrible ac cident occured eight miles north of Dunbar, Otoe county, yesterday af ternoon. George Ames and Fred Kamra were out taking a sleigh Tide with a gun along for the purpose of shooting any game that they might see along the road. In tnrning a cor ner at right angles the sleigh upset and the shotgun accidentally discharg ed, fatally wounding Ames in the righ t side of the stomach. He was shot about 12 :40 p. m. and died after terrible suffering before 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Ames was a young man about twenty-two years of age, of good character and respected by his friends and neighbors. His fath er, mother, brothers and sisters are prostrated with grief at the fearful ac cident. This is the first death in a family of thirteen children. President Cleveland on account of bis health and the unpleasantness of the weather failed to attend the funeral of Senator Logan. All the members of the cabinet except La mar, who is absent from the city, at tended the funeral. orresponfcerue. In this department the people talk, and not the editor. Each writer must bold himself ready to defend his principles and his statements, of facts . "Iu the mul titude of counsel there is wisdom. Ed. Journal. Editor Journal: The Supervisors have called an election to be held the 18th of January, 1887, for the voters of the county to say whether they are will ing to allow an appropriation of money to build a bridge across the Loup river, so that the citizens of the county cin communicate and attend to their business at the county seat, and to furnish them selves with the necessaries of life, by means of barter and trade, as any healthy community must do to be prosperous. It seems strange to me that the county board are required to ask the people their consent to use unappropriated money for the re-establishment of communication, when the law expressly provides for such emergencies. But, inasmuch as our attorneys think it necessary to do so, would it not be a good plan to first adver tise for a bridge with plan, specifications and cost, and insured for a term of years to stand, and when a bid and plan was adopted by the board, have that plan and bid published for the people to sec and understand, then call an election, and I think the measure would carry. As the matter now stands, the county will spend three or four hundred dollars of election expenses and the measure be defeated. 1 think the call should bo with drawn and some such plan as I have suggested be adopted; in the meantime the Supervisors can repair the old bridge anu use it uutil the other plan U matured and completed. The people are tired of voting money to be washed down the river every year, but are willing to do what is just aud right, when they once understand the matter. I think there are plenty of bridge companies who would for a reasonable consideration in sure a bridge across the Loup river. Supposo it cost the county two hundred dollars a year to insure a bridge, the county could well afford to pay that amount; the better the structure, the less the cost of insurance. Let us agitate this matter and make no mistaaes, tor it is a matter of life or death to the county, aud in the meantime let the legislator of the river counties unite, work, agitate, and adopt some plan to have the state take care of the Platte river bridges. J. V7. E9HAY. Aa latervlew With a Ceaaty Farater FralC Cirwlasj. Platte (By a Columbus High School Pupil.) "How do you do, Mr. Pumpkin ?" "How do you, but I don't remem ber you." "1 am running for Tomkins, Ward & Co., of St. Louis, tree firm." "Yes, I have been expepting you for a few days, but I don't believe I want any trees this fall, times are too hard and three of my best cows and my hull herd of pigs died and I can't hardly afford any luxuries." "Too bad, but can I ask of what diseass?'' "Ob, yes, the cows was iu the corn field and got musty sialks and the hogs got cholera." "Well, well, that was bad. But what do you think rA Nebraska as a frnit country? Have a cigar?" "Yes, thanks, don't care if I do. Got a match? Thanks Well, Ne braska will be a great ..(got another match) fruit country; in five years from to-day we will ship apples and grapes and peaches to Chicago, New York and the sooth. You see we have a good climate and lots of good common sense and that's all you need to raise fruit." "Do yon ever have large prairie fires?" "Yes, sometimes. My orchard was destroyed by fire." "They are bad on trees ain't they ?" "Yef, but we never have such ex tensive fires as we nsed to and you can put a 5 ft. break around your or chard and keep it clean from weeds and they never will burn down." "How is the winter on trees?" "Pretty severe but the snow helps to keep them warm and then a person can generally tell what kind of a winter it will be, by watching the ground hog." "This is my first trip over the road and they gave me Nebraska and it is a new territory and so I hope you will not get angry at me for asking you so many questions. Don't the farmers let the bogs run in their or chards?" "Yes, and it is a very poor plan, as the hogs bark the young trees and do a great deal of damage." "Mr. Pumpkin, will yon please step over to my wagon ?" "Yes sir. You bet." "Now here is a picture of some spring apple trees fonr months old." "Beauties! How do yon sell them?" "They are Ben Davis apples and come at 25 cents a tree." "When could you send me a few, say 200 nice young ones, and bow do you sell peaeb and plums?" "Twenty-five cents." "Well, send me two hundred of each." "All right, msy expoct them br the 1st of November. Have a cigar?" Yes, I don't rre it I do. Pleafe give me a ma'cb !" "Yes " Thank" Oh! exsuso me, Mr. Pumpkin, I did not mean to sneize and blow your match cut. here is another -one. Well, I nm ever so much obliged for your information and patronage and hoping you will do all you can for my firm, I will depart." ADDITIONAL LOCAL. Meare Ite A'eather very cold. Hubert Southard has moved ou to the farm owned by Geo. Bullen. X. S. Hyatt has recently loit several head of cattle from citing too much stalks and other dry feed. Mr. Crawford, who has been sponding a few days with friends in this vicinity, loaves this week for his home in Iowa . Mr. A. Dack was quite seriously in. jured by falling from a wagon a few days since. Mrs. Southard will start for Iowa this week to visit her mother who is ill and it is feared will not recover. The ladles of the Congregational church gave a corn festival on Tuesday eve last and it was pronounced a success by all lovers of Johnny cake. The exhibition spoken of in our last communication fully met the expecta tions of all; below we give the program of the exercises. Greeting song, school; recitation, Welcome," Miss Flora Kerr; recitation, Kffie Erickson; declamation, "How to Judge a Man," Robt. RUher; instrumental music. Miss Ellen Oibjrn; dialogue, "Discontented Annie;" recita tion, ''The Puppj's Mishaps," L. Barker; recitation. ''Maria' Baking," Harry Thurston; recitation. Miss Miunio Beck Iem; declamation, "Snowball," Charlie Kerr; ion?, "The Basket Maker's Child," srhol'ir; recitation, Le.ih Guile-; son?, ''JHy Jonathan," by young men; dia logue. "Circumstances Alter Cases;" declamation, Miss Jennie Guile; decla mation, John Arnold; recitation, Olive Baker: recitation, "Home, Sweet Home," Miss Eilen Osborn; song, "Mistletoe Bough," Miss Eva Baker and others; rec itation, "Somethiug aud Nothing," Miss Jennie Ilisber; recitation, "The Bache lor's Carol," Eddie Dtck; dialozuo. "Aunt Bettey's Ztusc;' sonx, "Out in the Moonlight;" recitation, Miss Ida Domoss; recitation, Miss Gertie Kellars; recita tion, Master Harry Arnold; son?, "Old Uncle Joe;" recitation, Miss Edna Waitc; instrumental music, Miss Ellen Osborn; tableau, "Six Months, and Six Years After Marriage;" rocttition, "All Well," MUn Lucv Fellarn; closing re marks, I la Demos; doling song by scholar. T D. X. Ii in u Fact veil (M'-.hliriued th: consumption it :ti.tnl:.l it. i!t- tir-i tfi.jow. ru be ivtr-e 1 T..t- s. Iit-ever, no true and riti.'!l way to cure ihia disease, which h really licro'ulmis ulceration o-the lungs, except through purify ing tho bl-od. Keep the liver in perfect order and pure blood will be the result. Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery," a purely vegeta ble compound does all this aud more while it purifies tho blood it also builds up the system, strengthening it against future attacks ot disease. Ask for Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medi cal Discovery." Take no other. Of druggists. The fact that a man has not cut hie hair for ten or twelve years need oot necessarily imply that he is eccentric. He may be bald. From 9Iaiae. ' Some years ago my mother's health began to decline ; nervous prostration ensued. She had no relish for food and could not sleep, and without strength of course she could not walk without experiencing a great fa- I tiguo. we used the ordinary reme dies, but without any permanent re sults. Stimulants would refresh for the time being, but did not build up the system. We beard of Swift's Specific and its tonic effects. We 6e".red several packages of the dry form the powdered roots and herbs and after using some half dozen packages my mother. has regained her health and strength. She is more like her former self than she has been for years. She owes her present vig orous health to Swift's Specific. It is the best tonic I ever heard of. Orlando J. Haokett. Auburn, Maine, Nov. 15, 1886. Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis eases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. The bill of costs of district clerks for the October term of court at Lincoln is 1681.30 Seme Felice have much difficulty in swallowing the huge,old-fashioned pill,but anyone can take Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Pur gative Pelretsv7 which are composed of highly concentrated vegetable ex tracts. For disease of the liver aad stomach, sick and bilious headache, etc., thev have no equal. Their oper ation is aHended with no discomfort whatever. They are sugar-coated and pat np in glass vials. Pernicious egotism is another man's desire to tell you abont him self when you wish the floor to tell him about yourself. THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN Oaly !. Per Year. We desire to make a strong and es pecial appeal to the friends of our paper, aud good Republicans throughout the state, for their aid In extending the cir culation of The Weekly Republican. New matter and new features will be added, including a condensed resume of the previous week's curreBt news, an epi tome of the State and western intelli gence, choice miscellany. National and State politic, current items of interest from the State and National Legisla tures, and original papers from writers of note and ability. We shall also add a distinctive Agri cultural Department, including late and reliable markets, with other interesting news and statistics, making It a valuable and welcome visitor to the farmer's home each week, and a journal that will be intrinsically worth many times its cost to eyery farmer ia the state. eeablaJd Ptk(! pub liean-no Muirwumo-no "bolting"- lican no ae setting itself up in opposition to the decisions or polity of the duly constitut ed eenventtoas of the party, thoroughly believing ia'those Republican principles that have saved the country from de a ttuction, aad have, more than any other caue, made in the most prosperous one on the globe today. We believe the best and only way to sustain and perpetuate the party is by pursuing and standing by its organization. In order to increase our weekly sub scription list we desire to appoint a good canvassing agent ia every city, village and township in the state. We will guarantee to give them a paper which will commend itself to every person whose subscription they solicit. Liberal cash commissions will be paid. Write at once for territory, giving recom mendations. Active young men can make good wages during the winter months by wording for the Weekly Re publican. We -hope the republicans of each county will aid us in securing the ser vices of good canvassers, a service which will be appreciated; and in helping us to strengthen the paper and extend its circulation will also help spread good, sound republican doctrine all over the state. how to get tour wbjocly frrb. If each subscriber of the Weekly Re publican will send us five new names, accompanied by 3, he will receive 'his paper free for 1887. Talk with your neighbors, and let us have your personal assistance in extending 'the circulation ot the Weekly Republican. Address. 34-4t Tub Omaha Republican Co. ELSCnOH 10TICE. N OTICE IS HEREBY; given to the legal voters of Platte County, in the State of Nebraska, that a special election will be held in the several towns of said county, and wards of the City of Columbus therein, on the 18th day of January, A. D. 1887, for the purpose of voting on the following proposition to wit: Shall the Board of Supervisors of Platte County, in the State of Nebraska, appropriate and expend a sum not ex ceeding IIO.OCO.OO of the unappropriated moneys now in the Treasury of said county to aid in the construction of a wagon bridge, (and necessary ap proaches) across the Loup river in Co- luuiuus iuninui(i IU 0l tUUUIJ, OUU between a point. 40 rods east of the 6ite of the old wagon bridge across said river, and the bridge of the Union Pacific Rail way Company across said river, said sum to bo appropriated and expended only on condition that the proper authorities of the City of Columbus In said county, shall place in the hands of the County Treasurer of said county, subject to the order of the Board of Supervisors, aforesaid, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said bridge and approaches, the negotiable coupon bonds of said city to the amount of $7,000.00, executed in due form by the proper officers of said city, and registered as required by law. The frm in which this proposition shall bo. submitted, shall bo by ballot, whereupon shall be written or printed the words For appropriation for Loup river bridge Yes" or 4For appropriation for Loup river bridge No," and should euough ballets, as required by law, be cast at saia election, Having tnereon tne words "For appropriation fur Loup river bridge Yes," then said proposition shall ho declared adopted, otherwise it shall be declared !ost. Said election hall be held at the Usual voting placet in the 0uver.il towns ot said county, and wards of the City ot" Columbus therein. Provided th.it said election for Colum bia Township in said county shall be held at the office of Charles C. Miller ou bin farm in said Town. By rrder of the Board of Supervisors of Platto County, Nebraska, this 1-itb day of December, "A. I. 183U. Atlent: .1. E. X'ORTH, John Stauffkr, chairman. County Clerk. Dec-'.K-'ett-5t Proposals for Hose and Vozzlee for the City of Columbus. NOTICE is hereby given that proposals (bids) will be received at the office of the city elerk of the city of Columbus, Nebarska, in the citv of Columbus, Ne braska, at corner of Olive and 11th streets, on the 18th day of January, 1887, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p. m. for the supplying the citv of Columbus, Nebraska, with BOO feet of 2 inch bore four and five ply. Also for four (4) nozzles, two of 1 inch, two of 1 Inch with necessary couplings. The City retains the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the City Council. Carl Kramrr, Mayor. David Dowty, City Clerk. December 28th. I88u. 12-29-S COLUMBUS MARKETS. Our quotations of the markets are ob. tainedTuesdayafternoon,and are correct and reliable at the time. GRAIN, AC. Wheat Wheat new Corn in ear Corn shelled USvS I4C W k a :i 20 2C 18 1G 27 2 40(33 00 33(310 1820 2223 40 15 815 7012K S 303 40 2 O0Q2 5O 3 003 50 $500 1150 6 00 700 t 00 U 00 I Oats (white) Bye Flour Buckwheat PKODUCK. Butter, Kgg Potatoes, new MEATS. Hams, Shoulders, Bides, LIVE STOCK. Fat Hogs FatCattle Feeding Steers COAL. Hard Rock Springs nut Rock Springs lump Carbon Colorado ESTABLISHED IN 1160. -THE- NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, WASHINGTON, D.C. Dally, except Sundays. Price, ftf.00 per year in advance, postage free. -THE- IIKIY IATIHAL llftiLICAI. Devoted to general news and original matter obtained from the Department of Agriculture and other Departments of the Government, relating to the farming and planting interests. An Advocate of Republican principles, reviewing fearlesalv and fairlv the acts of Congress and the National Adminis tration. Price, $1.00 per year in advance, os t age free. E. W. FOX, President and Manager. The National Republican and the Columbus Journal, 1 year, 12.50. 32.x OMAHA WEEKLY REPUBLICAN CLUBBING RATES. HEBEAFTER we will furnish to both our old and nete subscribers, the Omaha Weekly Republican and Joub kal at the very low rate of 99.7C per year, thus placing within the reach of all the best state and county-weeklies pub lished, giving the reader the condensed, general and foreign telegraphic and state news or me week. . -tf mmm - Try for a year and be sat.'sfied. may5'8G-tf HoBBIafnrMJstolfM at tha Kewaaafwr Aarar- tmamAmimej of Pa&aUualB4 mm i COLTTM33TTS "" -L-J-' WM- BECKER, DEALER IX ALL KINDS OK :STAPLE AND FAMILY: GROCERIES! KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND WELL SELECTED STOCK. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, unea and canned Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. G4 Delivered Free arc aihe City. to aay Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near A.diN. Depot. J0HNS0NsAN0DYNE ts ..vi t m VwOS rV M fM H m M "H rrctjaat Si IMhtTMta, Croup. Afrthm. I (.Iuann, Baoktcc Couch. wh a. Xldonr Tranblaa. and Bataal 2Ha Br Tiltl. Hooraenn Diirrhara. .;T IMilMI-N I oufh.whooplacCoach, Catarrh. Bataalllaaaaaa7aaiphlet frea. D D.DCflMC! pills war a wonderful dlaeorarT. No others rMiovafO Theas ill manner of dleeaie. Tha Information around each box la worth ten time the Mat or a box or ni.is. nnd out Jvii then aed tou will Jwts U't. 9o'.l everywhere. oraentbyiaaiHbr20e.tn8tapa. Dr. I.B.JO .. ta.lujj U VOQSltI4ll " .. ' .. K 3 -.r :a obcoiutor r-.r? and hi c air eon- MAKE HENS LAI le.isrcled. Ozcoosce is worth a coundoi a or c:h?r kind. It U '.riotly a rordiems to do ;ien wiin iooa AND BUSINESS COLLEGE. "FxeraQ.ora.t 3jTe"b- This institution prepares youns; people thoroughly Tor TcicUinj:, lor uusiness Life, for Admission to College, for Law or Medical School, for PuMic Speaking, in Instrumental and Vocal Music, in Drawing and Painting, and in Elocution, Short-hand and Tvpe-writinsr. In the Normal Department, thorough instruction is given in all brunches re quired for any certificate from Third Grade to State Professional. The Business Course include Pen manship, Commercial Correspondence, Commercial LawandJ'ook-kceping, with the best methods of keeping Farm, Fac tory, Banking and Mercantile accounts. (Five premiums were awarded to this department at the recent State Fair.) Expenses are verv low. Tuition. Room Rent and Table Board are placed at cost, as nearly as possible. First Winter Term begins Nov. !, '$; Second Winter Term, Feb. 1, '$1. For particulars address President of Normal Collkok, Nov. C-tf Fremont Neb. FOR 25 CENTS. The Chicago Mail (DAILY EDITION) Will be sent to any address in the United States 1 month for 'i"c. KYear . . . 6 Month:- .$2..-i0 . 1.23 5 Months i Months $1.0) .S3 a All t News (Utrl sports. Remit in postage stamps, postal uotert. postal orders, or registered letters. THE CHICAGO MAIL, MAIL BUILDING, 118 5th-A v.. Chicago, 111. 2!nov6t LOUIS SCHBEIBER, II All kinds of Repairing done oh Short Notice. Buggies, Wag ons, etc., made to order, and all work Guar - anteed. Alao tell the world-famoui Walter A. Wood Xoweri, Reapen, Combin ed Machine", Harvester!, and 8elf-bindrs the best made. "Shop opposite the "Tattersall," on Olive St.. COLUMBUS. 2tf-m OEM THE NAMES Mi MMESSES O IF YMM FRIENDS IN TNE EAST To tb nnderslca1 a copy of tbe ft. ed. aad ha wiU mail them M. K. R. Pamphlet de scriptive of tha .... BROKEN BOW COUNTRY, toarelher with a Iars map of Nebraska. P. 8. EUSTIS, 6url.lfliIidiL4.LL0iHl,L, Sold everywhere, or aent by mail for 23 oeata la alaOBs. a 1-4 lb. alr-Ua-ht tin eana, SI t bjMDi au eana br axyreaa. proDatd. for SO.OQ. OB. CV. JOUHSOM CO.. BVBv2BuaBBa ' r - PHaJBHaLaBtfiaBsal raVaVaVaVaVSBl aVKVBraVaTLrBraVj UfafaPfgBWv! jfl aBTaE!r"BHBWBaBKBaBBB VaBKBbfcLBLLLaSsSlBfll PflaBaTaTBaTBBHaaTjBTeHBk'BTel FItEHONT NORMAL SCHOOL As tap Ww Paper Blacksmiti and Wason Maxer B O OlVr T"N"(t '!- -- V S -LvI 1 J VJ J W. T. RICKLY & BRO. V. holesale and Retail Dealers ia Fresh and Salt Meats GAME. POULTRY, ' Anc'Fresh Pish. All KiiffjSaiiogc a'Saerialty. . 13"Ca h paid for Hides, Pelts, Tallow. Higheht market price paid for fat cattle. Olive Street, aecond door north of Firat National Bank. 39-tt JACOB SCHKAM, -)DKALKK IN( DRY GOODS! Boots & Shoes, Hats & Caps, Fo;rac good: aud notiohs. LOW PRICKS FOR CASH. 34-tt svrV m m m -afr s-aT: TIH M 'H tH m "M jr Ken' ralfia. ItTiniiiaatlaai Slaadln at thi LmiM. Zatarrb. CboIaraMorbua. Draaatrr. Cbraola r. i. a. Jobnaoa m oo.. l MAKE NEW. KICK BLOOD. PILLS like them ia tha warld. will poattlTelT eura or be thankful. Oaa Dill a dose. Illustrated oaupblet HR8UHSCU aa K.a. St.. Boacoa. otaia on carta will max bane lay Ilka It. It eurea ehlohen eholera aad alldleeeeee of hena. & worth Ita weight in cold. Illuatrated k by aall tree. by nail, si.aav COLUMBUS Roller Mills! -o- WSUll BROS.. Proprietor.. MANUKACn.'RKK'i OK Flour, Feed, Bran, Shorts And Meal, AND DEALERS IN All Kinds Grain. OUR FLOUR BRANDS: "WAY UP," Patent, "IMPERIAL," "BIG 4," "SPREAD EAGLE." We guarantee our flour to be equal to any flour manufactured in the state. We call the attention of the public to the fart th.U we make a specialty or ex changing flour, bran and shorts for wheat. as tiood Hour and as much of it at any other mill in this part of the state also the exchange of corn meal for corn. We have put in special machinery for grinding rye flour and buckwheat flour. J3T Satisfaction guaranteed. Pleaae give us a call. 24-Fcb-'t;-y 3P.A.CXJS-TC Meat Market, C. E. MORSE, Proprietor. Keeps on hand bestquality of fresh and salt meat-.. Poultry, Vegetables, Ac. CASH PAID FOR HIDES. OHve St., one door north of post-office. 22Sept. tf nTHE WEEKLY STATE AND COLUMBUS JOURNAL Both papers, one vear STRICTLY IN ADVANCE, $2.75. Call at thin office and sec a specimen of the Weekly State Journal, printed at Lincoln, but containing news from every part of the state. This is a good op portunity to necureone of the very bet, general weekly newspapers in the west. All names sent by u to the Stale Journal prior to Jan. 1st '7, will be supplied from date of receipt to the end of 1&6, free. 24Nov CHOICE Ihip Apples JUST RECEIVED, -AT OEHLRICH BROS. lOnovW-tf RCBOYD, MAKOFACTCRKK Or Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Booflnr aid Garter ing a Specialty. iarShop on Olive Street, 2 doot north of tfrodfcuhrer's Jewslry Stow. JOURNAL