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I 3 ' 6 . O - ,' f Dec. 24 1886. Dkab Journal: "Your Uncle hu been sojourning in this vicinity for some wee Its, and, while lhave examined these premises rather carefully, I have not fully decided to purchase the outfit. There are quite a good many things in the general make-up of Omaha, that would pay to invest in, even now at advanced rates, while there are other commodities that w6uld bank rupt anyone.though obtained gralituously with a chromo or two thrown in. Yet ihis is a great city, great in probabilities ana much greater in possibilities, whose out.posts reach far out into the surround ing country. These points are so many promising annexes in the near or distant future. Already these outburgs are loom ing into Importance, furnishing Blow ing opportunities for the ambitious of limited means to become owners or homes and city 19 foreshadowing the future by the past. Extravagant hopes are en tertained, making toil and labor a pleas ure to them, and economy the rule of their daily expenditures. Within the populous limits of Omaha proper, the greater transactions take place. Here the heavy weight dealer rustles to hi heart's content. $75,000 to $100,000 i by no means an un usual sum paid for a little spot of dirt that 20 years ago or less, was a drug at $50 all told. You can readily see, Mr. Editor, where you and I and the other fellows got left. Stars alive! But things went rushing upwards here on Thanksgiving, when those fellows on the flats "augered'' up thos2 "joyf"1 indications." At least 500 dealers in these hills and flats and out lots hurried homeward and marked their goods 25 per cent, on the up grade scarce ly giving turkey and cranberry ti me to form an inside acquaintance. Some splendid buildings here. ThJ county and district courthouse is certai i ly immensely grand but 1 notice that the emblem of justice pointing heavenward dont exactly ballance as it used to did. somehow. Can't tell for the life of me what the matter is, but she gives light weight on one side to a certainty. May be it's 'cause Mrs. Parsons is at this m ) ment speaking to an admiring audience at the Exposition building on that sub ject. Going to be lots ol improvement here in the near future. Quite a number of five, six, and seven, utory buildings in course of construction at the present time. Eastern capitalists are flockhm this way, buying whole blocks of solid soil, on which six, and seven story edi fices will be erected in the spring, among which the New York Life Insuran i Company will plant themselves, expen 1 ing $250,000 to shelter themselves Iro the mild zephyrs of Nebraska. Ae o packing houses; don't tell the capaci.y of those already built amount to at least 10,000 a day, and yet Armour is coming with another plant costing at least $12i, 000.' So you see there is hope lor the de spondent, and great promises for the fu ture, to us fellows who have been kept back for the last three years or so. She booms, this bigger sister of all Nebraska cities, and why not let h enjoy it. May be the sound of her great ncss will reach those slumbering towne and villages of the state, that have imag ined they were finished ten or fifteen years ago.and start them alrcsh with new life and vigor. 80,000 people most generally every night in Omaha, and 180 saloons furnish the wherewith to quiet their troubles, oi keep up their spirits, as their cases d -mand. Quite frequently you meet a poi -tlon of the population who have been d ing their utmost to consume the visib supply. By their zig-zag locomotion aud general appearance, you will readily con clude that they are at any rate ardent workers. These walls and roofs enclose and cover a multitude of criminals and prostitutes, gamblers, thieves and cutthroats, who are ever on the alert to seduce and cap ture the unwary. Eyes, ears and a vaii amount of moral courage must be kept in lively exercise, to steer Btraight an keep clear of these entanglements, l.i deed the strangers to the devious wa of these wicked seducers must, as it were, be clad with iron and plated wir.t steel, in order to safely mingle with tbU heterogeneous mass of hnmanity. 27 churches are fighting these elements ol unrighteousness, and are doing their utmost to make virtue honorable and vice detestable. Yet withal, there are thousands of earnest christians here who joyfully rally around the cross, and are ever found working shoulder to shoulder with their pastors. Not much Sunday hereabouts; many of the stores and places of business are open and running seven dayB of the week. In this regard your Columbus and the country towns in the state may feel justly proud of a far greater and much healthier moral atmosphere. Your Uncle took in Sam Jones when he was here, and I must say that a great prophet has indeed risen ir. tnese latter days, and would class him as one of the wonders of the age. As tc tne good he did, Heaven only knows aim two-third of this population don't mucn care. In my sojourn, 1 took in the post-oflic-and the federal court, presided over by his Honor, Judge Dundy, who by Ion,; years of honest work,and courteous bear ing, has the respect and confidence of lawyers, clients and people of all partie and creeds. I was fortunate in maki ng the acquaint ance of most of the jurors in attendance this term, and as far as I am able to judge the selection was hrst-class. Madison county was represented by W. H. Harris, Esq., who at the commencement of the term I am told did efficient work. To wards the close, other interests attract ed his attention and being a liberal hearted gentleman, I imagine he found it . difficult to subsist on the meager inoome of a federal court juror, and so 1 sup pose deemed it wise and practical to withdraw from the service. Mr. Harris is a man of more than ordinary ability, a good talker, but rather too confiding " when mingling with strangers. He most assuredly has the good wishes of his late comrades. As to politics you will know that the "Paxton" iB the grand center of that .commodity just now. Paddock, Howe, Morton, Van Wyck, His Excellency.Gov. Thayer, North, Judge Bowman and in deed many more of the pants have regis tered. Jtis about time the Col., Him self, and Gerrard, his Honor, the Judge .of your district, including your broad houldered Highness, should put in an appearance. Doubtless this will be a free-for-all race, and why not? About time to shut off steam, but rest assured ahould 1 ever visit Columbus you may expect a call from your Uscl John. " "Uncle John's" reference to certain senatorial aspirants is altogether "in his Bind-" Joking is one of Uncle John's privileged amusements, however. n. Journal. - - - Senator Biggins called on us yesterday.,. The Senator was feeling as badly about the defeat of Van Wyck aa we were, and has the coneo latioBOfkiowiagtbat he did all in kia power to preyeat it, and only go ing iato cancna when the fnll Van Wyck element aade the break. Ittxtsfonbtnu. In this department the pet pie talk, and not the editor. Each writer must hold himself ready to defend his principles and his statements of facts. "In the mul titude of counsel there is wisdom." Ed. Jouunal.1 Kcr the Journal. Byroa Milieu the Sltaatlea. When the mad boy of Macedon c ossed the Granicus, he turned civ il zation westward, whence its inarch ever since. Thereafter Borne, the mistress city of the world, attained the acme of her glory and renown Begotten in mystery, nursed by the ferocity of the wolf, led by the intel lect of man, 6he baa juotly been term ed the "Eternal City," from which there baB gone forth blandishments that have dazzled the civilized earth and have scarcely been equaled oiuce. In her palmiest days eighty-five per cent, of her citizens owned land, and when she reached the great fold, where her citizens wero to die, two houBand people owned the civilized arth : the masses were poor, degrad ed, and debauched. However the influence of her jurisprudence and literature overspread Europe, bistorj as repeated itself, great nations have followed in her footslepB, hav made the earth tremble beueath the goings of their feet, accomplished grand results in mechanics, scieuc learning and art. Atnon those na tions, from the palaces of kings and potentates down to the huts of peas ants there lurks a spirit of unrest and discontent. Those rulers are obliged to keep standing armies ot four raill ou soldier, who consume eight) ;.ercent. of the revenues that coraep :om the producing classes. Whfit means all this disquietude? The peo ple are huugry. They ask for brea and are given a stone. The gov-T'i-ing class live in idleness and luxury, while the ineaus starve. The Ian owners are gradually becoming lew er. The people give their labor in crease without just compensation aud are disheartened. The cloud ove head are threatening and prophetic Crossing the water to the Empire o the betting Sun, we find iu this fai land," the same element at wor threatening the very existence of ou institutions. Yes, we have the best soveriiineut on which the sun eve thone, but there are grave questio s to be met. Here in enlightened America, must be settled the great problems ol civilization. The indus trial question, which is now engaging our attention, h a moe gravo o thau chatic: slavery, because it i more natural in its operations. 1 order to attain the ends desired w eed htateicn, wise aud pure, se lected by the ballots of men, who t.avo the good of their country at i cart. Wc hear much about the dirty pool of politics. Men who make pretentions to learning and re--pectabiiity are frequentij saying that they will not go near the dirty ool ; that it is no place for decent men, and that it would contaminat woman, if 3l" bad the right o. suffrage. The basi9 of our republic is the ballot, and when men who an rxpected to exercise the trust for heir common good, say that they will keep away from the pool, snl do actually abandon the machinery of government to the vicious classes, they virtuai;y admit that our system is a tailurc. If they see crimes com mitted at the ballot box by the ee ection of improper persons fot official preferment or othorwisc, that they could prevent, if they won! , are they not parties to the crimp? Btbok Millktt. Last Saturday night, January 22, a few minutes before midnight, Charles Henderson passed from this life, aged 31 years. He was born in Marion, Marion county, Ohio, on the 10th day of July, 1855. He had been a victim to the fearful ravages of con sumption accompanied by hemor rhages of the lungs for a few years past and during the greater part of the time has been quite low. Going from oue place to another for a change of air, only tended to ward II for a time the inevitable recti . Only during the summer past bad journeyed overland to the mountains ;nd for a time was much benefited, but the good results were not lasting and he returned home quite weak. He had been making his home at th residence of Mr. C. E. Sumuer and at that place he passed quietly away. The funeral services were held at the 1'Oufo on Monday afternoon at 2:30 "clock. He was buried in the -'chuylcr cemetery at 3 The heart felt sympathies ot the community it- xtended to the relatives aud frien U of the deceased. Quill. Ufa; Nea. These cold dark winter days afford n opportunity to revive again the familiar lamentation over the deca dence of the United States Senate. It is not so great an institution as it U6ed to be. Clay, Calhoun, Web ster, Benton and Wright are there no longer, alas! The intellectual L-iants have gone out, and small men have come in, and so on. We have beard this lamentation ever since Col. Benton died. When Seward, Sumner, Douglas, and Chae were Senators, it was proclaimed as londly as now. It will doubtless be heard again thirty years hence, when the world will be told tearfully of the bygone times whea Edmund, Sherman, Thurman, George Gray, Beck, Payno, Ingalls, Hawley, Van Wyck and Sawyer were living great men and great Senators. It is the same old story all the time. Nothing is quite so fine, or so big, or so sweet, as it was when we were yonrg; and nothing ever will be. 2f. T. Sun. A IVew !. It is said a Maine man has invented a new electric light, which he is con fident will revolutionize electric lighting, all over the world. He has beta fostering bis electric scheme and burning midnight oil, for over a year. The light is now perfectad and patents in America, England, Ger many, France aad Btusia hare been applied for. This invention is creat ing quite a stir where it is under stood. The new light was tested not long since, and it is said, its superior ity ever the ordinary arc system was apparent to many who were eye witnesses to the experiment. The light is produced by a spiral carbon, entirely different from anything heretofore used by electricians. It ie claimed that this new electric light will produce a brighter light than has yet been found. Synopsis r the Fiweectfiaz ot ike Hoard of SaperviaorB. Wednesday. January 19. 1837. Board convened at 1 o'clock p. m.. with Chairman Hudson presiding and John Staufler clerk. Members all present but Suprs. Hess and Henry. Minutes of previous meeting were read and approved. Communicatfon of one C. F. Merril of Fre mont, Xebn, in regard to obtaining a liquor license for Lindsay, in this county, was on mo tion of Supr. Truman referred back to writer. Bids were now open for county physician for the-ensuingyear. On motion of Supr. Olson of Creston tbo bids were referred to commltte on claims. The bids for publishing legal notices and proceedings of the board of supervisors were now opened and read as follows: Gentlemen: We hereby offer to publish the proceedings of the board, the delinquent tax list, treasurer's statement, estimate of ex penses, road notices, election notices, and all other legal notices of Platte county, Nebraska, required by law to be published. In the Colum bus Journal and the Columbus Democrat at the rates prescribed by law, for the publication in one newspaper, each one of us to be paid one-half said rates. This to continue in force during the year 1887. M. K. Turner & Co., Pub. Journal, D. Frank Davis, Pub. Democrat. The Platte Center Argus herewith respect fully offers to publish the proceedings of your Honorable Body for the year 1887 for nothing, and all other legal notices. Including the delin quent tax list, etc., for one-fourth of the rates prescribed by law for the same period. Respect tuliy, Warwick Saunders, Publisher Platte Center Argus. On motion tbe contract was awarded to Columbus Journal and Columbus Democrat Jointly. Contract prepared by county attorney, be tween D. Frank Davis and the county, for the furnishing of supplies for the year 187, was presented, read and accepted and chairman or board ordered to sign the same. On motion the amount of the bond for the fulfillment of the above contract was placed at 1,500. The following official bonds were presented and approved: D. L. Conard, town clerk for Woodvllle Twp G.W. Shaffer, justice of the peace Lost Creek " L. C. Ulry. constable, - Granville " John Bryan, " Monroe " J. L. Brown, assessor, Creston " Henry Marek.o'crs'r road dist 38 Granville " HansChristensen " " 51 Walker " MuxGottberg " ' 23 Shell Creek" The commute appointed to settle with the county treasurer presented then-report, which was read and accepted and com. tliscliarged. Matter of division of Lost Creek township was now taken up, petition for the same having lecn heretofore read. A remonstrance against the division was now presented and read. On motion the whole matter was referred to committee on roads and bridges. On motion Board adjourned until Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Thursday, A. M., January 20, 1887. Hoard convened at 10 o'clock a. m, Chairman Hudson presiding and John Stauffer clerk. Boll called and all members present bu Suprs. Hess and Henry. On motion reading of the minutes was de ferred. On motion the petition of Ellas Hughes aud others fur a public road in sec. 15, town 11. Range 3, west was granted as a consent road, tree right of way having been granted, and the petition of Henry McCabe and others for a public road running diagonally acrass a portion of said section was rejected. On motion board adjourned until 1 o'clock p.m. Thursday P. M Jan., 20th 1S87. Board called to order at 1 o'clock P. M. by Chairman Hudson. John Stauffer, clerk. Roll called and all members present but Su iiervlsora Hess and Henrv. Bond of D. Frank Davis for furnishing sup plies to county presented and approved. The following report was presented and read: The committee on the petition for a division of Lost Creek township, report that they have examined carefully the petition and remonst rance submitted to them, and And that 71 citi zens have asked for a division, .while 130 have remonstrated against it. The committee there fore suggest that it is inexpedient to take any action at this time. Geo. 8. Truman, chairman. J as. Burrows, J.A. Maag, N. Olson. Motion by Supervisor Waggoner, that report of committee be adopted. Amendment by Supervisor Clark, that pe tition praying for division be granted. Amendment by Supervisor Truman, that prayer of remonstrators be granted. Roll called for vote on Truman's amendment, to amendment of Clark. Burrows, Moag, Ma tter, Olson of Creston, Pinson, Truman and Waggoner voting Yes 7. Braun, Campbell of Loup. Campbell of Humphrey, Clark, Mils Iagle, Newman, Olson of Walker, Rolf and Swartsley voting No 9. Declared lost. Roll now called for vote on Clark's amend ment to Waggoner's motion; Braun, Campbell of Loup, Campbell of Humphrey, Clark, Mils lagle, Olson of Walker, Rolf, Swartsley andMr. chairman, voting Yes 9. Burrows, Maag. Maher, Newman. Olson of Creston, Pinson.Tru man and Waggoner, voting No 8. Roll called for vote on Waggoner's motion as amended Braun, Campbell of Loup, Camp bell of Humphrey, Clark, Mllslagle, Olson of Walker. Rolf, Swartsley and Mr. chairman, voting Yes 9. Burrows, Maag, Maher, New man, Olson of Creston, Pinson, Truman and Waggoner voting No 8. Motion aa amended declared carried. The committee appointed to prepare an esti mate of expenses for ensuing year presented their report, which upon motion was adopted. On motion board adjourned until Friday morning at 9 o'clock. Friday, A. M., Jan. 2ist, 1887. Board met at 9 o'clock with Chairman Hud son presiding, John Stauffer, clerk. Roll called and members all present but Supervisor Hess. Upon motion ot Supervisor Newman, further action upon the division of Lost Creek town ship was deterred until the next regular meet ing of the board and county attorney instruct ed to present plan for legal division, and man ner of providing for the officers thereof. The board now proceeded to select sixty names from which the grand and petit jurors for April term of district court shall be drawn. The following report was presented and read: To the board of supervisors: Your committee on finance, to whem were referred the fee books of clerk, sheriff and : treasurer,? Mud them correct and recommend that the same be approved. Wm. J. Newman, J. H. Milslagle, V. B. Campbell, A.G. Kolt Ou motion the report of the committee was adopted. On motion board now adjourned until 2 o'clock P.M. Friday, P.M. January 21t, 1887. Board called to order at 2 o'clock P.M. by Chairman Hudson, John Stauffer, clerk. Roll of members called and all present but Supervisor Hess. Ceunty Physician Evans read his report for the last year. On motion same was accepted and ordered placed on file. Petition presented and read from several tax-payers requesting the board to repair the bridge over the Loup river and make same passable. On motion the petition was ordered placed on file. On motion tbe county treasurer was instruct ed to proceed at once to collect tbe dellquent personal taxes for tbe year 1884 and 18B3, The following bills were allowed ou the transferred general fumLand clerk Instructed to issue warrants for same: Jacob Tschudin, services as supervisor S 13 W John Burke, " " u 8 74 P.F.Doody, " " " 0 5j John C. Swartsley, " " " 6 60 D.L.Bruen, 13 5 Math. Diedcricli, col. del . personal tax ' L. Staab, " . " " .... 11 0 D.ILCarrig, asst.arrest Smith insane pers. 2 00 Wm. Burrows," " " " "200 H.H. Home. " M " 200 Vt. Mar-8 Hesp. care of paupers, Dec. '86 H15 I. Gluck, rent for county Judge's office.. :V)a Geo. D. Willis, plans C. H. addition 50 0) Omaha Republican C. blanks for county 1' Gazette Journal Co. " " ' loo The following labor tax receipts were allow ed and treasurer ordered to honor, same as warrants: Wm. Wright, labor lax for 1833 $ FatDucev. " ' " 18i5 3 00 The following bills were allowed ou created road fund aud clerk instructed to issue war rants for same: H. Ludtke, appraiser "duck road" .. 5 -' 2 L. Staab. 2J NlckAdamy. " " " 2 2' J. H. Diinuin. " "Gottschalk nmd" 2 40 The following bill was allowed ou county bridge fuud of 1885 and clerk instructed to issue same: Thomas Otti's for on aeonnt Creston tn. S 10 11 On motion board adjourned until Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. Saturday A.M.. January 22, 1!7. Board met at 9 o'clock A. M. with Chairman Hudson presiding and John Stauffer, clerk. Roll of members called and all present but Supervisors Burrows and Hess. The following bills were allowed on the trans ferred general fund and the clerk instructed to issue warrants for same: Gus. G. Berber, del. safe to county at torney's office -5 2 0 L. B. Schonlau, publishing Suprs. pro ceedings - -..- 7 50 Omaha Republican t o., for mort. record It M .4 h k. 4. rg book 8 GO I). C. Knvanniigh, sheriff, jailors feesetc 103 90 Geo. X. Hopkins, J. P. costs State v.Xie- mcller et.als rS." Geo. W. Harmon, constable, costs State vs. Xiemoller et. als 853 C. D. Evans, county physician l.vi 00 John Morris Company, milse tor county- 2fi 50 Anson Bros., meals for jurors u 25 John Stauffer, quar. salary to Dec. :1. 'stl 100 00 Samuel Gass, repairing desk etc., clerk district court ottice - 8 50 E. D. Fit7patriek, mdse for county - x 5 Jacob Weidner, Jr., services as Snpr In $0 A. D. Hinnian. services as Supr balance. 19 Oa John P. Weidner, assessor, attendance Sup'rs meeting 550 Jaeggi & Seliupbach, imlse for Nellie Baslaski -. 4 10 P. E. Grip. e-il. delinquent tax 20 00 J. .1. Sullivan, services as county at torney 70 Ot W. H, Ted row, Supt., salary and postage for Dec. 86 01 00 .fames Kiernan, services as Supr li 7) Win. .1. Newman, do l'CO John Kuden, mrvey of sundry roads ' o 6 Frank Preiss. assistant to county sur veyor 22 00 Wm." Petch. do 1 00 Peter Stretter. do 2 no Chris Lindaner. do 200 E. M. Couch, do 2 ful Charles Chapin, do 2 00 MaxGottberg, do 2 Wm. Seaman, do 2 00 Wm. J. Maher 2 o.) The following bills were allowed ou trans ferred ro:td fund and clerk instructed to issue warrants for same: John Eusden, county surveyor, locutinir Gerrard road - S It 00 John Eusden, comity surveyor, locating Maag road 10 75 John Eusden, county surveyor, judg ment vs. Platte county 81 21 John Stauller, transcript, Kusden s. Platte county 2 25 G. 15. Speiee, clerk district court, costs Eusden vs. Platte county is S5 The following bill was allowed on county bridge fund levy for 1885, and clerk instructed to issue warrant for same: Thomas Ottis, account Granville twp $ln0 51 The iollowing labor tax reeoipts allowed and treasurer instructed to receive them same a warrants, viz: James Burrows, load lax for I8J ::. D. Zimmerman, labor tax for lsv3 ::oo The bids iir county physician, to paupers in hospital exclusively for ensuing year were now opened and read, and ou motion of Supr. Tru man, the bid of Dr. J. Charles Willy for .sl.-o.oo for services. S8J.00 for medicines, and extra allowance for assistant for surgical operations when same are necessary, was accepted for the year 1S87, and the county attorney was in structed to draw contract covering the a bote provisions, and present same to the board. On motion of Supr. Olson of Creston, tbe county treasurer was instructed to procure R. R. transportation for paupers, uon the ap plication of auy member of the board for his township. On motion the board adjourned until Tues day, March 1"., 1SS7, at 1 o'clock p. in. CAUGHT BY A BIG CLAM. A. Thrilling Story Told by a N'.ivy Lieuten ant Dangerou Situation. The following swimming story is told by a lieutenant in the navy: "I kept my eyea fixed ou my companion, Brown, who was acting iu a singular manner. After every few seconds his head would disappear beneath the water in which he stood, then it would appear again. He seemed to be struggling violently. As I approached turn he threw up his hands aud cried out, in accents that haunt me still, 'For heav en's sake. Lieutenant, quick, and help me!' I dashed out to him through water up to my waist 'What is it? What has bold of you?' I exclaimed. 'It's a big oyster or a big clam,' be groaned. i was wading here and stepped into it, I expect It's shell closed, gripped my ankle, and, to save my life, I can't move; and the tide will soon be over our heads here,' be added, and with something almost like a sob. He bad been struggling here for 15 or 20 minutes. I had beard of the tridac nagigas, or monster clam, of this coast, ana instantly realized tbe danger of his situation. "Courage, old fellow," I said, "I'll stick by you. Here, hold this paddle and the hatchet" I then ducked down under the water and with my hands felt about his foot The huge molluslc had what might be termed a death grip on him. The crea ture's shell was several feet long and of proportionate breadth, and the weight of the shell-lish must have been at least 300 pounds. The creature was attached to the coral rock by a grisly bysus as thick as my arm. Raising myself, I got breath, then, seizing the paddle, thrust the shaft of it between the converging edges of the two valves of the shell, and, using it as a lever, attempted to pry tbe shell apart But I could not open it Brown, too, ducking down, seized hold with his hauds and pulled with all bis strength, but exerting all our power, we could not release the monster's bold. Again and again I threw mv whole weight on the shaft of the paddle, and at length broke it By this time the water was up to my shoulders when I stood up. iully realizing that what ever I did must be done in a few min utes more, else the poor fellow would drown, I snatched the hatchet from Brown's hand, and, diving, tried to cut under the shell, to break the creature's anchorage on the rock. With might and main I cut and hacked then rose an instant for breath then down and at it again. But it seemed as though I could not cut through the tough muscle. Four times I dived, and with frantic haste cut at those tough byssi. "It stirs!" at length Brown cried, bracing his weight upon his free foot and lifting at it Then, with a iinal blow, the bys sus was severed, and the buoyancy of the water aiding us, we dragged the great mollusk still fast to Brown's ankle back to higher ground on the reel Here the water was waist deep, however, and I looked anxiously around for Mac, in the lakatoi. To my inex pressible joy he was close at haud, and between us we lifted Brown, with his now captured captor, into the canoe. Even then we could not both of us to getherpry the valves of the shell apart enough to release Brown's foot, until with a knife we had reached in and completely divided the tridacn a saw ing asunder the hinge muscles at tbe base of tbe bivalve. It was truly a gi gantic clam, and as a poetic retribution upon it for the attempt on the life of one of our party, we ate a portion of its flesh for our supper, but found it rather tough. Brown's ankle was severely braised and wrenched, and he suffered for many a day from tbe vice-like grip of tt hup moUuzk.The Argonaut. REMOTE POSSIBILITIES. rho Fatare of the English-Speaking- Fee pie. The Anglo-Saxon race to-day, widely separated as are its various divisions, numbers not less than 94.000,000 souls. According to the "Statesman's Year Book" it numbered, at the beginning of the present century, only some 20,000. 000 in Euglaud and America. Its in crease has been at the rate of 21 per cent each decade. If the same rate con tinues unchecked and there appears to be no reason why it should not there will be, 100 years from now. 600.000, 000 people of the Anglo-Saxon blood, equal to about half I lie present popula tion of the globe; and 200 years from now there will be the enormous number of 4,000.000.000 more than thrice the present population of the globe. True, the people represented by the above figures are not all of Anglo-Saxon race, for European immigrants of every nationality to the United States and the British colonies are included; but the negroes of the States and the native races in the colonies are excluded. Im migrants of every nationality adopt the English language in the next genera tion. It would accordingly be more ac curate to say that these figures represent English-speaking people of European blood. The question of how room is to be found for the startling number of English-speaking people is an interesting one. But an examination of facts will show that there is no cause for dismay on this subject for a long time to come. The Australian colouios, with an area of 3,000,000 square miles, have a popu lation little exceeding one person to the square mile. The United Slates has less than twenty persons to the square mile. The Cape Colony, with an area of about 200,000 square miles, has a white population of little more than one to the square mile. When it is remembered that tbe population of England gives 445 and of Belgium 486 persons to the square mile, it will be sceu that there is considerable room for expansion. Large tracts of America and Australia are as fertile as England or Belgium, and at the moderate proportion of pop ulation to area of France 184 to the square mile or of Germany 216 to the square mile the Australian colonies could maintain from 400.000.000 to 600.000.000 people. Besides the United Stales aud the British colonies there are vast cxpatises of tetritory, notably in South America, eminently suited to sup ply the wants of people of the European race. At the present time, there is probably no language in the world except Chin ese swokeu by a larger number of peo ple than the English language. The people of the Indian Empire are of many races aud speak many different tongues; and it is doubtful whether 94, 000,000 of them speak anv of these as their native language. Probably with in the lifetime of persous now living English will be spoken by a larger num ber of people than even Chinese. New Orleans Times-Democrat. IT ICEQUIKHD PLUCK. The Way in Which Kd Schlerelin Discov ered the Tombstone Mines. Mr. Ed Schicfolin, of 133 Angeles, Cal., passed through Deuver a few days ago on his way to the cast. Mr. Sehiufeliu is a barnacle of the most orthodox type. He is an old Rocky Mountain prospector, and was the discoverer of the famous Tombstone Mines of Arizona in 1877. He has a marked personality, and would be no ticed anywhere. He is tall and well proportioned. He wears his dark brown hair long, and the bushy waves hang well on to his shoulders. He sports the regulation broad-brimmed hat of the miner and cowboy. In other respects he dresses neatly and in the most approved style. Mr. Schiefclin, luxuriously ensconced in the padded softness of a Pullman coach on the Kansas Pacific train, was very willing to relate some of tbe rough and comfortless experiences of his wild life as a prospector before he "struck it rich." "I followed the life for a great many years," he said, drawing a stylish glove from" one of his horny hands, "and didn't strike anything. The trouble was that I always followed the crowd, and by the time I got there the good places would bo taken up. Finally I struck out for myself down into Ari zona. I spent all the summer of '76 in the Tombstone district There were no white men within many miles, the near est railroad point being thirty miles away. "There were plenty of Indians, though. Old Cochise and his band were right around me. The place which used to be the old chief's stronghold is in plain view of the present Town of Tombstone. It was dangerous, of course, but not so much so if I had not been alone. All around in that vicini ty parties of white men were killed that summer, but. being alone, I somehow escaped. I never built a fire all that summer, but traveled around from place to place, making a dry camp each night. "I went out that autumn, and during the winter old Cochise died and his band broke up. In the spring my brother and myself with a partner went back to the place and each struck a good mine. We worked them for awhile at a good prolit and then sold them out After that I retired from the business, and have settled down to en joy the rest of my life. "It's a hard, rough life, and it took me a long time to get there, but I did finally. Perseverance will generally win," said the old fellow dreamily. The bell rang, tho "all aboard" was sounded, and as the taain rolled off the old frontiersman settled down into the soft velvet cushions, pulled bis long locks and his sombrero over bis face, spread out the tails of his handsome frock coat and fell into a dreamy rcvery of remembrance of the old day of hardship on the plains of Arizona. Denver Tribune. m i m First Appearance of Rats. It is but littio over a centurv acn 1775 that the first brown rat (the or dinary house rat) made his appearance iu America. He went as a stowaway on shipboard, either from India or Per sia, or possibly from some Mediterran ean port. Rats were unknown in Eu rope until the middle of the eighteenth century, in every iowu, village, ana hamlet in the United States, now, the rat is almost as well known as the dog or the cat, and the rodent population must be far larger than either of the others. So rapid is the increase of the species that a single pair, if unmolested for a year, will nave an offspring of hundreds in that time. In dwellings and city sewers the house rat is the ruler, and his black brother is driven to the wall. In the fields, and along the marshes bordering the sea coast the musk rat and the cotton rat hold sway. Rats of many species are now to be found wherever human habitation ex ists. It is easier to render a building fire-proof than rat-proof. m A citizen of Albany recently received a letter from his brother-in-law telling of an arrival in his family in this way: "I will answer your last question first Julia is doing splendidly to-day. She was somewhat used up yesterday, and last night especially, in .attending and participating in the birthday exercises of our oldest daughter, a lovely girl whom I think yon bave never met" Pendleton County, West Virginia, has been afflicted by Mormon miation tri lor about a year put (i fokcf. Davis, a j oung man living near Nunaba City, Neb., suicided by hanging himself in a corn crib. Tbe caase for the act is said to be re morse for the death of bis brother. George Hearst has been eleeted United States Senator from Califor nia. jid Ycsalta ! Every Cmae D. A. Bradford, whole-ale paper dealer at Chattanooga, Tenn , write that he was seriously afflicted with a severe rold that fettled on his Inuits; had tried many remedies without benefit. Being induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, did so and was en tirely cared by the use of a few bot tles. Since which time he has u9ed it in his family for all Coughs and Colds with beet results. This io the experieoce of thousands whose live? have been saved by this Wonderful Discovery. Trial bottles free at Dnwty & Heilkempcr's drug store. Henry Smith, Deputy United Sate Marshall John Phillipe, aud two truards, namos uukuown, were murdered in tbsir camp at Eu aula, Indian territory, the other night No particulars given. The Marshall and party were in the Territory serving writs and arresting violators of the United States laws. "Said Aaron to Moses Let's cut off our nose?." Aaron must have been a sufferer from catarrh. The despe ation which catarrh produces is often sufficient to make people say and do many rash things and many continue HuffVriisg jnat a9 if no such cure an Dt. Suu'eV Catarrh Remedy existed. It cure every cae frr.m tbe simples' to the most complicated, aud all the consequence of catarrh. A person once cured by Dr. Sage's Citarrh Remedy will not be apt to take cold again, & it leaves the mucous mem brane healthy aud strong. By drug gists. Gkand Island citizens are making an effort to secure tbe construction of a etiee railway. Iu a vote asking for a grant of the franchise, ouly fiiteen were cast against tbe meas ure. D. W Morris, wh-jlosale and retail druggist, 139 Commercial St., Em poria, Kan., Jan 10, 1887. To Cham beklais & Co., Des Moines, Iowa: Gentlemen In sending to you the enclosed order for a gross of you Cough Remedy, allow me to say that without any exception it is tbe best selling goods now in the market. I have sold a great amount ot it during the past year to the citizens of this place, and have the first complaint to hear. It is the best article to use for croup I ever sold, being pleasant to take, which is an important fea ture where children have to take medicine. Sold by Dowty & Heit kempcr. The Cornwall, Ont, bih waters last week bad fallen threo feet and were still receding, and all danger from another flood is now passed for the present. The PepalntioH efColambaN Is about 0,000, and we would say at lcat one half are troubled with tome affection ot the Throat and Lungs, as thoe com plaints are, according to statistics, more numerous than others. We would ad vise ail not to neglect the opportunity to call on us and get a bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial size free. Res pectfully, Dr. A. Ileintz. A new Board of Trade has been chosen and organized at Grand Island. Itch, Prairie Mange, and Scratches of every kiud cured in 30 minutes by Wool ford '8 Sanitary Lotion. Use no other. This never fails. Sold by O. B. Stillman, druggist Columbus. Nelson Ong, a brakeman on a train, was badly bnrt the other after noon at Ohiowa, Neb. He Blipped while making a coupling, two cars passed over both legs and oue arm He will lose one lev. Aa Ead Beae NcrapiBfr,. Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg, 111., says : "Having received so much benefit from Electric Bitters, I feel it my duty to let suffering humanity know it. Have had a running sore on my leg for eight years ; my doc tors told me I woold bave to bave tbe bone scraped or leg amputated. I used, instead, three bottles of Electric Hitters and seven boxes Bucklen'a Arnica Salve, and my leg is now sound and ?ell." E'ectric Bitters are sold at fifty cents a bottle, and Uticklen's Arnica Salve at 25c. oer box bv Dowty & Heitkeroper's. C. N. Davis has been elected U. S. Senator to succeed McMillan, by the legislature of Minnesota. 1 ( Kaw What Ails Me," says many a sufferer. "I have the 'blues' frightfully; I am troubled with headache and dizziness ; I bave lost my appetite ; there is a bad taste in my mouth constantly. What is tbe matter with me?" We will tell yon; you are "billions." Get a bottle of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medi cal Discovery," use it faithfully, and yon will fooii be a new man sgain. All druggists have it. U S. Senator Cockerell has befu re elfcti-d trom Missouri. A CSreat wrwrle Is iu store tor all Who use Kemp's Bal sam for tbe Throat and Lungs, tbe great guaranteed remedy. Would you believe that it is sold on its merits and that each drusrgist is authorized to refund your money by the Proprietor of this wonderful remedy if it fails to cure you. Dr. A. ileintz has secured the Agency for it. Price 50c and SI. Trfof size Jree. M. S. Quay bu been elected U. S Senator from PeaiiylTaaia. the CHICAGO SEGIiT III OF THE Clap, Mil anfl im Railway. THE BEST ROUTE From OMAHA and COUNCIL BLUFFS TO THE BAST. Xvo Ttilti Stil? tetvus Oniii, Cowcil S!sfis, Chicago, -and- Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Dubuque, Davenport, Rock Island, Freeport, Rockford, Elgin, Madison, Janesvilte, Beloit, Winona, La Crosse. And all other Important Points East, Northeast and Southeast. Fcr tbrouirh tickets call on the Ticket Agent at Columbus, Nebraska. Pullman Slkkpeks and the Ki.nest Dining C'aks in the World are run on the main lines or tbe Chicago. .1111 waakee 6c Hu Panl Ky, and every aitentiou is paid to passenger by cour teous employe of the Company. R. Miller. A. V. 11. Cnrpeater. General 31an ijer. Gen'l Pass. Ag't. J. F. Tacker, dee. II. Ueaaard, Asi't Gea'l -Man. Ass't Pass. Ag't. J. T. Clark, Gen'l Sup't. 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