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WEDSESDAY. MAY 18. 1887.
Coming Events.
Omaha Fair, Sept- 510.
Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, Sept.
9-1G.
James G. Blaise will sail for Europe
June 8th.
Gov. Beavek of Pennsylvania has
signed the high liquor license bill.
Ciias. J. Faukxer of Martinsburg,
W. Va., has been elected United States
senator.
Justice Woods, of the Supremo court,
at Washington City, is reported in very
bad health.
The earthquakes in Arizona are said to
have left many fissures in the earth, that
still remain open.
It is reported that the position of oil
inspector will be tendered John Wesley
Tucker of Valentine.
Citizens are moving slowly to bring
about the construction of a railroad
bridge across the Missouri at Sioux
City.
It is reported that Hungary has been
visited by a hot sirocco, destroying veg
etation, burning many houses, besides
some lives lost.
Pbesidest Cleveland has appointed
James W. Hyatt, of Connecticut, to be
treasurer of the United States, to suc
ceed Conrad N. Jordon, resigned.
Wm. Hutchins, of Hnntsville, Ala.,
quarrelled with two younger brothers
the other day and shot them, killing one
and seriously -wounding the other.
Snc prisoners escaped from the county
jail at Columbus, Ohio, by sawing off
the bars of the window. They were all
under indictment, but had not been
tried.
President Cleveland has appointed
Byron L. Smith of Chicago to lie com
missioner to examine portions of the
Northern Pacific railroad in place of J.
W. Doane, declined.
Lower the rates for railroad fare to
what the traffic will liear. The people
are beginning to think of applying rail
road maxims in the business of regulat
ing these corporations.
There was a slight Bhock of earth
quake at Charleston, S. C, on the night
of the 12th insL The vibration was not
greater than a loaded wagon would pro
duce passing along the street.
Two thousand engineers and artisans
of bottom Lancastershire have com
bined to strike at Loudon for an increase
of wages of two shillings. Ten thous
and workingmen are involved.
Five earthquake shocks occurred on
the 13th inst, at Nogales, A. T., in the
past twenty-four hours. The heaviest
was at 5:30 in the morning, which
caused all clocks in town to stop.
As order has been issued from the
War Department, by direction of the
President, dropping Second Lieutenant
John Shaw, Cth infantry, from the rolls
of the army for desertion, from May 9th.
A later report from Wheeling, W.Va.,
states that the husband of the murdered
wife and the father of the daughter
found killed at Holiday's Cove has been
arrested being suspected of the double
murder.
While a crowd of people were at
tending baptismal ceremonies at New
Orleans, the railing at the wharf gave
way and a lot of people were plunged
into the Mississippi river, eleven persons
were drowned.
While Fannie Murray, a young girl
aged fifteen, living near Stonewall, CoL,
was attempting to mount a broncho, the
saddle turned and her foot caught in the
stirrup and she was dragged to death by
the frightened beast.
Wm. Patrick, United States district
attorney during President Grant's ad
ministration and a prominent citizen of
St, Louis, died the other day of soften
ing of the brain, a complaint he had been
afflicted with for several years.
Two hundred employes at the fur
nace of the Brier Hill coal and coke
company, near Youngstown, O., struck
the other day because their demands for
a semi-monthly pay day were refused.
They are now paid once a month.
A few miles from McKeesport, Pa.,
Mrs. Cook and her two children were
burned to death on the 13th inst, and
the house totally destroyed. The
woman was using petroleum to kindle
the fire, when the accident occurred.
The unwelcome question of the Egaa
letter was discussed last week in the
British House of Commons. In answer
ing Healy's inquiry, the government de
nies receiving any letter of the kind.
This denial will probably settle the
matter.
Queen Kapiolasi visited the treasury
department while at Washington and was
escorted through the building by Sec
retary Fairchild. She was much pleased
with the life saving service and said she
desired to introduce the Bame system
into her own kingdom.
"FOPS of the McCoys have been in
.dioted at Portsmouth, Ohio, for murder
in the fin degree for the killing of Dr.
Northrop, at HyerbilL The shooting
m we have before poticed grew out of a
whiaky effing case in which Dr. North
znp appeared aa the prosecuting wini.
LIQUOR IN IOWA.
A New Phase of the Question.
At the Iowa state convention of the
druggists last week, a subject came up
which promises to lead to important re
sults. Iowa is a prohibition state, her
citizens having concluded to try that
plan of fighting the evils of the traffic.
They seem determined to give it a very
effectual trial, notwithstanding the many
obstacles that have been cast in their
way.
According to the laws there now, there
is no place where liquor can be legally
and openly sold except in tho drug
stores. It thus happens that while
a very large body of honorable druggists
are doing a legitimate business, there
are a great many who are not and who
have brought reproach upon the entire
fraternity by violating the law. To such
an extent has this gone that all manner
of thrusts are made at druggists, by
former saloon keepers, by theater peo
ple, by the newspapers and by people in
general, that the drug store has sup-
Dlanted the saloon, but that the business
of drinking liquor for the snpposed
pleasure of it still goes on, all the same.
The prohibitionist is represented as
nosing around the back door in search
of violations, while the old-time drinker,
sick with a sickness that only a caBe of
beer will elominate, gets angry it the
druggist will not fill his "prescription."
Imagination can picture the position of
the honest druggist who tries to do Ins
duty under the law.
Well, in the convention, a large part
of the druggists, led' by Norman Lichty,
of Des Moines, endeavored to havo the
association declare in favor of asking tho
next legislature to take the sale of
liquors entirely out of the hands of the
druggists of tho state. They were not
numerous enough for this, but thoy pur
pose keeping up the agitation until they
succeed.
Another young man ha6 met an un
timely death. At Omaha, last Sunday
night, at Mueller's Hall on the Bellevue
road, while a dance was going on, three
"roughs" were admitted to the hall, and
two of them being partially drunk, soon
got into trouble by jostling others on
the floor while dancing. This brought
them into controversy with Denis Quin
lan, who remonstrated with them and
showed a disposition to stand for his
rights. A few minutes after this, the
roughs in the meantime having left the
hall, a number of the men at the dance,
left to get a drink at Jones's saloon, a
short distance away. While going,
young Quinlan near the lead, was
shot, presumably by the "rough" who
had threatened to fix him. The names
of the three men were not known, but
the police were sure that they could be
apprehended. Quinlan, it is said, was
not under the influence of drink when
he was shot The wound was in the
corner of the left eye, the bullet pene
trating to and lodging in the brain. The
sad affair carries its own comment.
Later. Tuesday's Bee gives the con
fession of one Chas. Volmar that he fired
a shot, but in self-defense, he claims, the
other parties having attacked him. The
verdict of the coroner's jury recom
mended the holding for examination of
Volmar and one August Shell.
William O'Brien, editor of the United
Ireland, arrived safe at Montreal on the
llinsL, and was enthusiastically received
by a vaBt crowd of people. He explained
his coming to Montreal briefly to the im
mense throng of people by saying that
he came not to offer offence to the peo
ple or meddle with Canadian affairs, nor
to deal with the career of Lord Lans
downe, as Governor General, but as the
exterminator of five hundred human be
ings and that the Canadian people when
convinced will stretchout their hand and
save the lives and property of those five
hundred poor tenants of Luggacurren,
for both, said he, at this time are in your
hands and at your mercy.
Is the trial of John Haggarty, an
alleged Pan Handle robber, John W.
Latham of Bnrgesston, O., also a Pan
Handle brakeman and under bail, creat
ed a sensation by turning state's evi
dence on the witness stand. He testified
how, in company with Haggarty and
Fuller, they had made different raids on
merchandise in Pan Handle cars, de
scribing in full the manner of procedure
in securing plunder. The case went to
the jury without argument and a ver
dict of guilty returned in a few minutes.
Wright, another prisoner, pleaded guilty
of stealing trunks containing goods val
ued at $500. It is understood now that
a number of other prisoners will plead
guilty.
Col. Jones Hamilton, lessee of the
penitentiary at Jackson, Miss., shot and
instantly killed K. D. Grambrel, editor
of the Stcord and Shield the other night.
Col. Hamilton is mortally wounded, be
ing shot through the body. The cause
of the unfortunate affair was a newspa
per article a few days before severely
criticising Col. Hamilton's private and
public character.
The floods in the St. Johns river con
tinued last week to sweep on with re
sistless force. At Jt. Johns, N. B., the
river rose eight inches in one night and
was then on a level with the floors of a
number of the buildings. The river is
spreading over a large territory. Hun
dreds of houses in villages and cities are
submerged and deserted.
The only hope of this country' in the
conquest of the corporations, so to
speak, which meanB their subjugation to
justice and legal right, is in the votes of
the people. And these votes must be
given for honest, capable men who will
not sell out their constituents. It is
not a question of one campaign only,
but of many.
The National Convention of Wool
Growers in session at St. Lonis last
week, recommended unanimity of action
by all wool growers, manufacturers and
others interested in the production and
sale of wool, to procure the repeal of
the present tariff laws upon wool, and
the passage of a law protecting the
American wool interests.
H. O. Rose, postmaster at Center
brook, Conn., before the U. S. commis
sioner at New Haven, was held in $1,000
for using the mails to defraud. The Bos
ton watch company, of Centerbrook, ad
vertised to sell a -watch for one dollar
which proved to be a brass affair worth
about 17 cents.
The Union steel company at Chicago
the other day shut down its steel rail
milL Seven hundred and fifty men
were locked out on the strength of a
strike of twenty-eight drillers, clippers
and filers. The twenty-eight men struck
for some trivial cause, and the general
shut down followed.
Wm. O'Bbten, editor of United Ire
land, arrived in New York last week.
Being solicited by his friends to speak
in New York, he said, my mission is to
Canada, and I must guard all my
strength. I shall go direct to Montreal
and make my first speech there.
In the case of W. T. Lavelle, on trial
at Pittsburg, Pa., for robbing freight
cars, the verdict was "guilty." J. C.
Dunlap, another of the alleged thieves,
was then called up for trial and pled
guilty. John Haggarty is now being
tried. None of the prisoners have been
sentenced.
A Berlin correspondent of the Mos
cow Gazette says the German military
authorities are training mastiffs to hunt
French outposts in the event of war.
Also falcons and other birds of prey are
being trained to chase carrier pigeons,
should the latter be employed by the
French.
Mr. Van Burex, of Holiday's Cove,
West Virginia, left home the other
afternoon and stayed away overnight;
returning in the morning, he found his
wife and mother in the sitting room
with their heads mashed. Bobbery was
supposed to be the motive for murder.
The twelve Irish constables who re
signed their offices because they were
compelled to carry on evictions, and who
arrived in New York last week, have an
nounced their intention of becoming
citizens of the United States by filing
their applications.
NEBRASKA NOTES.
The needed rain last week came to
central and southern Nebraska.
A board of trade has been organized
at Tobias with a membership of thirty
two. A fire at Holdredge the other morning
burned several buildings. Estimated
low, 86,500.
Ex-Mayor Boyd of Omaha, proposes
to take a rest, and will retire from busi
ness, for a while at least.
Bed Cloud has decided to have no
saloons for the present, and probably
none during the present yenr.
A creamery company has been or
ganized at Minden. Its capacity is to
be 1,000 pounds, and cost of plant $5,
000. The Millers Association which held
its meeting in this city last week, ad
journed to meet at Grand Island, Au
gust 9th.
Lightning struck John Lanahan's
wholesale ice house at Crete, on the
afternoon of the 13th inst., burning it to
the ground.
The crop report in the Farmers Re
vieiv shows that Nebraska winter and
spring wheat is in fairly good condition,
but more rain is required.
Frank Elliott and Nick Edwards were
arrested at Omaha for stealing a suit of
clothes from the boarding house of
James Folding, Weeping Water.
A real estate agent offers to the resi
dents of Waterloo to move their houses
to Valley and give each family a lot, if
the terms are accepted in ten days.
A. J. Potter, proprietor of the Potter
House at O'Neill, while out hunting on
the 13th inst., was struck by lightning
and instantly killed during the storm.
Warrants are out for five men on a
charge of running a gambling room at
Valparaiso. The trial is expected to im
plicate several prominent business men.
Hon. T. V. Powderly spoke in the
opera house at Minden the other even
ing. The hall was crowded. Mr. Pow
derly stopped off on his way from Den
ver. Miss Rena Shafer, a love-forsaken
maiden at York, attempted the other
night to shoot a hole through her heart.
The chances of life or death in her case
are about equal.
The electric light has been put in op
eration again at Beatrice with great suc
cess. It gave a bright, steady light.
The former plant was burned about
three months ago.
It is stated that the Union Pacific has
notified the railroad commission that the
recommendations regarding changes and
improvements at North Platte will be
accepted by the company.
Ben Riddle, who was accused of burn
ing his store three months ago, was ar
rested the other night at Wahoo,
charged with arson. His arrest was a
surprise to some of the citizens.
Word did not reach here from St Paul
last week in time for the Journal to
state that Charles Schroeder had been
awarded the contract for the water works
at that place, for the sum of $19,750.
The steam flour mill at Stella was
burned on the night of the 13th inst,
about 9:30 o'clock and is a total loss.
The origin of the fire is unknown. It
was a frame building, 30x40, four stories
high.
Albion reports the branch of the
Northwestern completed to that place.
Hands will be put to work on the depot,
yards and tank right away, and laying
the track to Oakdale will be pushed for
ward. J. H. N. Patrick sold his farm of 615
acres adjoining Omaha on the north, for
$615,000, to J. A. Allen and F. H. Un
derwood, of Kansas City. It will be im
proved by them and 6old for residence
property.
The storm was severe at Papillion on
the evening of the 13th, but the damage
resulting was not very serious. One
small residence was blown oyer. The
inmates had taken refuge in the cellar,
and escaped injury.
A bad lot of peddlers, note makers
and forgers, are swindling farmers in
Gage county. Some good man who
knows how to handle such cattle ought
to have them arrested and put through
"a course of sprouts."
The Republican Valley Editorial
Association held a meeting at Oxford
the other day. It is said that a number
were prevented from attending for the
want of their old passes, but those who
did attend found the citizens kind and
hospitable and all present had an en
joyable time.
It is understood at Omaha among
railroad men that the officials of the
Union Pacific have given assurance to
shippers that there will be no advance
under the new arrangements in car
load rates on live stock.
It is reported from Palmyra that the
other evening in a personal difficulty
James Blanchart was cut and severely
wounded in the leg and hand with a
knife by Miles McAleer. A woman was
the cause of their trouble.
Mr. O. P. Alexander, of Fairfield, who
was adjudged insane and taken to the
asylum two weeks ago, died Saturday
the 7th inst, and his remains were
brought home and funeral services held
at Baptist church, Clay Centre.
Senator C. F. Manderson of Omaha,
was elected the other day Commander
of the Washington, D. C, Cominandery
of the Loyal Legion. The Senator was
congratulated by a number of his
friends on the receipt of the news.
The horsemen of Schuyler and vicinity
have organized the Schuyler Driving
and Trotting Association and elected
Folda, president, J. F. Mefferd, secre
tary and J. Curry, treasurer. They will
prepare their grounds, and expect to
hold a meeting at that place next month.
The brick makers and helpers in
several of the yards at Omaha who
struck for higher wages the other after
noon, attacked the moulders in Bailey's
yards with brick bats, stones, etc., and
quite a riot ensued which was finally
quelled by the police.
Mrs. Josiah S. McCormick at Omaha
attempted to Btop a burglar escaping
from her house, but was rudely knocked
down with a pistol, the burglar making
his escape. She discovered him before
he got through with his plunder, as only
her hand satchel and $20 had been
taken.
In a quarrel the other day between
two Brown county farmers near Ansley,
George Kalen, jr., was shot by Robert
Selfert with a double-barrel shotgun
loaded with goose shot, the charge
taking effect in the right shoulder and
side, one shot entering the right eye.
Some claim the shooting was done
through mnlico while others say, in self
defense.
During the rain and wind storm at
Blue Springs Friday afternoon, the two
story brick school-house was blown
down and severely injured the janitor,
W. H. Rambaugh. The school of 300
pupils had been dismissed but thirty
minutes before. The tower of the brick
was blown off, stables wrecked, chimneys
and trees blown down and roofs dis
placed. One house was struck by light
ning, and Miss Basore killed.
D. R. P. Butt, residing near Benkcl
mau, was struck by a freight train while
attempting to cross the track, knocking
him several feet, breaking a number of
bones and cutting a fearful gash in his
head about four inches long and a half
inch deep. His wounds are bad and
painful, but it is believed ho will recover.
The conductor and engineer of the train
were arrested and fined for running a
train through the city limits at an un
lawful rate of speed.
A big fire at Lincoln last Saturday
afternoon, burned Godfrey's lumber
yard, J. Openheimer's, stables, sheds,
carriages and harness, St. John property,
outhouses aud sheds, Waliser & Jewell,
blacksmith shop, Martin Fitzgerald,
barn and shed, J. C. Crooker, barn, Wm.
Smith, feed stables, and Bartley Mc
Cue one pair of horses and harness. It
is claimed that the fire was started by a
small boy, who lighted a uiatoh in the
hay in the stabla Another theory is
that it started from the sparks of a pipe
of a man who was pitching hay.
At the last municipal elections Dun
bar, this state, was carried by the tem
perance people. The other evening, the
saloons having been closed a few days
before, a saloon posse promenaded tho
town, making an attack upon the houses
of prominent temperance people with
clubs and revolvers. As the Stute Dem
ocrat notes, there is a strange monotony
about this business the average reader
fails to call to mind instances in which
saloon politicians have had their prop
erty destroyed, or have been killed, by
prohibitionists. Central City Courier.
Washington Letter.
From our regular correspondent.
The busiest place in Washington now
is the headquarters of the National Drill
and the busiest man is the managing
secretary, Mr. DeLeon. He sits at his
desk all day, and on the glass partition
which shields him from intrusion a sign
is posted up that Mr. DeLeon is en
gaged. He is always busily engaged,
and the sign is never taken down.
His office has quite a military air.
Pictures of camp scenes, samples of
camp cots, lithographs representing a
tented field, with marching troops and
the Washington monument looming up
above all, with other shadows of the
coming event lying around. 'Clerks are
busy at work at tables and in one corner
the committee of public comfort has its
headquarters. Here a register is kept
of rooms and beds available, and other
information that might be of use to
persons visiting the city during drill
week. The committee takes no note of
the large hotels, it seeks to provide for
those who cannot get into the hotels, or
who desire to live at less daily expense
than is usual at hotels. At the last in
auguration this committee did excellent
work in hunting places where accommo
dations could be afforded strangers, and
then inviting correspondence with those
who wanted rooms and board, and it
has undertaken the same work for the
National drill.
On the white lot preparations are
going on for the drill and the large
camp-ground is beiag enclosed. At the
foot of the Washington monument the
troops of the North and South will meet
in fraternal spirit to vie for the honors
and prizes provided by the liberalty of
the projectors of the undertaking.
When the project of holding a National
drill here in May was first broached last
fall, it was taken up at once by a num
ber of energetic citizens who by their
personal influence and labors, and their
liberal subscriptions in money, at once
assured the success of the whole affair.
Committees were immediately organized,
and steps taken to assemble the flower
of the American National Guard in
"Camp George Washington."
The purposes of the drill were set
forth in a memorial to Congress. It
said, "within the past ten years inter
state competitive drills of the volunteer
soldiers of the United States have been
held at different points in this country,
always with advantage to the drill, dis
cipline and morals of the militia, and
with increasing interest and attention
of the citizenship of the several states.
The idea has frequently been canvassed,
and the feeling over the Union has
grown, that a national competitive drill
and encampment at the National Cap
itol would not only collect a larger body
of representative soldiers, but would be
of more military importance and ad
vantage from the national character tho
event would necessarily attain amid na
tional surroundings," etc., etc.
As to the rules of the camp, all com
mands, unless their entry is accepted
with a special exception to tho contrary,
will bo required to enter camp and re
main during the entire period of the
drill. The Washington troops will
form no exception to this order. All
commands will be subject to camp
guard duty, daily dress parade, and to
all other rules promulgated by the com
mandant of the camp, Gen. Auger.
Tents, or barracks, and straw for bed
sacks will be furnished, but subsistence
will not. Thero will bo a camp res
taurant, at which meuls may be procured
at a rate fixed by the managing com
mittee, and tho keeper will be held to
strict accountability as to prices and
character of " food, while companies
doing their own cooking will be fur
nished with fuel and with mess quarters.
Tho hospital and ambulance depart
ments of the drill will be in charge of
tho Red Cross society.
Tho prizes are probably the largest
ever offered. For the best company of
infantry, for instance, tho first prize is
$5000; second prize $2,500; third prize
$1,500; fourth prizo $1000; fifth prize
$500; total, $10,500. For the best com
pany of cavalry tho first prizo is $2,000;
the second $1,500. Then there are
prizes for the best regiment of infantry;
for the lest battallion of infantry; the
best platoon of light artillery; machine
guns; the best zouave drill; cadet
corps; then there are tho prizes for rifle
practice and other individual prizes,
such as for the best drilled soldier in the
manual of arms, competition restricted
to not more than two members of any
ono company.
Among the attractions which will be
shown nightly on the drill grounds is a
pyrorama representing the naval battle
in Hampton roads, which ended with
the memorable contest between the
Monitor and Merrimac. Unliko a pan
orama, tho war vessels in this case are
seen moving about, guns are fired and
the shock and fire of battle are vividly
depicted. The vessels are made com
plete, are from forty to fifty feet in
length and in the perspective, look like
ships of full size.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Pakntine.
Mrs. Sam. Mahood has a little son.
Mr. Jones has his wind mill up and it
shows to good advantage.
We are having a much needed rain for
which we are sincerely thankful.
Apple trees, in large numbers around
here have blossomed this spring, and
there are prospects of quite a good deal
of fruit.
We are informed that the Swedish
Lutheran society are making extensive
aud modern additions to their meeting
house, a few miles north of here.
Mr. N. O. Berlin has gone to visit his
son Nels ut Nonpareil, Box Butte county,
in this state, and if his health will ad
mit will be gone five or six months.
Mr. Henry Guiles's windmill was
blown down in ono of tho severe wind
storms of the last few weeks. Mr. John
Anderson's was also nearly blown over.
Mrs. J. D. Bolton is very badly
afflicted with salt rheum on loth hands
and arms, is unable to do any kind of
work but is slowly improving at
present.
H. N. Christenson, Esq., is quite sick
with malaria, confined to his bed at this
date. His son Hans also has been ob
liged to have a physician. It is thought
his sickness is caused by drinking too
much cold water while heated by work.
Mr. C. has fenced in 50 acres for pasture
recently.
Dans.
Bismarck Township.
John McGill is fencing in his clover
patch.
G. Hodel had to get his corn planter
repaired last week.
Quite a number of farmers are done
planting corn already.
Gerhard Harms is driving one of
Henry Luers' cream wagons.
C. E. Hartly is breaking for O. D.
Butler, and the latter is sowing flax on
it.
Several of the neighbors have built
new dwelling-houses, which are a credit
to the community.
The small grain is looking finely since
the late rains, and the corn which is
planted has a good prospect ahead.
Miss Jennie Taylor, (niece of O. D.
Butler) who has been visiting at his
house for sometime past, has returned
to her home in Colorado.
J. H. Reed of Columbus Township
passed through BiBmark with his large
herd on the 12th; he was taking them up
north to pasture this summer.
T. M. Wilson killed a large hoop
snako while going to town the other day.
It was of enormous length and size, and
we think the inhabitants of this country
are to be congratulated on the fact of
such snakes being extremely scarce.
Charles.
Weather Report.
Review of the weather near Genoa for
the month of April, 1887:
Mean temperature of the month .- 52.67
Mean do same month last) ear 48.31"
Highest temperature on the 29th Bl
Lowest do on the 4th 21
Ordinarily clear days XS
Very cloudy days 2
High winds days 7
Calm days 13
Rain or snow fell during portions of- -days 8
Inches of rain or melted snow for month . . 2.2(1
Do for same month last year 2.21
Frost 16th, 20th, 23d, 24th, 25th.
Ice on 23d m. thick and ground
slightly frozen. '
Very violent dust storm on the 9th
from S. W. beginning at 9 a. m. and
continuing throughout the day; for
several hours the sun was completely
obscured and during part of the time it
was so dark as to require artificial light
for- the transaction of business.
29th, distant lightning in the S. W.
during the evening.
30th, first appearance of swallows.
Nebovllle.
Crops and grass aro looking fairly
well.
The click of the check-rower is heard
in the land.
Godfred Geber is painting the Jenni
Bro's. big barn.
Herman Johannes is doing considera
ble fencing on his place this spring.
We aro not yet over tho measles,
several families have the disease in a bad
form.
We hear that Mr. Henry Wurdoman,
one of our big tillers of the soil, is sick.
Say, here is a good location for a doctor,
wo are the sickest community this
spring, on record.
Since our last writing, Mr. Herman
Backenhus has lost three children in
one week, with measles. This is the
second time this malady has attacked
Mr. Backenhus's family with fatal
effects.
The waterworks overhanging this sec
tion of tho country, had passed into a
state of "desuetude" which was far from
being "innocuous," consequently last
week's nun was welcomed by the farm
ers, with the greatest cordiality.
B.X.
tJoo.l V.ui Ahead.
George Stinaon Jc Co., Portland, Maine, can
give you work that you can do nnd liv ut home,
making givat pay. You are Htarted f ne. Capi
tal not needed. Both sexes. All aget. Cut tliis
out and write at once; no harm will be dona if
you conclude not to go to work, after you learn
nil. All particulars free. Rett paying work in
this world. t-ly
Drankeaaesii, or Liquor Habit, cam be Cared bj
Adalalsteriag Or. Hilars' Coldta Satciflr.
It can be given in a cup of coffee or
tea without the knowledgo of
tho person taking it, effecting
a speedy and permanent care,
whether the patient is a moderate
driiiker or an alcoholic wreck.
Thousands of drunkards have been
made temperate men who have taken
.be Golden Specific in their coffee
without their knowledge, and to-day
believe they quit drinking of their
own tree will. No harmful effect re
sults from its administration. Caret
guaranteed. Send for circular and
full particulars. Address in confi
dence Golden Specific Co., 185 Race
St. Cincinnati, O. janl2-y
A report came last week from Chili
that the decrease of cholera cases was
very encouraging, and it was hoped that
the dreaded disease would, soon leave
Chili.
Walking advertisements for Dr. Sago's
Catarrh Remedy are the thousands it
has cured.
The gas works at Homestead, Penn.,
burned tho other morning. Property
destroyed worth 850,000. One hundred
men will bo thrown out of employment.
Worth Your Attention.
Cut thl out and mail it to Allen X Co., Au
gusta, Maine, who will send you free, something
new, tlmtjutt coins morey for all workers. As
wonderful as the electric light, as genuine as
pure Kold, it will prove of lifelong value and
importance to yon. Both hsx3, nil ages. Allen
fc Co. hear ezKnsu of starting you in business.
It will bring you in more cash, right awny, than
anything else in this world. Ationu anywhere
can do the work, ami live at homo also. Better
write at once; then, knowing all, should you
conclude that jon don't care tu engnge, wh no
harm is done. 1-ly
The "La Champagne" was wrecked off
the French coast the other day and somo
fifteen persons lost their lives, some by
jumping and some by being forced over
board. After Twenty-Five Years..
Corinth, Mis3., Jan., lii, 1887.
Ever since I came out of the w,u-, up
to two years ago, I had catarrh. At
times the disease was very offensive.
I tried all tho doctors I could see, and
nearly every catarrh medicine I saw ad
vertised; but I got no permanent relief
until two years ago when I began taking
S. S. S. I felt immediate benefit from
the medicine, and after taking six bot
tles I felt like a new man. When I be
gan using the medicine I was in a very
bad condition; my digestion was poor, I
had rheumatic pains in myknees,and my
feet were always cold. These unpleas
ant conditions were remedied at once by
Swift's Specific.
I ceased using the medicine after the
six bottles, because I felt so well that I
thought I was entirely cured. This past
fall, however, I had a relapse evidently
I had stopped taking S. S. S. too soon.
So I at onco began with the medicine,
and am happy to tell you that I am very
much improved, my general health le
ing excellent, and the catarrh rapidly
disappearing.
I havo great faith in S. S. S. for ca
tarrh and blood impurities, and I recom
mended it to all my neighbors who are
sick. Yours tndy, C. C. Key.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, At
lanta, Ga.
5,000 Agents Wantid! Double Quick!
TO SHJ.
JOEHOWARD'S
LIPEOP
INFINITELY the most VALUABLE because
coming so cloudy from the family circle and by
a MASTER HAND engaged in a "Labor of Love'
RICHLY ILLUSTRATED -steel portrait, Ac.
WiU sell IMMENSELY. MILLIONS want this
standard Life of the greatest Preacher and Orator
of the age. QUICK is the word. Territory in
great demand. Send for circulars and 50c. for
outfit to HUBBARD BROS., rubs., 101 W. 9th
St.. Kansas City. Mo. 52-5t
Tin Richest Bums Book of tho Ago is
SAMANTHA AT SARATOGA
by JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE. Miw Holly spent
all lantaeanon amid the whirl of fashion at Sar
atoga, and takes off its follies, flirtations, low
neck drneinfr, pug doga, etc., in her inimitable
mirth-provotanjr style. The book is profusely
illustrated by Opper. the renowned artist of
Puck. WU1 SELL IMMENSELY. Price 2.50.
BRIGHT AGENTS WANTED. Address HUB
BARD BROS., Pubs., 101 W. 0th St., Kansas
City, Mo. 52-5t
South Omaha Still Booren.
One thousand men employed. Two more im
mense packing houses to be erectd. Two bent
banks in the state doing a business of $100,000
daily. Two dummy trains from Omaha and
Council Bluffs. One $10,000 school-house, and 3
churches to be built. Two brick jards started.
Viaducts, tunnels and other enterprises project
ed. First-class city government. Property
daily on the advance. Come and see ns.
Asdebson". Cook &. Co.
Real estate dealers. Dummy and Stock Yardn
crossing. febtj'87y
TIT AE.ORAF BROS.,
HT EXPRESSMEN:
Convey goods between any points of the city.
Sand suitable for plastering and building pur
poses, furnished in any part of city or on hoard
cars at iMtonabl pricas. 30mar87y
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simplest principlen in pI.iloBoplo and takes the rank (.hove all Lamp Fillers. No danger of ei-plosion-i.
Absolute bafety guaranteed. No spilling, wasting or dripping of oil on th floor tabU
or outside of can. LW it once and you will not bo without it for five time its cost. It works in
large cans as well a small ones, thereby saving the f rvqiient and anno) ing trips to tho store with a
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ERNST 6c SCHWARZ.
44-2t
Closing Out at Cost.
We' havo decided to quit tho jewelry Imuiuess in Columbus, and will sell
everything at cost, and even lets than co3t Call iu and Bee the astonishingly low
figures we will offer you:
A Good American watcli $ 5 00
A Good Striking clock 2 00
A Good Patent Gold-filled Gentlemen's American watch 15 00
Ladies' Gold watches 10 00
1$ carat gold rings, per pennyweight - 90
Set silver-plated Roger spoons 1 00
Good 5 bottles silver castors 2 50
Fine nickel clocks 1 00
In fact everything for less than
half the usual retail price.
Thin is no humbug to looin the businetJM, but we want to get rid of the good
and must and will sell thein. Call and get prices. C. C. Barringer will be in at
tendance, and wait on yon, and 1h pleased to show yon the stock Everything
will be warranted, as represented, or the money will l)e refunded.
G. HEITKEMPER & BRO.,
The lending Jewelers of Colutnbna, Neb.
mayia-bt
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Eleventh
Mckinley &
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
Money to loan on improved farms in this and adjoining
counties, at current rates. We are prepared to close loans 'V
promptly, in all cases where title and security are satisfactory.
Office up-stairs in Henry Building, corner of Olive and
Eleventh streets. jmjwwtr
SPEICE & NORTH,
General Agents for the vale of
TZttj&JLi ESTATE!
Union Pacific and Midland Pacific K. R. Lands for salo at from J.0O to $10.00 iter acre for cash
or on hve or ten years time, in annual payments to suit purchasers. We have also a large and choice
lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable Unas. Also
business and residence lotH in tho city. We keep a complete abstract of title to aU real estate in
riatte i ounty.
COLUMBUS.
W. T. RICKLY& BRO.
Wholesale and
Game, Poultry, aid Fresh Fish. All Kinds f Saisage a Specialty.
J3-Cah paid for Hides. Pelts. Tallow. Highest market price paid for fat cattle.K;
Oliv Street tacood door north of First Matloaal Bank.
SCHWAKZ,
AND DEALERS IN-
BMLIND
STOVES AND
RANGES v
ALWAYS FOR SALE AT
msmr urn i sat mi's.
HEHK7 7i:-L" & GQ,
Have a Fine Line of Staple and Fancy
GROCERIES,
Crockery and Glisswart,
Which were bought cheap for cash, and will be sold
at very low prices.
Street, Columbus, Nebraska.
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carnahan,
NEBRASKA.
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