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All communications, to secure attention, must be accompanied by the full name of the writer. We reserve the right to reject any manuscript, and cannot agree to return the same. VVe desire a correspondent in every school-district of Platto county, one of good judgment, and re liable in every way. Writo plainly, each item separately. Give ub facts. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24. 1887. Coming Events. North Nebraska Soldiers' Reunion at Norfolk, August 2327. Omaha Fair, Sept. 510. Soldiers Reunion, Omaha, Sept 510. Nebraska Stat Fair, Lincoln, Sept 9-16. Fair at Schuyler Sept. 2124. Platte County Fair at Columbus, Sept 2730. Fair at Albion Oct. 4 5. Republican State Convention, Lin coln, Wednesday, October 5th. Platte county is entited to 6 delegates. Senator Riddlebebgek, of Virginia, after being released by a mob, re turned to jail. Two masked men the other evening robbed the cash drawer of a Btreet car in St Joe of 820. Ex-Gov. BtACKBDBK,at Louisville,Ky., was reported one day last week in a dying condition. Queek Victoria's reply to President Cleveland's letter of congratulations, is replete with kind sayings for America. One and two dollar silver certificates notes, will be issued by the treasurer at Washington, to banks, bankers and others making the necessary deposits. Stewart Jackson, president of the Dispatch Transfer Co. of Kansas City, has absconded leaving several personal friends and relatives in the lurch to the extent of gl7,0Q0. At a Bohemian picnic at Friend Monday John Newer and his brother Frank were murdered by a crowd of railroaders, part of a construction gang. Beer was the exciting cause. "Why is it," said a husband to his wife, "that married women, as a rule, are such gossipers?"' "Because they find such attentive listeners in their husbands," replied the lad easily. It is reported that the Rock Island depot, three largo grain elevators and a number of shops and dwellings at Wal nut, la., wore burned one night last week. Property destroyed worth $90,000. Two hundred lawyers were present at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 18th inst, at the morning session of the convention of the American Bar Association. Thos. J. Seiums, of New Orleans, presided. Tex large ice houses and six freight cars belonging to the Chautauqua Lake Ice Co. of Pittsburg burned one morn ing last week at Burtis bay, on Chau tauqua Lake, causing a loss of 70,000. Wsf. Nunk, a farmer living three miles from St Joseph, Mo., while standing in his door, was shot dead by a man named Tibbet Four men followed Tibbet After he fired the assaulting party all fired. The Republicans of Pennsylvania held their state convention one day last week. They highly recommended James G. Blaine for next candidate for Presi dent and nominated a good, strong state ticket The United States steamer Tennessee has been reappraised at 28,000 and will be offered at public sale in New York, September 15. The New York will also be offered for sale at the same time at 320,000. The democratic candidate for gov ernor of Ohio who was challenged by Foraker to say whether he approved or disapproved the order for the surrender of the rebel flags, has not as yet divulged his opinion. A. G. Arkoe, a prominent democratic politician of Rockport, 111-, who is worth about $25,000 was brought to St Joe, the other day, and placed in jail to await trial on a charge of stealing two spans of mules. New Yore World, dem.: It is not strange that the feeling should exist at the west that the financial policy of the administration is shaped in the interest of Wall street and not in that of the whole countrv. J. F. Page, book-keeper of the large wholesale stationery house of C. S. Buchenier & Co., raised a $25 check to $25,000 on the J. Carter bank at Mont real, one day last week, had it cashed, and then absconded. Jakes Reynolds was taken by a mob at Leon, la., from the jail and hung near the town by the neck until he was dead. His crime was criminally assaulting Mary Noble, an estimable lady living two miles west of that place. A package sent from Omaha by the Pacific Express, it is just learned, was lost between Green River, Wyo and Pocatello, Idaho, containing $2500 in bills. There is no clue. Employes of the company are not suspected. A destructive storm visited London, England, on the 18th inst Three per sons were killed and a number of church es and houses.were struck by lightning. In the country there was much destruc tion of property, and many persons re ported killed. Rrv. C. H. BRBCHBxUi, of Chambers burg, Pa dropped dead in the waiting room of the Lake Shore depot in Chi cago one night last week. He was 67 years old and a prominent clergyman of the society of Friends. He was on bis way to Des Moines. Death to Prairie Dogs! Editor Journal, Columbus Neb. Dear Sir: It was my fortune in pur chasing land here in Platte county to have a few prairie dogs thrown in, as a nuisance, and it has ever since been my wish to eet rid of them. I tried various kinds of poison, shooting, drowning, etc but all failed until quite recently I learned that Bi Sulphide of Carbon would destroy them. It is a liquid, can be purchased at the drug stores at a cost of from 10 to 15 cents a pound by the quantity. I bought from throe different parties; the best and cheapest I got-froin Edward R. Taylor of Cleveland, Ohio. It is sure death to prairie dogs, gophers, squirrels, etc Mode of applying it: take a piece of cotton the size of a hen egg, saturate it with about an ounce of the Bi Sulphide of Carbon, throw it into the hole of the animal, cover the top of hole with ground, so that the cot ton is loose in the hole. A gas is formed and the dogs are killed. I have destroy ed mv dogs on about 80 acres at a cost of $30.00, and increased the value of the land $500,00. One pound will do for 25 holes. This medicine is quickly applied and is sure death. No humbug about it. Very respectfully thy friend, Isaiah Lightner, Matson, Platte county, Neb. Chatsworth. The coroner's jury rendered the fol lowing verdict after a thorough inves tigation: "Wo find that the wrecking of snid train, which totally demolished eight coaches, one baggage car and one engine, and either killed or wounded most of the occupants of said coaches, was caused by the said bridge having been burned out before the train struck it. We think from tho evidence that tho bridge was fired from fires left burning, which had been set as late as 5 o'clock that afternoon, by section men, as close as sixteen feet on both cost and west sides of the bridge. Wo further find that the foreman of section seven, Timothy Coughlin, disobeyed positive orders from his superior to examine the track and bridges on his section the last tiling on Wednesday, and that said foreman, Coughlin, was guilty of gross and criminal carelessness, in leaving fires burning along the track in such a dry season and with such a strong wind blowing. We recommend that he be held for examination by the grand jury; and,f urther, it is the opinion of the jury that the loaving of the track without being patrolled for six hours before the passage of the excursion train, and the setting of fire by the section men on such a dry and windy day as the 10th day of August, 1SS7, were acts which deserve severe criticism." Timothy Coughlin, section foreman, was arrested and will be taken to the county seat at once. He says he cannot give bail, and insists that tho verdict is unjust; that ho went over the entire sec tion as ordered, and that no fires wero built as near the bridge as Heald and Taggart testified. Ask all or Them. The Democrat of last Friday shows great anxiety for the candidate for "the important office of county superinten dent" of schools, and addresses "some questions" to Mr. Ed. Newman, who has, up to the presentbeen regarded as theone most likely to receive the nomination from the democrats. The questions are well enough in their way, doubtless, but the democracy are wondering why their party organ should ask such questions now of any candidate for nomination, and wondering further why it wouldn't be appropriate to propound similar questions to some of the candidates for other offices. Is the suerintendent's office the only important one? Is it the only office whore experience is useful, where competency is in demand, where personal habits should be good, and where character should .be above re proach? Why single out this office and this particular aspirant? Special acts are justified by special reasons, and to the average Platte county democrat there seems to be a tolerably large-sized "African in the wood pile." Has the Democrat a rival aspirant? Here Too. "Seward wants a man who has got a good knowledge of manufacturing from flax straw, a good deal of energy, a little common sense and some money, to locate here and go to making twine for farmers to use for binding their grain. Exper ience has demonstrated that there is money in it for the manufacturer as well as tho farmer. Who will find such a man who will come and look up the matter and locate here? There is plenty of flax raised here to furnish all our farmers with binding twine on which no freight would have to be paid, and the sale of the straw which now goes to waste, would give them a neat little addition to their yearly income. Other kinds of twine could be manufactured for the market and thus goods manufactured at Seward could be sent to other places and thus bring in money instead of sending it out Let us secure such an enterprise as soon as possible. Reporter. L D. Chakrerlain, Sec'y., has issued a call for a state convention to meet in Fitzgerald Hall, Lincoln. 10 a. m., Thursday, Sept 15th, to place in nom ination a state ticket and to transact such other business as may properly come before the convention. The call invites all who endorse the Cincinnati platform, and includes the membors of all labor organizations, Knights of La bor, Union Labor Clubs, Greenback Labor party, Farmers' Alliance, Gran gers, Patrons of Husbandry, Jcc. Platte county is entitled to seven'delegates. From a private letter from eastern Illinois, we learn that in Indiana wheat and oats are pretty good; wheat averag ing 20 bushels per acre. Corn is no good. There has been no rain there for two months, and the corn is all dried up. On the high land the corn won't make five bushels per acre, and on bottom about ten bushels. In Illinois the weather has been very dry, but crops are better. We don't raise much wheat here, but what there is is a fair crop. Oats is making 30 bushels per acre, while corn will yield from. 20 to 80 per acre. Madison Chronicle. Word comes from London that news had been received there of the burning at sea of the Inman line of steamers, City of Montreal, upon arrival at Queens town, the other morning of the steamer York City. Thirteen persons are said to have "perished, the remainder having been rescued by the York City and brought to Queenstown. The town that attempts 'to build itself up by misrepresenting neighboring towns, doesnt deserve to succeed. There is plenty of room in this grand common wealth of Nebraska for every town in it to grow, and the man who tries to re tard the growth of any community is a villian and a traitor to th atnbt AVw- f oik News. Prof. Foster, the Iowa weather prophet, says: "We are satisfied that 1887 is the last drouth year for several years to comefW have had two years of drouth as predicted by the writer predictions baaed upon the principles and data of meteorology. Reasoning from.the same basis principles we reach the conclusion that the next year and four or five succeeding years will be of the ordinary character as to humidity in the Mississippi valley and pretty gen erally throughout the United States but with an increasing tendency to dryness in the eastern states." The guilty conscience of R. S. Scott, who at different; times stole from the Manhattan bank, New York, where he was employed, about $160,000 and then fled the country, has, at London, made full confession of his crime and im plicated John B. Dunn of New York, his colleague in crime. He gives all the particulars in his confession, which is quite lengthy, but suit has already been commenced against Dunn for the recov ery of $140,000, the amount for which he is implicated in the stolen money. Freight cars of the New York division of the Pennsylvania railroad have been broken into for sometime past and rob bed of all kinds of goods. Last week Frank Drake and wife, Walter Landis, Geo. Finebrock and Arthur Culbertson were arrested,charged with the robberies and complicity in the same. A large amount of the stolen goods was found in the houses of the accused. George Bahtlett, a fanner living near Van Wert, Ohio, while driving to town with his wife and child his horses got frightened and ran away and all were thrown out of the wagon. Mrs. Bartlett was thrown under the wagon and run over, receiving injuries which resulted in her death. Mr. Bartlett re ceived several internal injuries which it is feared will prove fatal. The child was not injured. Patrick Derkin, aged 71, a farmer, living near Cusesde, la., left a neighbor's house last February on a stormy night, for his home. Although dilligent search was made, that was the last seen of him. Last week news reached Dubuque that his headless and dismembered body was found at the edge of a creek, 200 yards from his house. A coroner's jury re turned a verdict of accidental drown ing. A bad accident to the St Louis, Chicago & Cincinnati express train on the Baltimore & Ohio, at Washington, in which all the cars, except the sleepers, were badly smashed up. The engineer and two passengers were killed. The fireman was badly scalded, and nine passengers seriously injured. The ac cident was caused by the air brakes being out of order. Thb testimony adduced Monday in the Richardson trial at Loup City is more favorable for the prisoner than was sup posed it would be. Just before the close of the day's session the state expressed a desire to rest, and the defense filed a motion that the court require the state to produce their witnesses, three of whom are eye-witnesses. The most terrific hail storm that ever visited Atchison, struck there at 4 o'clock on the 20th, and hail-stones nine and ten inches in circumference, fell. The wind was blowing from the north, and half the windows in the city, on the north side of the houses were broken. The loss in glass will aggregate $4,000 or $5,000. The latest sensational news from Den ver is to the effect that Sheriff Kendall and nine men went out on a reconnois ance, got to Glenwood about midnight and were ambushed in the rear. They made a gallant fight for their lives and finally returned with four men wounded slightly and three horses killed. Annie Mitchell, of St Joseph, Mo., twelve years old, was shot by Willie Koster, who was shooting rats with a Flobert rifle. Tho ball passed through the fleshy part of the left arm and lodged in her side. The wound is a dangerous one and should blood poison result, will prove fatal. The bank of London, at Ontario, sus pended payment the other morning. The bank has a subscribed capital of $1, 000,000, of which $22338 is paid up. Very little loss is anticipated by Jienll holders. Only one new case of yellow fever and one death at Key West, Fla., on the 21st inst The total number of cases up to date is 254; still sick, 40; discharged cured, 160; deaths, 53. It was reported from Peoria, HL, last week that all the Chatsworth wreck bodies had been identified, and had been put in charge of their friends. The dead now number eighty. NEBRASKA NOTES. The militia encampment will be held at Lincoln August 20. in the Knox county-seat contest a total vote of 2,083, Niobrara had a ma jority of twenty-one votes. A man by the name of Tousguard was found insane the other day at Neligh and ordered to the asylum. The First National .bank of Madison has been authorized to begin business with a capital stock of $50,000. The stock is held by the business men of the town. Wymore has a contract for putting in a system of waterworks, to consist of a hundred-feet stand-pipe and direct pres sure capable of throwing two million gallons of water a day. W. L Jones, living near Falls City, threshed his oats crop last week, and it turned out an average of ninety-seven and a half bushels to the acre. This was the average of thirteen acres. Edgar Varney's house, at Ansley, one night last week was struck by lightning, which damaged the building about $75. Mr. Varney expected to move into the building with his family in a day or two. It is churned that a new system of telephone is about to make a revolution in the telephone service, making it a great deal more effective as well as a great deal cheaper than the present system. Wiiliam McQuay, the section boss at Indianola, was found west of town at the west end of the railroad bridge uncon scious and with several scalp wounds on his head. Whether it was an accident or foul play is not known. Mrs. Pillman, living near Wisner, com- : nutted suicide one night last week, by hanging herself to the knob of her cham ber door by a handkerchief. She was a widow with three children, and had re cently been despondent Falls City was visited by burglars one or two nights last week. They entered the residence of J. R. Cain and carried off clothing and a valuable watch. They were frightened the night before from the residence of P. S. Heacock. The Omaha Herald of Thursday printed seven editorials' relating to Mr. Blaine. This shows how the Plumed .Knight can give a democrat the jim- jams even at a distance of five thous and miles. Fremont Tribune. Recent estimates of the corn crop in eleven states put Nebraska ahead of all of them. The estimate for Nebraska is put down 'for ten counties at 8&5 per cent Ten Minnesota counties stand the next highest, being 85 per cent The body of a boy about eight years old and covered with a calico shirt and checkered pants, was found floating in the river at Nebraska City one day last week. It was in good shape and could not have been in the water long. Kearney's marshall arrested Bagnell who had $300 in new bills on his person. He was subsequently turned over to the sheriff of Dawson county, who took him to Plum Creek. He is supposed to be the man who robbed Paymaster Bush. Walter Margritz, a boy ten years old, of Stuart, was dragged to death the other morning by a cow which he was herding. The lad had tied the rope around his body and the animal became frightened and ran away, resulting in his death. The citizens of Dodge in this county are boaring for coal. They have let the contract to go one thousand feet in to the earth in pursuit of the dusky diamonds. They confidently expect to be rewarded for their effort Fre mont Tribune. W. R. Livesy, a citizen of Hebron, while cutting a rope inflicted a cut on his leg from which he nearly bled to death before assistance could be secur ed. His wound was dressed; subsequent ly it started to bleed again from the ef fects of which he died. Last Saturday A. C. Tyrrel shipped a melissa or honey bee plant to the Ameri can Bee Journal at Chicago. The plant was 2 feet 7 inches high, 8 feet 10 inches in circumference, and had put forth up to the date it was taken up 30,000 blos soms. Madison Chronicle. An attempt was made ono night last week to set fire to the Leland hotel at Indianola, by placing combustible ma terial on the outside stair way, then pouring on coal oil and setting fire to that The fire was discovered and ex tinguished before much damage was done. A railroad man was robbed one night last week near Shearon's crossings, southwest of Fairbury, while he was walking to camp; he was seized by two men and carried into a cornfield where he was robbed of a small sum of money and some new clothes. He had received $200 dollars the day before but hud de posited it Gov. Thayer visited York last week. He spoke to an audience in the evening at the opera house of Grand Army boys and their friends, and was present at the ball game in the afternoon between the lawyers and doctors. -From York he went to McCook to attend an old set tler's picnic. A very important question was raised in the case of the State vs. B. F. Rich ardson for the murder of O. B. Willard now on trial at Loup City. The prose cutor made a motion, sustained by affi davits, that on account of the bias and perjudice of the sheriff, he should not be permitted to draw talesmen for the jury. The motion was taken under advise ment The sheriff of Logan county has cap tured and brought to North Platte, Charles Parker. He was captured by the sheriff alone but Parker attempted to shoot Sheriff Dooms and bite his way through the struggle, but was over powered and brought in, and is now in jail. The sheriff will be entitled to the $1,000 reward. Clint Hulet, of Beatrice, was arrested the other night at Reynolds, charged with stealing $200 worth of cigars, no tions, etc., from the store of 8. H. Gun der, of Beatrice. He acknowledged his guilt and implicated Fred. McNally, of the same place of a like transaction. When arrested, he was on a visit to his intended bride. His down-fall is at tributed to fast living. Mrs. Leslie, of Lincoln, when the workmen had finished digging a hole for setting a telephone pole, appeared and objected to placing it in front of her property. When they got ready to put in the pole and returned, they found Mrs. Leslie in the hole up to her waist She kept them at bay for an hour until she could procure a writ of injunction. While Ed. South, of Humphrey, was returning home from Madison yesterday, with his mother, mother-in-law and sis ter the latter having a baby the team ran away when about two miles south of this place, upsetting the carriage, and throwing them all out. Mrs. South had her right wrist sprained, and her left shoulder thrown out of joint The oth ers was bruised to a greater or less ex tent Madison Chronicle. The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley construction company are now running a passenger coach on the con struction trains between Fremont and Seward and Fairmont now has direct communication with that lively little city and intermediate points. The train leaves Fremont about 7:30 a. m. and re turns about the same hour in the even ing the distance both ways being 120 miles. Fremont Tribune. In the midst of sad realties there are some very amusing things sometimes. In the Butler county cyclone it is re ported that one lady was "divested of all her clothing except a corset and petti coat," while her husband had torn from him "his entire wardrobe except a pair of pants and a collar button." Some doubting editor, reading the account coldly, desires to know what that collar button was fastened to, to which the Fremont Tribune man responds: "This locates the "stingiest man in Nebraska' who was going the rounds of the press sometime ago. He is reported to have used a wart on the back of his neck for a eollar button. Of course the wind couldn't blow that off." The citizens of Niobrara have had quite an excitiug time ovor the result of the recent election returns giving Nio brara the county seat It was Creighton precinct that was in contest Canvasser G. A. Brooks, Senator Boneeteel heard the statement of the election board at Creighton precinct, all of whom, it is al leged, refused tefbe sworn. The board deeded in favor of Niobrara by 14 ma jority. Groat excitement prevails among the people. They oven make the charge that it was a clear case of forgery and ballot-stuffing, and predict that several arrests will follow. On Friday last Mr. Crabtree swore out a warrant against Mary and Lizzie Cooncy for assault and battery. The case was called for trial before Judge Browner on Saturday morning. The evidence showed that Mary and Lizzie Cooncy came to Mr. Crubtroe's in his ab sence to take home some pigs which had been trespassing and had been' locked up by Crabtree. Mrs. Crabtree came out and requested that the pigs be let alone until Mr. Crabtree came home. A qnarrelensued and in the melee Lizzie Cooncy received a wound over the right eye. After listening to the evidence of both sides the defendents were discharg ed. In the afternoon of the same day Clark Cooncy swore out a warrant for Crabtree for assault with intent to kill. A preliminary boaring was held before the county judge, which resulted in Mr. Crabtree being bound over in the sum of $500 for appoaranco at the September term of the district court Fullerton Journal. Republican Citt, Neb., August 18. Special to the Bee. The worst storm ever witnessed in this part of the state struck this place about 6 o'clock this afternoon. The large brick school house, just about finished, was completely wrecked. Seven carpenters were caught in the ruins. Five were rescued alive, but injured, and two were soriously in jured. 3. J. Lanning, a highly respected young man of the place, and A. S. Allen, of Alma, Neb., foreman of tho gang, were killed. Lanning was a single man, Allen being married. Tho dormitory of the McPherson normal college was badly damaged, tha whole north side of the upper story being blown in. The house of H. S. Wetheral, a printer, was com pletely blown away, burying his wife and two children in the debris, badly in juring them. The brick residence of William Gibbs and Oscar Vallicott were partially demolished. The front of the law office of James Hunter lays in the street The one-story residence of Dr. Becher was lifted entirely off its foundation and carried some distance, but, strange to say, damaging it but lit tle. Lightning struck the residence of L. K. Morris, badly damaging it A number of other residences were more or less injured, out houses were pros trated, fences blown down, and, together with the con ten tB of lumber yards, scat tered over the town. The city generally presents a demoralized condition. Tho storm lasted fully twenty-five minutes a straight, hard blow, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, the hail breaking windows on the north and east aides of houses. The loss to the city and vicin ity at rough figures will reach $30,000. Washington Letter. From our regular correspondent. In my last letter I wrote of the land surveying fraudulent accounts from Cal ifornia, which had been worked over by "reform" democrats, years after the ac counts had been paid and payment se cured a second time. The affair is veiled in such mystery that I am only able to state the amount of loss $70,000 sustained from this source by the Gov ernment; it ib not improbable that fur ther and fuller particulars will soon be forthcoming. Frauds and irregularities in the public service seem to be the order, or rather the disorder, of the day. As the base ballists have it, the treasury and interior departments having had their "innings," it is now the turn of the war department, and it comes bobbing up first, with the vanished $7,000, which an army paymaster permitted a Wyoming Territory cowboy to "rob" him of; it has been decided that the officer was too careless with this large sum of money and he has been relieved from duty till he or his bondsmen re place the loss; second, with the irregu larities, not to use a harsher term, in the Quartermaster General's Department; the veterinary surgeon was constrained to resign, because he had been keeping a private livery stable at the expense of the Government pleading ignorance of the law as his reason for such reprehen sible conduct; still, he was allowed to depart in peace; then the scandal caused by the army officers using the teams of the Department for purely private pur posessuch as hauling building ma terials for their residences and fertilizers for their gardens, etc. And, lastly, the disallowance by the Controller of the Treasury, of the bills for the purchase of horses for the personal use of Mr. Endicott, the mugwump Secretary of War. It may seem cruel in me, but, I shall also have to ventilate a fraud that has just come to the surface in tho depart ment presided over by the dudish Whit ney of Standard Oil fame; Paymaster George R. Watkins, United States Navy, has been dismissed from the sen-ice by a court-martial for the following good and sufficient reasons. Issuing clothes and supplies to sailors and mariners and charging the same as cash; of buying coal above market rates and of certify ing falsely contrary to facts; charging cash payments to dead men; of other similar charges, and of disobedience of orders and of desertion. Before being dismissed, the Paymaster must serve his country three years in the penitentiary; his clerk convicted of forgery and ma licious destruction of public records, was sentenced to four years in prison, and to pay a fine of $1,000; the Presi dent has remitted the fine and reduced the imprisonment to two years. Writing of "irregularities" reminds me of a case that excites much comment in the Interior Department -that of John B. Riley, Superintendent of In dian Schools, who, while receiving a salary of $3,000 a year, has been absent several months at his home in Platts burg, N..Y. The only known reason for his action, which appears rather trivial, is that there is a difference of opinion as to the Superintendent's precise author ity. Mr. Amos Hadley is the second Re publican chief clerk of the Interior De partment to resign during Cleveland's term and I suppose some other good Republican will be promoted to the po sition, as there seems to be a woful scarcoity of democratic material suit able for sttch a responsible place. Sec retary Lamar is now quietly casting about for a successor to the vacancy, or rather I should say Mr. Cleveland is doing so for him, as the members of the cabinet are merely clerks themselves, whose business it is to register the im perious-will of thoir chief. Mr. Frederick Douglass has returned from a long and delightful tour of Europe, and he is full of interesting reminiscences of the trip. He was every where well received and hospitably en tertained. "Nowhere, Mr. Douglass Baid, by a single word, look, or gesture was disapproval expressed of my color or the kinks in my hair, and I have had a most pleasant and agreeable time dur ing my stay abroad." The shameful story of naval surgeon Crawford and his fair and youthful vic tim has been told in the city police court and aroused general indignation against the principal who is known as "the mash of the Naval Hospital," though no decision is yet readied. Dur ing the progress of the trial there has been outrageous crimination and re crimination between the Judge and the counsel on both sides; the Judge was charged in open court, with pre-judging the case, and there came near being a challenge to mortal combat by the United States District Attorney and op posing counsel. R. General Logan's Great Work. A beautifully bound and artistically illustrated volume, bearing the title "The Volunteer Sol dier of America," comes to us from the publish ing house of K. 8. Peale & Co., Chicago. Tho public ha been anxiously awaiting this work from the brain and hand of tiie brave soldier who is sleeping in mortality, but awake in im mortality General John A. Logan. Its author ship alone would invest it with an undying in terest, but, aside from this, his fitness for treat ing the subject gives the volume a practical val ue hardly to be estimated. He was an experienc ed military man who had carefully and intelli gently stndied the military system of the country; and when, in convincing language, and by indisputable facts, he demonstrates tho need of reform, the country will do well to heed his words. General Logan speaks emphatically, but without prejudice or bitterness, and no one can read this, his greatest work, without feeling that it has been written from first to last as a duty owed to a nation which had crowned him as one of its greatest soldiers and statesmen. "The Volunteer Soldier" is not a "war book" in a common meaning of the term; neither is It a life of Logan although the biographical mom oir of the author, which precedes the body of the book, is, without doubt, the best short biog raphy of tho illustrious volunteer leader that has ever been written, containing many facts and in cidents in his career never before published; and the General's Military Reminiscences, it must bo admitted by all, form a most valuable contribution to the history of the great civil strife. It is the only connected history of the volun teer service of America that has ever been writ ten; the first and only great attempt to perpetu ate the glorious achievements of the American citixea soldiery, and to give to the volunteer soldier and sailor that honor and place in his tory which are so Justly their due. Logan was never more eloquent than when reciting the deeds or advocating the rights of his comrades in arms. In this work he demands justice for the defenders of the American republic, and shows that the safety and permanence of our free institutions depend upon the strong arms and loyal hoarta of our citisen soldiers. The handsomely printed pages of the book abound with thrilling descriptions of the heroism of in dividuals, companies, regiments, divisions and corps. Much of it reads like a romance. The work is copyrighted by Mrs. Logan, who receives two-thirds of the gross profits. The first edition, the publishers state, has already been exhausted, but others are under way. "The Volunteer Soldier" is a large octave vol ume of seven hundred pages, including General Logan's military reminioences from his private Journal, now published for the first time. The book is beautifully bound, and the artistic en gravings and dear letter-press make it the handsomest publication which baa reached our book-table for some time. A report comes from Fairbury that Hugh Garrett was killed by lightning the other day near Steel City, while standing in a barn door. DrankeaBesH or tke Liqaor Habit Positively Cared by Administering; Dr. Haines' Golden Speeile. It can be given in a cup of coffee or tea without the knowledge of the person taking it; is absolutely harmless and will effect a permanent and speedy cure, whether the patient is a moderate drink er er an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of drunkards have been made temperate men who have taken Golden Specific in their coffee without their knowledge,and today believe they quit drinking of their own free will. IT NEVER FAILS. The system once impregnated with the Specific it becomes an utter impossibil ity for the liquor appetite to exist For full particulars, address GOLDEN SPECIFIC CO., 185 RACE STREET, CINCINNATI, O. janl2-87y Many timid little girls will be glad to to hear that Prof. Carl Braun of Bates college says that the "Devil's darning needle has no sting at all, but he eats millions of mosquitoes." No trouble to swallow Dr. Pierce's Pel lets. Sarah Bernhardt is said to have in vested most of the money she realized by her recent American tour in real es tate in the United States. Aa Ulcer of Twenty-Ire Years Cared. Mr. Hugh Nelson is one of the old time representatives of Kentucky blue blood. He is justly proud of his ances tors' record in the history of our early Revolutionary war. But all these an cestral advantages did not exempt Mr. Nelson from a most painful blood poison that held him a viciim for a quarter of a century. Mr. Nelson is well beloved by his neighbors at Hopkinsville, where he resides in a stately mansion, overlooking the city; and they will be delighted to hear that he is finally cured of his pain ful malady. Hopkinsville, Ky., Feb., 24, 1887. Gentlemen During the war I was vaccinated with an impure vaccine virus, that poisoned my blood. The impure blood manifested itself on my ankle. Several times by severe treatment I healed the ulcer, but it generally took about two years. But that the poison was yet in my system was shown that on the slightest strain or scratch where the ulcer used to be, it immediately broke out violently. Having tried the best doctors and all kinds of medicines with out getting a permanent cure, I deter mined four years ago this spring to try Swift's Specific Ten small bottles en tirely cured me, and my leg has been well ever since. That Swift's Specific cured me of a blood poison of twenty- five years, is the highest praise I can ac cord it All my neighbors know of my case, and many have been benefited by my experiences; but there are three now in their graves that I am confident would be living today had they taken S. a S. Yours truly, Hugh Nelson. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, At lanta, Ga. ERNST & SCHWARZ, -MAN UFACTU KKIUS AN D DEALERS IN- -nnWMaafcw bBb2s? BLaaaaaaaiF "EHEaaT iV vL aLaBBBK i waVa EBBBBSSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBmHIwV9 aEaaBBBBBBBBBBBSESr ' r )?--- SUPERB LAMP FILLER AND COAL OIL CAN COMBINED, Which for safety, convenience, cleanliness and simplicity, cannot bo escolled. 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We are prepared to close loans promptly, in all cases where title and security are satisfactory. Office up-stairs in Henry Building, corner of Olive and Eleventh streets. juiyimtr SPEICE & NOKTH, General Agents for' the sale of I5E!-.Xj ESTiLT Union Pacific and Midland Pacific K. It. Lands' for Kilo at from i3.0O to $10.00 per acre for cash or on five or ten years time, in annual pa me nt 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 terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real eatats in Platte County. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. fi-1 W. T. RICKLY& BRO. Wholeealo and UTresla. I Sa.lt leats. (Jane, Poultry, aid Fresh Fish. ISST'Cash paid for Hides. Pelts, Tallow. Olive Street, second door Heat Radiator. "In peace prepare for war;" in summer, )re pare for winter, and among your preparations don't forget that if you can save omvthird to one-half on jour expense for fuel, by an ap- ftliance of little cost, it will par you to take a ittle trouble to provide jourtlf with one. Francis Marak, jr.. of KvetvMt, Kan., the in ventor of the appliance refern! to, i here dirt posing of territory, and has made some sales of counties. The appliance is an ordinary drum except that it is divided into apartments running tho length of the drum: one of these is virtually a contin uation of the pipe, when the damper is not turned, and makes a direct draft when detiired for starting a fire; when the dumpnr i turned, the oartitions are so arrantatl that the nt-nted air and smoke ro alternately upturn! ami down ward through aU the atartments (usually five in number, owing to the relative size of pipeaud drum) and finally up the chimney. Tho princi- Sle is precisely me name as mat 01 me isniuut ennonite heating furnaces, and applied to cook or heating stoves, utilizes a great deal more of the heat evolved from the luel than is done by the ordinary drum. The pictures of progress are these: A fare, on the ground, under the open canopy of heaven;' two poets, a crosa stick and the it OI victuals Hanging over me nre. Hecond, the same, only a rude wall around, and a cone-shaped roof, with a hole in the middle for the smoke to curl out at. Third, the own grat. In the open fire-place, a great portion of the heat escaping up the chim ney into the outer air. fourth, the stove. Fifth, the stove and drum, increasing the amount of surface heated by the same fuel. Bixth. the greatly improved tlnira, or Kadia TOB, with a more intense anil therefore more penetrating heat from the same amount of fuel; forming a mervoir for heat exi-ept as it escapes through the metallic enclosure, and what little gets out through the chimney. Abundant certificates can b? given from those who have used the Kadiatob that it does all that is claimed for it, but the following are suf ficient: Bixx Hi ixa, Nkbr., March 21. 1SS7. J I have tested the qualities of the Marak Radia tor, and it gave satisfaction in every particular he claims for it. Do. A. J. Hodokks. Columbus, Nkbr.. ) June II. 1BH7.J 1 have tried Francis Marak's patent radiator on my cook stove and found it to do all that he -to It caused the kettle to boil and the ovan to beat, quick, with one-half the fuel we bad bate using without the Radiator. Wa got DTvaaTSM. wiin iv corn coua, mit wu uicu wu i hot enough to bake biscuits. 1 Joas L. Stcrokox. GUUND STOVES AND RANGES ALWAYS FOK SALE AT urn k umm. HSHR7 'i:-i.:: I CO., Have a Fine Lino or Staple and Funcy GROCERIES, Grtekery and Glasswart, Which wt,re bought cheap for catih. and will bo sold at very low prices. Street, Columbus. Nebraska. novlO-tf carnahan, IMail Dealera in All Kinds ef Saisage a Specialty. Highest market price paid for fat cattle.' north of First National Bank. 39-tf TIE LARGEST AID FIIEST Slid west of Omaha, at GREISEN BROS. The lest manufactories of the conntry represented. Not to bo undersold by anybody. Come and see prices at GREISEN BROS. Toto is the BMstFBAOTZOAI 8HOS ever Invested. UIs very OMMXUX and D: the rinTTrr-rrMrniahnnt nrnnir nitf a w?fh mp w(&& v M Ml vw MfzJ) MJK. JakW JMf aLLLI bh PLVa4aaV convenient to put oa and the top can be adjMlBd ts St any ankle by almply awnlag the ealtoaa GREISEN BROS. istkOct. c-t r 1 J 7 w
