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I 1 51 f ' -. W Pi w S ii 'nwnrf nTifttummn 2.ftG.2i .-.-.-,. 4f .-.. ixhuub its f crnrual- Entered at the Post-office, Columbus. Neb., as econd-clasu mail matter. ISSUED KYEBY WEDNESDAY BT M. K. TURNER & CO. Columbus, Kel. TKKX8 OF SUBSCniPTION: One year, by mall, pontage preiwid, $2.00 Six months. LJJ Three months layablo in Advance. tr8peciinen copies mailed free, on application. A Word Witk The Bow. It is noticeable that the men who tako the most active part in county pol itics are the ones who make their living by it. The policy of government in' these United States, the ideas upon which our whole system is based, aro opposed to one-man rule, and to the continuance in Nearly every politic! contention that is held in Platte county, of any party name, is liablo to whatever criti cism there is in the following paragraph from the last Humphrey Independent: "We call attention to the fact that at nearly every republican convention in the county there are a number of town one office of the samo person any very J ships that are not represented, and that TO SllESCItlEERB. When eubacriliers change their place of resi dence they bhould at once notify ns by letter or postal card, giving both their former and their present posUoffice.-the first enabled ns to readily nnd the name on our mailing hat, from which, being in tpe, we each week print, either on the wrapper or on the margin of your JOUBNAI the date to which jour MiUtcription is paid or ac counted for. lteraittance should be made either by money-order, registered letter or draft, payable to the ordir of .... , ' M. K. Tubskb & Co. TO OOBBESPONDKSTS. All communications, to secure attention, must le accompanied by the fall name of the writer. We reserve the right to reject any manuscript, and cannot agree to return the same.-Wedeaire a correspondent in every school-district or Platte county, one of good judgment, and re liable in every way. Write plainly, each item separately. Give ns facta. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31. 1887. Coming Event. Omaha Fair, Sept. 510. Soldiers Reunion, Omaha, Sept. 510. Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, Sept 9-16. Fair at Schuyler Sept. 2124. Platte Countv Fair at Columbus, Sept 27-30. Fair at Albion Oct. 46. Republican State Convention, Lin coln, Wednesday, October 5th. Platte county is entited to 6 delegates. Intelligent readers are not drawn to aide issues by the calling of names. The man who lacks argument calls names, and thinks himself brave in so doing. Others are not deceived. Mns. Cleveland and Mrs. Folsom. ac companied by Gen. Greely and wife, ar rived in Washington on the evening of the 24th. The state railroad commission and the B. & M. R. R. officials that have to do with freight rates, have not yet come together. A bad washout was reported the other day on the Union Pacific between Jules burg and Denver. Trains delayed six teen hours. The owners of the fishing schooner Lydia T. Crownwell, of Beverly, have given her up for lost, with a crew of fifteen men. An official report from Rome says the health of the city is excellent. The re Iort that an epidemic is here is declared to be baseless. The coroner's jury in the case of Col. Balicock, of Chicago, who was recently shot and killed, charge Miss Sarah Dodge with tho crime. Pkof. H. S. WniTNEr, of tho Excelsior Academy, on the shore of Lake Minne tonka, was drowned in the lake on tho afternoon of the 25th inst. The democratic party will not make anything by opposing tho soldiers who defended the government against trea son twenty-five years ago. The Daily News of London says that Messrs. Chamberlain and CollingB and half a dozen other unionists will vote in tmpltort of Gladstone's motion. The health commissioner of St. Louis received tho other day rejort8 from two meat inspectors that nearly 100 head of c ittle had died there of Texas fever. Tun report comes from London that the excursion yncht Monarch was cap sized by a squall in the Bristol channel the other day and fifteen persons were drowned. President Cleveland has appointed Alexander McCue, of New York, pres ent solicitor of the treasury, to be com missioner of fish and fisheries, to suc ceed the late Prof. Baird. Petek Gboss, aged 6eventy-four, of East New York, was arrested the other morning for the murder of his wife, Gertrude, aged seventy. Tho couple are charged with hard drinking. Mrs. Fannie Roberts, who was charg ed with receiving $10,000 of the money embezzeled from the Manhattan bank by Lellar Scott, was admitted to bail the other afternoon in the sum of $10,000. The dreaded Texas fever made its ap pearance at the stock yards in Chicago last week. It is its annual visit, but it is later this year than before. The death rate has not been so large as in previous years. A special from Gardner, 111., 6ays: Miss Sarah H. Dodge has been arrested on the charge of being the murderess of Mr. Rabcock, of Chicago, who died from a mysterious pistol shot wound received at Gardner. It is reported at Washington that the Hon. George Lathrop, minister to Rus sia, is on his way home, and will resign. The state department has no official in timation of this, but his friends say the rumor is true. A barn in Topeka, Kan., in which the horses belonging to the police force were kept, was set on fire the other morning, and one man and four horses burned to death. The remains proved to be those of Col. Cravis. Mrs. John A. Whitter, of Denver, CoL, who has been on trial in justice's court for the past two weeks, charged with poisoning her husband, was the other night held in 810,000 to await the action of the grand jury. Burglars broke into the safe in the post-office at Normal, HI., the other night and got away with 31,200 in money and stamps. Two tramps were arrested for the robbery, but were discharged, and now there is no clue to the criminals. It is reported from Cedar Rapids, Ia that the grand chief foreman of the brotherhood of railway section foremen has started a Conghlin protection fund to aid Timothy Conghlin, charged with responsibility for the Chataworth dis aster. ficiKKTisTS are interested in the find ing jte other day in tho excavation for a sewer oo Walnut Hill, Cincinnati, O., of the .flection of the human vertebrae, petrified, of such dimensions as to indi ,cate that it belonged to a race of giants june feet high. great length of time. Thero is, so far as Platte county is concerned, at least, a general feeling that tho personnel of the office-holdings should be changed. The younger men of the party, the township "rustlers," tho activo cam paigners, on whoso individual efforts after all tho political successes mainly depend, the men who have done and who are expected to continue to do the heavy work of the campaign, are getting tired of pulling chestnuts out of the fire for some other fellow, year after year, and they are beginning to kick. They feel the yoke heavy enough, but just how to come at the fodder they are not as yet advised, but they are learning very rapidly. To manage a township is one thing, to command success in a county is a hundred times as difficult, and he who can do it naturally earns the title of "Boss." It takes time; it takes money; it takes a world of bright prom ises, and in the meantime a man must live, and so it happens, generally, that the party generalissimo is a man in office, enjoying the emoluments of a fat position, making himself solid with the floating voters who can readily swallow anything; conciliating political op ponents here and there; keeping his fences in repair generally all along the line. Some philosopher has said that people like to be "bossed," but all men aro not so constituted, and we can plainly see (and we give the information to our friends, tho democratic bosses in Platte county), that the ambitious men of the townships are not satisfied; life is short and to many of them the end may come in a very few years; they have worked for your particular benefit for lo, these many years; you have lived in tine houses; you have worn nice clothes; your wives and your little ones have lived comfortably, and all this is proper enough, it is good, say the cap tains of hundreds, but is it to continue forever? Must we wait until our heads grow gray and you are in your graves, before we reap some reward of all our work, our anxiety and our pains? "Nay, nay," say tho captains, "there is a time and a course for everything. We will now take your places; you cau step up, or you can step out; we have been fed on promises long enough; talk is cheap, and it has been fearfully cheap to many of us; beer and cigars and such are pretty good, but they don't buy the little ones shoes and they don't lift the mortgage off the homestead. Cam paign promises of office-seekers are like lovers' oaths made to be broken, and our future has been discounted once too often already. The ring must now be broken. The timo is fully here. We want it understood that we mean busi ness. As one voter and tax-payer ex pressed it tho other day, 4Wo want an entire new set of furniture at the Court House.'" The Journal is free to say to the Bosses that while they are an exceeding ly clever set of fellows, personally, to continue in office they must adopt a new course. It is well understood that some of you are not candidates at all, this time, and of course our desultory re marks herein have no reference to you, whatever; thoy refer to the old land marks, the habitues of the Court House, whose presence there seems necessary to hold the walls together, the time has evidently come for a new combination, and all or some must step down, for the benefit of the younger blood of the party. Two things in the last Journal seem to have raised the ire of onr esteemed cotemporary, the Democrat, one, that a correspondent, "Farmer," took umbrage at some assertion in regard to the quality of the democracy of the editor of the Democrat, and in showing that said editor was a disappointed seeker for offico at the hands of republicans just a few short weeks before he began the publication of a democratic newspaper; another, that tho Journal, had some comments on the course of the Democrat towards Ed. Newman, a candidate for county superintendent of schools. The Journal, being a family newspaper, passes by the epithets used, as that in which the public have no special con cern. It is not necessary to reiterate that what the Journal said was strictly true, just as we said it "Farmer" can hoe his own row, and seems to know what ho is talking about What he has had to say remains unrefuted, so far. As for the other, the public can judge as well as we. The Democrat made a blunder in that article and no amount of abuse of the Journal for calling especial atten tion to it, can save our esteemed con temporary from the effects of its own folly. The most charitable construction that can be placed upon the matter is that it was written to affect the conven tion towards the nomination of some special friend of the Democrat. As we said last week, under the caption, "Ask all of Them," special acts are justified by special reasons, and if these questions, fired by the Democrat, at Ed. Newman only, among all the candidates for the various offices in the gift of the people of Platte county, have any other reason able grounds for existing, the Journal would be pleased to have any logician point them out. Blunders of the kind the Democrat has made in this case are very easily made by short-ranged intel lects, but not so easily explained, justi fied, or "sponged off." individuals, who have been vested with no authority from the people to repre sent them are given the casting vote of the township by the convention. The practice has led to an indifference about the primaries that is to be deplored, and while we would not debar any town ship from a voice in the convention, yet the custom of the past opens a way for the working of schemes that could not be accomplished should the townships be represented by delegates. Attend the primaries, name your delegates and don't let some candidate for office scour tho town on the afternoon of the conven tion to find a man from your township that will cast the full vote of the town ship in his interests. It leads to a false representation and is in no way carrying out the purposes of our election laws. Be sure and attend the primaries, but if yon don't and the candidate for office is not your choice, don't squeal and cry "ring rule," and "fraud," for by your in difference you aided and abetted, or at least made such things possible." The Democrat claims to be very brave, but fails to show the public (in whose supposed interest its attack on Newman was made), why it does not propound questions to some of the other candidates in regard to their personal habits, thoir character, their question able deals, etc Tho questions could certainly be "asked in good faith," as you say. Your talk about "back bone" may be well enough on your part as mere talk, but the public will 6ee through your assertion "The Democrat wants to see a good man in the office of county superintendent, and is endeavor ing to help the people find one," as the very thinnest of excuses for the attack on Newman. "nn-lnM-M-M-l 2x2T Gen. Clabks, clerk of the house of representatives, has received and had printed tho testimony is eight contested election cases that are to be considered by the next Congress. The testimony only makes nearly 10,000 pages. O'Hara of North Carolina, and Swinburn of New York, who, it is said, will make a contest, have not yet filed notice nor submitted testimony to the clerk. A special has been sent to Govenor Adams, of Colorado, to meet Gen. E. Test at Glenwood Springs immediately. The governor accompanied by several friends, left on the evening of the 25th, for Meeker, to hold a conference with Colorow. The governor stated that he sincerely hopes to be able to induce tho Indians to return to the agency and end the presont trouble. Since the informal caucus of lost Thursday night on 12th street, Mr. Henry Carrig seems to be very far ahead as a candidate for treasurer on the dem ocratic ticket. The habits of only one of the proposed candidates on the dem ocratic ticket seem to be of concern enough to cause the Democrat to seek for information about the samo. New York Sun: The total vote of Kentucky is now reported as exceeding by at least 8,008 the heaviest vote ever polled in past years. The Democratic vote was nearly 8,000 less than Cleve land's in 1884. These facts do not in dicate that the Courier-Journal's theory of Democratic over-confidence and stay-at-homeness is sufficient to account for what was almost a political revolution. "The election in Kentucky," says that able democratic journal, the Nashville American, "gives the Democracy of the South fair warning. If ever a question had a fair trial, the 'Kentucky idea' had in the late election." The Northern Pacific railroad compa ny, by its attorney, has filed with the secretary of the interior an application for a rehearing in the matter of revoca tion of orders of withdrawal of its in demnity lands, so far as that revocation applies to selections by the company al ready on record, and to future selections which it will hereafter have to make. 'Buxdb 1. To mistake grossly; to err widely or stupidly. 2. To move without direc tion or steady guidance; to plunge at an object; to move, speak, write with sudden and blind Precipitance; as, to blunder upon a reason; to blunder round a meaning." Webster. J The meeting of the Republican County Central Committee last Wednesday was the largest that we remember in several years. We print elsewhere the call for a county convention issued by the com mittee. It is always desirable that the members of a political party turn out in force to the primaries or caucusses as it is here where starts the stream of in fluence that is mainly responsible for what follows in the way of results. Be sides, when you attend the primary and do your best to secure good men and representative Republicans on the del egation from your township, you have begun to do your duty as a thinking, responsible unit of the great party to which you belong, and have full right to freely comment on any action taken by your party conventions. Let every Re publican turn out to the primaries. The civil service commission has re ceived from the secretary of war re quests for the certification of 212 elig ibles, all males, from which fifty-three selections may be made, to fill vacancies now existing in his office eight in the 81,200 grade and forty-five in the 81,000 grade. This is the largest requisition ever made upon the commission, and to fill it at least four certificates were made from each of the states and terri tories. The appointments are low-grade positions, made vacant by promotion of clerks, under the new rules governing promotions in the departments. The great champion of Ireland's rights was received with rounds of ap plause an the 25th inst, when he arose to move his resolution. Gladstone said the Irish viceroy, in declaring that the league had incited to violation, must have acted on information, but where was that information? The Irish chiefs had a right to demand to know the ground upon which the government had acted. Forty liberal members of the Commons resolve to support the Nation al league. TnE middle section of Sandy creek bridge ten miles east of Denver, was washed out the other night by a flood. The east bound Union Pacific Express was wrecked at the bridge. Engineer Maaterson and two or three other train men were seriously injured. Tho fireman jumped before the engine dropped in to the creek, and says that neither himself nor the engineer noticed that the bridge was gone until they were almost upon it. Civil Service Commissioner Oberlt has transmitted to President Cleveland his review of the two conflicting reports of his colleagues on the Chicago post office and custom house investigation. He concurs in general with the views of Lyman, and combats the position of Edgerton on three points of difference, assigning as reasons for removals, the authority of institute investigations and the utility of civil'-service reform leagues. Mr. Bright, in a letter supporting the crimes act, says: "No government would risk the unpopularity arising from such a measure unless convinced that it was necessary. Referring to Gladstone he says: "No minister has done more for Ireland, and I am often almost ready to think that, in despair, he is willing to hand them over in the future to the tender mercies of the men who gave him so much trouble during his tenure of office in 1880:1." A fight iB reported from Glenwood Springs by a man who lives in that vi cinity as having taken place between Kendall's and a band of Indians. Dep uty Sheriff Jack Ward was killed; some were seen to fall and were carried off the field. So far as known the fight was stopped by darkness, and it was thought would certainly be resumed by daylight. George Ktjizeb, aged 15 years, was caught in the belt and whirled about a shaft at the rate of 180 revolutions per minute, at Weaver, Thomas & Kirk's shoe factor the other morning, at Ro chester, N. Y. One arm and his entire clothing were wound about the shaft, and the denuded body fell lifeless to tho floor below. Douglas F. Cablin, chief clerk of the Cheyenne agency, was married on the 26th, to Madien Duprost, the wealthiest Indian heiress on the Sioux reservation. Carlin is closely connected with promi nent army officers and with tho Carlins of Illinois. Over 1,000 persons witness ed the ceremony, and the festivities will last three days. An emigrant train coming west on the B. & O. road the other morning ran into a freight train not far from Wheeling, W. Va. The engineer and flroman of the emigrant train were killed and the engineer and fireman of the other train and fifteen emigrants were seriously but not fatally hurt. It is announced at Atlanta, Ga., that a new paper, to be called the Daily World, is to be started thero within two weeks. It is said to be strong anti Cleveland, and the funds upon which it is to subsist have been furnished by the political friends of Gov. Hill of New York. The health officers of the board at Cincinnati, O., the other day notified the board that Texas fever had broken out among the cattle at Fleishman's distil lery at Riverside, and that seven had died and twenty more were now sick with the disease. The board has order ed a quarantine. At Wheeling, W. Va., on tho 25th at the meeting of the society of tho Army of West Virginia, Maj. Gen. George Crook was elected president for the en suing year. Among tho many vice pres idents are ex-President Hayes and Gen eral W. S. Rosecrans. George Smiley, a brakoman on No. 6 passenger train from Red Cloud to Lin coln, was horribly crushed between the bumpers while coupling the air brake in the Crete yards the other day. It is thought he may recover but it is very doubtful. John Brown, a strange Englishman at Lincoln, was mistaken the other night for a burglar and received a bad shot in the arm, which sent him down street at a lively pace, crying murder at the top of his voice. He had the bullet ex tracted and will get well. Thomas Rook has been captured and confessed to the killing of John and Frank Newer, but claims it was done in self-defenso. John Newer leaves a wife and three children, well provided for, a widowed mother, one brother and three sisters. Frank was a single man. Falls City has Iwen visited recently by burglars. There have lieon soveral houses Altered, and two or three where they wcro scared away; the extent of the plunder so far has been a gold watch at one place, J. R. Cain's; while at P. M. Gilbert's they got a small package of silver ware that had been left on the table. Another accident happened on tho Elkhorn road the other afternoon, caused by a stock train running into a dummy car loaded with iron. The en gine and seven cars were demolished, instantly killing the fireman, Bert Lit tle, and severely injuring Engineer Trusty. The train was in charge of Conductor Hines. The accident oc curred just west of Ainsworth. Old man Mastennan was chloroformed tho other night at Lincoln and robbed of a watch and small amount of money. He is over SO years old, and is the last person in the world that a sensible bur glar would tiunK or robbing, as ue is quite a ioor man. It was a fiendish deed by some inhuman wretch, which is very apt to result in the victim's death. We have more particulars of the ter rific hail storm Saturday, Aug. 20, at Falls City and vicinity. It passed through Richardson county from west to east, destroying all the apples, grapes and peaches in the path of the storm, which was alxnit six miles wide. Late corn was greatly damaged, and in some localities entirely ruined. Falls City cannot replace the broken glass for 31,500, and every tin roof was pounded full of holes and will have to be re placed. Tho Schuyler Herald gives these par ticulars of the suicide mentioned in last week's Journal: A Bohemian by the name of Nacek Dlouhy committed sui cide at Clarkson Sunday evening at about seven o'clock. When found he was hanging to a rafter in the upper story of his residence. He had of late been having trouble with his family, and also trouble about money matters. He had been a resident of Adams precinct for about ten years, living on a farm. He moved to Clarkson about a year ago, since which time ho has been working at whatever he could got to do. He leaves a wife and four small children iu very poor circumstances. The particulars in regard to the mur der of the Newer Bros., are being brought to light. The Seward Blade says: On Sunday last a dance and pic nic was held on the farm of George Nower, ten miles southwest of Friend, in Fillmore county. John and Frank Newer, brothers of George, one a saloon keeper in Friend and the other in Wes tern, hail several kegs of beer on the grounds, and u number of men were drunk. Some railroad graders from the Rock Island road were there, and it is stated that they attempted to steal a keg of beer, which started a row, resulting in John and Frank Newer both being shot dead. There has beeu a good deal of complaint about theso Sunday picnics and only two weeks ago a serious riot was averted only by a mere scratch. It is not known positively who did the shooting. In the excitement of tho moment no one seems to have spotted tho man who used his gun with such deadly effect. The tragedy has created great excitement, and it is very probable that there will be no more Sunday pic nics in that locality soon, in which dancing, beer and righting forms the main feature. It is claimed that a flow of both oil and gas has been discovered near St. Paul, Minn. The find was made two weeks ago, and the parties making it hnvo employed the intervening time in securing 'leases on all land in the im mediate vicinity. No news has yet been received at Glenwood Springs from Sheriff Kendall and possee of seventy-five men who left there the other morning to arrest two Indians indicted for horse stealing, and fears are entertained for their safety. At Monroeville, Pa., the other after noon while tho men were repairing the joint in the main pipe, the gas became ignited from a lamp. The explosion which followed killed one and seriously burned two others. Straw Straws. An enormous league demonstration was held at Dublin, the other day at which the speeches of John Dillon and William O'Brien were filled with de fiance of the government's proclamation. Mr. O'Brien declared that no Irishman was worth his salt if he don't trample the proclamation under foot. Head vised calmness in the presence of grave provocation, but at the same time coun seled firmness. Fire broke out the other day in the composing room of the Herald, organ of the liberal party in the Dominion, and in a few minutes spread over the entire building, in Montreal, which was totally destroyed, as was the warehouse of Shorely & Co., adjoining. It is suppos ed that three compositors were lost who were in the composing room at the time the floor gave way. The loss is over half a million dollars, partly insured. The Lindsay Sentinel is democratic and voices the sentiment of the demo crats of that section of the county: Columbus flashes up three candidates for sheriff, Humphrey two and Lindsay one all democrats. Give Columbus the clerk, treasurer, sheriff and judge and what is left? Will the democrats of the county pronounce this a fair division? We can see consid erable pork about such an arrangement The north end of Platte county will assert its rights at the coming county convention with a vehemence that will attract attention, at least Our people are tired of being a cat's paw and de mand a small very small too portion of the spoils. Appearances forebode a lively tussle among the shoulder strikers over the nomination for county treasurer. The newspapers of the county have shown little interest in the matter thus far, but will doubtless waken up in due time, NEBRASKA NOTES. Somebody said that the republican gains in Kentucky were owing to the fact that the vote was light and demo crats in large numbers stayed at home; then somebody proved that the Vote was larger than any ever before cast in the state and the democratic majority the smallest since the war. As the Seward Blade remarks, there is something ex hilerating in these facta. Governor Thayer visited Sterling last week. Eighty new residences have been built at Plattsmouth the present year. The traders' store at the Winnebago agency was burned one day last week. Work on the new soldiers' home at Urand island is said to be progressing well. Wm. Stevens will have thirty or forty bushels of Concord grapes on his farm this season. Schuyler Herald. The trial of Richardson for the killing of Willard, at Loup City last week, re sulted in a verdiot of not guilty. Seward's oat meal mill is to be 50x60 feet --d four stories high, the first of stone, the other three of brick. The present valuation of Nebraska is $170,506,266, an increase 816,000,000 over last year and of 867,000,000 over 1880. The reunion at Norfolk last week was a big success notwithstanding the dis agreeable weather a part of the time. They had a jolly time and a big crowd, camp-fires, speech-making, etc. W. W. Cox in the Soward Blade gives the following bit of reminiscences, which will doubtless be of interest to many of our readers: "We in company with Dar win Peckham (now of Lincoln) com menced making salt at the great basin August 20, 1861. We pre-empted one of the log cabins and batched it during tho fall. Salt was very scarce and high in price, and of necessity great numbers of people came to the basin to scrape salt They came from all the settled portions of the territory, from Kansas, Missouri and as far east as central Iowa. Upon our first visit in July there was but a dim track up and down the creek, and as we viewed the site of the future city we had the exciting pleasure of seeing a large herd of antelope running across just above where the Government square is. This was our first, but not the last view of the beautiful antelope. We forded Salt Creek just by the junction of Oak with the main creek, and what a struggle we had making onr way through the tall sunflowers between the ford and the basin. The basin was perfectly smooth and resembled a slab of polished clouded marble. When we returned later we found the road well broken by pilgrims who were in serch of salt Go ing for salt in those days was like going fishing it was all in luck. If the weath er was perfectly dry they would get plenty of salt, for it could be scraped up by the wagon load, but three minutes' rain would end the game. We have seen a drove of men that came a full hundred miles and just arrive in time to see a shower of rain clear all the salt off in a moment and leave them to hold an empty sack. We found a goodly num ber at the basin when we arrived and they were holding an empty sack, for it had rained and the basin was black as ink. We remember Milton Langdon was among the number of disconsolate pilgrims. The next morning all except our party pulled out and we were "mon archs of all we surveyed.". We built a small furnace, made a salt pan and went to boiling salt So for the next drove of pilgrims we had salt to sell or trade them. Some would bring sorghum pans to boil salt, and when they would get tired or get enough we would trade salt for their pans and all their spare pro visions, wiien tne weatner was dry many would 6crape much more than they could haul. This we would trade them out of, giving them about 25 cents per hundred in boiled salt at 82 per hundred. In dry times we would accu mulate a mountain of scraped salt, and when the first rain would came our scrapings would be worth from 50 cents to 31. Pilgrims would grab for it They would bring all manner of provisions; meat, flour, chickens, potatoes and fruit, to trade for salt Some would go to the groves and cut and haul wood to trade; others would haul up a pile of wood and then rent a furnace and fixtures for the night and work all night and make a little salt. So we had furnaces to rent. salt to sell, scrapings to sell, and flour. meat and almost everything in the eat ing line. It was a lively time, for hun dreds were coming and going continual ly. We remember some distinguished visitors of that season, among whom were Hon. O. P. Mason, Hon. P. W. Hitchcock, afterwards United States Senator, and His Excellency, Alvin Saunders, then governor of the territory, and many others of lesser note. Washington Letter. From our regular correspondent.) Secretary Lamar's decision referring to settlement of the indemnity lands that were granted by Congress to the Atlantic & Pacific railroad company has come to be regarded as a political deal, designed for the double purpose of help ing the waning fortunes of Cleveland and conciliating the settlers upon pub lic lands, whom the ruinous and short sighted policy of Commissioner Sparks has offered almost beyond measure. That the railroads and others affected by the order will not surrender without a great fight is clear, and so the mis guided settlers who squat" upon these lands will find to their sorrow that they have been involved in interminable liti gation with wealthy corporations. But, what cores Cleveland for tho woes of the poor squatters, if he can only make some cheap political capital that will tempo rarily serve his purpose in ambitionfng a second term. The report of the appointments of postmasters during this administration shows that the democratic spoilsmen have gained a rich harvest in this field of "reform." It showB that for the last fiscal year, 3,048, new post offices were established; number discontinued, 1,500; appointments or resignations and com missions expired, 5,863; on removals and suspensions, 2S4; on change of names and sites, 482; on deaths of postmasters, 589. The whole number of appoint ments of postmasters of all grades dur ing the year was 13,079. The total num ber of appointments during the years ires and 188b was 22,747 and 9,547, re spectively, making a total of 46,378 for the three years. This is a pretty near approach to a clean sweep, and the few republicans who are still in office will likely have to go out in another year. The cordial endorsement of Mr. Blaine by the Pennsylvania republican state convention is recived with great satis faction by a host of his ardent admirers at the capital, who claim that this movement now puts the Maine states man on his feet neck and neck with the Ohio senator in the great presidential race of 1888. That Senator Sherman and Mr. Blaine are at present the two most popular and prominent candidates in the republican party goes without say ing, and with the remarkable staying qualities possessed by both, it iB highly Erobable that each will run until the ome stretch is reached, when one of them will perhaps be led ont to distance Cleveland in the great sweepstakes. Since writing you last, the Secretary of the Navy has taken other important steps in constructing the navy, by award ing the contract for building two gun boats and three steel cruisers, of the latest improved modern designs with the fullest speed, capacity and general equipment The secretary has also given an English company the prize of 815,000 authorized by Congress for the best design of a torpedo boat, and the probability is that such a destructive vessel will at no distant day be added to the navy. After tedious delays, the trial of Dr. Crawford, of the Navy, on the charge of fornication with a school girl of fourteen has ended in his conviction in two courts, with a sentence of six months in the District jail for each offense, but. on appealing the case to the Supreme court of the District, he was released on bail of 81,000. The confiding victim of this lecherous dude masquerading in blue uniform and brass buttons, has been spirueu away, ana ner auode is a mys tery. If the fallen surgeon does not re sign from the Navy, he will probably be court-martialed. Great science drooped its head in sor row when the light faded from the weary eyes of the genius of the world noted Smithsonian Institute, Spencer F. Baird. This devotee of science, though one of the ripest scholars of the age, was a life-long student in the pro fession to which he dedicated himself in early life with a passionate devotion only quenched by the shadow of the grave itself. Prof. Baird who was chiefly in strumental in establishing and bring ing to its present proportions tho Unit ed States Fish Commission, and for that beneficent work, which will be associat ed with his memory throughout many years, the Americans owe the dead scien tist a debt of gratitude that should lie perpetuated in towering marble. "Veri ly his works do follow him," for millions of silvery fish that sport and sparkle in in our limpid, laughing waters are the bright evangels of his fame. Nicelv browned with mealy potatoes these fish are very good eating. EKNST & SCHWAEZ, MAN UFACTUKEItS AN D DEALKKS IN 2T 1 t Bd vT ." w W MP r i tv f LLt M m ET E . isIwpte BS5B8iBl5Wrfe3H- I I !.' 7 '" ' ' ' -- -TT --- - --l K-Tf j2? SUPERB LAMP FILLER AND COAL OIL CAN COMBINED, UfLf-i. e ...... . . ... . -mm .r u), iwaiiencu, cwaaaarw ana simplicity, cannot Ik eicelled It iiilwulii imple-t principle- in philo-ophj and tabu the rank aU, ill Lai,, Viller, No danLTo? Lx ploHion? Ab.lute arety.guHrantil. No m.illiug. utii.g ,.r drippiu on.n , llTrWr tj& orouUido of can. Uelt onceandyou will not be without it for n,.tiiue itaMt Itworkaln large can- u well a small ones thereby saving the fmjuent and annoj lag trio to 7lo MtZ wU mall can. Every can made of the very Ix-st tin. and uarrntod to rk ' "fc.rorilr (!! namile can and et sriceH. wwm.iunij. ajiaaimtm .- F3i '??;SiiHE TiiJ-algMaxyJ-. -t? !i 0HSabN - - - ifcrt.rav- Jf t --l5 -if "cfk?-T "!,!5iE "iT-"1' --"!;-ti' -, GMLMO STOVES AND RANGES ALWAYS FOK SALE AT EBIST SCHfAiZS BAKER PERFECT STEEL B A RB WIRE. tIfyoubuyityoaKotlOOrodof fencefrom 10U ixmrnN of wire, which no other will do.5 ERNST & SCHWARZ. i.'jt :-:;mv: :.i.:-i.:: & so. Have a Fine Lino of Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, Crockery and Glassware, Which were bought cheap for cvbh, ;uul will bo sold at itv low prices. Eleventh Street, Columbus. Nebraska. novlO-tf Central Committee Meeting. The Republican Central Committee for Platte connty met Wednesday Aug. 24th, 2 p. in., at the Jocknat., office. On motion of Ed. Hoare, J. L. Truman of Woodville was selected as chairman, and on motion of L. Qerrard, J. I. Robi son of Granville was chosen secretary. The townships represented were as follows: Butler, Chris. Meedel; Co lumbus, L. Gerrard; third ward, city, J. Rasmussen; Humphrey, M. C.BIoedorn; Granville, J. I. Robison; Lost Creek, Ed. Hoare; Woodville, J. L. Truman. On motion of L. Gerrard, the repre sentation at the county convention was made the same as last year, and the chairman and secretary authorized to prepare the call. There was some discussion as to place of holding the county convention, and day for primaries, tho result being as contained in the call, published else where in today's Journal. Repabliraa Convention. The republican electors of Platte county are hereby called to meet in con vention at the Court House in Columbus on Friday, Sept. 30, 1887, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of placing in nomi nation one county treasurer, county clerk, county sheriff, county judge, county coroner, county superintendent of schools, county surveyor, clerk of the district court, and six delegates to the state, and six delegates to the judicial convention and for the transaction of such other bnsiness as may properly come before the convention. The sev eral townships are entitled to represent ation as follows: ColumbtM 1st Ward, 2u 3d " Township, Grand Prairie Lost Creek Shell Creek BatJer Bismarck Monroe " Walker Humphrey " Granville Creaton Barrows Woodville Ht. Bernard Hherman Loop " Joliet 5 The caucuses to be held at the usual voting places on Friday, Sept. 23, at 2 o'clock p. m. By order of County Central Commit tee. J. L. Trtjman, Chairman, J. I. Robison, Secretary. Mckinley & carnahan, MmTGE SMOJUBBSm COLUMBUS, NEB. Money to loan on improved farms in this and adjoining counties, at current rates. 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. juiyi-raitr 5 Delt'KateH. 7 8 6 2 8 3 4 S H 11 3 3 4 J -t 1 4 SPEICE & ISTORTH, General Agent for the sale of E3ST,T X2EX Union Pacific and Midland Pacific It. K. Kind for wile at from $3.00 to J 10.00 ir aero for cah or on neor ten jt-un, time, innnuuul iiiutant toMiit piirchaHt-rx. Wir liaittHlxoa lnrKfaud choice lot of other landH. iiiiiroit-d ami unimprowii, fortvilctit low price und on rt-unonnbfo term. Alao busineittt and n-iioeuc lot in the cit. We ktf a complete tilmtntctof titlt to all real eittato iu Platto County. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. " W. T. RICKLY& BRO. Wholesale nnd lU.-tuil Dealers in (Jawe, Poaltry, and Fresh Fish. All Kinds of Sansage a Specialty. f('aeh paid for Hides, I'eltn, Tallow. HfcheHt market price iaid for fat cattle.; Olive Street, second door north of First If ational Bank. su-tf Nip and tuck Struggling with a boarding-house steak. The Bilioa, dyspeptic, constipated, should address with 10 cents in b tamps for treatise, World's Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. St. John at last honestly states that it is not rum which he is righting at pres ent so much as it is the republican par ty. DraakeBBeM or the Liqaor Habit Positively Cared by Admiaiitteriag Dr. Haines' Uoldea Specllc. 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 or 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 Absolute Care for KIieniiiatiHm. Dyeicsbckg, Tenn.,Feb. 22 1887. Gentlemen In 1883 1 had a severe at tack of rheumatism. It attacked me most in my arms and legs. The latter were drawn up, and when I could uulk I had to go all bent over. Finally, I went to Hot Springs, Ark., where I re mained several weeks. I was benefited and thought I was well, und came home. On-my arrival homo it developed again. I then took a course or S. S. S., using three dozen liottleH. They thoroughly cured me, and from that day to this I have been perfectly free from rheiima tism. I regard S. S. S. as nbbolute in tho cure of rheumatism, and a perfect blood purifier. I think it the best medicine iu the world, and if I can help it I never expect to use any other. It is a splendid general medicine, cleansing out tho ss tern, and thus getting at the root of most diseases. J. D. Caktek. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer li, At lanta, (in. TIE LABEEST 111 FIIEST STOCK - west of Omaha, at GREISEN BROS. The lnHt manufactories of the country represented. Not to h undersold by anybody. Come and seo prices at GREISEN BROS. To all whom it may concern: The commissioner appointed to uew and re port upon the practicability of the location ofa public rourt commencing at the northwest cor ner of the .southeast quarter 04) of ;-eetiini .'!!, township 17, north, ofnmuel, west ami rim ning thence due north on the half (14) section line, to the north hneofaid section 31 thence due west on .section line and terminating at the norlhtveht corner of .section Xt, touiixhlp 17. north of numc 1 west. lus reported in f.tor thereof, and all objections thereto, or claims for damages caused by the location thereof, must be Hied iu the county clerk's office on or before noon of the 'Jith day of October, A. I). 18X7, or such location will he made without re ference thereto. John SrAUKKKK, County Clerk. I Dated, Columbus, Xeb., Aug. la. 1S7. 3-tt H k il Vl ! B ifBlll t0CKF0tO jBr tab CoanjVH Otm L Tbtofa tbe no PRACTICAL BZi 8HOB ever lnTeatod. itlseryOKNTXSbaBd D: I-OTJT the MmaprotecdoaaaabootoroTer-griUr. tia convenient to pat oa and the top eaa beatfl ta atanranklebyalmpIymTl'gt1ilTfraTtnii - GREISEN BROS; 13th Oct. t6-tf i Ji' -sr-y- u&rr .,----...- !gS -