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" - s P II hi i m i-e i m jylumtms Immml. Entered at tho Post-orKce. Coluniuus, Neb., as second-class mail matter. ISSUED KVEI1Y WEDNESDAY BY M. K. TURNER & CO., Columtous ?Col. TEBMS OF SOBSCBimOX: One year, by mail, ixwtnge prepaid. $2.00 Six months. r Three mouths " Payable in Advance. J2Tgpecimeu copies mailed free, on applica tion. TO SUBSCBIBEBS. When subscribers change their pl"f -denceUiey should at once notify us by letter or postal card, Riving both their former and their lntiffioo.-the first enables us to readily find the name on our mailinshbt, from winch, beinc in tjpe. we each week print, either on the Sramwr or on U.e margin of sour. Journal, the date to which jour subscription u paid or ac counted for. llemittances should l)e made either bv money-order, registered letter or draft, payabletotheorderof ilmKmTaa3mco. TO COBBESrONDESTS. All communications, to secure attention, must bo accompanied by the full name of the writer. We rwservd tho right to reject any manuscript, and cannot agree to return tho same. We aesire a correspondent in ever' school-district of Platte county, one of good judgment, anil re liable in every way Write plainly, each item neiiarately. Give us facts. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEK 19. 1S37. Republican State Ticket. For Judge of the Supreme Court, SAMUEL MAXWELL, of Dodge. For Kegenta of the 8tate University, tor wJa DAVI8t of Uwi Willow. GEOIIGE UOBEUTS. of Knox. Republican Judicial Ticket. Forjudges Fourth Judicial District, A. M. POST. WM. MAUSHALL. Republican Coaty Ticket. For Treasurer. ..., GUS.G.BECHE1L For Clerk, HENRY KICKEKT. M. C. BLOEDORN. For Sheriff. For Clerk oj tho Districturt, For County Judfo.DDsoj For Superintendent of Public Instruction, L. J. CRAMER. Fr8urVeiGrE0RGES. TRUMAN. For Coroner, jschug Maukace Stakosch, trainer of Mme. Patti, is dead. Tiros. C. Maxxixo minister to Mexico, lies at the Fifth avenue hotel in a dying condition. Jules Romdoux, :i son of tho founder of St. Joseph, Mo., died very suddenly the other day at tho Union depot of hoart disease. The remains of General Kilpat rick, ac companied by his family, arrived in New York on the evening of the 12th inst., from Aspinwall. AsTEAMnuowned b tho Morrel com pany was wrecked the other night in the Hay of Borneo, and twenty-two pas sengers drowned. It is stilted lit Baden Baden that the emperor of Brazil has announced his in tention of abdicating his throne on ac count of ill health. It will lo a good plan for republicans to attend strictly to their own election affairs, and permit democrats to divert their attention from all their election duties. Two moke deaths the other night from cholera on Swinburne Island. This brings tho total number of deaths up to twenty -eight since tho Alesia left Medi terranean ports. 1'etei: Hughs, of St. Joseph, Mo., a very hard character, quarreled with his father tho other morning and in the meleo stabbed the old man in tho side, inflicting a fatal wound. Stxsox Burton and Win. Dietz were repairing a. natural gas pipe in Mar wood's ropo factory at Martin's Ferry, when an explosion occurred and both men were fatally burned. George Frances Train was a little bit smarter than the mayor of Chicago thought ho was, and when heard from turned up at Springfield, 111., outside of tho mayor's jurisdiction. Another death from cholera occurred at Swineburn Island on the 12th inst. It was a child eighteen months old who came from Naples on the steamship Alasia. Nine patients still remain on tho island. Another Chatsworth railroad horror occurred on the Chicago & Atlantic rail road sixty miles west of Chicago, near Kouts station. Seventeen passengers were killed and burned in the wreck, and from twenty-five to thirty were more or loss injured. Erxte Coxx, a little son of Geo. Conn aged seven years, of Sutton, Neb., the other day playfully caught on to a freight train as it was slowly passing tho depot and was thrown under the wheels and fearfully mangled and almost in stantlv killed. There is not a single bad man on the republican ticket all are positively good, well qualified, having, indeed, all the Jeffersonian requirements for good officials, they are honest, capable and faithful. No man who votes for them will ever regret it. Word comes from Ennis by way of Dublin that the prisoners under ex amination for complicity in the murder of Constable Wheelen were, on the testi mony of Callinan, tho informer, com mitted for trial and bail refused. The populaco cheered tho prisoners as they were led back to jail. Advices to the Associated Press at New York indicate widespread area of low temperature. Snow fell on the 12th inst., at Quebec, Conjoharie, N. Y., and Middleburg, Vt-, and frost was experi enced on tho night of the 11th inst, as far south as Port Gibson, Miss. The Democrat says: The county has been calling for a representative man for the office" referring to sheriff. That is true, very true, and a man who has held that office, and is confessedly not "a representative man," should not be placed in charge of the treasury of the county, Wakbasts were issued the other day from Stevens Point, Wis., for the arrest of seven more parties for alleged com plicity in the murder of Albert Buelow, of Buena Vista, four months ago. Four of tho men, all neighbors of the late" Buekw,.have been arrested and broughfr to Stevens Point, but the officiate were unable to find the other three. ffj&saiJtifjjBUj&biiiBajmuk &gK&S2ZSi Mr. Kavauaugfc. The Lindsay Sentinel, an organ of tho Kavanaugh clique of democrats, has something to say to the Journal, and the Democrat of this place, another or gan of the Kavanaugh clique.qnotes the Sentinel article, styling it "Weighty Words of Wisdom." We have space to notice only one or two features of tho article. First, the assertion that Ilenry C. Carrig, if he had been nominated for treasurer, "would have received the same scoring that is being so generously ac corded to D. C. Kavanaugh." This is not true, because Mr. Carrig is a differ ent style of man, altogether. The Senti vel and the Democrat ought to have shown better judgment than to chal lenge public scrutiny of Mr. Kavan augh's record as an official. Tho Jour xal does not deal in "chaff' of any kind, has always been slow to make accusa tions against public officers,kuowing v.el that in the estimation of the public they are more sinned against that sinning, but to meet this challenge and settle the matter, outside of assertions by newspapers, will make the following PROPOSAL TO KAVAXAUGn's PARTISAN'S. If we prove, by tho affidavits of truth ful democrats of Platte county and by the affidavits of truthful republicans of Platte county that D. C. Kavanaugh, while holding tho office, of sheriff of Platte county, has, by his conduct, done that which would be the cause of im peachment and removal from office, then Mr. Kavanaugh is to resign the office he now holds and withdraw his name from the ticket on which ho is running. Mr. Editor of the Lindsay Sentinel and Mr. Editor of the Columbus Demo crat, will you blow this "chaff" off the barn floor? Shall we proceed with the affidavits? Will you accept the condi tions? This will settle the matter with out the public being required to take the word of a newspaper organ. "Wx. O'BniEN is all that could be asked for the position." Thus 6peaks tho last Democrat con cerning the nominee on the Kavanaugh ticket for county judge. All who know Mr. Hudson, the repub lican nominee, and Mr. O'Brien can readily see that tho above talk of the Democrat is mere buncombe. Tho editor of the Democrat knows better. Mr. O'Brien "may bo all that could be asked for tho position" by Kavanaugh and the clique of democrats who swear by him, and who, for one reason and another, cling to his coat tails, but he certainly is not "all that could be asked for" by the people of this county who do their own thinking, and aro independent enough to do their o n voting. Thero aro scores upon scores of democrats iu Platte county who do not believe that it is well to allow such a man lo follow Mr. Speice in that office. Where party fealty is appealed to, it should be done with a great deal lets exhibition of "cheek" than is manifest in this case. When those who manage party poli tics liecome lost to tho requirements of the public service, and misrepresent the people in their selection of candidates, they have no right to plead fealty to party. Tho Kavanaugh ticket, the Journal undertakes to say, does not, in several important parts, (and this, one of them), represent tho wish of the democracy of Platte county. Martin C. li'oedorn. The republican nominee for sheriff, was born in Wisconsin, May 27th, 1S57, and came to Nebraska in4SG9. Since the age of eleven, therefore, Martin has been a resident of Plntte county. By trade, Mr. Bloedorn is a black smith and machinist. In 18S0 he went into business in Humphrey, in tho blacksmith and implement business, in which he is now engaged. Mr. Bloedorn is a well-behaved, in telligent gentleman, as kind-hearted as can be, but one who, knowing his duty, would perform it, which is a quality in executive officers that is 6T untold value to communities. Those who by nature, by inclination or by association go to the "bad," are apt to avoid the city or the county that is watched over by a vigilant official, and thus many a dollar uselessly expended in the prosecution of criminals is saved to tho tax-payer. Prevention is always better than cure, and a sheriff, ever ready to do his duty, will save Platte county more than his wages every year. As much as possible tho voter should be personally acquainted with the man he helps place in power, and we advise all who havo the opportunity to make the acquaintance of Mr. Bloedorn. Campaign Lies. Republicans, it is already apparent that the current campaign in this county is to be ono of unusual activity on tho part of our political enemies, and it docs seem as though nothing will-be so low that some of them will not resort to it. We shall keep this paragraph stand ing during the campaign to bo added to, as the campaign proceeds. Nail these lies to the counter. That Becher will forecloso all the mortgages he has taken as loan agent, in case he is not elected treasurer. That Henry Carrig will be Kavanangh's deputy, if K. is elected. That Bloedorn is a sot. No more competent man than Wm. O'Brien could have been named for the office of county judge. Columbus Dem ocrat, Oct. IS, 1887. D. Frank Davis, editor. A retort comes from London the other day that tho first Englishman had turned up with a request to be allowed to ride ono of the bucking horses. He gave his name as Captain Byron Wood, of the Royal Marines, and stated he had ridden similar cattle in Australia. After an interview with Colonel Cody, he was introduced to "North Platte," one of the least vicious of the buckers. Captain Wood succeeded in getting a mount, but in a few seconds was thrown heavily. Picking himself up, he pluckily essayed the feat again, but unsuccessfully. The hearts of tho cowboys were completely won by tho gallant captain, who was made the guest of the camp the whole of that day. The trial took place in the arena during the morning, and not bo fore on audience. The secretary of the interior has re quested the attorney general to institute criminal proceedings against Jess Lee hall, agent for the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Indians in Indian territory, upon charges of malfeasance in office. Leehall's .defalcation will, it is stated rechf20y)00 to $30,brxT -"---H- - A very dear old-time friend of the Journal writes us: "Monopoly is not adding to the cheer of poorer homesyand strikes are poor lanip-UghterB. Why don't our countrymen rise up and oppose En glish monopolists and foreign 'pauper emi grants? Our children should have .a chance in their own country, but willthej?" The last five years has added much to the knowledge of the American people. Five years of public discussion, five years of light on economic questions, five years of trying to find out just where the shoe pinches, and how hard the pinch is, has not been without effect oven on political parties, which like all immense bodies, change motion only when they have to do so. The main practical trouble is that men allow themselves to be deceived, wheedled out of doing what they know ought of right to be done. The people's real friends aro not always upheld. The railroad line, for an instance, runs directly through both great, political parties, and the railroads are thus able to secure their ends because they divide and con quer. The gospel of pretence is now in vogue, and it "was the success or this that sent so many pretended Van Wyck men to the last legislature, who never even harbored a wish that in any pos sibility he should be re-elected to rep resent Nebraska in the U. S. senate. To show that it is not a mere party mat ter ex-Senator Thurman of Ohio, the best democrat now known to the public, was relegated to private life by similar tactics. The people must find better ways of executing their will or else soon bo "slaves to a horde of petty tyrants." The Illinois river improvement con vention at Peoria concluded its labors on the morning of the 12th inst., and ad journed sine die. The improvements contemplated by the action of this con vention will bo to connect 1,660 milos of river and 700 miles of lake navigation. When accomplished it will greatly in crease our commercial possibilities and strengthen our national defenses. The sixth resolution passed by the conven tion more fully explains, its object. It reads, "Sixth That we cordially en dorse the proposed canal connecting Lake Michigan with the upper Missis sippi river, via Hennepin to said river, at or near Rock Island, as a natural under taking of great importance to producers in tho west and shippers in the east, and earnestly commend it to Congress and tho people of the United States as a na tural water way to be properly acted upon." Gov. Foraker and party near Zanes ville, O., had a narrow escape from death. A new switch had been put- in on the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley rail road; at the Midland pottery company, as tho train ran over the rails spread and tho governor's car and'another car ran off, stopped just on the edge of a steep embankment on the edge of a deep creek. Siv inches more anil lwth cars would havo gone down. Tho governor and party-were taken out of a window of tho car and a special train took them to Zanesville, where the governor de livered an adress and returned to Co lumbus at midnight. John B. Owens, the messenger men tioned in the dispatch from Little Rock as probably being concerned in the re cent roblery of the Pacific express on the Iron Mountain railroad, has been arrest ed, and is now in charge of Pinkerton detectives at Chicago. Mr. Morsman, who is in Chicago tracing tho matter, sends to Superintendent Fuller tho fol lowing telegram: "Owens was crazy from drink and trouble. He is now in. sound mind, and everything satisfactorily ex plained. No objections to so informing his wife and friends." The amount of money in Owens' charge the other night was S3-1.500. A young Catholic priest and scientist of Charleston, 111., was recently created a lieutenant in tho French army for v:d uable discoveries in the art of making and using a powerful explosive for war purposes. He claims that he has, by continued tests and experiments, fath omed the art of making Greek fire,which was lost in the dark ages, about the year 1250, when gunpowder came into some thing like general use, and he is of the opinion that the discovery is quite an achievement for science. Later news from Gen. Howard, who is malting an official investigation at the Crow agency, says: Unless ordered otherwise by tomorrow, the 15th inst., an attempt to arrest insubordinate In dians will be made and bloodshed will follow. "Sword Bearer" at the head of 200 braves is camped within gunshot of the agency, awaiting developments. "Sword Bearer" is gaining strength daily. The Indians at the agency are sullen and uncommunicative. Latest by yesterday's dailies: Raw son is resting quietly." The Shakspeare fountain was dedicated at Stratford-on-Avon. Mr. Bayard, of Cleveland's cabinet, says emphatically that either he or Mr. Garland will have to leave the cabinet. Stella Fairchild, a beautiful girl of thirteen, was kidnapped by a strange woman, while the girl was going upstairs in the high school building at Omaha last Friday morning. No clue. The Columbus Joubnal boldly asserts that any reiiort to the effect that Henry Carrig will be D. C. Kavanangh's deputy, if the democrats win, is a "campaign lie." We bee no good reason why Mr. Carrig, who is an efficient man and a dyed-in-the-wool democrat should not be Mr. Kavanaugh' deputy, providing such an arrange ment is agreeable to both imrties. (Vrtainly thete gentlemen will not consult the Journ'u. in regard to this matter. Lindtag Sentinel. The Jourxal had the very best of reasons for asserting that the report was a campaign lie Mr. Carrig's word, which is current coin in these parts. One 'day last week the secretary of the interior received information that In dians on the Crow, Creek and Lower Brule reservations in Dakota, by their threatened violence stopped allotment surveys in progress on tho reservation, and that further trouble is feared. It is stated that the secretary had a consulta tion with General Sheridan and it is thought steps will be immediately tak en in the emergency to resume work. Land Commissioner Sparks, in his annnnl report to the secretary of the in terior, says at the outset, he has "no word to reca.ll that has hitherto been uttered touching the alleged misappro priations to which the public lands have been subjected through the imprudent laws and insufficient methods of the ad ministration, and to which they are still exposed under the present wasteful and fraud inspiring system of disposal." mrrmVittmYMwL After all the evidence was submit ted in the Mitchelltown inquest, Har- j rington asked that a verdict of willful murder be returned against the head constable and five policemen who fired under his order, Harrington accusing Constable Rigg of deliberately planning the murder. The jury returned a ver dict of murder against Rigg, Sergeants Kornan, Ryder and Brenan, and Con stables Gavan and Dornance. News comes from London that the Scotland Yard officers profess to have received information to the effect that a numlier of American Feniens are con templating a series of dynamite outrages in Ireland and England. Returning ships both at Queenstown and Liver pool aro closely watched, and a sharp watch is kept upon the American Fen ians by trusted agonts in New York. Patents granted to citizens of Ne braska during the past week, and re ported expressly for this paper by C. A. Snow & Co., patent lawyers, opp. U. S. patent office, Washington, D. C: W. F. Gatewood, Harvard, adding machine; J. T. Hamilton, Friend, harrow; J. R. Huxtable, Hastings, traction wheel; C. H. Watson, Omaha, foot guard for rail way crossings. This is a wolf story. Tho places named in this story are a guarantee that the whole tale is true. Tho tale starts out from Bucharest, October 8, that twelve peasants who left the town of Pilestiat, sixty-five miles off, to destroy wolves which infest tho district, were overpowered by the furious beasts and seven of them devoured. The other five escaped badly mangled. News from Dublin of a recent date is to the effect that several of the supposed league of county Cork held meetings the other day without the knowledge of the police. Several secret meetings were held in Michell's own district. At Baily Gidlin a meeting, was held in open de fiance of the law, and Father Sexton, in speech, defied the government to intimi date tho people in honest and open com bination. The rifle competition between collect ed teams tho other day at Chicago, of the national guards, at a "range of 208, 500 and GOO yards was the principal feature at tho encampment. The total scores of teams was as follows: Hay makers of Maryland, 1,115; First Min nesota, 1,090; First Michigan, 1,037; Fifth Iowa, ttW. These aro tho total scores at all ranges. Stephen W. Rawson, president of the Union Trust company, of Chicago, was shot down by William Lee, his stepson aged 17, Sunday as Rawson was in n throng or iieoplo at the church door, five bullets entering his body. If his life should lx saved it will bo almost, a miracle. Ho did it beeaufj Rawi-on charged his mother with unfaithfulness. Leo gave himself to an officer. Judge H. T. Ellett, who mado the welcoming address to President Clove land at Memphis on tho morning of the 15th inst., died on tho stand befoie the ceremonies were over. The tragic event occurred just as President Cleveland clot -ed his remarks in response to tho Judge's welcome. His death wan thought to bo the result of standing uncovered under the rays of the sun. The Marine hospital bureau at Wash ington, is in receipt of a telegram from United States Collector Spencer, at Tampa, Fla., stating that ono death and eight new cases have occurred at that placo since last advices, ami that funds and nurses are urgently needed, the town treasury being empty and the peo plo demoralized. The Mormon conference held at Salt Lake City, after a four days session ad journed the other night. Wilford Wood ruff was sustained "as president of the twelve apostles and tho ex-officer of tho church," and George O'Conner, Joseph G. Smith and the rest, including Wood ruff, apostle, seers and revelators. The conference selected no president for the church. A rich find of rock salt has been made at Hutchinson, Kas. At the depth of 655 feet a vein was struck and penetrat ed to a depth of ninety-five feet, and the drill is not yet through. Tho analysis of tho product shows it over 95 per cent, pure, and absolutely free from tho principal impurities which make salt unfit for domestic purposes. Patrick McCowan was killed by a railroad train in Camden whilo attempt ing to rescue a drunken man tho other day. The news of the accident was sent to Roger McCowan, brother of the de ceased, in Philadelphia, and it had such a terrible effect on Roger, as finally to dethrone his reason, and ho had to be sent to the insane asylum. Belfast reports Chamberlain as hav ing addressed tin audience of 4,500 per sons in Ulster hall the other night. In tho course of his remarks he said ho did intend to submit Ulster to tho Dublin parliament he objected to submitting Ulster's orderly, regular life, to tho in ventors of the "plan of campaign." If the good citizens of Platte county want a square and fair victory over cliquo rule every one of them must get ready to cast their votes for the repub lican ticket. It is admitted on all hands, even among democrats, that the repub licans have a most excellent ticket, one eery way worthy of their support. The schooner Thomas L. Tarr, that sailed from Glonchester, Mass., Aug. 9th, with a crow of fourteen men, on a fish ing voyage, is given up for lost, with all on board. She was last seen at anchor September .3d, the day of the disastrous hurricane. The money taken from the Pacific Ex press company by Messenger Owen3 has all been recovered. It was found the other day in a barrel of ashes in tho rear of the messenger's residence at St. Louis, Mo. The amount found was 33,000. Owens directed the men to where the money was hid. Dr. Hamilton, surgeon-general of the United States marine hospital service, says the fatal progress of the disease tells its own story, and prevents adhe sion to the theory that the disease is dengue and not yellow fever. Ho ad vises the strictest precaution. Thousands of acres of swamp lands in hay this year, yielding 815 to $20 worth j an acre. Judge Thomas C. Maxnino, . United States Minister to Mexico, died on the morning of the 11th inst, at the Fifth Avenuo Hotel, Now York. Ho has been ill for about a, week. The cause of his death was obstructions of the bowels. On the 11th inst., a report was" sent out from London that a snow storm ac companied by thunder and lighting pre vailed in England and Wales. The roads in Wales were blockaded with snow. NEBRASKA NOTES. A street railway is to bo built in Red Cloud. The Ogalalla News, during fair week, published a daily. Mr. Price of the David City Tribune is very ill with fever. A jail building to cost 5,000, will be voted on by Stanton county. The first annual fair wjls held at Sid ney last week. It was considered a success. Arrangements havo at last been per fected whereby Fremont is assured of an electric light plant. Hugh M. McKeo has been appointed postmaster at Anselmo, vice Joseph A. Mitchol. removed. Tho third county fair was held at Auburn last week. The entries wero said to be very large. The pay rolls of various inspectors of public improvements in Omaha for Sep tember, amount to 1,786.55. Harry Perkins and his wifo, of Falls City, were bound over to court the other day, charged with stealing a diamond ring. The United States treasurer at Wash iugton received the other day a con science contribution of $20 in an envel ope, postmarked Gietna, Neb. The democratic state convention held at Omaha last week put in nomination Thomas O'Day, for Supreme Judge and Dr. Slicker and Fred. Harris for regents. Robt. Edgar, Sr., had a cow killed one day last week by a snake bite. A large number of rattle snakes have been killed in his vicinity this year Schuyler Her ald. Appollo lodge of Knights, at Lincoln, won tho SoOO prize in tho competitive drill at Omaha, without any trouble. This lodge was also honored by electing Richard O'Noil, one of its members, to the position of grand chancellor. Andrew Bemlemagle's dead hotly was found the other afternoon lying near the track half a milo west of Filley, with a wound in the head; a levolvernear by, gave tho suspicion of suicido. Ho w.is (ifty-three years old and leaves a family. At Falls; City tho workmen at a depth of nmt four feet, in tho public test v.oll, and ;;fivi parsing through nineteen feet of blue clay, entered a fine bod of coarse gi axel that appears to be abun dantly supplied with water, and all those interested aro greatly pleased. J. W. Bullis's wheat stacks, one mile from Weeping Water, wero burned the other night. It is believed to be the work of spite. The wheat was of un usual quality and told in advance for seed. Tho stacks contained over four hundred bushels. Evidence points btrongly to the guilty party. State Veterinarian Wessie, accom panied by W. W. Abbey, of the live stock veterinary board, were at Valen tine the other day investigating the glanders reported among horses at that place. They condemned and killed fourteen head among the number was a 3 year old stallion belonging to Stetter Bros., valued at 500. Governor Thayer has appointed Hon. Allen W. Field na district judge in the Second Judicial District, comprising the counties of Cass, Lancaster and Otoe, to succeed Judge Pound, resigned. Mr. Field is tho republican nominee for judgo in this district with Judge Chap man, and his appointment to fill the va cancy was requested by tho convention that placed him in nomination. A terrible explosion woke up the citi zens of Minden, Neb., the other morn ing. Investigation showed that a large safe in tho jost-offiee had been blasted by burglars and 150 in cash takon. The explosion was a powerful one. The doors of the safo wero blown a distance of forty feet, the furniture in the room wrecked, and a corner of the building blown out. Tho robbers escaped. It is reported from Grand, Island that tho jury in the libel case of Fred Hedde, editor of the Independent, vs. G. W. Stidger, editor of the Daily Times, was out thirteen minutes and brought in the remarkable verdict of not guilty. The Times had published Hedde as a noted criminal. The jury seemed of tho same opinion. This report was a special to the Omaha Republican. David City Tribune's correspondence fromBrainard: Quite a sad accident oc curred last Wednesday. Mr. Bell was standing in his wagon and did not see his little two year old child that was standing near tho wagon. He pitched a crow-bar out striking the child going almost through it. Dr. Harriger was called and did all that could be done to relieve the little sufferer till death came. The family have tho sympathy of the entire community in their sad affliction. Miss Emma Reves, tho stepdaughter of Mr. Murdock, a plasterer of Auburn, was found in her bed, the other morning in a dying condition. Medical aid was called and saw at a glance that she was suffering from an overdoso of morphine. A drug register shows a bottle pur chased by her, and a quantity was found in a dress jacket worn tho day before. All efforts to save her lifo proved futile. Tho supposition is that she took the drug to relievo nouralgiac pains, and ac cidentally took too large a quantity. Ferdinand Arndt, of Friend, was some limo ago put under 1,000 bonds for threatening to kill his divorced wife. He failed to appear and the county court forfeited his bond and sent deputy sheriff Legg who took to his aid consta ble Dillon and attempted to arrest Arndt at his house. After a desperate fight in which several shots were ex changed and Dillon and Arndt severely wounded, Arndt was captured and taken to Wilber where he will receive his just deserts. Washington letter, From our regular correspondent. There is a strong probability that the President on his return will call an ex tra session of congress. His trip to the great west has given him enlarged ideas of the grandeur and magnitude of the j country over which ho providentially j presides. s It ne had toKen tbat trip years ago, ho would have been a wiser man, and the' country would havo been save(l a vast amount of financial trouble and anxiety.?' There is time yet for him to atone for the neglect of his education in earlier years, and if he returns with the thou ;ht that the presidency of a great nation means something more than morel political chicanery, the timo and expense of tho trip will be of small account. The evidence is thoroughly conclu sive that the President had speeches prepared in advance, printed at the gov ernment printing office, and took them away in sheets ready to bo discharged at the various cities ho intended to visit. The proof is abundant and Mr. Cleve land must face it. Tho government printing office is tho regular bee hive of Washington. It is tho largest printing establishment in the world being 300 feet long, 180 feet wide and 4 stories high. All the public documents are printed here, and all the modern inventions to facilitate rapid work, are here in use. There are about 2,300 employed in the building, and tho volumes issued each year reach thous ands of tons in weight and millions of copies. It is o groat treat to visit the establishment. At tho National Observatory they have a Wonderful instrument known as the "Great Equatorial Telescope," which weiglis 130,000 pounds. A sight through that, some clear moonlight evening, is worth a trip to Washington. Trulv "the Heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showelh his handi work." The obsorvatory is under the direction of tho navy department, and ranks with the foremost in the world. Its library is very large and choice, and is a great resort for the thoughtful and studious. Some of tho foreign diplomats at Washington are exceedingly well paid by their respective governments, some being double and treble what we pay our Ministers. The British Minister gets 30,000 a year and is allowed 20,000 a year for entertaining; the Gorman Min ister gets 20,000, the Japanese 30.000. the Chinese 50,000 and is allowed 11, 000 for house rent. The Turkish 20, 000, Russian 30,000, and French 20, 000. The Chinese Minister is said to bo worth 3,000,000, and is regarded as tho ablest and shrewdest of all foreign di plomats. There are about 15,000 clerks employ ed in the departments at Washing ton, about 4,000 of this number being females, the great majority of whom are finely educated and most estimable ladies. Many of them are widows and daughters of .noted Generals, ox-Congressmen, ex-Cabinet Ministers, etc., and many of them marry noted men. Thero is, no doubt, quite a number of ques tionable characters in this vast aggro gate, but tho majority of the lady clerks will rank with tho best women in the land. The dead-letter office reveals some in teresting facts that should cause us to bo a little more careful in our corres pondence. During the past year, 4,800-, 000 letters were received there, making an average of 15,000 of every working day. Nearly four millions of theso let ters were never called for at the posj offices to which they were addressed, and 112,000 of them were sent to hotels :uid reached there after the guests for whom they were intended, had left. A great many of the letters wero misdirected. Fully 1,000 of this kind came to the office every day. Many of tho letters contain money and last ,ear thero was 33,000 in cash among them and more than 1,500,000 drafts and money orders. Eighty-four thousand letters contained postage stamps, 33,000 photographs, and 25,000 articles of merchandise. R. EG AN ON CLEVELAND. Patrick Ksan7i Kepone to a I!eiue-t of the Chit-ago News for Hi Opinion or Cleveland. The Chicago News on October 5 pub lished a large number of letters from prominent men of the country, in re sponse to requests, giving their opinions of the national executive Among the number is the following from Hon. Pat rick Egan of this city: My Dear Sir: I have to acknowledge receipt of your esteemed letter request ing my views on the administration of President Cleveland, and in reply I re gret that what I have to say on that sub ject must be unfavorable to tho distin guished visitor whom your city is pre paring to receive. But as you have asked me for my opinion I will state it with candor. I regard tho administration of Presi dent Cleveland very much as a Scotch man regards "a chip in porridge" capable of neither much good nor great harm. I regard it as lacking in origi nality, lacking in force, lacking in dig nity, but not intentionally vicious. I consider it has failed to increase the commerce, the prosperity, or tho wealth of the people at home, and it certainly has not made the nation more respected abroad. I am one of those who believe that in the case of nations, or of individuals, there is more to live for than mere ma terial existence or than the accumulation of wealth, and that nations, as well as individuals, should strive to earn and to command the respect and esteem of our contemporaries. America is regarded in Europe, and especially in England, as a nation of money-grabbers and 6harpers, whose ideas of glory and patriotism never raise above the" mighty dollar, and whoso principles aro regulated sololy by the standard of expediency; as a nation which, while possessing tho freest, the greatest, the most glorious republican form of government in the world, pro duces some of tho worst and meanest toadies on the face of tho earth toadies who more "dearly love a lord" than does tho veriest Hodge in England. Presi dent Cleveland's administration has done nothing to remove the first of these impressions, and it has given tangible color to the second by sending to .hng- laud, and maintaining there as minister, Mr. Phelps, a man who from tho first day he set foot in Britain- forgetful of the dignity which should surround his office as representative of this great American republic prostrated himself in humble worship of everything aris tocratic and everything English. I know that Minister Phelps does not represent the manhood of the great American people, and I regard the con tinuance of such a man in a position of so much importance as one of those blunders which are generally considered as reprehensible as crimes. Feeling, as I do, jealously proud of American national prestige and of the honor of the American flag, I desire to see as president a man who would give us an administration such as James G. Blaine would give on a republican Bide, or Allen G. Thurman on the democratic, an administration with a policy bold, strong; active, vigorons, manly, and at the same time, dignifiedly conservative; in a word, an administration with a policy worthy of the greatness and worthy of the dignity of the American nation. I remain, my dear sir, yours very faithfully, Patrick Eoan. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 1. Drankennessor the Liquor Hahit Positively Cured hy Administering Dr. Haines Gulden Specific. 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 drnnkardB have been made temperate men who havo taken Golden Specific in their coffee without their knowledge,and today believe they quit drinking of their pwn 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 mm ERNST & SCHWARZ, -51 VNUTAOrUKKUS AND DKALEKS IN- SUPERB LAMP FILLER AND GOAL OIL CAN COMBINED, Whichfor.arolj.c)ntnu'nco,clKia,.iiii"aKilHinip!icitr.cnnnot 1k.xh.ii.w1 i..i i- .. or outwde of can. UsJ it one mul , ou ill not U- wit! ,,7 it for V.TunL iu clr i, 17" law cans as tiell iw small onw. thorvby having the friMUtnt and nnnwin" tri.d ti . Worht,u mall can. E,,r,- cm made of the very bt tin. and itovXT$M&ZSh lldTan 1- inuaiuiut. vihuuu N.ii'i irimr.inif-Mi- o tmniini ui !... ..-.i -.-;fSs -,:T -rr . " BAKER PERFECT STEEL BARB WIRE. J2&-U yon buy it you kuI 100 rod of fence from 100 Hnnd- of, vrirv. u hic.'i no other will di.SJ ERNST & SCHWARZ. Klevriitli Mckinley & re&ftgf COLUMBUS, NEB. Money to loan on improved farms in this and adjoining counties, at current rates. We are prepared to close loans promptiy, in all cases where title and security are satisfactory. Office up-stairs in Henry Building, corner of Olive and Eleventh streets. jniyntr SPEICE & N"OETH, General Ayentsfor the sale of IRE.AJL. ESTA1 Union Pacific nnd .Midland Pacific 11. 11. 1-md- for wdo nt from S3.0O to $10.00 iwracro for canh or on the or ten jearn time, in annual (mj merit to suit purch.-iM r. VchattnIvtn lare ami choico lot of other iantlri, improved and unimproved, fors.de at low lime and on reasonHhlt thrtnt. A1m busiuetwnnd residenc lotn in the city. We keep c complete ah-tntct of title to all real entntn In Platte County. COLUMBUS. W. T. RICKLY& BRO. Wholesale and Q z Game, Poultry, and Fresh Fisli. J(Hih jiaid for lliilcrf. Pelts, Tallow. Olive Street, second door Heat Radiator. "in peace prciiarv for war;" in b'unmer, jre- iiore for winter, and among your preitarationrt lon'tforKet that if you i-m nae one-third to oni-half on jour esinse for fuel, hy an at pliance of little coctt: it will payjott to take a little trouble to provid" jonrwlf with one. FranciH Marak, jr.. of Everest, rum., the in ventor if the appliance referred to, id here di potrinof territory, anil Una made some sales of countiee. Tho appliance in an ordinary drum except that it in divided into apartment runninc the leOKth of the dmm: one of tlienois virtually a contin uation of the pipe, when the damper i not turned, and makK a direct draft when df-iured for Htiirtinir a fare: when th (L'iniivr K turned. the partitions are so arranged that the hoatd air and mnoke co alternately upward and down ward through all the air.rtmeiitH (usually live in number, owiiu to the relative size of mi and drum) and-finally up the chimney. The princi ple in precisely the sum- an nnt t iin lamou- iIennonit'heatinK furnace, and applied to cok or hwitinn stoves. iitili a went deul mure of tliH lient evolvetl Irolu I lie IiihI uuiu ih iloue lj the ordinary drum. Th pictures of procrerd are there: A hre. on the ground, under the open canopy of heaven; two poMit, a cro--t stick anil tho t of victuals hanging over th fin. Second, the same, onl j a rud. wall around, and a cone-ehaped roof, with a hole in the middle for the Hiuoke to curl out at. Third, the open grate, in the open fire-plac.n gmit portion of thheat escaping up the chim uev into the outer air. fourth, the toe. Pifth, the Move and dram, incrcaninff the amount of mirface heated by the same fuel. Sixth, the greatly improved drum, or KD tor, with a more intense and therefore- more penetrating heat from the same amount of fuel; forming a reservoir for heat except as it escape through the metallic enclosure, and v. hat little got out through the chimney. Abundant lertihcaten can be given from tho-nj who have n.-ed the Kvdivtoii that it doe all that in claimed for it, but the following nro suf ficient: IIlukIIii-I-S, Nfbsi., I .March. I, ltaj. ) 1 havo tetrted tho Ualitie of the Marak lUdia tor, and It gave sati-tfaction in every w.rticular he claim for it. Drc. A. J. Koihiers. Comjmbcs. Nfbh.. I June II, 17. ) I have tried FrancN MarnkV iatent radiator on my cook stove anil found it to do all that ho claims. It canswl the kettle to boil and the oven to heat, quick, with one-half the fuel we had fawn uning without the IJadiator. We got breakfast with 19 corn coba, and the oven wuitj hot enough to bake biecuitd. I Joes L. Bicboios, ttifi G1RLIND STOVES AND RANGES ALWAYS KOK SALE AT EHIST & SCIWilZS. 4i.it KS1IR7 P15ATS i CO., Havo a Fine Lino of Staple and Fancv GROCERIES, Crockery and Oiassware, Which wi' !n'ii;lit -!''!i for -:!. and will lit? Bold at t-r !'. jui.vd. StrtM'f, Columhus. Nebraska. novW-tf carnahan, NEBRASKA. Ml Ketnil Dealers in All Kinds of Sausage a Specialty. Ilighrtt market price paid for fat cattle.1K north of First National Bank. st-tf TIE LAMEST AN FIIEST STOCK - west of Omaha, at GREISEN BROS. The bwa manufactories of the conntry rep resented. Not to be undersold hy anybody. Come and see prices at GREISEN BROS. OnMJ Tlifa la the most PBAOTXOAJL ' tmua ever invested. It Ij very GENTKEX. and DREMYttdgfre the came protection as boot or orer-galter. itl convenient to pat on and the top can be adjusted t0 fit en y anklo by dimply movlnglhd Mtfim 1'orualeby GREISEN BROS. i3tii Oct. 'ee-tr muWnmmSSBllBilBM YOCXFNDjH Pitt CongrMtVVM r
