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WEDNESDAY, NOYEMBEB 30. 1887.
The combination of coal dealers in the
east is not agreeable there, any more
than it is here.
-
ABBCEsrfire in Des -Moines, Isl, de
stroyed the pork packing establishment
of that city. Lobs 8130,000.
The Liverpool steamship Dourne was
wrecked last week off Cape Knisterre.
Thirteen persons were drowned.
The Evening Telegraph at Dublin
says a warrant has been issued for the
arrest of John Dillon anywhere in Great
Britain.
The Mansfield, (X, brass works were
destroyed by firo at 1 o'clock the other
morning. The loss of property will
reach S12,000.
Bepobts from the surrounding coun
try at Memphis indicate general heavy
rainfall and the quenching of the forest
fires which had been so destructive.
Jacob Schwah, of New York, the well
known importer of laces, was instantly
killed one morning last week by falling
down an elevator shaft in hiB warehouse.
The safe in the county treasurer's
office at Centerville, Beynolds county,
Mo., was blown open Friday night and
robbed of about S20,000 in cash. No
clue to the robbers.
It is reported from London that in the
recent raids upon the nihilists in the
leading towns in Bussia 180 pereons
were arrested. That nine officers under
arrest have committed suicide.
The attorney general has given his
opinion regarding the law concerning
indemnity lands. He claims that the
rights of settlers under pre-emption and
homestead laws must be protected.
A bepobt comes from Detroit that ex
U. S. Senator Jones of Florida has
squandered all his money and is now in
a destitute condition, living solely on
the charity of his political friends.
It is stated at Dublin that one hun
dred and thirty of the Gweedore tenants
have been reinstated. Their arrears of
rent was reduced 2,500. There is
great rejoicing among the tenantry.
The Pilgrim Congregational church,
worth 35,000, three large elevators,
worth S1,000,000, at Duluth, Minn., were
burned, Nov. 27th. The firo started
from heaters in the basement of the
church. m
The fast express the other day at
Somanauk, HI., struck a carriage con
taining John Bose, an old settler, and
his daughter Lillian. Miss Bose was
instantly killed and Mr. R. dangerously
injured.
The extreme radicals of France are
trying to prepare a charge of treason
against President Gravy for his personal
action toward the government of Peru
and the French tribunals in the Dreyfus
Guano affair.
Burns, the socialistic leader, and
Graham, member of parliament, have
been arested in London, for participa
tion in the Trafalgar square riot. Some
testimony has been taken but the case
was not disposed of.
The Crofter raid for the extermina
tion of the deer on the Isle of Lewes
ceased on the appearance of a force of
police. Troops have been sent to prevent
. a renewal of the attempt. There has
been a heavy slaughter of deer.
Late London news speaks of the
peace arbitration delegates, who ar
rived at Qneenstown the other day, in
the highest terms of their reception in
America, and express themselves as
hopeful of good results from their visit.
Mb. A. King, the other day in the
presence of 20,000 people, crossed the
Charles river on a marine bicycle, from
the bridge to the East Boston side, in
nineteen minutes; distance one and a
half miles. The water and wind were
unfavorable.
The window glass works of Hirech,
Ely & Co., at Findlay, O., were destroyed
by fire the other morning. The fire
originated in the sand mixer. Property
destroyed estimated at $67,000. The
force of men, being 140, are now without
employment.
The timber fires were reported last
week to be still burning in Tennessee,
Mississippi and eastern Arkansas, and
doing great damage. In nearly all the
churches in Memphis prayers have been
offered that showers might fall and de
etruction cease.
August Hatzka, of Chicago, is locked
up in the police station for whipping to
death his step son Max Gillne, eleven
years old, with a strap that had a buckle
on it. The boy was found dead in his
bed with his face and body covered with
marks of the strap.
-Gxobgk F. Train changes his mind
and sends a dispatch to a friend in
Omaha from Bangor, Me, that he felt
Sue, his daughter, and the children and
birds of Madison square pulling him
back, and that he had abandoned the
idea of expatriation.
Two thousand crofters on the Isle of
Lewes, have commenced a campaign to
exterminate deer in the forest. They
claim that 6,000 crofters are starving
who ought to be living on the land giv
en up to deer, and that in adopting
their present course they are actuated
by absolute necessity.
--
Settle It.
The telecraph tells us that Carlisle
and BandalL the recognized brains of
the democratic force to be in the House
of Representatives, are to meet and
agree on a policy to be pursued by their
party, the coming winter. This is all
very well to talk about, but the differ
ences are not adjustable by mere word
of mouth. From a tariff that will be
more or lees a protection for our own
producers, manufactories and working-
men as against those of foreign countries,
to a tariff that is as near free trade as
can be got, is too steep a declivity to fix
up with words, or patch up with make
shifts.
The truth is that the next presidential
campaign should begin now, and it
should begin in earnest on this very
question.
The political parties should say what
they believe and contend for their princi
ples; make up their issues from the ac
tual, present needs of the country, as
they understand these, and work strenu
ously for the accomplishment of their
purpose. Half-hearted platforms that
are so carefully worded that cunning
can construe them to mean anything
and everything; sentiments put forth
to order, for the purpose of catching
votes merely, will not do in this country
very much longer.
The democracy is the party of free
trade, so called. Republicans, on the
contrary, are attached to the opposite
idea. The country generally under
stands this; now let the issue be made
squarely, and let it be fought out and
settled.
The people of the United States have
disposed of several questions that in
their time were not only very threatening,
but also very formidable and expensive.
The right to enforce laws in sections
where they are obnoxious to the people
was questioned, but nullification, as a
practical working principle, is dead in
this country.
The right to secede whenever the con
stituted rule of government was not
coming your way was set up as a thing
to be worshipped, but the people said,
after much tribulation, shedding of
blood and expense of treasure, that the
proper way to settle difficulties of all
kinds in this country is by the ballot,
cast and counted by law.
The tariff question has, all along, been
a source of contention. Now let the
elements divide, take sides, contend
squarely and abide the result. The
question will then be settled,for a time at
least. Whatever the American idea is,
it will bo so firmly fixed as a rule of
action for the nation that no political
party will dare disturb it. We have no
hesitation in saying that the people of
this country, when the issue is fairly,
squarely and without mixture placed
before them, will be counted for the
protection of American industries.
Dakota.
One of the outrages of our times is the
attitude of the democratic party towards
the community of people north of our
state the Dakotans. A territory large
enough, inhabited by good people and
enough of them, there is absolutely no
reason why they should not be admitted
into the Union of states except that,
Dakota is not democratic, and there
fore justice must be denied her. The
political party that expects to keep
itself in office by such means will find a
power in the independent voter not be
fore suspected by them. The sovereigns
of this country, who deposit their bal
lots, are a well-informed body of men;
they read the papers; they study the
issues; they look into the motives of
men and parlies, and they will place
their seal of condemnation on this busi
ness, when they get an opportunity to
hit hard. The American people have a
habit of letting things go wrong too
long they are a little too patient and
long-suffering of wrongs done and laws
violated, but they are learning fast, and
the democratic party will find out that
they must work for the public good if
they wish to retain power.
Ex-President Hayes never said a better
thing than that "he serves his party
best, who serves his country best."
The Price of Coal.
The coal Barons have put up the price
of coal, with a whole continent under
laid with rich veins of coal easily and
cheaply mined, with thousands of miners
out of employment, with a steady de
mand for it everywhere, the price of coal
has gone up because a few capitalists
sitting in a luxurious parlor saw a
chance to squeeze the market. It don't
matter so much to a rich man or to a
poor man in the vicinity of mines, but
to the poor of the great cities and to a
state like Nebraska it works the greatest
kind of suffering and injury. The fuel
problem is the great problem of this
state and the added cost of one or two
dollars on a ton of coal will be felt keen
ly by every man in the state. Yet with
corn cheaper than coal as a fuel, with
all the extortionate charges for trans
portation some people throw up their
hands in holy horror when it is mildly
suggested that there is just a little anti
monopoly feeling in thestate of Ne
braska. Pierce County CalL
A New Repabllcaa Paper.
New York, Nov. 21. The New York
Press company was organized today by
the election of the following board of di
rectors: Frank JEIatton, Bobert B. Pot
ter, Elihu Boot, Marvellew Cooper and
Edward Ammidown of New York; Geo.
West of Ballston, and James Phillips of
Fitchburg. Mr. Hatton was elected
president, Mr. Potter, vice president and
secretary, and Mr. Ammidown, treasurer.
The Press will make its first appearance
about December 1. It will be a one
cent morning paper with a two cent Sun
day issue. There will also be a weekly
edition. The paper will be republican in
politics, and will advocate the protect
ive policy. Messrs. Hatton and Potter
will be the editors.
Patents granted to citizens of Kansas
and Nebraska during the past week, and
reported expressly for this paper by C.
A. Snow & Cfcx, Patent lawyers, opp. U. S.
Patent Office, Washington, D. C: H. G.
Hood, Wellington, Kan "force pump;
J. M. Baker, Paola, Ksil, signal for
telephone instruments; J. T. Carrington,
and A. J. Sleeper, Clay Centre, Kan.,
music leaf turner; L. D. Libber, Wyan
dotte, Kan., cable grip; H. Itartin and
F. G. McHenry. Bloomington, Kan de
vice for spooling fence wire. D. John
son, West Point, Neb combined pulver
izer and corn stalk cutter; G. N. New
comb, Omaha, hand loom.
These is about to be a general stir
ring up among some of the politicians of
Indianapolis, InL, .where it iB claimed
that a large number of election frauds
have been committed. Some prominent
in managing elections liave been indict
ed for various criminal offenses,, among
which are said to be perjury in making
false affidavits, bribery of voters, swear-,
inf in illegal voters, and voting illegally.
"The parties will be arrested and com
pelled to answer for their unlawful pro
ceedings. A telegram under date of the 27th, at
Chester, says: "Gladstone looks unusu
ally ill and the death of his intimate
friends, Lord Wolverton and Lord and
Lady Dalhousie, has evidently had a
bad effect upon his nervous system, but
he was able to attend church this morn
ing. He has been ordered by his physi
cians not to chop trees in wintry
weather, however much he may chop
logic in his cozy Hawarden library."
At Limerick, on Friday an attempt
was made to hold a demonstration in
honor of the Manchester martyrs, but
was suppressed by the police. The
fleeing people were pursued into their
houses. A serious disturbance occurred
at night, the police acting in a reckless
manner and using batons and bayonets.
Thirty persons had their wounds dressed
at the hospital.
The convention fund- at Omaha has
increased to $37,000. $50,000 are want
ed. The Bepublican National Central
Committee will do well to call the con
vention to meet at Omaha. It is cen
trally located, is fully up to the times
(like the party) and will accommodate
all who may come. "Westward the star
of empire takes its way."
Washington society circles are ex
cited because at the funeral of Henry P.
Hay, his two sons denounced Mrs. Lou
isa C. B. Wickersham and her daughter,
with whom Mr. Hay had been living, as
infamous women who had wrecked a
once happy family and brought afflic
tion upon a loving wife and affectionate
children.
A crowded meeting was held the
other day in Dublin to protest against
the treatment of O'Brien by the Tulla
more jail authorities. Lord Mayor Sul
livan acted as chairman, and seven
English members of the house of com
mons were present.
Gbonebing, the mayor of Council
Bluff's, is not winning many laurels in
his office. The other day he gave orders
that the gambling houses should shut
off certain games. They shut off entire
ly, and then the mayor declared it was
better "while the grand jury was in ses
sion." The striking sugar hands at Thibo
leaux, La., one morning last week fired
upon white pickets who were guarding
the place. The white men returned the
firo and a brisk battle ensued in which
twenty-five negroes are said to have
been killed and two white men wounded.
Last Friday Grevy. formally informed
-Bonvier of his resolution to resign the
presidency, and said that he would send
a message to the senate and chamber by
Thursday of this week.
NEBRASKA NOTES.
Valentine's saloon at Hastings was
destroyed by fire last Saturday night.
The thermometer registered 36 be
low zero, at Valentine, the night of the
26th.
The village of Donaphin, north of
Hastings, was entirely destroyed by fire
Friday night.
Two men, names unknown, are report
ed frozen to death near Grant, on the
night of the 26th.
There will be an examination for state
and professional certificates in Aurora
Dec. 28, 29 and 30, 1887.
The post offices at Abington, Colfax
county, and Thompson, Holt county,
have been discontinued.
A fire at York last week destroyed
seven stores, including the Union and
Masonic blocks. Loss $100,000.
Another fire at Hastings Sunday
morning burned the Palace hotel. This
building was a wooden structure and
partly insured.
The police of Omaha arrested Peter
Baxter the other day upon the charge of
murdering a Minneapolis street car
driver last AuguBt.
Burglars visited the clothing store of
Goodrich & Noreen, of Fremont, the
other night and got away with goods
worth in all nearly $1,000. There is no
clue to the thieves.
Martin Brannan, of Fremont, fell on
a bad piece of side walk in that city
some time ago and broke bis arm. He
brought suit to recover damages, the
jury awarding him $500.
The State vs. Beers for murder, on
trial at Lincoln, resulted Saturday last
in a verdict by the jury of murder in the
first degree. A motion was made by
his attorneys for a new trial.
The steam elevator of Clark, Heaton &
Co., said to be one of the finest in the
state,1ocated at Clarks,was burned to the
ground. Loss on building and grain
about $8,000, insured for $4,000.
Newman Grove merchants are com
plaining that Lindsay pays better prices
for grain and thereby takes trade which
rightfully belongs to them. "We cawn't
'elp it, ye know." Lindsay Sentinel.
Mrs. B. A. Wilson of Plum Creek at
tempted suicide Nov. 26th, by taking a
dose of opium at her lodgings. She had
received a letter from her husband stat
ing that he had secured a divorce from
her.
Norfolk is said to have in prospect a
canning factory; with her waterworks
completed and furnishing an abundant
supply of water; her citizens rejoice in
her future prospects and present com
forts. .
At Grant much' dissatisfaction pre
vails in parts of the county over the
vote in that precinct on county division,
Lisbon, the first town west of Grant, has
organized and raised a fund to contest
the election.
Mrs. Kate Spears, at Friend, hanged
herself in her room one day last week.
She left a note saying: "I want Lonise to
go to her grandfather. I cannot bear
any more trouble." The trouble referred
to is supposed to be between her di
vorced hMbaad and herself.
Mr. Craig, a brother of John Craig of
Schuyler, was in Leigh last Thursday
and Friday -with a view to buying more
land near town. Mr. Craig is well pleas
ed with Leigh and was much surprised
at its growth, as he had not seen it for
six years. Leigh Advocate.
The Tecumseh Chieftain says: "Up
wards of eleven thousand hogs were re
ceived at the Omaha 6tock yards on
Tuesday of last week. At this rate Oma
ha will soon overtake the present Pork
opous Chicago.
While F. Brown and wife, of Spring
field, were on their way to a surprise
party, their horse ran away, overturning
their buggy and throwing the occupants
out Brown's collar bone was broken
and his wife was badly injured.
A burglar effected an entrance
through a window of the county treas
urer's office at Plum Creek, Thursday
night, worked the combination to the
vault door, and went away with $430 in
money, $15 of which belonged to the
county.
As Levi Gutru was coming into town
with a load of hay, yesterday afternoon,
the wagon tipped over on the edge of the
bridge on the county line, east of town,
and his team was nearly killed. Levi
escaped with only slight injuries. New
man Grove Era.
J. C. Jensen, of Fremont, met with an
awful accident the other day, which may
result in his death. While on a stack of
hay he fell or slipped to the ground in
such a way that one prong of the pitch
fork entered his groin, inflicting a
deep and very serious wound.
Corey Shaw, aged 17, went hunting
last week near Homesville. He did not
return for dinner; search was made for
him and about dark he was found lying
dead not far from home, with a wound
in his left side. There can be no doubt
but that he was killed by the accidental
discharge of his gun.
A. F. Parsons, late police judge of
Lincoln, who was removed from office by
the council a short time ago for mal
feasance, was arrested Saturday last at
the instance of the school board, charg
ed with embezzlement. His bail was
fixed at $800. Nebraska officials are
coming to see the necessity of enforcing
the laws.
What was supposed to be a genuine
dynamite bombVas found placed on the
steps of the bank at Wymore last Fri
day morning. No one knows any mo
tive for placing it there to blow up the
bank, and no clue to the person who
did it. The fuse had been lighted but
went out. The bomb was to have been
tested the next day.
One day the children were having an
object lesson on the blue heron. The
the teacher called attention to its small
tail, saying: "The bird has no tail to
speak of." The next day she asked the
scholars to write a description of the
bird, and a little girl wound up by say
ing: "The blue heron has a tail, but it is
not to be talked about."
The latest news from Paris states that
the crisis has been reached and that
President Grevy has agreed to convene
the Chambers and then resign his office.
It is understood that in his address he
will place the blame of the trouble
where it properly belongs. It is said
the chamber of deputies will form a new
cabinet, among the members of which
will be Goblet and Peves.
On Tuesday last while Geo. Whitcher
was bringing a load of hogs to this place
and when near Ed. Johnson's place the
wagon tipped over and the wagon and
load fell upon Mr. Whitcher, rendering
him unsonscious. Mr. Johnson aided
him in getting out and at this writing,
although quite severely injured, he is
getting along fairly. Newman Grove
Era.
Bbuno Mueller, of the printing firm
of Mueller & Co., of Chicago, was bitten
by a dog while protecting his ten years
old son from the dog, who was also bit
ten in June last. Six weeks later the
boy died. On the 18th the father was
stricken doi n and from that time until
the 22d suffered untold agony, at which
he was relieved by death. Physicians
say both cases were well defined hydro
phobia. Judgments of various sizes rendered
in the courts as damages against saloon
keepers is one of the things which tends
very strongly toward making saloon
keeping unpopular. Since the passage
of the Slocumb law two or three have
been rendered in this county, the largest
of which was for $2,000 just awarded
against J. N. McElroy. Fremont Trib
une. The moves made this week by the B.
& M. folks are rather extensive. First,
and what interests the people most, is
the fact that the grading to the north,
north of the U. P. track, has commenced.
Charles Clark has been awarded the con
tract for a mile of grading and has com
menced on it. There will not be much
this fall above this grading, but when
spreng comes the work will be pushed
on. Schuyler Quill.
Mr. Cannon, an ex-policeman of Lin
coln, having been discharged from duty
for cause, left his home the other day
for parts unknown, without saying a
word to his family. Mr. Thompson of
that city, learning their destitute con
dition, sent them some coal and had a
fire built. The clerk he sent over found
the children barefooted and hungry as
well as cold and destitute. Mr. Thomp
son supplied their present wants in
fuel and groceries.
Mrs. James F. Brown came up from
Kansas Sunday and is stopping with
friends in Schuyler. She has had no
definite word as yet of her missing hus
band. A body was found washed out
on the shore of the Missouri below St
Joe a few days ago, a partial description
of which would correspond with the
missing man. Mrs. Brown is awaiting
further details from the coroner who in
vestigated. Schuyler Sun.
Last Saturday, there were two coffins
sent out to Peter Nelson's near Praha,
one for a child a year old, the other for a
child three years old. Sunday they sent
for another for a four years old boy, and
Monday came the fourth order for a per
son seventeen years of age. This is four
deaths in one .family within three days
by the dreaded disease, diptheria. Sever
al cases of diptheria have been reported
from Butler county also. Schuyler Sun.
Our friends in the east will think that
November is a queer month in which to
harvest and yet yesterday morning Nov.
7th our friend, N. H. Miller, set two har
vesters at work in a forty acres field of
flax. Mr. Miller hits already harvested,
threshed and sold this season over 1,300
bushels of ilax,and expects with this
late crop to swell his receipts from this
staple alone up to $1,500 the product of
100 acres. Wayne Gazette.
Judge Brewer, the other day delivered
his opinion in the celebrated casoof con
tempt against the mayor and city coun
cil of Lincoln for disobeying a writ of
injunction. His opinion is quite lengthy,
but he concludes it by imposing a fine
of $50 each upon the mayor and three
councilmen, and upon the other eight
councilmen a fine of 8000 each, and that
they bo remanded to the custody of the
United States marshall until the sum is
paid. The judge evidently believes that
it is good to respect all the laws, includ
ing the orders of the courts.
About the worst sample of railroad ex
tortion that has been practiced lately
came to light in Neligh this week. Chas.
Terril shipped to this place a carload of
apples from a point about seventy-five
miles from Council Bluffs and - the
freight charges on the car were $201.68.
The entire distance is less than half the
distance to Chicago and the freight
charges more than three times as much
as they would have been from Chicago
here, Bimply because there was no com
peting route between these two partic
ular shipping points. Neighly Leader.
It may not bo generally known, but
it is a fact nevertheless, that among the
natnral resources of Seward county are
ledges of as fine lime stone as is needed
for any purpose. The quarries are situ
uated in A township and steps are being
taken to get a spur of the Northwestern
railroad to run out to them. The one
now in the best shape is on the farm of
John Olney, who has taken out a large
amount of building stone during tho
past summer. Specimens can bo seen
in the foundation of the new school
house at Germnntown, and also at Bee
station in the foundation of the new U.
B. church. If a railroad can be secured
to that point it would materially reduce
the price of building stone in this city
and wo hope the Northwestern people
will take the matter in hand. Seward
Reporter.
The meeting of the board of directors
of the canning company brought out
some interesting facts and figures con
cerning the business of the season just
closed. The season's output was seventy
cars of goods. These goods went east
and west, and all over our own state, and
are becoming known everywhere. The
pay roll for October showed the names of
seventy-five persons, an indication that
the canning industry is becoming a per
manent one. Theso seventy-five persons
are not the only persons among whom the
company's funds are distributed. The
farmers and gardneru, and they are not
few, who raise tho products, receive a
share. Thus it will be seen that the can
ning factory is the means of distributing
a goodly sum among the people of the
city and country every season. It is the
intention to do a larger business next
year than ever before. The Democrat
trusts that the Beatrice canning com
pany will continue to prosper and be a
leading industry in this thriving city.
Beatrice Democrat
Engineer Markham and his fireman
had a terrible encounter with a panther
the other night on the B. & M. road be
tween Minden and Axtell. From some
cause the train came to a stand still.
The engineer and fireman both got off
the train to right matters, when the pan
ther gave them notice by a frightful yell,
and the next moment sprang upon the
engineer and buried his claws in his
shoulder. The fireman with a heavy
wrench which he held in his hand
struck the animal on the head, which
stunned him and he loosened his hold
on the engineer, but in a short time he
made a leap for the fireman and buried
his claws in his left hip. By this time
Engineer Markham had drawn his re
volver and by a lucky shot struck the
brute between the eyes, killing him in
stantly. Both men were badly hurt and
will l)e laid up for some time. The pan
ther measured nearly six feet including
his nose and tail, and weighed nearly
200 pounds.
We shall presently have a revolution
a peaceful revolution in this country,
growing out of the gradual decrease in
the earnings and profit of the producers.
With the wheat, the corn, the potatoes
and the wool of the country bringing a
less and less market price year after year,
the farmer is beginning to inquire how
long it will be before he will be forced to
put a mortgage on his property to pay the
deficit between its earning power and hiB
expenditures. It is all well enough to
say that he must economize, cut down
his expenses, curtail his luxuries and so.
on. But he has had plenty for so many
years that he begins to understand that
legislation and governmental interference
can materially improve or injure his pros
pects. When he has studied out the ef
fects of legislation that tends toward free
trade, his efforts will be directed toward
securing a return to the prosperous times
he enjoyed when protection to American
Industry was the recognized, dominant,
unchanging policy of the Government.
Kearney Era.
Washington Letter.
From our regular correspondent.
The congress about to convene I re
gard in many respects as the most im
portant that ever assembled under our
form of government Never before has
a similar contingency existed where the
party in power propose to elect a speaker
whose right to a seat is very questiona
ble, and will be most seriously contested.
There are numerous indications to
strengthen the belief that the adminis
tration intends to hold a tight reign, and
needs just such a man as Mr. Carlisle in
the chair to effectually carry out the
programme. The possibility that the
election of the president may be thrown
into the house, renders the organization
of that body of the utmost importance.
While the republicans have a majority
of the states in the house, the democrats
have a majority of the members. It only
needs a change of two seats to give the
democrats a majority of the states, and
Mr. Carlisle's committee on elections
will be organized for that purpose.
Indiana, for instance, has seven repub
licans and six democrats, and the seat of
one of the republicans, is contested.
Suppose Carlisle's partisan committee
seats the democrat Indiana then passes
into the democratic column. So with
California, where there is another con
test, and so with Michigan, where there
is another contest and so with Michi
gan, where there are strong intimations
that a case will be made up. The ad
ministration is ready to resort to des
perate means to hold its power, and the
struggle will be a fierce one.
Several weeks ago I alluded to Mr.
Mills, of Texas, a radical free trader, as
the probable chairman of the committee
on ways and means, He says the ques
tion is settled, and that he has that
committee, which signifies red-hot war
on the present tariff system. I want to
predict further that it will end in blus
ter, and that after all there will be no
very material changes. The democratic
party is good on "dress parade," but
sadly deficient in materializing legisla
tion. During the war yon will remember
that a large amount of paper fractional
currency was issued, and the books at
the .treasury show that there is still
outstanding over $15,000,000 of that
currency, though it was called in more
than twelve years ago. There iB none in
circulation now, and the question comes
up, where iB it? Has it leen destroyed,
or is it held in bits by the people as
souvenirs? In this connection it is es
timated that $20,000,000 of currency is
annually destroyed by firo and ship
wreck, and possibly thore is where this
fractional currency has gone.
Candidates for subordinate official
position in the organization of the next
house, are multiplying daily. The
southern states are turning them out by
the score, and one would think from the
clamor that that is the only section of
the country that can furnish good dem
ocratic material. They want everything
from clerk to postmaster. Northern
democrats are disgusted with this exhi
bition of arrogace, and threaten lively
times in caucus if this packing process
is to continue.
For the past three days there have
been all manner of rumors in regard to
cabinet changes, but up to this writing
no decisive action. The most plausible
story is that Vilas will remain where he
is; Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, take
Lamar's place, and Governor Gordon
succeed Colquitt in tho senate. Col
quitt is not a talking man, Gordon is,
and the administration needs more of
that sort in the senato to meet the re
publican giants.
Ex-Secretary Chandler, of the Navy,
now senator from New Hampshire, has
several big guns loaded which he will
let off in due time about certain naval
contracts under this administration.
Chandler never talks unless he has
something to say, and Secretary Whit
ney may have to stand up and explain
some very dubious transactions. It is
understood here that Chandler is well
equipped for the fray.
In his annual report, the Inspector
General of steamboats estimates that
during tho past year 500,000,000 passen
gers were carried on steam vessels, and
out of that vast aggregate, only 220
lives were lost. This would indicate
steamboats as the safest mode of travel.
Figures at tho Postomce Department
show that the amount of money sent by
money orders and postal notes during
the past year reaches nearly SloD,000,000.
It seems fabulous, yet the records in
the office of the Commissioner of Bail
roads actually show that over eight
thousand millions of dollars are repre
sented in tho railroad system of this
country.
Prof. S. P. Langley, of Pennsylvania,
one of the best knowm scientists of the
country, has been elected secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution. This se
lection has no political bearing, and is
most worthily bestowed. b.
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Helps te nsterest la Written
Work.
It has been my experience that pu
pils like to have their work put up
where it can be seen, if it is well done,
or if it has been painstaking even
though not well executed.
There are numberless ways of creat
ing an interest in written work, which
are at once simple and within the reach
of every teacher.
My first plan is, to provide myself
with a yard of black cambric, and fast
en it by the end to the top of the
blackboard, or in any place that is not
required for daily lesson work. In
every school room there is some cor
ner that is of little use for blackboard
work, and this corner makes the best
place for the cambric. Have it fasten
ed only at the two upper corners, but
have it hung perfectly smooth. On
this can be pinned, at will, specimens
of any written work done by your class.
One day let it be language, another,
examples, and a third, the perfect
spelling papers.
You will very soon see how the pu
pils will linger about that corner at
recesses and after school, and, if you
will, you can hear some very good com
ments on the papers exhibited.
The children will 'learn much from
the criticisms of their mates, and as
pupils almost invariably wish to stand
well in the estimaiion of those of their
own age, it proves a wonderful incentive
to care-taking in the preparation of
papers.
It will not be long before you will
find the pupils watching anxiously for
the correction of their papers, to see
whether or not they merit exhibition.
Any method is wrong which excludes
the pupil from active participation.
They should have something to look
up, to inquire about to read and study.
Even beginners in geography who are
taught orally, shown pictures and
taken on imaginary journeys, should
have something to learn, to remember
and to recite. If not given in the text
books in the best form, or if these are
wanting, sentences should be written
on the black-board or dictated to the
pupil and these should be committed to
memory, or the substance of them
learned and recited. Becitation is an
important part of tho process of acquir
ing an education. American Teacher.
Do not talk so much. Givo the
children a chance.
Require prompt answers, but en
courage the slow.
Have a plan of conducting the reci
tation with a clear notion of the points
to be made.
Secure order, if possible, without
corporal punishment; but secure order
at all hazards.
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with
Cartfa.
Ob tte Hktory of th United States. Directions
tor pteylac tweaty-two game are given. Child
mi axe deugbted with then, and tbae iataeed to
tad? History with a new seel. In neat box, full
directions. 40 cents postpaid.
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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. juiymetr
SPEIOE & ISTOKTH,
General Ayent.tfor (lie sale of
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Union Pacific and Midland Pacific It. It. I Jind for wile at from $3.00 to 10.00 r acre for cash
or on five or ten jenre time, in uniiur.l imjinentH to unit purchnwerH. We huHluoii large and choice
lot of other lnnii. improved ami uuimproved, for bale at low price and on re.tronnlile term. Altto
businena and residence loti in the citj. We keep a complete ulwtract of title to all real entitle in
Platte County.
COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. ,;-'
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Wholesale and
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Game, Poultry, and Fresh Fish. AH Kinds of Sausage a Specialty.
JSyCash pul for Hides. Pelts, Tallow. HfcheHt market price paid for fat cattIe.lS-2
Olive Street, second door north of First National Bank.
The American School ranks among the
best educational magazines. Its arti
cles are practical, short, to the point,
and are calculated to help the teacher
in her actual school room work. Its
subscription price is only 50 cents.
Every teacher in this county should
invest this mm. Send it to L. W.
Applegate, Boom 5, Hamilton Block,
Chicago.
We advise all yoim? persons who are looking
for something to turn up to stop :t and turn
something: up. WeV by commendations that
the students or the Ccutral College of Kclectlc
Shorthand, 92 Dearborn street. Chicajro. are re
markably successful in the use of :orthaud and
typewriting aul we advise all who are interested
to send to the College its circular.
Clbji Ctfrgi f B uas aid Ptouiukip.
130 Madison St.. Chicaoo.
The Leading College of Builaess, Penmanship
and Shorthand in the Northwest The compre
hensiveness of the studies embraced In each of
the several courses, the liberal tuition rate,
the careful individual instruction and attention.
ead a esrdb's trial free, are some of the superior
features of this College. Remember, also, the
area advantage in 4ttendtng a college in a great
commercial city like Chicago. A business edu
caUoa should be received in a Business College
in a btalnesBCitr. Your chances of securing a
good position as book keeper, pen artist, or sten
ographer are then ten to one.
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Ohteaao rives instruction In four syrtems of
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Writs for Catalogue aad partlctila.'a. Informs
ttog!adl7Svea7 WllON 4 CONDRING
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GROCERIES,
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at very low price.
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