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isi mffMSS tt! V mwi.jxis' ."' -i: am fr b!t j N 0lnmldn gmmtaL Entered at the Post-office, Columbus. Neb., m aecond-claes mail matter. ISSUED EVEBY WEDNESDAY BY K. TURNER & CO., Columbus Tfo. M. TEKilS OF SUBSCBIPTIOS One year, by mall, postajrc prepaid, ... S2.00 Three muntlw Pajnble in Advance. 5-3pecim'U oopi.-. mailed freu. on applica tion. TO 8CBSCBIBKBS. When subscribers change their plf" J " dence they should atronce notify us by letter or Dostal canLsiTine boUi their former and their SrentKffiS!-the first enable or to readdy ind the name on our inailinsUst, from wlncii, teiM in m. each week print, either on the PliroVonthewawn of jour. JoVBNAb. U.e Sate to which your autiecription is paid or ac counted for. Kemittance should be made either by money-order, roistered letter or araii, pajable to the order of ro TO COHUKSPONDENTS. All communications to secure attention, must m accompanied by the full nuine or the writer. WereleUe the rfcht to reject any manuscnu and cannot mjree to return the same. We aesire T correspondent in every school-district of Platte county, one or kkm1 judgment, an.l re liable in every way.-Write plainly, each item separately. Kite us facts. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21. l&fl. All 1 ruins are again running on the Santa Fe. Butte has offered a bill for the ad mission of Utah as a state. On the 14th inst.,a violent snow storm prevailed throughout England, Wales and Scotland. Sixtekv iiereons were drowned off Bari, England, by the capsizing of a pleasure boat. On the 17th the snow blockade had Jeen raised in the north of England, "but .still existed in Scotland. -- Three persons in the vicinity of New ark, N. J., lire now known to have frozen to death in the recent storm. Fiftv-two head of cattle in Kent county, Md., were slaughtered recently. " they having plenro pneumonia. One of the south approaches to the Union Pacific bridge at Valley gave way before the ice Monday morning. A snow plow pushed by four engines jumped the trac at Sharon, N. Y. Four men were killed and four injured. John Sinner, the noted desperado and murderer, was taken from the jail at Hopkinsville, Ky and lynched. At Troy, N. Y., March 13th it had been snowing forty honre, and the ground was covered to a depth of four feet. A Reading, Pa-, passenger train ran off the track near Middleport, killing one passenger and injuring a number of others.. The weekly bank statement of the New York banks shows that they hold 311,490,000 in excess of legal require ments. At Amsterdam, N. Y-, on the 13th inst. the snow was nearly five feet deep, and in some places the drifts are twelve and fifteen feet, A fire at Ilarrisbnrg, Saline county, 1U, the other night, burned sixteen business buildings, destroying property valued at $75,000. The remains of T. J. Potter were laid quietly to rest at Ottumwa, la., on the 13th inst, in the presence of -a largo multitnde of friends. A tcleoram from Loup City, Neb., eays a terrible snow storm commenced raging Sunday night; smow drifts ten feet deep in some places. In a collision of the British bark, Tasmania, with the British ship, City of Corinth, the latter was sunk. It ia be lieved twenty-eight lives were lost, J. H. Mdorey was burned to death in a lumber camp at Pesthigobook, Wis., the other night. George McCartney was badly burned and will die from ex posure. A fire the other morning at Marietta, O., destroyed the Register building and several stores, causing a loss of $60,000. The fire is supposed to have been of in cendiary origin. A recent report from Copenhagen states that a government order has been published, forbidding the importation from America of bacon and steam lard and other undressed products. President Adams of the Union Pa cific, on the 25th issued a circular di recting that all communications intend ed for the general manager should liere sifter bo sent to the president at Boston. The eastbound train the other day on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western jumped the track five miles west of Bing hampton, N. Y. Three coaches were burned, two persons killed and a num ber injured. During the 6torm a number of vessels and tugs were sunk at Delaware break water and twenty-five lives lost. Two bodies have already been recovered, and it is believed the loss of life along the coast was terrible. A wedding party of sixteen persons returning from church at Nensatz, Hnn - Rary, the other day, started to cross the ice in the Danube in carriages. When half way across, the ice gave way and the entire party drowned. A report comes from Washington that the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad company refused to allow the striking engineers to haul the United States mail cars unless they also haul passengers and express cars. The U. S. government is taking steps to pay up the loss and injur ot China men in this country, which will reach $276,000; and then secure a treaty by which Chinamen will be excluded from this country for twenty years. Alex. Bennett, John Iee and another employe of the Singer Sewing Machine company left Elizabeth, N. J., during . the 6torm in a small row boat for Staten Island. The boat has been found in the ice empty, far out of its course. It is believed the men reached Staten Island .shore but perished in crossing the meadow. . With Judge Gresham as a candidate for president, the republican party .could make a strictly aggressive cam- -paign. His record is free from any suspicion of discredit or any necessity of explanation; and the demand for such 'a man is so plain and so 'imperative that it cannot possibly be rnisunderstood. jSt Louis Globe-Democrat Jadge Grettham. The name of Judge Gresham is being frequently mentioned in connection with the next presidency. It is not probable that he will receive the nomination, for he is not sufficiently a politician to se cure it, The presidency, unfortunately, does not come to men, but the man must tm to it. It is the wire puller who usu ally gets the nomination for office, while the clean, pure and thoroughly manly nian is left behind. It is exceedingly doubtful, too, if Judge Gresham could be elected if nominated. He would have the solid opposition of the monopolies, for he has boxed their ears soundly since he has been on the bench. The individ ual stands just as good a show in Judge Gresham's court as a corporation does, n.wl o nnnr mnn ram T0t. ilist RB lllUCh justice as a Gould can. The Goulds do not like inm. xuey are not nrruaiuiueu to such a vigorous administration of law as distinguishes Judge Gresham's ad ministration of it The corporations and monopolies being against him, therefore, his. nomination is not proba ble, and his election would be im-ossi-ble if he were nominated. What does the Rural mean- that mo nopolies and oororations can elect whomever they like, does some one ask? Let the people answer that question. We cannot answer it We can only point to the past Matt Carpenter once tried to serve the people and the jeople Tnr.r;ti ait liW.i trt Iia alnutrhtered and drove him from their support Senator A'an Wyck did the people a hukiu ser vice, and the corporations knifed him. Senator Whiting waB always the friend of the people, but the corporations marked him for a victim. Even Ben Butler did good work, but the people stood by while the monopolies knocked him stiff. Is there any necessity for such results? None whatever. The people have the power to sustain their friends in spite of the corporations and monopolies. Why do they not do it? Let them answer. Will they ever do it? Yes, we think they will. When? Let the people answer. Western Rural. Convention of Republican Claim. Delegates from various clnbs held a state convention at Omaha on the 15th. A large number were present. Temporary organization was made by the election of Capt. L. W. Billingsley, chairman. Brad Slaughter and Fred McConnell were chosen temjiorary sec retaries. A series of resolutions were reported by the committee and adopted by the convention. The convention organized a State League bv the election of Hon. John M. Thurston president, and a number of vice presidents selected by the counties, among whom we notice W. H. Winter botham for Nance and E. L. King for Polk. Brad Slanghter was elected secretary and L N. Raymond treasurer. The following executive committee wap appointed: First congression.il dis trict R- W. Breckenridge, Douglas county, and C. M. Holmes, of Johnson county; second district, L. A. Kent, Kearney county, and J. M. Lee, Furnas countv: third district, J. L. Graham, Cuming county, and A. Barton, Dawes county; at large, H. E. Palmer, of Cass county, E.B. Penney, of Merrick county; J. O. Colbv, Gage county and E. C Carnes, of Seward county. After having finished the business be fore it, the League adjourned to meet at Lincoln, Juno 28th, for the purpose of ratifying the nominees of the national republican convention. The New York Htorm. One can scarcely believe that ever such a terrible snow and wiud -storm visited New York City. It commenced early on the morning of the 12th inst., and by 8 o'clock there was a foot or more of snow on the ground. The high wind raging caused the snow to drift from three to four feet deep. By noon traffic was al most suspended. Thousands of passen gers were blocked on the elevated roads, and the horse cars were unable to move. Finally business was completely para lyzed in the city and travel suspended. The city was ubsolntely- snow-bound. The oldest persons never saw its equal. Not one train dispatched by either the Erie or the Central. Telegrams from distances of 200 miles, tell the same story "It is the worst storm ever known here." On the night of the 12th a woman was absolutely frozen to death at the corner of Broadway and Fulton streets, believed to bo by citizens of the city the busiest four corners on earth. The evidence of the storm is full, com plete and reliable, so we must no longer doubt, but believe that the storm did occur and should le called by New York folks, a "blizzard." Judge Dundy's Decision Saturday morning was what was to be expected, and was virtually as follows: 'The engineers on the Union Pacific have the right to quit work when they please; but they have not the right to enter into a conspiracy and by concerted action suddenly leave the Uuion Pacific road without enginemen when the pur pose of that conspiracy is to prevent the Union Pacific road from exchanging freight with the Burlington, as by the interstate commerce law it is required to do. Against such an act the court will enjoin. Neither have the engineers the right to refuse to pull Burlington cars and such refusal would subject them to im prisonment. The Union Pacific is the creation of congress, it bears the nation al birthmark upon it Congress has di rectly enacted that its officers, agents and operatives must at all times ex change with and handle freight of cer tain intersecting lines, among them the Burlington & Missouri, and has made re fusal a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $1,000 and imprison ment not less than six months on con viction. This is a law of the United States and whenever one or more persons by conspiring attempt to subvert any law and any overt act is done in pursuance of a general plan in that direction, there are heavy penalties annexed. The inter state commerce law reiterates in effect for all roads, the Union Pacific among them, that was prescribed as the clearly defined duties of the Union Pacific in 1874. These were the principles upon which the decision was based. The Republican State Central Committee Held its meeting at Omaha on the even ing of the 15th inst and fixed upon Omaha as the place, and Monday, May 15th, 8 o'clock p. m. the time for holding a state convention to elect four delegates at large to the national convention in Chicago, June 19. The central committee also fixed upon Lincoln as the place for holding the state convention for nominating state officers. The time was left to the execu tive committee to fix. Under the basis of representation adopted by the committee, to apply to both the state and national conventions, Platte and adjoining counties are enti tled to delegates as follows: RrmnA- 8 Menvk . 4 . . . ft Butler... Colfax .. 3Udion. POlk J Matta At thiB writing the public is not in formed as to who will succeed Thomas J. Potter with the Union Pacific Com pany, but we think we can safely say that Thomas L. Kimball, who has so long and so ably represented the inter ests of the Company, would be accepta ble to the employes of the Company and to the general public along the route, who are so greatly interested in all that concerns the relations of the Company to the public who do business with them. There is a mutual interest that touches all of us, and we cannot but feel that Thomas L. Kimball has such a concep tion of that interest as would make it alike beneficial to Company and people, if "he should succeed to the place made vacant by the death of Mr. Potter. Of course men working in subordinate po sitions must follow instructions, but there is all the difference in the world between men, even in saying the word 'no," wheu it has to be said, and this Mr. Kimball can do firmly and yet very gentlemanly. Litter. Since the above was placed in type Mr. Kimball has been appointed general manager of the Union Pacific. Mr. K. is 56 years of age, has been with the U. P. Co. since '71, and his promo tion will give very general satisfaction. Dr. George M. Cox, U. S. pension ex aminer at Springfield, Mo., committed a horrible crime the other day by induc ing Effie Ellis, the mistress of Panton Cox, hi9 son, to enter a carriage with him, and when she was seated, he struck her over the head with a hot tie of -vitriol,, breaking the vessel and smearing her face and head with the acid. Her screams attracted the attention of the police,who released her from the frenzied physician, but not until her eyes were burned ont and her handsome features destroyed by the powerful vitriol, which bnrned into the gashes made by the broken glass. The agony of the woman was intense, and she now lies at the point of death. Before meeting her the doctor's son had been a promising youth, and his sudden ruin distracted Mb father and drove him to commit the terrible deed. A terrible explosion occurred the other morning of six tons of dynamite on the farm of David Hampton, at Williamsburg, Ind. The shock was felt fifty miles away. Hampton was loading a wagon with the stuff to "shoot" a well at Hagerstown when the crash came. Man, wagon and horses were shattered to pieces. Shreds of Hampton's shirt were found, and so was the head of his horse, both far from the place where they were blown up. The farmhouse was wrecked and a hole fif teen feet deep and twenty-five feet in circumference found where the dyna mite had been kept - A Case of Cannibalism. Winnipeg, March 14. The case of cannibalism reported from the Peace river country last summer turns out not to be caused by hunger, but the work of the woman who became "wehtigo" sev eral years ago; she has since killed and eaten twelve per6ons,members of her own family, and others. She was alive at last accounts from Edmonton. The In dians and half breeds express surprise that the government does not arrest and punish her for the crime. A Triple Tragedy. Chicago, March 14. A Daily News Dixon, 111., special says Samuel Whit meyer killed George Albright and fatal ly shot Barbara Albright and blew hiB own brains out this morning. Whit meyer was a laborer on Albright's farm and fell in love with Barbara. He was ordered off the place some time ago. This morning he returned for bis cloth ing and without warning drew a revolv er and began shooting, with the result as above stated. A fatal wreck is reported from Mead ville, Pa., on the afternoon of the 17th; at a curve near that city, the fast Erie express, No. 13, and passenger train No. 9, both running twenty-five miles an hour, collided. The engines and bag gage and mail cars of both trains were totally demolished and several roaches badly broken. Engineer B. W. Fessen der was probably fatally injured. Many other persons about the engines were badly bruised, cut and injured, but not fatally. Passengers suffered from the shock and fright, but none were report ed injured. Robert Barber, a farm band, went to the house of Richard Mason, aged seventy, living near Truemansburg, N. Y., tho other evening, and after horribly beating him with a clnb attacked Ma son's wife and beat her head into a shapeless mass. He then set the house on fire and fled. Mason recovered suf ficiently to crawl into a snowdrift, but his wife's body was burned to cinders. Barber was caught before morning and lodged in jail at Ithaca. Mason cannot live. The motive of the crime is sup posed to have been robbery. Third District Kepablieaa Committee. The Republican Committee of the 3d Congressional District is hereby called to meet in the parlors of the Eno hotel in Fremont on Thursday, March 29th, at 3 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of calling convention, or conventions, necessary to be held during the present year in the 3d Congressional District and to transact such other business as may properly come before the committee, E. H. Barnard, Chairman. Suit is said to be about being com menced by Attorney General Garland against the Colorado Coke, Coal and Iron company of Cincinnati, present owners, to cancel forty-two homestead entries, containing 10,720 acres in the Pueblo land district of Colorado. The land is valuable mining land and was en tered by fictitious parties who sold to the company in question. Suit to re cover 200,000 feet of timber cut on gov ernment land in Oregon is also recom mended against the Northern Pacific railroad company. The Union Pacific District Attorney Walker of New York, has brought suit in the United States circuit court in be half of the government against the Western Union Telegraph company to recover 812,495 paid for telegrams by United States officials along the line of railroad. The money was paid since 1881. m James W. Fitzgerald, living near the village of Lorraine, N. Y., went there during the storm to buy some groceries but never got back. On the 13th his horse was found in a field half frozen. The belief ia that be ia dead and trariad in the now. The hearts of Omaha people will go out to the poor sufferers in New York, Philadelphia and other districts swept by the recent blizzard. The 'hospitals are-full of miserable creatures dug out. of the snow and the morgues overflowing with the cold, stiff bodies of the victims. It is strange that with the numerous and far reaching charities of the age there is no' fund to transport the luck less inhabitants ot the bleak Atlantic coast to the blossoming prairies of Ne braska. World. The Republican State Central Com mittee, at their meeting at Omaha, de termined to hold the convention for se lection of delegates to the presidential convention, on the 15th day of May, at Omaha; the regular state convention will be held at Lincoln on a day to be hereafter named by tho executive com mittee. The basis of representation is Maxwell's vote, ghyng Platte county 10 delegates. Mr Randall's tariff bill provides the repeal of the entire internal tax on to bacco and on fruit brandies. It also re peals the license tax on wholesale and retail liquor dealers, leaving these as recommended by Jefferson, so that ''the state authorities might adopt them." It makes alcohol used in the arts free and reduces the tax on whisky to 50 cents a gallon, and proposes no reduction on sugar and wool. Tite other evening at Columbus, O., a fire Htarted in the paint shop of the Buckeye Buggy Co.'s new sir-story building. Owing to the high wind and the time the fire department' arrived, it was plain to be seen that the building was doomed, if not the whole square. The loss to the buggy company will reach $140,000 and the damago to other buildings will raise this up towards $200,000. Charles S. Carer, of New Y'ork, has been confirmed as solicitor of the treas ury. R. L. Ledwick, nominated for register of the land offico at Des Moines, la.; M. C. Sanlly, of Kentucky, nomi nated for associate justice of the su preme court, Wyoming; W. M. Purcell, nominated U. S. attorney for Dakota; nominated U. S. consul A. J. Jones, of HL, at Barangvilla. Sheriff Stoddard, of Rice county, Kansas, arrived at Denver, Col., the other day with a requisition from the governor of Kansas for the arrest of A. C. Meyers and Frank West, charged with the murder of Richibald Douglas, a stock man at Lyons, Kas., two years ago. The accused are two of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Durango, Col. A report was sent out from Chicago on the 15th that three thousand two hundred miles of railway were tied up that- afternoon in ten minutes by the brotherhood of locomotive engineers and firemen. The entire main line of -the Atchison, Tokeka & Santa Fe Co. and all its branches were brought to a stand still, a stretch of territory from St. Paul on the north to El Paso on the south. Oscar Metz, of Sioux City, a poor man who buys old papers and rags, found in his clean-up the other afternoon, two drafts on the New Y'ork First National Bank one for $2,000, the other for $1,000. They wero the property of the Security National Bank of Sioux City, to wluch they were duly turned over. They had carelessly been thrown into the waste basket. Additional reports from the great storm in New Y'ork make matters worse than ever. The snow in the city is fro zen so hard that plows cannot be used, and gangs of men with shovels and picks are endeavoring to clear the roads. The snow drifts in many places are from six to eight feet deep. Several persons on the night of the 12th inst., perished in the city. Patents Granted To citizens of Nebraska 'dur ing the past week, and reported express ly for this paper by C. A. Snow & Co., Patent lawyers, opp. U. S. patent office, Washington, D. C: H. A. Miller, Ogallala, horn tip; C. A. Manker, Louisville, holder for barrels, etc. The trial of Mrs. John Witter of Den ver, Colo., accused of murdering her husband by giving him arsenic, resulted in a verdict of "not guilty." The trial lasted nearly throe weeks, closing on the 13th. The ladies present when the verdict was rendered were wild with ex citement fondly congratulating the wid ow on her escape from the gallows. In a house of bad repute in Raton, N. M., the other morning Deputy Sheriff C. W. Cook shot and killed Deputy U. S. Marshal Frank Catlin. The murder was the outgrowth of hard feeling that originated over the election of sheriff last fall. And what a place for offcials to be! R. Heller, of Findlay, O., was found in a dying condition the other afternoon at his home, with his wife and 18 months old baby lying dead by bis side. It is thought to be a case of either murder or suicide. The mystery will probably never be solved. A revised list of casualties in the rail road accident that happened the other day near Blackshear, Ga., shows 23 killed and 24 injured. Of the latter, ten are in a Berious condition. The trestle of the Hurricane river is about 800 feet in length, and the break includes about 400 feet at the west end. A short time ago the police of Nor folk, Va., arrested a gang of five counter feiters who had flooded the city with counterfeit dollars. The dollars are thicker than the genuine pieces, and lighter. They are said to be excellent counterfeits and very hard to detect. Hon. John N. Irwin, mayor of Keo kuk, Iowa, has issued his proclamation for closing all the saloons in that city by the first day of May. Personally, the mayor has nothing to do with pro hibition, but regards it as his positive duty to execute the law. Hong Kong mail which was received the other night at San Francisco, on a steamer from China gives the particu lars of a terrible earthquake in China, Dec. 15, which continued for many days. More than 15,000 persons are said to have perished. If Doraey is to give way to Judge Crounse for congress, and be made governor, while Jim Laird is to succeed Manderson in the senate, as the Omaha Herald claims to have discovered. Where will Thayer and Manderson be? "Doubt ful things are mighty.tnotrtain." A bad accident happened to the Cuban fast mail express from New Y'ork, near Blackspoar. Ga., on the 17th; the train was running at a high rate of speed and plunged through a trestle work, killing twenty persons instantly and badly in juring a large number, some of whom will die. The other night iu Chicago three Ital ians became involved in a quarrel over a game of cards. Each of the men drew stilettos and proceeded to cut and slash indiscriminately. t the end of, a few minutes all were seriously injured. Two of them will die. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dotle, their two children, and Mr. and Mrs. Adams, their boarders of Bloomington, 111., ate headcheese the other night for supper, and were nil poisoned; Mr. and Mrs. Adams and the children are ttt the point of death. NEBRASKA NOTES. D. T. Graham, has been, confirmed as postmaster at Madison. Sixty-seven counties of Nebraska were represented in the state club convention, by five hundred delegates. The ice in the Missouri river was pass ing out Saturday nicely and not damag ing property iu Omaha to any extent. They were getting ready lHst week at Beatrice to voto on the question of is suing bonds for paving a considerable portion of the city. Nicholas Johnson while walking on the railro:id track the other night near Sidney was struck by a freight car and killed. He was not known in that vv 1 cinity. The vote of $40,000 bonds for erecting a court house at Teeumseh met with; considerable opposition throughout the county, but was carried by a large ma jority. W. G. Weathorby, a B. fc M. passen ger bmkeinan, running lietween Lincoln and Pacific Junction, had his arm brok en the other night at the passengerdepot at Lincoln. W. Huddart, an employe on tho rail road bridge at Sioux City, la., was in stantly killed on the approach grade the other afternoon. The bank caved in on him and broke his neck. It is reported that Gen. Armstrong, inspector of U. S. Indian agencies, was at Rosebud the other day investigating charges and counter charges letween the agent and employes. Hastings is about receiving an im portant accession to business interests, in the location and establishment of a large ready print, and printers' ware house, by the Nebraska Newspaper Union, a newly-organized company. Elmer Hamerman, a young lad living near David City, was arrested Saturday last bv Sheriff Darnell for horse steal ing. He stole the animal from Fred Robson, of York county, and will be taken to the York county jail to await his trial. The Methodist people of Crete over a week ago dedicated the new church erected at an expense of over $10,000. The exercises were conducted by Bishop H. W. Warren of Denver. The balance remaining on the church debt was raised, and the house dedicated free of debt. The Hastings board or trade have en tered into contract with Clay & Co. to pay them $5,000 when they shall have bnilt woolen and knitting mills to cgst not less than $25,000, and employing not less than thirty-five persons. The mills are to 1 in operation within six months. Capt. Yocum, secretary of the Hast ings board of trade, says in his report that during the year he has written twelve hundred business letters for the board and transmitted through the mails about eighteen thousand printed circulars, maps, papers, etc., to all parts of the United States. C. E. Dean of Omaha has been em ployed by the board of commissioners of Merrick county to examine the books of ex-Treasurers Ratcliff and Webster. Dean is to furnish a competent assist ant and both are to work faithfully and honestly eight hours a day and to re ceive for their services $13 a day, board and railroad fair one trip from and to Omaha. It may be satisfactory if yon have a pair of scales to weigh your feeding hogs at. regular intervals comparing their gain with the amount, of corn fed. You can easily know whether or not there is a paying gain; and you may know when the hoga have ceased to improve. The scales may mark the time to sell more certainly than your daily observation wonld. fEx. U. S. D. Marshal Showalter, brought to Omaha the other day for safe keeping in the county jail Miller Miles, who is charged with murdering First Sergeant Emanuel Stanc on the Ft. Robison mili tary reservation. He also brought three witnesses to be held in the jail to be on hand when needed nt the trial. Their names are Phillip Dover, Jennie Blue and "Skip" Hamilton. A report came from Valentine the other day that the grand jury had in dicted J. M. Thatcher of Niobrara for selling liquor without a license. -This cose will test the law of thisstateceding jurisdiction to the U. S-, and will deter mine whether or not a man can sell goods in competition with the whole country and be exempt from taxation, because his place of business happens to be in a military reservation. The reception tendered to Miss Min nie Freeman at the opera house last Saturday evening was well attended and everything passed off in a very pleasant manner. A beautiful silver tea set and cake basket was presented her, the pre sentation speech being made by Thos. Darnall and was responded to by Miss Minnie in a few choice words, after which those who were so inclined, en joyed themselves for a time with a so cial dance, when all left for home with many wishes for the future welfare of. Miss Freeman. St Paul Phonograph. If we had manufactured in this coun try the $175,000,000 worth of manu factured goods that were imported in 1886, it would have furnished nearly 700,000 more consumers for the farm products of this country. They would have consumed a large proportion of the 50,000,000 bushels of grain exported in that year. If that grain had been con sumed in this country it would have saved to the farmer the freight paid to foreign ship owners for ocean freight the terminal port charges and the extra labor employed in distributing the grain. The men who prepared it for consump tion and who distributed it would them selves have been consumers. St Paul Phonogrsph, Wasalagtoa Letter. t From oar regular correspondent. Senator Ingall's ringing speech in the senate was the political event of the week. It was straight from the shoul der, every sentence representing a knockdown bjpw.against the democratic party. It was all the senate officials could do to keep down the enthusiastic applause of the crowded galleries dur ing its deliver. Many old soldiers listened attentively while the Kansas senator flayed the ad ministration and the democratic party, and the expression of their faces was all the evidence needed of their supreme enjoymeut of the well-deserved flagella tion. They were particularly pleased with the senator's reference to Cleve land, whose many slurs upon them in connection with the pension vetoes last year have neither leen forgotten nor forgiven. Here's the Kansas senator's opinion of Cleveland: "The nomination and elec tion of Grover Cleveland has made the pretensions of any American citizen to the presidency respectable. There is no man in this country whose ignorance is so profound, whose obscurity so impen etrable, whose antecedents so degraded, that be has not the right to aspire to the presidential nomination by the democratic party." Referring to the question asked by Senator Vest in his speech last week "Where is this pension business to stop?" Mr. Ingolls said, "It is going to. stop when - the- arrears of- pensions are paid; wheu the limitation .is removed and ev ery soldier on the rolls br who gets on the rolls, is paid from the day of lua disability, or, in case of a survivor, from the date of the soldier's death; and when every surviving soldier of the Union army is put upon the rolls for service only. That is when it. is going to stop. And if yon do not like it, make the most of it" Referring to the pending pension bill he said: "I hope it will pass the other house of cangresB; and if it does, let the president of the United States veto it at liis peril." It remained for a republican to take the initiative in stopping the patent medicine men and cigarette people from making use of Mrs. Cleveland's picture as an advertisement. Mr. Thomas, of HI., has introduced a bill in the house which makes it a misdemeanor nnnisha ble by a heavy fine for any person or tirm to use n woman s likeness as an ad vertisement without her written consent. Here is a little specimen of democratic stupidity. The secretary of war report ed to the senate that so many errors had been made in printing the abstract of the militia force of the country as recent ly reported to congress, that the docu ment was worthless. The senate has ordered the public printer to reprint the document That's the way Benedict- economizes. For some days a rumor has been cur rent here that Cleveland has written a letter, which is now in the hands of ex mayor Cooper, of New Y'ork, who is anthorized to make it public whenever he sees ht, in which he declines to allow his name to be used for the nomination, and further, that he would not accept the nomination if it should be tendered him. This is hard to believe. Another failure in the treaty line is to be charged up to the administration. This time it is John Chinaman who has euchered little Tommy Bayard. The new treaty will be sent to the senate at once. It prohibits the importation of Chinese laborers into this country in one paragraph, but opens wide the doors for them in another, which it is under stood was prepared by the Chinese min-s ister here. It allows all Chinamen re siding in' the United States, who have accumulated property to the value ,o 9imiu or more 10 visit v;nina ana reiurn, to this country as often as they please; Any one at all acquainted with Chinese Character will readily understand that the average Chinaman will have no com punction in swearing that he is worth $1000 or any other sum if he can gain u privilege by so doing. Presidential booms are a little quiet this week. The only one that has made any headway is that of senator Sherman. The republican minority of the house ways and means committee have strug gled manfully to get a hearing for the various industries which are affected by the Mills tariff bill, but so far in vain. They are afraid that they might be con vinced of the absurdity of the hodge podge they have concocted. Viaduct. Editor Journal:- -There is one mat ter fraught with so much annoyance, delay and danger to our citizens that it calls for immediate action. The cross ings over the U. P. tracks on Olive and North streets, by reason of tho con tinuous moving aud switching of long -freight nnd passenger trains, are be coming almost impassable, and danger ous to teams and pedestrians, and, while trainmen, switchmen, and flagman do all they can to keep open the crossings, there is great delay, and risk to life and limb under the present condition of af fairs at the depot grounds. This must continue to increase, be coming more dangerous and detrimental to our business intesests, as the traffic and travel of this road shall expand, and in which all the towns on this great thoroughfare are interested. The only feasible and practical relief from the increasing danger, and annoy ing delay occasioned from the blockad ing of crossing to and fro, to the north and south side of our city, will be by the construction of n viaduct on one of our streets connecting the business cen ter of the city and thus furnish an un interrupted and safe means of travel at all seasons, and at all hours. We think the time is opportune, when the city authorities should inaugu rate some means to relieve our citizens from this crying evil in our midst. h. Btaaarek Township. Mud is still plentiful. Spring work will soon commence if the present weather continues. Jacob Karline has had an addition to thefnumber of his horses; he has also completed his new barn. Andrew Mathis and Frank Luch ainger each sold fat cattle last week; they are both leading farmers and stock raisers. Mrs. Stickly and Miss Ettie Moore visited the Academy on Friday last. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Stickly intend re moving to Schuyler soon. Ducks and geese are appearing in this vicinity, and our sportsmen are rapidly thinning them out, though we have secured no trophies yet R. C. Mueller, director of school dis trict No. 10, was around posting up the notices for the annual school meeting. A moderator is to be elected this spring. The Academy pupils intend to give an exhibition at the Academy the evening of March 23d, and as L. H. Leavy is at the bead we presume it will be a good one.- Every one is cordially invited to come. R. C. Mueller -has hired Matthew Volz. to work for him ths coming season. 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Before we invoice. 3,,f Eleventh McKINLEY & MOft wmm BMmmm 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. jmyimir SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the sale of E. Union Pacific ami Midland Pacific K. K. Lands for Male at from 3.0U to $10.00 per acra for ch or on five or tan jeara time, in annual payments to snit purchasers. W have also a large and choica lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable tanas. Also business and residence Iota in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real estate in Platte County. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. - W. T. RICKLY& BRO. Wholesale and Fxesla. i So.lt !veats. tiaae, Peiltry, aid Fresh Fisfc. All Kitds f Saisage a Specialty. fWCtb. paid for Hid, Pelts, Tallow. Highest narket price paid for fat cattl.y . OliTs'Strsct, stcoa oox avrtb of First Witts! Bask. ' IS" SCHWAK'Z, AND DEALER8IN- 8MUM0 STOVES AND RANGES ALWAYS FOR SALE AT hist & umia ERNST fc SCHWABZ. H-2t wm AT - KEBH7 RASATZ I CO., Have a Fine Lino of Staple and Pancv GROCERIES, Crecktry and filittwtrt, Winch were bought cheap for cash, and will be sold at very low prices. Street, ('olamfius. Nebraska novld-tf CARNAHAN, l!f TATE ! Ketail Dealer in. y m i: v.. m !i