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I'WWl mx?m it S Entered at the Post-office, Columbus, Neb., aa second-class mail matter. ISSUED ETKBT WEDSXSDAT BT K. TURNER & CO., Columlus, Nol. M. TEBMS OF SCBSCBIPTI05: One year, by mall, postage prepaid, $2X0 Bix months, JrjJ Three months, au Payable in Advance. j-Siecimen copies mailed free, on applica tion. TO SUBSOBIBKES. When subscribers change their place of resi dnos they should at once notify lis by letter or po-t.il card, Kivin,? both their former and their pre-nt post-office the first enables us to readily bnd the name on our mailing, list, from which, U?in in type.pe each week print, either on the wrapper or on the margin of jour JoCBNAl, tne late to which your subscription is paid or ac roanted Tor. ltemittances should be made cither by money-order, registered letter or draft. Datable to the order of . 1 M. K. TUBSKE 4 Co. TO COBBESPOJiDKNTS. All communications, to secure attention, mast ! :i. manied by the full name of the writer. V- zr-crvo the nght to reject any manuscript. and cannot agree to return the same. We desire a comiondent in every school-district or Platte county, one of good judgment, and re liable in every way. Write plainly, each item sejKirately. Give us facts. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23. 1688. Republican County Convention. The republican electors of Platte countv are herebv called to meet in Platte Center, on Friday, May 11, 1888, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of se lecting delegates to the Congressional and State conventions, and for the trans action of such other business as may properly come before the convention. The several townships are entitled to representation as follows: Columbus. lt ward .4 G'd PrairieTwp 5 M " . Lost Creek " 9 3d " . 8 Granville " ... 4 Twp 5 Crehton " .. . 5 Hutler " S RurrouH " ... 3 liihinurck " 4 Woodrille " 5 Monroe " "' SUJemard " ....2 Hhell Creek " 4 Sherman -.4 Walker " Ixnip " .... J Humphrey " 4 Joliet 6 The caucuses to be held at the usual voting places on Friday, May 4th, in the townships between the hours of 4 and 6 p. in., and in the city of Columbus be tween 12 in. and 7 p. m. By order of the Countv Central Committee. W. B. Backus, Sec'y. Omaha has authorized three mounted police a good investment. President Dinsmoke of the Adams Express company died at New York on the 20th. Foun hundred men employed in and about a dozen breweries, in Cincinnati struck on the 19th. A veiiy strong earthquake shock was felt at St. Paul's Bay, Quebec, April 19, at 10 a. m., lasting three minutes. Indiana has instructed her delegation to voto for the nomination of Harrisr for president of the United States. On tho 17th at St. Joseph, Mo., two now Burlington men were assaulted and badly beaten by roughs. One may die. The Ohio republican delegation is pledged to tho support of John Sher man for president of the United States. The bill to divide and admit the south half of Dakota has passed tho senate of tho United States by a party vote. KEruiiLiCAN.s of tho Third district to their congressman "We'll see you,later, George W. E., there are u few things we wish to look into a little." Emma At-tiiouse, a young woman of Attica, N. Y., awoke on the 20th from a sleep of thirty-three days. During that time she took only a small quantity of milk. An attempt w:is made at Fairbury, on tho night of tho 18th to burn the Parker house, but the lire was discovered in time to prevent, by hard work, any se rious damage. Dit. Aonew, or New York, who was one of tho attending physicians during Conkling's late illness, and who hud been sick for some time, died on tho af ternoon of the 18th. The Standard Oil Company of Fort Wayne, Ind., suffered a loss of S20,000 on the 20th by tho destruction of the company's big storage depot, from which northern Indiana is supplied. James Tcunek of Kansas City is af fected with tho glanders, and no hopes are entertained for his recovery. He presents a sickening spectacle. One of his horses died recently of the disease. Dexter, tho famons trotter, died on the 21st, at the stable of Robert Bonner in New York. He was 30 years old. He died of old ago and exhaustion. He was the first horse to trot a mile in 2:17)4. A special to the evening Telegram, from Paris, was received at New Y'ork, April 20, which says George Pendleton, United States minister to Berlin, has been stricken with apoplexy at Weis baden. The brewery lock-out one day last week in New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Patterson began and more than 5,000 brewers, brewery wagon drivers, maltsters, helpers, wagon makers, coop ers, painters apprentices in these cities are out of work. At Armourdale, Kas., Sunday, an un known stranger attempted to kidnap the 4 years old daughter of D. P. Thompson, ne was fleeing with her when the father started in pursuit. He threw the child down and effected his escape without detection. The young men's democratic associa tion at New Orleans April 17. claim tho election of the entire city ticket over the straight democratic ticket by a large majority. It is also stated at the same date that the indications are that Nicholls is elected governor by a rnajori tiy of 20,000. Lttther K. Massh a wealthy old law yer of New York, 6eems to be complete ly under the control of certain parties who profess to have communication with spirits from the other world. The peo ple think it best to take care of the man and his money, and with the view to do this, he was under examination last week to accomplish it Fibe on the night of the 17th at Palo Alto, CaL, burned a portion of the sta bles of Senator Leland Stanford. Clif ton Belle, Bexford, Emma Robertson, Troubador, Lowell, Howard and Nor laine, very valuable horses, were roasted to death. Norlaine, for a yearling has the fastest trotting record in the world. The loss will reach 8200,000. It is be lieved that the fire was the work of an incendiary. Conkling Dead. April 18th, at his home in New York city, the spirit of Roscoe Conkling, ex U. S. Senator from New York, departed this mortal life. In many respects he was a remarkable man. Among public men, during bis time, he was perhaps unexcelled for strength of intellect. Strong in his friendships, he seemed more so in his enmities; a dignified austerity kept many men away from him, and got for him the reputation of cold-hearted. His partic ular friends, however, claim him the most considerate and tender-hearted of men. His integrity of character no one has ever questioned, not even his most relentless political foes. In a time when many men in public life accumulated property in devious and questionable ways, Conkling "never made any money in politics," because he was fully occu pied in doing what he regarded as his duty to his country. Conkling at 21 was admitted to the bar and immediately took high rank as a lawyer. Before 30 he was a recognized leader in politics and elected to a seat in congress. Subsequently he became senator from the Empire state, and thereafter his public life is known of all who lead the political history of the hist quarter of a century. Integrity, strength and directness were his chief characteristics; his mis takes as well its his triumphs may well be subjects of thought for aspiring American vouth in all time. Candidates for congress in tho big Third are looming up on the horizon, and we understand that a very strong effort will be made to postpone the nomination until later along. The Journal is inclined to believe that, prior to the meeting of the central com mittee, Mr. Dorsey's renomination was about as sure as future events can or dinarily be said to be. The very fact that it was strongly insisted by Mr. Dorsey's friends that the nomination should bo made at this early date, and that this was done presumably at his suggestion, has lead people to believe that he is doubtful of his re-nomination at a later date, and takes this method of fore-closing, so to speak. The Jour nal believes that unless some one of ability and character, acknowledged superior to Mr. Dorsoy, shall be present ed, that the people of this district will be in favor of his retnrn to congress. All the other candidates may unite and suc ceed in postponing the nominatinn till later. Mr. Dorsey's friends, however, are shrewd enough to apply Napoleon's tactics and fall upon the enemy in de tail, or win the more prominent over by pledges of support the next time. There are twists and turns, and combinations here, there and yonder, and influences, (very effectively at work) that tho gener al public sees nothing of, and the sum of all these, we think, is favorable to Mr. Dorsey being his own successor. We would, however, advise him and his workers not to tumble over themselves in getting to the nomination. In this first showing, while we think it was not a judicious move in Mr. Dorsey's inter est, we do not think it fatal the dish is not spoiled, there was simply too much kindling. A Rio Jeneiro letter of the 18th to the Herald at New York says: Accounts have been received from the southwest ern frontier of San Pnlo of the alleged poisoning of Indians in a mass. Accord ing to the statements forwarded, a cer tain Joaquin Cueno, who ha6 seventy armed men under his command, recently assaulted large Indian villages, and while the frightened Indians were absent poisoned, by strychnine, not only the food and drink abandoned by the fu gitives, but also the wells and springs. According to the statement of Buenos, when he returned a few days later, he found 3,000 corpses of Indians in the village. He also boasted that in another village he poisoned 800 Indians. The Presidency. As a candidate for the presidency Judge Gresham is rapidly gaining ground. The more republicans think about him, the more his fitness, strength and ability become recognized. How ever, Allison, Sherman and Harrison are not yet off the track, and until they are, Gresham will not have as clear sailing as his friends could wish for. Central City Nonpareil. The Biff Third. In the Third congresssonal district the contest for the republican nomination seems to lay between Dorsey, Meiklejohn and Darnell, with the chances favoring Dorsey, unless the other candidates have strength enough to combine and prevent his nomination on tho first bal lot. In that case a new man may be chosen. Central City Nonpareil. Other Countries. Advices of the 20th from the Phillipine Islands say the town of San Fernandi has been burned. A dispatch from Charlottenburg sent at midnight on the 20th to London, says: "The condition of the emperor is again critical." Five of the persons injured by the ex plosion in St. Helen colliery, Working ton, on the evening of the 19th, have since died. At the regular fortnightly meeting of the national league held at Dublin last week it was announced that the Ameri can donations for the last two weeks were 3,000. It was stated last week in the Stand ard's Berlin dispatches that Queen Vic toria will visit Charlottenburg and then Amsterdam, where she will be joined by Princess Beatrice and her husband and return with her to England. Within a few days past the uprising in Roumania renewed cause for alarm, more so than at any time during the last two years. It appears that Russia is firm in her determination to oust Fer dinand from the Bulgarian throne. A briliant reception was given at the residence of Lady Sandhurst, London, one night last week at which Mr. Glad stone, Mr. John Morley, Sir Charles Russell, Mr. Justin McCarthy and many other liberal and home-rule notables were present. Mr. Gladstone made a speech in which he said that the history of the last fifty years was the history of liberalism. CHINCH BUGS. A Present Remedy Against Their Undue In crease. There is no need of my telling the farmers of this and adjoining states that the chinch bug (ilicropus leucopterus Say) is frequently a pest to be dreaded. This is already too well known to re quire publishing. What is wanted is a remedy against its devastations one that is simple and at the same time de cisive in its results. Last year's devastations were not only great but wide-spread, in their nature; which with favorable conditions are pro bable to continue form year to year, and particularly during the present year. In Bulletin No. 2 of the Nebraska Ag ricultural Experiment Station (pp 917.) Prof. Conway McMillan gives a pretty thorough outline of tho history, habits and general nature of the pest, together with suggestions as to remedies, with tho view to aiding the farmer. While this has been done, there still appears to be urgent need of other and immediate call to wariness on the part of tho tiller of the soil. The pust winter, it appears, has been uncommonly favorable for the preservation of insect life, and especial ly so with this particular one. An ex amination during the past ten days has resulted in finding large numbers of them at every point visited. Not only were they found under the fallen leaves in groves, along fences, on the outskirts of woods, among tho debris of hedges and like localities, but also among the dead grass in lawns, on the open prairie and pastures and meadows. Knowing the favorable effects of a moderately dry spring upon their increase, and the sub sequent resulting damage, the presence of so many of the bugs impresses us with alarm. Something should be done; but what and when? Burn off tho dead grass and rubbish immediately. Do this in pasture, in field, in garden, along hedge-rows, in fence corners, along roads and on the prairies;and do it at once, be fore the bugs begin flying. All this means work, extra work, but work that must be done to save crops. True we may have a "wet spell" which will kill off the otherwise increasing myriads. This, however, we cannot depend upon. Prompt and decisive action in the man ner directed, while in itself not a perfect remedy, may save many thousands of dollars to our country. This should not be individual but general in its applica tion if expected to result favorably. Lawrence Bruner, in West Point Re publican. THIRTY DAYS OF SLI'MBKR. The. Village of Attira. N. Y'.. Excited Over the Remarkable Trance of a Younjr Lady of that Place. Buffalo, N. Y., April 13. For 6ome time the village of Attica, Wyoming county, has been greatly excited over the case of a young woman named Emma Tombs, who goes into trances, the length of which she tells before hand. She has now been in a trance lasting over thirty days. Emma sank into her present sleep one month ago, Sunday, March 11. She had lain wide awake eight consecu tive days and nights, partaking during that time of more nourishment than in all the six months of her previous trance, the amount being about a glassful of milk administered in teaspoonfuls. Dur ing her present trance the physician who calls daily has managed to force between her lips a few teaspoonfuls of the liquid, but this is a diflicult feat, as she rarely parts her lips. When closed her teeth are firm as a vice, any effort to pry them open proving useless. She lies almost perfectly still, her arms and legs being perfectly white and cold and pulse very feeble, being rated in tho absenee of a chronometer at sixty-five beats per min ute. The face is the only warm part of her body, being flushed with alternating fever. When, some time ago, she pre dicted to the reporter she would sleep for thirty days and perhaps longer, she did so without the least hesitatiou. NEBRASKA NOTES. Casper, the 3 years old boy so burned at Lincoln on the 19th, has since died. Senator Paddock resumed his seat in the senate Monday, after a week's ill ness. Fremont is to have a another packing house, their present one not being able to fill the bill. A. S. Tibbetts, of Lincoln, has been appointed receiver for the State Nation al bank of Omaha. A new addition to the town of Albion has been platted by Loran Clark and half the lots were taken before being staked. Lightning struck the barn of John Cross at Fairbury the other night and the barn and six horses were entirely consumed. Rev. H. S. Hilton has been elected president of Nebraska Central college (Methodist) at Central City, to succeed Rev. J. W. Shank. Harry C. Brome, an enterprising young lawyer of Norfolk, is about to move to Omaha to engage in the prac tice of his profession. The new city council of Fremont is debating the propriety of adding to the regular 8500 liquor license required by statute an occupation tax of $500 more for the present year. J. W. Love, at Fremont on the 18th closed the contract for a new opera house. It is to be of brick or Btone, 55x120 feet, three stories high, to cost not less than $25,000. At Albion M. B. Thompson, Loran Clark, W. A. Means, F. M. Sackett, F. H. Smith, A. G. Mansfield and J. A. Price were elected directors of the board of trade for the current year. Simon Hirsch, a horse dealer at Hast ings and member of the firm of Loeb & Hirsch, committed suicide at 10 a. m. on the 18th, by shooting himself through the head wiih a revolver. Rev. A. J. Cudney of the Seventh Day Advent church, well known to many in this section of Nebraska, has arranged to go as a missionary to Pitcairn Island, 4,000 miles northwest of San Francisco. Heinrich Schmoeger, of West Point, aged sixty-eight, committed suicide by hanging, and was found in his room at 7 o'clock on the morning of the 18th, hanging by a cord fastened around his neck, dead. L W. Chappel's residence seven miles south of Lincoln, was burned the other night with all its contents, the members of the family barely escaping with their lives. Nothing is known at present as to the origin of the fire. The fruit tree agent, Paul Newman, who was sent to the penitentiary from Blair for forging notes, has got a new trial and acquittal Probably be will go right at it again in the old approved style. Fremont Herald. A fire occurred on the night of the 19th about 11 o'clock in the store of Charles Moore at Camp Clarke, fifty miles north of Sidney. The office, mail and stock of goods were entirely de stroyed. Loss about 600. A car of horses owned by bridge builders was burned on the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad near Cody on the 20th. Fourteen horses were badly burned or injured. They were en route to Glen Rock, Wyo. Patrick Coleman of Wayne countv lost 2,200 bushels of corn by fire Thursday, causing a loss of nearly sl.500, including barn, corn cribs, horse, machinery, etc., so says the Omaha Bee. 31r. Coleman was a former resident of this county. The other morning the house of D. N. Caswell, near Bartlett, was burned. An eight years old child was burned to death and two younger children so badly that they are not expected to live. The father was in Neligh at the time of tho fire. At Valentine a firo on Sunday destroy ed the buildings of Sparks Bros., mer chants and bankers; the Bank of Valen tine, the Ray house, Louis' drug store, F. E. Gillette's meat market and Strick land's & Kirk's saloons, comprising tho principal business block of the town -loss 850,000. Kilpatrick Brothers & Collins, railroad contractors of Nebraska, have recently closed a contract with the Oregon Rail way and Navigation company to build two branch lines in Oregon, tho Eureka Flat extension, near Walla Walla, and the Willow Creek branch, near Arling ton, a distance of eighty miles. Judge Gaslin has held in tho case of Black & Jorgenson vs. C, B. & Q. for excessive and discriminating charges, that the railroad must grant equal rates to all shippers, and if not, then the com pany is liable for excess damages, tho payment of which is not voluntary, and no protest is required to make tho road liable. An investigation at Peru on tho 19th, revealed the fact that Charles Adams, a farmer living four miles from Peru, had three horses and tluit one of his neigh bors had one sick with glanders. The animals were killed. Fears are express ed among tho citizens that tho disease may spread. The dwelling and contents of P. M. Fithian, one of Johnson county's com missioners residing in Helena precinct, was entirely destroyed by fire. It orig inated in the upper part of the house about 1 p. m. on the 17th and was not discovered until too late to save any thing except an organ. Tho loss will reach from 81,200 to 81,500. Near Bartlett Saturday a firo caught in the roof of the dwelling of D. W. Baswell. Three little children were left in bed asleep, while the parents were out doing the chores. The children wero rescued from tho flames, but one of them breathed once after rescue and the other two are so very badly burned that they can live but a short time. A large crowd of people on the even ing of tho 16th inst. at North Platte witnessed the burning of the barn of Gus Hamer; his little boy was playing in the barn with matches and set firo to the hay, which resulted in the barn being entirely destroyed, together with a lot of harness and other miscellaneous prop erty. Value of property destroyed 8500. Quite a fire broke out at Nelson, Neb., about 12:30 on the morning of the 16th inst. in Renyon & Co.'s restaurant, spreading rapidly east and west until it reached the Globe house on the west and Shank's furniture store on the east, where it was held in check by the citi zens. It is estimated that tho value of property injured and destroyed will fully reach 89,600. The separator in the creamery at Hast ings bursted April 17th and caused death and destruction. N. P. Moon was struck by an iron above the right knee and cut it squarely off. His three years old boy had both legs cut off and died. G. M. Clark, the manager, was hit above the kneo in the left leg, being fearfully lacerated, and died while it was being amputated. Ho leaves a wife and three children. A little two years old boy of Mr. Det weiler, living near Neligh, fell the other day into a twelve inch well which is 100 feet deep, but lodged within 70 feet of the top. They had a fearful time in sustaining him and sending him food on a string, but finally rescued him after being confined there for forty hours. He was conscious when tsiken out and is now doing well. Joseph M. Brown, an engineer in charge of a B. & M. switch engine in Nebraska City, was assaulted and fear fully beaten the other night by four men, who knocked him down, broke his jaw in two places, knocked his teeth out and fractured his 6kull. His head was mashed almost into a jelly and it is thought he cannot live. He was for merly a grain dealer in Bromfield. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the foul deed. A new indictment was found against Jefferson Long at North Platte on the 19th, charging him with aiding and abet ting one Ernest Myer in the killing of Richard Bascomb on the 2d of April, 1885. At the same court three more in dictments were presented at tho same time against Charles E. Brooks and John Tilford, charging them jointly with burglary and larceny from the Union Pacific railway cars. William Stephens, a young farmer at Milford, invited Miss May and Annette Stephens to take a buggy ride. Not knowing he was under the influence of liquor they accepted his invitation and he drove across the Blue in the direction of the industrial home site, plying whip to the horses, running at a break-neck speed; when they struck a bridge the oc cupants were thrown out, breaking An nette's left arm near the shoulder and injuring her elder sister internally. She is low and the probabilities are that she will not live. A few drinks of bad whisky, says the Nebraska City Press, can do more devil try than any other decoction invented by man. It only took a moderate amount of this stimulant and a few mo ments for a drunken teamster to mount a Northwestern locomotive Sunday evening and start it wildly spinning through the city, only to stop when it went to pieces against an opposing en gine and result in a damage bill of' 815,000. Two drinks for 15 cents can accomplish great things in the way of damages. J. P. Strong, of Wilson precinct, was in our sanctum Monday, ne had juBt returned from Waterloo, Iowa, where he had been attending a reunion of his reg iment, the 12th IoAva. He tells us that times are hard there and look hard. He was homesick as soon as he landed. Hay can scarcely bo had for lovo or money. Cattle aro sold for what they will bring, which is a small price indeed. He saw a lot of yearling steers sold to some men, who were going to tho northwestern part of this state, for $9.70 per head. Notwithstanding the feed and hay is scarce, Mr. Strong says they make their creameries pay. He is certain that if they run on the same economical and careful plan here, they could be made to pay big, and he is thinking some of trying to revive the one here. We sincerely hope that he may, as wo have always thought there was money in one run in the right way. - Schuyler Sun April 12. The account of the fire at Fairmont on the morning of the 16th inst., did not reach us in time for last week's Jour nal. It was described as a terrific con flagration. It broke out in the base ment of Cubbinson's large brick corner block aljont 2 p. m. There were several barrels of kerosene in the cellar, which when ventilated drove the flames through the building at a rapid pace. Immediately the alarm of fire was given and a crowd collected, but there was no water in the waterworks tank and the hoso company was powerless. The low er part or the building was occupied by the First National bank and J. Cubbi son fc Co., general merchandise. The bank furniture was saved but the gen eral merchandise was a total loss. Up stairs was occupied by various parties and was filled with costly furniture and valuable goods, but little of which was saved from tho devouring flames. The fire then passed to a lot of frame build ings and before the citizens got it put out it destroyed property to the value of 875,000. Tho fire is supposed to be in cendiary. Mrs. A. Douglas, who was doubtless the oldest woman in Nebraska, died sud denly this morning. She was in her 102d year and has lived in this state a long time. The cause of her death was old age. Her homo was at 2010 California street. Mrs. Douglas was born in Massachu setts but early became a resident of New Lebanon, Columbia county, N. Y. She distinctly remembered the birth of Sam uel J. Tilden, at New Lebanon, and her only daughter, Mrs. B. A. Hall, was a school-mate of that statesman. Mrs. Douglas is herself a grandmother, and the children of Mr. and Mrs. Walt C. Wilbur represent tho fifth generation of the family, all in this city. At one time Mrs. Douglas lived in Tekamah. The 101st birthday of Mrs. Douglas was cele brated on the 4th day of May last at No, 2010 California street, where she made her home with her daughter and grand children. Up to five years previously she had been able to see sufficiently to sew. Her memory was remarkable, she possessed tho faculty of hearing almost unimpaired, she frequently recited vers es to her great great grandchildren, and her cheerfulness of disposition made her long life and the lives of those about her happy, so little did she feel the weight of years. Omaha World. MUSICAL. BV MBS. r-AClK. The word symphony, in the ancient mu sic, signifies that union of sounds which forms a concert. When the whole con certed in unison, it was called a sym phony, but when one-half of the con certants were in the octave, or double octave of the other half, it was called antiphony. At present the word sym phony is applied to overtures and other instrumental compositions, consisting of a variety of movements and designed for a full band. The introductory, in termediary and concluding instrumental passages in vocal compositions are also called symphonies. Moore's Encyclo pedia of Music. The following from the pen of Carl Mere is a beautiful pen picture of Bee thoven's Sixth and Seventh symphonies: "The Sixth symphony or Pastoral differs from all others in form, in matter and orchestration. Beethoven was ever fond of nature. He now takes us without the walls of Vienna, where we ascend with him a mountain from which we behold a beautiful landscape. He then takes us by the side of babbling brooks, where bloom the richest wild flowers, while in tho trees above us are heard the sweetest songs of birds. And still we go on with him until at last we reach an inn, where the country people dance and fairly stamp the floor for joy and happiness. The master reminds us also of the conn try musicians who play, one of which, a bassoon player, can only blow P. C. C. F. which tones ho applies wherever they fit. Tis an amusing scene. Suddenly the distant storm is heard! The lightnings flash, the thunder roars, and all nature seems to be in convulsions. At last the sun shines again, the shepherd's horn is heard and the heart rises in gratitude to Him who has made all things so well. The Seventh is said to have been Bee thoven's favorite. The introduction is very elaborate. The tone masses like waves, rise higher and higher. Next they recede and we hear one of the love liest themes, then again they rise and rise, until the dominant is heard again and again, faster and faster, until at last tho theme, like a melody of joy and mer riment, bursts upon our ear. We go with the composer into regions of joy fulness where we never were before. The tone mass moves on, merry like a dance, and with a heavy weight of chords that seems to crush everything beneath it, the first part ends. But hark! there are heard the sounds of horns as from the far-off elf land. It is the beginning of tho Allegretto. Like giants and spirits so step the chords and the melodies upward and onward, until they seem fairly to reach you, while in the second part they change into friendly forms and sing a love song, so full of feeling that the heart vibrates and beats warm. The ending of this strain is one of the mo6t remarkable known of. The theme is re peated by various instruments, first rising, then sinking, until at last it dies out as it began, with a chord that ex presses more of unsatisfied longing than anything else. The Scherzo is a merry production. Whether we are willing to yield to it or not, the scherzo takes us along, and so beautiful is the theme, so striking the rythms, 60 effective and varied the instrumentation, that no one. not even the most uncultivated will re main unmoved. The second theme is somewhat sadder, and one cannot help loving the master who felt so tenderly and speaks so wondrously in tones. After the first theme has been brought again, a few measures of the second are repeated and while the listener is led to expect a full repetition of the same, the whole suddenly closes with a few heavy chords. The last part is full of playful ness and mirth, not that of fairies but rather that of full grown men. A whole regiment of soldiers seem to tussle and to play pranks. Carnival Beems to be i about, the whole passing on at such a rapid rate and with such rapid changes that one becomes giddy while mentally following; everything is sunshine and merriment and he who knows the sad and struggling heart of poor Beethoven, cannot help feel grateful that so much sunlight was shining within the great composer's heart." AN ORDINANCE. To amend section two of an ordinance entitled "an ordinance imposing a special licenae tax on certain occupations and clause of buniuiMs and to repeal certain ordinances therein named" pastied and approved January 7. 1SS3. Ho it ordained by the Mayor and Council or tho City of Colunibns: Section 1. That section two (2) .of aa ordi nance t-ntitlod "an ordinance imposing a special license tax on certain occupations and classes of business and to repeal certain ordinances there in named" passed and appro veil January 7th, 1S88, be amended so as to read as follows: Skc. 2. Under the provisions of this ordinance there is hereby levied on Licensed saloon keepers, per year $ 250 00 Lawyers per year 5 00 Dentists, doctors or veterinary surgeons, peryear 5 00 Dealers in live stock of any kind, per year 10 00 Butchers per year 10 00 Dry goods stores, exclusively per year. . 5 00 Clothing stores " " .. 5 00 Grocery stores " "... 5 00 Boot and shoe stores " " ... . SUl Dry goods and clothing stores H?r year. 10 00 Do goods, clothing nnd boot and shoe stores,pcr ear 15 00 Boots and shoes and clothing stores pur year 10 00 General merchandise stores, icr eur ... 15 00 Millinery stores, per year 15 50 Hardware stores, peryear 10 00 Hardware stores and agricultural imple ments, combined, peryear 15 00 Book stores, per jear 5 00 Music stores, 5 00 Book, music and toy stores, combined, jjer year 10 00 Livery stables, per jear 5 00 Sewing machine agents, per year 10 00 Drag stores without permits to sell in toxicating liquors, peryear 10 00 Drug stores with permits to bell intoxi cating liquors, peryear 50 00 Lumber dealers, for each lumber yard. Jewelry stores, peryear 10 00 Harness shope. 5 00 Candy and fruit stores, per year 2 50 Photograph galleries, per year 2 50 Furniture stores, " 5 00 Undertakers, " 5 00 Real estate agents, " 5 00 Dealers in butter, eggs nnd fruit, er Commission stores, ier year 10 00 Hotels charging $1.50 n day or less, j-r J l"a aaaaaaaaaaaaaa 11 lV Hotels charging more than $1.50 per day, per ) WUr. . . . . . . . . IJ Wl Wholesale dealers in intoxicating lhuiors, JUT a j rtm a a a a a ) RJ Bakeries, peryear 5 00 Bakeries and restaurants, ir year 10 00 lleetaurants " " 5 00 Hawkers or peddlers of Jewelry, patent medicines, cloths or dry goods, per tiny 5 00 Hawkers or iieddlers of notions " 4 GO Canvassers for sale of fancy good), Li dies' wear or notions, per day 2 00 Billiard tables, peryear 10 00 Pool tables 10 00 For each additional pool or billiard ta ble, peryear 5 00 Each express company, per year 15 00 Each telephone company " 15 00 Each telegraph " " 15 00 Each insurance " " 5 00 Each shooting gallery, per day j. 2 00 Keal estate loan agents, peryear 10 00 Each dray or express wagon,ier ear 10 00 Each circus or show, per day 25 00 Each circus and menagerie combined, per day 5000 bach sideshow per day 10 00 Each lightning rod agent or dealer, irt ear 10 00 Each opera house, which shall include the license for the theatrical troupes using the same, per year 25 00 Each pnblic scales, per jear 5 00 Auctioneers per day $10 or peryear 60 CO Coal dealers " 5 00 Grain dealers " SOU Dealers in pumps and wind miHn, per year 5 00 Dealers in agricultural implements, tier year 5 00 Piano and organ tuners, per year 5 00 Pert-oil ho go from house to house or from place to place selling goods at re tail by sample to, or taking orders therefor from, other than dealers, per day 10 00 Hawkers or peddlers of goods other than those hereinbefore mentioned, per day. 10 00 Mills or factories, excepting broom facto ries and foundries, per year 5 00 Bankers or brokers " 35 00 Tiie individuals composing any given firm, company or corporation shall not be liable undrr the provisions hereof when such firm, company or corporation shall have paid the tax hereby imposed upon the business or occupation in which such individuals are engaged as members of any such firm, company or corporation. Sec. 3. Section two of an ordinance entitled "an ordinance imposing a special license tax on certain occupations and classes of business and to repeal certain ordinances therein named," passed and approved January 7th, 1SS3, as here tofore existing is hereby repealed. Sec. 4. This ordinance shall be in force on the first Tuesday of May, lBSa, after its passage, approval and publication. Approved April 17th, laaS. J. E. NORTH. Major. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of an order of sale, directed to me from the district court of Platte county, Nebras ka, oa a judgment obtained in the district court of Platte county, Nebraska, on the 15th day of March, 1888, in favor of William D. Mead, jr., and David Jamieson as plaintiffs, and against John A. Pearson and Lewis P. Hammond as defendants, for the sum of eleven hundred anil sixty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents, and costs taxed at $21.00 and accruing costs, 1 hate levied upon the following real estate taken as the property of said defendants, to satisfy said order of sale, to wit: The southeast quarter of the southeast quarter, the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section number three (3), township number sixteen (US), range number two (2), west, all in the county of Platte and State of Nebraska. And will offer the saint for sale to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, on the 22d Day of Mav, A. D., 1888. in front of the Court House in Columbus, Platte county, Nebraska, that being the building where in the last term of Court was held, at the hour of 2 o'clock p. m. of said day, when and where due attendance will be given by the undersigned. Dated Columbus, Neb., April 12, 1888. 31. C. BLOEDOnN, lSaprftt Sheriff of said County. LEGAL NOTICE. To all whom it may concern: The special commissioner appointed to view and report upon the practicability of vacating that part of a public road commencing at the S. E. corner of the N. E. Ji of section 27, town 17, range 1 west, thence east to the bank of tho Loup river, thence southeasterly and terminating at the S. E. corner of the S. E. l-i of section 2tf, town 17, range 1 west, and of the re-location of the same, as follows: commencing at the S. E. corner of the N. E. U of section 27, town 17, range 1 west, thonco running due south on section Tine to the south line of said section 27, thence due eatt on section line three-fourths of one mile and intersecting the west Loup Fork road at station No. 4, as designated on tho plat and field notes of record of said road, lias reported in favor of the vacation and the re-location thereof. Now all objections thereto, or claims for dam ages caused thereby, must be filed in the county clerk's office on or before moon of the 19th day of June, A. D., 1888, or the said vacation and re location will be made without reference thereto. Dated Columbus, Neb.. April 20, 1888. 25apri County t'ferk. PROBATE NOTICE. In the County Court of Platte county, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Diednck Wurde- man, deceased. Now, on the 6th day of April, 1888, came John II. Wnrdeman, the administrator of said estate, and prays for leave to render an account aa such administrator. It is therefore ordered that the 1st day of May, 1888, at 10 o'clock, a. m., at my office in Columbus be fixed as the time and place for examining and allowing such account. And the heirs of said deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, are required to appear at the time and place so designated, and show cause, if such exists, why said account should not be allowed. It is further ordered that said administrator give notice to all persons interest ed in said estate by causing a copy of this order to be published in the Comamcs Jocbnal. a newspaper printed, and in general circulation in said county, for two weeks prior to the day set for said hearing. Dated April 6th. 18S8. H. J. Hcdsov, 51-3t County Judgo. Proposal for Bridge. Bids will be received at the office of the town elerkof Bismarck and Shell Creek townships. Platte county, np to Noos or May 15th, for the erection of one bridge for Bismarck and Shell Creek townships, the bridge to be one span with two approaches, across Shell Creek on the Sixth Principal meridian road six miles due north of Columbus, plans and specifications at the offices of the township clerks. The right is reserved to reject any or ail bids. J. F. Dineen. 28apr3 Town Clerk. NOWS THE TIME to have your friends come to ZCcLnseLS and Nebraska, jt& as eastern lines will sell tickets and run San-Mil? uxs mmm to all KANSAS and NEBRASKA points OYKBTHX UNION PACIFIC "TIm OrurlmmA Remte," Until July 1. 1388, ticket sold for these excur sions will be good thirty days for the round trip, and can be used ten days going. When purchas ers are ready to return, these tickets will be good five days for that purpose. If purchasers wish to stop short of destination on oar lines, agents will stamp good to return from snch point. J.S.TTBBETS, E.L.LOMAX, Gen. P. & T. Agent, Aaa't G. P. A T. A. EKNST & SCHWAEZ, -MANUFACTURERS AND DEALElibIN- ff '-H L ' i - ic-TTjr SUPERB LAMP FILLER AND GOAL OIL CAN COMBINED, Which for safety, convenience. cleanliiietKt and simplicity, cannot Ih excelled. It embodies the simplest principles in philosophy nud taktothe rank aln.ve all Lamp Fillers No danger of ex plosions. Absolute safety guaranteed. No spilling, witxting or dripping of nil on the Uoor table or outside of can. Use it onceandjou will not be without it fortue times itscost U works in large cans as well as small ones, thereby saing the frequent and annoying trips to the store with a small can. Every can made of the very liest tin, anil warruted to work satisfactorily Call and eo bBinplecan audget urices. "CILglBftLiiKfiE' "C &"s''!S2L- BAKER PERFECT STEEL BARB WIRE. J5?-lfyouuy it you get 100 rod of fence from UK) pounds of wire, which no other will do."3 Ml B GALLETBEOS. What better than a good warm coat for your wife or daughter? Bargains will he given for the next THIRTY DAYS, to close them out be fore invoicing. Five Hundred Suits ! Of men's, boys' and children's clothing to close out. On account of the open winter we will close out over 200 overcoats cheaper than ever known in Columbus. Do not fail to see Galley Bros.' bargains be fore buying. Remember these bargains will not last long, we mean to close them out, so take ad vantage of the bargains we shall offer at GALLEY BROS'. Before we Mckinley & dge mm, COLUMBUS, NEB. Money to loan on Improved farms in this and adjoining counties, at current rates. We are prepared to close loans promptly, in all cases where title and security are satisfactory. Office up-stairs in Henry Building, corner of Olive and Eleventh streets. juiyimtr Eleveith 9 SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the sale of Union Pactf e and Midland Pacific R. R. Land or on fte or ten years Um, in annal payments to lot of other lands. improTed and nnimproTed, for basinets and residence lot in the city. We keep Piatt Connry. COLUMBUS. W. T. RICKLY& BRO. Wholesale and Ctaae, Peiltry, aid Freak Fish. All Kiids ef Saissge a Specialty. tVCaah paid for Hides. Pelt. Tallow. Hhjhsst market price paid for fat cattle-! Olive Street, twe Dters Ntrtk ef tke First Natieial Bail, mtx am G1RL1N0 STOVES AND RANGES ALV'AS FOR SALE AT ERMST & SCHWABZS ERNST & SCHWARZ. 4l-2t mi AT invoice. utf carnahan, Henry Ragatz ft Co. Hare a Fine Line of Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, Cnckcry and Glasswart, Which were bought cheap for caeh, and will be Bold at very low prices. Street, Colnabas, Nebraska. novlO-tf for aale at from 100 to $10.00 pr acre for cash anit purchasers. We hare also a large and choie sale at low price and on reasonable terms Alsi a complete abstract of title to all real state it NEBRASKA. 621 Ketail Dealers in Ji' L S - t- i KB,- y"
