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WEDNESDAY. MAY 9, 1BRR.
Kciinhlican Connty Convention.
The republican electors or Platte
conntv are hereby 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 tho Congressional
and State conventions, and for the trans
action of such other business as may
properly como before the convention.
The several townships are entitled to
representation as follows:
Columbus, Iht ward. 4 O'd I'rairipTwp Jj
:u " . 8 (iranville " -
'lVp ' rttin "
Ulltl.T " 3 BUITDWB " 3
IJiwnarck " 1 J''"'""1'. " :
Monro.- " ' St.Herna.nl ... . i
KhellCno-k " 4 hheniuin ....4
Walker " I'"l .. 1
Humphrey " 4 J1m 6
The caucuses to be held at the usual
voting places on Friday, May 4th, in the
townships between tho hours of 4 and G
p. in., and in tho city of Columbus be
tween 12 in. and 7 p. in. By order of the
Countv Central Committee.
W. B. Backus, Sec'y.
Tho committee recommend for guid
ance, tho following
itur.ES AND KnaULATIONS:
1. Delegates to the county conven
tion to elect by ballot.
2. Tho organization of the primary
election of the republican party in each
township of Platte connty to be presid
ed over by the township committeeman.
:. To bo elected from among the by
standers, three judges and two clerks of
election, each of whom shall be a repub
lican having the qualifications of an
elector under the laws of the state, and
who shall perform the same duties re
quired of judges and clerks at elections
for state and county offices.
1. The polls to be kept open at least
one hour.
Tk None but republican electors to be
entitled or permitted to vote at the pri
mary elections of tho republican party.
0." These rules and regulations are
adopted and are to be construed in ac
cordance with the provisions of Chap. 40,
of Laws of Nebraska of tho session of
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Giuisiiam and Evarts.
Mb. Ingalls, Mr. Voor but where is
he?
Illinois republican delegates will
c;ist their votes for Gresham.
Coxohessmax Dorsey and wife arrived
at their home, Fremont, Friday last,
Illinois republicans in their conven
tion declared for Gresham, California
for Blaine.
The secretary of tho treasury accepted
on the 3d inst!, $1,277,000 of 3,701,000
ljonds offered.
President Cleveland has approved
the act to provide a collector of the port
of St. Paul, Minn.
It looks as if the republican delegates
from California will vote for Mr. Blaine
whether ho is a candidate or not.
The Schuyler Quill predicts that the
next republican ticket will bo Blaine and
Harrison; democratic, Cleveland and
Gray.
Jim Hakkis, of Vicksburg, Miss., col
ored, who criminally assaulted Mrs.
Sudhicrs, Sunday night, was lynched ou
the night of May 1st.
Hexhy Pope, colored, under sen
tence or death for outrageous assault,
was taken from the jail at Suinnierville,
Ga.. May 1, by a mob and hanged.
The twenty-first annual convention
of tho Nebraska Sunday School Associa
tion is to bo held at York Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday, May 22,23 and 21.
The greatest grain lleet that ever left
Chicago for the east started one morn
ing l:ist week. It consisted of ninety
sis vessels carrying over 4,500,000 bush
els of grain.
A kepokt comes from Ottawa that the
senate on the night of tho 1st insL,
unanimously adopted the fisheries treaty
ratification bill and it now goes to the
governor general for his signature.
It was understood at Washington last
week that at an early day Mr. Randall
will introduce a bill appropriating
S20,000,000 Tor the establishment of an
army-gun foundry for the manufacture
of heavy guns.
Hox. Levi P. Morton arrived at New
York on tho La Champaign on the 29th
ult. He declined to be interviewed
about politics. He saw Mr. Blaine in
Paris two months ago and says he seem
ed then to be well.
TnE fire on the Northern Pacific rail
road, in the Mullen tunnel was reported
on the 4th inst. to have been extinguish
ed. It was expected at Helena, Mont.,
that trains would be running through it
in a few days.
It is announced in the Omaha Repub
lican that Mr. J. D. Jones, local manag
er of the Grand opera house, has tender
ed his resignation to take the manage
ment of George Faancis Train for a three
years' lecture tour.
The Louisville, Ky., republican con
vention was for W. O. Bradley for vice
president. By a vote of 822 to 239 the
convention refused to instruct for Sher
man. The delegation goes uninstructed
but is for Blaine if named.
A fibe the other day burned the of
fices of the Daily Leader and Homestead,
weekly agricultural paper at Des Moines,
Ia together with Wear's three-story
building adjoining. The value of prop
' erty destroyed will reach 845,000.
The public indignation of about two
hundred of Lebanon, Term., was roused
to such a pitch by the speech of Senator
Ingalls that late on the night of the 3d
inst they assembled and hanged in effigy
the Kansas senator. Ingalls can stand it.
Other Coantries.
Carl Schurz dined on the evening of
the 5th at the residence of Prince Bis
marck.
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Hobert, who killed Dupois in a duel
at Paris, has been arrested, with four
seconds.
The new Egyptian loan has been sub
scribed for nearly twelve times the sum
required
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The death of Mr. Charles Bright, son
of John Bright, was announced in Lon
don on the 4th.
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Burglars broke into a jewelry store in
Munich, May 1, and carried away
goods valued at 25,000.
The latest report from Berlin states
that the emperor passed a quiet night.
His fever had almost subsided.
On the morning of May 6 Buffalo Bill
with his troupe sailed from Hxill on a
Wilson line steamer for New York.
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A report comes from London, May 1,
that Admiral Sir Alfred Ryder had
drowned in the Thames by accident.
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A later dispatch from Berlin to Lon
don says the emperor passed a sleepless
night tho first of May, and that his fever
had increased.
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The bulletin issued from Berlin on
the morning of the 2d inst, states that
the emperor passed a good night, and
that he feels better. His fever is slight.
News had been received at London
from Albert Nyanza to the effect that
Bishop Parker and the Rev. Blackburn
recently died of fever at Onvoro mis
sion. A meeting composed of Irishmen and
Englishmen, held at Aldershop, con
demned the pope's decree and resolved
to found a branch of the home-rule or
ganization and to cease contributing to
Peter's pence.
It was published in London on the
4th inst., that tho people of a number of
parishes in Ireland warned tho priests
that if the pope's rescript against the
league is read in the chaples, they will
protest against it by leaving.
News from Tangier of a late date
states that the sultan refuses to submit
the differences between Morocco and
the United States in reference to men
imprisoned at Rabat, to arbitration, and
the dispute has been reopened.
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Dispatches received in London May 6,
from India, state that unprecedented
hail storms have occurred at and in the
vicinity of Moradabad and Delhi, some
of the hailstones weighing pounds. Up
wards of 150 persons were killed by be
ing struck by the falling globes of ice,
and the damage to property is almost
bevond estimation.
A report comes from Vienna of a re
cent date that during the performance
of a menagerie at Pague a cry of "fire"
was raised and 1,500 persons present
made a rush for the exits. Many were
thrown down and tramped upon and
when order was restored it was found
that six persons had been killed and a
large number injured. It was later
ascertained that the alarm was raised by a
pickpocket in order to create a stampede.
The papers of London are outspoken
against the decree. The Pall Mall Ga
zette, commenting on it says: "The
pope's blunder amazes us. It will make
no difference in the condition of affairs
in Ireland, while an alliance with the
Tvine will dinlease England." The Star
denounces the decree as cruel, perilous
and wanton. If Ireland submits to sac
rifice her liberties to base tory
intrigue 6he will be unworthy of freedom
which, in a few years, Englishmen will
grant her if she maintains her demand.
A Big Question.
Attorney-General Leese returned from
Omaha today, where he had been inves
tigating the Union Pacific's title to cer
tain lands therein situate. He says the
companv claims and occupies about
82,000,000 worth in Omaha to which it
has no legal right.
The company is operated under a con
gressional charter, which only gives the
right of way over public lands. Every
state and territorial enactment prohibits
corporations not chartered by the state
authorities from exercising the right of
eminent domain. All this property in
Omaha was secured by the exercise of
this right.
The above appears as a Lincoln
special to the Omaha Republican of the
3d. It is very natural that as a country
grows older and lands become more val
uable, titles are more carefully examined.
If there are serious defects, the sooner
they are ascertained the better for every
body concerned.
J. M. Estep, Esq., one of the leading
citizens of Cadiz, Ohio, and well known
to many of the western readers of the
Journal, is not expected to live, conges
tion of the brain resulting from heart
and throat troubles having stopped the
passage of blood to and from the brain.
Mr. Estep has been a prominent attor
ney and democratic leader in eastern
Ohio for many years. His loss will be
sincerely mourned by all who have
known him; his character as a man, his
patriotic course during the war and his
great mental ability were tho admira
tion of all his acquaintances.
The board of supervisors of Adams
county have ordered suit brought against
R. B. Tussey and his bondsmen, to re
cover Tnssey's alleged shortage as coun
ty clerk. An unsuccessful attempt to
settle was made. There is a disposition
manifested in several counties of Ne
braska to have a general overhauling of
the old books, before the responsibility
of officers on their bonds expires. The
managing men of thiB decade want to
know what has been for a while past
and what is now to the end that they
may provide for the near future.
A terrible accident occurred at
Bellefontaine, Ohio, on the night of the
27th ult, while a school exhibition was
in progress, in a hall on a second floor
that would seat 400 people, and it was
crowded at the time. Suddenly, and
without warning, the floor gave way with
a terrible crash, and the entire audience
went down in a mass to the ground, a
distance of twenty feet The dead are
Mrs. J. E. Alexander, the minister's wife,
and Miss Garwood of Bellefountain.
Probably fifty others are more or less in
jured, some of them seriously, who are
not expected to live. '
A bepobt comes from Harrisburg, Pa.,
on the morning of the 2d inst, that it
was pretty well settled that a big mail
robbery occurred on the Northern Cen
tral railway near Baltimore that morn
ing, but the postal authorities refuse to
furnish any particulars. It is said reg
istered letters containing about 810,000
were taken. A pouch with a long slit
came to the Harrisburg post office. De
tectives are at work.
In the case of Allen O. Meyers, charg
ed with contempt of court in writing
and publishing an objectionable article
during the progress of the tally sheet
trials, at Columbus, O., he was sentenced
to pay a fine of 8200 and was given three
months in the county jail. The sen
tence was suspended to give the defense
an opportunity to carry the case to the
supreme court
The republican First district conven
tion was held at Portland, Me., one af
ternoon last week. Hon. T. B. Reed
was nominated for congress by acclama
tion, Col. M. Wentworth, for president
ial elector. For delegates to the na
tional convention, C. A. Brown and W.
Tobie were chosen. Resolutions strong
ly endorsing Blaine for first and last
choice were passed.
A REroRT from Birmingham, Ala., was
received one day last week stating that
at Warren a miner named Morton shot
and killed a deputy marshal. He was
arrested and put in jail, and because of
threats of lynching was put aboard of
the cabooso of a freight train. The mob
followed and cut loose the caboose. They
hung Morton and filled his body with
bullets.
Representative Burrows, of Michi
gan, has introduced in the house a bill
authorizing the secretary of the interior
to place upon the pension rolls, upon
application, the names of surviving, hon
orably discharged soldiers and sailors
who served at least ninety days in the
late war, the rate of pension to be one
cent per month for each day's actual
service.
The senate on May 2d passed Mr.
Paddock's bill providing for tho opening
of the Fort Sedgwick military reserva
tion to actual settlers under the home
stead laws. Mr. Paddock explained,
during debate, that it protected the
rights of all settlers on the reservation
prior to the first of January last and
those who are protected by the right to
make a second entry.
James H. Hunting, a stock broker at
New York, who had lost money in bucket
shop speculations, shot himself dead in
the Washington building on the 4th,
after leaving a note to Cyrus W. Field,
jr., in which ho said: "It seems almost
impossible for me to succeed. As a last
favor yon will send my body homo for
burial as cheaply as possible, as I have
no friend but you. Jim."
Thomas G. Woolford, chief clerk in
the state comptroller's office at Annapo
lis, committed suicide on the evening of
the 4th inst at the Barnum's hotel in
Baltimore, by cutting his throat with a
razor. He had been melancholy for tho
past few weeks. Ho was forty-three
years old, unmarried, and had been chief
clerk for nineteen years.
Democratic Opinion.
"Well, Cleveland is sure to be nomi
nated," said a prominent democrat yes
day, "and the democrats will get such a
licking as they have not had since 1872."
This is undoubtedly tho opinion and
expectation of thousands of the most
intelligent democratic politicians in all
parte of the country. New York Sun.
A freight train on the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad was passing through
Locust Gap, six miles from Shamokin,
Pa., about 11 o'clock at night on the 5th
inst, when a car loaded with dynamite
exploded, killing seven people, wounding
twenty, some seriously, burning eight
houses, leveling four blocks to the
ground and wrecking a hundred others.
A storm of wind on the afternoon of
the 3d inst, struck the little village of
Lacona, Warren county, Iowa, demolish
ing a two story building used as a store,
and burying in the ruins a farmer named
Leonard Wilson. Two boys in the store
just before it fell, are missing. Two
men were slightly injured. Several
buildings were unroofed.
Gen. Wirt Adams, postmaster at
Jackson, Miss., and John Martin, editor
of the New Mississippi, on the afternoon
of the 1st inst, fought a street duel, and
both were killed. Gen. Adams was hit
in the head, and Martin was hit twice.
An article published in the morning in
the New Mississippi was the cause of the
fatal duel.
Senator Paddock's bill providing for
the erection by the government of a
post-office in every city where the gross
receipts of the offico have amounted to
83,000 annually during the past three
years, is very likely to become a law. If
so, Columbus will get a S25,000 post
office. This will be an excellent thing
for the city.
Sir William Ritchie, chief justice of
the supremo court of Canada, came to
the senate on the 4th ins, endowed with
the power of deputy governor general
and assented to several bills passed this
session. Among them was the act to
ratify the fisheries treaty, which thus
becomes a statute of the dominion.
The heaviest earthquake shock ever
experienced at Biggs, Cal., occurred on
the 28th ult, at 8:55 p. m., lasting
seventy-five seconds. The vibrations
were east to west Plastered buildings
were cracked. Four distinct shocks of
earthquake were felt at Stockton, Cal.,
on the evening of the 28th ult at 8:40.
Four steamships landed at New York
on the 29th ult, bring and leaving at
Castle Garden 3,990 immigrants. The
number landed during the week was
21,772, of whom two-thirds are from
Italy. Another arrival was expected on
the 30th of 1,690.
The Bee of Tuesday gives facts going
to prove that the Freese family near
Arlington came to their death at the
hands of Louis Groteluschen, their kins
man, a butcher knife being the weapon.
Fred, it seems, owned 160 acres of land
near Columbus.
NEBRASKA NOTES.
A fine Odd Fellows hall is to be erect
ed this spring at York.
It is said that Sutton imposes a license
of $2,500 on its saloons.
A new paper has been started at North
Bend called the Protector.
Mead's 8100,000 capital state bank has
begun its corporate existence at York.
Ex-Senator Van Wyck will deliver the
address at the Holt county fair this
year, September 12.
Proceedings in injenction were com
menced last week in Omaha to suppress
Sunday baso ball playing in that city.
The passenger business of the Union
Pacific, through and local, has been
greater the past month than ever before.
Thad Williams, a farmer living ejist of
Beatrice, had on the morning of tho
3d inst, three horses struck by light
ning and killed.
H. M. Crane has sold his paper, the
Republican Valley Echo, to Mr. Carson
Hildreth, of Blooniington. to which
place it has been removed.
C. W. Hoxio at Lincoln one day la6t
week, had his leg broken in an attempt
to get out of a wagon which was drawn
by a span of run-away mules.
Boyer's packing house, at Lincoln, a
small institution in the west part of the
town, burned on the night of May 1.
Value of property burned 82,500.
The Nebraska Baptist state college
has been located at Grand Island. The
denomination receive, as a gift from tho
city, buildings and lands to tho valuo of
8100,000.
Eighteen men at Lincoln May 1st, em
ployed in Keys v Bullock's stone cut
ting yard, 6truck for 84 a day of nine
hours work, and the alwlishment of all
classification.
Hastings is talking of constructing a
canal from the Platte river to tho Blue
through Hastings, a distance of twenty
five miles. There may come up a ques
tion of down-stream rights.
William Francis, a prominent farmer
of Otoe county, near Palmyra, dnriug a
thunderstorm one day last week whilo
stretching a barb wiro on his farm, was
shocked by lightning and prostrated for
about three hours.
Gen. J. C. McBride, well known to
many of our readers, has lieen elected
president of the board of trade of Lin
coln. Mc is a rustler, and will help the
enterprising men of Lincoln push their
business interests to the front rank.
Martin Beem, who committed suicide
last week at the Case ranch near Stan
ton, it seems, from further particulars,
was not, at the time of the shooting him
self, in his right mind. His remains
will bo shipped to Alton, 111., for in
terment Butler county republicans have
brought forward the naino of Mr. John
HariKjr as a candidate for state treasur
er. Ho has served two terms as county
treasurer of Butler county, and proved
honest and capable and they ask for him
a placo on the state ticket.
Quito a number of cases of the measles
and mumps in the city. Many families
are afflicted with them and quite a num
ber of bad cases are reported. Care
should be exercised by the school teach
ers to keep the diseases from spreading
among the scholars. Schuyler Quill.
W. P. P. Moore, alias E. L. Bliss, alias
Ray, pleaded guilty to the charge of for
gery at Seward, on the 1st inst, in the
district court and was sentenced by
Judge Norval to five year in the peni
tentiary. Moore was arrested in Arkan
sas and was preaching. He had a stolen
horse in his twsession also.
The democratic party of the state of
Nebraska in convention assembled at
Omaha on the 2d inst., settled the dele
gation to tho national convention by ap
pointing James E. Boyd, James E.
North, J. Sterling Morton and Tobias
Castor. The democracy of the state
have thus honored some of their best
party workers.
At leiist 5,000 workingmen of Omaha
parded the streets of that city in
grand procession on Monday of last
week. It was one of the grandest labor
demonstrations ever witnessed in the
west, and after a splendid parado and
music Exposition Hall was packed until
it would hold no more, to hear tho ad
dress of Secretary McGuire, who is of
the American Federation of Labor.
Mrs. Geo. Fields, of Platte Center,
died last Saturday evening, after an ill
ness of two months, although she had
been an invalid for four years. The re
mains were brought to Madison Monday
for interment, the following Platto Con
tor gentlemen acting as pall bearers: W.
E. Kent, L. B. Harmon, Geo. Brown, W.
H. Tedrow, Warwick Saunders and A. G.
Quinn. There were also present from
the Center, besides the family, Albert
Fields, John A. Kehoe, Geo. N. Hopkins
and Mrs. George Brown. The deceased
leaves a husband, four children and a
large circle of friends to mourn her loss.
She was a neice of Mrs. E. F. Prince, of
this city. Madison Chronicle.
A sensation was caused last Friday
about noon by the report that Mr.
Bailey, living a mile northeast of town,
had found a dead man on his farm.
The coroner hastened to the scene as
also did Messrs. Long and Reese. Upon
examination it was found to lie tho per
son of James Miller, who lives near Mr.
Bailey's, and it was thought to be a
case of poisoning. Upon him was found
a slip of paper on which was written
that his death was caused by having
trouble with his wife. At first it was
thought that he would die, but the med
ical man finally succeeded in restoring
consciousness and at last accounts he was
on a fair way to recovery. Mr. Millar
returned on Monday with his father and
brother to their homo near Gibbon, this
state. Schuyler Herald.
A fire was discovered on tho morning
of the 4th inst, in the barn of Widow
Freeze, one mile and a quarter north
east of Arlington. The people as they
hastened to the fire were horrified to
learn that tho entire family of Mrs.
Freeze, (except one daughter), and con
sisting of Mrs. Freeze, her son-in-law,
Fred Groteluschen. wife and three child
ren, and Louis Groteluschen, a brother
of Fred,had perished in the flames, while
it is supposed they were trying to liber
ate their stock. Twenty-one head of
cattle and horses were destroyed. The
daughter, Emma, who is absent on a
visit , is the only surviving member of
the family. The coroner of Blair held
an inquest The verdict was that death
was caused by fire, the origin of which iB
unknown, but supposed from a tobacco
pipe. Dorsey Against Free Trade.
Representative Dorsey of this district
gave bJB views May 1st, in a speech on
the Mills tariff bill. In opening he said:
"As one of the representatives of one
of the great progressive agricultural
states of the west I feel it my duty to
oppose this bill on the ground that I
believe it to be a measure injurious alike
to the agricultural and labor interests of
the country. This bill has not been
prepared upon any principle whatever,
but it is an emergency or expediency
bill, patched up by tho democratic ma
jority of the committee on ways and
means without giving a hearing to those
interests which are vitally affected by
the changes proposed. Tho framere of
the bill claim that they have followed in
tho lino recommended by the president
in his recent message, in which he "poses
as the friend of the farmer, and we have
presented to us a bill which, in my judg
ment, injures every man engaged in ag
ricultural pursuits in this country. It
would directly injure 1,000,000 of our
farmers because it proposes to put wool
on the free list, and it would indirectly
injure every farmer in tho country, be
causo it proposes to reduco the duty or
placo on the free list so many articles
that are now manufactured here, and
destroy so many important industries,
and thus drive the operatives to agri
cultural pursuits. In this respect the
bill is the most vicious ever presented to
congress."
Mr. Dorsey then gave an epitome of
the difforent'tariff acts from 1816 to the
present time that relate to wool and
woolens, and showed that when protec
tion was given the wool growing indus
try the flocks increased and the weight
oflleece also incrcaised, and tho industry
was remunerative and prosperous. He
also showed that under an insufficient
tariff tho number of sheep in the coun
try decreased and tho industry was
seriously crippled, that this. like all
other industries, needs stability; how,
under protective tariff and the building
up of manufacturing industries, the
valuo of tho products of the farm has
increased, as well as the value of tho
land; grouping tho states having the
greatest numlier of manufacturing in
dustries, showing that in those states
labor is better paid and tho farmers more
prosperous.
"I have lived long enough in the west,"
said Mr. Dorsey, "to see the western
portion of our continent change from a
region wholly given over to the produc
tion of wheat and grain to eta es with
diversified industries; towns that have
heretoforo been distributive points for
eastern manufacturers changed into
centers of productive industry and dis
tributing the manufactures of their own
furnaces, mills, factories and workshops.
First came tho cultivators of the earth,
whoso business it is to feed the many;
next came those whoso occupation it is
to clotho such workmen and their fami
lies and to shelter them; then comes the
manufacturers of implements of all sorts,
and as a consequence of this diversifica
tion como improved homes for the peo
ple, schools, churches, and every instru
ment of a higher civilization. There are
hundreds of growing young cities
throughout tho west whoso enterprising
people are today offering to any firm or
corporation that will establish a manu
facturing plant within their borders both
lauds and money as a donation, thus to
encourage the development of manufac
turing industries. Tho representatives
of these people aro asked to support a
measure in this congress that will injure,
if not break down, the industries that we
of tho west are striving to build up. I
now say to those enterprising citizens,
either stop trving to build up your cities
or vote down the party that will bring
forth such a measure as the bill under
consideration."
Then Mr. Dorsey answered the charge
that agricultural progress and develop
ment w;is greater under a low. than a
high tariff, showing by statistics the
increase in number and values of horses,
mules, cattle, sheep and swine, showing
a gain of over 100 per cent from 1870 to
the present; also the increase in number
and valuo of farms. Tiio depreciation
that has taken place in free trade Eng
land in agricultural lands and the pneo
of labor, etc., were pointed out; tho con
dition of the agriculturists in England
compared with those in this country,
which, he said, could not be answered by
the advocates of tho Mills bill. He also
showed that the passage of this bill
would not benefit the consumer of man
ufactured articles upon which the tariff
is reduced, but is wholly in the interest
of the manufacturer and importer; how
very little tariff affects the prices of
manufactured articles in common use.
and the benefit directly the farmers of
the country derive from a protective
tariff. He showed further the indirect
injury resulting to farmers from the
closing up of manufacturing industries
and driving to the cultivation of the
soil so many thousands of laborers now
engaged in the factories.
Mr. Dorsey closed by saying: "We all
agree upon these propositions, namely:
That the surplus should be reduced and
our revenue laws revised, but that these
questions should be dealt with in a
business like manner and that those
things should be done which are for the
best interest of the country; that we
should be guided by the experience of
the past which has 60 plainly marked
out our couree, turning from the seduc
tive pleadings of the theorists and fol
lowing the advice of the practical and
successful business man of the country.
In my judgment it is the duty of the
president to at once expend the surplus
now in the treasury by purchasing and
retiring our bonds. Then congress
should authorize the disbursement of the
S100,000,000 of gold now in the treasury,
hold for the redemption of the legal
tender notes. By using the surplus and
the 8100,000,000 of gold, we could pay
off 8200,000,000 of our obligations. To
prevent such accumulations in the fu
ture we should have a fair, just and
equitable revision of our revenue laws,
which should be done after careful in
vestigation and patient hearing of all the
interests affected by the proposed
changes. The principle of protection to
the interests that have been developed
in this country should never be forgot
ten. If we could place lumber, coal and
salt on the free list and reduce the duty
on sugar and molasses so that the rev
enue arising therefrom shall not exceed
810,000,000 per annum, and use a portion
of that sum necessary to encourage sugar
growing in tho country, the revenues
would be reduced to the extent required
and tho people of tho country benefited
and no industry injured. This country
is not ready to take first step in the di
rection of free trade; it will make glad
the hearts of those who for the past
thirty years have been working for the
markets of the great republic."
RHTtaM.
In this department tho people talk, and not
the editor. Each. writer must hold himself ready
to defenil his principles and his statements of
facts. "In tho multitude of counsel there is
wisdom." Ed. Journal. 1
Ed. Journal: In a recent number of
your paper I notice that John Walker
proposes for consideration the question
of publishing itemized accounts of the
receipts and expenditures of the county.
Now, with all due deference to him, I
must express my dissent, and as briefly
as possible will give my reasons there
for. The business of the board of su
pervisors is largely transacted through
its committees, to whom all transactions
requiring examination are referred, be
fore action by the board; all bills are
required to be itemized and properly
authenticated before approval and pre
sentation to the board for final action.
If we have confidence in their intecrritv
(and if we have not the remedy is easily
applied) it ought to rest here, for though
I am satisfied with friend John in the
right of the people to know what their
servants are doing, yet I consider the
present system adopted by the board as
so great an improvement on the old one
under the commissioners when we knew
nothing without seeking for it, that I do
not believe that the people would con
sent to the increased burden which the
publication of itemized accounts, etc..
would entail upon them, for I hazard
the assertion that this increased expense
would more than pay the salaries of the
supervisors. The present system of pub
lishing the proceedings of the board
might perhaps be improved so as to reach
most of the citizens of the county with
out materially enhancing the expense,
and if so it ought to be done. We hare
six or seven papers published in the
county of which three receive pay for the
publication of the proceedings the others
can publish or not as their interests or
those of their subscribers may warrant.
Now I would make a suggestion which
may remedy this inequality. Let the
board contract with the lowest respon
sible bidder for the execution of the
work at a specified price without regard
to "legal rates" including a sufficient
number of supplementary sheets to fur
nish each paper in the county for dis
tribution with their paper; such a mode
would certainly increase the publicity of
the proceedings without adding much if
any to the present cost.
Geo. S. Truman.
Monroe, May 1, '88.
MUSICAL.
BT MHH. PAGE.
The "Ladies' Musical" at the residence
of Mrs. J. M. Macfarland this evening.
Chorus work the program.
A first-class tonic, sol-fa toacher for
our public schools and we shall have
gained another step upward and onward.
Of Adele Aus der Ohe, it is said, she
first gave evidence of musical talent
when only three years of age. Au elder
sister was one day strumming Arditi's
"H Bacio," when little Adele camo run
ning and begged to bo placed at the
piano, where, to the astonishment of the
family she repeated tho entire waltz,
giving tho correct bass with her left
hand. She was a pupil of Liszt for seven
years -evidently, talent does not do
away with labor. Many there are with
little talent who by continued applica
tion and study finally reach the heights.
Many are there who have great talent
that waste it from lack of application.
EDUCATIONAL HINTS.
BT EABL 1IEJIZ.
Not all seeds spring up and not all
your instructions are productive of good
results. It would be foolish for the
farmer to fret himself because some
seeds go to waste, and why should the
teacher be less wise and reasonable?
Unless the pupil has a clear concep
tion of the piece he is to perform, there
can be no clear expression. There is a
two-fold study, namely, that of the spirit
and that of the technique. Many are
satisfied with the latter, neglecting al
together the former.
Let pupils search for the mistakes
they make. Some teachers never let the
pupil do anything in the line of correc
tion which they themselves can do. Tho
true way is never to do anything the
pupil can do. This course is slow and
tedious, but it is full of good results to
the pupil.
The pupil who imagines that a supe
rior teacher will carry him through
without doing hard work for himself is
sure to be disappointed. Learn to stand
upon your own feet, for you must walk
over every foot of the road thut leads to
success. There are no stage coaches or
bicyles that will take you there. If you
covet success as a musician you must
fight to attain it.
Musical education, like all other men
tal progress, is of slow growth. Do
what we will the rosebud takes its own
time to unfold. Tho same is truo of the
human mind. We may press the rose
bud and force it open but the flower will
not be as beautiful or as fragrant as it
would have been had it unfolded in its
own slow process. Neither will it be a
healthy and enduring flower. Do not
hasten the young mind for this is a dan
gerous, unhealthy process. Give tho
child time for development
LEGAL NOTICE.
Herman Ibtwn, defendant, will take notice that
on the 20th day of April, 18, ('. W. Rollins,
plaintiff herein, filed his petition in the district
court of Platto county, Nebraska, against said
defendant, the object and prayer of which was to
have an attachment issued and placed in the
hands of the sheriff of Platte county, Nebraska,
who on the 23d day of April, 18x8, attached the
followinK lands as the property of the said Her
man Ibsen, defendant in thin action: The south
east quarter (S. E. H) of section thirty-five (35),
in townt-hip seventeen (17), range three (3) west,
in Platte county, Nebraska, to secure the pay.
ment of two promissory notes, dated July 5th,
1884, for the sum of 3140.00 each, with interest at
10 per cent, per annum; one of said nutty was
duo and payable July 5th, lb&5. and the otherone,
due and payable July 5th, liS7. Said note were
made, executed and delivered by the said defend
ant to one A. B. Choffee, and for a valuable
consideration, and before maturity sold and
delivered to thiB plaintiff, by the said A. B.
Choffee, and the plaintiff is the owner thereof at
this time. There is now due and payable on said
notes the sum of $5)2.00 with interest at the rate
of 10 per cent, per annum from July 5th. 1K$I, for
which sum, together with costs plaintiff prays
for a decree that defendant be required to pay
the same or that said premises be sold to satisfy
the amount found due.
You are required to answer said petition on or
before Monday, the 2b th of May, 1S88.
Dated April 30th. 1888.
C. W. Rollins.
By Hiogins & Gablow.
hisAtty's. 2mayt
SHERIFFS SALE.
By virtue of an order of sale, directed to me
from the district court of Platte county, Nebras
ka, on a judgment obtained in tho 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 and
sixty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents, and
costs taxed at (21.00 and accruing costs, I have
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 (lti), range number
two (2), west, all in the county of Platte nnd
State of Nebraska. And will offer the same for
sale to tho highest bidder, for cash in hand, on
the
22d Day or Mat, 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.
M. C. Blobdobn.
lSaprTit 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 purtof a public road commencing at the
S. E. corner of the N. E. J4 of section 27, town 17,
range 1 west, thence east to the bank of the Loup
river, thence southeasterly and terminating at
the S. E. comer of the S. E. 4 of section 26, town
17, range 1 west, and of the re-location of the
same, as follows: commencing at the S. E. cornar
of the N. E. i of section 27, town 17, ranee 1
west, thence running due south on section line
to the south line of said section 27, thenco due
east on section line three-fourths of one mile and
intersecting the west Loup Fork road at station
No. 4. as designated on the plat and field notes
of record of said road, has 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 nook 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.
John Staufpzb,
25apr4 County Clerk.
Propofwla for Bridge.
Bids will be received at tho office of the town
elerk of Bismarck and Shell Creek townships.
Platte county, np to
Noon of Mat 15th,
for the erection of one bridge for Bismarck and
Shell Creek townships, tho 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 all bids.
J. F. DlNEXN,
28apr3 Town Clerk.
NOWS THE TIME
to have your friends como to
Kansas and Nebraska,
-Wk eastern lines will sell tickets and run
m-wsma un raoox:
to all KANSAS and NEBRASKA points
OTXBIHX
UNION PACIFIC
"Tke Ortrlaaa lUvte,"
Until July 1, 1888, tickets sold for these excur
sions will be good thirty days for the round trip,
and can be used ton 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 such point.
J.I.TEBBETS, E.L.IOMAX,
Ose. P. ft T. Agent, Aaa't O. P. 4 T. A.
EENST & SCHWAEZ,
-MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN-
ttflsBH VEI J3av m s VkA.
SUPERB LAMP FILLER
AND GOAL OIL CAN COMBINED,
Which for safety, convenience, cleanlinesM anil
simi)Ieetpriuciplet.iuphiIOHoiiIiyiindtukfatIiininkulxve ill! Ijtuin Filler. . .!
&uwvur,. .tu-n'iuic Ekll'lJ Kiuiiuuimi
or outside ot can.
large cans as well an
small can. Kvery c;
sample can and get srices.
Use it once ami Sim will not be without it for five times its cost. It works in
small ones. .thrroby saving the frequent nnd annovin-trinn t t... -t .;,i.
iin miuloof the very Ivwt tin. and warrnttvl ! ur.ti-v ...i;r....,..:i. ...
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BAKER PERFECT STEEL BARB WIRE.
EVIf you buy it yon get KM rods of fonco from 10 ioumU of win-, which no other will do.-iSJ
Ml
GALLEY BEOS.
What better than a good warm coat for your
wife or daughter? Bargains will be given for
the next THIRTY DAYS, to close them out be
fore invoicing.
Fiye 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 invoice. auf
Mckinley & carnahan,
mm un,
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. jaiywwtf
Eleveith
SPEICE & TOETH,
General Agents for the sale of
Union Paeiia and Midland Pacific B. ft. Lands for sale at from 13.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash
or on fire or ton jears time, in annaal payment to suit purchasers. We havo altto a large and choic
lot of other laads. improred and unimproved, for sale at low price and on ivattonablo tonus. A1k
basineas and residence lots in tho city. We keep a complete abstract of titlo to all real totte ic
Platte Connty.
COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. 6-
W. T. RICKLY& BRO.
Wholesale and
ITxesia. I Sa.lt lseafcs,
tine, Ptiltrj, aid Fresb Fisi. All Kiids f Saisage a Specialty.
CrCah paid for Hides. Pelts, Tallow. Highest market price paid for fat cattle.-mj
01i?e Street, tw Detra Ntrti tf the First Natieial Baik.
simplicily. ennuot be exoolll it
erubodteH the
lauuer of x-
G1RLIN0
STOVES AND
RANGES
ALWAYS FOR SALE AT
ehist & mum.
. ""Iiiiuk. HlHlUKriirilllll(lr oil tin tin, H.w.l- tnl.l-
.. .,. .rBn i-.irtiuiXjj. v mi nun see
ERNST & SCHWARZ.
U-.il
wm
AT
Henry Ragatz & Go.
Have a Fine Line of Staple and Fanoy
GROCERIES,
Crtckery and Glassware,
Which were bought cheap for cash, and will be sold
at very low prices.
Street, Colnmbas, Nebraska.
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