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We reserve the right to reject any manusorip.. and cannot agree to return the same. e rf.ire a correspondent in every school-district of Platte county, one of good judgment, and n. liable in every way. Write plainly, each item separately. Give us facta. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 29. 1883. REPUBLICAN TICKET. Vatioul. For President, BENJAMIN HARRISON Of Indiana. For Vice-President, LEVI P. MORTON, Of New York. CemgreaslomaL For Representative in Congress, 3d District, GEORGE W. E. DOBSEY. State. For Governor, John m. thayer. . For Lieutenant Governor. GEORGE D. MEIKLEJOnN. For Secretary of State. GILBERT L. LAWS. For State Treasurer, J. E. IiILlj. For State Auditor. THOiUs H. BENTON. For Attorney General, WILLIAM LEESE. For Commissioner Public Lands and Buildings, JOHN 8TEEN. For Superintendent Public Instruction, GEOBGE B. LANE. Coonty. For Representative 21th District. W. A. HAMPTON. For County Attorney, J. G. REEDER. Coming Events. Grand Array Re-Union and Fair at Norfolk, Aur. 2731. Iowa State Fair Aug. 31 to Sept. 7. Omaha Fair and Exposition, Sept. 3 8. Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, Sept. 10-15. Platte County Fair, at Columbus, Sept. 2628. Colfax County Fair Sep. IS 21. Boone County Fair Sept 1921. Cheyenne County Fair at Sidney, Sept. 2028. Dodtfo County Fair Oct, 2 f. Nance County Fair Oct. 35. Hastings and Norfolk will hereafter bo honored by sessions of the United States court. The fisheries treaty failed of ratifica tion ia the senate yeas 27, nays 30, a strict party vote. Richaiid A. Hubbard was arrested the other day at Red Cloud, charged with passing counterfeit money. At Shanghai on the 21th eight hun dred workmen have been drowned by inundations at Tens Leon. "The only time England can use an Irishman is when he emigrates to Amer ica and votes for free trade." London Times. "Gkoveb Cleveland has done more to advance the cause of free trade than any prime minister of England has ever done." London Spectator. Tns republican party is opposed to oppression of the people, whether through trusts or any other source, any campaign liar to the contrary, notwithstanding. A bepobt comes from St. Louis on the 24th that Jacob Moxter, a well-to-do piano dealer, shot himself through the Lead today, at his warehouse. He left a vrife and two children. The "grand old Roman" of the ban dana is no better on the tariff issue than the hordes of campaign orators,and his speeches if no better than the one delivered last week, will not save his party from defeat. A sisteb of the dead orator Wendell Phillips is about to have erected over his grave a monument of rough, weather stained granite boulder about five feet high in the front face a sunken tablet bearing an inscription. England depends mainly upon other countries, both for her raw material and for a market for the manufactured pro ducts, and of course, is in favor of free trade, which would tend to build up her manufactures at the expense of ours. Gen. Geo. W. Jones, of Dubuque, la-, who is ninety years old and has been a democrat all his life announces his de termination to vote for Harrison and Morton. The reason he gives is that Cleveland is not a good democrat. W. F. Hudson, assistant disbursing clerk of tho house of representatives, died at Washington on the morning of the 26th inst., after an illness of three or four days. He came from Iowa and iraa well known in democratic circles there. The actio of the democracy in keep ing Dakota out of the Union simply be cause she would be a republican state is one of the political crimes of this gen eration for which fair-minded men will chastise the party in power. H there is one thing men of Saxon mould admire it ja fair play. W wJf MM The Party of Progrew. There are a host of young men who for the first time will this year cast their ballot for president. A little study of the history of the country and of present political parties as connected with that history will convince these young men that the republican party, above any other, deserves their support. In a gov ernment where all are designed to have equal rights to "life, liberty and the pur suit of happiness" it follows as a natural consequence that the rights of no single citizen or class of citizens can be denied or withheld without endangering those of overy other. You must not only be vigilant concerning your own rights but equally so concerning your fellow-citizens, because if they may be oppressed, you may be. The power of all may be exerted at any point where the right of the individual citizen or community is threatened. This is the simple main spring of our system of government, by all the people, for each and for every one. The republican party has been in ex istence since 1854, entering the lists of presidential contests in 1856 and suc cessful in 1860 and thereafter until 1884. Taking for their platform a practical proposition, viz: that chattel property in the souls and bodies of men, human slavery, should not be allowed beyond the limits of the states in which it then existed, they selected for president one of the wisest, noblest, kindliest men that ever exercised power as a rulor, Abraham Lincoln. Born in a slave Btate, among the humblest of its people, Lincoln's whole career was representative of re publican principles, and if you will carefully study the preceding adminis trations of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, men and measures, with Lin coln and the line of republican presidents who have succeeded, you will know that the republican party was the political organization that, under Providence, saved the government from overthrow and preserved our free institutions for ourselves and those who may come after us. James Buchanan, the last democratic president before the accession of a re publican, while the slave-holding states were, one after another, passing ordi nances of secession and allying them selves with traitors who were stealing the property of the government, sat in the presidential chair and declared he could find no power in the constitution to coerce a seceding state. The slave-holders' rebellion was the most formidable enemy that ever assail ed our government, because treason, instead of being quelled in its inception by Buchanan, was allowed to have its own way. But under the administra tions which followed, slavery went down and the country was saved. The exist ence of slavery was a menace to every man's liberty, directly or indirectly, and very dearly did the white man pay for that sum of all villainies, before the country was blessed with its removal. What the republican party has done for the country is matter of history, and young men can study it for themselves without prejudice. It is today the party of progress, representing the best thoughts of statesmen and patriots for the welfare of the people. TnE Singer Manufacturing Company have an establishment at Glasgow, Scot land, and another at Elizabethport, N. J. Both manufacture precisely the same goods, employing the same classes of skilled and unskilled labor. The pay roll at Glasgow shows an average week ly rate, per person, of wages, of 85.10; that at Elizabethport, this country, $11.35. If the duty on their product were taken off there would bo no need for a separate establishment at Eliza bethport or any other port in this country. The people thus employed here and helping, by their purchases, to make a good home market for the pro ducts of America, would be thrown out of employment altogether, or else be compelled to accept the low wages given abroad instead of what they now get. This is one fair sample of free trade and its effect upon wages and a home mar ket "Op Mr. Irwin, intended for the float "representative, little can be Baid, fur ther than that he is a good farmer and "citizen. While in the Honse, he was an "automaton, having no ideas, simply "being a voting machine, not always "tuned aright." Democrat. So goes the party organ, grinding out the same old doleful tune. If Mr. Irwin has that sort of ability which makes him "a good farmer and citizen," as he is, he has just the sort of ability needed in our legislative halls. This slight tried to be cast upon Mr. Irwin will not win. He is a man of excellent good judgment, sound common sense, has been in the legislature, and is known to the people of this county as an intelligent, honest man. The campaign liar can make nothing by throwing mud at Irwin. Activity, is one of the best evidences of health. When you see that the con ventions of a political party are lively and interesting you may know that there is some life there, some ambition, some strength for purposes of good to the people. Republicans are all so much imbued with the spirit of the party that personal differences amount to but little when placed in the scale against general interests. In union there is strength, in harmony there is power, but it must not be the harmony of a graveyard. A home market is of all markets the most desirable, because it is the nearest, the most reliable and helps develop home resources of all kinds. The price of our agricultural and all other pro ducts is mainly determined by the home market and not by the foreign market as many allege. Evidently the country that can raise all it may wish to use is nearer independence than those which have to rely upon the outside world for both their raw material and the market for their manufactured product. A tebbjble marine disaster happened on the Bay of San Francisco, a short distance 'from Golden Gate at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 22d inBt., between the ships Oceanic and City of Cheeter.in a fog, the latter going to the bottom in fire minutes thereafter. Ten cabin and twenty-one steerage passengers and three of the crew were drowned. The republican state convention nom inated a very excellent ticket. The question of submitting an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors will be left for the people to decide, A betokt was received at Baltimore on the 22d from Still Pond, Kent county, McL, giving the particulars of the cy clone that wrought such destruction in that neighborhood on the 21st; it struck the large frame building occupied as a canning establishment and completely demolished it About a hundred men, women and children were at work, and in their efforts to escape from the wreck nine were killed "outright, three danger ously hurt and a number slightly injur ed by falling timber. Orchards and growing crops were badly damaged, and many houses and barns demolished. The republicans seem fated. In Platte county they make at least one democrat out of a former republican, every time they hold a convention. So says the Democrat. Possibly this may be true, but there is no evidence of it visibla Now if the Democrat had been speaking of tho republican conventions of Colfax county and referring to one D. Frank Davis who sought a nomination at their hands there might have been something to say. British free trade is not a harmless scare-crow as any man can readily find by reading the opinions of the British press favorable to the election of Cleve land as president, and comparing wages there with what they are here. It is safe to say that England has never be fore shown so much anxiety to see a president elected for the United States as she has thus far shown for Cleveland. Free trade will strengthen England. It is somewhat surprising that Ameri can citizens will become so partisan that with the fact staring them in the face they will vote directly against their own interest to promote party. We must have a tariff for protection as well as revenue, or we must have direct taxa tion. No American citizen consulting his own interest will vote against a tar iff for protection and revenue and in favor of free trade. At the summit of Pike's Peak Aug. 20, Laura Cook, aged fourteen, daughter of George D. Cook of Chicago, while standing in the open door at the sig nal station, was struck by lightning full in the face, the fluid circling around her body, knocking her senseless to the floor. Her head was swollen to an enor mous size, and her body and limbs cut into strips and horribly mutilated. George Owens and his son were killed while digging a well on their farm near Steubenville, Ohio. When Owens' wife heard of the death of her son and hus band she was so prostrated that she has since died. The free-trader argues that if the duty of 37c a pound was removed from wool he could buy his $12 pair of pants for $6. How could this possibly be when the pair of pants contains only one pound of the wool? The Journal is indebted to Senator Paddock for a copy of the president's message of 1886-7 and a report from the treasury department on the internal commerce of the United States. Orders have been received at the Brooklyn navy yard to fit up the cruiser Boston for sea without delay. She will join the European squadron. TnE business portion of Cheyenne, French Guiana, has been destroyed by fire with a loss of $2,500,000. NEBRASKA NOTES. Congressman Dorsey is at home, and took an active part at the state conven tion. Mrs. J. W. Barnes, of York, was thrown from her carriage one morning last week, and seriously if not fatally injured. H. M. Gault of Plattsmouth during the storm one morning last week, had ahorse valued at $3,000 struck by light ning and killed. A cow on the same premises was also killed. John E. Miller, near Fullerton, was arrested one day last week and held for an indecent assault upon the fifteen years old daughter of George Peregrine. Miller is a married man some forty years old. Mrs. H. C. Metcalf in alighting from a train neglected to leave until the train was in motion. She was thrown to the ground and fatally injured, her wrist and shoulder being broken, besides several bruises. She was a resident of Central City and the accident occurred at Hamp ton. She was sixty years old. Mrs. A. C. Mitchel left Central City one morning last week for Hampton over the B. & M. Arriving there she neg lected to leave the train until it had started and in alighting was thrown to the ground and fatally injured. The family came from Animosa, Iowa, and the lady is aged about 60 years. One of the saddest accidents that has occurred in this city for some time hap pened Monday morning. A child of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm McPherson, a girl about a year and a half old, unobserved by its mother crept beyond the stoop and fell into a pool of water near the house formed by the rain and drowned. When discovered by its brother the child was dead. The parents were wild with grief and it is indeed very sad to think of the little one losing its life in this manner. The remains were interred in the cemetery here Tuesday morning. Schuyler Sun. Billy Cole got into a row near Guide Rock, in Webster county, last week at a dance and fired five shots into the crowd before he stopped, hitting Charles Grant in the left side near the spinal column, inflicting injuries that will probably result in bis death. Another shot hit William Montgomery in the hip, making a serious wound. Cole was arrested and while being guarded was seized by a masked mob who went to where Cole was confined, overpowered the guard and took Cole out to the railroad bridge and hanged him. The body was found hanging at daylight. Instances of wives and mothers suing saloonists for selling liquor to their hus bands are increasing rapidly in this city. Another was put on the district court record yesterday when Mrs. Hattie Wood, the wife of Celestine Wood, and the mother of four children, whose ages range from 4 to 12 years, instituted suit against Flannery & Callopy, saloon men keeping at 1623 Bellevue road, for $5,000 damages done herself and children by defendants selling Mr. Wood drink. Plaintiff says that prior to April 11, 1886, her husband was earning $3 a day, but that he began drinking at Flannery & Callop's place and has so continued to do until he has neglected his work to an extent that his earnings during the past year and a half have been scarcely $24; that her husband had not only failed to furnish his family necessary support, but, as a direct result of the liquor bought at the place named, has become abusive and caused his family much sorrow and pain, and compelled her to earn bread for herself and children. Omaha Republican. WMkiBgto Letter. From our regular correspondent. A bomb shell exploded among the democrats could not have created more consternation than the discovery, just made, that there would be no treasury surplus for the present fiscal year. The democrats to whom the "awful surplus" has been a continual nightmare, are the hardest hit; they are completely bewil dered, and know not which way to turn for a new grievance. The reason why there is, or rather there will be, no sur plus this year, is very simple. Congress has, or will have before it adjourns, ap propriated for the present fiscal year an amount about equal to the estimated in come of the government for the same period. This state of affairs will tend to simplify the work of the senate commit tee now engaged in perfecting a substi tute for the Mills bill. Representative Lyman of Iowa, is de termined to get a vote on the depart ment pension bill in tho house, or to block all business that requires a quo rum. He says he proposes to put the democratic members on record on this pension business. Senator Chandler will make a speech in the senate Wednesday on his resolu tion for an investigation of tho Louisi ana elections, that promises to create a sensation. He has gathered a mass of information showing the crookedness by which the democrats carried the elec tion, and as he has the courage to speak "right out in meeting" he will make things very lively for the southern sena tors. The senate passed a bill amending the act of June 18, relating to postal crimes. The bill declares unmailable all envel ops, postal cards, or newspapers upon which is written or printed any delinea tions, epithets, terms or language of an indecent, lewd, obscene, libelous, scur rilous, defamatory or threatening char acter, or calculated by the terms or manner or style of display and obvious ly intended to reflect injuriously upon the character or conduct of another. Tho penalty for each such offence, upon conviction thereof, is a fine of $5,000 or imprisonment at hard labor for not more than fivo years, or both at the dis cretion of the court. The wording of the act is very comprehensive, and cov ers every possible case and condition. There is one country in the world of which this administration is not afraid. It is little Hayti. The man-of-war. Ga lena, has been ordered there with in structions to protect American interests. As this is the first and only move that the present administration has taken for American interests, at home or abroad, I take pleasure in chronicling it. The democrats in congress are much disturbed over tho excellent prospects of the acceptance by the house of the senate substitute of the Mills bill. At least twenty democratic representatives, who voted "for the Mills measure under compulsion, are understood to be in fa vor of accepting the senate substitute, if it shall be a good measure, which it is certain to be; and if the substitute is accepted by the house, it will become a law for Grover dare not veto it. Senator Allison thinks that congress will not adjourn before the middle of October, if so early. It is generally believed here that the democratic representatives, are deliber ately absenting themselves from the house, leaving that body without a quo rum about four-fifths of the time, in order to prevent any action on the de partment pension bill, and some other measures they are afraid of. General Mahone says that now the national committee has settled the dis pute between the party factions in Vir ginia, he has not a single doubt of Har rison and Morton carrying the state by at least twenty thousand majority. A TARIFF PRIMER. THE HOME MARKET. The agricultural products of this coun try, aside from tobacco and cotton, amount to about S3,uuu,uuu,uuu a year. Of this enormous amount we use about 92 per cent at home, and have only about 8 per cent for export. The free trader fixes lus eyes on this compara tively small portion, and urges that our farmers shonul vote for freo trade in or der to increase their exports. There are two absurdities in this line or argu inent us far as the farmers are concern ed: First, thero is no legislation possible by which the people of the world will eat more than they do, nor by which other countries can bo prevented rrom raising tho same products that our own fanners do. Hence it is impossible to increase prices for wheat, for instance, so long as tho production is greater than the de mand. Second, the only way in which wo can have more surplus farm products to export is by increasing their produc tion and this a tree trado policy will do, by driving men out of manufacturing pursuits into farming. But are low wa ges going to bo increased by increasing the amount produced, when it is already so great as to render production only slightly remunerative? The true line of policy for our farmers is to increase the home market, by in creasing our own consuming class. Notwithstanding the enormous extension of agriculture by tho opening of connt less farms in tho newer portions of the country within the past decade, tho in crease of our home consumers, through the extension of manufacturing, has been so great that, as shown above, we consume over nine-tenths of our entire farming product and export less than ono-tenth. Had it not been for this in crease in our farming area, we would consume at homo every dollar's worth of agricultural products, and be independ ent of the foreign trade entirely. OUR EXPORT TRADE. Tho cry of the free traders over our export trade is a false and misleading one. They cry out that we cannot sell to other countries because we put a tar iff barrier between those countries and our own; that we compel their goods to pay duty, and of course that they will not buy of us in return. Now we are not only the greatest exporters of agri cultural products in the world, but we are the greatest manufacturing nation. To listen to the free traders, one would suppose that our manufacturers were but trivial compared with those of Great Britain. The fact is, that the United States, in the value of her output of manufactured goods, exceeds that of Great Britain by a billion dollars a year. From 1861 to 1881 the export trade of Great Britain has increased 162 per cent. In the 6ame time that of the United States has in creased 356 per cent. The free traders say nothing of these facts, for the point is clear that this enormous increase has resulted entirely from a protective pol icy. There is another point the free trader fails to meet: It is, that Great Britain stands almost alone among civilized na tions as a free trade country. Germany, France, Russia, Italy, are all protection ist. Every important colony of Great Britain, save only New South Wales, has a protective tariff. There is no country, aside from Great Britain, to which we export goods to an extent, but has a tariff. Would the cutting down, or the entire removal of our tariff, take away the tariffs of other lands? By no means. The plain fact is, that a low tariff, or free trade, in the United States, would enormously benefit Great Britain, at the expense of ourselves. The free trade agitation here has been fomented for years by the Cobden Club of England, with the selfish hope that by prostrating our own industries those of Great Brit ain will be benefited; and there is noth ing else in the whole free trade scheme. Toledo Blade. They Come. S. P. Morse, the great dry-goods mer chant of Omaha, has changed his poli tics, and is a republican, because he is for the protection of American labor. Wages, he says, iB the substance of the contest. We quote from the Republican : Mr. Morse is a large importer of cer tain lines of goods, especially fine hosiery, on which he pays a duty of 54 per cent. They are manufactured in this country and he readily understands that should that duty be reduced the manufacturers would be closed, because they can't pay tho wages and compete. This question of wages, said he, is what makes me and many thousand more democrats, repub licans. My clerks receive salaries which enable them to live well; they are happy and contented. I never want to see them reduced to the condition of Euro pean clerks. To give an idea of the way this class of people live over there, Mr. Morse called up one of his men, a nice looking blonde gentlemen, who recently came from England. "Where did you work?" was asked him. "In tho hoiise of Cbas. Meages & Co., London," was the reply. "What salary did yon get?" "Twenty-live pounds a year, or $125, my board and room." "What were the Ixmrd and your room estimated at?" "One pound a week, which would be $260." "Then your room, board and salary cost the firm $385 a year." "Yes," and the young man blushed as though he felt ashamed to have given his labors for such a small amount. He had $125 a year with which to clothe himself and pay for the pleasures of life. You can imagine the extent of his ward role and the amount of enjoyment he must have had in the course of twelve months. That young man will not vote the democratic ticket. Here he gets $1,000 a year salary, and pays $30 a month for board and room. This leaves him $6-10 spending money, as against $125 in tho great city of London. A PKHI11ITIOXIST TALKS. Chaplain Lozier, of Honorable Fame, De clares He is Foa Prohibition, but not For a Third Party. John Hogarth Lozier speaks as fol lows in a letter published in the Chicago Inter-Ocean of recent date: If certain persons who imagine themselves the oracles and "chief priests" of prohibition are not beyond the reach or common sense counsel, I will try to give them a lifL I would simply advise them es pecially some of my Christian sisters and brethren to go and sit down awhile at tho feet of their Lord and Master and learn over again the lesson He once taught certain disciples who came to Him reporting that they had "rebuked" some people whom they had found "cast ing out devils in Thy name, who follow ed not with us." I doubt not it is re freshing even to exhileration to copper heads and saloonists to note with what flippancy these high priests thunder their anathemas of excommunication against people who were fighting in the battlefield of prohibition before some of them were born, and will probably be fighting there when they are dead or become dyed-in-the-wool democrats, but to thoughtful and sincere prohibitionists it is painful, because it is a perilous spectacle. It were possible for a teach er to wado in among the children, cuff ing them right and left and shouting, "Down on your knees, you young Arabs, and 6ay the Lord's prayer!" but I ques tion if it would prove the happiest meth od of promoting genuine piety. Pity it is that some of these great lights in pro hibition do not "catch on" to some such hint. Becaues J. Ellen Foster, the hon ored president of the Iowa Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and a lady without a superior in the land, has given the republican party her unqualified en dorsement, tho Union Signal, the na tional organ of the W. C. T. U., virtually reads her out of that organization. Pity the talented editor of that organ does not know that while thero are hundreds of noisy people who may applaud such bigotry, there are tens of thousands of 3uiet women those who "bear the bur en and heat of the day" down where the foundation lies, who are pained and disgusted. Because this writer "tossed not high his ready cap in air" at that brilliant display of "non-sectional fraternization" when the Indianapolis convention yoked together Fisk, the sturdy "ox" of loyalty and Brooks, the hardy "ass" of treason, my loyalty to prohibition is called in question! Some of these bright morn ings these oracles of third partyism will wake up to the discovery that thousands of old soldiers in this country who will forgive and "shake hands" with every ex-rebel they meet, who acknowledges that the rebellion was wrong, and we were right in suppressing it, but who nevertheless, are proud to say that the ex-rebel don't live whom they would vote for for vice president of the nation he once sought to destroy! This is not "sectional hatred," but it is the respect we owe to half a million of our dead comrades, and it is, moreover, a duty we owe, and every patriot in the nation owes as a lesson in loyalty to coming generations. It is easy to prate of "inflaming old animosities," but old soldiers are too "old" not to know that "old animosities" kept out of that third party platform tho proposed "plank" in favor of pen sioning the union soldiers who are still needy and uncared for. The same rebel spirit that excluded such a plank from the democratic platform in St. Louis got in its work at Indianapolis! What a comment on the patriotism and gratitude of a nation, when a party claiming to be "national" and patriotic stood amidst a wealth of civil, social and commercial benefactions such as the union soldiers have bequeathed to this generation, and yet dared not utter even a syllable of gratitude to the man whose valor and blood bought it all! We are prohibi tionists enough to fight the saloon, standing abreast with any "third party" prohibitionists in tho crowd; but we hope not to so lose our religious poise as to fall to unchristianizing all who do not see through our spectacles; nor yet to part with our patriotism to a degree that will render us the auxiliaries of a political party that is the fostering em bodiment of saloonism and hoodlumism in the north, and the organized lazar house of the nation's enemies both in the south and beyond the sea! Other Countries. One day last week at Berlin, the Co logne Gazette asserted that Bismarck will shortly resign the Prussian ministry of commerce. Last week at Paris Dr. Pasteur read before the academy of science a letter from Dr. Gambier of Odessa, announc ing the discovery of a cholera vaccine. At the same place and date an epidem ic of opthahaia is prevailing in Osnbuck, Hanover, there being very few houses in the place not containing one or more victims. One day last week at Belfast. Harland & Wolf, one of the prominent shipbuild ing firms in Belfast, closed their yards, owing to the fact that part of their em ployes struck. The action of the firm affects 5,000 persons. Last week at Dublin, the jury in the inquest on the death of Dr. Ridley, who committed suicide in Tularmore jail, is that Kidley was temporarily insane, made so by fear of disclosures of the treatment of Mandeville. Last week at Berlin the emperor in concluding his speech said: "One thing 1 must add. X must defend my departed father againBt the shameful suspicion that he could have relinquished any part of the gain of that great time." Advices from London of the 24th state that cholera broke out on the Portugese transport, India, while bound from Madao to Mozambique, and within forty-eight hours there were thirty-eight cases, twenty-four of which proved fatal. At London last week advices from Zanzibar say that the sultan has offi cially transferred the administration of the coast line to the German company, whose flag, jointly with the sultan's, has been hoisted at fourteen ports. The Italian envoy has not renewed his rela tions with the sultan, Tho St James Gazette of the 24th commenting on President Cleveland's message to congress says: "The position is awkward and unpleasant for both countries. The relation threatened is so illogical and unreasonable that it is dif ficult to understand its precise cause and meaning. There is no doubt that the matter is a serious one for Canada." The Pall Mall Gazette suspends opinion upon the real significance of Cleveland's message, but says it looks ugly. UNION PACIFIC, "THE OVERLAND ROUTE," will sell excursion tickets at roduced rates, to persons desirous of attending the Siege op Srbastopol, to be pro duced in Omaha, August 30th, Sept. 1st, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 18th, 20th, 22d, 25th and 27th. Tickets will be good, going date of sale and returning the fol lowing day. This will bo one of the greatest attractions ever offered to the public and should le taken advantage of by all. For rates, etc., call on your nearest ticket agent. T. L. Kimball, J. S. Tebbets, Act'g Gen'l Man. G. P. & T. Ag't. E. L. Lomax, A. G. P. & T. A. 2&tugrt . A. K. For the National encampment of tho Grand Army of the Ropublic, at Co lnmbus, Ohio, Sept 10th to 14th. The Union Pacific, "The Overland Route," Mill sell tickets at a rate as low as the lowest. Remember this is the only line offering the choico of six different routes from the Missouri River to Columbus. For a party of twenty-five or more, family sleepers will be furnished free from any point on the line through to Columbus, without charge. For dates of sale, limit of tickets, etc., call on your nearest ticket agent. Thos. L. Kimball, E. L. Lomax, Act'g Gen'l Mg'r. A. G. P. & T. A. J. S. Tebets, G. P. & T. A. 19-2 AN ORDINANCE Providing for a special election to enable the electors of the city of Columbus to vote upon a proposition to issue water bonds of said city to tho amount of f 10,000 for the purpose of extending the distribution system of the water works of said city. Be it ordained by the mayor and council of the city of Columbus: Section 1. That the proposition contained in section two of this ordinance be submitted to a vote of the legal voters of tho city of Columbus at a special election therein which is hereby called for such purpose to be held in the respec tive wards of said city, at the usual voting places on the 3d day of October. A. D. 1888. Sec. 2. Shall the mayor and council of the city of Columbus, in the county of Platte, and State of Nebraska, issue the couiion bonds of said city to the amount of ten thousand dollars (810.000). to be dated on the 1st dar of Nnvemher. A. D. 1888, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, payable annually, to De known as "water bonds" of said city, and to become due in twenty years from the date of issue, but payable and redeemable at any time after five years from the date of issue, interest and princi pal parable at the fiscal ncencv of tho Rtnf n f Nebraska in the city of New York; said bonds or the proceeds thereof or so much of such bonds or proceeds as may be necessary to be used for the purpose of extending the distribution branch of the system of waterworks of said city upon the following named streets therein, to wit: On 11th street irom Hummer street to Idaho street, on Idaho street from 11th street to 0th street, on 7th street from Idaho street to D street, on Garfield street from 7th street to 6th street, on F street from 9th street to 11th street, on Olive street from Walnut street to Sycamore street, on Olive street from Pacific Ave. south to Sth street, on Sycamore street from Olive street to Nebraska Avenue, on Rickly street from Sycamore street to Walnut street, on Walnut street from Rickly street to Nebraska Avenue, on 14th street from Hays street to Meridian Avenue, on Meridian Avenue from 11th street to 15th street, on 15th street one block west from Meridian Ave. thence two blocks north thence west ono block, on 13th street from Rickly street to Meridian Avenue, on Nebraska Avenue from Walnut street to Chestnut street, on 9th street from Idaho street to F street, on Kummer street from 14th street to 15th street and on 15th street from Kummer street to Olive street; the surplus, if any. to bo used in making further extensions of said system in the discre tion of the said mayor and council, and shall tho said mayor and council levy and collect a tax annually not exceeding seven mills upon all the taxable property in said city in addition to all other taxes for the payment first of the running expenses of such waterworks and interest on said bonds and the water bonds of said city heretofore issued as it shall becomo due and pa able and should thero be a surplus to create it annually into a sinking fund for tho payment ofsaid bonds at maturity or the improvement of said waterworks as said council may direct. Sec. 3. The form in which said proixwition shall lie submitted shall lm bv lmllut wliiriunnn shall be written or printed the words "For water bonds and tax yes," or "For water bonds and tax no," and if a majority of the electors of said city at said election shall vote ludlota hav ing thereon the words "For water bonds and tax yes," then said profosition shall be de clared adopted; otherwise it shall be deemed lost. Sxo. 4. Said election shall be conducted and tho result thereof ascertained and declared in all respects as the general elections in said city are conducted and the result thereof ascertained and declared; Provided that notice of the time and place of holding such election and of tho propo sition to be submitted thereat shall bo published in four issues of some weekly newspaper pub lished in said city and be posted up in three of the most prominent places in each ward of said city for thirty days prior to said election. Sec. 5. This ordinance shall take effect and bo in force from and after its passage, approval and publication. Passed and approved Aug. 27th, 1888. J. K NORTH. Attest: G. Falbaum. Mayor. City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Providing for a special election to bo held in the city of Columbus to enable the electors thereof to vote upon a proposition to issue bonds to the amount of $8,000 to aid in the construction of a public wagon bridge across tho Platto nver in Platte county, Nebraska. Be it ordained by the mayor and council of the city of Columbus; Section 1. That the proposition contained in section two of this ordinance be submitted to a vote of the legal voters of tho city of Columbus at a special election therein to be held on the 3d day of October. 1888. Sec. 2. Shall tho mayor and council of tho city of Columbus, in Platte county, Nebraska, issue coupon bonds of said city to tho amount of o,uw to aia in ine construction of a public wagon bridge across the Platte river in Colum bus township, in said county, said bonds to bo issued in sums of $1,000 each, to be made payable to bearer, to be dated on the 1st day of May, 1888, and to become due and payable in twenty years from the date thereof, with interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum from date until paid, payable annually on the 1st day of May, in each year, as per interest coupons thereto attached, both principal and interest payable at the fiscal agency of the State of Nebraska in the city of New York; said bonds to be issued and sold and the proceeds thereof placed in the hands of the citv treasurer to be bv him flinhnru nmW tl.o direction of the said mayor and council, to aid Platte county aforesaid in the construction of said bridge, such proceeds or so much thereof as may be necessary to be disbursed only on condi tion that said bridge shall be constructed ac cording to such plans and specifications therefor as shall be adopted by the county board of said county and approved by the mayor and council of said city? And shall the mayor and council of said city each year until said bonds be paid, levy on the taxable property in said city an annual tax suffi cient to pay the interest on said bonds as it becomes due, and at the" expiration of ten (10) years from the date of said bonds shall the said mayor and council levy an annual tax sufficient to pay ten per cent, of the principal of the above described bonds, on all the taxable property in said city for the purpose of creating a sinking fund to pay the principal of said bonds after tho same become redeemable? 8ec. S. The form in which said proposition shall be submitted shall be by ballot whereupon shall be written orprinted l'For bridge bonds and tax yea," or "For bridge bonds and tax no," and if two-thirds of the votes cast at said election shall have thereon the words "For bridge bonds and taxyes," then said proposi tion shall be declared adopted, otherwise it shall be declared lost. Sec. 4. Baid election shall be conducted and the result thereof ascertained in all respects as the general elections in said city are conducted and the results thereof ascertained; Provided that notice of the time and places of holding such election and of the proposition to be sub mitted thereat shall be published in four issues of the Columbus Democrat, a weekly newspaper published in said city and be posted up in three of the most prominent places in eacn ward of said city for thirty days prior to said election. Sec. 5. This ordinance shall be in force from its passage, approval and publication. Bead third time, passed and approved August 21th. 1888. J.U. NORTH. Attest: Q, Falbau. Mayor. City Clerk, LEGAL NOTICE. Patrick Reagan will take notice that on the 1st day of August, 1888, J. C. Cowdery. a justice of the peace of Platte county, Nebraska, issued an order of attachment for the sum of $43.00 in an action pending before him wherein Connelly Brothers are plaintiffs and Patrick Reagan is defendant; that property of the defendant con sisting of one, one-story frame building with a shed attached thereto, one hog pen and out house, have been attached under said order. Said cause was continued to the 22d day of Sep tember, 1888, at one o'clock p. m. CONNELLY BROTHERS, 19auf4 Plaintiffs, EEE"ST & SCHWAEZ, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALKRSIN itX!5KKCrS'JW Z-.MMMMMWk--': ;-.'- K Ui j.ifa. SUPERB LAMP FILLER AND GOAL OIL CAN COMBINED, Vhi:h for n-ifcty, convenience. cIwinliueKs and simplicity, cannot be excelled. It embodies th simplest principled in pliilormpliy and take the raukalovt all ljimp Fillers. No danger of ea plosiuni. Absolute KifeiyuanmtiI. Noxiiillintr. waiting or dripping of oil on the floor table or outsitio of ran. Htw it one and you will not w w niu.ut it for live times its cost. It works in large cans as well as small ones, thereby saving the frequent and annoying trips to the store with a small cau. Kvery cau made of t he very best tin, and warrnted to work satisfactorily Call and sea .ample can and i:et orices. BAKER PERFECT 53?"If you buy it you getlOO rods of fence from 100 pounds of wire, which no other will do, ERNST & SCHWARZ. 44-2t Mckinley & mm pb 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. juuimtr BGTTCie & KERSENBROCK, DEALERS IN HEAVY AND SHELF Stoves and Tinware, Pumps, Guns & Ammunition. The Celebrated Moline Wagon Sold Here. Sept. 2? t' SPEICE & General Aycntsfor the sale of EIL, Union Pacific and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from 12.00 to $10.00 per acre for casl or on five or ten years time, in annual paj meal s to su it purchasers. We have also a large and choiet lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. AIm business and residence lots in tho city. We keep a complete obstruct of title to all real estate ia Platte County. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. e" W. T. RICKLY & BRO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Fresla. Sa.lt estts. Gane, Peiltry, and Fresh Fish. All Kinds of Saisage a Specialty. tVCaah paid for Hides, Pelts, Tallow. Highest market price paid for fat cattle.'Vt Olive Street, tw Doors North of the First National Bank. SHERIFFS SALE. By virtue of an order of sale directed to me from the district court of Platte county, Ne braska, on the 1st day of May. 1S88, in favor of Henry Gass as plaintiff, and acaint Saninel Hice as defendant, for the sum of ten hundred and forty-five dollars and sixteen cents, and costs taxed at $43.50 and accruing cottx, I have levied upon the following real estate taken i the property of said defendant, to satisfy said order of sale, towit: Lots eleven (11) and twelve (12), in block "C" of Columbia Minare. in the city of Columbus, Platte county, Nebraska, and will offer tho same for sale to the hit;hcbt bidder, for cash in hand, on tho 1st Day ok Seitemekb, A. D. 1888, in front of the Court House in Columbus, Platte county, Nebraska, that being the building when--' in the last term of conrt was held, at the hour of 2 o'clock p. m. of said day, when and where due attendance will be given by the nniierxigned. Dated Columbus, Neb., July nth, 1SS8. if. t". IlLOEDORX, laugS Sheriff of said County. PROBATE NOTICE. Notice probate of will, Thomas ilcPhillips. de ceased. In county court, Platto County, Neb. The state of Nebraska to the heirs and next of kin of the said Thomas McPhillips, deceased: Take notice, that upon filing of a written instru ment purporting to be tho last will and testament of Thomas McPhillipe for probate and allowance, it Is ordered that said matter be set for hearing tho 22d day of September, A. D. 1SW. before said connty court, at the hour of 9 o'clock a. m., at which time any person interested may appear and contest the same; anil notice of this proceed ing is ordered published three weeks successive ly in the Columbus Journal, a weekly news paper published in this state. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto tt my hand and the seal of tho county court, at Co lumbus, this 25th day of August, A. 1)., leS3. 29Bug4t II. J. Hudson, County Judge.G Notice te Contractor. Bids will be received until noon, Monday Sep tember 10th. 1SS8, for the erection or a, town hall for Columbus township. ItullrfuiKto lc 18x24 feet. Specifications can be seen at tho County Clerk's ofllce. Right is reserved to re ject any or nil bids. J.vrois Eicnmt. 22w2 Chairman of Committee. ESTRAY NOTICE. Taken up, four two ykar old stkerh on August 1st. The owner of same can regain by proving property and paying costs. R. B. Thompson. Monbok, Neb. 15aug5 ' . l GMUND STOVES AND RANGES ALWAYS FOR SALE AT imi k mmn. STEEL BARB WIRE. carnahan, STOKTH, !fr-P"1 rATBI COAL ! COAL Whitebreast, per ton Illinois, Bock Spring, " - Canon City, $5 00 600 700 700 Eastern & West em HaM Goal. A good supply always en hand. Special prices on quantities. J. N. TAYLOR. 2iUK88-tf mil! There will lx sold at public auction at Baker's livery liirn in Columbus, Nebraska, Skptembeu 8, 18S8, at 3 o'clock p. ., Two Clydesdale Stallions Pedigree of homes can be seen at the office of O. L. Baker. Terms of sale: Cash. JounBuxhlu. By McAllister & Cornelius, attorneys. 1&& V c O o A V
