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We reserve the tight to reject any manuscript, aud cannot agree to return the same. YVelobtre H correspondent in every school-district ol Finite county, one of good judgment, and re libl in every way. Write plainly, each item separately. Give os facta. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1888. Gek. Habrison's official majority in Iowa ia 31,668. Chubch Howe was out of politics. He now seeks to be president of the senate. After the census of 185)0 Nebraska is .likely to double her representation in congress. The ajftfretfate congressional vote in Indiana gives the republicans a plurali ty of 4,.r71. It is proposed to add a law depart ment to the state university a good move, surely. '- In an old book in the second-hand book-store at Paris, Ky., S16.000 in greenbacks was found. Duke Maximilian, of Bavaria, who was stricken with apoplexy a few days ago, is dead. He was 80 years of age. John M. Thurston of Omaha is spoken of as a probable cabinet officer, under the new administration. General Harrison made his first ap pointment on the 12th inst, by selecting E. F. Tibbotts as his official stenogra pher. News from Paris on the 15th states that fifteen workmen in the Noyant quarters at Seqre were bnried in a land slide. Gen. Brooke this week enters upon an inspection of the thirty-one new sites offered for the location of the new Fort Omaha. H. F. MABSHALii, cashier of the Sea man's savings bank at New York,dropped dead on the 16th at 2 o'clock in the bank. He was 75 years old. It was rumored at Paris on the 13th, that German guards on the eastern frontier shot three French sportsmen killing one of tern instantly. Two "bodies more were taken Thurs day from the ruins of the lantern works disaster at Rochester, N. Y., making thirty-seven known to be dead. IiAst report of yellow fever at Jack sonville up to the 13th, gives only 6even ' new cases and two- deaths. Total cases to date: 4,518; total deaths, 390. Owino to the hot winds of July, the corn crop of western Kansas was a fail ure. A half-rate is asked of the rail roads for the shipment of corn. In the house of representatives of Ver mont on the morning of the 15th the bill granting to woman the right of suffrage was defeated by a vote of 192 to 37. The statement is made that the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy and the Uuion Pacific have each placed an order for 10,000 tons of steel rails at Pittsburg. With five counties on Saturday last yet to send in offici.nl returns, the vote on governor stands for Thayer 100,892 for McShane 82,597. Majority for Thayer 18,295. It is said that every county in the second congressional district cast a ma jority of its votes for Laird, for congress. Jim has been a strong worker for the interests of his district, surely. Tikre ire already numerous candi dates for speaker of the house, among . theni Cady of Howard, Yocnm of Adams, Majors of Nemaha, McBride and Cald well of Lancaster, Lee of Furnjis, Wat son of Otoe. At Berea, Ohio, on the night of the 17th, Joseph and Lewis Coon, brothers, were engaged in a fight and their father attempted to separate them. Joseph struck his father with n stone, killing him instantly. Gon. Warben, chief of the metropoli tan police of London, has issued a pro clamation offering free pardon to any ac complice the Whitechapel murderer may - have had, provided he will give informa tion leading to the murderer's appre hension. At Los Angeles, CaL, on the 15th Fritz Anschlag, the German who was to have been executed Friday for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock in. January last, committed suicide by tak ing strychnine, and died shortly after midnight. Last week the London police were confident that they were on the right track in their search for the Whitechap el murderer. Two persons have been fonnd who saw the man who accom panied -the last victim to- her room on the Bight she was murdered. According to Frank Leslie's JUas trated, John M. Thurston narrowly es . capes having the senatorship forced up on him two years ago and will be the next United States senator from Nebras ka. This will be interesting reading for Senator Manderson. Bee. On the 13th at Binghampton, N. Y., Patrick Donahue who has. been dement ed for some time past, made an unsuc cessful attempt at suicide by cutting his throat. On the 14th he attacked his son, Edward, and inflicted injuries which will result in the young man's death. .-SnATor Gorman of the democratae committee has ordered a recount of the .votes in two' ef the Maryland districts, me district in "Louisiana and one in Uadtk Carolina. The effort will be made - -to whittle the republican victory down ; to one majority in congress, if Jthat be Jambs Walsh, of Omaha, was slugged and robbed in front of his own house about 11 o'clock Tuesday night of last week. Walsh says that he- had been in a neighboring saloon until that hour and that while he drank several glasses of beer he was not drunk. In this saloon he met two young men, Bill Young and Ed. McAndrews. According to his story these men followed him home and com mitted .the assault - His loss consists of a silver watch and. S3 in cash. The watch, he says, is worth 830. Young and McAndrews were arraigned before Judge Berka Wednesday and pleaded not guilty. They profess to be moulders and declare that they never saw Walsh before they met him in the court room. The metropolis of Nebraska needs a little more stringent enforcement of law, and an.increase of her police force. The editor of the Journal is indebted to the author, Hon. W. H. Michael, for a copy of his story, "Better Dead than Homeless." It is said to be founded on fact, which we can readily believe to be the case. An English family of work ers in a factory desiro to better their condition, and emigrate to America. A contrast is drawn between the two coun tries; the English system of labor in factories is strongly pictured as against our own, and. the benefit of protection shown. The story is good, and told in a very interesting manner, at times elo quently. As illustrating some phases of English and American life, the liook is well worth reading, and if the object of a good book is to make the reader somewhat better by its study, there is no doubt but this is a good book. Colorado is not only proud of her cli mate and wonderful resources, and a thousand other things in which she has an advantage over sister states, but she is proud of her citizens at home and abroad. She is proud of her orators, and the following handsome tribute to one of her well-known citizens will be appre ciated by all. The Lincoln Journal says: "One of the men who are doing good work for the Republican party in this state in the campaign is General A. J. Sampson of Denver. He is a popular speaker and in constant demand. Last night at Crete, tonight at Beatrice, Fri day at Peru and Saturday at Seward, shows that his time is well occupied. He is one of the most logical and convinc ing speakers now on the Nebraska stump." Denver Times, Oct 19, '88. Last week near Bedding, Cal., one of the boldest highway robberies of mail, passengers and passers, by a lone robber, was perpetrated in the evening about one mile from the postoffice, within the city limits. The robber held up five men and put caps on their heads. He robbed the two passengers of $160. From the passers by, whom he halted, he obtained from one, $65 and his watch, and from the other, obtained 815. When the robber got through taking 8240 from Wells, Fargo & Co.'s box and rifling the letters, he coolly walked off over the hill, leaving Miss Welch to announce that fact to his dunced-capped victims. Hon. A. E. Cadt will represent a dem ocratic county in the next state legisla ture. He is a man of broad enough views to represent the entire people of Howard county to good advantage. He neither laks ability nor experience in public affairs and the Press would sec ond the motion that he be elected speak er of the house, The Press congratu lates him on his election in every way except his politics. This is Mr. C's op portunity and he will not neglect to improve it St Paul Free Press. On the morning of the 13th a destruc tive fire occurred in Watson's store, in New York, extending from 150 156 Fur mans street, owned by Col. Watson and leased to the Fulton grain milling com pany, who had 350,000 bushels of oats, wheat and corn in the stores, burned. Thousands of bushels of wheat corn and oats flowed down from the different stores and covered up half the street Loss on building, grain and machinery about 8550,000. It was reported from New Haven, Conn., on the 16th that Solon G. Jen kins, while in a drunken fit the night before at Walltngford, shot and killed his father-in-law, Stephen Anthony. Jenkins was a prosperous merchant when he married Miss Anthony five years ago. He took to drink, and his wife went to live with her parents. During his spree for several days past he threatened to kill Ids father-in-law and his wholo fam ily. He was promptly placed in jail. The house of Mrs. Frank Knecht, at Plymouth, Penn., was burned last Wed nesday and her two children Fannie and Frank aged 7 and 9 respectively, perish ed in the flames. Mrs. Knecht had left the house on an errand and on her return found it on fire with the above result The explosion of a lamp is said to have been the cause of the accident Mrs. Knecht is nearly a maniac, on account of the casualty. Ax accident is reported from Balti more, Md., on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad on the 15th, seven miles west of Grafton. Both, engines and two baggage cars were damaged. Engineers Dewere and Clinton were killed, Fireman Shay was seriously injured and Fireman Baker was slightly wounded. The ac cident was caused by locking the switch for a siding instead of for the main track. The examination of the ballots of Boone, Campbell, Kenton and Pendleton counties, in the Sixth Kentucky district, shows that 7,502 perforated tickets were cast for John G. Carlisle. His majority in the entire district was 6151, so that if no further search is made there are enough ballots to defeat him if it shall be declared upon contest that these per forated ballots are void. O. World. Up to the 15th in New York, the official count of the vote for presidential electors had been completed in forty five out of the sixty counties in the state. The official count from these counties, and reliable estimates from the remaning fifteen, show that the plu rality of the Harrison electors will be 13,000. Last week in Philadelphia, Mrs. Ma tilda Hellerman was shot and killed in her home by Peter Kretchman. The only explanation he gave to the police was the statement that his wife died about three weeks ago and that she had been ruined and driven to her death by Mflallerman. One night last week at Pittsburg, Pa-, Marie Berthune, wife of one of the vic tims of the mine disaster, and made in sane by the loss of her husband, satura ted her cottage and five children with oil, and set fire to herself and children, and all but the oldest daughter were burned to death. The government works for the manu facture of small arms at Chattellerault, in the department of Vienna, was burn ed on the 15th. This will necessitate the suspension, for a short time, of the man ufacture of the Label rifle. The loss is placed at 1,000,000 francs. Quay Coalileat or a Majority. Washington, Nov. 16. Senator Quay, chairman of the republican national com mittee, said to' an associated press re-' porter this afternoon that the republi cans would certainly have control of the next house of representatives by a ma jority of five, and that their majority might be nine. Qaite a Boon. Quite a Thurston, boom is already showing itself, and ex-Senator Saunders' whose daughter is married to a son of President-elect Harrison, is being talked of considerably for the Manderson suc cession. Grand Island Independent Not much of such talk, however, has been heard outside of the Independent office. A Horrible Death. BELLEFONTEPa., Nov. 16. In the Cen tre iron company's mill, at this place this morning, John Flack, 15 years of age, employed as a scaler, started to shut the gates that stop the machinery, when he tripped and fell on a coupling of a line of shafting and was thrown under .it, and a bolt on the coupling struck him in the stomach and tore out his liver and en trails and wound him around -the shaft ing. He lived only a few minutes. AnxioBtt for Statehood. Plankington, Dak., Nov. 15. At a meeting of the people of Aurora county resolutions were adopted appointing a committee to use all honorable means to secure the calling of a special session of the Fifty-first congress at the earliest practicable day after March 4, in order that an act may be passed which will enable the loyal people of this territory to celebrate the 4th of July, 1889, as two members of the great family of states. Said committee is requested to invite the co-operation of other counties. Ab iMportaut Corporation. Articles of incorporation were filed with the secretary of state at Lincoln November 13th, by Frank Murphy, J. O. Phillippi, Flemon Drake, Hamilton S. Wicks, Simon S. Ott and George E. Tewksbury, for the purpose of a busi ness that will permit the "use, purchase, s:de, renting, leasing and sub-leasing, in the states of Nebraska and Iowa, and the territories of Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, of all graphopeone, phono graph, and phonograph - graphophone patents of Messrs. Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Graeam Bell, Chichester A. Bell and Sumner Tainter," together with all instruments that may be made by said inventors or be purchased by the North American phonograph company, The place of business of this corpora tion shall be Omaha, and its capital stock 8625,000 divided into 650 shares. Wreckage Coning Ashore Victims of the Collision of the Lizard Being Washed Up, London,Nov. 13. Considerable wreck age and a number of bodies were washed ashore between Looe and Polperro, in Cornwall, during the last two days. One of the bodies has been identified as that of Captain Meyer, of the German ship Theodore Bnger, from Hamburg for Sydney. Articles that have come ashore have also been recognized as belonging to both that vessel and to the Cunard steamer Nantes, with which the Theo dore Buger collided thirty-six miles off the Lizard. There is no doubt of the total loss of both vessels, with most of the crew of the Nantes and part of the ship's crew. The survivors who landed at Trowville include sixteen of the The odore Buger's and two of the Nantes' crew. It is believed all others went down with their vessels. Alaska Prospect. Gov. Swineford, of Alaska, in his an nual report says the white population has greatly increased during the past year, owing to the extension of mining operations and the development of the salmon curing industry. He says the number of native population has been greatly underestimated and estimates that there are 35,000 natives. The total population is 49,850 and of this number there are 6,500 whites, 1,900 Creoles and 220 aleuts. The governor says but lit tle has been accomplished in the way of agricultural development The only ob jection in the way of agriculture, in the opinion of the governor, is that the lands are not available for settlement He says the climate is favorable and the soil rich, and he' sees no reason why Alaska may not ultimately rival Mon tana as a cattle country. Ex. Long and Bloody Fead. News reached Winchester, Ky., on the 13th that Buck Combs and Fulton French, partisans of the French faction in the famous Breathitt county feud, were assassinated last Saturday. The two men were riding along together when a volley came from an ambush and both fell dead. French is a brother of the chief of the French faction. It is presumed that the two men were on their way to Hazard, in Perry county, where the senior French is now on trial for the assassination of Joseph Ever sole and Martin Combs in May last It was feared that there would be blood shed at the trial and to avert it a com pany of state guards was sent to the seat of the trouble in Perry county. Up to this last little affair there had been seven lives shot out in the feud, which originate in 1886. French and Eversole were the most prominent men - in Breathitt county. They quarreled at an election and the vendetta resulted. The Missouri to be Dredged. Lieut Chittenden of the army, who has recently been transferred to govern ment service with the Missouri river commission, is back from a tnp to Fort Benton and upper Missouri river points, to look over next season's work. Fort Benton is the head of navigation on the Missouri, and steamboating to that point this year has suffered immensely from sandbars, which have made the river un navigable for a distance of nine wfye tin aide of that port . The principal work of the lieutenant next season will be to dredge and build dams to reopen the channel to Fort Benton. In some years as many as fifty boats have run to that city,.but the obstructions this year have reduced boating business very greatly on that part of the upper river. Lieut Chittenden has been -assigned to station at this city, which will be. con venient and agreeable, and will soon se cure an office' and enter 'upon his winter work. The portion of the river improve ment work under his charge extends from Sioux City to the head. .The gov ernment boat which he will use is tied up now above Bismarck. Omaha World. Mardered for Money. Miss Mehitable White, aged sixty four, who lived on her farm near North braintree, Masa, with no company but a hired man, was found under some hay in her barn the 18th, dead and shocking ly mutilated, and suspicion has fallen upon the hired man, John Thompson, who had been in her employ but a short time and is described as a rough looking character. Thompson has not been seen, since that night. He came to the farm from a Novia Scotia employment agency in Boston. The murder was dis covered when a nephew of the old lady called at the farm in the afternoon and finding the house locked and empty summoned the neighbors, who broke in and found everything in confusion, the rooms apparently having been ransack ed in search of plunder. The searchers then broke into the barn, where the body was found. The throat was cut, the skull crushed in and there were other mutilations, while the feet and hands were tied with ropes of twisted hay. The motive of the murder- was probably theft, but there was little or no money kept in the house. A Black HilN Tragedy- A Man and Wire Mnrdered by Unknown Parties. Potato Gulch, Dak., Nov. 1& A hor rible crime was unearthed in the hills about seventeen miles northwest of this place by a party of prospectors yester day. The body of John Obemmeller was found hacked to pieces on the floor of the log hut that served him for a home, and the body of his wife was dis covered in the undergrowth back of the house utterly devoid of clothing and terribly mutilated. Their 5-year-old daughter is missing and no trace of her can be found. Obermueller's possessions consisted of a pair of dun mules, a good wagon and a Winchester -rifle, in addition to his household effects. The mules, wagon and rifle are missing and may afford a clue to the murderers when found. All the evidence tends to show that the wo man had been set upon by unknown parties while her husband was away from the house and outraged. Her cries must have alarmed her husband who ran to her assistance only to meet death at the hands of her assailants. As the woman witnessed the latter crime it is supposed she was killed also to insure the safety of the scoundrels. Armed miners are scouring the country for traces of the assassins. Methodist Bishops at Boston. The Methodist bishops were in their semi-annual session on the 11th at Bos ton, Mass. The time was principally oc cupied in discussing questions of law, which were referred to special commit tees. Bishop Newman reported for the conference of Missouri and Illinois and Bishop Goodsell for the Iowa conference. Both reports' showed prosperity and steady growth. The committee on plan of visitation have presented a plan, which is likely to be adopted, to have one bishop representing the different classes selected as a committee on plan of visitation. There are at present four classes in the board, those of 1872, 1876, 1880 and 1884. These four bishops go carefully over the conferences of the whole ohurch and make their assign ments of Episcopal supervision. They will hold a secret meeting, and the other bishops will not know to what confer ence they have been appointed until the committee reports. They are expected to follow the dictates of the committee without any question, just as the minis ters themselves have to accept their ap pointments in the spring. Bishop Mai- lalieu has been appointed to take charge of the New England conference next April. This is the only appointment yet made. The Omaha Mahler. The remains of Henry W. King," jr., were taken from the morgue and placed on board a train for Chicago the after noon of the 18th. Mrs. King, the Mis souri bride, her cousin, Mrs. Snyder, and a number of friends of the dead man ac companied the body on its journey. Mrs. King or Beechler is in close confinement at the county jail, and no one is allowed to see her. A guard, however, acted as intermediary for a representative of the United press, who gained a few addition al facts concerning the murderess. She says her father is William Beechler, liv ing at No. 58 Cotter street, Cleveland, O. She expects her lawyer from Chicago will come to Omaha to defend her, and that the child now at her house in Chi cago is her brother, and that she has a sister in the convent of the Sacred Heart in the latter city. She denounced the interview alleged to have been had with her, in which she spoke of her father as a Chicago capitalist, as false in every particular. She says she did not men tion her father, and remarked thaw the shooting was "no revenge" either. The telegram sent to the Cass street house in Chicago on Saturday signed "G. H. S." was undoubtedly from George H. Scott, a traveling man for a Bochester, N. Y., boot and shoe house. His connection with the case is shrouded in mystery, but it is stated that he arrived from the east at the same time as the Beechler woman, and also registered at the Pax ton house when she did. He disclaims all knowledge of the woman until after the shooting, but he has been put un der bonds to appear as a witness in the case. i NEBRASKA NOTES. O. B. Frazier, a grocer, failed at North Bend last week. The Hastings Gazette-Journal com pany has failed. Wm. S. Mottor of Genoa has had his pension increased. Telephone connection between Madi son and Norfolk is now complete. Grand Island's beet-sugar plant is to cost 8400,000, require 10,000 acres of land wdtmpioy 2000 nag, Neil Cartright has moved to town from his Platte county farm, south of the Loup, to give his children the bene fit of our excellent public schools. Genoa Leader. Hon. W. H. Robertson has been con fined to his home in Madison for the past three weeks by nervous prostration. He was reported on the 16th as still be ing a very sick man. The coyotes west of Fremont have been making havoc of the sheep in that vicinity. J. G. Smith had twenty killed Thursday -night. Hunters are in pur suit of the sheep killers. Hon. Joel Hull, of Minden, was thrown from his buggy at Kearney on tho 14th, striking upon his head and in juring his back quite severely. It was thought that his spine was injured. Cholera among hogs in Otoe and Nemaha counties has proved very fatal. Some farmers in the vicinity of Talmage have lost from one to two hundred head. The loss is great in Glen Rock and Asp inwall presincts, in Nemaha county. . Mrs. D. S. Armstrong committed sui at Norfolk Tuesday of last week, by shooting herself through the heart No reason assigned except depression of mind amounting to insanity. She was from Baltimore. William Gardner, living near Juniata, has lost three children by diptheria within a period of two weeks. A fourth is sick with the same disease and may not live. The family has the sympathy of the entire community. Married, on Saturday, Oct 27, 1888, by Judge Thomas, Mr. James Rowin and Miss Mbllie Brent, both of Columbus. James formerly lived at Richland, this county, is a number one young man, and has our liest wishes. Schuyler Quill.' John A. Woods left Monday night for his second trip to San Francisco with a carload of poultry. He has this time 255 dozen chickens, or 3,060, besides 240 turkeys. ThiB business has mado quite a market for our poultry. Schuyler Quill. Joseph Wanke, section boss at Silver Creek, has opened up a large grocery store at that place. II. H. Hudson, his son-in-law, will conduct the business. Horace is a rustler find will undoubted ly make a success of the business. Clarks Chronicle. Mr. Bell's boiler and engine, which will furnish power to run hiB electric light dynamos, arrived Sunday and will soon be placed in position. The boiler will be used for the elevator during the day and to run the dynamo engine dur ing the night The engine is a beauty. David City Tribune. While the wife and aged mother of ex- Governor Dawes were out on the 17th, taking a ride their horse took fright, became unmanageable, overturning the carriage and throwing both occupants to the ground. On being taken to their home in Crete they were found to have sustained no serious injury, though badly bruised. . Mrs. Oehlbrich, who was convicted at the last term of court of selling liquor at Richland without a license, is. still in dnranco vile, being unable to pay her fine of 8100. She was only put in jail last Friday, Sheriff Kudrna having al lowed her to stay at his house part of the time and at Mat Becker's part, but that became monotonous and so he placed her behind the bars. Schuyler QuilL One of the features of election day in Fremont was the voting of Benjamin Reynolds. Talk about your old veterans, he is a very old veteran. He not only voted for Harrison in '40, but for Harri son in '36, and all the candidates back to and including Madison in 1813. He was born in 1792 and is now 96 years eld, and has taken part in every presidential campaign but three since the adoption of the constitution. He is still hale and clear in mind. So says the Fremont Tribune. Superintendent Bnrkett, of Seward county has placed Lena Webbeke, the little victim of last winier's blizzard, in the primary department of the C street school in Lincoln, where she is to re main during the winter, says the Gresh am Review. She is now able to walk quite well by means of her artificial limb. Mr. Bnrkett has loaned out 83,750 of the fund raised for her at 8 per cent interest on good real estate securi ty, and it is expected that the annual in come from this will support and edu cate her. A tragic scene occurred in Omaha at the Paxton hotel Saturday morning, by the shooting of Henry W. King, jr., by a woman who claimed to be his lawful wife. The story of the wrongs inflicted upon her by King is a long and sad one, and nothing is known of the woman in Omaha except what has been developed since the dramatic tragedy. She came to the Paxton hotel and registered as "Mrs. Henry King, Chicago, 111.," and in a short time thereafter sought an inter view with the young man, King, and at the ending of that meeting the shooting took place in the parlor of the hotel. She had learned before she shot King that he had a new wife, and that she was stopping with him at the Paxton hotel. Her victim, Henry W. King, jr., was a young man from Chicago who recently located in Omaha and was quite well known in connection with the new cloth ing house of Browning, King & Co. The friends of the young man deny that this woman is King's wife but say her name is Elizabeth M. Bechler, and formerly a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, where she now has friends living. King bears a good reputation aside from his compan ionship with women of the half world, his first wife being of that character, his second wife (the murderess), said to be.. He had been living with his third wife (a private marriage), but a short time. At last accounts she was so prostrated by the death of King that her life was dispaired of. The murderess was arrest ed and is in prison. She confesses to the deed and justifies it November 4th, 1881, Watson B. Smith, at the time .dirk of the U. S. district court, was murdered while passing out of his office in the government building at Omaha. All the particulars seem ed to point to murder, and the liquor element was charged with pro coring it, because Smith had been in open opposition .to the traffic for some time. A man named August Arndt was arrested charged with the crime but the proof was not regarded as conclusive. Geo. O'Connor of Melbourne, Australia, recently caught in the act of burglariz inf a warekouee than and who whila en doavoring to escape arrest was shot and , mortally wounded, confessed to a priest tne parncmiara oi ma past lire, and among all his crimes the one that both ered him most was the murder he had committed in Omaha. Further the Bee ays: "He described the building and gave the name of the victim, and told how he had been prowling around Oma ha for an opportunity to mike a steal. Finding the government building open, he crept up stairs, when he was sudden ly confronted by Colonel Smith, who was leaving the office, revolvor in hand. He at once grappled with him and wrested the. revolver away, but finding he could not escape he fired the fatal shot Wash ing his hands and secreting the revolver he made his way to the Union Pacific yard, where he hid in a box car on an outward bound train. Meeting with the usual reverses of a tramp, he at length reached San Francisco, where he learned his victim's name and then worked his way to Australia. There he continued his . career of crime until he met his death, and in making his confession he only stipulated that word should be sent to Omaha through a companion named Burke. Burke has not yet reach; ed this city, but the particulars found their way into the Glasgow Mail, which prints them with accuracy of detail re garding Omaha that loaves no doubt as to their genuineness." Waanlngton Letter. From oar regular cornspontlent. The presidency, the senate and the house of repaesentatives, all won in one day, gives republicans the right to be proud of their party, its principles and its achievements. If our democratic friends object to the great jubilee now taking place all over the conntry, they must keep themselves out of hearing for some time to come. No person who has not lived in Washington under Cleve land's administration and seen tlie I-have-coiue-to-stay and the-government-belongs-to-us style affected by the aver age democratic office-holder can form any idea of the great joy felt here by the republicans over the great republican victory. Republicans meet each other on the street aud with clasped hands thank God that the democratic night mare will soon be over. Much amusement has been created here by the circulation of thousands of tickets, gotten up in the usual form of a railroad ticket with coupon attached. The main body of the ticket is as follows: "Grand popular excursion of the demo cratic party, up Salt River, March 4, 1889, on the English built steamer, "Free Trade," Grover Cleveland master, Dan Lamont mate, Lord Sackville pilot, Trotter steward. Don't miss this popu lar excursion all your fellow democrats will be on board. Committee on ar rangements, Barnum, Gorman and Brice. Eugene Higgins passenger agent For state rooms apply to the civil service commission." At one end is a coupon reading: "No return checks given to moss-back democrats. By order of the American people. N. B. Tho holder of this coupon, after a lapse of one year, if vouched for by three bona fide republi cans, may be taken into the republican party and given a chance to reform." At the othor end of the ticket are two coupons, tlte first being: "Good for one dish of crow, served to order, with red bandana napkin," and the second, "Good for thirteen democratic drinks (one pint each) of Georgia mountain dew or Ken tucky Bourbon (Moonshine) whiskey." It is doubtful if there is a democratic office-holder in Washington who has not received one of these tickots from some republican friend. They were gotten up and printed by the Republic, a republi can newspaper of this city. Tho same paper also issued a card with heavy black border surrounding the words, "In Memoriam, Free Trade, Died November 6th, 1888." There is a report that an extra session of the Fifty-first congress will be called immediately after the fourth of March. Just how much ground there is for the rnnior I cannot say probably very little, but at any rate it has caused the organi zation of the next house to be talked about The contest for the siieakership will probably be between Reed of Maine, and McKinley of Ohio, with Cannon, Burrows and several others looming up as dark horses. Most persons here seem to think, at this time, that McKinley, owing greatly to his action at the Chica go convention this year, will have an easy walk over. But in taking their opinions it must lie kept in mind that the people expressing them are not the ones who will nominate and select the speaker of the Fifty-first congress. Everybody argues that Hon. Edward McPherson, who is entitled to great credit for his shrewd and able manage ment of the republican congressional committee in the campaign just past, will resume his old position as clerk of the house, under the new organization. For the other prominent positions, doorkeep er, sergeant-at-arms and postmaster, no particular favorites seem to have the lead so far. Next Thursday the daughter of Secre tary Endicott is to be married in this city to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, who represented the English government during the negotiation of the rejected fisheries treaty. Whether Lord Sack ville, who is still here, will receive an invitation, and if he does whether he will care to attend are questions that are greatly agitating the snobocracy of Washington. Senator Quay will this week remove the headquarters of the republican na tional committee from New York to this city. Local republicans have already taken the preliminary stops toward the inaug uration ceremonies. It is probable that a building will have to be erected for the inaugural ball. For Garfield's and Cleveland's inaugurations there were new government buildings near enough completed to be utilized, the first being the national museum and the latter the Pension office. W1T3 GO WOOL GATHERING. Miadadaeaeof Bawlaai Wlirn They Loach Pews Town. "Do you know that many business men are half crazy when they enter a restau rant i.t noon for lunch or dinner?" This was said to a reporter by the owner of a well known restaurant, who continued: "Their minds are not upon what they are doing; their brains 'are busy aa can be figuring and planning. Their bodies left their counting rooms, but their beads re mained. They, aa a rule, eat hurriedly. and any number ot taem do ao leally. IaWTeeeemthemdetfce tni mm liwffll. 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SPEICE & STOKTH, General Agents for the sale of ZESIEIL ESTATE! Union Paeiic and Midland Pacific It. R. Ijinda for aalo at from f3.00 to S 10.00 per acra for cast or oa five or taa yeara time, in """' paymenta to suit purchasers. We havo alo a loqp and choio lot of other laada. improved and unimproved, fur sale at low price and on reasonable terma. Alet fcf in l iiinr infai in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real eatate it Platte CooBty. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. " that one will throw down one cent at tbc cashier's desk with a sevonty-nve cetfl or fifty cent check, and wait for a minute or two for the change. And these are sharp, shrewd, calculating business men, who, if you entered their places of busi ness, you would find alert enough, and who would never make a mistake in giv ing out or receiving money. "They show their mental abstraction in various ways. One will come in, and with deliberation place his hat beneath his chair, yet when he has done eating he will rush to the rack, and, seizing some body else's hat, go out, probably not dis covering his error for a day or two. It is a positive fact that not long ago a man withaTf head wore out of my place a 6J hat, which would scarcely stay on the top of his head. Nor did he discover his mistake until he reached his office. "One day a man stepped up to my desk and complained that ho had lost his hat, a very fine one which had cost him $7 or f8. His hat had been stolen, he charged, and he was excited and angry. Would you believe it? It was he who had stolen one. I discovered a few minutes later that two days before ho bad taken the hat of an other, leaving his own. The one he took was of the same material, but had been worn an entire season, being greasy and soiled; still, he wore it without discover ing the fact until tho time ho made the complaint, although his own hat was a fine, brand new one. "It is truly odd how men will behave about hats. Frequently ono will come holding one in his hand and tell me he did not wear that when he came in. I look at the faces of these, and if they have but just been shaved, tell them they made the exchange at the barber's and did not dis cover their error until they came in here One man made a great ado because, as he said, some one had carried off his hat. when investigation showed that he had worn another man's hat to tho restaurant, picking it up as he left the office, but not detecting it until he had eaten. Going out to eat at noon is not an Interval of rest to most business men, because there is no rest. They must supply thu wants of their inner man, but they do it without any rest of the brain. Their occupation is before them all the while, as their far away looks show. They say and do things In the most mechanical manner, and will skip from twenty-four to forty -eight hours in their computations. A level headed man of business insisted up and down, while holding his own hat in his hand a nice silk one that it did not belong to him. He knew what he had worn down town it was a white ono, he declared. He probably had done so the day before, but would not be convinced of his error until the name on the inside of the inner band revealed it to him. A man picks up a heap of human nature in our business, because all sorts of things occur, particu larly at the noon rush, when men do some of the most absurd things in the world, and are often most unreasonable because of their self absorption." Chicago Herald. Tarring aad Feathering. Philologists have long observed that many words popularly known as "Amer icanisms'' are really good old Eng lish terms brought over by the Pilgrim Fathers, the early settlers on the James, cte., and retained here when forgotten in the country of their birth. Similarly, not a few Dutch words boss, boodle, etc. brought over by the early settlers of New Amsterdam, have spread from their original American habitat, till they have become part of our speech. It is not less interesting to note that certain customs, forgotten in their home land, but re tained here, and, therefore, characterized as "American," are really importations from Europe. Not one of these customs has been re garded aa more distinctively "Yankee" than the venerable one of "tarring and feathering,' and yet we learn from the "Annales Berum Angllearum" of the ven erable English historian Hoveden (living m the Thirteenth century and court chap lain to Henry nf) that the custom is at least aa old aa the time of Richard the' lion Hearted. He tells that Richard, on ettmg out on the third crusade, made sundry enactments for the regulation of Ue lest, one of which was that "A robber who shall be convicted of theft shall have his head cropped after the fashion of a champion, and boiling pitch shall be poured thereon, and the feathers of a cushion abau be anaken out on him, so thai he may be known, and at the first land at which the ship shall touch he hall be set on.ehore." Whether the custom wee earlier than this we have no means of determining. It is at leant close on to TOO years old American Notes and Queries. GapL Rogers, of the Monrovia, nays: "Ifem what I have seen of the cokminta in Liberia I believe their chances fer.amc- iaelfr.ajcpod Mlhfywnlatto 'M . the fretptent and ftnninf triu to. the Htore with a. Mill nrrnUI .. u-.irlr m...:.....:i h . . m' tiitr jmjurui ami annMK iripi la the Htore with a. and warrnted to work natifacnrilr.. Call and ne eiRLINI STOVES AND. RANGES ALWAYS FOK SALKAT & SCIfnIZS. 44-'.!t :A the south. It is true that the African fever, in, many cases, renders them in capable to work for awhile, but when they become thoroughly acclimated they find no difficulty in making a living. A large proportion of them are prosperous ana are hoarding up considerable wealth." Mrs. M. B. Merrimmn, a white mission ary, differs materially from Capt. Sogers and is bitter in her denunciation of the cruel manner in which the negro colonists are treated. She said: "I have been among the negroes of the south, and I have seen them at their worst. I have been among the natives of Africa for years as a missionary, but never have I witnessed such abject poverty, squalor and wretchedness as prevails among taa negro colonists in Liberia. It is true that the colonization society furnishes then with laad to work and keeps them in food fox six months from their arrival. But what does it avail them? They are there scarcely a month when they are stricken down with African farar. Borne of taem surme it, out m maw cases it means death. When tanm who cat well abtetOffotowQzmwfBdfhat their al lotted time of aafpsct by the society has expired and they ax paupers. Thu is not always the ease. While not one has ever yet bean an to escape the fever, some of tkam, w"k possess un usually good Camwimmm, get wall and become quite fcoafanw. To taa proa perous the paupata laak far their su baUt ence." Joe Hawaii t Beaton Gloea French physicians are 'reporting great success with the prompt internal use of an antiseptic in cases of typhoid fever. After disinfection of tho Intestines, ac cording to this method, the disease runs a short course. Arkansaw Traveler. The diamond fallen into the dirt Is not the less precious, and the dust raised by high winds to heaven is not the less vile and distressing. Persian Proverb- SIDEWALK NOT1CK. ; iVWtvif. tr tho in.il nr anil rrinncil nf t. i-ltv of (ViInmtiiiH. That the hidrwollc uhuttiue th lota hereinafter namil and dittcribed, be and th name are horthjr ordered to be repaired, towit: Eart i ft lot 2 block 111, owner Thou. Farrell; ent Al ft lot S block 11S, owner 1. Mclnr; west 2 ft lot 2 block IIS. owner M. K. Turner; lots 21. r- 'Si, it, bhick It Columbia Square, owner P. J. i&hmitz; went ' lot t block It I. owner Jacob KrnBt; lot 1 block A Columbia Kiiunre, owner 1. tieer; lot 2 Mock 111, owner W. Al. Corneliiit; lotn 1 ami 2 block 112. owner J. H. Keivenbrock; lot s and 4 block 112. owner .Michael Dinneen; lot .r. block U7, owner F. V. Iteimer; lot 4 block Irttf, owner ('has. II. Wheeler: lot 5 block MS. owner Alary liremer; lot 1 block (J Columbia Sjuare. owner lnul Hopieu; Court Houno Siian. uittt and mmth Hide; lot 1 block ', own er U. I. It Co.; part lot 8 block to, owner U. V. KyCo.; part lot block 82, owner Simon I teed; lot H block &, oner John Hammond; went i lot 4 block 8rt, owner 1. (thick: lotH 1, 2, 3 and east M oft, block Mi, owners J. L. Sturgeon, E. A. Uerrard, Aim. Wermnth; lot 4 and west V, lot 3 block 84, owners Anderson A ltoen; lot 1 blocaV 84, owners lioettcher Jc Kersenbrock; lots 5 and ti block SI owner Alillett estate; lot 3 block U. Steven Addition, owner John Herat; lot I block 1J Stevens Addition, owner James Flynn: lot I block 13, Stevens Addition, owner Theo. Fried hof; lota 3 and 4 block 14 Stevens Addition, owner K. II. Fanble; lot 5 block 52, Fresh) terian church; lots 7 and 8 block It Stevens Addition, owner Lydia C. Crites; Iota 7 and 8 block 3 Ste vens Addition, owner Cecelia Stillman; middle 22 ft lot 2 block 57, owner 8. A. Honesteel; north !i lot 1 block 31 Stevens Addition, owner Mary L. Brindley; south J lot 1 block 31 Stevens Ad dition, owner Alary E. Moore; lot 1 block 15 Ste vens Addition, owner Alary Lamb: lut 8 block 51, owner Joseph Wells; lots 3 and 4 block 58, owner' James G. Alegeath: lots 1, 2 and 3 block 8t,owaer Jonas Welch, Jaeioci Sc Schnpbach. Hesolvrtl, That the foregoing be published on week in the Columlcs JocnxiL. Jaxkh K. North. Attest : G cs Fa lb im. Mavor. City Clerk. It NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS FOR BUILD- iNG.crry waterworks. 'Notice ia hereby riven that the city coaacil of the city of Columbus, Platte county, Nebraska, will receive sealed bids orjpropoeala for rstaiatu init the required material! aad doing the work necessary thereto, iu altering the present dis tribution )Htem of the waterworks of said city., and also for the extension of said distribution system. The alterations to be made require about 7104 feet of 4 inch pipe to be taken up and new inch pipe laid in lieu thereof the 4 inch pipe so taken up will be laid in the extension of said s j stern: the extension aggregates about 13.050 feet. Bids must be for furnishing all th material less such as is taken up and most in clude all the work. Such sealed bids or propo sals will received until (5 o'clock p. m. December 3d. 1888. Plans and specifications for said work ran be seen in the office of the clerk of said city. Said city council reserve the right to reject any and all bids. J. E. MohTB, Afayor. Gus. Fi.BAUM, Clerk. Oet.29,1888. ... 31oct5t PROBATE NOTICE. In the matter of the estate of Anna Baamana, deceased. Notice is hereby given, that the creditors of the said deceased will meet the executor of said estate before me, county jndge of Platte coanty. Nebraska, at the county court room in said county, on the 10th day of Janaary. 1889. on the Utb day of Alarch, 188V. and on the 10th day of Afay. 1&. at 10 o'clock a, a. each day, for the purpose of iimmntina thrirrlninw for examina tion. adjnstJne at and allow oa. Six month tirr nllmrrrrl fnr rmriltnrs tn nraamit thair rlslmn and one year for the executor to settle said eatate from the 10th day of Npvember. 1888. Dated November 15, A. D., 1868. H.J. Hcsaoif, Zlnovit . CeaatyJadea. . . are-" .r HOW, . rniimiTjiaaEMeq3iSag: r,5Sk.TiSSffiC