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All commanications, to secure attention, mast l accompanied by the fall name of the writer. We rTre the right to reject any manuscript. HuJctonot agree to return the same. We desire n rorrmponaenc in every scnooi-auHuct Platte county, one of good judgment, and re liable in every way. Write plainly, each item separately. Give as facta. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBEK 5. 1888. -WH.MAM, king of Netherlands, is said . -to be the richest monarch in the world. President Diaz of Mexico took the oath of office Saturday as president for his third term. . Willie, the sixteen-years-old son of G. C. McCanley of Humbolt county, la., was drowned Saturday while skating on the Des Moines river at Waterloo. The governor of Maryland has issued certificates of election as congressmen from "that state to four democrats and two republicans. Ox the morning of the 30th ult, at St. Louis, the warehouse of Meyer Bros. & Co., wholesale druggists, was damaged by fire to the extent of 30,000. The steamer, Gulf Stream, which re cently sailed from Charleston, S. Cv has not been heard from. The steamer was commanded by Capt. Tribon. Up to the 29th ult, no particulars could be learned of it. The official vote of Oregon has been completed. " Harrison's vote 334293; Cleveland's 26,524; Fisk 1,677; Streeter 363; scattering 61. The total vote of the state was 61,918. Harrison's plurality 6,769. Sukoeon Simon of the United States steamer Boston, died in New York on the night of the 26th ult of yellow fever. Two other patients are steadily improv ing and the remainder of the ship's com pany are in good health. A fire occurred at -the Broughton acid works, located near Titusville, Pa., on the 30th ult, and owned by the American chemical and manufacturing company of Cleveland, Ohio, and burn ' ed about 375,000 worth of property. I. V. Williamson, a merchant of Philadelphia, has given $12,000,000 for establishing a school for boys "a free school of mechanic trades." This is in the right vein. There is a vast amount of humbug in the ordinary school system. TnE Kearney Hub wants to know: "if it is a fact that this campaign was fought out on the Manderson issue, is it also a fact that the United-States-Mar-shal-Brad-SIaughter issue was also de cided? Or did that follow as a matter of course?'' Mart Connel, of New York, aged forty-two, fell or was thrown from a fire escape, and was instantly killed during a general fight which followed a Thanks giving orgio among a number of her relatives and friends. Two men have !een arrested. Mrs. Ellen Ewikg Sherman, wife of Gen. W. T. Sherman, died at her resi dence N. Y. city, Nov. 28th, 9:30 a. m. For tho past five years she had been complaining of a cardiac affection. About threo weeks before her death se rious symptoms began to develop. At a tiro in the village of Lerable, HL, on the 29th ult, an old man named Van- derpool was fatally burned by the ex plosion of a lamp. A man named Adams, who endeavored to save him, was also badly injured. The business portion of the village was destroyed, entailing a loss of $20,000. Here is the longest correct sentence of "thats" that we have ever seen: "I as sert that that, that that 'that,' that that that that person told mo contained, im plied, has been misunderstood." It is a string of nine "thats" which may be easily "parsed" by a bright pupil. Journal of Education. During Thanksgiving celebration by - the Hudson guards at Manhattan Park, tho explosion of a can of powder caused severe injuries to several men, and re sulted in a fire which destroyed the shooting pavillion. Louis Mudhauk was badly wounded by the accidental dis charge of a musket A general big rain storm prevailed in Arizona last week, lasting for over sixty hours. The rain seemed to be general all over Sonora, Mexico and Arizona, which is an unusual occurrence. It came from the south, starting at the gulf, and continued north. Stockmen predict one of the earliest springs ever had. During ,the recent storm the se& were mountainous and vessels could not be controlledand at noon on the 26th of November, L. Francous, the carpen ter, -was swept overboard from the French steamer, Panama, and drowned. The Philadelphia collier, Allentown, during the storm went to the bottom of the ocean. '. A dispatch from Little Bock, Ark-, says Postoffice Inspectors Nelson and Pettigrew arrested on the 30th ult, J. H. Snowden, deputy postmaster at Center Bidge, for systematically robbing the mailn. His peculations run back several months, and amount to $14200. Snow den is a doctor, minister and the leading merchant The supreme court at Charleston, W. Va on the 28th refused the attorneys for Flemming, the democratic candidate for governor, a writ prohibiting the county court .from counting Lewiston precinct, in which, it was said, the elec tion officers were not sworn according to law. This decision .was one that was not expected by the democrats, and in consequence the republicans claim they have gained an important step in the re count of the county. ladleatlea. Some of the democratic newspapers aay since the election that the republi cans are still dissatisfied; "they now want the whole world." The indications are that they don't want the world, but they want quite a big slice of it, to give their citizens elbow room to cultivate their farms, attend to their cattle, horses, hogs, sheep, cotton, sugar cane, sugar camps, manufactures, mechanical pur suits, room enough to run conveniently their great mining interests, to dig out their coal, and their silver and gold. They must have this room to prosper. They want no class legislation to pun ish political enemies. They want new states admitted when they have the con stitutional requisites and ask to be ad mitted, not to keep them out becauso they may happen to be democratic or republican or prohibition in their poli tics. When the thing is right they want it done immediately and without unreasonable delay, and also without quibbling. In the revision of the tariff laws they want no such review as will ultimately affect injuriously, the interests of any one of our citizens in the east, west, north and south engaged in these great American pursuits. The republicans have got what they want in the presi dent vice-president, senate and house of representatives, men of intelligence and good sense, and certainly their combined wisdom can furnish the country with a splendid revision of the tariff on the old argument that the rich men of the na tion are prepared to pay for what of the dainties and luxuries of life they may use. The republicans want all citizens taught to obey all the laws, while they exist As good a way to do this is to faithfully see that all government laws are executed. If the civil service law, for instance, cannot be executed there publicans want it repealed immediately. The government got along very well be fore the law was passed. The republicans want other things, but no time to enumerate. It seems to be generally thought that the prohibition amendment will be sub mitted to a vote of the people of Nebras ka by the incoming legislature, to be voted upon, of course, at the election of representatives in 1890. Sentiment is greatly divided as to what the result will be, the liquor dealers fearing, the prohibitionists hopeful. In the two years or nearly so before the campaign, there will be time abundant for the voters to -study the question in all its bearings, and it will be such a contest as the state has not yet seen in her political history, for doubtless the best available talent on both sides, from every quarter, will be brought into requisition. What ever the result, we believe that the ques tion (like that of woman suffrage some years ago) will subside for a term of years. If it should happen that prohi bition prevails, we think it will be due, in great part, to the belief of voters that the saloons are not so observant as they should be of the just provisions of the Slocumb law. There is no question, whatever, that there is a sentiment grow ing rapidly against saloons, a sentiment confined by no means to prohibitionists or so-called temperance men, or even temperate men. There are those who are fond of their drink, who are thinking that there is no necessity for the saloon, especially were it does not acknowledge amenity to law, and is every day doing violence to it, in one way and another. The truth is that if tho Slocumb law was enforced strictly, there would be third-party movement in Nebraska. no Buck Taylor, who has the care of the Buffalo Bill horses and live stock generally out at General Seal's stock farm, was in town yesterday, wearing his favorite sombrero and an immense fur lined overcoat that he had presented to him by some admirers in Manchester, England. "I wish" said he, "there was some way to stop the report that I am married. I have been receiving litters of congratulations for more than a month from all over America and portions of Europe and am getting tired of it The report was first started in a Baltimore paper while we were playing at the Bid ing Park down by Alexandria, and the statement was made in such a matter-of-fact plausible manner that everybody supposed it was true. There was not the slightest grain of truth in the piece. I have not been married, am not married now and don't expect to marry at least not before spring." Washington Post The Lincoln correspondents of the various newspapers tnat maintain bu reaus in the capital city, all insist that there is a good deal of real opposition to the election of Manderson to succeed himself. It mostly arrises from the fact that the senator is presumed to have some patronage to bestow as soon as Harrison gets in. For once in his life Mr. Manderson is a civil service reform er. Besides the dissatisfaction with the probable distribution of the spoils, Man derson's opposition to submission cuts some figure. Omaha Herald. The high license law in Pennsylvania has cut down the number of saloons in Philadelphia from 6,000 to 1,300, and effected in five months a decrease of sixty two per cent in the number of commit ments to the county prison. An absolute ly prohibitory law might close all the saloons, but it never stops all the drink iu,j, and we doubt if such a law in a city like Philadelphia would show equally satisfactory results. Nor would it add anything to the public revenues. Washington Post Scovtlle & Crafts, the Valparaiso bankers who skipped out the other day, got away with about $100,000 of other people's hard-earned money. They had various ways of defrauding. They bought all the land they could get, on individual notes, and they mortgaged it for all the money they could get upon it; they forged mortgages on land they never owned, and borrowed money on the same, all the papers being forged. NEBRASKA NOTES. Fremont's new opera house is to be opened December 10 with John Dillon in "Skyscraper." L. Johnson, night yardmaster at Mc Oook, while switching on the night of the 26th ult, was run over and instantly killed. The eleventh annual fair of the Colfax county agricultural society will be held at Schuyler, Neb, September 18, 19 and to be dying. Yesterday morning he suf 20, 1889. fend less, but his mind wandered, and The Omaha .post office told $19,000 worth of stamps in November and handled $200,000 through the money order department . The ladies aid society of the 1L E. church, at Osceola, had a grand Thanks giving dinner and donation on Thursday last, for the benefit of Mother Stevens, and they cleared over $50. Herbert Powers, of Schuyler, was in town Monday with a load of sorghum of his own manufacture.- The sorghum be ing of a very fine quality, Mr. Powers found but little difficulty in disposing of his load. Howells Journal. John Craig bought a sow of George Schuessler of Rogers, which afterwards had a litter of pigs. One of the pigs had eyes like an owl, and its nose was a proboscis like an elephant's trunk. It lived but a short time. Sun. Monroe Stewart who lives a short distance from Osceola, while fixing his water tank the other day, propped it several feet high, and his boy was play ing around it; a gust of wind came up and the tank blew over falling on the child, killing him instantly. At Crete the other night, the clothing store of J. A. Desk was broken into by burglars and a large quantity of valuable goods carried off. Mr. Desk is unable to tell the exact loss, but estimates it at several hundred dollars. The burglar or burglars have not yet been caught A somewhat notable wedding occur red recently at Hastings. Mr. William BattzeU, a venerable gentleman of years, was married to a miss of 28. The re markable feature in this marriage is the fact that it makes the young bride the step-mother of a daughter 54 years old. One hundred and sixteen patients (64 males, 52 females) are being treated at the Norfolk asylum for the insane. 80 percent are pronounced incurable. Of the 97 transferred from Lincoln 60 per cent had been insane from three to ten years. So says Dr. Kelly, superintend ent Peter Harmen, a gardner and old set tler of Nebraska City, tried to commit suicide on the morning of the 30th ult, by shooting himself twice, after deeding his property to his wife and his own children. The deed was caused by the action of his step-children. There is little hope of his recovery. The average yield of corn in Nebraska this year is fixed by the government statistician at thirty-six bushels per acre; potatoes at eighty bushels the latter being the largest since 1879. Wheat and flour are soaring upwards, but what's tho matter with baked po tatoes and corn pone? Fremont Trib une. On Friday night of last week Mrs. Clarence Brady and sister, Miss Gard, came near being suffocated from gas which escaped from the hard coal burn er while they were sleeping. Drs. Brady and Smith were summoned, and through skillful efforts were successful in resus citating them in due time. They had a narrow escape from death, however. Fullerton Post Some young fellow, his name we did not learn, shot a large wild cat on Shell Creek, on Sunday last, between the residences of C. Marohn and David Leg ler. He brought the skin of the animal into this city on Monday and sold the same to Fred Fraser. It was a large cat, probably the largest ever killed in this part of the state, and would not be a nice chap to meet It is a little surpris ing that wild animals like this should remain so long here, after the country is so thoroughly settled. Quill. Senator Paddock Tuesday of last week completed two important business transactions. One was leasing his new four-story hotel at Beatrice to Samuel B. Cressman, of Hazelton, Pa., an ex perienced hotel man, who will open the same about April 1. The other was sell ing to George F. Baker, trustee and president of the First National bank of New York city, 183 lots in his Fairview and Poddock additions, for $60,000, and five lots on the north part of the city, near Alemma Place, the senator's home. Henry Abart was a farmer and lived with his family, wife and three children, on his farm about five miles southwest of Schuyler. He was addicted to drink ing spells about three times a year. On Monday of last week, November 19th, Henry came to town and began one of his periodical sprees. (We say sprees, though in these spells he was quieter than when sober.) The last seen of him in town was about 2 o'clock of that day. The next heard of him was given in an item in last week's Sun wherein Mr. Emerson reported on Wednesday morn ing "that for two days he noticed an ob ject at a haystack west of town near the track, and on this morning walked over to satisfy himself. He found a man, a stranger to him, lying there with two jugs." The man was Henry Abart, and evidently he had laid out for the two nights previous, the temperature being considerably below freezing. On the afternoon of that Wednesday he reached home. On Friday morning he died from the effects of drink and exposure. On Saturday he was buried in Richland cemetery. This is a sermon within itself. Some reports are wont to intimate that troubles induced him to drink, but be that as it may his death will be attribut ed primarily to drink. Schuyler Sun. Mr. J. O. Fisher, proprietor of the Fisher Printing company, 1011 Farnam street; this city, was the victim of a vicious assault by Mat Biner, foreman of the press room Monday evening. Fisher's business has required him to put in a force of men on at night as well as days, and he appointed as foreman of the night gang a friend from Hastings. This did not in any way interfere with Biner's authority as day foreman, but he objected to Fisher's appointing the night force without consulting him first Biner has therefore been surly for a few days, and apparently getting a notion into his head that he was going to be discharged, he made up his mind to give Fisher a thrashing. At 8 o'clock Mon day night he went into the third story of the establishment and after a few angry words knocked Fisher down, and pro ceeded to beat him in a merciless man- ner. Biner is a powerfully built and athletic fellow and he inflicted some fearful bruises, continuing his assault until his employer was beaten into in sensibility. Biner then fled. Mr. Fisher was picked up bleeding and insensible and carried to his home at 2209 Douglas, where for several hours he was thought it is feared he has suffered a concussion ! of the brain. A later paragraph in the Bee of Sunday says it is expected Mr. Fisher will be able to attend to business in a few days. Patcats Grmated To citizens of Nebraska during the past week, and reported for this paper by C. A. Snow & Co., patent lawyers, opposite U. S. Patent office, Washington, D. C. M. A.T. Boehncke, Omaha, continuous brick kiln; F. Giffard, Omaha, letter box; Gas. Gilbert, Omaha, furnace; J. S. Shuck, Fullerton, draft equalizer. HARRISON AND THE SOOTH. A Letter to a Southern Man-What the Soatk Need. Greenville, S. C, Nov. 27. The Greenville Daily News today prints a letter recently received by its editor from General Harrison, and published by his permission. It was written in re ply to a letter urging that 'southern com mercial interests would be relieved from obstruction caused by doubts and fears regarding the southern policy of the coming administration if General Harri son would make some general assurances of his purpose to follow a conservative course towards the south. After stating that he was not ready to make any pub lic utterances on public questions, Gen eral Harrison said: ('I understand that you have yourself been satisfied with the expressions made by me in my public utterances to visiting delegations dnring the campaign. When the surprise and disappointment which some of your peo ple have felt over the result has passed away and they give the same calm thought to the situation, I think they will be as much surprised as I am that they should in thought or speech impute to me an unfriendliness toward the south. The policies in legislation advised by the republican party, I believe, are whole some for the whole country, and if those who in their hearts believe with us upon these questions would act with us, some other questions that give you local con cern would settle themselves." WashiBgtoa Letter. From our regular correspondent. Senator Quay has increased the enmity of all the democrats, and of a few namby pamby republicans because he has de cided to make a fight in the courts for the electoral vote of Virginia, which he believes honestly belongs to the repub licans. Senator Quay is actuated in this matter by a sense of duty. The vote of Virginia is not necessary, but if it belonges to the republicans, he desires that they shall have it. That's all there is about it, and good citizens every where should give him their moral sup port in his effort to secure an honest count of the vote cast in Virginia. Hon est men never fear the most rigid inves tigation, in the courts or elsewhere, of their actions. It is impossible to see Mr. Cleveland or any member of his cabinet just now, no matter how important your business is. They are all engaged in making up their reports for congress. These re ports will also, it is said, include a gen eral resume of the stewardship of the democratic administration, made up of course, from a strictly democratic stand point If they were to be made from a non-partisan view, showing how little the democrats have accomplished for the good of the country, and the great mis takes made, which have resulted in in jury in one way or another to the mani fold interests of the country, they would accomplish a result greatly to be desired the destruction of the democratic party. ' The democratic administration evi dently intends to wield the decapitation axe very lively during the snort time left to it. On Saturday Mr. C. W. Vick ery, superintendent of the third division, railway mail service, with headquarters in this city, was requested to resign in order that his place may be filled by a democrat Mr. Vickery has been in the mail service twenty-one years, and has long been known as one of the most ca pable officials connected with the service. He began as a clerk and won his promo tion by his efficiency. No charge of any kind has ever been brought against him. He was compelled to resign simply be cause he was a republican, and yet the democrats have the cheek to talk abont a non-partisan civil service under Gen. Harrison. Vice-President-elect Morton surprised his many friends in this city by paying us an entirely unheralded visit last week. While here he was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Hobson. His purpose in coming here was to take a look at an immense apartment house he is having built in this city. He refused to talk about the probable policy of the coming administration to the newspaper report ers, but to his intimate friends he showed no such reticence. He 6ays that no date has yet been fixed for the visit of himself and Mrs. Morton to Gen. and Mrs. Harrison at Indianapolis, but in tends that they go at an early date. He does not think that he will take a house in this city until next winter, though he expects to remain here a month or so after the inauguration. Lord Sackvilleand his daughters have gone. The other members of Cleve land's cabinet, by showering social at tentions upon them during the last days of their stay here, evidently tried to make amends for the harsh treatment received at the hands of Secretary Bayard and Mr. Cleveland. A few democrats here still claim to have carried the next house of repre sentatives, and some of the wildest sort even talk about organizing a democratic house anyway. This sort of talk may do very well for bar rooms, but no sensible democrat and there are some will have anything to do with any such fool ishness. The next house wul be repub lican. No republican has ever blackguarded Cleveland to the extent indulged in by the returning democratic congressmen. They have absolutely no pity on birnnd are not willing to allow that he has even a single redeeming point in his entire makeup. Congressmen are slowly straggling in, but the rush will not begin until after Thanksgiving day. They prefer to eat their turkey at home. Cabinet speculation continues to be the popular pastime here. Now that about every available name has been mentioned the knowalls are somewhat at a loss, but they kill time by rearrang ing the names. Organizations desiring to come to Harrison's inauguration, may, by writing to the inaugural committee obtain the needful information about accommoda tions,prices, eta Indications now point to the greatest display ever seen at a similar event Washington is prepared to entertain a quarter of a million of visitors. Gen. Harrison's proposed visit to this city is off, he having decided not to come here before his inauguration. Republi cans here are much disappointed. The Journal' Colorado Vorrcsp'indeace. Mrs. Dr. Longshore Potts is delivering lectures in the west She remained in Denver one week. Her meetings were held at the First Congregational church, and were well patronized by the best people of our city. I have not seen or heard anything of her son, Emerson, for nearly three years. Miss Lucie B. Sampson is still pur suing her musical studies at La Sell seminary, near Boston. Mrs. A. W. Chamberlin nee Gretta Sampson, writes from Paris under date of November 5th, that she and her hus band are having a magnificent time in that splendid city; that Sundays there are the busiest and liveliest days of the week, while the reverse is the case in London; that the streets are so wide in Paris, that the pedestrians, equestrians, and carriages have their places by which they travel, and keep them too; that ladies travel the streets bareheaded, and meals are served on the sidewalk; that the Parisians of the lower strata of so ciety frequently hiss Americans, when they drive along the streets. To digress a little, it seems to me from accounts that the French republic rests on a very precarious foundation. Your correspondent a few days ago, met Reverend Myron Reed at the Turkish baths. He then stated that after Gen. Harrison had had a chance to catch breath, he intended to write him, and ask him what he meant by the phrase "students of maxims not mar kets." Tho doctor stated, in the same conversation, that when he was a Pres byterian pastor in Indianapolis for seven years, the general was a( deacon in his church. Mr. Reed is now officiating for the First Congregationalist society in Denver at an annual salary of $5,000. He is worth every cent He predicts that the coming presidential term will be a stormy one. This reverend gentle man with other local clergymen, have recently visited our variety theaters. Ed Chase gave them the use of his box at the Palace, where thoy could sit, wateh the male and female Philistines and drink mineral water. This place furnishes two or three homicides a year, besides many other criminals. One of our city aldermen, Hon. John G. McGilvray, is making it lively for some of tho gambling and variety theater dens. An alderman under our city charter, has the authority of a po liceman to make arrests, etc. This al derman made one arrest and a police man arrested him, bnt the alderman came out ahead at the trial Mr. Mc Gilvray contends that some of the officials are on the side of the crooks. Thus your readers will see that we have many things here to keep up the inter est and excitement J. E. Munger is now in the city. Mrs. M.'s father recently died at Kearney, and they were back there several months on that account Miss Teller, a cousin of Senator Teller, is stopping at their house. Jim says that he has good luck in getting off coffins. I see John S. Henrich on the streets occasionally. He says it takes more effort than it did a year ago to sell real estate, particularly outside property. E. R Dean says that he intends to visit his family at David City, about the last of this month. I can get no track of Charlie Coan and George Schrani, but will keep in quiring, and let their friends know through your columns about them, at the first opportunity. During the last three months your correspondent has met frequently Geo. Pendleton, cousin of J. H. Reed, who lives near Columbus, but who is at present in Europe. The weather is very fine. Business is somewhat dull, but we are all in hopes that it may be revived shortly. I am a little curious to know how that conven tion which met in Columbus recently resolved to change, or amend the town ship laws. It strikes me that it would have been better to have had such mat ters discussed and canvassed prior to the election, for it is an impossibility for a meeting coming together without its members having investigated the sub ject to do it justice. Still some good may be accomplished. Let us hope so. A little of something wholesome is bet ter than nothing. However, I am afraid that the coming senatorial elec tion will occupy the best part of the ap proaching legislative session. Byron Millet t. Denver, Nov. 24th, 1888. RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD SETTLER. BT IXGOMAR. The settlement of Nebraska began im mediately after the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas bill, propelling upon the country the doctrine of squatter sovereignty, which was Senator Doug lass's bid for the presidency. In the spring of 1851 officers for the territory were appointed, and soon arrived, Fran cis Burt of South Carolina was appoint ed governor. The only settlement in Nebraskawas at Bellevue where therewas an Indian mission under the care of the Presbyterians, and Peter A. Sarpy's trading post. The Council Bluffs and Omaha Ferry Co. had a steam ferry across the Missouri river, and had claim ed and laid out the city of Omaha. Upon the arrival of the governor he had taken up bis residence at tne Mission nouse in Bellevue and would probably have identified himself with, and called the first legislature to assemble at Bellevue, but he was taken sick and died a few weeks after his arrival. Thomas B. Cuming, of Iowa, had been appointed secretary of the territory as a reward for the good work he had done for the party as editor of a newspaper. He was a short man of dark complex ion with a piercing black eye and a great deal of firmness and decision of charac ter. Upon the death of the governor he became acting governor, and it devolved upon him to set the machinery of gov ernment in motion. The people of Bellevue wanted their town to be the seat of government of the territory, and had the governor lived it is probable that the first legislature would have been held there. Cuming, howsrsr, had identified himself with the Omaha com pany, and shortly after the death of the governor he issued his proclamation or ganizing the territory, and dividing the eastern part of it into counties, and or dering elections held for county officers and for councilmen and representatives for the first session of the legislature, to be held at Omaha City. A number of the counties had no population, and a number of persons in Iowa and Missouri, who were desirous of being members of the legislature, went over into those counties, pitched tents and went through the formality of holding elections, and then returned home, re-appearing on the scene when the legislature assem bled. The Omaha company had, during the season, erected a small brick two story building near the lower end of Farnam street, where the legislature met When they assembled, about half of them were non-residents, and were an angry and turbulent set of men. Many or them displeased that Omaha was made the seat of government armed to the teeth, and it seemed as though a conflict was imminent That this did not occur was largely due to the won derful executive ability of Governor Cuming. The first marshal of the ter ritory was Mark W. Izard of Arkansas, who was appointed governor after the death of Governor Burt He was a large man over six foot high, weighing probably over 250 pounds, and came from a plantation in the cane brakes of Arkansas,' where he was a planter and also a preacher. He had a heavy and stolid expression of conntenance, and he looked and acted like a backwoods preacher. He "stood in" with theOmaha people during his term, and could al ways be relied upon to come up smiling with a veto, when any unfriendly legis lation was passed, which devotion was doubtless well rewarded by the compa ny, whose "fat was fried out" in numer ous emergencies. When Governor W. A. Richardson, who long represented the Quincy, HL, district in congress, got out of a job, Izard was advised to resign to allow him to take his place. He then went back to his plantation in Arkansas, and while the civil war was in progress the First Nebraska regiment visited his plantation and confiscated all the mules the ex-Governor had, and the last the boys saw of him as they were disappear ing down the road, he was standing in his door, sadly gazing at the retreating forms of the mules he was soon to see no more forever, "and he too seemed to say farewell. Brother Crawford." Izard's successor in the marshal's office was Marshall Doyle of South Carolina, who shortly after his arrival fell off the steps of tho Merchant's Exchange building and died in conseqoenca of injuries re ceived. The office thus made vacant was filled by the appointment of Dr. B. P. Rankin, whose ear was always listening for a call from the people to represent them in congress, which never came, and who is now raising grapes and practicing law in California. He was succeeded by Capt. Wm. E. Moore, a pioneer in Oma ha, who when the war came went back to Arkansas, and held important com mand in the Confederate army. Many of the early settlers were some what criminal in their habits. The wri ter made the acquaintance soon after his arrival in Nebraska of a young man of fine appearance, who had enjoyed fine academic as well as legal training, and who at that time was a brilliant young man, but addicted to the flowing bowl. Dissipation began to show its effects, his face was bloated and his speech maudlin. His decline was rapid and the snow of Christmas night lay upon the grave of the young man, who in the early sum mer, had been a splendid specimen of physical manhood and occupied the re sponsible position of prosecuting attor of his county. Laik, Wyoming. From the Herald. E. Johnson reports business excellent. He and Antone are kept busy attending to the wants of customers. The first load of copper ore to be shipped from Lusk arrived from Musk rat canon Tuesday, and several more strings of freight wagons have arrived each day since. This is the commence ment of a great business, which will be of wonderful benefit to Lusk. The ore will be shipped to Pittsburg. A few weeks ago an expert assayed ore from the cliff at Lusk and said there was more silver in the rock that had- been thrown away than the mill had ever got from the best ore. Another party is now here from Chicago trying to lease Musk rat mines and buy the amalgamating mill here, with the idea of changing it to a smelter. Other L'oaatrie. The Queen has confirmed the appoint ment of Mr. Monroe, assistant police commissioner to succeed Sir Charles Warren as chief of the Metropolitan police. The village of Vancourt, in France, was totally destroyed by fire the other day. Thousands of people were left without homes and shelter. Hertenstein, president of Switzerland, who underwent amputation of his right leg last week because of diseased ar teries, has since died. It has been learned at Dublin that the murder of Farmer Delaney, near Kilken ny, was the result of a family feud, and had no agrarian significance whatever. General Boulanger resigns his seat in the chamber of deputies at Paris, to which he was elected. t$tttftute. In this department the people talk, and not thff editor. Each writer moat hold himHf ready to defend his principles aad his statements of facts. "In the multitude of counsel there is wisdom." Ed. Jodbsal.! Ed. JocbkaIi: Your article in regard to the poor farm seems to call for a little criticism. In the first place, then, I claim that the question was improperly submitted and therefore void; and in the second place, there was not the requisite majority to make it valid. Page 292, Revised Statutes of 1887. reads as fol lows: "When the question submitted involves the borrowing or expenditure of money, etc., the proposition of the ques tion must be accompanied by a provis ion to levy a tax annually for the pay ment of interest if any and no vote adopting the question proposed shall be valid unless it likewise adopt the amount of tax to be levied to meet tkm liability incurred." ERNST & SCHWARZ, -MANUKACTUBKK8ANDDKALM8IN- BBsTZav .Brm iiHIIH HsBIIIIIIIsTbIi. w "M .sUHri nV. lsHllsBili' H BBBBsV'i m LbHHIIIIIIUBH v ns SUPERB LAMP FILLER: AND GOAL OIL urksi. ,K.a.r .....-,.-.:,. . -.i..ni:. .... suBplatpnnciple in plutom;,hyanu takes the rank above all Umo HII K liSISSJ plosions. AUolute.UtyKU.inuitwU. No spMinK, wasting or itoppiiwofoil n th-nKLLt? or outride or can. Ube it once and you willnot b without it for fvetm&J ftt-SL iJ00r! large cans as well as smill ono. thereby ainK the f rwnient and annoy in tripa tothe MaZ'miX -small can. Kwry cin tnvl of th Try boat tin. and warruted to work tUfactorily cSl . 25 ample can and tcotsricaa. icioniy. caiiand v ii iv, ai iMitro . i uu i vuicuw. vu'au.iursa "fslllllLffESBiiBlllllllllllllll Si3liwmi8R(B BAKER PERFECT STEEL BARB WIRE. - If you bay it yon got I0O rods of fence from 100 ponnds of wiro. which no other will do.- SPEICE & NOETH, General Agents for the tale of ISEl-A-Xd ESTATE! Union PMife aad Midland Pacific B. B. Landa for aale at from MM to $10.00 per acre for cart or oa Ire or taa years tune, in annaal payment tosnit purchasers. We have also a large and choist lot of other lands, improved aad unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Alst nyine aad residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real estate it Platte Coanty. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. " OMAHA MEAT MARKET! We have just opened a meat market on NEBICASKA AVENUE, where we will keep tho very, lntt of all kimltt of C POULTRY, ETC. We ask the people of Columbus to irivo us a share of their patronage, which we hope to deserve by lionettt denling and just scales. Please gi ve us a call. tioco-Mtr TURNER A Again, if it appears that two-thirds of the votes cast are in favor or the propo sition and the requirements of the law have been complied with, then thecounty board shall have power to proceed therein. Bnt, admitting that all tho proceed ings were legal, the plurality of votes was so small that I should consider it a doubtful policy to proceed with the matter at this time. I differ with yon in regard to the result if tho question had been submitted at a special election, as from my observations I am satisfied that a more decisive vote against the measure would have been reached, as in terest in regard to it was so completely overshadowed by the political oxcite- ment of the time. Under township or ganization each township luts the care of its own poor and they can thus be moro economically provided for than other wise, except where towns or villages are included in their limits, and I believe the cases are rare where toor farms have paid their expenses and they are very apt to become a rendezvous for tramps. Geo. S. Truman. Monroe, Dec. 1, 1888. I'eetrr la the Newspapers. There are comparatively few weekly papers in the country that pay for poetry. One can almost count them on one's fin gers. These papers require that contri butions shall reach a certain standard of excellence, and even then the poems must be "timely." It is singular that papers that pay nothing at all get very excellent work. I have known Doems rejected by the "pay" journals to date an almost worldwide reputation from their publication in the gratuitous col umn. The leading magazines pay good prices for poetry, but much that they publish is zar interior, as poetry, to tnat which ap pears in the weekly press at scantier rates. The most valued contributor sel dom gets more than three poems a year into tho magazines, and these, paid for, say, at the rate of 960 each, which is a good price, do not prove a bonanza. Writers of newspaper poetry fall into ruts, which, seemingly, unfit them for better work. One sees but seldom in the great magazines the names of poets who appear almost weekly elsewhere. The young writer, who has but a frail hold on the paying papers, finds that he sends in too much poetry, and too often; and when he has overcrowded one pigeon hole of tho editorial desk, his occupation languishes. Editors, as a rule, wul ac cept just so much of one author's work, and writers learn, by experience, that they must not milk the cow too of ten. T. C. Harbaugh in The Writer. Now Ceases tha Caalae Care. The eccentricities of the medical pro fession will never be exhausted. An American surgeon in his travels through Europe noticed that the peasants when hurt by splinters, thorns or other dan gerous substances would get their wounds licked by their dogs, and that they were speedily healed. Acting on this observation he carefully examined the tongue of the animals, and recoe- niaed the presence of a heating power of high degree. So convinced was he of the truth of his theories that he has opened a amine hospital near Zurich in Switzerland, where doss of various breads are utilized in licking; the wounds and nervous centers of the patients under vigilant medical control. Already wonderful cures have been reported, and if tne theories are successfully realized the canine cure may become the fashion able erase of the thousands of visitors to the sjtas of Europe. San Francisco Ctaonlcle. Frleadly "Do you read all your stories over in proof, Scribular?" asked Candidas. "Every one of them." "And get flO a column for theso? "TesA 'Two for the writing and eight fos reading the proof; I awppoaaT UuperV CAN COMBINED, .mu aim Diii'jrr.-fatniAi Ku u.uii. i . ... ..: i- -. ULaM ' STOVES AKD RANGES ALWAVSFOUSALEAT eiist i sanus ERNST fc SCHWARZ. 4-2t Ifaflee. Notice is hereby given that sealed proposal will be received at the office of the County Clerk of Matte county, Nebraska, until January ut 1S.O, for the following supplies, or so much thereof as may be needed, to wit: 12 ei;ht quire blank records. 14 'l.x quire blank records. i eight quire numerical indexes. 1 four uuire cash book. 1 three quire blank record. 2i) Justice dockets, a warrant fawks. It? xi bluuh tax receipts. 15,000 letter heads, printed. 8.WW note heads, printed. C.ooo CV; inch envelopes, printed. iti.om! Inch envelopes, printed. :,() in inch envelopes, printed. 18 reams legal cap paper. 1 ream bill paper. 23 quarts best writing fluid, bhick. 5 quarts best writing fluid, assorted colors. 6 quarts mucilage. 8 gross lead pencils, assorted. Va gross red and blue pencils. Ji gross green pencils. 'i gross common cedar pencils. zz gross steel pens. 1 gross cheap penholders. 7 doen good penholders. 15 gros assorted rubber bands. l,(oi gummed Reals. Ii,(j assorted blanks. 1 diwen safety ink wells. 1 warrant portfolio, "desk rules. 8 knife erasers. 2 dozen Faln-r's rubber erasers, two court wrappers. flat bead fasteners. 1 teachers' visiting record- 1 box crayons. 1.0IJO tl.it bead staple fasteners. i. yards vellum cloth. VI ards mouuted drawing paper. !! chattel Me. 7.1 road overseers' receipt Imoks. 7.r road overseers' records and returns. 7T road overseers' laws and Instructions. -"0 assehsors' Laws and Instructions. l,n road tax blanks. &) raid petitions, appraisements reports, etc. 2 dozen document tiles. 4do7en document eiivelies. 2loeu box flies 6 rubber st'iniiw. Shannon letter Me.s. 1 file case. I gross pins. l.no official bonds. I.o U official cert incites. 3i township warrant books. :", set election !ooks. J.OO) warrant blanks. IB 2 quire tax lists and duplicates. L' 4 quire tax lists and duplcates. I dweii spring map rollers. The Hoard of Supervisors reserve the rielit In reiect ony or all bids. Iiated. Columbus, Xebr. Dec. 1st. 1SKS. ," JoiinStaurfkr. 3 County Clerk. SHERIFFS SALE. By virtne of an order of sale directed to m from the district court of Plntto county, Nebras ka, on a decree obtained in our said court at tho rt-KuIar September. A. D.. IHfcH. term thereof of finite county, aeoraskR, to wit: on the 29th day of September, 18H. in favor of Aultmaa, Miller A Company as plaintiff, and against (Jriatena I'eitsch and Wm. Peitsch as defendants, for the sum of Two Hundred and Thirteen dollars, aad costs taxed at S3H.10, and accruing costs, I have levied upon the following lands and tenements taken as the property of said defendants, to sat isfy said decree to witi The north half of the northwest quarter and the south half of the northeast quarter of section twenty-one (21) township nineteen (19) north of range oae f 1) west in Platte coanty. Nebraska, aad will oHer the same for sale to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, on the 15th day of December. aTD.. 1888, ia front of the Court House ia Cohmbas! Nebraska, that being the building waetaia th last term of court was held, at the hoar of 2 o'clock p. m., of said lay, when and where dot wnoance wm oe given dv tne undersigned. Dated Columbus, Neb., November 12thTl86a. M. C. RLntnni Sheriff of said coanty. Sfetlee t BrMg BsilMera sum! c tract. Notice is hereby elven that bids will tu. '. eelved at the office of the County Clerk of Platte county, aiuoiumous, .-veorasxa, up to 12 O clock noon. Wednesday. January 2d 1889. for the building of I85i lineal feet, more or less, wagon bridge, over the Platte river at a paint nearly opposite the city of Columbus. Spans to be II feet "A" truss, or, 21 feet bridge. pile Piles to Is; of white oak, not less than -6 feet in length, and 12 Inches diameter in center And driven 18 feet below low water mark, and bot tom or chords or stringers to be eight feet above low water mark. Koad way plank to be -2U Inch oak. Bids will be teceived for 10. 12 and 1G feet roadway. If less than i feet road way Is adopted, three (3) turnouts of 42 liaeal . feet each must be provided. . Proposals must be accompanied with plana t and specifications, showing detailed measure ments, and method of construction. The Board of Supervisors reserve the right to reiect any or all bids. ' Dated, Columbus, Xebr., Dee. 1st, 1888. -.. JoHNSTAcrrrt. Coaaty Clark.- v :'l 's.T- ? ' '' ' " )- K -f 1 3&2.?F - - ""- - - 4 psynianaft.ni
