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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,
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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
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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
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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,
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ERNST fc SCHWARZ.
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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.
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