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WEDNESDAY. DECEMBElt 28. 1B88.
Thomas Bcbke Las been confirmed as
chief Jnstico of Washington territory.
A ssovr storm at Portland, Me., Dec.
18. Steamers were delayed until the
storm abated.
Last week Mrs. Waite, widow of the
chief justice, was reported lying very ill
of pneumonia at her home in Washing
ton. Hox. Avlbs O. Mteks, late editor of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, was on trial for
complicity in the Columbus, Ohio, tally
sheet forgeries of 1883.
Three distinct shocks, presumably
earthquake, at 6:03 o'clock on the even
ing of the 22d at Leroy, N. Y. A heavy
rumbling sound accompanied them.
John Telford, the accomplice in the
lato attempt at robbery of the Home
etack railroad, was found guilty one day
last week at Deadwood, Dak. The jury
was out only fifteen minutes.
A telegbam from Greeley, one day
last week reported a cold wave coming
and that the temperature wonld fall 20
by 8 p. in. hist Friday. It failed to ap
pear at all in this locality.
Sam Jones, the evangelist, says some
pretty striking things occasionally.
Among the latest that there is "one dif
ference between St. Louis and Hell
St Louis has a river alongside it"
Last week Col. J. F. Casey, at one
time revenue collector of New Orleans
and a brother-in-law of Gen. U. S. Grant,
is dangerously ill at his home in West
Washington. He was stricken with
apoplexy.
Last week Judge Edmund Waddle,
jr., republican candidate for congress in
the Third district of Virginia, served
notice of contest upon Representative
George D. Wise on the ground of the
obstruction of voters.
TmtEE twelve-pound cannon balls
and one four-pounder were found in
Rutland, Vt, by a workman engaged in
excavating for a foundation of a new
mill. They are supposed to be relics of
the Burgoyno campaign of 1777.
Leakage in a natural gas pipe one
afternoon last week at Findlay, O., caus
ed a fire in the Western Rapid Type
Foundry. The building was entirely
consumed as well as its contents.
The vnlne of property destroyed is esti
mated at 30,000.
Sesatok Hoau presented a petition
last week signed by 3,22.8 citizens of
Massachusetts praying for the adoption
of it constitutional amendment which
will prohibit tho interference of any re
ligious sect with the system of public
common schools.
A IAKKEnsBUBO,(W.Va.) dispatch says
that a living bat was found a few days
ago imbedded in a solid rock near Ram
ney. Two men were engaged in a quarry,
.when ouo of them broke a long stone, in
tho center of which, hermetically sealed,
they found the live bat.
Fourteen boys employed as pages in
the senate at Washington were made
happy on the 22nd inst., by a substantial
remembrance from Senator Sanford of
California, in tho shape of a S5 bill, with
the wish that each might enjoy a merry
Christmas and a happy New Year.
Dr. Nemons Acgcste, embassador of
the Haytian insurrectionists to the
United States, and Charles A. Jackson,
of New York, his attorney, arrived in
Washington one night last week, and
will attempt to interest the government
in the canso of the insurectionists.
Another crank turned up at the
White House last week. He said his
name was Hoover and that he had been
elected president of the United States
by the Knights of Labor and independ
ents. He was dressed in the regulation
old-soldier garb, his right sleeve being
pinned to his breast empty. He was
placed under arrest.
Senator Sherman introduced a bill
last week in the senate to pay soldiers
of the late war who were promoted while
serving, the bounty they would have
been entitled to had they not been pro
moted. The same provision was made
-in regard to soldiers discharged on ac
connt of diseases contracted.
Senator Sanford said last week at
Washington, -'that California will send
'bat one democrat to the Fiftv-first con-
gress." He had received a dispatch
from San Francisco which stated that
all of Clunie's hopes for a seat hare been
destroyed by a recount. Phelps gained
.ninety, votes and is, so the dispatch
states, elected beyond a doubt.
The house committee on Indian
affairs at Washington agreed to report
favorably Mr. Gilford's bill to amend an
act to divide a portion of the reservation
of the Sioux nation of Indian
in Dakota into separate reservations,
and to secure the relinquishment of the
Indian title to the remainder. The bill
provides for the disposition under the
homestead law of all land relinquished
under this act. It provides for the sale
of the land as follows: One dollar and a
quarter an acre during the first three
years, 75 cents for all disposed of within
the next two years, and 50 cents for the
remainder. One-third the money real-
Ir, at each hundredth year from the
inauguration of Washington, the first
president, the United States can fur
nish bo good a man as General Harrison
for chief executive, it may be set down
that government by the people is not the
failure that kings prophesied it would
be, and that tyrants hoped for. A re
public, in comparison with other forms
of government, has been styled a well
built raft, on which there is little danger
of drowning, but your feet are always in
water. However this may be, (we think
the comparison is a little forced) the
fact is that for all the practical purposes
of life, government by the people, when
the intelligent and well-behaved assert
themselves as they ought, is incompar
ably better than any other. When these
people choose their leader, all is welL
When unscrupulous, designing, selfish
and ambitious men, who have not the
good of the people at heart but are only
anxious for self, force themselves, by
cheek and chicanery, to the front places,
then it is not well for the republic Per
haps, through trials, tribulations losses
and calamities, the people will come to
know their own and to stand by them.
In tho meantime, the education is worth
a portion of what it costs.
The New Englanders had a bountiful
spread at s banquet in Omaha Friday
night and among the good things said
was the following by Rev. A. R. Thrain,
who seems to understand how to draw
the orator's long bow:
He spoke humorously of "The Yankee,"
and explained that he only missed being
one by about two hundred and twenty
five years, having been born in Scotland.
The Yankee, as he knew him, was born
down east, and, although he came into
the world as a baby, was never young.
As he took an inventory of his baby
clothes there was speculation in his eye,
and he looked at his crib as though to
ask, "How much did it cost?" He
climbed from his crib and clamored for
boots, and spent his boyhood days in
trading tops and strings. He cut his
eye teeth sooner than any other mortal,
and was seen at his best in the search
for the dollar. As a peddler, he had
few equals and no superiors, and as an
insurance agent he could almost per
suade a corpse to take out a life policy.
As a lightning-rod agent he was smarter
than the lightning itself. He had cut
down the forests till tho earth was bald,
and had roofed the falls of St. Anthony
till the stream carried dollars to his
coffers. He came west as a farmer, bnt
if the soil was too poor he became a cat
tle raiser, and if poorer still he was
found as a miner. If it was too poor to
be farmed, mined or used as grazing
grounds, he would stake it off as an
Indian reservation. -He closed with an
eloquent peroration in which he said
that tho safety of the land depended on
the New England element and the
American character.
If Senator Manderson is re-elected
without serious opposition to succeed
himself at Washington it certainly will
give him a prestige that will not only
be gratifying to himself, but which
would work to the great advantage of
the state which he repeesents. Kansas
and Iowa both helped themselves when
they returned Ingalls and Allison with
such unanimity. This winter Kansas
will likely return Plumb, Illinois, Cul
lom, and Oregon, iDolph, in like manner,
and if Nebraska republicans will do the
same by Senator Manderson they will be
following a custom that seems fit and
proper, and certainly as appropriate in
Mr. Manderson's case as in any of the
gentlemen named. It looks, now, as
though there would be virtually no op
position to his return.
Those who wish to keep abreast of the
industrial and scientific progress of the
day cannot afford to be without the
Scientific American, advertised on an
other page. It is fully illustrated with
the best class of wood engravings, and
each subject is treated in as popular a
manner as the nature of tho theme will
permit. This paper first made a name
for itself in 1815, when it was permanent
ly established. It is published by the
well-known patent soliciting firm of
Munn & Co. The subscription price is
3 a year. Copies may be seen at this
office and subscriptions received.
Mb. Holman of Indiana, has introduc
ed a bill at'Washiggton to preserve the
purity of elections. It provides that
any person who shall receive or solicit
subscriptions to be used at national
elections shall be guilty of misdemeanor
and punished by a fine or imprisonment.
It is declared that this provision shall
not apply to money used in printing bal
lots, running newspapers and otherwise
diseminating information. Persons who
bribe others, or are bribed, are disfran
chised from holding office for five years,
besides being subject to fine and im
prisonment. James Warner last week at Wilkes
barre, Pa., quarrelled with his son, John,
aged eighteen years, and made a desper
ate lunge with his axe at the boy, where
they had been for some time chopping
wood. The boy dodged the blow, and
ran to bis home near by, barring the
doors as he entered. The father follow
ed him to the doors, and commenced to
batter them in with the axe, when the
son placed a shotgun through an opening
and sent a load of buckshot into his
father's breast. He died a few hours
after he was shot.
T. De Witt Talmage said in a recent
sermon that Columbus was a weaver
Halle a soap boiler Arkwright a bar
ber JEsop a slave the learned Bloom
field a shoemaker Hogarth an engineer
or pewter-plate Sixtus, the Fifth, a
swine-herdsman Hemer a beggar, and
Horace Greeley started in New York
with ten dollars and seventy-five cents
in his pocket, as well off as if he had
eleven full round dollars. But there
are many young men who are waiting
for the other twenty-five cents before
they begin.
One evening last week at Dayton, O.,
Theodore Trampenau, aged seventy, an
inmate of the national military home,
was found murdered near the gate of the
home. He drew $90 pension the day
before. When found his pockets were
empty. Another soldier was robbed the
same evening near the spot by a negro.
The negro is believed to be the murder
er of Trampenau. No arrests had been
made. Trampenau was killed by a
heavy blow on the forehead.
Ax exchange makes a few funny com
ments upon the new method of taking
life in New York. The death sentence
U3ed to read: "Hanged by the neck until
you are deadT The new law in New
involved in this that a New York lawyer
could put to some use at the proper
time." It is probable that lawyers in
New York will, in time, work their way
to the bottom of that intricate sentence,
and be fully able to explain "the most
vital part of your anatomy."
Gen. Jas. Wheeleb last week intro
duced a bill into the house to incorpo
rate the "Military Order of America;" it
names forty-three incorporators. Thirty-seven
of these are well known citizens
of the District of Columbia, one from
Maine, one from New York, two from
Maryland, one from Tennessee and one
commanding the United States troops at
Denver. Thirty-five are ex-union sol
diers and five ex-confederates. One of
the objects of the bill is the erection of
a memorial building, as a monument to
the fidelity of American soldiers, as well
also, the use of the structure for a war
museum and library.
NEBRASKA NOTES.
J. A. Woodbnry of Osceola, la., wants
Norfolk to take $12,000 stock in a can
ning factory to bo erected by him. A
committee has, of course, been appoint
ed. Cherry county, the largest county in
the state, with a territory considerably
larger than the state of Connecticut,
hasn't a practicing physician within its
borders.
An east-bound freight train on the B.
& M. railroad on nearing Grand Island
on tho 22d ran into and lolled the
frightened and running-away team of
Billy O'Brien. The man and wagon
were not injured.
J. A. McMeant, of Fairbury, died sud
denly Saturday last of heart disease.
McMeant was an old resident at that
place and well known, having served one
term in the legislature. He also served
one term as county judge.
Herman Wachendorf, of Talmage,
charged by the village board with selling
liquor without a license, had his trial at
Nebraska City before County Judge
Mapes and was bound over to tho dis
trict court in the sum of $500.
A young man near Kearney hired to
work for a farmer two weeks. After
four days he quit on account of sickness.
He sued to recover his wages, and lost
his case besides having to pay $3 a day
to the farmer for hunting another man.
J. D. Smith has invented a new device
for keeping water from freezing in tanks,
which should meet with general favor,
especially with railroad companies. It
is a simple arrangement, and is very
economical in its construction. Uncle
Joseph is getting quite a long list of
patents. Rising Independent.
A brakeman had his hand badly crush
ed at Shelby last Friday night, and was
laid up for repairs here until noon the
next day. This line of road seems to be
hard on fingers. During the past year
two brakemen and a conductor have lost
fingers and one brakeman lost his life
between David City and Osceola. Ris
ing Independent.
The little son of James Stoddard, of
Benedict, upset a lamp, breaking it and
setting fire to the carpet. Mrs. Stod
dard ran out with the child and then
went back to put out the fire, when her
dress caught, and she again ran ont and
jumped into a tub of water. Her hair
was badly Binged and she was badly
burned. Her presence of mind and the
early arrival of her husband and one of
the neighbors saved her and the child
and the house from burning up.
.Joseph Robison and Miss Anna Magee
eloped from Valparaiso at noon Friday.
They started for a school-house about
two miles west of town, where Miss Ma
gee was teaching, walked to the railroad,
flagged the westbound passenger and
got aboard. Robison had lately been
discharged from the employ of the rail
road company there, where he acted as
operator for several years. The young
lady is about seventeen, and is the
daughter of J. L. Magee, one of Valpa
raiso's leading merchants. The family
is nearly distracted with grief over the
occurrence.
An accident occurred near the B. & M.
depot at Plattsmouth Friday morning,
which left the victim, Charley Hubble, a
seventeen years old boy, a terrible spec
tacle. He was standing on a side-track
playing with a dog, while a train of cars
was backing down on him, which he did
not notice in time to save himself. He
was knocked down and run over, the
wheels passing over his right leg, from
the ankle to the right side of the body,
leaving it in a shapeless mass. He was
carried home on a stretcher, where he
died a few hours later. He was a son of
Henry Hubble, proprietor of the Iowa
house.
Patents Granted
To citizens of Nebraska during the pa6t
week, and reported for this paper by C.
A. Snow & Co., patent lawyers, opposite
U. S. Patent office, Washington, D. C.
C. C. Epp, Bradshaw, motor; George
James, Hebron, pruning instrument; W.
T. Reaser, Fairmont, balance oscillating
valve; W. W. Rhodes, Lincoln, hen's
nest.
Another London Xarder.
The body of a woman whose name is
unknown was found Thursday morning
in the suburbs of London. An empty
bottle lay alongside the body, and the
impression first formed was that the wo
man had commicted suicide. At the cor
oner's inquest, however, physicians who
examined the body testified that there
were no signs of poisoning, and declared
their belief that the woman had been
murdered by strangulation. There was
a mark on the woman's neck which
showed that a small cord had been tied
tightly around it. She was an outcast.
Some believe her murderer is identical
with the Whitechapel murderer, who,
they think, has adopted a new method of
disposing of his victims.
The Invalid's Friead.
Rare is the invalid who goes unattend
ed. With blandishments and carefully
composed witticisms, with grateful com
pliments and coaxing good-humor, many
nurses are hired, especially if they are
relatives and above regular wages or
liberal donations of half-worn coats and
dresses. The professional important for
knowledge of her art, Cousin Jane solic
itous about foot-warmers and the flavor
of the broth, and Mrs. O'Flaherty from
a neighboring attic, "tidying up and set-
other; and in consequence one nurse, at
least, to every invalid is ordinarily the
proportion. A. B. Ward, in Scribner-s
for January.
Scribaer for 1889.
This favorite monthly opens the new
year with a copy rarely excelled in the
publication of periodicals. From first
to last, in reading matter and illustra
tion, it is most excellent. During the
past year Scribner has added thousands
to its hosts of readers. The effort to
please, and at the same time instruct on
topics of universal interest deserves to
be met by the public in an increasing
liberal patronage.
The publishers announce for '89, as
among the special features, short stories,
articles on photography, electricity,
mining, fishing, books and authors, art
subjects, railways, etc.
Terms $3.00 a year; 25 cents a number.
Railroad Revenues.
Besides their receipts from freight and
passenger traffic railroads derive revenuo
also from the transportation of mails
and express freight on passenger trains,
from tho sleeping-car companies, and
from news companies for the privilege of
selling upon trains. Of the total revenue
about 70 per cent, is usually derived
from freight, 25 per cent, from passen
gers, and 5 per cent, from mail, express,
sleeping cars, and privileges. When it is
considered that high speed involves great
risks and necessitates a far more perfect
roadway, more costly machinery and ap
pliances, and a higher grade and greater
number of employees the fast passenger,
mail, and express traffic hardly seems, at
present to yield its due proportion of in
come. From "Railway Management,"
by E. P. Alexander, in the January
Scribner's.
Sugar in Congress What Our Senators are
Doing.
A Washington special to the Chicago
News, under date of the 19th, says:
When the sugar schednle of tho tariff
bill is reached it will be passed over until
the republicans can have a caucus and
agree upon some basis of compromise,
for there is a division among them. The
senators from the prairie states are op
posing a largo reduction of the duty on
sugar, just as they are opposing the high
tariff on lumber, in the interest of their
constituents. The Kansas and Nebraska
senators, for instance, will join with
those from Louisiana in keeping up the
duty on sugar in order to develop tho
sorghum and beet-root industry of their
sections. For example, the average per
centage of saccharine in the sugar beets
raised in Germany is 12f, while in those
at Grand Island, Neb., the average is 19
per cent, and a company has recently
been organized for the purpose of pro
ducing beet-root sugar near the town of
Grand Island. It has purchased 10,000
acres of land, which has been planted
with sugar beets, and will erect very
large works dnnng the ensuing year.
The machinery for extracting the sugar
from beets costs about $75,000 and carries
a duty of 33 per cent. It is not manu
factured in this country, but has to bo
imported, and in order to encourage the
development of this industry Mr. Man
derson will ask that all machinery for
this purpose shall be admitted free of
duty for at least one year.
RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD SETTLER
BY INOOMAR.
About 1859 the first district court was
held in Platte county, Hon. Augustus
Hall, chief justice, presiding. Judge
Hall had been a member of congress
from Iowa and after that state com
menced the fool habit, since persistent,
of rolling up republican majorities of
five figures, the Judge found himself in
the position of a person who is "open for
an engagement," and Judge Ferguson
having resigned after his election as
delegate in congress, he was appointed
by President Buchanan as Ferguson's
successor. The Judge was a short, very
corpulent man with a round, benevolent
face like the full harvest moon. lie had
the perfect respect of tho bar, and it is
said that his decisions were rarely re
versed. The little town hall, now the
"Saint's chapel," was used as the court
room, and rooms in the American Hotel
were secured for jury rooms. A grand
jurj- of twelve good and true men were
impanelled, and on completing their
labors returned twelve indictments one
against each of themselves for selling
liquor without having a license. At that
timo there was a license law, enacted
more probably for its moral effect on the
people outside of the territory than with
the intention of enforcing it. It bore
evidences of lack of care in preparation,
and provided that on complaint of its
violation being made before a justice, he
should hear the allegations and proof
and if sufficient he should render judg
ment against the accused and be com
mitted to jail until the fine teas paid.
Few, if any, convictions were had tinder
this law, largely for the reason that it
did not have the support of public opin
ion, but probably mainly owing to the
disinclination of magistrates to commit
themselves to jail. By an oversight the
person drafting the bill omitted to pro
vide for the payment of the costs by the
constable.
Judge Hall was gathered to his fathers
just before the republican party came
into power and while still an incumbent
of the office, and was succeeded by Wm.
Pitt Kellogg of Louisiana fame, and who
drew pay as Colonel of an Illinois regi
ment at the same time, who was suc
ceeded by bis uncle, Wm. Kellogg of
Peoria, Illinois, who filled the office
until Nebraska became a state. He then
wanted to be U. S. senator, but Thayer's
then fresh military laurels were too
much for him.
At the first term of court held by him
the office of prosecuting attorney was
held by a man by the name of Robert
Moreland, who was bynomeaas an or
nament to the office. He had previously
been bound over for breaking the peace,
and the only indictment returned at that
term was against the prosecuting attor
ney for assault and battery.
Washington Letter.
From our regular correspondent.
Mr. Blaine has telegraphed to friends
here, in answer to an inquiry, stating
that he has not been tendered a port
folio in Gen. Harrison's cabinet. The
inquiry was made because it was posi
tively stated here that he had been ten
dered, and had accepted the state port
folio. Among prominent republicans in
congress there is stui considerable
doubt as to whether Mr. Blaine will be
in the cabinet, but from the best infor
mation I can obtain I believe that he
6tate will prevent New York from hav
ing a representation in the cabinet.
The senate committee on the improve
ment of the Mississippi river and its
tributaries have decided to make an ad
verse report on the bill "to make the
Lake Borgue outlet" for the flood wa
ters of the Mississippi. This is the plan
submitted by Capt John Cowden, and
which he has long urged as a substitute
for the Eads jetty system.
The house committee on manufac
tures, which has for a year been investi
gating tho numerons --trusts" through
out the country, has not yet decided
what should be done with such combina
tions, and it is not at all likely that it
will ever arrive at a decision. The elec
tion is now over and the democrats can
not make any more political capital by
fighting trusts, so there is to be no more
fighting. That's the plain English of
the matter.
During the last session both the sen
ate and the house passed bills forfeiting
certain land grants to various railroads,
and yet there is little hope of any legis
lation on that subject at the present
session. The two bills passed, one by
each honse, are radically different, .they
are now in the hands of a conference,
but as neither side seems disposed to re
cede from its position, I do not see how
any agreement can possibly bo reached.
A concurrent resolution has been
introduced in tho house providing for a
holiday recess from next Friday until
Monday, Jan. 7, two weeks and two days.
There is little doubt of its passage in
spite of tho fact that a short time ago
members were saying that this recess
would be dispensed with. Queer fellows,
these congressmen.
The senate is now making very rapid
progress with the tariff bill, and many
people are now prophesying that it will
not be passed before February.
The bill placing Gen. W. S. Rosecrans,
at present register of the treasury, on
the retired list of the army, with the
rank of Brigadier-General, has been fa
vorably reported to tho senate.
The democrats of the house, by the
action of a caucus held last week, ac
knowledged that they have been acting
wrong in refusing admittance to terri
tories entitled to enter the union as
states. Having been so badly defeated
in tho election, they are now pre
pared to confess their misdeeds, and
to repeat them as soon as they think
any advantage can be thereby gained.
The caucus decided that Dakota may
come in as one or two states as the peo
ple of the two proposed states may here
after decide, (ignoring the fact that the
people of Dakota have already decided
in favor of two states), also, that the
territories of Washington, Montana and
New Mexico may bo admitted, provided
that all shall be admitted in one bill.
The caucus also decided that a separate
bill providing for tho admission of Utah
should bo proposed. Whether the re
publicans of the senate will accept the
honse bills providing for the admissions
or leave the whole matter to the Fiftieth
congress cannot at this time be said.
Representative Butterworth, in intro
ducing a joint resolution looking to the
annexation of Canada by the United
States, has given the country and Can
ada a very interesting subject for discus
sion. Most men whom I have heard
speak on the subject for a year or two
past have expressed the opinion that
soon or later the United States would
absorb both Canada and Mexico, the
only difference of opinion being as to
how long and in what manner the ab
sorption shall take place, whether the
country shall be secured by peaceable
negotiations and purchase or by force of
arms. Mr. Butterworth's plan for the
annexation of Canada, is, it is needless
to say, a peaceable one. He proposes
that it shall be done through negotia
tions with England. Senator Cnllom,
speaking on the subject said: "I am in
favor of the annexation of all or ny
part of Canada. Of course these aings
cannot be done in a week." Senator
Frye said Mr. Butterworth's plan was
not peaceable, because if there is to be
annexation the first suggestion and first
move must not come from us, and that
if the Canadian provinces are ever an
nexed it will be because they desire to
be annexed.
How to Compel Fair Congressional Elections
in the Cotton South.
The following, from a recent number
of the Chicago Tribune, has the ring of
true metal, and shonld le read and pon
dered by every patriot. Why it is that
the hundreds of thousands of indepen
dent voters of the free North, where
ever- man of whatever political creed
can assert his opinions without fear of
molestation, should submit to lie shorn
of a very considerable portion of their
political power by the brigadiers of the
south, is beyond comprehension. The
generosity of the victorious government
of the United States to the rebels, who
in a four years' war were not able to
overthrow the best government on earth,
was without precedent in the history of
civil government; but it has been gener
osity bestowed upon men who have illy
requited. The injustice worked against
that portion of the people who sustained
the government in that trying conflict,
all these twenty-three years since its
close, has rankled until endurance is out
of the question. To assert rights is the
privilege of freemen, always, to maintain
them is a duty, and in this case, it is a
duty which cannot longer be deferred
with safety:
The suggestion of ex-Gov. Bullock of
Georgia as to the remedy for election
frauds in the- South merits attention.
He admits that so long as cotton State
frauds against the ballot are the work of
individual "stuff era," acting on their
own responsibility, and not the result of
State legislation, the war amendments
to the Constitution must remain inoper
ative; but he insists that Congress can
apply a remedy through the power of
each House to be "the judge of the elec
tions, returns, and qualifications of its
own members." Accordingly, whenever
the total number of votes did not bear a
fair proportion to the population of a
district he would have Congress refuse
to seat the claimant and order a new
election. The objection to this course is
that it would not deal effectively with
ballot-box stuffing and false counting,
evils now more common than intimida
tion and terrorism. The boxes could be
stuffed with any required number of
ballots and the fraudulent poll made to
bear a full proportion to the total popu
lation oi the district. &o plan can suc
ceed which leaves the conduct of elec
tions in the hands of ballot-box stuffers
and false counters.
A better remedy than that suggested
, n tii l. i .L.i iti
way all interference with the local affairs
of the cotton States could be avoided.
National authority could be used to
make National elections fair and see to
it that Congressmen are chosen only by
means of a free ballot and fair count.
The entire proceedings from the regis
tration to the final count could be placed
in the hands of Federal officials. Wholly
divorcing National from State elections,
the States could elect State officials in
their own way, but at the National elec
tion only members of Congress could be
vBted for, and the poll would be taken,
and the count made, and the returns
certified by officers of the
National Government. Of course, undc r
the Constitution, this remedy could not
apply to tho choice of Presidential Elec
tors, whose selection is left to the State
Governments; but fair elections could
be insured in the case of Congressmen,
and the contrast between honesty under
National regulation and fraud under
State rule would some time shame the
cotton South into political decency and
fairness. At any rate, fraud and usur
pation could be denied representation
in the National law-making body. The
votes of honest constituencies would not
then be neutralized by the votes of men
seated in Congress by frauds against the
suffrage. Contamination could be re
moved from the National Legislature
and the doors of that body barred against
minority men claiming seats through
systematized election outrages.
Why shouldn't the next Congress ap
ply this remedy? The people of the
North cannot longer endure patiently
the outrage perpetrated against them.
The presence in Congress of twenty-odd
Southern usurpers sitting in stolen seats
in effect destroys or stifles the voice of
twenty-odd honest Republican districts
in the North and deprives them of their
rightful authority in the government of
the country. Honesty is offset by fraud,
and the tissue ballot of the cotton South
overcomes and nullifies the honest ballot
of the North. It is monstrous i sup
pose that wrong will be endure J loui-r
when there is a remedy within roach.
Many Southern Democrats are disgusted
with the systematic practice of fraud
and usurpation against the North, and
there is not anywhere in the South a
journal of respectable pretensions that
will face this question squarely and
without evasion. They pretend that tho
frauds are necessary to guard against
"negro domination" in the local affairs
of the Southern States, and shamefaced
ly and evasively close their eyes to the
wrong inflicted on the North by the law
less usurpation of power in the National
Government.
The people of the North demand that
election counts and returns shall be
above the suspicion of systematic fraud.
Irregularities and some degree of fraud
ulent voting may bo inevitable, but
when such wrongs tako the form of con
spiracy extending over a large section of
the Union and in effect disfranchise in
National elections hundreds of thou
sands of voters in the North as well as
the South the evil is intolerable. The
South is quick enough to protest against
any seizure of power at its expense. In
1877 by "damnable iteration" it fastened
on Hayes the suspicion of a clouded
title and infused that belief into the
minds of many Republicans, when in fact
the bulldozers and election swindlers
were simply prevented from consummat
ing an election outrage and counting for
Tilden three Republican Southern States
which on a fair poll were beyond ques
tion for Hayes. The South itself must
regard the North with contempt if this
section, with a constitutional remedy in
its hands, will meekly submit to usurpa
tion in Congress and partial disfran
chisement through criminal nullification
of the laws of the land.
Wttsfotibcnce.
In this department the people talk, anil not
the editor. Each writer must hold himself ready
to defend his principles and his statements of
facts, "in the multitude of counsel there is
wisdom." Ed. Journal. I
The Platte Bridge.
Ed. Journal: As the county clerk
has advertised to bridge the Platte river,
I think it would be a wise thing for the
tax-payers of the city of Columbus to
take under consideration the location of
the bridge. In the first place, to put the
new bridge at or near the old one, there
are several serious objections. First,
the banks on tho north side have been
washed away by the gorging of ice
against the old bridge short-span piles
that a very little more washing will let
the waters of the Platte into my creek,
which would make it necessary to build
another bridge. Second, on the south
side of the Platte river, when there is
high water in the spring there are large
quantities of water running ont over
Mr. Haight's low bottom land, flooding
the road for nearly half a mile, making
a mud-hole that is impossible for loaded
teams to get through, and there is a pos
sibility that the river may wash a chan
nel through and leave your bridge on
an island. Now, by locating the bridge
280 rods west of the bridge on ray creek,
that would put the bridge on my west
line. The bridge would then ti .it a
point where the river runs straight, and
then there would be no danger of the
river washing away at the ends of the
bridge. Then a bridge at or near Rum
mer's will obviate the necessity of an
other bridge over the south channel,
and the people living Butler county
wonld have a better road, and the extra
travel wonld be but a trifle compared to
the certainty that when they wish to
haul a load to Columbus and back they
can do so without getting stuck in a
mud-hole. Gut C. Barntsi.
ADDITIOXAL LOCAL.
Shell Creek Items.
Mr. Frank Sholles is not building a
brick house yet, bnt a barn. The cor
respondent of the Journal who started
the brick report may see it loom up
some other time.
Mr. Louis Henrich is helping Frank
at the barn, stable, etc.
If the Baptist people had made it
known through the Journal that the
ordinance of Baptism was to be admin
istered, and all about the When and
Where, a great many more people would
have attended to see and hear.
Diptheria is taking leave of Platte
Center. Some doctors of Columbus
made poor little innocent Elm creek re
sponsible for all evil. That wicked lit
tle stream must have jumped all over
the country to St. Bernard, St. Edward,
and who knows all where it has not
done the mischief. It is good to know
that even doctors don't know everything
and that it is easy to find a stone when
you want to hit a dog, but not so easy
to evade being bitten.
Mr. John Edwards is quite sick.
Mr. George Mockmore has rented the
timber claim of Mr. Evan Davis, lately
deceased. George's time was ont with
Mr. David Thomas, and he has moved to
the farm named. May he prosper there.
Some of the five or six children that
died at Platte Center were so beautiful
that the writer an. old man does not
remember having seen one like the lit
tle son of Mr. Kavanaugh, for instance.
No wonder that parents should grieve
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Union Fafliao and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from S.OO to $10.00 per acre for cast
or ob five or tsa years time, in annual payments to suit purchasers. We have also a large and clioiw
lot of other leads, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable trms. A1m
business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real estate ii
Platte County.
COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. "
OMAHA MEAT MARKET!
We have just ofienod a meat market on NUBUASKA AVENUE, where we will keep tli very
beta or all kind.- of
POULTRY, ETC.
We ask the people of Columbus to
deserve by honest defiling and just bcsilos.
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once the donor and the recipient. By
the way, Platte county has a good many
rich old men and ladies. They have
been gathering all their life-time, their
children are provided for, have perhaps
already more than is good for them.
Should not these old people begin now
to scatter seeds of kindness till along the
way? "for not our property, but our
works should follow us," as the good old
book says.
God bless tho Columbus people for
the aid rendered to the Warnick family,
and tho Platto Center people for tho
help tendered to Mrs. Timothy, a poor
widow who also lost one of her children.
Young Canker Carrig collected for her
and found willing hearts.
The U. P. is building new bridges on
its Norfolk branch a good work. Bet
ter build them all new liefore one old
one breaks down and smashes a train
and kills people. That generous corpo
ration Ins also done a noblo deed grant
ing $100 to Mr. John Wolf, whose team
got loose and was killed on the track the
night of the democratic convention at
Platte Center. It is sometimes said that
corporations have no souls, but this one
shows that there is some humane feel
ing somewhere, for tho company wjis not
to blame for the accident, and Mr. Wolf
had no claim, but being a poor man it is
noble in the company to help him make
up his loss of at least $250. x. v. z.
District 44 and Vicinity.
A year ago last spring, there came in
to our midst a German family by tho
name of Snvder. consisting of Slake
Snyder his wife and two bright little
girls aged about 3 and 5 years. They
settled on the SW of SWJlf of section
16, 17 N, 1 E, and immediately began to
improve the same by building a neat
little honse, stable and other ont build
ings. They pulverized the sod and rais
ed a crop the first year; in fact, to the ob
servant passer-by, everything abont the
place showed a remarkablo degree of in
dustry, but at intervals during all this
time it has been whispered around that
this man Snyder, has leen in the habit
of whipping his wife nnrr.er-ifully upen
the slightest provocation, it was during
one of these periodical whippings one
day last week when she left him, and it
was not until after his arrest that nhe
succeeded in getting the children.
The premature discharge of Ottis
Clark's gun while in the act of loading
last Friday took a portion of the flesh
from one of the fingers of the right hand.
The gun was a doubfe-barrelled muzzle-
loader; one charge was loaded and Ottis
was about sending the other charge
home with the ram-rod, when the thing
went off the ram-rod going between
Ottis's fingers and disappearing alto
gether. Fortunately the gun was at
such an angle as to save the young man
from great injury, but it was a toler
ably close shave.
Tom Griffiin's well-filled trunk hove
in port last Friday, preceded by him by
one day, all of which makes his mother
look five years her junior. For the past
twovearsTom has been working on a
farm near Maple Grove in Colfax county.
Albert Gretchen returned from his
studies at Bellvue college last Wednes-
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TURNER Ac CARSTENS.
em part of the state, came homo for his
holiday vacation. lie says that part of
God's footstool has baen infested by a
band of thieves, six of whom were
caught recently burglarizing a store at
that place, arrested, given a speedy trial,
and sentenced to ten years each in the
pen. While Sam was away from his
place last fall his house was broken into
and tho stove, cooking utentials, and all
valuables taken therefrom, a breaking
plow and his grain seed. Tho thieves
also took a large patch of potatoes, dig
ging them by night.
It is of the utmost importance that
every cold be cured as quickly as possi
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thooxerience of many years has shown
that there is no medicine that will cure
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Electric lights were burning all over
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constipation may follow, and they are
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