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J&V"' J7w f - i.r J- . t 3i kg Mi 'S L f. i k . ,' teoluxribxis gimrtraL M. K. TURNER & CO., Oolm1ii Wei. aVti-wthqr should at one? notify, na by lsMg pastel fiJffAL5S2?!llSS mwat naaUoeace.-the Bret mUm aa tenadUy the mmit Jiiw list, from which. b.-uibMMekvnk acinceuaer oa ue iw - ..-. - .. - wrapper or date to wai JOUVMI-tM ia paid or ac- coasted tor. user w.j miiii I. payable to the order of be accompanied by tka fall of the writer. We reaena tba rJt to reject hi amaasenpi. to im bbbbb.- we w; a im aihoomiatiict oi Platte of aad re. liable is. everyway eeparataly. Oman item WKDNEaDAJLAPKniJtJML. A xtjkbeb of heavy shocks of earth quake were felt in Spain last week. Four steamships landed 1,930 immi grants at Castle Garden one day last week. Bbad Siavohteb will probably as same the duties of U. S. marshal about May 15th. . Mas. Habbikt Bkbchkr Stowk has become as a little child, so far as her mind is concerned. Senator Sherman and family intend to sail for Europe soon after adjourn . ment of the senate. Ex-Prbsidknt Clbvelaxd was enter tained by the captain-general of Cuba one evening last week. Coxobbbsmax Mahonx of Brooklyn died in the Arlington hotel at Washing ton on the morning of the 27th alt. A. W. FiBHRR of North Carolina, the present assistant clerk of the pension bureau, has been appointed chief clerk. The senate confirmed the nomination of John C. New to be consul general to London, and Louis Wolfley to be gov ernor of Arizona. The president has appointed N. S. Porter, of Ponca, Neb., agent of lands in severalty,' under the provisions of the act of February 2d, OT. A heavy snow storm was reported as prevailing throughout Syria on the 28th ult In some districts melted snow has caused extensive floods. Wiixiam Walter Phelps, John A. Kasson and Mr. Bates, the commission to represent the U. S. at the Somoan conference, will sail for Berlin April 13. A bio fire occurred at Dixon, HL, on the 28th ult, which burned down 21 business houses and several dwellings with their contents. The loss will reach 960,000. The senate has confirmed the follow ing nominations of the president: James O. Churchill of Missouri, surveyor of customs at St Louis, and second lieu tenant Wm. A. Mercer, first lieutenant of the Eighth Infantry. Sfcretart Wtxdox has appointed M. F. Bell superintendent of public build ings at Chicago. Windom has directed the removal of R. Lancaster, surveyor of the "port of St Louis, and has recom mended James O. Churchill for appoint ment The postmaster general has appointed the following superintendents of the railway mail service: Tenth division, headquarters at St Paul, Norman Per kins; seventh, headquarters at St Louis, J. P. Lindsey; eleventh, headquarters at Fort Worth, J. D. Weaver. .The president has appointed J. O. Humphrey, of Illinois, Alfred M. Wilson, of Arkansas, and ex-Governor George D. Bobison, of Massachusetts, as the com mission to treat with' the Cherokee and other Indians in relation to opening their portion of the Oklahoma country. A bill has passed the senate and house mkpg provisions in each county of the state for creating a fund for the relief and fcr funeral expenses of honorary-discharged, indigent union soldiers, sailors and mariners, and their indigent wives, widowB and minor children. Ah Iowa editor was asked: "Do hogs pay?" The reply was a little different from what was expected, but yet it ought to be generally read: "A good many do not," he says. "They take the paper for several years, and then have the post master send it back marked 'reused.'" Ex. Thoxas Woods living near Tornado, W. Va, sent word to his step-mother that a sick neighbor lady wanted to see her; concealing himself on the road she would' travel, he shot and killed her. -The division of the property of his de ceased father is alleged as the cause of the act Addtxioxal confirmations were made by the senate on the 26th ult James Tanner, commissioner of pensions; Charles J. Edwards, collector of -customs for Minnesota; Thomas B. Needles, TJ. 8. attorney for Indian territory and James M. Shackleford, judge of the U. S. court of Indian territory. The commissioner of the general land oSce has issued an order establishing two land offices in Oklahoma territory, which will be opened April 22 by pro clamation of the president The western district will have the land office located at King Fisher's stage station and for the eastern district at Guthrie. Mcbat Halbtead's appointment as minister to Germany was rejected by the senate. At three separate meetings the matter was considered. There was no question of Halstead's fitness -for the place, and the rejection is due entirely to his critJcuanB,ae an editor, on the way certain senators obtained their positions there. This !s the explanation given by Haktead's friends. o2 the legislature are get- tiag a good atany government plums' or .at least 'the. promise of them. It is stetodom good authority that the dis taet atorReyhip, Beady all the kad . sad several other desirable posi- , ate fffaVaW o be gmsx to geataaaaesi atfawataiBaBse m the lawHawJdac body. of SixaMarag. LST bmaetfu, Tetania fa snaon irflmfianim5 " t -aatdica- tiea. TOSCTgOaiaBBW VL - fcaA their nlafle Of Mi. MKldtlM lab rear aabecriDtaem Bemkttacas afeemia ae yawe - MMtf UBirnrann. V. l'thd ft CO. theat have, apparently, done BXFBBffJBBTATTfX A. E. CADTof How' aid couBty, formerly the well-known editor of the Schuyler San, has given evidence of the rare ability for yubtic affairs that his personal friends have long known him to possess. la his entire career in the legislature he has shown that he not only knows what is for the public good, but also that he has the nerve to stand for it and work for it against all comers, and under whatever adverse circumstances. The writer hereof has long known Mr. Cady for just what his coarse the past session has evidenced, a man of such ability and in tegrity as fit him for any station to which his fellow-citisens may call him. The following from the Omaha Bee is a just recognition of some of the good work done by Mr. Cady: "Bepresenta tive Cady of Howard county, has made a splendid record as a legislator. Able, conscientioas and vigilant, he has borne the brunt of the fight for retrenchment and routed the plundering combine in several desperate battles. No measure escapes his scrutiny. As a dissector of doubtful claims and bogus bills he has no equal on the floor, and the readiness with which he drives the keen blade of criticism to. the bottom and exposes their iniquity is fatal in nearly every instance. As an orator he impresses his hearers by the candor of his statements and honesty of purpose. His. management of the fight against Boss Stout's bill and the crushing defeat of that measure, proved him to be a master of parliamentary tactics. Mr. Cady is not only an honor to his constituents but a credit to the state." " The Iowa newspapers are pleading with citizens of that state to remain residents and not leave for new fields of enterprise. Such pleadings is unneces sary in Nebraska papers. Not only are present residents staying where they are, but hundreds of new people from other states are coming every day to join them. The emigration to Nebraska this year promises to be the largest in the history of the state. In north Nebraska especi ally the influx of settlers is something prodigious and the cheap fertile lands of that portion of the state are rapidly be ing settled upon by a thrifty class of people. The south Platte country, which has always hitherto held the bal ance of power in politics and everything else,will soon be in the minority,and will have to accord as a right that recogni tion which the north half has always asked and never received. (Norfolk News. Habltaai Draakarda. Cady's bill to prohibit the sale of liquors to habitual drunkards and mi nors passed the house last Wednesday morning yeas, 65; nays, 20. This bill is liable to pass the senate, and if it does will be extremely interesting to liquor sellers. It is short and pointed, as fol lows: Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Nebraska: Section 1. Any person or persons who shall knowingly procure, purchase, or cause to be procured or purchased, any malt spirituous or vinous liquors or intoxicating drinks, and give, furnish or sell the same, or cause the same to be given, furnished or sold to a habitual drunkard or minor shall for each offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any Bum not less than 925 nor more than $100, and, in addition there to, shall be confined in the county jail not core than thirty days nor less than ten days. The boldest and most successful rob bery ever reported in the west was per-l petrated upon the Jbirst .National bank in Denver at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th ult, with twenty clerks in the building at the time, and all close at hand. The robber; with pretense of communicating to Mr.Moffatt, president of the bank, a contemplated robbery of the bank, got into the bank without any suspicion in regard to his motives, and with a revolver and a bottle of nitro glycerine compelled the president to fill up and sign the proper check for $21, 000. Marched him in front of his pistol and glycerine to the proper clerk and drew his money; in fear the compelled president stood at the door until the robber reached the pavement, when he tipped his hat to the president, turned the corner and had not been caught at last report John Bright, the sturdy Quaker statesman of England, will always have a favored place in the memory of Ameri cans. A man of mark in any respect, he endeared himself to the great body of the people of bis own country from the beginning of his public career in 1838, until its close, excepting only in these latter days, for some reason, he seemed and was unlike his former self, or he would have heartily and with his old time vigor, espoused the cause of Ireland as one with that of the common people of other portions of Great Britain. Americans, certainly, will not forget that Bright was a firm friend of the Union during the war of the rebellion, and supported its cause in parliament and out of it Mosbb W. Field of Detroit, it seems, led a double life. . Mrs. Mary Goring holds bis note" for $20,000, a check for $14210, and an assignment of a $10,000 life insurance policy on Mr. Field. Mrs. Field's attorneys have track of twenty conveyances of real estate made directly or indirectly to Mrs. Goring, the aggre gate value of property conveyed! being aboat$5a00a Mrs. Field asks a court to enjoin the negotiation of the obliga tions on the ground that they were ob tained "through undue, improper and unconscionable influences and fraudu lent practices and devices." Disfatchbs were received on the 29th ult, from Samoa stating that the Ameri can men-of-war Trenton, Vandalia and Nipflic, and the German men-of-war Ad ler, Olga and Eber were driven on a reef daring a violent sto-m and totally wrecked. Of the American crews, four officers and forty-six men were drowned and of the German crews, nine officers and eighty-seven men lost their lives. The dispatches came from a reliable source and may be depended upon as being correct Egaa Geea to ChiU. The following nominations were sent bo the senate oa the 27th alt: Bobert Lincoln of Illinois to be minister t to Great Britain, Marat Halstead of Ohio to be auaiater to Germany, Allen a. ThorndTk of Nw York tn be. wiiniav tar to Bassia, Patrick Egaa of Nebraska I to be minister to Club, Tbosms Byaa of I . iiiiiiiiiiaBMMeesmmasMBSBmsmenmnBBamaaBBaaBnBmem v VI . , fT Tax senate oa the 90th alt, confirmed the following nominations: John Hicks minister to Peru; G. B. Loring minister to Portugal; Bobert T. Lincoln minister to England; Allen T. Bice minister to Bussia; Thomas Byan minister to Mexi co; Patrick Egan minister to Chili; B. Adams, jr., minister to Brazil; L. B. Mizner minister to Central American states; W. L. Scruggs minister to Vene zuela; W. O. Brady minister and consul general to Corea; receivers of public moneys C M. Barnes at Guthrie, Indian Territory; Jacob Admire at King Fish er's Stage Station, Indian Territory; register of public lands Jacob CL Bob erts at King Fisher's Stage Station John L Dille at Guthrie, Indian Territory; George Chandler of Kansas to be first assistant secretary of the interior. The recent case at Chicago, wherein Chas. J. Beattie, the lawyer who procur ed a fraudulent divorce for Mrs. Ada C. Gordon, was fined $500 and sent to jail for a year, may tend to call attention to the fact that all our laws and the meth ods of the courts do not reach the evils of the systems that have grown up. Di vorces can be too readily procured on manufactured testimony or by collusion. How to remedy the evil is more of a problem than at first sight it would seem to be. Wedded lives without affection must necessarily be evil and that con tinually, but civil communities to be preserved must find a way to discourage divorce, as a business. A fiend incarnate, in shape of a wo man, by the name of Thuring, at Alle gheny City, confessed to have engaged a man who admitted that he agreed to kill the woman's husband for $20. She paid him the money and he disclosed the matter to the police. Thuring was hor rified when he heard the object of the officer's visit NEBRASKA NOTES. Henry Howell, of Grand Island, has been appointed clerk on the run from Grand Island to Loup City. Between three and four hundred teachers were in attendance at the As sociation meeting at Hastings. The citizens of Grant are making an effort to put in waterworks at that place, which will cost about $20,000. Burglars entered the general merchan dise store of A. L. Howser, at Hoskins, and stole goods to the amount of about $100. Mrs. Sallie Mallory of Long Pine was 106 years old, March 15th. She has been a member of the M. E. church 94 years. C. H. Jaquett's jewelry store at Elm wood, was burglarized one night last week and watch chains, rings and four silver watches taken. A fire last week at Seward burned four buildings on the north side of the square. It is believed the lire was the work of an incendiary. Burglars, one night last week, entered the house of Dr. Thurston at Central City and took a gold watch from his pocket as he lay in bed. The lightning rod swindler has begun his usual spring operations, near Au burn. It is the old game over again an order turns out to be a cut-throat contract The horse collar factory at Blair em ploys sixty men and propose in the near future to give employment to three times as many. A good institution for any town. Chas. F. Cooper, the editor of the Yolks Zeitung at Schuyler, has disap peared, leaving a number of people to mourn his departure in dollars and cents for tears. The corner stone of the new Masonic temple was laid at St Paul on the 25th ult, with appropriate ceremonies, under the direction of Grand Master George B. France of York. John Miller and John Gabriel made their escape from the county jail at Geneva on the night of the 28th ult Miller was charged with stealing jewelry and Gabriel with horse stealing. Henry Fisher, who set fire to .and burned the granary of S. W. Denials near Oxford, was tried and found guilty last week. Judge Gaalin sentenced him to the penitentiary for seven years. At Grand Island, W. F. McLaughlin, president of the city council, struck Seth P. Mobley, editor of the Independ ent in the face, breaking his nose, and McL. was knocked down by John Don aldson. H. Y. Persons one evening last week set out a fire north of Central City, which got beyond control and burned a large amount of hay, cattle sheds of C L. Tidds and two cows. There is said to be some talk of prosecution in this case. John Clark, living in Lincoln county, on March 26th fatally wounded a man named Syms. dark objected to the re lationship yfrHng between Syms and' his divorced wife. At the time of the shooting Syms was returning home from a visit to a neighbor's accompanied by Clark's daughter. A sad and fatal accident occurred to Joseph Schnieberger, an old and wealthy farmey living in the vicinity of Seward. He was thrown from his wagon and in stantly killed while on. his way home from Staplehurst -late at night He leaves a wife and five children. The farmers in Seward and Saline counties are forming a combine to boy cott the binder-twine trust A paper has been circulated and over 100 names obtained, binding themselves not to buy any bindor-twine if the price is over 12 cents a pound, but to harvest their grain by hand in the old way. There is muchtalk that the Wyom ing investment company coniempiaue the construction of a railroad from Sioux City southwest by way of North Platte. Citizens of Grand Island are taking an interest in this road and will soon take action to determine what aid can be given it H the company go for ward with the improvement, it is ex pected the road will be as far west as Grant this falL The lifeless bbdy of James H. Houston of Iiaeola was found Saturday night about 1 o'clock in the Burlington yards of that city, lyiag across the track and almost severed in twain. He was a brick-layer addicted to drink, and it is thought had wandered iato the yards in On Monday evening of last week Messrs. Wilber and Weston of Tobias, and W. H. CongOl, postmaster of that place were driving out in the country when their team got scared at a dog and ran off' of a bridge, breaking the neck of one horse and smashing the buggy nil to pieces. The occupants of the baggy escaped with a few bruises. Postal changes which took place dur ing the past week in Nebraska.' At Bellevue Oscar Kayser; at Firth T. Bl Burling; at Fort Calhoun C & Bohner; at Freeport B. D. Crabtree; at Gothen burg W. a May; at Harrison D. P. Davis; at Mason City L. B. Hill; at New Helena W. T. Hayes; at Oakland W. W. Hoppris; at Potter A. Thompson; at Be- no Mrs. Ann E. Mclntire; at St James P. W. Schmidt and at Valley J. W. Hempstead. Discontinued at Calamus. Several years ago Frank Stone, of TJnadilla, made a contract with the coun ty commissioners of Otoe county where by he agreed to care for an imbecile old man named Jerome BJchardson. By the contract Stone got control of 160 acres of valuable land, which he sold and put the money in his pocket, having realized about $5,000. Last week Stone turned the old man out of doors and left for Oregon, and the commissioners sent Richardson to the poor house. John N. Reynolds, the notorious At chison man who was recently released from the Kansas penitentiary, has form ed a quartette of singers, all of whom are colored ex-convicts. With these he will go on a lecturing tour, furnishing oratory and song to delighted audiences. Reynolds and his singers will be attired in prison garb, and the expectation is to make a wagon load of money. The idea is unique and the show will doubtless be of high moral character. But we can not think of the gall of some people without being filled with dismay. Ful lerton Sentinel. During the high wind storm about the first of February Frank Neidig missed one of his 2 years old steers. Last Sat urday while loading hay from a stack which had blown over during the storm he found the missing animal in the cen ter of the stack. The poor brute had been there probably six or seven weeks and although it had plenty to eat, it had not a drop of water during all that time. The animal was fearfully emaciated and was so weak it could not stand. When offered a bucket of water, the steer took it down at two gulps. Frank says the animal will be all right in a few days. Madison Chronicle.. Mrs. Francis Severyn was accidentally shot by her husband Sunday afternoon. Mr. Severyn procured a shotgun from his neighbor with the intention of going hunting. He was informed, upon in quiry of his neighbor, that the gun, which is a muzzle-loader, was empty. To be certain he exploded a cap upon each barrel. He then returned home, and after entering the house he explod ed another cap, when to his horror the gun was discharged, the contents enter ing hiswife's lower limb just above the knee, nearly severing the limb. Drs. Elwood and Shafer were immediately summoned. Amputation of the limb was found necessary about midway be tween the knee and hip. She is in a critical condition, and her recovery is very doubtful. John P. Rowan, aged ninety-two years, died last week at the residence of A. P. Graves, a few miles west of Bancroft His history is a sad one. He moved from New York state with a family to Nebraska. At that time he had money and papers worth $15,000. Mr. Rowan turned all his money and property over to the man he came west with, with the understanding that he should be cared for the remainder of his life. As soon as the man secured all the money he de serted his old friend and went to Cali fornia, and has not been heard of for years. Mr. Graves took good care of the old man until Saturday, when he died of old age. God pity the aged when they fall into the hands of selfish and grasping people, whether their own re latives or not As the east bound Elkhorn train was nearing O'Neill Thursday, a passenger stopped the brakeman and asked if the next station was O'Neill, and stated that he desired to stop off at that station. The brakeman answered him in the af firmative and passed on through the train thinking no more of the incident until the train drew up to the station and the inquiring passenger did not alight He hastened into the car to no tify the stranger that his destination had been reached. Not seeing him in the car, he looked into the closet, and there, to his horror, beheld the lifeless form of the stranger with the top of his head literally blown off by a bullet from a re volver, his blood bespattered about the walls and seat of the closet Deceased had on his person money to the amount of $750 and papers showing his name to be Peter Simmons. It is reported that he is a traveling man and resided in Council Bluffs, though there is nothing definite about this. No cause is assign ed for the rash deed, save a statement that he had been making a trade of his Iowa property for Nebraska lands and felt despondent because he thought the Nebraska land agents had swindled him on the deal. At Creighton Tuesday morning of last week at 9 o'clock a German farmer by the name of John Bosenberger shot and killed his neighbor, Andrew Castline, and then killed himself. The above de scribes in brief, the most tragic affair Knox county ever witnessed. The men were neighbors, farmers on the Verdigree creek bottom, eleven miles west of Creighton. For some time Cas taline's cattle have been break ing pasture and ranging on Bossn berger's place. Sunday last the latter warned Castaline to keep the cattle off his place. On the morning of the tragedy they broke out again, however, and although Casta line at once started after them, Bosen berger was on hand and a quarrel en sued. After some words Caetaline turned and started, to drive the cattle home. Fairly mad with passion the German entered the house and coming out with a shotgun drew -up and fired. The charge of shot entered Castaline's back beneath the left shoulder blade aad he lived but a short time. When Rosea berger heard of the result of his act he set fire to his house and blew his braiBs out The murdered mania aa old set tler here and was well aad favorably known throughout 'the couaty. He leaves a large faauly. m f m . mtmmimmmm - Letter. Fraatear ragalar The president has issued a proclama tion opening to settlement all that por tion of Oklahoma territory covered by the bill passed daring the last hoars of the Fiftieth congress. The kad thus opeaed to settlement embraces nearly 2,0001000 acres. The proclamation has been nearly ready for a week or ten days but the pressure of other matters pre vented its completion. The nomination of "Corporal'' James Tanner of New York, "to be commissioner of pensions, is enthusiastically received by the old soldiers, particularly those who carried muskets in the ranks. They regard the appointment as a special rec ognition of themselves, lithe sentiments expressed by ex-soldiers, from a large number of states, temporarily in Washington, are a fair sample of those printing throughout the country, this appointment bids fair to be one of the most popular ever made by any pres ident The only objection raised to the ap pointment of '"Corporal'' Tanner was that he was too friendly to the old sol diers. Gen. Harrison quickly told the parties who had the bad taste to make such an objeotion, that it was for that very reason that he proposed to make him commissioner of pensions. No man should ever fill the position who is not friendly to the old soldiers, and it would be difficult for him to 'be too friendly towards them. The important appointments are being slowly and carefully made and now that the president has had time to show the politicians that he does not propose to do. anything hurriedly, there has been a perceptible "let up" !in the pressure upon him. He hears the claims of all pa tiently, and after careful consideration, appoints the one who, all things consid ered, he thinks will best fill the position. Gen. Harrison stated in a conversation a day or two ago that the west must have the public printer. This has had the effect of knocking out all the eastern candidates and of bringing in several new ones from the west It is a very important position and the president does not propose to make a mistake in filling it As it now stands it is thought the appointment will go either to, Mr. Merridith of Illinois or Mr. Osborne of California. It is understood that the minister to England has been selected and has ac cepted the appointment, but no an nouncement will be made of it, nor will the commission be made out until the new British minister to the United States shall arrive here and present his credentials. This action is taken as a mild retaliation on the British foreign office for its refusal to appoint a minister in place of Lord Sackville until after the change of administration in the United States. It is generally believed here that Chauncey Depew, of New York, is the man who has been selected for the British mission. Secretary Tracy has made a decision as to appointments and discharges in the navy department that has created much interest here. A clerk who was dismissed for inefficiency appealed to the secretary for reinstatement on the ground that he was an old soldier. The secretary concludes his refusal to rein state the man as follows: "While the fact of a person having a good record as a soldier will be considered among the best of recommendations for retention in or appointment to a position under the navy department, ability to peform satisfactorily the duties of the position which he holds, or to which he aspires must be a condition precedent to favor able consideration of an application for retention or appointment" KECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD SETTLER. BYINGOatAB. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus has always been considered one of the most sacred rights of American citizens, and when the exigencies of the civil war were considered by the govern ment to necessitate its suppression at some times and places. President Lin coln referring to the criticism evoked thereby said that the writ was denied with such extreme tenderness for the subject that practically it liberated more guilty than innocent persons. The first and probably the only writ of this character issued in Platte county was issued by Isaac Albertson then pro bate judge on the 18th day of December, 1864. At that time the Pawnee Indians were on their reservation, B. F. Lush baugh was agent, and Bobert Moorland then prosecuting attorney, had a trad ing post on the south line of the reser vation, and employed by and living with him was an Englishman, Charles Saun ders, who was one of the old Genoa col onists, and was contemplating emigrat ing to Utah, where his daughter, one of the wives of Joe E. Johnson, resided. In October a party of carpenters from Florence were emyloped on the reserva tion, among whom were two brothers named Selden. On the 29th of October they all went on a spree, and went down to the outside trading posts with the in tention of painting the whole country a bright vermillion hue. They went to Moorland's place and seemed to have an antipathy to Saunders on account of his being an Englishman, picked a quarrel with him, went into the apartments he occupied with his wife, opened the trunks and drawers that contained Mrs. Saunders's apparel, and scattered the contents over the floor, and carried blankets and other articles out doors and hid them in a hay stack. They then attacked Mr. Saunders who was a re markably quiet and inoffensive man, beat him and palled his hair, and when he crawled under a bed to getaway from them, dragged him out by the hair. At last they desisted from abusing him from fatigue, when he entered the store room and went behind the counter where he probably got a revolver. Shortly afterward the Selden brothers came in with the intention of renewing the quarrel, Dank Selden, the younger brother, advanced toward him when he drew a revolver and shot him dead on the spot Saunders was taken before the near est magistrate, Joseph Gerrard, then residing on the site of the new town of Monroe for aa examiaation, and was committed for trial for murder. At that time there was neither court house or jail, and the prisoner was placed in the custody of L B. Beebe, sheriff, which necessitated the employment, by the couaty, of day and night guards which secaredtaa legal practice, in fast I think it was his aiaidsa effort, who auade aa apalieatioa to the proaate judge for a writ of habeas corpus oa the ground that the eaauaitaMat was dated October 28th, alleging that it was impossible that fee could have killed a asaa who was alive at that date. The trial was set for the 18th day of November, and the court evidently considered it competent to ia vestigate aot only the legitimacy of the proceedings already had, bat also the circumstances of the killing, which were fully shown in the evidence presented, and the jadge holdiag that the accused acted clearly in aelf defense discharged him from custody, and he shortly started for Utah, aad has been quite recently in some of the western territories. What Are They? Editob Jovbxal: I desire space to say a few words more ia reference to township laws and the manner they are manipulated. You are aware that Sher man township has brought herself into notice by frequent feeble kicks against the paymentof bills of judges aad clerks of election; that they, have made numer ous protests and resolves and that they have been snubbed by our weak-kneed supervisors that argue one way and vote another, that have not sand enough in their compositions to dare vote as they believe. At the commencement of town organization, some attorney (spelled with a little a) argued with the super visors, (a new and green set of officers sent from the farming community), that assessors, judges and clerks of election were town officers and to be paid by the respective towns. The assessor was so paid one or two years, at the rate of town Pampers pay, viz., two dollars a day, when he had been getting three dollars a day before town organization, and assessors who worked in counties not under town organization at same time received their three dollars a day and mileage for their returns. By that wise decision our assessors, were cheated out of one-third their wages but they were young and green farmers and dare not kick. Now the beauty of that wise de cision shows up in good shape when it applies to judges and clerks of election. They are told that they are town officers, but are allowed county pay, viz, three dollars a day and mileage for returns. That, you see, is living under one stat ute and drawing pay under another. That ia like a case I saw tried in this county where a poor cuss was prosecu ted under one statute but for the want of evidence sufficient to convict, he waa fined under another. He had no friends or money and was'unable to appeal. Again, our supervisors exhaust a great amount of vitality and energy in the ex amination of the bonds of road overseers, town collector, town clerk, etc, which I think is none of their business; but they will tell you that there is no law but the old law that makes any provision for the examination and approval of bonds, and while it does not provide for town offi cers we must make it apply to them at well as to county officers. O, consisten cy! Why not apply the old county law to fees when there is no provision made? They strain at a gnat and swallow a cameL Every town board in the county has allowed illegal bills and is responsi ble to the tax-payers, and I hope every board in the county maybe sued for misappropriation of funds, because if judges and clerks of election are town officers to be paid by the1 town then they are entitled to town officers' pay, two dollars a day. If they are to be paid by the county, as the law provides, and as they always were before and are now in counties not under organization, then they are entitled to three dollars a day and mileage for returns. Sec. 24, of chapter 28, is the only law in existence for the pay of election officers. No sane man can say that it means towns in one case and county in the other. John Wise. Tie B. O. aaa the Iaaagaratfos. Between midnight March 3d and noon March 4th, the B. k O. B.B. carried into Washington sixty thousand excursion passengers, in addition to its regular local and through travel. From three o'clock, afternoon of the 4th until mid night of the 5th, an equal number was carried from Washington. Allowing an average of 50 passengers to the car, in cluding sleeping and parlor cars, it required 1200 cars to accommodate the multitudes. Adding to this the neces sary number of baggage cars to take care of the baggage of passengers and the supplies and paraphernalia of mili tary companies, bands and marching clubs, it will be seen that the B. k O. hauled a train of 9 cars into Washington every fifteen minutes from midnight March 3d, until noon March 4th, and out of Washington every fifteen minutes from 3.00 p. m. of the 4th until midnight of the 5th. In handling this immense volume of business in so short a time, not a single accident occurred and not a passenger was injured; not a car was derailed and not an engine failed to perform its al lotted task.- During all this time there waa an incessant fall of rain and all out door work waa invested with very de pressing conditions. The satisfactory manner in which this great movement was conducted reflects the highest credit upon the operating department of the B. O. Company and indicates the promptness and intelli gence with which each member perform ed his assigned share of the labor in volved. News Item from Department, EiO.RR The Nebraska M. E. camp meeting; will be held at Cnahman Park, three miles west of Iinoola, July 10 to 18. Mr. J. a Smith, travasias; salesman for Belford, Clark k Co, Chicago, had the misfortune to sprain his' wrist most severely: "I was safferins; great paia,n he says, "and my wrist was badly swol len; a few applications of Chamberlain's Pain Balm relieved the pain aad reduced the sweUiag in one night, aad in conse quence my work aad basiness was not interrapted, for which I am very grate ful. I eaa recommend Chamberlain's Pain Balm from personal experience.1 Sold by all Norfolk is trying to orgaaue a base ban yoa they hadsachacoldin their life take their word for it and advaw theat to aaa Ckaadwrlaia a Coaga Bssaedy aad care it. 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Laada aroBBvaortaayearatiBie.inaBBBalpeymeBtatoaaitparcbaaera. WaaavaalaealarseaBdchoiai lot of nther laada imoi fcnainoaa aad i nHnai i lnti in thr riT improTea aaa axamproTea, ior We keep natteUwmtr. COLUMBUS. OMAHA MEAT MARKET! We hare jaet opened a meat market on NEBRASKA AVENUE, where we Deal oi ail Si e POULTRY, ETC. We aak the people of Colambaa to iciTe na a share of their patroaage, which we hope to Atamrwm br honest dealing and iuttt scales. Please rive na a call. dee&8tf TDRBEK Jt 300 BUSHELS OF TIMOTHY SEED! Mixed With Red Clover FoHr Qaarts to the Bushel. This seed was raised by H. M. Winslow, near Columbus, Nebraska, and i the very best on the market. Samples of seed will be sent on application to Mr. Winslow, or Hickok, Halm & Co., of Columbus. Nebraska. Samples can be seen at either place. Price, $1.50 per bushel. 49-2t SHERIFF'S SALE. By Tirtoe of aa order of sale directed to me I nm tht iliatrtrt nnrt of Plmltn nwntr Nhnu- J from the district court of Platte county, Nebras ka, oa a decree obtained in our said court at the Buy A. V. 18 term tltereor of riatte county, HtBHaka. to wit, oa the 18th day of May, 1888. in farer of the German Insurance Company of Fraaport, Illinois, aa plaintiff aad against Joseph Hsmsxler, Aogaata Heaawler. Fraas Heaftgler aad tie Colombo State Bank as defendants and wherein the said German Insurance Company of Freeport, Illinois, recoTeml aeaiaat the said Joseph HenpelerAaicnsta llenagler and Franz Heaaxler a decree for the ram of forty-one hon ored forty-eiKht dollars and eixhty-aino ceata If 1,148189) and costs taxed at eighteen and sixty fire handreth dollars, and also wherein the said folaatbaa State Bank recovered of the said Joseph HeajKler, AoKuata Hentotler and Franz Henmler adecrce for the ram of sixty-four bandied eighty -one dollars aad seventeen cents (ri,41.17) and accraiag costs, I have levied upon the followiuir laada and tenement taken a.- the property of said defendants, to satisfy said decrees, to wit: Lota namberone (1), two ('It. fire (."). six (rt). - I1 am.I .k.Afc ial in hrMk nnmltAW nn handled aad seventy-eight (178) and lots three W aad roar (, in block one nnndred and sevea-ty-aerea (177), ia the city of Colombo. Platte eoaaty, Nebraska , Aad will offer the same for aale to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, oa the Stb Dat or April. A. D., 1889. Ia front of the Court Hoese in Columbus, 1'latte eoaaty, Nebraska, that being the bnihling where- ia the last terra of court was held, nt the hour of o'clock n. m. of said day, when and where 1 when dae attendance will be given n br the unde the undersigned, Dated Colambaa. Neb- March , 18W. M. C. BLOKDoax. ZJmarft Sheriff of said County. NOTICE OF SALE. Notice ia hereby given that by virtue of a cer tain ansa ox easts mm in made on the eleventh dayof Jaaaary,Ma.tomebyFritx Koesterand Fred Meyer, partners, doing bosiaess at the towa of Creetoa. ia Platte eoaaty, Nebraska, wader the arm name aad style of Koester & ajar, aad pamaaat to the provisions of chapter .eoaiBiled atatatea of Nebraska, of 1887. gov eraiac volaatary assignments for the beaeatof creaitora. I will, ia front of the Coart House in Colambas, Platte eoaaty. Nebraska, oa the 27tb Dat or Atbil, 1889, at 2 o'clock p. bl, offer for sale at public auction. laeieuowtas' jaaaa aaa tenemeats, to wit: ijots i (l sad twenty (3),ia ajoek ia the towa of Craatoa. Platte Tmtad that 3ath day of March. Iflea M.C. B&OKBoas. ItaabodiraMaa f ca tabU and warrated to workatirfctorily. "alTf lia5 lULin STOVES AXD RANGES ALWAYS FOR SALE AT Stllllll LOUP VALLEY l PODLTRY TABDS, i J. COLUMBUS. NEBR., Clinton C. Gray, Proprietor. LIGHT BKAHMAS, PLYMOUTH KOCK3, WYASD0TTE3. SlLYKit L.U'K1 oatl WHITE. LEHHOKN8. H1KULK COMB WHITE and HOSE COMB BKOWN. EiCK from th nboTc, .00 per IS, or fi.Ui per 3ft. MAMMOTH BKONZE TijB- . KEYS. 50 per . PEK1N DUCKS. LM) per 10. AH from the butt strains. Es Enressei u jwkere witl Safety ' Send for Circular. Feb.27-3mo for aala at fteaa ttt to BN-M Bar ana for caal aaie as low pries aata om raaaaaaate mtbw. am a complete of title to all real eettUe it HEBRASKA. 621 riU keep the Terjr ainaa ot SHERIFF'S SALE. from the district court of Platte Cooatr. Ne- hnukiL in it initomnnt nlitaiaul in Ik. A:mi- Hjr virtue of aa onler of sale directed to in the riiatrirt conn or riatte I ountr. Nebraska, on the 3h day of January 1 in favor of James McAllis ter Jr.. aa plaintiff, and gains J. L. Tripp aa defendant, for the sum of five Haadred aad Fifty-two dollars aad Seventy-asvea eeata. aad coete taxed at kM.30.aad accraiag costs, I have levied upon the following real estate taken aa the property of said defendant, to satisfy aakt order of sale to-wit: The south half of the north west quarter of section nine (), township six teen (14). north range two (2) west, the aoata east quarter of sectioa twenty-eight (38). tewa ship seventeen (17), north rang two (2) west, aad the north half of the natasaet qnarau uf "Uo?J? W owaaWp aijtaam ft6).aorth range two (2) wast, all ia Plane Ceaaty. Ne brsska, and will offer the aaaae for aale to the highest bidder, for rash in haad u tk Ah ,i of April A. D. 188. ia fmat of the coart aoaae ia i4iamims, Nebraska, that being the baildiaa: wherein the last term of court was held, at the hoar of one o'clock b. m. of saul W w ud . where due attendance will Im min.a hv tK.n, dersigaed. Dated Colamnes March 4t h. lsg. . . . M. C. BbOKDoax. Mar. Sheriff of aaidCoaaty. PROBATE NOTICE. In the matter of the estate of KleaaJeMea.de- ceaaed. Notice is hereby given, that the creditors of the said deceased, will meet the executor of said es-" tate. before me county jadge of Platte county. Nebraska, at the eoaaty coart room ia said coB,7 e "J1 d3r.of May. 18. oa the 2d day of Jnly. 18HS and oa the 29th day of August. 18ta at 10 o clock a. m. each day, for the purpose el presenting their claims for examination, ad justment and allowance. Six aseaths are allow ed for creditors to present their claims, aad oa year for the executor to settle said estate treat the 1st day of March. !. Dated March It. A. U 1S89. 20martt H.J.HCBSO!. Couaty Judge. PATENTS Caveats and Trade Marka aad all Pat- eat business conducted for MODEBATK FOB. J88SirUcP Is oppobitb iTs: PATENT vcritL. neoavenosaoagacise,au direct, neace we eaa transact pateat leas time aad at LESS COST taaata ironi -asaiagfoa. 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