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w R tf rfX j Columbus Sfouruitl. Katored at the Po8t-offioe.Colambaa,KbM aecoad-cl&as mail matter. IBSCKO KTZBT WXDXZSOAT BT K. TURNER & CO., Colurobus, Nel. M. TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Oas resr, by mall, postage prepaid, Six montha. Throe months, $2.00 1.00 . JO Payable in Advance. tSrSpecimen copies mailed free, on eppuca tioa. TO SCBS0&1BEB3. Wlien nbcriers change thnir place of roei denca they should at onoo notify us by leJ;rjSJ podtil canl,Kivin Ix.th their former ndtbou prw-nt iKMt-oaice,-Ue first enablwi ns to readily lad tho mime on our maUmft list, from which, brnnn in type, we each week print. heroa the wmxiT or on the margin of your,JOCIl?iAo,ine dte- to which yonr fmbscription lavaid or ac counted for. ItemitUince fhoald be made eithtr by money-order, registered letter or arait. pWs to th- order of & Cq TO CORKIUPONDENTS. All roaiamnications, to spcnre attention, mnrt b- ur.--.:niuil by U:o full namo of ti. voter. Wf r-.rvt, tho ncl.t to reject aDy nn.aurcript. .,.. .:f..,t asreo to rutnni the witne- e."' ' a' ...ir.-s-H,;:dcnt in every fchool-distu.t 01 Vlv's county, on of traod judcaient, and I n-lia':- ii every way.-Write plainly, each itcn separately. Givene facte. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1880. Thanksgiving Proclamation. To the people of the state of Nebraska: The time is drawing near -when, in nnrilnnin with n most annronriate cua torn, the people are invited to assemble in their accustomed places of religious worship for the purpose of offering up their homage and gratitude to the Ruler of the universe for Ilia manifold bless ings. Now, therefore, I, John A. Thayer, governor of the state of Nebraska, do is sue this, my proclamation, designating Thursday, the 27th Day of the present month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninetv, as a dav of thanksgiving and praise to the Most High. T trust that the iieople of this commonwealth will on that day cease from their usual avoca tions and, gathering in the sanctuaries, offer np devout thanks and songs of praise and invoke the continuance of His blessings. Let me most earnestly entreat all on that day especially to remember ihe poor and needy and to give to them of their abundance, and thus make their hearts glad, remembering that it is more blessed to give than to receive. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand aiid caused to be affixed the great seal of this state, Done at Lin coln, this 0th day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, of the slate the twenty-fourth and of the independence of the United States the one hundredth and lifteenlh. .John M. Thayek. .By the governor: Bnx Cowiey, Secretary of States. AUlU'HT Monday. Belmont died in Now York The Knights of Labor have declared for the Australian ballot system. Now look out for gore! tho Nebraska militia have been ordered to tho front. South Dakota now has a home Tor the needy old veterans or the state, open ed recently at Hot Springs. The king or Holland is dead. His death occurred Sunday, November 23, from softening of tho brain. Hukon the rival of Pierre, S. D., in the late capital contest is mad and talks contest and alleges much fraud. To Pror. Charles N. Thomburg Tails the honor of locating from an America observatory the now comet first seen in Italy Nov. 15. Who is to bo Nebraska's next gov ernor is a mooted question. There is no longer any doubt that tho independents mean business in tho matter of a con test. The gubernatorial chair of Wyoming is now vacant by reason or the resigna tion of Gov. F. E. Warren, as the result of his election to tho United States senate. Persons desiring to attend tho meet ing of tho National Farmers' Alliance at Ocala, Fla., may take advantage of a low rate to first-class passengers on that oc casion December 2. The Cherokee Strip Live Stock Asso ciation are about to sue the govern'-acut for S1,000,000 because of damages incur red by driving their cattle from the Cherokee Strip. "Road scuttiso" is the latest fad in athletics. A machine has been con structed by which tho propelling power is applied with same motion as a boat upon tho water. The opinions of experts all over the world are favorable to Prof. Koch's dis covery. If half that is claimed for it be true it is the greatest discovery in med ical science of the age. T. V. Powdeiily has been re-elected grand master workman by tho Knights of Labor at their session at Denver, and his salary reduced at his own request from $T,000 to $3,500 per annum. Very lively tunes in the lower house over tho speakership will bo witnessed at the coming session of congress. Of course the southern contingency of the democratic party will want to name the speaker to which the northern members will just as surely object. The wires are fairly kept hot announc ing Jay Gould to have captured another railroad, all of which Gould just as in dustriously denies, but he is evidently on a great big still hunt just the same, and railroads on all sides are dropping to hes little hatchet. Official invitations to the world's fair are being prepared to be sent to those whom the government desires to honor with its notice. They will be en graved on extra heavy paper and decor ated with the American eagle and motto, " E Plnribus Unum. The annual report to tho secretary of the navy by tho chief of constructor shows our naval armament to mciiuk eleven new steel vessels and one first class torped boat, with three great coast line battle 6hips that in point of arma ment will make foreign powers fairly green with envy. Whateveb shall be the outcome of the present Indian troubles, one fact seems patent that so long ag one of the race hall remain on the face of the earth they are destined to be .a frequent oc curring source of alarms, of murder and rapine. They grasp and apply the idea of the coming Messiah with a savagery worthy their ancestors of two centuries ago. Civilization does not "seem to be making any great strides toward civiliz- Fourteen Times a High Taxes. The Sheffield (England) Telegraph has been interviewing some oitizens and manufacturers of that great center of the British iron and steel trade who ae compan. 3 the members of the Iron and Steel infc-itute on their visit to the Uiri 'd uUtea. It is with great pleasure that we transcribe certain passages of these interviews. Mr. George Senior was asked by the reporter: 'Can you give me any idea as to the cost of living in America?" Mr. Senior responded quickly: "In Chicago I saw meat ticketed at from 4 to 12 cents per pound, and this was about the New York rate. I might say that in Chicago I saw four or five hundred fine fat cattle sold at 3 cents ier pound, taken alive. Bread and meat are much cheaper than in England." 'What is your opinion of the condition of the workmen in the United States?" 'Men work in our own trade (iron and steel) much harder and steadier than in England. The workinginen earn bigger wages and tho artisan proper is much better off than his brethren in England." Mr. Senior employs a great number of workmen in Sheffield; his testimony, therefore, is unimpeachable. Moreover, he is a free trader. The reporter asked him this question; wo beg the reader's attention to it and the answer: "Do you think the prosperity of the American wornman is cuueou uy mo vy eration of the protective Gystem?" "I have given the most careful con sideration to this matter," said Mr. Senior, "and I have foimd that people of means who are not engaged in trade are free traders." We beg a consideration of this testi mony; tho "people of means who are not engaged in traile are freetraders." That is to say, the rich who consume but do not produce. The gamblers, whether in stocks or cards, the rich and idle, who wish to hire cheap servants and to pur chase aheap luxuries. The inonoy sharks or Wall street. The moneyed nabolw. But tho men who pay or receive wages arc not free traders. As to why so many farmers are protec tionists Mr. Senoir says: "They argue .that it is better to be saddled with a lit lie more expense for clothes than to Ik? called upon to bear the heavy taxation imposed in England. The average taxation of America does not exceed six jienco (twelve cents) per acre." The average taxation per acre in Great Britain is JUST FOURTEEN TIMES AS HIGH AS IN AMERICA, being (see Mulhall's Dictionary of Statistics, page 8,) heven English shillings of twenty-four e.intfi e.nrli iwr nnm. Mr. Senoir is a gen trader, and Mr. Mulhall is a free trader, and both of them are Englishmen. We submit their conclusive testimony to the considera tion of American free traders who tell t lie American Tanner that he is "taxed bv tho tariff." and we ask them: Is there one article for which the American farmer pays fourteen tituett the price paid by the British farmer? We have shown that t ho British farmer pays four teen times as much tax on each acre of ground as is paid in Ameiricn. Inter Ocean. The Honduras Revolt. Tho following telegram from the seat of tho recent tronblo in South America shows the part taken by Americans in tho little rupture and the casualties to the same: The insurrection of General Sanchez, which was quelled by the recapture of the arsenal and the capture and shooting of the insurgent chief, resulted in a se rious -loss to the American colony, the gallant Colonel Alden II. Baker of New Orleans being killed, and Henry Smith of Georgia wounded. The tragic events leading up to this sad loss to the small number of Americans here have been brewing for some time. Some weeks ago the Americans in Honduras sixty in Tegucigalpa and about two hundred in tho republic signed a paper agreeing to support President Bogran in case an effort at revolution should be made. Bogran was not at tho capitol when the etneute occurred, but as soon as the news reached him he hastened to the vioinity of Tegucigalpa and began to organize a force for his capture. The soldiers from other departments were called to his assistance, the people rose in their favor and the Americans rallied tohisjstandard from ail parts of the republic, bringing with them their Winchesters. On the 15th the troops of the president recap tured the palace, after stubborn fighting, in which the Americans bore a conspicu ous part. On the 14th Fort Lena was stormed. Tho arsenals and barraoks were carried by assault on the 18th. Fanchez escaped from the city, but was promptly pursued, captured and shot, thus ending a brief, bloody and hopeless revolution. The general president of the republic has acknowledged in a general order his thanks to the American volun teers for their powerful assistance. Another Big Combine. At Chicago the other day was organ ized what is announced as one of the largest companies of the kind in the world, tho charter of which has already been filed. A dispatch says: "The new company will lie known as the American Harvester company, for tho manufacture of harvesting machinery, with capital stock of $35,000,000. Among the direct ors will be Silas H. McCormick, Win. Deering, Walter A. Woods, Lewis Miller, A. L. Conger and A. S. Bushnell. Con ger, when questioned by an American press reporter, 6aid the present demoral ised condition of the harvester business necessitated the formation of the com pany. Many failures have occurred during the past few years entailing im mense losses. The cost of materials has leen advancing so that it is necessary either to raise the price of machines to farmers or through economy produce and distribute them more cheaply as it is the pu prose of this new organization to do. It is less in the interest of bind er manufacturers than of the fanners themselves that tho latter should obtain binder twine at reasonable prices and the hope of effecting this object is one of the important reasons' for the forma tion of this company. We do not ex pect tc .jck competition but shall pos nibly . ry on the manufacture of the j ut machines at several different works. It is understood Mr. McCormick . ill be president of the new company." Will Test Its Efficacy. Through the agency of Dr. Loeber and the Touro Infirmary at New Orleans con, sumptives will very shortly be afforded the opportunity of testing the efficacy of the reputed wonderful panacea of Dr. Koch,, the eminent German physician for-the-insidious disease of consumption. Dr Felix Lober was in Berlin during the past year, and while there embraced-the chance presented to him of hearing Dr. Koch lecture on the cure. Several days ago Dr. Koch reached final results. Dr. Loeber at once sent for some of the lymph used in the practical application of the treatment, and this, it is expected, will reach here in ten days or two weeks, the announcement k made now that the Touro Infirmary is making arrange ments to establish a ward in its hand souiely appointed institution where con sumptives may have the benefit of the inoculation. As soon as the lymph ar rives the public will be notified of the oiening of the ward. Worth ResMBtorlag. They who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order, are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order. -fDr. Blair. He that comoliea against hi will U of hU own opinion etui. Hndibrtu. Ho makes it the utmost completion of an ill character, to bear maleviolence to the best men. f Pope. Light minds undertake many things without completing any. Crabb. Consult the acutest poets and they will confess that their quickest, most admired conceptions were such as dart ed into their minds like sudden flashes of lightning, they knew not how nor whence. South. It rmtlv car thy aaaia concerns secure: Thing of lea BBoment may delay; endure. Denham. To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents time,indas try and facilities. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance, or fortuitous concourse of partioles of matter. Hale. Without art the noblest seeds Of flowers degenerate into weeds. -IButler. The self -existent being must of neces sity contain in himself the sum and highest degree of all the perfection of all things. Clarke. I seem, for my own part, to see the be nevolence of the Deity more clearly in the pleasures of very young children than in anything else in the world. tPnley. 'Tia not in mortals to command huccpmi; Hut we'll do more, Semproniuw: we'll dtWrve it. Addison. "fit distance lends enchantment to the view. And robes the mountain in it azure fane. Cnmiliel!. When doctor disnirree. Uisciolex then are free. -Old Proverb. It ia an ill wind turns none to good. ITnsser. Tobacco Caltar. The successful maturing of a crop of five acres of excellent tobacco, raised by Messrs. Wells & Nieman on their farm near Schuyler demonstrates the fact that good tobacco can be raised in this sec tion of Nebraska. As a good crop of tobacco will bring from $20.00 to $30.00 per acre, and can be raised at a profit far exceeding that attending the cul tivation of corn, or any other crop now grown in this vicinity, it should engage the attention of enterprising fanners. It is, however, a crop requiring nice cul tivation, but much of the labor of pre paring it for market; that of stripping, assorting anil packing it, can be done in the winter months when other fann work is not pressing. Mr. John Gar nesi, an experienced tobacco grower who has had charge of the cultivation of the crop grown by Wells & Nieman says, "that there is no doubt, but that its cul ture here will be a success. The interest manifested by Messrs. Wells & Nieman in introducing and promoting new in dustries in our community should le seconded by every enterprising citizen, as no doubt it will be. Schuyler Herald. A Wise Cosment. Geo. M. Pullman, of Chicago, in an interview the other day, speaking of the McKiniey bill had this to say: "If the wage-earners' tariff bill had been passed six months earlier the result of the re cent election would have been different Tho democrats made the best of the short time left for discussing the law, and succeeded in alarming many voters. As eoon as the law has bad time to ope rate fully its beneficial effects will be seen and tho people who were needlessly alarmed will no doubt regret their pre mature action in condemning the meas ure. The idea that such a law could be put into operation satisfactorily in a month was simply preposterous. Our legislators in congress evidently did not take the short time between the passage and the election into consideration. A tidal wave of apprehension seems to have swept over the country and resulted in republican defeat But in a few months the sentiment in regard to the law will change decidedly. It is a good law, and will help the country." M'Ktaley Is Keapoaslble. A Richmond, Ind., special of recent date Bays: Yesterday a special train went up the Richmond division of the Penn sylvania Road, composed of the special cars of John F. Miller, of this city, gen eral superintendent of the Pennsylvania system west of Pittsburg, and Joseph Woods, general manager of the same. Its destination was El wood, a little town in the gas belt that a syndicate of Penn sylvania officials propose making a man ufacturing city. The mission was to make a deal with some English capital ists to locate there the first of many large tin plate manufactories that will come to this country as a result of the McKiniey bill and the deal was con snmmated. It will employ about 400 persons, of whom 250 will lie skilled workmen brought from Wales. Several smaller tin plate concerns have been started, but this they claim, will be the first large one in the United States. Made a Faaper is a Secoad. R. T. Meadows, of Bledsoe, Tenn.. hav ing sold his farm and stock, was seated by the fire talking to his wife about their contemplated trip to Texas, whether they were going to make their future home. Meadows pulled out his money, which was in large bills, and proceeded to count the amount. When he had laid down his last bill on the hearth someone opened the doors, and a gust of wind carried his all in the fire. Before Meadows could rescue any of his cur rency it was in ashes. He had convert ed all bis possessions into cash, and in a twinkle all was lost. Backlea's Araiea Salve. The best salve in .the' world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guranteed to give perfect satisfac- tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents J per box. For sale by David Dowty. 3 No More Ba?e Tattle. Among other items in the new census report, nothing is of more interest to farmers, or more significant than the portion relating to stock. It brings out fully the change in the method of stock raising which has taken place in the last few years, and shows that range cattle are becoming a thiug of the past. With the constant encroachments of the home steader and the fann, the mining towns and cities that are springing up all over what was jjuce almost a boundless range, the days of vast herds, and, to a great extent, of the cowboy, are numbered. Thus the evolution goes on; first the savage and native buffalo, then the half wild cattle and their half civilized at tendants; and then the farm and city civilization. Where the vast territory in its wild condition supported a few, millions under civilization will lead peaceful and happy lives. The enorm ous number of cattle needed to supply our markets will now have to lie produc ed on the farm, instead of on the wild range, and the farmers all over the country will get the benefit of thus hav ing one of their strongest competitors driven out of the market. Farmers Home. The very latest news from the seat of war make it almost certain that there is no longer danger of a general uprising of the Indians, though the Messiah crazo and ghost dances have not abated, but on the contrary seem to be spread ing to all of the different tribes of Ne braska and the Dakotas. But whilo this is a faot it does not necessarily mean that the Indians have decided on the warpath, nor do their actions bear out ench a conclusion. Hkhf. ia what the head of one of the largest dry goods houses in the southern states has to say of, the McKiniey bill: "Democratic newspapers have disin genuously and universally represented the McKiniey bill as having already rained the prices of many articles, even those upon which the tariff had leen actually lowered, while in fact, there is scarcely an article on sale (certainly none in my house) which can not now lie bought at precisely the same or less prices liefore the passage of the bill." The test case at present before the supreme court of the state of Tennessee to decide the rights of the Seventh Day Advent ists to ignore and violate the Christian Sabbath without liecoming amenable to the laws against Sabbath breaking will lie watched with interest by the christian world as well as by the adherents of this sect, who are estimated to number one million bouIs in the Uni ted States. The case will no doubt go to the United States supreme court. Nkw Youk has another murder to dis pose of and the supreme court of the United States will agaiu have to pass on the constitutionality of the electric exe cution law of that state. It is to bo hoped the country will not lie treated to a repetition of the sickening scenes sur rounding the execution of Kemmler whatever the decision may be. The infant state of Wyoming has named her two United States senators. A threatened deadlock- was averted by a giving way to the claims of Gov. F. E. Warren who was elected as a colleaguo of Hon. J. M. Carey, territorial delegate at the time of Wyoming's admission. Both of the new senators-elect are staunch republicans. Of course the big combine established the other day at Chicago representing 835,000,000 and having at its head the millionaire manufacturer, Silas H. Mc Cormick, is not a trust. But farmers may be excused for some slight skepti cism touching the benefits to come from a combine, though avowedly in their in terests. That old Sitting Bull with his wily schemes of deviltry will ever bo any thing but a sourco of trouble to the government and a terror to settlers does not seem probable and bis incarceration for the balance of bis days might be viewed in the light of a blessing to his tribe as well as to the American people. The courts of California have given the boycott a black eye. This method of carrying a point savors too much of "bulldozing" to meet much favor with fair minded people, and it is pleasing to notice that it is not consistent with the laws of the country. Wall street is again quiet and its quite gratifying to notice that the conn try at large has suffered but little, while the brokers can count their crippled by hundreds and the number of those who have gone to eternal smash is by no means small. Washington letter. From oar regular correspondent.) The secret is out at last, and there i;i no longer any mystery as to the democratic howls for a recount of the population of New York City, by the census bureau. It is not because they hope to gain au additional memlier of the house, and one more vote in the electoral college for the state of New York. They are playing for much larger stakes. The scheme is to create such a hubbub over this recount that congress will pass a resolution ordering it, and then for the milk in the cocoanut the postponement of the congressional apportionment until the Fifty-second congress meets. They know that an apportionment bill such as Representative Dunnell's will give the republicans from 17 to 19 additional representatives in the Fifty-third cou gress and an equal number of votes in the electoral college which will elect the next president, and they are playing a bold game in order to prevent the pres ent congress making the apportionment at the coming short session, and to get the apportionment into their own hands. But it is a decided waste of energy. The first business of the republican house, which meets December 1, will be to perfect and pass a fair aud just ap portionment bill based upon the returns of the eleventh census. The bill intro duced by Mr. Dunnell at the last session will necessarily have to be somewhat changed because the population of the country fell below the estimates upon which it was based, but there is not the slightest danger that democratic howls can succeed in having the bill poeponed. Everybody here is talking reciprocity. The new Spanish minister, Senor Miguel Suarez Guanes, has arrived here, been presented to the president and has al ready opened negotiations with Secre- tary Blaine looking towards a reciproci ty treaty between the United States and Spain, which will of course, include Cuba. In his speech to the president the new minister made it very plain that his government was anxious to have reciprocity, and privately he has talked even plainer. Negotiations are also in progress with several other countries, notably those of Central and South America, and it will not be surprising it the senate shall be called upon to ratify four or five reciprocity treaties before the expiration of the Fifty-first congress. The joint senate and house committee, authorized at the last session of con gress to visit the Pacific const for the purpose of investigating the alleged vio lations of the Chinese immigration law, have left here in charge of a deputy sergeant-at-arms of the senate and ac companied by a clerk and a stenographer to take down the testimony taken by the committee. The first meeting is to be held at Spokane Falls, Waslungton, where Senator Squire will join them. They are to visit in the order named Takoma, Seattle, Port Townsend, San Francisco, L03 Angeles' and San Diego, and expect to return to Washington about Christmas. The president spends the greater por tion of his time just now in the prepara tion of his annual message to congress, which promises to be an unusually in teresting and important document, but he takes time to confer with republican senators and representatives, who are arriving quite rapidly, in order to get the benefit of their advice on the sub jects whioh he proposes to treat in his message. It is thought that within a week or ten days the most of the republican sen ators and representatives will lie here, and it is proposed that a conference be held to decide upon the legislation of the coming sessions. It is known that the President will take strong grounds in ins message lor tne immeaiate passage of the apportionment bill and the ship ping bills, and it is believed by many that he will also urge the passage or the federal election bill by the senate, but there are some doubters as to tho last measure. Postmaster General Waiiamaker has weathered the financial storm in spite of the determined effort of Jay Gould and tho Louisiana lottery company to break down his personal credit, and I am told by a banker that Mr. Wanamaker's credit is as good as it ever was. This attempt to bring almnt the private finan cial ruin of a public official because of his official acts is one of the most dis graceful in our history. Mr. Gould dis likes Mr. Wanamaker liecause of his advocacy of a postal telegraph system and the lottery folks regard him as the author of their ruin, so they combined for revenge. The purpose leing to force Mr. Wanamaker into bankruptcy. But it was useless. The lottery law is on our statute books to stay, and Mr. Wana maker will take a more advanced stand than ever, in his annual report, in favor of a postal telegraph. I heard a gentleman say today that the president had decided UM)ii the suc cessor to the late Justice Miller, and that his name would go to the senate immediately after congress meets. The gentleman's relations with Mr. Harri son are such as to leave no doubt iu my mind. He would not tell tho name of the new justice, in fact he wouldn't admit that he know it. IN MKMOltlAM To the Memory of Jhuicm Luird. the Devoted Sou, the True Friend, the Loyal Sol dier, the Unswerving Republican. The following touching tribute was delivered in tho United Statee senate, September 18, 1890, by Senator Charles F. Manderson: Mr. President, death, that "sinless, stirless rest that change which never changes," is the common lot of all."It is as natural to die as to bo born," and yet its happening 6eem often and unnatural, and in no case bo markedly as when it comes to man at the ago when muscular strength, mental vigor, and vinle ca pacity should be at tho maximum. To the child, with its undeveloped forces, delicate frame, weak mentality, and slight resisting power, the change comes so easily that it is almost the ex pected. To the old man, with emasculat ed energies, worn-out body, enfeebled physical and mental powers, who has reached the time 6poken of by the preacher, when he is "afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper 6hall be a burden, and desire shall fail," the great transi tion comes as a relief and seems as natural as the fall of some treo in the forest, whoso dead top and bare, spectre like arms, lifted beseechingly toward heaven, tell of the sapless trunk and the dead heart. But we expect nourishing shade, the springing of the leaf and bud and tiower when root and trunk and branch show the vigor of maturity without, decadence of strength, and when such a tree falls it carries all the sIiock of that impelling which is opposed to nature. The taking off of James Laird, my friend of many years, my comrade in a great cause and my colleague in oflicial duties, was not only the unexpected, but even after the lapse of so many months since his death it seems the un natural. Of sturdy frame, impressive personality, great vigor, impulsive force, aggressive power, he had that make-up, physical and mental, that seemed to im port a vitality that could conquer all enemies until such time as the resisting energy was sapped by the taking on of inaiiyyears. He was cast in mold so strong that one can not but exclaim Oli! what hat thou to do with crn-l Death, Who WRt m full of Ho-, or Death with thee. That thon nhouldst die before thou hatgroun old? "The days of our years aro threescore years and ten,"' saith the psalmist, but to my fiiend and comrade, to whom the dread summons came on the 17th day of August, 1S8S, there had been vouchsafed but little over twoscore years. James Laird was of Scotch ancestry. His father was a native of Scotland, a Presbvterian minister, a man of strong intellect, high attainments and an im passioned orator. He transmitted his keen Scotch sense of justice, intellectual power, and gift of eloquence to his son. When James was a small child the family moved to Hilsdalo county, Mich. He attended the district school and afterward entered the academy to receive instnictions from a teacher who afterward liecame his comrade in arms, and later bis associate in tho house of representatives and his colleague on the committee on military affairs, Gen. B.M. Cutcheon, of Michigan. The good father died while all his sons were young, and the mother was left with four small children to care for. The spring of 18C1 ushered in the great war of the rebellion. The two old est boyB were prompt to respond .to the call of arms, and although so .young the patriotic spirit of the third youth could not long be held in check. He enlisted as a private soldier on the 24th day of August, 1861, in Company K (Stockton's) Sixteenth Regiment of Michigan In fantry, but was soon transferred to Com pany G. In the autumn the regiment became part of the Army of the Poto mac, and the first battle in which the young soldier had a chance to prove the mettle in him was at Hanover Court House in May, 1862. Except when absent from wounds re ceived he did duty at the front until that proud day when with other partici pants he rejoiced over the surrender at Appomattox and the final triumph of the right. The story of the military career of this boy reads like a romance, almost chal- lenging belief, wniie yet in his teens he eerved for four years of aetive, vigor ous war and achieved the positions of sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieu tenant, captain, and brevet major, every promotion being given for bravery nion the field of battle. He received four gun shot wounds and one saber cut and was for a period a wounded prisoner of war. A more loyal aud devoted soldier to the cause for which he fought did not wear the bine. His intense nature al lowed no part performance of duty. His enthusiastic loyalty aud poetic temper ament made the llag of his country the symliol of all that was good. His com rades testify that his loving devotion to it was so strong that ho seemed to court the utmost danger and the most perilous places in its defense. Did time permit I would read by tho hour from letters received by me from his army associates, who loved him for his open manliness, pure patriotism, and heroic endeavor. After a separation of a quarter of a century they have not forgotten the youthful hero who won their hearts, and have sent mo their tributes to his mom ory. Mustered out July 8, 1865, he return ed to his home in Michigan, a battle scarred veteran, and yet a smooth-faced boy. While others of his ago had lieen at school, submitting to the teacher's will, he had been the impetuous, dashing leader of boarded men. He bad taken lessons from the great captains in tho " big wars that make ambition virtue." Ho had been hardened in "the flinty aud steel conch of war," and it was no easy task to bring bis turbulent spirit under the discipline of the school room and tho subjection of the master. A short time at the college at Adrian and then a course at the law school of the State University at Ann Arbor and ho was ready to begin life's battles on lielda more peaceful. With an associate he Itecame the owner of the Hudson Post and for iittout two years wielded the pen of th.- ditor of a country news- pajHr. it was MirongiN ami aggrF.flivl repuhlh'nn v. jollities, :md its vigorous editorials evidenced the puguacnui-t spirit of the young manager. In .lime, 1S71. .I:ij. Laird was admit ed to the bar of the Mate of Michigan, ami for a time practiced law at. Lans ing. In July. 1S7"J. lit turned his face westward and settled at luniata, Neb., removing after a few years to Hastings, where he iied until his death. He was in tluv active practice of his profession until his election to the Forty-eight h congress. He practiced law as he fought in bat tle. He attached himself to his client ami his causo was a loyally that knew no shadow of turning. He threw his whole soul into the case on trial. While never a bookish lawyer or a close student of the law he had a mind that grasped the legal situation with power, and the staying, fighting quality that wins con troversies. 4 He was a Kwerful advocate, armed with eloquence so enchanting that jurors became his captives. ilo won the respect and admiration of his profe.sional brethren by the ojven fairness of his contests. Giving sturdy blows, he asked no quarter. Chicane and finesse were we.q-:is lie did not know how to in-e.Ilit mr.iilme;-K, boldness. and fairness not only won clients but commanded tho respect of adversaries, the confidence of judges, and the admi ration of the public. Had he lived and continued the practice of law he would have become one of the leaders of the western war. In 1873 we sat together as members of the convention that framed tho consti tution of tho state of Nebraska, which is todav its supreme law. His services to the state in that body, composed or tho best material in the commonwoalth.were most important. He took front, rank as a debater, bringing to the performance of his duties industrious research aud much originality. Major Laird was an earnest republi can, possessed of a loyalty and sense of fealty that permitted no departure from its doctrines or disbelief iu its leading tenets. On the stump he was a mighty power, and the people cf western Nebraska will speak for many years of the music of his voice and the persuasive force of his oratory. After the aprjortionment based upon the census of 1880, when Nebraska was divided into three districts. Major Laird was nominated by the republicans of the Socond district as representative to the Forty-eighth congress. His canvass was 6no of great vigor and force, and be was elected by a good majority, rlewas elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first congresses, and every time ho wont before the people of his district bearing the standard of his party he in creased hiB majority. His congressional career was signally brilliant, being characterized by that fearlessness that was his leading trait aud marked by an ability that won for him frienda on both sides of the ai3le of political division. He was an active member of the committee on military affairs and on jwusions, and was tireless and constant in his efforts for his com rades. No ex-soldier ever appealed to him in vain, and his generoun nature could refuse nothing to the suffering or dependent. He lived so close to his constituents that he felt the warmest sympathy for and was devoted to the interests of the frontier settlers who. with such infinite lalwr and such terrible sacrifice, were carving out the great empire of the west. His appeal to congress to do justice to the settlers on the Knevals lands, who. holding patents from the government, were about" to be driven from their homes, sounds like a trumpet call. He said: 'It is difficult for a man having a face to-faco knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the settlers to speak with that temerance that befits the language of judgment when discussing the wrongs perpetrated on these people now aoout to lie dragged from their homes, after having been harrassed and impoverish ed by jjears of fruitless litigation, in which they have lieen driven from court to court in the name of 'justice.' "Is there no voice that pleads his cause who bravely holds his way along the front of civilization, laying deep aud strong the foundations of a mighty state? From the toil and strife or these men sprang Kansas and Nebraska, the first anti-slavery states, even as in the olden time sprang the avenging Marius T...-...1 lm lnct finil ticdiou' " from the ' dust and ashes. -Mr. Speaker, these men are my con stituents: they are more, they are my neighbors; they are still more they are inv comrades," for in the heroic days nearlv nine-tenths of them were Union soldiers. This will not prejudice their cause with yon, men of the south, for you were brave and must be just and generous." In the Forty-ninth congress he made another heroic and at last a successful effort on behalf of those settlers, going to tlie house on crutches, suffering from a severe accident from which he never fuliy recovered. One of his most notable contests, the conduct of which endeared him to the west, was his attack upon the. methods of the general land office during the last administration. -He repudiated in a vig orous manner the charge that a great majority of the entries of tho public lands were fraudulent, and that the great west was made up of land thieves and perjurers, and was bitter in his denunciation of the outrageous spy system that became in so many instances merely a method of levying blackmail. His leading traits were courage and loyalty, and both were fully exemplified What is iHHHHflHHaluHHBBH Gastoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Inliuita aud Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys AVorms and allays feverishncss. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea aud Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation aud flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas toria is tho Children's Panacea-the Mother's Friend. Castoria. "Caatorta is an excellent mmliciao for chil drea. Mothers have reyealeJly to!d iue of iu good effect upon their children." Da. O. C Osgood. Lowell, Sitfcii. ' CastorU U the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. 1 hope tho day U not far distant whea mothers wIUconslderthKnsd Interest of their children, and uio Ciatoria in stead of the various quack nostrums which ura destroying their loved ones, by forcingopiuiu, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful ageaU down their throats, thereby waiua? them to premature graves " Dtt. J F KwcncLOK. Conway. Ark. Tke Cetnr Company, 11 COLUMBUS LUMBER CO. S. K. HOWELL & CO. lV.i!ii in Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors, P.LIXns. CK.MKXT. LIMK. FIHK i:i!UK. VV. CLAY. MUiKLK IH'ST, WHITK SAND, PORT LAND :ml MILWAl'KK!': t'KMKNT. :m.l ALL KINDSoilU'ILDlNC MATHUiAL. THIRTEENTH ST., COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. S.-t.-l '1H.. i; inn. II 1TIIE NEWI FURNITURE STORE ! H.Wi NEW, STYLISH BOOKERS. r PICTURE FRAMES FURNITURE 1 'oit. Nm. Ar. .VTiintrn-NTii Sr., Opposiif I ! i'.irl.. in his at-tioit in th. rolehrateil nt.-loIm Porter case. He hail nervel with (jen. Porter in hin youth, and, fortunately ier hapB, wau absent, vouuile.l, ait tho time of the battle when his general played the role of a npeetutor and not that of a participant, iiih constituency, aiiiio:u ( to a man, condemned the effort to rt-ntoie the displaced commander to the army list, but Laird had a lioyiah enthusiasm for the chief who led him tir6t into bat tlo, and espoused his cause with a de votion so true and a bravery so marked that criticism upon hie course wau a! most disarmed, tteforo he mode hia speech upon tho Porter relief bill many threatened him with political extinction if ho continued to stand by thw bill. His reply wao so admirable that I can not refrain from quoting it- "Let oio remark to the gentlemen who seek to bring the menuaco of future pur isbment to bear upon tho diediarj.ju of present duty, that if I know thia act of mine would end my bodily existence. a you say it ma; rii.l my otlicial .mo, th.ri shall I do it. and would thank C.od that my loyal t.v t. inv country, . I uii.Im stiind in duly; that my loyal t. l !! truth, as I I.ii.iw it to b. v. a., attoiii' enough to lift my conduct .ib.u- the p eibility of the inomuitou-.. ch:u.; come fioni cowardly conaidi-r.itioiu . fectinif my life or future condition. The threatened imn.-ilnin at n- came tn him. While lib coutiitiieiitt. condemned lun tote thev a.iiniif ! and' applauded the courage r hid woi.i . :m.i ; his affectionate fe.-.llv to hi.i old emu J mander. I There wan a depth in the nature of lamed Laird .sounded onl by a Teiv in tiiiiatcs. lie wai; not one to .. I will .-ir inj ln-art ti;.nti iiij s!n-w I'nr ii,is to 'i !. .-.!, and yet to those who had his fullest con tideiice lie would show that under the somewhat rujfjjed exterior there was a love of the beautiful in nature and art that led to gentle deeds. The same prompting that taught him with deft lingers to arrant' the (lowers he loved into beautiful and attractive forms led him to cull on! the most ten der anil delicate ir the poets for the en joyment of hinibelf and his chosen ii:ti mates. He had exquisite .sensibilities of which the many knou not hint;. To me there is something pstif ul in the loneliness of the last few years of Ins short life. He had no near relative liv ing at the time of his death. Ho was last of his race. The father, the strong prearifcer, died in his youth. His two oldest brothers were killed on the Held of honor near his side in the early days of the war. His yountrer brother died of a distressing accident some years atro. There was left to him no km save the dear old Scotch mother, to whom her l)oy Jamie"' was all in all. How fondly he cherished her. She made her home with him, and desolation entered tho door when her form was carried through it to the lone couch of her everl.-istint; sleep. After her death he heldom spoke of her, but when he did it was with a wealth of rich devotion to her memory. But the reunion has come tn them, and til" him. as I 1-elieve, full recompense for the losses and deprivations of this traiihitory life. The t,'ain is, his, the loss is ours. His community mourns for a iood citizen departed; his state lamentKforan efficient servant lost; I sorrow Tor the taking away or a true-hearted. selT sacri ficing friend. Knollsii Spavin Liniment rwnovfti all '. hard, soft or calloused lump;; and Idem-' ishe.i from horses, Jilood Spavin, Curbs, ' Splints, Rinfj Hone, Sweeney. Stifles, , Sprains, Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, etc. Save ?.ft bv use of one lint tin 'nrr mt-il tin. .nl ,. ...... I...-',. I ootiie. n arrunieti me most uouilerim Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by O. .. . . . , E. Stillman, druggist. 2tnovlyr tit Castoria. " Castoria is so v 11 adapted to children that I recommend it ujauperior toany predcriptloa aooantoinu." H. A. Aucii.M. D.. !U So. Oxford St., Urooklyu. N. Y. "Our physicUaa iu tho children's depart ment have siwVeu highly of their experi-eu-v in Iheir outsUu practice with Castoria, and idthousti wo only have anjonj? o:;r iiifitcal supplies wluU Is Ixown as regular p.-.JucUi. vol wo uro fruo to eonfess that lha merits of Caatona has on us to look IU favor uKJ!. it " U.NITtU llosl-lT.il. iSD Dl3k--fc.SAUl Uojtoa. alius. Aujcn C Surrii. tie:.. Murray S treat, Now York City. 1 KIM' MM- OK MADE TO ORDER. REPAIRED. F. W. HEBKICK. !) Dr. A, J, Sanders, .-V Alht -i; i'1..Vi??S,.:-i t .& :' nA m mm. ! 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