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South Dakota alliance peple will con test the election of the entire ticket. Hevkt RooflE,n Seward county farmer has decamped with one neiplHMir's wife and another nefabbor's money. SowniwDT shottld offer a dironio to the democrat elected to the next house who is not a candidate for speaker. The close of the Stanley-Bart lelot Jameson controversy will probably be simultaneous with that of Mr. Stanley's American lecture tour. AccoRMxn to exiert testimony Stan ton county is short in the affairs of clerk and treasurer between 1S80 and 1890 in round nnuibcrs $4,794.09. It is estimated at the treasury depart ment that the public debt, less cash in the treasury, has been increased about $4,000,000 since Xovemlier 1. The South Dakota alliance has declar ed in favor of the Australian ballot system and demand of their legislature this winter enactments to carry the same into force. A mail robber who proved to le D. Haidley, alias Ben Cline of Denver, was captured in the Cheyenne, Wyo., post office Saturday morning in the act of ritling letters at the mailing case. Tns Pan-American Steamship line plying between Galveston and South American ports in the banana and gen eral fruit business has been established at Galveston, Tex., with a capital of $5,000,000. The collections of internal revenue during the first four months of the cur rent fiscal year aggregate $51,028,280, being an increase of 4,245,290 over the collections during the corresponding period of last year. If the report of U. P. officials that the Nebraska division of the road has thirty four new engines ready for business and 140 more nearly completed, is trve what's the matter with eetting a few of them hauling coal for the said Nebraska division? The site of old Andersonville prison is now the property of E. S. Jones Post. G. A. R of Maoon, Ga. An elegant club houso will be erected on the prop erty and every point of special interest will be marKed by a suitablo monument or bnilding. The remains of Freeman B. Crocker, president of the board of public works at Denver, Col., who disappeared about a week ago Sunday, were found Sunday forenoon in a corn field about four miles from the city, where ho had committed suicide by stabbing himself with a pock et knife. JorxjE Hicks at Minneapolis rendered a decision wiping out the secret order of the Knights of Aurora and snstained the charges of fraud, insolvency and unlaw ful practices made in connection with the management. A receiver will be ap pointed. Tho society is strongest in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Ne braska and Kansas. The grounds on which the great Yale-Princeton football game was played Thanksgiving day was the scene of a frightful accident, caused by the falling of the large free stand. About 2,000 persons had seats on the structure at the time, and strange to say while the casualties in the way of broken limbs, dislocations, etc., were terrible no lives were lost. The annual report or Secretary Noble which has leen submitted to the presi dent, among other interesting matter . gives the intelligence that there are still over 586,21(5,801 acres of vacant land in the United States, of which Nebraska has 11.226,584 acres. Nineteen million acres of agricultural lands were trans ferred to actual settlers the past year. The order has gone out from U. P. headquarters to retrench, and the ma chinery department "gets it in the neck" as a starter. It is calculated that about $18,000 a month will be saved to r Nebraska division which includes tho . shops' at Omaha, Columbus, Grand Is land, North -Platte and Sidney. Not a very cheerful outlook for the men who will be thrown out of employment at the beginning of winter. A big gingham manufacturing plant is about to be transferred from Scotland to this country. It has a working capi tal of $1,000,000 and employs 600 hands - all the year around. The Glasgow fac ' tory will not be closed, but the business will be greatly reduced. Operatives for the American establishment will not be brought over from Glasgow. They could not come here under the contract labor law. It is the operation of the HoEinley tariff that has caused the transfer. Txe following is the estimated strength in warriors at the agencies of the different Indian tribes reputed to be - affected by the Messiah craze and liable to go upon the war path: Cheyenne Hirer agency 2,646, Crow Creek and Lower Brule agencies 2.171, Devil's Lake agency 247, Fort Berthold agency 1,195,. Pine Bidge agency o,611, Boeebud agency 7,486, Sisseton agency 1,481, SUading Bock agency 4,119, Yankton ffetcy 1,790, waking a total of 29,718. All communications, to secure kn.!?1'", be Hoinpaniod by the full name of the writer. W- mr-.-rre the right to reject any :nanucnpt. I r.ot .; i to retort ,Ae JJe of The PresMeit's Message. This public document of President Harrison is usually brief, pointed and businesslike. It is not at all compli cated, but such a statement of public matters as will commend itself and its author to the good graces of all who in telligently read. The revenues of the country, during the year, amounting to above $450,000,- 000, have been collected and disbursed without revealing a single case of de falcation or embezzlement. This is an extraordinary record, and speaks well for the officers who are administering the business affairs of the country. After a brief summary of the business of each department, the president refers to the federal election laws, and declares his opinion on the same as positively as ever. He says that the defect in the laws is that they are not effective. The present stops just short of effectiveness. Everything of value in our system of government is last, and the purity of elections is not maintained. The presi dent's language on this subject is very clear and emphatic, and the congress, in this, if not in all his recommendations, should follow his advice. Judge Maxwell Decision. Tho following opinion was banded down by Judge Maxwell at a session of the supreme court held in Lincoln. It will prove of extraordinary interest in the great contest landing concerning tho state officers elect. The case is known as Tood vs. Cass county. The case is reversed and dismissed. Justice Maxwell's decision is as follows: 1. In order to establish the fact that illegal votes were cast at an election in a siecified voting precinct, proof must be offered by one or more witnesses having actual knowledge of such fact that per sons who were not legal voters did ac tually vote at such elections, and such witness or witnesses must designate such illegal voters. Where the proof merely tends to show that the witnesses do not know all the legal voters in the precinct, and therefore fails to designate certain voters :is illegal, it is insufficient to au thorize the rejection of such votes as il legal. 2. In contesting an election in court the allegations of the petition and proof must corresiKmd. In other words, the plaintiff must set forth in his petition tho names of the persons whose votes are claimed to be illegal, in order that issue may lie taken thereon. If such names are unknown at the time of bring ing the . jtion, the contestant afterward should obtain leave of the court to a...e-nd his petition, giving a list of the names of voters claimed to be illegal; and is the duty of the court to designate from the evidence the particular persons who having voted unlawfully. 3. Where ballots have been cast in the mode provided by law, the presump tion is that they are legal, and this pre sumption cannot be overturned by vaguo, indefinite and uncertain testi mony. The Uaality or Wheat. For a number of years it has behooved farmers who grow wheat to consult lead ing millers frequently as to the kind of barn preferred. To a superficial ob ssrver it might seem that wheat good at one time would be equally in demand at any other. This, however, is not the fact Fashions change in flour, not quite so often as they do in apparel, but with equally momentous results. Twenty-five years ago white wheat as full of starch as the kernel could hold com manded 10 to 20 cents a bushel more than any other. Tho demand was then for a nearly pure starch flour, and other materials were run through as waste products for hog and cattle feed. After a while tho fashion changed. New pro cesses were devised for making flour with a larger proportion of gluten, which is tho most nourishing and strength giv ing part of the grain. Then for a time red wheats commanded as much premi um as white wheat formerly did. At present the best flour requires a mixture of red and white wheats. The more starch the better for pie and pastry. The more gluten the better the flour is for bread. Many first-class modern mills use lx)th the oid buhr stones for grind ing, and the new iron rollers for making the roller process flour. The latter will always be best for bread making, and is always dearest, while the cheaper white wheat flour, mainly starch, is not only as good but much better for other pur poses: Ex. The fihost Dance as It Ik. The following is a description of the much talked of "ghost dance" of the In dians, which would seem to be no more than a sort of religious rite with nothing particularly disturbing in its observ ance: To a pole are tied offerings of bright calico in strips of two yards. The dan cers advance toward this shrine with uplifted hands, in supplication to God to keep them good and healthy. A prayer is then offered by the head medicine man, and a pipe is held ont with a prayer to God to smoke with them the pipe of leace. When it is discovered that the pipe is not smoked the dancers wail and sob and then commence dancing, holding hands. The dancers form a ring and dance around the shrine, their feet keeping time to a wierd and monotonous cry. In circling around with their eyes closed t'ey become dizzy, and when they cannot ance any longer, fall out on the gronu and remain lying there until t' y regain their consciousness and then they tell the medicine man what they aw when in spirit land. Outside of the fainting act, which is nothing but pretense and acting, the danco is nothing but a quiet religious ceremony, with less excitement than is often seen in a Methodist revival. The Indians dance with their clothes all on and with no ornaments whatever. They put on a cotton shirt with a big eagle painted on the back to take them to the spirit land when they faint. The fight between the Hill and Cleve land factions of the democratic party for the nomination in 1892 has begun in earnest and so far Cleveland seems to have the best of it, but bis opponent is a very "slick" politician, and he may yet succeed in downing the ex-president It is believed that Hill will be willing to throw whatever strength he may possess to anybody who can beat Cleveland if be "becomes convinced that be cannot do it himself. The campaign for the speaker ship of the next house will play an im portant part in the Hill-Cleveland fight, and it will therefore be watched with all the closer interest. ' Notice of contest has not only been given by Powers to Boyd but by the re mainder of the independent ticket to those announced as elected to state offices, that is, the whole republican ticket, except governor HTJMOK ON THE TARIFF. uFJi FrrktM" Gives His Vewtoa f Ma aa4 Aflaifa at Pi tat at. Melville D.Laadoa, better known aa "Eli Perkins," thus talked to a reporter of the Minneapolis Tribune about tariff and the Nebraska sugar industry: "The present tariff is havinga dreadful effect," I said the humorist, with a sarcastic twinkle in his eye. "I've come all the way from Pautuxet and Providence on theMerrimac, through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas and Nebraska, and PH tell you all about it On the train going to Ware, afasfc.where they make jerseys and knit goods, I met Ronton business man. He was all broken up. He fairly cried as he told what a misfortune the McKinley bill was to the country. It has ruined my busi ness,' he said." What is your business?" I asked. "I am a Boston importer, sir," he said; "one of the largest in Boston used to send $2,000,000 a year to Chemnitz, Ger many, for jerseys and knit goods, and now our business is ruined. We can't import these German goods any mora" "Well, what are you going to do about it?" I asked in deep sympathy. "Do," he said, "why I am going up to Ware, and I've got to make terms with those Ware Yankees to make these things." "And you'll spend the $2,000,000 in this country, will you?" "Yes, sir compelled to keep it in America." "Well, that is terrible," I said. "It is an awful shame that you noble Boston and New York importers can't send $600,000,000 every year out of this coun try, but are compelled by this miserable McKinley bill to spend it here and build up miserable American manufactures. It is sad,' and I actually shed tears of sympathy for this patriotic importer." "But the worst of all," continued Eli, almost tearfully, "the worst of all is the way those criminal farmers down in Ne braska are making white beet sugar and mining the Eastern importers: The Christian importer used to send out $50, 000,000 to Germany and Cuba every year for white sugar. Now what do you think this rascally McKinley bill has done? Why, it lets common black sugar come in free and pays a bounty of 2 cents per pound for home made Nebraska white sugar. And what is the result? Why, these rascal Nebraskaites, backed by the wicked farmers, have shipped expensive machinery from Germany, put in thou sands of acres of beets and are now turn ing out 200 barrels of white sugar a day. Yes, more, they have corrupted all that Platte River country and they are put ting up sugar machinery at Norfolk, Sioux City, Iowa, and Lincoln. Next year they will take millions of wheat and corn land and cover it with beets. More wicked workmen will flock there, they will raise the price of wheat and corn and meat in this country and keep $50, 000,000 a year from going to Germany and Cuba. Oh, it is awful how that dreadful McKinley bill is ruining this country! And then, bye and bye, when those wicked Nebraska farmers get to making sugar instead of wheat, why sugar will go down and wheat will go up, and then those sweet Christian importers who live in brown-stone houses in New York will have to handle American pro ducts or starve. Poor importers 1 What wicked, selfish American manufacturers and farmers they are who want to make everything cheap in the country, save all our own money and starve those poor European monarobs!" and Eli groaned and wiped his eyes with a red bandanna. "But where will this all end?" "It will end in wicked manufacturers makers of linen, oil, wool, glass, cotton, silk, clay, wine, and tobacco springing up all over the country. The poor im porter will be frozen out, the $600,000, 000 now sent to Europe will be expended hero, farm products will be eaten up here, money will be flush, land will go up and the wicked American farmer and rascally manufacturer will become rich, while the poor patriotic Christian im porter and his friends, the monarchs, will starve. Yes, Tm down on this wick ed McKinley bill. Yon hear me?" Finance aal Politics. It can not be denied that the financial outlook justifies serious apprehension. The money market abroad felt the Ar gentine shock so perceptibly that the Bank of England and the Rothschilds were forced in sheer self-defense to the rescue of the Baring Bros. The distress in Buenos Ayres was not relieved by that rescue. Not even the greatest fi nancial establishments of the world will attempt to bolster up the banking sys tem of the Argentine Republic, involv ing as it does the public funds and the private capital of that republic. Buenos Ayres, city and country, must go into liquidation. It is as if a receiver had to be appointed for government and people. There is no averting that It is as inev itable as the multiplication table. Mill ions upon millions of dollars, mounting into the hundreds of millions, have been loaned on all sorts of unavailable securi ties, and now at last the time for settle ment has come. Fortunately, none of that money came from the United States. Our trade there is insignificant, and no Argentine boomer of any wildcat scheme of finance ever so much as set foot on the United States in quest of funds. It may well be doubted if any of the money squandered in that bankrupt country came from our people, or if any of those securities 'are held by our banks or capitalists. However much benefits there may be in store for the United States from Pan-American recip rocity, it is a matter of National felicita tion that none of it preceded the burst ing of the Argentine bubble, one in comparison with whioh the famous South Sea bubble was merely the soap suds diversion of a child. If this country bad been so unfortunate as to have gotten into that swim, all our waters would have been covered with floats. It can not be denied that, even without any 'Argentine reciprocity, the financial sky of this country is darkened with ominous clouds. What will come of these declines and embarraatmenta so seer can foretell. But it is plain to see that we are reaping the harvest ot the aeeds of distrust which the demoorstio press has been sowing for months. To gain a temporary political advantage the anti-republican newspapers of the coun try were engaged for months in wrack ing credits. They nay think that the election returns vindicated the wisdom of that policy. It theirone supreme aim is to carry the nearest election, they may wU congratubjte thematlves. But the J price paid was high. The decline in values has been vast beyond all calcula tion, and the danger is not over yet Intrinsically there is no good reason why the American people should not be en joying today general prosperity. Crops were fairly good, prices higher, and all the strictly normal conditions are favor able to universal thrift But with the press of one of the two great parties ot the country sacrificing the general wel fare to gain a temporary advantage, a setback was inevitable. Inter Ooeaa. The sixth annual convention of the Nebraska Dairymen's association will be held at Pawnee City, Dec 10, 17, 18, 1890. The outlook is very favorable for a suc cessful meeting. Prof. W. A, Henry of Wisconsin willattend and read two pa pers. The Wisconsin experiment station annually expends thousands of dollars in the investigation of masters pertain ing to the'dairy industry under the di rection of Prof. Henry, who is director of the station, and Nebraska dairymen are to be congratulated in securing' the attendance of so able a man at their meeting. Among the prominent work ers froiuother states who will be present might be mentioned W. M. Lewis, presi dent of the Missouri Dairy association; Hon. Levi Chubbuck, secretary Mis souri State board of agriculture; M. E. Moore, Cameron, Mo., the owner of one of the finest Holstein herds in the west; J. F. Sawyer and J. H. Monrad of Illi nois. A hand separator for separating cream from milk will lie in practical op eration during the convention as will also the Babcock method of determining the butter value of milk. An interest ing program is lieing prepared and will be furnished for publication or sent on application. The people of Pawnee City are fully alive to the importance of the meeting and will do everything pos sible on their part to insure success. Pawnee Citv is located in the southeast part of ths state on the lines of the B. & M. and C, R. I. & P. railways. Nebras ka Farmer. Nebraska Wide-awakes are trying to secure the next meeting of the National Association or Expert Judges on Swine for tliis state. The Nebraska Farmer, always alive to the interests of the state, has this to say, in furtherance of the matter: "Nebraska is the coming great hog state, with corn and clover for founda tion. She is great even now in her youth, having this year brought more highly bred hogs into the state than has any other state, which is a fair indica tion of the character of her breeders. Lying on the borders of Iowa, Missouri and Kansas, Nebraska is more accessible than any western state, and Lincoln is the proper place for holding such meet ing. Will some of our breeders speak ont and agitate the matter somewhat through the Journal's columns in pur suance of its kind invitation? Expert Judd is now entitled to the floor. And the question is not so much, Is Nebras ka entitled to the meeting; nor does she want it, but will she make the necessary effort to get it And this phase of the question calls for agitation in these columns." We may add that the hog product of Nebraska just about represents the av erage net profit on Nebraska farms, and anythiug that will add to its value or to its certainty, will greatly enrich the state. Better breeding, aud the best of care and are of course the factors of success but just exactly what and how are not known by all Nebraska farmers. Let us have the meeting, and anything else that will tend to waken things up The following extract is from a letter written by a gentleman residing at Pine Bidge agenoy who is said to be well acquainted with the Indians and the causes which led up to the present troubles: "Agent Royer became frighten ed and called for troops before there was an actual necessity. The troops are here and an excuse must be given for their coming. Royer and Gen. Brooke have refused interviews to Big Road and other chiefs, when an informal talk would have in all probability en abled them to come to a peaceful under standing. The army method is too ar bitrary and the agents too timid. The result is that it the troops should be withdrawn the agent would be helpless, and all order and discipline would be lost; if they remain they must do some thing, but any move on their part means war at once. But for Gallagher's indif ference and Royer's timidity there wonld have been no trouble. As it is, blood shed cannot le averted without a mira cle." If tliia le a correct dioguosis of the case, then as has lteen aptly remark od, the government does appear to be in the fix of the traditional gentleman with a grip upon the lear'B tail dan gerous to hold and equally dangerous to let go. For a sensible departure in the sugar beet culture line commend us to the action of York county. The York Coun ty Agricultural association proposes to take up the question of sugar-beet cul ture and arrange for experimental work to determine the adaptability of the soil and climate of this county for the suc cessful production of this crop. They will furnish seed to the farmers through out the county and send samples of the crop for analysis, keep an account of the quantity and lay of the ground planted, cost of labor, manner of cultivation, yield per acre, etc., and will thereby de termine if it will be a profitable crop to raise. Quite a number of farmers are taking an active interest in the proposed test. The open college doors and the wide ly diversified fields to whioh women have been invited in this country are grander achievements than living men and wom en expected to behold. And now the contagion if we may be allowed to use the word is spreading. It will be well when all good things are contagious. Paris, we are told in a recent dispatch, has been aroused "to the wretched con dition of women" in that city and "the French government has organized a commission to inquire into the causes and alleviate their hard condition." In ter Ocean. The Irish home rule members of par liament mat the other day and a motion made that Pamell be re-elected chair man of the Irish parliamentary party carried unanimously. It was announced that Parnall will retain the leadership at at the express desire of his followers. It appears that the matter of contests is not to be left entirely to the independ ent party after all. Mr. Edward Bates announces that he must have a finger in that pie himself, and has commenced mandamus proceedings to compel the state canvassing board to canvass the re turns from the Sixth judicial district, where Mr. Bates was a candidate on the democratic ticket for judge, even if the call for such an election was omitted from the governor's proclamation. The final action by which the Union Pacific railroad was virtually turned over to Jay Gould has been taken in the formation of the new directory in the interest of the said Gould. In the light of past experience with this manage ment there isn't much chance to enthuse over the change, but let ns hope that the west will at least not suffer by it And, by the way, while we think ot It we will just rise to remark to Mr. Dillon that this section of the west wants coal and wants it d very bad. At the meeting Wednesday ot the Union Paoifio road at Boston, Charles Francis Adams resigned the presidency and also as director, and John P. Shaul ding, James A. Ruraeill and Samuel Carr, jr., also quitted tho directory, the vacant places being taken by Jay Gould, Russel Sage, H. B. Hyde and A. E. Orr. Sidney Dillon was elected president. It is said that all employes, from general manager down, are glad of the downfall of ex-President Adams. Upon the reassembling of congress one ot the first duties of the house ot repre sentatives will be to perfect and pass a congressional apportionment bill, based upon the population returns of the elev enth census. Under any fair apportion ment the republicans will gain from 15 to 20 representatives and the same num ler of votes in the electoral college, and this one is to tte made under republican auspices, which ensures in advance its fairness. The new constitution of Wyoming abolishes the office of probate judge, and when Judge Bergman ot Cheyenne was ordered to turn over the district records of his office he refused to do so and was sent to jail for contempt of court. This so weighed upon the mind of the judge that lie attempted suicide but only suc ceeded in putting ont both of his eyes. EDITORIAL NOTES. The remains of King William of Hol land will be interred at Delft tomorrow. Nebraska's representatives in con gress were all "on deck" at the roll-call of senate and house last Monday. The Nebraska City distillery came out on top in the tustlewith the whiskey trust tind will again resume business. The McChristy boy whom the New York police believed to lie the long lost Charley Roes, tnrnes out to lie another disappointment. Sugar beets raised in Cass county and sent to Grand Island for analyation were found to contain 14.0 per cent of pure sugar. OuiNrt to a financial crises in the Argentine Republic the premium on gold advanced last week from 225 to 250, and closed at the latter figure. Patriotic republicans tire spending more time in tryingto unite all branches and sections of the party than in decid ing who shall get the nomination in 1892. The United States supreme court has declined to interfere with New York state's law substituting electricity for the gallows in executing the sentense of death. Toe supreme court of Montana Mon day affirmed the decision of the lower court making John .A. Davis adminis trator ot the $5,000,000 estate of the late A. J. Davis. The stocks of wheat in country elevat org in Minnesota and the two Dakotas as computed by the Market Record Mon day aggregated 8,950,000, a decrease of 128,000 bushels. Capt. A. A. Booardus, the ex chain pion wing shot of the world, was married Saturday at Lincoln, 111., to Mrs. Lucy Heimer. of Philadelphia. This is the captain's second marriage. Inspector Byrnes said at New York Wednesday that one of his men is at Boston working on the Charley Ross mystery. It is alleged that the Ikjv is an inmate of one of the Massachusetts prisons. It has been decided bv a U. S. circuit judge that the Minnesota oleomargarine law, so far as it prohibits the sale of oleomargarine in original packages by the importer in Minnesota is uncon stitutional. The Universal Power Company, at Chicago, to manufacture motor cars and railway appliances, with a capital stock ot $1,000,000, filed articles of incorpora tion with the secretary of state of Illi nois Wednesday. Oscar Nef.be, the anarchist, is liable to be lilerated from Joliet. It is assert ed that the man who identified him as the distributor of the "revenge" circular has expressed his belief to Gov. Fifer that he was mistaken. From Superintendent Porter comes the announcement that the final revision of the census count places the popula tion of the United States at sixty-two million seven hundred and twenty-two thousand, two hundred and fifty. Senator Wade Hampton while out hunting in Washington county, Miss., the other day was accidentally shot by his son, McDuffie Hampton. The shots struck him in the head, inflicting pain ful but not serious injuries. A fatal disease prevails among horses in certain localities of Tennessee. The ceneral impression is the disease is caus ed by rotten corn. Horses die in several hours after being effected. The symp toms are like those of blind staggers. The disaffected reds are said to have taken to the sand hills. If such is the case, an old fashioned blizzard would do more to solve the problem of the dis turbance than all the muskets of the army on the ground. The dispatches say that the Messiah craze among the Indians has extended across the Canada border, and that the Canadian reds are coming to join forces with their red brothers and await the coming of the Indian savior. The financial policy of the alliance members of congress from the southern states waa defined by Mr. Piorce ot Tennessee at Washington the other day. The sub-treasury plan or something similar will be advocated to relieve the stringency in money. The Koch method is to be slightly ex clusive. Hundreds of applications of physicians for admission to the hospitals at Berlin to study the method have been refused on the grounds that it is not practicable to instruct successfully all who wish to learn the method. Mas. Partington (Benj. P. Shillaber) is dead, and many thousands who were admirers of r the kindly character of the well pictured old lady and amused by the illiterate, quaint, amiable dame and her pert and mischief-loving son Ike, will note the event with genuine sorrow. The people ot Burchard, Neb., and vicinity are alarmed over numerous cases of hydrophobia recently developed among both dogs and cattle. Probably a dozen dogs in the village have shown symptoms of madness, and have been, in consequence, slaughtered. The work of inspecting cattle for ex port, by the department of agriculture, is now fairly under way. The ports at which inspection is made are Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Newport, News. From August 23 to November 8, 100,000 head of cattle wero shipped to British ports. Fragments of a mastodon of tremend ous size were found by workman en gaged in digging a ditch near Manson. Among the bones unearthed at a depth ot fifteen feet were a molar tooth weigh ing between seven and eight pounds, and a tusk seven feet long. The animal was evidently amphibious. The lines of the poor boys in blue do seem to lie cast in very rocky places just now. Right in .the midst of the ruction with Messrs. Hit tiug Bull, Red Cloud, et al, conies the news that the Woman's Christian Temperance Union want the president to forbid the sale of beer and light wines at military garrisons. A committee of ladies, of which Mrs. Hughes of Arizona was chairman, ap pointed by the national convention of the Woman's Christian Tem(erance Union, called on the president and sec retary of war the other day and urged an order forbidding the sale of leer and light wines at military garrisons. Democrtic papers are wasting lots of space telling the president whathe should put in his annual message to congress aud what he should leave out. Mr. Harrison is competent to decide this matter for himself, and the republican party has confidence in his wisdom and knows from experience, the Iiest of all teachers, that he will do what is right. It appears that the government of Prussia is going to take a hand in the matter of Prof. Koch's lymph discovery. A bill is about to lie introduced in the diet which will provide for an adequate grant for bis discovery and looking to the establishment of an institute in which the Professor may pursue his studies in the meantime, when the gov ernment will undertake the work of producing the lymph. Wabiu0oN Lrttrr. From our regular correspomieut. The president has completed a rough r draft of his annual message to congress aud it has lieen informally .submitted to the members or his cabinet, and every one of them heartily endorse it. 1 can not, without a gross violation of confi dence, mention any of the subjects which the message will treat; but, it can be said ou undoubted authority that it will be one of the ablest documents ever sent to congress, and that it will show in ringing words that the president's re publicanism is just as staunch as it ever was, andthat he has not been stampeded by the result ot the late elections. The president is also doing good work in impressing upon the minds of every republican member of the house who calls upon him, and every one who has yet arrived here has done so, the impera tive necessity of being constantly in bis Beat during the session of congress which began last Monday, in order that as much business as possible may be transacted within the ninety days which it will last. And if the spirit shown by the republicans already here, is fairly representative of the feelings of all the republican members of the house the democrats will lie badly disappointed in their expectation of blocking the busi ness of the house by raising the old cry of "no quorum." The indications now lieing that there will be more than a quorum of republicans present at every session of the house until high noon on the 4th day of March, 1801, when the Fifth-first congress expires. There is not a word of truth in the democratic stories of strained relations existing lietween the president and Mr. Blaine. They were never on lietter terms than they are at this time, anil both of them are working night and day to get the republican party in condition to win in 1892; and both of them are confident of succeeding. They are not working for the success of any particular candidate either themselves or others but for the party and the great aims and principles which it represents, knowing that the rank and file of the party will, as they have always done, make their preference known when the time comes to elect delegates to the next national convention of the party, and that the best and xiost available man will be chosen to bear the republi can standard to victory. I good reason to lwlieve that Secretary Windom is engaged in preparing the de tails of a plan which will be submitted to congress at an early day to provide for a large permanent increase in the amount of United States currency in active circulation. He believes that the business of tho country needs more money than is now in circulation. There is already almost if not quite a quorum ot tne nouse in wasuingion, and the important committees are get ting down to work with a will. Several sub-committees of the house committee ou appropriations held meetings last week and the other day Chairman Can non presided over a meeting ot tho full committee, at which the estimates of the treasury department for the various an nual appropriations were read and re ferred to sub-committees. Mr. Cannon assured me that there would be no delay in reporting allot the regular appropria tion bills to the house in ample time. He says three, and possibly four of them will be reported before Christmas. The treasury surplus increased more than $2,000,000 within the last week, but the senseless democratic bowls of a "vanishing surplus" continue just the same. It now seems a foregone conclusion that the battle royal now raging among the democrats for the speakership of the next house will also determine whether Hill or Cleveland will lead the demo crats to defeat in 1892.' In vain have the long headed democrats struggled with What is Castoria. is Dr. Samuel PUcker prescription for Iafiwts aad Cbildrea. It coataias aeitlier Opium, Morphine ar 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 Worms aud allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd cures Diarracea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieve teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giviag healthy and natural sleep. Cas toria is the Children's Panacea-the Mother's Friead. Castoria. "CaatorU la aa excellent mcdloino for chil dren. Mothera have repeated!? totilnitforiu good eVct upon their children." ' Da. Q. C. Osgood, Iwell, Mas. Caatoria is the bet remedy for children of which I am acquainted. 1 hope the day to nt far distant when mothers wlllconsiiler the real tDterrat of their children, and im Castoria in stead of the variouaqoack nostrums which aw destroying their loed ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby !ndiu tbem to premature graves." Da. J. I. Kinchslok, Conway. Ark. Tma CmmUmr Cempaay, TX COLUMBUS LUMBER CO. S. R. HOWELL & CO. f , Doalors in Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors, 1JL1NDS, CKMEXT. LIME, FIKK ISltK'K. FIUK CLAY, MYKIiLE Dl'.ST, WHITE SAND. PORT LAND ami MILWAUKEE CEMENT, ami ALL KINDS otBriLDINU MATERIA L. THIRTEENTH ST., COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. Se.'jr'..t nut. 1 I THE ISTIEWI FDMTEE STORE ! -HAVK PINK LINK OK NEW, STYLISH ROCKERS. PICTURE FRAMES MADE TO ORDER. FURNITURE REPAIRED. s,ftl.t;KliS!,r,,Sr-; P. W. HERRICK. the ehallow-patea iu congress to go easy t in this matter. They will not go easy. It's a knock down and drag ont tight with these men, and they don't care a snap whose corns are trod on as long as they think they are making progress toward the goal of their ambition. Four candidates have alrea'dy opened head quarters here, and from the quantity of free red liquor, etc., that is being libor ally dispensed, somebody, is, in sport ing slang, "backing" them for winners. Mills is the only candidate thus far who has had the nerve to i-ome out squnrcly for free trade, and for that reason repub licans would like to see hint win. He openly expresses tbat seven nut f wry ten democrats secretly lu-liew in. bill lark the courage tn ray so. A Sale Inve-fmriit. Is one which is guaranteed to lring ytm satisfactory results, or in ca.se of failure a return or purchase price. On this safe plan you run buy from our ad vertised druggist a bottle of Dr. IvingV New Discovery Tor consumption. It is guaranteed to bring relief in nerv case, when used for an affect ton of the throat, lungs or chest, such as consump tion, inflammation of the lungs, bron-( clutis, asthma, whooping eongii. croup, etc., etc. It is pleasant and agreeable to taste, perfectly safe, and can always le depended upon. Trial liottle free at David Dov.-ty's drug store. Baby cried, Mother sighed, Doctor precrilieil : C:istori:i ! MrritWint. We disire to .say to our citizens, that for years we have been selling Dr. Kings New Discovery for consumption, Dr. King's New Life Pills, liucklen's Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never handled remedies that sell so well, or that have given such uni versal satisfaction. We do not hesitate to guarantee them every time, and we stand ready to refund the purchase price, if satibfactory results do not fol low their use. These remedies have won their great popularity purely on their merits. David Dowtv's drug store. Knolisii Spavin Liniment removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps aud blem ishes from horses, Jilood Spavin, Curbs, Splints, Kipg lJone, Sweeuey, Stifles, Sprains, Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, etc. Save 8-jO by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever kuowu. Sold by C. B. Stillman, druggist. 2Cnovlyr Backlea'a Aralra Salve. The beat salve in the world for cnts, braises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped bands, 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 per box. For sale by David Dowty. 3 3 Castoria. " CastorU to so well adapted to children that I recommend it aasuperiortoany prescript kuonto me." II. A. AacHia, 9L D., - ill So. Oiford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. " Our pliysicLuu in tho children's depart ment hae ioi;en highly of their eiperi euce in their outside practice with Castori. and although we only have amoufc our medical supplies what to known xi regular products, jet wo are free to confess that th merits of Castoria lias w.iu iu to look wita favor upon it." Unitku Hospital m DtspmsaaY, ltostoa. Mass. Alls P. Smith. iVej., Mmrray Street, Hew Terk City. Dr. A. J. Sanders, . i:di vruor LQNC ISLAKB C0L1I&E BOSFITAL, 1T.7. Three Years Hospitalism. Recently iron University of Vieuw, Austria 1. O. BOX :t. GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA. KKKKItKNl KS: .1. I). Mookk, lrtt. f Ifcmk of Commfire. 15.1'. How i.i. M.iiinK'Tfif (J. I. Slmpo. V. II. I'l.vrr. Mfijorof innl l-Iaml. rii-. Itier, K-prefiitntie. S. N. Wo Ms mi. State Senator. ;.. II. ( M.DMKI.I., (V)tllll) .lllllf. f? Tlio-- wlm li:e Itit'n MilTerer for yt-nrr"-aail liave l'ii t !- rniui'I-of tin- rifein at Iiomii'. without reroivinjj relief from ordinary micIIkmIs of treat uiwit, are et.peciall iinited t call. J--" All of our patients may expect to reeeiie ttool care, eart-ful treatment .mil iuiiare ilealintc frutii a Im-MnerM -tnriclpoint. ; uealwujn rxieet to Kiealtie rti-eivt-W mi f.ir a oillf. Will heat the "(oiiuItatrn free. Aililrih". I)n. A.J.SAN'DKKS. lox'j::, t;r.ml Nlantl, Neh.- 0aim.iii!j T. S. JAWORSKI, Regulates Perfectly. IS MOT AfFECTEO BY GALES. Is Strong. Durable Wit , EASILY MANAGED. find Kills, 7mp. ad Fump Etpm Ouo door north of Baler 'a ham. 6atig6in JOHN EUSDEN, SURVEYOR. Informs Lit frifoiii atiii th pnhlie hr is Mill in the ru-inefnnlall nnlern will hae prompt attention. Copies of held notes anil plain fur nished. Charge to meet tho timet, (olntabua, Nebraska. 23aprir SI'Ki IM.IST IN" DlNffi. f; g m I nil V J - c '.' - i" ?S X S
